skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know Hal Finney, but condolences to his family.

Comparing different religions' various flavors of afterlife is very interesting, but perhaps this isn't the right forum for it (though maybe it is; I don't know). One thing is certain, though: cryonics's promise of an afterlife is definitely the most materially expensive of all religions -- on average, that is (some Christians spent what probably amounts to more than the cost of cryopreservation to expunge their sins). It is also the most strictly transactional since Catholicism prior to the reformation. The burial practice itself, however, bears a lot of resemblance to ancient Egyptian religion, and probably some other religions of antiquity.
I knew Hal back in the early days of remailing (94-96) where he ran several remailers and I had one nestled within the hidden confines of Indiana University (the gondolin remailer).

He will be missed.
Maybe, but you won't mind not existing. You may mind it now, surely, but not at that time.
Liquid Nitrogen is one of the cheapest fluids on the planet. Dewars are refilled every week. If the supply of LN was cut, the LN on each dewar would take months to evaporate -- And the patients are stored upside-down, so the head is the last thing to reach thermal equilibrium.

There is no electricity involved.
> 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.

Trinkets from a bygone era don't require medical care, housing, and feeding. Note, too, that historical preservation goes only so far - there's plenty of places where old buildings are torn down to make way for new ones. I have trouble seeing where frozen corpses are markedly more attractive to refurbish.
It's awesome game play, but it's not really 4 dimensional.

It's basically a portal based game where you can switch between two different 3D maps. At best the 4D thing is a metaphor.

Projecting 4D objects into 3D space warps them in the same way that map projections warp the surface of a globe. Going from 4D into 3D would be weird, but then also projecting into 2D for the screen would compound the effects.

Like I said, it's really inventive gameplay. It's not, however, truly "4D".

I hear you...I mean it even if the 4th D is another space-like dimension. Just picture stepping through a orange hole in Portal to a completely different map and then stepping back into a different spot on the source map. That's this game. If you transformed a 3D object along an arbitrary "new" space-like dimension...let's say you add your "W" axis and took away the X...you would by definition tear it apart in your XYZ projection. (That's the one that you are looking at it in, remember?)

I've read some of the other comments. gliese1337 sounds more like what you would go through to build an actual 4D game engine. In one sense you could say that Prince of Persia was 4D because you could move through time. That's the secret...Having a non-space 4th D is visually easier to pull off.
> If my grandfather were frozen and reviveable, and not dead and buried, I would want to revive him. If it were remotely within my financial means, I would save for decades, mortgage or sell everything I own, take on any debt I could trick people into lending me, if it technologically possible to bring a parent back to life.

Of course you feel this way. Everyone does. And that's the problem. Imagine most of the world's productive output being redirected to the massive project of unfreezing generations of cryogenically preserved ancestors.

This is one of the cheerier possibilities. Most of the reasons that occur to me that an advanced society, lacking an intelligence cascade, would want to conjure a large number of functioning highly-educated consciousnesses are decidedly darker.

This possibility, and a thousand other unforeseen individual and societal implications of cryogenics, deserve debate.
So lots of tiny isolated security domains are more secure than a few larger isolated security domains. As long as you trust the isolation. And as long as you don't deliberately evade it (because it gets in the way).
> I think this is mostly a myth when it comes to consumer software. 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.

I know almost nothing about marketing consumer software, but if Mozilla/Firefox established itself now as the leaders in privacy, they may have an insurmountable lead in consumers' minds when/if the market moves that way.

(I realize the same could be said about any product/feature for which there currently is little demand: 'If Mozilla/Firefox started providing free cheezy-poofs with their browser now, they'd have an insurmountable lead when the market moved that way.')
I'd take a software-as-a-service solution that I can replicate the data from in an open standard format like JSON or XML over a closed-source application with an impenetrable binary file format any day.
I think you pay for those upfront. Similar to how todays Nobel prize money is still payed from money grown from Nobel's assets at the time of his death.
Shhh. For God's sake don't tell my desktop and laptops. They've been running Linux (and UNIX before that) for over 20 years.
Firstly, this argument isn't just limited to the US. But what the US does has repercussions for the rest of the world, particularly the UK.

So on that, have people been arrested (and otherwise harassed) for political views in the UK? Yes. There were around 150 known activists tracked and arrested before the Royal Wedding here because they might 'cause a scene'. An incredibly trivial example that highlights perfectly well the type of problem that you have when you create a society with multiple, overlapping and unaccountable layers of surveillance.

There are a number of other examples (Occupy London, UK Uncut, some animal rights groups, anti-fracking groups) where people have been 'pre-emptively' arrested and detained, only for the charges to be dropped months later after restrictive bail conditions were imposed, off the back of surveillance enabled by technology - fake cell tower SIM gathering, facebook monitoring (It's not just limited to 'the internet').

