skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The techniques of today are actually much more elaborate than decision trees. The key is gathering evidence automatically (i.e., learning) from medical literature - that requires parsing the text through ML techniques that have been invented just recently.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGJ0h_jAp8 for what the Watson medical diagnosis product looks like - it's not just about diagnosis, it's about evidences.
Found some background at http://ortc.org/History/ & http://blog.webrtc.is/2013/03/06/sdp-the-webrtc-boat-anchor/

"My issues with SDP can be summarized as:

- unneeded – much too high level an API

- arcane format – legacy and problematic

- offer/answer

- incompatibilities

- lack of API contact

- doesn’t truly solve goal of interoperability with legacy systems (eg. SIP)"

from

"the Chief Architect at Hookflash and author of the new P2P protocol, Open Peer. I used to be the CTO/ Chief Scientist at Xten, now CounterPath, and I’m the original author of the X-Lite/X-PRO/eyeBeam SIP softphone clients. "
Halperin's The First Immortal is damned near a written infomercial for Alcor, but is still a pretty interesting book in its own right in terms of exploring various cryonics scenarios.

Edit: looks like it's available freely online: http://coins.ha.com/information/tfi.s
Upgrade path? Easy as pie! Just parse the C source, then pretty-print a mandatory-indentation version. As long as the new language has all the semantics of C, converting from one syntax to another is trivial. And if you insist on "incremental", you can do this one module at a time.

Seriously, stop listening to your guts and look at the facts.

As for gcc setting up some kind of example for upgrading to C++… C and C++ are low-level systems languages. They are not suitable for static compilers. While I understand bootstrap as a validation technique, it is not worth the hassle of suffering such a mismatch between the language and the problem domain.

Static compilers should be written in an ML dialect, or Haskell, or maybe Lisp. C and C++ have no business here. And if you really want the bootstrap thing, then you should also implement a DSL that compiles to C or C++, and use that to make your compiler.
The Stand-Along App
You say "For example, we used our DIY DNS management approach until the recent etcd update."

What is the etcd update, what system did you change to?

Seems there's lots of docker container dns servers, some using etcd. Don't know whether to try one of them or dive into kubernetes.
> By the time we have the technology to revive cryopatients, that question will likely be "why not?".

It's a big leap of faith to think we'll ever be able to revive frozen dead people. Early applications of cryonics didn't take the tissue destruction of freezing into account. What other problems are being completely missed in the process?

And that's to say nothing of the problems related to reviving a dead person and fixing the causes of their death in a timely manner. Even granting a relatively uninterrupted progress of technology, it's a big assumption that such things are possible.
A ship is subject to the laws and regulations of the country in which it is registered, even when it is not operating in that country's waters.
Not for everyone. For me, yes, at least 15 minutes, but my SO can often go out in less than 5. I never take naps for that reason, and she takes them frequently. Perhaps there's a correlation between the time it takes to fall asleep and the frequency of naps.
I think this is an outgrowth of our general social tendency to judge men by what they do ("he works at a hedge fund!") and women by what they're like ("she's really sweet!").

I found this paragraph in particular interesting:

> Words like bossy, abrasive, strident, and aggressive are used to describe women’s behaviors when they lead . . . . Among these words, only aggressive shows up in men’s reviews at all. It shows up three times, twice with an exhortation to be more of it.

My current boss told me after I got hired that he liked me at my interview because I came across as aggressive. It's a personality trait that works great for men, because we're given a wide latitude between "aggressive behavior" and "abrasive" behavior. To a certain extent, we correlate a certain level of aggressiveness, credit-taking, and talking over others with leadership potential. But it seems for women, such behavior can result in being told: "Sometimes you need to step back to let others shine."
> And ads are already the majority source of Mozilla's income

Nope. Mozilla primary income source is Google (and Bing, amazon, ebay) paying to be the default search engine (and a search engine included in the search bar).
And then there are users donation, which are slowly but steadily growing. Yet they are way under Mozilla's needs.
A huge portion of the workforce will be unemployable in our lifetimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

By the time the technology comes around the revive the cryopreserved, the rest of technological advancement will change the dynamic of human interaction so much we cannot estimate what the world will be like, but we can assume that with technology advanced enough to repair the damage from the freezing process, you would probably be entering a world of almost any possibility.
Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies
Surely that's why libertarians make a distinction. Capitalism is the word we use for the various systems that we inhabit in practice.

