skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, Ed Yong has a good overview on NERS: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/19/why-naked...

edit: I see the NYT article is by Carl Zimmer, so I can only recommend though I've yet to read it.

Although

> Hyaluronan probably isn’t the only way to fight off cancer. Blind mole rats (which, despite their name, are not close relatives of naked mole rats) rarely get cancer either. But the research Dr. Gorbunova and Dr. Seluanov have conducted on those rodents suggests that they fight cancer by sending a different signal to fast-growing cells, causing them to commit suicide.

Dan Engber's wonderful 2011 Slate piece[0], linked by Yong, notes naked mole rats have perfectly functioning apoptosis processes:

> A naked mole rat cell, they argued, is hypersensitive to crowds: The minute one of its cytoplasmic arms brushes up against a stranger, it stops dividing. A cell could be induced to overcome its shyness with the help of some cancer-causing proteins, and so emboldened it would grow out of control, like a tumor. But even then, a second line of defense would be activated: The cell would apoptose, or self-destruct.

it's not clear whether Zimmer is talking about somehow extra-active apoptosis in blind mole rats, does anybody have precisions?

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_mouse_t...
Does avoiding swearing make you feel more grown up?
I see a Kickstarter opp here - the Xbox Kinect sleep mask.
Groklaw - Intellectual Ventures Sues Motorola for Patent Infringement Again
And here in Holland.

It even stimulates tourism. I wonder what would happen to the Amsterdam economy if legalization of softdrugs and prostitution becomes the global norm.
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Agreed. And perhaps the notion of "dangerous sociopath" can be revised altogether. I'm no expert but in my understanding sociopathy is more about non empathic social behavior. It can be felt as creepy and depicted as violent in fiction, but that's doesn't make it a dangerous behavior in itself, and can actually be socially rewarded.

It can be argued that the lack of empathy can lead to a more violent behavior, but violent acts comming from deep personal relationship are plenty a dozen as well, who knows.
In the Netherlands glass bottle and plastic bottles,cost between 0.25€ and 0.50€ more, money you get back when you return them to the store. As a consequence of reciclying, the beer is usually cheaper when bought in glass bottles and beer crates (0.20€ - 0.30€ per 0.3L bottles) thus people usually buy those. It's a win-win situation for everyone :)
Everyone keeps saying I should use Restangular instead of ngResource but so far I haven't seen any good reasons to. Anyone care to enlighten me?
I wasn't asking or saying anything about Kim Dotcom.

I was commenting about the price of labor to replace 600 server's hard drives. If you use a team of 600 datacenter monkeys each taking out and replacing 1 server's drives at a time and gave them each an hour to do it... okay, that's $166 an hour per datacenter monkey. Those are highly paid technicians.
Well, bad journalism is more common than good journalism. Tom Scott proposed for many newspaper articles to have warning labels. In this case, the label would read: ‘WARNING: Journalist does not understand the subject they are writing about.’

http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/
I want to agree with you but you account is extremely fishy. Your name is a joke and this is your only post. Are you a US government agent?
but the point still stands - sure the seeds might've only cost you a few cents (or even, free if you know a nice farmer who'll give you some). But think about the time it takes to grow, and the amount of effort required to grow enough to make one jar of tomato sauce...
Yeah, have the same on chrome.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'getOrigin' of undefined BHIek:170 and on BHIek:154
Just use CloudFlare - they offer more services for Free. Plus they have extra security and apps like preventing image bandwidth stealing.
I think that's not a valid analogy. First, the last time I checked, Apple is still a niche player in the global computer market. Their current success is not because of their position in the computer market, but because of their current position in the MP3-Player (iPod) and smartphone markets.

But this niche market saved Apple from bankruptcy. Had they not gotten NextStep, they would have been bankrupt.
We use stuff from the kids TV show Knightmare. So our app servers are called treguard, merlin, mogdred, hordriss, database server is called knapsack, etc.
it just means that one person is capable of producing a lot more by designing smart machines, instead of manual labour. The engineering/thought going into the design is still a job.

Imagine if the entire world didn't need manual labour - what would/could happen? Is it possible that all humans work on abstract things like designing stuff (programmgin/engineering/produce entertainment for others)?
As I've already said a couple of times, the dependency on the cloud is troublesome for lots of reasons. I don’t want to “wait for authentication” every time I go play offline single player games, I just want to play the game! Why should I care if it authenticated.

And Microsoft could have made the whole program opt-in. Then some would have their digital future, and I wouldn't. In that case everyone wins.

DRM always presents a problem for a paying user. When you pirate games, you have 0 problems and excellent, if not better, experience than regular, paying users.
If I understand correctly, the thing about this is that people want the kickstarter removed not because of the content of the book yet to be written but because of things the author has said publicly before writing the book.

