skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one part of AA that can't be simply transferred to a professional therapeutic setting is the peer support. There is absolutely no substitute for a large enough number of people who've been there, done that and puked on enough T-shirts that a sizable handful can tell you your very own story (with the dates, times and names altered somewhat). Learning how to live after the drinking (or other addictive behaviour) goes away is hage as well, and it's an ongoing process that takes years. Most "treatments" only take you to the point of feeling better, and it is far too easy to mistake feeling better for being well.

As I said in my previous, there are a whole bunch of us working on getting rid of the "mumbo jumbo", but we're unwilling to throw the baby out with the bath water. Those of us who've been around for long enough have seen the difference between merely quitting and a sustainable lifestyle change often enough to understand that merely removing the self-medicating behaviour is asking for a lifetime of the symptoms one was attempting to medicate. That is not enough for anyone. We've also seen how long it takes to go from black and white through various bit levels of greyscale to a full life of colour and nuance - the whole damned universe changes suddenly on a regular basis for about the first five or six years.

The problem I've seen with alternative efforts is that they either concentrate on a "quick cure" (a short-term effort that is supposed to take you through a lifetime, but winds up being about as effective in practice as leaving AA behind the moment you think you've got a handle on things) or treat the substance abuse as a separate concern from the rest of life. The problem tends to be that for some value of "better", life is better for the drunk on the other side of the bottle cap than it is on this side. That's what needs to change, and that's what a rational approach to AA provides.
I'm with you on reforming patents. But how do you protects companies from copy cats? iPhone is released and some hardware manufacturer makes the exact same shell running Symbian instead. I'm not talking about copying the OS, but the hardware form factor. They represent a brand image as well.
The error you made is taking "Do you remember that smart kid in school" and reading it as "This is the only way smart people in school ever apologize" Quite different. For the record I am neither jealous or enamored with Musk. Like all people he has his strengths and weaknesses. His are magnified as is common with people who have his drive and impact on the world.
I would be curious if Googlers on this list feel that Google does a good job putting these insights into practice.
I think the comments in this thread talking about AR and VR as if they are different are misplaced -- AR and VR will converge:

http://willsteptoe.com/post/66968953089/ar-rift-part-1
The HTML 5 spec can be implemented from scratch, but my guess is it takes a dozen times more people than implementing a C++ compiler. My basis for this comment is the now-four-years-dormant project I worked on to implement just parsing HTML5 into a DOM tree, which wasn't even inspired by wanting to write my own browser. I was motivated more by having an interest in hacking text layout code, and the need for some sort of syntax for my test cases. Since the project had no commercial goal, it went down a tangent.

I'm impressed that a non-profit has funded two of these projects.
> CEOs have to be leaders, and their personal views, separate or not, are very relevant to their ability to lead.

Utter nonsense. CEOs can have personal and professional lives, just like anyone else. Eich may have opposed gay marriage but this doesn't seem to have affected any policy at Mozilla. Those going crazy over this are only insecure.
Link to the submitted article (before it was changed by an admin), for posterity's sake: http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/ageing-successfully-reversed-i...

Dunno why the submission was changed, I suspect the admin didn't actually read the article, which contains original journalism work (article writer got in touch with David Sinclair again for an additional quote).
Really, FOSS driver development has been confined to the last 2 years. AMD has a half dozen developers in Mesa, and I think Intel has around 20. They have pushed it from Core Profile 2.1 to 3.3 in 2 years, and will probably have it at 4.0 or 4.1 by years end.

Before that, AMD wasn't making free drivers, and Intel didn't care about their integrated graphics as much and never had higher GL support on them. They have come pretty far in a short time frame, and by the time GL 5 comes out (I assume, the one with the low level primitive support to match DX12) Mesa should only be a version behind or so.

Also, I wouldn't really agree Nvidia drivers work. I had a GTX 285 in an older machine I put Ubuntu on, and their blob didn't work with resume / suspend at all. Dunno if they'd work now, I just switched that system to Nouveau, which... works with suspend flawlessly. And manages fan speeds a lot better than the blob, too.
Funnly, the paywall did not appear on my iPad.
Vim-go – Go development plugin for Vim
A guest post at GopherAcadamy shows the features in more detail:
http://blog.gopheracademy.com/vimgo-development-environment

Let me know what you think about it. Any improvements and feedbacks are welcome.
I feel like this whole thread is a bad joke.

Do you know of Unix pipes? The fact that gulp calls all of this "streams" and "pipes" is a seriously bizarre form of NIH.

You might also be interested in make -j option.
My first reaction was to try the double-slit experiment, but unfortunately there was no interference pattern. Beautiful none the less. (Ok, a little less.)
'A' for Angela Merkel: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies
I was looking at Ansible in the context of this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487202

exactly because I like the idea of capturing the setup (compared to a more haphazard approach). My initial reaction was that for the computer setup use case, it did too much to hide away complexity.

