skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The political consequences will be interesting. One of the consolations if living under a tyrant is that they will, eventually die. I wonder if having Robert Mugabe around for another 40 years would excite Zimbabweans. The flip-side is that citizens could get more politically active if they couldn't rely on death to prevent gerontocracies.
I've been to the protest. One good reporting source is https://twitter.com/JMichaelCole1
> How do you specify/categorize junior/senior developers?

Experience. A very skilled young programmer with "raw engineering talent" won't automatically be described as a senior developer on that basis alone. Also, keep in mind, in a very ageist profession like programming, being called a senior developer can be taken as an insult.
Obviously companies like Microsoft have their own spies in Facebook and Google and vice versa, so yeah this might well be a response to Facebook buying Oculus.
http://g0v.today/congressoccupied/https%253A%252F%252Fg0v.ha... has some background information in English.
Mastering Bitcoin – By Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Well not zero, just below half the mining costs, right? As long as it's below that, you still lose more taking over the new cryptocurrency than you gain. And that's also not taking the price drop post-takeover into account, which affects how much the attacker could actually cash out.

But yeah, it would seem that miners of new cryptocurrencies should expect to lose money initially.
How Did MH370 Not Trigger Alerts On Direction Change?
I haven't seen anywhere on the news a discussion of how it was even possible that a plane could turn completely off course and not trigger any alerts.

Does anyone know about this?

I mean for example, if a plane is flying London to Paris, I would be extremely surprised if a 270 degree change of course didn't at the very least trigger authorities to investigate and attempt to contact the plane. At the time it turned it was surely in radar range right?

Basically, how could they possibly not have noticed at the time and therefore alerted someone at the time?!

I find this to be extremely scary in itself.
Ok now I'm not sure anymore you were ironic. Do you really believe that Singapore is a positive example?
If you haven't traded since the fork, then all your transactions are on the, um, "handle" part. Both sides of the fork will have all of your transactions, so they aren't lost.
Well, not quite - the 51% attack is not free. There is some value that makes the 51% attack too expensive, and game theory, yadayada.
This is REALLY scary if you have recently read the following article:

Could we condemn criminals to suffer for hundreds of years? Biotechnology could let us extend convicts' lives 'indefinitely'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2580828/Could...

Edit: Since people have some issues with the dailymail, feel free to pick any other article on this topic:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=prison+life+prolonging

I just googled and dailymail appeared at the top. Not sure if that was the article i read a few weeks ago.

Also please note that I don't want to stiffle innovation in this area in any way. I think it's awesome research.
But I also find it interesting to explore other "applications" of this technology.
>> Bizarre for a company that usually adhere's to high manufacturing standards.

That's more perception than reality. They're better than the cheaper low end commodity manufacturers, but so is Lenovo and Dell's higher end stuff.

Apple, however, is far from perfect in this regard.

I have one of those 2011 Macbook Pros that you might have heard about. I've already replaced my motherboard once to address the GPU issue, and it took a couple more months for the problem to appear again. I'm kinda stuck with it now because my AppleCare ran out, and I'm not forking out >$500 plus tax to replace a part on a 3 year old computer. I'm also not about to stick my motherboard in the oven to try to fix it either (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371908).
>But what makes Facebook different to what Google was a few years ago ?

Mark Zuckerberg.
Not a single person said that it has no value. But the site does an arguably poor job communicating what it is about (to those who say "watch the video", understand that many people consider videos a last resort. There has to be a significant lure to even go that far, and for many of us it didn't seem worth it).

Comments about the site are entirely appropriate on HN (this is something that concerns most of us), and you could consider your own advice and simply skip over them if they don't interest you, instead of wasting emotions on being appalled.

Exactly as others experienced, I skimmed the site and found nothing compelling me to look deeper. The site gives the feeling of significant style but little substance (technologists usually put attention only on substance, which itself is seldom compelling. There is a middle ground somewhere in between).
There are seven distinct mechanisms for cellular and intracellular damage resulting from aging. Improving the regulation of mitochondria could completely fix one and slow down the rate of accumulation of a few other types of damage, but that's it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...
That's fine, I just get the free service for 3 months then drop it, then do it again. For some reason At&t keeps letting me do this for over a year.
Don't underestimate the lengths the Genius Bar will go to keep your computer happy. Especially if you have AppleCare, which you can still buy if you got the machine less than a year ago. But even without AppleCare, their repair prices have been getting ridiculously low, so I wouldn't assume a battery replacement will be off the table.
Microsoft vows to not go through emails ever again, in light of Hotmail snooping
My experience was over and over again "oh, your notebook is out of warranty, not going to replace it, go spend $80".

