skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>(decades? centuries? millennia? forever?)

All equivalent.

>expecting a spontaneous reboot

Nobody actually expects this. You can't just thaw someone and reperfuse them. Extensive repair work has to be done at the nanoscale.

In any case, the evidence shows electrical activity doesn't really matter when you're only concerned about long-term identity. Electrochemical impulses don't encode memory or personality. If they did, it would be pretty clear in people who recover from extreme hypothermia, as they would have retrograde amnesia.
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What? Women are in a different position from men here, so "swapping the genders" just makes it a statement I wouldn't endorse. What "collectivism" are you talking about? What "problem" are you talking about?
This is why we have something called "time and materials billing". Charge by the day, and give clients an estimate for how long you reckon it will take. Bill by the day (not by the hour, read Thomas Ptacek's writing on this), and if things take longer than expected, let the client know as quickly as possible, and figure out your next move as a team. If they're asking for Complex Feature X, but really what they want is to satisfy Business Need Y, see if there's a simpler way to solve that problem. If they're dead-set on what they're asking for, politely inform them that it's going to take longer and cost more than you initially estimated, given facts A, B, and C (existing codebase is more complex than you thought, external API has some quirks, etc).

The key thing to remember is that what we (consultants) are not running a product business - we're a service business. We're not selling flour by the pound here. Clients will push for the product approach because it offers them the least risk: they know they will spend exactly X, and get exactly Y. The problem with this approach is twofold. First, it shifts all the risk onto us as consultants; second, it leaves either party unable to adapt to change without (potentially serious) personal cost. When changes happen (and they do: client decides a feature should work differently, timelines change for business reasons, etc), you and your client can't react to those changes because of the contract - unless you want to do some free work, which I can guarantee you don't.

Time and materials billing also encourages thorough work - in a fixed-rate project, it's a race to the finish so that you can keep as much of the bill as possible. This means taking shortcuts, exploiting technicalities in the contract, and other things that result in a sub-par final product (and business relationship). With T&M, you're motivated to make sure that features work exactly as intended, and the client is free to make as many changes as they like (at their expense of course).

Finally, if they complain "Oh, but you're just going to take longer to do everything so you can charge me more!", inform them that you have a long history of clients who have been very satisfied with your work, both in terms of final output and timeline. Testimonials are great here. If they push the issue, they don't trust you, and that's probably not going to lead to a good working relationship - proceed at your own risk.

I'm sorry that this doesn't answer your question - hopefully though, this advice will help keep you from running into similar situations in the future.

To weigh in on your current dilemma, It Depends (tm). If you value the relationship with the client and would like to continue working with them under the terms I outlined above, just swallow it and move on. If not, send them an invoice.
I just want to clarify here, I'm not religious at all.

I'm just trying to say that the state of mind and emotional investment is similar. I'm a bit surprised by some of the response, to be honest.
Depending on the nature of the original (fake) report, that may not be a realistic option.
One thing to note is that while Chrome does an okay job it still leaks data between the user accounts so using the guest account servers will still know that it is the same instance of Chrome that has the main account running (aka google knows that you are in "guest" mode, but it is still you).
The key differentiator to Amazon (and most any other delivery drone system I've seen) is that this is a tailsitter: it takes off vertically, and can hover in place for deliveries, but it flies horizontally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail-sitter

This means it's much faster and more efficient in flight than your standard quadcopter design.

Also, Google's full official promotional video, the BBC clip seems to be taken from this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTNvWcx9Oo
At one point, a court might have ruled that your usage of a cigarette lighter to be witchcraft summoning fire demons.

To use your analogy: You're getting on an airplane and the security guy says "no watches". You're now faced with the assured loss of an heirloom item. So you break it, and the guy lets you board. You figure eventually you may be able to reassemble it in some form. Like the Iranians did to the "destroyed" documents in the US Embassy there.
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"Allowing rents to run wild and create problems for existing residents seems unfair, as well."

Yes, it seems unfair, but that's what ought to be done, as they have made no investments, as compared to the landlords.
Why are you so adamant to dismiss cryogenics and call it a religion? Should we just throw in the towel and stop researching it? Do you claim that everyone betting on new technologies are religious?
I love hearing "THE TERRORISTS WIN" from the game audio during this. Apropos.
The victim has an incredible amount of sangfroid. I'm amazed that he wasn't freaking out in an obvious way. His follow-up tweet is a bit understated as well.
Hi cr4zy! Thanks for mentioning me in the post.

At google we have our own large-scale deep learning framework (the Google Brain) that is well constructed and fits the google infrastructure well, so it is understandable that we did not use Caffe at google for the challenge. Mathematically all libraries are alike though, so one is more or less free to choose whatever tool that comes most handy. (hint: you probably want to try out Caffe, or join Google :))

On the detection front we actually adopted the idea of R-CNN quite a lot, so I guess in the context of research, we are standing on the shoulder of existing great research results!

