skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of folks are asking about the math breakdown. So here it is:

- 3 employees discussing design at $110/k/y or $43/h napkin
- 1 founder discussing design at $90/k/y or $36/h napkin
- 1 meeting — $165

3 days of work to follow:
- 1 designer making edits — $903
- 2 working on projects related to said design — $1806

Total: $2874

- ~2 hour meeting to discuss, examine, make notes, etc. — $335

Total: $3,209.00

- Opportunity cost of founders 3 hours — $1,100 napkin (based on potential hourly value not pay)

Total: $4,309.00

Please note this is generally napkin math based on my own experiences & numbers. It is generally impossible to get an exact number but you can get very close.
Very interesting -- for my prior post, I had written another few paragraphs on the need for a public micropayments clearinghouse and how well it would support free-as-in-speech software and media, but then deleted them as veering too far off-topic. (I'm glad you posted yours.)

Why limit the clearinghouse to free content and techy interests? Why couldn't other publishers use it, especially those whose products are too cheap per unit to charge for them one at a time such as newspaper articles?

I see your ideas on that and on search (a very interesting idea) as ways Mozilla can leverage their very valuable asset, user trust. Essentially Firefox would morph into a client for many services. But we are getting very far ahead of reality ...
Url changed from http://m.fastcompany.com/3034895/strong-female-lead/the-one-..., which points to this.
I wonder how long until a cryopreservation startup sets up an office on a cruise ship or some other place so they can offer active shutdown to their customers.
>>Comments such as yours (and the parent above it) seem to believe that Detroit is down and must stay down.

It's not that it must stay down, but rather that it most likely will. The only reason it was a successful city at one point is manufacturing. Manufacturing has since left, and it's very unlikely that an equally lucrative industry is going to be able to fill the gap.

In general, it's much easier for small towns to become successful cities (as Detroit once did), than for decaying cities to make a comeback (as some people think Detroit will do soon).
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Procurement is an exceedingly hard problem to conquer and its acute for software. I personally think that government should move to a two tiered architecture. Creating API's allows them to make projects small enough that more nimble and agile firms can participate.

Philadelphia tried this exact thing and built its procurement atop Github:

http://civic.io/2013/03/27/experiments-in-github-based-procu...
I think it'd be less of a drag than being nonexistent.
You may wake up a stunted and brain-damaged version of yourself that is aware enough to know what it is missing.
Maybe he has been uploaded into the Bitcoin blockchain to be preserved by virtue of the tens of thousands of independent copies maintained all over the world. On a more serious note, I expect to see tributes to Hal embedded in the blockchain.
Show HN: Geo Coder Look Up for US ZipCode with Go Lang and LevelDB
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If there were no government or Friendly AGI doing it for everyone, I imagine it would chain backward through time: those still alive who are friends and family of the cryo-preserved would resurrect them. Then, those people would know older cryo-preserved people, and would resurrect them. (Unless, I suppose, the cost were exorbitant and the cryo-resurrected didn't have the means. But this is a future, post-death, probably post-singularity world; it'd probably be a society of abundance.)
Long-sought neutrinos answer burning question about the Sun
Is this the new iPhone 6?
> The problem is that you aren't just depending on future improvements in revival technology, you're depending on the current state of today's preservation technology (at the point you die).

When the other option is straight ol' Death, I'm not losing much by playing the long game on science coming through at sophisticated cellular repair mechanisms/protocols. I'm definitely ahead of people getting buried or cremated.
How Spotify Builds Products (2013) [pdf]
prosthetic sockets
This is all assuming Scotland will actually vote yes-the polls would seem to be iffy on that. And I think it makes sense that people, when faced with a momentous decision like this at the polls, will probably play it safe when they actually vote.
Hal Finney was one of the best people on the cypherpunks list -- wrote frequently, great developer, involved in some of the most interesting products of the past 30 years. He was also remarkably friendly and civil, even more amazing in a place like the cypherpunks list. A really great person, and will be missed. (but hopefully only for a few decades until the reverse-cryopreservation thing is worked out...)
Then you do it out of a sense of duty to the past.

People spend ages carefully preserving forks and other trinkets from the 1700s. Surely an entire person would be worth equal care, and a group of people more so.
> real Detroit

If you insist that Detroit is defined by its failing communities and not by its successful ones then Detroit will always, by definition, be failing. To argue that Detroit is not making a "comeback" you must claim that either the successful areas are not growing or that they will not continue to grow.
The code is self-describing because it's written in a formal language with precisely defined semantics. By reading it, you should be able to understand what it does.

Here's an "obfuscated" version of the code in from the paper:

a = {
b: function() {
return Math.floor(new Date().getTime()/1000);
}
};

This function takes the number of milliseconds since 1970, divides it by 1000 to get the number of seconds, and rounds that value down. There is need for an additional explanation of what the function is doing.