So now at the end of one year, I'll damage it intentionally so they can replace it. I'm done with paying $80 for a cable that lasts little better than a year.
"In one deposition, Mr. Cooper confronted Raymond DeGiorgio, the head switch engineer on the Cobalt, with the differences between the original switch and the replacement. While Mr. DeGiorgio said he saw the differences, he could not explain why the part had been changed without a corresponding change in its identification number."

Since the part was changed on the later models (post '06-'07) without changing the part number, that means there is no way to tell the new ones from the old defective ones. This goes against commonsense, why was this done?
To the person who downvoted me, how am I wrong?
There's a very funny construction in the linked article: "... It claims that revenue from paid apps dropped by a drastic -29% in 2013 from the previous year."

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint, a drop of -29% is a rise of 29%. You can always identify the math C students later in life.
I've been in BTC trading for two years. Never has anything been wrong with btc proper, it is always with centralized businesses around it, with the exception of the double spend fork of the blockchain during that one version upgrade early on, which was a valuable lesson for future upgrades like the recent 0.9 transition, which went smoothly.

And no, central banks are awful. That is one of the myriad reasons distributed compute power is what makes bitcoin strong. And ironically, central banks are autocratic and blockchains are democratic, while the systems that consistently produce the former are purported republics, and blockchains just come from no ideology or power structure, I guess anarchy.

> 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.

The current system is giving a monopoly on printing money without any backing store of value besides the confidence in the printer to a select few easily exploitable and corruptible appointed heads of central banks with no mechanism for the fair distribution of new funds. These banks then operate through violence to guarantee peoples assets to falsely make the currency look more secure than it is, by threatening you if you don't pay the taxes to recoup the losses of risk in storing your money with someone else. Is it an arms throw from the worst possible system, which would be the absence of any confidence at all, and it is only with systemic manipulation such a system still works at all. That, and the US dollar is the compulsory international currency for oil, which everyone craves like a cocaine addict without a fix.
What it feels to be an engineer at a corporate meeting (Humor)
The trade agreement between China and Taiwan that's currently on the table contains two parts, one concerns publishing and the other has to do with ISP. Taiwanese in general, like to preserve their own identity, culture, language, etc. The agreement MAY alter the market dynamics, for example, squeezing out Taiwan's native publishers. The biggest concern is the control of digital information. No need to explain on this. Overall, Taiwanese are just afraid of what-ifs. Personally, I'm OK with publishing but not the digital information pact.
I'm an software engineer from Taiwan. Taiwan is one of the countries in east asia that has democracy, and we're super proud of it. However, the current government tried to pass some laws that has deep impact to our economy secretly. They tried to pass the law in congress restroom, and passed it in JUST 30 SECONDS.

This is something that Taiwan people can't stand for. We need to fight for our democracy procedure. A law like this cannot be treated this way. The students in taiwan occupied the congress hall (Legislative Yuan). Following up we have so many volunteer from all professions joined us. The doctors started to help people who were injured; the lawyers defended for people who were caught by police; hackers who like you and me helped the wifi and real time streaming to be stable and robust, and also built this website for more visibility from the world.

It's 4am at Taiwan. WE NEED YOUR ATTENTION. WE NEED YOU to spread what happened in taiwan to the world. Take a look on those photos and videos. It's dark in Taiwan, but we believe the dawn will come.
I'd rather be stoked to do what I do every day and have $2 billion in the bank than be stoked but not have a massive pile of cash.

It's not as if there's only one thing in life that I could possibly enjoy.
Quoting the Daily Fail? Seems unwise. Not even going to read it and neither should anyone else.
yeah,it's called piping and supported natively in make.
1$ Mil per show is cheap thats the cost of show run on shoe string a bit like Amanda Tapping did with her show Sanctuary.

Fringes pilot was round the 4 Mill mark.
Yeah I can already see the headlines.

> "Model S catches fire due to direct impact from nuclear missile".

Media goes apeshit and Musk responds by equipping Model S with anti-missile defense system.
Yup - sorry, i'm not a native english speaker :)
I'm not saying that it is a 'cure all', but actually make -n lets you dry run, and test out your rules before you actually use them (with "touch"), and in most cases I'm sure that that is faster than both reading the manual, and writing a python library for replicating the functionality (reinvent the wheel).

Now, this approach depends of course how well you know make to begin with. But there are a lot of examples out there, and the man pages of GNU make are quite good. It is quite true to the old make facility, so even older book examples should work with it.
I am disappointed by you guys. No proof was given anywhere. This is just scaremongering. No matter who BitcoinEXpress is, he didn't give proof.

