skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's such a black and white issue. Apart from some nerd rapture/uploading the brain scenario (which I find preposterous, just IMO) true immortality is just not possible. Even discounting the extreme view of the heat death of the universe, I don't think even the most careful people would live to be more than a couple thousand years. Most would probably die of something in 2-3 hundred years - war, famine, disease, natural disasters, or just even dangerous activities (driving, skiing, hiking, skydiving, etc) would at least on average, keep a steady rate of deaths.

But I agree with trying everything we can to extend the life as much as possible. I just feel in the end, a 500 year long life would represent a pretty lucky person.

edit: just FYI though, I'm not a hater; I'm even a futurist and a tiny bit of a transhumanist.
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>when people like Elon Musk have shown you can do pretty much anything NASA can do privately at a 10th of the cost

SpaceX replicates NASA's orbital launch capability with efficiencies to spare. The redundancy does not, however, extend to deep space exploration, landers and rovers, and sundry scientific and technological endeavours with limited near-term profit potential.
Thanks for following up. The system is quite sensitive to connection issues as the cross-fading only lasts 5 seconds or so. Glad it seems to be working now.
Brain function 'boosted for days after reading a novel'
Sweet, Apple will make that amount of money in ~146 seconds. That will certainly show them.
So if we can also control the weather, would that be Utopia?
Yeah, I've seen this on my instance as well.

If the server was compromised... :\
Here be Fusion
Good point, I didn't check that before posting.

Probably what you already know, I see there you do have some VOIP options specifically for Turkey: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=turkey+voip.
Depends on what you mean by "harder to install malware on". Most of these machines are regular Windows, and inherit the default risk associated with such machines. The only difference is that some might have better hardening.
> I LOVE your "Fade to Silent in ___ minutes" feature. Perfect for inducing sleep.

Thanks! It's my favorite feature too. I probably need to tweak the UI a bit to made it to make it more prominent though.
Poka-Yoke at the Gas Station
>The problem with Bitcoin is that the people that informed about it are usually tilt pro-Bitcoin[1], while the people that are against Bitcoin usually haven't done enough research into economics, mathematics, and politics.

99% of this board haven't done the research Mr. Krugman has done in economics, or even have the experience in applied math he does.

But "those who are pro bitcoin are smart, those who are against it aren't", really?

From most of what I've read, here and on /r/bitcoin and elsewhere, Bitcoin proponents are utterly clueless when it comes to economics.
About Python 3
The authors seem confused by the purpose of the "Assume Unchanged" feature. According to the initial commit [1] it seems intended to be used as a speed optimization for crappy filesystems, and not as some way to avoid committing files with changes.

They also say:

> Of course, the user might make the set of files explicit on
every single commit (leaving out the database configuration
file), but this is laborious and error-prone.

I find this amusing given that I don't ever use "git add -u" or "git add -A" in my daily git life—"git add -p" is as close as I get (and commit-patch [2] is nice, too).

[1] https://github.com/git/git/commit/5f73076c1a9b4b8dc94f77eac9...

[2] http://porkrind.org/commit-patch/
Congratulations Dave, very nice work. I've been toying with the idea of starting to develop many small mobile and web apps during the course of next year, not really looking for revenue but for the sake of creating tools and games that might be useful for someone while helping me not to get creatively stuck.
The question really is: what aspect of you do you want to preserve? You will most certainly change over the years. You now will be very different from you in 100 years. Your immortal you in 500 years might be as different from your current you as your grandchildren. Do you really care more about your own existence in 500 years than about the existence of your grandchildren in 100 years?

The solution to immortality is to embrace the idea that you won't stay the same anyway and that instead of caring so much about your host body, it might be more efficient to preserve what you value in other forms: e.g. your genome and values in your children or your ideas in books. If you write down your thoughts into a book today, these thoughts are more likely to be preserved for 500 years than if you were immortal and relied on your memory.
Yahoo Ends 2013 With No Apps In Apple’s Top 100
Ask HN: How do you wake up?
I have trouble waking up in the mornings and maintaining a sleep schedule. What do you do to sleep and wake up at the right times?
We just did an informal survey and most people (of a handful) with an x230 reported some kind of audio problem related to the internal mic or USB soundcards.

Apart from that the webcam works and audio output as well and we're all pretty happy. (Ubuntu, Debian wheezy, Arch, OpenBSD)
Autoplay isn't required for these kinds of attacks. I'll confess that I did not watch the actual talk (linked elsewhere), so I don't know if that route was used in this case. I do know, however, that autoplay is not actually required.

