skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I wouldn't bet on it.

For every guy attempting to "live forever" I see a guy scared as hell of death. That is, a person that has left the realm of the common living humans a long time ago.

Brings to mind Michael Jackson, sleeping in an oxygen chamber and doing who knows what to avoid disease et al - and then dying in his fifties. Or Howard Hughes, the list is long.

Of course death is kind of scary, but being scared of death in that way is not healthy (first and foremost psychologically). It's more important to live (fully) than it is not to die.

If the "cure for death" comes, it won't be through BS individualistic lifestyle experiments such as this, it would be as a scientific breakthrough, like the cure for various diceases.

I also dislike the "screw you, I'll outlive you with my money and my access to stuff" inherent element in this.
You make a good point, but what I was aiming at was that people shouldn't have to threaten to leave to get a pay rise, it should be a discussion. Threatening is a hostile move, not a negotiation tactic.
Bitcoin exec to spend two years behind bars for Silk Road transactions
I agree 100%. I think marketing is the most important thing with almost any business. My rationale is I'm not going to get better at it while writing mindless code. The best way to get better at it is to market products, right?
> the first instruction after a reset is fetched from FFFF:FFF0

I trust you that this logically will certainly be true, but: what memory will that access to ffff:fff0 be mapped to if the "bios" in my PC is stored in a SPI flash that certainly can't be connected directly to anything resembling a "address/data-bus" in a modern PC...
The headline, here, should be:

"Founders Fund is investing in a number of biotechnology companies to extend human lifespans."

This is a useful and interesting piece of information.

Thiel's belief that's he going to buy his way out of being hit by a bus tomorrow is silly and it's really hard to not make wise-ass comments about it...
They blocked this event: https://www.facebook.com/events/417200101767938/

Somebody quickly created another one which gathered followers twice as quickly [1]: https://www.facebook.com/events/406603402849183/

Since there are no organizers, if this one is taken down, people will create a new one.

Finally, there's a website redirecting to the newest unblocked event in case current one gets blocked: https://15.navalny.us

[1]: http://leonwolf.livejournal.com/554179.html
4 Visual Testing Capabilities You Didn't Even Know Were Possible #applitools
Kudos to Davis, I'm a big fan. Writing TempleOS: amazing. Writing TempleOS with the dog or bird background noise you hear around 5:00 in the video: more than amazing!
Moreover, you have to eat some kind of sugar, or you'll die.
It seems like Sony did a lot of stuff wrong in the end but instead of owning up to the mistakes are going to claim that it was a terrorist attack on their syste .
The open source initiative (OSI) was the organization that originally promoted open source (as an alternative to the FSF and "free software"), along with certifying licenses as being "open source". Perhaps it's a generational thing for those that weren't old enough or weren't paying attention in 1998 - they even tried unsuccessfully to trademark "open source" to avoid the sorts of confusions with what Atlassian (or even Splunk) have.

That said I'd say the problem with the OP thread isn't even about "open source", it's about misunderstanding copyright vs. patents.
Sure, wine will get some sugar inside. Basically if you let the wine ferments without any intervention you will get less than 1g/l in it. Some winemakers will intervene the process end will ends up with about some amount in region of 5g per litre of sugar for red wine. This sugar content is then split to few groups of sugar, notably fructose and glucose. I am not knowledgable of Paleo diet, but I guess these non processed sugars will be ok for them.
I frequent a private music tracker and use their related artists feature, as well as their top 10 list. For me, it is the purest, simplest form of discovery. Other services are too flashy, complicated, or ask for too much of my personal information.
This feels like a Nagle-esque[1] issue (maybe delaying actions until a buffer fills, for example?)

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/06/...
I think the title change was in poor taste here. Most people don't really care about this issue for a browser in of itself, but the mailing list dialogue made the link interesting.
Only anecdotal evidence. I spent half a decade building Learning Content Systems for the assessment model I describe. But we used it to teach Certificate 3 in Carpentry and other building related trades. It worked VERY well. We won many national awards. But it is my belief that this assessment and learning model could be applied to most subjects. Checkout https://bluedogtraining.com.au/ if you are interested learning more about what we did.
Is this what a midlife crisis looks like for a billionaire venture capitalist ?
Dogs have had success detecting some forms of Cancer early:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/training-dogs-to-sn...
I disagree, and I very much disagree with the assertion that I would be missing out on "a lot" of talented people. "Talented" and "excellent contributor" are not the same thing. I would much rather put in the effort to recruit someone who is very good that will stick around for 2-3+ years and contribute versus a genius that sticks around for 12-18 months. This comes from experience.
It's pretty easy to prevent muscle loss.

