skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone through two or three power adapters in the last three years. They fray pretty quickly, and I've learned that you should always handle them by the thicker cord, being very careful not to put any pressure on the thinner cord.

But that's not the biggest problem with these things. I foolishly bought a unibody rMBP, which means it'll become a desktop-only laptop in just a year or two, once its battery runs fully out. Plus I can't upgrade most of the components, I'll just have to buy a new computer.

But that's fine. I think I'll go the "nerdy" way and buy an older Thinkpad and just run Debian on it and just stay in emacs throughout my workday. Then I'll be able to upgrade parts when needed, swap out the battery when it dies, and be able to run linux on decently supported hardware.
Link to the abstract on PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24582957

Original is behind a paywall.

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I'd take all this with a grain of salt, though. The biology of aging is incredibly complex. Seemingly certain answers to the question of what causes or mediates aging (e.g. free radicals) have turned out to be less conclusive and all-explaining than researchers originally thought.
This kind of paper probably gets lots of money from EU and government sources.
It has couple of people from different EU countries and it has people from different fields co-operating.

This is probably something that people think lets do this and see what happens at least we get maximum government funding for being interdisciplinary and co-operating between institutions. Results are probably not bullshit at all, but idea to study this is probably because its easier to get funding is for interdisciplinary co-operation.
Working link to actual article: http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867413015213
Honestly, I'd recommend Photoshop. It's just as fast to do that with Photoshop as any less-full-featured application, and there's the advantage of a) a whole lot more functionality beyond that and b) tutorials for anything you could ever want to do with it available on the Web.

Of course, it's not cheap, but I suspect you're more interested in the best rather than the cheapest tool.
I am glad, that make exists. Guess what would happen, if every open source tool would use its own build environment. Open Source Software would be much more difficult to build from sources (sometimes, I can't do without).

So it is rather straight forward. Type make, sometimes autoconf and most of the time you are done.

Also in my own projects I prefer make to many other build tools. In software development, command line still rules (if you want to be really productive)!
In other words, the price of any new cryptocurrency (that uses an existing algorithm) should be zero, since a 51% attack is nearly certain.
Its a promising result, but a lot of mice experiments don't have the same effects on people. It would be ironic if this technique failed on humans subjected to a lot of exposure to botox :-) The fear is that suddenly not only would the rich get richer, but they would never die. That leads to some fairly depressing scenarios.
Show HN: First thing I've built with an API
Yup, I recommend getting https://github.com/git/git and checking out the very first commit.

If I recall it is like 500-ish lines of code, compiles easily, and is runnable. It makes a little .git folder. It's only the "plumbing" of git, back when it was a "content tracker".

Linus used to brag that it was self hosting in 3 days or something like that, and presumably this is what he was talking about.

It helps you understand the design of git for sure, and gave me an appreciation for Linus's coding style. I didn't really think he had a great sense of style because Linux is known to be somewhat of a smorgasbord. Git itself also has a sloppy and confusing interface IMO, but that's a different issue.

I didn't follow it any further than the first commit, but I bet you could learn a lot that way. (You would also presumably see how nobody designed the interface and it just accumulated commands and flags in a haphazard fashion)
Yes, it deserves a downvote, because it's incredibly lazy. If you read the article, or glanced at the Wikipedia page, you'd know "make" predates JavaScript by decades.
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Look up "receipt-free voting" protocols. There has been some theoretical work done on this (lots of papers turn up in Google Scholar), but I don't know if this has been implemented yet.
>It was recently discovered that applications do not even need to have a Javascript Interface in their code to be vulnerable to this attack. This is because a Javascript Interface is implemented core webview code in Android versions before 4.2. Meaning that every single application that loads a webview over cleartext is vulnerable to this attack.

Maybe its because I haven't properly had coffee yet or because I've never used WebView in android but I'm having trouble parsing this. From the small code snippet they provided it shows them enabling javascript and adding an interface. Is this just a general comment for other apps that are working on HTTP or broken HTTPS or does it relate to this exploit?
Mine burnt through last year (after three years) and i didn't review it. A friend of mine has got her third in two years and didn't review either. This is exactly what happens:

"I've had two adapters break on me, the wire somehow shorts out and melts near the "square". Really poor design, love the computers but the adapters are terrible." (one of the reviews)

The wire is super thin, i'm not saying it's planned obsolescence, but it's close.

edit: english
Ask HN: Encrypted Chat, on-the-fly?
Consider this scenario: you're talking to someone on one of the common social media platforms, where your chat is unencrypted/logged, and would like to talk about something more private.

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 (without them having to do any clicking other than open the link)?

