skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Particularly because that's the only evidence he's collecting to show that his experiments -- lots & lots of concurrent experiments that he's continually changing for murky reasons -- are working.

He just... says stuff like this:

> At first I expected to be able to set back my telomere clock by up to 8 or 9 years per year, but subsequently revised this to about 5.1 years per year.

> The astragalus extract actually finally turned out to work rather better, in fact, than TA-65.

...with no explanation at all. He's clearly learned some domain-specific vocabulary, but spending all of his money on supplements rather than any kind of testing whatsoever, or even taking the time to work out a more scientific approach.

I don't see how his "experiments" have any scientific value beyond "here's a guy who ate (or rubbed into his scalp, or whatever) X quantity of Y every day for a few months or years, and it didn't seem to do him any serious harm".

Edit: saying "whatsoever" 3 times is overkill...
> It's sad to see that InfiniDB could not make MySQL work for them reliably.

Integrating with MySQL at this level would probably only make sense if the team was already familiar with the internals; otherwise, PostgreSQL's code base would be a much cleaner choice.
I think you also need to count the Bash source code there.
And so you should, because that's what it originally referred to: jack is short for jackknife.
Very nice. Wish it was on Github for easier contributing (and issue tracking).
> However, referring to the audio recording and playback capability of an iPhone as "talking through a tiny speaker" seems in itself pretty technophobic.

There's something to that, though; for all the incredible advancements in mobile phone technology over the past decade, it's shocking how terrible the actual audio quality of the average mobile voice call really is. Even the most basic phone on a purely landline call sounds better.

And I think it's something many people have forgotten. It wasn't all that long ago that long distance companies (remember those?) used to actually compete over who had the best voice quality. "You can hear a pin drop" - remember that? Maybe not; I imagine these days many young people have never even used a landline.

I do think that poor audio quality is a decent part of why so many of us hate actually talking on the phone these days. Having to strain to hear, asking people to repeat themselves, accidentally talking over one another, all these things make for a much more awkward experience. And you just don't get that same feeling of connection or illusion of sharing the same space when you lose the subtle nuances of someone's voice.
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Agreed. Couple of blurry photos (especially second one, from 2013), plus angle in which second photo is taken is very misleading - people can look younger or older just by changing angle. Good, no-BS article must have 2 clear, crisp, hi-res frontal photos for fair comparison, together with EXIF info (yes, I know it can be faked but still...). Furthermore, on first photo he is frowned, on second he is smiling which is another suspicious point. All in all, to me it looks like this story has got no substance.
Slightly frightening that he takes telomerase activators one week (to reduce effects of ageing) and telomerase inhibitors the next (to reduce likelihood of cancer from telomerase activation, presumably).
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I have an anecdote that occurred a short while while ago. We had a server with several database instances (with their own init scripts) running on it.

The scripts were buggy in such a way that starting the database would bring it up okay, but prevent the rest of the instances from starting. Also, using the "stop" directive would successfully stop the database... and all the others, as well.

The bug probably occurred because the init scripts were horrible to begin with and had been copied (ugh) to accommodate more instances, without the necessary modifications to not screw things up.
His profile on Longecity forums: http://www.longecity.org/forum/user/4099-jamesagreen/ (You need an account to view it)
Here's one of his lasts post there: http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/52748-can-we-get-straig...
Looks like there are some differences with vi, among others:

* "dd" is not implemented, use "d_"

* "cw" will not work as in vi, use "ce" or "cl"

* "r" is not implemented, use "cl"

I think these are very common mnemonics, so I wonder why they are not implemented and if there are any plans to do it in the future. I use these all the time, so this would be a major turnoff for me.
Interesting. I speak 6 languages and actively think in 3–4 of those, and I notice slight changes in my attitudes and behaviour depending on the active language in my head. It might be interesting to experiment and find out if not just the fact that it's a foreign language matters, but also the influence of the actual choice of language.
The one thing lacking is the ability to distribute precise timing, to the order of nanoseconds. It would be ultimately cool if it was possible to synchronise USB peripherals to this sort of accuracy.

