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The way I understand it is this : if an implant is nice and smooth and well integrated with it's surrounding tissue then a titanium implant is safe. Safe in the sense that the immune system won't attack it just because it's there, like it would with metal or frankly almost any substance (the 2 exceptions are titanium and gold, just ask someone with earrings what happens if you insert a silver or metal earring near a scratch).

If the implant has sharp edges, or rips into the surrounding tissue, or otherwise causes cells to die or prevents repair of damaged tissue somehow, the immune system will go looking for a culprit[1]. If it decides that the implant is the culprit, bad luck. It will attempt to surround the implant and expel it. Depending on the size this may or may not work (this is what happens to splinters of wood that get into your body, for example). This can even cause the immune system to decide a bone is the culprit, if it does you have rheumatoid arthritis (it's a condition that you are very likely to get if you live long enough)

Furthermore, implants may actually infect, as in a bacterial colony may develop on their surface (because the contact surface with the immune system is much smaller, an infection has a bigger chance to maintain that position. Always keep in mind that the immune system wins against bacteria not because it's better or smarter, but because it has 80kg of cells working logistics for it). The same can happen to bones.

[1] To be exact, cells have an "alarm" signal molecule floating inside them. If the cell is ordered to commit suicide (apoptosis), it will put out an enzyme that neutralizes this alarm molecule before ripping itself to shreds, the same will happen if the immune system orders a cell to eat itself (autophagy). But if the cell dies for some other reason (e.g. getting ripped to shreds, explosion due to infection, ...) the alarm signal will be spread into the surrounding tissue where the immune system can find it. When it finds it, it will come in force to check out the situation. If it keeps seeing this signal without finding a cause, the immune system will go insane/react badly.
ItBe BS.
How does this affect you?
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well, it's an interesting article, but there's no explanation as the title suggests.
One of the problems with NDE reports is that it is not clear exactly when the experience occurred. While the patient's brain may not function at all during the medical procedure, it is far from certain that this is the time NDE is taking place. It is very possible that the whole experience occurs shortly before the brain loses function or shortly after it regains it.

Another problem is the memory of the witnesses, like in the "shoe incident" described in the article. It's been known that people who come to believe they are witnessing something extraordinary suffer from great amounts of confirmation bias and other memory-distorting psychological effects.

Finally, as always, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. NDE is a fascinating topic deserving rigorous scientific study – one that might shed light on some of the mind's mysteries – but in no way should a relatively small number of reports change our complete view of the mind-brain problem.
Non-invasive glucose monitoring is a holy grail of biomedical engineering. For diabetes management alone, it would be a multi-billion dollar product. This questions why it would be launched in this sort of way - the credientials of the people involved in the project would presumably allow them access to the kind of capital needed to launch a real medical device.

Also in that non-invasive glucose monitoring has had a considerable research effort behind it, it is suprising that the 'solution' would come without lots of press coverage of the science, let alone the product.
> You don't need to hack someone's account to send mail as them, you just need a server that will get into the popular services.

They emailed me on an address only used by them in their email, and not in any other service. That only way I could get spam on that address is if their email was hacked. (Either remote, or locally via their desktop.)
Shame on you, Yahoo!
The "jacks" they are referring to are the openings in the skin where the wires come out of, I'm guessing one for data and one for power.

Artificial openings in the body are very difficult to keep from getting infected.

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/images/FF.Sight...
But aren't the click farms in every verticla, in every location?
I haven't spoken with him recently, but I believe that Dave's still the first one in the office every morning, writing stunningly tight code and driving innovation most recently in the Xbone hypervisor. The engineer's engineer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler
You know you're right. Bye bye Y Combinator.
I am not yet at this age, but the older I get the more I appreciate hacking. It really keeps me from falling into the 'things were better when I was young' hole that older people are prone to falling into. It is also really fun learning new things all the time.
I agree with the emphasis on an interface specifically for TVs but I really hope that non-optimized apps are still installable.

Sometimes even a non-optimized UI is better than no UI and pool of apps that might be useful to me is much larger than the pool of apps that will be converted to run on the a form factor.

I'm also hoping that they don't cripple the web browser. Once again - most websites will suck on the TV but let me make that choice.
Snow Leopard apparently, which was released in 2009. Ubuntu's policies on the subject seem to be about the same age.

