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freezing brains could be worth thinking about

Well, freezing destroys cell membranes, unfortunately. There's no way to repair every cell. And even if you could, there's no guarantee the overall system will function the same afterward.

Cryogenics will probably take the form of sustaining life, rather than freezing what has already expired.

For example, perhaps slowing a physical body's metabolism for decades would enable the body to last centuries before dying. So it'd be "time travel" to the future. But that has horrendous logistical issues, e.g. feeding, maintenance of the chamber, somehow retaining muscle mass of the person, avoiding bed sores, waste disposal, antibiotics during times of sickness, regulating body temperature, a failsafe for each system, etc.
search for golang, most relevant resources will be found with this term.

Edit: also, for package discovery, godoc.org. But golang+anything usually works.
Isn't it amazing how wildly successful films like The Return of the Jedi never made a dime, and yet Hollywood seems eager to make more every year?
Never a fan of Tolkien's works, many friends have been, and I still recognize what's not in the movies. But I don't underestimate the power of the literature that moved so many.

It's not diminished one iota by any attempt at a performance in another medium. Some who've not read the originals may be misled about them for a time, just as a great piece of music may be misrepresented by a crappy performance - say, what Karajan did for Beethoven (not saying Jackson did that or not) - but never diminished by it. One is momentary, one is lasting.
This seems to fit with the fact that even here on HN, people were claiming that Mobile Google Maps did not work with Mobile IE10 but now(?) does. That seems like it would be easy to overlook: Block for broken version, push new version, people change UA and find the new version works in IE10M?

Who knows, either way, it seems like Google would rather have more users (for data/to brag about/to show ads to) than block them out of spite for a mobile platform that is still struggling to be relevant.
Good to have you here. You said you are fair, let's see: do you think Android has some significant room in tablet space?
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Online marketplace for high quality woodworking plans and software on iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Windows for exploring woodworking plans in 3D: rotate, zoom, isolate, explode, etc... We released the IdeaRoom software very recently, so we have a lot more we plan on adding like resizing the project and customizing wood textures.
But I still don't understand the immediate outrage.

I would much prefer an approach like this:

1. Test google maps on the mobile ie. Notice it runs acceptable.
2. Perhaps publicly, ask google why they have the redirect when it actually works fine and refrain from throwing around theories and accusations.
3. Wait maybe 3-5 days for a reaction.
4. If there's no or a negative reaction, THEN create the outrage.
What? That's not true. "Most Java devs" (that I know) prefer Linux and primarily utilize OpenJDK for development. (Deployment is a mess left to other people).

Really? No one uses Linux? And you're talking about Java and JVMs? That just looks silly.
How does that make Tolkein lucky? According to the LOTR producers the trilogy didn't make any money, so they don't owe the family anything.
As a Cheddar user you're worth $2.50 more than a Facebook user. Isn't that nice. :)

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I don't mean to sound so mean, but I am kind of looking forward to the day when C. Tolkien is "out of the way" and J.R.R's materials (which are hopefully somewhat organized by now thanks to CT) can be turned over to an author who is able to spin a proper tale out of those notes. Middle Earth is a great setting, but it took a consummate story teller to make LOTR into a three-volume page-turner. I'm not terribly interested in reading what CT has published. It's like reading a screenplay for an unfilmed movie or code for an unfinished video game. While it's interesting, it just feels like spoiling what could be a great first-read somewhere down the line.
$125,000 to buy everything? I can see why he'd ask for that, seeing as it's popular, has a growing user base, includes everything you need to continue operating.

$125,000+ to hire him or somebody else to build something similar? That's what seems slightly absurd to me.
About representation theory of Lie algebras: physicists actually care about that quite a bit, as the the theory of spin is intimately tied up with the subject. Your point stands, though. I don't know of any major applications outside quantum mechanics, and other parts of mathematics have even fewer applications. (I have always found integration theory kind of tedious for exactly that reason---some results turn out to be handy, but it's more like you're laying the groundwork for background material for stuff that'll be useful to physicists.) Also, the way in which physicists care about the math is very different from the way mathematicians do: we want the moral reasoning---we want to have some intuition for why the result is true---but (to grossly stereotype) we don't really care about the detailed proof.

(I must add that I heartily second your recommendation of /Q.E.D./)
As a possibly-incorrect point of pedantry, I don't think New Line holds the "rights", though they distributed the film. Doesn't United Artists hold the rights? To be frank, I skimmed Wikipedia before leaving this comment, and I remain unsure.