If that's the case, the book isn't failing content guidelines and Kickstarter killing the project would be moving toward a policy of saying they won't allow you to use their service if you've ever said something rash, creepy, or stupid.

With as much public information as there is out there about people, maybe that is where commerce is going to go. That's nearly as creepy as people suppose that the book is going to be. Well, not really, but still pretty damned creepy.
I agree with the OP but I still think the power of algorithms and datastructures should not be understated, as they power most of the software everyone (including "organizational" coders) use, e.g. databases.

For example, I'm writing a pure JS database (https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb), and using indexing I was able to speed it up hundreds fold. That's clearly not something I could have done without knowing about self-balancing binary search trees.

I also think that knowing algorithms does make you a better programmer, even if you don't use them on a daily basis.
The Microsoft investment and their promise to port/maintain Office for Mac OS were what bought Apple enough time to come up with new product categories like the iPod.
This is one thing I like about shopping at Amazon and Newegg: I never have to worry about them using my zip code to find my address for marketing purposes.
Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5592679
I bicycled over a large bump, my Lumia 920 jumped out of my shirt pocket and fell onto asphalt from a height of about four feet at a speed of about 25 mph. It bounced a few times and then slid several feet. The damage: a few dented corners and a single light 3mm scratch on the glass. No complaints about build quality here.
Someone told me that is a mis-quote, Henry ford never said that. But it is a perfect mis-quote.
Fluxus (3D engine for livecoding) now runs in WebGL
I really doubt sociopaths would use facebook at all anyway
The company I work for holds a summer school every year. And while I understand this does not apply to most tech jobs applications, I can assure you that after three weeks working together with the students we get a pretty good idea of who can organize their thoughts and divide problems in subproblems. So maybe the key would be to test technical skills for a while longer than a half hour quiz.
PCIe SSDs are a terrible disappointment.I was able to achive the same performance as 'http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227... with 3 Samsung RAID0 drives.
Italian Genoa to use open source 'wherever possible'
Quick bug report: The logo on your support pages all point back to http://support.dnsimple.com/, so there's nowhere a user can click on this announcement to go find out about your product and eventually buy it.

Presumably you want people to discover your service, so it's probably a bad idea to make them actually type things into the address bar just to get to your homepage.
Which is not that surprising given that none of the other manufacturers is forced to take WP8 seriously. Sure, they'll happily release some devices alongside their Android offering, probably reusing a lot of the hardware and industrial design.

For company like HTC it doesn't really matter which third-party OS wins. But at the same time, because Android is selling better they're better of focusing more efforts there.
The difference is that Nokia is still very good at hardware and industrial design, while many of these companies are not (though they're learning quickly).

And Nokia also has still some value in their brand from the feature phone era, even if it eroding rapidly. They're now at position 19 of global brands, and dropping fast.

http://www.mainstreet.com/article/smart-spending/biggest-glo...
http://www.interbrand.com/nl/best-global-brands/2012/Nokia
Awesome! If you like to go a bit further I suggest learning Chef in order to automate this kind of tasks. I wrote a tutorial about it: http://matteodepalo.github.io/blog/2013/03/07/how-i-migrated...
Bruce has a great point about how people overreact due to the base rate fallacy, but I'm afraid that it will forever be too subtle for legislators and judges.

My immediate thought is that if the base rate fallacy were part of their education, society would be better off, but legislators still have to play to their constituents and it's hard to have hope in that sphere.
seems pretty cost competitive next to Amazon's Route53, which I always thought was exceptionally cheap compared to the hassle of running your own nameds
The revenue gained is not from tourists but from people living in neighboring municipalities (but working in Tallinn) registering them as citizen of Tallinn and therefore bringing their tax money.
There's nothing wrong with being a sociopath as long as you follow Harry's code.
They already do this so it seems.

In the Netherlands they ask for data about Dutch people via the NSA. Doing it this way they don't officially have direct access to the data so they don't need a warrant for it.
How do you know that he uses Windows?

I found his comment not very snarky, but quite interesting, indeed, one of the main arguments against Flash, and here we are with the same drawback with this amazing new technology.
It's a 2011 macbook pro.
I can appreciate your desire to drive business to your company, as any of us would, but don't you think it would be prudent to add a disclaimer, or at minimum refer to yourself in the first person?
Wikileaks' Assange asylum bid for Snowden
C was targeted at the PDP-11 etc not microcomputers though.
A good start would be to source from science journos instead of trash like metro or the daily mail.
I found his version clearer because "%" distinguishes proportions from quantities.
Oh come on now, those "features" are terrible and were just a bit of ketchup on a shit sandwich. Speaking as someone who moved house and had to wait a month for a phone company and ISP to get their internet up and running. If I'd had a XBone I would have just be sitting there with an expensive brick for a month.
I don't even have that; just my name and the other required stuff. I still accept connections in the hope that I will join one day, but that seems more and more unlikely.
Ranks of Romanian cyber cops surge
I always give them 4711 (a brand name for a very famous German Eau de Cologne, http://www.4711.com/index.php/en/).