Protest and activism (i.e. 'political views') exist on a spectrum, and the line where that crosses into illegal activity is far further than the police would have you believe, but that does not, and has not, stopped them using those same laws (and tools, and technology) to enforce political (small 'p', and not necessarily governmentally inspired) views of 'proper' behaviour. There are dozens of examples of similar behaviour in the US for the last 30 years. Some are 'on the internet', others are not. Gary Marx's work is a great place to start for those examples. http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/garyhome.html

Tl;dr - yes.
It's my understanding that ORTC was originally proposed by Microsoft as an alternative to WebRTC.

I've never been able to track down what MS thinks was actually wrong enough with WebRTC that required an alternate proposal.
For a hacknight back in April, I tried mapping my arm into a 3D pointing device that recognized a recoil wrist gesture as firing a gun. Sound effects like "pew pew pew" were optional but heavily encouraged.

I initially tried the Leap Motion mounted on the Oculus Rift. As this blog notes, the top-down recognition was iffy at best but things really went to shit the moment the sensor was moved. I was unable to get even gun orientation working in the 6 hours or so that I tried, so maybe the new SDK + sensors can fix that.

I did end up building my demo, but with a alpha Thalmic Myo instead of the Leap. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lihaqf3COw8
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I've done this many times. It's really quite refreshing. I made a habit of this after lunch for a time. It helped give me an extra 3 or 4 hours of high productivity. The only downside is that it's better to chug the coffee, rather than sip it slowly.
> What if the only way to ban fraud is to say you can't structure it this way? Pyramid schemes seem like a good example.

If it's really the only way, then I can accept that tentatively (without taking an even more radical stance which I won't introduce here). But, I would still say tread very carefully and make sure it's the only way. Government regulation has a tendency to creep up and become entrenched. Even if it is the only way to prevent it, it may not be worth the increased government scope.

> My understanding of the article was that customers complain to their local council, get their money back, and the company changes after loosing too much money.

Okay, sorry I skimmed the article rather briefly. Still, if that's the format, why not keep it in the judicial system? I guess I don't have a strong point there, though.
How much must you like Delphi for you to see hatred where there is none?

The interface is outdated, the language is just another fact. Would you assume someone is hating on C in a sentence such as "This is an outdated program written in C."?

The assumption you make leads me to believe that you don't like Delphi as much as you claim, and yourself recognize that the language itself is outdated as well.

Which, as a daily Delphi 7 user, is something I'm sure you have come to realize a long time ago. :)
I'm Irish. I have to be contentious. It's the law (on both sides of the border).
There's a huge .JS file in there, it has the whole site or so it seems. It has content:
* the blog
* Other pages like Get involved
Terraform 0.2
I think "Oculus or Leap developers" was referring to developers making software that uses Oculus or Leap, not the companies producing the hardware. I also assume that the answer must be no (for now) since the install base is still quite small.
One of the big problems with Detroit is that it's missing people to pay taxes into the system. That means the remaining people have to pay higher share of taxes for infrastructure that's supposed to support far more people.

A solution could be asking immigrants to live there and giving them an accelerated citizenship schedule. If they live in Detroit for X years, they qualify to become citizens. That'll bring an influx of new people who will pay taxes, start new businesses and work at all levels of the economy.
I found this by experience few years ago. It works.
At first, I started with naps, and drinking coffee after.
Accidentally I had few times coffee before nap, and noticed the difference.

But I don't recommend this kind of nap all the time - because after a while it's not that effective.

So, after years of napping (I'm an expert - I became so good at napping, that I can fall a sleep in 1-2 minutes, and wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes), my advice would be: take a nap after lunch, between 1 and 3pm, without coffee before nap. Only in special situations, when you are under high pressure and lots of work, take "coffee nap" as they call it in the article.
Arrests and deaths by Race in the US
The Madison Block[1] has a lot to do with the growth startup-wise in Downtown Detroit. Also, there are more and more meetups going on. For example, Detroit Soup[2] is a growing event and calls people to join, pay $5 for soup, and vote on a project that will benefit the city (people present their projects). Even MHacks, the premier college hackathon run by students from the University of Michigan, was held in the Quicken Loans headquarters this spring. I have also been to a few meetups such as one from the Detroit NodeJS group, and the Detroit Drones group- the meetup groups are active and growing.

The city has had its ups and downs, but things are on the rise. Take it from someone who has lived near the city for 17 years. I think there are a lot of assumptions about Detroit, but there are a few things that are true: We have a 14.5% unemployment rate, a post industrial culture (culture of employees expecting to work for the Big Three immediately, instead of a culture of entrepreneurs), a financial problem, and poor Detroit schools (however the schools in suburbs are much better).

