skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the people pulling night shifts are unable to integrate into society because of drug or alcohol problems, or because of stigma against people with mental illness, or because of learned helplessness.

There's not much difference between going through trash to get soda cans or being the guy who stacks the dishwashing machine, except that dishwasher guy loses the job if he doesn't turn up whereas the can-gathering guy just loses a night's wages.

EDIT: But I do strongly agree with your post. Criminalising this seems wrong headed - these people are helpful to society and are working, and we should be thinking of ways to help them.
Is there anyone out there trying to give printers the Nest treatment?
And the Twitter list of attendees for anyone interested: https://twitter.com/AustenjAllred/lists/startup-school-2013
Yes. It is, just because the idea is unthinkable doesn't make it untrue.

http://gralbumcollective.com/about.html
Delayed aging looks much harder to achieve than rejuvenation. A couple of billion dollars and ten years or so have gone into trying to just replicate the effects of calorie restriction, in which you have state A (short-lived) and state B (long-lived) of metabolism clearly laid out for you. So far a lot has been learned, but it's clear that that is just a starting point.

People in the field expect it to take decades more to get to a point of safely adjusting human metabolism to slightly slow down aging.

Funnily it should be far easier to rejuvenate the old (very useful) than to slow their rate of aging (pretty useless). Aging is damage, and rejuvenation is just damage repair. See the SENS Research Foundation outline, for example. The research community already knows exactly how it could be done, since the root forms of damage that cause aging are well-enumerated, and it would only take a decade and a billion dollars to demonstrate that in mice. Full understanding isn't needed, only the understanding of what to target and how to repair it: a fraction of the knowledge needed to slow aging.

Unfortunately this is a radical departure from running a drug development pipeline. The therapies look like infusions of bacterial enzymes, mitochondrial gene therapy, and more exotic things. So it remains a minority position in the research community simply because of inertia, I think - it's so much easier to raise funds when you can point to every existing Big Pharma project and say "it'll be like that." This is how incremental, expensive projects that add little value continually suck up the majority of funding in any field.
I suggest that you take a look at:

Some killjoys have removed the blink tag from Firefox (jwz.org)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182690 (294 points, 60 days ago, 149 comments).
re: #2

You can edit all of the individual components of a tag (attributes, the tag itself, add new attributes, etc.), but you can't edit/select the entire tag or child tags at once as you can in Firebug.

This can be really powerful, because when you can edit an entire tag including the open/close brackets, you can type in whole new tags or paste in a blob of new HTML.

This bug was the closest I could find: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777009
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

(but you knew I was going to say that)
It could be argued that integrating basic developer tools is also a statement about the kind of internet we ought to have: One where people are as empowered to understand and contribute as they are to consume.

I've seen not-terribly technical people— or at least people who'd never otherwise have firebug installed— go and edit braindamaged forms to get a webpage working right. Having it built in is practically empowering.
VC might run out in 3 weeks.
Hey man, shameless but on-topic plug. I believe I am on to the solution.

http://gralbumcollective.com/about.html
That's a little disingenuous. You've selected a very specific set of frameworks, whereas most of the users here are probably thinking "great! I can run my Rails stack with no problems! Heroku engineer said so!"

Note to readers: the only thing that "fixes" this is if the request-handling code is asynchronous in such a way that it doesn't block a process when connections are held idle. Most of the common web frameworks don't do this because the coding required to make a fully asynchronous stack is nasty. Even apps written in nominally asynchronous frameworks (like node.js) could be in trouble if the request path is pathological (i.e. the websocket periodically makes long-running, blocking database queries).

That said, most of you will never encounter this problem, because it's the sort of problem that's "nice to have" -- by the time concurrency issues become a limit, your app will be popular.
I'm particularly fond of SMART objectives. For the uninitiated:

Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Time-bound

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria
Great article! I didn't know how to make named pipes just anonymous ones.

I was recently messing around with Arduinos and Raspberry PI's - totally clueless about baud rates and Serial in general but had the bug so kept going, burned a few chips then a few more and finally did something that didn't smell of smoke : )

Then it went ding - the | in Linux was passing data one byte at a time like a Serial connection to an Arduino was. Somehow I've never looked at computers the same way since. Time to go play with some named pipes!
That was one of my frustrations -- tens of thousands of clicktivists sending the same form letter to politicians is pointless. Especially when those same tens of thousands are not fully educated on the benefits and drawbacks about the policies they ardently clicktivise.
Surely YCombinator and startup culture is the antithesis of what Russell is talking about as being desirable? The legions of burned out coders would probably not equate crunch time with leisure time.
Opinions vs. Facts
The community should be encouraged to favour facts over opinions.

