skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We in fact know a very great deal about stopping aging. This book is a crash course in the science and what it means:

http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthrough...

If it wasn't illegal to commercially develop ways to treat aging, there would be a lot more progress than has happened to date.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/03/the-roadblock-tha...

Making humans immune to cancer in the SENS proposals is accomplished via this methodology:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/06/complicating-wilt...

But from where I stand, watching research fairly closely for some years, I'm not particularly worried about cancer - the next generation of targeted and immune therapies under development now will be highly effective, and are looking very good in the laboratory:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/01/the-prospect-of-c...

The $1 billion figure for realizing SENS is referenced in these items; I'm not aware of a full line item breakout:

http://www.sens.org/files/pdf/SIAAR-PP.pdf
http://www.sens.org/files/pdf/A4M04-PP.pdf
Also I can highly recommend the #postgresql IRC channel at freenode. The people there are helpful and polite.
>I don't know anybody that has to maintain a large body of non-trivial, low-level code that chooses pure C over C++. There's a good reason that everything from Solaris to V8 to Photoshop to Quake is written in C++ and not C.

How about the Linux kernel?
My resumes are typically tweaked to be job specific. Do I get to create just one generic apply-to-all copy?

How about tracking metrics other than just views? Following http://paulbutler.org/archives/experiment-in-testing-my-resu... there are: how far into resume one scrolls, clickthroughs on embedded links, inclusion/exclusion of sections (e.g. grades for recent grads).
It just doesn't work like that, google has failed time and time again in new markets.

And this is especially true with the monopoly investigation sharks circling Google at the moment. Start putting these in the search results and there will definitely be trouble.
Interesting, I think you are right. When I first looked at the Linux source I assumed it would also be a monolithic jenga style mess since it was developed by so many different people with different motivations but I guess it must be a testament to Torvald's management/leadership skills.

I suppose I am probably jaded because I work developing bespoke corporate software with relatively few users compared to Quake. Therefor each user has huge individual sway over the functionality/design even if they don't really get the nuaces of building usable software. For example they will request additions of buttons in nonsensical places because it helps their personal workflow but then somebody else will come along and use it then complain that there's too many buttons and it's too complicated "can we please make this more like the iPad?"..

I wonder if there are any pieces of bespoke corporate software that aren't in fact giant piles of bloated dogshit?

All the books on this subject recommend doing thorough requirements analysis but that doesn't really work when you have to deal with people who can't really articulate what they want and actually have no idea what might suddenly become important in the future. Plus you have to deal with corporate politics of people with different roles and places in the heirachy who want and need diametrically opposed things, people will also often have good ideas but they won't tell you them until it's too late because they are worried about contradicting their boss.

It would certainly be refreshing to work with a Carmack but I doubt that I would have the focus or brainpower required to keep up!
I can't imagine how difficult it would be to target and track this thing with a consumer-grade telescope.
Similar deal with banks in South Korea typically requiring ActiveX plugins and the like: http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2010/04/28/the-security-of-inter...
The way you describe that perfrectly fots in with my idea that a 'caught' asteroid in orbit is worth more as a weapon system than as a gold mine. "Park it up there and drop pieces of it when you need some penetrating power"
I'm thinking of doing this integrated with dropbox, so that DB takes care of who you share your bookmarks with, and the extension syncs them for you. I don't have to even host a server, just use dropbox's storage. And the best part is that Dropbox has full-revision support, with easy reversions. You could probably even get diffs of what someone updated on DB.

Any ideas?
Wow. 5 for 5 on items in the office (windows office, a dvd, apple keyboard, mouse, and a coffee machine box).

It shows the price, the # of stars, and whether Prime is available. Also, the fact that it automatically saves the image is a great touch. You don't have to press a single button. You point it at things and it just works.

A thoroughly well executed app in all respects. The team that did this knows what they are doing. I could see using this in my daily life. Very well done.
Agreed, its a little over-simplistic. Add a button with a FAQ or something and the content can be kept simple on the main page.
The reason is simple, Chrome Extensions Cookies API is not in experimental state no more, but nobody took time to update extension code.
Yeah it's simple. But if you want simple and better, http://re.vu/ is far superior.
The Linux kernel, Subversion and PHP are pure C. And don't get me started on the BSDs or binutils... ld and libbfd are pure C and its C++ replacement (gold) is still not widely used.

And this came without thinking about it... surely in two more minutes or by going to ohloh I could fire a couple more large bodies of non-trivial low-level C code at you.
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It's evil, don't touch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY9Z5OPzE78
I signed up just to poke around. Here's a full page example:

http://resume.io/dangrossman/xisuxools3

There seems to be no style options and no domain/URL options. You just fill in boxes and it generates a random URL after your username as the resume. You can have more than one resume with different random URLs.