Exercise, with weights.
Third party support is still available. Many people with secondhand Cisco equipment, but no contract (and therefore no CCO login) rely on their own network of contacts to share things like firmware updates with them.

After I terminated my employment at Cisco Systems, some of my departmental coworkers started a consulting business to provide services related to the products that we used to work on, including maintenance services that duplicate and compete with professional services offered by Cisco itself.

I'm also earning a living as a thirdparty support provider, but not for Cisco products. All of my customers have been denied support by the original vendors for economic reasons (can't afford it) or corporate decisions to discontinue support. In addition to my own experience operating and reverse engineering the products I support, I have benefited from corporate leaks of documents and binaries as well as being passed material from paying customers.

I even generate licenses on my own for products that aren't sold anymore, without permission of the original vendors, but they know about it and haven't requested that I stop.

Therefore, I am certain that anyone subject to a government embargo would be able to procure these services from a third party or hire a local hacker to take care of these things.
do you know how many rich people in history have tried this?

this goes back to the days of the Pharaohs and probably beyond.

good luck to him, and yes perhaps what science learns helping him can one day help us all.
Keep in mind that electric vehicles will get cleaner over time (as more electricity is generated from renewable resources), whereas gas-powered cars will not.
Has anyone looked at using VTd to secure Thunderbolt devices from the system bus?
I'd much prefer the venture capitalists of the world to pursue what seems to be impossible over figuring out a better way for me to share photos.
Why aren't you looking for a new job? And if you had years of industry experience, why did you take the low salary? I feel like this is more a reflection on your passiveness rather than the bigCo. If you want more money and a better job it's up to you to go get it, you can't wait for your paymasters to pat you on the head and throw you a bone.
The term you are looking for is "Source-available".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software#Open-sour...
Did I say I was male?
Has he "come out" one way or another WRT pituitary hormone levels?

If the levels are unusually low, then medically monitored treatment to raise to normal levels appears to have no negative consequences, only positive ones, at all, at least with a short examination of wikipedia. Even boosting up to a bit on the high side of normal is probably medically sensible, if the patient has symptoms that correspond with excessively low levels.

There are bro-science uses, for weightlifting and some other things, which seem to cause significant health problems for people who overdose. Its rather like insulin, if you're chronically low you're in big trouble, but if the stuff were widely available OTC you'd have idiots overdosing on insulin all the time because if a little is good them surely an immense amount is many times better. that doesn't mean proper doctor supervised use of insulin by diabetics is inherently wrong, just because of a little bro-science that isn't relevant to an individual's medical treatment plan.
So, let's say we add an additional 26 year old millennial to every household that's owner occupied (that 65% rate you cite).

Does the home ownership rate go down, along with that absolute and percentage increase in the number of people who don't own a home?
Is it narcissistic to want to avoid early death? Presumably you look both ways before crossing the street.
Good list, I'd also recommend http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf for something designed for newcomers to the field
I believe that the two year old Option ROM vulnerability to which this post refers was this one described by Loukas(snare) at Black Hat and Ruxcon 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcFvgAsfdqg

Although I may be wrong, it's certainly a related vulnerability and an interesting presentation to watch. Skip to ~54mins if you just want to see the demo.
Evidence that a phase of matter competes with high-temperature superconductivity
If I recall corretly, the access is mapped to the SPI flash chip which is memory-mapped into the CPU address space by the chipset. Access to this address range is of course relatively slow, but that's always been true of BIOS flash.
Homeowners aren't benefiting, they've underwater on their mortgages and are selling for pennies on the dollar. It's Blackstone and a number of other clever players who've been at this for years [1].

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-14/blackstone-s-home-b...
Based on what you have said, I think that you may want to try to change your position at the company. If the company is growing quickly then there are probably positions in the company that will exist soon or were just made that can provide you with very useful skills and knowledge. You may be able to do other things during the day instead of coding, which will probably reduce the amount that your work is taxing you, allowing you to work on side projects more. You may not want to move into a role with responsibilities that aren't programming but as others have said the knowledge and experience you gain during growth is crucial to success, which you will learn even if the company doesn't execute well. It will also help you know what qualities you would like in a co-founder,if you want one, or how you should approach starting something of your own.
Did he say he was a 'he'?
> And yet the truly successful people have gotten to where they are by sticking to their beliefs

There are a great many "startup mantras" which seem contradictory at a glance:

1. Founders should insist on product excellence, but release early (be embarrassed by the first version).

2. Startups only die when their founders give up, but founders who don't cut their losses at the right time lose credibility.