Quite often they don't even get it.
There Are Over 50 Instagram Ripoffs: The Stupid Startup Clone War
Is STEAM an option?

Only if I do not wan to buy certain games. Two games I bought in a big box store REQUIRE a Steam account to play. Perhaps you have heard of the Civilization series?

More than once when Steam had a problem or I had one with my provider I could not play certain games off line. I don't like Steam, I do not like the idea I have to have their permission to play a game I paid fifty bucks for and have the physical media for. If I had known it would not let me play without an internet connection I would never have bought it. When the label stated "Requires an Internet connection" I figured it was for multiplayer only.
Angular is agnostic of the back-end. Just use the $http service to read/write async from the server. The angular model is whatever your model is - there are no restrictions
The "fallacy" described here is a non-issue. Medical tests have the same characteristics but are still incredibly useful. HIV testing is roughly 99% accurate, but given the large number of tests performed, a very large percentage of people will end up with the wrong result. And yet this test is vital.

Even wildly inaccurate tests can be useful. Imagine that driving drunk will result in a accident 10% of the time. 90% of the time, however, a driver will make it home safely. This is a wildly inaccurate predictor, but it still critical to know someone's blood alcohol level before giving them their keys.

One must simply be aware of the uncertainty involved in any test, and treat test results as probabilistic signal, not as proof.
Wait .. doesn't turning on the bill printing machine weaken a currency instead of strengthening it?
How to make your developers REST?
Note that at the time Orwell was writing, the only epidemiological research linking lung cancer and heart disease with smoking had been carried out by doctors working in Nazi Germany -- research which was tainted with guilt by association. (It took epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll another decade to independently make a conclusive case that the lung cancer epidemic was the result of smoking.) Smoking was tending towards a habit shared by 50% of the male population of the UK Orwell lived in; it was as unexceptional as tea or coffee.

Alcohol is a depressant and exactly the sort of bad habit a dictatorship with an unhealthy interest in its' subjects mental states might want to encourage. Think too much: anaesthetize yourself! It's also very hard to clamp down on bathtub distilleries.
I'm surpised South Korea did so poorly, I thought I saw numbers suggesting it was equal to Japan for Android game profits.
As far as I know the book is already mostly written, and a large portion of it is a compilation of material the guy's posted on Reddit. So those abhorrent comments and views found in his Reddit posts will more than likely end up in the book - unless this outcry makes him reconsider including that stuff.
Show HN: Lonely Tweets :'(
The web has made us more connected than ever before. We are able to communicate our most intimate thoughts and feelings with the world at any given moment. But is anyone listening?
Economies of scale, short supply chains, and automation. It's not really all that surprising.
They turned off the MSN Music DRM Servers! People that bought there lost the ability to transfer their music away from their device.

I sometimes play games that are many decades old, and as anyone that collects games knows, consoles tend to live shorter than physical game copies.

So what am I going to do with a Xbox One in 20 years after the DRM Server were turned off?

Hope that the console never fails so I don't lose my complete collection? (If the failure rate for the last two Xbox generations is any indicator, chances are slim)
If everyone driving down a highway is going above the speed limit, are they all doing the wrong thing? Do they all risk being singled out by the highway patrol?

If everyone wears a mask, or at least the majority, can those being singled out for wearing one use some sort of argument that everyone was wearing one? At what point does a "lawful protest" become an "illegal riot" because if the former turns into the latter all of a sudden, can you argue your way out of it?

In any event, seems as ridiculous as charging illegal downloaders hundreds of thousands, rather than something reasonable, for downloading an album, or what-have-you.
They'd be subject to background checks and surveillance that they ideally would not even notice - yes, I'm aware that we don't live in an ideal world, but the point is that traditional "leg work" policing is pretty good at determining whether a suspect is actually engaged in nefarious activities - but it's expensive and requires a reasonably narrow list of suspects to begin with.
The issue is that civil rights are supposed to be immune to probabilistic signal. In practice, it won't turn out that way. Look at racial profiling.
Design+Banter 2: Design talks, free beer and free bowling in Lonodn
I tend to agree with you, except it is not a non issue.

Look at the numbers of people getting very serious medical treatment because they, and their clinicians, have not understood the numbers.

If doctor (well educated intelligent person) cannot get this right I'm scared that labelling someone as "POTENTIAL TERRORIST" on the basis of a 1 in X possibility is going to have disastrous consequences.
For lobsters, that's still a matter for debate. See [1] and [2].

