skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point.

You can look it this way: life after rewarming can last for hundreds of years, easily a thousand as medical technology will have advanced at that point. People are currently willing to pay $100k in medical bills to extend their life by about one year with 50% chance, which means that the cost is $200k per year.

Cryopreservation also costs about $100k (slightly more in real life I guess, I'm rounding numbers for simplicity).

If cryopreservation has a 1% of success to extend life by 1000 years for $100k, then they will "buy" 1 year for $10k. Of course, you can change the numbers (in any direction), e.g. 100 years of life would come out to $100k per year, still cheaper than what most people are willing to pay today to live slightly longer. The 1% success rate is rather pessimistic, too.

If you take quality of life into consideration, the argument starts to favour cryonics quite heavily (we can assume that life is a lot better in the future thanks to advancement of technology).
Ask HN: Mobile app with 2+ million downloads, what next?
I built a throwaway iOS messaging app that so far has over 2 million downloads.

User retention and engagement is low because the app relies on the built in iOS messaging components.

HackerNews, what should I do with this asset?
The biggest difference Discourse is a Ruby application that is installed on your own server - and it cannot be integrated on your site, at least at the moment.

We can reduce trolling and memes with UI design and by not allowing pictures or rich text editing. You can see it already on our new forums:

http://moot.it/forum/

The things are properly aligned and clutter is gone.
Is this becoming a joke or something? In every god damn Bitcoin thread there is a very smart person who always asks the same question. If you are so serious about it why not just use Google?

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=is%20there%2...

there you go.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=way+to+sho...

FYI asking this question does not make you seem like a financial genius nor is it a witty reply.
That sentiment may be common, but it's by no means universal. Even if I suspected a crash were coming (which I do -- end of this month or early next month, after it hits $200-225), that wouldn't affect the fact that I'm buying, simply the price I'd be willing to buy at. It's all just a matter of risk vs reward.
Will you offer the ability to backup comments / forums in the future?
Writing the formula down on a piece of paper doesn't by itself count as thought though. I haven't read the book so can't really comment what the author would say, but to load the formula into your brain and think about it in a useful way is very different than plugging it into a calculator or reading the formula.
Audio: Robby Russell on zsh and the bash vs. zsh debate
It's Clojure, not Closure. Google Closure is an optimizing JavaScript to JavaScript compiler.

I'm not sure Go try to replace C. Most (all?) embedded systems need to control memory allocations.
Windows 8 Development Kit for Mac Sells Out in a Half-Hour
Yes, you pick whether your comments are linear or threaded and you can mix and match (use threaded in some places, and linear in other places). It's configured simply by how you embed it.
Your chances are around 1:50? 1:10 if you really pick companies well (in that case you should just invest in the stock market).

Each hit will net you around 1 million in 4 years. Average it out, and you are looking at 1 million in 40 years.

You can make far more bonus money at a good software corp...
Every couple weeks the mining difficulty adjusts to keep the rate of bitcoin generation relatively constant.
Claiming that getting a tax credit is equivalent to taking "your" money is a totally absurd notion. Neither it is your money, because you didn't earn it in the first place (the person receiving the credit did), nor would eliminating the tax credit lead to you having to pay less taxes - the government would just be spent the money for other useless crap instead.
Thank you for this good example. We'll study this one more closely.
Pushing an update and adding affiliate links in the app?
> 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.

A little off topic, but I just have to ask, at what age does it go from repressive to appropriate?
Bitcoin's utility as a proxy-USD will remain as long as a USD / BTC exchange exists. Whether it is or isn't a buble doesn't really matter if you're only using it as a proxy. If it isn't a bubble, then hoarders will profit strongly from BTC. If it is a bubble, then hoarders will be punished.

If you don't want to take that risk, just exchange the BTC into USD at the end of every day through MT. Gox.
How to choose a startup to work for: think like an investor
AMD offers open-source Linux driver for hardware video decoding
Great work with HN-Books!
Koller's class is difficult, but it's a graduate-level CS class

A graduate level class is not a guilt-free pass to make it "difficult". A course no matter what level, should be engaging and challenging. It need not be difficult to be an engaging course.
Interesting article... but what blew me away was the page itself. Is this a CMS or a custom job? It looks fantastic.
You must be quite young. Come talk to me in ten years.
That's kind of exactly it, I think.

