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It's not an article worth reading. Of course "immortality" doesn't actually mean living for an infinite amount of years. The real goal is to live as long as a person desires. Of course it has the usual points that it's difficult (nobody is saying it's not).

The article also includes some non-physicalist ideas that simulated brains can't feel emotion or feelings won't be "real" etc.

In essence it raises no new arguments or points of interest.
Why do we need to insist that every profession should be evenly divided between men and women? Wouldn't it be denial of differences that we know exist? How much of my wife's decision to become a psychologist comes from a perception that she couldn't be a mathematician or a physicist and how much comes from her intellectual pursuits? How much from my decision to become an engineer stem from culture and how much comes from "the knack"?

When I graduated (almost 20 years ago) there were about 10% women in my class. When my wife graduated, there were 5% men in her class. Assuming there are no cultural barriers against men, wouldn't that indicate professional choices stem, at least a little, from gender?

I am not saying there are no cultural barriers, but I am asking when and where it is too much.

I am not sure what purpose a computer engineer Barbie serves beyond selling a few more dolls to girls who would be more interested in Legos than dolls.
A main design consideration of VP8 was fast decode on low powered mobile ARM chips.

This is similar to Windows users being confused that Mac OS X or Linux doesn't need anti-virus, and actually thinking this is a fault with these strange new operating systems. H.264 is just a bit of a pig and yet its resulting requirement for special considerations to be made to compensate is interpreted as a failing in others that don't need it.
So, what exactly is it that is stereotypically computer engineer about this doll?

I've known and know quite a few females that program (and some of them are extremely good) but none would be caught dead in an outfit like that, or would think they are 'computer engineers' because they can hold a netbook in one hand without dropping it.

It's just plain silly to associate this doll with the computer engineer / programming profession.

When trade shows were still in fashion though, you could meet any number of women on the various stands that would come pretty close, but they weren't there for their computer skills.

Just about the only interesting thing about this is that there was some build-up to the release using polls, but surprise, surprise, lets hope they were not as rigged as the customer reviews of items that aren't shipping yet.
Wow, it seems like Japan is the second most popular country (after the US) with 8%. It is not clear 8% of what, but I had no idea there was so much open-source programming in Japan. I rarely hear about Japanese programming efforts.

Another note: I wish it was possible to zoom into these pictures. Because right now it's like looking at a ball of cotton. EDIT: Sorry, I didn't notice the "All Sizes" options in Flickr.
> I'm not sure what you're talking about

You are totally right, looks like I was wrong. When I checked it out on a Windows machine it looked like @Devilboy's screenshot and I (wrongly) assumed that is how everything looked. Cleartype mustn't have been enabled.
Was thinking about Italy too, if someone dared to launch something like this here he will receive a nice subpoena right after the site went public.
Anonymous publicly visible opinions on someone else? Not here, way too risky.
This essay seem reasonably well-informed, but completely unwilling to tread even close to, let alone outside, the possibilities of our current technology/framework of thought. It seems to me a complete presumption that it will forever be impossible to recreate a consciousness given a recorded set of behavior. (Philosopher David Chalmers talks about this a bit: http://bit.ly/duFPOG)

A relatively-recent example of how unexpected use can be made of pre-existing data - look at how search engines worked in 1997. The state of the art didn't know what signals were most important to look at, so they paid attention to things like keyword density. Then Google came along and illuminated a way more important signal, blowing away the state of the art for search engine ranking. Who's to say there is no analog for any kind of 'consciousness recording' that we have right now? Is it entirely implausible that a recording of my thoughts today won't provide significantly more information 50 years from now than it does today?

The problem seems akin to compressed sensing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing), posted in a few articles on HN about a month ago.
Title sucks as it has nothing to do with its content.

Starting with the design is for pussies too ... considering that a mostly static design is really different from the end-result and you won't see the problems with it until you've got real content, this after you've waisted hours and hours on bikeshed issues.

Doing contracting work for clients for whom you can't explain that the design they are seeing isn't final and that they should focus more on the actual workflow / functionality ... that's for pussies too :)

And speaking of real clients that want to click the kitty ... trust me, they won't appreciate your HTML5 compliant code, or a font that doesn't render well in WinXP.
Thank you for your concise review.

The word 'bored' is not in the article so I don't know where you got that.
Wikileaks has gained over 5000 new followers on twitter in the last 24 hours, that's close to +25%. There is an interesting moral question to be argued, whether it would be morally right to withhold information in order to gain funding and/or publicity and/or exposure to more followers, if they were creating drama deliberately (which there is not any indication of, I think, but theoretically possible).
It is not 9, but 7,5. And it is not in the bank, it is cash & equivalent (if they have it in the bank, the shareholders should be unhappy - the company does not know what to do with the money).

