skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They build a bunch of cool stuff that causes Google or some Android-dependent company (e.g. Samsung) to acquire them would be my guess.
They are NSA standards compliant.
even w/o immortality humans already have serious overpopulation issues on earth.
That is an inaccurate generalization of free software. Also, free software has the most important advantage off all: giving you freedom.
I guess. Still feels like you're getting gouged when you know they're getting discounted S3 storage rates based on their utilization.
Technology and ideas do replace physics and chemistry when they improve efficiency. No comment, at the moment, on how that impacts the broader discussion.
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To add: I feel there's attempt for added weight toward the UXD, as he/she is the sole responsible person. People forget that it's a team effort as well.
Experimental study proves that Starcraft increases cognative skills.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

Thats right, experimentally proves. They took non-gamers, forced them to play Starcraft, and then at the end of the study... their cognitive skills were measurably better.
ActiveX still works in IE11 though.
This is not at all about taking notes? It is about managing todos and events on paper?

Does anybody have a good system for taking notes during a meeting on paper? I prefer digital tools, but recently I've been doing many presentations with screen-sharing, where I cannot type at my computer.
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http://creativebeatle.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/elements_o...

Referenced in the notes. Very useful.
A little bit more specifically, the exact failure mode is in properly identifying that mammals that are prevented from playing in multiple animal studies pretty much turn into complete F-ups when they become adults, and properly scientifically documents that human kids are prevented from playing more over the years while perhaps coincidentally mental illness levels have exploded in children.

So the specific failure mode is proving that totally F-ed up lower mammals equates to suicide in human teens. Probably the only really scientific conclusion you can gather is that forcing human kids (aka mammals) not to play screws them up horribly.

Well, I'd love to sit here and debate with my HN buddies but as you know the only hope for a middle class lifestyle is being in the top 5% so I gotta take off and helicopter my 2nd grade daughter from Violin lessons to Chinese lessons to Lacrosse League practice otherwise she'll never make it into Stanford.

Note I'm kidding, I don't even let my kids join organized sports, although we participate in totally dis-organized sports (aka, actually fun) at the park a couple times per week. My son's actually getting good at hitting a baseball, although no one keeps score.
http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html ?
Neat thought experiment but poor title.

The author even comes out and says that there is no way this could happen as you can't really up and move every existing driveway.
Steve Kondik and Koushik Dutta are on reddit doing an AMA right now with more substantial information than what the verge article provides.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mnnc6/we_are_steve_cy...
Peculiar it isn't just set up as a charity then.

Although perhaps Larry Page just wants to avoid the strange vagaries of non-profit governance, if I were to guess why.
I think people are forgetting there's already a business class option for organizations that need more serious power usage. This isn't so odd when you take that into account. This seems like it's aimed at individual users or people who specifically want to have more fun in Trello but not necessarily more power.
You should write a new language called Rucoffee. It's CoffeeScript that looks like Ruby. Will definitely give you 100+ stars on Github.
Will this run on an Amiga and BeOS?
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When will this include Group Messaging?

The second it includes Group Messaging I will migrate from Google Voice. Besides the fact that Hangouts is likely to swallow Google Voice, I'm tired of no MMS/GroupMessage support.
Those are obviously problems, but there are solutions. Among them, "everyone dies" is just about the shittiest. Yes, I would happily volunteer to be sterilized in exchange for living forever. In a heartbeat.
This man is the human equivalent of a civet. Bottle this beer and someone would buy it
In my personal experience, faking has been helpful.

I also grew up mostly without friends. The weirdest thing for me though was that as a toddler, I was extremely social and friendly. Then through a series of occurrences I ended up on the other end of the spectrum. My family moved all the time and I barely ever had any friends. I was happiest when reading. I read incessantly, constantly - often hiding in the bathroom to read because my mom wanted me to do school work. Haha.

It was strange though because I read fiction exclusively. It was a way for me to find friends, even though fake ones.

I left home in grade 11 (Junior year of high school) for a boarding school. I was super excited to make hundreds of friends now that I was finally going to be among more people my age, living with them. It turned out to be a disaster. I had always wanted friends but I had never learned to socialize. It was a hard 2 years of rejection, pranks, people constantly laughing at me. In a high end school in Delhi girls who don't know how to dress, do their hair, take care of themselves, are BIG jokes. :-/ To be fair, I was not smoothest operator aside from that either.

After that I got into Stanford for college and that was probably the biggest blessing I got. Suddenly I was around people who were more like me. Yay! But I faked a lot to fit in and be "normal". I tried really hard to be interesting. I still only managed to make a few friends but I wasn't a pariah.

