skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the CPR that's particularly damaging. Yes, ribs are dislocated (though rarely broken), and cartilage is torn. Those are fairly minor complications though. The 'damage' is done by the medications we push. Drugs like Epinephrine are very good at getting your heart to beat again. A recent study in Japan suggests that that may be at the expense of your brain, and other vital organs. Other drugs commonly used in ACLS resuscitation are equally nasty (Amiodarone, for instance).

You're absolutely right that we've gotten very good at getting a heart to beat for a few more days until it succumbs to the damage done to the rest of the body (that 40% figure you mention, though out-of-hospital rates are still much lower than that). The exciting research being done is to improve long term outcomes for cardiac arrest patients.

More and more research is showing that the key to a good long term outcome is early compressions, effective compressions (push hard and fast), uninterrupted compressions, and early defibrillation (with an AED or manual defibrillator). Over the past 10 years, resuscitation algorithms have been streamlined to minimize 'off chest' time. Compression to breath ratios have changed (from 5:1, to 15:2, to 30:2). A great deal of emphasis has been placed on keeping the rhythm checks that happen every two minutes as short as possible. We're now teaching people to continue compressions while the defibrillator is charging (and under ideal circumstances, you could easily continue compressions throughout the shock). Intubation is performed without stopping compressions.

The focus of all of these changes is to decrease the number of time compressions are stopped. Every time compressions are stopped, it takes some number of compressions to get the pressure built back up in your circulatory system. Fewer interruptions means fewer 'wasted' compressions, and less time that the brain isn't getting perfused. This is obviously key to a good neurological outcome.

We like to think all our fancy drugs and advanced interventions are doing something effective, but in reality, 'basic' treatments like CPR and defibrillation are what really save lives, and more importantly, save brain.
The event_handler is in event_bindings:369, and the unexpected token is in line 711 of the api response, apparently? bit.ly/Tt9exN
Only one of the original developers. Ian Bell is not involved, as far as I can tell. And I wouldn't expect him to be, given the pair had a fairly public falling out many years back.
Like no other country has civil liberties. What does Canada or Western Europe have.
I think you might be selling it a bit short...

Imagine if they could build up a ratings profile of people who rate the same place similarly, and then network that out... for instance:

Person 1 likes A and B, dislikes C, and hasn't been to D
Person 2 dislikes A, likes B, and C, hasn't been to D
Person 3 likes B, C, and D, and hasn't been to A
Person 4 likes A and D, hasn't been to B or C

So, A has 2 likes, 1 dislike , B has 3 likes, C has 2 like, 1 dislike, and D has 1 like.

That's the start of a rating scale.

But what if an algorithm could identify that, say, Person 1 and Person 4 have similar tastes... so it could recommend D to 1, and B to 4. It can also see that 2 and 3 have similarity, and recommend D to 2.

Now, here's where it gets a bit tricky. The algorithmn can tease out that A and C are opposites - maybe one has great food, but with bad atmosphere/service, and the other is the opposite.

Thus with that deduction, it can recommend B, but not C to 4.
https://github.com/philips/ghar
Perhaps we should just agree to link to Groklaw instead of a paid shill? [Who doesn't always admit his backers?]
I think the ideal phone/tablet keyboard would be a "transparent" system based on holding the back of the screen (edit: no real estate lost and great ergonomics).

Microsoft patented the idea a while back and among other sucky things about patents, they may simply not implementing it at all.

http://www.patentbolt.com/2012/05/microsoft-invents-portable...
Writing your startup's key message (ft Duolingo/LaunchRock/Branch/4sq/Airbnb)
I've quoted it before as well, not at all surprised to see it again. You should buy and read the book.

Unlike most times people tell you to read a book, it'll actually only take 10 minutes.
Army patents non-linear neural chip design
It's...the home row for Colemak: http://colemak.com/ At first I thought they somehow figured out how I remapped my keyboard, but it's still treated as qwerty.
trying to find online source, worth it?
I was thinking removable battery so you could have a couple spares and keep flying while another is charging, but now I'm thinking you might actually want that downtime while the fixed battery recharges, so the motors can cool down a bit.
Expert: Romney's Plan for Managed Bankruptcy would have saved millions
It's probably related to a recent change in policy - http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

"-Product simulations are prohibited. Projects cannot simulate events to demonstrate what a product might do in the future. Products can only be shown performing actions that they’re able to perform in their current state of development.

