skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mortality is the #1 bug of human hardware (with cancer a close #2). It may have been a feature a few thousand years ago, with limited resources, but it's now hampering our progress.

I don't want mankind achievements to be limited by our limited lifespan. The first 20 to 30 years are wasted on learning - almost like 1/3 of a average life. But with linespans in the 200 to 300 years, that would be 10% - and these added productive years could bring so many more good things. Imagine if Feynman and Einstein were still alive today, having new ideas, discovering new things. Imagine if we still learn during 1/3 of the lifespan - the amount of knowledge that would be acquired, and the marvels we could achieve with it.

For those who will lament on how this would be bad/capitalism/not respecting nature or (insert your favorite deity), nobody will force you do to anything. Die of old age at 90 if you want.

Personally, I want extended life or immortality to do crazy thing when I'm still young in my early 200 (or young again thanks to cures we can't even imagine at the moment)
"relatively benign"? These restrictions are terrible. Either the policy makers are being purposefully malign, or they have zero understanding of the progress currently taking place in automated transport.
Looks like a fairly well put together language.

A few things that were not explained in the README:

Why did you decide to create your own programming language?

> every type in Vivaldi inherits from Object (which in turn inherits from... itself)

What was the reason behind making Object inherit from itself?

What is the largest program currently written in Vivaldi?

edit: It looks like the first commit on github is 22 days ago, did you make the whole language in 22 days?
Wow, that is so much better that despite its pdfness we've changed the URL to it from http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mamikon/VisualCalc.html. Thanks!
The title got changed. It said "How a rebel psychologist..."
Easy. Just pass a law requiring immortals to take jobs constructing orbital habitats after they reach their 100th birthday.
Didn't you say that you used feature branches? If so, that was a case where Gerrit failed and you had to use git in an almost normal way.
If you're not a fan of debuggers, you haven’t done Acid

http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~apolze/LV/plan9.docs/ac...
It sounds like they have no physical access to their infrastructure, and cannot remove it from the network.
No tinfoil needed for the explanation: they're pretty fat targets with code security at the level of normal startups.

It would be interesting to see how much they get targetted in comparison to startups that can at most spill some personal user info and cc numbers.
Never heard of this before, but it makes sense. Does it work well for you in practice? Are you not worrie your product is made a loss leader, driving your share to zero?
The last set of addresses under the DDoS part of the page resolves to Google's crawlers.
I'm a gloomy American and it's typical for me to make friends with Slavs, but I'm not really a "fast friends" kind of person.
Depends on how they spend their effort. Couldn't most of the unique bits be delivered as additional packages to debian, installing all the extra bits? Then it wouldn't be very much "unnecessary" effort on the way to the system they want (no shipping of packages already available etc)
Yeah, people without experience writing secure financial code and not understanding financial risk management are opening bitcoin exchanges.

Even the way they handled this breach is amateur hour. From the post, it doesn't look like they've involved any authorities or sought out legal counsel to protect themselves.

Imagine if your citibank or chase account doing this. People would be in an uproar.
It's all on Github. Also, I blog at http://taoofmac.com, but this week I haven't had much time to write about the cluster itself.
I _really_ need to understand, why the hell do you guys have such weird emotional allegiances to linux distributions?

Do a ubuntu minimal install and install openbox. In one fell swoop you've created something at least as good as crunchbang! Holy fuck!

I can understand why the l33t skiddie does it; they're anal about spending hours making their desktops shiny and tricked out with chinese cartoon backgrounds. I just expect a little more... productivity from hn.
We didn't. I've added a question mark to make that point.

Thanks for the link to the not-entirely-obvious dupe.
I wonder if this is related to the loss at http://bter.com/ ?
It's all on the About link, on Github :)
Always reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323
a currency whose value is underpinned by drugs and money laundering may attract criminals you say
There is such a company: Viskogen or viagroforestry (sounds like spam doesn't it) They plants-trees-as-a-service. In 2013, 4,118,064 trees were planted

http://www.viagroforestry.org/what-we-do/agroforestry/
As the only planet on the solar system with stable bodies liquid and atmosphere, this is got to be the ultimate frontier in exploration.
Climate Wikience – 3D visualization and analysis of gridded environmental data
As a Northerner living in the South, I will tell you that Northerners are painfully conscious of how they treat and are perceived by others and try to minimize their impact on other people. Southern Hospitality is mostly fake and really more about trying to size you up and figure out details about your life (but yes, in some areas people will go way out of their way to help you out with stuff).

New Orleans residents are outliers. They are far and away the friendliest people I've met anywhere in the US, but at the same time it's a tourist economy and everyone seems to have a hustle. Much love for New Orleans.
What about the laws the operators of the exchange broke by running un-audited code to handle financial transactions?
These are all common issues with people that came from a different CVS and didn't learn what was different about git. They just learn enough to reach parity with the "everything is linearly developed" workflow.

