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It isn't that they die - it is that they die before they can realize many of their dreams, before they can change the world in the way they have been working towards, before they're done.

We hate cancer because it takes from us those who wish to give so much without consideration. An indiscriminate killer that wastes our treasures away before our eyes, leaving us with only memories, partially realized dreams and the rage of "why now, when there was so much more good to be done?!"
I suspect "making available" would be treated similar to selling.

But if the law is as described in the ref'd comment, I wonder why there aren't sites or books that walk you up to the point where you can provide the invention for your personal use.
How do you like it? I was thinking of trying out the Silver membership for a month and seeing how it goes.
I quit my job for an Oculus Rift.  Here's our start.
Hey, HN!

I quit my job in cybersecurity to start making games. After my learning-experience-game SPACIOUS (http://www.desura.com/games/publish/spacious) was released in January, I got my hands on a Rift preview kit (the pre-Kickstarter kind) and started building a first-person platformer.

It's called Rift Rush, and you can check it out on Kickstarter here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lumina/rift-rush-first-person-platformer-for-oculus-rift

Feel free to use this thread if you have questions about the Rift or about the game. Thanks for reading.
It looks like there's at least one other fan of stuff blowing up here. I heartily agree that you needn't be a chemist to get a laugh out of it. Anybody who has gotten through 2 years of high school chemistry or a year of college chemistry would probably raise their eyebrows looking at his diagram for hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane [1]. And if you haven't had that much chemistry background, he'll shortly explain why your eyebrows should be retreating towards your hairline at maximum speed when you look at it.

[1] http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/11/things_i_won...
> No, that's not very rational. Cryopreservation may have low chances of success, but it's like a billion billion billion times better than just dying (which has zero chance of success). Nobody is claiming that cryopreservation is very probable, but it's a lot better than nothing.

That's basically Pascal Bet (if there's God you get infinite payoff, if there's no God you get finite negative payoff (wasted time caused by being believer), so to maximize payoff you should believe in God). The problem is - there are very many possible gods, many of them incompatibile with each other. You should consider the bet with ALL gods as possible options, not just some god versus no god.

Same with the cryogenic. You should consider the possibility that freezing you with our poor technology can make you unrecoverable, while some other technology could allow you to be saved eventually.

Also I'm sorry for Mr Banks, I love his books about Culture.
From the GDDR5 Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDDR5):

The newly developed GDDR5 is the fastest and highest density graphics memory available in the market. It operates at 7 GHz effective clock-speed and processes up to 28 GB/s with a 32-bit I/O.[4] 2 Gbit GDDR5 memory chips will enable graphics cards with 2 GiB or more of onboard memory with 224 GB/s or higher peak bandwidth.

So, no, it seems that's bytes.
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Aha, well, Player of Games it is, then! Especially since, like ceejayoz said, they don't really depend on each other. Thanks for the recommendation.
What do you recommend as a first book to read?

(edit: never mind, sibling thread has it covered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5485695 )
Viagra was an ineffective drug that now gets sold based on a side-effect noted during testing for it's initial purpose. Maybe that's technically "hard to discover" but it's not really what initially leaps to mind when I hear that phrase.
Angstrom-scale fidelity may not be necessary for preserving memories/personality/identity. The antifreeze they use is neurotoxic, which is a known problem.
As an added note, Biogen has a patient assistance program with no income limit. If you don't have insurance you get help and even if you do have insurance you pay nothing more than $10 per month.

I'd say that's a pretty good deal.
It does, the latest version 4.X has a linux export option.
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So your argument is that until it's "proven" that we can cryopreserve and then restore brains, the probability of success is zero? If you agree that the probability is non-zero, then you agree with the cryopreservation advocates. In addition, if you agree that it's non-zero, you must agree that it's better than doing nothing (which clearly has a zero chance of revival).

Cryopreservation advocates do not claim that the process is proven to be work, they claim that the chance may be small, but it's non-zero.

>"Nature"/"The universe"/"God" is NOT on our side on this path, so there's no room for optimistic thinking, we can only rely on cold (literally) hard science and math!

I don't even know where you're going with this discourse. If you're a utilitarian rationalist you can estimate the chance of success for cryopreservation and revival. It's quite easy to show that if the probability is non-zero, then it's beneficial to make such a bet, as the possible positive utility can be huge if the cryopreservation is succesful.

