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It's not the lack of cryo arrangements that's the problem. (I've considered cryo myself, but I'm not impressed with the likelyhood of success. Too many fracturing events, not to mention the likely extreme costs of recovery post-freezer. But if you're looking for more life, it's your only potential option.) The problem is that we haven't been focusing enough on the real issue: Death. Finding ways to extend human life indefinitely should be our generation's "Space Race." Our Apollo Program. Want to create jobs? Help us find the cure. Instead we obsess over petty things. (And I'm as guilty as the rest.)

But regardless, there is one truth we all have to face: We will one day die. Even should you beat the biological death, should you somehow survive the backlash of fellow humans who reject your bid for immortality, you will still fail. Because one day the Universe will either run out of energy or contract back upon itself, at which point you will either starve or be crushed. You have a few billion years to find an answer for that.
I'm on a 512 Linode, and my Wordpress would freeze when I got on the front page of HN. I ended up turning Apache's Keep-Alive to off and installed W3 Total Cache, haven't had any problems since then.
> So do what the other browsers do

What other browsers do is completely insane (e.g. removing a block that a run-in has run into makes the run-in just disappear altogether in WebKit), so implementing it would be actively bad for the web.

> It’s only being dropped from the spec because they can
> finalize the spec if it is 100% implemented by 100% of
> the major browsers.

They can finalize the spec as long as every feature is implemented interoperably by _two_ browsers.

There are three run-in implementations, and they're completely incompatible. The feature got dropped from the spec because the working group couldn't figure out any way to even define a restricted behavior subset that Presto, Trident, and WebKit implement the same way.

So no, Gecko's lack of implemetation here didn't block the spec in any way. The fact that all three existing implementations are completely incompatible with each other and all horribly broken had a lot more to do with it.
Would be nice to see a full page sample of what it looks like!
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That is correct. And one of the largest consistent complaints by new OS X (and prior to that MacOS) users in terms of usability problems.

On multiple monitors, the menu can be 1 or more monitors away from your app window. It might not just be up at the top of the screen, it might be up at the top of 1 screen over and two up.
Maybe when there's real evidence that cryonics is actually useful?

Hackers of all people ought to know that no matter what your models say, it's all bullshit until you test it. And as far as I know, there's not even a model generally accepted by the scientific community that indicates any reasonable probability of success anyway.
Old, unresolved, open bugs are an important characteristic of a healthy project. It means that there is far more interest in the project than people contributing to it with code can keep up with.

You also seem to be assuming that the same people who build new features can also fix your pet peeves. While there is an opportunity cost, agreed, it doesn't mean that

- the same people can do both

- it's actually worth doing both in the first place. The opportunity cost of trying to make software perfect is too enormous for anyone but NASA and the like.

edit: Well, looks like I've been hellbanned. Goodbye, Hacker News. It wasn't entirely nice knowing you.
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Finding ways to extend human life indefinitely should be our generation's "Space Race."

We already suffer from over-population and pollution. Death is a key piece of the demographic shift, and just about every other anthropological process related to the change and evolution of culture and society.

Living longer would not increase our society's capability or capacity, it would almost assuredly decrease it, not to mention life would be exceptionally crowded, everywhere.
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Nice UI -- The application doesn't move the needle for me, but it's certainly a nice looking service.

As an aside, I think one of the things people like about Facebook's timeline is the intelligence involved in deciding what to show and what not to show (and how it evolves over time).
Sure, that I'd believe.

What OS are you in? How long do you keep it running like this? Sounds good.
Agreed, it's really simple to create your own though.
Like many of those 20 year old interface assumptions, things like the 1 button mouse are more or less gone from Appleland. Although they really really want you to believe it's still there. Try two finger tapping on a pad, or on the magic mouse a right click is just like a right click on a regular mouse (if you turn on right clicks or secondary clicks or whatever in system prefs).
As the countless quotes show without an eventual demise Steve Jobs might not have done what he did.

