skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand that conservative view, and while I personally feel that "not dying" is obviously better than dying, one can't deny that a lot of systems that underpin our civilization depend, implicitly or explicitly, on the fact that people generally don't live longer than 100 years. Therefore just suddenly making people not age (or age much slower) would likely cause a very bad disruption and possibly lots of suffering. This topic needs to be discussed and "detailed vision of what conquering mortality would look like" needs to be specified, but personally I don't think those issues are a showstopper, or something that should discourage us from fighting death.

> I'm not sure I agree with the idea that society accepts death and rejects accidents. Is the grief of accidental death really universally distinguishable from that of old age or illness? On both sides, you'll have anger/sadness it happened so soon, or reluctant acknowledgement that it was going to happen some day and we can't predict it or prepare.

The difference is that an accident is treated as an unnecessary death. After it happens, changes are introduced to improve safety and to make sure such accident doesn't happen again. Yet in case of aging, we're just accepting death and moving forward, and only few of us ask how we could make so that such deaths don't happen anymore.

As for your last paragraps - I don't think that longer lifespans will necessarily make people more risk-averse than they're already are. Why would someone choose a sheltered life having 1000 years in front of him and not choose such life having perspective for only 50 more years? I would expect people to start caring about (what we now call) long-term effects of decisions because the consequences would come within the lifetime of the decision maker.
Very good point. A professors job should be foremost to teach. Research and chasing fame should come second. In my opinion, universities have flipped this on its head. They've allowed and in some ways forced professors to relegate teaching to a level of "by the way". Students pay and go to university to learn from teachers, not to subsidize researchers. There's something very wrong when a University places more emphasis on research than in teaching students
Too many universities fail to teach and only use unreasonably challenging tests to filter students.

You know you have an exemplary teacher when his students start owning these crazy tests. This is what every educational institution should strive for. Teaching is an art, and this man represents the epitome of the art.
I like this play, even if it's 15 years late. Dell had a shot at being AWS and EMC put together in the '90s and 2000s.

I think if you're a large-scale commodity hardware integrator, and you look around, you say "We better have a cloud offering right now."

Most interesting to me is that you now might have two cloud providers which have a history of total focus on razor-thin margins, competing with a few that don't have that DNA at all. I think Dell could be surprisingly compelling at the cloud game with EMC and VMWare tech in-house.
Well, they've certainly found an exception to the rule that "if the title is a question, the answer is no."
Detecting shellcode over the network with scapy and libemu
It's interesting. I agree with you, and what I think about when I read your comment is that ARM serves best the role of decentralized computing in general (things like what you mentioned and a whole lot more), which brings up a bigger question: is there a larger role for decentralized computing in the future than there is centralized computing (server farms, cloud, etc.)? My guess is yes, and I'm not just talking about the "Internet of things", etc. With lambda architecture and data pipelining there is a good chance that these sorts of advancements (the advent of cheap ARM servers, etc.) and other changes in the ecosystem will mean a lot.
The whining about systemd seems never to get old. Is this on the way to become part of Internet folklore (like Gnu Hurt, etc.)?
If hard working students fail a test, the failure is on the teacher, not the students.

I highly doubt the majority of students at berkeley would be anything other than hard working.
Mine too!!!! Harbir Lamba at George Mason University called us all spoiled brat's, and said he hated teaching, and would much rather be doing research. There was no humor in his voice whatsoever. He really hated being forced to teach.
I have no dog in this fight, but his description lines up with my experience. I showed up at Cal in 2001 as a nerdy kid super-jazzed about math. I took Math 1A my first semester, and the lectures started with the professor turning his back to the class and proceeding to write proofs on the board for 90 minutes in indecipherable handwriting with little to no explanation. People would show up to class with pillows, no joke.

I got a middling grade (B+), but the experience was so bad it was the last math class I took. It took me seven years to fully realize my mistake and get back to working in line with my passions.

Anecdata I know, but at least one case where bad Cal math instruction derailed a trajectory.
Not again!

Why do you keep flogging this dead horse?

It's fundamentally flawed because there is no relationship between neighbouring / nearby addresses. Thus totally and utterly worthless as a location / navigation system.

Resubmitting it to HN every few months won't change that fact.
they actually can take, parts at least, of the sky from me...
1993? I see the relevance, but I think that's a bit dated. Even a math department Berkeley has come a considerable amount of ways from 1993. Back then I think she still had gender working against her
Yes, I was as surprised as you, but it was the mods that got in touch with me to add 'Show HN' to the title.

