skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand, it's pretty reasonable to assume that a cryopreserved brain preserves a lot of the information in the brain.

No! That's not at all reasonable. We understand very little about brains. We understand even less about deep-frozen brains.
> Nobody would pay $1BN for all of them, because that would render them all worthless

Not to nitpick, but do you mind elaborating on how so? As long as there's still demand for bitcoints, you could argue that they are worth approx. infinitively more.

Bitcoins will still be a scarce good. The demand will determine if they're worthless.

A recent (perhabs a bit far fetched) example of this is the bad loans in CDOs. Although they were rendered worthless, they increased in value because those who had insurances on the value of CDOs going bad, still had to buy the actual CDO in order to exchange it for cash. This happend because more insurances existed at AIG for the CDOs, than actual CDOs - thus an increase in demand at fixed supply so to speak.
A new storage engine for MySQL: PostgreSQL
Code here: https://gitorious.org/my-post-engine/my-post-engine/trees/master

Seems a way off production. Still, as someone who loves Postgres, and shudders at the memory of MySQL, it makes me smile.
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"gold has actual physical value, not because its shiny but because its useful"

Relatively true, but aside from the catchphrase, that has little to do with the goldbugs' obsession and speculation.
Mozilla And Samsung Collaborate On Servo, NextGen Browser Engine Written in Rust
This is great.

But even though I withdraw my invite, the invitation still sits in their inbox so when a month from now that person gets to it they get confused. My wish is that Linked in exposed the list that they are mailing. Do I really want the random guy from Craigslist joining my network. I'm surprised there isn't a larger outcry to their traps.
You're missing (at least some of) the point. It's useful to have different versions of the interpreter installed (at the same time) and easily accessible, and it's also useful to be able to switch between them easily. With the addition of easily switchable library paths (per version, as they show) as well, this makes it easily to test entirely different stacks easily.

Additionally, there's the problem of perl (python as well for the last decade) being used as glue for many OS-level tools. Have you ever tried replacing the packaged Perl on a n RHEL box? It's not fun. Also, since it's relied on by so much within the distro, the chances they are going to go through the trouble of updating the version and risk problems is very small. On enterprise distros, you are essentially stuck with an out of date Perl before the distro ships, and stuck with it for the long support lifetime.

This is frustrating to the perl community, as anything that requires "new" features faces limited adoption as a significant portion of the community can't run those versions.

That's not to say that packaging perl isn't the way to go. I believe in many cases it is. I also think it depends on your targets. Three webservers does not make the same argument as a farm of boxes. Even so, the ability to easily test and iterate in your dev environments, before committing resources to building packages and pushing them to QA, is a good thing.

Edit: Changed redundant "additionally" to "also" so it wouldn't bother me anymore. :)
The Carolla and Camry are successful only for their intense desirability, it's true.
Github issue etiquette
I'm not a fan of Bitcoin, but I think we're probably in for a deluge of #slatepitches linkbaiting us with coarse verdicts for or against Bitcoins for the next number of weeks and months.

Maybe we'll have to take some measures against these clogging the frontpage of HN.

I really liked The New Yorker's article on Bitcoin, which also served excellently to explain its history, purpose, and method: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/04/the-f....
I agree. The entire concept is about trying to be less invasive in the web browsing experience (by adding a popup instead of redirect the entire web session) but that all falls apart because of crappy JavaScript.
Not to mention commas.
HTTPS everywhere would solve this, and the Comcast Javascript injection - I wonder how many more people will deploy things like this before that happens?
Code here: https://gitorious.org/my-post-engine/my-post-engine/trees/ma...

Seems a way off production. Still, as someone who loves Postgres, and shudders at the memory of MySQL, it makes me smile. :)
Consensus seems to be Player of Games but I have to say my first one was Use of Weapons, which I picked up from a book store in London on a whim, one weekday lunchtime in the late 90s. It's a fantastic starting point.
Philippines Hopes Better Credit Rating Will Draw Investors
July 1995... the years are above the months.
What, because American don't buy products "Made in China" or "Made in Taiwan", now? They don't purchase Samsung or Sony products? You're claiming that Americans are "casually" racists with zero proof?

Please.
Snabb: My Lab
Every song played broken up by platform (Internet Radio 23%)
Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: JSON data generation
Actually, you need to do cohort analysis to see the risks in different age ranges rather than generalizing.

People in older baby boomer cohorts are doing better than younger generations.

"Decent nutrition has never been cheaper or more widely available."

Sugar/fat has also never been cheaper or more widely available.
Sad news indeed.