When you live with that assumption, things like merge commits and pull requests seem silly and overkill since you live in the "patch is developed/reviewed in isolation" world.
But are the customers willing to pay a significant premium price for the development effort of NASA-ized exhange?

If the answer is no (and I suspect it is), then incentives are aligned so that putting extra effort into security is something an exchange operator should definitely not do.

All of this is also assuming (on faith) that the business model is actually running an exchange, as opposed to a hack-blaming racket.
Send me one, thanks.
Show HN: iFlix android app instant torrent streaming for android
>What you don't seem to understand is that our media is "controlled" by a free market.

What you don't seem to understand is that you're arguing against yourself.

On one hand you decry the increasingly mainstream "Russia Today"'s alleged partiality. On the other hand, you use an appeal to economics to dismiss Western media's pro-Israel partiality. In other words, the manipulation of discourse by Israel-partisan Jews is excused via free market economics, yet, Russia's national media outlet---created by way of the market with Russia's wealth---is dismissed via appeals to ethics... ethics which Western media itself fails to practice.

Gentile-controlled media outlets such as Al Jazeera and Russia Today can no longer be dismissed as "fringe". Indeed, the West may be just one more WMD-war away from a widespread loss of trust in Western, Israel-first media.
When I trained as an actor I learned the curious phenomena :

Happiness leads to smiling and smiling leads to happiness.
Yeah, "We noticed the hot wallets dwindling but assuming it was members moving their funds off site during the DDOS, we loaded all the cold balances onto the site"

sounds extremely suspicious.
I know of no database products that write 128-byte blocks. Most are at least 2KB, if not larger (SQL Server and pgsql are 8KB blocks). Yes, you could conceivably imagine up some hypothetical situation that would be bad for an SSD, but it is incredibly unlikely. And when I say 100GB of writes, I mean, literally, 100GB of writes, which in actual source data is generally much, much, much, much smaller.
"I am a Libra of Libras" - I could have stopped reading there.
"...the interview was over and I was leaving the room. As I shut the door behind me, the committee erupted into laughter" - of course they did. He probably had just told them that alignment of planets made him suitable for the job.

Relevant SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3634#comic
> The key to faking a real smile is in wrinkling the eyes.

The wrinkling is not a very reliable indicator of fake smiles [1]. A real smile does indeed involve muscles around the eyes, but wrinkling could be caused by the cheek muscles pushing upward too.

Some more indicators of a real smile are, IIRC
- curling corners of the mouth
- corners of the eye pushing inward
- short duration
- it starts and ends smoothly
- symmetry

[1] Source: Having recently read "Telling Lies" by Paul Ekman (and that was a HN recommendation too)
Assuming such laws apply to them, and assuming they broke them, "so?". Their guilt or innocence does not have any connection with any investigation of somebody hacking into their systems.
... running a financial institution on servers you don't have physical access to, What is the worse that could happen?

Isn't physical access security like OpSec 101?
In Silicon Valley developers are gods, in NYC wall street bankers are gods.
If you believe this, you shouldn't be handling people's money.

It's not just about losing the bitcoin, people running these exchanges may be personally liable.
I wonder how options stack up against just getting a higher salary, gathering all the extra money and taking it to the casino for one big spin?
Didn't Will Smith study computer science before he got into acting, music, movies, etc?
The Lamdu project I'm working on is in Haskell.

Our build system for a large C project at work is written in Haskell.

Various other tools we use (cgrep, resolve-trivial-conflicts, etc) are in Haskell.
It's the configurations that kept me on it for so long! Things just worked out of the box and it was amazing. I did a minimal install of arch + the necessary components once (and a netinst of Debian too) but it wasn't the same because my configurations never went deep enough. I always ended up getting frustrated having to do it all myself.

These days, I just use virtual machines when I need Linux, but I'd switch back to Crunchbang if multi monitor (one output from motherboard, one from gpu) worked better.
If known, this would allow the easy generation of arbitrarily large prime numbers, which would win you some cash prizes.
Maybe in applied math. In pure math that question would immediately reveal you as an outsider.
Xiaomi coming to the US
Android does the right thing for a transient GUI client program on a device with little memory. HotSpot JIT does the right thing for a (long running) server program on big, dedicated, hardware.
I haven't heard anyone mention it to me explicitly. Can't hurt though!
"...not simply introduce you to the authors' preferred language"

Heh, but that doesn't work either ^_^. Sussman was the co-inventor of Scheme and still loves it, Ableson I don't know, and don't Felleisen et. al. love the syntax and Scheme at least to a substantial degree?

(I don't know anything about Racket, Felleisen and company essentially ended up doing a drive-by shooting of Scheme with R6RS, leaving a very bad taste in my mouth about them, their technical judgement and skill, language aesthetics, etc. ... but I gather I should look at what they've done.)
TLDR; The fantastic Apple Car is most probably a fantasy.

