skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does it mean to die if I upload your brain and make another process of yourself? Is death related to the body or losing consciousness?

Assuming that something we will retroactively refer to as singlulary ever occurs, and that we are close to singluarity, and that it ever takes a form which leads to some kind of ubiquitous 'upload' of a brain model that somehow acts and reacts as a brain in a skull in meatspace would (and all of these qualifiers are debatable,) you still die.

In the future the notion of what it means to be alive, and human, and dead, may be reinterpreted so that these models are considered to be, essentially, the same being as their original. But this redefinition would be semantics. Nothing frees you from the absolute and irrevocable nature of your death, in this or any other universe, ever. The post-singularity upload is still a copy, however good, and at this point the analogy of copying minds as software breaks down, because the mind isn't separate from the brain, and whether or not there's an entity on the wires which believes itself to be you, you are still no less dead.
this 'S Health' add-on is interesting. I guess mhealth is the place to be right now.
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If only Google would hire you, I'm sure you could solve all our spam problems (including the one I work on) in an ethical and competent way. :)

Sometimes there are different classes of users with conflicting interests, and no algorithm or ML model or abundance of good intent can resolve them.
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Maybe they're compensating for not having children they want to have or not spending enough time with their own children.

They redirect their frustration by wanting to punish "child abusers" when the source of this fictional abuse is in their head.

I guess that's what happen. The room is round, but their upbringing tells them to stand in a corner.
You can decrease tailpipe emissions 100%, but you can't decrease net emissions that much. It's impossible.
This is where the concept of health care "insurance" makes sense. We have car insurance and homeowner insurance for the same reason--to cover sudden, unexpected events.

But modern health care "insurance" also covers the payment of goods and services that do NOT meet sudden and unexpected events. A huge portion of the health care industry services chronic ailments. Hunger could be considered a chronic ailment--it is not urgent, but must be managed at all times.
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I'm looking for someone who otherwise does not have much interest in current music startups.

Details can be found at duvo1.jottit.com/cto - thank you!
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So the chief architect of Google+ wants to know why people used Google Reader? Can't he ask Google employees who should know this because they built the damn thing and documented their challenges and findings?

Or read the most upvoted complaints on open forums like HN or Reddit? Especially since he's architecting an ahem social product, shouldn't he already be comfortable doing that? And shouldn't he value the diversity of those responses more than those from Google+ buddies? I guess "dogfooding" has become more valuable than understanding.

Finally, my favorite "Zune" moment: "NB: The comments have filled up!"

I am sure there are technical reasons why more than 500 comments is not allowed, but none of them are user-centric.
Looks great, but calling it a replacement for cron is like calling word a replacement for cat.
I would like to introduce you to my friend, rhetorical hyperbole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

It's not actually the case that every single acquisition in the world involves public platitudes about the continuance of management, the product, culture, office location, or lunch room perks.

Just a literally a metric ton of them.
"--Modern CPR (for adults) no longer includes rescue breaths. Mouth-to-mouth was too much of a turnoff, and chest compressions alone are very effective given the response times of ambulances."

I heard this years ago, and both times that I took CPR certification classes since then, we did mouth-to-mouth anyway. I guess different courses are different.
Because people on the internet are dumb, especially when talking to someone from a big company like Google. Who decided to stop providing a particular service for free.
> --Modern CPR (for adults) no longer includes rescue breaths.

That's only for bystanders for the reason you cite (reluctance to give aid). Rescue breaths are helpful and those of us who have to respond for our employer still give them. I carry around a barrier mask all the time now.

Source: I have the HCP level CPR cert.
Charm:

http://unicornfree.com/2013/why-we-shut-down-charm-on-the-ev...

EDIT: Although I agree that it's a much bigger problem with free services.
Okay, but that does not answer my question. How would I protect my auth tokens in plain-text, client-side Javascript code without an auth server? Do you provide such an auth server? I only see end-user login which is pretty cool, but usually there are portions of a website which can be seen without the end-user being logged in. In the scenario where the end-user is not logged in, how do you correctly calculate my bandwidth and charge appropriately while still protecting my auth tokens if there is no auth server? Who generates the auth tokens is not relevant to my question.
An alternative Narrative might be that RSS has a renaissance. People who used to think Reader was a magic way to read websites may now be forced to think about RSS as the way that happened. The standard may get some press again as a result. Already is getting some press in fact.
Thanks, there were two sleepless nights of coding!
Any email service that isn't deduping attachments is being fiducially irresponsible.
Seems like a neat idea, however I can't get any of the cheat sheets to load. Not sure if their servers are getting hammered or what, but all of the language cheat sheets show "Loading..." indefinitely for me.
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The actual statement Larry Wall gave wasn't that bad...

