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Immortality is generally taken to imply eternal youth as well (at least moderate youth). Not a lot of people want to live forever in a body that continues to age. Given eternal youth, there's no reason an 18-year old would be restricted to dating other 18-year olds. They could just as easily date 1000-year olds (unless by monogamy you mean eternal pairing).
A very admirable code of ethics. He's right - technology can be used to connect and change the world. How about more of us get to work on this? Less celebrity texting, more community building.
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Comments like this one show that Apple fanboyism knows no bounds.

One of the biggest contributers to the foundation of computer science and the software industry (with respect to both concepts and implementation) has died and we're talking about Steve Jobs again.
> Not necessary.

He might have a point if 100x is even close to a realistic increase... again, as demonstrated by other posts in this thread, this isn't the case.
So the takeaway here is to be wary of the amount of effort those driven more by passion than finance can have? I don't see much new here.

I'm always disappointed by these counter-intuitive link-bait titles.
But we're already at the happy middle. I don't design my phone hardware, I don't design my operating system, I don't grow my own food...

... but I am free to do all of those, plus free to modify all of those in the way I choose, should I want a better fit. Sure, I may have to be a dev, and have background knowledge in how to engage in some of those, but the capability is there. Granny Jones isn't going to shoot herself in the foot because of some downloaded maps.
This is what it'll look like though. Till now we've debated about putting computers in classrooms. Now it's going to be ridiculous to consider stripping him of his many computers, especially when taking him to the learning place.
Yup. It probably didn't help that I lived in a ruralish part of town.
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I was mostly joking, but yes by monogamy I meant mostly long-term/permanent pairing, which seems highly unlikely to me in a post-death civilization.
The internet, the web, all powered primarily by open source and/or free software and standards (tcp/ip, html, linux, apache, perl/php, firefox, webkit, etc.) have gone a long way toward furthering those hacker ethics rather considerably since 1984, I think.
Manual memory management isn't "required" - it's merely the best option in some cases. However, GC is the best option in some others. (Every memory managment mechanism, including manual and even static, has costs.)

Yes, GC can be the best option for system software.

No mechanism is best in all circumstances.
manage it yourself: put things that need to be persistent in Documents. put the rest in Cache. move 'em as needed. do it automatically by download and access dates and/or provide an interface for people to manage it.

your app absolutely needs tons and tons of data to function? doesn't seem like your day. it's their device, their cloud, their decision. Apple doesn't give a shit about your day; they're going cloud. they may be wrong, but i'd guess they're going to have to find that out for themselves.

i'd assume they acknowledge this may kill some apps. i don't think they ever promised anyone a business; on the contrary, they seem to remind developers that they are there at their good grace all the time. as someone that built Facebook apps since '07, trust me, i know what this is like. start coding and start calling. best of luck.
Did you try "sudo apt-get install fancontrol"?
To relate this even more directly to the article, I believe W3 Total Cache can be configured to do this.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
The one thing we understand the least is us. Sounds like endless potential for research opportunities. A real challenge. Maybe the project doesn't result in effective immortality. But the space race didn't result in only getting to orbit or only landing men on the Moon. The side benefits would be as beneficial as the final goal.
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something unsettles me about the fact that the first thing someone would think of doing during an emergency landing is tweeting about it.

At what point does your life just become a digital narration of your activities? Kind of like those old detective movies, but duller.
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When I was growing up and first read about computers back in the 80's I was always a bit puzzled by descriptions of programming languages along the lines of "a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation" - for someone who knows what a programming language is, this is just ridiculous; for someone who doesn't, this does not help.

Our society has changed rapidly in the last 10 to 15 years, technology has made its way to the middle with smartphones, tablets, etc. being ubiquitous, and yet I have to read the same utter nonsense in mainstream newspapers each time there is an article mildly related to computer technology.

"Dennis M. Ritchie, who helped shape the modern digital era by creating software tools that power things as diverse as search engines like Google and smartphones"

Oh, please... seriously? :-(
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>The only good reasons (that I can think of right now) not to sign up are if (1) you can't afford the ~$50/month or whatever your life insurance premiums + member dues would be, or (2) you rely on the financial support of people who are strongly anti-cryonics.

Or you think it's dumb and fruitless and a waste of money. We don't have any way of predicting the expected value of cryopreservation. It could be that after you get frozen, an earthquake/tsunami takes out the power and you thaw. Or the company goes under. Or you get abandoned. Or any number of other things.

