skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is another point of reinforcement for my view that this effort is going to look much like a mix of the Ellison Medical Foundation plus Sirtris: vastly expensive and with little other than knowledge to show for it once investors give up, because the researchers are from the outset trying to do something that is very hard, and which even if achieved will produce only small benefits. (Which is to say carry on trying to make drug candidates like Rapamycin do something useful enough to become a clinical treatment, bashing the square pegs at hand into the circular holes of regulation and clinical benefit).

"The AbbVie partnership seemingly makes it clear that Calico will be a drug discovery and development company, which is what many observers expected based on Mr. Levinson’s background in drug development."

In the best scenario, five years of this will raise the water level enough for more meaningful approaches than calorie restriction mimetics, autophagy inducers, and other attempts at slow-aging drugs that have consumed billions to date with nothing to show for it, to raise significant funds themselves. In the worst scenario, it burns investors for a decade on the whole topic.

It is a real time of choice and opportunity at the present. The lumbering monolith of mainstream research can continue to pursue things like Human Longevity Inc and rapamycin derivatives that are probably going to be profitable yet achieve next to no useful gain of human life span (because again they are doing hard things that can only achieve small benefits at best) or, hopefully, some form of disruption for a better path will overtake enough of the community to make a difference.

It is clear that far from everyone in the research community thinks that old school drug discovery, farming the natural world to take potshots at restructuring metabolism so as to work slightly better when damaged by age (without in any way fixing the underlying damage!) is the smart way forward. There is SENS, there are the European researchers behind the Hallmarks of Aging manifesto, there are some of the Russian contingent with novel ideas. The near future doesn't have to be an enormous waste of time and money that will go nowhere but to generate voluminous databases, entirely bypassing any realistic opportunity for achieving actual rejuvenation and repair of the causes of aging. But I fear that it will, based on what we're seeing the big money do.
The last Pancake Sunday
This Sunday will mark Terra Pancake's third and last appearance at Joystick Gamebar (427 Edgewood Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30312). These past two Sundays we've been sharing our dreamy buttermilk pancakes with Atlanta and are looking forward to one final round! A special batch of Rum Raisin Pumpkin pancakes may or may not be in attendance. ;-) We'll be set up in the parlor from noon until 2. View the full, vegan-friendly menu at www.terrapancake.com/menu.

Until Sunday,

Saphire
If you give someone land below market value, they will probably just sell it and pocket the difference. It's functionally equivalent to just giving them cash. If they want land they can go buy it.
Basically, it's as close to California's engineering center as possible without having to deal with the expensive manufacturing environment that is California. Plus a huge incentive. Nice work, Tesla.

The part about proximity to lithium & renewable energy is just PR fluff... but it can make you feel good when you are paying a few hundred dollars less for your car.
It is illegal for companies to retaliate for your discussing your salary (though probably not for calling them a "liar"). Look up the National Labor Relations Act.

That being said, you can be fired for things that you're legally allowed to discuss, and then it becomes an issue of whether you're willing to pay lawyer's fees to sue. Which is not usually a great situation to be in.
The Datacenter as a Computer (2009) [pdf]
There's a difference between a fork (flavour), and just claiming ownership, which is what this is.
The thing is you probably don't have John Carmack or Michael Abrash.
The joke is that they designed an inefficient web page, that uses images, rather than live (and searchable) text + images, right? It's too much to ask for good web design from RISD.
I used highstock to plot thousands of points and it eated lime it was nothing . If you want speed , this is for you
Microsoft gears up to mass produce large-screen touch displays
We could call it Magic the Gathering Online eXchange! Sounds totally good.
He may have a point - it's locally optimal to decrease the cost of applications, but it may be globally optimal to pay more for those applications to increase space launch volume and decrease the marginal cost of a launch.
We are talking about the problems of modern America, not feudal Europe. Land is not particularly scarce, and the poor don't really want to become subsistence farmers or even regular farmers. Just owning a plot of land is not enough to support a middle class family, if it ever was. There are also significant political issues like property taxes, estate taxes, etc, that make owning land more complicated and expensive.

