skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Possibly but two things to consider:

- big factor in longer life spans are the advances in medicine last 150 years
- our increase in meat consumption and cooked meat goes ways back and likely tied to our (threefold) increase in brain size
We did a game very similar to this for iOS called 'Cirqulous'. Check it out! (Nobody else did!)

http://www.cirqulous.com/
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> requiring that all server and desktop hardware puchased by my companies originate from BRICS nations

How exactly did you do this? Obviously the company assembling the pieces (like CPUs and chipsets) into the final PC isn't really the issue, but rather the companies producing those pieces - and virtually none of them are outside the US, seeing as how there's only Intel (and maybe AMD).

Your idea sounds good, and I'd like to adopt it, but I just don't see how, with x86 hardware.

Then again, maybe this'll be a major selling point for ARM-based Servers and Desktops at some point in the future? :x
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So true. BS, MS in CS, Bell Labs, Sun Microsystems, several SV startups including working for Elon at his first company. But I'm 52 and not a chance I could get in the door at google or any place in the valley now. I'm happily employed but for less than half what I once made.

I'm not sure they are wrong either. I'm not longer willing to work all night or to be the only one to stay over christmas to pump out yet another release. Nor am I willing to release buggy code because some marketing puke promised it would be ready by Wednesday. And yeah I still go to makefiles instead of scons or CMake, and I don't give a shit about Haskell or Scala.

So it makes sense to hire that 26 year old who you can milk for 10 or 15 years before kicking to the curb. And he won't even see it coming. Hopefully he will have saved those options and salary so he can weather the transition to another career.
Coreboot is a great idea, and I actually considered using it, but the project looks woefully under-powered for the role it hopes to play: the list of supported devices is very sparse and consists of really old models, mostly; even the supported systems have issues and/or untested functionality. http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards

I haven't looked into the relationship Chromebooks have with Coreboot: supposedly, Chromebooks use Coreboot, but how is it possible that they restrict the usage of OS to a signed one: do Chromebooks use modified Coreboot? And why is some models' status listed as "Unknown" in Supported Motherboards list?

So, I would love to use Coreboot and would actually consider going into some reasonable trouble to make it work on my hardware (including actually picking hardware that it supports), but I really don't see how it would be usable even for an enthusiast, and I don't see the situation changing anytime soon.
Hundrends.

For one, "youth" (and being a "teenager") is a rather recent innovation. Children around 13-14 years old were already consider kind of "young adults" for centuries, had to work and help with the family business, lots of them got married, etc.

Second, especially in rural areas, nothing much changed for centuries, say between 16th century and 17th century or 18th century in how people lived. Clothing, equipment, food, even music and dance were mostly the same throghout. And their general outlook on life was even more constant.

In some more populated/urban places, like Paris or London, there were small differences and some fashion, but even those changed very slowly compared to the era of widespread tv and radio, and they mostly concerned the upper classes.
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For quite a few of these "micropreneurs", the "disproportionate power" over them comes is about at least two things:
* The "micropreneur" jobs outcompete traditional services with their lower labour cost. Because of this, the job interview you refer to is more out of reach than before.
* They do it out of economic necessity, to survive. They don't necessarily have the possibility of quitting. They are not like most HN visitors: healthy, well educated, mostly white and male.

Freelancing is a luxury when you can relatively easily get a filthily well paid consulting gig. Like probably you and I could. It's an entirely different story when you have to hustle...
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And what if doctors just start writing everything in the secret notes? The situation sounds exactly like what has happened with the US government classification system.
>The levels of rain fluctuated. The levels other important resources fluctuated, namely those like animals, trees, and other raw materials that pre-industrial societies relied on.

For one, these doesn't affect outlook on life and youth as an experience much. Except if they involve huge hardships etc.

Second, all those were more or less constant (sure, "levels of rain fluctuated", but they fluctuated thoughtout the life of each generation, and throughout generations). Villages lived the same way of life, with the same rivers and the same kind of weather climate for centuries on end. Heck, in lots of places in rural Europe (Greece, Spain, France, Italy, etc) they still do (distractions of modern mass media and available consumer goods aside).
It's actually the opposite of disproportionate... It's proportionate. Firstly, these aren't wage jobs, so you're not entitled to a definite hourly yield. Secondly, if they lower their prices then they lower their returns too because it's a fixed commission. Thirdly, it's possible that a lowered price results in improved profits, if the frequency of rides go up. I've seen nearly no change in hourly profits despite lowered prices.