I thought Perl 5 had an oversimplified object system till I saw Lua. In Lua, an object is just a hash, and there's a bit of syntactic sugar to call a hash element if it happens to contain code. Thats all there is. They don't even have classes. Anything resembling inheritance has to be handled by explicit delegation. That's a choice the designers of Lua made to keep the language very small and embeddable. For them, maybe it's the right choice.

ref: http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html

Also IIRC Wall's original Lisp quote starts with him praising Lisp and then ending with this infamous|humorous quip.
No one would likely be able to cram enough code into a single plugin to manage to get "all" your information and still have a functioning plugin in only JavaScript.

Does not compute. I don't see the logic in this statement.
I was looking for the current, living Python (3.3), not the one kept on life support for legacy maintenance (2.7).
I like the way you worded the email here "soneca just...".
I think you will have to test a lot your copywriting, it looks to me that this will make all the differece in the world for your product.

When/if you implement it using email tell me, I would love to try it on a real world situation.
Yes, I would do the same thing. The only mistake I see is the way they handled the Google Reader announcement, which Mr Zunger wasn't involved in.

Then again, if I were so smart, I wouldn't have made the lemmings comment. I meant it as a mild joke, though you and other people interpreted it as an serious insult to 500 people and Mr Zunger's character.
It seems like the inter-region bandwidth test would be especially likely to be negatively affected by increased adoption of GCE. They lay a fixed amount of capacity, and if there's relatively few other customers, you get a proportionately larger slice of it. Hard to prove either way, but it seems that hitching your wagon to GCE based off of these performance numbers might not pan out for the long term.
I think if you're a billionaire already, the better strategy would be to file those patents and never prosecute anyone because of them. Not filing for a patent leaves the option for a patent troll to do so.
Disclosure: I work for a competitor to both Google/GCE and Amazon/EC2.

I think that this comment is spot-on. Google doesn't seem to understand that the infrastructure business is fundamentally a trust business: as elastic and transient as the cloud can feel, when choosing a foundation, you're making decisions that must stand for years. Not only does Google provide infamously Kafka-esque service when they're down or otherwise unavailable, they have a history of capriciously killing services and/or repricing them -- and one need look no further than the user dissatisfaction over GAE to know that GCE will be lucky to survive its infancy. Indeed, GCE is caught in a nasty catch-22: because of Google's track record of killing tertiary services, the market is very much waiting for it to become primary for Google -- but because the market is waiting, it may well never be. This is a self-fulfilling prophesy that is as obvious to cloud decision makers as it appears to be lost on Google.
You might want to reconsider the word "stray" when describing it. For some reason, I immediately assumed you were talking about someone who was caught cheating on their significant other. Then I thought about people who were trying to quit something addictive (smoking, etc).

I'd stick to "so you'll never be lost again".
Interesting to see that this was built on top of Apache Mesos, a dynamic cluster partitioning framework started by some researchers at Berkeley [1]. So far I've heard about Twitter (and now Airbnb) using Mesos in production. Is anyone else evaluating or using it currently?

[1] - http://incubator.apache.org/mesos/papers/nsdi_mesos.pdf
Google does that with Drive already.
Personally, I'm not (necessarily) suggesting that "Google is doing this because they want a monopoly on chat, and broke the protocol to do it". But it seems to me that as much experience as Google engineers have dealing with spam in the email world, they could come up with something feasible on XMPP as well.

Doing this strikes me as throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Woe is the poor user, who is forced to make do with a free app that violates his privacy. Woe is the poor programmer, who is forced to offer his app for free.

I mean, their is obviously no other solution. We should just quit complaining about it.
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Yes. Each rename (and any updates to content that happen at the same time) is just a new commit on the branch you do the edit on. It should produce identical history to doing the same operation via the command-line :)
A big problem I've seen with the proliferation of these apps is that I've seen drivers with three or four devices, (which makes sense from the driver's perspective--maximizing opportunity), but even though I'm in the car paying a fare, they show up on the other apps as available! The result is that when you put out a call for a ride, even though it shows tons of vehicles available, most of them are actually currently occupied. As TFA points out, this leads to distrust since as a rider you can't actually be sure you'll be able to get a ride.