The sort of money that apple has come to expect just isn’t in the cars business. The new employees are probably working infotainment systems. It would have been wonderful if Apple produced cars though.
Someone is a rockstar if they are good at what they do. They make the job seem easy, always does things properly, and frequently wow you with their brilliance and ingenuity. Around them, there's constant motion.

Management will consider you a rockstar if you make them look good, help them win politically, look the part, talk the talk, and feed them the BS they want to hear.

Hiring managers and recruiters will say they are looking for a rockstar (which they'll try to make seem like the first definition) and call you a rockstar if they're trying to hire you in for a crap role, and think stroking your ego and bending the truth will get it done.
How to Start a Successful Food Startup – From Farmer’s Market to Food Empire
Fetch pull request from a fork on GitHub
If it's a matter of tip, then I'd say you should check Google Material Design [1] and Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines [2].

User Experience is a complex thing and people spend years studying what it takes to create good design and experience. Well, unless you have natural talent that allows you to feel it.

Anyway, check those two links above. They will tell you main guidelines which would help you to create simple, but at least not ugly app.Besides that you might want to check websites like Dribbble.com or Behance.com for inspiration.

[1] http://www.google.ru/design/spec/material-design/introductio...
[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
SWIM: A Membership protocol for distributed systems
> its impetus is clearly not really to make the world a better place or to solve serious problems affecting many millions (billions?) of people but to

Are you suggesting millions (billions?) of people don't have a problem with death/cancer/dementia? Because that's obviously incorrect!

What do you think would happen if top research scientists lived longer and maintained their intellectual capabilities?

What would happen if people stopped thinking so much in the short term, because they expected to face the consequences of the more distant future?

What would happen to the resources that are currently being spent on diseases of ageing? Heart disease, cancer, dementia.

How much wealth would be created by an increased number of experienced people working?

Resource allocation to lifespan/healthspan doesn't seem zero-sum. Despite the temptation to create a dichotomy, there is none!
Please don't mistake any of this as defense of Java, I think the Java language is an inexpressive slog (though for my money superior to Go, the lack of generics really is that much of a problem when you write modular and composable code where the HTTP server is not the IPC layer). I use Scala or JRuby when I use the JVM, except when I need to know exactly what the compiler is going to be spitting out, like when writing performance-sensitive code. This is rare, and I think the last time I wrote any Java at all was in a Google interview where they wanted me to juggle byte buffers. I use Ruby for things I don't care about or where a type system actively works against me. I use Scala for things I do care about or where a type system can help me. I use C++ for things where a garbage collector is antithetical to my purposes. (I have some hope that Rust will be a good candidate to replace both of the latter.)

Though, food for thought: I have written a fairly decent amount of Java in the past, and in what I would consider "modern practice" it has very little to do with XML. With Play, Dropwizard, and similar, you have no obligation to put up with something like Spring herpderp anymore. Or even Maven; SBT or Gradle are fine.

.

Anyway--what grinds my gears, and why I posted at all, is that I have noticed in the Go community--not, I hasten to mention, enneff, as he said I think he and I are probably more in the space place than not--a really weird unwillingness to credit other environments for anything, whether from stubbornness or ignorance. If I can speculate--and I can--I think that comes from two places. I think one is the origination of many Go advocates being Python and Ruby, which are both former new-hotness ecosystems that themselves don't encourage breadth or depth in the programming languages space; in the Ruby community at least Java is often held as this inscrutable "enterprise" thing that can't possibly have any real benefits, and I feel like that's leaked into Go. The other is the cultural origination of Go in Plan 9--Keith Wesolowski's views on the second-system effects of Plan 9 and the epistemic closure and cult-of-personality effect of its developers and community are good ones and I don't need to repeat them here.

Right now, to me, Go is a mishmash of Java 1.3 and Java 1.4, right down to the overuse of green threads and the too-simple type system that forces you to trade safety when you want code reuse. And that's totally fine for people who like it. But it's nothing special, and the breathless hype around it from people who plainly haven't gotten their hands dirty with what came before makes me want to boil my head. Or their heads. After all, I like my head.
I don't see the outrage over this. Bitcoins are just sequences of ones and zeros. How can anyone "own" information? And how do you "steal" a bitcoin? Doesn't the exchange still have its copy of the bits?
What did I just read? This looks to me like a grab bag of random bits and pieces from mathematics and a bit of philosophy. Where is the link between the points and to the title?
I'm not an astronomer, but presumably a satellite would still have night to contend with. Anything orbiting the earth is going to spend half its time in Earth's shadow, right? I remember a Radiolab [1] where they describe the ISS going from daytime to nighttime every 45 minutes.