EDIT: Ah, Saul Zaentz's company, Middle-earth Enterprises, licensed the film rights to New Line. TIL. What a complicated situation.
Yeah, that scares me - the brain is so beautifully and profoundly complex, and to say that "This drug prevents memory formation based on our extensive trials!" is to completely ignore the potential that our subconscious being records things, regardless of what we consider to be "memory".
While I enjoyed the Hobbit movie, I was annoyed by the Jabba the Hut scene, and some of the slapstick that was lifted right out of Laurel and Hardy movies.
>>"Hey, there's your startup...video speed dating! lol"<<

It would be like that South Park episode. Naked guy, naked guy, naked guy ...
This goes for dating in general, it's not peculiar to dating sites.
This is a possible scenario.

On the other hand I've heard first hand a story about MS devs being ordered to break an MS web property on a competing browser. The manager who gave that order now works for Google.
I don't know... I always thought that Saruman as a cheap hood was the weakest part of the book, and it doesn't really work unless you also take the time in Fellowship to go into the whole Bill Ferny thing, which would lead to Maggot as more than a mention. At some point you have to make the story fit the screen, and I think Jackson did that admirably. Even keeping the Men of the Mountains going until the end of the Battle of Pelennor fields made sense, in that it didn't have to involve the Rangers and another whole army raised elsewhere. It wasn't the original story, but it was an elegant solution to a story-telling problem.
Would Instagram make it today on an iOS only strategy?
Yes and if your manager doesn't understand then it's time to find a new partner in your career..

I am always amazed at people who will let a PHB torture them and gladly bitch about it at every family function and with a round of friends at the bar.

Really.. So you're an amazing talented person and you're letting a PHB ruin you life.. What does that say about YOU.. ????
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This was never a problem for me when I was using go. Just use golang in your search terms.
What a horrific and brilliant article. I'm only half-way through it – just reached the part about Kant – and fully intend to finish it when I wake up tomorrow (no pun intended)

I wonder what effect a lifetime's meditation practice might have here. As in, if one's trained one's brain through many thousands of hours of focus and deep self-inquiry – to find and become aware of the source of their awareness – whether they might innately be more prepared to deal with become conscious mid-surgery (even if their "personality" isn't conscious, just their I...)
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Hmm.

1) I'm not sure that I agree with you that touch and keyboard/mouse don't mix. Perhaps nobody's come up with a good mix yet. At the very least, what is to stop us from writing software that recognises when input modes change and shifts to suit the new mode? We can write responsive websites that shift to fit different screen sizes.

2) Maybe you can't operate W8 from a keyboard, but you can operate it a hell of a lot better than iOS. At least Microsoft tried to make something that works with both. In Metro you can select tiles with the keyboard arrow keys, search with the Windows key, go to desktop, switch apps, all with keyboard shortcuts.

3) Perhaps the paradigms seem unreal and disparate at the moment, but is that any reason to give up on a future where interfaces are fluid, responsive and seamless across multiple devices and input modes?

4) I agree with you that it is easier to position a pointing device with a trackpad. But that's the whole point of a touchscreen - you don't need to position a pointing device. Rewrite the apps to make them larger and finger-friendly, and forget pointing devices. If you want total accuracy just plug in a mouse. You can do it with the Surface, so what's the problem?

5) I have a Lumia 800 too, and I quite like it. I don't think it's good enough for Microsoft to become a real competitor to Android and iPhone, but I definitely don't think it's crap. Anyway, it doesn't mix interfaces at all - Metro on Windows Phone is touch only. So, why don't you like it?
'A' startup? As the article notes, there have been several attempts already and no clear winner.

Some observations about the online dating industry. There's a market opportunity - money has traditionally been made from dating/introduction services. They seem very suitable to move online. And they would seem to scale: in most services people match themselves, or an algorithm matches them, without involvement from the site staff. You would also expect network effects to be strong (customers want access to all the candidates in their geographical location) therefore rapid growth and huge revenue seems a possibility in a winner takes all kind of way.

So tell me: why has the online dating market not been locked up (pace occasional disruption) since 1999? My suspicion is the existing sites just don't have any way to differentiate themselves from the competition that actually makes a difference.

Online dating, if it can be 'fixed', will be fixed when someone has an insight into the underlying social question and manages to implement something unique.
lol, this made my day. probably the best summary i have read.
I love this UI so much more than the original. Anyone knows if something like this exists for google groups? Both desktop and mobile UIs are horrible.
https://2studentbodies.com

Not really a startup per se as it's a non-profit hobby project, but still relevant I suppose since it is, after all, a tech-powered platform. 2studentbodies is a dating website targeted toward college campuses/students.

It's a mashup of Craigslist (ad-style posts), IRC (group-based chat with private messaging), and the now-defunct LikeALittle (college-oriented subsites with the ability to flirt anonymously.)
The approach you're suggesting sounds extremely naive - Google won't respond to an email, other ppl will throw accusations, etc.
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I said if you've already put in the effort to write the book, in which case that effort is a sunk cost.
"The same Google spokesperson said the redirection for Windows Phone users seeking access to Google Maps via IE in the browser has "always" been in place."

