skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, let's get the freezing thing out of the way. Modern cryonics doesn't freeze, it vitrifies. Very important difference. The difference between freezing and vitrification is clearly explained for the layperson in the Alcor FAQ:

http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/vitrification.html
http://www.alcor.org/FAQs/index.html

Now here are a bunch of economics and cryonics thoughts:

http://fightaging.org/archives/2009/06/cryonics-and-economic...

"I note that the cryonics community, rather like the diverse libertarian community, possesses a sizeable minority with a great (and I think misplaced) belief in the power of contracts - of words on paper. You see it in the constitutionalists in the US or the fellows looking for loopholes in tax laws that will enable them to escape the IRS entirely. Words on paper, however, have only as much weight as there are economic incentives aligned with them."

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2006/01/you-cant-take-it-...

"The trouble with property left undefended, as the ancient Egyptians and every other culture that buried wealth with the dead has handily demonstrated, is that no-one else's interests are aligned with yours."

http://fightaging.org/archives/2009/04/pastinate-everyone.ph...

"You might recall the recently voiced suggestion that it's something of an accident of history that the cryonics movement is the cryonics movement versus the plastination movement. Plastination is plausibly just as good a way of preserving the fine structure of the brain into a future where a patient can be restored to life as low-temperature storage."
There are examples of "mangling" which were successful. In Hungarian for example in the late 1700s a few writers have coined tens of thousands of new words. Today some thousands of these are so widely used that it's impossible to guess they were invented. Others failed and sound ridiculously funny today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_reform
Takes less than a second to load for me.
Disk Performance: Linode vs. Slicehost
If you're looking for people who like to learn and grow, maybe it makes sense to for them at a school. Just sayin'
It's a jab against the general case, below.

A lame, wasteful little script to print out a TODO list ;-)

(defun map-print (item list)
(mapcar (lambda (x)
(format t "~a in ~a~%" item x)) list))

(defun permute (list)
(mapcar (lambda (x)
(map-print x list)) list))

(defun languages ()
(destructuring-bind (response headers body)
(trivial-http:http-get "http://mahmud.arablug.org/languages.txt")
(when (= response 200)
(loop for line = (read-line body nil nil)
while line
collecting line))))

(permute (languages))
The revival idea is, at its core, this: cryonics providers are communities as much as business entities. They are trying to establish (a) technology for ever better preservation, (b) a community that will continue across generations (success so far), and (c) the means of restoration - in more or less that order of priority. Though some groups are more focused on (b) than (a).

The revival will be accomplished by the community once it is possible, not some third party, because this is just as much the established goal of the cryonics community as preserving people in the first place.
It's on debian too: http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sl.html
New developments in AI
One of the scientists from this adventure spoke at my school.

Apparently, one rocket fell, and the plutonium came crashing back down and landed a few feet from the island in the water.

water = absorb radiation

Or something like that.
A related project is clpython. I think lisphp can be a funny way for people using php to learn some dialect of Lisp. But in the end, there is glue with C code for example FFI to get speed.
Ask HN: Do you want to learn about game design?
>> If you want to know who a person really is like

I don't know about you, but the way I do that is strike up a conversation with said person.

FWIW, I follow a number of people whose primary programming languages I don't use.
Same largely applies to "classic" ASP and VBScript. You can write fairly well architected systems in that environment, but you have to discipline yourself to do it; the language won't really help you.
Many times, I have been stuck on a programming problem at the end of the day. Many times, I come in and solve it immediately first thing in the morning. This leads me to believe I think more clearly in the mornings. Anyone else have this happen?
I love Forrst, but I wish my public posts could be seen anyone even if they don't have an account.
It's about 100 little things...

I can take a photo/video and share it via email/youtube/facebook etc.

I can use any mp3 as a ringtone

I can have different ringtones for different things - sms/email/facebook

The browsers handling of windows is better - js doesn't stop running on background windows.

The level of detail in things like settings - battery usage is awesome. The other day my battery ran out in an hour, and I checked and found it was the facebook app using it all.

Tethering / wifi hotspot is awesome - I'll be using it when I'm on holiday.

Also syncing with contacts / calendars is great. Maybe you can do that on the iPhone easy enough, but it didn't seem like it. Now my wife just adds things to our shared calendar and it shows up on my phone.

As with everything though it's probably best to just try one for a week and see if you prefer it. I sold my iPhone 3G after I'd tried android for a day.
I've found that I read a lot more on my iPhone/iPad/Kindle because they're all more convenient than lugging around paper books and I have one or more of them on me all the time.