There's a LinkedIn import button to grab your list of employers and dates of employment, but it somehow gave me the wrong dates.
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Expressive, yes. But SQL is rarely elegant. Declarative languages can be elegant; even modern regexen, with their named groups and whitespace tolerant syntax, allow the ideal of "small, composable methods". You can't do composability in SQL (in fact, if you Google, you'll discover that the very term "composable" is an unrelated feature of, IIRC, Sybase.)

The SQL community doesn't spend much time talking about writing elegant code in the way the functional, concurrent, OOP, and whatever-Ruby-is communities do. When programmers talk about "SQL Style" or "SQL Idioms", they mean whether you make keywords uppercase and where you indent and wrap to a new line. There is an entire book on the SQL equivalent of "K&R braces, or GNU style?", and should you or should you not alias long tables to short aliases.

There's a book on "SQL Refactoring"; it's about database design, not coding.

The pain goes on. I've been wishing for something like "CoffeeScript for SQL" for a while; I'm not a lisphead, but this may just have to do, especially if it supports PG-isms like SQL procedures and user-defined types.
viewed impressions is not the most important number..

if you look at the typical hr or recruiter workflow its when they copy/paste the resume into an email impressions that matters..

that is why with my boilerplate framework I use tynt services to track that..

boilerplate framework should be up over this weekend at my github account..
Well viaweb would be one example of pandering that you seem to have just admitted.
I'm working on adding relevant policy pages now. Building the site sounded more fun :)

Resumes are hidden until shared with people by giving them the URL. Everyone has a business card, which is public. I'm planning on making it so you can choose to have a resume replace your business card.

Here are mine:

- http://resume.io/jacob
- http://resume.io/jacob/glistoisog

Planning on adding custom domains soon! Only the default style for now, but adding more to choose from is certainly something on the roadmap.
I guess I've recently gotten signup fatigue as previously I'd have made a throwaway for it, thanks for the example!
You can fork a resume to a new URL and customize it for each job.

Interesting! Will look into those.
Cool product, but a lot of lag on my 3Ghz Core 2 Duo. What is the recommended system requirement? An i7?
I'd say it's worse if you make an unsubstantiated statement that goes with the common wisdom than when you go against it. At least when a comment goes against common wisdom, substantiated or otherwise, it can spark interesting discussion. A rehash of commonly held beliefs generally doesn't spark anything that interesting and amounts to little more than noise.
Is this it? http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
Excellent, I will Definitely be sending this to you right away then, please note, given my current timezone... communication may be delayed at times, sorry!

-Leam.
If it links to the Amazon store, does that mean Apple is getting a cut of all sales made through the app?
what does this offer over linked in?
Yeah but in MMORPGs, people do shit work to get rewards...
I think you mean that the most sought-after employees work in jobs that appeal to the least amount of people.

Surely if the job doesn't appeal to many people, it is an oxymoron to say it is the most sought-after job.
I expected the sun to rise as the file was uploading. And the download page to be castle themed as well (possible a drawbridge)
Hi, I'd like to chime in as an embedded sw dev. We're still there, designing your equipment, coding quietly and happily in C... :)
"... We want to replicate the way dating works in the real world online. ..."

Isn't the real world process broken? Are you taking into account "Gutentag Secord theory?" [0]

"... the non-committers are out there in growing force. If dating and mating is in fact a marketplace—and of course it is—today we’re contending with a new “dating gap,” where marriage-minded women are increasingly confronted with either deadbeats or players. ..." [1]

Are you trying to solve this problem?

[0] Marcia Guttentag, Paul F.Secord ~ http://www.amazon.com/Too-Many-Women-Ratio-Question/dp/08039...

[1] Atlantic, Kate Bolick, "All the Single Ladies"
~ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-...
Did anyone of u guys give workflowy.com a shot...its really awesome.

Very lean. Shortcuts. Mobile Html version.

I really like it a lot.
I was hoping it would act as a linkedin importer with impression tracking. The thing I like about linkedin is that I keep that information updated anyway and if anyone needs to pull a resume they can do so from my profile. This, while nice, is more work - which makes it not all that useful.
Most of us don't need 8 hours a day to do our job, but it's hard to express that without sounding like a bad employee.
Most third world countries have low percent of IE users (almost always lower than the mean, generally much lower), it's not a strange phenomenon. IE usage works as a (very coarse) estimator to percent of the population with regular Internet access. Try it yourself.