In keeping with his macabre sense of humour I hope he has a suitable Culture Ship names for the coffin. Dwindling Gravitas (VFP)?
Thanks, very useful for Sketch daily user.
To build a comparison of price indexes you have to have an exchange rate and products that are sold on two markets that use the two currencies separately, there's no Big Mac sold by BTC as far as I know, as such you have to find products that are sold in the market using the two currencies.

I can think of pot, and using silk road to build the index for BTC but as I see its prices are pegged to dollar and BTC is only used to maintain some anonymity of the transactions.

I'm not sure that if that's what you wanted.
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So - if the bitcoins quadrupled in value for a month this means two things:

We have 4 times as many goods and services offered for bitcoins or speculative bubble.

So unless we have lots of new businesses that accept them ... the market for bitcoins will be as fun as the Apple one.
That explains the dead birds all over RWC.
> Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump), only to drop back down to US$1.20 in 2010 (25% drop), then jump to US$1.45 in 2011 (20% jump), only to drop back down to around US$1.29 today.[3]

The USD and the Euro, in comparison to BTC, are magnificently stable.

Sure USD/Eur changed in relative value by 100% over the course of 6 years after the inception of the Euro. That's very stable for a new currency, especially in contrast to bitcoin. The BTC/USD rate has changed by 400% over the past 30 days.
Much like housing, shorting BTC is hard to do. I have no idea if https://icbit.se/ is reliable. If BTC crashes will they actually have any money to pay out? I've played around enough with real currency trading to know that even the big reputable companies screw over the little players all the time.
In general the Perseus Project hosted by Tufts holds all the original material, and most translations, from the Classical period one could want. Unfortunately it still seems to be running on the same hardware it was back in 1996 when I was making heavy use of it.

So instead, here is a public domain translation of the relevant section from Strabo's Geography. You're looking for paragraph 14, about halfway down the page:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/13D...
For me that's probably the worst part of the article. It's definitely rhetoric, and on brief inspection sounds quite impressive but says nothing aside from the authors wish to inject words like "mistrust", "anti-democratic" and "nihilistic" into the sentence with precisely zero logical support structure. If Bitcoin has no "self" how can it take responsibility onto itself, and how can it be nihilistic? Even when attempted to be engaged with on its own terms the sentence is devoid of insight, and just represents a cynical attempt to adjust the tone to support previous opinions.
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> But... knowing that they are not underwritten or backed, surely they're only "worth" what somebody will pay for them.

I don't understand how this is any different from a fiat currency. The value of bitcoins are currently being quantified by its exchange rate in USD. Sure, someone could buy all BTC and drive its exchange rate (and thus its value) down. Someone could also print more USD which would create a mass inflation and the exchange rate would be driven up. The exchange rate of all currencies would all be driven up, and the value of USD would go down.
I don't understand what "anti-democratic" means in this context, so I won't comment on that part. But I think the author is alleging that bitcoin is based on mistrust sort of in the same way that stuffing currency in your mattress is based on mistrust. If that interpretation is correct, he does have a point. One of the features of bitcoin is that it retains the benefits of keeping physical currency while also providing the benefits of digital transactions. But this seems to be uber-democratic, not anti-democratic, so I may be way off base here.
Some photos here

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-f...
You can only determine the Bitcoin value in another index if there are trades being made of Bitcoins for the item being indexed.

So if you want to create a BTC/Number of People Alive exchange rate, you need people trading lives for Bitcoins, which is a bit macabre.
This isn't a traditional lease, though. If you read the original article about the "new" financing product, you are purchasing the car. This makes you eligible for the tax credit(s).

After three years, you have the option of (a) doing nothing and paying nothing besides your normal payments. After all, you bought the car. (b) selling the car back to Tesla. You are not obligated to sell it, but if you want to, Tesla is obligated to buy it back. If you sell it to them you then pay the penalty.

So this hypothetical salesman need only not sell it to Tesla, or sell it to someone else after the tax credit period (which I believe is amortized over three years or something).
Gtk+ in the cloud
The only great change I can think of is getting cheaper MRIs.

The problem with MRIs is that there are so many false positives, but maybe regular scanning would help reduce that noise?

It is thought that most people fight cancer 5-6 times in their life before anything is ever detected.
And to be fair, the last number I saw on clinical trials estimated the cost at between 100 million and 800 million dollars per drug candidate, which means that the sunk cost of any drug that works is going to be pretty high right out of the gate.