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/242184-dark-side-earth/
I'm deducing an Eiffel and design-by-contract influence from this, for some reason.
It's a sensible solution to the issue, from a distance. Then there are realities like this:

"Today, medical-journal editors estimate that 95 percent of the academic-medicine specialists who assess patented treatments have financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, and even the prestigious NEJM [New England Journal of Medicine] gave up its search for objective reviewers in June 1992, announcing that it could find no reviewers that did not accept industry funds.

Source: https://theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma/#.VOD... [2011]
1. Mainly for fun! Languages are pretty complex, so I got to learn about number of things (e.g. recursive-descent parsing, closures, Ruby and Python internals) in making it, and it's pretty rewarding watching programs run successfully.

2. Mainly that, because of the way objects are defined in the C++ (in value.h), it had to inherit from some type. I could just fudge it and make it inherit from nil or something, but there isn't any particular downside to the current system, and it has the added benefit of ensuring that obj.type().parent() is always successful.

3. Nothing much beyond a few test scripts (ProjectEuler solutions, etc) at the moment. Since there isn't a C API yet, it's pretty hard to make anything that requires networking, GUIs, etc., so adding that is near the top of my TODO list.

4. I might have started a few days before the initial commit (I can't remember ATM), but more or less, yeah.
Maybe it's all in the Cloud?
I know, it's crazy that the US government even allows anyone to possess paper money these days.
In japan they ask you for your blood group on job applications
All the inventions in robotic automation and office automation has given huge improvements in efficiency the last decades, and will continue to improve efficiency. It's only appropriate to let workers have more spare time.
> It's not just about losing the bitcoin, people running these exchanges may be personally liable.

The law is still very murky here, and there are plenty of ways to deflect responsibility.

I'm not saying any of this is right, I'm suggesting that the way our culture and infrastructure is laid out, running a shoddy (perhaps conspiratorial) business might actually be the optimal path -- and that's where we need a solution.
why mutable strings, why ?
Wait, you bought $2K worth of shares, the company is successful, and the shares are worth nothing? How!?

It's not directly relevant to me as I don't have options, but I suddenly feel like I don't understand stock again.
I'm more concerened with a rocket launch failing spectacularly when the payload includes a nuclear reactor.

Has anything like this been attempted before?
Yeah, but mostly focused on keeping bad guys out, not making sure the good guys can get in. (E.g. hving your servers in someone elses data center is probably more secure than trying to secure them physically in a startups office, but means getting to them is harder for you as well)
Interesting. Does this effect wear down?
If quantum-entangled particles exist (they do) you can use them to coordinate in a way that's impossible within a "hidden variable" model of the universe. You can dig into this by searching for "bell's inequality" or "bell test experiments", there are a few different experiments that have been done many, many times. There's a pretty good Veritasium video that explains one such experiment in non-physicist terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c
I did it for 2 years. I had a studio apartment in Hayes Valley (no roommates). It's definitely doable.
It's not clear to me why the Riemann hypothesis has to hold for the value to be known.
using women coder to write/lead team to write critical code. This is the result.
60k is what an experienced teacher makes.

Who do you want to teach your children? Would you want them to live in your community?
1. Create exchange

2. Realize its not going anywhere

3. Close citing a hack

4. Profit! go laughing all the way to the bank with the "stolen" ahem ahem bitcoins
http://lesswrong.com/lw/ph/can_you_prove_two_particles_are_i...
I did some research on salary/equity grants last year and published a blog post on the subject. The dataset was most Silicon Valley job postings on AngelList (at that time). Based on my data, $60k salary is very much on the low end (i.e. 10th percentile of salaries). .5-1% equity may or may not be low-end -- it definitely depends on company size. That said, you will almost never see >1% equity once you get past the first few hires (except for VP roles).

Post link: http://codingvc.com/analyzing-angellist-job-postings-part-2-...

Edit: You are right that compensation is generally lower than for non-startups. To be fair, a lot of people look beyond compensation when pursuing startup jobs. They're looking for more ownership, less bureaucracy, a chance to learn, a chance to form very deep personal and professional relationships, and so on. And of course, there is the equity lottery ticket (which usually doesn't end up being worth very much..)
My only concern is overpopulation. What about that?
They even proudly announced that it was build "Built on Golang from the ground up."

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2loray/a_new_bitcoi...
I worked at a startup that was bought by google and my options weren't worth anything. Strike price has to be pretty low for things to turn out well for you.
"...We fixed the caching issues with the trades and moved forward"

Caching trade info sound like a bad idea. Atomic and transactional operations directly to the ledger so integrity is easier to achieve sounds like the way to go. A caching layer gives basically speed at the cost of simplicity, not sure if I'd like that when running a btc exchange. Am i wrong?

Of course we don't know the exact nature of those "caching issues" so my comment is highly especulative regarding the nature of that cache.