Why not redefine the question as will life extension actually help?
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This is exactly why I(we) have the highest respect for you Matt.

We expect nothing less than such respect & openness to congratulate competition from you.

My first thought as I read above comment was "you would ignore it" and then I see your one word response. :)
The most puzzling part of this to me is that the content studios honestly thought it would work.

"We're going to sell you a company with assets which vanish in two years, after which time, you have a company with no assets and the right to negotiate for the right to use of the aforementioned assets at a price to be determined by us."

Yahoo may exhibit tremendous inability to derive value from acquisitions, but not even they were willing to take this time bomb.
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I never said it would be easy. Life changes. Human life before the Industrial Revolution was considerably different than now. Birth rates would have to fall. We would have to find ways to support more of us on fewer resources. Major sacrifices and changes in lifestyle would be absolutely required. Our species as it is now would likely not survive such a transition.

But, as Carl Sagan said: "It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses."
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True, outlive-the-heat-death-of-the-universe immortality would be a curse. For people who are happy, living indefinitely would not.
Premature optimisation is premature until it's not. Caching is an easy boost and is among the first things I enable on a wordpress or drupal install.
It's true, but as this was a simple client-side only experiment I couldn't go into those depths. In the future, when the paid version is server-side we'll probably implement more intelligent aggregation, grouping and other stuff.
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Sorry gang, don't normally post this stuff, but my iPhone 3GS sacrificed itself after a long life to get this shot, and I've never seen this message come up except when I plug my phone into a newer accessory that the phone can't fully take advantage of. View the photo in full resolution to see what I mean. The mom (wife to one of my best friends) took the shot on her iPhone4 after dinner tonight.

I swear, I'm not just creating an excuse to upgrade to the 4GS...
I disagree. If it's not worth backing up (locally), it doesn't deserve protected status on the phone.

Or to put it another way, if it's important enough to retain when storage space is low, it's important enough to retain for when you have to recover from a backup.
You seem to have a lot of stuff figured out. You stayed out of trouble. You have a hardcore work ethic. But if you're in doubt, you can always work less and do something else. And if that doesn't work, go do another thing. At one moment, you'll figure out what do you want to do.
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Why is death a bad thing? Not in the "I want everyone to die" sense, but I personally find my mortality a motivating force (to get things done quickly and avoid procrastination :)
It may be concise, but it is incredibly dense. I'm not sure there's a unnecessary word, let alone paragraph.

It definitely rewards persistent study, I've been programming for years, and I still learn something every single time I dip into it.
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It's a start, sure, but it's a looooong way to how many iPads Apple has sold already, which amounted to 9 million last quarter alone.
I'm very interested in life extension/repair/rejuvenation (ala Aubrey De Grey), but I really have no interest in cryogenics. This may be because I'm only 32 years old, and in good health, but from everything I've read, the former is much more realistic than the latter.

So I don't consider Ritchie's death without cryopreservation any more of a tragedy than the death itself.
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hitting on mozilla is trendy. thats all there is to it.
its funny to read how the horrible firefox is faster than chrome and more efficient in many ares too.
like type inference. like memory usage. like 2d acceleration.

in fact 99% judge ff on startup time. its mostly due to the ui toolkit xul.
If you take an iPhone, it has so many thing invented by people, this article does not make any sense to me.

Someone invented wireless communication, someone plastics, someone metal, someone thin glass, someone a touch screen, someone RAM, someone a CPU, someone transistors on a lower level, someone invented software, someone icons, someone wrote an email client for the first time, some invented the machinery to build this, someone "invented" power, someone invented WLAN, some invented the battery, someone invented circuit boards, ...
You're right and I winced when the Jobs comparison was made early in the article. I'm not sure that making comparisons to Jobs isn't the right thing to do even if it wasn't done well here. Jobs and Richie are both heroes to computing culture but after Jobs death we're left feeling that Richie deserves similar praise in the popular press, but unable to easily explain to the public that Dennis impact on the world was on the same level as Jobs'. Wired is a popular magazine now and needs a way to communicate Richie's impact to it's readers, so they use Jobs as a comparison.
If we find (an affordable) way to extend human life indefinitely, then at some point individuals are going to be faced with the choice of voluntarily "stepping aside" (or whatever polite term we might come up with) or stop having children. I don't think either would be in most people's nature, which doesn't seem to lead to any pleasant consequences I can think of.
Sorry gang, might be grossly off-topic, but couldn't help myself. Took this after dinner tonight at a life-long friend's. His wife snapped it on her iPhone4. Unfortunately, my iPhone 3GS doesn't look like it will make it. A worthy sacrifice.

