skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How coupled together is the native currency and assets that need trust? Meaning, suppose you wanted to swap in a different crypto coin for the native currency one day, is that a major rewrite or more like a plug in?
What is interesting to me is that IFTTT is running as a cloud platform, yet some of these devices won't be accessible outside the wireless LAN. I wonder if they are going to have to create a hardware piece, software service or something that communicates to their servers and translates the scripted commands and relevant statuses.

But also, this is a huge market and someone needs to do this.
Assuming consciousness is an internal state (nothing mystical or metaphysical), isn't this the same thing as a long nap? Ie, is the fact that the you after a nap feels like a continuation of yourself of no benefit to the you before a nap?

Of course, the analogy isn't perfect since brain activity does not cease during a nap, but consciousness does.
My personal feelings on IFTTT after using it are that it has a massive potential as an incredible handy tool. However, at the moment the focus seems to be primarily on social media interaction and optimization. This is all well and good, but I would love to see more integration with the features of my Android device.

At this precise moment an example is not jumping to mind, but I know several times now I have seen a trigger option in the list that I could make use of but could not find listed the universal Android feature I wanted to use as the resultant action.

Conversely when trying to create rules for something like having my phone muted in a specific location I had to create two triggers: First a trigger to mute my phone upon entering a location and Second a trigger to turn volume up upon leaving a certain location. Standing back to look at what I was trying do it is easy to understand that yes there are two Ifs that I want my phone to react to (entering an area and leaving it) but having the option to choose "while in area" or "while outside of area" would be great. I think this comes down to a difference between literal if This action then That action and if This idea then That action.

IFTTT is clearly programmed how it operates rather than how people tend to think. As someone that has done programming, I get that and can work with it, but it doesn't seem the ideal model for use by the average person.

All this having been said I think it is a fun, wonderful gadget and I look forward to seeing how it grows. Now if only I could figure out why my triggers have been failing of late...
Its hard to watch things you have no control over. Especially war. But completely ignoring it is probably not better.
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Really? Because I can't count to even one post in this thread opposed to Mozilla making money. I can count to more than a dozen that even suggests methods of doing so.
He is legally dead, so good luck bringing him back to life.
People find Detroit interesting because it was once a leading city, and then feel into a deep decline.

People like stories of rise, fall and rise again. A city that is merely "better than Detroit" is not particularly interesting.

The anchoring bias is certainly at play here. I imagine others contribute as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

People also are interesting in the potential of Detroit. Detroit was founded where it was because it is on a river and the Great Lakes. It has good farmland (I'm guessing on that point). It is amidst other major cities. It has history.

So if Detroit recovers, there is a natural support structure around it that will make it an interesting city.
Because of the IR marker LEDs I'd be hesitant to strap a leap on there considering it's dumping IR light out of it to illuminate your hands.
We need a business model for privacy, which means a business model for paid client-side software. Until people are willing to pay for a secure browser, Mozilla will remain dependent on search engine revenue, which in turn derives from advertising/surveillance.
Trying to figure out what exponentially means there. "Much"? Or is something varying that I'm missing?
Video: Patent from Apple Suggests Mobile Payments and Bitcoin on Their Radar
In this case they can be deleted, and furthermore are eventually replaced by tiles containing thumbnails from your own browsing history, just as they are now.
I remember when Bytecoin was released; the claims to have been used for years were clearly wrong, but I couldn't figure out what the real story was skimming the forum posts. I'm glad someone figured it out!
watch out for bed bugs.
yeah, the title was just for click bait. I doubt the kung fu fighting song had little to do with its popularity in use, as it was already widely used.
It can allow more oversight; but that oversight comes at the expense of efficiency. It can be manageable if the organization is relatively flat, but that's almost never the case in government.

What eventually happens is that to give oversight to the decision makers on a sufficiently large project, your dev leads spend all day in status update meetings with scrum masters, who spend all day in status update meetings with project managers, who spend all day in status update meetings with directors and functional leads. Decisions are made a level above that, so you've got 5 levels of management in a big game of telephone.

It's still probably better than the alternative, but Agile doesn't give you the certainty around schedule and budget that waterfall does. There's a mindset in the government that often manages around schedule and budget ONLY; so it will take rooting out several generations of government project managers to really start to crack the problem.

Like I said, I don't envy the guy. But his bar for success is so low that it would be hard not to improve things.
The cost of this would have been much greater, and present organizations are not really set up to transport people already cryopreserved, so doing it ad hoc would be especially expensive. Transport when it does happen tends to be a packaged in dry ice type of deal, with final procedures happening on site on arrival, potentially a day or two later in the case of long distances. Alcor recommends that those who can predict their end of life date with any accuracy move to be close to their HQ. A good cryopreservation, all other factors being equal, is all about time to fully vitrified for important tissues. Regulation makes that enormously difficult on one hand, but transport is also a real logistics hurdle.