"USB-inSync" was an attempt to do this, but it wasn't part of the standard and Chronologic, it's distributor, seems to be defunct.
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Continuity on iOS 8 / Yosemite will solve some of those issues.
But that's if you're in the ecosystem.

Play a movie on your laptop, resume on your device when you leave (given there is an app for it)
If it were to communicate with everyone sure, but for my significant other and 3-5 closest friends, not at all.
If he's 65-66 now, he looks way older than a man in his 60 in the photo from 2007 (strangely the only photo not blurred on his site), isn't he?
Great info, thanks! We are using MongoDB for single-server installations and it fits our needs pretty well. Our biggest gripe is that disk space is not freed when collections are dropped, but we can live with it. Other things are just minor inconveniences which plague other DBs too. In our experience MongoDB "just works" - but then again, we don't use its scaling capabilities.

That said, we are looking around to see if there is an even better document-oriented DB available and PostgreSQL looks interesting (with its JSON). Haven't had the chance to try it yet though. Another interesting option is OrientDB (having graph database would be beneficial - but only for small part of our system). Does anyone have experience with other document-oriented storages? (primarily single node usage)
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Having read 'Flash Boys' by Michael Lewis, this post seems like the logical followup after someone discovered the first microwave tower at the end of the book.

Didn't know that the same scam is running in Europe...
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I think GP meant "product" in a What'sApp\Facebook\Instagram sense of the word. These all (as far as I recall) sort of spread without big "this is gonna change everything" hype\announcements (up to a certain point, I've no idea what that point was - something between ten and a hundred million users?), they just started getting used by people because they were fun and engaging.
Alarming.
It should be noted that the US also has smokejumpers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0a-UcqrYFg
> I don't think you can reasonably deny that a package that requires major surgery to work with a different init system is less flexible than one that simply doesn't care, even if said surgery is perfectly legal with the source available.

I think you'll find that it isn't nearly that difficult a problem to address. For all kinds of reasons, just like every other system design that has come before it, there will need to be accommodations made to work with other stuff. Its not like the old code just disappears overnight. You can't succeed as a new platform without a way of working with the old (and again, you've mostly been sold a bill of goods... most of systemd's architecture is the old system).

> That flexibility is a large part of why a lot of us came to Linux, and regardless of whether it's technically "freedom", losing it feels like losing freedom.

If it feels like losing freedom to you, you don't know what that is about. You're losing someone writing code the way you wanted them to. That's not losing freedom. That's getting it.
The bad quality of pictures don't help the story. Both his pictures and the website itself look like they were made in the 90s.

The author of the "interview" also admits that he has not physically met Jim Green.

What also does not help is that almost every hyperlink in the story goes back to Jim's page as a source. This does not seem like very high quality journalism to me.
I just feel so sad for Steve too.
I don't think this 30-second timeout is a bug in FreeBSD or in rc. You may want your server to wait for the network to become available. Ubuntu Server has the same "waiting for network" timeout:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/63456/waiting-for-network-con...
You're blaming the wrong party here.

The systemd project has no control over what Gnome relies on. They independently rely on systemd because it provides functionality that makes their lives easier, and it's their right to do that. If you want "up-to-date Gnome" to work on FreeBSD, go and write some code to help make it happen.
Yeah, if this is true, it's completely terrible. This attitude towards bugs and imperfection make it even worse.
How is microwave dish based communication a 'scam'?
I never compared the two. And I'm not disagreeing either, but realistically, what's the last protocol that's gained mass developer/user usage? Facebook? Twitter? Skype? Whatsapp? Most of these services aren't even accessible without an app. The only recent protocol that comes to mind is bitcoin, but acceptance is still lacking.
It's a relevant question. Regardless of what one thinks about copyright law, it is what it is and all players should abide it. IANAL, so I can't say :(

However, I think there is a need for a more granular robots.txt such as:

User-agent: *
Allow-crawl: /
Limit-display: /events 10words
Limit-display: /blog 30words

This way, websites can state how big of a search result they are comfortable with and everyone abiding these limits is safer legally. Websites will have to be a bit lenient in order to have prominent results and gain visibility, but they will have to limit that so users click the search result.