Then desire struck. I decided I wanted to fulfill my dream of being a "leader" and ran for student government. That was one of the times in my life that I faked it till I made it. I was the friendliest, best looking self I have ever been. As I was going through the election campaign, I wondering if this faking was worth it.

I didn't really realize then but that experience changed me forever. The faking stopped feeling fake. I now feel much more empathetic and social with people. Similar to the person who commented below about running a bar to change his behavior and comfort level, its almost like I needed practice to civilize myself haha.

Anyway, in summary, I feel like faking is shitty when you are going through it but can have really good long term behavior changes. Its all about emulating the right behaviors.
Of course it's horrible. Life is all there is. When you die, from your perspective, that is the end of all things. That's pretty horrible. Just because it's natural doesn't make it good.
They already are. Like a week or two after Google release the "Locate My device" feature, the CM guys wired up a similar feature to CM Account that doesn't share your location with ANYONE. It's encrypted all the way from phone to your browser.

I think they've pretty laser focused on doing things the "right way" in terms of user privacy/security.
Yeah, well, when the standard changes are basically equivalent to Blink diffs, then it's difficult..
Think of this as a 5GB cache :)
To add to what the others have said, besides writing overhand (so your hand doesn't drag across what you just wrote), look for smaller nibs, drier inks, as well as more absorbent paper. Anything that will make the ink set faster instead of staying on top of the paper.
Your logic can be dismissed as nonsense with a very easy thought experiment.

Imagine you have two groups of people: Group A and Group B. You are voting on a technology that can prevent 90% of deaths in Group A. Do you vote yes or no?

If you vote no, congratulations, you just condemned a large group of people to continue dying for the sake of egalitarianism.

(The reason this thought experiment is powerful is that it strips the scenario of value-judgments such as "elite" and "poor.")
Samsung has a different agenda with their software, so while it may suck to you and to the tech savy crowd it may bring Samsung new customers, or make them money in a different way.
You yourself admit that EE used grey-hat practices and spammy marketing.
If, after being named and shamed they apologized, and admitted that they were doing morally wrong stuff, and stopped doing that - then they wouldn't deserve a campaign.

They didn't, and apparently still don't - so they deserve whatever people think about them. Instead of making excuses, you need to apologize - it's that simple.

If your business model really, really, needs cheating your users - then the ONLY moral way out is to quit, no matter what other good things are there.
They are doing an AMA: www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mnnc6/we_are_steve_cyanogen_kondik_and_koushik_koush/
Congrats! Like @josh2600 said, no small accomplishment!

Any plans for US phone number (as opposed to just shortcode) support for sending/receiving MMS?
HTC could use something that would differentiate themselves from Samsung et al, maybe Cyanogen could do it?
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Its a change; unprecedented in the history of mankind. So don't accept it blindly. Nothing about the makeup of humans prepared them for a childhood of over-supervised planned activities and a near-total lack of open-ended peer interaction.

Its a bigger risk to just blindly forge ahead with kids addicted to chat, sugar and the internet.
My iCloud account is already at data capacity (with a paid addon at that) with my iPhone and iPad backups. It's also a huge pain waiting for a million photos to sync when I want just this one. I'm also not happy with the privacy aspects of Photostream if I've taken private photos.

I mean, it works. But it's not elegant nor efficient. The Dropbox method sucks too. I often don't have Wifi (or it's hotel/airport wifi where you're limited to 1 device), and then I wish I was back on my dumbphone...
Well this particular change to the PRNG could be detected that way. Detecting an arbitrary tampering in a black box fashion is as you say very hard, but black box detection is not what is discussed; optical inspection of the die is also allowed.
Font is already "monospace" in your browser by default rules. It's reset that breaks things, see stylesheet.css:5 # unrelewant omited

pre {
font: inherit;
}
I thought those seemed part and parcel. :) "I'm in the gravity well of a star" leads to "this alters the geodesic of spacetime that the I tumble down", which made me wonder "wait, why does it tumble down geodesics to begin with".

The answers seems to be "physics doesn't have to abide by your intuition or need for narratives, human"
>If anyone from Cyanogen is reading this

They are doing an AMA right now. Go tell them.
those two curves look the same to me. "Average" is a terrible metric, especially with the spread. My eye estimates the "p-value" for difference between those curves is about .8, depending on what distribution you think it is.
Agreed. Sort of a satire of how articles will take some research and draw wild conclusions about it for the headline.