I guess I don't have a deeper point, but I wonder if it is overkill for capturing simple workflow like is discussed here.
> Is there a service somewhere where you could simply send them a link, to open up a new tab in their browser, and commence a encrypted chat session right away ...

It might not actually exist in packaged form, but Secure Shell is everywhere now and it will do this easily, with an appropriate setup. Secure Shell relies on the same basic scheme as most modern encryption methods -- public-key cryptography.

With Secure Shell, one would have the normal peer-to-peer chat scheme, with one difference -- the communications channel would be encrypted using the SSH protocol, and both participants would have exchanged validations.

For a round-table chat with more than two participants, it becomes more complicated.

Wait, hold on -- I just thought of something simpler that does exist. You could use a Secure Sockets Layer approach. You would send your friend an URL preceded by "https://" and identifying a server that has a chat server and that supports the SSL protocol. That would be much simpler and it already exists. If you had a chat server running on an SSL server, each participant would be linked up securely, and the round table issue would be resolved.
It works only if you convince most (in terms of hashing power) pools and mining operations to merge mine your coin. Otherwise 51% is obvious and simple.
Just off the top of my head:

- Store/retrieve state in/from DynamoDB or RDS

- Pull an object from S3

- Send an SNS notification

- Add a message to an SQS queue

- Dispatch email via SES
You're not comparing apples to apples. That's 5-10% reach _of people who have opted in to seeing your updates_. The better comparison is that you have 100% reach to people who sign up for your newsletter.
Your original post is a huge tangent from the topic of discussion. That article is pure fearmongering and is exactly the type of propagandized information that stifles innovation.

Obviously it makes sense to talk about the ramifications of new technology, but the article you linked is doing this in a heavy-handed way to get people to read the article. The result is disproportionate value being placed on that idea for the average reader of dailymail, which necessarily detracts from the discussion of balance surrounding this research.
Kernel 3.13 got full dual graphics ACPI shutdown on the discrete part, and they have had DPM enabled on all parts since 3.12. Should be good now on the power saving end.
Show HN: Medieval Diceware – Bitcoin Passphrase
More competition is always good.

Also, if iPhone's form factor is actually better, then it would only benefit customers if other companies would adopt it.
only JS framework??
That is a really good point and something I hadn't really considered. I could also see a lot of my feelings of empathy being instead turned into anger if things had been different so I might have generalized a personal experience.
The book "Buyology" is a terrific introduction to neuromarketing for anyone who is interested.
I stand corrected :).
Just to simplify Spittie a bit for clarity, under X you have dedicated 2d drawing APIs. Wayland uses EGL, and just drops 2d entirely, so the entire desktop is running top of GLES. In order to run legacy X applications, Glamor is being baked into the X server so that X apps using Xrender can still work, but the binary drivers aren't using it yet, for a myriad of reasons.
The protesters are made up of three overlapping groups:

1. Those who resent the way the ruling party reneged on its promise of legislative review and forced a this trade services pact with China through.

2. Those who have economic concerns, e.g. they worry that Taiwanese small and medium sized businesses would be acquired by Chinese capital thus massively raising the barrier to entry in some industries. Another worry is that Taiwan may face a massive brain drain to China.

3. Those who have national security concerns because the trade services pact opens for e.g. some parts of the telecommunications and publishing industries. China claims Taiwan as a renegade province and has said it'd use force to unify the motherland if necessary.

So far this is still a Taiwanese domestic issue though with the U.S. and China watching closely. One WSJ report goes[1]:

"U.S. officials might consider all this as they prepare to resume bilateral trade talks with Taiwan next week. Advancing bilateral trade—and encouraging eventual Taiwanese accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership—would help quiet nerves on all sides of Taiwanese politics. The U.S. has largely ignored Taiwan in recent years, but Taipei's current crisis highlights the extent to which trouble still lurks in that corner of Asia."

[1]:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230441840...
What I love about cryptocoins is that so many "book smart" people hate them. Bringing up the topic is an awesome way to find out who's stubborn and closed minded.

Lately I've been using this topic as my "VC test" to decide what VCs I want to work with in my company's next round of investment, and my startup has nothing at all to do with cryptocoins :-)
Beware the surveillance reform Trojan horse: what's not in the new NSA laws?
"Almost immediately, Freitas started building a more secure and robust alternative to Twitter, making use of code from two other massively successful online projects: bitcoin and BitTorrent."