I don't find myself reading slower than with paper, but I definitely do find myself reading more in general. That is a huge plus for ebooks in my book.
Online Task Management
Producteev will help you manage your tasks from wherever you’re comfortable working : E-mail, IM, Web, iPhone, Gmail, Google Calendar
It is an online task management tool that serves as your full Productivity platform (Task and Project Management, Files Sharing, Internal Communication and Productivity Apps Aggregation).
Maybe so. I don't want to jailbreak a phone, don't want to have to install things to be able to work with it. I just want the thing to work properly :)
I know that lots of people here are interested in using game mechanics to increase their sites' stickiness for users. I thought that some of you might be interested in working together through a game design course to help understand why games work.
What is the question?

The issue I have with the school-is-useless line of thinking is that the underlying assumption is that the dropout is a Good Will Hunting autodidact whose genius is confined by the educational system, and is shrewd enough to realize his educational ROI would be higher if he taught himself.

In reality, dropouts and people who don't go to school are often just people too stupid, lazy or psychologically messed up to accomplish anything.

The brilliant self-taught definitely exist, but in my experience they almost never spend time posting to online forums about how school is a waste of time.

This is coming from someone who dropped out thinking he was a genius autodidact and then went back to school when he realized he was just being stupid and lazy.
It's interesting, but one of the big draws of Pandora is the ability to like/dislike a song and have a station get more and more tailored to what I like. This seems to just be a random sampling of indie stuff.
s/entirely/also/
It will happen once it's possible because that's their current goal?

I can imagine the (already small) amount of interest in cryonics would greatly diminish in the future if aging is ever cured (and I think curing aging will be easier than bringing back the dead). Once my own survival is assured, why should I give a damn about the "cryonics community" and a bunch of frozen heads?
I was more looking for a more complete IDE because I am not very familiar with javascript and JQuery and hope it would make looking up available functions easier.
Just in case you feel left out:

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Cowen isn't the kind of partisan that Krugman portrays in his op eds. (For that matter, I doubt Krugman really is, either.)

Some quickly googled examples of Cowen agreeing with or praising Krugman:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/04...
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/12...
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/03...

Many more examples can be found of partial agreement, e.g. http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/02... and http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/03...
Or, perhaps your brain is unconsciously working on the problem overnight and the solution is presented to your conscious self the next morning.

I used to try to reach a "clean" stopping point before quitting work for the day, until I was advised that going home with problems outstanding can have benefits. It does seem that even if I'm not actively thinking about such a problem, I will have fresh perspectives the next morning.
I'm pretty sure checking the "Public" checkbox makes them visible to the public. You just need to give them the link.

Or did you mean comments on public posts?
How about this?

Monday is the 'merican mnemonic.
Are you seriously like that?

ETA: Shouldn't it be obvious that severed heads are human in a circumstance where they can be restored to life?
Thank you, and they can — like stevelosh says, there is a checkbox when you add or edit any post that allows anyone who knows the URL to see it (sans comments, though).
Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever typed "sl" instead of ls. (In fact I had a great deal of difficulty correctly typing sl there.)

Hypothesis: the typo "sl" is only common among left-handers.
What thinking?
I expected this to be a tiling window manager, probably for OS X given the capitalized name.
Should we trust the wisdom of crowds?
What I know is that ideas about usability, layout, functionality and design differ between cultures.

Think about interior design and architecture, for example, you'll find different cultures look at those differently.

> These lines killed your last paragraph, they are completely baseless

They just reflect my hunch. You are free to tear them down.

Also, you are arguing a general point by providing a small sample of your acquaintance (i.e. "well, my couple of friends use Apple, so see there are some Chinese using it, there it has the same appeal to all the Chinese exactly in the same way as it does for all the Westerners").

The reasons I listed are in order of importance. I still maintain that piracy is the main reason. The other reasons are just wild guesses.
or you solved it at night and only remembered the solution in the morning
Restricting yourself to Pure Lisp is like insisting on only dating virgins.
There's a lot more discussion at the earlier submission of this story ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487982
I get up with an alarm clock; therefore, my day begins with a sense of soul-crushing obligation.
Ask HN: How To Start Angel Investing Now
Hi All,

So I have a question. I'm looking to start investing in a couple of startups and found AngelList thanks to a blog post linked to this morning on Hacker News. I was disappointed to find out that I need to be an "accredited" investor to join. The easiest requirement to meet it appears is having a net worth of over $1 million.

I sold my company in December and have a few hundred thousand in cash but won't have a $1 million net worth until my first earnout date this coming December. Is it possible to start investing before that date? I write a popular blog and get A TON of startup pitches every day but it sounds like it could be difficult if I'm not SEC Accredited.

What should I do?