Here's a video of a demonstration given back in November of a system (Crossing Guard) being developed at Dartmouth (under the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid). The attack takes advantage of lower level USB operation and does not rely on autoplay.

http://youtu.be/NIlmDpUDudo

[Edit: missing 'not']
Going back to the moon will be orders of magnitude more expensive than what Space X is doing, and knocking a zero off that price tag isn't going to bring it within the reach of private industry without Congressional support. As it is, half of Space X's funding as of May 2012 came from NASA pre-payments on launch contracts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding.

That said, I would love to see greater involvement of entities like Space X in a return to the moon. Space X has already proven it can do what NASA has already done, 50 years later, but at much lower cost. That's actually a pretty reasonable path to commercializing space. The problem here is lack of any market for the service. Space X worked because there was an existing market for launch services.
It's talks presented at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress , as these videos are pretty much just a couple of days to hours old, they're may not be edited or categorized properly yet..
Peter Thiel's version of this:
http://blakemasters.com/post/24253160557/peter-thiels-cs183-...
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I'll try not taking it the wrong way even though you're assuming that I'd be making low quality apps :) even though you don't really know my level of experience.

I was talking about doing specific niche apps by limiting their feature-set, not their quality.
Any time ^_^. The first step is to come out and say that longevity research is a scientific project, not a mystical one (there's no Truth of This Universe saying we can only live 80-something years no matter the scientific might we throw at the problem). That also carries some acknowledgements we need to make: biological immortality being discovered in 2060 will do you no good if you died of a heart attack in 2030, so eat healthy, exercise, and de-stress if you're really so devoted to long life!
Precedent changes (with respect to Smith vs. Maryland). This judge's bias is evident from the first sentence of his ruling when he invokes the memory of 9/11.

The problem is that to the lay-person, this reads like, "well, you weren't really supposed to know about it, so you can't do anything about it." Whether or not the ruling is legally sound is basically irrelevant now. It is a PR problem and no amount of "trust me, I am a lawyer" is going to convince people who know how to read that this ruling does not sound like total garbage.
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That's also in the article, they left auto-play running.

I'd bet they use standard PC motherboards. The only unusual things the thiefs knew where where to open the hole, and how to use the cash dispenser (altough, I'm quite sure one'd be able to get the entire dispenser documentation from Google).

Knowing that they are Windows machines, why don't people attack the ATMs by the network?
Fixing meta is easy, if for some reason it's broken, and it has the nice effect of also allowing you to use it for shortcuts in Bash and other readline enabled programs, not just in emacs. For best compatibility have your terminal output +Esc on Option/Alt.

The only other problem I had in terminal was getting combinations involving arrow keys to come across properly, but even that was a relatively easy fix.
Ask HN: What are you using Go for?
I'm interested in knowing what HNers are doing with Go (other than learning about it, though it would be interesting to hear about learning projects too). Thanks.
Thanks a lot! I totally recommend it, a confidence builder if nothing else. My site is down at the moment so here is a mirror on pastebin http://pastebin.com/gxJyGKhG
17 comments and none has mentioned SENS?

http://www.sens.org/research/introduction-to-sens-research
I think it's an expectations-management issue.

People (well, most reasonably aware people) understand that a cellphone is basically a small computer, and it has a processor and memory and storage, and executes code, etc. And it's nice to be able to update/modify that code to change how the device operates, and somewhat obnoxious when you can't. (To a limit: it's also obnoxious and dangerous when someone else can change that code without letting you know.)

In the case of SD cards, many people assume that they are "dumb" devices. They don't realize that they have a processor (microcontroller) which executes code, and that it's not functionally equivalent to a floppy / Zip disk / CD / pick-your-favorite-dumb-storage-metaphor.

I don't think this is the last time we're going to run into this issue ... an increasing number of devices have embedded, potentially-reprogrammable microcontrollers (laptop batteries, power supply bricks, headphones, to name just a few) that could be used as attack vectors, or as platforms for cool hacks.

The solution, IMO, is not to just further obfuscate the programming method, but to make the code easier to inspect/validate and maybe even reflash, so that users can ensure that the devices are running what they think it's running.
Debian: Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion
4.5 year old blog post that I didn't find any interesting information on. For example:

Exponential decay is sharp, but an exponential within an exponential is so sharp that I can say with 99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 130. (Ignoring, of course, the upward shift in the lifetime distribution that will result from future medical advances)

The author makes a hugely controversial statements saying that no human will ever live past 130 and then says, "of course, ignoring the most important variable".