Capital in general is what you mean I think. But even then interest rates are not particularly high, and if you give people money/capital, most people will not invest it to live off the interest.

Our entire society is now based upon the idea that you need to find an employer to pay you to do something. If no one wants/needs to pay you to do things, you are screwed.
yeah - I'm surprised that they didn't go into more depth about that. Apparently the machine is made by Packsize: http://www.packsize.com/products/em-7
How about "Specification-flavored Markdown"?
Without seeing the visibility curve, these results could be purely classical.
They doubtless predate my idea (~2009 in conversation with one of the Ron Conway boys), which is way too obvious not to have been done before.
Amazon's speed of delivery has gotten worse and worse over the years. 5 years ago I would get anything I order within 3-4 days. Now it's two weeks when using their free shipping.

I'm not paying $100 extra for Prime just to get things shipped in a reasonable time-frame... because those other services that are bundled with Prime are worthless to me.

Since Amazon has been so bad, now I use websites that focus on niches (one website for computer-related items, one for supplements etc.). All these websites offer free shipping much faster than Amazon.
If (for whatever bizarre reason) your job is to go from place to place smashing a list of windows, then you might have a legitimate defence. No reasonable person could confuse their own house for that of a neighbour, but someone could reasonably enter the wrong house number into a database or misread a job sheet.

This sort of stuff happens all the time. A backhoe driver misreads a site plan and digs straight through a utility trench. A civil engineer miscalculates bearing capacity, puts a piling in the wrong place and causes an adjacent building to collapse. A debt collector mistypes a license plate number and the wrong car gets repossessed. People make honest mistakes at work that cause damage and inconvenience; No just system can treat that as criminal behaviour without evidence of malice. It's a tort of negligence, no more and no less.
Either way, they're forcing his hand. He's been sitting back while others have been simply trying to get a spec.

If he wants to be grumpy, cool. GH, SO, and Reddit will forge on. If we wants to litigate, cool too; bring it on.

Those 3 communities have large overlapping userbases. This baby is being born, Gruber or not, and nobody will remember in n years about the current kerfuffle.
> Just send another one of these up after it

I'm not sure if these move fast enough to chase each other down; I bet it takes a while to get up to elevation. Even if that works it's still the same cost to shoot down as it is to replace.
I played around with the Bourbon + Neat + Bitters + Refills "stack" recently and I enjoyed it. Definitely not as "drop-in ready" as Bootstrap, but seemed like a good foundation to build on.

http://bourbon.io/
http://neat.bourbon.io/
http://bitters.bourbon.io/
http://refills.bourbon.io/
Unlikely. Resolution limits are determined by aperture and wavelength, which is unrelated to photon number. There may be other tricks that can get around those limits, but they will be quite different from this sort of photon-number stuff.

Photon number is conjugate to phase, whereas to improve resolution you need to know phase very precisely, so the uncertainty in (and therefore the number of) photons goes up.
Nasm uses backquotes to enable c-style string escapes. So `\n` should work, "\n" should render as \n (not new-line).

Eg:

"Sum is correct",`\n` ;or
`Sum is correct\n`
On a local copy, with bash, use vim <( git diff )
then :sp (split)
There's a really cool snowblower train that plies Donner Pass between Sacramento and Reno:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItdRfvYHPAY
Bring Back the Slide Rule
The US is, historically speaking and also when compared to many contemporary societies, very highly educated. If what you say is true, that even in the US most people are 'uneducated idiots' who never decide anything (or rather, for the sake of argument, should never decide anything, which I think is what you were getting at - correct me if I'm wrong), then it's a pretty compelling argument that democracy can never work.

