skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just want to highlight two things, firstly his support for the NHS

Which is meaningless; an anecdotal impression is not data.

> Secondly, can we leave off the cryogenic stuff ? The guy is dying, and pretending it will just be a pause is insulting all round.

Some people think that cryogenics is a better chance of resurrection than burying a body in dirt. The case isn't settled, but it's not a stupid or crazy belief. Even if the chance is only 0.1%, it's worth talking about. The chance of my house burning down is only 0.1% or so, and I still buy fire insurance.

(And, no, I'm not a big believer in cryogenics; I merely want to argue that discussion about it is reasonable.)
Why is everyone so afraid of HTML that they insist on starting projects like this? I've seen them come and go for 15+ years now and they're never useful. Even less so in the case of using JS to generate HTML because that makes the browser actually work harder.

This isn't a knock against OP or the project creator (if they're not one and the same) because projects like these can be useful exercises. But I would never use something like this in production and I would hope nobody else would either.
@taligent: I wasn't criticizing Ive so much as: 1) Apple fanatics, and 2) Apple marketing / "the RDF" (that will inevitably describe things thus, like when "video on the iPod is stupid".
Great!

Time to upgrade.

Just as a side note, I am looking forward to the day I won't need to recompile LLVM as well.
It is worth noting that the OP is calling this tool pithy (terse, meaningful). In an application I'm working on [1] I have several lines of jQuery and string concatenation to build some simple content.

It's probably overkill to use a full-blown client-side templating engine, but my current code leaves much to be desired. I think pithy.js might be a great fit.

[1] https://github.com/crabasa/seattlehacks/blob/gh-pages/calend...
As time shows, even if you have never been in the US, never done any business in the US, and done something that is not a crime in your country, you can still be extradited and put on trial there based on accusations made by large corporations and media companies. Imagine if Saudi Arabia tried to get you extradited because you broke one of their laws even if you've never been there - they would be told to go and fuck themselves. Yet when US makes such a request, most EU countries will jump like a schoolgirl and happily comply.
I did a back of the napkin calculation the other day to see if a botnet could reasonably reach the 50% computing power required to overwrite transactions. The largest known botnet (BredoLab @ 30,000,000 bots) with modest hardware could have potentially done it. This computational power is a multiple of the combined computing power of the top 100 supercomputers in existence today.

Of course, botnets are frequently on older machines, so the actual computational power of BredoLab probably wouldn't have been enough. Also, as popularity increases, this will become less reasonable.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486433
Yes, that's true.

The problem with timelines is that you need to check them all the time to see if anything has changed. Also managing a list on twitter is not great, i found.
I'm not saying there is, I'm saying there could be.

Say I owe money in those bills for instance :)
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My dad earned 'the equivalent of' an MSc in the air force in the 70's. Those qualifications didn't translate well in to the real world back then.
ECDHE used?
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A general technique for automating NES games
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She talked about that on Colbert a little while back.
The shape of the graph proves it's a bubble? I don't own any bitcoins, but this kind of silly fud makes me think I should buy some...
Call me a noob, but I have never been properly introduced to Rust. Does anyone know of a good article or walk through with pros, cons, and examples?
In the US recording child pornography usually carries a larger penalty than raping a child.
Imagine walking through the park at night with Google Glasses on, recording what you see. And there is a rape going on - congratulations, if you go and report it to the police, you "might" be put in jail for longer than the rapist. Unlikely? Maybe - but it's completely within the law.
"rather than burying $1,000 under a black volcanic rock in a dry stone wall next to an old oak tree"

Shawshank Redemption.
Yeah I understand all that. I sent you an email.

"Now, the problem about real-world data is that it does not come in the form of a simplicial complex."
Not really true. real world data comes from a low dimensional manifold complex + noise.

I thought PH would extract the manifold but I could not get a tractable solution.
Right, but they are all in the process of being standardized. The idea behind them is that they WILL be written using standardized APIs
Nice to see Rust gaining traction.

We need to have more safe alternatives for systems programming.
Unfortunately, I'm not finding the numbers I need to get a good estimate. The important question is what portion of petroleum use winds up servicing those poor people versus the rest of the economy, because while it is certainly true that a small percentage increase in the costs of necessities hurts these people disproportionately, the money returned is a much greater portion of their income, and could very well dwarf the increased costs (indeed, this is what I would expect).

The very worst case, of course, is any who find themselves paying higher prices but unable for whatever reason to access the stipend.
Finally, a decent storage engine for MySQL.
> Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump

Is this comparison serious? See below

> their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump)

that's over the course of 6 YEARS. the most recent 100% jump in BTCUSD took 14 DAYS.

