skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on what the use case is for configuration, but I'm envisioning times you want to allow for user/developer configurability of your program, or an installation being able to write out values that your program can use in its execution. Do you really want full programming language tools in your configuration level? Do you want an installation routine writing out a php script, or should it just serialize a config object to json / yaml?
Are longer lifespans better by definition? I realize fully I'm in the minority on this, and y'all can feel free to live forever, for all I care, but I wish that my personal life expectancy was about 40 years shorter than it is. That would have felt about right to me. Complete, and without too much decline. I mean, is everybody's desired lifespan just "as long as possible?"
Unfortunately, the word 'elitist' has pretty strong negative connotations.

There are various flavours of elitism, and frankly the political ones are pretty remote from the run-of-the mill business strategy that inspires many, including the likes of Svbtle. You can read up all about in this look at the marketing[1] of nightlife in NYC.

http://static.ow.ly/docs/Marquee%20Harvard%20Business%20Scho...

[1] Elitist, by some standards. Run of the mill, by others.
I think you're deliberately not hearing what I'm saying. Here's a good analogy:

Some rich guy buys an amazing house on a beautiful California beachfront. But then never even bothers to stay there because he's got 3 other vacation homes. It just sits there empty all year long.

Would it be ok for someone to break in and start living there? No, of course not.

But you do have to kind of dislike that guy right? If he doesn't want to use this limited and valuable resource he should maybe give it up so someone else can get good use out of it.
Now they just need more women (or less men?)
Ok, so I download IE7, sign up on the site, get a new computer, and then go back to using Firefox.
You think the director was trying to emulate the vid quality from that place and time in the video?
"If you're on IE7 you're probably on it because MegaCorp's Intranet Application '02 Enterprise Edition doesn't work on anything else."

This is what virtual machines are for...
> So are you arguing that having less luxury than others (but still luxury) causes people psychological pain, so society should give everyone everything they want?

No. You can tell that, because I didn't:

1) Assert the premise you propose, or

2) Assert the conclusion you propose.

> I don't think even the most hardcore communists ever asked for that.

Probably not. It's a ridiculous strawman you just invented.
Do it. Paypal is a terrible company who doesn't give a shit about its users.
Ninja Tune Starts To Put This Warning Sticker On All New Releases
Even better: the half-cent was last minted in 1857 so:

$us0.005 1857 today

14.04¢ (2014 US dollars)

So the half-cent was worth more than a dime when it was eliminated, and the penny (new smallest denomination) was worth more than a quarter. We could simplify our currency by eliminating all coins smaller than a quarter and have currency in similar resolution to 1857.
This might be one of those things that people say but when the reaper is close then they usually want to push him off a little longer and have more life. Much like money maybe.
Just hundreds of millions? Is that only going forward or is it retroactive? If it's the latter, I'd expect that number to be much, much higher.
Comparatively few people will read this story. Even fewer will care enough to continue the crusade against the attacker for any prolonged period of time to raise awareness among the potential future audience that this account was stolen.

High chance the story will be quickly forgotten and the account will be re-used.
And in this case I would be pulling for the DA to tear this hacker a new one.
Not if it's your corporate desktop.
This is how capitalism is supposed to work. If a firm goes bankrupt, just let it fail. Might bring some short term pain, but it creates a healthier economy in the long run.

Bailouts are contrary to the spirit of capitalism.
The Avoton Atom C2750 which is already out now is also 8 cores, but at 2.4GHz and with the entire SoC at 20W. It's supposed to have comparable performance to a Xeon E5520 quad-core/8-thread 2.26GHz CPU from 3 generations back, or about half the performance of a current quad-core/8-thread Xeon E3 1230v3. And it supports virtualization extensions.

I agree that I/O and not the CPU is usually the bottleneck though.
It has a lot of value for brands like Nike, Nokia, Netflix, Nordstrom...
Or a News channel - @N is very attractive to advertise. I don't see any trouble selling it for more than that.
> There are finite resources in our light cone

> Actually, if the universe is spatially infinite (which it is according to our best current models), this is not true

