skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electron micrography of cryopreserved tissue shows pretty good preservation[0][1], and since every aspect of the mind is dependent on physical properties of the brain, the possibility of revival exists as long as structure and context are preserved in the brain.

>marketed to wealthy tech folks

Cryonics has historically been a middle class thing.

[0] http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/micrographs.html

[1] http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/braincryopreservation1.htm...
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> I would argue that cryopreservation is the belief in the increasing rate of scientific progress (which can measured and proven)

The problem is that you aren't just depending on future improvements in revival technology, you're depending on the current state of today's preservation technology (at the point you die).

And today's preservation technology doesn't have a lot of evidence suggesting that it can work to successfully preserve a kidney, much less a brain.
I noticed that as well, strange issue. We'll look into it.
We can only hope their new package system will contain something that allows the programmer to chose their own database. I want to use Couchbase and Elasticsearch. I can't see why any other document store couldn't do the same job as Mongo. Don't get me wrong, I'm ok with Mongo (but it's not for me) but can't we make at least some choice???
Also, not a "forklift upgrade". The work is done. DNSSEC is live.

Your resolver probably already supports it. Your TLD probably already publishes the records.
Some in depth commentary/rants:

Liz Ryerson: On Right-Wing Videogame Extremism
http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/08/on-right-wing-videogame...

Elizabeth Sampat: The Truth about Zoe Quinn
http://elizabethsampat.com/the-truth-about-zoe-quinn/

And for some more context on recent events: An awful week for video games (Chris Plante)
http://www.polygon.com/2014/8/28/6078391/video-games-awful-w...
First 64-bit Android phone has no 64-bit software
You didn't understand what the article is advocating. The thesis lays it out:

The increasing criminalisation of corporate behaviour in America is bad for
the rule of law and for capitalism.

The author then uses the fact that punishment for the criminal activities by corporations has been privatized through civil courts instead of performed publicly by regulation and prosecution to attempt to gin up outrage. Yes, private enforcement instead of public enforcement is less efficient in many ways. But given the deluded republican ideology and their band of useful idiots (corporations are people, my friend! [1]) it isn't the case that we are choosing between private enforcement and public enforcement of our laws, but rather between private enforcement and no enforcement. The goal is clear: to allow corporations to not be punished.

Note also the cute aside where the author attempts to shift blame for corporate activities to individual managers, who can then be charged (in lieu of any punishment of the corporation for acts done by the corporation). The modern version of "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPQkd_AA6c
Great work on the bindings.

Also for those of you not aware of the great work Mike Pall has done on LuaJIT you should really look into it. He's done amazing work virtually all himself. Please consider donating to the project to help fund and support Mike.

Mike offers all of his work under a BSD license so the community can freely, without restriction, use his research and developments.

http://luajit.org/sponsors.html
On the other hand, you'll be living in the future, and probably unemployable since things will have evolved so much.

Maybe everybody speaks something else other than English and even communicating is a pain (even with good translation resources)

You'll know nobody. All the things that you know by "home" are gone.

It'll probably be cool for the first weeks, then an absolute drag.
bcrypt makes it five or six orders of magnitude harder.

And its work factor is adjustable at run-time for the time that hardware speed increases.
I have never tried them. A £10 pair or cheap sonys from the local hifi shop was the ones I used at my last workplace.
I recommend try std.parallelism.
I did a test with a n Body simulator and runs very well on a 15 core machine with a speed up around x13-14 over the serial version.

https://github.com/Zardoz89/nBodySim
Built-in Timer for Pivotal, Trello, Asana, Basecamp and GitHub
"The problem is that Detroit doesn't really have that strong of a white collar job base."

A cheap place for startups to set up shop at?
My first time going through(and then second time a few weeks later), I totally ignored the tests and felt like I was better for it as well.
Since you specifically mentioned kidneys:

>In the summer of 2005, where he was a keynote speaker at the annual Society for Cryobiology meeting, Fahy announced that Twenty-First Century Medicine had successfully cryopreserved a rabbit kidney at -130°C by vitrification and transplanted it into a rabbit after rewarming, with subsequent long-term life support by the vitrified-rewarmed kidney as the sole kidney. This research breakthrough was later published in the peer-reviewed journal Organogenesis.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Fahy

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15094092
This article is completely void of any real content or thoughtful discourse. It is just the author taking tons of potshots at people who self-describe as "gamers."

I think this quote sums up the entire article perfectly:

> These obtuse shitslingers, these wailing hyper-consumers, these childish internet-arguers -- they are not my audience. They don’t have to be yours. There is no ‘side’ to be on, there is no ‘debate’ to be had.

If this was a comment on any community on the internet nobody would take it seriously, it would just be labelled the "troll post" that it invariably is. It is flamebait or even click bait if you will.

