skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The use of any specific number of years is, to me, arbitrary. Essentially this argument comes down to hoping to die before old age really sets in. I think for anyone who aspires to this mindset, it's better described as "I hope to live as long as my body will let me enjoy life, and not a moment shorter or longer."

Having seen every member of the last two generations of my family die while I was in my 20's and 30's, I find myself hoping I live as long as that mindset dictates. I also hope that lasts until I'm far older than 75.
Yeah, fair enough, I shouldn't have mentioned them (to be honest I listed them reflexively because the OP brought 'em up without really thinking about it).
for an open source (MIT licensed) engine that also works in Linux

http://www.godotengine.org/wp/
Vesper for iPad
UE4 even exports to iPhone and Android so I'm sure lower end computers will be fine.
The Start-Up Funding Gold Rush: A New Era for VC, or Just a Fad?
I use it for years on Linux already. I didn't even know on Windows Firefox wasn't 64 bit yet.
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Tanzanian here writing this from dar es salaam,Tanzania.

I have never hear of this "smile" company so i looked them up and their prices[1] seem ridiculous.

I use vodacom and i pay 20,000 shillings a month for unlimited internet.This company charges 17,500 a month for 1GB.

vodacom,like other companies also have more options[2].

Why do you use this company?

ps:
1USD is equivalent to about 1500 shillings so 20000 shillings is about 13USD

[1] http://smile.co.tz/products-services/

[2] https://www.vodacom.co.tz/internetservices/prepaid_packages/...
The Secret to Revenue Growth Using Testing: Radical vs. Incremental
I really wish I had that trait, but instead I have the exact opposite. I often need about twelve hours to feel fully rested, and even then usually require a coffee or two to feel productive. Some people suggested recently that maybe I have sleep apnea, so I'm planning to try a sleep study sometime soon.
Yup, agreed, my mistake.
Another possibility is that a higher income means you don't really need credit if you start over, so this is just rational self interest on both sides.

But that's just another hypothesis. I don't think the truth can be found with armchair reasoning; it requires data.
As does plain Google Chrome, at least on OSX. Open Dev Tools and click the 2nd icon on top, next to the loupe, which looks like a mobile phone. From there you can specify a set of throttling speeds (offline, gprs, edge, 3G, DSL, Wifi)
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"Users under the age of 28 who want the extra functions will be charged £3.99 a month, and those over 28 will pay £14.99."
"EDIT: Why the downvotes?"

Just a guess, but people might find your comment totally irrelevant to the posted article.
This does seem to appear in height data

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#History_of_human_h...

There is a fundamental mistake in assuming a "couple generation" linear trend will continue to infinity providing us with 30 foot tall men with IQs of 200+. We are probably at or around peak height and peak IQ right now for various rather obvious income inequality reasons, and we can expect both to decline in the future.

There is a coupling between womens pelvis size and newborn head size and medically assisted survival during childbirth which could provide some multigenerational effect to growth.

There have been a lot of arguments relying on generational inheritance of intelligence / IQ, however:

"As Flynn pointed out in his Ted Talk on the Flynn Effect, in 1900 only 3% of Americans performed "cognitively demanding" jobs - now the figure is 35%"

That would imply the percentage of humanity where cognition has no effect on their job, and presumably lifestyle, is at least 65% and has always historically been higher, as high as 97%, so an evolutionary argument for IQ growth seems extremely weak. It would be as if doctrine were peacock females select their mates based on tail feather size leading to large tail feathers, yet actual data shows 97% to 65% of actual living peacocks come from bald ancestors.
It's progress. But the real problem was that Yahoo got out of search. Search is the cash cow of the industry.
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By that I mean, no evolutionary pressure on intelligence. Of course a healthy upbringing will increase exhibited intelligence.
Yeah, I googled CDJ and then assumed antirez was part time DJ :)

Also interesting that he did all that great work in a MBA 11"!
Dunno. If I sleep more, I feel like I can’t give the appropriate amount of time to all of the routines I want to keep—exercise, work, personal projects, chores, hanging out with friends, and wasting time on the internet with a glass of wine. Splitting things between days makes them harder to keep as routines, for me.
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I've worked from home for over three years now, 100% of the time. Having done it and seen how big a difference it makes in feeling connected and involved, I can understand her rationale. It makes tons of sense for Yahoo specifically.

That's not to say a highly or fully remote team can't work. Clearly it can. It's probably not ideal for a sinking ship like Yahoo, though. You really do need all hands on deck, top to bottom.

Don't like it? Don't work for Yahoo. It really is as simple as that. I like the move, though, given their specific situation.
The syntax of go feels a little "expert", while the syntax of C seems more friendly and easy to grasp. I doubt anything will replace C if it's not as easy and simple.