Even an unencrypted service like this would be useful imho.
I didn't propose that. The point is to read the file once, then do multiple steps on it, and write it out just once.
So, there are some caveats here.

>>People who haven't traded since the fork haven't lost anything. If it's caught quickly and resolved, only some of the people who did trade since the fork lost something.

T̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶e̶o̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶s̶i̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶w̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶l̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶_̶I̶F̶_̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶c̶o̶i̶n̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶o̶s̶e̶n̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶l̶e̶g̶i̶t̶. Also, the people who keep coins in exchanges(against advise to do otherwise), if the exchange is operating on a losing fork... all costumers are kinda screwed.

But you're right that if action is swift enough and some authorative-group of people can say "use this fork and ignore the other two", then minimal damage will be done.

If this is not dealt with early enough.... ever second that goes by all kinds of transactions are taking place and if all major exchanges are not on the same fork, the exchanges running on a losing fork(and all its costumers) are in for some bad times. My guess is they'll probably have to pick the fork that has the most exchanges running on it. Or, if what I've read is correct and Auroracoin is premined... then those premined coins must be rescued.

We'll see in the days to come what ends up happening...

EDIT: To those who replied below me, you're right. If you haven't traded your coins are on all forks.
Could you elaborate or point to resources on how one would get involved with medical transcription?
And the iPhone was a clone of Windows Mobile?
Depending on the amount of abstraction involved, it doesn't sound impossible to do. Given sane and direct access to the controller of the underlying device, and a reasonably simple underlying device (e.g. a simple Flash device), raw reads and writes can be written in maybe two dozen instructions each. Assuming userbinator was using a reasonable macro assembler, so that the 800 lines didn't also include string comparisons and all that, 800 lines doesn't look so little. I'm not sufficiently familiar with FAT32 but given a sane enough architecture, it doesn't sound that impossible.
It's amazing how much Apple sweat the details on the magsafe plug on the computer side but so little to part that goes into the wall.

It's near impossible to use the two prong plug in many situations (i.e. crowded power bars, outlets that are too far for the short thin wire to reach), so I have to carry the unwieldy 3 prong extension with me all the time, and it doesn't wrap so nicely around the brick in the same way the thin wire to the laptop does.

In all fairness, the Surface Pro's power brick can be just as stupid. Too short on both ends.
I have had the cords fail where the thin cord attaches to the adapter. The weird thing about the design to me isn't that the thin part of the cable can fail at the bends--I understand trying to cut out weight and arguably going a bit far--but that the big thick extension cable which you can swap out the built-in plug for seems to have been designed for a server, not a laptop. I never carry it with me for that reason.
I never claimed Make is not often used. My point was that there are better tools than Make available these days. If someone is starting a new project, it makes sense to check if there are alternatives to Makefiles.
1.- network, know people
2.- don't focus on school or what you'll learn there,
as Mark Twain wisely said: "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"
3.- focus on working for yourself, not "getting a job".
What does his stance on gay marriage tell you about his ability to lead? It tells me exactly nothing. Has he harrased or fired an employee for being gay? I really doubt that.
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Most reviewers are clearly affected by the price. They're right, the price for these adaptors seems exorbitant.
No, but the survivability of the passenger in the story is evidence of such.
Someone care to explain the geopolitical situation?
Here's a better article that describes the same work: http://hms.harvard.edu/news/genetics/new-reversible-cause-ag...

Less hype, more technical detail.
Clive Thompson on Personal Clouds (audio)
Make is a great tool for the intended uses. Unfortunately, many uses of Make-like tools also require the unintended uses; my favorite example is the auto-dependencies, which is required by most compilation tasks and still tedious to get it right [1]. It also (mostly) lacks modern programmable interfaces, which led to Makefiles laden with hacks and mumbo-jumbos. At least for the compilation tasks, I see Make is clearly being outdated.

[1] Something like http://mad-scientist.net/make/autodep.html
So it might be clearer to say

name = tx.data[0]
value = tx.data[1]
contract.storage[name] = value
It wouldn't prevent getting the wrong answer, sure. But a smart resolver would see DS records at the parent and recognize it as an unsigned, thereby invalid, response.
https://github.com/ndmitchell/shake Shake is an awesome alternative to Make written in Haskell. It fixes a lot of the weird dependency tracking issues Make has ("my build broke and I don't know why!" "did you make clean?")
Inefficiencies in life.

Anytime I notice something takes vastly longer than it should, then I know there must be a solution to fix that problem.
These link modifications increase privacy by hiding the referer from the destination page [1].

[1] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/05/duck-duck-go-sea...
When is it fair "to push your political/societal ideas on others in the company and demand they conform to them"?