-Product renderings are prohibited. Product images must be photos of the prototype as it currently exists."
Press enter about 15 times to skip the first part of the tutorial. The labels in the later part are correct and also show the other secondary chorded keys.
I think Foursquare has been a Yelp competitor since they launched the Explore feature. I've been using it to find good stuff that my friends have been to. I'm likely to check out a place if a good friend of mine has been there several times than if a few strangers have given it 5/5 stars.
You could always read the docs linked from Groklaw, and avoid their commentary.
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Quite impressive performance comparisons
And to replace the broken pieces.
So, just to reiterate - you're claiming to have a key to immortality, something that has been sought after for time immemorial, yet it is up to others to come up with evidence to refute your claim...
it's funny how he writes two lines then stops because his hands are obstructing the view
Well sure, George Washington was a very violent fellow as well but I usually don't see that levied against him. Same with Winston Churchill. You might want to learn more about Frederick, here's a primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_The_Great
I used to work at Internet Brands, and their business model involved buying and migrating sites to a common platformand monetizing them. They were mostly interested in the traffic and the content, and much to the chagrin of developers like me, they didn't care what the code looked like. We got handed sites in ASP classic, ColdFusion, Perl, and even 10,000 flat html files and were told to rewrite them.

Later, while working as a dev at ClearChannel, I was part of a team of 3 devs who converted RushLimbaugh.com from Communique (a self-contained Java CMS complete with its own database) to an MVC framework based on Zend. They paid Rush $400 million, and I'd estimate that the site rewrite was probably a $30,000-$50,000 line item in that budget.

Don't bother fixing spaghetti PHP. Companies will pay for the traffic and content, and not care if it is mvc because it can be rewritten very easily.
I really hate when companies act like they're doing you a favor by letting you pay them for services.. The fact that they exude this attitude at such an early stage, and from so high up, marks a bad sign.. If you can't empathize with the pain points of your customers (ESP ones who have already paid you money), then perhaps you should give up the business
How Apple's "Fusion Drive" appears to work
I know who I'm writing in tomorrow!
Awesome.

You guys took one of my suggestion(ease of use) and mix match few great tools with your awesome talent and build something really useful.

This is what I exactly thought. And I won :) (and most of JS lovers too).
CA measure would ban anonymous online speech for sex offenders
You're definitely going in the right direction; Power5/6/7 hardware is very pricey. I'm amazed that in this day and age, AIX still has a place in many companies, and slightly perturbed that I have to maintain it. I'd much rather have the applications running under RHEL.
Google fights for Google's own freedom to act. Very much, "what's good for Google is good for the Internet"
There is no problem with what Ghost is setting out to do. For some of us WordPress is not reacting quickly enough to adopting the 21 century way of providing user experience. Obviously it's unrealistic for WordPress itself to drop everything and focus on this (that just isn't how life works), but it's certainly interesting and worthwhile to explore how modernisation of WordPress will enhance its original reason to exist. Looking at Ghost from this perspective and all the other reasons that John mentions in a comment below makes forking WordPress the right thing to do

This project doesn't need someone who loves WordPress and wants make more plugins for it. It needs someone who thinks they can make a good thing even better. Steve Jobs didn't just make a new cover for mobile phones. He fundamentally proved that communicational devices must become many times better than what they were before and that's what I expect from John.

Even Steve couldn't fix AT&T so don't expect John to fix WordPress core issues. That job is for WordPress itself.
Jerry Pournelle has been a huge advocate of X-prizes for advancing technology. These were very valuable at the dawn of the aviation era, and races like the Schneider cup helped push boundaries. The cost is zero if the company/organization fails to reach the defined threshold. Too bad so much govt. spending is associated with buying votes instead of advancing technology.
Why do people keep trying to argue that an IQ of 125 is not reasonable for someone like Feynman?

The 125 figure might or might not be exactly correct, but it is reasonable given other data we have about him. For instance, according to James Gleick's biography, Feynman was the only person to ever get a perfect score on the math and physics graduate entrance exams to Princeton. At the same time he scored below average on the verbal and history tests. (Note that the "average" at Princeton would be well above average in the general population.)

Feynman was an amazing genius. I have the deepest respect for him. That fact notwithstanding, his genius apparently did not evenly extend to all types of intellectual abilities. If so, it is unsurprising that he would merely score very highly on an IQ test.
Some friendly advice from someone who's been in your situation:

The post is overly dramatic for my taste. By adding drama and name calling your ex employers you only harm your own image.

There's lack of qualified programmers pretty much everywhere you look, so writing a normal resumé, listing your expertise and experience should be more than enough. Send it to as many job boards as you can find, and try to find a few agencies looking for your kind of talent and pitch yourself to their agents. Sure, agency jobs are not as cool as getting hired by a startup in Palo Alto, but hey... you've got to start somewhere.

Be realistic about it: considering your situation you might want to look for jobs in countries that don't make immigration a pain in the ass. You could be a truly kick-ass programmer for all I know but you are still completely unqualified for a Skilled Worker visa in most countries (too young, not much to show). Don't even get me started on an H1B. Take advantage of your citizenship to try England and Germany, where there are lots of open positions.