System languages need to be stupidly simple and lack complexity.

One thing that could improve on C, might be very simple things like (immutable?) string as a native type, hashmaps, lambdas, etc. I would love to see some pythonic stuff into C.

Languages NEED to be simple if you want students to be able to learn them. That's what makes the success of C and makes it irreplaceable.

Although I would gladly something like Rust become relevant, if it's backward compatible with C ABIs, why not. But since ecosystems are already divided, I would like to see language dividing things even more.
I don't want to get any number. I want to have any number of throw-away accounts active in parallel on every device.

Just as with jabber, e-mail, IRC and every other open messaging technology.
I remember reading about the Flynn effect awhile back. Can't find the exact article, but this one [1] will do.
This quote really does it for me:

"The second factor is what Alexander Luria discovered when he tested rural Russian peasants in the 1930s. He discovered that pre-scientific people can't take the hypothetical seriously. That is, if you pose to them questions like, "There is snow at the North Pole; where there is snow, bears are white; what color are bears at the North Pole?" they would say, "Well, I've only seen brown bears. And only if a person came from the North Pole with testimony would I believe that the bears there are white."

It seems like the brain doesn't think abstractly when it doesn't need to, and for many thousands of years it didn't. The nice thing about culture and education is that it seems like more than just knowledge is passed down. Whole modes and ways of thinking, perspectives on the world that are useful and revealing now exist in the greater collective consciousness. We can't really measure this, but I think it makes a huge difference that there is this idea that everything in the world is not simply magical or arbitrary and that given the right tools we can figure it out. The idea that there ARE knowable underlying principles that govern the universe (even randomness!) completely changes the way that we think about the world.

1. http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/03/smarter.aspx
Indeed, doesn't work without Javascript.
No, it's just because comments like "IIS sucks" or "my webserver > your webserver", like, "my programming language > your programming language", or, "my text editor > your text editor", are lame.

I'm not an IIS fan, and I didn't downvote you, but only because you were already < 1.
The rebuttal to this is life-extension, but I have to say that's not something I'm looking forward to. First, a future with people living dramatically longer is going to be one with fewer kids, at least at equilibrium population levels. Second, it will slow-down social change and innovation. Even if scientific advancements can help people retain their creativity, anyone at 80 is going to be burdened by decades of assumptions. Imagine if the generation that stood behind George Wallace when he said, in his inauguration speech, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," were still the core of our body politic.

There is no higher social benefit to life extension, at least none that I can see. It's a uniquely individualist/selfish technology.
Yes humans are getting more clever, and I find it quite easy to see why. As times are changing, certain personality traits become more preferable, advantageous and then attractive.

More than ever is it attractive to be intelligent. We celebrate Intelligence like never before. Intelligence is more likely to lead to work/money/power, and people are more likely to seek mates that are intelligent.

Any trait that is preferable at the time, is more likely to lead to offsprings. Ask your local sperm bank.

I'm not saying I think it's the only, or necessarily the most important trait (Hitler was likely quite intelligent), but it is increasingly important, and therefore increasingly likely to affect the human evolution.

Human evolution is constantly changing us, and I'd say it makes little to no sense, to argue that our intelligence specifically, is not changing with it (for better or worse). But with our short lifespan, it might not change fast enough for some to recognize it.
Kind of crazy how little is known about sleep in the scientific community. The answer right now to "why" we need to sleep doesn't go much deeper than "because we get tired"
I think what this boils down to is an unwillingness to deal with hardship. It feels more and more like Americans are starting to avoid pain at all costs.
Ask HN: How to find a great web designer?
We are a SaaS start-up, with lean internal resources and great need for an awesome website. Requirements are simple: Wordpress, Mobile responsive. Looking for someone with great b2b SaaS portfolio. Any advise?
Their site reminds me of the nineties http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

What is with the Geico ad at the bottom?
I wonder if the author would have picked 47 as his number had he lived in 1900. It seems he's content with the advances that have increased life expectancy since then but feels it somehow inappropriate to shoot past 75.

As a counter-example, Frank Lloyd Wright was productive up to his final year at 92:

http://www.planetclaire.org/fllw/works.html
Google is slowly phasing out Google+
Dropbox starts using POST, and why this is poor API design
What's the goal with Passport? I'm guessing to match with potential dates before an upcoming trip or vacation? Will your match know that you're using Passport or will it be invisible to them?
Nifty, but unfortunately we're still kinda limited to 32-bit addressing in typed arrays. It'd be nice if JS had an actual integer type that went up to 64 bits.
As someone who commutes on the L train daily, I was really disappointed to see that this was actually a metaphor. I want a literal better train to Brooklyn!
I don't. I want to live for as long as I can, feeling constant pain, seeing new technology unfold and be extremely grumpy. I want to be there and help out my grandchildren with the wisdom of a lifetime. I want my grandchildren to take care of me and learn to be grateful for their youth.