And I do think Uber is very sketchily overestimating their driver performance in their recruitment efforts. And I think the extended line of credit for car purchases was dumb, but I didn't take it.

Also your analysis has this problem -- by your argument, drivers who are more willing to accept a slimmer margin are "more powerful" although those are exactly the "economically disenfranchised" drivers.
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I think your definition of the left-right axis is almost designed to make the Nazis belong in the far left, which is still (thankfully!) a fringe opinion.

Populism alone is not left-wing.

Your definition of left/right doesn't include aspects of the far right such as anti-labor measures (while calling themselves a "worker's party", the Nazis actually destroyed worker rights, which made them appealing to the industrial elite), and extreme racism. The Nazis also used the power of the state in a distinctly right-wing way: as a way to safeguard business and the property rights of the wealthy.
Imagine two people playing a game.
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You may not be able to if you don't already do it. It seems to be a bit like synethsesia, some kind of brain wiring resulting a slight perceptual difference that turns out to be like taking an electric shock to the pleasure center of the brain.
Classic hot seat action games where 2 players share the same terminal such as Star control 2 hypermelee.
> Isn't this changing the devil you know for one you don't?

I don't think so.

How likely is it that China spying on you will actually impact your life, if you're living somewhere in the US or Europe?

Compare this to How likely is it that the US spying on you will actually impact your life, if you're living somewhere in the US or Europe...

I mean sure, this may be a relevant consideration for actual terrorists, but hardly for "regular" people that are more concerned about mundane details like their unhealthy dietary habbits being leaked to insurance companies, or their downloading of youtube videos being leaked to copyright holders.
I'm intrigued to know how the process for a 8$ cert is different to that of a basic free StartSSL cert. The last paid for certificate I got was a year ago, and getting a StartSSL certificate is just as streamlined a process as the paid one. The only thing I can think of is if you are talking about certificates with wild-card matching, which will save time on the individual certificates you have to get when free. But for $8, is it possible to get a wild-card matching one?
>So by his own words, it is not.

"By his own words" is probably the worst way to define what a man or a work is.

Of course he would say his work is original and not derived. Just like any snake-oil saleman will speak of his amazing medicine...
The USB story seems similar to software like systemd and PulseAudio. As a software guy I like the simplicity USB has brought me as a user but I dread the complexity of systemd and PulseAudio.
Playing 2-player games on the same keyboard, now less common but it was once very popular.

Edit: huh, quite a few gamers here :)
We have been eating meat for a long time, but the quantity of meat eaten since the second half of the 20th century is unprecedented. We are eating way more meat than before, that's for sure.
Oh thanks for clarifying that. It's about lack of insulin, not too low blood sugar, in which case the blood sugar levels will be high, because the body has no insulin to use glucose as fuel. This is what causes the build up dangerous levels of ketones. I understand now.
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Don't forget center-wing (is that a word?) governments, which have also killed a lot of people.
considering the role sodium and potassium ions play (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_in_biology#Animals), it isn't surprising that too low of them is bad. Of course it is already well known that too much of them bad also.

"Sodium is an essential nutrient that regulates blood volume, blood pressure, osmotic equilibrium and pH;..."

doesn't it sound like it better be not too low and not too much ? :)
And you'd better read before replying: I said trap on integer overflow, not branch on integer overflow.
The former gives you overflow check 'for free', the latter reduce the code density, which impact the instruction cache, which can reduce the performance.
And in the early days, performance was above everything else, CPU being so slow..
Why isn't there a soap opera about nutritional research?
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@3, you can always use gt/gT to switch tabs :)
Yes, we all got that. But the reason why doing so would break gifyoutube would have been because gifyoutube didn't support HTTPS. Which is why the former commenter noted that gifyoutube does support SSL.
It runs very slowly for me, but the render quality is also very good for a road engine. I don't think I've seen one that shows such an enormous draw distance before.
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>doesn't it sound like it better be not too low and not too much ? :)