If the universe is temporally finite, it is, even if the universe is spatially infinite.
Disgusting, what a broken system. Can anybody actually defend such a system and explain how it promotes innovation?
So Akamai couldn't afford to pay themselves for their own IP pool and SSL cert? Poor guys.
I know, and you rarely see a $50 (in fact many places will refuse to take notes larger than $20) despite the fact that $20 notes were common in the 80s and a $50 is similarly valued now.
Doesn’t FAT do that? Although maybe a Linux user choosing to use FAT for some other reason isn’t that plausible in itself…
Sometimes I wonder if I am witnessing America's greatness in action, or the unraveling of it.
No lawyer? Any reason why none was mentioned? Extortion is serious federal crime (across state lines, multiple companies, even clear admission of guilt). At the least it would get GoDaddy's attention vs. just asking nicely.
Someone offered him 50 grand for it, and he turned them down. I would be surprised if he hadn't considered it at that point, if not previously.
"While publicly-traded Vringo" - hum, somehow they have a market cap of $332.30M.
What was up with the part with the facebook message? Why would the attacker tip him off rather than just take what he came for? Or did I read that wrong?
I don't really have a problem with caching application writable config as something like serialized json or something like that, but I really dislike composer's configuration file format.
Does JMAP have an equivalent to IMAP IDLE? I.e. the ability for the server to notify the client when an email arrives. This means client's don't need to poll, and messages are seen instantly.

For me instant notification of inbound message is a must-have.
And thus William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."

The gold standard meant that there was no ability to increase the monetary base (and thus no inflation!) at that time (1890s), causing much bitterness among populists.
It might compete with their current, which bundles SSL with dedicated, static IPs. Although IPv6 should solve that scarcity.
That sounds incredibly dangerous.
It's still a desirable property, it's just that it's a property in essential tension with another desirable property.
I use them as well, but they still have not added two-factor authentication. There's a feature request dated 2011 for it.
If you support Sweden for ethnic Swedes you a racist / Nazi
If you don't support Israel for ethnic Jews you are a racist / Nazi. Or so I've been told.
Do you think it is useful to implement an operating system entirely at compile-time, in an implementation which uses separate compile and run phases?
Is there any push right now to enact legislation that makes patent litigation available only to entities that actively participate in the relevant marketplaces? It doesn't seem like there is, but maybe I'm not that informed in these affairs.
I don't understand. Our goal should be to maximize choice: people who want to live long should have the option to. The problem is that this choice is currently missing. You can always live your life as if this year is your last year.
I do that with a car from 1972.

The comparison doesn't hold though.
They don't have much to lose reputation-wise...
Why not more painters, musicians, dancers, authors, athletes etc? I think the demand for those is far more elastic than for health care & education, esp. in the face of technology.

How great would the world be if every 10th person was a comedian, a juggler, a jester or a magician. We could really have performers livening up every street, and they would be well fed and housed.

Imagine more time for recreation, more time for bonding with our fellow man, for playing with our children and our grandparents, more time to travel the world, and one day the universe. I think that is the great promise of technology, that it will give us humans more time to enjoy being human.
Yes, it's more like buying $1000 worth of apples and oranges.
I think the story is not real. It's just to sell of the website Startup Anonymous.
NFL to block mobile video streaming at Super Bowl
1.36% of AdWords Revenue? That is a lot of money. I don't see how they are entitled to that amount in any way.
I think you mean "no minimum wage", not "no basic income". Friedman was especially supportive of a basic income (negative income tax to be precise).
Did they record overt threats as opposed to stereotyped? As a little girl competing against boys in spelling bees and other academic competitions, I'm sure that there were stereotyped threats, but I was at the time too young (and too antisocial w/regard to peer group influence and too prideful) to regard them. But actual threats from the boys I competed against managed to be effective to back me down from beating them. Like boxing, there's a huge psychological component, which children may not be wholly prepared to combat.
It seems to be pretty well established now that this system does not support innovation (at least not in the software business.

If the benefit of society as a whole is the objective then inventions are only worth protecting if they would not have occurred without such protection.
An idea clearly does not fall into that category, it's worth is in the execution and not in "having it".
This is sexist. Girls and boys should perform completely equal in everything and have completely the same interests.
I've been actively using the account for other purpose than tweeting, and had a vague plan to start using it for tweeting again. Should I have mentioned the plan publicly so that the attacker would have refrained from blackmailing me? I don't think so.
Hahahaha, wow.
Oh my god what's wrong with you people? It's just praying, praying is good for your soul. Why are you people so against praying? Are you terrorists? Do you go to schools with kids that pray and mass murder them? I will inform the police of this website.
Google treated with a new look
Specifically, you can target just the defective version of the gene. In theory, your good copies could be ignored, only removing the bad genes from the cancer tissue.

However, I don't think that this will ever be applied on a whole-body scale because the off-target effects aren't well characterized at this point. That is, of course, unless you have a bad cancer and have no other options. At that point, having off-target effects is the least of your concerns.

The problem with gene editing in this context is that the changes are permanent. So if you miss and edit a good cell, that cell is now damaged, or may only have 1 good copy of a gene, and thus be more susceptible in the future. In some cases, shRNA to silence a gene may prove more effective because it is temporary.