Er, this is one of the largest problems facing Democracy since it was invented millenia ago. Look at the current American government shutdown, and the way Republicans have managed to frame the debate using empty rhetoric, when in reality both the debt ceiling and government spending are currently not an issue http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/10/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-...
Writing to files is hardly App Engine specific. Here's an example:

$fp = fopen("gs://my_bucket/some_file.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, "Hello");
fclose($fp);
You know the worst part about this? Once you've got through all that shit, you're working on a shopping cart.
Actually delaying aging implies also delaying the root causes that lead to the rise in cancer risk with age. E.g. calorie restriction induces an altered state of metabolism that delays aging, reduces cancer risk alongside extending life, and lowers measures such as nuclear DNA damage levels thought to drive cancer risk.
That's really cool, but the syntax is strange to me. How do you distinguish between operator sectioning (+) and a side-effecting function call (f)?
Ok, so I don't have a Phd, originally I was thinking about getting one but I started working and that just sort of fell by the wayside. But I never wanted to teach. I've always been interested in things and going deeply into a subject is (for me) its own reward. And that was my impression of the Phd folks I met, not that they were wanted to teach but that they really wanted to understand something completely. Was I completely wrong about the motivation there?
I'm glad to see Firebug being replace with a more modern set of tools, but you're right - Firebug (and the webkit devtools that followed from it) is/was amazing. It was probably the most significant change in front-end web development I've experienced in my 15ish year career.
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I strongly doubt that. What we're seeing is all the existing investigations are hurriedly wrapping up and arresting the people they can before everyone cleans up and protect themselves. The NOD investigation began in early 2013 and had nothing to do with the SR bust, the 3 UK arrests seem similar (and the Plutopete arrest suggests that they hadn't done their homework on him), the 2 Swedes went silent a week before the bust, and that's everything I know of right now.

Since I hate cheap talk, I'll even offer you a bet. Because of my interest in the topic, I track all publicly-known SR-related arrests, prosecutions, and convictions in http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road#safe . Based on the past history and the circumstances of the currently known arrests, I am strongly skeptical that there will be as many as... oh, let's say 30 related arrests after 1 October 2013 and before 1 October 2014 (Should be more than enough time; this, incidentally, would imply <~1% of active sellers were arrested.)

I'll offer generous odds: $100 to your $20.

So? What do you say? Are you just engaged in cheap talk and FUD, or do you have the conviction of your words?
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This article to me is a bit misleading because from my understanding Ashkenazi has always meant European Jews. That they make up a large percentage of the modern population of Jews may not be that impressive as it was the Europeans who colonized much of the world and even the European Jews would have spread from Europe into the Americas as well as back into the Middle East.

When studies of DNA look for the markers of a certain group of people, does that deny the markers of another? Does the finding of Ashekenazi mtDNA mean that other Jewish bloodlines DNA was not found?
Adjusting Image Brightness and Color Using the HTML5 Canvas API
I've had similar ideas, mainly focused on holding legislators and their contributors accountable.

It should be really easy to see how legislators voted, and also to see which companies contributed most to those on either side of the vote.

Also, I would include a "I approve/disapprove of this legislation" button. This way, the site could tell something like "You current Senator voted for the bills you support 15% of the time." In which case, you vote for someone else.
> If your technology has reached the point where human error and negligence is the primary source of risk, you've succeeded.

If all it takes is one earthquake or distracted technician to potentially vaporize a suburb, then your tech has not yet succeeded.

Safety regimes to minimize human error are great, but time and time again they are bypassed due to greed, negligence and idiocy. The Fukushima backup system you mention is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about - but they need to be comprehensive, redundant, and responsibly audited (the part that scares me the most).
FYI, this was enabled by default in Lion (10.7.2).
Samsung Loses Bid for Obama Veto of Apple-Won Import Ban
Orthogonality and composability dramatically increase abstraction, code reuse, testability, and likelihood of writing correct code, both for library maintainers and library users.

Step 2 is actually extremely well known.
I agree. I hate the molasses explanation, because it suggests the wrong kind of equations. Higgs bosons don’t dissipate energy. Repeat after me: “The Higgs mechanism is totally unrelated to viscosity or friction”

I think that the “added mass” can be a better analogy (A ball moving inside water drags part of the water, so to accelerate the ball you must accelerate part of the surrounding water, so the apparent mass is greater then the mass of the sphere. This is unrelated to viscosity. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Added_mass). But most people don’t have a good intuition about this effect, and I’m not sure that the analogies can be extrapolated to the correct equations.