> drop back down to US$1.20 in 2010 (25% drop)

that's over the course of 2 years. Last August, BTCEUR took a 25% tumble in 5 days.
You could probably set up a filter, but this is sort of like asking if you can ask the USPS to not deliver any mail from a particular individual.
John Resig breaks down asm.js
Their FAQ [1] claims "will provide a substantial system latency reduction" but
what that actually means in real numbers is currently undisclosed.

[1] http://hybridmemorycube.org/faq.html
Unless we know what the spending is on, it's impossible to evaluate that. But good point. If the growth in spending is on sales side, then maybe so. If the growth in spending is tied to tech / product evolution and associated growth in market reach, it's a good thing probably.

It's one of those things where you can't evaluate the area of the fractal problems. You could drill in more and more, but at the end of the day it's never obvious. Or at least the biz circumstances that are obviously good or bad are kinda rare. I think.
That's certainly fair, although the error message gives no indication of that and appears to be a problem with the FreeBSD-update infrastructure.
> If someone buys it like crazy, why would the price go down?

If someone has all the bitcoin in the world, why would anyone want some?
I don't think that applies in this case does it? On the front page for all of the mirrors it says: "The latest release (2013-04-03, Masked Marvel): [R-3.0.0.tar.gz], read [what's new] in the latest version." With the [] as links to the release and release notes.
A browser engine is an awfully portable thing. For a consumer, switching between them (e.g. from Firefox to Safari, whatever) is just a question of minor UI skinning. I don't see that it "benefits" any OS in particular. Assuming it's universally better, Android and Tizen would need to port from WebKit and Firefox from Gecko. If it confers a true competitive advantage, they'll all do it. If not, some probably won't.

For myself, I'm skeptical. There's really nothing "wrong enough" with Gecko or WebKit that I can see another option really being that much better. Developers love to rewrite stuff (obviously both Gecko and WebKit are already effectively rewrites of pre-existing technologies), but the market has a long history of not being nearly as enthused. But I'm willing to be proven wrong.
Agreed. My apps still have plenty of users on iOS 4.x.
You forget people can join the game by just accepting BTC as payment for their goods and services.
Perhaps "market cap" is a better word.
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Been using storyworth with my dad for the last few months. Learning new things about him is awesome, and he definitely wouldn't be interested if this were just a mobile sorta thing. Keep it up!
More money is not what is needed here--we already pour tons of money into cancer research. What's needed are new ideas. If you really want to fight cancer, skip the startup and go to graduate school. Computational and mathematical approaches to understanding and fighting cancer are still in their infancy. There is a lot of scope for smart, motivated people to do good.

There are a zillion[0] talented young programmers who have figured out that the VC-istan game is rigged (I like to believe that I helped with that) and who would readily work on machine learning for cancer research at a market salary.

[0] Zillion probably means "tens of thousands", but that's a lot. A good programmer costs $125k to hire and is worth $1-2M to the economy. Thousands of programmers = major muscle. Tap that piece of A! (A meaning "awesomeness potential".)

$100-150k, machine learning, saving lives? Shit, you'll be turning people away.

If it's government-funded it doesn't have to be in a high-COL area where 100-150k, while respectable, isn't raise-a-family money. But you could do this out in a place like Minneapolis where people can raise a family on that and (bear with me, here) therefore actually find programmers with more than 10 years (!) of technical experience who want to stay on real work (!!) instead of becoming useless executives (like VC-istan's VeePees of BizDevolution) because they can actually raise kids on what they make (!!!).

It's about the people. But the nature of the real world is that it takes money to hire people. So, indirectly, it is about the money. We should spend less money on pointless, illegal wars and more on the disease that's actually (if we don't fucking do something) going to kill a large portion of the people reading this.
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I expect to see more and more attacks on the concept of bitcoin because it exposes the flaws in modern fractional reserve banking and fiat currency issued by central banks.
Indeed. If you stand back far enough the behaviour of humanity seems completely insane. I wish I knew what to do.
I feel you.

The deathism of this thread, on a site read by technically-oriented people, where problably many agree with the computational theory of mind really makes me lose hope in the human kind.

It's not thinking that cryonics is not worth it. That's a reasonable position. I'm undecided myself. It's that response, that fighting death is somehow unethical or naive. That Death is Good, Part of the Cosmos, Don't You Dare, whatever.

Man, talk about Stockholm syndrome. Well, fuck it:

>>> DEATH IS BAD. <<<<

Yes it is. We die because we don't know how to avoid it, not because is good, natural, right or proper. Our bodies are machines that we don't know how to repair. That's all. We may invent lies to make ourselves feel better and maybe that's a natural strategy to cope with the HORROR that is death, but we are still fooling ourselves, and most likely keeping the problem from being solved.
This is the best talk I've seen on Rust so far.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Rust

The tutorial is also pretty good (as are the supplemental tutorials), but they don't yet give you the full picture. For that you'll have to play and experiment and read some code.