I personally think it happens because in those countries, in order to have access to technology you need to be from the upper socioeconomic class. Usually those users have a higher level of understanding about technology and hence choose to customize their browser.
Saying that "TIOBE rankings are at least the best system we currently have" for gauging uptake of a programming language is like saying that astrology is the best system we have for predicting the future.
I have and am earning some of those "useless" liberal arts degrees – an Associate's in Social Science and a Bachelors of Science in Journalism.

However, unlike most of the computer science, business, and engineering majors on my campus, my degree has put me in a position to manage an organization of dozens of people where we ship a product four to six days a week, one that is consumed and heavily scrutinized by thousands of people.

I've also written, deployed, and improved software as part of my education that actually gets used at scale in the real world, not as a side project but as a requirement of my degree.

As a result of that, I'm going to leave college with more real-world experience than most of my peers.

Every college degree is what you make of it. Doing problem sets doesn't automatically enable you to really do anything, and studying in the humanities or liberal arts doesn't prevent you from doing something worthwhile, either. The main difference between people who have a valuable college experience and those who don't is whether the individual took advantage of the resources they had to make it valuable.

Also, this doesn't really need to be said, but without the liberal arts, engineering is useless. You can build bridges all day long, but someone still has to sell the thing to politicians and taxpayers and make the thing attractive enough to convince people to pay the toll.
"... Try $3m in 18 months with $1.5M upon close and $500k divided over the next 18 months. You get 75% upfront and can hedge on their success/failure. ..."

Nice answer.
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Of all of these, #3 has made the most memorable conferences in my career. I feel like I've gotten value when I get on the plane to go home and I can't decide which of 20 new projects I've thought of in the last 3 days that I want to start on first.

Of course, #3 depends heavily on #1 & #2.
If you really need private member variables you can probably whip something up with lambdas, though it might be a little awkward.
It was meant to be condescending :) And I hope it was also a little tongue in cheek!
I think my biggest problem with the "if you don't want X to happen, then don't do X" statement is that it only makes sense in the context of working as an individual who controls all possible moving parts. It doesn't make sense (at least, for me) in the context of a team.
No download link, no links to these projects. Well done yahoo.
I've built a toolkit that does this very thing (rendering the user interface on either client or node.js arbitrarily)
https://github.com/jordow/FaxJs/

From the video: "There are a number of existing frameworks for javascript today, but there are none like Mojito that try to blur and succeed at blurring the the server client boundary."

I commend Yahoo for tackling this extremely challenging problem. I'd love to see their framework so I can compare benchmarks with FaxJs. Let's see it Yahoo!

I'm guessing Mojito has a ton of functionality surrounding ajax/queries and business logic modules etc.
FaxJs is a work in progress, but it has a couple of novel concepts besides server side rendering: In FaxJs, your view is simply a function of your model, or a "projection". That function acts as an invariant that the system upholds at all times without introducing any other concepts/abstractions. Sometimes, a function is enough.
There are probably other good ones that don't have uber-fancy domain names too. (http://resume.io/ and http://re.vu/ are fancy in different ways)
Is it odd that it is a picture of a tweet instead of a clickable thing?
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Think of what the world will look like when society (if it can still be called that at that point) truly becomes "information-based", in the sense that the weight of the information we exchange becomes larger than the biomass of the human race.
Opera worked well on crappy dial-up connections. Then, you begin to appreciate its other features (e.g. first browser with tabbed browsing etc.) Then you use it by force of habit until it pisses you off in a major way, like not rendering the sites that other browsers have no trouble with. That's my experience.
One thing people lose sight of is what I call the "whack a mole" problem. If we spend a ton of money fighting the big killers, but doing little to focus on rejuvenation therapies then we will just keep succumbing to a different set of diseases even if therapies help us beat back the diseases we would have succumbed to without them.

For example, let's say I have diabetes. Then let's say some genius finds a complete cure for it. Ok, so it's not going to kill me now. But now I'll probably just succumb to heart disease. Let's say we cure that. OK, then cancer will get me. It's like the "Whack a mole" game at an arcade - you beat one disease down, but another one always pops up to get you.

This happens because so many of the killers in the developed world are really tied to the aging process. So really "curing cancer" or "ending heart disease" will just buy us minimal time. My bet is the economic benefits of a cure for cancer in older adults* would not be as great as people realize. At best it will buy us a few more years of low quality of life.

Targeting aging on the other hand allows us to "strike at the root" of the problem. Many of the cures and therapies attracting money now are just temporary hacks applied to a system that is slowly accumulating so many bugs that it's just never going to make it.

