skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feature Request / Suggestion - So I tried the "Share Destination / Meet me sonewhete" feature the other day and thought this was going to do something completely different.

How it worked: sent a link to the end location to a friend.

Expected / Hoped for usage: Citymapper would separate who clicked the link (allow you to add a name perhaps), then show where everyone else was on the map, and their ETA.

So I can say, let's meet at this place, send the link, and know everyone's ETA. A bit like latitude, but smarter. Once there, or on my way, I can track progress.

Sure, people might shout about privacy, but it would be insanely useful and save constantly being punished for being on time!

Any Citymapper devs out there fancy championing this one?
I was hoping this was about an app to build 3d things by mixing and matching ikea parts. I know there's at list one community around that idea [1] (and I've done it myself :).

1: http://www.ikeahackers.net/
On the topic of cryopreservation, to borrow a question from Scott Aaronson [1]: have you signed up for cryopreservation? And regardless of your answer, how do you defend yourself against the charge of irrationality?

On one hand, it seems like a different version of Pascal's wager - if you can afford it, the upside is potentially far more beneficial than the downside. On the other hand, well, it is crazy...

I can think of one reason for not doing it (personally): I don't necessary want to live in a society that can perform my revival. Not to say that there's anything wrong with that society, they would just be so far away from me that I can't fathom how that would be like.

[1]: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=455
No, the Mozilla Organization was kept alive by Netscape, with some other major corporation sponsoring full-time engineers. When Netscape bailed completely and the Mozilla Foundation was founded on a grant from Netscape, they started having to find their own revenue sources. And they did with Google.

The Mozilla Corporation was founded in 2005 because Mozilla was generating so much cash (mainly from Google search), that they got in trouble with the IRS. That was only 2 years after the Mozilla Foundation was created!

The bulk of their revenue has always been advertisement.

As for code, they still very much rely on the open source model for new code.
Well, you make a contract and pay money to the company that cryopreserves you. They could screw you over after you die, but that would be bad for their reputation and they could be sued.
Sounds amazing. Where you're at? :p

I thought usually it was only IT consulting firms that provided such training.
Is there a booking system built in. Presumably the restaurants pay to be featured - so you pay for FoodTrip in the cost of your meal [as with all marketing] - but if you do a FoodTrip is there a way to make sure you don't arrive and not get a table?
Interesting article, but I'd like to see the facts laid out behind this excerpt:

"The variety of shapes among plankton species shames plants on land, showing more range in size than the difference between moss and redwood trees. There are more plankton cells in the sea than our current count of stars in the entire universe. "
I do not think what you are suggesting is a bad idea. But a counterargument would be that having many organizations doing the same thing might make it more expensive overall, by increasing the cost of overheads (e.g., every company needs to have its own HR department). Those costs may not manifest themselves outright, but they will go into the cost equation.
There is a growing market for privacy (confidentiality), in my amateur opinion; at least it seems that many consumers choose privacy when given the option and they dislike surveillance.

Why doesn't Mozilla heavily promote Firefox as the 'private' browser, and why not focus on enhancing those features, instead of leaving it to others to make the 'private' browsers by modifying Firefox?

1) Otherwise browsers are functionally the same for consumers, ignoring trendiness and user familiarity. Some browsers may do certain things milliseconds faster, or more often be perceived to perform faster, but there is little practical difference besides confidentiality. (I realize this may be controversial to some, but I doubt choice of browser impacts most people's productivity beyond confidentiality issues.)

2) Other browser vendors could not easily compete with Mozilla in the area of confidentiality: Their business models often include tracking consumer behavior, and their brands are not as trusted to put users first as a public interest organization is (and it depends on trust; consumers can't verify these things themselves).

3) Other browser vendors would be forced to try to compete regardless and improve confidentiality, and awareness of and demand for confidentiality would be increased, furthering Mozilla's missions. I think demand for confidentiality often is overlooked because consumers rarely have the opportunity to express it -- it's hardly ever an option.