This was a planned hard fork, as you can see on the Auroracoin forums[1]. The fork was planned on block 5400, which happened today[2].

[1] http://forum.auroracoin.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=129

[2] http://blockexplorer.auroracoin.eu/block/74546cee7f93595d36a...
Millions you missed a Zero there
“The aging process we discovered is like a married couple—when they are young, they communicate well, but over time, living in close quarters for many years, communication breaks down,” said Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics David Sinclair"

- Totally off topic though but I think he's describing a couple heading to divorce. Nearly all successful marriages move in the exact opposite direction.
I would say the political/inequality ramifications are going to be foremost terryfying, unfortunately it's hard to research that beforehand.
Same here.

The most annoying part is that I'm very gentle with the cable--I coil all of my cables[0] so as not to cause undue stress on the conductors inside of the wire

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEd7ru24Vx0
It still has major issues. But, for many things it is absolutely better to have a GUI.
I think most people don't give a rat's ass about how they treat their adapters

Maybe the Apple ones are slightly less forgiving about being mistreated, still, most of them will fail eventually

I've never had a charger failure like the ones described, either Apple or other PC charger (however, I had the power connector fail on a previous notebook)
I'm not sure why that would be?

The idea is out there... Speculating if it will happen is pointless anyways, as it will probably take a long time before reversing aging could be done on scale.

So I really don't understand the downvote(s).
Gah, it didn't occur to me that the reason the Oculus sale was so expensive might have been patent-related. VR tech is not all that complicated. I mean really, if protocols like HDMI and Thunderbolt weren't so complex, DRM and patent laden themselves, how hard is it to put an image on two screens and sync it to gyroscopes/ultrasonics/infrareds? This is college-senior-project level complexity.

Software patents are such an obvious incumbrance to programmers, but I wonder if we should think about the toll that hardware patents are taking on innovation overall Maybe it’s time to take a stance against all patents.

I’m hopeful that rapid prototyping might alleviate some of this because hardware could be open sourced and then people could assemble it themselves. Unfortunately they probably won’t be able to pay someone else to do it. That strikes me as fundamentally wrong and when the law doesn’t fit the public interest, we’ll probably see black market and bootleg manufacturing appear.

We need 21st century solutions for intellectual property, when the vast majority of manufacturing is automated and even innovation itself has been augmented by machine learning. Otherwise I see the end of innovation and only the biggest megacorps being able to afford to play.
I wonder what happened inside PayPal that cause the Android app to be treated differently or whatever it is?
Sitting in front of a screen doesn't completely block your vision. I think there will be a certain level of discomfort, no matter how lightweight the goggles, at being completely blind to your surroundings. I have no idea if this will prevent mainstream acceptance of the technology, but I think it will have a serious effect.

Maybe the next generation of this tech will find a way to preserve peripheral vision, and/or provide some pass-through motion detection, while still remaining immersive.
That's not how capitalism works. Your earning potential increases with your capital, eventually making talent and effort negligible factors.
Yeah I'm not that much of an electronics guy.. ;-)
I don't get how this is a scam. Did the people get their thank you, their tshirt, or development kit? AND didn't the company get kickstarted? So the people got exactly what they paid for, and presumably exactly what they wanted. So where is the scam?
Good summary of a lot of stuff that I've kinda vaguely thought.

Question on a related subject - what about product names? Better to name your product/site/company/whatever a simple, boring name that is descriptive of what your product does, like foobarer for something that bars your foo, or something that is short, vague, and cutesy, but hopefully more memorable than the simple, descriptive name, like twitter or the article's ramen? Or rather, any thoughts on the tradeoffs involved?
Ignoring invalid certificates is a never a good thing to do.
The thing is, the length of the 3 prong extension cord is a good length (4 feet?).

The power cord problems occur most when I visit a client who puts me at a desk where the power outlet is not in a convenient place and is full of other junk that I can't just unplug. One foot is not going to cut it, and and a four foot cord is just going to be as unwieldy as Apple's 3-prong, which came with my computer.

The only two laptop manufacturers that I've ever had issues for cord length are Apple and Microsoft (Surface Pro).
You might be interested in Drake, a kind of ‘make for data’.

http://blog.factual.com/introducing-drake-a-kind-of-make-for...
I nearly had to purchase my Adapter as well, but I fixed it with Sugru (The wires frayed where it connects to MPB) and it seems pretty solid now . $10 for $80 adapter not bad.