Right now these are only used in the lab for research.
Ask HN: is it ok to outsource your startup blog?
> US-based revenue from AdWords, Google's flagship program

Given Google's structure and revenue recognition, I'd be surprised if they had to pay out anything significant.
Don't forget though that not all goods are affected the same way. I remember working on a project in the early 1980s. We decided that the future was non-volatile solid state memory and that Intel's new "bubble memory" looked pretty sweet. From memory it cost something like $NZ1000 for 100Kbytes, yes that is K for Kilo, of solid state, non volatile memory. Today a 16Gbyte flash drive costs around $NZ10 retail. So in round terms today we get something like 100,000 times the bang for one hundredth of the buck. And of course the modern product is hugely preferable in terms of speed, size, weight, robustness, power consumption and any other metric you can name. Obviously tech is a standout field, but there are others, air travel for example.
Bailouts are contrary to the spirit of capitalism.

Someone should explain that to what passes for capitalists nowadays.
No. Just stop granting patents on software or business processes. Copyright, yes, patents, no.
Google is already appealing, but what happens if Google loses ? Would the supreme court agree to hear this case ? If so, the silver lining might be that the supreme court overturns this decision and in doing to comes up with something useful like the 2007 decision which limits a patent troll's ability to get an injunction to knock out a product.
This is pretty much how I am too.

Everyone that I know who says that sitting on the computer is bad just sits around watching TV. At least I am usually learning/doing something interesting vs watching the latest reality TV.
Maybe a bit of recklessness is a good thing once in a while.
"If your child was born in the last couple of years, he or she is likely to live five years more than children born a decade ago."

Isn't this a huge misrepresentation of the statistics behind this article?
Maybe they meant $79/year. If that is the case I would think they are associating it with a prime account.

They already have an app store with a submission and review system in place. I don't think it would be too far fetched for them to leverage that to allow indie devs to create games
I'm providing facts that directly refute your claims and you're responding with anecdotes from partisans while ignoring all the evidence. It's rather sad.

I agree that nothing productive will come out of this 'debate', so good day. I hope you find some compassion in your life.
I don't understand why Twitter doesn't have the standard 30 day wait period on handle changes that most sites have. For a while it was a standard to not let old usernames be available until 30/60/90 days after a change, so that in the event that this kind of thing happened, it could be reclaimed with ease as soon as the GoDaddy account is in his possession.
The Case of the Missing Commits (or, The Dangers of Git Forced Updates)
Google's corporate structure is designed to hide and move profit, not revenue. If this ruling is upheld we're talking a super-massive quantity of money going to someone who did nothing.

And the patent system will still not get reformed.
Man that sucks, sorry to hear it. I guess on the bright side, you didn't have your entire online identity destroyed which was possible given the attacker had your email.
Turbo API: How to use CORS without Preflights
Unfortunately it includes my biggest gripe about IMAP -- the requirement that messages are given a server-side message number. Maybe breaking with IMAP on this would make interop too hard though.

This requirement is convenient for the client but makes implementing robust servers harder than it need be. If instead each message was identified by a {timestamp,UUID} tuple then multiple MX servers could do final delivery to an eventually-consistent shared store. The requirement for strict, durable message ordering is the one thing that forces hard synchronization among multiple machines doing delivery.

POP3 actually made a step this direction with the common "UIDL" extension; IMAP4 felt like going backwards on this.

While I'm on the subject, another less-common POP3 extension I liked was "XTND XMIT". This gave a simple way for the POP3 client to send mail; sadly it never really caught on in favor of just using SMTP submission. Originally though this only worked OK because SMTP was open-relay. Once spam put an end to that it became complicated to send a message when accessing your mail remotely. Then to solve that problem we had to graft an auth layer on top of the existing SMTP protocol and upgrade all of the clients and servers to support it. If only "XTND XMIT" had won in the beginning everybody would be submitting outgoing mail over that already-authenticated channel and so much work could have been avoided.

So anyway, those are my two requests for any "IMAP killer": allow the server to use unique (but non-sequential) IDs for messages and provide a way to submit outgoing messages over the same channel.
Quantity of matter, quantity of energy, necessary structure... What of it we can access is limited by our light cone.

"In principle there is no lower bound to how much of what kind of matter it can take to accomplish a particular goal, which means that in principle there is no upper bound to the amount of wealth that can be created with a fixed quantity of matter."