Regarding the features: Not all confidentiality features are suited for general use (e.g., NoScript), but many are and some could be options for more advanced users. For example, why isn't there a Tor button or pref in Mozilla's official Firefox releases, which connects to Tor and routes all traffic through it? IME, it works fine, though a little more slowly, for most purposes.

EDIT: A few additions and clarifications.
An introductory vocational professional program is still a vocational professional program.
Many midwestern cities have an over abundance of office space. If you drive down I75 through the Detroit metro area you'll see buildings that have been empty for years.
Web apps could be better, for some X,
<script src="/myapp.X" type="text/X">

where X != "javascript".
But only Google, MS, Apple, and Firefox working together can make this happen.
Potentially, but not by definition. That's an important difference. Only one has the potential to be good, and only one is controllable by the people who are truly effected by it.
I would say that Agile processes is definitely a part of solution (and I have been part of Agile teams and implemented Agile processes within the government), especially because of the oversight it can allow.
I feel like that would defeat the premise of the game. The whole point is that you don't know where you're going until you get there.
Fitt's law, Hicks' law. Accessibility for sure. Light Ergonomics, relating to the mediums (mobile and desktop, probably)
Other companies focused on genes related to extending human life span are Google's Calico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company) and http://genopharmix.com and http://www.humanlongevity.com/
> 2. It is possible to write fast, responsive applications that run in the browser (up to a certain level of complexity.) I know because this is what I do for a living, and I am pretty good at it.

But if I tried your web application and found it to be slow, would you blame my computer, my OS, my browser, me, or something else?

I don't want to be angry but it gets frustrating when things doesn't work. Things that -- at this day and age -- should be completely a non-problem for pretty much any PC system. Things that ran fine on grandma's old toaster when implemented the way they were fifteen years ago. And I get attacked a lot for complaining about it. Some people just don't see a problem with it when displaying some text and a handful of pictures requires millions of lines of code and a few hundred million bytes of RAM.. code that can completely bog down a 64bit CPU running at nearly 2GHz. I'm the victim, blame me. I'm the slave, no freedom for me..

I admit, I am grumpy, perhaps even angry. But it's not directed at you personally; I have no hard feelings against anyone here. Sorry if it came across that way :-)
See this

http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/DoraKentCase.html
Natural monopolies are near impossible, and have never harmed anyone. I've only heard of 2 in all of U.S. history. I don't remember which they were, but they didn't last long and they were entirely insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
It's a good way to drive the point home, by adding that last sentence in every post. An effective way to spread the word. What's wrong with asking that? For the past projects that I open sourced, I asked people to star them if they found them useful.
I would argue that cryopreservation is the belief in the increasing rate of scientific progress (which can measured and proven), and that it is far more rational than the tens of millions of people who attend church every Saturday or Sunday in search of salvation for their soul.

As /u/dublinben mentioned, I'd give my entire wealth to have the opportunity to live in the future.
This is really where the internet stands out. A personal site by a personal enthusiast. It's sad seeing similar stuff get stuck behind the facebook wall and disappear after a year or two. Great site and great job.
On the other hand, I think most inquisitive folks and Sci-Fi nerds would pay anything to travel into the future (beyond a single lifetime).
Right. A mixed economy is neither socialist NOR capitalist. You simply can NOT act as if the three have the same effects or even look the same.
How does apple feel about it?
A legally binding contract might do it. Or, there might be some fund that accrues interest over time to pay for the procedure. If neither of those options exist, then I suppose the first people to be revived would be in the name of science ("Let's do it just to prove that we can.") Then, I suppose anyone who's revived after that would be useful from a anthropological/historical perspective. Imagine having firsthand sources from different time periods.
Is there a PR firm behind the effort to make stories about Detroit appear here from time to time, or is it actually that compelling of a city-story?