I suppose I should've said that up until five years ago, nearly everyone was using powers of two for file sizes. And Windows/Mac never used the correct prefixes.
The obvious exception would be file uploading, which can and should have a true progress indication.
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I would like to see a version where the progress bar fill-color gets brighter colors as it nears completion.
Even if you're just implementing TLS using an existing TLS library it's easy to get that wrong. TLS is a pain.
Ah, the fond memories of learning programming on my Commodore 65.536 while growing up...
This was publishd 17 days ago. Clicking "more" reveals they wrote further articles about this:

http://pando.com/tag/healbe/

Wow. If this turns out to be a scam, and IGG is doing nothing about it and saying "none of this stuff that looks terribly like a scam seems to be a scam so just go ahead and give them money", they should be liable.

Ok, if it's not a scam, I will happily eat my words. But if it is, I almost don't see the problem with the company itself but rather with how the platform is handling this.

I am very curious to see how this develops.
The author seems to be highlighting the accent because after some research he discovers that the CEO actually isn't in San Francisco.
> Also in that non-invasive glucose monitoring has had a considerable research effort behind it, it is suprising that the 'solution' would come without lots of press coverage of the science, let alone the product.

I've been talking with a Gerontologist doctor who has been actively monitoring patients with diabetes in my town. She is an incredibly up-to-date doctor. She told me that any kind of therapy or approach that doesn't bring $$$ back to the pharmaceutical companies (involving long term treatment with supplies) is immediately abandoned. Research from major players is money-driven and nothing more. She mentioned a couple of cases which I can't recall.

I have high hopes for this project and for Google's Contact Lens[1]. Let's hope it flies...

[1] http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12300CTY4...
Could even use gallons per 250 miles as a fair approximation in US-style units, and I think it's a more practical measure than gallons per mile since it indicates perhaps a week of moderately heavy driving.
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As disk sizes started to increase, the difference started to matter more and more. 1KiB is only 2.4% more than 1KB, but 1TiB is 10% more than 1TB.

I think it makes sense that this didn't become significant until disk sizes started reaching GB levels, and therefore manufacturers' choices to switch to base 10.
Ken Thompson [1] is about as old as modern computing, and can in fact claim to have partially invented it. He is over 70 and last time I checked he was still working for Google. His most recent project well-known to the public is the Go programming language. So it is certainly possible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
Ward Cunningham and Charles [Chuck] Moore come immediately to mind as hackers in their 60's and 70's respectively.
@colmmacc would you please mind submitting or sharing the link to the book, paper or ressource you think that teaches the elegant Advanced Functional C Programming techniques you mention? I'd definitely upvote it.
Sorry but that is the dumbest thing I've read all day.
Companies need to send out an email to all employees every morning reminding them of the most basic law of corporate communications:

"When you speak to a customer, reporter, friend, or any other person not employed by $Company about $Company-related matters, you are acting as a public representative of $Company.

Regardless of whom you speak to or in what context, you must assume your words will be repeated to the entire world as $Company policy.

Your words will be read/heard and interpreted by people of every conceivable level of intelligence and education, in every conceivable cultural context. Even people who have never heard of $Company before and know absolutely nothing about $Company or the matters you are discussing will form opinions based on your words.

People more intelligent, better educated, and more experienced than you in the matters you are speaking about will also read and interpret your words. Then they will speak publicly about them, and further influence others' opinions of $Company.

There are no exceptions."
There's a big section on the IndieGogo page about how he is a doctor in St Petersburg. The author highlights it as thought it were suspicious.
about as old as modern computing

Because Knuth is five years his senior?
This is the reason why seminars are not good for learning. Art Markman discusses that issue in his book 'Smart Thinking.'

Basically the human mind can only hold limited amounts of information at a time in short-term memory. If we contemplate what's on our short-term memory, the probability of it being stored in our long-term memory is much higher.

It's like reading blogs one after another. Later on we have difficulty recalling what was on the previous blogs that we have read (of course there are exceptions, for the geniuses out there).
On paper maybe, but in reality, most cars still consume between 5-10 liters per 100km and more, if you have the horse power.
No one argues that the SI prefix G- is base 10

Except when they do. Amazon Web Services uses 2^30-byte GBs for bandwidth and EBS disk sizes. They measure EC2 ephemeral disk sizes in 10^9-byte GBs, though...
Maybe Hiku could offer their services to the rest of the world? From its homepage, I don't get it whether its business model requires tie-in with a retailer.
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It's not a total scam, but their use of the word 'exactly' is obviously fraudulent. They admit themselves to measurement errors. That being said, it might be good enough and the next version even better. Crowd funding is about funding things that disrupt. If you want to buy finished and complete, go to your local best buy..

I've participated in a number of kick starters, they all have delays and overhype. That's ok with me. I love bleeding edge tech.
I think there is this big confusion about jobs and money. And that the psychological view is overlooked.

We want to feel important. And we want freedom to do whatever we want to do.

While automation gives more freedom, it makes us feel less important? What we can do with a washing machine, everyone else can do too.
But the question is, do they want to?