Finally, as others have suggested, don't just stop and moan: DO STUFF! If you have the time and resources, maybe write an open source project. If you want to improve your skills while still getting paid, go the freelance route. It's not great, but it pays the bills. Better yet, at the end of the day you'll have a much bigger portfolio of knowledge (notice I didn't say projects, but knowledge) to woo your next employer.

In any case, good luck! :)
Is that the only thing? Regarding Augustus in particular, the Pax Romana is very strongly associated with him. Funny how with strong leaders who wield power and hold responsibility, even given some initial violence things can turn out pretty swell. Dr. Francia is an interesting smaller-scale example. http://books.google.com/books?id=-yeaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA547#v... By the way, is it funny how many fairly popular (considering none have been extremely popular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_president...) US presidents there are whose prior claim to fame is more or less being a victorious fighter?
Certainly there are no perfect leaders, but if our government's structure is so perfect, then why does it matter which people are involved at all? The point is that who we elect matters, because if it didn't, there would be no point in electing anyone.

The real point I believe is closer to George Bernard Shaw's words "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." Having a good system is irrelevant if no one bothers to implement it, or if the electorate seeks to undermine it.
From your linked page:

Most small online businesses do not store credit card data locally, but that doesn't stop you from using salted hashes of credit card numbers to compare.

Storing a "salted hash" of a credit card number in the manner you describe is only fractionally better than storing the credit card number itself. This is because credit card numbers have very little entropy - less than 36 bits per issuer code, so bruteforcing these hashes can be done very quickly.
Andy: I'm not tuned in to the startup scene here, have you observed this trend?
For the lazy:

http://gitbattle.com?u1=twitter&u2=mozilla
Probabilistic Illiteracy
Killing is asinine not just on the dirt and concrete battlefields of human adults. You might want to expand your vision of life. The next universe might be ruled by persons who were aborted fetuses in this one.
Both gitk and the cli are representations of the graph. Granted, gitk may be a more useful/comprehensive overview than say git log but still.
A photo-sharing app that dares to take on Instagram
> It depends how far apart they are.

Totally disagree. A level programmers are almost by definition, A level programmers in every language they've ever encountered.

For B level programmers, you're right, it's worthwhile to play tug-of-war on languages and tooling.
+1 for Habari, especially for keeping it relatively sane compared to WP.
Also, important to remember, Brasilia is in the middle of no-fucking-where. I remember when my - then - wife wanted to get a tourism visa to the US you had two options: go to São Paulo, or Brasilia. Brasilia had half the waiting time, but for us living in Santa Catarina it was simply a no-go.
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or better yet.. when people submit links on social networks that contain the m.subdomain and you try to click on the link via desktop AND it's impossible to read b/c it's formatted for a mobile device.

people should use mobify
In an ideal world, I would totally agree with you. However, most recommendation systems deal with three issues:

1. Sparsity of data. People surprisingly rate much less than you think they would. In fact, negative ratings are way less sparse than positive ratings (This to me is unintuitive because this is not how I would act but it is what it is).

2. Lack of features for similarity computation. Sometimes, the rating matrix is all you have to compute similarities or you have crappy metadata. You may turn out to be lucky and pull down a facebook open graph and have enough coverage to work with, it depends on your model.

3. The problem of high variance due to latent features (which you alluded to in the last part): Your model gets harder to track due to in sufficient information as to why a place is good or bad. Maybe, there is a correlation between seasonal variations and special cuisines, maybe they had a shitty chef that one time Person 4 came there.

I am not saying it is not do-able, I am just saying it is hard and sometimes ML fairy dust is not enough. :)
> This is potential med-tech that just needs big-money-mafia to make it rain.

The sad fact is, a lot of potential therapies that are a lot more promising than this is will turn out to be dead ends. Unless there's a good reason to think this specific proposed therapy has at least as much chance of panning out as all the other proposed therapies the various labs have already come up with, there's no reason to spend a lot of resources on it.
Those guidelines only apply to hardware and product design projects, not games.
My understanding of the recent debt is that it is caused less by increased spending and more by a dramatic drop in revenue because of the economic collapse since 2008.
Bionic hand gives man use of his arm back [video]
Businesses are liable for financial losses due to bank fraud
Is Apple moving away from Intel?
That's quite possible.

The mass would not go away, though, and since energy is preserved it would need to dissipate somehow.