Anyone interested in this topic might want to check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey
It's bribery, and if any UK banks are caught up in it, they face literally unlimited financial penalties and criminal charges against the directors, wherever it happened in the world. The article seemed to suggest US regulators were taking an interest too.
Do you not understand how far he stretched pen registers? Don't pretend to explain anything. You are merely excusing.
After off-and-on dedication to programming over the past decade, I've been working as a developer for approximately 1 year

Write again when you raise a seed round, then. Maybe you'll get there. I hope you do.

If you were from a rich background, you'd be turning investors away. You wouldn't even have to ask them for meetings and intros.
Or at least a right to a dignified and peaceful death.

I do think a society that 'solves' death would need some way of identifying when life prolonging therapy should be withheld and that this should not just be a function of income.

In effect our current "do not resuscitate" clause.
I don't really want to die, but if there was no end, I would keep wasting my time and life forever. Now I feel a sense of urgency to do something - and a short life with purpose feels better then eternity of boredom and procrastination - that's just my personality though.
Good interview questions for covering someone's true understanding of JavaScript.
So existing customers will have their possessions depreciated and new costumers will have less places where to buy iPads.
Yes, see my top-level comment in this thread. The key notion is that such errors are unrecoverable in a component, but you can recover from outside that component. So, if you are in component A, and you make a call to component B, and B has an unrecoverable error, B dies, but A can still recover.

Without code, though, it's hard to see how this will actually work.
I'd love it if you could post some demo's!
You're right, sorry & no offense meant. I was talking against a phenomenon I've (personally) encountered a couple of times in my professional circles, there are of course many worthy apps that can be developed quickly.
Almost half is effectively the same as 100%. You're buying a credential. It's like paying $350 for a weekend project management certification that has no test, and then complaining that you didn't learn anything.

Yes, technically they're lying. Yes, technically it should be a higher standard.

But if it's an obvious scam, it's silly to get so angry that you can't see or write straight. Sure it's worth sharing to the world that there are scam artists out there, but to get so worked up about it?
"once you have physical access to the internal electronics then the game is over"

Common... Someone used an X-acto knife to plug in an USB stick on a PC configured to auto-play it and we should take it as a proof that "physical access to the internal electronics then the game is over"?

Companies like Brinks are using special sprays that renders bills unusable in case someone tries to break in the safes if I'm not mistaken.

What about an ATM where any tentative of opening it to physically access the internal electronics would result in the ATM bricking and all the bills getting instantly sprayed as to render them unusable?

What about spraying the bills and rendering them unusable in case the ATM is powered down and making it impossible to install new software without powering the machine down? (so that when you come with your new harddisk and access the internal to plug it in, you're SOL). This would even have the benefit of rendering attacks of the type: "I come with a truck and steal the part of the wall that contains the ATM" impractical (yes, people have done these).

And where the only way to prevent that, for example during legitimate maintenance, would be to first enter a token generated by the ATM company and communicated to the (legit) employee doing the maintenance when he's working on the machine?

I've never worked on ATMs and I'm sure it shows, but that's not the point.

Honestly I find it quite sad that simply plugging in an USB stick allows to steal money from the machine.

I find it also very sad that several people here consider that "nothing can be done against a rogue employee" or that "nothing can be done if you have physical access to the internal electronics".

And I do honestly hope that people working on ATMs will start thinking about how to better secure their ATMs and which kind of trust systems can be put in place so that rogue employees (and other thieves) have a much harder time attacking ATMs.

"It seems to me the failure was using materials that could be quickly breached and then patched."

That is just one failure. The attacker exploited several holes and the answer from ATM companies should be more complex than just putting duct tape on one of the holes.
Nah, that's way scarier. Looking at the sweep of history, I can take comfort that my mortal shell won't last long enough to witness much more of the damn stuff, but I'm terrified that my thoughts and values are simply going to be swept away in a tide of blood and a return to a more miserable human condition.
A dictatorship doesn't necessitate evil or corruption.
In fairness, Musk credits NASA for laying much of the ground work.
Interesting notion. I'm not sure that works; if the cost of getting out is the only floor then I don't think it's really a floor. To get out, somebody else needs to get in, and if they subtract their trading cost from the value floor, they get zero.

