skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm a programmer, I know little about biology)

Another way to look at it is the information theoretic perspective: when organ X is damaged? what information do you need to grow it back? If X is anything but the brain (and maybe part of the spine), the information you need can almost always be picked from somewhere else (Stem cells plus standard human anatomy). We can't do that now, but in principle it should work.

But if you lose part of your brain, then it's a tougher challenge, because your personal memories, skills and more are stored in it. The only way to recover that would be to use the redundancy your brain might feature. Otherwise, it's lost. Sometimes, you cannot recover a code from a burned piece of paper.

Now, if your brain just suffers a terminal illness, but the information is still there, then healing you may be as difficult as copying your whole soul into a computer, synapse per synapse. (Or it may not: we do have way to slow down —not heal— Parkinson, for instance.)
Schematics for the chips are not available, but you can boot them without any non-free software or firmware. Which is why RMS prefers the platform coupled with gNewSense.
sure, no problem, although I dont recall when, but I stumbled upon it on HN as well :)
The stories behind a few O'Reilly "classics"
That has to be one of the most tortured opening metaphors I've ever seen in a tech news story. Could they really not come up with an analogy more elegant than, "This building over here is pretty big, but this building is REALLY BIG!!!!"?
I thought I will only give them my email address using Google login? I am appreciated if you can add more details. I am using my Google login everywhere and may not know the disadvantages.
Gotta consider cost. If the marginal cost per megapixel is a million dollars, then maybe a few extra aren't so worth it.
The 3A does not appear to be shipping yet, at least I cannot find any products. This http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/yilong/312.html is not yet available.
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i watched the firm once and have similar thoughts regarding the context. it's an excellent movie, and great post in pointing these out!
interesting, thank you. I dont want to go so much off topic but I am interested in challenges upon regrowing parts of brain -- can you point me to some good (pref online) read?
Site appears to be down (assuming HN effect) so here's the text-only cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jamiefo...
After some thought, what i'd like to see is what's done now with globstar (make new features accessible via shopt)
The parent poster meant that they can run only free software, including BIOS and firmware.

Stallman:

"Because copying hardware is so hard, the question of whether we're allowed to do it is not vitally important. I see no social imperative for free hardware designs like the imperative for free software. Freedom to copy software is an important right because it is easy now--any computer user can do it. Freedom to copy hardware is not as important, because copying hardware is hard to do. Present-day chip and board fabrication technology resembles the printing press. Copying hardware is as difficult as copying books was in the age of the printing press, or more so. So the ethical issue of copying hardware is more like the ethical issue of copying books 50 years ago, than like the issue of copying software today."

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-22-00...
I'm not sure though whether "prefer" (prefer for or as what?) actually measures popularity ... but what kind of popularity anyway? Fanboy-fellowship? People actually using it for work that earns them a living? Hearsay/gossip?

With respect to your ruby example, I have been using ruby for about 10 years but stopped doing so a few years ago. So please excuse me if I fail to see your point. :-)
How about HTML versus MessagePack ( http://msgpack.org/ )?
Oh stop being silly and pretend that you know something about China
Agreed, where does this "must" come from?
I'm not sure how to parse your request. "explain the algorithms with code instead of math" is what's tripping me up, what exactly are you looking for? Algorithms are often described as pseudocode, so you want a book that explains pseudocode with code? At some point you have to move to another level of abstraction when talking about an algorithm, which is why mathematical language is used. That said, you could try CLRS. That seems to be the gold standard in algorithms books.
thanks glad that someone is enjoying it. :)
You are right. The concept is not new, but it seems to have reached a point where more and more people "get it" and are starting to apply it to many aspects of our lives.
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I'm perfectly aware, but can you take that approach and execute it in 6 "steps" for all data sizes?

Since the whole point of the exercise is "optimizing" maxPairSum so that it runs in 20 "steps" or less, I guess this slower solution is still more "optimized" - which was my whole point, after all. :)

(Please note 6 steps is the bare minimum - one for the function definition, one for preparing input, one for calling the function, one for calling the function, one for assigning function arguments, one for the actual function and one for returning from the function. You can't go shorter than this.)
I was wondering about this the other day. It seemed like there would be no real grounds to drop anything that can run fully 64bit, has a decent amount of RAM and a remotely decent GPU.

I have a Mid-2009 17" MBP myself, allegedly clear this time. If/when that eventually stops getting updates, there's no way I'm buying a new system if it is otherwise still working fine. Not being on the very latest OS isn't the end of the world.
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> This, sadly, is an inherent side effect of progress as Apple moves ahead and continues what it started in Mac OS X Lion, in bringing OS X closer to iOS.

