skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, the Gutmann method is seriously outdated. Nowadays, for modern SAS/SATA drives, a normal overwrite of the data is perfectly sufficient for all cases – if I recall correctly, nobody has been able to restore any data thusly overwritten. (This is for magnetic drives. For SSD drives, “overwriting” does not actually overwrite, so anything and everything might be still accessible.)

Secondly, it has happened that people has suffered major brain damage and survived with ”only” personality changes and mobility impairments, but I posit that these cases are rare, and not nearly the normal case you make them out to be.

Thirdly, it is a rather large step to go from simply having your data all there and usable to having to hire, no, wait, invent, data recovery technology.
And once they go bankcrupt, all (or nothing, essentially) is lost.
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Nearly everytime you mention downvotes: the reason is tone and attitude. I don't know if you are aware just how much your tone influences the downvotes.
All innovators freeze themselves to see a better future, and who is left to build that future? :)
the thing I find most depressing about cryonics is that the hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs for one rich person to desperately attempt to cling to life, in spite of the odds that cryonics is not reversible, would actually save hundreds, if not thousands of lives, today.

Maybe instead of having your body frozen in the off chance that you can wake up 100 years old and with no friends, family, or prospects, you should give that money to a charity who will use it to save real lives that are being ended for ridiculous reasons like having no access to clean water or being attacked by malaria-carrying mosquitoes that can be deterred with a $5 net.
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Another way to say it is that if a glance at the last clock digit turns out to be equal to to less than the number of children, it's accepted as the result, otherwise the operator looks away for a suitable interval and tries again.

In other words, digit(s) modulo children.
A failed experiment: How LG screwed up its webOS acquisition
Well I'm in Canada so straight talk is unavailable. As far as I know there is no provider that offers unlimited plans for everything at a reasonable cost. I'm with Fido and my plan is $45/month with 200 mb data, 200 weekday minutes canada-wide, unlimited evenings and weekends, unlimited SMS and MMS. The cheapest plan they offer that includes data is $39/month. The cheapest plan period that isn't prepaid that I've seen from any canadian provider is $35/month. So if I spent $10 less a month which is $288 for 2 years, it would just barely cover the cost of the phone and I wouldn't have any data either. So in the best case I wouldn't save any money by buying my own phone.
Why is said person so privledged to park in a no parking zone? Thats public property, he should follow the agreed upon rules that the rest of us follow.
I think I know what it feels like to actually sleep for 20-25 minutes. Yes, it is refreshing. I also know what it is to try sleep (and fail) for the same amount of time. I don't find it refreshing, it just pisses me off. Unfortunately this is very common for me. It depends on the exact circumstances, but saying that it usually takes a minimum of fifteen to twenty minutes to actually fall asleep might actually be reality for many people, me included.
Cryogenics is a bit like Pascal's Wager. A gamble with a low probability of success multiplied by a supposedly-infinite payoff ought to be worth buying into at any price, whether it's paying money to freeze your brain or just worshipping whatever religion is promising to reward your faith with eternal paradise.

It suffers from the same problem too. Just as the god of Christianity is in competition with the god of Random-Other-Religion, both of these are in competition with cryogenics. Maybe freezing your head will stop you going to heaven, so now you've got a low-probability infinite cost to set against your low-probability infinite prize.
I agree with all tgese points, especially 2: reaearching a team can be a great way to find inspiring people to learn from (and with)
I can hardly agree with you.

1. On historical science. The process of science has changed drastically over the centuries. To discover the law of gravitation, a few people with telescopes had to tabulate a few thousand data points, do some manipulations and discover the law. For the search of the Higgs, eg. the statistical procedures to be used where established well in advance of data collection to avoid potential biases. The idea is that more advanced science requires more careful procedures and analysis. Rovelli is arguing that we need to change our method yet again towards being more careful and formal to make advances.

2. Your first paragraph is a strawman. There is much more to the philosophy of science than your examples. See [1]. Or consider that "what is probability?" does not have a good answer. This is a question that philosophy struggles with and that has deep relevance to physics - eg. the ontology of quantum mechanics.

[1] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/02/24/post-deb...
you're getting upset because you're making a terminology error, you say "digit" but mean "digits". A digit is either a finger, or the numbers 0-9, singular.
I saw something similar when I was Berlin, by the Grunewald S-Bahn station. There is a memorial platform of the deportation of Jews from Berlin and the area around the city called Track 17 (German: Gleis 17) and nearby the station entrance there's a converted phone booth (in bright "happy" colors) with books on the history and surrounding stories.