I don't know anything about the Infancy Gospel other than what I just read in that Wikipedia article, but I'm familiar with two old ballads that are right along the same lines:

"Cherry Tree Carol": Joseph is being mean to the pregnant Mary because he's not the father, so Jesus speaks up from the womb and commands a cherry tree to bend over for Mary so she can pluck cherries without reaching. Then Jesus (after being born) prophecies his own death. http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch054.htm

"Bitter Withy": Three "young lords' sons" won't play ball with little Jesus because he is poor, so he builds a bridge of light and walks it; when they try to follow him they fall and drown. Their mothers complain to Mary, and she spanks him with withy branches. He then curses the tree. http://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thebitterwithy.html
Thanks for this - I read Consider Phlebas and was very underwhelmed by it. Just now I struggled to remember much of the plot even though I read it less than a year ago. I'll check out some of your other recommendations.
You have a limited number of hours. VCs have money to spread to limit risk. I think that if your an entrepreneur and your not 99% sure your idea is going to work then you shouldn't waste yours or anyone elses time or money on it.
I was wondering, with the JS and all, how are the forums from an accessibility perspective?
In the short term, 90% of bitcoin's value is driven by speculation of future adoption, as you say. If it does become widely adopted, it should be far less volatile than it is today, but it will remain more volatile than well-managed fiat like the dollar, since the supply of bitcoin is inelastic and therefore cannot react to fluctuations in demand. So, it might end up looking more like gold, rather than a "demented Internet stock", but it'll never be as stable as the dollar is today.
The 300 is this http://www.mfoundation.org/index.php?pagename=mj_donations_t...
It's a fund raising scheme by the Methuselah Foundation where everyone pledges to give at least $100/month for the next 25 years.

Not sure why the OP says it turned out to be useless (haven't followed much the Methuselah Foundation lately)
Your right. I shouldn't have said "exclusive". I shouldn't be posting when I'm sick. Mea culpa.

Instead, what I should have said is, cancer rates are significantly higher in "western" countries and certain kinds of cancers have seen dramatic increases, such as breast cancer[1] and prostate cancer[2], as countries have "westernized". As countries westernize, rates of these cancers increase.

1. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

2. http://www.healthandenvironment.org/prostate_cancer/peer_rev...
I appreciate what you're saying, but see my response below about semantics.

If you are calling it a metaphor, then aren't you calling ALL equations metaphors? That is doing violence to the meaning of the word "metaphor".

There is for sure a "relation" (or association) between the symbols e^i*pi = -1 and the picture of a unit vector on a complex plane. But that relation is not a metaphor.
link to actual rdio blog post because I hate gizmodo

http://blog.rdio.com/us/2013/04/introducing-vdio.html
ASIC miners won't make it out into the world fast enough to drop the average time between blocks dramatically. At least, it seems very unlikely to me; the difficulty will just slowly go up to go along with the new mining power. (For those who don't know, there's a difficulty value across the network that keeps the average mining time between blocks (currently 25BTC, or $3325 at time of writing) at an average of 10 minutes, to ensure a continuous release of bitcoins.)
Your comment surprises me. Maybe I don't undertand the DOM as well as you?

I don't think a DOM tree is necessarily all in memory. For performance reasons you might cache the tree in memory, but that's not a requirement.

You have to query it, right? Of course you can query for the same element multiple times, so it's not cursor-based. But the engine can generate the tree in response to user queries instead of storing the entire tree in memory.

What do you mean by pull-based API?
Tesla’s new non-lease option: Dishonest
Surprising to see six pages of text in PRL.

It's well-written paper; it'll take a few reads to really grok the measurement. Kudos to the AMS team for sticking closely to the facts.

AMS NASA webcast will be at 1:30 PM EDT. (CERN webcast is already complete?)

http://ams.nasa.gov/
The goal is to raise user engagement by providing a useful service.
Too bad computer and internet literacy tests are not required to be eligible to run for Congress. Our systems is so messed up because members of Congress are living in the Dark Ages in terms of their knowledge about technology and the internet, and the only ones feeding them any info are "rights holders" (read lobbyists).

Jack Abramoff was on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" on Sunday night, and all I can say is, we're f*&^ed. I think I will start donating more money to EFF.
> The idea that they'll "still work" in non-optimized browsers doesn't seem too convincing

The BananaBread demo ran very smoothly at fullscreen, 1920x1200, on Firefox 19. I was very impressed. I'm running on old hardware: a 3GHz Core2 Duo and NVidia Quadro 1700. I know it's not a full game, but it's awesome anyway.
Why do you think $200-$225 is the number it will hit? Why do you think end of this month or next month? Why not this week or 1 year from now?
Surely the impact of Webkit has been greater than that of Gecko? Webkit made decent mobile browsing possible, and until recently Gecko wasn't available in mobile browsers.

Gecko did put a dent in desktop browser usage share early on (when Safari was Mac-only, and Safari for Windows has never caught on – for good reasons), but the desktop is quickly becoming the second screen. Nowadays, most sites are built for Webkit first.
IF you make less than 100k in SF, you are doing something really wrong...
Introducing Vdio
It's like Christmas!
When I posted the article, I added the word [Soon] to the title. I guess a mod removed it, even though it's more hyperbolic now...
paddy_m said browser engine, so Chromium doesn't count. And WebKit wasn't actually new; it was based on KHTML.
Totally agree. This is the advice you should take. I talk from my experience.
Yes. Data export is coming. The first blog entry says it:

http://moot.it/blog/release/beta.html
What is wrong with STL iterators? To see the shortcomings, let's dream up a better one and then compare.

