skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, I often say "I would do X if I had infinite time and motivation"... if De Grey and Sens comes to pass I may have to just stop procrastinating and do these things.
I find it strange that there still exist named schools of thought in economics; perhaps it's a sign of the field's intellectual immaturity. After all, which schools of thought are there in chemistry or physics? A few centuries ago you could have answered that question, but today it doesn't even make sense. I wonder if economics will ever reach the same level of development.

For what it's worth, the only economists who consistently avoid setting off my bullshit meter are the Austrians. And yet, their views border on lunatic fringe according to mainstream economists. In a world where those same economists set policy, that is an alarming combination.
congrats on launch! sounds like things are going really well!
Coca-Cola Deleting 'Classic' From Coke Label
Why wait? Your glycation-blocking benfotiamine is just a few mouseclicks away: http://www.easycart.net/BeyondACenturyInc./B_Vitamins.html#1...

BENFOTIAMINE (S-benzoylthiamine-o-monophosphate) is a lipid form of thiamine, Vit B1. A natural substance found in trace amounts in roasted garlic, onions, chives, etc. Glycation, the cross-linking of proteins by sugars, is a major cause of aging [...] Benfotiamine acting like a time-released thiamine with increased ability to get into brain and muscle cells, helps protect against the formation of AGEs by glycation
JDK modularization
I tried it out on my Blackberry curve. Works well. The bubble that pops up with a friend's picture and status is neat. Unfortunately only 2 friends have it installed. I had to zoom out to see both California and Colorado before I saw more than myself on the screen.

Reminds me of the time when I had to wear one of those bracelets as part of my parole.

(kidding)
I find it dubious that proponents of 'longer, better life' don't focus on the low hanging fruit

You don't consider pennies-per-day of glycation-blocking benfotiamine supplementation to be low-hanging fruit?
One concern I see with destroying aging is that it will most certainly result in the destruction of a very precise
cycle of evolutionary innovation, even within our species.
It's like a giant "no retirement" program, never allowing younger generations to be placed into positions were they are forced to create change, innovate and fail; all the while bettering the human race.

It's no accident that innovation comes mostly from youth - the inexperience that makes you foolish occasionally creates species changing progress.

This is the Pandora's box of unintended consequences, all in the name of refusing to accept a key aspect of the human condition.

Evolution has almost exclusively adopted destructive aging processes in every form of life on the planet. The fact that we can't conclusively answer why this is so is reason enough not to temp fate in this way.
not in downtown :-(

but near ranch 99 :-)
I had a similar experience in college when I cut off AIM and TV for 3 months. I felt like I had 30 hour days-it was great. Like you said, it really helps you distill your group of friends. You lose contact with the occasional friends and build deeper friendships with your core group. I still don't instant message much but TV crept back in pretty quickly.
Out of curiosity, how did your leaving your co-founder(s?) at Clickpass effect Clickpass's acquisition? At first blush, seems like harsh timing.
Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites (Leonard Lin)
Hahah! A bunch of my friends (a dozen or two) have been telling me to try it, and half of my high school class seems to love it. Never knew it was from YC - nice to see YC start-ups being popular. :D

Congrats on making a great site and good luck.
Demo of a process monitor web app being built in Seaside/Smalltalk
I'll check out nano and play with emacs. Everyone's usage scenarios are pretty much what I do, which is basic text editing. Thanks!
Government destroys jobs by delaying Digital TV transition
I think in those cases the problem, really, is that your personal network isn't large enough. You'll need a large one as a founder, and there will be an overlap between the people that are useful to know and the people that might make potential co-founders.
This loss of productivity hurts everyone.

Sorry, so let me make sure I understand you: Aging is bad because it hurts productivity?