I have to think that there are many US cities equal to or superior to Detroit in just about any balance of livability metrics one could produce, including cost.

Very abstractly speaking, I can't even see it being a local maxima for any particular basket of criteria...help?
Yeah - more specifically, it's a nonprofit whose mission statement includes the mission to eventually restore to health all its patients. So, if you believe that nonprofits are generally going to at least try to achieve the thing they were created for, it would be surprising if they didn't try.

http://www.alcor.org/AboutAlcor/mission.htm
Firefox has 450 million users[0] - if every user gave just $1, that'd already outstrip the amount they get from Google.

(Yes, getting every user to donate is logistically impractical, but it's useful to think of the per-user cost when talking about consumer software.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox
Wow, what a fantastic tool. I liked it.
President and CEO
Agree, and having worked for the government (as a contractor) for over 20 years before leaving, I'll point out another issue. They want budget and schedule. Somebody has to pay for a system, and they can't go to the hill and ask for "some" money. Agile acknowledges that you don't know everything up front, but with that is the concomitant fact that you cannot give a budget and schedule. So, should the government hire me or you to do a job? Is it even worth paying for? And yes, am I executing on what I promised?

The results in messed up. We always strove, after winning, to write a rational requirements document that acknowledge the uncertainty. Most times they 'got it' and accepted that sort of management style, but there were also times when you'd be tasked to do something utterly useless because of some "shall" in a requirements document that is now hopelessly out of date. But it depends. A half million $ contract you can have that conversation. $60million+, several subcontractors? Not so much.
Joyce from Stellar here. We have not changed any content from our launch post since it was published for launch. Please feel free to read over our post here. Also adding Stripe's if anyone missed both announcements a month ago.
(Side note: Stellar is 1 month old today!)

- https://www.stellar.org/blog/introducing-stellar/

- https://stripe.com/blog/stellar

Thanks!
sorry, but, ... playing with KNN/ANN and claiming insight into ML is like playing with a nerf gun and claiming knowledge of advanced tactics.
I don't plan to cover APIs in the core tutorial, but I've had a couple of requests for that subject and will consider making a follow-on product.
Google's Lunch Lines Are Not Optimized
...where else can you reside in Enron's old offices?

:D
How Separating Intentional Tweets from Informational Tweets Helps You Sell
A man named Smetacek is working on cleaning up oceans, neat!

The original Czech spelling of the surname with all the diacritics is Smetáček.

The word means "dust brush"; a diminutive word which denotes the little cousin of the smeták.

https://www.google.com/search?q=smet%C3%A1%C4%8Dek&tbm=isch

:)
I am very interested in the IBM Watson platform but so far I am still on the waiting list for being considered for early access.

Hint to IBM: at least make all documentation, example code, etc. available for perusal.
Stale-While-Revalidate for CherryPy
I'll bet SuperTrip is an RTM, or at least a trademark, in the tourism space already.

It's a class 9 RTM for Olympus in the UK (which clashes with what you're doing) FYI.

I'm not an IP lawyer and this isn't legal advice.
Seems to be down for me as well.
If conciseness is in fact just an internal feeling/feedback loop, the revived you will feel as though this was achieved, but is the benefit to your present mind-state somewhat lost?
But with no inline playing on iPhones.
The article is scarce in details but this is a real product with real applications. The software uses NLP and ML techniques to sift through large amount of scientific documents, i.e., patents or publications, and extracts relevant entities, e.g., proteins, drugs, genes and their relationships, e.g., how a protein acts on a gene, and lets the user visualize all this and query it using natural language.

