skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say she's a more dickless version of Bill O'Reilly, but after seeing her picture I'm not sure that's true...
I believe you can set some fields to not store history

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/datomic/WlRM3aXwzIg/RT...
An email to two first-time founders
This probably says as much about the dollar as it does about BitCoin.
I agree it makes things more complex, but we aren't in fact pro-longing our lives that much. Life expectancy for whites (to take out the effect of demographic changes) at age 65 has gone up all of 5 years since 1950, and life expectancy at age 75 has gone up less than 2 years since 1980 (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2011/022.pdf). Indeed, even much of that difference can be explained by advances in treatment of relatively mundane things like heart attacks that would otherwise kill people in their late 60's, rather than complex care to extend life at the end. That is to say that much of the difference is due to more people making it to 70 and less due to more people making it to 90+.
With `{-#LANGUAGE Safe#-}` it is.
Based on the other article it sounds like you're not coping at all, but rather at step 5 of 6:

"What this cognitive shift to concrete thinking reflects, suggests Baumeister, is the brain’s attempt to slip into idle mental labor, thereby avoiding the suffocating feelings that we’ve been describing. Many suicidal college students, for example, exhibit a behavioral pattern of burying themselves in dull, routine academic busywork in the weeks beforehand, presumably to enter a sort of 'emotional deadness' which is 'an end in itself.' When I was a suicidal adolescent, I remember reading voraciously during this time; it didn’t matter what it was that I read—mostly junk novels, in fact—since it was only to replace my own thoughts with those of the writer’s. For the suicidal, other people’s words can be pulled over one’s exhausting ruminations like a seamless glove being stretched over a distractingly scarred hand."

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2010/10/2...
By * all * measurable aspects we're living in the most peaceful time known in all recorded history.

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...

You should make a conscious effort to see this. Otherwise you're going to begin to believe the amygdala-driven "what is the world coming to" type statements.
This seems to be a frequently asked question. From what I've seen on the videos and forums, the Datomic team is also well aware of situations in which this may be legally necessary and are working on providing ways to handle this.
It's just semantics. They are giving away the first dyno. Would you prefer they took that away when you purchased one for real? 2 for the price of 1 seems pretty nice.

That and fundamentally (as you noted about being optimistic) you're paying $100+ a month for an app that gets zero traffic. That seems to be the core issue.
Depends on context. I sometimes think of the connotation as the person taking the ball away is the one making unreasonable demands and using the threat of spoiling the game for everyone to get their way.
Hey Eliezer, what do you think it would take to bring the price point of cryonics down to a level where it could become commonplace?

Right now, the primary barriers to its widespread addoption are still probably incredulity and religious objections, but I think those would quickly fall by the wayside if it didn't cost as much as a house.

Perhaps an X-Prize style competition to develop more cost-effective technologies and techniques?
I'd definitely help as well if I could be of any use.
Actually, 52 years since he is including 20 years for his wife as well. Comes out to $3846/person/yr in today's dollars if the above calculation is correct, which is considerably lower than what I'd sell myself into slavery for.
The gap between the Koreas is far bigger than the gap between West and East Germany ever was. The latter was arguably ahead of the better parts of Third World (say Brazil or Mexico) in terms of education, health care, infra-structure, industrialization, etc. Compare to North Korea, which still uses mainly manual and animal labour for agriculture, and can barely feed its people.
Direct links:

http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/intro_large.mov

http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_1_large.mov

http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_2_large.mov

http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/lecture_3_large.mov

http://bethe.cornell.edu/media/outro_large.mov
hopefully, by the sun's expiry date, we would've collected enough energy and advanced technology enough to travel to another star.
desert wasteland? lonely as heck?

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=93189
Need Help Building SQL Database 
I need help building a fast program that can talk to web browsers on the front end and to an SQL database server on the back end.

This program must be a marriage of an SQL database with program code that generates pages and acts on page requests to read, write and change database records. On the front end, It is basically four programs: a login manager, a search page, and 2 more. On the back end, I need a collection of many administration pages to manage the information in the databases (e.g. the members, the listings, the sales, the feedback).

I have a list of unique key features I want to include.

My unique "0-1" start up combines a couple major websites. There is nothing like it. Please let me know if you can help.

Willing to offer $/hr or % of company.

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I literally hacked a small script that did this 1 hour ago, but using data from Dust-me Selectors[1].

Having a proper tool to do this is great news!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/dust-me-selec...
I would guess the new Django Unchained movie brought this subject to light again.
I never turned off my javascript. It was that I was able to see the both versions on one page and once I reloaded it was fine, probably the javascripts didnt load or broke somehwere as far as my understanding is.

and btw when you ll be launching the app? I am seeing it is still in beta
You could always use a data-url SVG in the CSS file for the "best of both worlds"... and a compiler could make this a pretty painless process... but a single sprite sheet for your entire site is probably worth the extra request in most cases, since you could lazily load your icons and speed up your initial page render, rather than waiting for the CSS to fully load to display content.