I must say that if life is simply an application of productive output, you are missing the point.
agreed, flow on site is non existent

we're developing two new sites:
jellyfishart.com will sell the custom (expensive) tanks with better pictures, video, and information pages. the objective is enticing qualified buyers, giving them the information they need to decide if they are serious about buying, then allowing contact with us.
jellyfishsupply.com is in development. it will be an e commerce site selling plug-and-play tanks, jellies, and accessories.
We use JRuby on Rails for my main project at work, but I've been doing some Clojure hacking in my personal time, and thinking about using it for some of our asynchronous job-processing needs. Using JRuby + ActiveMQ + Clojure would potentially let us cluster all our core infrastructure in the same JVM, while still getting nice concurrency across all our available cores.
Beautiful, User-Friendly Navigation Menus
Sorry, I have to disagree. It's fine if you need to write a few dozen lines once a week or something, but if you code any more than that, I'd suggest learning a more advanced editor. Don't limit yourself to pico or nano. Try emacs or Vi. It's worth the few weeks to learn (and few years to learn well).

I've used both, though seem to be a bit quicker in Vi - try evim (easy vim) if you're not comfortable with jumping right in.
splash screen is getting the chop.

anyone have a favorite video hosting site other than vimeo?
Bloat doesn't necessarily mean code size. It could also mean redundant selectors, code that is difficult to maintain, and plethora of other things. As mentioned previously, I'm a front-end web developer, I spend majority of my time coding graphically-heavy designs in CSS and maintaining them, as well as doing JavaScript. In my experience, Sass has been a nightmare.

So far, the only people that I've heard praise Sass are back-end programmers, rather than full-on front-end developers.
saltwater isn't too difficult. not as easy as betta in a bowl, but you only need to check on it every other week.
Truce: Google and Microsoft join forces for an open white space spectrum
The core problem of our economy
What happens when production becomes so efficient that people produce more stuff than they want to consume?

There are constantly more employees than there are jobs: check.

Convincing people they need things they don't think they do (marketing) becomes a huge industry: check.

Those who can manipulate the workings of the economy find ways to inflate their income without producing equivalent goods: check.

These schemes get so complicated they break with unpredictable consequences: check.

We seem to be stuck in a cycle of figuring out what people need, when they don't really need all that much anymore, at least in comparison to what our collective skills/imaginations can produce.
aren't there some various schools of thought around string theory?
Make multiple copies of everything.

One copy on your media server - you know, the one you access via the PS3 or some other UPnP client in your living room.

One copy on a USB drive stored in a bank safe, ideally not too close physically to your home.

One copy (or more) distributed to your parents, in-laws, etc. Bonus points if they live in a different area.

Synchronize copies once in a while.
HN needs a "blast from the past" category or something.

Yes, there are valuable lessons here, but I was still in my twenties when this article was written.

With the price of cloud storage these days, there's no reason to delete a user's data because of inactivity. We don't do it at nextproof–then again, we charge based on storage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Technology always brings a few unintended social consequences. But the pros often outweight the cons.
Has the size of a 'compute unit' changed?
Opera releases new JavaScript engine named Carakan
the jellies require feeding and some water changes, but they're about as hardy as any other aquarium fish.

so far we've been doing large custom tanks with automatic feeders or technicians coming in every day to do the feeding.

as we launch a line of desktop tanks, I wonder if customers will dread feeding the jellies 2x/day like brushing your teeth, or look forward to it like watering a houseplant. Personally, I don't like brushing my teeth and never kept a plant alive for more than a week. thoughts?
Which torrent clients out there don't support DHT these days?
There was a "cloud" in 2005?
The more the merrier, duh.

Stop multiplying the copies when the effort becomes too big.
Yes, because it allows that batch of 20-year-olds to fine new solutions to the same problems the 30 year olds faced, moving the society itself forward. Repeat ad-infinitum.

