skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it similarly immoral for an investor to put money into a startup that they "know" (highly suspect) will fail?

No one knows what will happen, even if they claim they do. The options aren't only "know it will go up" or "know it will go down". That was my point that you were so dismissive of.
Bounty for a Chrome extension that prints docs in multi-column formats
Perhaps the reason you have not seen any failures is because your usage is spread over 10 different chargers, instead of concentrated on 1?

Unless you have 10 different laptops in use simultaneously such that you are putting in 10x as many laptop hours as normal people...
It's not that the risk of cancer goes down it's that all the other risks goes up. Remember really old people have a 50/50 chance of death per year risk and your cancer risk is lower than that. But long term even a 1 in 200 risk of death per year will still kill you.

Anyway, I don't really see the problem with rich people living longer lives. Dynastic wealth still lingers around and ends up in the hands of incompetent people which is probably a worse outcome.
Who said my interests were narrow? I enjoy a multitude of hobbies including hiking, biking, homebrewing, reading, cooking/grilling, etc... I just said that it is a shame you do not enjoy your daily work (i.e. the grind as you call it).
Android 4.4.3 features leaked
"a billionaire nerd that is "one of us""

How do you figure?
C++ compilers can manipulate and create strings at compile time
"Your build system could instead be a Ruby/Python/etc. script"

So, to compile a slightly complicated project, I would need Ruby for the main project, Python for a library it builds on, Haskell for another library it builds on, etc?

In theory, that's not a new problem, but I think that, by removing the common language that make provides, it will become much more common in practice.

At the extreme, it would only be natural, but disastrous, for the guys writing language X to use language X to write their make file. Result: you need to bootstrap language X through a zillion versions to port it to a new system, or mess around trying to build its parts by hand.
Nice app OP.
A strawman. I never stated this. Merely was stating that if you consider your daily profession a "grind" it might not be the one for you.
3d printed women's shoes are here today:

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/02/cubify-launches-free-to-dow...

The printer costs around $3K.
Because the heart and circulatory system accumulate damage and fail first in very old age. Yes, the risk of cancer fall a little with old age (or at least the speed of progression - most of the very old that die of heart disease and stroke probably have lots of incipient cancers that would have taken much longer to kill them). This risk never falls to zero or negligible and all anti-aging and regenerative therapies will reverse this - in a system where everything works slower and worse, even cancer works slower.

And if you look at that list for example, you see that most of those causes of death are thing that would have been harmless to a person without cardiovascular diseases. Taking some of the examples: the long list of pneumonias is because old people that get stuck in bed because of a stroke or heart failure usually get "aspiration pneumonia" or that the buildup of fluid in lungs due to hart failure leads to a series of complications fatal when coupled with a pneumonia. The only causes from that list that were probably not related to cardiovascular disease, besides the cancers, are probably the 2 kidney failures (...if you don't assume things like renal artery stenosis due to aterosclerosys or aterosclerosys and hypertension related kidney disease). Also, things like "organ failure" are a way of describing the consequences not the cause - there was a cause for that organ failure, just that the pathologist didn't bother looking into it. And unless there is a real suspicion of criminal action, no path exams for the causes of death in old people are really conducted scientifically anywhere in the world.
Seems like an opportunity for someone to invent a stress relief mechanism that meets their aesthetic requirements.
Yes. The work-life balance at Google is awesome. More precisely, you have everything you need to find the right balance for yourself, including support at all levels.

A personal anecdote I like to tell. After our weekly 1:1, my previous manager strongly suggested I should go get a nap in the room we have specifically for that (http://goo.gl/nhNOIe). You can be as cynical as you want, ultimately it's for the company benefit, and so on... but in how many other companies does this happen?

And this and the onsite gym and the awesome food are just a trick to make me work 20 hours a day, right? Well, not quite. I work completely normal business hours and then I go home to my wife, my friends and my hobbies. I never work on weekends and thoroughly enjoy my 25 days of holidays.
Microsoft promises not to read user emails again
This is not only good for Android (and thus Google), but it's also good for consumers. Most consumers don't know that Android is a platform and that they can switch between manufacturers without much trouble.

It's not great for the manufacturers themselves, but it's time consumers in general know that they're not locked down.
I never accused him of being a homophobe, I simply stated all that I can glean from the facts: he doesn't believe homosexuals should be allowed to marry.
Somewhat related: http://pentestmonkey.net/cheat-sheet/shells/reverse-shell-ch...
"Why don't we call television networks advertising companies"

Seems a decent analogy, most network television and cable shows are glorified advertising. It's not a brag of any sort to see the lack of meaningful content in the glut of adverts, product placements, artificial "social" engagements.
I would bet that foreign countries (at least China, Russia, Israel and France) are at least trying to, and any competent CEO of an international communications company should be taking reasonable measures to protect their own and their clients confidentiality.