That statement is pretty much impossible to logically disagree with so yes
My understanding is that the "foreground" thread gives the message to a background ZeroMQ thread, which then transmits them as fast as it can; therefore, this number is probably somewhat misleading, but I'm not sure how else you could measure it.
Do these recommendations also apply if a person is in the country under a visa?
Not necessarily proprietary apps, but a wide variety of use cases; Lua is embedded in all kinds of different stuff and used for game dev, webdev, embedded scripting, WoW, configuration, and much more, whereas JS, for example, is used in just two main (related) cases. This makes Lua's userbase rather fragmented across these niches.
This is a feature of Big Rigs, the "Best game ever."

http://youtu.be/sVREUuuNIgg
My daughter loves these 'opening toys' videos -- especially the ones from this woman. I'm very amused to find an article about this sensation, and my wife will be as well. We've been curious about it for a while.
In "the good old days" before the race to the bottom that value-engineered every penny of cost out of a product, motherboards and expansion cards had onboard hardware jumpers or switches that protected the ROM from modification. It was impossible to update the BIOS without opening the case and physically moving the jumper.

But that jumper cost money, and perhaps more importantly confused half the sysadmins and users out there. So the jumper is gone. Any program that knows the magic output sequence can overwrite the firmware. We're relying on security through obscurity to save us.

And if I'm Dell, I'm thinking: Hey, what about HP? What about IBM? Why single me out? Most if not all of these computers are vulnerable to similar attacks.
Next you're going to say you didn't build Pinboard with Angular, or something crazy like that.
Since society is happily live-testing (90M instance) videos on toddlers, it could be extended to formal A/B experiments distributed on YouTube. Create variations of this popular video, changing one variable at a time - shapes, colors, voice, manual dexterity. Compare toddler learning with computer vision algos for training robots on manual movement.
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Many of these gotchas have been known for quite a while. I suggest, for people who still don't know it, to read the UNIX-HATERS handbook

- homepage http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~weise/unix-haters.html

- working download link http://richard.esplins.org/static/downloads/unix-haters-hand...

A lot of it is outdated, and yet many things are still incredibly relevant
1. Flash cards are boring as hell

2. Memorizing a bunch of vocabulary does not help you learn the language. If anything, it might be a hinderance.

Bear with me here.

The main obstacle in learning a language is not the acquisition of vocabulary per se, but getting familiar and acquainted with how ideas are expressed in the language.

The most common mistake that beginners make is they try to form the sentence in their native language, then translate it to the target language. This approach is guaranteed to make you form BAD sentences.

You need to be exposed to not just vocabulary, but phrases, collocations[0], and idioms.

You must train your mind to use the expressions of your target language from the start .. without starting from some expression in your native language.

To get there, you need to be exposed to tons of natural speech/writings/dialogs in the target language.

That's why a vocabulary list on its own is pretty useless.

If you're going to use flashcards, let the entries be phrases and collocations, instead of single words.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocation
Chromebooks/Chromeboxes use a forked Coreboot:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/cor...

Most of the Chromebook/box devices have a physical write-protect that can be removed allowing re-flashing with modified firmware.
>That statement is pretty much impossible to logically disagree with so yes

not impossible. At least for proponents of low sodium it is possible.
Very nice, but please don't rely on keys like 'y' being on a certain position on the keyboard – on my German keyboard, for example, it's where the US's 'z' is. Other keyboard layouts are even more different.

If you can't access the physical layout of your keyboard (and using javascript, I'm not sure you can), using the arrow keys for all navigational things is really the best option.
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I don't doubt that, but no doubt a great deal of cryptographic audits are produced entirely for internal consumption at the procuring party, and another large chunk of them would be for bespoke software development gigs where the audit is for the benefit of the single customer.

Audits (and here I use the word in its expansive sense) that are intended to build confidence in a large or public audience do tend to be made public.
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Yeah, this looks useful. </irony> New versions of Play Store apps are already automatically installed.
From the article:

> Isotope analysis of bone and tooth material from King Richard III has revealed previously unknown details of his early life and the change in his diet when he became King two years and two months before he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth.
Did he get 8% at start, or did he accumulate 8% over the years through stock awards?
Does that mean that in addition to resisting the processed foods that are specifically designed to encourage people eat more of it, while delivering little, if any, nutritional value, now we shall also have to resist the temptation of eating foods visually designed to be most attractive?

I understand the aesthetic pleasure and interest from the hacker point of view, but I'm also looking from the point of view of obesity epidemic and other "diseases of civilisation", which spread now all over the western world.
Are you seriously trying to privilege check? I made less than "minimum wage" as a postdoc (salaried, 80 hour work weeks). After I quit my job I was at zero dollars in my bank account within a month. Have you actually met any of your Lyft or Uber drivers? They're not idiots, they are aware that things can get precarious. Your argument basically infantilizes them. Good job.
My favorite DFW essay of all time is this one: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazin...