If you want skip to the demo:

https://asciinema.org/a/9oamaf6mv1oiycpqmqtbzriw9

Code is here:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-criu

Instructions here:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-criu/blob/master/README.m...
My original post is correct. APOE 4/4 is sensitive to dietary fat; high fat diets cause large LDL [0]. Further, fat causes atherosclerosis in APOE 4/4 individuals more quickly than others [1].

It would make sense that APOE 4/4 would have this effect, because it is the "defective" form of APOE. Individuals with APOE 4/4 do not clear oxidized fats from the brain as quickly as APOE 2 or 3 individuals.

[0] http://jn.nutrition.org/content/134/10/2517.full
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2674716/
Miami Speaks Out Against TPP and TTIP Trade Secrecy
> Maybe I'm rambling here, but the point is, how will removing death solve all the other problems that come with billions of autonomous agents with generally incompatible wills existing together in a single, inherently meaningless universe with (probably) immutable physical laws and finite time, matter, and energy?

> OK, so solving death is an incremental improvement, and thus may be worth it to some... but perhaps I've described a reason not everybody is going to be obsessed with it -- it's just one form of a vastly large general problem.

You answered it yourself. It won't. Removing death will just solve the problem of death. But having more time to live and study would probably be a big step in the direction of solving other problems.

> I also want an infinite supply of resources (for me, and for everybody else, why not), the ability to experience any scenario I can dream up with any people I want even if they don't want it, omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence.

Well, you can't get absolutely everything you imagine, but that doesn't mean it's not worth going after things you can. Getting rid of death is something we could get. Full omniscience and omnipotence maybe not, but a subset of it is something worth aiming for, and personally I am going to try. That's what science and technology is for - multiplying our power, both collective and individual.
Dell has maintained a relatively legit bond rating...this will certainly change things. Their cost of capital will increase, and I'm not quite sure I ne'er stand the strategic value in the acquisition... Why not just partner/jv it?
Yes they can:

pip install shutit
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit-criu
cd shutit-criu
./run.sh
My bad; I was just so into reading 'jolly cross' in his letter, I forgot just who was cross.

I have a mathematics degree, and I can say that most mathematicians I have known consider the math needed for most physics and engineering undergraduate degrees to be deadly boring. It's a rare math professor who enjoys teaching calculus year after year.

My university did not have this budget-grabbing approach from the theoretical math department; I think I can understand both the appeal of it, and the perils from the perspective of the department. 20 years after the choice is made to grab budget with large freshman calculus seminars, it makes sense to me you'd have a bunch of bad behavior and culture embedded.
Coward is the Math department. Calling the administrators members of said math department is a disservice to all of education.
The effects of tree nut allergies are acute and visible, but the effects of APOE genotype are chronic and insidious. Further, genetic testing is readily available and cheap ($99), so that the cost of determining whether someone should have a low-fat or high-fat diet is far outweighed by the benefits of:

a) lowered risk of alzheimer's
b) lowered risk of calcified deposits
c) lowered risk of stroke
Agreed, but what I don't understand is why poor people (who have trouble with fuel price) still buy so big cars.
I had her for a class a few years ago, and like Coward, she was an excellent teacher who didn't care for the norms of the department.
She was actually working on a new textbook at the time which was all about teaching the fundamentals of mathematics in a completely different way to give a better foundation for higher level mathematics. At the time, she had just taken a small group of non-STEM majors, and using her book, got them to graduate level math in just 1.5 years.
Sadly I haven't seen the book released, but one can only hope the work of these talented individuals will not be hindered by silly politics.
This reminds me of the movie They Live.
the bad ones are the super bright LED ones that, when suddenly changing to the next advertisement, make me think there's a cop behind me when it's humid [always] at night [half the time]
Correcting injustice by inserting more politics doesn't solve the root of the problem.
See my post below. How do you propose Dell stay relevant against the Quanta's of the world without an aggressive cloud offering that looks up to scratch with at least Azure? The business could easily be worthless in N years without this. I actually thought this was a smart plan, one I wouldn't have thought of until I heard the news.
Show HN: Someone saw you typing out your password? Quickly change it
You do know that Schrute Facts like http://www.quickmeme.com/img/72/725fc27cb2efcb89cbde96955e32... are a joke, right?
Do they accept earmarked donations?
> We have eliminated some diseases. But we have also created new, much horrible and powerful ones. We have discovered antibiotics, but that have also created disease causing agents that are resistant to them.

> When ever we change something fundamental, that has resulted in the creation of much bigger evil.

I disagree with the assertion. Sure, sometimes we screwed things up big time (e.g. climate), but sometimes the change really was for the better. For instance, even though we're facing super-germs, life is much better for everyone than before we had antibiotics. Sure, we may end up defeated by the resistant germs, but it's not certain - that's why we have to push science and technology further, develop new methods like bacteriophages, because we can keep up with nature and have it our, better way.