This is a lot of what is wrong with the press about Apple.

1. It has nothing to do with moving to iOS. Same for many changes that annoy people on Lion. My pet peeve are the monochrome sidebar icons in Finder, iTunes, etc., which offer less clues for the eyes - say what you want, but they have nothing to do with iOS. The only parallel on iOS is 'Settings' and it uses colorful icons. Blaming it on an unavoidable convergence with iOS is a lazy way to avoid any debate.

2. Unless there is anything wrong with the actual hardware, this is not 'for progress' but just planned obscolescence as usual. Apple has zero financial incentive to support old devices. I don't blame them for that, it seems like they are legitimally trying to make money off software, but right now they're a hardware company.

The companies that actually strive for software market penetration/hardware conservation like Microsoft or Google (with Android or Chromebooks) have the incentive to run on everything at the latest version, but it doesn't work out either. I wish gov'ts would enforce a longer warranty on devices and even their vendor support for security fixes. Throwing away perfectly fine machines hurts...
This almost looks like Oracle's lawyers didn't think they'd have to go to court.
I agree with your optimistic stance however everyone has at least a small amount of valuable knowledge. I trust we will extend the lives of all those wish to remain alive.

Since you're an optimist, you'll probably be one of them :-)

dasil003 doesn't say what the ethical question is, but I think he's got it the wrong way around with motivation. As Aubrey de Grey has argued, it is the fear of death, coupled with the pessimistic assumption of death's inevitability, which makes talk of life extension taboo in many circles.

('If you can't avoid something unpleasant then embrace it' is a viable psychological strategy.)

One ethical objection to not researching life extension is that huge amounts of healthcare budget go into extending the lives of frail, sick people in their final years. When we know how to keep people healthy indefinitely this problem will be solved, although pessimistic individuals will then have to take the responsibility of choosing when to die (if ever).
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I think the GP was offering advice to you, not just wanting to know the answers to the questions. I also had the same questions when I visited the page, and didn't notice any other links. You might want to think about changing your page to make this information more obvious. Or don't -- but at least run some A/B tests to find out for sure.

Best of luck.
we could preserve the lives of the next Newton, Einstein, or even some currently living scientific minds like Hawking

No we couldn't, because its not up-to you or anyone else to decide how long another person should live. How do you know if Newton or Einstein would have wanted to live longer?
If a choice was available to increase ones lifespan, the choice should lie with the individual.

Perhaps artificial intelligence is a much saner choice than immortality.
Interesting - I thought they were, but I can't find them either. Maybe it's only open-specification; I agree that the hardware isn't totally open without them.

There were also some issues with non-free Embedded Controller (the microcontroller that manages switches, power, clocks, and charging) firmware.
Why pointing pinteres as illegal right off the bat?

Let's wait what happens when the first copyright complaint is filed to the company.
Yep, he certainly did switch out the image.
Before you ask what the minimal code for an HTML5 page is, you have to decide what constraints you are putting. Are you talking about the minimal valid, independent web page? The minimal code that your browser will parse as HTML and generate a DOM for? The minimal code that is allowed in an <iframe srcdoc>?

If you're talking about the minimal valid code for an independent web page, it is:

<!DOCTYPE html><title></title>

The title element is required, and is not automatically inserted if the tags are missing the way <html>, <head>, and <body> are.

If you're talking about the minimal thing the browser will parse, you can provide an empty document (with Content-type: text/html), and the browser will treat it as if it's an HTML document, generating the appropriate elements automatically. It will parse it in quirks mode, but if you don't care about validity, and are talking about an empty document, that doesn't matter much.

If you're talking about what you can embed in <iframe srcdoc>, again, an empty document is acceptable. In that context, the doctype and title are both optional.
They should at least reduce the size, eliminate the books and just have computers.
Death is wrong.
Commonly used and popular are not the same thing. I happen to know a number of developers who hate Java, but code in Java for a living. By popular I mean number of developers who actually enjoy using the language. There are better ways to measure usage e.g. job ads on indeed.com.
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Not only is death necessary for new generations, it kind of gives meaning to the time we do have.

