skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no there's definitely some strategy and depth to the game. If you only played to level 3, for example, you probably didn't notice the game begins to significantly decrease your decision-making time. After a few attempts, I was able to get to level 12 with a score of 46920. I will say, since the game is pure HTML/CSS/JS, I opened Firebug and attempted to cheat by deleting some of the <div> elements that represent the blocks. But of course that only resulted in making those blocks invisible.

Anyway, as web developer interested in (but with no experience in) game development, it's certainly inspiring to see a game of this caliber made using only these technologies.
wow i am amazed at lack of knowledge of HNers
That guy has abused OR principal, also its not a rule of thumb nor a proof its a Philosophical argument used in philosophy of science.
Read about Falsifiability and then you will understand why Occams razor is important and

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Just because some theory is simple, yet it never makes it the correct one!! Its just the first one to be consider for refutation!
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And after living a 1000 years one is going to walk into the central computer, edit their memories and be born again a few millenniums later.

I am a pretty big fan of Arthur C. Clarke.
> it was mostly up to Microsoft to make sure that the OS continued to work flawlessly

I would say that's the difference: Microsoft abstracted most of the differences through their APIs. Android obviously handles some of these issues, but devs have to pay far more attention to degrading gracefully on different screen sizes, lack of multitouch, lack of hardware keyboard, etc.

Of course, web devs have had to play a similar game with the various browsers for a decade and a half, so it isn't necessarily a show-stopper for the ecosystem.
Just bought it thanks to both of you!
Yes. I don't understand your question. It's under content settings.
I think this is a little different. There's a huge advantage to developing a common ecosystem around a programming language. For a music player application... hmm not so much.
I don't think the parent post was talking about childbearing age; I interpreted it as being more of a society-imposed restriction based on the practicality of having a population that can be up to 1000 years old.
Too right.

One day myself and another guy were debugging a piece of code by staring at it, figuring the logic out in our heads and pitching theories back and forward. The boss walked past, saw we were sitting there "doing nothing" and told us to do some work... ugh!
OMG WE ARE ALL DOOOOOMEEEEED!
(Dr Evil Laughter)

What a bunch of blah in that article. Ignore it.
This is silly.

Everyone was worried in the 1970's that the 1990's would have massive overcrowding and famines, but it didn't happen. Instead, the world population growth rate has begun to level off.

Why? In affluent countries, people no longer have children out of necessity, but of desire. In fact, many first-world nations are actually now undergoing population contraction (Japan, much of Europe).

If you eliminate aging across the world, the necessity of children will go away. People will only have children if they want them.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (Red/Blue/Green) has this sort of development as a backdrop.

Nothing good comes of it.
The previous YC funding cycle, winter 2010, had 27 startups. Already 20 of them (74%) are either profitable or have commitments for further funding.

That's amazing. Congratulations.
When my intro to genetics teacher in college explained to us how aging in cells worked, he told us that one of his professors had explained to him that a "cure" for aging was about 10 years away. But that had been more than ten years earlier. My professor said that he had recently talked to that same professor again. The new ETA: about 10 years.

This is one of those problems that seems easy to solve in principle, but the details are nasty. Frankly, I think there's a reason complicated life evolved so that it would age. The standard reason given is that eventually errors in replication accumulate and cancer results. I.e. we age to avoid cancer. But that is a ridiculous reason. There is a chance we might die of cancer if we grow too old, so we trade that possibility of death by cancer for a certainty of death by aging? It just doesn't make evolutionary sense.

I have a feeling that whatever the real reason for aging is, it will take us a long, long time before we find a way around it.
The porn company has a long and somewhat pitiful history of unsuccessfully suing major companies for what it considers copyright infringement.

They sued Google for image search results.
Eh... humanity will always find a way. We've done pretty good so far. If nothing else, spending a few years flying to mars seems a lot more reasonable when you've got 1,000 to spare. Space colonization is one solution to overpopulation.
I heard some interesting insight recently. I am not sure how correct it is but it suggested that while we have made a lot of progress in living longer (allowing us to be old for longer) we have not made much progress at slowing down the process of aging (making it take longer to get old).

If we want to live long and fruitful lives, how do we slow down aging? I prefer that question over, how do we live until 1,000?
Strangely this promotion led me to pick up the "MEAP" edition of Clojure in Action from Manning Publications. I already had The Joy of Clojure and I wanted to see the other side.