Right now, Google has its algorithms decide how much copying is legal and if you disagree you can either disallow Google Bot or sue them, so this would provide a middle ground.
"scam"? Care to elaborate?

HFT has been around in Europe and is as well established as the US, so I assume the alleged scam relates directly to buying and operating Microwave networks. Seriously, please do provide more information, I am keen to learn more.

disclaimer: I've not read 'Flash Boys' yet, so apologies if it's all explained in that book
yet you will find that same outlook in many countries, middle America has many who share the same beliefs. I would say that that outlook is more common with rural areas than urban.
We Russians are all about slavery, as everyone knows, yeah! Not even a bit of heroism :)
Pixate? How is Pixate in any way a competitor to Photoshop? It's a completely different product. Are you thinking of Pixelmator?

http://www.pixelmator.com/
That's not really fair since the shell is an independent part of the system and could be swapped out for another implementation. Plus, it's not there just for the init system; it'd be there regardless of the init system. It's an already existing independent component, which is used for leverage.

Otherwise should we also count the C compiler, libc, all the CLI utilities and the kernel?

But here you go. Still smaller than systemd. Sysvinit needs a shell too...

$ wc -l /usr/src/bin/ksh/*.[ch]
127 /usr/src/bin/ksh/alloc.c
1412 /usr/src/bin/ksh/c_ksh.c
935 /usr/src/bin/ksh/c_sh.c
560 /usr/src/bin/ksh/c_test.c
53 /usr/src/bin/ksh/c_test.h
201 /usr/src/bin/ksh/c_ulimit.c
60 /usr/src/bin/ksh/config.h
829 /usr/src/bin/ksh/edit.c
86 /usr/src/bin/ksh/edit.h
2163 /usr/src/bin/ksh/emacs.c
1333 /usr/src/bin/ksh/eval.c
1433 /usr/src/bin/ksh/exec.c
107 /usr/src/bin/ksh/expand.h
593 /usr/src/bin/ksh/expr.c
984 /usr/src/bin/ksh/history.c
438 /usr/src/bin/ksh/io.c
1653 /usr/src/bin/ksh/jobs.c
13 /usr/src/bin/ksh/ksh_limval.h
1643 /usr/src/bin/ksh/lex.c
132 /usr/src/bin/ksh/lex.h
196 /usr/src/bin/ksh/mail.c
786 /usr/src/bin/ksh/main.c
1149 /usr/src/bin/ksh/misc.c
91 /usr/src/bin/ksh/mknod.c
285 /usr/src/bin/ksh/path.c
267 /usr/src/bin/ksh/proto.h
420 /usr/src/bin/ksh/sh.h
1161 /usr/src/bin/ksh/shf.c
82 /usr/src/bin/ksh/shf.h
897 /usr/src/bin/ksh/syn.c
231 /usr/src/bin/ksh/table.c
183 /usr/src/bin/ksh/table.h
420 /usr/src/bin/ksh/trap.c
708 /usr/src/bin/ksh/tree.c
141 /usr/src/bin/ksh/tree.h
57 /usr/src/bin/ksh/tty.c
37 /usr/src/bin/ksh/tty.h
1210 /usr/src/bin/ksh/var.c
10 /usr/src/bin/ksh/version.c
2128 /usr/src/bin/ksh/vi.c
25214 total
Seatbelt is obligatory here (well, at least on a front seat), what are you talking about? ;)
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Yeah I saw his interview on usesthis.com back in June. I really love that site!
Wait for the iCar :)
this one is worth mentioning as well: http://gionkunz.github.io/chartist-js/index.html
It's true the update was released days ago, but that level of justification?
Not a native speaker either, but I hate typing in Pinyin on a touchscreen device (iPhone in my case). You have to get almost every letter right, whereas if you type English and miss up to 50% of the letters, autocorrect can usually still save you. I agree that Pinyin feels pretty much as fast as typing English on a real computer, though.