How egocentric of us to assume that what is good for an individual is always good for the society as a whole.
Probably to simplify the add/remove code and life in general.
That's a very clever idea.
Although with any calculation like that - there is still the bobcat issue: http://xkcd.com/325/
I really like the concept though - A running average of karma forces those who post lots to post quality and rewards those who are new but post well.
Ira Glass and This American Life is great. He has a great piece on storytelling that everyone should watch:

Part 1 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=n7KQ4vkiNUk

Part 2 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=3qmtwa1yZRM

Part 3 - http://youtube.com/watch?v=-hidvElQ0xE
Ads are currently served by mochimedia. We will complain! Thanks for the feedback.
You can test them out on heyzap.com in both the publisher section and on the main home page. Cheers
I run a vncserver (from MacPorts) on my MacBook. Then inside there I do all my coding with Emacs, generally two frames side-by side. I access it via Chicken of the VNC. I set up the same vncserver setup on all the machines I do work on, and can access each one from any other without losing context. I rarely find the need to cut/paste from the OS X desktop into/out of my vnc windows, but it can be done.
Review My Site: Glogger - http://www.peerviewr.com
the idea here is to allow you to post links, you tube videos, images, files, and random posts to a group, a set of groups, or to the public. It will automatically interpret the links to put the proper rendering as per links or youtube videos. Let me know what you think. http://www.peerviewr.com
Checkout using a site that allows you to upload to multiple sites then tracking stats behind views such as tubemogule.com
Thanks! Was it monster's Den? That game is pretty addictive...
Also a likely factor: Ghana's official language is English.
Tribes Author Says People, Not Ads, Build Social Networks
Also, to get something in front of users, you rarely need to be doing anything remotely complex. It's not like writing a disk based inverted index or a filesystem. When writing tools like those, obviously testing is important.
How egocentric of us to assume that what is good for an individual is always good for the society as a whole.

logic alert. It would be egocentric to believe that what is good for me is good for society as a whole. To believe what is good for individuals in general is good for society as a whole is the opposite of egocentric. I'm like a tiny speck on the face of humanity and my fate would not affect the general state of "what is good for the individual"

Besides, this is all a moot point guys. We already have answered this question when the first doctor cured a disease. Death is no fun. We have a moral obligation not to allow our fellow members of society to die if we can help it. Life extension in some fashion or another has been around since the first herbal cures.

Now if there is some magic line where suddenly you're ruining the human race by letting people live a year longer -- and we haven't already reached it -- where is it? And if we have reached it, what do you guys propose? Keeping medicine away from old people? Perhaps denying flu vaccines after the age of 80?

There is no right time to die. Society is doing just fine with people living 5x what they did ten thousand years ago. We can go another 5x easy. After that -- we'll figure it out when we get there.
Reminds me of a sushi/teppan yaki restaurant that used to exist in the Bellagio called Shintaro. Even though the sushi was overpriced (though excellent) I used to eat at the counter just to watch them. They had a few tanks with rotating colors of backlighting, that somehow was simultaneously trippy and relaxing.
How long did it take to write the tests?
You can do that in Mathematica, too: http://documents.wolfram.com/mathematica/functions/Transpose

Mathematica has an extensive set of typesetting shortcuts. You just need to know where to look.
I think there's a place for small comments and witty remarks.

My appreciation of them is like a bell curve, with the optimum ratio of wit[1]/serious comment probably about 1:20. Higher than that, and it starts to get a bit like reddit. Lower and it's taking itself a bit too seriously.

[1] This completely excludes bad puns, memes etc. They have no place here.

Edit: replaced the asterisk after wit with a [1]. Anyone know how to escape an * that's not preceded by whitespace?
Why is it the same product with the same features but with a different name?

Price discrimination* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination) is profitable if you can pull it off.

*Don't let the scary name put you off; everyone price discriminates if they can. The best price discriminators in the world are American universities.
But also note that, if you used Safari, you'd get the full Cocoa (Emacs-like) text subsystem editing facilities in any text field. It's a dream come try for Emacs fanatics. (My Emacs finger habits are now 30+ years old; scary thought.)
This is so matter-of-fact I consider that the more important question is - why don't managers recognize this and how can we make them recognize it? If I was a steel worker, they'd go insane over a 1% increase in my productivity, but as a developer they chop up my time into tiny little increments, and then wonder why the heck I can't get anything done.
Topsoil does not actually get destroyed. Rivers just deposit it as silt which can be recovered.