You might start here for some code to read:

https://github.com/pcwalton/sprocketnes
How are you going to keep this hypothetical honor student down on the farm? [1]

In other words, once the employee has the skills to earn $85k, why should she wait six months for her giant raise when she could just switch employers and get the giant raise right away?

Not that this is the reason why the fantasy scenario doesn't work - if it were reliably possible to turn a raw recruit into DHH with six months of training, the fact that we'd have to pay market rates the entire time would be the least of our problems. Indeed, it would not be a problem at all.

A real reason why more companies don't try training up raw recruits is that (a) running a school is a specialized business and (b) the yield is far less than 100%, so it only works at scale. You need to admit - optimistically! - 10 or 20 bright and motivated nonprogrammers in order to graduate one person who, after six to twelve months of training, can be expected to successfully attack problems like:

"A customer has called; he has an obscure problem with his web site. Help him debug this problem over the phone. You have no access to the code or the server."

or

"Here's a legacy codebase that spans 267 files, two major versions of Rails, and three generations of programmers. Improve it. Don't break it, though, because our revenue depends on it."

or

"Here's a collection of 175 cloud instances running in Amazon. Build a system that reliably backs them all up once a day, with no downtime, and that can verify on demand that those backups exist."

or even something as "simple" as

"Here is a Wordpress site with a handful of specialty plugins installed. Here is an empty Git repository. Fill this Git repository with Rails code that implements a site that looks and acts exactly like the Wordpress site."

[1] http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/andrewbird/howyougonnakeepemd... - this song is now 95 years old, so I guess I better footnote it!
Rust is interesting enough that I'm pretty sure it will do with or without Servo.
Wow, Mozilla is making a really big marketing push for asm.js.
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Slightly Off Topic: Wasn't Rust suppose to be the codename or working name of the languages. Or Has Mozilla decide to simply use Rust as its official name?
Sadly I think we squandered that chance. We had one cubic mile of oil. We're half way through it. The rest is being burnt off at record rates. This was a one time energy bounty.

We're mining ores with tiny percentages of what we want in them nowadays and at increasing energy cost.

We had a bounty of natural resources that we could have focused to get off this planet and become an interplanetary species. I suspect we will never get there as we've squandered these resources and overpopulated the planet beyond carrying capacity.

If you're waiting for a miracle solution, or believe alternatives will solve everything I recommend you study the principles of energy return on energy investment.

It makes me sad but I think we will never colonize other planets.
If you LOVE science fiction already, I'd go straight for the jugular and start with Excession. It's hardcore, it's full of awesome technology, it will blow your mind and forever seduce you into the world of the Culture.

If you're just a normal science fiction fan, start with Use of Weapons. It's complex and sci-fi-ish enough, but not as hardcore as Excession. The plot is amazing. To me it is one of the most memorable books of science fiction that I've read. It really made me question some basic beliefs about ... well, you'll see.

If you're a normal person, who wants a slightly softer intro into the Culture universe, or someone who's not particularly into science fiction, Player of Games is a great starting point because it is less about the tech and more about the ideas and the people, but nevertheless a great book.

Ultimately, the only one I wouldn't start with is Consider Phlebas, which is good, but imho nowhere near as good as the rest. To me, Consider Phlebas was about the same level as, say, the Reality Dysfunction by PFH - great space opera, fast paced, gripping, but not exceptional in any way. Every subsequent book (with very few exceptions) is not just great, but also unique and different from all the other science fiction books out there.
Zappos CEO buys 100 Tesla Model S sedans for his Project 100 initiative
The counter shows only 210 people have been to it so far. Reallly cool find!
> 41% of deaths are due to cancer.

That's not even true if you look only at rich countries - cardiovascular diseases cause more deaths.

The amount of effort, let alone money, spent on cancer research is already obscene compared to what is spent on other serious problems.
> Inflation is bad, but deflation is worse. [...] People hoard their cash, and spend it only begrudgingly, on absolute necessities. I see how that is very different from the way capitalism works at the moment. But, conceptually, would it really be that bad?

Would it be better to have government responsible for most investment ? I don't really care about consumers hoarding their cash - they'll buy the things they really need or want. But I am concerned if investors are better served by hoarding than by demand deposits or any other kind of debt instrument. This could drive up interest rates to unprecedented levels. Higher interest rates mean higher cost of goods and thus higher costs for consumers.
I don't think even bitcoin enthusiasts are saying bitcoin will be stable in the near future. Only that once it's widely adopted and reaches its growth potential or near it, it will then be stable.