I can give more details if anybody is curious. (Disclaimer: I work for Watson)
'Gamers' are over
I don't understand - "More broadly, the government’s entire approach to technology was top-down and inflexible", so the solution is to hire more people at the top (White House)? It seems to me that "government IT" is such a vast concept, ranging from the physical computers at each DMV to healthcare.gov, to Medicare billing systems (not to mention the NSA)... Wouldn't it make more sense for individual agencies to re-jigger their IT policies, rather than some broad and vague White House initiative?
Active shutdown is certainly preferable, but to the best of my knowledge is only legal in Switzerland.
I have a Samsung SMART TV too and I find Smart Hub to be extremely annoying in that there are prominent app spots that cannot be deleted. They're just there for Samsung to promote whatever partner it likes and it's the sort of thing that makes me regret buying Samsung.
It will happen on October 7th.
That's interesting. I know that eyelash mites and insects are quickly killed by alcohol though. Perhaps they used a different type or concentration? I know it can't be pure alcohol won't work for example, it needs some water to absorb into the cell.
>'In my experience, that's only a part of the problem - good people usually don't stick around for too long (since they don't want to deal with the inertia and other difficulties of this environment).'

In my experience, the worst danger of sticking around in Government is the appearance of being 'part of the problem' when it comes time to move on.
Why crazy? There's good supporting evidence for sufficient preservation of fine neural structure via vitrification. The oldest existing cryopreservation organizations have lasted 40 years since their formation as professional groups. There is no known obstacle in the laws of physics to developing molecular nanotechnology capable of restoring a cryopreserved individual: it's just a technology challenge in organization at the nanoscale, related to well-funded and widespread current work in cell science and nanotechnology.

Basically it is the best possible play with the cards dealt to you if you are going to die before the advent of rejuvenation therapies and would still like to live longer into the golden future of amazing wealth and technology that lies just ahead of us. The odds are infinitely better than those offered by any other end of life choice (i.e. they are above zero).
Just a side note. The map is continuously trying to locate me in Birmingham which I guess is my ISP's end-point connection to the internet, whereas I am actually in Edinburgh. I am using a few different extension in chrome and in firefox that normally block advert/analytics request, but this time the extensions are disabled to check for interferences.

So how to you get the location? Because it isn't working for me.
This is certainly what Dan Gilbert would like you to think so he can resell his cheaply purchased real estate at a profit.

Detroit has poor infrastructure (responsible for recent flooding,) high taxes, no public rail transport, poor roads, rush-hour traffic congestion, poor parking, some of the worst schools in the country, corrupt local government, is full of blighted neighborhoods, and I am sure many other terrible things. I am trying to see the reason why anyone would think it was a good idea to live or work there in its current condition.
Maybe they can sell firefox? Or try something innovative? crowd funding?

What if wikipedia put ads?
Perhaps you should try viewing comments in light of how it impacts the community at large? I think its good practice to avoid adding noise to a HN discussion.

This leads me to comment very infrequently. If my thoughts were already stated, I stay quiet. If a long discussion has already taken place and its unlikely my comments will be read, I stay quiet. If I post and it gets drowned out by similar comments before receiving any responses, I delete it.

My one and only goal when posting on HN is to add value. If I can't be sure I'm doing that, I don't comment at all. If nothing else, it seems like the polite thing to do.
Sure. But why 3-d print it? Go ahead and prototype it in 3-d printer, but then make a plastic mold and save money and printing time.

Also: Plastic gears between the generator and rotor? Nope.
Here in Seattle, there are tons of these. There are probably 6 or 7 in my neighborhood alone.

It's a great idea, and a fun project for the community.
http://www.alcor.org/FAQs/faq01.html#patients
Wow, C++ apologists really are persistent.
By the time we have the technology to revive cryopatients, that question will likely be "why not?".
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StandardSnippet has a long list.
Well, I was mostly referring to hand tools and wood. And if you need parts cut to very specific dimensions, I've found laser cut acrylic, send out to a local shop, to be very easy, fast, inexpensive, and reliable.
That's not really a comparable experience in a city where you have multiple modes of transport, many different options for a single journey, and so on.
Quantified Dating: How to hack the online dating game
One of the main "protests" from scientists (like myself) is not that this doesn't sequester carbon. But by sopping up macronutrients (nitrogen in particular) to form large diatoms, you greatly disadvantage smaller, floating plankton that stay afloat and actually feed the marine food web.