I swear I'm not just looking for an excuse to upgrade to the 4S...
do you see any difference between a chronological log and a timeline?
pretty cool. nice ui , but it does react strangely when you hit the back button in the browser
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I am no longer an Apple developer, but I think I remember that it was against the rules to have an app that did nothing but display a web page. You run the risk of having your app rejected, although many seem to be getting away with this.
I'm using Fedora 15^, and I think Opera has been running for approximately 3 weeks right now (my current uptime).

^ with Awesome WM, not those gnome/unity/kde memory pigs ;)
Models are tested by experiments. Freeze a dog for a few years and resuscitate it, then we can talk seriously about the value of cryopreservation. Until then, you're throwing your money away in a desperate grasp at immortality. And that's money that could actually help real people now. At least that could be your legacy. Don't be the next Newton trying to turn crap into gold.
Beating the CAP theorem by proofing it by dropping the requirement for consistency? Sorry to be conservative and following Aristotelean logic, but this title does not make sense.
On my Windows laptop, I have configured 1+1 click to act as middle click. It is quite convenient as I move around pointer by touching on finger, and when I want to open the link, I just tap another one, making workflow quite pleasing.

Perhaps you can set the same gesture on Mac ?
When you're healthy, living forever sounds great.

When you've experienced a few minor illnesses and a bit of short-lived pain, such as a broken limb or two, living forever still sounds great.

I had a (thankfully temporary) condition that resulted in chronic pain for about a year. It wasn't terrible pain, but pain that never goes away wears you down in a way that horrible, but short-lived, pain simply doesn't. After a while you just want it to stop. Before this period in my life I was of the opinion that immortality was worth almost anything. Now I believe that quality of life is just as important, if not more so. I would not want to live forever if it involved even a small amount of chronic pain. I used to think a little pain would be a small price to pay. That was ignorance.

Jobs and Ritchie both died from diseases that probably gave them a good deal of chronic pain over the last years of their lives. I can completely understand why extending their lives was not desirable to them.
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This is not surprising news to me.

The issue is that the three owners (Comcast, Disney, News Corp) provide the most popular content on the service. In order to become a truly independent platform, Hulu needs to beef up its offerings so that the loss of any individual content partner would not be a big deal.

They are not there yet, though they are moving in the right direction with Hulu Japan, the Univision deal, etc. As of now, however, the major content partners still hold a large amount of power and the potential buyers saw this from miles away.
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log being all things and timeline being important things ?
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But that's because there weren't full-length feature films for Mac+.
On the contrary, given the serious lack of natural resources facing us on mother earth, our space race should be - "the space race". We might have just enough time to figure out how to start living on Moon or may be Mars before we collapse into self destructive fighting for natural resources.
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Honestly, why would they be in more demand than Flash developers?
So let's all make our own clothes, grow our own foods, invent our own pastimes, work random hours, ignore road signs, and build our own cars.

There's a happy middle, and I think we're approaching it (given the mobile ecosystem, from both sides). I enjoy using iOS, and for most of my apps I don't care where they store it. I do agree that there appears to be a design flaw in iOS surrounding this, but allowing users complete control over their system only allows them (including me) a greater opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot.
"Wow. in 1984 Levy distilled down those principles from the hacker ethic, and it clearly obvious to any of us in the industry that the ideas have spread."