The "cure aging" meme sounds ridiculous and in truth, it is pretty ridiculous. However, curing any of the big killers is going to require a level of effort commensurate to curing aging, so why not invest scarce resources in targeting the root problem?

*Curing cancers in the young will have an economic benefit that more than covers the costs since the young have more years of economically productive life ahead of them. This is also why targeting diseases like AIDS tend to be economically worthwhile.
Yah, I agree, I don't think these features are at all bad. People just don't use them because they're lazy.

The hard problem is to figure out how to machine categorize this stuff, for sure. But I don't think it's shit work on your users to give them the categorize features. This stuff takes a lot of machine learning and a big system graph that hints at how this stuff should be applied. I think calling it shit work is over simplifying..
Quick, brief and to the point. I like the style. If only it existed when I was learning screen, much better than the man pages for sure.
Fair enough. But in a government already run by gangsters, like Mexico or worse, that's less compelling. I wonder if it's possible to have due process for assassinations...
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It's not a bad feature, it's just not as good of a feature as it can be to accomplish that task
This guy is becoming my "hero"! =D
A year late to Apps users? Google+ launched on June 28 of this year...
What does Windows update have to do with IE usage?

Anyway, "no updates for pirated Windows" is a myth I hear repeated, but last time I checked Windows Update doesn't require passing Windows Genuine Advantage check.
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as someone who hates linkedin and the type of behavior it promotes, i think this is great.

awesome work jacob. ^_^
Generally, academia is haughty and industry is humble. My metric is industry.

I am very proud of this:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=64-bit+operating+system

especially when you consider this

http://wiki.osdev.org/Projects
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I actually got one of these requests and reported it as a scam. One of the reasons I knew it was a scam was because the facebook picture came from one of the stockphoto websites.
Given the steady increase in population, I suspect those two lines, while going in the same direction (deeper into quadrant 2 of an x/y graph), are divergent; and, given the number of people on the planet when the internet was created, they never intersected.*

* yes, I understand that mathematically the two functions likely intersect at some point; however, the function for the mass of the internet and the function of the mass of the human race are meaningless that far in the past.
1. A task can belong to a number of projects. You could have projects for backlog, in progress, etc. and move a task between these (no drag/drop, but can be changed in the task panel)

2. Use tags instead, and use the tag filtering options.
woah, that guy on their front page is serious stuff.

http://cl.ly/283i2B0y1p1W0G3J0f0q
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http://jobspice.com/ is another one that gives more control over visual presentation.
All RAD's products are pure C at the interface level. Most of them are pure C at the implementation level, too. The one exception is that Telemetry (which I work on) uses C++ to implement the C interface, but only minimalistically.
Want a post up an example of a re.vu resume for comparison against this service?
I think you're missing the point. You now need to maintain that circle and groupings over the next years you use Google+.
No, I respectfully but vehemently disagree. To-Do apps are a dime a dozen. No matter how much better any given app may be than another, there is very little reason to pay for a solution to the problem of to-do lists. There are just too many free options, and it is an easy problem to solve with a home-grown solution. Or Notepad. Or an actual notepad.

They need more.
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> Google+ being released over a year late to Google App users

I don't think Google+ launched a year ago.
I have typed more keystrokes into Vim than any other application in the last twenty years.

If I live to ninety and lose my mind, I will still be able to type in Vim.
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I know it was your word, not the author's; I was agreeing that being that tidy is not productive and offering a comment on the point.
We typically work in personal feature branches before merging into develop; if you use a similar workflow there shouldn't be much issue at all from pushing constantly.
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Clustered indexes are really useful, too. They drastically speed up certain types of queries, though there is the overhead of having to periodically run CLUSTER.
Sort of similar question from 3 months back, also didn't get much response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856713
Yep, key bindings plugins are a poor substitute for Vim itself. Vim is more than keys.

I long ago gave up on any kind of Vim/vi plugin to anything. My first inclination, when I have to use a tool that wants to own the text, is to open Vim and the other, and figure out a way to re-load when I move to the other.
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Here's me thinking you were commenting on the story at hand ... silly me.
Well, yes. But Contextual Design, by definition means building something for a specific user.

As you say, its a first step towards the the pc-free, cloud-enabled, dev environment. The 'cringe' factor will always be there with new things!
So awesome. I think it's still got a ways to go.. I played with it and it did great on books, not awesome at reading barcodes. I'd love to see it get to the point where I could point it at my coffee cup or trackball. I don't imagine that's all that far off. Really, really cool app. Bummer for the metalab folks that Amazon decided to call it flow though!
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