[http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/twister/]

Seems to be related to the idea behind Twister.
LifeHacker:OneTask 2 Tracks All Your To-Dos, but Makes You Single-Task and Focus
possibility it was a scam, the original post says you should sell before it crashes, someone could pick them up cheaper if the post caused a big sell-off

(not even sure if u can buy aur idk anything about it)
The bond market is a pretty strong check on government-backed currencies. It's a stretch to say that a central bank can just print money as it wishes.
Looking forward to the release of the ebook version
Patents are a fine idea in principle. There's little doubt that they promote innovation in pharmaceuticals, for example.

The problem arises when the patents last much longer than the "innovation cycle" in an industry. As software takes over the world, we're seeing cycle times go down in many fields, but patent laws aren't keeping up with technological reality.
Wal-Mart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard
Ok someone should run a book on how soon into the show the common "nerd" tropes are used :-)

Just mentioning DnD is always good a for a few laughs :-(

Having said that C4 did this a few years ago with "Nathan Barley" - one of the people being parodied actually worked at the same company that I did.

Will it be as good as the IT crowd though?
Gallium is actually designed to be cross platform too. Obviously AMD isn't using that (and they were the major developers of Gallium) but the only part of it that is platform specific is the winsys interface.

It does, however, mean you can port the Gallium version of the Intel Driver, or the Nouveau / Radeon free drivers, or the other Gallium drivers like Freedreno to any platform with just that one API switch.

I figure it was one of the justifications in funding Gallium from the AMD boardroom perspective - it isn't just a Linux driver, it is a pivot to easily get their driver on any other platform they need it on, whereas Catalyst proves to be very specific, requiring developers on both sides actively maintaining it to have a Linux + Windows version, plus the OSX one they certainly have.
> Seely says that as far as he knows, he’s not in any trouble.

I wouldn't be so confident.
Did Google just doom the lot of small-scale cloud providers?
Why 'the skeptical environmentalist' won’t switch off during Earth Hour
> but they would never die

Challenge Accepted. God. /s

On a serious note, this could be charming, but still, most people die, not because they were too old., in fact a very few people hit their biological age limit which i guess is 100 ~ 130. They are still many challenges such as diseases, road accidents which are the No. 1 cause for death.
You would have still had Openbox. And Enlightenment. And Xmonad...
Please note that Aubrey de Grey's theories are highly controversial and while some of these mechanisms are indeed big topics in the field, many biogerontologists have been publicly skeptical of his claims. In fact, some of these are even mentioned in your link.

The way you worded it, it seems you're implying SENS is a widely accepted theory, while in fact it's anything but (although I'd say it certainly is interesting and worthy of investigation).
I used to do this until I found drake. Drake is the truth and the light. Use it.
I suspect that given the technology to halt aging, the technology to alter personality and behavior (rehabilitation) won't be far behind (and may even arrive first). The interesting questions to me are whether personalities will be criminalized along with behaviors and to what precision or degree of subtlety personality/behavior changes can be made. Too big a change and it's effectively the same as killing the person.
I get the same thing in the US, but much less noticeable. I get a tingling feeling in my hands / palm using the 2 prong adapter. Since it was unexpected, I searched a little bit and it seems to happen to everyone. (13-in MBA 2012)
Hey BugBrother. MSFT could have a) Settled and written a check for $500 mil and b) stopped supporting Office on the Mac the next day and it's likely Apple would be a business school case study about how you fall into the ashes.Back at that time the only people using Macs in the corporate environment were talented people buried away in the marketing department doing unique design work. They were the only people who were tolerated by corporate IT (and then often begrudgingly so) And the only reason they could even keep using their Macs in this Windows XP world was because they could at least exchange Word/PowerPoint and Excel docs from the 98% of the employees using Windows. Add to that all the independent and small consulting shops who had to accept Office Docs from their corporate clients. MSFT's support for Office on the Mac was lukewarm at best leading up to this. Mac users lived in real fear that at any point MSFT would simply drop support for the Mac. It would have been a deathblow. A few hundred million for some code infringement (and it would only have been that based on the dynamics you list) would have simply forestalled the inevitable.
Taiwan is a small country next to China. Although people on both side speak the same language, the culture and government system is different. China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a sovereign state. Taiwan, however, is democratic. The Taiwan government originally based on mainland China, but was defeated by People's Republic of China, and moved to Taiwan.

Officially, Taiwan and China is in war. We never signed up armistice agreement. Taiwan politicians can be separated into two groups. One believe if we stay close to China, we can have better economics. A few of them even want to unite with China. The other group believe we should stay as a country of our own, and China government hates it.

With those background information you can see, making a economic agreement with china is sensitive to people, but the current government tried to pass it without standard procedure in congress. This is why people are so angry about this.
Samsung Galaxy S5 on sale early, but don't tell Samsung
>This concept seems somewhat familiar, you might even consider it a crypto currency's Central Bank.

Not necessary. There simply need to be enough people supporting the currency at launch.
You can read it in an incognito/private window.
You're interpretation is quite correct, and this solves the "anybody can create a cryptocurrency" problem.