Some animals just do live a long time though. A clam believed to be 405 years old was found in waters off Iceland in 2007 [3]. I'm not a marine biologist, but I suspect that an absence of predators may be relevant.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster#Longevity

[2] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8520/under-the-r...

[3] http://phys.org/news112870855.html
"Is STEAM an option?"

It is.

If certain games require it, then it is something forced by those games, not by the service itself.

Just as those "off the shelf" games that are account tied, as Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2, it does not imply that all physical games are account tied.

An exception does not a rule make, while in the case of Microsoft that would have been "the rule".
Why didn't they go native?
EsCloud - Hosted ElasticSearch cloud
Some of the more flippant sounding ones could be useless but I thought the idea of the simpler ones (how many golf balls etc.) is to get a feeling for how people's minds work and whether they can make sensible best guesses in the abscence of concrete facts and make judgements based on those guesses. Weed out the ones who have no appreciation for how the volume of a golf ball relates to the size of a bus.

Good logical thinking shown here could indicate an ability to rapidly prototype systems without getting hung up on too fine detail.
Yeah, even if they did, how are you going to use your games once your Xbox One is defective and you can't transfer your games to another console, because the DRM servers were turned off?

Edit: I don't accept a solution where I just have to hope that they will do something that enables me to play my games once the authentication servers have been decomissioned.

If I buy something, I want to know upfront what they will do, and it has to be guaranteed, not just a PR statement.

It has to be part of the TOS and I should be able to hold them accountable if they do not deliver.
If you ever need to return something they are entitled to your ID which has your entire address anyway.

Says who?

Or here's another scenario, which actually happened to me:

I bought office supplies and one of the items bought was accidentally scanned twice.

I noticed this after paying, but immediately complained.

In order to refund my money for her mistake she insisted I provide my name and address.

I lied. I very obviously wrote a non existing person at a non existing address on the form she insisted I fill.

Do you think I was unjustified to lie in such a situation?

Your state DMV sells your info to corporations for pennies, in fact sometimes under law it's required to.

Not in Europe, they don't. In fact: This would be illegal, if not actually criminal.
The first event was a blast, with over 65 designers turning out.

The second event is 7pm, Monday, July 1st at The Kingpin Bowling Suite, WC1H 9EU for more talks, beer and bowling.

If you love design, you'll love this.
Stop.

Being personally annoyed isn't a business case. Before you spend a lot of time evaluating alternatives and migrating spend sometime analyzing what impact it will have to your business (conversions, etc) before deciding what to do about it.

As a startup the single most valuable asset you have is your time; don't waste it on things that don't matter to your business.
Perhaps you’re thinking of people who are antisocial? I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Facebook members who are most active and have the most ‘friends’ are sociopaths.
CVDazzle!

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I really doubt you'll have to download the whole game before playing. MS has been working on progressive download of binaries for a long time. The last couple versions of Office would let you start using the apps in a couple of minutes, and it would prioritize downloading whatever features you were using. It's pretty smooth, and they've been licensing it for games for a while (under the PlayReady platform).
I believe the human body too, has a 100% complete turnover at the cellular level every 3 years. Not that all the cells are replaced all at once. ;)
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This is freaking awesome.... I love the music... also the gameplay too.. nice idea! :D
Use a smart card. After creating your secret key(s), you move them to the card (or you can create the key inside the card, so it is never seen by your PC). The card has no capability of exporting them so they will never be leaked. You can only wipe the card clean and start over. To further protect your PIN-code for the card, you can use a card reader with integrated keypad, which should work against most key-loggers.

For GPG you most certainly can invalidate a key, in fact, this is a crucial part of the key-generation and management process. Along with the public/private key pair, you also generate a key revocation certificate. The revocation cert can then be uploaded to the key-server in the case that your key gets compromised. A well behaving GPG-client will check the validity of the public keys in your key chain, and if it encounters a revocation key against the public key you are trying to use, it will then disable it and warn you.

For more, see: http://g10code.com/p-card.html and https://www.crypto-stick.com/
The original article - http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-huntin...
Distraction free reading and without all the annoying cruft of Quartz.

Fascinating use of "Big Data" to cut through the bullshit. Wonder if it will change anything. I suspect the "tough" interview plays well into a company's PR.
Sounds great, although like with any retraction I doubt this will be enough to stop the spread of interview puzzles. Even I'm guilty of asking my share before I realized that the only thing that matters about the candidate is whether they can sit down and start writing code (and the quality of said code).
An equitable system would ensure the tight also pay.
Just use SAT.

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On the other hand, demonstrating evidence for being able to rapidly prototype systems without getting hung up on too fine detail also indicates an ability to rapidly prototype systems without getting hung up on too fine detail. And it does it much more directly (i.e. there is an obvious link rather than a tenuous at best one) and with much less stress, awkwardness and mind games.