I happen to disagree. Americans are not 'uneducated idiots' but rather the target of perhaps the most sophisticated, ubiquitous, and persistant propaganda effort ever seen in human history. When you consider the stakes involved (massive military, very large economy) it is not such a surprise. As for what to do about that, I propose going to the source: reduce the size of the military, and reduce the size of the economy (by splitting it into several pieces).
So? I really don’t see the problem with this. Sounds like you’re trying to make common sense into a bad thing ;-)

“Process” seems to be used as a stick for both sides to beat their opponent with… you are either doing too much or too little.

To me, a process is just an agreed way of doing things between a group of people. When it becomes a problem is when circumstances and experience tell you that this now isn’t the best way to proceed any more, but you still have to do it that way (and anyone who has worked for a large organisation will know what I mean)

Processes ought to change with time, and a lot of problems arise when they don’t… and so regularly checking whether your way of doing things is working is just sensible.
Sort of off topic, but one thing I really enjoy about the Go project is how open development and intent is. In addition to this, the Go team has shared plans (and invited discussion) for many things, some examples:

Internal changes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e8kOo3r51b2BWtTs_1uADIA5...

Linker overhaul: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xN-g6qjjWflecSP08LNgh2uF...

Garbage collector changes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLo...
The government is not part of the market. We do not choose whether or not the government has authority over us, it just does. There is no competition, no _market_ there. Without that distinction I cannot think of anything that would qualify as outside of the market and the term would become meaningless.
You don't even need to capture a photon coming from the object.

Shoot a red laser at a couple of non-linear crystals to split the photons into a red/infrared entangled pair. Now, send the infrared ones through the object and into the other crystal while you divert the red ones to a screen without touching the object. As you can no longer determine which infrared photon belongs to what entangled pair the information they ones had is now contained in the red photons instead - and an image of the object appears on the screen.

http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldu...

Who the hell needs magic when there's quantum physics.
Markup is what HTML (and XML and SGML) is. Markdown was chosen as a response to that.

I suppose they could just take a right turn and go for "MarkLeft" or something...
You have to dismantle the NSA, and kick everyone involved with this stuff out of public service forever. Then you have to have independent, and very public audits of the process and the results. Then, you can be about 90% sure.
This is blogspam, unrelated to the site being down.
Goddammit, let's all take a vacation.
According to the article there was no commingling - he just suspected there was, but there wasn't.
Designed Metasurface Is a Thin, Near Perfect Acoustic Absorber
Then it wouldn't really be a Reign of Terror, would it? It's not that I disagree with what you're saying, but you seem to be implying that the 'real' elite weren't made into an endangered species by the French Reign of Terror, which afaik they sort of were.
Path of Stolen Credit Cards Leads Back to Home Depot Stores
Worth pointing out that at least two of the competitors against Nevada, Arizona and Texas, have laws on the books prohibiting direct sales (as opposed to going through a dealership). I'm sure that was a factor.
The letter of the law does not impinge on this question, since there is no law mapping bank employee designations to legally-defined officers of a bank.
There's room for extensions, but as for base functionality, I for one do not enjoy trying to remember whether a given site uses [links](http://like.this) or [links|http://like.this] or preformatted text ``like this`` or {{like this}} or <pre>like this</pre>...
I think there has been some confusion here. When I said that "The point is not that the world will end if we give away our location data, only that doing so has a non-zero cost" what I meant was that the point is not that the world will end if we give away our location data, only that doing so has a non-zero cost.

Cell phones are like cars, they are very useful but also have their downsides (cell phones reduce privacy, cars kill people). I have a cell phone and a car because I made a decision that the cost was worth the benefit. I did not need to delude myself into thinking there was no cost nor did I need to pretend that the cost was inevitable.
Where's the transformation language JSXT? O.o

Why are nearly all the examples pushing literal UI concerns into the code, if not tightly weaving it with the controller?