I think the app makers need to encourage riders to report to them when they see drivers using other apps and misleadingly showing themselves as available. I know I'm going to start doing it.
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Damn, I read that as in "How to program cheat sheets." This is cool. That would be awesome.
This is correct. The only point of defibrillation (automatic or not) is to stop ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (electric rhythms that don't cause effective heart contractions), and kick-start a sinusal (normal) rhythm.

If the cardiac arrest is the result of another mechanism, defibrillation is ineffective.
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Drawing a firearm as a deterrent can get you arrested for brandishing. If you wouldn't have been justified in shooting, you wouldn't be justified in drawing.

Police have their own rules.
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"Great is the enemy of good."
No, but a spam box for chat requests might be interesting.
Please no offense, but I don't give a rat what your background is- is that relevant? I'd consider if so! This feels like an interrogration-first line of questioning, and I'm trying to help us work out what's going on, and help us find relevant facts to begin to justify your line of inquiry.

How many kids learning to program on the X or Y website do you expect will miss the 0.3ms extra it took for the site's offline capable web-ide to work? What harm, what badness is there to doing this on the web, and why would you call out a JS implementation up front as negative?

That's really it- I still don't see you having any legitimate grievance besides whatever insane use case you have in mind for yourself and yourself alone needing 4GB crazy town git repos (you, linux, and chrome may indeed have problems). I just don't think that kind of extreme performance concern is where every single project ought start- some other well known programmers and I know it's better to not worry too greatly about performance until you have the problem in the first place. Focus on what can be done first, what good can be created, and then refine that good; don't nip good in the bud because down the road it won't do Y: that's premature man, and not constructive. Can we agree that JS projects like Three.js provide a lot of value, have allowed a lot of cool things to get built that people might not otherwise have made, that at least as importantly many of people might not have seen? Are they slower? Maybe, yeah, probably. My suggested reading here is Steve Wittens, writing about WebGL- there's a niche served, and allow that niche to enrich itself was more or less the take away for me, even though dieties and demigods like @id_aa_carmack might not have immediate use- http://acko.net/blog/on-webgl/

Kinda felt like you ran in here and farted on our rainbows, to twist around your metaphor. The only concern you've stated is performance- let's pretend for a second that it's ok that you're calling it into question before we have any guestimates much less estimates for what performance is going to be- what's your estimate? For 98% of the projects on Git, do you think the performance of a JS git impl is going to be sufficiently fast as to not be problematic? Will it even be a noticeable factor, the speed, compared to cmd line git tools? If those users are happy and feel served, is that ok? Do you have concerns other than performance that I ought take into consideration when considering your expressed concern about this being a JavaScript library?
You're right, we're definitely talking about being lost in unfamiliar place. Thanks
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https://www.cloud66.com/ Seems like an easy way to get something up.
Seems practical, but patent trolls are just going to patent something else anyway. They're patenting basic ideas at this point, and there is an unlimited supply of patentable ideas.

The only solution is to fix the patent system.
He's right though about Heroku, you use ssh as the transport to deploy via git.
Actually, Mazda dropped the rotary a couple years ago due to efficiency issues. I think they may be working on a new model however.
Wired had a great article on Mesos that mentions Conviva also uses Mesos: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/google-borg-twi...
Startups should think carefully about any source of bias behind Paul Graham's advice, and whether or not following pg's advice blindly is in their best interest.

Since the startup gave their (legally-binding) confirmation first, the entrepreneur may be able to stake a legal claim whenever they later choose to do so - or not.
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If you took options and executed today, wouldn't that mean paying $4M for $4 in value, ie worth $0(vs own $4M in stock outright)? You lose the present value with options.
I've just read that a few times and I'm still none the wiser.

You want a working git implementation in the browser, okay, cool. Why? What for? I don't want to just disparage, I'm genuinely in favour of anything that gets good tools to more people, but I'm completely at a loss at the why from reading the Kickstarter page.
Am I the only one who thinks Dropbox isn't very good? I only seem to see positive comments, and that just doesn't make sense to me.

I'm a premium Dropbox user with multiple terabytes of storage. (We deal with large files that have to be shared among many users widely dispersed.) I've been using it for a while now. When dealing with large files, it's slow, clunky, and restrictive. You have to use the desktop client to upload files of any appreciable size, and then you get zero feedback on the file's progress. I just don't see how $3,500 a year for that is better than the cost of an old-school FTP server.