Arguing the rights or wrongs of the agency action misses the point: it's inevitable that someone is going to try it, so take counter measures.

This is why in the fuss over the NSA we shouldn't ignore the fact that Google, Facebook etc. are encouraging bad security practices by creating giant repositories of everyone's information. It just happens, this time, to be the NSA, but it could be any government, or even organised crime, and the only ways to stop all of them are by acting prudently in the first instance.
I imagine plenty of the people peeved about the acquisition are also not Glass fanatics.
The depth of your moral compass is "But other people are doing it". I don't see how your comment adds value.
Valve is not interested in hardware beyond what's absolutely necessary to start up their Linux ecosystem.
I think that answers the question on how serious Zuckerberg is about letting Oculus have their way.
No, we did not. Our stack is still on the grow but we're starting to run into the same problem.

That said, we have many small files, so I'm pretty certain that for us, setting up gulp to always only recompile whichever file changed (which we currently don't do) should be good enough. Afaik there's ways to do this with gulp but I did not investigate yet.

Do you guys manage to only recompile changed files?

Thanks for the WebStorm hint! Did not know that!
I've had problems with so many Apple products over the years that I've stopped buying them. The last thing I bought was a 2011 MBP (hefty top line i7). Total waste of money. It was an insurance replacement for the 2010 one that literally caught fire when a drink was spilled under the edge of it. No product should fail in that manor. Current MBP periodically white screens and hangs and you have to turn it off for an hour (nvidia GPU problem).

On my third magsafe adapter. The first one just stopped working. The second one burned out about five inches from the magsafe connector. The second one resulted in a fairly large argument at the genius (idiot) bar because it was out of the limited warranty. After explaining how dangerous this is (I'm a qualified EE) loudly in front of other customers they replaced it.

Oh and the amount of shit I've had to deal with when incompetent Apple store staff decide the only option is to nuke the machine for even the simplest software problem. Fortunately within my circle of contacts they've learned to come to me first rather than start again every time.

Back to the original point though: one exploding MBP, two dead magsafe adapters, a dead logic board in a 2006 iMac, several frayed 30 pin cables, mac mini external power supply blew up and a dead cinema display panel, file system corruption in 2 OSX releases, £200/pop repair bill for iPhones if you drop them, the joke that was the iPhone 4, iOS constant upselling, iWork being a total piece of stink, iCloud periodic data loss. Ugh.

No more. Paying a premium for this is illogical.

Buying refurb Lenovo kit and bottom end windows phones. With the leftover cash I'm throwing it at my mortgage instead. Better investment.

Edi: to add insult to injury, the alloy they use for MBP and Air machines contains nickel so any unfortunate people with a nickel sensitivity come up in blisters using these machines.

Design over engineering. That is all.
Thanks for advice. We have a lot discussions of the agreement, but written in Chinese. We'll translate those to English and expose the context to the world.
Anything related to Tesla has been secretly banned from /r/Technology.
No. Switching Typefaces Will Not Instantly Save The Government $400 Million
Experience. Time-served in a startup/dev environment.

Ability to communicate (hopefully) without offence.

Skin thickness.

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2: the bay area is a large area. there are plenty of startups around, but except for some meetups and events you won't see much of it. don't expect a big warm fuzzy community close together in one area or smth.
> I've also had a couple friends cancel projects they were planning for the Oculus platform

This sort of reaction is such an embarrassing load of nonsense. People have cancelled some nebulous 'projects' that they might have carried out?

To be honest, the whole 'anger' thing seems like a bunch of gamers and similar people are just upset that all the 'normal' people might get to experience VR technology at the same time as them, and they won't get to be elitist 'early adopters' with the latest kit. Upset because the arcane knowledge that they possess is no longer the passport to an elite club; membership is now open to anyone who wants to use the latest tools and toys. Isn't that what we want? To democratise technology, so that anyone and everyone can have the benefits. No more requirements to understand programming languages, 3D APIs and mathematics, or to study obscure topics to get access to this hardware.

If Facebook can deliver VR hardware to the man in the street, brilliant! They managed to do it for interacting on a computer already.
Same. I have 4 adapters floating around right now (my laptop, wife's laptop, work-provided laptop and the spare 85 adapter I have kicking around) and none of them have had a single issue in the 1-3 years I've had them.
Same-sex marriage now legal in England and Wales
That's not surprising. The double-slit experiment was used to prove the wave behavior of the light. Ray tracing simulates the photon/ray behavior.
AMD's been making free drivers for seven years. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=826&num=1

I said the last half-decade to be generous. It's taken this long to finally get some of the older cards to a mostly usable state for 3D gaming (usually the point of a consumer-grade 3D graphics card).