How likely are you to be unfrozen/cured/revived? No one can say for sure, but it's probably pretty unlikely. On the other hand, what's the likelihood that your estate can do something useful with an extra $25k? That's pretty likely.
Ah, so you're complaining that he was actively interacting with his target program (painting) instead of passively interacting with it (watching and 'consuming' a film, whatever 'consuming' means in that context).

Depending on which way you want to spin it, you could claim the ipad is better (omg! kid does less work and gets to sit back entertained!) or worse (omg! kid has lost the ability to actively create something, become a passive consumer instead!).
Well that was.. unexpected. Made me laugh, though! Even signed up (although it's not available in my city just yet).

So I guess your video did its job. Nice work.

On a side note - Is setNight going to be similar to MyScene App (http://itunes.apple.com/br/app/myscene-app/id454355648?mt=8)? MyScene App was launched by a pop star here in NZ but doesn't look like its gained any traction.
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Founding an online startup. Do I need to learn programming?
So I have what I would consider a fantastic business plan with the online experience to back it up. I've done my research and have 3 very serious investors that want to invest as soon as they can.

The problem: The idea centers around marketing (I'm one of the best at SEO. I work for banks and fortune 500 companies) AND a machine learning mechanism to decide what content to deliver to the visitor.

The question is should I try to learn php and take the free Machine Learning course Stanford is offering right now? The other option is keep sub-contracting to development agencies, collecting my paycheck after all 10 hours of work, and hiring a ninja-programmer.

Another small issue, the tech talent in my area, Wilmington, NC, isn't the greatest.

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.
Even that cult of personality hasn't convinced Less Wrong...
for a piece intended for a general audience I think the author did rather well, I can imagine a nontechnical person appreciating the world in a broader way having read it.
Didn't just crash my browser... crashed + rebooted the entire machine! Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, Chrome.
Dude! You're like that guy from that "how to spot a bad non-technical co-founder" article. Pretty sure this is a troll.
I entirely agree. Apple forgot an important use case? I hate it when software is built to think in place of the user. There are two culprits here:

* the lack of persistent, non backable offline storage
* the addition of a auto-cleaning procedure

The auto-cleanup without a storage alternative is a blunder. iOS 5 decides for the user what should be deleted to free up space. An alternative would be to prompt what application data you would like to remove instead of a blind decision. Otherwise, that's the kind of programming that will one day lead robots to cleanup the human race! ;)

Of course, having permanent local storage that's not backed up would be a more user-friendly solution. However, it would probably lead people to run out of space when developers begin abusing it like some did with temp or cache storage.

It seems like a trend at Apple these days. With Lion, the OS now decides when an application should quit when unused.
Why should it be?

PAE [1] is reported to work very well, so there's no RAM problem. Plus, things like ndiswrapper go a long way to highlighting Ubuntu's famous 'ease of use', and i imagine it's a huge hassle to get that working on x86_64.

64-bit is a higher number, but it's not instantly better in all situations. Larger pointers = effectively smaller cache, and the extra registers don't always make up for that.

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1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingPAE
I'm definitely at risk of running into this predicament as a user. I'm more worried about the hundreds of megabytes of podcasts I download when WiFi is available for use throughout the day when WiFi isn't available.

To avoid this issue and enjoy the benefits of iOS 5, I'm going to have to clear out a bunch of apps, music, and photos and ensure that I always have a sufficient amount of "buffer" space so the cleaning is never triggered. I cannot be alone in this, and the fact that Apple is making this kind of thinking necessary for end users is kind of ridiculous. I really can't see this behavior lasting for very long, and I'm sure Apple will address it soon; this is the antithesis to the traditional iPhone experience. The only scenario where I could see this being purposeful is if Apple is really trying to hurt offline apps to increase data usage and appease carriers (maybe for pissing them off with iMessage?).
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I really like the idea of setting a cookie that bypasses caching for a few seconds - I've heard the same technique used by Facebook, who set a cookie that ties you to the MySQL master server rather than the slave after you perform a write action so that you'll see your update without waiting for replication lag.

It relies on using the Max-Age Cookie argument though, and I was under the impression that IE doesn't implement that correctly. Anyone know what the status of IE and max-age cookies is?
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I agree. It probably invokes an element of awareness, that primal "oh, shit, I need to start working or else." It's probably that fear which provides certain types of endorphins and brain activity you wouldn't otherwise get.
I do agree that quality of life is just as important if not more so. And yet I think I would put up with a lot of suffering for a fairly long time in exchange for a shot at being healthy for a much longer time later on. I'm not sure where those balance out. For a thousand years of youth? I'd definitely put up with the pain of dying of cancer for that (or so I say now).