I think that experiment has been done with paper currencies where people stop trusting the backing. It would still have the same cost-to-get-out value (indeed, I'd think that value would go up as the currency fails). I know the Ecuadorian sucre went from something like 500 to the dollar to 25,000 at the end, so it would seem that the cost-to-get-out value is small even with traditional currencies; given BTC's theoretically low transaction costs, I presume it would be even smaller.
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> Your immortal you in 500 years might be as different from your current you as your grandchildren. Do you really care more about your own existence in 500 years than about the existence of your grandchildren in 100 years?

As somebody with no kids ... yes.

This is a strange argument since at no time between now and 500 years from now will there be a point where I want to grow old and die. So asking me if I care about 500 year old me is irrelevant, I don't want to die.
> and six months (and $8 million) later a fantastic solution was delivered

In real life the solution applied wouldn't be this one, nor the cheap fan, but some dude being paid peanuts to shake each box by hand.
And for those of us who can easily find something to do on a rainy ~~Sunday~~ Shabbat afternoon?
I think corporations are similar to supercomputers. For instance delegation makes a lot of sense in embarrassingly parallel tasks, but can sometimes be for the worse if it means excessive io.
Maybe that is why people feel things are worse now. Things were no different before, but people had no idea, now they have some idea.
One consideration, is that prolonging human life into 100s of years would be very useful for colonisation of space.
Good post. I like the ideas of managing energy, in addition to time. In a similar vein, one has to manage their focus too. This means delegating things so that one can focus on other things. (Or more correctly, delegate and monitor if that takes less attention than doing or actively managing)
I fully agree. It's not something traditional payment systems couldn't do (at least in principle. In practice I don't know if they can operate on such low fees). The actual success of Bitcoin over the next decade is a much more uncertain issue.
Please slow down and be careful when you read. You've misunderstood my core point while also parroting back other things I said back in a highly patronising way.

>> You do realize that brains change in response to their experiences, right?

I made the argument that it's a combination of both nurture and nature. To quote myself: "It seems absurd to me that [...] there are so few people making nurture AND nature arguments."

What does the nurture argument mean to you other than the idea that are brains change as a result of experience?

I simply disagree that nurture and nature are mutually exclusive. Nature means that there might also be gene differences which cause different brains to start with or the later production of brain-altering hormones.

>> we still have no credible way to map those differences to phenotypes as complex and deep into development as "ability to program".

Likewise, I already said: "I'm not trying to make the argument that [...] I know the precise underpinnings of a decent model."

>> That said, if programming involved a lot of playing with toy cars, you might have the beginnings of an argument.

Why are you so obtuse? I did not make the argument that programming has anything to do with toy cars. I responded to a post which implies the differences between men and women are all stereotypes and that the differences which do exist are individual and bear no relation to their gender.

My argument is this:

1. Our brains are physically different.

2. Given that our brains are wired differently, it's highly unlikely for there to not also be differences in personality, desire and aptitude.

3. I agree with the nurture argument.

4. I also agree with the nature argument.

5. I think the burden of proof is with those that believe these are mutually exclusive to prove that this is the case.

6. In this context, I believe that both nature and nurture cause differences in society.

7. It looks like there are brain differences in boy/girl infants previous to socialisation not just in humans but also in monkeys.

8. I make a point that there is not enough empirical evidence right now for anybody to create a precise model of what is happening.

9. I make the point that we needlessly politicise the argument when we should just wait for science to come to some kind of agreement.

10. I make the point that it's not just traditionalists that are having difficulty with ingesting scientific results. I value those that can stop and change their value system based on any facts that they receive.
> wouldn't you like it if when you get an exception notification instead of just a text blob of a stack trace you can resume a continuation of the state of the system as the user saw it at the time of the error?

this, along with capturing headers (perhaps via webserver logs) as well as POST data would actually be incredibly powerful. There is a certain difficult class of bugs that this would greatly help mitigate.
thank you very much I love this stuff
Good stuff. Sometimes I wish more things on my Github account were visible, so I could experience an interview like this.
In Europe Apple provides you an option to buy this [1] device, which would make their devices compliant (as this has not been mandatory). Under new regulartion they could just bundle them.

[1]: http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD820ZM/A/lightning-to-mic...
Yes, but the private business model seems to be the best way to get more money into the space program. Apple has almost $150 billion is cash, and they don't know what to do with it. Google, Microsoft, etc also have large cash surpluses. Now if we could have 3 or 4 companies, anywhere in the world, like SpaceX, then we'd have hundreds of billions of dollars in the space program. NASA's budget is less than $16.6 billion for 2014.