On top of that, you have a VC-like model where the successes must also pay for the cost of failures as well as the funding of new R&D so that they can keep making new drugs.
Exactly. Interesting piece by a former Amazon employee: http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2012/11/28/amazon-and-margins

"If you have bigger lungs than your competitor, all things being equal, force them to compete in a contest where oxygen is the crucial limiter. If your opponent can't swim, you make them compete in water. If they dislike the cold, set the contest in the winter, on a tundra. You can romanticize all of this by quoting Sun Tzu, but it's just common sense."
Nothing new, there are loads of them all over the UK. For locations just see here http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/.
Yeah but you have to trust that Bitcoin's protocol actually enforces the security properties you want. Newsflash: it does not.
Thanks for the suggestions.
- Snooze is a very good idea
- Eek. I will look into this.
- I definitely want to play with snooze length a bit more. At the very least, I plan on making snooze interval be MIN(time_interval, 5 minutes) — that is, if you had a 1 minute timer, you'll get a 1 minute snooze.
Robin Hanson puts the probability around 5%: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/03/break-cryonics-down.ht...

The "non-zero" argument can be fixed simply by comparing relative likelihoods, or noting that while one can't ever rationally believe with 0% probability, you can use epsilon as a substitute for "it's more than 0 but I can't measure how much because it's so small". Personally I think there's enough evidence to put religious ideas of afterlife far below the probability of a single sha256 hash resulting in a new block in the bitcoin blockchain: http://blockexplorer.com/q/probability
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Why your Github Account is the Best Certificate you'll ever Have
More like we were used to hammers as fine art and flyswatters, when someone went "hey! what a great idea!" and patented smacking metal spikes with them. Such is a large part of the patent field: doing obvious things with common objects, before anyone else says "hey, that idea is obvious and the parts common!" and making others pay to do it.
Thanks for the bug report; will fix in 1.1.

You can change the overlay colour by clicking the blue rectangle next to the menu bar preview.
While this mentions Android, I think the biggest winners in this could be Mozilla and Samsung's own mobile OS's: Firefox OS and Tizen respectively. I'm hoping that if they're collaborating on Servo then the 2 platforms will hopefully become fairly interoperable (in terms of app portability).

Some further details about Servo and Rust can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/
"The first is just that it’s a bubble, and any chart which looks like the one at the top of this post is bound to end in tears at some point."

Wow very scientific, over time any hockey stick can look like a bump in the road.
read this before starting to books. It's a great intro to the Culture:

http://nuwen.net/culture.html
April Fool's was two days ago.
I don't have the coordinates of the excavation site but the ruins of the old baths are located at:
37°55'29"N
29° 7'29"E
Could he pool resources with others affected by the same troll? Busting these patents would benefit all these victims, and coming up with $3M from many sources would be easier than pulling this through alone.
Lock-in landing pages - the way to nowhere
I posted about this on reddit a few weeks ago[0]. Someone in the thread said they had contacted the Better Business Bureau, but I'm not sure what their process is or how far it's gotten.

There has also been a short email thread in which their official response is this:

> Mr. [redacted],

> CMA is in the process of trying to find ways to drive income from our internet service in new ways. These new ways would allow us to expand our service offering and maintain the cost of the current residential and business internet services.

> We’ve been testing a new service which allows us to overlay / insert some local advertisement on certain web pages. A company called Route 66 is our partner. Right now, you’re barraged with a lot of internet advertising, popups, etc… This has become part of the internet experience. At the core, we’re simply trying to better customize some of this experience. And possibly give you access to highly relevant local advertising.

> Having said that, I’ve recently become a little more familiar with what some of these ads look like and how they operate. I will concede that I’m not sure they strike the perfect balance between being information and non-invasive. Like I mentioned, we’re involved in a test and the feedback we’re getting from the test is helping us to refine and improve how (or if) we’ll continue here.
So I’m stopping short of saying that we’ll be ceasing this type of internet advertising experiment. But I do want you to know that your feedback has resulted in the beginning of a pretty intense internal dialogue.

> Thanks for your feedback.

> [redacted]

> CMA Communications

It's absolute insanity and a major breach of trust that they'd inject their own content into webpages I visit. I'm permanently using a remote VPN for all outgoing traffic through CMA.

[0]: Didn't know exactly where the post belonged, so I put it in /r/self: http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/19zhl6/my_isp_is_injec...
Yes, I agree it's non-zero. It's a (1. benefit) x (2. probability of benefit) / (3. cost) type of reasoning, and both (1) and (3) are subjective, so everyone can choose for himself whether "it's worth it" or whether you want it.