FYI ... this is the page detailing how to become an "Accredited Investor": http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm
> First, how would this energy be liberated, and would that be more energy than it takes to run a diamond anvil cell?

Are you asking if they've violated conservation of energy?
This is terrific! The scope for "multitouch" is really exciting.
Even better they could have assigned some devs to create dpkg and apt options to output stdout data in a structured format (xml for ex) to facilitate this kind of interaction. Bazaar has that for example.

The downside is that that could significantly slow down the application, depending on the types of queries and commands that are performed.
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I have a very snappy comeback to that one but I highly doubt it will pass the censor ;)
I've also found scheduling to be the biggest issue with a daily rhythm != 24hr. Mine's about 28hr as well.
Fortunately I work for a small bayesian-oriented marketing research co (15 employees, I am #6) with some very accommodating founders.
The biggest hurdle is making sure I keep the team up to date on when I plan to be at work/working from home. It's not always easy to forecast my sleep schedule.
Let me guess, you've got a flash blocker of some sort? The game audio uses an intermediary layer of flash, but doesn't timeout if flash fails to load.
That you sent this on the evening of a major USA holiday, about when people were most likely to be away from computers, may account for the dearth of upvotes/responses. I don't think it would be wrong to repost in the middle of a work-week.

As it seems at least part of the inspiration you seek is professional in the computer industry, it seems the SF bay area should be a definite stop on your trip. (Though, if you do have any connections in other cities, I wouldn't rule anyplace out.)

There's always something happening around the SF bay area, but you might want to make sure your time overlaps with some conference or event of special interest. Using event-scheduling sites like Upcoming/Eventful/Meetup, centered on the city where you want to travel, may reveal best times to visit. Business/conference/product-launch activity picks up September-November, the time after summer and before winter holidays.

Once your timing is a little more firm, another post asking about things to do and people to meet in a specific city, and specific timeframe, is likely to get a larger response. Lots of prior threads of the form, "I'll be in city X in a few weeks, what tech/startup/hacker things could I do, who could I meet, where should I stay?" have gotten good responses.
Seems to me 'morning' people tend to get less sleep in general.

I've read that early morning or sleep deprived minds are in a sort of pseudo-hypnotic state, more susceptible to suggestion, able to absorb information easily and less likely to become distracted. Obedience and banality are traditional paths to success in the workplace.

It's crazy that almost no schools have quiet places for students to nap. Yet one can spend ten minutes on a bowel movement, or thirty minutes eating. Rest somehow isn't seen as necessary.
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2010/07/wake-up_call_on_t...

Sleep deprivation is an effective means of torture.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/04/in-a-2005-memo/
Apple's respone to iPhone 4 antenna problems is unacceptable
> First, how would this energy be liberated,

Hopefully some other way than just by taking it out of diamond anvil. If not than this is much less interesting although at least of some interest.

> and would that be more energy than it takes to run a diamond anvil cell?

Do you want to get more energy than you put in? Did you thought this through?

> Second, isn't this similar to making a gun that shoots bullets faster than ever before, and calling that "second only to light-speed?"

I think if this material can hold more chemical energy per unit mass than any known conventional explosive material then it's something worth noticing.
People are seriously like that, yes.

Maybe people will get revived if and when the technology exists to do so, maybe they won't. It would be a bad idea to rely purely on the kindness of people whose culture may have very little in common with our own, though.

Heck, if I get frozen and woken up in the future I'll give you two to one odds that I'm either a zoo exhibit or a slave.
Ask HN: I am designing my first commercial website. What should I keep in mind?
I have designed a few websites for college fests and relatives.
Now, I am doing my first commercial project and planning on a design in HTML, CSS3 and jQuery. The primary requirement for the is to be visually appealing. The content is videos uploaded regularly.
What should I keep in mind? Any pointers, checklists ?
`[sudo] port install sl` works too, if you're still on MacPorts.
America has significantly more than double the number of native English speakers of England, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, etc... combined. Unless you're arguing that speakers in the US somehow count for less than people elsewhere, it's actually the UK & commonwealth going against the grain. Canada is a bit of an exception, using US spellings at some times and UK spellings at others.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/File:English_dialects1997.png
A startup should create this storage device. I would buy it.
Now I fear my first encounter with a HTML5 enabled commercial banner app even more.
And that still hasn't stopped the Perl 5 community from feelings of inferiority (see http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2010/03/perl-5-is-dying-a-f... for example), and more importantly it hasn't stopped Perl 6 from being built. Which is a shame, because I would much rather have seen something like Perl on Rails, or in any case work going towards building on all the stuff already there in CPAN instead of duplicating all that work in PHP and then Python and then Ruby and then maybe even Perl 6 sometime this decade.
Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power (2009)
I'm not arguing which one is better or original or anything. I simply don't know enough Spanish or enough about it; just expressing which one I think sounds nicer.
Apple App Store and iTunes hacked say reports
If it is not currently able to do effective economic spying, it soon will be (once this legislation is in place).