I see what it is, but I see nothing about why it is - I'm open for understanding. Someone please help.
Somebody please enlighten me as to why this is better than good ol' JSON or XML/SGML/HTML, especially if it's meant to be processed into something else anyway?
Thank you for the links and the explanation, I appreciate it.

The lesson here is a bigger one: how new tech wins a race when it's chased by a big monster truck. Javascript got out there fast/first, looked familiar, and sidestepped conventions.

That Javascript went to ECMA for standardization, to push back on Microsoft, was a nice touch.
Best 'hack' I know of at BK is to ask for the fries with 'no salt' - that means they have to cook up a fresh batch just for you. :)
I read through the article again and tried writing some implementation ideas, but it seems the whole thing would require more time than I have available, would anyone else care to spearhead such a project?
Obligatory Quote:

"If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell

Interestingly, this doesn't apply to Scala.
I can't quite see the logic behind a markup syntax for a transpiler to output code that builds other markup.

Can someone with a better understanding explain what the benefit is here? It doesn't seem easier than JS or HTML so I don't understand the point of the abstraction. But I haven't built much on the browser-side in a few years so I am certain I am missing something.
Great point.

Positive changes like these resulting from social backlash are what make so-called "ag gag" laws particularly disturbing.
My only experience is with the Note II, but third-party camera apps are somehow much worse than the crappy native Samsung camera app. I had high hopes for the Google Camera app, but they're all fairly terrible... and very few can do competent HDR. Even the amazing Windows Phone cameras are apparently held back by crappy camera software/image processing. Only Apple seems to do photos right, for some reason.

Agreed about the S-Pen. I almost never use it, but my artist girlfriend LOVES to doodle with it and it makes a ton of sense for walk-and-talk jobs.

Samsung should be applauded for their innovation. When the first Galaxy Note premiered, every critic insisted that a tiny form factor and fingers-only were the only correct way to build a phone. To this day, articles on phablets are filled with hysterics about how large phones are terrible. I just hope that size innovation won't stop at 5.5-5.7 inches...
It's always odd to see such an effort against the value of separation of concerns. Facebook's team is heavily invested in the doctrine of PHP of course, so JSX is no surprise.
What about the part where he doesn't even sell new, sealed items and the offending product that caused such huge punishment, was precisely the type of items he doesn't even sell?
I did mean the same area. The advantage is that since it is longer it has a larger footprint.

Meaning more support, which to me seems easier to build (mechanically, don't know if the optics themself will be more complicated - that was my question).
Sure, Let me know how I can get in touch.
This is a great article and even better timing for me: I just bought one of these tvs last weekend. A power surge fried our living room tv so we went to best buy, looked around, and ended up going with LG.

Had the best picture, best reputation, and their simple and intuitive webOS was the selling point. If the Korean managers would have had their way, I wouldn't have bought an LG.

Side discussion: is this an eastern vs western culture difference? Every Samsung device I try to use seems bloated to me too. Maybe it's just coincidence.
Url changed from http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/03/microsoft-will-mass-produce..., which points to this.
An article about fast food secret menus with no mention of the In-N-Out Animal Style burger?

Blasphemy.
JSX is transpiled into Javascript (which generates HTML at runtime)- its function in React is basically that of a templating language. JSX also allows inlining Javascript in a limited fashion. I could not imagine a sane implementation using JSON. As for XML and friends, you would have to shoehorn in supporting JS.
What concerns are you separating exactly?
Actually, given how fragile and ephemeral (by design) most of the rest of digital media is and how much of our culture is tied up in it, no we wouldn't.

It may wind up being the case that the NSA's and similar surveillance architectures become the last great archive of human thought and culture, should something horrible happen. Unless archive.org has some serious Cryptonomicon-like servers hidden deep in a cave somewhere, governments seem to be at least putting more effort into the preservation of digital knowledge than anyone else has.
The Innovation Dead End
Why I Want an iWatch
I think this is a great and well intended effort.