75 is not that old, both of my grandmas are around/past that age and they are strong and clever as ever.
> This may be the reason XKCD has been so successful. By offering a comedic "buildup" which is insufficient to generate a "release" of hysterical laughter and all of the neurotransmittery goodness that comes with that, you are left trawling the archives for more and more humor.

I dunno about that. One of the things I appreciate most about xkcd is its whimsy. Seeing things from a different point of view, or having a bit of absurdity pointed out, is fun.
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As someone that has used both UE and Unity, Unity is far more restrictive in its free state (no soft shadows, forced Unity splash screen, no level of detail support, no inverse kinematics for animations, no profiler, and many more).

Also the Pro license for Unity is pretty expensive up front -- a few hundred for Pro and then another $100-200 for iPhone, another $200 for Android, etc and thats per month (or $4500 one-time payment for desktop + iOS/Android) regardless of how much you make with your game.
I could have those 3 hours back w/ a shorter commute...
Google confirms Android Pay: a mobile payments layer 'anybody can build on'
How to write a standard-like algorithm in C++
This author would have been 7-8 when "My Generation" (with the lyric "hope I die before I get old") was on the air.
Their site is great, does exactly what it needs to do.

Geico is a wholly owned subsidiary of BH
I gave up on TextSecure after I irrevocably lost several MMS photos that were sent to me :(
Samsung’s VR headset gets the first Oculus-powered
It has a system called Blueprints that allows you to use a node-based system so you don't have to write any code at all.

I haven't used Blueprints myself as I prefer their C++ option but I have seen a number of gamedev streams using Blueprints exclusively.
Is the source code actually free though? For example, could I redistribute the source code myself and not take any revenue from the people I distributed it to? Could I make some changes to the engine and redistribute it? How would the revenue sharing work if I did something like that and someone using my version of the engine started making money using it?

I'm glad there's another no-cost video game engine available, but I don't think it qualifies as free software in the Free Software Foundation sense of the word free. I haven't seen the actual license though, so maybe it is actually free. It would be awesome if it was.
I suspect you will still need to inspect, otherwise you don't know when to actually evaluate. Consider applying all of the arguments at once:

>>> partial(add3, 1,2,3)
<functools.partial object at 0x2b335e0453c0>
>>> partial(add3, 1,2,3)()
6

Note that you have to stick an extra () at the end.

You could maybe try to evaluate it and catch the error telling you that there weren't enough args. Both are kinda hacky, I think.
One thing I wish I was able to do in the Chrome tools is to set my bandwith and latency preferences manually...
Fraudsters exploit weak Apple Pay identity checks
Why would anyone want coroutines on preemptive multitasking hardware and operating systems?
I accept your points.
Peerio (end-to-end crypto app by the crypto.cat authors) covered by ZDNet
"But we've always had crappy design sense" is a terrible excuse for continuing to have crappy design sense.

Also, when one of the primary distinguishing features of a product is a touch screen enabled device, in my opinion you always have a reason to allow use of that screen for controls in game.
House Judiciary Committee tells FCC it will block net neutrality rules
Haha! I feel your pain...rush hour on the L is terrible. Sorry if the title got your hopes up :)
Why, me and my friends and colleagues, Chinese and South African and Ghanian and Kenyan are on github. I'm very offended you suggested only white people can afford to be on github.

That's not what I said. Go back and reread my comment.

You specifically mentioned "white males".

Go back and reread my comment.

You, sir, are racially biased.

You're a goddamned idiot who can't read.
All the core team really lacks now is the node.js label. Joyent's trademark seems weak, since the term was in prior use for commercial purposes well before they came along. A trademark challenge might be one possibility. On the other hand, name changes in other open source projects have worked out just fine.
Well, I think if you compare her to the previous string of unsuccessful CEOs, it's hard to see her in a bad light. So in the context of Yahoo I think she's done well.
This is inaccurate and has been spammed here at HN many times already
> Focusing on one part of the IQ test, the Raven's Progressive Matrices, they found that on average intelligence has risen the equivalent of 20 IQ points since 1950. IQ tests are designed to ensure that the average result is always 100, so this is a significant jump.

The problem is, that's about the only part that has risen. The limited number of subtests showing the gains has long been one of the big question marks about how the Flynn effect could possibly be about the underlying intelligence rather than an artifact (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect).

> This is a puzzle not just for the US, but for all countries demonstrating the Flynn Effect. "Does it make sense," Flynn wrote in one paper, "to assume that at one time almost 40% of Dutch men lacked the capacity to understand soccer, their most favoured national sport?"