I think that the combination of a lot of opportunity, and recent support from people like Dan Gilbert gave Detroit a huge start with the Madison Block, and that is the reason that people look at Detroit and what is happening in the city now.

1. http://www.madisonblock.com/

2. http://detroitsoup.com/
Well there is the old joke about the COBOL programmer who was cryogenically frozen: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/alex/cobol.html
They are poised to have tens of thousands of people on ice. The first few generations are recouping the R&D and opportunity costs, future customers can recoup the ongoing power demands of the facility and any expansion necessary to accommodate newer clients.
> Why limit the clearinghouse to free content and techy interests?

Good point. There would be less need for donation analytics in that scenario. If it was expanded to "everyone", there would be many more stakeholders at the table, e.g. every payment company. It would be easier to prove the concepts in the underserved market of "free" software & content.

> But we are getting very far ahead of reality ...

It could be prototyped with a Firefox extension that bridges between the browser and a local (Py)QT WebKit app. Xapian does local search on Linux.
> I guess one can argue it is a good thing about cryonics, less mourning, more hope.

Not more so than in some other religions with their own versions of an afterlife. It all depends on your faith.
Anyone know what screen recording software might have been used to create the gifs/vids in this post?
Remyelination cell therapies for ALS are very much a viable work in progress today. They will exist within the next decade.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2014.04.005

Some people are working on organ preservation by vitrification and restoration. Not there yet, but promising work. There is no reason to think that this is impossible:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15094092

As to technologies capable of restoring the cryopreserved, there are any number of works that propose very detailed descriptions of how it can be done with molecular nanotechnology.

http://www.evidencebasedcryonics.org/2009/09/10/revival-of-c...
Oh. I thought you were talking about runtime overhead. "Fast code" and all.

Well if you're worried about writing overhead, there are many FFIs out there that parse the header you want so you don't have to repeat anything.

But if you believe for a nanosecond that we need source-level compatibility to get the benefits of inlining… Just remember how C++ first worked: as a pre-processor, that generated C code! So it's all C underneath, and GCC and LLVM and MSVC and ICC can all do their crazy optizations accros the whole project, should you need that.

And in any case, C++ is no longer source-compatible with C. And it no longer work as a pre-processor either. Yet I doubt it has the disadvantage you talk about. C++ has many faults, but overhead with the C FFI is not one of them. Which means we have an existence proof for the assersion that source-level compatibility is. not. needed.
Hardest part for me is falling asleep in such a short period of time, especially during the day. When I have succeeded with these naps, it's been amazing.
Heads up, about 20-30 seconds in, NSFW.
The point is that only HTTP.get() inside browser require CORS to be enabled on the server side. On non-browser environment, HTTP.get() can open any cross site web request.
We could already diagnose cancer better than a human using decision trees in the 1960's.

The breakthrough with computational medicine is actually using it.
> ...it takes around 20 minutes for the caffeine to get through your gastrointestinal tract and bloodstream anyway.

This isn't really true, right? On an empty stomach a strong coffee seems to get me high as a kite in about two minutes.

I've been doing this coffee+nap thing for a long time. It definitely works for me. My trick for falling asleep reliably and quickly is listening to an audiobook.
Oh, "Fun with flags", great show! ;)
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OpenPDS is the reference implementation for http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/NST...
I have read this before. I do not understand how you can sleep for 20 minutes. It takes more than 15 minutes just to fall asleep.
> I can fall a sleep in 1-2 minutes, and wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes

Any advice on how you were able to achieve this ability? I always try to take a quick nap but can never fall asleep fas t enough for it to be effective.
Ironic, since the iOS app is 14.4 MB
You are not missing anything: named parameters would have been a much nicer choice, but I think they don't want to make the language more complex.
The standing desk industry may have a new target
You are confusing "emptiness" and "lack of defaults" from my post. Maybe I was not clear enough.

Firefox itself used to come with a somewhat large set of default bookmarks I believe. For Google, Amazon and some others. Those weren't sponsored but they also did not take most room on a UI element users are going to see reasonably regularly.

I'm arguing that the tiles being empty is completely fine. I don't even use firefox anymore, so this is of little importance to me personally - I just think that it's wrong to say "it's best for users to see content". Sometimes, it's good for users to see emptiness. It is something we game designers use quite a lot in video games actually: Introduce the user to a nearly non-existant interface and gradually introduce new elements as the player becomes more familiar with some mechanics. I recommend the first hour of Borderlands 2 as the prime example of this.
"We all like to think that Google has infinite processing power. They don’t. If they did have such power, they would use optical character recognition to read text in images, image processing techniques to recognize pictures, speech to text technology to transcribe every video they encounter online, and they would crawl every page on the web every day, and so forth, but they don’t."

