skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost is low enough today that it could be much more common. Even the most expensive set-up (Alcor whole-body, whole life insurance) is about $130/month for a healthy person in their mid 20's. With term life and neuro (head-only), you could cut that in half. Still, only a couple thousand people are signed up.

Alcor has published a cost break-down http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/CostOfCryonicsTables.txt and explained it at http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/CostOfCryonics.html

A big chunk of cash is spent keeping a team on-site while waiting for the person to die. Assisted suicide for the terminally ill would help reduce costs significantly.
Why Your Mind Is the Most Powerful Thing in the Universe
Researchers create simple warm-white LED light vs. complex blue LED conversion
This. More transparency with what and how IM used to act is not relevant to the forward perspective. They carved a niche with piggy back installers. What possible positive use could such service have?
I think the industry will just find a way, things like steam will cover marketing, 3rd party developed engines and frameworks will cover development costs, and auto generated environments will aid with increased environment size.

If it doesn't produce good games, then the market will dictate what it want's by not buying games...
Agreed, the new design is better but the autoplay feature is frankly baffling - doubly so when you consider the lack of curation/low quality/irrelevance of 'related' tracks.
Hence the retail truism - there is no room in the middle.

Luxury goods will always have a market. Cheap as chips will sell as long as there is stock on shelves. Reasonably priced good quality stuff - you will lose your shirt.
>>challenge of middle class couples not wanting to have children because of, among other things, the enormous costs of child care.

This is coming to other parts of the world too. Even in societies like India, neglecting the elderly is setting a trend where most urban middle class couples either settle for one kid or in some cases now don't even bother if they are having medical problems having kids.

Human beings need motivation for doing things. For a while having kids was a matter of pride in societies back. And kids were best retirement and old age guarantees. That has changed, if you all have to face when you grow old is a old age home- Why bother spending crazy money on an additional member in the family? Kids these days are expensive, rude, mean, disobedient, selfish and are likely to dump you in an old age home when you come of age. So why bother having them?

Though societies like India and China are facing population problems, I'm pretty darn sure its pretty much a momentary thing and the trend is likely to be reversed very soon.

Also things like Alimony, abuse of divorce, dowry and domestic violence laws is scaring away men from marriage big time.

In some decades you likely to have a situation where the government may just offer tax breaks or incentives for just getting married and having kids.
A Hackathon For The Data Center, Now That’s A First
Been working on a programming language for four years and counting.

I intend to release it someday hopefully soon, but it will never truly be finished.
Yes, I think if you are really obsessed with something for over 10 years, it's time to make it your life's work and not a side thing. But maybe the point is that you don't want that to happen as you lose your forever project (if it gets done) or fall out of love with it.
The Goa Project (India's SXSW) Opens Call for Proposals
Mine is too. I'm actually on my second one. I started back in the late 1980's and spent some fifteen years planning and plotting the first one before I put that outline in a drawer and began planning and plotting the second one. I'm hopeful that someday all that writing around will morph into a real novel that other people want to read but even if not the process has forever changed me.
Nathan Marz has been promoting this as the Lambda Architecture, has a couple presentations/blog posts about the idea and is writing a book. While other people probably have similar ideas, I'm unaware of anybody else attempting to teach them in a similarly cohesive manner. I don't know what I'm doing but I'm working my way through understanding this area so I'll work through the queries as an exercise.