3. [The one at hand...] The best founders are driven by a secret about the world that other people don't know yet, and yet good founders are never married to an idea.

None of those things are actually contradictory, though:

1. An MVP is not a shitty product, it is a minimal product (founders should be embarrassed by lack of features, but the ones that are there should work well).

2. Both statements are true, even if uncomfortable. Add to the list of difficult balances founders must achieve.

3. Both statements are true here, too. I suspect that the best founders are actually driven by a family of secrets ("hypotheses" in the essay at hand) and yet would not think twice about adapting them in the face of new evidence. (Your example of Darwin is a good one to consider here--he stuck to his beliefs because he had strong evidence for them, and he would have changed his beliefs had new evidence presented itself. The prevailing opinion of society did not factor into that process.)
Do you live in an area where there are a lot of programming jobs? If so, then go for it, having a boss that appreciates you is worth its weight in gold.

But also do due diligence on the company that he's going to. If it looks strong, then go for it.
The first failure of STEM education: statistics.

1. It says they don't work in STEM fields, not just their fields. My guess would be that the percentage would be much higher for people who don't work in their field, but in many cases it's still just a statistic.

2. There is no path for job growth in many STEM fields except out of STEM and into management. Most people staying in a STEM job for 20+ years find themselves under pressure to move to management, in part because it is somehow easier for companies to pay the salary in middle management than in STEM for someone with a lot of time in the field.

Still, some people just change their minds, or actually want to work in business or some field considered non-STEM, but do their undergraduate work in STEM. Additionally, many STEM fields require a level of specialization that usually requires an advanced degree or long-term work in the field to acquire that specialized knowledge. Many people get discouraged by this when they see their student debt and their lack of employment options after getting a Bachelor's degree, so, if they continue in higher education at all, they look at getting a degree in something else (like an MBA).
Perhaps the result is an average rather than the best result?

I wondered about this too so I tried it on my PC, though I had to make up my own timing code since the author doesn't say what he was doing. Results for me were more in line with what I'd expect, with both 4-variable cases being the same speed and the 2-variable one being a bit quicker. (All the data for the loop will fit into 2 or 3 cache lines so I don't think there's much chance you'll see any memory effects being measured.)

This is compiling for x64.
Much of the old Sony MiniDisc recording equipment is able to save audio from several seconds before you hit the record button. It's really easy to edit the recording afterward and place a track marker at the intended starting point. I don't think this kind of ring buffer is new at all.
I find the desire that anyone would be this obsessively preoccupied with the desire to live either forever or an extraordinarily long time unsettling, but what I don't get is why stop at 120 years? The scientific signs pointing to the idea that humanity will eventually be able to halt the aging process altogether are compelling:

First, there are species of jellyfish and lobster (among others) that do not age. The mechanism of chromosomal deterioration isn't there. There are even plankton varieties that revert to a larval state after adulthood. Additionally, there are many life forms that, whether or not they actually age, are thousands of years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organism...

In other words, aging is far more elastic and non-linear than first meets the eye.

And it's easy to understand why we evolved to age and die: Clearing out older populations leaves more resources for newer, fitter ones (in the evolutionary sense). Death became advantageous, but it's not, from a biological perspective, necessary.

So if you combine these two ideas together -- things don't really need to die but it just so happens that humans do -- does anyone really believe that technology won't find a way to beat the aging process, either by genetic modification or maybe nano-level chromosome reconstruction? At some point it'll be as "correctable" as laser eye surgery.

The implications of halting aging are staggering, earthshattering... there is not enough hyperbole in the English language to do it justice. I just know I don't want to be here when it happens.
International Law and Cyber Attacks: Sony V. North Korea
There is circuitry that translates the requests from the CPU into read commands to the serial flash. Depending on the system, this can be in the LPC-connected SuperIO, the southbridge, or on laptops more likely part of the EC (embedded controller) which is also connected via LPC. This is also why executing from the BIOS is slow - SPI flash bandwidth is in the dozens of MB/s range, and if it's going over LPC the max bandwidth on that is <16MB/s.

If you're really interested in this stuff the articles in the above link are a good read, as well as datasheets for the various chipsets involved. I'd recommend even looking at the original IBM PC/AT Technical Reference, with BIOS listings and full schematics.
Please delete this comment it adds nothing to this technical discussion and is just pure troll bait.
Incremental Plans to Improve Python Packaging
One of my friend was in the similar situation, I managed to convince her not to quit, so she got a developer to build the MVP and test the market. The idea didn't workout but she had her job and got promoted to much better positions.

So hiring someone to develop the MVP is an option you might consider.
Ask yourself why.