If it is to be adopted widely, at some point it has to go from being distributed among a few million, to being distributed among a few billion. The continual price rise will correlate with that adoption continuing to happen.

So yeah, I understand all these arguments about volatility, but the reason they don't bother me is because they don't seem to point out anything bad about bitcoin in principle, in the long-term, they only point out the negative aspects of using it as a currency while its undergoing its adoption phase. I don't think there's actually any argument that using bitcoin as a currency right now isn't going to work as well as dollars/euros.
That, or changed to, "Collection.get() which accept single _id_ of model as parameter like follows..."
I think this is going to come into play quite heavily with Amazon Cloud Drive vs. Dropbox, given that Dropbox uses S3. Disk space will always be cheaper for Amazon.
> Imagine a sucker who took out a loan in bitcoins a few weeks ago — she’d never be able to pay it back today

...unless her income is also paid in Bitcoins.
It's awesome that language design is being promoted as a significant part of this project. Good design from the ground up.
Another convention I'm missing is capital for "Classes" the model is a model class, not an instance

var imageModel = Backbone.Model.extend...

Should be

var ImageModel = Backbone.Model.extend...

Another thing, adding to the collection using add is not the best practice IMHO,

imageGallery.add(images);

As far as I know it will trigger the add event for each model being added, I prefer adding multiple models via the reset method

Don't want to criticize the OP or something (I've read mostly great posts from mrbool...) but if anyone new to Backbone intending to learn from it, I suggest to take it with a grain of salt (and as other's stated, it's not using the latest backbone version - 1.0)

There are many great free resources for learning Backbone.js (backbonejs.org is one of the best, but not always easy to get started from there)

But I found that spending a few dollars on paid courses is sometimes worth it. I'm not affiliated, but for me there were 3 that I found well worth their cost for learning backbone quickly (using relatively "latest" best practices, as much as latest is a moving target)

1) code school's (part 1 and part 2) - simple but practical

2) tuts plus (also 2 parts, both are great), 2nd part has some free videos on nested collections, must watch

3) peep code (3 parts) - the only that I haven't used personally, but it got great reviews

I think backbone is here to stay, Angular / Ember might be nice for a new project, but if you want to refactor without rewriting your code from scratch the Angular or the Ember way, backbone is simply great for the job.
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I thought Blackberry/RIM actually WON one of those, but then ended up paying $300M anyway? The press reporting was unclear, but that's what it seemed like had happened, which never made any sense to me. Maybe it was still pending an appeal by the patent holder?

Again, I don't know enough of the specifics. I'll ping him and see if they did that.
In this case however, and in two of the examples you mentioned, these are no "unintended consequences".

The laws are deliberately broad to allow the interest groups that lobbied for it to basically lay down the law without pesky democratic interference.

In this case, it's corporations that want to arbitrarily add new restrictions they haven't even thought of yet (or perhaps have already), so they want a broad law they can later redefine and apply as they please. Making breaking the terms of service crime allows them to do that. It basically allows them to write their own laws, including absurd ones.

In two of the examples you've given we're talking about laws that have be devised by people that want to enforce a repressive sexual morality on society. It absolutely is their intention to make any sexually oriented activity by anyone under 18 illegal.

And the sick part of it is, that by making it illegal in practice, they slowly manage to convince the rest of society things that used to be perfectly normal and harmless are now Very Bad Things(TM), which in turn allows them to push even further. See also: the history of copyright.

This currently happens in every Western country. We are considerably less free than the previous generation, and things are getting worse. This is not "unintended", there's a method behind it.
IMO not the performance of DOM but the DOM itself is the biggest blocker to a good experience (user and dev)
Right, no doubt the prices you mentioned are valid, but for domestic flights. I mostly fly transatlantic with Delta, that's why the upgrade (and its associated costs) is not a no-brainer for me.

Also, I only snagged the exit row seat for the return flight. I don't qualify for Diamond level with Delta, as I fly with several different airlines (non-Skyteam). With Delta, I do qualify for 50% discount on upgrades, I listed the fees that basic members would pay.
BTC is still the adoption / speculation phase. As the market share increases, it should tend to stabilize. If Felix is saying that Grandma shouldn't take out a BTC loan, then I agree completely. But it might be a different story in a few years.

Also remember that there are two sides to currency volatility. If the USD/BTC rate is changing, it could indicate USD volatility.
That was the essence of my suggestion above.
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Not only from Ian Rankin, as it was also in the original statement: "I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honour of becoming my widow."

That last past is almost a six word story, but sadly reality instead of fiction.