It is obviously an advance if they're at least being discussed, but there's a long road until these ideals come true. And as the author said, we're beginning to inherit the responsibility.
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Actually, the natural resources are mostly extremely abundant.

Plus, industrialized nations lose population (birth rate < death rate). So industrializing the whole world as quickly as possible is probably a good way to stabilize the total global population.
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Hello all,

I had written this earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011961

My site is ready and mostly bug-free now. I'm getting decent traction (non-friends and family!), and even got a fairly decent write-up in a tech blog.

There are 2 other sites that got funded (one angel, one VC) that actually started way after me. We've been working part-time though, so they're in some ways ahead of us...but we're different enough from them to compete etc. etc. In a way having some competition is a good thing because it validates your idea.

I'm thinking I should cut loose from my day job and focus on this project full-time. I ran my finances very carefully yesterday and if I juggle things around a little I can support myself via consulting for 2-3 days a week. Market the site etc for the remaining part of the week, get more traction and maybe even funding.

But I'm a little nervous, and wanted to know what everyone thought. Note that I have a mortgage etc. I can't move back in with my parents :)
Because I know a lot of people who use Facebook, and next to none of those use Google+ (even though many registered in the beginning). This is the same for many people I know. So I'm taking a guess.

As far as I can tell the only people using Google+ are tech people.
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No, actually I didn't know that. I no longer use firefox, and their scheme honestly makes no sense to me. 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...

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

PS: I would also like to add that "There hasn't been a major UI change in 6 months" is anything but a strong refutation of the original assertion that Mozilla changes up the UI too much. This is another example of redefining "major release" to silence valid criticism.
> I can completely understand why extending their lives was not desirable to them.

I think its presumed that life extension would also come with improved health. What kills you is decline due to chronic conditions. Target that and stop the declined and you gain both long-life, and healthy life.
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Bad things can have good externalities. I, for one, value the productivity increasing side-effects of my mortality much less than the fact that it means I will die.
Anyone remotely interested in cryonics should go read about it on LessWrong[1], instead of reading the same ol' ambivalent/pro-death comments. 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.

Keep in mind that after you suffer your serious accident/illness, you won't have the time/money/energy to sign up for cryonics, and you'll have more trouble convincing your next of kin to support you. And you probably won't be able to get any life insurance to pay for it, obviously.

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Cryonics
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It is true the power usage of a K7 per op will drop if you redesign the core to use 32nm. That's a key detail though- you can't just drop a 130nm design onto a 32nm mask.

There are many hitches with this idea though. K7 cores have limited power management capability; modern cores have sophisticated frequency scaling, and shut down sectors that are idle. K7 cores are 32-bit. K7 cores do not support most modern extended instruction sets. 50 active K7 cores on one die will generate way more than 125W, causing cooling problems. In short, there are a lot of issues with dated processors that we don't think about, because we take the advances for granted.

This is not to say your idea does not have merit. If it was I, I would probably first investigate using a Bobcat core. The Bobcat core has low power usage for a x86 core (good for packing a large number of cores on one die), and considering a single Bulldozer 'module' (core) has 200M transistors, the Bobcat probably has ?100M?, allowing you to fit ?20? cores with 2 threads each.

P.S. If you are about to brush off the extended instruction sets bit, consider who a 50-core die would interest most. My guess is the scientific community would be a large part of the target markets, and I believe they make great use of extended instruction sets.
You'd need a small server-side part to wrap TCP to WebSockets, but it shouldn't need to touch SSH in any way.

You probably mean WebSockets to TCP. That kinda kills the client-side concept. That is a neat little library though.

Otherwise there shouldn't be really many obstructions.

The entire point of SSH as opposed to Telnet is that it uses encryption. That means you need to do encryption in JavaScript. Now, I have a number of encryption algorithms that I use on a regular basis in JavaScript for short strings. In theory, you can do it for longer strings. In practice, I suspect you'll grind your browser to a halt.

Would be interesting if somebody else tried it though ...
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