It seemed quite popular, with a few people sitting on the benches next to it reading (books presumably from the Book Booth)
Besides the technical discussion in this thread I'd like to question this procedure from an other perspective:

Suppose that in, say, 1000 years humanity develops a technology that actually can heal and resurrect people who have been "suspended" that way. What is their incentive to actually do it?

I mean, it's hard to make hypotheses about the state of humanity so far into the future, but if we base ourselves on current humanity growth it's unlikely that we'll be in a population deficit any time soon. Especially if we develop technology that allows us to cure death...

So basically, imagine if we had a fridge somewhere with a bunch of people from 1000 AD that we could bring back to life if we wished to. It would probably be very interesting to do it for a bunch of them, the most potentially interesting and influential people of the time. But would we bother bringing, say, 100 000 people back? Those people wouldn't be able to function really well in our society and even the best educated of them would have vastly outdated knowledge about practically anything.
1. Nobody has been frozen since the 80s. The process is vitrification, which is designed to mitigate most of the damage and cracking that occurs. Vitrified animal organs (a rabbit's, iirc) have been successfully restored and implanted into an animal which stayed healthy. The main danger is in ischemia if you are not given cardiopulmonary support during the cool down process, which might cause brain damage.

2. That would be true if brains worked on all-or-nothing integrity, but they don't. The last people to be preserved will be the first to be brought back; as techniques get more advanced they will allow saving older patients. There are a few people that are likely nonviable due to extreme circumstances (one suicide and one murder victim where the body was autopsied and so left warm for a long time, as well as having the brain removed from the skull (it is normally preserved within the skill), for example) but as the brain is still intact in both cases, they are certainly still potentially recoverable with adequate medical technology. Remember when any random disease could kill someone simply because it wasn't treatable? We're at that stage with brain injury.

As it is, even if something went wrong and I died and wasn't preserved, I wouldn't even know as I would be dead.

3. Go and read Alcor's site some time. It's full of useful information including very detailed reports of procedures. Alcor admit that it will likely be a long time until many patients can be recovered, but the entire company is structured in a way to ensure that money is kept in long term investment. People's life does potentially literally depend on cryonics and Alcor at least would not wish to have a patient without an understanding of the process.
I've been a serious Lua coder for 4 years now, and I have to say that I agree with you about the diaspora factor - Lua users aren't loud, they just get on with using this extraordinarily powerful, small, tight tool. I feel like Lua-heads actively resist forming big community and loud forums, because - like so many other powerful tools - there is a covetous factor involved. ;)

But when things as elegant as luvit/lujit-libuv hit the scene, its hard not to agree with those who have the temerity to proclaim Lua's immense usefulness to the masses ..

Lua just plain kicks ass, its really all there is to it.
As a long-time developer, I can tell you that, no matter what you choose, ten years from now, it will be out of date. That means you should focus on robust, transferable skills like basic computer science knowledge that applies equally to all languages and environments.
Seems like quite many companies have actually survived for centuries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
Specious analogy - with cryonics, there aren't 500 other competing methods of escaping death where picking the wrong one would permanently ruin your chances.
I knew some day this RFC would be usefull :
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
A frozen body is a liability to owners – there is every incentive for them to lose it or otherwise facilitate its loss. There is also no drawback, as there is no one who would notice or complain if they do.
Timeline of Emerging Science and Technology (2014 to 2030+)
For those interested in the science behind cryonics, or who are skeptical that freezing preserves useful brain structure, I recommend reading Alcor's FAQ, which addresses most of the questions commenters new to cryonics have raised:

http://www.alcor.org/FAQs/index.html
> But it turns out that the brain needs a long period to learn how to see.

I'm surprised that anyone's surprised by that since it's the same thing with hearing and cochlear implants. Even after 12 years, my hearing is still getting better in some ways.
Hey, great job with the app. I use it all the time, but I do have one complaint.

I live, literally, next to the Langdon Park DLR station. Any time I use CM to get directions to the center, it will either send me to the Jubilee line, or to the Central line, which is fine. But, it always sends me to Stratford first, which is in zone 3. Why? I know, it's faster (and cheaper) to either go to Canarry Wharf, and to a 2 minute walk from the DLR station to the tube for the Jubilee line. Or go to Bow Church DLR and walk to Bow Road tube, and then transfer at mile end to central line.

Basically it seems, CM tries to avoid walking as much as possible, even if that means taking a longer&more expensive journey. Can you guys do something about that? If nothing else, an option that let's me specify that I don't mind a bit of walking.
Does google still recognize authorship? Many people in the SEO/marketing community were really invested in the idea of AuthorRank and saw it as a natural next step after PageRank.
>With their field stuck at a nasty impasse

of course. Natural thing when a field is dominated by orthodoxy that closes their eyes to everything that they don't want to see. Like yesterday "entangled photon imaging" where what really happens is that a beam modulated by an image heats/excites crystal (with that heating/excitement thus obviously modulated by the image) which generates another beam (thus that another beam is obviously also modulated by the image) which hits CCD - no miracle of entanglement here, yet Nature published it as such :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8234221

as "entanglement" and "mutiverse" are very much in fashion this season and get you published.