But if you do want to do this, see http://jsfiddle.net/estelle/SJjJb/
I'm talking about broad demographic trends. The cohort of women who were near the end of their reproductive years in 1992 are the ones who are just starting to retire now. Among that demographic, about 85% had kids at some point: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/06/25/childlessness-up-a....

Obviously relying on kids isn't an option for everyone, but I think it's a mutually beneficial option for a larger group of people than seriously consider it.
Pardon my language, but what the fuck happened to this country.
Je suis au courant. Je croyais qu'il était en première année de CEGEP.
The trade-off between weight and reliability through redundancy is well-known to the multi-billion dollar, half-century-old space industry. This is not some new advance or insight made by PR. The only interesting thing is if PR has developed some new piece of technology which, incidentally, shifts the optimal point along the redundancy-weight curve.
We shall ponder reversing entropy and/or escaping the universe in due course.
Priceless. He was such a gentleman on the letter.
>I think the whole youth and beauty thing falls out of this.

Yes, you're right but that is more of a side-effect of why we value youth and beauty: our primary drive for sex is to reproduce, and there is a nice bell-curve on the age of a person as to when that is optimal, made clearly obvious by their outward appearance of youth and beauty.

Plenty of older people have sex, and I've heard anecdotally that retirement homes are a good place for finding a partner.
I wasn't sure whether this is a spoof or not. Is he serious when he writes - "I did this because I despised people I think are unjustly wealthy and wanted to embarass them. "

That was his admitted rationale - that he was seeking to embarrass people he despised because they were "unjustly wealthy?"
I have some feedback on your site (http://www.mycelial.com) that is unrelated to your post. I had no idea what your site was until I went to the About page. I think the contents of the About page should be put on the homepage.
A modest proposal to terraform the Moon
When you hear of horrible stores like that of Aaron Swartz and the author of this insightful article Andrew Auernheimer it really paints a picture of just how afraid the US government is of the Internet. People lament China for their great firewall and control over its people and yet the US is starting to look more and more like China everyday. This is how revolts against governments start, absurd laws and persecution of innocent people which eventually pushes people over the edge and if they don't kill themselves they uprise and society gets thrown into disarray which only results in more oppressive laws and absurd persecution, it's a horrible cycle.

All this guy did was exploit publicly available information. It seems the US is now sending people to jail for pointing out other peoples stupidity. Sure he probably went too far with the whole, "I want to embarrass AT&T thing" but trolling is not hacking and it's not like Andrew had to bypass any form of security to get the info in the first place.

Anyone would swear this guy found a way to steal credit card details...
I thought he actually wrote the letter and was impressed how well written it was for someone who had no formal education.
You are absolutely right, I plan to move my parents in when I start having kids. I still remember going to one of grandparents house everyday after elementary and middle school.

I'm mexican so it's normal to have multi-generational homes but I always wondered why white people don't do this more.
Well, it's documented in the sense that the free web dyno is documented to spin down sometimes; if you pay $35/month for the extra web dyno, it ought not to.

This seems like a reasonable pricing model to me. And it seems reasonable to me that they don't document _exactly_ in what circumstances the free dyno might spin down on idle. Free is free.

If on the other hand even with the paid extra web dyno you were still getting ~10 second spin up times after idle, that would be something I'd get annoyed at too.

If you're willing to pay over $100/month on services you may or may not need just for the learning experience -- perhaps scale some of those back, and instead pay $35/month for the web dyno you do actually need to avoid the idle spin up time.

I do think it's true that heroku can end up being a lot more expensive than you initially expect for what you need, the extras can add up quick. This certainly can be frustrating. Even when you really are paying only for what you need, things can get expensive for a non-tiny app. But if you want to minimize your costs, you definitely want to avoid paying for add-ons you don't need.
Their is a difference between being polite and offering mature and considerate criticism. I believe your article used the word manipulative to describe the use of age in the title. The irony was most likely lost on you.

I could critique the word choice by saying that using that word suggests that the author is being dishonest and deceitful. Manipulative, while technically correct in the abstract, is not necessarily accurate when one considers that the intent might merely to have been to provide context. At the same time using the word manipulative brings along baggage you might not intend. Manipulative implies intent on the part of the person doing the manipulation.

I could also critique your use of the word in another way (and,as it so happens, the way you used it). Keep in mind, this is still technically correct.