The things that you are calling 'socialism' are the products of democracy.
What could Apple announce on Sept. 9 to make fanboys’ heads explode?  a Q&A
i don't find this shocking
I find it interesting that cryonics and the singularity are both 'modern' religions with that are vary similar in tone to many past religions. They both seems reasonable on the surface, but don't really work if you dig down into the details. Much like all that new age QM BS uses a few of the right words without much substance.
Hiding Linux Processes for Fun and Profit
Certainly depends on how tired you are.
I work at home, so I sleep around my own schedule as much as I want to and almost always feel rested. But when I am missing an hour or two of sleep (which a lot of people are, every damn day), I fall asleep in minutes given the opportunity in the middle of the day.
Really interesting to see the whole journey from pre-ubuntu and garage days to now.
This does not make sense for civilian transportation.
That's exciting, thank you for the correction. (Happen to know whether they've done any larger organs?)
Simplistic vs. simplicity in product design
Motorola and Yo just screwed up their Moto 360 giveaway really badly
>That's not called 'active shutdown', that's called murder

Well, it's not really called anything much at the moment as no one does it but certainly not all killing is called murder. You kill enemies with bombs, that's heroic service, civilians with bombs it's collateral damage, kill patients trying to save them medically then it's an unfortunate result, kill deliberately in a manner banned by your government then it's murder. For me suspending someone to save them would be closest to heroic service.
>Early applications of cryonics didn't take the tissue destruction of freezing into account. What other problems are being completely missed in the process?

Literally everyone knows about ice formation. Robert Ettinger wrote about it in his cryonics book before it ever happened. Cryoprotectants have been used since the first real (ie non-cosmetic) cryopreservations.

>reviving a dead person and fixing the causes of their death

Cancer (for example) is nothing compared to reviving a vitrified human. Absolutely nothing. By the time you have the biological machinery to repair the kind of damage that thermal stress fractures, residual ice and cryoprotectant toxicity causes, cancer will be a curiosity in the bookshelves of history.

If the person died due to some kind of brain aneurysm, then sure, you probably can't fix that, but then again you're talking about a situation where there's really no structure to preserve in the first place.
There is a lot of it depends. On an empty stomach 20 minutes does seem a bit long.

However you're also conditioned to the feeling you expect coffee to provide, so the initial jolt of energy may have almost nothing to do with the actual caffeine and more to do with the thought of the caffeine.
OSM has had routing information for years. There are loads of train lines and train stations. Bus routes have been there for a while, but they are a little harder to map. You can't do them from aerial imagery, or by walking around. Timetables are much harder, and aren't in OSM (I think)

Here's public transport things that are in the OSM database: http://www.öpnvkarte.de/
Ask HN: What are best places to visit in the bay area for an entrepreneur
I am going to the states this winter and I would like to visit the bay area. Where should I go to get a glimpse of that famous Silicon Valley spirit?
It's just a commoditization. Religion will charge what they think they buyer will be able to afford, cryopreservation companies charge what they think it should cost to get the problem pushed beyond their own lifetimes.

It's a scam, but a very clever one, just like religion. The only mitigating factor to me is that the participants here go in eyes wide open rather than that they are sucked in as defenceless children.
> A great designer can change the UI elements on a Photoshop
> document in about an hour.

If you had an artist paint the UI mockup on canvas, it would take longer and cost even more! My point is why is Photoshop still used as the default tool in many places? Photoshop is meant for photographs. We have so many tools at our disposal which can give lightning quick feedback: change a single CSS element from "color: red" to "color: green" and the entire site updates as soon as you save the .css file.

Why, then, do people still use the digital equivalent of painting on canvas? An effective design agency would come up with the overall information architecture including layout, font, and recommend color scheme based on the client's brand. Then give the client a very user-friendly tool to adjust the elements that the designers have specified as being configurable. The design agency can put whatever constraints on it they want, but then let the client have at it while the designers guide the client through the whole design process, offering feedback on why something does or does not work.
it takes practise. Likely you try and take a nap a few times, it takes too long and so the next day you don't bother. But if you can get through that it gets easier over time. Your body learns that it's "time to go to sleep".

The other strategy is physical and mental exhaustion, for this I recommend starting a business and/or becoming a parent.
William Deresiewicz discusses the miseducation of the American elite
"Leawood said it has received two complaints about Spencer Collins' library."
> Murder is so final, while this is more akind to shutting down a computer that you hope to be able to start up again. Hence active shutdown being a more appropriate idea.

The flaw in the analogy is that there's fairly widespread experience in restarting computers after shutdown, as well as a wealth of knowledge about how fix the computer if it doesn't come back up. None of that holds for cryonics and human death.
Want to get ahead as a woman in tech? Learn to interrupt
At my previous job, I had both male and female co workers who were bossy and abrasive.

I don't know if that means I transcended gender or just needed to find a better place to work.
Is it possible that professional women are more abrasive than men in aggregate? I am not saying that is the case, only that it is another hypothesis from the data. If that was the case and I had to guess a reason, it would be that groups with more power insecurity tend to overcompensate in other areas.