On the contrary, in principle such a bound exists, for any specific task (and accompanying present configuration of the universe). We are similarly not likely to be near the theoretical limits imposed by physics and the well-ordering principle, but again practical constraints may bind much tighter - particularly in the short term.
> Think of it this way: had your company been successful, it almost certainly would have left you in a state where you'd be working for someone else for a couple years during your earnout. "Not working for someone else" was never really on the table.

Wow, I'd never really thought about it that way before. You're completely right, of course.

It's just rather depressing. Maybe I'll go re-read Rework.
The Technological Future of Money
That reminds me, a few months ago I had a weird Twitter experience. Someone gained access to my rarely used Twitter account @smartician and started posting spam. Somehow Twitter noticed, reset the password and notified me via email. I have no idea how that was possible.
I'm trying to understand the context and limits of your advice, in light of the chicken-and-egg problem of getting people to invest in or buy your product before proving it out, which usually requires building something to show it's possible, which usually requires quitting your previous employer so they don't own it. Are you suggesting that forgoing salary shouldn't be a substitute for thinking about your revenue model, which I'd probably agree with? That thinking "I have money in the bank, I'm fine for now" makes you less hungry and less likely to take the actions you need to succeed? That one should know when to quit and should never let dreams get in the way of facts?

Or are you saying that forgoing salary is always a bad idea? If you are, how else are we supposed to start a product company? It seems like it's a worse idea to take investment without having done some minimal homework and prototyping to prove out the market, which usually requires at least building something you can show to customers. It's a very bad idea from a legal standpoint to do that work while you're still employed by somebody else. Consulting -> product conversions can work, but it's often really hard to make time for product development while consulting.

From my own perspective - I started a "founders don't take salary" company when I was 2 years out of college. It failed miserably, predictably - it was a terrible idea to begin with, and I folded it up once I realized I was in over my head. But I think starting it was one of the best decisions I made in my lifetime, because the skills and perspective I gained from it got me a job that paid enough that I made back that year after about a year of employment. I'm now in a position where I have a bunch saved up, and I'm trying to weigh my options rationally. I'd like to avoid making stupid mistakes, but I'm also mindful of how the #1 regret of most elderly people, on their deathbeds, is that they wish they'd taken more risks.
How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username
>You think a vacuum, dishwasher, mixer, blender, washer/dryer and microwave reduces the work that much?

Yes.
Article makes no mention of the validity of the patent. Does the court not take that into question?
Problem is, that was exactly what drove policy in the United States between 1929 and 1933.

In the mean time, lending disappeared which caused grave liquidity problems for otherwise solvent firms both in the financial sector and in the "real economy." Those firms failed to meet their obligations producing a chain reaction which continued until severe government intervention put a stop to it years later.

Bernanke and many others were playing off the 1933 script in 2008. Bernanke himself had actually written a book about the Great Depression. I'm not at all happy with what has happened on wall street since 2008 but Bernanke and many others were operating in good faith trying to prevent a catastrophe.

There is really no parallel between the USA (in 2008 or 1929) and Iceland in 2008.

In the case of Iceland, you have a series of hedge funds, basically, domiciled in Iceland but speculating on foreign securities using foreign capital. They had little to do with cod fishing or hot springs or aluminum smelting but when they exploded, the foreign bondholders wagged their fingers at Iceland and said "this is your problem now, you fix it."

Icelanders wisely said "no," they opted not to impoverish themselves to make good the debts of local private hedge funds to the foreign speculators.
While sympathetic - I'm also slightly amused at your twisted view about twitter name/account "ownership"…

Just how much of the "real world" law you're alluding to by using the term "ownership" do you suppose applies to Twitter handles? (or Gmail addresses, or Facebook pages, or even domain names?)
Native app social interactions on mobile and tablet web
Protip: many landlords in hot property markets like Vancouver are speculators who are using your rent to pay their mortgage. Offer to pay a year's worth of rent up front in return for a discount (I'd ask for 3% - more than you can get from a risk-free investment but less than the landlord's mortgage interest rate).

Obviously this only applies if you have sufficient liquidity that paying $30,000+ upfront isn't going to impact your life in other ways.
No, quite the opposite, it takes your once compressible data and makes it uncompressible.
So is the tech industry as such not interested in changing this system? I find it inconceivable that the entire tech industry is not able to change the law about just software patents, not all patents, but just software patents. All the old laggard companies have invested a lot of time and money and hoarded a bunch of patents and so they do not care enough. Eventually the companies that are hurt in this are the small ones.
Another fruit fly YC startup with a micro niche too small to dent the universe more than any random fluctuation would. YC does the world a disservice by promoting the cult of the startup and then finding every mom and pop idea that knocks on the door.