Granted, this is a toy example, and I'm certainly not against comments that describe what the next x lines of complex code are doing. But the paper is about using metadata to help a computer, not a person, to understand what's going on.
I'm super happy to see Segment go in this direction. All the e-commerce tagging was the hardest to do and yet the most valuable for analysts. And hooray for making more stuff free!
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For the benefit of anyone who's shocked/surprised/amazed that Scotland could be about to leave the UK...

Only one opinion poll, out of 82 conducted since the beginning of 2012 has suggested that the vote would be in favour of independence. See http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/scottish-independence-referendu...

So dinnae fret! Sco'land isnae gae'in' naewhir!
Maybe Watson's inference engine could be reworked into an automated PR generator and put them out of a job.
In Too Deep with Google Depth Maps and Golang
Anything that builds carbonate skeletons sounds eminently sensible - unlike edible plant matter, those probably won't just be breathed back out by whatever eats them.
Anyone else want the phrase "internet of things" to die? I guess it's not rational, but it just bugs me more and more every time it comes up. Too buzz-wordy or something.
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Much respect for profiting hand over fist from pure knowledge. But the fact that this "opportunity" existed in the code is really damning for the Monero project. It highlights the staggering amounts of greed and hushed fraud rampant in the Bitcoin space. I don't fault him for selling everything.
In the US it seems like schools go on lockdown for up to hours even for the most minor stuff. This included.

Seems like the people doing most legitimate "harm" to America's youth are the people keeping them in near constant fear because they lack even the most modest common sense and sense of proportionality.
"If you're going to pay the very high price of doing business in the US, it might be a better plan to locate yourself somewhere a little less wrecked where it actually buys you something."

Your comparisons to traditional emerging markets are well taken, but your last sentence highlights my point perfectly. Detroit is much more than abandoned buildings and abject poverty. Of course those are the easiest things to focus on because they cater to strong emotions. Meanwhile, all of the positive aspects about Detroit are subsequently white-washed. Detroit is a massive city encompassing 143 square miles, and much of it is in dire condition, but let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Keep in mind that there are pockets of Detroit in which amazing people are building incredible and exciting things, typically in a highly bootstrapped fashion. Blanket statements like, "less wrecked" imply that Detroit in its entirety is wrecked. This is certainly not the case as illustrated by companies like Shinola and VC firms like Ludlow Ventures. For additional examples, see: http://www.growdetroit.com/detroit-startup-list/.

Of course I am biased as a native Michigander, but for life in general I much prefer to focus on silver linings than frayed seams.
If you kill someone after they paid you a lot of money to preserve your corpse the courts might not agree with the assisted suicide bit if your body was still functional. They'd more than likely call it murder too.

I'm a firm believer in the preservation bit, I don't think it will scale and I totally do not believe in the resurrection bit. It's a bit like performing a magical trick where you smash somebody's watch in act one and you still haven't figured out how to do part two.
How are collisions and preimage attacks relevant for password hashes?
Dropbox Hires Lookout CMO for Marketing VP Slot
The Dark Side of Almond Use
Very funny post with clever insights (especially Kevin's!)

Go fUK! ;-)
As long as pressure, osmotic balance, pH, etc are in balance then it's not going to cause cellular trauma per se.

Regardless of the fluid medium, a bigger problem is absence of oxygen is going to start the process of autolysis after cell death. Neurons are particularly vulnerable, which how people can become brain dead within 5-10 minutes under normal circumstances.

The even bigger problem is cellular damage from the freezing process. Proponents of this sort of thing would say the "cryoprotectant" chemicals vitrify, so the massive small scale trauma from ice crystal formation is prevented. I'm not sure anything has ever been reanimated after this process, nor do I foresee a technology capable of allowing it.

Finally, and maybe the biggest problem, it is hard to see technological cure for advanced ALS. It is a structure problem with demyelination causing the symptoms. Even if you could correct the underlying source of myelin cell death/inflammation, it's very difficult to imagine a restoration process that results in viable life.

Anyway, probably more than you wanted to hear. This is just kind of sad, and reminds me this is a young forum on the whole that probably isn't too in tune with their own mortality (this is not directed at anyone, so I'd prefer nobody respond personally to it). He is dead, he lived well, there will be nobody else quite like him.

edit: fyi, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_substitute (though again, this differs because the cryopreserving fluid is selected because of its properties when freezing)
1. I thought IQ/g was always known to be an oversimplification (even the guy that invented it noted this)?

2. As this article points out, almost half of the performance of the various subsystems does seem to have a common source. So getting rid of IQ/g completely wouldn't make sense.