Why do you think limited time give us meanings?
Given how new models of thought threaten and destroy old models of thought, this might not work out as cordially as you imagine.
Wouldn't both companies have in house lawyers fighting the case? In which case the lawyer fees would be just their salaries?
Why not just use the shorter, largely-equivalent and already used ISC license rather than creating yet another one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
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If I were in medicine, I'd sure rather be working on trauma on a healthy patient population (soldiers, young adults, etc.) than illnesses of the elderly or already sick -- vastly simpler, sort of like developing new software (even if it is doing something difficult) vs. working in a complex legacy system with no documentation and lots of hidden mines.
I really do not understand why any of the Mac Pros would lack the horsepower to run Mountain Lion. The GPU in mine is pretty weak, but it would be cheap to upgrade the GPU.

Here's hoping the installer either a) checks actual machine specs rather than machine "version number") (not likely), or b) can be cajoled (annoying).
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It's not though, death is natural and inevitable. There are also practical considerations: if death is eliminated, we must stop reproduction too.
Two reasons: the ISC license isn't public domain and I didn't create the Unlicense.
Fear is wrong. Fear of death is wrong.
When euphemism detracts from the meaning or content of a message, its use is harmful. Your use of the phrase "fascist", regardless of its accuracy (which I debate, but this isn't about semantics), did not add to the content of your message. In fact it detracted significantly, substituting a tired "U.S.->Nazi" cliché in place of whatever message you intended.
Google uses Keker & Van Nest (it's in the article).
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Thank you for taking the time to explain. In my opinion, these types off attitudes are what are causing beautiful languages to die horrible deaths. The blog post extolls the virtues of "Lisp", but fails to mention which dialect. Extremely off-putting to newcomers if I may say so. At least put a tl;dr up top saying "This is for experts, noobs GTFO!" ...
I would start out with Sedgwick's Algorithms in C since it has lots of code examples before moving on to CLRS
nobody is going to be stuck in their 80 years old body.

this is the extremely short version/recipe to leave forever:

1. clone yourself. work with this guy who is very close to succeed [1]

2. once your clone is 25 years old and therefore stop growing, undergo a brain translation. Now, before you start laughing look here: [2] This is Dr. White [3] undergoing successful monkey brain transplantation in... seventies! I think 40 years later technology got much more advanced.

So the result would be your 80 years old brain (assume it was still quite healthy) in 100% matching DNA body of 25 year old. IF you don't get brain cancer, or other brain disease, you have another 50, 80 years to go. Now, going further only certain parts of the brain makes up for your identity. Most likely only memory. Fast forward another 40 years in the future, knowing how to connect broken nerves again why not cut only small part of your brain that is you therefore transplanting only your identity and limiting size of your old body in the new one.

Now, you can call me a conspiracy theorist, but if to overcome problems here is just a matter of time (by that I mean more time == less money + less engineers working on the problem. less time to resolve problem == more money to throw at the research + more engineers working on it), then I believe it is fairly plausible that elites like Rothschild family having billions of dollars for their disposition already have these technology available. Just ask yourself -- if you already have trillions in the bank, and building another successful company or buying another factory is boring to you AND the same time the only thing you are sure of is that one day you are gonna die, then it is obvious you will spend all your resources to "postpone the judgment".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panayiotis_Zavos

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb3Zi0DenaE [viewers discretion advised]

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._White

* I didnt want to go into the obvious legal issues here: cloning humans, "stealing" someones body, putting another "human" in 80 years old body therefore shorting their life, etc.
During the year we started Matasano our Chicago team spent about 40%-50% of our time working from the Oak Park Public Library,

That's fascinating.

What are some other unconventional ways to find space to hack on projects?
Before I worked in a casino and before regulations changed to allow them my uncle had "grey area" slot machines which didn't spit out anything but points added up on an on-screen counter.

Occasionally you would get people would spend too much and need help, the same for alcohol some people just can't regulate their vices. But anyway, my uncle offered to take a slot machine to their house set it up so they could play all they wanted without cost, or gain! Nobody he offered that to wanted to play without winning.

As for the "non-gaming" i.e. not casino type games, such as the MMOROGs/social games I would say players are aware before they play no money is won (unless there are side bets) but levels are status are probably just as valuable to them. Even with slots I have seen people trying to win the jackpot which may be $500 yet spend weeks trying to get it spending 100x that amount, or a bonus pot/progressive which may be almost nothing; it's not so much the money as it is the feeling but with slots it doesn't pay out in feelings only money.