If you think that probability estimates are "not science" and therefore "irrational", you don't know what you're talking about. If you think that current scientific evidence shows that the chance of revival is zero, then you're clearly wrong (and that would contradict your own claims, as zero chance would mean there's no need to make any new experiments).
> quicker confirmation times

As the block time is half that of BTC, you need twice as many to gain the same stable blockchain. The confirmation time is the same.
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Bitcoin has everything it needs to become a major speculative bubble
I would take at least half use it as down payments towards multi-family properties. Or find a commercial real estate investor and he may be able to lead you into some safe investments.
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I'll grant you the ethics issue, but the entire healthcare industry is now riddled with so many perverse incentives that ethics barely even enter the picture anymore.

However, consider your question in the abstract: is a buyer entitled to the products or services of a seller on terms the buyer deems fair? (Solve for any values of 'buyer', 'seller', and 'fair').
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>You might as well argue that nano-bots will be able to reanimate a body that has decomposed, and save money on all the freezing equipment. Perhaps that will be the case if given enough time, but we seem to be a long way away from that technology.

No, you might not as well argue that. If you think you can, then please argue how you can retrive information from a completely decomposed brain. On the other hand, it's pretty reasonable to assume that a cryopreserved brain preserves a lot of the information in the brain.
They go as far as even replacing existing ads with their own, this seems criminal, especially when they are directly impacting google/microsoft/apple by removing their ads and replacing them with their own.
What pain does Facebook alleviate as a startup?
We hear and read in many blogs that a successful startup idea should solve a pain point of users. It would not be successful only if it is a cool idea but if it solves a real problem..

I dont see what problem does Facebook solved as a startup, it was a mere cool idea that has grown into a multi-billion dollar giant. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo did start as a problem solver idea but I dont think Facebook belongs to that genre, so I dont think 'it solves a real pain of users' is the correct way to see if a startup would be successful. What do you then suggest, how can someone know if a startup idea can be successful.
As a taster

Yep, [the stable-to-explosion sensitivity was] below the detection limits of a lab that specializes in the nastiest, most energetic stuff they can think up. When you read through both papers, you find that the group was lucky to get whatever data they could - the X-ray crystal structure, for example, must have come as a huge relief, because it meant that they didn't have to ever see a crystal again
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The cool part about this is that mobile network operators can potentially move their networks to IPv6-only and still support applications like Skype that are still IPv4-only. Yes, this was a demo of pre-production code, so it has to get out there into the actual devices. And the code was only for Android, so it needs to be for other devices, too.

So yes, this is not a solution that will happen today, but is shows the path for how a solution can be found to let operators move their networks to IPv6 even if app vendors aren't ready/willing to make the move.
If I'd been around 12,000 years ago to invest a few bucks, and it grew at a 2% APY since then, I would currently have enough money to end poverty and global warming, while mining the asteroid belt to build an Orion-class starship in orbit.

Why are you in favor of poverty and global warming, and against asteroid mining and starships? There's so much more you can do while you're alive than you can do while you're dead; and attempting to extend your time alive does not preclude enjoying it.
I'm fairly convinced that it's mostly marketing and hot-air. After all Barnes and Nobles managed to get 1/2 a billion dollars out of their legal fight with Microsoft, it seems unlikely that Samsung would just roll over.

But signing a bit of paper that makes it sound like a bad idea for competitors to enter Samsung's main money-making area and get some "marketing expenses" from a rich but strategy-bereft supplier makes good business sense.
Have you read this? http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/braincryopreservation2.htm...
A personal license of Umbrella by OpenDNS, which includes always-on laptop and phone VPN, is $20 a year currently. There are also features like Anycast that are not feasible to replicate on a personal server.

(disclosure - I start working with OpenDNS soon).
Printer view maybe?
This is great. Any plans to support nosql datastores like couch and mongo? These datastores could really use an exploratory interface like JackDB.
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Alcor FAQ states this:

“We know that secondary memory does not depend on continued activity of the nervous system, because the brain can be totally inactivated by cooling, by general anesthesia, by hypoxia, by ischemia, or by any method, and yet secondary memories that have been previously stored are still retained when the brain becomes active once again. Therefore, secondary memory must result from some actual alterations of the synapses, either physical or chemical.” — Textbook of Medical Physiology by Arthur C. Guyton (W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1986), page 658.

