skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're always present when crypto comes up and I honestly usually _wait_ for that opinion.

Now, let's ignore Telegram for a second. I haven't installed it, ever, but the feature set seems compelling and the UI (screenshots, demos) is nice.

Would you agree that the Better Stuff™ is just less usable and less accessible right now? Is there a way we can fix that?

If Telegram gets the UX right, but fails in the underlying implementation, can we take a decent implementation and fix the UX issues?

See, Moxie's solution just plain doesn't work. I'm sure it's sound and great, but .. it uses a phone number as the identifier (like WhatsApp, and that's not something I'd like to be compared with). What about my laptop or tablet? What about cross-platform solutions? I'm trying to migrate to FxOS as soon as they fix some mail related shortcomings. There seems to be a Telegram client. No (official) WhatsApp client and I doubt that most of the 'better' alternatives offer something here.

If we distill this post into one line: How can we have a decent user experience, without throwing out privacy and security?

What would be the best candidate to start from, because .. all of them suck right now?
Is there a process for making a fully static binary (say if I were to substitute an alternate libc, or provide my own low level wrappers for syscalls, or whatnot)?
Parsley: a simple language for extracting structured data from web pages
Yes I know, but not to do what you are implying. Specifically, why would farmers spray their non-GMO corn, soybean, canola, etc with Roundup? It would kill most of their crop/harvest.
Absolutely. There is something about the defeat of degenerative aging as a topic that causes people to fall off the rails of simple logic and common sense that they'll apply to every other type of medical research currently in progress.

The goal in the research community is health assurance, so of course every aspect of aging that impacts health will be addressed. The goal of people who are in the market for health assurance technologies will also be for all aspects of aging that impact health and function to be addressed. So it seems rather unlikely outside of dystopian fiction that we'll run into a situation in which everything except aspect X gets fixed.

This is especially true because the hundreds of distinct manifestations of degenerative aging are caused at root by only a small handful of distinct types of damage [1] resulting from the normal operation of metabolism. Effective treatments will be those that repair the root cause damage, each damage repair approach (and especially in conjunction with the other approaches) being capable of treating and preventing whole swathes of age-related conditions. So it would be exceedingly implausible for any particular aspect of aging to stand alone and unaffected by repair strategies for aging.

[1]: http://sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research
Eh? That's not even .45-70 ballistics, it would result in a trajectory more like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.45-70#mediaviewer/File:.45-70...

And a much greater environmental effect on the bullet, probably precluding the accuracy promised.

The 388TP is based on the .338 Lapua Magnum, I'd assume it's pushing 3,000 fps like the parent cartridge unless I hear otherwise. After spending some quality time with Google just now I couldn't find anything on the 338TP's velocity.
I largely understand what he's saying, in terms of misuse of the protocol. I think you're going to find those sorts of things being the case for any toolset, though. Given enough time, and enough developers, you'll eventually run into people using it an entirely different way than you initially intended, regardless of the specifications or documentation written around it.

One thing I'm not sure I agree with, though, is the mobile application "linking" he mentions. When have non-web applications ever linked? What of all of the old "desktop applications" that everyone used to use? Those don't typically link, why is there a different expectation for mobile applications? Oh, and most mobile apps do support linking (in some sense, though it's not really a primary feature). Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what he means with this.
Of course, but even with lisp you can't (programmatically) work on the code without having that code representation. If it's trivial, then there's no harm in opening it, but RMS thinks otherwise, so there must be something else.
> ... Imagine if there were 32 other generations to comprehend: you would have to be an expert in history to even relate to people.

This already exists, since history often repeats itself as cyclical philosophy/law overlaid on technology fashion. Social groups have varying technological and cultural capacity for intergenerational memory and finance.

As media technology for influence/advocacy/propaganda has become commoditized, what may appear as non-deterministic weather patterns of techno-socio-political fashion, could also be viewed as intergenerational economic warfare. Albert Brooks novel 2030 covers some of these themes in a future dystopia.

Imagine if 32 generations were concurrently using the same words, to represent very different questions, goals, values. Imagine if one generation was unknowingly influenced by 32 past generations, all advocating to be memetically reborn.
Imagine if 32 possible-future generations were advocating for the opportunity to come into sequential or concurrent existence.

> ... You would probably see different generations fighting for policy that favors them.

Historically, such fighting has been more physical than informational. The web, with sites like HN, move that balance towards the latter. If a corporation or foundation is immortal, how does the identity of that corporation change over time as constituent humans are gradually swapped out?