If you can avoid the collision (as you suggest) by deflecting the particle and thus not change its momentum there would indeed be no (or less) energy to dissipate.
I think its very good that they kept the resemblance to QWERTY, even if it sacrifices small amount of speed. Steep learning curve is the biggest problem with these and if keeping the QWERTY compatibility helps I'm all for it. At least for me it seemed easier to learn because of it.
The ordering is not chronological.
Hmm. Here's something else I found at those guidelines you linked, there:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
"semblance of compatibility with QWERTY"

Probably. I've went through the tutorial and particularly liked how it felt like qwerty even if it was very different at the same time.

You can say it's "short-sighted" but lots of amazing new keyboard layout were not adopted because it never went mainstream.
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Waiting has its own beauty. If you are waiting for the bus, you are reading HN on phone, or listening music or just observing. In today's world, where you are bombarded with stimulation, you will always have the impulse to do this or that or visit someplace or follow a fashion. Sometimes is just nice to wait or you won't be able to experience life fully.

Beautifully explained Elizabeth Jennings in Delay:

The radiance of the star that leans on me
Was shining years ago. The light that now
Glitters up there my eyes may never see,
And so the time lag teases me with how

Love that loves now may not reach me until
Its first desire is spent. The star's impulse
Must wait for eyes to claim it beautiful
And love arrived may find us somewhere else.
Exactly. I clearly remember working on a 20MB PSD file in the mid 1990s (a restoration job done on a borrowed Mac of a badly damaged photo of my grandfather; the picture still sits on my mother's dressing table.) That took an absolute age to load and I know there wasn't much more RAM than that in the machine. It worked well enough though.

Old formats like PSD are better viewed as archaeological artefacts than as exemplars of some elegant ideal.
Microsoft Picture Password a.k.a. Password Hint
Am I right?
Matthew Garrett accusing kernel dev Ted Ts'o of being a Rape Apologist
Is it not strange to call it an Atom? Atom is etymologically indivisible, when here we can have arbitrary structure.
Singapore is a pretty great place.

That said, the place is freakishly expensive. I recently looked at Singapore as an option to move there and start up a.. startup. The entrepass will require $50,000 of paid up capital plus yadda yadda. That is, post company registration:
http://www.mom.gov.sg/foreign-manpower/passes-visas/entrepas...

Following that, there are quite a few hoops to jump through but the worst part is that they require you to spend $100,000+ per year plus there are milestones regarding hiring singapore nationals within the first two years.

Couple that with rents that are in the range of Manhattan housing.

It's a bit of a complicated situation for a startup to be in considering that startups are already pretty complicated high risk businesses.

Then there's the question of pretty strong programming competition from India. If a startup were to choose between India and Singapore based on costs, market size, etc. then India would be the obvious choice. (ease of business and quality of life in Singapore however is orders of magnitude higher!)

I'm absolutely certain that Singapore has great talent available but starting up there needs to be made easier considering the high cost of living. As for home-grown entrepreneurs, maybe the Singapore government should look at a program like Startup Chile that may help foster some innovation locally.
Given your comments about starting a violent revolution I guess it's not too surprising you moved to the one country that tried twice in the last 100 years to take over the world.
There are several, if you google, but I did not get to like any. I am still using iGoogle, and Google Reader (but GR is just not the same).
Here is one link: http://www.maclife.com/article/features/5_worthy_alternative...

One of them only shows buttons which you then have to click. The others are too complicated.
Yeah, it is -- I've never found it to be a particularly great term, but it's what's used.
Am I supposed to be seeing something other than a grid of photos?
This seems like one of the best options - just makes sure the LUHN checks out and the expiry date is in the future, for any small value donation.

Alternately (or in addition to this), you could rate-limit form submissions from the same address.
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At the end of the day, calling an asshole an asshole is not something to apologize for.
Thanks for the great article.
A gotcha I have come across:
Document keys can't contain the dot character. If you are storing a complex document (hash-of-hash-of-hash-etc..), you would need to recursively clean up and ensure that none of the keys contain any '.' char.
Try the demo for 10 minutes. Convinced me.
I was under the impression that Germany already fucked up once, so who would know better than they why it's wrong to be a police state?
Exactly.

He's saying a smarter public trends towards a better government system in place - by the majority of people using logic, reason and rationality to vote in someone worth their salt for each position.
Isn't renting and getting a house in silicon valley quite expensive?
The learning curve is shockingly short to a semblance of utility because of this.
It's worth mentioning that carrying a baby to term has serious health risks -- gestational diabetes, heart problems, etc. It can leave the mother bedridden for the last months of the pregnancy. It can change the mother's body completely and irreversably. It is likely to necessitate abdominal surgery (caesarian). Here's a nice take on this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/pregnanc...
Many more for your viewing pleasure :
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Where does your 5.3 stat come from? I've heard that number recycled, but never confirmed the actual source of the report
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