I can't think of anything O'Reilly offers that I want to read right now aside from maybe Agile Web Development with Rails.
hahaha, this was hysterical.
It's not about being patronizing. It's about recognizing our human limitations: "As a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure." (Dijkstra, EWD249)
Great, I loved blockout as a kid. Spent a lot of time with my parents trying to beat each others high score.
Brings back a lot of good memories.
Embiggen your startupness with cromulence!
Do you see the white square?

Some of youtube's videos are FLVs, not H264. This is for H264 only.
Bit.ly Preview Add-on Leaks User Activity; Referer Header Considered Harmful
Innovation in 1996
So include H264 in the standard binary release but provide the rest of the code as OSS.
I'm a designer - find plenty of us on drawar.
He's not talking about a magic treatment, he's talking about raising the life expectancy gain per decade by more than 10.

All that said: Then if that happens, war will happen. I predict population will stabilize still (remember, accidents and unsolved diseases and violence and suicide will still kill). If it doesn't happen then we condemn the whole world to die.

I for one am for giving the chance for us or our children the chance to make it work, and find it overwhelmingly arrogant to think we know well enough to judge they won't handle it.
Thanks for the fantastic book. :-)
I guess I was assuming that these weren't serious web sites. Like, the OP said that they worked on a plethora of projects which sounded, to me, like lots of little side projects. I think it's ideal to work with artsy friends on those just like you'd work with techie friends. If you're doing something serious, clearly it's an employment thing not a buddy thing. However, sometimes you're doing a nice little project in your spare time and it's nice to build it with a friend who has a good visual sensibility and if it doesn't take off you've both spent some hours working on something cool and if it does take off you can continue working together.
But people die! Wouldn’t you want to stop that if you could? I don’t know how you could consider death some sort of necessary evil. That seems like a pretty cynical and cruel view to me. Think of all the intelligent, experienced and capable people who die every day (or are slowly losing their intelligence due to aging). Wouldn’t it be great if Shakespeare were still alive? Newton? Darwin? Einstein? Crick?

Death is wasteful and it’s monstrous. Those problems you mentioned seem like small obstacles compared to the much bigger problem of death.
Why is childbirth a right? Would you accept a trade of a parent's life for a child's life, perhaps with a time delay?

There's also several financial methods that could be used to prevent undesirable wealth accumulation.
I wonder if this would change the popular morality of suicide? What if you're 800 years old, and you truly feel that you've had enough? Should you be forced to keep on going, potentially indefinitely?

Or even just knowing when to step aside and let the next (evolved) generation take over? (or will that still naturally just happen, via accidental death or death by lack of resources to live)
A commercial quantum encryption system has been fully hacked for the first time
Is it possible to defer YC?
>"Don't come to me with Problems, Come to me with Solutions"

Isn't that just "don't make me work, do the work for me even if you duplicate effort when I (with my experience) could cut through to the solution I'll choose".
Maintaining two per year for 500 years is more than sufficient.

Personally, I expect false starts in the next couple centuries. The beta testers will be healthy and fit into their hundreds, but those that follow may get to 200-400, then possibly further. There are just too many engineering issues to work out in a single iteration.
Sorry; I meant language designers didn't know how to use them. C++ is a perfect example of operator overloading gone horribly wrong.
Also check out "The Immortal" by Borges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal
Hell, give us another 50 years and I'm sure we'll all have our minds cloned into an army of robot bodies and computer brains for, uh, let's say longevity.
No, he describes Time Machine for Windows, which has almost nothing to do with Dropbox.
That's seriously awesome. I can't wait to see more of these experiments pushing out our conception of what you can do with HTML5 and its assorted technologies.
I doubt that we'll ever find a "reason" for aging. It's the result of an imperfectly optimized biological system - after all, humans are the result of one great big evolutionary algorithm.

We've proven time and again that those run exponentially and are not perfectly accurate, especially in the presence of a dynamic environment.
I think part of it might be that evolution only cares about how successful you are in passing on your genes. Why do salmon die after mating (its due to exhaustion)? There isn't really any reason they have too, but they successfully passed on there genes so there is little evolutionary pressure on what happens afterward.

I think it is the same for aging. There isn't really a reason for aging, it just happens because there is less evolutionary pressure once humans pass the age when they normally procreate.

Of course I don't have any qualifications and this is just my hypothesis so take it as you will.
And a distant cousin to Dave Winer!
I'd say that's not really going to be an issue. Children, as is, are already encouraged by tax subsidies. You'd at worse have to take those away; people the world over are already limiting the birth rate (even places where birth control and a nice standard of living are unavailable). Additionally, the SENS plan isn't about a magical 1000yr life expectancy treatment, it's about increasing the rate of life expectancy gain up to an excess of 10 years per decade (for non-violent/non-accident deaths).