Here is a recent summary of policy advocacy using intergenerational financial capacity to influence single-generation humans, "..this book illuminates how elite consultants have adopted grassroots advocacy tactics for paying clients. Rather than being dismissed as mere 'astroturf', these consultants' campaigns should be seen as having real effects on political participation and policymaking", http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IO0E69E/
I started out my career at Fidelity Investments too! And after a couple of years, moved into the startup space.

I agree with many points here - you learn infinitely more quickly, you work infinitely harder, and this has given me business and engineering acumen far greater than had I stayed at Fidelity.

I will disagree with the overall tone that, when we are young, salary is less important. It is certainly true that many of us have fewer financial obligations, besides perhaps student debt and rent.

But I would always advise against joining a startup at significantly below market rate just for the equity. Even as a 1st or 2nd employee, you can only control the direction of the company so much, you're working just as hard as the founders, but the upside is a fraction of what it is for them.

(Let's also remember that you're typically not granted stock, but stock options. So if you have student debt, join a startup as a customer experience associate, you may not even be able to afford to exercise all of them when you leave!)

If I had gotten a job at Google after graduating (let's say I had applied and gotten in) my starting salary would have been higher, and that would have served as an anchor point for all future salary negotiations - for the rest of my life! I've probably left ~100k on the table over the past 5 years due to this alone.

Today, I still have few financial obligations, but wouldn't take an appreciably lower salary for any company until I start my own. I have enough experience now to be able to negotiate that kind of deal, but if I were to do it again, I would try to be a little smarter about this point as well.
They most definitely are, although I've never really seen the problem with taxation requirements for BVBAs or even NVs myself. (BVBAs are roughly Belgium's idea of Ltds, NVs are public companies.)
Estonia is trying to make this possible with their e-Estonia initiative https://e-estonia.com/component/e-business-register/
Russell is one author. The other is Peter Norvig.
NSNotification Debt
They use about 1/200th amount of fuel compared to current uranium reactors, so the amount of total waste is small.

About 1 tonne thorium per one gigawatt-year.

And the wastes they produce have a far smaller portion of long lived isotopes, because the reactor controls very well what substances receive neutrons.

Here's the best image comparison I could find.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAg4r-09gm0/TdZeWHzJWEI/AAAAAAAAAh...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAg4r-09gm0/TdZeWHzJWEI/AAAAAAAAAh...
I believe you can set up a company in Hong Kong online as a foreigner. Additionally, I believe that there is no corporate tax for Hong Kong companies that have no business presence or operations within Hong Kong.
And indeed the spec for 403 (Forbidden) includes 404 as a valid return code if you do not wish to reveal the fact that there's anything there:

An origin server that wishes to "hide" the current existence of a forbidden target resource MAY instead respond with a status code of 404 (Not Found).
This isn't terribly difficult to do with simple searching:

"has:attachment larger:20M"

Just use a search like above, and adjust the size down as you need to pull more items into the search.

(Not saying the chrome extension might not be easier, but sometimes you're at your phone and also might want to do this.)
Everyone who thinks that curing aging is a terrible idea should, in detail, outline the problems they foresee being worse than more than 100,000 painful, drawn-out deaths every day, along with a continuing population of hundreds of millions suffering continually from the most terrible and limiting conditions.

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html

"Once upon a time, the planet was tyrannized by a giant dragon. The dragon stood taller than the largest cathedral, and it was covered with thick black scales. Its red eyes glowed with hate, and from its terrible jaws flowed an incessant stream of evil-smelling yellowish-green slime. It demanded from humankind a blood-curdling tribute: to satisfy its enormous appetite, ten thousand men and women had to be delivered every evening at the onset of dark to the foot of the mountain where the dragon-tyrant lived. Sometimes the dragon would devour these unfortunate souls upon arrival; sometimes again it would lock them up in the mountain where they would wither away for months or years before eventually being consumed."
'Silk Road Reloaded' Just Launched on a Network More Secret Than Tor
"Caution: Shooting without the eye guard could cause injury".

Hrm. It seems the intelligence of the user base isn't high if warnings like these ("Caution, cup of coffee is hot") are printed on the expensive toy?
I have been doing Internet marketing a long time. Optimizing for rankings/position is a waste of everyone's resources for a number of reasons.

1. The keywords you want may be worthless
2. Google/Bing/Yahoo stopped sending the keyword data about a year ago (so you have almost no insight into what keywords did what

What is important is driving meaningful traffic. This usually means increasing visits that increase revenue.

Here is the hard part, besides ecommerce sites, most businesses do NOT track at the level needed to know.

Even if you educate people, there is a tiny set that actually care to track and an even smaller set that actually put in the effort to do so.