Mesa has been picking up new GL versions which is good, but it's taken a really long time.
"This is more likely a response to Google Glass, not Oculus."

Glass, Oculus, and Microsoft's eventual device are all going to be competing in the same space.
For Panjiva: http://strata.oreilly.com/2012/12/panjiva-government-data-pl...
For the biologically inclined, I sincerely recommend reading this paper in full. It has a number of extremely groundbreaking hypothesis, which bring together the common elements of cancer, caloric restriction, and aging.

I find it interesting that this finding suggests that free radical/reactive-oxygen-species theories of aging were close, but just off the mark. It appears that the cell can cope quite well with chemical damage of this type, but has a harder time regulating mtDNA expression, which leads to the same result: reduced mitochondria function with age.
I got the point. But, you clearly tried to stress that someone can be cured of mental illness. When, this goes against the evidence.

Maybe there are a few people who can be 'cured'. But, many mental illnesses have factors that are based in the chemistry and structure of the brain. It's not that these brains are 'bad', it's just that the brains may not be suited to the types of worlds that we live within.

My post was meant primarily as a counter-point - that what you're saying is not true, generally. If someone believes that they may easily 'cure' their illnesses, they are able to really hurt themselves, badly. For most, a stable mixture of medications to balance out dopamine and serotonin is the best approach, until the neurosciences are able to learn more.

Also, I apologize for using the word 'anecdote' - I always had assumed that 'anecdote' was the root word for 'anecdotal'. But, I guess it's not. So, read what I had posted as me claiming that your story is 'anecdotal', rather than 'scientific'.
There are decent reasons for either way, the real question is why isn't there a visible option for it.
I agree with the importance of doing usability testing. I made this usability checklist (http://userium.com/), which can be used to catch common usability problems before user testing. By fixing obvious usability problems you get more meaningful feedback from users.
There is only one thing that makes you a senior developer: years in the industry. That's it. Ask your manager the minimum amount of time on the job for promotion. They'll use a formula to figure out if you're ready for more responsibility, but the gating factor is years on the job.
That doesn't provide a way to simulate reflectivity and transparency.
I mold sugru into a strain relief on my MagSafe adapters. http://sugru.com/
You see that little triangular down arrow?
16 employees, including engineers were targeted. No prizes for guessing how one becomes a cooperating company in PRISM and similar programs if the CEO says "No."
It's obviously created for political reasons. Science is dead because it used to take us closer to truth, not obfuscate it.
Pulseaudio is typically used with ALSA as a sink. You know how ALSA is a bitch to configure? Pusleaudio makes you not have to give a shit about it.
That's an interesting and, I think, complicated question. It's easy to uncomplicate it though; for instance, posit that the "investor" not only "invests" but also talks the "investment" up. Deliberate deception for profit has another name: fraud.
> Getting dozens of spams a day from your "friends" to play this or that shallow psychological-reward hack social game on Facebook

So, much like the responses to '2048' here on HN, and among members of its community? And, seeing how highly voted those posts and comments were, I assumed that wasn't seen as a bad thing?

> social gaming is not well loved. [...] Even among new games, Skyrim and GTA V are hugely popular even though the experience is mostly single player.

Do you mean un-popular here? Or among new gamers not games? Not sure...
I love the design, may I ask who did it?

Also, would have been great if you could drag & drop destinations on the map (I also assume some of your costumers would prefer it that way, rather than an API).
A consortium of businesses could maintain control, with no one entity owning the blockchain. As much fun as it is to think about Joe Farmer with an ASIC or GPU, when there's a $7B+ market cap to tap, real interests will get involved.
If by "highly controversial" you mean "supported by many leading names in the research community" then sure. See this, and note the presence of George Church, Judith Campisi, Maria Blasco, etc:

http://sens.org/about/leadership/research-advisory-board

The SENS Research Foundation has a yearly budget about a tenth of that of one of the largest aging research labs, the Buck Institute. The Foundation funds work in a range of laboratories around in the US and Europe, and has collaborations with Oxford, Wake Forest, and so forth.

Insofar as controversy exists, you might look on it as a facet of the present dispute over modern theories of aging: camps for aging as accumulated damage versus aging as evolved programming. The accumulated damage side is much bigger but split into several factions, one of which is centered around SENS.
One of my first mentors once said to me - the junior developer solves easy problems with complex solutions. The regular (simply) developer solves complex problems with complex solutions. And the senior developer makes problems disappear.
HN has an anti-cryptocurrency contingent? Besides me and Patrick? From my vantage point, HN not only encourages cryptocurrencies, but also (through YC) has a profound financial stake in them.

It is weird that anyone would have flagged the Etherium story. The Moderator should pull up the list of people that did that.