With Higgs as a "mass" boson it was also non-starter because the theory of it failed to address gravitational and inertial mass equivalence. I mean i don't doubt that CERN found new particle of course, yet nowhere it was shown that it is the boson "generating mass". The article seems to suggest that finally the mainstream physics starts to seriously ponder whether the mass is a result of dynamic interaction - that has been obvious for decades to the "fringe" physicists, who couldn't just dismiss the above mentioned gravitational and inertial mass connection, a pretty fundamental fact that has to be at the center of anything called physics :)
It is assumed that it will be a last in first out type of process.
Supercomputers make discoveries that scientists can't
>So it’s like Pascal’s wager, except it is a real wager which costs money.

Even if you have the money, it's recommended you don't pay directly as it can get caught up in legal battles, all the while your brain is rotting. the vast majority pay via life insurance, although if you were for whatever reason uninsurable and had sufficient cash on hand, I guess they might accept it while you are still alive as a donation.

Unlike pascal's wager, it's also the only game in town when it comes to avoiding death, unlike religion where if you picked the wrong one out of any of the millions that have existed in human history, you made a mistake that ruins your chances under the vast majority of them (AKA "What happens if you spend your life praying to Jesus in the hopes of getting a reward, then you end up facing Hel, Anubis, Hades/Pluto, Erebus, Allah, Mormon Space Kolob God, any of the native american myths, Flying Spaghetti Monster, or even Cthulhu instead?").
Startups - Everything really. There's lots of JS and Python, but by definition they aren't very lucrative because startups don't have much money (ignoring potential future earnings).

Agency - Mostly PHP still but knowledge of Node is good (mostly for tools like Gulp). Occasionally see Ruby and Python in more design oriented agencies. Money is ok, and there's a lot of work out there.

Corporate - .NET, Java are all relatively popular. Java gets the best money because it's used extensively in the finance industry.
I'm getting outraged by the number of brainless cyberlawyers who think downvoting a post constitutes a creative act, on a par with knowing something about the topic of discussion.

The pattern is clear and ubiquitous -- if you actually know something, and if you're foolish enough to post a clear exposition, the morons who never post anything coherent will downvote your posts with a probability approaching certainty.

The modulo operator is the obvious solution to the original question. And if there were't an atmosphere of pervasive anti-intellectualism at HN, this thread would be much shorted than it is.
Maybe for single-family dwellings, but I wouldn't want my neighbors peeking (or outright stealing) my letters and packages.

My mailbox is not exactly a vault, but it's enough of a deterrent to stop privacy violations and petty theft.
Not the OP, and not a Windows user at all (100% Linux, except for OSX buildservers..) but I can answer as an experienced Lua developer the "IDE Question" in two ways, for Lua scope of application, as well as developer-style, is universal:

In a GUI scenario, I use SublimeText for all lua projects and as a cross-platform, 'responsible editor', it provides a nice development enviroment. You can set up buildtools, run them, get output, etc. Generally for my needs it works fabulously. File->Open {directory of main.lua}, then everything works - Global Definitions, Refactoring, etc. Find definitions, see global usage, etc. Code-Completion gradually starts to work more and more, but I don't rely on such 'features' in an IDE. I feel comfortable with little help from an IDE.

In a non-GUI scenario (embedded), I use vim+cscope as my principle IDE. Same idea as ST - open the folder containing main.lua, work from there. Cscope works for Lua, and is also amazing if you do FFI hacking, too .. well generally cscope is my grep, but if I don't have it, of course grep works too ..
That is one of the reasons why can not call the police from a voip service in Germany. (These devices / services have to warn you about that fact before buy.)

Only traceable methods are allowed to call. That way it can be ensured that someone who can call the police safely but only without speaking can be rescued. ... Or "prankers" located.
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If humanity lives to a point where entropy becomes a problem, I'm pretty sure our lives would be the first to go, not our "ability to perform experiments".
Not sure... if you have a famous frozen person and the technology to unfreeze people ever comes to be, you could make money on "reviving a legend", kickstarter style, to recover the costs involved during the years.
Demanding a particular form of proof, and one which might be impossible to get even if we knew for sure that cryonics perfectly preserved the brain, is a logical fallacy. It's the same type of argument creationists make when they demand biologists give them video footage of monkeys evolving into humans. See eg. http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ph/youre_entitled_to_arguments_but_....
Scam artists are starting to pose as IRS agents to swindle the elderly
1. You ignored my point to instead attack my word choice. I actually took that word (“frozen”) from the article title. But we could call it “mummification” for all I care – it does not alter any point I was making.