For your counter, you'd record the individual votes as tuples of (timestamp, voter, vote, subject). These get dumped into a distributed data store. From there, they get batch processed into the equivalent of a database view. The cascalog query for your 'posts' view would be something like:

(defn post-view [post-source vote-source output]
(?<- output [?timestamp ?postid ?upvotes ?downvotes ?title ?body]
(post-source ?timestamp ?postid ?title ?body)
(vote-source _ _ ?vote ?postid)
(> ?vote 0 :> !up) (c/!count !up :> ?upvotes)
(< ?vote 0 :> !down) (c/!count !down :> ?downvotes)))

Produces a set of (timestamp, id, timestamp, upvotes, downvotes, title, body) tuples. You can then do another pass on it to run your sort function:

(defn post-score [now-ms time-ms upvotes downvotes]
(let [mins-since (div (- now-ms time-ms) (* 60 1000))
(div (- upvotes downvotes) (+ mins-since 1))]))

(defn post-rank [post-view-source output]
(?<- output [?postid ?votes ?title]
(post-view-source ?timestamp ?postid ?upvotes ?downvotes ?title _)
(- ?upvotes ?downvotes :> ?votes)
(post-score (System/currentTimeMillis) ?timestamp ?upvotes ?downvotes :> ?score)
(:sort ?score) (:reverse true))

This would give (id, vote total, title) tuples that you can send to your templating engine (assuming url is based entirely on id) to make the front page.

The neat thing about the approach is that you can change everything later. If, for example, you wanted to do weighted upvotes/downvotes, you could produce a scoring function for the up/down votes like the one used here for scoring posts and aggregate the votes using sum instead of count.
You probably won't read this now, but I never mentioned the third world. There are people in the UK who can't afford to do what you're doing, let alone third world countries.

Of course I moan about things - but I'm also capable of seeing the massive advantages I've got compared to other less fortunate people.

> I NEVER ONCE said it should be fun, but as as I am PAYING for my education I expect a certain level of teaching, by this I mean I should be taught the content and also allowed to explore the content. I feel I am not getting this.

What did you do about it apart from throwing a hissy fit, stomping your little feet, and running away with your ball?
Atari US files for bankruptcy
He did manage to slow the site down significantly, to the point of being unusable. Not surprising given the code quality of an app where replacing the student id in a url parameter gives you access to their file.

However the vendor offered him a job and a scholarship, so it seems like it's the university's over-reaction.
I don't see how this is different to making a clone of me when I die.
> uprooting a fundamental protocol and replacing it with something else isn't an easy task to do on a network as big as the Internet

It's a bit of work, but relatively straightforward if anyone really cares about it enough to spend effort on it.

Add a new message to the SMTP protocol that says "I have mail for you, but I'll only give you the headers right now. When the user opens it, you can call me back and ask for the content." If the target server doesn't understand the message, fall back to allowing the email to be recalled by implementing a delay.

Publish an informal protocol spec before you publicly release any code; try to get it accepted as an RFC.

Create an open-source reference implementation for the most popular open-source email programs -- mail servers, mail clients, webmail platforms. Get it accepted in the upstream of those projects.

As people start using it, they realize it's really good and start to demand it of commercial implementations. As there's a published spec, the commercial implementations end up being mostly compatible with each other and the open-source work.
Vendetta Online Space Sim Kickstarts iPad App To Become..
Found about 40 iOS resources (phone templates, UIs, etc.) before finding a single Android resource. That leads to nothing good for state of mobile design.
Also: http://fribbble.com/
Baby: hoe kies je de beste babyfoon?
oh cool - i'm very interested in this. Can you please email me? My email is in my profile.
Should Barack Obama stick with BlackBerry?
I hit a paywall asking me 33 €.
Oh yah, this would definitely not be ideal for something like that.

In regards to the schema stuff, however, we don't touch any user data at all. I've actually added a section to the bottom of our website: http://www.postgression.com/ which explicitly states our policy:

"In regards to security: postgression does not look at, log, or use any data stored by our users. All data is completely ephemeral, and disappears after 30 minutes."
Release it now, it's no use just collecting dust on your hard drive. You can always improve it in the future—think of it being in constant development.

"Real artists ship."
POMMS: A Way to Get Your Players to Test Your Game
Nice ! They fix that !
Oh my God. Did you really just write a holier-than-thou post comparing Dave Morin to weev? Have you even bothered READING anything weev wrote?