Please stay tuned for our upcoming blog post about GoogLeNet and a more detailed introduction of the method at ECCV.
>in the same way that douchebag men are actually (as you point out) pretty rare

"One in four men admitted raping a woman once in their life according to a report from United Nations. The study was conducted through interviewing 10,000 men aged between 18 and 49-years-old in Asia-Pacific region - Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea. Authors for the research said that the findings may not represent the entire Asia and Pacific Region but those men interviewed for the study are representation of a good demographic match for the countries studied." - http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/505173/20130911/rape-united-n...
Polarizing Drivel. Wow. That's pretty harsh.

The author posts the data, then calls for further study. Isn't that the very basis of science? She admits fully its potential for inaccuracies and wonders aloud about its flaws. Isn't that what peer review is for? The women in tech say it feels true, and it matches their experience. So why isn't the Hacker News Community demanding a peer reviewed study and supporting it, and financing it? Why does it instead choose to ignore its substance, and tear down its conclusions based on its already admitted flaws?

Truly, the persistent and relentless attempts on the part of some Hacker News denizens to discredit any science about bias in technology is disappointing. Any and all attempts to quantify the problem are met with such resistance that it belies the community's own assertions about its objectivity.
Thanks so much for replying! I am president of the Coding Club in my high school, and a lot of the rails teaching that I'm doing is based off of what I learned in your book. The school doesn't allow installing software on the computers, so using a Cloud IDE will be perfect for us. Thank you so much for writing such a great tutorial!
And when the police show up to a scene where they see nothing is happening, they can stand down.
Hi Rich,

Look around for the kind of company you want to work for. Explore outfits mentioned on HN, but also on sites like TechCrunch.

When you find a few, explore their tech stacks and see if any interest you. You don't need to be an expert in the technology, but you need to like it.

Can you visualize a kind of dream role there? It's great that you're ok to start over (I love starting over, like re-learning French or re-reading my ancient copy of K&R).

Look for best practice in CV's - google them and see what makes sense and what doesn't. Revise your CV so it's better. Apply lots, fail lots, take the agile approach to job hunting. Don't get disheartened when you don't get the one you really want, you WILL get there!

Cheers,
Andrew.
Well, if they receive a call about an active shooter, it's understandable that there isn't much time taken to investigate before going in.
Original source: http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2014/08/27/nfl-cmo-mark-waller-inte...

Per the guidelines, please don't submit blog posts about other articles; submit the original.
It's the 20+ years of changes that cause the issue, not the original spec.
> reviving a suspended human mind

That's not what's being debated. We're debating reviving with a yet unknown technique a human mind frozen with a particular one.

> the probability of any known religion being correct is not remotely on the same scale...

I'm an atheist, but that's totally unknown and presently unknowable. And don't provide as an example a very particular religion that rejects evolution (I don't know about muslims and other religions less known in the west, but most religious Jews and many Catholics don't reject evolution).
I'm surprised nobody has made the point that "death" is not a binary thing - it is a progression. If we consider a scale where "1" is alive (breathing, heart beating, higher brain functions working, etc) and "0" is when your brain has been unambiguously destroyed, we have a probability distribution of whether a person can be returned to "1".

At one time if someone left "1" (e.g. heart stopped), that was pretty much it. Now we can often recover someone whose heart has been stopped for several minutes with little to no long term damage through medical intervention. A cryonic procedure pushes a person to a place on the scale where the probability distribution provided by current technology is a big fat zero. There is some hope that as technology advances that probability distribution will look favorable to the those frozen. We're pretty much just guessing about that last part though.
How long are you napping for?
"than we men do"

It was possibly just loose use of language, but by lumping all men into one group, you're falling into the same mental trap as the misogynist fuckwads.

http://xkcd.com/385/

You just did that, just the other way around.
These are loosely related to your topic. But, depending on where your interests lie, these might be interesting for you:

"Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers" - John MacCormick

"Domain Driven Design" - Eric Evans

"Artificial Intelligence: The Basics" - Kevin Warwick

...and on the Project management / Executive side:

"Agile Project Management with Scrum" - Ken Schwaber

"Reality Check" - Guy Kawasaki

"Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" - Jessica Livingston
I also thought the OP "sounded aggressive and emotional", and it was until she brought up the issue of a commenter's gender that I notice the OP's own gender (assuming "Melinda" is female, of course).

I'm male BTW.
I get sad when people close to me go on long trips, even though I'm counting on seeing them in a few years. Even if the trip is a great thing for them. I can be happy about their trip, while being that I'm going to be deprived of their company.