If you can live to 1k, and give birth for most if not all of your life, I think many people would think "being a parent" is something that could be put off a couple decades/centuries. Birth is not a pleasant process, and women aren't usually eager to have 10 kids.
When I go to https://www.google.com/ it redirects me to http://www.google.com. That's some amazing security right there! :P
Interesting. I just checked on the Android Google Market and found several of the books I was considering were just $5.

They are in multi-file HTML format inside the APK, so this is even cheaper and given I wanted them on the Android phone/tablet anyway, easier.

Even better the eBook app O'Reilly delivers has an "Export to ePub" button that will send it to an ePub on your sdcard.
From TFA: "And each method to do this is either already working in a preliminary form (in clinical trials) or is based on technologies that already exist and just need to be combined."

Totally agreed-- it's insane to think that because you can do some stuff in isolated cases, the combination is a trivial extension.
It's not just the first world. Women in even the poorest countries are simply just choosing to have less children.
The reason it's called an analogy is that it's not exactly the same thing. Afro americans are not swedish muslims, they are both more violent than the majorities in their respective countries and thus scary to old white guys tough. But, yeah, demonstrations are great to show contempt for racial violence and other problems, heard of these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches.
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He used to be a lot more controversial a few years ago (Technology Review even had a challenge, asking biogerontologists to debunk his claims, though none really did a convincing job). He's slowly but surely making his ideas more mainstream by tirelessly speaking, debating anyone who wants to, organising conferences and editing a respected peer reviewed journal (Rejuvenation Research, iirc).

If you think you have a good argument that would invalidate his theories, please first make sure that he hasn't answered it a thousand times first.

As usual, Wikipedia has mostly neutral info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey
That article is from 2004 (from top of page)

Last Updated: Friday, 3 December, 2004, 00:01 GMT

This kind of sensationalism is silly.

http://xkcd.com/678/

Falls under: It has not been conclusively proven impossible.

We don't know what kind of roadblocks there will be for this kind of development, we can't even guess - claims of 10-20 years are beyond silly, they are crazy and ignoring the concept of "what we don't know".

ps. Can you imagine how overpopulated the world would be?

How we would strip every resource bare?
It does in helping you realizing if the market you're targeting is big enough to achieve your goal.

If your goal is to make a million dollars a year with a certain product or service, the number of units of that service or product that you can provide (e.g. you have time to take on only so many projects a year, you're hand-building furniture and can make so many a week, etc.) or the expected number of sales you can make tells you how much you would need to charge to reach your goal. price = $1,000,000/# units

But it really depends on what end of the stick you're looking at. The OP's objective is to reach a certain revenue. You can look from the other side and say "I'll be selling my product at that price, which means I'll make price*units per year."
If people lived 10x longer than they do now, the birth rate would have to drop dramatically (my rudimentary math would assume that it would require 10% of the amount of births we have now) or you'd risk overcrowding.

We'd end up with government controlling the number of children, possibly even a lottery system. The overcrowding worries of the 70s and 90s were not because of a 1200% increase, rather a 10-20% increase.
instead, let's engineer away our anxieties about not existing.
Could you please be specific in your criticism? Why would the engineering approach that he advocate not work? Why specifically is he a hack in your opinion?

Otherwise, it's just ad hominem.
Or they could just leave out the graphs altogether. As it is, they’re pretty much useless.
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I'm a UI Engineer and designer also with 3D animation and video production skills to boot. I'd love to work with fellow HN members. Check my work out at http://www.johncozen.com and let's connect. john@johncozen.com
Can I bet on the opposite side of this? I bet that nobody who is 60 now will live to 1000.

Don't get me wrong, I would like to live to 1000... but I would be pretty surprised if my kids live past 150. I will be surprised if I live to 100. It's sad to think about, but our bodies wear out over time (cosmic rays and whatnot), and we don't have the technology to repair them efficiently yet. People still die from the flu!
thanks, I've tried it , but it didn't work

returns zero results out of "1.6B indexed images"
Agreed, especially the sentiment that multimedia design is synonymous with Flash in the design world.

Interface/UX design is severally un-recgonized by large organizations like the AIGA, and most 'web-design' discussion centers around designerly portfolio sites, long pages mimicking print design, and of course Flash sites.

As a designer with an interest in CS I find myself constantly torn between two worlds, since most people on the design side don't care much for the CS and most people on the CS side don't care much for Paul Rand's or Pete Modrian's.
About slowdowns. Which browser/OS do you use?

I know I have troubles on Firefox on Windows 7.