2. (I have nothing to add to this beyond my other replies in this thread.)

3. I argued that any information from a company in this business is likely to be biased, and you suggest I read the company’s information because they would like to have informed customers? What? That does not follow.
All this link proves is that 'gamers' treat everyone who threatens their childish world-view with childish responses.

Nothing has changed. Gamer still equals douchebag, crybaby man-child.
That's the whole thing really. 911 responders have to make decisions with out being able to know the outcome ahead of time.
So, like every other charity in the world?

Actually, they are still better than that as they don't blow millions worth of donations on long guilt-tripping TV adverts.

Honestly, if a few employees make a living, I'm fine with that; good for them for advancing the field of life extension.
Your argument applies equally well to experimental cancer treatments. And of course, it applies much much more to luxury goods like fancy cars, fancy houses, swimming pools, vacations, business-class plane tickets, cable TV, etc. The only way to avoid this criticsm is to live like a monk and donate all surplus income to the most effective charity.
> Nearly everytime you mention downvotes: the reason is tone and attitude.

Look -- I posted the obvious solution to a common problem. Everything else depends on those who can't stand the unwelcome intrusion of simple, easily stated facts.

My "attitude" is that this problem is easily solved, using simple arithmetic. Imagine you're a scientist -- as such, do you object to a useful result because of its source?
Or put the sticker over the sensor. Or hotwire the sensor (caution: voids your warranty).
Well not freaking out helps.
Cool, is fairly similar to the fanwing configuration. http://www.fanwing.com/
Alcor will undertake the process themselves, and large parts of their operating budget are earmarked for this.

Then there's the fact that if humanity survives long enough, it's more likely to resemble the Federation from Star Trek than corporate America where healthcare is only available to the rich.
Empirical Evidence for Evidence-Based Design of Programming Languages [pdf]
I really loved reading "CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed".

This sentence nailed what I thought was wrong with some early decisions in NoSQL systems: "because partitions are rare, there is little reason to forfeit C or A when the system is not partitioned."
Google stops showing authorship in search results
Use virtualbox, create a small Linux VM, and run it alongside whatever else you've got on your machine. Its simple enough that its sort of a duh - if you were really interested, you could get the VM and bootable Linux dev environment running in less than an hour. I'd be surprised if it took you 20 minutes to look at this stack, build and compile, and learn about it that way...
Can you admit you were wrong yet? Unless the number of kids evenly divides 60, then some kids will have better odds than others. Just some small admission that the odds don't work out perfectly unless N is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, or 60.

Edit: For instance, if there are 59 kids, the first one has twice as good a chance to win as any of the others, because both 0 % 59 and 59 % 59 are 0. In other words, in the set derived from x % 59, for x in {0, 1, ..., 59}, 0 appears twice, and each other number in the range 0-59 only appears once.
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I don't believe that that ("because she's a woman") was the author's thesis. He is representing what they believe is someone else's thesis: that this is what you get for just being a woman in games.

(Did you read the rest of the article? I don't think you could reasonably believe this was the author's thesis, reading the rest of the article.)
That's an excellent question. I mean, after all, social is the future of search, right?

“Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/02/01/the-f...
Actually, it's using a proven process. A rabbit kidney has already been vitrified, then restored and implanted into another that remained healthy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/
Windows/MS-DOS had file extensions (which it inherited from CP/M) before it had directories and directory separators.

Did CP/M and Unix independently come up with file extensions with a dot separator, or did they acquire it from the same source? I'm dimly aware of other operating systems that use(d) a different character (AS/400?), but it's outside my ken.
Because they are a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the state of life extension via cryonics as their entire goal. They aren't some shady for-profit scheme.
Their main competitor Zapier.com does offer web hooks, in an open fashion, so I'm not sure that argument still holds.

Also, there is still a lot of value that can be added by the middleware besides repeated polling, such as filtering and facilitating easy setup
Did you read the article, or respond to the title?
Well, I don't think I understand entropy - even after Wikipedia. So is there somewhere in universe some energy that is not available to do anything at all? How does that work? Is it too diffuse such that the energy needed to pull it together to perform a unit of work is greater than the energy available ? If so how did it get to that state?
The brain has no electrical activity, so physically impossible (alternatively, if it's possible in a cryonics patient, it would happen in a normal corpse too, in which case people should stop burning/burying them).