Interesting. Silt also piles up behind dams. http://www.google.com/search?q=irn+dams+silting Perhaps dam silt could be even-more easily recovered.
Web delivered image editor - essentially Photoshop for free
Wozniak Accepts Post at a Storage Systems Start-Up
Well, putting aside the fact that you are pretty much wrong (servers are cheap, power, cooling, etc, not so much), keep in mind too that their initial pricing may not have been profitable, or may even have been at a loss because what matters is the total lifetime value of a customer.

Amazon (or any other hosting provider) may set their initial price below cost because declining costs will give them a reasonable margin when figured over the space of a few years.
Actually, Cocoa's built-in text facility has forward-/backward-word, etc. All covered in

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/Cocoa%20Text%20System....
even for kids? Or only for adults?

Also - there is something to be said for wisdom.
So, it is called glogger or peerviewr???

Maybe it is only for my case. I always think that the domain of the site should be the name of the site too.
Ask HN: How to market an iphone math game for kids of 2-7
We've published 11 apps on iTunes (http://BokanTech.com/iphone/), among them,

1). "Eye Test" & "Cute Math" featured on iTunes since Feb 3rd and Jan 29th respectively (less than 1% apps could be selected by Apples to be featured on iTunes)

2). "Galaxy Impact" once ranked No 10 on "Top Free Apps" in Game, and No 20 on "Top Free Apps" overall during Nov 2 - 9, 2008

3). "Eye Test" is currently ranked No 1 on "Top Paid Apps" in Medical

4). "Cute Math" is currently ranked No 3 on "Top Paid Apps" in Education (No 2 last week)

5). "Galaxy Impact II: Ignite" has been pirated on appulo.us one week after being published on iTunes.

All above is achieved without any marketing effort.
As result, we have not seen as strong income as there should be

Our team is very technical, innovative and artistic but very weak in marketing.

My question is, what's the right or best way to market our iphone game, particularly the kid game "Cute Math"?

Or is there any marketing guru willing to partner with us on this or help us partner with large organizations like Scholastic or EdHelper? Here's my email: bo.wang@BokanTech.com if you want to talk privately.

Thanks a lot in advance!
feeding cows costs the world well over 1 billion humans worth of food.

RBST can reduce that impact. http://www.google.com/search?q=rbst+efficiency

rbST reduces carbon footprint of dairies

The present study demonstrates that use of rbST markedly improves the efficiency of milk production and mitigates environmental parameters, ...
"Evolution has almost exclusively adopted destructive aging processes in every form of life on the planet. The fact that we can't conclusively answer why this is so is reason enough not to temp fate in this way."

I'd say it's pretty obvious, although I'm no biologist: natural selection doesn't "care" how long you live, as long as you live long enough to have (and possibly raise) kids.
I used Mathematica extensively for my physics Ph.D. at Caltech (the same degree and school as Stephen Wolfram---though he finished in two years at the age of 20, instead of six at 29...) I've only used MATLAB sparingly, so I'm can't offer much of a comparison, but Mathematica is excellent at linear algebra: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/MatricesAndLi...
You could use more pictures and some rough indication of how much it costs. Or is it the kind of thing that, if you have to ask, you can't afford it?

What kind of commitment does a customer have to make other than money? Do you have to learn a lot, constantly monitor pH and temperature, etc, or just sprinke some fish food in every few days? There is no indication on the website.

Along the same lines, do you guys maintain the tank or does the customer? If you do it, is your service SF only?

Also, aren't some jellyfish fluorescent? That would be cool. I understand that green fluorescent protein doesn't just come in green anymore.
Kangaroo (British Hulu) blocked by competition commission
Skeptics argued that it can't be $10, as even a screen would cost more than that.

I wonder why a $10 laptop can't be, essentially, a wristwatch or a calculator instead of an iPhone or a netbook?