Also, in Finney's case the condition he suffered allowed for more self-willed timing in these matters than is usually the case. It isn't a pleasant thing to have to do to yourself by any means, but that is what it comes to when it is government employees who are the people who decide on every aspect of your life, not you. One recommendation from people in the cryonics industry in the past has been that when you are on the final downward spiral to stop eating and drinking so as to time the end yourself and thus ensure much better odds of a good preservation, organized and timely. Very rational, as the time from death to vitrification is so very critical, but again something forced upon people by uncaring bureaucrats and laws that prevent self-determination in end of life decisions.
This is sad news, but less sad than a funeral and cremation would have been. I met Hal in the 1990s via the cypherpunks list, where a young Julian Assange was also hanging out. Hal went on to work for PGP Corp. in its glory days, and was involved in the early stages of Bitcoin as well. He is (not was!) the consummate cypherpunk and extropian.

A lot of those discussions have been lost to time, but here's a note from Hal that I posted to Politech in 1999 where he warned against building surveillance backdoors in Internet standards:

http://seclists.org/politech/1999/Oct/24
"If the IETF sets the precedent of acceding to the wishes of countries like the US and Europe, it may find itself forced to similarly honor the desires of less open societies."

And here's Hal responding to one of my Wired articles by pointing out the absurdity of the MPAA's claims against Napster:

http://extropians.weidai.com/extropians.1Q01/3833.html
"Looking at it over the history of Napster the amount would have to run
well into the quadrillions. Surely this would be the largest legal
claim in history! I wonder if the record companies can present this
figure with a straight face."

I'll miss Hal. At least there's a very slim, but non-zero, chance he'll log back on again.
I thought it would show ads to all new users? And ads are already the majority source of Mozilla's income, so making more money from ads is going to lessen the diversity.
As a CS student entering into my second year and feeling a little drained from studying theory, this summer I spent a lot of my time learning practical skills and technologies and coding for fun.

I've been learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, Apache, MySQL, Bash, Ruby, and Android. I've also been using Linux regularly for the first time, as well as Vim.

The main projects I have been working on are my personal website/blog, a text-adventure game in Ruby, A js game using Canvas, and working through the chapters and exercises of "Beginning Android 4 Application Development" (feels like a tome).
The problem with solutions like this is that the Ocean itself is already the most efficient machine for cleaning the Earth's atmosphere - well over half of the oxygen that we breathe comes from the Ocean, and well over half of the carbon that we exhale is cleaned by it. Focusing on its' health will greatly benefit the health of the environment that we rely on directly.
On a serious note, however, I've always hoped for more leadership from Red Hat. On the one hand, I'm sure they're doing perfectly fine on the enterprise consulting side, however they're slowly missing opportunities in on-premise cloud computing. Momentum has moved on to libcontainer/Docker, and now Kubernetes for orchestration. They've had to shift to that container format for their PaaS product OpenShift, which seems to be built with anything but Ceylon. Then there's the Fedora 21/CoreOS-envy/systemd-or-nothing crew of people who code/write specs faster than they think...

Uuugh. With their resources, I expect so much better. They're throwing away their leadership position in Linux for nothing. I'm sure some, if not all, of this had a role to play in the departure of their CTO.
Google Maps is for car drivers.

CityMapper is for multi-transportation within a few metropolis.

The UX of Google maps for routing when driving is incredible and beats everyone: Apple, TomTom, Garmin... everyone. Down to showing labels on side streets "3 minutes slower" allowing you to evaluate every decision you could make when faced with traffic.

But... for public transport, or mixed transport solutions like crossing a city when so many external factors are at play... CityMapper wins.

It's not an either/or, and it's not that Google Maps don't understand UX. Google Maps just has a different focus... the car.
Except many people need what dropbox does (conveniently move files between ios/android and your computer; conveniently share some files between a work and personal computer), while I don't see the common need for ifttt. The latter may be due to my lack of vision, of course...
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Encourage – a Visual Studio extension that motivates you while you program
Really funny—I was considering using that as one of the other scenarios in the post. Citymapper actually does it as well, but is more reliable on named streets (e.g. "Mercer and Broome"). What Google Maps does well is realizing that 13th and 2nd can't mean 13th avenue (since that doesn't exist) so it will show directions to 13th street and 2nd avenue.
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This seems very biased.

Web developers have been "wringing their hands" for the last 5 years swearing blind that any day now everyone's going to give up on smart phone native app development and go html5.