For all of those examples I always think of an article I read about the US military where soldiers in WWI and WWII were not shooting at the enemy, soldiers were frozen with fear. So a system was created where the soldiers were trained to shoot at a target that popped up and when hit it would fall down. The response was to shoot and when hit the falling target was the reward and it got to the point the soldier would shoot it without thought more instinct. This training is called "Stimulus Response Reward" and I think gambling as well as any repetitive system seems to condition people to act, add to that genetic predisposition of gamblers to gamble on top of SRS.
New windows 8 Logo, Microsoft went back to basics
It would seem like Microsoft have taken the criticism onboard and gone back to the drawing board for the Windows 8 logo, Microsoft have said that the tweaks to their original windows 8 logo brings back the familiar look and feel for windows users.

http://www.neilcremins.com/misc/windows8-logo-highres.png
I don't think he meant to imply the choice would lie with him, just that losing them would no longer be the only option.
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I don't think that's true, given that Amazon is a US-based company -- so they can be compelled to turn over data as a result of the Patriot Act, etc. Microsoft admits this is the case with them and I suspect it's true for other cloud providers as well.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...
Indeed. Unfortunately, I can't actually read the text on this site because it doesn't resize when I use my browser's zoom controls.

Forget resizing browsers, let me resize the text!
You're right. Death should be illegal. I suggest capital punishment.
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I put in a vote for the easyDNS public DNS service (205.210.42.205 and 64.68.200.20). No NXDOMAIN monkeying or anything of that nature.
I didn't RTFA yet but what I want to ask HN readers: what are some good niches in IT work that are proven to reap high wages in consulting?

If I'm going to be a highly paid consultant instead of an underpaid employee I have to do something more desirable/uncommon than .NET boilerplate coding...
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I'd like to see the results with nginx and siege, rather than Apache and ab. Other than that, it's clear that the more magic you bake in, the slower the framework will tend to be.
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I would be interested to see how much time was actually put into the social networking effort. And if there were any other factors for the increase (like ads).
It forces us to choose. Choose what means the most to us.
This is called "planned obsolescence". It is almost certainly NOT because the computers "can't handle it". It is Apple's business model. Complaining about this is about as useful as complaining about the walled-garden approach to the App store. They release a new OS every year, and simultaneously phase out support for older Macs. There are positives (people aren't running thirteen-year-old computers, so developers can make reasonable assumptions about the power of the machine) and negatives (ridiculously wasteful), but it's their BUSINESS MODEL.

With that in mind, if you're going to argue that it's bad practice, please do so from a business standpoint, not from a technical standpoint. No one disagrees that your '07 Mac can handle 10.8 just fine.
Nice point of view. Actually, it is ok to spend some time on social networks, the point is we collectively spend too much of it trying to boost our ego.
Why not!

The article is absolutely right that right now and for at least a few decades, we have to live with death. It does not mean however that death is a good thing.

I mean, who would want to die when they live a life worth living? And who would want their life to stop being worth living?

(And no, I don't buy the saying that says live is meaningful only because it eventually stops.)
>some problems in mathematics will remain beyond the limits of quantum computing

I don't think it's surprising that quantum computers, by themselves, will not be able to solve mathematical problems. Problem solving is not a feature of hardware per se, it is done by humans. Perhaps one day by AIs, too, if we can discover how to program them.

Two tantalising potential benefits of Quantum Computers:

(1) the ability to model all kinds of matter efficiently at the molecular level which will spur the development of nanotech

(2) people will ask 'Where are these humongous computations being performed?' and then embrace the 'many worlds interpretation' of quantum mechanics, which will in turn create further scientific and philosophical progress
oops, we killed Kenny

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OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.RunQuery() required more quota than is available.
There are two reasons the value of the case gets smaller and smaller.

One is that the large assigned value at the beginning was a lie. When truth appears lies evaporate. (Usually).

The other is that Google's lawyers did their extremely difficult job--using their technical smiles they have methodically pruned an overgrown oak into a bonsai.

Look at both sides of the equation. What was paid? What is the value of what was bought?
One way to do this:

read line <&456

To see what you got:

echo $line
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It's not though, death is natural and inevitable

You committed the naturalistic fallacy. Also, inevitability isn't a justification for bad things happening.

There are also practical considerations: if death is eliminated, we must stop reproduction too.

I would prioritize existing lives over the yet to be born.
I think quite the opposite. Everyone's lifespan should be increased at birth. Then once they're sentient adults, they can choose to reduce their lives to the so called 'natural' expectancy, or even below it if they wish.
They did a decade ago, with Flash. Now we're getting it back :)
You haven't really justified anything you've said. What is the ethical question? Why must it be fear of death rather than simply wanting more of life -- more time to spend with people you love, to do exciting things, to learn everything there is to know?
I say it hurries us into making decisions, wherein after our basic human psychology starts to rationalize the decision as 'meaningful'.

If we had all the time in the world, literally, we could eventually learn to make decisions that are truly good instead of local conveniences.