Linux will run on almost anything, a membrane keyboard (even a mobile phone 12-key pad using SMS text style input), and a small amount of memory... could you get enough hardware to run linux and have some kind of UI for ten bucks?
If you live too long you take resources away from your offspring.
Thanks for the pointer to the site. My wife (a CIA-trained chef) would definitely tell me the old name was 'geeky', but probably love the recipes based on my quick look through the site. Very nice design, and fabulous pictures. Who doesn't like looking at pictures of tasty food? Now I'm getting hungry again... :-)
Off-topic: How many 2-7 kids own a mobile phone in US?(Not iPhone)

I am not sure about in US. But, you are definitely targeting the wrong market in my country Malaysia.
Hacked Road Signs [PICS]
I was thinking about two sets of up/down buttons.

"comment adds to/detracts from the thread"
and
"agree/disagree with the comment"

The idea being to have fewer controversial yet contributing comments downvoted to unreadability.
Apologies for the poorly worded statement. I believe you understood my meaning, however.

There is a difference in preventing death and eliminating it (or extending life in such a way that the same side effects are achieved). While I certainly don't have all the answers, I can't help but be struck by the rather narcissistic and frankly immature tone that dominates the debate, particularly with those in favour of enhanced exploration.

Perhaps it is because of this attitude, and not the life extension itself that I find myself put off. The human condition is what it is primarily because of death. We can't possibly accept that we can remove death and not significantly alter what it means to be human. While that might not be an issue, and may even be desired, that's not what we discuss; in fact it is often dismissed.
If your statement was true, death wouldn't be so wide spread. Clearly, evolution is very opinionated on the matter.
Why Women Win Against Men in Playing Pool
If feeding could be partially or completely automated I think you're sitting on a goldmine (and I'll be waiting patiently for the IPO). If it absolutely needs to happen twice a day and has to be done by hand then there's no way I could have one of these on my desk at work (because lets face it, I'm not going to sign up for anything that has me driving to the office twice a day on the weekends and lugging a fish tank to and from work on a weekly basis is scary compulsive behavior) and I really REALLY want one of these things on my desk at work.

I could definitely see something like this going viral (sea monkeys 2.0) in short order if things progressed to a stage where they're relatively inexpensive, customizable (flourescent jellies ftw), and don't require a tedious amound of upkeep.
You're right that aging seems to have an evolutionary advantage. That advantage is increased diversity within a species. Super successful individuals, who would otherwise "take over" a species, are replaced, so that other strains can get a chance. Diversity in a species is as important as diversity in a stock portfolio. What's working great today, may not work great tomorrow, so portfolios and species that survive plagues, asteroids, and global warming fanatics tend to be diversified.

However....

I contend that the human race has moved beyond evolution. No longer do only the fittest survive. We protect our weak and stupid, and they mate just as frequently and successfully as our strong and smart. We've wrestled the destiny of our species away from evolution, and taken control of it ourselves.

Now, how that experiment turns out, it's too early to tell. So far, so good. But since the ship has already sailed anyway, any argument that something is "against evolution" is a moot argument.

I would like to live for longer than 100 years myself, so I admit to being a bit biased on this issue. I think a case can be made that the "best and the brightest" of our current governing and business class could use some augmentation. We've had some great leaders in our past, it might be nice if they were still active. Closer to our hearts here, what if we still had Richard Feynman? What if we still had Arthur C Clarke? Wouldn't the world probably be better? We are not so brimming with extra talent that we can just throw it away after a few decades.
Notice the word 'many' above.

I choose to eat well and exercise. To each his own.
I'm just guessing... but maybe because it only holds about 2% market share?
Sure, but I don't think this effect is enough to be significant to most evolutionary processes, especially if (and I believe this is the idea) in aging you don't become feeble. As long as there are enough resources to go around, there isn't a big problem, especially since people are resources themselves.

(If this weren't the case, you would think that evolution would drive us to die shortly after we had children, or at least after we lost our ability to have children.)
I don't understand why is it a huge disappointment. My fascination with computers started with an old programmable calculator my dad brought home once. And its price was more than $10 which was still OK for Russia in early 90s.

I could have died of happiness back then if I could put my hands on a $30 worth of 2009 hardware in that little plastic box.