The main problem is that Higgs bosons are extremely difficult to explain. I tried a few times to explain the Higgs bosons to “normal” people (like someone with only a Math mayor and no advanced Physics knowledge). I tried to explain it without equations, in a 10 minutes coffee talk. By the time I could explain the “Higgs field vacuum expectation value” and how it produces something that looks like a mass the people usually are totally bored and lost the thread of the explanation :(. I never could reach the part of the explanation about how the “Higgs bosons” appear in the Higgs field :( :(.
Can someone explain this to me in lay men's terms?
I know of few non-entry level developers of any reasonable skill level that would seriously consider this one-sided of an interview process unless there was some clear potential reward. Getting a job at instacart hardly sounds like something to get excited about. It sounds like they've 'hacked' themselves out of consideration by many talented programmers.
From what I gather, he invests in: companyA is going to buzzwordAdjective the stalwartIndusty
What's a "true" digital UI?

If you're going to say buttons and tabs are skeuomorphic, what isn't skeuomorphic? Interacting with a CLI resembles the back-and-forth query and response of conversational dialogue: it's skeuomorphic too!

Here's a question for you: what, exactly, is wrong with using metaphors for existing, well-known analogues to convey information in a new context? Isn't this how languages, notational conventions, and symbolic connotations naturally evolve among humans? I understand why people are tired of Apple's excess, but what's the problem with skeuomorphism per se?
Thanks Amazon?

This is probably in reference to Amazon forbidding the use of another software load balancer than ELB.

I also read on reddit that there is in fact just ELB. Especially when if you require a loadbalancer and don't host on AWS, you're pretty much screwed.

[Note, sarcasm.]
The best solution might be to spend only the tax revenue they receive; however, the idea is purely theoretical because they are not going to do that.

Currently government isn't able to pass a "normal budget" much less a very radically changed budget + huge and rapid changes in government agencies - if USA doesn't rise the debt ceiling, the actual effect will be not paying the interest due which is called a default.
Still around? I am looking for a drop-in cart with Amazon and Paypal options. I was using Paypal and Google checkout and need to migrate.
The array_reduce answers get closer to what I was looking for. This might be a "one line" answer, but it requires two special forms, assignment, sequencing operators (;), and two fresh variables.
We've actually done this before. Our process has evolved over time. We used to bring candidates in for a day to work with us and have them work on production code. We would pay them for their time.

Unfortunately, it wreaked havoc with the candidate's schedule, especially if they had another job, and took too long to get to a pass/fail for them.

The current process let's the candidate work on a production problem, but at a time of their choosing and on their own schedule. It also gets feedback to them much sooner, within a half hour or 3 hours.
The Top 7 Things That Your CI Server Should Do
We do that and works really well for us. Because it's not only the technical chops we want to test. We want to know how well integrates with our workflow, the quality of the questions they ask, how well they document what they are doing, etc.
From the "Chrome for business FAQ" page:

"Google only supports the most current dev, beta, and stable channel releases."

Given the frequency of the stable channel releases, I'd rather go for the Firefox ESR version.
Are there any particularly clever uses for named pipes in shell scripts? I don't think I've ever seen any.
Power surge cripples new NSA datacenter and delays opening by a year
Seattle tour offers life as a homeless person, for $2,000
Right now, we have a simple algorithm that ranks front-page entries based on their type and age, older entries would eventually be pushed down the stack as new ones comes in.

However, we've been contemplating a voting process on the entries themselves and then have the algorithm use that, some entries are worth the public attention more than others.

Thanks for testing!
Musicians are doing fine? I'm sorry but you base that on what? Because I live in NYC and am acquainted with a representative cross section of professional and aspiring musicians across several genres and including rock stars, sidemen, classical musicians, jazz musicians, jingle writers, you name it.

And overall, most people are hurting. It is harder than it was. Some people who write for TV and commercials are doing ok, some great. Some mid sized bands are doing great. Most everyone else is taking a beating.
Linux dev kit helps embed WiFi in devices
For perspective, I figured out recently that one 76-oz box of Borax has enough fuel to power 150 average American homes for a year: http://focusfusion.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/1261/

I don't know how much energy is required to isolate Boron-11, but certainly it'd be a lot less than that. Since it's a light element it'll be relatively easy to centrifuge.

Energy output vs energy input in the reactor itself is always the big challenge for fusion. This experiment put more energy in than they got out, just like all other fusion experiments so far.

However, previous papers on boron fusion using petawatt picosecond lasers have estimated a 10,000x energy gain, once we have sufficiently powerful lasers (about an order of magnitude better than we have currently). See the references section here: http://www.climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestI...
I've done three agriculture software startups. I do not believe that the average city dweller has any idea. At the last InfoAg conference there was a number of UAV (drone) vendors for the first time.