With more automation we will see more and more services. And even more possibilities.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/06/11/97253...

It's a tricky topic and as Raymond correctly points out, giving people a term that they don't understand probably serves little to no good purpose.
Lots of UIs for archives allow the extraction into a new directory automatically named like the archive. So why should a user who uses a tool like that even think about it.
The confusion arises from the fact that, when referring to RAM, we (mistakenly) use 'kilobyte', 'megabyte' or 'gigabyte' to mean 2^10, 2^20 or 2^30 bytes. The replacement terms of 'kibibyte', 'mebibyte' etc. do not appear to have gained widespread adoption. One can nostalgically appeal to the good old days in which a megabyte was a megabyte, and screw the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, but those days are long gone.

However, in common usage we now have the pretty awful scenario where, if a person says "a megabyte", the actual number of bytes they're talking about can change depending on where the data is stored! A megabyte of RAM is not a megabyte of hard disk space. The solution would be to standardise on binary prefixes, since we pretty much have to talk about RAM that way, and a consistent measurement across different media is eminently sensible.

The "hard drive maker conspiracy" story is driven by the fact that manufacturers have no real incentive to switch to binary prefixes, because that would make their drives look "smaller". Do you want the 300 gigabyte drive or the 279.4 gibibyte drive? Aside from the fact that hardly anyone knows that a gibibyte is, in the absence of any more information the larger number is probably better. Even worse, if you created a 300 gibibyte drive to compete with the 300 gigabyte drive, consumers would probably not realise that the 300 gibibyte drive is bigger. It's not exactly a conspiracy, but it is a suboptimal arrangement that results from the manufacturers' incentives.
I didn't understand which hashes you are talking about. Do installs usually provide a checksum or? I have not found any that do, or maybe I just ignore it.
I'm "only" 39, but it's been 30 years since I've written my first line of code. And I have to say that while things have changed a lot, the basics of how it is to program and how you write code, are still the same. I find myself applying techniques I've learned back then, and even though I haven't written assembly since the 80s, the basic low-level understanding of how it all works still serves me to this day. The main difference is maybe how accessible good info is now. Back then each programming book was a treasure that was passed around.

I often wonder how much of that will stay the same 30 years from now, and I hope I'll still be hacking then. My bet is that we'll still have some versions of programming languages we know today, maybe even Linux running it. But it will be much more exciting if that won't be true :)
... and as recent public revelations have shown, having dedicated cat5 or fiber between your servers/datacenters doesn't prevent attackers from reading that data; this approach would inconvenience NSA more than that.
AHem, read the criticism of this wikipedia article on one of the Authors of Proof of heaven:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Alexander_(author)

No science behind it, etc..

It seems to me even reading about the critics that Neurology is a very young science with not all its Science Processes and Measure snot fully established yet..
any kind of therapy or approach that doesn't bring $$$ back to the pharmaceutical companies (involving long term treatment with supplies) is immediately abandoned

So... you're saying that they spend millions of dollars on clinical trials, and then they abandon these products? Because there have been plenty of trials for non-invasive glucose meters -- unfortunately, they all fail horribly at producing consistently accurate readings.
Geometry and mechanics are beautiful to me, but even many mechanics problems are more elegantly using the methods taught in physics over those taught in maths (mechanics), simply because you if you use the right derivatives or logarithms to start with (e.g. energy instead of speed, decibels instead of absolute power) then you often avoid having to touch calculus, logarithms etc entirely.

The beauty in maths for me has always been in finding ways to use it only to the extent that it makes unintuitive problems more intuitive. Math for maths sake isn't intrinsically beautiful, because for most of us it's more like having all the cheat codes to a game when the levels are too hard than figuring out how to play.
There's an article in the New York Times today that covers diabetes management technology and the large recurring costs of diabetes supplies

http://nyti.ms/PxdJNO

As others have said, non invasive monitoring is the holy grail and huge amounts of money are looking for a non invasive solution. But innovation here is likely to come from a start up that doesn't have the existing recurrent revenue model to be disrupted

But it's really hard. I think the chances of this particular one being a scam are pretty high
UUIDs (depending on the version) could be easier to guess than a hash or random string.

See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt -->

6. Security Considerations -- Do not assume that UUIDs are hard to guess; they should not be used as security capabilities (identifiers whose mere possession grants access), for example.
Indeed, the original PC/XT 306-4-17 drive contains 10,653,696 bytes, or slightly more than the 10MB (10,485,760) it was advertised as.