You want to do CS, prove theorems, do theoretical research? Then, by all means, go for it!

It's hip and you use a functional language to write software? Well... It's probably just a whim. But sure, give it a try.
A Columbia professor reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann
Is there a better source of that particular news item?
If it's only six months, stick around for the equity and the opportunity to be a part of the team as it scales up. That's invaluable experience. If you can manage it, put the pieces in place to get your idea off the ground by the time the summer rolls around.

Good luck!
>Brings to mind Michael Jackson, sleeping in an oxygen chamber and doing who knows what to avoid disease et al

While Jackson was interested in the idea of getting an oxygen chamber (and was pictured inside of one) he never bought one. Instead, he released the photos to capitalize on the "Whacko Jacko" meme, keeping his name in the press that much more.
Brazil.

But general stats on US jobs (not the TI industry stats) also show the same pattern.
"developed a hatred for the current education system"

You might want to take a step back and return to these thoughts once your hatred has subsided. I think you will then better be able to have an unbiased evaluation of the good and bad of multiple education options. Because right now you are going to far to a totally different extreme, which can be ripped apart just as well as our current model.
Despite downvote I do insist: sockpuppet does imply collaboration. And I do insist: the IRS is regularly used (with other capabilities) by American administrations to harass and discourage political opponents. This is not a contended fact and is very open to search and research.
If you're sick of it, find a new job. If you start something of your own, try going freelance first. It's far easier to sell and you can cut your teeth there. Definitely don't sink yourself into a startup that hasn't gotten any traction. You have to seriously tell yourself this will be your life for the next 10 years or so.

Unless right now one of your apps has like 400 followers/likes and not even an alpha to test, don't do it. But once you do, go nuts!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender#English

"Problems arise when selecting a personal pronoun to refer to someone of unspecified or unknown gender (see also Mixed and indeterminate gender above). Traditionally the masculine has been used as the "default" gender in English."

It's just proper English by traditional standards to use he when you don't know the gender of the person. People take it as some kind of an affront, but those of us with English training were just taught that way in college. Source: Minor in English.
Why not 121 years? What a quitter!
NSFW link. Although it is an informative Wikipedia article, it has a picture of a woman's genitalia.
The OLPC had a LCD that could either work as a backlit color display or as a reflective b/w screen. That always seemed like a clever feature to me (with clever design it might even be possible to have a higher resolution in this mode, using the sub-pixels for color mode as pixels)
Thank you guys! I totally love the idea of the monitoring tool made as simple as possible.
Ask HN: What is the best JavaScript stack for a beginner to learn?
I'm an experienced Rails developer, and I'm helping a friend learn about javascript frameworks so he can eventually get a job (we're kinda learning together). He was considering the MEAN stack, but with the announcement of all the breaking changes in angular 2.0, I don't think it would be a good use of time to learn angular.

It would be nice if there was a Rails of javascript, but there seems to be a lot of competing technologies. Obviously, you can learn new things at a new job, but it would still be better to learn something with a lot of adoption. I'm thinking a MEEN stack (using ember instead of angular) or even using react and flux. Meteor is another choice, but I'm not sure how widely adopted it is. I think it would be best for him to pick one stack and master it well before moving on.

It's annoying because, when it comes to Rails, I know exactly what skills a beginner needs to learn. Does anyone know what the more successful js bootcamps like hack reactor teach? Or do you have any advice on a good stack for a prospective full stack js developer to learn?
Any recommendations on where to find a competent developer for a MVP?
Fun with the Great Firewall
Holy crap, it shuts down when you yank the USB drive out? That's a great idea and somehow seems extremely cyberpunk to me. I'll have to install TAILS just to try that.

Treadmills have dead man switches that you attach to your clothing, so that if you misstep and are pulled backwards the treadmill immediately stops. Perhaps TAILS drives should have similar lanyards attached in case you get tackled. A front-facing USB port would be perfect.
Oh, the endless arguments of copyright vs. patents.

From my understanding of this, the author has no right to block any reimplementation of the algorithm in another language because he has released the code under a license that explicitly allows for modification (which says nothing that forces modification to be restricted to a single language). The reimplementation just has to keep the same license and copyright notice.

However, there seems to be a patent pending for the algorithm. If there is an actual patent, he has not actually given anyone the right to use the code or any modifications.

You can reimplement it, but you can't run it without the author's permission (i.e. patent grant).

EDIT: On second thought, one might argue that since the code was licensed under BSD (which says "use in source or binary form") by the patent holder himself, he has given an implicit patent grant to everyone that uses it or modifies it in any way.