When is it okay to publicly bash people because of their public actions? (Note that I changed "views" to "public actions", since as I understand it the main objection is to a specific public action; donating money to a political cause.)

The answer certainly isn't "never". I can think of no clear boundary for when it is/isn't fair or okay. At the very least, I don't think there's always a clear separation between a person and a company's vision. One need only consider the professed vision of "Susan G. Komen for the Cure" vs. the public reactions to the specific views and actions of some of its board. Or going back a few years, consider the 2004 attempted "takeover" of the Sierra Club board by those with a stronger immigration-reduction viewpoint.

Personally, I think it's completely fair to demand that others conform with your political/societal ideas. Do you think Stallman would have gotten anywhere with free software if he followed your recommendation?

OTOH, I think that it's completely unrealistic to believe that others will always conform with your ideas.
One trick you can try is to reinforce the ends of the thinner wire with a bit of Sugru.
Anyone from Taiwan care to comment?(I'm sure someone from there frequents HN)
Yeah, and I missed that boat :) I wish I could dive into everything I read, but pragmatically I just don't have the time to chase down every rabbit hole.

This is why the Internet is so powerful. It only take a couple of people to pursue something to report back to others and say "hey, this is important".
honestly, millions are that much money for the federal budget...
spend 5 seconds reading that post. moving on.
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Seems to be a rash of 1 star ratings in the past few months. Something doesn't seem right.

While you could say that this is because of some manufacturing redesign or batch problem, something about the reviews and the way they are written (almost to similar) makes me wonder how accurate this info is. Nothing also that there is no way to see if the reviewer has left reviews on anything else in the Apple store. After all anyone with an Apple ID can leave a review.
The GNU Make manual pages are really great. I use them all the time when I need to be remembered of some of the syntax or features. https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
This is exactly right. Having been in Bitcoin for 3.5 years, I have personally witnessed quite a few other altcoins being killed because of majority attacks. I have been explaining this to people as a reason why Bitcoin has a huge first-mover advantage as it has a very strong hashrate already backing up the network.
I hope you meant planned obsolescence.
Step 1. Get rich. Same as it ever was.
> Did anybody else think of fair people as pretty people and not just people as the article states?

That was my first impression also. Then I noticed that the article comes to us from the field of social psychology, so I decided it didn't really matter how many words were used in ambiguous ways -- it's not science, after all.
The rich would not get richer. They would stay alive and stick around until they got poorer and eventually died.
If someone hasn't traded since the fork, their coins are on both forks and it doesn't matter which fork is chosen.
Wow, I am sorry that your interests are so narrow. Maybe you should do something about that? I couldn't imagine a life where there was only one thing available that would fulfill me.
djb redo captures the concept of Make but is a lot simpler and no extra syntax (just uses shell)
Just like on Instagram! Wait.
> "Which leads me to conclude that any new cryptocurrency would need to be launched by an organization that had the computing power to defend the currency (assuming it follows resource-intensive mining paradigms like bitcoin et. al)"

So, you're saying that there should be some kind of powerful institution that is capable of defending the currency against manipulation attempts if necessary and thus ensures a reasonable level of stability in said currency? This concept seems somewhat familiar, you might even consider it a crypto currency's Central Bank.

What I find funny w.r.t. to BTC et al. is that people are slowly starting to find out that living in the currency equivalent of the Wild West is not as much fun as it sounds at first. First, there were calls for more government regulation and a higher level of accountability on the side of infrastructure operators and now even the idea of some entity defending the currency against attacks seems like an attractive prospect.

My prediction is that at the end there will be an epiphany that our real world currency system is constructed the way it is for a reason. It may not be perfect, it certainly has some major flaws but at the end of the day it's still better than the alternatives.
Actually, it's because I think maybe there's something there that I commented on it. I just didn't get it. The emerging norm for people with ideas is to package them in a way that draws people in.

I'm guessing the majority of people on HN have some great idea that burning in their gut. Hopefully they will realize the important of great marketing and sales copy, because there are countless other ideas vying for our attention.
Have you looked at webassets? [0]

[0]: https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets
12,000 miles in an electric vehicle, or bust
Ask HN: What is the difference between a junior and senior developer?
I'm about to graduate from college and have been contemplating about this question a lot lately, especially in regards to specific languages/frameworks (ruby/rails in my case)

I know that I'm not that most raw-engineering talented, but I believe I have dabbled a lot with web development (full-stack and again, Rails) that should give me a significant competitive advantage, so i was curious:

How do you specify/categorize junior/senior developers? Is it production-experience, language/framework knowledge, knowing best-practices or just raw engineering talent?
"so I have to carry the unwieldy 3 prong extension with me all the time"

You can get one of those short 1 foot lightweight cord extenders (search amazon for "cord extender")
Apple settled a class-action lawsuit over their power adapters, which makes it much easier to receive a free replacement these days, but they seem to refuse to fix the design of the cords.
So what's happening here is a man is fighting intolerance with more intolerance. That seems productive.
Regardless of the merits of taking a public stand against this kind of thing, you, and the other people speaking out against Eich are making a Fundamental Attribution Error [0].