Your use of the word manipulative is deceitful. Your use of the word suggests you know intent, and your use of the word attempts to do what you accuse the the original posters of doing: attempting to manipulate the reader by framing the argument as one against deceitful, manipulative, and by extension, distrustful young people. Words are powerful, and your word choice demonstrates that, at the very least, you either have no clue, or your a vile, deceitful individual.

Both methods of critique are valid. One addresses the problem, the other addresses the person. Both are unbiased and fair criticisms, but only one is polite.

We, as a community should strive to encourage. This is not any where close to blanket approval or being yes men. But do NOT for a minute think that good, helpful criticism is simply unbiased and fair. It is not.
Company offers scholarship to Dawson student who exposed security flaws

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/21/mont...
Death isn't an unanswerable question. It is, in a world with finite resources, a necessary inevitability. The only question is whether that death comes in orderly cycles, or catastrophically.

Not everyone wants to live forever. My grandparents lived to their 80's. My father, who is a bit over 60, considers that to be a very reasonable number, and I feel the same way. I don't want to still be here in 60+ years straining the resources of my daughter's generation.
Second company launching to mine asteroids
Since, as he mentions in the letter, room and board were included in the wage he uses as a reference, there is no need to deduct them from the wages his former master owes.
Haha, that explains it. Thanks for pointing that out.

There are contrarians in every thread, but if there is one thing for certain besides death and taxes, it's the fact that nobody wants this garbage on their machines. It's the cancer of Windows. To see someone so adamantly defending it had me really confused.
RbConfig in 1.9.3
Nice way of looking at that particular stat!
“special oversight”? What does that mean?

How would such a reunification compare to, say, East and West Germany?
Don't give up yet! I studied linguistics in undergrad; learned to program in order to build websites; spent several years as a software engineer; and then decided I could only complain for so long that no one had cured type 1 diabetes (which I, like Scott Hanselman, suffer from) before putting my best foot forward. I am now getting my PhD in Bioinformatics, knee-deep in immune cells after not having taken a real bio class since middle school.

For all of the people in this thread or reading this thread who wish more people would address "big problems"-- I totally agree. So get in there! The problems of biology are indeed fantastically hard to solve, but that's part of what makes them worthwhile. And don't worry-- the natural world is so vast and ill-understood that biologists are very patient as long as you are trying to learn; the good ones recognize that there may be an infinity of things you don't understand, but the things they don't understand sum to infinity minus one, so we're all in the same boat.

Cheers, and hope this discussion encourages a few people to pursue the biggest problems they can!
A few years ago I wrote a python script which does this and more. It inlines the CSS to the page and reduces it to only the used CSS rules [1].

Additionally, my version can also inline the page images as base-64 encoded blocks.

Cheers!

[1] https://github.com/jaytaylor/python-inlineify-html
Watch Aaron's F2C speech. COICA was voted on three days after it was introduced, long before the titan organizations heard about it. If it had passed into law before the quick-reaction movement Aaron and his buddies put together were able to get Ron Wyden to put the brakes on it — which very nearly happened — the months-long effort to organize the tech titans would never have had a chance.

I admit I didn't know this until after he died, despite our friendship.
But, and this is where it gets really messed up - $4k/person/year is significantly more than current global median income. Last I checked (around 2007), this is about $850/year. (Yeah, if you're reading this website, you are insanely lucky).

Of course, this doesn't take into account things like income disparity between countries and so on - that is, median income in Bangladesh is very different than the US today, but this was Antebellum south, at a time when America was still a developing country.

All this to say - maybe $4k/year was a "fair price."
White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art
I have had pervasive problems with Address Book stores on Macs for years now. Psychotically slow operations, ten-second hangs, sync failures, endless sync failure loops, and general thrashing are not hard to find on any system handling more than a few thousand cards.

If there are substantial Notes? Good night. Supercomputers brought to their knees.
Hacker News Kansai #5: January 25 in Kyoto
> our primary drive for sex is to reproduce

Clearly you and I are not watching the same pornography.

> Plenty of older people have sex

Sure. I'm just positing that the retirement home phenomenon is exacerbated by our cultural fear of finding out about this.
The serial terminals did that as well and you couldn't unconfiure it on early sun4 prom revisions. You could get around it by using a rs232 breakout box with a resistor soldered in it and then screw that box to the back of the unit. That was standard practice. I remember when sysadmins were good with a soldering iron...
MegaCracker tool could reveal Mega passwords
shrug I was using one of the first versions of Slackware at that time. I can't remember exactly how easy it was to use as it has been a while. Probably I'm just blocking it from memory as it was Slackware :P.
I do agree that heroku, while not cheap, is a value for what you get.