Now, pointing out specifically which other factors are most relevant for specific tasks would be useful (especially for things that require reading emotions, since that's least correlated). Finding which factors are least correlated is useful (so you know what's most important to check tasks for).
I've heard that learning to read is at the expense of facial recognition ability.
Oh yes it please. I ride a motorbike and I usually don't want to go on any of the suggested routes. I have to pick a waypoint, go to that, stop, take my gloves off, get the phone out of my jacket, pick another waypoint, put my phone away, put my gloves on, repeat.

The other annoying thing is it uses street names as in "turn right on to Main Street" but often the streets don't have name boards and there could be two close together.

Still, first world problems eh?
Bujold's Cryoburn may also be of interest:
http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1439133948/1439133948.htm...
Asa: Thanks for the input though of course I hope you are wrong. :) Is there research on that? Your experience at Mozilla?

I do know a a few data points: (EDIT: walterbell provides a very good data point below, and one that should have been obvious to me!)

* Some vendors of confidentiality services report increased demand, especially since the Snowden revelations. (Sorry, I don't remember who reported it.)

* Facebook and others now are emphasizing privacy, suggesting that they see demand for it.

* A recent consumer survey said confidentiality concerns were impacting purchases on mobile devices.

* Also I read in an advertising industry publication that when a retail store chain posted signs saying they were tracking customer activities (via wifi/bluetooth on mobile devices), they got many complaints and saw an impact.

* Their solution of course was to take down the signs, which raises another point: If consumers/citizens don't care about surveillance, then why are businesses and government secretive about it?
mfw "the pentatonic scale." Pentatonic is a form of scales. There are innumerable pentatonic scales, although practically, it's bounded by about 50!/45!. [0] And in everyday 12-tone chromatic use, there are at least 5 different versions [1]. Even in Asian scales, there are numerous pentatonic scales in use.

[0] presuming a pitch resolution of 2%.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbGYvHd0qo

Blues music, for example, uses pentatonic scales, yet blues music does not sound like Thai music.

Now that technical matter has been cleared, I find it hilarious and symptomatic that researchers didn't look into any CHINESE MUSIC to see if there were any sounds that might have influenced Western composers. For example, just listening to music played on a Gu Chin [ 2 ] reveals a number of similar intervals (such as single step motion and parallel fourths) and stark tonality that could easily be recognized in attempts by Western composers to imitate and integrate Chinese music.

That article was less of a "how it happened" and more a "that it happened." The seething, suspicious racial tension underneath was distracting and needless. Everyone should ignore it (and probably the rest of NPR) and simply enjoy Chinese music for what it is: interesting and beautiful. sigh.

[ 2 ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin
Are people seriously running Kubernetes (and docker for that matter) ontop of Azure? No doubt that Azure is a very robust and mature cloud solution, but the idea of doing that for any sort of production cloud workload just seems like a hilariously bad idea.
Interesting that America's Tech Guru is an economics major from Harvard. I don't doubt his talent, but this wouldn't happen in other professions. America's legal guru would have gone to law school, the surgeon general would have gone to med school.

It's generally a good thing that you can follow more than one path to tech, and I honestly don't think what you major in is all that critical. But I'm going to have to admit, with a bit of embarrassment, that it's a little depressing to hear that an econ major is the highest tech guy in government, and that a president who emphasizes the importance of science and engineering didn't choose someone with that background to lead.
tl;dr:
"Nine percent of products in the sample contained partially hydrogenated oils; 84% of these products listed “0 grams” of trans fat per serving, potentially leading consumers to underestimate their trans fat consumption."
Yet not a single minority in the "crew" or "advisors" section.
even if you do knock them over you'll have many of the same problems including illegal dumping and liability from those injured on your property.
I signed up about five years ago. I outlined my reasons in a blog post[1].

Basically, I think it's more feasible than most people judge it to be. The technology has already been demonstrated in smaller structures such as rabbit kidneys. While it's not likely to work, the expected value is positive.

1. http://geoff.greer.fm/2010/07/09/insert-frozen-food-joke-her...
nodelua?
Base64 does have one use: assume you need to store a plaintext password because you need your service to login to another service. (Use oauth, yada yada. Not everybody has it.) base64 coding passwords prevents support staff from trivially seeing and learning passwords when poking about the database. It's not to protect the password from bad people, it's to keep the good people from accidentally learning something they don't want to know.
For what it's worth, I see the exact same behavior on the desktop in Firefox 31.0. If I pull the menu down a little bit and release, it goes by itself to the bottom and stops. If I pull it all the way down to the bottom myself, it just keeps going off the screen. (As in, I don't release the mouse button until the menu is completely locked to the bottom. Then, when I do release the button, it starts moving down and off the screen.)

EDIT: Some debugging shows that "from" and "to" are both (0, 416). This is causing direction in Acceleration.onStart to be (0, 0), which causes acceleration to also be zero. However, velocity is not zero; it's some apparently random number. Also, the boundary bottom is set to Infinity, because it uses (to.y > from.y) instead of (to.y >= from.y), so it never enters a "bounce" state as it's impossible to go outside the boundary.