A lot of people will never speak out against weev because of his scorched earth tactics. His list of enemies is a lot longer than a few Feds.
I remember experiencing very similar emotions, everything I loved had become unenjoyable, feeling like a chore, I felt like there wasn't a single person on the planet who would even miss me when I was gone.

I took a different direction completely. I became enraged at all the people in my life who led me to thinking this way, who destroyed my passion for what I loved, for taking it away from me, and making me feel so obligated to them, while getting nothing in return. I rejected the thought of no future and mentally put myself in a new one.

I became a recluse and shut everyone out of my life, and then I moved to another state 600 miles away. I didn't tell anyone I was leaving, except my parents, I told them I was taking a vacation, just so they wouldn't file a missing persons report, but honestly, it would have taken them weeks to realize I was gone, that's how little we talked. I have a better relationship with my parents now, but that's probably because of the distance. We only talk every few months, and they know if they attempt to assert any control over my life I would have no problem cutting off contact with them. I don't talk to my siblings, and I haven't contacted anyone else from my past since.

Whether I'm missed by anyone aside from my immediate family. I doubt it, and I don't care either.

The experience was liberating to me. I live for myself and don't allow baseless obligations to dictate any decisions I make. I don't allow my decisions to be dictated by how others will judge me.
Well, the article says "Support for EBS-backed AMIs only." i.e. you can only boot from EBS, you can't boot from instance storage.
Don't feel bad, I think I've read this article a good few times of my own accord anyway.

Interesting workflow and great looking work.
Wow, the relatives are still angry he didnt come back. What the heck is wrong with those people? :O
I didn't mean to say Nintendo is doing everything well, but I think gameplay (should) trumps graphics every time in the long run. A lot of companies are betting on non vital (for gameplay) assets too much; according to the chart in the article, graphics are 25% cost of a game; I suspect it's a lot more in a lot of AAA games. In my opinion that's not needed to get the masses playing games. If the game is addictive and depends on a lot of content, simpler graphics will make creating that content a lot easier and cheaper and will make the game worlds bigger for a lot less money. And that's the part Nintendo, IMHO, got right a lot of times.
Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates
Thats one of my fave bits of movie trivia. Also the computers in the back of the server room which just look like fancy looking props are actually a real super computer design (but empty cases obviously)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
> I believe that this is a false statement regarding the domains of physics, mathematics, or general engineering, but i think the level of engineers out of grandes ecoles in comp-sci and programming is really far from stellar, being easily surpassed by students out of universities

Or by their peers in Physics, Mathematics and GE. I know it's just anecdotal, but the French high tech companies I know in some level of details were mostly founded by non comp-sci majors (I'm thinking of Criteo, Vision Objects, Dassault Systèmes…).
HTML5: What does 2013 hold?
FCC pushes for gigabit broadband in all 50 states by 2015
Can europe copy silicon valley?
I liked this article. I for one have been overly conscious on ends rather than means, and I forget that it was the means that got me into software development in the first place. I used to have so much fun! It never felt like work (it does now).

I haven't enjoyed it in a long while, this article makes me wonder if I should start one of my idea and develop it with no clear saleable end in mind. The thought of which takes a lot of pressure off what I got done this week, this month, yesterday.
Did you try telling the guys they were loud?
Firefox will show me what CSS applies to each entity and what attributes result. I'd like something that gave me the same information textually so I can tweak the CSS, e.g. simplifying specificity without intending to change the end result, and check for changes, e.g. diff(1). Anyone know of such a thing?
PHP Creator, World Class Developers and a Few Good Hackers Slated..
Urgent Action Needed to Save Moroccan Journalist
The thing is, there is some truth in among the bullshit. That 'Haskell in Industry' page really does have links to non existent products or long dead projects or things that don't seem to be using Haskell at all. And even after that blog post was widely circulated 2 years ago the page remains unchanged, and people are still citing it as evidence for the widespread use of Haskell in industry.
I tried to pick up SideFX Houdini after this article was published the first time on here.