And people can be sad that the probability of seeing him alive in close timeframes suddenly dropped from nearly 1 to somewhere closer to zero.
> I see people spending money for a chance at an afterlife they have absolutely no proof of.

There is a casual, down-to-Earth, no-supernatural-powers-required, fully constrained to known laws of physics and mechanisms of biology chain of reasoning that this could work. There's a huge qualitative difference between this and believing in God.

Sure, we can argue whether or not it's worth spending money on right now; if you start including things like "burden on your relatives" or "probability of undesirable future" or "probability that current preservation techniques destroy too much information" in your calculations you might end up deciding it's not worth the cost yet, but it doesn't change that the idea is sound in principle.

> I see vast exaggeration of some anecdotal observations (miracles?) as "knowledge" of life.

Are you calling modern molecular biology, chemistry and information theory a bunch of "anecdotal observations"? Sure, whatever. But even if, it's still the best thing we have to reason from.

> I see people finding comfort in an unknown future predicated on the powers of some super-human entity (at least super-human compared to the present) and on the optimistic belief in the benevolence of that entity.

You're bundling two different concepts together (which might be excusable, because people who believe in cryonics also often believe in superhuman AIs). Still, cryonics does not depend on any super-human entity or its values, it only depends on whether or not we crack nanotech (or some other technology we don't know yet).

> In short I see religious texts and religious arguments, hence: religion.

Where you see religion, I see reasonable assumptions based on current scientific knowledge, extrapolated by applying cold, hard rationality.
Why are you so intent on conflating legal definitions with the truth?
I hate to stick my head up, but I pay less than that for a 2Br in the Mission (I moved in about a year ago). It's not luxurious, but it'll do.

The missing piece is that (relatively) cheap real estate is not advertised, you need to get it from a friend who's leaving SF. It can be frustrating sometimes that good apartments are allocated by seniority (how long you've lived here & who you know) rather then by the free market.
Sounds to me as if that telco infrastructure could do with a bit more security.
Indeed - that was sloppy on my part; I meant "in the society in which I live."
I think there may be a problem if counting your working hours is one of two benefits to the company you've shared with us.
Depends - is there some magical event that means this is the only shot? Like, he's on a collision course with a sun and is going to impact in 4 hours, but we can remotely activate for those hours?

Otherwise, I think the proper response is "keep working on this technology until we've gotten that 4 hour window up to something useful."
They read differently so why shouldn't they be different? One has a type specification so reads like a declaration. The other doesn't. This wasn't weird before C++11 too. The only difference is that one didn't compile before (prior to the introduction of initializer lists).
> The other strategy is physical and mental exhaustion

Sleep deprivation may make it easy to fall asleep fast, but then you won't wake up without alarm after 15-20 minutes.
I'm willing to bet more people are harmed by SWAT teams than by heavily armed criminals using the same class of gear.

A patrolman would've been more than sufficient for this.

EDIT:

Just to make this painfully obvious...had he turned around quickly with a mouse in his hand, they quite possibly could have drilled him. Is that sort of risk really something we're okay with?

EDIT 2:

For the downvoters--notice that I said "same class of gear". How many criminals are actually busted carrying fully-automatic MP5s, assault rifles, shotguns, and body armor?
He was a white male. These things tend towards non-fatal resolutions when this is the case.
More legally regulated is the only real difference.
Many in our industry believe that consumers don't understand technology or its implications, don't know what they want, and if you base your product design on consumers' stated desires you are substituting the offhand ideas of ignorant amateurs (I don't mean that pejoratively; they have their own jobs to do) for the hard-won, carefully thought-out ideas of expert visionaries.

Then why, regarding security issues, do so many in our field say 'consumers don't want that'? Very few consumers understand security technology (try asking one for their password, perhaps the simplest security tech) and even fewer understand the potential implications of threats to their confidentiality (for a simple example, how many think metadata is not a threat -- of the few who know what metadata is).

Few people in IT really understand the implications, because it requires understanding political, historical, and social issues. Many in IT know as much about those implications as typical end-users know about metadata, but we are deciding those issues for the world.
I'm not sure that Australia has "progressive" rules about the use of drones by design. More likely it's just that the government hasn't yet got around to putting rules in place. Mind you, the more high-level drone research we have going on here, the more examples there will be to counter attempts to impose crazy rules.

Also worth noting is that Australia has a "UAV Outback Challenge" [1], where UAVs compete to carry out a simulated rescue of a tourist lost in the outback. This September the challenge is in Kingaroy, Queensland. (Maybe that's why Google is testing up that way??) Of further interest, there's at least one open source team competing in the UAV challenge [2].