(and previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6694749)
Computers are precise but sometimes I wonder could they be made faster if we relaxed this precision requirement?

For example in game 3d graphics it might acceptable to sacrifice some precision for performance. Could be interesting to apply some thing "Entropy" to the graphics part of some existing game. Flappy Bird maybe?
ok, so it means that even for a Chromebook, Coreboot support is not a given.
Question to HN - is one reason tech companies can do this is because a small group close to the founders typically have disproportiately high voting rights? I suspect this would not be easy to do if "traditional" institutional investors have voting rights commensurate with their shareholding in the company.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/investment-ide...
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet
IMHO it is damn near impossible to cut salt out of your diet in America unless you prepare everything you eat from scratch. Salt is everywhere.

This sort of study makes me feel better about my intuition of what to do when my doctor told me to cut back on the salt, though: stop letting myself use it as a seasoning, think a few times before grabbing a snack whose entire purpose is to shovel salt into my mouth, but still eat things that had salt involved in their preparation. My blood pressure has gone from "why are you not keeling over right now" to "slightly elevated" thanks to this.
In the article he lists some kinds of fetish youtube videos like zit-popping and clean-corn-shuck. One that he didn't mention that I partake in is Earwax Removal -- videos of someone with impacted cerumen getting it removed by a metal rod usually by a nurse.
I just deactivated the demo. Hope everyone had time to test the app!
Awesome would be "lua-configured", not "lua-based".
You forgot the Berlin windowing and GUI system, back in the 90s. Rotatable windows, alpha channels, super fast, and unlike X it was actually a GUI that you could style and so on. Yeah, there was a lot about it that was impractical for its time, but so was OS X.

Like you I discovered that Graydon was behind all these cool projects sort of by accident. He seems to keep a low profile.
Doing stenography is one example - at any time you could be pressing up to 2 keys with every digit on your hands. If you were creating your own steno device, it'd be easier to make it HID compatible, since every system of importance supports it and would avoid the need to write new drivers. The Plover software (http://plover.stenoknight.com/) can be used to provide steno for regular HID devices - works with any N-key roll-over keyboard.
Ask HN: How to choose a message queue?
Why do we have 101 different message queues?

How can they be grouped? I see different message protocols being used; some are persistent. Are there other, more fundamental differences which make some suitable for microservices and others for job queues?

The comparisons I've found consider 4-5 of the queues and pit them against each other for speed - which while important isn't everything.

Can you help with a higher-level overview and how to choose a suitable queue?
Questionnaires are cheap but less reliable than brain (PET, fMRI) scanning or quantitative attentional testing. What is the impact of a false positive diagnosis on a still-developing young brain?

Adults are a different story - they can make their own decisions.
I'll never get top comments because I'm in this weird ban from hacker news.
I don't have any personal contacts or any way to get her in touch. My girlfriend is a paralegal and she just told me it was common practice. I would encourage her to reach out to firms in the state she practiced in. I imagine a few would bite.
And there were lots of wars.
lol no shit, old news

do people still believe salt raises blood pressure too?

keto recommends between 3 and 5 grams of salt per day

your blood is salty, only way to replenish salt is through the diet, especially important if you're sweating
Ha. That would have been chump change for Stevie Cohen at SAC Capital. He charged 3% and 50%.[1]

Alas for Stevie, a few Debbie Downers at the US Attorney's Office (Southern District of NY) decided that some of Stevie's trades were too well timed for there not to be insider trading. That resulted in criminal convictions and jail time for some of Stevie's portfolio managers (but Stevie was never personally charged with insider trading, he was only charged with "failing to supervise").

So now poor Stevie no longer manages other people's money. Instead his firm only manages the $10 billion or so that is his own money.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/07/24/the-gover...
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Well, one of the risks that you face in a state-sponsored advisory is industrial espionage, and that is as likely to come from China [1] as it is coming from the NSA [2].

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/20/news/china-espionage-busines...
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
I wouldn't be surprised if ISIS would use more advanced and up to date server hardware than most corporations.
The reason for this would be that both, Pizza Hut & Taco Bell (as well as KFC) are owned by the same company: Yum Brands.