But that's just a thought experiment. No cryonicist expects to be revived in anything less than fully regenerated (or uploaded) condition. Reanimating into a painful and incurable half-life is unlikely, as you probably could not revive someone to begin with if you didn't have the ability to prevent that.
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You could hire someone to market the site for you which would allow you to keep your job, give you more time to develop the site, and you'd take less risk.

Risk vs. reward. It's hard for us to determine what the correct answer is without having the necessary information and numbers.

But good luck!
Are they sites with less than 20,000 uniques per month? I've found those to be the outliers in my data set. They're wildly off on "low" traffic sites but have been a decent yardstick for sites getting more than 20k uniques in my limited experience.
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Personally, I think you need a committed partner who can code. Like Steve Blank/ Eric Ries like to put it, a Startup is not a company - it is a hypothesis.

It's great that you have a business plan, but a business plan is a remnant of the 80s and 90s. What you really have is a hypothesis about how you believe the world is. You need to get your product out there to see if your hypothesis holds true. If you've done your research, it will be close to the mark. From there, you'll have to iterate your product until you've reached a product-market fit.

And to iterate rapidly, you cannot keep subcontracting coding. You're going to need a committed CTO that will be able to deploy code rapidly.

That's my two cents.
What are you planning on doing if you start a new venture?
It looks like they liked the new Facebook timeline and put it on Twitter
BTW, "Hackers" is an excellent book and definitely a great read for hackers and non-hackers alike.
I am convinced they only adopted it so that Mozilla supporters can shoot down any criticism from people who abandoned it more than a few weeks ago by saying "well your criticism is hardly relevant, we're several version numbers past what you were using now!" Notice several examples of this tactic in this very discussion...

Increasing the version number doesn't fix bugs, but pretty much every time it has been pointed out in this topic, it was "we fixed some issues in that area, please try a newer version".

I don't understand the argument here. You're saying Mozilla is rapidly addressing the issues users are complaining about, and that is somehow a bad thing?

But anyway, are they bumping the version number every 1.2 months then? Is that supposed to be obvious?

The 6 week schedule has been pointed out in every HN thread about FF, and many public announcements before the rapid release system started, and the last 3 releases (not counting Beta and Aurora) have exactly been 6 weeks apart. So yes, it's supposed to be quite obvious by now. Don't ask me where your "2 weeks" figure comes from.
That seems pretty far fetched.

Just about everything important seems far-fetched until it happens (Who imagined spam botnets when designing SMTP? Who would've thought that Therac-25 operators would get fast enough at entering commands to trigger a race condition?).

How often has that actually happened to you?

Since Firefox syncs often, it can't. But, I have lost long comments and e-mails (before Gmail auto-saved drafts) to page/browser/OS crashes, and I've been saved by the history when I couldn't remember the one site that had some answer I needed.

I can honestly say that in 15 years of web browsing I've never had either of those problems, and don't know anybody who has.

Isn't that exactly the sentiment being complained about in the article?

Seems silly to significantly slow everything down for everybody because of a one in a trillion chance somebody will lose power at an inconvenient time.

And hey, maybe if the browser were faster, you'd have time to submit the comment or bookmark the page before the power goes out...

If anything, experience has taught me that catastrophic failures just love to occur at inconvenient times. For example, demonstrations work when you're alone or with other engineers, but as soon as you present to someone else everything stops working.

Besides, I'm not saying browsers should be slower. I'm saying that they should synchronize more often than once every 10-15 minutes and be prepared for edge cases. I'm of the view that software should, where possible, mimic physical objects -- changes are instantaneous and persistent -- with the reversibility of virtual objects.
Oooooooooooo brother. Don't sign mortgages! Stay footloose. Because of that mortgage, you're going to have to tread carefully. Otherwise, I'd tell you to drop that job like a bag of dirt!
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No, more like 50,000-150,000 (depending on the month).
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Dennis lives somewhere in time.
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That's a reasonable concern, but at this meta level there are two things going in cryonics' favor: there's a good chance you're overconfident about its non-utility[1], and there's a chance that your reanimation comes much earlier than expected, so the cumulative risks don't add up to much.