They have also 26b in retained earnings. Do their shareholders get enough return on capital gain? (to answer myself: if you bought it 1 year ago, then yes; 2 years ago - no).
I disagree with a lot of this.

"Almost everybody that is past the age of 50 has had one or more life-extending operations"

Is this an American thing? In Australia it is pretty rare to have had any operation, yet alone a life-extending one, by the age of 50.

"But, let's assume that somehow - unlikely, but maybe it's possible - we manage to tweak these mechanism enough that we manage to survive and keep our bodies in the state of say a healthy 30 year old, forever. What are you going to do ? Sit indoors all day long ?"

The options open to someone who only faces accidental mortality are beyond our imagining. Imagine what a Jefferson or an Edison would achieve in 500 years. Imagine if Einstein had a 100 more to work on unified theories. Besides, with all that time to master knowledge I'm sure some bright spark could come up with a way to heal stab victims.

"The human brain has limited storage capacity, and even though we're fairly sure that we do not use all of it we also can't fill it up forever"

I'm not sure this is proven. Even if that's the case, I have a lot of useless knowledge about the maps of Quake 3 levels or the characters in obscure TV shows that could be jettisoned without great loss.

"That seems to be the problem with most of these far fetched ideas. 'Uploading' your mind, means measuring in great detail the state of your mind. And we do not even know what 'mind' is"

We have preliminary technology that can read thoughts and imperatives. Doesn't seem that far-fetched to map the brain given time. Besides, you seem to rule out human/brain interfaces - why can't I have a constant link between brain and computer and in a worse case death scenario I simply lose the experiences since my last link time.

However, you do raise some interesting societal issues. Nevertheless, "how will people deal with it" hardly seems a valid reason to prevent research that could let people live healthily to 500+. The alternative is we are saying people deserve to die because they are old.
I would add on public transport. Because I take two roughly 30 minutes bus rides per day I work with my Macbook Air on them for an hour a day.

On the top deck of a London double decker bus turns out to be quite an inspiring work place. There's room for a small laptop like the Air and the view is good from the windows with lots of natural light (even in the winter).
Depends what your attack model is. But it opens up a lot of new attacks.
Summary: you can't live for an infinite amount of time, since the universe will eventually end. You might even fall down a well before that.

Also, all those proposed new technologies to make you live a long (but finite) time sound really complicated.
I can only speak for myself, but I find it a little bit difficult to understand your point. You might as well "complain" (I know you are not complaining, just stating facts) that employees need 8 hours of sleep, so you have to tell the CEO that they can't work 20 hours per day on the new feature. Or that humans can't multitask and work on two projects at the same time (imagine that, you could get twice as much work done with the same personnel).

Humans have needs, so you have to take them into account. So "it makes it hard" sounds weird - it just is what it is, it is not being made hard. You are not losing a developer for 2 weeks, you never had that developer for those two weeks to begin with. Just as you don't have a developer who can work on two projects at the same time.

Perhaps employing more people might be an option?
I took a look at his Javascript code, in the "HTML" example, and it was far from as well written as it could be - I could easily do the same effect with a whole lot better framerate. I am not sure how fair a test this is.
Depending on your attack model, yes, it really can be that bad.

Much better to do your deduplication on the plaintext.
Just in case no one reads down.... I think the title is due to a confusion on the use of the word filtering on page 5. This doesn't propose internet filtering but instead refers to a indecent website blocklist maintained by a group called CIRCAMP. For the most part this never affects you and the group themselves call this an interim measure; it's not filtering your connection - just blocking access to certain manually checked domains.

More here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1218006
I think that to record a given intelligence is a harder problem than to create an AI, and imho an AI is still very far away, in spite of some very interesting work in that field working in the direction of developing one.

Not only would you have to perform a 'near perfect' programming of such an intelligence, you'd also have to record it, so that is two big problems to solve.

The '50 years from now' has been around just about forever, make that 50 years. But in reality, in spite of all our amazing computer power we are not much closer to being able to do this than we were 20 years ago, and I don't expect it to be much different 20 years from now.

The article is addressed to those alive today, and it is possible that 100, 200 or 1,000 years in to the future the situation will be dramatically different. It's hard to imagine that it would not. But barring a 'singularity' or the development of something really technologically advanced (say large scale quantum computing) I have a hard time seeing how it could be sooner than that. So that's where the premise comes from, not that it is a complete impossibility, just that it probably is an impossibility in the lifetime of those alive today.
Perhaps it may get the http://cpan-explorer.org/ treatment?