A lot of people still care about the vanity side. "I am #1 for <keyword>"

Pay for Perforamce marketing only works if you close the loop. And even then it's a hard to do and may not be best for everyone

To me, it does sound like your friend was a victim of fraud.
4 artists paint an oak tree
I've always wondered if the average human lifespan is somehow implicitly factored into interest rates. If people lived to 1000+ years old, a small investment made early in life could potentially balloon into incredible wealth given even relatively conservative investments. Obviously political and financial stability could have huge impacts too. I have to imagine multi-century-long held accounts would have an impact
You might also appreciate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPoAC
"A few months later they saw a competitor emerge in the market with an identical business plan and a website that was eerily similar to their own."

Yeah, it sounds sleazy. But even if the competitor wouldn't have gotten the insider tip from that other VC, what would have prevented dozens of competitors from copying that business model after the original company had launched? If that business really takes only a few months to get it going, it probably has a very low cost of entry which is not a significant hurdle to competitors.

Yes, being the first to market gives you a slight advantage, but not so much that it can assure your success if your competitors manage to offer a better product a few months later. MySpace preceded Facebook, but look where they are now.
$5M / week
Why would any commercial entity invest in things like drug development, crop development, etc; if the moment they actually bring something to market it's trivially copied and sold at cost?
> Specifically, why would farmers spray their non-GMO corn, soybean, canola, etc with Roundup?

Because it works even with non-GMO crops (always has).

> It would kill most of their crop/harvest.

No it would not. Not sure where you got that idea, but with Roundup-ready crops you can use more roundup without affecting the crops in a negative way. Roundup can - and routinely is - diluted before application.

Crops will naturally tolerate some roundup, the pests it is working against can tolerate less (or so you hope).

As pests become more resistant you need more roundup, so at some point roundup resistant crops will see a larger benefit.
Does that mean I don't have to flight to Hong Kong and file application there? All I need to do is submit some documents online? It would be nice if you can give some more information (ex: website, etc..)
He's talking about fuses for the low-current auxiliary circuits. From the title, I thought he was talking about fuses in the battery and propulsion system. Fuses very rarely blow for random reasons today. There's been some progress since the "Lucas, Prince of Darkness" era.

The high-power system uses fuses because, if things overload there, you want power disconnected reliably and you want it to stay off. Lithium batteries do not handle overloads well. Not at all.
The issue in the U.S. is that flowering plants seeds travel by wind. So farmer A who bought Monsanto seeds infects farmer Bs field, who then can no longer legally harvest the seeds from field B because they contain Monsanto IP. Not sure if this applies to crops in Ghana, but its true in the US.
So what was FanHero? The website is now redirecting to imhomeapp.com (their latest pivot, I suppose), and the article doesn't explain at all.
The funny thing is that as a large publisher, it's not links on news.google.com that we really care about, it's landing in universal Google search one-boxes as a result of being indexed in Google News - that's where the traffic really comes from.
You can easily set up a UK company online, but you won't be able to get a UK bank account.

However I was able to get my local bank to open an account for us when I presented stamped legal documents sent from the UK.
News website with assets for the taking
A local news website with valuable licenses to use content and IRS 501(c)(3) status needs a new captain. Has potential. Online six years.
I would happily buy a phone twice as thick as my current one in order to fit twice as much battery in it.
Enter a website. See how they built it
Here are my top 4:
1) Timothy Dexter
2) List of Sexually Active Popes
3) List of nicknames used by George W. Bush
4) Toilet paper orientation

It's just amazing what kinds of things people take the time to write about on Wikipedia. I wish I could remember some of my other favorites but my bookmarks got all messed up a while ago so I only have those 4 from memory,
Not copyrights, no patents, you'd rather everyone live in genteel starvation, illness and early death than let them be exploited by eeeeevil corporations?

As our friendly grad student in the C4 rice project discussion noted, 100 years of this sort of thing has made famine rare and lifted a billion people out of starvation (I knew the world had changed when I read in The Economist in 1982-3 that INDIA was sending relief grain to Ethiopia).

As for the "keep the third world under our heel and beholden to us", a lot of us aren't that Manichean and therefore your position falls flat.
You could argue, fairly successfully, that the existing medical system is oriented around extracting all money from people before and shortly after their death. Its a very common problem at this time. So at least its not unknown ground.
In the UK you can do it via Companies House for £15: https://ewf.companieshouse.gov.uk/runpage?page=welcome

Edit: Not sure about for foreigners though.
Weeklong Hackathon on a Cruise
That one is also in my all-time greats. It's 1/2 as long as the article on Capital Punishment, which you think would be a much more divisive issue.
Industrial One Armed Bandit (1968)
No, it is not true in the US, which you will learn if you read the rest of this discussion.
> it's not on any kind of tracking/stabilization platform that could make it independent of a human being