I don't think I've ever seen this. I had a Windows Phone a few months ago and was able to browse the site with only a few problems (panning was kinda laggy and a couple other graphical issues).

I was kind of supportive of Google, placing my faith with them to make the best of the situations, but the reasons they gave are disjoint, and some past problems are giving me the impression they're just attacking the platform as a whole.
As someone who suffered through the Silmarillion, I can attest that it sucks. If you read it, you'll wish you hadn't. Partly as a result of this, and partly due to other idiocy through the years, I have some schadenfreude knowing the Tolkien estate is mad about the movies (as was inevitable). Couldn't happen to better people. The stories would be much better off in the public domain. I don't think it's a huge surprise the world works this way -- think of Star Wars. Do you really think those stories are better off in the hands of George Lucas or Disney? It turns out heirs are really poor custodians. We don't have royalty either, for much the same reasons.
Try Grouper (https://www.joingrouper.com). [Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder].

The "browse-and-message" paradigm is fundamentally broken, not to mention a little dehumanizing (you're kind of shopping for people, which, let's face it, is pretty weird).

Our take is that the biggest problems with online dating are both the online part and the dating part --- it's hard to gauge chemistry online and it's cumbersome (and for women, potentially dangerous) to arrange a meeting. Meanwhile, labeling it as dating increases the pressure and the awkwardness for everyone.

Grouper Social Club sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys, etc.).

There are no profiles or messages on our site. We match the groups together ourselves using Facebook info (which overcomes a lot of biases), then take care of all the coordination. Members pre-pay for their drink and the experience (the only fee), confirm a time, then we give them the place to meet.

We don't like labels, and don't think of Groupers as dates. To some they're similar, but the expectations are importantly different. Worst case: you're out with your friends and experience a funny story together, the average case is a super fun night out where there are some sparks between at least a pair of you, and the best case is, well, sky's the limit. Also, there's safety (and less awkwardness and more variety) in numbers.

We're live in 13 major cities in the US and Canada and growing quickly. 93% of members who go on a Grouper say they want to go on another one, and about half already have.

Our mission isn't to fix online dating, it's to end loneliness. Specifically, we want to help people get out from behind the blue glow of their computer screens and actually connect with people.

Social networks and online dating sites can be more isolating than social. But they don't have to be.

Shoot me an email at Michael [at] joingrouper.com if you have any questions.
In the consumer space yes, its going to get ugly for MS very quickly.

In the enterprise space not so much, at least not for a few years. Most companies just finished their migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 so were expecting to sit out upgrading to Windows 8. So plenty of time for Microsoft to right the enterprise side of things.

That said if they don't have a compelling solution for the enterprise when the time for upgrades does come then its probably game over for them. The smart move would be for them to separate the consumer and enterprise lines so that the rot in one doesn't take the other down. Sadly I think Balmer's hubris is going to prevent that from happening so I can't see a way out of the inevitable downward spiral unless he gets shown the door.
I haven't used it myself, but hin.ge (http://hin.ge) went through the same incubator the startup I work for did and seems like an interesting concept.
Eegads, that's depressing.

I'd like to think that he'd find that engineers at Google are nowhere near as compliant as they are at Microsoft if he tried that, though. There've been times I've questioned VPs about whether their decisions really are in the best interest of users. Sometimes they explain and I'm satisfied that it really is, and other times I've just flat out refused to do it without an experiment to verify, and we run the experiment and find that it's not, and then the executive lets it drop.
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Golang is pretty popular to search with. Also an interesting thing to note is the main page (golang.org) has an awesome amount of information.

Couple that in with a few Google I/O videos on Youtube and you seriously have enough information that you almost don't have to Google for anything.
Your hubris takes my breath away, which makes it difficult to laugh at your ignorance. Painful.
From Sentence 5 of Example 1.1:

"The symmetry is a smooth (differentiable to all orders) invertible transformation
mapping solutions of the ODE to solutions of the ^ODE^. Invertible means the Jacobian is nonzero:
x'x y'y - x'y y'x != 0"

Yeah, understood about 5% of that.
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> The giants were in the book

Yes. But the giants were in the book for all of one paragraph.

The Hobbit is a much lighter work than LotR, and it was aimed at a younger audience, and so can sustain a lot more whimsy and silliness.

IMHO the Radagast stuff worked well enought, and the giants a lot less so, mainly since the movie was too long and there's no good reason why they were there at all. They didn't add to any plotline, or tie up with anything else.
If people stop having legal/religious marriages, but mostly end up in long term common law marriages (do you have that term in the UK?), I don't see that as a very important difference. The quality of the relationship matters more than the label you attach to it.