Isn't Satoshi Nakamoto's design brillian!
Embedded Solr and JNI
I think probably the easiest starting point is recognizing that innovation iterates more rapidly than a century ago and shortening patents to perhaps 3 or 5 years. We need immediate bans on process patents like software and biotech (since finance patents are already banned, I believe? So this is not a big stretch).

My gut feeling on iOS vs Symbian (running on similar hardware) is that if it's so easy to copy something like that, then iOS is only being propped up by the law anyway. It's probably not doing society much good overall.

Maybe a route forward is to allow competition, but require that if hardware is licensed by something like the GPL, then some nominal fee would have to be paid to the rights holder. Society would have to vote on what that should be, and it would be across the board, perhaps 5% to 25%, something on the level of capital gains or VAT? It would be kind of like generic drugs, where other companies would have a hard time competing because typical profits margins might be in the 15% range, so they couldn’t afford to advertise. Otherwise my feeling now is that we’re actively encouraging monopolies and it just feels really anti-entrepreneurial.
I never, ever use the fold-out thingies for coiling the cord, becauseI haven't figured out a way to get the cord on there without severely stressing the connection to the brick.
On large HPC clusters a common setup is to have a distributed cluster file system, rather than disk set up as "local" and "network" volumes. All the cluster machines' disks are integrated into a distributed volume running a filesystem like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_General_Parallel_File_Syst... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFS2
What happened to the HN article on Ethereum?
This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7492731

It was the second or third article on the frontpage when I commented on it an hour back, but now it is gone: from the front page, the first couple of pages, and from the "newest" pages.

I can see the article by clicking on the link, but otherwise it is as if it doesn't exist anymore. It has 63 points and is 2 hours old, so it "should" be somewhere on the frontpage ... . What happened?
Google Mandates ‘Powered by Android’ Branding on New Devices
My comment was subtle perhaps to the point of being cryptic, but there was actual logic to it. Even if I was a believer in cryptocurrency, the comment I responded to was problematic.

Your comment, on the other hand, simply asserts that anyone who hates cryptocurrencies is "stubborn and closed minded". That might be true, but for such an inflammatory argument, you probably want some evidence to support it.

Good luck with A16Z. :)
GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies
I often convert makefiles to shell script (bash) when I outgrow my knowledge of make. However, it's where I always start, and the makefile never goes away, just the complex pieces get rewritten in bash!
Let me take you on a short reality check: if this is so effective, then why wasn't Facebook buying game companies, Second Life clones, etc?
>> I get a tingling feeling in my hands / palm

Is this when touching the chassis of the laptop?

I occasionally get that on both my Macbook Pro and my Surface Pro.
Another "colorful" part is that there have been gangsters showing up at the protest site, threatening the largely college aged protesters. This coincides with the return to Taiwan of a mob boss with close Chinese ties:

http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/the-return-of-gangster-politi...

He's been spotted at the scene (the last photo):
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/201403...
The Most Valuable Traits in a Potential Employee, According to Google
I know too much to program quickly. What can I do?
I was not suggesting that we should ban those domain names. However, using one is probably a bad idea, which makes adding them a waste of time. In the end there being added because companies know they can sell those domain names not because there useful.

A more useful option IMO is to have things default to .com if someone does not enter a domain name like how you can avoid country codes or area codes when dialing long distance.

However, by adding a huge list of TLD's your removing that option. Even worse while .edu means something WTF does .cow or .zzl mean? At best there is simply going to be another .com land grab except now seeing yourbank.bank or yourbank.bnk does not mean it's actually yourbank.

So yea, I do think it's a bad idea.
The Daily Mail is like Fox News. They both carry so much stupidity and lies that it's best and much faster to just assume that they don't carry any truthful or interesting information at all. Just skip them. Not valid newssources. I'll treat anything coming from them as both lies and stupidity until proven otherwise.
I'm a website developer from Taiwan. There'll be a protest movement 9 hours later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8JDbtXZm4
This song is made during these days, might explain what happened these days.
The problems most people experience with these are probably caused by Apple not placing adequate stress relief on the cable where it meets the block or magnetic connector. Apple does this with all their cables because Jobs didn't like the look of stress relieved cables. This is the price you pay for a pretty power adapter!

This is a design decision that Apple should probably revisit.

Edit: Some people have said that proper stress relief would increase Apple's costs. Below is a link to some off-the-shelf cable stress-relief parts. I guarantee that Apple would save money during manufacturing if they used parts like these instead of the custom stuff they use now. The only downside is that their cables would look like everybody else's properly stress relieved cables instead of something uniquely Apple.

http://www.cable-strain-relief.com/
There's a certain irony to this statement. Community funding and all that, but if they don't do what I say then by golly I'll be mad I can't crush them like the corporations I'm protesting against!