“Procedural and declarative memories differ dramatically. They use a different logic (unconscious vs. conscious recall) and they are stored in different areas of the brain. Nevertheless, these two disparate memory processes share several molecular steps and an overall molecular logic. Both are created in at least two stages: one that does not require the synthesis of new proteins and one that does. In both, short-term memory involves covalent modification of preexisting proteins and changes in the strength of preexisting synaptic connections, whereas long-term memory requires the synthesis of new proteins and the growth of new connections. Moreover, both forms of memory use PKA, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), CREB-1, and CREB-2 signaling pathways to convert short-term to long-term memory. Finally, both forms appear to use morphological changes at synapses to stabilize long-term memory.” — “Synapses and Memory Storage” by Mayford M, Siegelbaum SA, and Kandel ER. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, April 10, 2012, page 10.
I hope "the Vader Fader" makes it in to Facebook.
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No, I've asked how make my own crypto-currency, not how make bitcoin
To me, this plan implies that Tesla may be in big trouble. They are having trouble with financing these cars - that's a huge problem that they will have to find a way through, and this scheme strikes me as desperate (although clever).

Apparently, Wall St agrees with me, as the stock is down 8% today as I type this.
>Same with the cryogenic. You should consider the possibility that freezing you with our poor technology can make you unrecoverable, while some other technology could allow you to be saved eventually.

Yes, and that's rational. If there's another preservation technology that's better than cryopreservation, we should adopt that. There's nothing irrational about that. You just need to first invent such technology, and then provide evidence that it's better than current vitrification tech.

This has happened in the past. A few decades ago the preservation method was changed from freezing to vitrification, after vitrification was shown to be better.
This is fantastic. One thought - once you have some data on the top 20 (say over 3 months) you could keep track of items that regularly come up in HN discussions. Show them as popular or regularly mentioned.
But I guess that when the BTC bubble will bust, LTC will do the same...
This isn't true.

Ucode is updated every time you reset, and on each CPU. At the fab, the release ucode is burned into the design. But rarely does this last through the lifetime of a stepping. In fact, one of the main reasons why BIOS/EFI exists is to update microcode, and this is usually on one of the first things it does.

From the Intel SDM, Vol III, 9.11.6.1 "The effects of a loaded update are cleared from the processor upon a hard reset. Therefore, each time a hard reset is asserted during the BIOS POST, the update must be reloaded on all processors that observed the reset. The effects of a loaded update are, however, maintained across a processor INIT. There are no side effects caused by loading an update into a processor multiple times."

EDIT: I realize you were talking about it being a daily occurrence, and few of us reboot daily. But still, OEMs and most customers don't want a long boot time. Also note that in certain power states (deep sleep), the CPU is off, and waking up your laptop actually will cause a ucode load.
JackDB is about more than just database administration. There's nothing to install. And it's much more interactive.
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>You don't care who owns all the gold by which was all the currency once backed.. why would you care who generated bitcoins? This might be a very sloppy comparison since I have no idea how gold-currency worked, but my point stands

Actually, the need for an alternative currency to silver was a significant driving force in my country's history (it resulted in us creating a modern banking system ahead of many of our contemporaries, the effects of which are still visible today) - and this need existed primarily because so much silver was controlled by Spain, our enemy.

>Yes, there are and will be people who made fortunes out of this scheme. But that should not affect you.

Maybe it shouldn't. But as a human with a sense of fairness, I object to creating immense fortunes for those who did a relatively small amount of programming, or simply got lucky.
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I'll second the Rich Hickey shoutout at the end. I've been listening to everything I can get my hands on from him recently. He is brilliant.
3D printing != molecular synthesis. This may be an issue, say, next century, but we're nowhere close to it. If 3D printing an iPhone is going to the moon, 3D "printing" molecules from elemental sources is like going to Alpha Centauri.
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I'd suggest Player of Games first; I found it better as an introduction to the Culture. They're not really a series as such; his Culture novels share a setting but don't share any characters (well, almost none) or any particular plot continuity, so you certainly don't have to read them in order.

I'd suggest PoG as a starting point to explain what the Culture's about, which I think it does better than CP because the main character in that is not of the Culture. YMMV though.
Don't over-think it. It's not sinful to make a bit of money from a helpful tool. Don't even bother with the switch to remove the affiliate code, if your users can't grant you that, they can copy-paste the link and remove your affiliate code manually - that is, if they don't already have a browser plugin that does that for them.
Where did you buy the litecoin? And also, how did you transfer money into that exchange?

I'm currently looking at BTC-e.com for the exchange, and OKPay for money transfer, but... OKPay just feels wrong. They are asking for photos of my drivers licence and utility bills - seems weird.
By that same logic, most of the plastics you buy are heavily subsidized, since the raw materials are from the subsidized oil industry, the oil industry is protected by the military, and their production causes pollution.
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The person you've responded to never said we should live forever, nor did they say they hate the fact that people die; rather, they said they hated cancer. That's an important nuance you left out from assertion, isn't it?