We also considered "Psychopaths start companies" and "Some third variable relates to both psychopathy and starting companies", all of which are equally valid hypotheses :)
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you can paginate however you want. The default is the return 10. You can return an amount 1-100 and use the offset parameter to get the next X results.
The main problem with IE has never been its speed. I hope it dies a long agonizing death for all the hours I have wasted when developing two versions of each page - one for all the other browsers and one for IE. Its market share finally reached a point where I don't care about it... Good riddance!
I'm really annoyed that more companies haven't realized that this could be a good idea. I've been a student for 5 years now, and this is the exact procedure I've used throughout all my studies. For me, it's an obviously superior way to get things done. When you're in the wrong type of company, it turns into an hourly grind that's more focused on being present and less on actually getting stuff done.
And... so what. That's like adding a lane to a congested freeway. The latent demand will just fill them all in and nothing will change.
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How so? And what is "this type of criticism"? To me it looks like the design world has taken one concept and hyped and warped it, missing the point of the original goals.

I don't see this article as any different than the misuse of Hadoop article that was posted yesterday.
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Has to be tightly bound to hardware acceleration, no?
Upvote for the idea of creating an app+service for letting homeowners sell the street space in front of their house for parking. However, the main reason that wouldn't work is because the majority of actually valuable areas have buildings with several tenants. Trying to find a time which is convenient to all drivers in a building to rent the driveway and which is still worth it for them after splitting the profits would probably make this idea fruitless.
My understanding is this is the direction of flow. My oldest son has such traits. I have told him since he was little that he needs to plan on starting a company, he will never make a good employee. I have seen crime shows indicate serial killers are more likely to be self employed, in part because it gives them more freedom to cover their tracks, to come and go as they please.
>There's still no reason to add additional whitespace to a response that isn't going to be consumed by a human.

The point is if you don't know which requests are going to be consumed by a human, and which are being consumed by eyeballs of developers testing your API, it's a legitimate design tradeoff to consider printing your responses in a human readable way. (And yes, "?pretty_print=1" is another option, but of course this has its own set of obvious tradeoffs.)

You seem to think that a <1% hit on (uncompressed) response size doesn't outweigh the benefits of such a design choice. But the problem is you're not expressing this as an opinion but as a fact. There are plenty of scenarios (I'd argue the majority) where a tiny increase in the % of bytes you transfer is worth making it so developers can easily debug your API. Particularly when you are an API-providing startup with a few people and minimizing support-side touch points is crucial to scaling.
Yes, they want to force you to install Windows 8.1. I'd also prefer to have just the IE 11, at least until Windows 8.1 SP1 thank you Microsoft.

They are really strange: if I had Windows 7 I'd be able to install IE 11, but since I have Windows 8, I'll have to wait until October 18 and then I'll have to install the whole Windows 8.1.
Are you suggesting NSAstroturfing?

The government has engaged in that sort of thing before.
http://rezn8d.net/2012/10/19/us-defense-contractors-sock-pup...
http://5by5.tv/penaddict has a few episodes discussing this. highly recommended if you like to hear people talk about pens for 40 minutes at a time.
It is pretty weird that it's not a non-profit, I'll give you that.
Cool. Any possibility of putting the source code on Github?
I couldn't agree more. Moleskine paper quality is poor. I prefer Field Notes Brand for my pocket notebooks.

Also Jet Pens for a large selection of high-quality pens to write with.
whoa whoa, why the character assasination on the Cato Institute? do you have any references to support your position on their motives?
Well, p-value is <0.00001, but that's because it's a pretty big sample. You're right that the effect size is "small" (Cohen's d), which as you suggest you can basically see from the curves.

"Advanced" tab here: https://www.statwing.com/open/datasets/88ed02bd6dda2f813ba98...

Edit: I think I'm not allowed to respond to the reply to this comment for flamewar prevention reasons, so putting it here. You can also look at the nonparametric version of the test if you don't buy that parametric is good here (though I'd disagree because of the central limit theorem). p-value there is 0.00004
You're welcome to accept it - as long as you don't require me to die or hamper me from living as long as I like.
This sugarcane paper is also excellent at handling fountain pen inks. Very good deal for any fountain pen users!
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Four months ago, one of the VPs in my company called in sick to work. In the email he sent to his team, he said he had food poisoning and needed to let it run out of his system. The next day he sent another email saying he's still struggling with it and not feeling well, but had started taking some antibiotics.

He died on the third day.

Because you see, what he thought was a simple food poisoning was actually a rare form of staph infection that reached his heart and destroyed it. By the time his family realized he should be taken to the ER, it was too late.

You may want to think about that the next time you have a "simple fever." Because the fact of the matter is that people are not doctors and should not try to self-diagnose themselves when they feel sick. They should go to the doctor, or if the symptoms are non-trivial, the ER.
It may make sense to expose a separate entry to retrieve the count. That way the 98% of users who don't need it can continue to ignore it, but you won't force the extra overhead of requiring the other 2% to page through all results to get the count.