The fact that Eich donated in support of prop 8 does not necessarily make him a homophobe. The only thing we see is the donation and none of the context around what made him decide to do it. He has denied being a homophobe and there have been no reports of any homophobic behaviour. The only thing we actually know is that he made a donation to a political cause that the majority of the voting public also agreed with. Is it fair to say that every single one of the 52%[1] of voters in support of prop 8 are homophobes? Plainly the answer is no.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_(2008)...
I was surprised when I learned `make` and how simple it mostly is. Unfortunately it eschews man-pages in favor of info-pages which were not as pleasant to learn how to use, just to learn how to use `make`.
I've had five or six of these replaced by Apple, for free.

You have to see someone at the Genius Bar, for which it's best to get an appointment.. very easy especially if you have the Apple Store app.

A few times I've been rejected, and they've said: "we recommend you buy a replacement, the cost is $79, they're over on that shelf." But each of those times, I tried again with a different Genius (on a different day) and got the replacement.

Usually it's either the magsafe head itself which doesn't seem to want to connect well, or the cord right next to the magsafe, which frays or splits open.

Generally I baby my cords but a couple of them have been abused by other people.

Overall I'd say this is the single most problematic Apple hardware I've ever encountered, but then I'm still happy because generally Apple has handled the situation well, other than a few "bad apple," so to speak, Geniuses who were not willing to help.
if they asked me I would tell.
Wouldn't people who prefer "secure" and "stable" go with actual, non-crypto currencies?
Directly cause deaths? Maybe, maybe not, I guess it depends how far into a root cause analysis you go.

Regardless, while driving without power steering and brakes is possible when you're expecting it, it's quite a shock when you aren't. Especially if you've never done it before, which I suspect is true for many of today's drivers.

I can easily envision circumstances where loss of power could cause an accident. Fast road, sharp corner, surrounded by woods, etc.
Can we stop posting links to nytimes until they get rid of the paywall?
You can buy a replacement cord for less than 10 bucks.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

Having said that, I wouldn't feel comfortable opening the power adapter and rewiring a new cord... I'm sure it's easy and safe, but still...
Headline: Is a society where 33% don't believe in evolution and don't understand video aspect ratios ready for computer-driven cars? What Betteridge's law tells you may shock you!
We must communicate the first. If we give anyone the impression that their idea is great (even though it's not), it will lead to ill-informed decisions.
And expressing views may have social consequences. There is no general right which requires others to ignore or disregard speech they don't like.

(There are limited rights, like workplace laws protecting people who express views about unsafe working conditions or racial discrimination in the workplace from retaliatory action by their employers. This should not be confused with a general right that applies to everyone and all speech.)
There was also this interview with Australian ABC around the publication of the article.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-20/researchers-reverse-sy...

Apparently the video has "expired" so please refer to e.g. http://www.filedropper.com/researchersreversesymptomsofagein... for that (as an aside, I'd appreciate advice about less obtrusive file upload services)
I'm pretty sure if possible, serious anti-aging technogy will drop in price due to incredible market demand. It's highly unlikely the compound relies on resources that are extremely rare.

Even if that were the case, someone would quickly find a way to replicate the procedure without the rare resources.

Likely the things in the way would be governments and corporations trying to profit through IP.

In that case, black market tech would be developed and you could likely go to an unregulated / 3rd world country to get the procedure done.
I've had 3 adaptors break over the past few years due to fraying near the computer-side plug. For some reason, they seem to be much more susceptible to damage by twisting than all my other cables. Perhaps it has something to do with the plastic material and frequent coiling. Really a shame, since I love everything else about my Macbook.
This is an active attack by someone with a huge amount of mining power. Those were software bugs that miners were able to coordinate fixes for.
If they haven't traded, won't their coins be on the common ancestor of either fork?
After presenting at the last TC disrupt last year me and my business partner was contacted by someone planing the show. They wanted to use our material and or us as extras when they recreated Disrupt. Not sure what happened but we lost contact with them. Been waiting to see how this show turned out.
Because Google used to be just a search engine. Seriously, is the idea that "things change with time" so alien to the HN audience?
I wish my compilations were merely I/O bound... everything would be so much faster then!
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