After a month I admitted total and utter failure.

Whoever came up with that program is a mad genius. It's absolutely mind blowing what you can achieve with procedural operators and networks.

It's somewhat similar in spirit to Cycling 74's MAX and other visual programming environments.
Would be nice to credit the designer on the site.
Yes, it was the excellent security model of "let's not bother with security models".
One fundamental difference between ElasticSearch and Solr
The guy you just said didn't know what a derivative is used to workas a quant.
Nokia Releases 3D Printing Plans for Lumia 820 Case
So if I have a large site driven by a web content management system and each page uses different parts of the css, how can we leverage this? Does it mean we have to generate different css files for each page? or have a dynamically generated css file for each page?
Free Resource: A Manager's Guide to Building a Product with Embedded Linux
Ask HN: Verizon Wireless, $500 and privacy concerns
I received this email from a good friend yesterday. After some advice she's writing to the AG, requesting receipts from Verizon Wireless, and informing them that they will try to contact the individual whose privacy was compromised. If anyone has any other advice -- thanks:

'''
My Mom is getting charged $500 from verizon because they are suddenly claiming that they did not receive a temporary phone they let her use while waiting for a replacement. This is after they stated on a supposedly recorded line that they did receive this phone. On top of this madness the phone they lent her had not only the previous person's contacts in it but all of their personal information and photographs. She is livid and tried talking to supervisors and the like but the closest thing to an accommodation they are offering is $100 off of this $500 charge. Could you maybe ask C* what to do? Oh! And also ask for his email so I can find him on tumblr.com, I told him I was going to friend him on there. Hope all is well ANNNNND let me know if you are free on Monday or Tuesday night, or Wednesday anytime for a coding lesson.
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Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
How about running it as a plugin or something for a suite of functional specs for the website ( if it has one! ). Functional spec's by definition should run all the paths that a user can take, so it should give a pretty good idea of the css that is used.
The more I learn about US work laws, the more I like being an European.
Do these numbers get inflated for a programmer with ADHD?

I find it takes me much longer to get back on track after interruptions. I work from home and deal with a ridiculous amount of interruptions. After 9am, I usually have to just give up for the day.
Normalizing source code, storing it as annotated ASTs. Designing a structure editor that is actually usable for real code. Applying precise version control to those ASTs' nodes.

Some features:

- Optional GC with per-type granularity

- Trying to wedge uniqueness[1] into the type system too

- Can compile statically, extremely convenient C FFI

- Codifying the environment/context that a function wants/needs. E.g. a function "void render3DScene(void)" might spec its env requirements as {OpenGLContext, NonBlocking, SceneGraphState}. Similar to state monads, but intuitive, composable, and not anal.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqueness_type
Those guys didn't listen when I told them our servers were being hit too hard due to <thing> and <other thing>, so I don't imagine that raising a purely social/meatspace concern would have done any good.
What is the process for submitting a Zero Day vulnerability?
Hey there guys,

I've found a Zero Day vulnerability (Just URI XSS) though it is affecting anywhere in the range of ~6M websites (according to Google).

I was wondering what the process I should follow is. (Report to vendor, wait for them to update software then disclose?)

I also was wondering the legality of this, am I likely to get into any kind of trouble here?

~JungleCats
Well, huge work in progress: https://github.com/pshc/archipelago.

But until I write the editor for it, there's really nothing to look at. Editor is coming Real Soon Now.
Two reasons come to mind:

* the failure rate of an EBS volume (assuming a bug-free EBS software stack!) should be less than any one spinning disk

* these machines don't have disk space set aside for copying the root volumes to them from S3 to boot. (There's a 10GB limit, and to allow for this to be somewhere, you'd have to have another SSD, or partition the existing ones.)