While count is expensive, it seems it would be less so than full result set retrieval broken up over several requests?

You'll get some additional usage beyond the 2% who need it now (after all, if it's there people will use it while in its absence it would not be considered at all), but on the whole you should be able to find the threshold at which you'd come out ahead by offering it.
> I have no problem with free market capitalism, if it's fair.

Free market capitalism isn't fair. All the dynamics and mechanics of capitalism have nothing to do with fairness.
Death of an adjunct professor
They could develop IE9+ for XP.
Access multiple adult videos at once, and watch them all on multi-view.
Try a quick-drying ink from Noodler's, such as Bernake Blue or Bernake Black. I'm a big fan of the Platinum Preppy with an o-ring to seal the whole body allowing you to fill it with ink—it's dirt cheap and writes very well. I recently picked up a Pilot Metropolitan, slightly more money but again, impressive value and it comes with a converter (which is like a cartridge that lets you refill with your own ink).
I'd happily take the 5,000 million years (or whatever physics say) lifespan now please.

If I can't call it immortality, well, it'll have to do.
If you want designers to stop designing for Dribbble, stop hiring designers on the basis of their Dribbble profiles.

Right now, the evaluation and hiring process for designers in most companies is so shallow that cranking out eye-catching niblets is a HIGHLY rational move for designers looking to promote themselves.
I don't get it. Can you expand upon what you're worried I might have said, which you think is far, far worse?
Microsoft hasn't developed IE9+ for Windows XP. This might be to differentiate their newer OS'es.
I'm also working on an AngularJS + FireBase web app (http://hixup.com/#/3fKz/). I posted a 'Show HN' yesterday but it didn't get much traction. My app lets you create a simple poll where the votes and comments are updated in real time. Thanks to Firebase I could concentrate on writing client-side code only.

I agree with the other commenters that the AngularFire bindings are not mature yet. The documentation is lacking in detail and I couldn't figure out how to make it work with lists in Firebase. So I ended up using the regular Firebase javascript API instead of AngularFire.

You can have a look at the code here: https://github.com/dbbert/personal/tree/gh-pages.
Two things: Money. Power.
I'm still using backbone.js within our app but a lot of people seem to be using things like:

* https://github.com/component/view for views built on top of reactive for declarative bindings

* https://github.com/component/model for models

* https://github.com/component/router for routing

So what we have so far from these 3 libraries is basically a decomposed backbone with declarative bindings. That will cover 99% of your typical app. I don't find there is too much boilerplate.
Please point out even the slightest indication that entropy is beatable.

Otherwise, make an ethical argument that covering every inch of the planet in people is a good idea.

Otherwise, explain how you'll get the proper sterilization procedures working to control population growth and get resource consumption down to sustainable levels.
Self driving cars.

Your car drops you off in front of your driveway, and goes park itself wherever there is a spot, in a 5-minute driving distance from your house.

Need to leave the house? Press a button on your smartphone to notify your car 5 min ahead of time to come pick you up.

(Laws to allow driverless cars would need to be written and voted. Right now, driverless car laws require the presence of a human in the driver seat.)
with Node.js and CSS3.
The choice of BIST over scan/ATPG makes this attack theoretically possible on Ivy Bridge. If Intel had used scan/ATPG then this attack could not have worked even in theory. Unfortunately, I don't have the insight to understand why scan/ATPG could introduce a backdoor.

Disclaimer: I don't think that this attack is even theoretically feasible given just a few real world constraints. I am just nitpicking
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Few questions for you, hope you don't mind filling me in:

* Which web[sites/apps/companies] still value SEO so much?

* Out of those, how many absolutely require a JavaScript Framework that generates majority of the "content" on the page?

* Doesn't Google (perhaps other engines as well) crawl and store dynamically generated content anyways?

* Is there really any optimization needed?
> Accelerate existence by whatever means necessary; availability will follow.

This is not demonstrated at all. Increasing existence and production of food hasn't tackled food insecurity and hunger, for example. That something exists, even if cheaply, does not mean it will become accessible.
Succeed or not in their stated goal, it could end up throwing off a lot of interesting science, assuming actual bio/neuro/genetic science is backed by the venture. Presumably all this enhanced by vast amounts of computational prowess, as well.

That said, there are a lot of questions about what the philosophical, cultural, sociological and political underpinnings and implications might be. Creating a friendly environment for discussing those could be a worthwhile exercise as well. For example, what is the interaction between individual wellbeing and longevity, and the quality of world in which you live? Perhaps it's a two-way street, a wholistic set of factors that includes social wellbeing in addition to medical health, taking for example the case of that Greek island with famously long-living people (Ikaria).

As someone said, it's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years.