[1] http://www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au/

[2] http://www.canberrauav.com/

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Edit: A bit more detail in the local news: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/google-...
> not primarily focused on just delivering books or groceries but being put to the use for AID

That is just their plan for getting regulatory approval: if you are against UAVs, you are against delivering life-saving medicine to disaster victims.
> That's not what's being debated. We're debating reviving with a yet unknown technique a human mind frozen with a particular one.

I know I'm repeating myself in every comment I make in this thread, but to reiterate. We know one possible technique that will work. We know that it exists, it is possible and that it can do the job in principle. We just don't know how to use it, because we didn't build that particular piece of technology.

There may be other ways we don't know about yet, but if there are none, then there's always the nanotech.
I mean unfortunately because there's no solution to this where emergency services can perfectly determine if a call is genuine or not. So it is unfortunate that they have their time wasted, when they could be used elsewhere.
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> sn't this rather at odds with your hypothesis that they do well because of being more aggressive?

I don't think that's what he said originally. He said that aggressive women are those who overcome the social pressure to not join a male dominated field like CS/tech.

To give an extreme example, you can be a timid man and still join CS simply because there's no pressure against you doing so, but if you were a timid woman you wouldn't be able to overcome the poor atmosphere women in STS face.
There's a false dichotomy here. It is possible for religions to be true, and for an afterlife to exist at the same time that the possibility of revival after cryopreservation exists.

The cryopreserved person simply wasn't truly dead yet in such a scenario. An afterlife can still commence after whatever cosmic rules that indicate true death are satisfied.

Certainly everyone will die, no matter what. There is no materialist vision of immortality that can work in a universe with a finite life span.
"They could have bought twenty years ago for much less but they didn't."

Ah, but it really wasn't much less 20 years ago. It was STILL expensive compared to everywhere else.
I'll grant you that. "The state of mind and emotional investment" is indeed similar, and it is a rationality risk, because people may (and do) transplant religious memes to reasoning about this. Same with the Singularity, or even if you dive a bit into game theory and economics you might realize that the possible solutions to coordination problems start to look eerily similar to what Jehovah's Witnesses teach about how God wants humanity to work (honestly, I've been loosing some sleep over this myself). It's a danger, but it doesn't make cryonics religion.
I was in Italy at the time - no flying stuff allowed in town. So I built a small autonomous truck instead.

Also, thanks for downvoting a post with link to source and schematics, whoever you are.
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This is marvelous project.

I had the opportunity to hear Marvin Camras, the inventor of magnetic recording, speak at a local Ham Club. The key idea behind recording was the idea of "bias", which was his invention. He brought a sample recording made very long ago, ant it was amazing how clear the sound was.

He had over 500 inventions during his life, most of them relating to recording.
@duncan_bayne - men exist as a *class of human beings. This is how social systems work. This is what I mean -- if people were familiar with feminist thought there wouldn't be these basic misunderstandings. Try:

Oppression by Marilyn Frye - http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/tbettch/Frye,%20Oppression...

White Privilege and Male Privilege by Peggy McIntosh - http://www.iub.edu/~tchsotl/part2/McIntosh%20White%20Privile...

A Woman’s Worst Nightmare by Mary Dickson - http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html

Hers; The Smurfette Principle - http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/07/magazine/hers-the-smurfett...

What it’s like being a teen girl - http://sodisarmingdarling.tumblr.com/post/34106027759/what-i...

Doing Gender by Candace West; Don H. Zimmerman - http://blog.lib.umn.edu/clar0514/academic/west%20and%20zimme...

‘I’m not a pilot, I’m a pilot’s wife,’ says 3 yr old girl - http://reelgirl.com/2013/11/im-not-a-pilot-im-a-pilots-wife-...

“Is my son smart?” “Is my daughter skinny?” Google Searches Reveal Parents’ Gender Biases - http://rebeccahains.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/is-my-son-smart...

Andrea Dworkin: I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape - http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/WarZoneChaptIIIE.htm...
That seems like a false dichotomy. There are SaaS applications with no data export option, and there are closed-source locally installed applications that use textual data formats (e.g. XML), if only as a matter of convenience for their developers.
Anyone have a bio of Dave Voss, the new project leader? I couldn't find one.
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GP asked for evidence, not for proof. Your refutation is a generic argument you could use on anything. I can only assume you understand this, (judging from your generally high-quality comments on this site). So I'm curious as to your reasoning for such a poor response. Is it just that you disagree there's useful evidence for cryonics and don't want to write more in-depth comments?
you are probably right. it's a crime to abuse civil servants but wow what timing. right when the US is in the middle of a militarisation of police debate centered in part around abusive use of SWAT everywhere. In the end though this particular use illustrates that not all police are animals. Of course, Kootra is white. Just sayin.
There's one on my corner. It's also an Ingress portal. :) I stock it with kids books, mostly. And of course keep it shielded.