What's more likely, though, is that the story was promoted by a voting ring. HN has what I perceive to be a bit of a hair-trigger voting ring detector, which is understandable, because it's pretty intensely targeted by rings. There are some pretty simple things you can do to get your story penalized this way. The best advice for avoiding the problem is to try and make sure your story rises to the front page naturally; think of HN like a pinball machine, and the detector as a "tilt" sensor.
Question : if the Prince marries a man. Will there be two princes ? or if the Queen marries another woman, will there be two Queens ?
R/technology, like any subreddit, is controlled by those who got there first, or subverted it. Following this line of reasoning, people would be mad if Tesla wasn't covered by technology.com. reddits themselves are like websites, and thus will always have owners.
Same happened to mine, fraying near the MagSafe head. I tried taping it up with electrical tape, but it would only work for a couple weeks at a time. I finally covered it with white Sugru, and it's been going strong for more than a year now. It's pretty silly you have to do this, but at least it's a cheap fix.
Spoken like a pragmatist and not a scientist. Your argument is the equivalent of arguing no one should bother with low level programming knowledge or understanding how functions work in Ruby/Python/etc.

You're also talking like someone who has no experience with life sciences research at all and is an armchair expert. As someone who has dedicated a significant portion of my life and time to research in medical sciences it's not as easy as "fix them all." How do you 'fix' changes in protein expression without causing unintended side effects? It's hard enough to get something to work in cell culture let alone in a complex organism where compensatory mechanisms kick in whenever you do anything. We can't even get mild pain relief to work without side effects and you're talking about complex tissue engineering.

SENS is controversial at best (and utter bullshit in the eyes of many), I wouldn't go around touting it as the future of anti-aging research. Additionally caloric restriction has recently been shown to not work in humans and the early gains reported haven't translated well at all. Exercise is really the only potentially viable strategy you have mentioned.

While academia, especially at top tier institutions and mega-labs, is flawed, I would caution you to avoid jumping to conclusions because the pace of research is not to your liking. This isn't, as you so eloquently put it, painting a wall, it's a very complicated (and new) field that we still know very little about and are discovering new pitfalls every day.

Edit: Grammar
"objective opinion" ?
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I think it depends on the particular individuals and the company. Sometimes the only difference may be salary. There's already a bunch of different responses here on what the difference could be. My own rough heuristic is that a person in a senior position should have a clear sense of the influence on business value that they and their decisions make. A junior developer is engrossed with solving a problem, a senior developer is engrossed with the business improving on some metric by means of solving a problem.
Is anyone else just getting sent to CNN Money's Home Page? I can't seem to reach the article.
"wiping 7% off the share value since the announcement."

I wish everyone would stop citing this figure. Several major tech companies lost about the same amount off their market cap on the same day. Yes, some of that 7% might be attributable to the Oculus acquisition, but most of it was the result of market sentiment that day.
great tip – many thanks
pearjuice wasn't just saying "-1", he was helpfully explaining why asah was downvoted.
The article did not say if the mice lived significantly longer...
What's wrong with the suggestion to put magnetic connector onto the brick and have connectors on both sides of the cable?

Apple (and all the other manufacturers) did that with USB chargers, why not to do the same with laptop chargers?
Google, Facebook, Twitter: Not Enough Dollars to Go Around
If I were to be cynical, I'd say age and wage (and the feeling of knowing it all).

However, contrary to some of my previous experiences, a senior is that person that has an answer to most of your questions (and the disposition to answer them). It's that person in the office that can pull a project or a team on his own on the long term, without major fuck-ups and with a clever solution for all unexpected problems.

And if you're interested in the more superficial description: human resources would call a senior someone who's been mastering his domain for at least 3 years.
In new case, Supreme Court revisits the question of software patents
Are royals obliged to get married by the Church of England (who are legally barred from performing gay marriages, thus precluding the scenario in your question)?
Huh? The government of Turkey itself is a trusted CA http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secur... Ctrl+F "Government of Turkey"
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Carmack wrote the lens distortion shaders and found a software hack in the gyros/accelerometers to get it running at a higher hz and did his own filtering of the raw data from the sensors based on his experience building autostabilizing rocket ships.

The devkit ended up using better sensors etc. , but both Luckey and Carmack were important in making the initial unit that was in the E3 demo that helped build confidence for the kickstarter.
> Once the retail and manufacturing carnage starts to scale, the government carnage will soon follow. How can it not, when only old people pay sales tax, fewer citizens obtain their incomes from traditional easy-to-tax jobs, and large corporate taxpayers start folding like daily newspapers? Without big business, big government can't function.

A dramatic cascade to doom that conveniently assumes free and untaxed raw material. No, it's better to keep the existing power structures in place.

The whole article sounds like a call for regulation based on a fear of change. Like it's the first time the market has faced technological evolution and doesn't know how to adapt.