TL;DR: I think you need to add tests for when "to" and "from" are the same location.
If you extrapolate this notion, which is something I have done and find an interesting theory, then consciousness is really a moment's event, like a processor's tick. Every tick you sense things, retrieve things from memory, and serialize a bunch more things into memory (including the working memory of say, a conscious movement you're doing right now.) The next moment another "you" comes along and lives that moment. To me it's the only point at which I can draw this line of "when is it no longer you?", as in being cloned with an exact brain snapshot, or sleeping at night, etc. You are only ever you for that single moment, so what difference is there between the revived you and the you a second from now? It's also a convenient belief in that I feel free to do teleportation when that becomes available (pulverize your body here, recreate your snapshot there.)
In regards to giving data control to users, MIT media lab is worling on the openPDS (personal data store) system:

http://openpds.media.mit.edu/

Honestly kinda surprised mozilla doesnt have their hands on that as a partner, but hey, they can't do everything :)
International recognition matters a lot when you're talking about maps and labels on them.

This is isn't like South Sudan where part of the country separated through referendum and was immediately recognized as a new entity. It's still controversial, hence the label on the map.
There are a lot of parallels between video games and film. Film didn't go directly from Lumière and Edison to the golden-age cinemas with plush seating and respectable audiences. It didn't even go directly to the wooden-benched seats of the storefront nickelodeons. It started out as a working-class vaudeville attraction, frequently in the form of titillating peep-show reels. It was crass, crude, and utterly commercial. It deserved and received little in the way of respect as an art-form. Video games were similarly dismissed as culturally insignificant for a long time, although they pandered to a different audience: the young. Games of the 70's and 80's were almost exclusively targeted at the very young and can be thought of as video gaming's vaudeville peep-shows.

As the children who played those games grew up, so too did the demand for slightly more grown-up, but not too grown-up, fare. Pac-Man and Q-Bert gave way to DOOM and Civilization. Video games became exceedingly violent, but in a crude and cartoonish manner that concerned few. Technology steadily improved and soon the violence was not so cartoonish. There were many other advances. Games, such as Half Life, brought seamless story telling into the genre. Games became more movie-like. However, the overwhelming majority of games, to this day, mimic only the worst kind of relentlessly violent action films.

When sound was introduced to cinema it came with massive technical limitations. Cameras had to be mechanized to synch with sound recording, and the results were much larger and louder than hand-cranked cameras. These had to be wrapped in noise dampening materials so that sound could be recorded. The result was huge, cumbersome cameras. The audience's demand for sound meant that cinematic techniques that had been flourishing in silent cinema were set back decades until camera technology improved enough to compensate. Similarly, today's gamers demand realistic worlds with people in them, but video game technology is wholly inept at portraying most forms of human interaction. It has been easy to realistically murder someone with a gun for quite some time now, but has any game managed to simulate a simple, two-way, free-flowing human conversation yet?

There is a huge, rich world of cinema beyond action films. Many will never feel the need to experience that greater world, but it is there. It allows us to see the world through strange and foreign viewpoints and learn more about the world around us. Video games, although their finances have outstripped cinema, remain inferior in this respect. Indie games are carving out a niche for themselves, but primarily by picking up where video gaming's vaudeville days left off once the realism became the craze. I feel that games, as an art-form, and gamers as an audience, will be seen as inferior, and perhaps rightly so, until realistic dramas, comedies, etc. become possible. There will always be big tent-pole action games, just as there are in cinema, but there must be more for gamers to be seen as more than blood-crazed teenagers.
Yeah but if it is that bad the you could just kill yourself. The potential upside seems to outweigh the finality of death.
Manufacturing has since left, and it's very unlikely that an equally lucrative industry is going to be able to fill the gap.

By this measure, just about every American city is doomed. Except, I suppose, San Francisco, if we accept that every city is "winner takes all" (which it isn't and has never been).

Detroit is a metro area about 4 million strong. It is the gateway for millions of Canadians, and to the Toronto area. It is midway between a number of great cities. It has abundant energy, geological and political stability, limited pests, and so on. It has a very large workforce, and despite the reputation, a very large educated workforce.

I mean some of the commentary in here is just...weird. Someone else commented as if all industry is going to move South, as if winter is a significant economic factor (it isn't) to industry (aside from data centers and cooling, for that matter).
True, but I avoid Ryanair. I really don't like their corporate strategy.
Salts are usually dependent on user details (like the username), so knowing your salt doesn't help you with other passwords.
> People say they like privacy/confidentiality/security but they are not willing to make any compromises to get it even if those compromises are very small in comparison to the privacy/security wins.

That's a design & engineering problem which can solved for specific use cases. Snapchat's user base & 10 billion dollar valuation is one example.