Sure, you may not want people to live forever, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the above comment; indeed, what you've said might be viewed as somewhat callous when considering the context that someone has revealed that they have terminal cancer.
Most of these new titles seem to be rehashes of existing and less exciting titles.

"Business Analyst" => "Data Scientist"

"Customer Acquisition" => "Growth Hacker"

"Generalist Programmer" => "Full Stack Engineer"
It was in fact destroyed by the 6 year old Jesus.
Yeah, that seems to be the consensus. I'll go with that, thank you.
You could have the default be affiliate links and have an opt-out button that sets a cookie to turn them off, maybe.

That allows you to make both groups happy.
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This is generally a pretty heated debate topic, and there's no clear answer. Some people will be outraged; how dare you try and make some money!

But in general, if you're upfront and honest about using affiliate links (put a friendly notice in the footer about it), most people should be OK with it. I certainly am.
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Thanks for your feedback! Now I use number of mentions, aggregated points, number of users and their aggregated karma to build lists of top items.
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Man, would anyone really go this far out of their way to make sure another person doesn't benefit?
Wow. That does seem to require a crazy 512-bit wide bus though. The info I can find on HMC seems like it is achieving these speeds on a 16-bit bus and with much lower power requirements than even DDR3 so far.
QED is not the last word in a mathematical proof
I just happened upon this via HN Store [1].

I own several translations and have to recommend "The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations" [2] most highly.

1: http://www.hnstore.co/
2: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743233832/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
So the counter side to that is basically Biogen is bilking the hell out of the insurance companies. While it is noble of them not to screw over poor MS patients, they're screwing over the rest of the healthcare system instead.
Before I could formulate a reasonable answer to that question of whether this is "unreasonable" (leaving aside the complicated matter of what that exactly means), I'd be interested in a serious analysis of what the costs are; $50,000 may not be so obscene if their costs were $45,000/possible patient, for example. What's the floor here?

If the costs are $10,000s of dollars/patient even before the drug company needs to take profit (and have money to invest in their next drug, after all), then a full investigation of the "blame" for this very expensive very cheap drug must also be pointed at the processes that cost that much in the first place. If it's so bad that MS patients are paying $50,000/year, then perhaps the real problem (or at least a nontrivial part of it) is that the costs of certification have greatly exceeded the benefits.

(But people don't like to think in terms of costs/benefits when it comes to medicine and appear to be willing to incur enormous costs if it allows them to continue pretending they don't have to think about it....)
I would suggest reaching out to friends and family who may need websites built. Whether it is for their business or personal project, the best way that I have found to build a portfolio of projects is to work on "real" projects. By "real", I mean websites that people find value in and serves a purpose.

If you have something you a passionate about, like a specific video game or movie or tv show, I would suggest building a website around that. Doing work for people you are close with or on projects you are passionate about definitely helps.
If your car is legitimately used for business, I don't see why the IRS should be enforcing austerity measures.
Non-quality of code question, and sorry I haven't been able to parse this from the comments so far. Am I reading this correctly to mean that Comcast's method of alerting customers that they are close to their cap drives them closer to their cap?
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Thanks! Definitely. NoSQL support is coming soon, starting with MongoDB.
Thanks. I don't know why open source projects tend to make it so difficult to find out what the new features are in a major release.
I think that the comment was more about death by cancer than death itself. Cancer can happen at any moment in your life, and some types can occur without any apparent cause that we can determine(aside from twiddled bits in our DNA). When it happens, our own bodies rebel against us. Death by cancer can be long and extremely painful for the person dying as well as loved ones. Death is always difficult for the living to cope with, but it is a part of life as you mention. I think that a 'graceful death', one that occurs quickly/painlessly after a long life well-lived, is not a bad thing to want.
Whenever I send a "cold" email trying to illicit some type of response that is good for me, I like to add some product/company thoughts and ideas. First, it shows that you've spent a bit of time thinking about the company. Second, you've delivered value to that person and create a situation where the person feels they SHOULD respond to you.
The link to "try a demo" fails with a server error.
I reccomend you read the "How Doctors Die" article and comments posted here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5104430

Going through chemo isn't free of suffering. And in cases like Iain's it's often a question of having a "normal" 6 months of life or a miserable 8 months via chemotherapy.
Could you clarify? Humboldt University started granting PhDs in the early 19th century, Yale in 1861, so yes, of course there were PhDs in the 19th century.
Just as "equal time" for "Intelligent Design" theories is being proposed for teaching science in high school, it seems we ought to also give "equal time" for alternate theories of cosmology, including the Flat Earth theory. LOL.