Another explanation could be industry. More women work in Fashion and marketing, which have generally more dramatic environments.
Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human, and generally this premeditated state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter).

So not really, no. And you should really know better than replying with such trollbait, that's not contributing to the discussion in the slightest. This is the announcement of the death (?) of someone, not the place to argue ethics (or religion, because we all know that's what coming up next).
If duty were enough, we wouldn't have wars or poverty, 'out of duty to our fellow human beings'. Why are people who are already dead more deserving of such 'duty'?
Who insures the insurers? The reinsurers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance

Interestingly, insurance actuaries here in Denmark has one of the highest incomes. 25% of those with the degree end up in top-1% income (vs 11% of those with a law degree). More (in Danish): http://www.business.dk/karriere/her-er-vejen-til-den-hoejest...
No, because those union flags are copied by value into the flags in question. (just trying to bring it back to programming)
I think you vastly underestimate the current demand for the skills you have.
The other thing to consider is that in California, if your dispute should fall under California law, which I suspect from your post that it does... does not allow or enforce Non-compete on termination agreements with no consideration. You did not mention non-compete, but as a NY resident and when talking about employment and IP, I must always assume that any dispute would center around a non-compete clause rather than IP law, since copyright/patent/trademark are all distinct and are already the law, even in the absence of any signed document or consideration given. So I assume you can only be worried that your agreement will restrict you from competing in the same space; and not that (less charitably) you plan to abscond with some trade secret and publish it/make it the core model of your new startup. In the state of California, it is my understanding that you should worry less about that: non-competes are not valid. A trade secret though, could be protected by an agreement that you signed.

Again I am not a lawyer, but I went to Slashdot University back in the 90's and 2000's... I am talking here only about non-competes with no consideration. If there is some consideration (a severance package?) then it would probably have been in exchange for something, and I'll admit there is a decent chance there is still a valid non-compete.

But it sounds like you're keen and you'd know alright if you had accepted an offer of some consideration in exchange for something like a non-compete. I don't think those kinds of agreements can be made in California in exchange for just your regular paycheck as the consideration, or as a term of your employment agreement.
It's not really a pivot: it's still tracking hand gestures and it's even validating one of the ways the device was used by customers, which is great because natural interactions are one of the big upcoming battlefields of VR.
iBeacon payment app for Silicon Valley
I built a marketplace for horseback riding tours [1]

Tried to get stable owners to sell their tours on the site, failed.

Probably closing it down soon if nothing magically happens.

[1] https://www.rida.nu
Ukraine rallies the Twitter troops as Russia invades
I'm curious, what part of Meteor will be a requirement for future web development? Are we not already building big distributed, interactive web apps without using techniques that Meteor introduced?
Do you want build a really fast web application? I share my tricks
Sounds like this would pair well with specially designed time release caffeine capsules that release 20 minutes before you wake up.
Snapchat is neither private or secure.

It creates the illusion of it but its illusion is extraordinarily thin.

Please don't perpetuate the myth they are private or secure.

http://www.informationweek.com/software/social/5-ways-snapch...

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/oh-snap-snapchat-fixes-...

http://gibsonsec.org/snapchat/fulldisclosure/

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/28/technology/security/snapchat...

etc.
Very magical—but I'm not convinced all types have meaningful equality or hashes. It's convenient to have, but thorny whenever you, say, have anonymous functions lying around.
Giving yourself permission to be impulsive is a habit. Self-control is also a habit.

Intellectually, you already know these internet discussions don't matter to your life. The other advice in this thread about thinking more reasonably isn't gonna help much--you're already reasonable. The problem is that your impulsivity is a habit you've built up by repetition. Habits can override reason, if you're not attentive.

So pay attention to your habits. Frame your problem as a bad habit, so you can treat the habit. Define the good habit you'd like to live by. Work up the initial determination to break your bad habit. Then arrange the next couple weeks of your life around reinforcing/maintaining the new habit through repetition.

With repetition, doing the right thing gets easier.
This has always happened, because it doesn't take a genius to create a class registration application better than the monstrosities that some horrible overpaid vendor managed to cobble together for a couple million dollars. If there's any change indicated by this article, it's that these schools aren't threatening legal action or expulsion to have them shut down.
This is not the announcement of the death of someone.

The title clearly reads that he's being cryopreserved. If it was about his death I would expect something that would announce that rather than his so-called preservation.

This is the trans-humanist movement claiming this moment as theirs rather than an announcement of a good persons death.

It's simply an Alcor advertorial, not a eulogy.

Supposedly he's not really dead, so either we can react to the article and he'll read this in the future and laugh at me or we should mourn him because he really is dead. Make up your minds.
It's possible, but the likelihood is so low some might wonder why you're bringing that possibility up rather than discuss the much more likely alternative and how we can fix it.