In meantime I just clicked on each picture which brought me to the flickr page and downloaded the largest image.
I love the views but I could never work on a London bus. At the most I can read something light. How do you deal with the teenagers in the back shouting or playing R&B?
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Could it be related to the current issue with China?
Sorry about that, I thought your point about living indoors was that it would be boring. Well, I edited it out anyway.
A pretty good book related to the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon
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I suppose the same could be said about the Flash code.
I think his conclusion should be taken with a big grain of salt, because, if you look ahead, to the inevitable future, Flash will probably not be anywhere close to as big an actor as it is today, while Canvas will without doubt grow and grow. But I guess if time stood still, which seems to be the case with most Flash protagonists.....
During my commute hours that's rarely a problem.
Scientists find how relaxed minds remember better
Good grief! This is big... I mean, where will I now get my daily fix of dancing cats and piano playing dogs?

Jokes aside, it is a little strange.
This seems to be all over the place with the stuff it tackles. As far as I see, it makes at least the following assertions:

* Increasing the human lifespan past 130 using means anything resembling modern medicine seems pretty hard. Especially for keeping the brain going strong.

* People have a fixed identity point somewhere in their lifetime, and should they deviate too far from that later in their life, they shall be considered different persons and as good as dead.

* Going insane is going to be a big problem if the brain keeps going and changing state for centuries or millennia.

* People would go into decision-theoretic ruts if they knew they lived forever. Apparently people also want to go into permanent retirement after a while, regardless of how healthy they are.

* People living forever keep consuming resources. This is somehow worse than the current situation where people give birth to more resource-consuming people and then die.

* Unlimited lifespans would cause massive social stratification.

* Since we don't know exactly how minds work, they probably run on magic instead of atoms and electrons, so you can't get them in a computer.

* Although human minds are perfectly fine being trapped for decades in a dark liter-sized bone shell in nature, they would quickly go insane from claustrophobia in a similar computer substrate. I'm not entirely sure how this works, it might be related to the part about computers not running on magic again.
Can't wait for that kind of cups to be available. Not the projector, but the other stuff.

I could imagine it might actually be easier to achieve than one might think. Printable electronics...

Does anybody have good resources for printable electronics?
As much as I love Opera...
... I think we all agree that we'd rather have space for our bookmarks than a brown bar at the top.

http://i.imgur.com/CVZit.png
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Why do you think adding mail would be such a boon? Just a forwarding address?
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I've applied to be a mentor, and I've suggested that some of my existing projects could use some love for Ruby 1.9. One, net-ldap, has some Ruby 1.9 support, but needs more overall features and development.

Obviously, this is not just about maintenance, but these are ideas; you can also look for things that haven't yet been addressed and propose those.

Based on my experience as a GSOC mentor, though, I think that maintenance and enhancement projects (adding new features to existing projects) are more successful in the end than greenfield projects.
I also quit a job because of their attachment to CF, I joined initially with an apprehensive mind because I'd spoken to a few of my friends about it and they got this look in their eyes like I used to see only amongst people that had tried to keep windows servers in the late 90's running for extended periods of time.

Nevertheless I resolved to give it a shot, the experience was so bad I was reduced to a gibbering wreck, quivering and wishing for my sane C64 BASIC interpreter rather than having to write cf tag based code structures because the designers of the language couldn't be bothered to even finish the rudimentary cfscript implementation they made in an extremely half assed fashion.

CF needs to die; forever, I want it wiped from the face of the planet, if I ever decide to become a berserker instead of biting my tongue for blood I will just remember the pain inflicted on me trying to use this steaming pile of excrement.

Enough bad things can simply never be said about CF, this article headline alone almost gave me an aneurysm, and I felt a soothing feeling of relief wash over me when I realised they were only referring to the potentially junk science version so widely misunderstood by the public at large. I can think of no realisation in the same vein that would actually make me feel such a positive response except in this specific narrow example.

</rant>
Very typical of the non-typical web user. We are so immersed in this stuff daily we fail to realise that most people don't twitter or seek out new ways to interact with the web.

As for the Facebook app example, the article itself highlights the flaws of apps - they are slowly updated and lacking in features compared to the live sites. Try managing your Facebook on the iPhone. Try watching Facebook videos. Try Facebook chat (it's somehow even buggier than the live site).
This was issue was tackled with the movie "Death Becomes Her".
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Going with the 500 particles / shadows on, link, I get results like these on Firefox 3.6.2 on Windows 7:

666 Flash
3.5 SVG (but I did not see shadows)
Actual rate for SVG looked more like 0.2 FPS
13 Canvas

I wonder if the Flash is hardware accelerated? I have a beefy graphics card, an AMD 5870.