(German is also incredibly frustrating to type on a phone, as there are more ways to compose words than autocorrect could ever possibly know.)
Medicine has a long and illustrious history of self-experimentation. Barry Marshall (lives in Perth, my dad worked in the same lab!) won a Nobel prize for proving peptic ulcers are caused by bacteria (not stress etc) and can be cured with antibiotics. As part of his research he drank a culture containing bacteria from a patient's ulcer (yuk!), became horribly infected and cured himself with antibiotics.

Sometimes self-experimentation turned out to be fatal (see Carrion's disease for example).

Like the article says, I am very grateful to the guy for putting his own body on the line... and I hope he too wins a Nobel prize!
This is awesome. Epic
You can also debug desktop Chrome with the devtools adapter.
Its shown in the video on this page: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/firefox-tools-adapter
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> Uber just had the right interface at the right moment

and the right branding and a huge amount of backing and a giant pair of balls.
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>easier contributing

Er... what? What's hard about contributing? You don't have to go through a web interface for everything? IMHO that makes it easier.

$ git clone git://c9x.me/ed.git
<do your changes>
$ git format-patch --cover-letter <any other options you want> <commits>
<edit the file if you want>
$ git send-email <the file>

`man git send-email` will tell you anything you need to know: configuration options, examples... If is well-written and straightforward!
Seems like the author isn't interested in public issue tracking (yet), and using Github wouldn't have changed that.

I, for one, celebrate that he's not using Github. I'm very afraid of the git == github trend I'm seeing amongst many people (technically semi-literate or even technical people)
"Writing gives me time to think and to edit and to find the odd word that eludes me."

That's great and all, but you're now just talking about you and your thoughts - the core of a publication, not the 'us' that's the basis of conversation.

You're talking about your needs and your comfort level. What about the needs and comfort of the recipient/reader?
There's also no good search engine for audio messages. This may be a big deal for businesses, when compared with email.
If we (fairly or unfairly) group Linux' LXC (eg: docker) and * bsd's jails, the main contrast with "proper" hypervisors (xen/kvm/vmware/bhyve(? That new thing in freebsd 10?) is (the possibility of) full resource accounting/limitation. Go ahead run you pi-digit-finder at "100%" cpu, pipe /dev/zero over an ssh pipe to /dev/null on some box and pipe it to a local file as well: no other vm or the host will notice. You only get 1mbs, x cycles of cpu and x mb of disk.

Secondly, assuming a bug in the kernel, one might assume root in a container can lead to root on the host. Bsd jails have been pretty solid for the last few years afaik - but hardware support for virtualization might still get more of both separation/safety and speed. There have been som bad bugs in (as i recall) the io system in xen, leading to similar issues ... but again the last time i saw anything on that was years ago.

Ymmv - generally docker doesn't have "run untrusted code, safely, as root" as a design-goal (yet, afaik) (not entirely sure about lxc, née vserver -- the underlying technology) -- so don't expect it to do that. Isolation and security (esp. without sacrificing performance) is very hard to get right. Or so a long series of privilege escalation exploits across many different os' seem to indicate.
Liar's Poker includes an anecdote about how John Gutfreund (CEO of Salomon Bros) challenged a bond trader called John Meriwether to a high-stakes game of Liar's Poker: "One hand. One Millions dollars. No tears."

John Meriwether went on to found LTCM. Liar's Poker provides some of the background and context for the story Lowenstein tells in When Genius Failed.
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I've been tinkering with NetBSD the last couple of weeks in a VMWare Fusion virtual machine and the RC system it uses it very nice. OpenBSD's is nice as well.
Haven't yet played with this, but every time there is talk of a new messenger, no one ever mentions WeChat, I guess it's just not that popular out of mainland China, but it blows whatsapp out of the water. If even for the very simple fact that I don't have to hit "Send" I just hit "Enter/Done" on the keyboard, more phone-based messaging apps should do this imo
That site is pretty interesting. There are some interesting articles about older PC unixes on there as well.
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As someone who's suffering from connectivity issues on a Lightning device, I have to disagree with your assessment of the iOS ecosystem right now.
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> The scoping rules aren't the same for the very reason you dismiss as an implementation detail.