I'm happy to debate the whole "gamer culture" thing and even the worst parts of that, and many commentators have in the past (e.g. "Totalbiscuit" has touched on that topic many times). However, this article isn't liable to start any constructive or thoughtful discussion, just anger certain people, and drive away far more.

Maybe if the author spent less time trying to be "edgy" and inciting people they could have dedicated more of the article to how we move things forward (rather than throwing more wood on the fire).
Who's to say that the choice to survive in the distant future is desirable?

Everyone you know and love will have been long dead, and any society with both the means and will to revive you may have undesirable objectives in mind, e.g. a life of slavery or military conscription. From a global perspective, what are the potential impacts on the species of an eternal elite, obsessed with life extension, creating an ever-growing class of ancient capital holders?

Assuming both constant human nature and the lack of an self-reinforcing intelligence cascade (i.e. no singularity event), survival is not an obviously rational choice.
Alternatively, we could collectively fund the development of high-quality non-profit software. Via taxation or crowdfunding or some other means.
The thing I don't understand is how circulating cryoprotectant chemicals through the brain doesn't destroy the tissue. How could anything other than blood safely circulate through the brain?
One thing I like about this concept is that it's based on people creating public space on their private property. They are well maintained, aesthetically pleasing, but also quite eclectic. Since these are typically set up by individuals on residential property, they aren't just token efforts – they aren't a disingenuous attempt to prove the person is community-minded (though I'm sure appearing community minded is a motivation, it's just not a disingenuous motivation ;)

I wish there was more of this. I'd actually like to put a bench in my front yard, facing the sidewalk – unfortunately people would use it to congregate and drink. But then, so it goes – there are other people near me who wouldn't have that problem, because these problems are typically block-by-block. For some reason my yard appears like a perfectly good drinking spot, I'm not sure why, but I am very aware of it.

When benches are put in by the city, the person who makes that decision is not at all aware of these specific issues. They don't live with the result of the infrastructure they create. So we have another public bench near us that causes problems. Or often there are no benches available because they are seen as a nuisance, or the public space is rendered hostile in some fashion to discourage loiterers, which simultaneously discourages all enjoyment. These are the crude choices cities make because the people planning aren't intimately involved with the specific environments they are affecting.

(If I ever do something with the hill in my front yard I think I'd like to install a slide. I think that would be enjoyed but not abused. And if I'm wrong I'll have to figure out myself how to fix it)
Too much of #tbt?
Or the free-of-cost Llama https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...
Ancillary to the sad news, for a fictional treatment of cryopreservation (circa 1993) -- one that I couldn't help think about as I read that email/release -- Gregory Benford's novel, Chiller, works through many of the thought-provoking implications. http://www.gregorybenford.com/product/chiller/
A simpler principle for initially dealing with this: ask yourself "What am I trying to accomplish with this comment?"

On a forum like Hacker News, it should generally be one of the "make things better" reasons that are suggested by others.

But alternatively, you can on various forums, and I suppose the occasional Hacker News discussion, comment to make yourself feel better (however that works).

Ah, another suggestion: look back on your old comments (easy with Hacker News) and ask yourself if you're now glad you made (enough of) them. Do they make you cringe, or feel proud?
Came here to say this. Saying someone doesn't understand UX, when in fact they just have a different user context, suggests the one pointing fingers doesn't understand UX.
I'm not sure they'd be such a useful aquisition to the big players, as their strong point is the usability of their app itself, rather than the underlying technology so much. Citymapper already use Google Maps for walking directions and actual mapping, and Google Maps already have the same transit data that Citymapper gets from public APIs.

Citymapper takes a very different approach to UX to Google Maps so I can't see them going together well. Perhaps it could be used to improve Apple Maps, but again I think it would clash with Apple's usual way of designing apps in house.
I'm sad for him that we haven't progressed far enough to treat him. I'm glad he has a shot in the future.
Ask HN: How often is too often to switch jobs?
I got a job as a developer right out of school and worked there for only 4 months before switching to another job with more pay and better benefits. I have discovered that I do not really enjoy my new job. It is a very large company and things move so slowly I am bored out of my mind. I show up at 9am and almost never stay until 5, but still get everything done which is assigned to me. Apparently they think I am some kind of star who is going to make big changes but I just can't stand all the processes and hoops that need to be jumped though. It takes a full day to get a deployment done and up to a week just to run a SQL script to update a database because of processes and approvals. I want to find a new job but I have only been here for 3 months and am worried it is going to look bad that I switch jobs too often.
How long should I wait before looking for another job so it doesn't look bad on my resume?
The point about challenges over tweaks is great, but I don't understand the headline.

From the green button example:

> A great designer can change the UI elements on a Photoshop document in about an hour. You have a one-hour meeting to provide feedback. Three days to produce changes.