All the web has managed to prove is how badly MS cocked up app deployment on windows, nothing more. The web 'won' against one platform, windows deployment, MSIs and the rubbish they've been putting out with WPF, "one click" deployment. Smart phones have shown us how the web actually doesn't compete very well against native once a decent deployment solution is in place.
Design well managed
Working smart means working hard
Considering death is inevitable, cryopreservation just before you cease to function is, quite possibly, the best rational choice you can make. Of course, it's a bit selfish, as the resources you commit to it are substantial and your offspring could benefit from them.

Betting your final moments on specific advances of technology is also not an easy decision. Plus, you may wake up in a world you don't like.

OTOH, the other option is not to wake up at all.
Microsoft, Google, others Co-Author Real-Time Communications Specification
I think what you're looking for is tasker https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....
In this post[1] Hal Finney writes about ALS and his involvement with bitcoin. Recommended read:
[1]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0
You can say that for any attempt to make plans for the future.
Useful command-line tool for exploring data (windows)
So is it a good time to start investing in property in Detroit?
People have come back from minutes of electrocerebral silence with intact memories and personalities.
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No, how western media reported each incident. Virtually identical incidents (as close as you can get in history anyway), but completely different portrayals.
>if you can afford it, the upside is potentially far more beneficial than the downside

I looked into this in some detail a while ago, and I recall Alcor indicated that many of its members opt for life insurance (with Alcor as a beneficiary) to cover the cost of cryopreservation. That's something like $75K to cryopreserve your head, and $150K for whole-body cryospreservation.

I suspect the mean age of HN readers skews toward late 20s or early 30s, meaning that they'd likely pay something like <$100 every year for $150K of life insurance. Also many of us have some form of life insurance paid for by our employers.

I updated my will last year with the help of a SF bay area attorney who told me she's done cryopreservation wills/trusts for a bunch of high-profile tech execs (she did not, of course, name names). Email me if you want her info.
So no problem then. I would substitute "orbit" for revolution in your definitions, but either way you get the same thing - it rotates once per orbit/revolution.
There is a post on the front page right now http://www.gentweb.co.uk/wirerecorder.htm about re-constructing some old wire recordings just to listen to the past. Imagine the opportunity to bring the person themselves back, instead of just audio.

I think if technology advances sufficiently that it is "easy" and "cheap" enough, people will resurrect cryo-preserved patients just because it suits them to do so.

If I had a button I could push that would bring someone who died in 1800 back to life, I would push it.

I believe I'm not the only person who feels this way, either.
Great tool. Reminds me of Sumo.me.

Are there plans to release other site optimization widgets?
Not to mention that people working at Alcor are also members and believers in cryonics. They wouldn't screw you over because they wouldn't want anyone screwing them over when it's their time.
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Thanks for asking.
I think apple re-thinked their previous policy on Bitcoin. We did not have an issue to release the app. It actually only took us 3 days to update the app in the app store. 70% of our paid users are still using apple in-app purchase.
Yes, because legal definitions impose their validity on the universe.
For IR LEDs you have not only the wavelength of light, you also have a repitition rate. Typically you modulate the IR LED with a square-wave in the 10s of kHz; this lets you have a much higher instantaneous power with a much lower average power. If done right, it also means that 2 IRs with a sufficiently different clock-rate will interfere with each other less.
:-(

If you haven't read his post "Bitcoin and me", now is a good time. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0
When "ocean health" is talked about, restoring ocean "health" (restricting fishing, land use, etc.) is not expected to have measurable effects on carbon sequestration in particular. And while the ocean ecosystems have evolved to be "robust", that is different than "efficient" - evolution can come up with some fairly inefficient solutions.
The standard library (Phobos) is open source. You can find the implementation of memoize at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/6cd2e4...

memoize is a template (http://dlang.org/template.html). In this case, a template is used to create a "version" of "memoize" with the right parameters and return value (i.e., `fn` and `memoize!fn` are the same type).

Each of these "versions" has a hash table from argument tuples to results. I believe the hash is computed by calling a toHash function for each item in the tuple.

Tuples and type tuples (http://dlang.org/tuple.html) in D are really quite powerful.
If you tried my app and found it slow, I'd blame myself. Then I would find the reason it sucked and fix it. I have never found a performance problem in a web app that could not be traced to a mistake and be corrected to work fast.

I am as frustrated with this situation as anyone else, even more so because it is my career. The amount lousy work being done makes it appear that the web application platform is to blame, when it is all the lousy developers' fault.