Our hypothetical interface to iterators will have the following methods:

bool not_done(); // Is the iterator done?

void next(); // Move to the next value. Throws exception if done.

Foo value(); // What value do we have? Throws exception if done.

Our data structures will support the method iterator() that is the moral equivalent of begin().

We already have the equivalent of STL iterators. You just change:

for (data_structure::iterator it = foo.begin(); it != foo.end(); ++it) { /* do stuff with it / }

to

for (iterator< fooish > it = foo.iterator(); it.not_done(); it.next()) { /* do stuff with it.value() */ }

So far uninteresting. But with this new interface we can add four interesting templates in a straightforward matter.

1. Take an iterator< fooish > and a function that maps things of type fooish to type barish, then produce an iterator< barish >.

2. Take an iterator< fooish >, and a function that maps fooish to bool, then produces an iterator that gives you just the ones that mapped to true.

3. (Generalization of the first two.) Take an iterator that produces things of type fooish, and a function that maps fooish to iterator< barish >, and returns an iterator< barish > that just maps each value from the first to all of the bars that it produces.

4. Take an object with a method that produces things of type fooish, and produce an iterator< fooish >.

These are all simple to define given this interface. What do they allow us to do? Well the article that introduced me to the idea of iterators was http://perl.plover.com/Stream/stream.html - absolutely everything in that article is straightforward with the interface that I described and absolutely none of it is easy with STL iterators. (It is all still actually possible, but tricky. Proving that fact is left as an exercise to the reader, at which point you'll know why people don't tend to think about problems that way in C++.)
Show HN: EmberScript - Ember.js Infused JavaScript
Google+ gains support for full-resolution photos, looks to replace Picasa
Interesting -- there is no such link in the page that I land on.
It's not a currency either.
787 words and still so low on anything resembling content.

Does anyone have some comments regarding voting agreements in the context of VCs ?
Seriously, America - What's with the complete 3rd world acting?
Christianity has a lot of fanfiction, and large chunks of it have been merged with the canonical scripture in the popular imagination. Ever noticed how the devil doesn't actually feature in the bible anywhere? Yeah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha
I don't think that definition helps much[1].

For one, arguing that the cause is usually central bank inflation would eliminate a great deal, including the dutch tulip bubble.

What about bubbles that took place before central banks existed or were powerful?

What about bubbles that had nothing to do with inflation like the tech bubble?

Must other markets remain stagnant to satisfy this definition of bubble? What if one market goes up a little, and another goes up a lot?

If there is an underlying cause, how can the movement be "for reasons unknown"?

Can bubble tendencies occur in only one direction? Is it not possible to have a bubble in negativity towards something?

[1] I may be an armchair economist, but my armchair is located at a large academic institution.
Though you're probably right that rich text editing does enable less meaningful discussion, I'm still sad that it's not a thing. I've always quite liked being able to write using, say, markdown.
> Don't forget that bitcoin can be broken down into arbitrarily small fractions.

Yeah, I too found that to be conspicuously missing in the article.
The Quiet Revolution in Programming
The key is the word that traditionally comes before bubble, speculative. When price action is more or less entirely driven by speculative forces as soon as you get a shock everyone runs for the exits.
My Little (Global) School
Since I actually pay taxes (you know, that thing adults do), I doubt that this will work for me.
Throughout its history, HTML has always been a disaster when it comes to cross browser interoperability. Apps have always been desinged for the vogue browser, which has changed from Netscape to IE to webkit now.

The more you abstract, the more functionality you lose and the more generic your mobile apps will look. Facebook learned this lesson the hard way when they tried to make their mobile App in HTML5.

CSS, javascript, and DOM are just kudge piled upon kludge.
HTML5 trying to shoehorn poorly thought out technologies created for hyperlinked static text documents into dynamic applications.

Until some disruptive technology completely replaces that massive HTML5 spec you speak of, the natives apps will always rule the mobile space and performance critical spaces.
So it's a mental illness now? (Obviously I kid.) but seriously, that excludes hackers from being (for example) parents, because if they aren't eating they aren't paying attention to their kid. I suspect it also means they don't have a social life. If you want to continue the stereotype where hackers are people who care more about their computer work than they do about most other parts of your life (think RMS), then go ahead. I never stopped to think that even though I frequent IRC channels, know words like 'grok' and 'ratfor', and can recite the pdp11 instruction set, I am not a true hacker because even though it's a love of mine, it's still less important to me than things like eating, sleeping, socializing, exercise, friends & family, dating, paying bills, and relaxing. In short, though I call myself a hacker, I am too healthy to be one because I'm not obsessed. However, if someone were to behave as you said, I would refer them to therapy and medication.