EDIT: http://drwsxce6xtjnu.cloudfront.net/stories/image1s/1296/lar...
In Larry Niven's Known Space books, some of the rich stuck around so long that they became hyper bored and so decided to become super criminals. He has one such minor character who is a woman over two centuries old, with all of the experience and knowledge that entails, with the body of an 18 year old.
I wonder how big this could get, settlement-wise.

My son lives in the Bay Area and even though he is a tech enthusiast (lots of Apple gear, active GMail user from two years before public release) he is very down on tech companies right now. I get the impression that this is a common view in the Bay Area.

So if this goes to trial a local jury might be inclined to go hard on the defendants.
Thankfully, Linux has alternatives right now. And if you want free drivers, they aren't on the table anyway.

If Nvidia dropped off the face of the Earth in Linux support everyone would just buy AMD discrete or Intel integrated parts and not bat an eye. And both of those companies have dozens or hundreds of developers working in the FOSS space. And for some reason, they also get my money, where I purposefully avoid Nvidia products (I don't buy their Tegra APUs, I'd never buy a computer with one of their graphics accelerators, etc).
1. How does a smart contract learn about a "fact"? In a betting example, say two individuals bet on a football game. How does the algo determine which team won? The wired article on ethereum says "it will determine the winner by looking up the score on the web". This seems like a bug fest waiting to happen. What if the endpoints it wants to query are down? How to avoid people trying to "fool" the algo by hacking the sites it's looking at for the "facts"?

2. How on earth do you intend to store everyone's data in a single blockchain? This is like having every application's database (not even the one's you use yourself) on your computer.

*edit - starting to get some responses here: http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/21orz7/noob_questi...
> Some AR is already present in some vehicles.

If HUDs are considered AR (a valid viewpoint, as far as I'm concerned) then they've been in warplanes since WW2.

I don't see AR getting mass customer adoption before it can be directly grafted.

> Imagine a sales clerk or rep with it as you walk into the store to pull in data from across the web about you from facial recog and be able to automatically point you to where you might be interested

That sounds horrifying. And unlikely, that customers efficiently go through their purchases in the least possible time is not really in most store's interest.
As I pointed out above, DNSSEC doesn't stop this.

I am not just a DNSSEC hater, but the level of misunderstanding on DNSSEC is quite large.

When victim issues a query for youtube.com, I can intercept that query and hand back whatever response I want. Unless the victim KNOWS IN ADVANCE (which DNSSEC doesn't offer) that the response should be DNSSEC signed, they will accept my forged response.

DNSSEC solves problems we don't really have, and ignores the ones we do.
You really haven't understood how this works
In fairness to Apple, first party adapters for most laptops are about the same price.

The catch is that Apple's patented MagSafe prevents you from buying a universal adapter from a reputable brand.

You can buy a knockoff (I have) from China (i.e., dealextreme), but you have to be very trusting. I stopped using my knockoffs after they started getting really hot. I only use them in a pinch for short periods of time now.
Ask HN: How to think of an idea for a cool project?
I have tried many times to come up with an idea to start a personal project. However, every time I come up with something either a similar or better implementation exists or the amount of time, effort and skills involved huge. It would be great for me if you can share some thoughts/experiences of how you come up with and idea for projects.
Reasons why I wan't to do this:
- It's fun
- Will me a better programmer (I think)
- Looks good on my resume
Quite the contrary.

I am pointing out that fragmentation in the COMPUTER HARDWARE and SOFTWARE is normal and exists since computers are among us. Windows market is a tiny spot of the COMPUTER HARDWARE and SOFTWARE around the world.

Any good developer learns to deal with it instead of writing posts whining about it.

Plus iOS which is oversold as not being fragmented has different set of API support depending on iOS/handset/tablet pair set.
Another issue I have with the magsafe is that in any country with more than 110V outlets (~70% of the world), there's significant charge leakage into the macbook body if you don't connect with a 3-prong adapter.

I use a US macbook power adapter (Type-B) and a travel adapter. My Type-D (India) is only 2-prong, but my Type-G (Singapore) one is 3 prong. Anywhere I wind up using the Type-D, I get continuous minor shocks through my palms as I use my computer =/

This seems to be the case for every magsafe adapter and every macbook air (sample size = 3, different revs bought from different outlets 2012-2014).

Is this normal? I don't recall experiencing this on any other device I've used which is rated "110V - 240V" paired with a Type-B-to-D adapter
Crucial Terms Every 21st Century Futurist Should Know
This casually written comment sums up most of what I think of cryptocurrencies in general.
I recently turned off the new tab browsing option - definitely did not like it. When my wife noticed this change she had me modify her account also.

Anyway, easy enough to customize things the way you want or, just use the IMAP interface.
Just Google the article to bypass the paywall.