Maybe not out of the box, but mounting it on a motorized gimbal seems like an elementary exercise to me.
Yea, I like progress, but I don't like progress that hasen't
been thought through to the point of, "What will happen when
the component fails? Will the Technician be able to fix the
failed component--in a reasonable amount of time?". I see too many items being throw away because it makes no financial
sense to fix. I feel, as consumers, we need to ask for, and buy products that are able to be repaired. I know most people don't care, but some of us like to fix our cars, appliances, electronics, etc.. I don't blame it all on manufactures though. I remember
when I went to automotive school in the ninties. Saturn made
a conscious effort to make a vehicle that mechanics could easily work on, but no one seemed to care. Yes, Saturn was plaged by other problems, but I did appreciate the fact that
the engineers at least tried to build something--knowing that
components will need to be replaced, or fixed. For years, I
see this trend towards more gadgets(components that will fail) added to every consumer product, and every year these
products become harder to fix? I cringe when I see an automobile loaded with extra stuff that can break. I don't
think there's a mechanic out there that doesn't breath a little sigh of relief when a customer comes in with an older
simple automobile? The average person out there asks me why I keep that older
Toyota p.o.s. as a spare car. Mechanics never question why I keep my p.o.s..
I'm not sure how that could possibly be relevant when considering a holdiay destination. Is there a reason you bring it up, or are you just being an internet pedant?
Controlling Queue Delay (2012)
> My 20-year-old self didn’t consider joining a startup—or founding one—as a career option, but I hope you will.

I would think that the startup environment, and the job environment in general, is much different in 2015 than in 1993, which puts the framing analysis as a post-rationalization that's essentially comparing apple-and-oranges.

> And lastly, you will probably have to work long hours. But that wouldn’t have mattered to me in my 20s.

Isn't one of the primary criticisms of modern startups that they abuse naive fresh-out-of-college graduates?
This post adds 0 value. We already know this. What is an alternative? That might make for a more interesting read.
I'm afraid I'm totally unqualified to give any more information than can be found by searching the web.

It looks like you can do everything online and most applications are processed within one hour [1]. The minimum cost for a one-year registration looks like it's around 600 USD equivalent. My source for the statement about corporation tax is from PWC [2].

[1] http://www.investhk.gov.hk/setting-up-your-business/hong-kon...

[2] http://www.pwchk.com/home/eng/tax_hk_corptax.html
Thank you, this will be helpful.
Both my MacBook Pros have outlasted the MagSafe power supplies. As nice as they are--and even with careful usage--the cord has split at the base twice leaving the inner wires exposed.

I only discovered the issue when I felt a mild tingling sensation on my leg. Apple has let this issue slide for some time; there's over 2,000 1 star reviews on the Apple Store site [1]. This stands in stark contrast to the superb build quality of the MacBook Pro itself.

[1] http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC461LL/A/apple-60w-magsaf...
Yes, that's totally possible. You can write a kernel in Rust if you want.
I'm not sure, but i think the lamp wouldn't work anymore - it seems like the front and back metal strips might have different polarity.
You also need to make sure that having a foreign company will meet your requirements for why you want to have a limited company, under local law.
The roadmap is 15 years, but the project was funded in October 2008. With six years of work behind them, how far down the 15-year roadmap at present?
Agreed, although I'm holding out for 30 year old physique.

I would rather live 60 years in a 30 year old body/mind than 120 years in an 80 year old body/mind.

From my perspective, aging is a more serious problem to be solved then death.
Thank you so much for the advice and offer!

> ... you might not be coming across as awkwardly as you think you are ...
I have no doubt that I am.

> ... you can address both of those unspoken questions head-on ...
I honestly never considered this, but will in future interviews!

> If you live near Philadelphia...
Unfortunately not.

> Is there anybody non-technical that might help you? Siblings, parents...?

Unfortunately I tend to have family and friends that are overly critical in a really bad way. The last time I asked my mother to look at my resume I was berated for 30 minutes for being so stupid, not using my god-given-skills, etc (i.e. nothing useful but lots of hurtful). I don't even bother asking the guys in my family, they're far worse than my mother. My friends really are great friends in many, many different ways, but tend to be truly lousy at giving constructive criticism. For example, I told one friend that I was going to be building an JavaScript application. She instantly went off on the evils of Java, how Apple won't run Java, and didn't let me get a word in. When she finally finished her anti-Java tirade, I tried to let her know some of the many differences between JavaScript and Java, but until a couple of other friends started quoting from wikipedia entries and intro tutorials, she wouldn't believe me that they really are two different languages. (I promise, she has been a really good friend in other ways!)

I do participate in a ton of meetups. Would it be appropriate to ask a peer from a meetup group to be a proxy for an interviewer?