But I wonder if that comparison "I think Heroku is a perfectly fine option until you reach the point where you could hire a full time dev ops" is actually one anyone makes in reality. A full time ops person is going to cost way more than $100 a month, quite a bit more than several thousand a month in fact. Are there really people who would go with heroku until they're paying $5 or $6k a month or more, and somewhere around there (that's a lot of heroku), say "Gee, _now_ we're paying enough (barely) to hire a fulltime person to manage the servers ourselves, let's switch everything to that."
There is a difference between good criticism and bad criticism though. I see nothing wrong with encouraging the former and discouraging the latter, which is what the OP was talking about.

So, when you talk about criticism in a general way, you are missing the point. No one is suggesting we coddle anyone. We should however remain professional, which is the problem some people are having.

Unless you are saying that we should encourage all criticism, even bad criticism?
I live in Shenzhen, have good sourcing relationships and know my way around the various electronics markets, so if anybody needs a thrustworthy contact in this part of the world, feel free to write me.

I am from Denmark originally and I live and work in shenzhen in the mobile phone industry.
A cron job where a request is sent at regular intervals to a dyno from Phantom should solve your issue. It should be justified if you are buying addons. For free sites with no revenue to Heroku, it's reasonable since they have many sites that only get visited monthly, if that.
If anyone thinks weev deserves any sympathy, you don't know the full story. weev had malicious intent and wanted to harm AT&T by exposing users data. Instead of doing anything remotely rational he took all the data and wanted to sell it.

Laws take into account indent (mens rea) and there is a lot of evidence in his indictment that he wanted to profit off this act. He shouldn't be compared to Aaron Swartz
This is just replacing faith in a spiritual deity named God with a material one named Scientific Progress. Defying death will always be lucrative, and the actual demonstration of results will always be forthcoming.
Please calm down, you guys. This is a reposted article we're talking about.
>I'd venture that there are far more people using Heroku for its easy deployment and management than its ability to scale quickly and easily.

That's well and good but I wouldn't be so quick to pass off on dedicated. A simple 50-100 line fabric script that takes 30 minutes to write can manage your custom deployment for you. And guess what, your next project will be even easier to deploy because of that same script.

If the only reason to use Heroku or other of its kind is easy deployment - maybe we just need better deployment apps that can work seamlessly across servers.
From Wikipedia:

"On 20 November 2012, Auernheimer was found guilty of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. Auernheimer tweeted that he would appeal the ruling."

Is the problem that the laws themselves are terrible, or that the laws are being misused by overzealous prosecutors? I mean, if changing a public URL is considered "conspiracy to access a computer without authorization"... Or is this just not the full story, and he really was trying to do some "bad" stuff?

But if not: what can be done to change the law? Is appearing "soft on hacking" such a bad idea that politicians just won't support something better? Or is it really difficult to craft laws that actually do criminalize "bad" activity, without also technically criminalizing innocent activity?

What can be done?
Much of the cost is due to regulatory burdens rather than technical.
Actually the wikipedia article says that the Peace dam can contain flooding from Imnam Dam. But I take your word that its not as simple as containing water by turning a tap.
Awesome. I went to Huaqiangbei while I tagged along on my wife's business trip in Shenzhen and hoped to see some of the work guys like Mr. Chen are doing. Unfortunately being foreign there apparently screams "corporate buyer" and it reminded me a little of the old days of Circuit City when you'd be the only guy in the store and 25 bored, commissioned sales guys descended upon you.
That didn't work for us a we netbooted everything off an e1000 and used the local disk for swap only.

I still had the e1000 (and disk array) which was skip dived until last year but the wife made me get rid of it :( She didn't want that kind of coffee table...
Truely amazing story. I can not fathom the pain and suffering this man had to endure. It's odd that I was getting angry that he betrayed so many people, and betrayed one man that was trying to escape with him. But, in that situation, it really is a dog eat dog world and I'm sure Park would not have hesitated to leave Shin behind. Crazy article, makes you really wonder if NK will ever be able to rejoin SK or what will happen to the nation entirely
Isn't what you're suggesting exactly what he has three services doing? Why from Phantom?
On startup boards, laziness and bias trounces gender diversity
More info here on the HNKansai site: http://hnkansai.org/
Datomic does a lot more than just avoiding updates/deletes. It splits the database into multiple parts. The transactor doesn't do any data storage. The clients handle all their own query locally. This means that the transactor (the only bottleneck in the system) does not have to handle any queries or storage and can spend 100% of its time handling write transactions. All other components of the system are trivially cacheable and scalable.

The other big advantage is the concept of "the database as a value". As a client, you can easily obtain the database as an immutable value right inside your application. This allows you to do all the queries you want without affecting anyone else.
How Valuable Are Amazon’s Intangible Assets?