How does he get from two hours to three days? An hour for the mockup, an hour for the meeting... and 22 more for changing the css?
1. I am not super familiar with the space (I am not responsible for this specific product) so I may not answer your question exactly. The discovery product is an interactive tool more than a static tool generating hypothesis. It lets you search, navigate, visualize, query in natural language the literature and the extracted entities/relationships.

It uses a lot of pretty advanced tech to do that:
* State-of-the-art statistical annotators
* Some deep domain knowledge understanding of the entities themselves (e.g., how chemical entities are composed)
* Some nifty visualizations
* Many component from the Jeopardy stack (you can read the Jeopardy papers for more insights) - deep question parsing, candidate generation techniques, scorers, etc.
* Down the line it'll integrate more reasoning techniques along the lines of http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/watson/watso...

2. Our first version was focused on life sciences and intelligence, we are expanding it to finance, law, and education.
How many tabs are you talking about? I've used Chrome with 100+ tabs spread out over a few windows on 8gb of RAM with very few problems.

Firefox on the other hand, chokes much earlier than Chrome.
I wrote a Dvorak practice program in Haskell that uses QuickCheck to generate random pseudo-scala practice sets.
https://github.com/pkinsky/dvorak.
I like Dylan for its generic function and restart system is probably what should have been in Common Lisp. Generic function is the same in Common Lisp, but Dylan actually utilizes it in the standard library.
Crowdfunding for Crypto Currencies
It's been done before:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/raf-operations-room

Note also that no one is talking about the map in and of itself because it's not all that interesting and nothing new.
I am not a scientist, but this objection seems rather short-sighted. The threat posed by global warming is to the ecosystem as a whole. If the smaller-scale (but still large) systems are negatively affected, but the system as a whole is saved, then this would be a worthwhile effort.
Any revenue diversification is good, so let's hope this works. But this is trying to remove the search engine middleman by working directly with advertisers, i.e. Mozilla would still be in the advertising/surveillance business.

Here's a better option: partner with a (micro?)payments company to maintain a secure client-side database with dashboard for donations to open-source software and CC-licensed content. Make Mozilla the best browser for consuming, discovering and funding OSS and CC-licensed content.

Instead of showing "sponsored tiles", show project analytics for all the wonderful things that were done today by the projects to which I have donated. Make Mozilla the CRM user interface and payments broker for open content. This would have the side effect of funding new, open content.

In this possible future, Mozilla becomes a funnel of money to the commons (including itself), not a shopping cart or magazine. This future would not conflict with sponsored tiles -- let the user choose.

Edit: Mozilla could also modify the browser so it can perform "federated search" on the local device, trusted peers (via webrtc) or vertical search (e.g. HackerNews, StackOverflow, Wikipedia) before querying a public search engine. Enable a split-screen mode where private/federated search results are in one half of the screen, and public search results are in the other half of the screen. This will route traffic & revenue to community sites and will promote search privacy, i.e. always hit the local & community cache before querying the broader web.
We also needed tighter security for running untrusted code. And a way to run small snippets of code quickly.

Tight security can be solved by some sort of sandboxing that takes a performance hit and a web of trust. Computers that ran the program can confirm that it is not malicious. Then an app can be run without a performance hit. This is the model of Apple's app store more or less. Except it's not a web of trust but a centralized authority and there is no way to run untrusted code.

And it makes a lot of sense. Most apps that are worth using will be used often, no reason they should take a constant performance hit after trust has been established.
Thanks for the comment. The estimation is for a series of feedback items which is fairly common for those types of sittings. In general you can expect a 3 day churn.
+1. IBM must regain control over their PR people, speak less and do more, or they will lose any credibility with developers.
It's not clear you understand why people go to church and what it's benefits are.
Go look at the slides. The NSA isn't lying in its own internal documents. Of course google is in on it. Do you get how huge this infrastructure is ? Its a massive engineering effort to manage that kind of information flow.

What has happened here is google has got scared. Because without trusting users all their business models fall apart. So they are lying. Its that simple.
Yeah, it doesn't really get all the tiny things that you have to know the system to know. For example, on trips where multiple lines travel on the same tracks, the average wait calculation looks to use only one line's frequency (Liv St to Edgware Rd, "5 min avg"). Time to change between lines at interchange stations also feels unrealistic (1 minute Northern-Bank to Victoria at Euston and 2 minutes Victoria to Piccadilly at Green Park?).
I've been highly recommending Sony's for a long time now, but for my left-at-work pair, I use a MDR-XD200 headset that I paid $18 new 10 years ago. They're nearly indestructible, sound better than most non-Sony sets I've tested them against and when I've got music playing, they block out the world really well. And, most importantly, they're so comfortable that I forget I've got them on...I almost wish they were less comfortable so I didn't have them ripped off my head when I stand up without remembering to take them off first.