That's not really what I perceive the trend to be, though (here on the US side). It looks to me more like an unwillingness to permanently commit to another person at all, and an aversion to taking on the responsibilities of raising a family. The Atlantic article called Jacob a manchild, which is a term I don't think we had such a need for when I was growing up.

(By the way I'm only early 40s myself--but boy do I feel out of step with the world these last few years.)
To be clear I've been arguing all along that this in an indication that higher up in the pipeline they must have quality issues.

Each step of an interview is an INVESTMENT.

First investment is the Recruiter's time (sorry but they get paid and SHOULD get paid to take this first step)

Second investment is the screener (yup I'm looking at you Phone Screener and I do it all week long, suck it up and enjoy the ride)

Third and MOST EXPENSIVE investment is the on-site, team interview, disrupting many people's lives and productivity including the CANDIDATE

(blows my mind that NOBODY here seems to be on the side of the Candidate who is trying to find a new team and a incremental change in their career)

Fourth and even more expensive is ON BOARDING

Fifth and yet another expensive investment is ON GOING management and integration

So let's think about this.. Where in the process do you want to spend time?

Should you be upset that YOU PERSONALLY saved many hours your teams of wasted time?

Or upset you spent 2 hours of your time?

Answer this carefully.. Think slowly about this.. it's the deepest issue here.. And says a lot about who YOU are...
Norvig's spell corrector is the nicest code I've ever read. But every analysis he makes here is just counting, there is nothing computationally interesting happening. I doubt the code is really that much to look at.
Does limiting choice help make better decisions?
This is typical of winsupersite.com.
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You don't always intubate when someone's under general anaesthesia - it depends on the person, the level of anaesthesia needed, the anaesthesiologist's judgement call of the risks of intubating vs not intubating, the type of surgery and length of surgery. For example, I've been under GA three times, but all for oral operations (Adenoids removed, problems with a tooth not coming down properly and needing to be pulled down and forward from the roof of my mouth, and having all my wisdom teeth removed at the same time) all of which clearly can't be done with intubation! It ultimately comes down to balancing two different sets of risks against each other, and alternatives like CPAP (continuous positive air pressure, aka an oxygen mask) are often used instead.

It's also entirely possible to have a cardiac arrhythmia while fully conscious - if you've had an orgasm, there's a good chance you've had a brief, though mild, period of arrhythmia in the form of skipping a heartbeat periodically until orgasm subsides. In the case of more severe cardiac fibrillation, it will take a period of time before you actually lose consciousness depending on the severity.

In the case above, where more anaesthesia was being admitted, it would seem posible that fibrillation would have been caused by lowered blood oxygen to the heart in the period between the extra anaesthesia being used and it's taking enough of an effect for intubation to be done. In that case, a quick shock might be needed to restore normal heart rhythms subsequently.

Source - The other half is an obstetric surgeon and her best friend is an anaesthesiologist. Any errors are my own; I'm not a doctor and don't claim to completely understand even if I do come from a medical family.
I'm curious about this. A 7" phone seems a certainty rather soon -- the Note 3 will be close, and shaving the bezel off the N7 would make it more pocketable.
I just can't get that hyped about Go, but I will tell you (as a Rubyist, primarily) I've really been enjoying Rust. While they're not directly competing, my experience is similar to the author's PHP -> Go, which is why I comment. I have programmed significant projects in statically typed languages in the past, but this new batch of languages (Rust/Go/Scala/etc) are certainly neat.
Yes, I know that I sound whiny but I'd love to see this rendered via LaTeX.
What's wrong with Laurel and Hardy?

Don't forget that The Hobbit is an adaptation of a childrens book. I think a bit of slapstick fits right in.
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If I recall, this is the same fellow who wanted to charge some astronomical fee for iOS project consulting. I suppose this strategy has paid dividends before for him?
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Go to college.

I came out of high school knowing exactly what I wanted to do: make video games. So that's what I did throughout college, while professors forced me to work on problems and with languages that had nothing to do with video games, including one class where I made a course-scheduling web app in Django.

I graduated and worked in the games industry for a couple of years, until I was an engineer on a multi-platform game engine working on PS3, Xbox 360, PS Vita, 3DS, PC, and iOS games.

Then I realized that what I really wanted to do was start my own company, so I started teaching myself web development on the side. I got a job at a YC company with a Django-based site and I've been here for the last 9 months, learning the ropes before I try to start my own thing.

If I hadn't been 'forced' to work on problems outside of my own interests in school, I wouldn't have been able to make the career change I did. College might not teach you everything you want to learn, but it will make you learn things you never realized you needed to know.
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