One of the biggest use cases for Javascript is to manipulate and create DOMs. jQuery solved the manipulation part beautifully, but DOM creation remained a hassle. Lots of templating solutions have been attempted, but none of them seem to hit the sweet spot just right (that's a primary reason why there are so many).

JSX is a novel contender that may be just right - even if it's not, it will hopefully push us as a community towards a better solution by offering a very new approach with its own benefits and problems.

Thanks to the peeps at fb for taking the time and effort to make JSX bigger than just reactjs!
That's because the road to good code is through the gates of increasingly smarter type systems.
How is this different than the nearly universal use of vaccines?

Before you compulsively knee-jerk and claim that I think vaccines are evil and cause autism, take a breath.

The most damming argument against vaccines is that the continual use of vaccines (i.e. forced antibody production) produces same set of evolutionary selectors that help create 'superbugs' that injected antibiotics are often derided for.

However this basic biological fact escapes most people that haven't taken Biology 102 and beyond (which is 99% of the population).
Aqua Dock Adds Fully Customizable OS X Dock to Windows
What you should do to fix that is to make the very last frame and very first frame much longer. That would make the loop obvious.

Nice graphics!
Good luck having a discussion about this here.

Math is for zany, nerdy hermits! Math is opposed to humanities -- right HN?
JSX/React is not a controller, it is the view. See the React docs: http://facebook.github.io/react/.
Mid way through the book. Very good read. I wish we had it a couple years back. But its never too late. As someone said definitely a good way to get marketing mindset. I would read it along with Lean Startup and go in with the right tools.
I believe that it is the distinction between playing on a 1-dimensional or 2-dimensional grid.

EDIT: Also, as the article that you link points out, while all definitions of Turing machines agree on their power as a class, minimality results like this are quite sensitive to the details of the definition. (In particular, the article seems to hedge its bets by saying that that machine may be the smallest universal machine.)
> nor do they have the resources to be.

They have received large investments from companies like Intel, and have been granted extensive engineering (and probably financial) help from companies like Google and Facebook. Probably many others. And they have most of the MySQL brains-trust in their employ, Monty most famously. I don't know how anyone could argue they're under-resourced for the task of maintaining and improving a mature product.

Compare that with Oracle, who pulls dangerous stunts like this:
http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-is-a-crashing-mysql-bug-...
I-80 is hell in winter seemingly everywhere. In south eastern Wyoming there are permanent gates in many spots, so they can just swing the gate shut and close the interstate. That's how often it closes up there.
Definitely going to try this next time I go to BK... which is hardly ever. Does this work at McDonalds/Wendys too? If/when I eat fastfood, I usually go there.
The question should be why does he feel so threatened by this? Its because its a flushed out better "standard" version that everyone will use. Let the best version win.
Am reading Running Lean, Traction, and following growthhackers.com - heady mix :)
I was planning to move to Postgres, until TokuDB went open source.
And I assume the gif that finishes first is the fastest?
But isn't the main difference that a new vaccine can easily be created for any new strain of a bacteria or virus, whereas once something becomes resistant to an antibiotic then that antibiotic is now worthless to fight that infection, and antibiotics are extremely rare and difficult to create.
2d versus 1d Turing machine apparently. Here is the paper claiming universality: http://www.dim.uchile.cl/~anmoreir/oficial/langton_dam.pdf
Calico has done a good job of keeping out of the press, so I'm happy to see more details. I'm somewhat surprised by the partnership with Abbvie, who is widely known as an "old school pharma company", not exactly a bastion of innovative thinking and risk taking.

Also, the focus on age-related diseases is an interesting one. Originally Calico was sold as a "fighting old age" company. That's vastly different than "fighting diseases associated with old age". At the same time, targeting age-related diseases is much easier than fighting aging itself.
One of these dates back to 2006 ...

http://consumerist.com/2010/06/10/meet-the-mcgangbang-the-ch...