I'm just emphasizing that this technology is not a realistic solution to anything, just as a lottery ticket is not a solution for one's financial problems. I may choose to buy a lottery ticket myself, same as I may choose to have my head frozen, but I'm not going to consider this as a real solution to any problem - just like a lottery ticket, it may have more "entertainment" value than real value (though the "entertainment" value may be enough for me to buy it).

My only point is that we should always see the difference between "lottery tickets" and real solutions, and always see the former as what they are: hope growing "entertainment" forms... I know, most people don't like this way of looking at things and label it "dark and gloomy", but it's how I see it :)
The real key to any currency is it acceptance. When paper currency was first developed, it became widely accepted because the issuing government declared that it would be accepted as payment for taxes. Given the ubiquity of taxes, I understand the acceptance. What I don't understand is on what basis one can conclude that the acceptance of bitcoin will continue.
> Imagine a sucker who took out a loan in bitcoins a few weeks ago — she’d never be able to pay it back today. That’s a pretty good sign that bitcoins don’t work as a currency.

Is this a fundamental flaw that's always going to plague Bitcoin? Or is it just a growing pain whilst the currency grows and stabilises?
On the subject of Scottish authors and the UK welfare state - my opinion of JK Rowling went up quite a bit when I learned of her attitude towards paying taxes (and I'm sure Iain would approve):

http://timidheathen.tumblr.com/post/7043004518/jk-rowling-on...
I've added your ideas to my feature requests list; thanks for the suggestions. :)
Because the exchanges are immature and inherently untrustworthy. Icbit is no exception:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50817.640

Like I said, bitcoin is more of a toy than a currency. If I want to play around with fake money, I'll join a virtual stock exchange.
"they will be prosecutable"

Will they now?
From the OP's documentation, I don't think it's intended to be used for large templates where speed of render is important. It's main benefit seems to be as a more readable, less-error-prone alternative to string concatenation, such as in small snippets that are created by client-side-update methods.
Yeah, disbarring is not taken lightly since it's essentially ending their law career. The bar association would much rather wait for a criminal conviction before taking any action.
I have to (respectfully) disagree with you. There is literally no difference between what you see as a user whether there are affiliated links or not. So how does letting the guy monetize his project cheapen the thing?

It's not just a random list of products - the site is still the same - a cool list of products determined algorithmically by their mentions on HN. So why not let the guy earn a few bucks for putting it together?

I'd actually argue this is in many ways the perfect use case for affiliate links. The site owner has no bias - he's written a cool script to extract "votes" from the HN community itself, and as a reward for doing so, he should have the right to get a commission on sales. He provides value to the end user by aggregating product mentions, and he provides value to the merchants by highlighting products that might otherwise go un(or, less) noticed.

Thoughts?
That protection act is one thing, these terms of service is another. Why would sites like Popular Mechanics impose an age limit?
Bitcoins look interesting but the current price shift caused by interest in them is disturbing. Mining on anything but a current generation AMD card isn't worth the electricity and the advent of ASIC cards is going to make mining on any consumer hardware pointless. So you can't mine and you can't buy without exposing yourself to a lot of risk right now. Given the current bubble is based on people joining the game , that is a risky proposition for bitcoins as a whole.
You'd certainly need something that can install a new Perl runtime and install the CPAN dependencies to a separate directory from the ones used by the system. Otherwise you're tying your platform and your applications unnecessarily together.
"He soon became a specialist, specializing in diseases of the rich." - Tom Lehrer
When someone steals physical dollars from a bank branch, none of the bank accounts are generally affected. This is the 'trust'
Did you try any SQL injection attacks?
I'll see what I can do about the flicker; thanks.

I'm not sure I can detect whether another app is non-natively full screened, I'm afraid. I'll give it a poke, but to be honest, working with full screen stuff is a bit difficulty on OS X. The APIs aren't super comprehensive.

Filling up rather than emptying out is a fun idea; I'll add that to the ol' feature request list.
This will be a big win for faster web apps. DOM performance is the biggest blocker to having a smooth experience in the browser nowadays, not JavaScript speed.
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I guess they figure it's better to be safe than sorry? With the patchiness of laws viz., the internet, can't blame them.
The difference is that people win lotteries every week, and so far no-one has been frozen and thawed.

As we're using analogies: we know that machine-flight is possible. But how many people broke their legs after gluing feathers to wings strapped to their arms and jumping off a barn, flapping wildly, before Kitty Hawk flew?