There's a good blog post about it on Rightscale: http://blog.rightscale.com/2012/11/02/new-ec2-instance-types...

esh's "You Should Use EBS Boot Instances" also lays out a number of good reasons to use EBS for boot: http://alestic.com/2012/01/ec2-ebs-boot-recommended

You at least have two 120GB ephemeral SSDs to play with when you're running - a luxury you don't have on the new M3 classes.
How to get coverage for a startup with a millin users based out of India?
LG snatches second place from Apple in US handset market
Learning design with hackdesign
Why stop him from doing something that works for him?
This goes on to show how out of touch with reality our educational systems currently are. They are incentivized by the wrong things, which reflects in the kind of people and policies that are put in place.

Before the web and the free dissemination of information it brought about, the average academician was more 'smarter' than the average student just by the fact that the students hadn't yet had access to the sources of information their teachers had.

However, we now live in times when you can expect anybody in the society to grow to their full potential, thanks to the free web.

This changes the fundamental role educational institutions has to play. They can't continue to be passive devices of information transmission. Yes, there are an elite bunch of institutions that provide more value than that. But as these events show, the educational sector around the world in general are mediocre and are pretty inefficient.

You now have smarter students and they don't need you to tell them what the world is about. That is the changed reality of the market and it is going to affect this sector for the better in the long run.
HTC Sense 5 Looks Good, But Not Great
Interesting rgd. the functional reactive programming. I am obsessed with this, in a networking/mobile device context instead of a gaming context - not that it should matter. And applying this to real problems beyond the toy problems that you find in tutorials on the web turns out to be real hard - this may end up becoming my Forever Project yet. Email me at hank[at]ml1.net if you want to discuss this.
This is a good example of why you should always send your content over the wire.

As a dozen people have noticed, this article is unreadable. But it doesn't have to be. The piece coming from venturebeat.com is transferring fine. But the CDN hosting their css and jQuery is down, and they've built their site using that baffling pattern of loading nothing but an empty shell, then populating it later.

So we get the name of their "chief reliability officer" and a bunch of links to other articles that we won't be able to read, but no article.

Now suppose they had built their site like we used to build sites, and actually sent the 760 bytes of content that make up the text of the article as part of that shell. I know, I know. We'd have to download that entire 3kb html page every single pageload (before then downloading four megabytes of sidebar nonesense). And think of the extra engineering time they'd need to spend so that they could not only send that article at load time, but also use their (presumably) fancy article-changing mechanism that we were so near to seeing today.

But at least then people would be able to read things on their website.

We'd have one comment at the bottom asking if anybody else had seen the borked CSS. But that would have been drowned out by people who were happy enough to read the text in Times Roman actually discussing its content.
Do you need to uninstall Java to be safe from its vulnerabilities?
Algerie vs tunisie Coupe d'Afrique des Nations 2013
Nope, but when they started their business model was literally "hey we can sell airbeds in livingroom as an alternative to regular Bed and Breakfasts, and hotels for sold out concerts, shows, and events".

They just pivoted to something more traditional after spending 1-2 years trying to make the original idea work.
That's cool thanks!

But for a counter of millions, count vote action one by one seems inefficient. I think we still need some sort of `update` mechanism in a pure CRA db?
Opera sings WebKit's tune for new mobile browser
That's not a fair comparison: everyone who buys an XBox or a PlayStation, intends to play games. Only a fraction of Android and iOS users want to play games on their devices.
Glassdoor isn't a valid reference for anything (it's like a wikipedia page, except no one is trying to cite sources), and benefits are negotiable, including everything on that NetApp page.

Please don't misunderstand me, obviously Google is one of the better place to work these days. Their benefits are great, but it's not far and away best for every individual. Articles like this are marketing for Google.. grumble grumble link to pg's submarine article.
Apache Isis: Java Framework for Domain-Driven Design
(Offshored-Distributed-Outsourced) Agile: Are they same?