Also; "I asked men and women in tech if they would be willing to share their reviews for a study and didn’t stipulate anything else."
A friend of mine who works for Alcor once converted somebody from full body to head only. They used a chain saw.
I use Citymapper to use Citibike, and it has the following big flaws:

- Reloading the app, it never remembers I was on the biking screen, and always goes to the main screen. Minor detail, but annoying, and so easy for them to fix!

- Every time I move the map even slightly, it removes all bike stations from the map and queries the API again for a new set of stations, even if the last request was only five seconds ago. If there's any wireless interference, it complete destroys the functionality. I mean, cache the station locations at the very least! And don't hide the old data while waiting for the new data, if it's less than a couple minutes old.

- The screen real estate devoted to the map is only ~50%! The bottom third is taken up by a totally unnecessary textual list of stations, which can't be hidden

- And you can't even rotate the map!

Granted, it's a million times better than the default Citibike app. But it's still got a ways to go to achieve "ideal" UX.
That seems like a pretty extreme response. I know most apps only get one chance to fail before people uninstall them, but giving up on the whole app seems a bit much. It's new technology, and not trivial either. Why not give them a little more chance to improve before entirely shooting it down?
Drought Brings on a Downpour of Pseudoscience
That's definetly progress, but still , the point made by spitfire is true: The real challenge is adoption, not tech.

We even see it with the low acceptance of Watson in medicine and IBM's move into africa.

I wonder thought: why hasn't IBM offered a "second opinion" service directly to consumers ? It could might have sped adoption.
> We've seen "ruin porn" on here, the whole water issue (where having a service turned off for lack of payment somehow got cast into something greater).

The water issue is much greater than just a few people experiencing water cut offs because of bills. Nearly 70,000 residential accounts are going to have their water cut off through the end of September. Why should such a huge portion of a cities population have their water cut off because of financial hardship? Water is essential to survival and removing access to water for these people is extremely cruel.
Good call. I put it in quotes because it didn't seem right.
i have watched these dogs work during trips to North Wales (mine, not the dogs'); in N. Wales, i believe the dogs are border collies (medium length black and white, ~ 10 - 20 kg). A few things in particular i was amazed by--first, the speed at which they are able to gather a previously grazing herd of sheep scattered over a a few hundred sq metres and get them moving briskly to some intended destination in well-ordered moving queue; second, each "team" (3-4 dogs) appeared to work in a tightly coordinated way; and also, i often saw a puppy as part of these teams, which suggested to me sheepdog skills are at least substantially learned from the older dogs.
Obscure Android Software Firm Attracts Google Rivals – The Information
Get in front of companies by:

1) Tapping the network you likely have
2) Go to events like Meetups. Make yourself visible.
3) Might want to build that website and portfolio so you can show what you did. Sounds like it should be easy for you to throw together
4) Start applying to jobs. There are tons of positions for people with your skills. I'm sure you can make it happen. If you want to do front end then do that. If you want to be a growth hacker then you'll probably get in even more easily.
Interesting -- yes; surprising -- not at all. After all, religions (whether true or not (there's only one true religion but I'm not going to tell you what it is)) serve the same deep human psychological needs. What I find curious about most versions of an afterlife is this: they all describe life without death, and some (including singularity) describe a pure spiritual (non-corporal) existence. Each of these things on its own -- let alone together -- makes that existence in the afterlife distinctly non human. Whatever we're reborn as, it's no longer human, but somehow it's not only us, but us as we'd want to exist. Note how religions that believe in reincarnation are different in that respect: they promise a constant re-birth but always in (at least hopefully) human form.
Once we've defeated death, the incentive will be to reduce the population sharply and strictly control reproduction. Adding new people from amongst the dead will be the last thing on anyone's minds.
Rails Request Handling
It's very hard for us to overlook sexual dimorphism in everything we do, and it's not even clear we should. It's however very trendy nowadays to pretend that it doesn't exist, probably for political correctness reasons.
"More women work in Fashion and marketing, which have generally more dramatic environments."

Do you have data on this?
I think he was referring to the legal clusterfuck that happens when someone who is legally dead isn't actually dead.

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/10/no-youre-still-decease...

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/08/feds-say-legally-dead-...
Answer: Not at all. Science rarely has such unanimity on any topic as that illustrated by this article.

There is only one study cited here showing negative correlation between any two aspects of intelligence, despite this being worthy of study for the whole of a century. That shouldn't even register as random noise.
Especially since I think coffee for me is mostly a placebo. I know when I drink coffee I'm supposed to be more awake so there's no way I could take a nap after drinking one.