I'm curious if any of you are in a similar situation but have had a better experience.
How would they "know it spoofed" without checking? I mean there is no reason to believe someone they just arrested...
If you read Krebs' blog post, it sounds like they asked permission:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for...
Now that they've been publicly disclosed, don't they become prior art for other people wanting to patent them?
Once Reader lost favor inside the 'plex people didn't want to work on it because it wouldn't show well on their resume. (you don't get promoted for applying CPR to a dead product and manage to keep it alive in intensive care for another budget cycle)

Yeah, this is not the organization that should be acting as de-facto curators of the Internet, I'm thinking. What's being described here isn't a cathedral or a bazaar, but a bureaucracy.
As a piece of rhetoric, it's not bad. I'm certainly sympathetic to the author's viewpoint. As a piece that gives any insight into the nature of money, it leaves a lot to be desired. It is true that money is inextricably intertwined (gotta love that phrase, heh) with the political, social, and legal constructs that support it. And the notion that money is somehow encoded in a "web of obligation" rings true. But I guess I'm not really appalled by this, just like I'm not appalled by the fact that gravity doesn't let me fly, and certainly the idea that millionaires' wealth is not fluid because of peer pressure sounds like pure hogwash.

A discussion I'd like to see on HN revolves around a simple scenario. You live in a village, people only barter with each other. The village grows, and someone comes up with the idea that money would make it possible to avoid complex and difficult trades involving real goods. Money is essentially a convenience. But how do you do it? Even assuming that you have a completely trustworthy producer of currency, how, exactly, do you introduce money into the system? It is my belief that a great deal of ignorance is laid bare when you start thinking through the problems of rolling out a new currency like this.

Indeed, if and when we can see through this problem, we can evolve our little society further and faster, and understand how the various types of institutions we have evolved. Think of it as "economic embryology" - and just like real embryology yields some incredible insights into the adult organism, I think the economic embryology gedanken experiment can generate real insights into a mature economy.
Much of the discussion on HN is about startups. Health care costs are a major issue for nearly anyone starting a startup in the US and for most people considering working for a US startup.
GCE should be priced "correctly" since it was created after the great price rationalization.
The obvious solution is almost always a non-engineered one. What do they want all their engineers for? Just corporate curriculum?
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The documentation for Chef is not great, but what makes it problematic (at least when I was first learning it) is that it has a tendency to not correspond to the currently released version (sometimes it's outdated, but more annoyingly, sometimes it's pre-dated).
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One example: One of Elizabeth Warren's crusades before the banking crisis exposed that 46% of all bankruptcies circa 2007 were medically induced.

http://www.pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/Bankruptcy-2009.pdf

It isn't exactly news that the industry maximizes profits.

The mere fact that you chose to write "Health care companies seek a profit because innovation takes capital investment, and the only way to build capital is to make a profit" is indicative of the problem. It's almost as if you can't imagine any other means of solving the problem.

I don't think you're alone either. In quantitative medical rankings, the US is 33rd in life expectancy and 34th in infant mortality (behind Cuba!) yet is #1 in per-capita spending.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mor...
it would be awesome to query for a cheatsheet on sublime or the console
On my Android Phone ( 4.1, Galaxy S2 ) the demos ran very quickly on the stable version of Firefox, but the stable version of Chrome struggled greatly until I enabled webgl in about:flags.

Even with webgl enabled, Chrome was still a bit slower than Firefox on the bunnies demo.

The flashvhtml site and game that was posted here a while ago also uses pixi.js. http://flashvhtml.com/

The html5 version of the game there runs very well on both Firefox and Chrome with webgl enabled on Android.
> But due to the GFW, I can not see the page.

You can send an email to diybio+subscribe@googlegroups.com if you want to read the mailing list. Also, there are public archives:

http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/diybio.maildir.tar.gz
Interesting Google week so far.

1) Discontinuing Google reader

2) Retiring CalDAV support

3) Removing ad blocking apps from the Play Store

4) Replacing Android chief Andy Rubin with Sundar Pichai.

5) Dropping support for sending chat invites to Google chat users from other domains.

Wonder what else is up for the next couple of days.
> it seems to me that as much experience as Google engineers have dealing with spam in the email world, they could come up with something feasible on XMPP as well.

But before they start on this research project, they might want to do something about the spam their users are getting now, right?
First time ever I see someone on HN with negative karma.
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I have had 3 similar requests - ie obviously spam. Here's hoping a reasonable middle ground can be found.