Ditto with flash devices; due to their addressing architecture, they are inherently binarily-capacitised(?) I have here a 16MB USB drive from when they first came out, and it stores exactly 16,777,216 bytes, or 8,388,608 512-byte sectors. Back then, flash memory was all SLC and it was reliable enough that only the few spare bytes on each page were needed for remapping/ECC and the OS's filesystem bad-block management could be used.
If this sort of thing interests you then I'd recommend following the Codrops blog. They are always coming up with very innovative and interesting stuff.
There is most likely extensive damage now due to taking the interface out, so there might not be enough neural substance to attach anything to anymore.

> Did the system damage his visual system in his brain?

I know of no working system that attaches directly to the optic nerve, and the article is very light on details. I assume these implants worked by projecting light on retina remnants. In cases where the eye is destroyed but some of the light-sensing apparatus is still intact, there is the potential for a device that sends light directly into the remaining rods and cones.

This is different from a direct electrical interface, which remains the holy grail of brain-machine interfaces.
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There's another hterm, an xterm implemented in js and shipped with Chromium OS:

- https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hter...

- https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/nass...

- https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/forum/chromium-ht...
The PDF doesn't actually describe the technology or science as far as I can see. It does include quite a lot of handwaving. There are tables of results, but none independently verified.

From what I can tell, it all comes down to whether its claim to use impedance at different frequencies to measure blood glucose levels. There's no indication that this is possible. There's a lot of talk about secret algorithms, but algorithms are only as good as the data they can be fed.
Being able to verify the hash of the file can help ensure it didn't get corrupt in transit (rather than maliciously tampered with).
My brain certainly does not see "maths" as beauty. It sees it as a spelling mistake and it hears it as an awkward jumble of sounds that have no business being together.
Greetings to HN! I am very proud to have been featured in HN at least twice.

I take inspiration from a quote last year from Nellie Kroes - European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda. She's an iconic fighter for Openness - goes on Spanish hack camps with 14-year olds. Hopefully accurate:

"I'm 71. I don't do this because I have to but because I want to". [PMR was also 71 at that stage].

I take "hack" as a very positive concept - from its roots in MIT and the Hacker Manifesto up to HN and "hackdays" and "hackathons".

I started my communal chemistry code ca 30 years ago - in FORTRAN - and it's gone through C++ (including f2c), and now Java. There have been six major revisions of JUMBO.

I had the major epiphany about 15 years ago when I was writing molecular display in Java3D (argh!). I realised I didn't have to do this all myself - and so integrated the magnificent Jmol into the system. That led to the culture or sharing the load and fighting the battles communally (standard chemistry software is awful, highly prices and restrictive - one company will sue you if the publish the output FORTRAN log file).

I shan't give my life history , but I have been incredibly fortunately to find like-minded collaborators both locally and globally. Locally it came from Jim Downing who just us about 9 years ago and showed us how to use all the right ideas and tools (JUnit, maven, Jenkins (CI), Bitbucket, Stackoverflow, agile (stand ups, dojos, etc.).

The great thing was that we shared the load. We met at the Panton Arms every Friday lunch and would often work there in the afternoon. Yes, work - where ideas would flow freely. The core of hacking is not writing the code but working out what needs to be written.

We are committed to excellent software, not competitive academic impact-factor points. That meant we could do things properly. FWIW our work has gone into Cambridge Chemistry's submission for the evaluation process.

We're proud that many of our tools (OSCAR, OPSIN, ChemicalTagger, JUMBO) are robust and distributed without major maintenance need. This is unique in chemistry. As a result I catalysed a unique - zero-cash community - the Blue Obelisk (http://blueoblisk.org and Wikipedia). 20+ F/LOSS groups work in unplanned parallel ways and have created some of the best chemical software.

We are now moving into a major effort to extract all scientific facts from the current literature (contentmine.org just released). The major challenge will be lawyers. If any Hackers want to take part in knowledge liberation we'd love to hear from you.
I don't think that giving the users something that _is_ wrong is a better solution...
Why not switching to GiB? Power users would understand, and others wouldn't even notice!
ES6 introduces the 'let' keyword which gives you block scope: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Browser compatibility isn't too bad, but no Safari support it seems: http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/#let
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I consider both scenarios you described to fall squarely under my definition. Think about it, in both cases you learned about the prospects through their employment at said company.
As others have pointed out, the titanium remark is a non-sequitur. The infection was most likely caused by the implant breaking the skin, which is an absolute medical blunder to begin with. For the device to have had any chance of working in the long run, it would have to be completely sealed within the eye socket. In there, it could be recharged using induction and it could receive data through an optical or radio interface that sends signals across the skin. There is not a lot of information about the device or the procedure they used to install it, but the whole thing sounds as if it was poorly conceived.
Do you mean superfluous, or rather superfluous?