And FWIW, Alcor and Cryonics Institute don't require power for storage; they require deliveries of liquid nitrogen. I don't think either facility has much earthquake/tsunami risk, either.

[1] Personally, I would want to be > 99% sure about this before completely giving up on cryonics.
These people are out to implement their vision - wealth is byproduct of passion.
How can you say that cryonics working is "probably pretty unlikely" if "we have no way of predicting the expected value of cryopreservation". You can give probabilities to the events that would make cryonics fail and come up with an expected value.
It seems like in your initial email you come across asking them for advice (flattering), but follow up with request for their contacts? Is that right? If so, maybe be upfront the first time about what you really need from them. Keep it short if you can.
Yeah, glad I read this before upgrading. My large collection of podcasts stored in Instacast will probably be lost straight away.
I agree, and I think a convergence of the two would be even easier - some way to replace an active biological brain (neuron by neuron) with one synthetic. Similar to artificial hearts, etc. Maybe it starts as treatment for strokes or similar brain damage, to work around the irreparable portions of the brain. As long as each neuron behaves and is networked identically to the one replaced (which might require some guesswork in cases of severe damage), it should result in an identical system.

So why create a synthetic if you can convert an organic? Probably more likely than us creating a 'real' A.I. anyway.
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Wow. Hiding the re-size icons on full screen really threw me off. Otherwise looks fantastic.
The entire point of SSH as opposed to Telnet is that it uses encryption.

Exactly. And that's why I'd prefer complete end-to-end encryption instead of giving plaintext to a middleman (or in worst-case scenario to an unknown middleman).

edit: Re: Performance. Best source I could find[1] about encryption with JS claims unoptimized AES implementation doing 30 kB/s in Firefox 3 on 2 GHz Core 2. Certainly enough for interactive use.

[1]: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/aes.html
It's funny you say that because I am on your side here, but a close mentor of mine who has successfully founded, raised venture funding, and sold 3 tech companies disagrees. He recommends doing as much as I can for now and then get funding rather quickly. I'm not saying he's right but he has some pretty good points to back up his recommendations.

The only problem I foresee with getting a committed CTO is finding one around my area. I had one incredible programmer who had just quit his job at Match.com, but he got offered a job he couldn't refuse with equity in the venture funded startup in the valley.

I guess I just need to start the process of finding the perfect fit. I'm probably going to reach out to Raleigh for this.
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> My point is, aiding x in its mission makes you an accomplice. You can argue that x is not bad or as bad is it is being made out to be, but being a partner makes you exactly that, a partner.

This is an overly-idealistic way to look at a complex world, and taking such a stance would surely make you a hypocrite. As I asked another commenter: Do you not use a bank? Pay taxes to a government? Buy food, shelter, and other products? Well then, you've undoubtedly patronized at least a few entities who have committed horrible atrocities. So, by your own logic, fuck you.
Not sure who "that guy" is, but I can assure you I'm not a troll. I've been following ycombinator for a long time, I am just new to the Hacker News Section.

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Seems like a really cool gadget. The resulting pictures are really cool and remind of Google street view more than anything else. I wonder if some of the techniques Google used to stitch together street view pictures could also be used to improve the results from this camera...
someone should get a comment from AA HQ whether it is indeed corporate policy to block twitter during an emergency landing. Other possibilities may be that this is a GOGO policy, or there was just an issue connecting to twitter.
Fortunately most women aren't like this. It's still disappointing that a popular show can be so viciously anti-intellectual.

In my experience, women are interested in hearing about the guy's passions, not less so if that passion is building a transformative startup.
downvoted with no explanation, cute. And readers here think they're above Reddit standards.

Downvoting with no explanation is arguably acceptable here. There's disagreement about it, but people do it all the time, including me when I don't have time to type in a comment or feel like doing so would add more noise than signal (like, probably, right now). Complaining about being downvoted, though, definitely is not.
No I wasn't diminishing anything i was just saying the context of interaction and media consumption changes dramatically and what is normal for a two year old to figure out on their own will likewise change dependent on the affordances of the tools.
I would wait until more reports come in.

Alternatively, just turn off iCloud back ups.
I usually ask to meet up in a very central place for coffee. And to save on time, I usually group a bunch of meetings back to back at the exact same spot.
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Nerd represent! The clip was pretty funny. Does anyone know if we will be able to watch the full episode online?
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Okay, I'm pretty new here too. Here's the article I'm referring to. It's quite interesting, give it a read

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