Another major problem I didn't mention before is JavaScript libraries. These are a disease that has only one cure: more JavaScript libraries! Pointless JS bloat destroys an app's performance and is in high fashion right now (especially with the recent ubiquity of front-end frameworks.) The use of Angular and Bootstrap should be considered computer crime.
I think that's exactly what it means in this case also - the period of rotation on its own axis is exactly matching the period of revolution of its center of mass around the Earth. So that's why the same it is always presenting the same face towards Earth. Did you understand this differently?
I tried to claim but for some reason it says it will be shippe d in Spring 2015
AFTERLIFE HOROSCOPE
Sure, but you can say the same about going to bed at night with the intent of waking up in the morning.
Instead of "Fuels", should be "Quickens"!

Edit: And "Feud" is easily better as "Quarrel."
Once we've defeated death, reviving people who were preserved is the next logical step after saving everyone currently alive. Saving everyone who was not cryopreserved might not be possible, but will also be worth a shot.
I use two criteria on discussion boards and in life.

1. Can I add any value to the discussion by expressing my opinion? For example, a new data point, a different perspective, a new insight, etc.

2. What value do I gain by continuing to argue my point of view or with someone else? This prevents me from getting into useless extended arguments that don't add any value other than annoying me or someone else. Typically, on discussion boards, I would respond twice at most and then I stop participating on a specific discussion.
>> That is the type of theory that when you hear it sounds so plausible that it must be true.

But when 2 bodies of that size come together, and one of them splats onto the other, there is going to be a major change in rotation rate. There is no reason given for the resulting rotation rate to match the orbital period. I find that bothersome.
Hello Kitty is not a cat. Everything is a lie
> We need a business model for privacy, which means a business model for paid client-side software. Until people are willing to pay for a secure browser, Mozilla will remain dependent on search engine revenue, which in turn derives from advertising/surveillance.

A very good point. Isn't Mozilla working on that? See today's post on sponsored tiles on new tabs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8237812

In earlier discussions regarding that feature (I don't know if it subsequently changed), Mozilla said they were developing a way for end-users to control their own tracking data (rather than have it controlled by a commercial vendor) and provide it as desired (and anonymize it?). If that solution could work successfully for Mozilla, it could be a model for one possible solution for everyone, and be proof of concept when legislators and others are looking for options that don't disrupt many large businesses.
I live just over an hour outside of downtown Detroit (with no traffic), almost took a job there a few months ago, and plan on spending a decent amount of time there in the over the next year. Detroit definitely isn't the best city, but there are lot of people heavily involved in making it a lot better. If the local government can miraculously get its act together, the city stands a chance to significantly improve over the next 10-15 years.

Also, I see many more negative articles about Detroit than positive. The city water fiasco that is currently ongoing comes to mind.
CityMapper does use OSM data, for walking and cycling in particular. (Cycling directions come via the OSM-based CycleStreets, I believe.)

This really validates OSM's approach. Every single time there's a thread about OSM on HN or Reddit or whatever, someone pops up and says "Google rocks, OSM sucks, because your maps are dog-ugly and there's no routing/clickable Starbucks/whatever".

Explaining to them that "no, OSM is just a dataset, osm.org is merely a minimal browser for map contributors" is hard. But having apps like CityMapper, which are actually _better_ than Google, really makes the point.

Personally I'd choose a certain other OSM-based router over CityMapper/Cyclestreets for bike routing, but I may, ahem, be biased.
Thanks, I'm going to read it with a skeptical but open mind.
FYI there's already an open source software going by the name of Rudder : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudder_(software)
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I've had really mixed experiences with the time estimates in London. Sometimes it will specifically say that a train/bus will arrive at 17:00, 17:10, 17:20 etc, but sometimes it will just say "every 10 minutes". I haven't worked out the reason for it, I've seen both versions on exactly the same services before.

That's pretty much my only complaint about an otherwise perfect app though, but you're right that those little errors can add up to be quite inconvenient over a long or rushed journey.
OK, it's working now on my end. (The trick was changing the font size on code blocks from "85%" to "84%".) Let me know if you still run into any issues.
Yeah. Anyone who talks about how great Detroit is and how it is making a "comeback" is most likely living in either the small portion of the downtown core that has enjoyed some investments recently, or in one of the wealthy gated neighborhoods. They haven't traveled outside those places to see the real Detroit, which consists of rundown and abandoned neighborhoods as far as the eye can see and an incredible amount of poverty that permeates them.
Other answers have already stated the general idea, but my advice is to hew to the fairly clear, specific principle: Will my comment add some new non-trivial foreground or background information to the discussion that hasn't already been brought up?

Or, put another way: opinions don't really matter; we've all got one. What matters is bringing specific new information to the discussion which could make a difference.

(Oops: I see akg_67 has just brought up this same point while I was adding this. Oh well, I suppose I should delete this to be consistent, but perhaps two similar answers will help drive home the importance of this point. ;-)