China is hardly the only country to do economic spying. It's more the norm than the exception. To claim otherwise is either naive or disingenuous.
The question was not: "Would you prefer the nuclear bombs be blown up in space or here on earth?" There is no "rather", just the question of whether we want to be blowing up nuclear weapons in space.
I heartily agree, I usually separate my day into 2 cycles. I was raised like this... I remember the entire family taking a mid-day or afternoon nap as far back as my memory goes. When I don't have other day-time commitments, I typically wake up around 5-6am, but then will take get the other 1/2 of my daily sleep around noon.
Apple iPhone4 Success Masks Global Strategic Challenges
It's a noble gas, not a Nobel gas. Alfred had nothing to do with it... ;-)
Krugman did in fact-along with other economists-predict the housing bubble:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E4D61039F...
Grouping Krugman and Cowen isn't so bad; they're both professional economists, academics, and popularizers, though Krugman is more activist/hyper-partisan.

It's where SkyMarshal equates Cowen's professorial objections to Andy Grove with Glenn-Beck-ish punditry -- another nearby comment -- that I think he really goes off the rails.
This has been around long enough that it was on the old Solaris workstations I used at my last job. Except on the Solaris boxes it actually made a very loud and obnoxious steam whistle noise to go with the animation, just to make sure everyone in the office knew that you mistyped `ls`. Turning down the volume didn't even work because it specifically sent the audio to the hardware speaker securely located inside the case.

Needless to say, I quickly added `alias sl=ls` to my .alias as soon as the embarassment subsided.
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What I would expect is that once given an assurance of survival for a longer period of time, people would become more sensitive to death and thus feel more moral duty to bring cryonauts back and treat them with dignity.

If nothing else, cryonicists certainly have motive to build a community which has these sorts of values.
O(10^25) = O(1)
Thanks for the link; didn't know about that library.

A library that is also recommendable: gRaphaël, http://g.raphaeljs.com/
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You are giving two to one odds on humanity completely losing their moral compass then.

If that's the case, something is seriously wrong and needs to be fixed.
The Motorola A1000 was a touch screen phone with haptics back in 2006 - was a GREAT phone, was gutted when it died.
It's much more niche than Pandora, but I can see that if you like the kind of music it plays (mostly poorly-recorded very-indie rock songs of about two minutes in length, as far as I can tell) then you might like it better than Pandora, which has the downside that it seems to wind up playing a fairly small subset of songs on rapid rotation, at least in my experience.

Pandora aims to replace radio. This just aims to replace one radio station. Good luck to 'em.
I think the idea of Mixest is great, but I also don't see it as a replacement for Pandora or even something like HypeM.

It's great to have the serendipity factor, but sometimes I just want to listen to 'custom-tailored-shuffle' ala Pandora, rather than actively managing the playlist.

To clarify: I find myself distracted by skipping a song much more often on Mixest than Pandora.
You realize that most of Ubuntu's packages come straight from Debian, right?
The million is a serious milestone, but pageviews[1] are still a shallow metric.

I wish him nothing but continued success, and his advice is spot-on, but I also hope he'll care more for promoting things like the number of people an item has been re-sent to from current readers, effects of efforts to encourage repeat readership, or any other metric that comes from the actions of that community. Dig deeper and segment your numbers, its well worth it!

[1] formerly known as 'hits' before people who do web analytics for a living exposed it as How Idiots Track Stats.
My experience as a veteran game programmer/designer is that few classes teach much of use.

The reality is that game design is an art, not a science, and in general, like all arts, natural ability separates the good from the best.

That being said, I wouldn't mind following along if I have time, to try and throw wrenches in and be a devil's advocate.
That's a strange kind of doublespeak. A forklift is "just a tool", a knife is "just a tool", even a hunting rifle is "just a tool". A nuclear bomb is a weapon of mass destruction, designed to kill as many people as quickly as possible. I don't know about you, but I think that's bad. You might argue that it's a necessary evil to stockpile nuclear weapons and maintain the plausible threat that you're going to use them. I can't really argue against that. But calling them "just a tool" is in my opinion trivializing mass murder.
What time of day were those questions asked?
Reputation Patterns
The goal of getting 9000 readers to sign up for a newsletter which costs $2 a month is certainly ambitious.

The concept reminds me of http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan... where it's postulated that to survive as an artist, you would need a 1000 true fans.