For Chrome, the results are quite different:

110 Flash
43 SVG (still no shadows)
14 Canvas

With the unadorned links:

17 HTML/Chrome
14 HTML/Firefox (between 25 and 14, GC? pauses)
85 Canvas/Chrome
40 Canvas/Firefox
40 SVG/Chrome
3 SVG/Firefox (again, looked more like 0.2)
100 Flash/Chrome
666 Flash/Firefox
Hah, thx! I can't even begin to express how invaluable feedback has been. I of course want to respond quickly, but it also has the benefit of getting a larger conversation started.
> I disagree with a lot of this.

That's ok, PG disagrees with me too, so you're in good company :)

> Is this an American thing?

No, just statistics. Most people have one operation in their lifetime, sometimes more than one, usually those are to treat conditions that would otherwise cause a substantial decrease in lifespan.

Appendicitis, gal bladder removal, heart stents and so on. I'm Dutch by the way, not American.

> The options open to someone who only faces accidental mortality are beyond our imagining. Imagine what a Jefferson or an Edison would achieve in 500 years. Imagine if Einstein had a 100 more to work on unified theories. Besides, with all that time to master knowledge I'm sure some bright spark could come up with a way to heal stab victims.

That would have been great, but it presumes that you can keep the brain functioning for that long as well, and in 'top shape'. As it is most 'brilliant' work has been done by scientists when they are relatively young, late bloomers are the exception.

And Einstein was pretty much stuck in a rut at the end of his days, no disrespect there, it's fairly well documented, he was such a formidable force to oppose that he managed to hold back black hole research until 10 years after his death.

> I'm not sure this is proven. Even if that's the case, I have a lot of useless knowledge about the maps of Quake 3 levels or the characters in obscure TV shows that could be jettisoned without great loss.

But how to tell those apart from the ones that make up your identity ? A 'garbage collection' algorithm would have to be pretty precise! Do you want to compress your memory Yes / No is probably best answered with 'No'.

> We have preliminary technology that can read thoughts and imperatives.

True

> Doesn't seem that far-fetched to map the brain given time.

Also true, but how much time. There are plenty of people that seem to believe this will happen in our lifetime and I think that's not even close.

> Besides, you seem to rule out human/brain interfaces - why can't I have a constant link between brain and computer and in a worse case death scenario I simply lose the experiences since my last link time.

Interesting possibility, but it combines all of the problems associated with AI, recording and programming through a 'link' the structure of some new brain. And where does that come from ? (that new brain, not the link)

> However, you do raise some interesting societal issues. Nevertheless, "how will people deal with it" hardly seems a valid reason to prevent research that could let people live healthily to 500+.

No, I'm all for the research. I just have an issue with the belief that this is just around the corner.

> The alternative is we are saying people deserve to die because they are old.

For the time being, that's the way it will be. Research is to be encouraged, taking in to account the social consequences in parallel. But this - if it ever comes to pass - will upset our society like nothing else ever has. But it won't be our worry. I think :)
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Ask does have an API. It's just not open to the public, but is accessible via private agreement.
"NS" in the Server header, by the way, stands for NetScaler.
Thanks for clarifying, I hadn't realised this - is this the case for all major Chinese cities ?
Yah was watching streaming video and din realize site is down....
Sure, anyone in the know wouldn't associate this with computer engineers. Hell, most adults probably wouldn't either.

Kids, however, are far more likely to associate glasses with geeky/interested in geeky stuff. You can't use your position both as an adult and someone in the tech industry and apply it here. It just doesn't fit.
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Thanks. Yeah, the other wikipedias have not been integrated yet. Do you think it would be better to just not show them at all for other localizations, or is english better than nothing?
Thank you so much Andrew!
Gabriel, you might consider using your position to do things the big search engines can't do.

For example, one-click access to mp3s, pdfs, kindle books, movies, torrents, and the like for download.

That is one of the killer features that propelled Baidu to prominence in China, and of course it's how Youtube got sold for $1.6 billion.

Moreover as long as it's not hosted on your servers, it is a legal gray area.

Google has made Lala into a world-beater by putting it at the top for all kinds of music searches. If you went one step beyond and added a little code that would convert that audio stream into an mp3...or that would convert a Youtube link (with one click) into an mp4...that would be very interesting and useful.
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Well, it seems reasonable to postulate about the future since we're talking about living forever. The potential impacts include whatever might be happening before you die.

And, like the first link I included, it's interesting to consider the possibility that you consciousness could be recreated sometime even after you die based upon a recording of your activity, whether a blog post, a 'brain dump', or something else entirely.

I guess stepping back from the details, the questions is: why shut down the sense of wonder and possibility?
Yes, it's meant to be and to be interpreted as a parody, i.e. fair use, etc. No cease and desist or lawsuit filed yet :). I did email them after the fact saying no hard feelings and hoped they continue the joke, but we'll see!
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