This nationally known futurist gushes about how technical ag has become: http://www.precisionag.com/video/c:0/1688/

If you're expecting to find Mr. Haney from Green Acres fame you're in for a rude shock.
Anyone using Safari or IE apparently isn't getting a forward secure connection to https://Lavabit.com . They end up with TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA according to SSLLabs[0].

Since things escalated to the point where Lavabit had to hand over it's key rather than the data on one account the FBI obtained an initial court order for [1], anyone with a transcript of those sessions and access to the key can read them.

The resulting cipher suites:

IE 6 / XP No FS *	SSL 3	TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA (0xa) No FS	168

IE 7 / Vista	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35) No FS	256

IE 8 / XP No FS *	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA (0xa) No FS	168

IE 8-10 / Win 7	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35) No FS	256

IE 11 / Win 8.1	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35) No FS	256

Safari 5.1.9 / OS X 10.6.8	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35) No FS	256

Safari 6 / iOS 6.0.1	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35) No FS	256

Safari 6.0.4 / OS X 10.8.4	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35) No FS	256

Safari 7 / OS X 10.9	TLS 1.0	TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (0x35) No FS	256

[0]https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=https%3A%2F%2...
[1]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/
As so many things do, this reminds me of one of the more insightful books I've ever read: http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Capitalism-Innovation-Economy-Sp...

Among many other things, the author, Bill Janeway, stresses that in his decades of experience in the venture investment world the only reliable rule he knows in that world is that cash and control are the only hedges against the inherent uncertainty of new ventures.
I disagree. I think they're simpler because they're built of smaller numbers of orthogonal concepts. I think code like this is certainly more dense, but I find the consequence of that density is that I spend less time pattern matching and skipping over "things that look like common idioms" and more time thinking about how there large, powerful abstractions wire together to achieve the intended end.
Presumably they blocked US players who don't know how to use a proxy?
The brilliance of PHP is drop files in folders, voila, website.

As soon as you know the terms IaaS, VPS, and PaaS, you know too much to be using PHP.
"Jews are not so much about ethnicity than about religion. Jews are the nation of Torah, not blood."

Yes and no. Bloodline became more of a focus during and after the Holocaust -- which is somewhat bitterly ironic, given that the Holocaust was perpetrated in the name of blood purity.

As a "half-Jew," and particularly as someone whose Jewish half is on the paternal side, I've been deemed "not really Jewish" by almost all but the most Reform branches of Judaism that I've encountered. I wouldn't be accepted into an Orthodox congregation except by conversion, because I am considered a gentile in their eyes. Even after being bar mitzvahed, I was labeled a "Jew by choice," with the slightly derisive implication that such a label carried second-class status among the Jewish populace. The obsession with matrilineal purity is still quite strong.

It shouldn't be. Jews make up an extreme minority of the worldwide population, and even of the US population. If anything, the faith needs to expand, not double down on supposed bloodline purity (especially purity of increasingly dubious genetic provability). But bloodline still carries a lot of weight in many Jewish communities, typically in direct proportion to the degree of religious orthodoxy of a given community. (My paternal grandmother, a third-generation Jewish American, refused to attend my parents' wedding on account of my father's marrying a gentile. She, like many old-school Jews, didn't quite understand the mathematical implications of marrying within the faith and the supposed bloodline -- that it is a self-limiting strategy, and potentially self-defeating, given how often the faith has come close to being severely endangered).
Also, they should be spared the burden of having to learn existing natural languages, with all of their multiple strata of evolutionary development. Instead, new spoken languages should be devised from scratch every generation or two, to prevent people from being contaminated by exposure to historical context.
>Remember that post-Snowden Congress had the ability to put a stop to the NSA program and didn't, and the public outcry (outside of HN) was fairly muted.

I don't see the public outcry as muted at all, but I suppose it depends on where you look. Remember, we're in a transition of traditional/oldschool media to new media.

I also don't expect the body politic to simply throw out their beloved spy apparatus after some public outcry. This isn't just a decision of Congress, but of a state funded military industrial complex that exists out of bounds of any kind of oversight with their own secret budgets -- something almost unheard of any prior state and without historical precedent. Trying to tear down the walls of that is going to be an extremely complicated and time consuming process, and I think its going to be a piecemeal affair.

> I suspect you're movement would not fair any better.

Obviously its very hard to establish a movement in the 21st century that can effectively alter the status quo. I look at Occupy as a better example -- and without getting into arguments regards one vs the other the Tea Party has continued where Occupy faltered and disintegrated. You may not be able to control what people say about you and its hard to keep a movement from splintering, but if you go by the basic tenants of creating a popular mass movement with leadership, specific political objectives, and enough funds, I think it's very possible to get things accomplished.