Ok, this means that I need to learn some more about how scoping rules are defined and described, because apparently my current understanding is incompatible with the common one. That happens all the time if you're self-taught like me, so I simply accept this.

Thanks for discussion and the "scare quotes" term :)
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What are my real options?

I could write patches that reimplement the functionality that Gnome gets from systemd using lower-level functionality, in a cross-platform way. But those patches would be rejected; the Gnome project has decided to use systemd and would not want to duplicate its code. If I were to maintain my own gnome fork I would have to convince distributions to adopt it.

I could write patches that add FreeBSD support to systemd. But those patches would be rejected - again, as a policy decision, systemd doesn't want to support FreeBSD. Thankfully in this case there is a fork, uselessd, but again, we need to convince distributions to adopt it or it's meaningless.

The claim that Gnome "independently" relies on systemd is specious; there was a lot of lobbying and politics from the systemd side. My only practical option is to counter at the same level, and lobby Gnome (and linux distributions) to make the political decision to move away from systemd.
> "the trend seems to be that all aspects of a modern OS are getting larger and more complicated. A little here, a little there, it all adds up and becomes a lot, everywhere. It's a sad trend."

Some hypervisor-based systems are moving in the opposite direction, with unikernels that reduce or eliminate the OS to run directly on virtual hardware: Cloudius OSv, HalVM, OpenMirage, Erlang on Xen.
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Folding fan -like circular solar panels by ATK were scheduled for NASA's Orion spacecraft, but at least for starters it's instead going to look just like ESA's ATV with four rectangular "fingers", since the service module is ATV-derived.

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/
The key words are 'more precisely.'

The point here is to keep adding significant figures to the accuracy of the verification to see if something unexpected happens.

Nothing unexpected happened here. But it's not unknown for duplicated/improved measurements to reveal new effects that need to be explained. E.g.

http://phys.org/news/2013-11-proton-radius-puzzle-quantum-gr...
Reminds me of the joyful early days of moving from grub to lilo. Grub was (is) more fragile due to being more complex -- but at least the grub shell gives more information than lilo failing at "LI"...

Grub always seemed like the improved features made up for the added complexity; I'm not convinced about systemd.
Actually, it was invented six years earlier by the British GCHQ, but remained classified until 1997.

One wonders what marvels are still classified...
The thing is that many of the advantages of a phone call (and in-person talking) over email etc are due to the very low-latency and the ability to quickly react to nuances and adjust what you're saying to reflect them.

A voice message basically does not have any of that.

Certainly it will have some advantages over text, but a voice message isn't a phone call.
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> Why aren't containers a good idea to use in production?

See Dan Walsh articles here: http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2014/09/yet-another-reason-...
Yes! What the systemd "discussion" has been missing is viable alternatives that are somewhat comparable in features. Most of the flamewar is focused on people who consider the problems that systemd tries to solve non-issues.

There are some real issues being pointed out (particularly regarding monolithic design) but no-one has attempted to actually fix that in any way (in code, that is).

While it is unlikely that I will end up using uselessd (unless it "wins" in some way, e.g. in embedded space with uclibc and musl), I very much welcome the effort to bring out alternatives that address the same problems as systemd, yet trying to fix some of the issues there are.
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Alaskan bush planes already have very low stall speeds (contests are impressive, they take off in under the length of the plane itself, and the best pilots barely get any roll landing) but that's a whole new level of crazy.

It's a pretty big plane too.
It's not going to work, no matter how much Ray Ozzie is widely admired (his remarks on Google Wave is really insightful).

Here is the deal breaker: here is no easy way to edit sound so far on phone, nor computer. It means no editorship, implies less or no control. Users demand control over their own contents. It's the ultimate user psychology.
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