I do compensation for actual elapsed time, but unfortunately this doesn't help when setInterval fires too late (in FF I can get occasional "jump" frame with 30x usual duration, I suspect due to garbage collection [1]).

Chrome and Opera are much more reliable in their JS timing.

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[1] You can check GC + animation test here:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/01/javascript-speedups-in-fire...

FF (even version 3.6) performs pretty badly: I got 80-120 ms delay due to GC, Opera has 21ms, Chrome has 8 ms.

For my game it's even worse, normal frame can take 14 ms, garbage collected one 500 ms.
He's looking for cures to issues that are real problems. If you fix any of the problems, even partially, they show great promise for helping older people to be decrepit, even if they don't actually extend lifespan. His hope is curing these types of damage will cause humans to functionally stop aging, but curing these types of damage are useful in and of themselves:

Cell loss, tissue atrophy

Nuclear [epi]mutations

Mutant mitochondria

Death-resistant cells

Tissue stiffening

Extracellular aggregates (Cleaning crap out of our bodies that shouldn't be there and isn't in cells)

Intracellular aggregates (Cleaning crap out of cells that shouldn't be there and is in cells)
We don’t share your information with advertisers. Our targeting is anonymous. We don’t identify or share names. Period.

-- Elliot Schrage, vice president for public policy at Facebook. May 11, 2010.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/facebook-executive-...

ouch.
prolonging the useful life of the workforce is a big worry

Not in my world. The world where we are at the tail end of the largest recession in two or three generations, with danger of double-dip; we have lots and lots of surplus productive capacity, productivity just keeps going up, and unemployment is between 10% and 25% in the US depending on how you count it.
> We don't even know what we don't know. How many times have we been at this place in the history of biology, where we honestly believe that we are just "that" close to figuring out the processes of life. We were wrong then, and we are wrong now.

Aubrey's point is that we don't need to understand metabolism to repair the damage of aging, just like you can maintain and repair a house or a car without understanding in detail all of the mechanisms that cause damage and failure. You just clean up some of the damage and change some parts periodically so that it never reaches a threshold at which failure is possible.

Our bodies already do this quite well for the first 20-30 years of our lives, but after that, we're in an evolutionary blind spot and long-lived molecules accumulate and eventually make maintenance and repair mechanisms stop working for long enough to lead to pathologies. If we clean up these long-lived molecules, that'll be a very good start.
Probably the encrypted version hasn't been deployed yet to the datacenter you're hitting.
I am using the latest Opera snapshot on Linux. If I rightclick on a link on a result page and copy the link address, I get the redirection link.

The parameters are not "transfered" to another DDG page for me. Eg I manually crafted http://duckduckgo.com/?kf=-1&kz=-1&kd=-1&q=hello... which works great but if I now enter "hello epi0Bauqu" at the site and hit Enter I end up at http://duckduckgo.com/?q=hello+epi0Bauqu&v=

I have cookies disabled, referrers too.
It was rambling..

you said:

"The attackers in Sweden are not deliberately trying to cause fear - thy are just trying to hurt a guy."

What I was trying to say was: of course they were creating fear, they must have know that they were, wich is why I find the statement "they did not want to create fear" puzzling.
The MPEG LA is not a patent troll. You probably have heard of their products as they are some of the most famous codecs and supported by multitudes of devices. They are using patents exactly as they were designed for.
Aubrey is a hack and about as far from being a scientist as I am from passing a Google technical interview.

Cambridge University awarded him a PhD for his work, and they don't exactly give those away on the back of cereal boxes. Do you have any hard evidence that he's not doing valid work?
Miro Video Converter is the first WebM / VP8 converter
I think the MVP here would be a comma separated list of email addresses harvested by sniffing in/out going emails.

That product appears to be probably more useful too. The linkedin stuff moves to a particular use whilst simple CSV email list doesn't - linkedin allows you to invite by pasting a CSV list of email addresses, but here's the clincher, so do many other sites.

Fair enough, have a button to open up the browser and paste in the list (rather than use the linkedin API this seems most adaptable to other sites, indeed the config could probably be a page address and div ID pair per site and users would most likely adapt and upstream their configs).

Yes I expect this is badly flawed.
Thanks man, sniffle.

Actually I'm not too worried about that. More worried that the guys at google are waaaay smarter than me :-)
At least with git vs. mercurial, I'm pretty sure there's no marketing department on either side scheming to start a war between each other to choke out the other alternatives. Similarly, both Apple and Google might welcome the press, but that's very different from actually staging it.
Developers: User Experience is everything