> I think this is because we don't have capability to see the whole picture. We look at a small portion of it and think. "hey, we can make it better". But ends up messing up the bigger picture making it grotesque. So my point is, this is not an easy decision that should be made so lightly.

That I will agree with. We often suck at seeing the bigger picture. That doesn't mean we're screwed, because a lot of things can be dynamically adjusted and fixed as needed, but it does mean we should be careful with significant interventions into established systems. Death itself, for instance, is something that underpins a lot of our social structures and systems, so it is something we need to be extra careful about, but it doesn't mean we can't, or shouldn't change it.
You know what the problem with practice is? It's maintaining the mental and emotional drive to continue to do it.
It doesn't create a fully functional remote control. All you can do is push content to a connected browser window. If the browser crashes, you'll need a keyboard or another remote access tool.

This tool is just a quick and simple way to make use of your extra screens. You can use a bookmarklet to make a webpage instantly appear on a screen, or with a tool using the REST API, you can make the screenshots you make instantly appear on an external screen.
Sao Paulo banned outdoor advertising a few years ago and most people there thought it was an improvement. Sorry for linking to Buzzfeed but this is the only link I could find with good before-and-after shots: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/sao-paulo-the-city-with-no-ou...
> Today's 'big science' grant funding model is so far removed from the average citizen or constituent, that by the time they see or feel the impact, it's hardly recognizable anymore. Because it's behind paywalls, or is too technical, or locked in IP, or anti-collaboration.

Fundamental research often has no direct impact on the public. If it does, it's often 10 or 20 years down the line. Fundamentally research is, by it's nature, removed from the impact it has. Nobody knows what the final results will be.

This isn't conducive to crowdfunding.
> teaching is nothing, research is everything

Teaching is nothing, research is nothing; grants, tuition, and donations are everything.

I don't know what's sadder, how far universities have fallen, or the fact that there's no sign that these trends are slowing.
Ask HN: How do you organize all the internet resources that are relevant?
Hi, How many of you face the problem of bookmarking all the different content and then retrieving them exactly when doing a relevant activity? Being a product developer, I read lots of content on design, coding, growth hacks and personal inspiration stories. I would be bookmarking say 10% of what I read, still I read or refer to only 5-10% of bookmarks(0.5% of all content i read), even though I may miss going back to those bookmarks that are actually very relevant to the tasks I am doing right now. For example I would have bookmarked a page that has list of all stock photos resources. But when am really looking for stock photos for inspiration or design, I might forget that I have this in 1000's of my book marks. Any one know of a bookmarking or content aggregation/retrieval platform that will help organize all the content, tools and resources that we bookmarked in and provide it in a way we could easily refer them when we need inspiration on those activities, or even suggest to us when we do a relevant task? (P.S - Have already tried Pocket). Thanks!
I'm glad they are cleaning up a lot and not worrying about making breaking changes. Elasticsearch has always been full of (to me) weird and obscure behaviour.

2.0 is mostly cleanup, and doesn't really bring any big new features. The change that brings most utility is the merging of "filtering" and "querying" into a single query DSL. This maps better to how developers think about search, and reduces the mental overhead of having to decide if, say, a boolean operation should use a filter or query.
How to Move a Windows installation from broken PC to a new one, using VirtualBox
> Oh, right, because you believe in a Harrison Bergeron-esque future in which everyone with talent is handicapped til they are at the level of the lowest retard.

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Because everyone who cares eventually tries to read great literature and you make it to Meditations which is a great read for a 20+ year old immersed in a culture that tells you to connect your self worth to the score others give you. It's a self-help read for people who don't want to consume for profit self help. It's counterculture.
How is it not? (In the sense that an introduction to geometry is also relevant today)
Ask HN: How can we fight the pesticide issue in my state
I am from Kerala, India.

Our state is having an issue with increasing amounts of pesticides residues in vegetables bought from local markets. Most of the vegetables we use, come from the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu. Today there was a report in one of the local newspapers that said 'We have been eating vegetables that contain highly toxic chemicals like Profenofos and Methyl parathion for a long time'. Two days earlier there was another report that said how the process of testing for residue was broken, because the process only test for the presence of approved pesticides for a particular vegetable.

People who own some unused land are starting to grow vegetables on their own. But those who does not own land, or cannot afford to do farming on their own, are left helpless.