I'm not trying to diminish the work of the mentally unsound: some of the greatest hackers and artists, I'm sure, fit your description. But "real" is a horrible word for it in that stinks of elitism and an extremely unhealthy outlook on life. Please don't use it, for the same reason we don't use "real patriot" or "real rock music" or "real literature". It's either subjective or wrong.
Cancer Genetics Goes Indie: Decoding Annie Parker Premieres
Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
Yeah, I've heard of the FDIC, it's no magic bullet, and it wasn't created to insure people getting mugged in the street.
Thanks. I am going to try it out.
You know how things work in the "real world" of law, but for those of us that are not lawyers, these things are extremely scary.

Also, while the perpetrator might stay in jail longer in this hypothetical scenario, the fact that the other person might have a longer sentence is screwed up.

I don't live in the U.S., but I tried to be involved in politics in my country and have even sent a bill to our parliament :) (which is mothballed somewhere :P ).

I believe both the U.S. and my country would be better served by less laws and clearer ones (for cases such as this). In the U.S. Judges and juries seem to have more leeway, at least (as your example implies).
Well, that's exactly my point. In a system with a fixed money supply (all things equal) the only way to have price deflation is to have greater output, greater productivity.

Now tell me again, how this is awful?

EDIT: As for the rent seeking.. If you hold your money for a while, while the productivity soars, then after a while you can buy more stuff, but only because the stuff has become cheaper.

As a fraction of total buying power you are still were you were before. Do you really call it rent-seeking?
This is an old podcast, but the content is not stale one bit.

This is also one of our top podcasts (http://thechangelog.com/podcast/), so I thought I'd share this here to get the Hacker community back into this topic and hear the details from the maker of Oh my zsh.
The greatest website on the entire internet? It's a hard argument to refute...
Correct. Technically, the contract is voidable by the minor in most cases. There's exceptions, and state rules come into play. For instance, I believe, in CA if a minor misrepresents his/her age, then the contract can not be avoided. In IL, I believe, that's not the case, the contract can still be avoided.
> You cannot short Bitcoins...

Surely it's possible to short any instrument? Just derive me some futures.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-short-bitcoins-if-you-...
What is wrong with STL iterators?
The code suggested by ajross seems more readable not just because it's closer to the metal, but also because reading it doesn't require memorizing many ad-hoc names like "splat" and "pluck", you just apply a few logical rules that you learned once. But there's no reason why code written with advanced abstractions couldn't be "locally readable" in the same way...
And we know for a fact that it's not possible to manipulate large networks of people in an organized manner...
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Where does C imply embedded only? The Go authors spent years writing non-embedded programs and operating systems in C, after Ken Thompson laid the groundwork to create C.
There's also Bittorrent's SyncApp to consider, though it's still in alpha:

http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
KJ? A pseudonym of Iain? I reckon she'd be highly amused at that...

"For example, I don't much enjoy reading Iain M. Banks, simply because his world-view and mine don't coincide much; but I’ve learned an enormous amount from his masterful use of structure and language." -- KJ Parker (http://www.orbitbooks.net/interview/k-j-parker/)
Open source's profound impact on the development community
"A dollar is only worth what someone will give you for it."

Dollars also have value because they can be used to pay taxes and settle other debts in the United States. It is not like people woke up one morning thinking that the US dollar was a great currency to use; it has actual utility.
You can write equivalent programs in C++, but if you learned Rust well I am not sure you'd want to.

The parallelism shown is still fairly coarse grained and amenable to traditional techniques. [...] If the redesign was using C/C++, they'd likely get the same benefits, just with uglier code.

I should hope so, Rust's parallelism is nothing new after all! (Okay, I know, you probably mean by writing programs using explicit mutexes and all that.) I really want to talk about the second part of the quote: what exactly are those benefits? I think you've excluded safety for some reason.

If Servo offers competitive performance I think it's most likely the whole engine will simply replace Gecko. I mean why would you spend the time and money to go from the safer to the less-safe code when you can use what you've got?
Mining difficulty is adjusted by the network to keep things nice and smooth. If the ASICs all came online at once and managed to really, massively increase the hashing ability for a while then it might do something. But most likely whoever holds the ASICs wants to avoid this situation, and ramp up in such a way that nothing is disrupted. That way they can quietly corner a good percentage of the mining without screwing the price.
You can do quoted- and syntax highlighted text. That's all. I'm sure someone sees this as a limitation but this is what is important for us.
Problems with log-in, and when I manage to log in, my posts get canned due to server problems.

Any scoop on the problem? Is it traffic or something in the code?