I use a more expensive pair of Sony's at home where there's less chance they'll be damaged.
I just feel in the same way. But I have a little experience, 2 years, after 3, current 7 months and the feel of going to slow is very frustrating. I'll recommend talk to your manager's and change of project or move to other area that create new stuffs maybe that will help if can't happen move on. I myself don't like the people that change very often of work.
If you go to the accounts page, you'll see this text

"Premium accounts are on the way!

We are working to make IFTTT even more valuable to you. "
The Horizontal and interpretative vertical Spanish flag are wrong. The Spanish Constitution stipulates the yellow band to be twice as tall as the reds [0]. That is 25% Red, 50% yellow, 25% red.

[0]http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_Espa%C3%B1a
Like this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/flight80...
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/18/opinion/witness-to-iran-fl...
CIA spy tech from the '50s, '60s, and '70s
>Multiply that by how many team members involved in the meeting

Are you multiplying the full three days by the number of people in the meeting or are you just multiplying the hour of meeting by everyone in the meeting? The 4300 figure would be 100 hours or 3 days for 4 people. Even if there are a few changes, it sounds more like 4 people talking about changes and one person making them, which even with 3 days of changes would only be $1200. The other 3 people can work on other things during those 3 days.
I see what you're saying, but in my experience advertising rarely gets this right. The fashion industry is a good example. I have absolutely no desire to read those magazines, let alone pay money to do so. It's blatantly reinforcing insecurities in the readers--the whole concept of what's "in style" is only meant to make people more judgmental, and fear that that same judgment might be turned against them, with constant purchases as the only way out. Quite an ingenious idea for the fashion industry, but a very toxic, manipulative piece of psychology for everyone else IMO.

Of course the tiles aren't so bad. My objection to them is mostly on principle, out of fear that it's another step in Mozilla becoming excessively beholden to advertising interests.
Windows phone: sort-of...ish:

The home page title I can flick around, and it reacts to velocity and direction, but if I try and drag it, it lets go before I get very far and goes back to its default state.

Similarly the pull-down menu on the home page - I can pull it down, but it goes at its own speed - I can't drag it or give it velocity.

On the demos page - I can't scroll the page, so can only get to chat heads. This one, like the home page title, I can flick around with velocity and direction, but can't keep hold of it. And the background image moves too.

Windows Phone 8.0.10328.78, Nokia Lumia 520 (480x800)

(PS. In iOS, personally I'd find it easier if the demos opened in the same page so the back button works.)
Reminds me of Ingress.

http://www.ingress.com
What if some improbable event happened like a major Earthquake or war or something that unexpectedly kills a lot of young people. Would the insurance company be able to pay out?
Platform 2.0 is coming in October. It will have many new APIs, the docs and code examples will be public, and we will start opening out for beta testing to a much larger set of developers. The goal ultimately is to offer all these capabilities through APIs to anybody.
Ebola's heavy toll on study authors
What a nightmare it would be to update the UK flag in language selections everywhere...
Isn't it possible that such a comeback is reflected in small areas at first? That the city isn't going to wake up one morning restored to its former glory?

Comments such as yours (and the parent above it) seem to believe that Detroit is down and must stay down. That any negative in the town anywhere invalidates any positive elsewhere. But that is, of course, nonsense. Indeed, we heard exactly the same sort of noise about New York City in the 80s which, while clearly never hitting anywhere near the bottoms of Detroit, many wrote off as beyond repair, settled into a cesspool of crime and decay.

The "real" Detroit includes an invigorating downtown, growing investments, and an actual tech community. That, too, counts as Detroit, and it doesn't not count simply because you can point to negatives elsewhere.
Hal Finney: Bitcoin and me (2013)
Sigh, tell me about it. I made a comment to my wife the other day about how the person ahead of us actually maintained speed going into an intersection, accelerated in the merge lane, and merged onto the 416 unexpectedly well, impeding neither me (behind him the whole time) or anyone else.

"Ah, soul mates", she said, sighing and shaking her head.

(All three of us complain near ceaselessly about how poorly our neighbours navigate the rounabout we've had nearly a year. The ones who stop in the middle to let in others nearly cause apoplexy.)
How is this different from https://github.com/luvit/luv (part of http://luvit.io/)?
Yeah, future may very well be worse than death, but I personally estimate the expected utility of a future life to be more than zero.
Yes, the browser is in a unique position to simplify the donation process. But if everyone starts making lots of small donations, they are going to need an analytics console to track their donations and the performance of the receiving projects, i.e. should they donate again? Mozilla could lead the way in standardizing the datastore and payment APIs, allowing competition among client-side extensions that perform analytics.
I think this is a good move for Gittip, to get away from the notion that it's a model just meant to support software development.

The central idea of Gratipay is to support good people doing good work, through recurring donations. That's a model I'd like to see take off, in many fields.