Can some one shed some light on regarding how to remove these chemicals from Vegetables? Is there some way to diffuse/denature these chemicals so as to render them less harmful? Can a test be designed to check for the presence and concentration of these chemicals in vegetables (It does not have to be conventional, for example, can we put the vegetables in a container with some water, and say, after a day or two, put some small ant or insect in it and observe if it can survive).

Any ideas, how ever far fetched/extreme, is welcome...
The article is not about features, but about profits. But to your point about features: Follow the money. How else would Apple be making so much money if not by giving customers the features they want. That is exactly how they make money: features.

In Apple's case the hardware is a feature. Performance is a feature. Build quality is a feature - all of those things come from manufacturing. By controlling the whole process they can ensure quality from both the software and hardware sides.

You are correct that unlike Apple, Google is not a hardware manufacturer, they sell ads - but they are still trying to make money. It's just that they make most of their revenue from ads, and Android is a way for them to ensure they can capture the ads in the mobile space without being shut out by the iPhone.

But, how long will HTC, Huaweii, Nokia, Motorola be around making smartphones for the Android platform if they are not making any money ? Who will make Android phones without turning a profit ?

As for your quote:

> They make lots of money, but they don't dictate the direction tech is going.

I will offer this example:
- touchscreen phones ( find a smartphone that is not like the iphone)
I think a monoculture with respect to opinions about monoculture would be just as bad, yes, but it's not a terrible rule of thumb to diversify culture. You definitely need to be surrounded by all types of people... including people like yourself.
Not all forms of expression are considered free speech under the protection of the First Amendment. Political speech is the most protected (i.e. "Vote for Bob") and commercial speech, particularly advertising, is some of the least protected.
Maybe, they will transform from a hardware to a cloud infrastructure company. Because many companies are moving applications into the cloud and buying less servers or or just avoid or give up on custom data centers at all. VMWare may be the key.
It's my personal opinion, but I find optimizing games for fun directly makes them very shallow. In case of a sim game, I'd much prefer it to be hard due to an accurate simulation, than simplified to improve enjoyment. The former can actually teach you something, and you can also apply real-world knowledge to improve your chances.

But then again, I'm a weird player who likes things like Dwarf Fortress and considers Kerbal Space Program to be the best space game ever made.
While I'm flattered you created this account just to troll me, I can't help but agree.

Perhaps you've heard of Clarke's Third Law?
So, my concern about uploading my brain, is whose cloud service do you trust to run your consciousness? Google? Microsoft? Amazon? Facebook? Apple?

The level of trust that I'd require is pretty high. You could imagine it once again being relevant to check the pedigree of a company. Ideally there'd be a cloud provider already running now that is known for its trustworthiness. 'established 2013' might actually mean something one day.

My main hope is for indistinguishability encryption to reach the level where I wouldn't really have to trust the provider, but as long as you pay a significant performance penalty you're going to end up massively disadvantaged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
I didn't expect the google results to be quite so utterly worthless; I am apparently the only person to've called them that anywhere indexed, only on twitter, and I only found the tweet by googling 'avoiceformanchildren' (I was in a lovely mood that day, apparently; being a relatively moderate libfem turns out to result in ending up angry at basically everybody).

Dear Google: Please up your game to compensate for my stupidity -- love, mst

Dear wtbob: Doh, sorry. What rewqfdsa++ said.
Here are three projects funded by normal human beings. I'd love to hear your thoughts on impact.

http://experiment.com/snails
http://experiment.com/dicty
http://experiment.com/vanek
Twirrim: ARM has typically been more efficient, for both heat and power consumption, while losing out on computational power.

i_have_to_speak : Current ARM server chips are much worse than Intel chips on the performance/watt metric.

It's hard to square these two statements. It might depend on how you define "efficiency". If efficiency is the amount of energy to perform a calculation, I don't think ARM is more efficient. This paper from a couple years ago concludes that ISA is no longer a defining factor: http://www.embedded.com/design/connectivity/4436593/Analysis...

Separately, this is an excellent article comparing recent generations of Intel against each other, showing that although power use has been going up, "instructions per cycle" has been going up even faster, resulting in a net improvement in energy efficiency: http://kentcz.com/downloads/P149-ISCA14-Preprint.pdf
That's definitely not true in the CS department, at the very least. Lecturers in the CS department can get "security of employment" which is tenure in everything but name and, while I was there, most of the intro courses and some advanced undergraduate courses were taught by lecturers like that.

Of course, the CS department is in a different college (Engineering), has a different culture and, probably, way more funding than the math or physics departments, so there's plenty of reasons for it to be different.
> TPP, huge inequality, centralization, unemployment ARE NOT a consequence of free market capitalism.

They're not?! How can you say that? Did you forget to put a /s (sarcasm) tag?