Note: I'm not against the actual small-scale experiments. We may someday have to choose between sequestration and whales. Just pointing out that the objections to large-scale use aren't as silly and reactionary as the article makes them out to be.
Love that my school (BYU) is used for the photo but we are not a member org yet. Joined the mailing list thanks for pointing that out, didn't know there was one.
Thank you for your work on CityMapper. However may I respectfully suggest you stop developing for a bit, and go out and actually use it for real, 'in the field'?

Head out the office, pick a spot to get to (say a meeting in another part of town) and see if you can figure out which route is actually quickest. It's seldom the one suggested. Trying to figure out the real trip length for upcoming departures for a number of travel options is a head-wrecker.

I use CityMapper frequently, and I love it. But this 'feature' is infuriating!
Hire the HOW not the WHAT
Instead of touting "Free Download" on a large green button, why not just call it Download and then have a donate-what-you-want option there? Virtually no one's going to donate after the fact.
fair enough, but how many people who can't setup cron need ifttt's functionality? I'm somewhat skeptical.

And even if they do need ifttt, investors need to turn that $30m into $300m. It's almost a sure bet -- unless you believe that somehow advertising is going to pay the bills -- that ifttt will start taxing users, publishers, or both. Which will end up sucking for all of us. Too bad craigslist didn't implement this...
Thanks Hal Finney. You've done some good in the world. Hope to see you alive again.
Short Selling Guide
A contract is only as good as your ability to enforce it. Who will be enforcing it on your behalf?
Marco here from the blog post.

100% true. I used to send emails with lots of fluff about what I was doing, building etc. Nobody cares. Its basically the equivalent of walking up to a stranger on the street and pitching them your business. They are basically going to ignore you and walk away...

That's why the brief emails like you mention and asking a question convert so well. Put the focus on them.

Thanks for reading
We don't really know that. Let's suppose the universe was really 4D. We don't currently know if the universe is flat or not. A curved universe can be both unbounded and finite which would be very elegant.

Einstein proposed a test to find out. I'm hoping this test will eventually be Gravity Probe D (Probe C will be a repeat of the failed Probe B).
Doesn't answer the question though; maybe OP just doesn't like to work in that environment regardless of its merits.
Why are people obsessed with posting website X is down? Are you that bored that you sit around waiting for a site to come back up? It's not the end of the world it will probably be back in 5 minutes and chances are it was a bad deploy or something small. Stop freaking out.
In my small experience with my college, new systems are usually better than the old system for accessibility. The old systems are terrible, log you out every 5 minutes, separate systems with separate UI, markup, access etc. But you are correct we need to think about these issues.
This page is citing $39 per square foot for all "central business district" Class A office space in Houston:

http://www.slideshare.net/AmberRuggles/q1-2014-officemarketr...
Thanks Peter. Glad you enjoyed the article!
Not new, just hoping they don't go away or get acquired and dumped. :)
We have renamed Gittip to Gratipay
Gender Gap in Tech Upcoming Documentary
Well their reputation will only come into play once the first sucessful resucitations are shown (or shown possible), which is far into the future. This risk-reward disconnect is dangerous.

Funny enough, he worked on Bitcoin, which may pave ways to Autonomous Corporations. In some time perhaps you could set a an autonomous corporation managing some funds in low-risk while delegating the surplus to payments conditioned on a "proof of conservation" of the body.
not sure why this was downvoted, but upvoted it into the black.
Given that the dk2 uses IR LEDs as markers to augment it's gyro/accelerometer for position tracking (by imaging them with a webcam pointed at the user). The leap dumping IR out of the front of the visor is going to be problematic, a combination of washing out the DK2 tracking camera and messing with the tracking algorithm by adding extra points.

Though maybe the frequency of the IR LEDs is different enough...