I am actually pretty certain Google does most (if not all) of that. Thus, I doubt this has anything to do with processing power - after all, it's not that much additional data.

As with any other "known, positive" ranking signal, mostly SEO-savvy sites implemented rel="author" markup. However, Google must have anticipated this, so it's probably something else.

Overall, I'm actually surprised Google relied on explicit markup to accurately detect authorship. They are probably able to do so anyway. Maybe the purpose was just another push for Google+?
Sounds like a great idea until the city zoning board comes to tear it down. http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/19/why-we-need-government-to-...
I follow: EPITECH, while42, Tryon.io, internship. :)

swah > What do you think about HNW ?
> 1. Sheer comparison for equality is used. (It is user definable.) For e.g. built-in hashes, contents must compare equal.

Wow, so if you compare aHash == anotherHash, it doesn't just compare the references, it actually examines both hashes for content equivalence? That's fairly unconventional, but probably convenient sometimes.
Fortunately, with Safari, you don't need to choose between books and video training. We have both, and more interesting things to come.
What you do need to consider is that, most likely, by the time anyone can conceivably revive those cryopreserved, the technology of the era is likely to be capable of genetic engineering and cloning to the degree where they might feasibly be able to just generate a new body for a patient to transplant the brain to. Or just do a detailed imaging of the brain, and transplant the memories. Or replace any parts of the brain damaged by the freezing procedure in the same way.

I don't think anyone getting cryopreserved today expects to be woken up for at least a century. And a hundred years ago the idea of commercial airline flight was still a pipe dream, and anything resembling computers of any scale was complete science fiction.
Only tangentially related, but your "business model for privacy" comment made me think of TorCoin, in case anyone wants to look it up.
In addition to what benjaminva said, luv uses callbacks (like Node.js), whereas this uses coroutines. So for example with luv you might do something like:

fs.readFile(filename, function(err, data)
-- remember to check err
end)

With this binding the code would look like:

local data = fs.readfile(filename)
-- err was raised if one occurred

With coroutines, you can use exceptions and for/while loops and they continue to work as you would expect.
What's the relevance of this reply to the preceding comment thread?
Ha, glad to see I'm not the only one that just constantly waited for somebody to drop the class I want to register in before getting alerted.

The problem with my University (Notre Dame) is that we have everything hooked up to the Banner system . . . which is terrible. Course Search is terribly designed and not user-friendly, along with the Course Registration system not being the best either, it's quite frustrating.
Awesome stuff. I wonder if this the beginnings of a new age of anonymity in health care.
Affirmative. Use "aHash is anotherHash" to compare references.
One thing to try - type the comment in the comment box, but don't actually push the add comment button, as in, don't post it. Do this for a few days, and the urge to comment will decrease (It worked for me)
I'm not talking about suicide. If you eat for sake of pleasure and NOT in order to die, it may be stupidity but it is not suicide.
This is definitely how siesta time goes in Southern Spain. It seemed an odd habbit when I was introduced to it but it definitely does the job.
The X Factor really spoiled O Fortuna for me.
When I worked for Lyft they did almost no brand training anyways. I'm a big fan of brand identity, so seeing the company slack on this almost makes me want to use Uber. Being lazy with one's brand makes it hard for people to take any company seriously.
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This is fair comment, although a new poll just came out showing the gap narrowing from 14 percentage points to 6.
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Can confirm it works. Have done this often in about 3-4 years. It's easy to fall asleep really fast if you are actually tired (physically or mentally)...doesn't work if you are just bored and wanna pep yourself up.
R.I.P. Hal
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The guy has more similar videos using bleach, ammonia and other substances and the mites survives them all.
We are already on the cusp of rapid automation of our current economy. Traditional models of how labor is distributed or utilized will, and have been, going out the window for quite some time.

But I think you can approximate well enough that by the time the technology arises to resurrect the cryopreserved, it won't require the entire effort of humanity to revive their frozen forbearers, because most of humanity won't be putting out any effort to begin with. We are already 20 years away from half the working population being rendered obsolete by automation. If it is something machines cannot do, it just lets us utilize untapped human labor in the future. If it is something machines can do, we will rapidly deploy the necessary infrastructure to enable the automation of revival, and it won't be a problem of anyone "affording" revival, the machines will just revive all the people they can.
I havent ever tried Citymapper. That said, if Google Maps re-routes me one more time during my transit I will kill an innocent puppy.
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I feel your pain bro