This sort of point comes up often, but it's not a good point to make. The people discussing IQ tests typically have lived in a tight bubble their entire lives and have not meaningfully interacted with the general population. They typically have even less interaction with the populations of poor countries who might be comparable to long ago. For example, just today I was reading a Wired article which remarks offhand that "In some areas of the country, up to 40 percent of children under 5 are affected. The effects are mental as well as physical. A 2008 study by the National Intelligence Council found that a quarter of North Korean military conscripts are disqualified for cognitive disabilities". Flynn asks whether it's possible for a quarter of Dutch men at some point to not be able to follow soccer well; I ask whether it's possible for a quarter of North Korean men to be rejected by the notoriously voracious NK military because they are too stupid or mentally broken. The latter seems to be true, however...
Do you get much exercise?

For me, the more I sleep and the more coffee I drink the more tired I feel.

As soon as I throw in a bunch of exercise, I find I'm asleep within 30 seconds of hitting the pillow, and I'm awake ~5 minutes before my alarm after 8 hours, and I feel good.
The more exercise I get, the less coffee I drink too, until I drink none, which is when I feel the best and least tired.
To note: Emacs supports full terminal emulation too, with `ansi-term`. It's a little janky switching between line/char mode, but I use it as my default terminal.

Of course, if you use Vim, this looks great too! I just don't want anyone to be dissuaded from Emacs for this reason ;)
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The thing that I find particularly notable here is not that they stuck the key on GitHub, but that they are trying to subpoena GitHub for a list of everyone who accessed the gists in question. If allowed to do that, then that sets a precedent that's worth considering...
I don't have any experience on Windows, but here're my 5 cents.

>What I hate about unity is the whole interface editor thing, it's big and you must use everything to use it.

Unreal Editor is even bigger.

>...earth to earth when it comes to programming ?

~4k headers, they have their own build system. Using Xcode is not very fun, it's either indexing/compiling, or just waiting while the build system tries to decide which files were changed.

A powerful machine with SSD for Unreal is a must. Unity is not that beefy (thus responsive), but you don't get a powerful editor for materials, AI, visual scripting and so on out of the box.

Also guys at Unreal prefer new features over stability. Every release is a fight with bugs.
Not to pile on with the other replies, but I just wanted to point out yet another difference in the investment models. The BH approach, as I understand it, can be summarized as "Find a good thing and get a lot of it". They find what they consider to be sure things and make really big bets.

YC is just about the opposite. "Find extremely risky things that have huge upside, and invest a very small amount". Both models are great and have proven to be quite profitable. Though to me, YC seems to be much more altruistic. At least currently, they appear to be much more interested in helping people to start successful companies than they are making themselves rich(er). I don't know exactly what pg's motivations for starting yc were, but it looks like it was something along the lines of "Starting a company was a risky decision when I did it , and I want to help others to have an easier time than I did" as opposed to "Gimme gimme gimme money". As a result YCombinator and Berkshire Hathaway probably won't be in direct competition for quite some time, as they are optimizing for different results.
Do it. Seriously. I can't believe the change in my life since discovering (in my 40s!) that I've suffered from sleep apnea my entire teen/adult life.
1,826,163% growth in stock price is quite a performance...
Agreed that checks and balances are good, but the US constitution was written without large, permanent political parties in mind. Take the power of impeachment, the ultimate Congressional trump card against executive overreach. Why has no one seriously advocated its use during the last two administrations? Because history has shown that in practice it isn't a weapon for use by Congress against an overweening president, but rather by one political party against the other.
Beautiful UI Gradients
What do you mean by soft start?
Nintendo are really taking the piss. They waited so long to release a successor to SMB Wii, that some third party went and did it for them. http://newerteam.com/ Then finally they release the Wii U, and SMB 3D world. When I looked at the prospect of buying a Wii U, more controllers, more games, etc. and compared it to a cheap PC with SteamOS, I just couldn't buy the Wii U. Nintendo games are really great, but they are too few for me to justify paying so much money for a device + accessories. I am not a console collector, and I hope that I have bought the last console. In the mean time, Battle Block theatre will have to get us by.
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Reclusive FP is usssually the first example of the FP textbook, and is used to teach how elegant FP is from the beginnin jn spite of the fact that you should never write that (and who needs to write fib anyways). Inheritance is subtyping at the basic level: we all know a dog is an animal, and that all animals share a common ancestor. It is a crude instrument, especially in Java, and often can't be used, but not because the concept of extension is flawed in some ways. If you had traits/mixins, extension can be used much more widely.

I'm just as annoyed at the ideological "composition, not inheritance" crowd. The truth is, one has to learn a bunch of generalizations and then practice a lot to get it; good design is just hard to teach in a book.