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> It's really depressing knowing that I just don't have time to do them all.

If you let go of your ego a little bit, you'll realize that 99% of the ideas you have are moronic. That applies to all of us.

Knowing that you can't pursue all of them forces you to pursue the 1% that aren't absolutely asinine. People don't realize just to what extent our mortality filters out the garbage from our lives.
You'd be amazed at how much $240 a day is in developing countries. In some latin american countries $240 is the minimum wage for a month; earning $4800 per month is more than what a typical worker makes in an entire year.

$30/hour would make you part of the 1% in these countries.
link to the link: http://dickgrune.com/Books/PTAPG_2nd_Edition/LowAvailability...
I'm really sick of transhumanists coming into every fucking discussion about death, or the death of some particular person, or anything at all really and derailing it into an argument about the merits of developing human immortality. It's really starting to become one of the classic HN flamewars, right up there with the Apple and Facebook haters. I don't think there's anything to be gained by another go-around on the subject.

We're talking about reality, here and now. If you want to discuss science fiction, start your own thread.
Like your Facebook page. Google doesn't have access to the Facebook like-data, so it is better to be able to reach fans with content on your page.
An analogy for the subprime mess may be valid here - if you have 10 000 pies and I tell you there is a finger (or arsenic) in 3 of them, even though 99.9% if the pies are clean, you are liable to refuse to eat a random one.

Similarly, stating that JotForm is a one in many occurrence fails to account for how that type of regulatory uncertainty poisons the well at the margin (when one is deciding whether to avoid US jurisdiction when setting up web infrastructure).
As it gets more managed, managed democracy grows increasingly indistinguishable from fascism.
thats very interesting. I dont know what you mean by "rather be uploaded" (I guess you mean your conscious, which sounds just too much of a science-fiction to me since AFAIK we dont exactly know what makes us us and makes us aware we are we) but you made me think about other possibility: instead of stealing someones 100% matching DNAs body, why not to transplant your brain into the machine? Of course this is is still pure science fiction but if we could overcome all difficulties, I could see a robot body totally controlled by your brain. It would be some sort of control-by-wire thing. Your brain sends a signal to lift an arm, computer attached to it recognizes it and replace it with gauged signal that is being sent to your arm. If we could only know how to mimic signals that lets us see or hear or smell ([1] for example) we could have a fully working mechanical body. Then the only risk of dying would be brain injury or disease; nothing else could kill you.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_prosthesis

ok, eot for me.

ok hang on: second though: I am not sure if I would gave up on a please of fng for an eternity without it :)

edit: so it boils down to question: how long can brain live, given we provide it perfect conditions (lets say: pure perfectly controlled air, all the vitamins it needs in regulated doses, etc etc)
I'm entirely in favor of extending healthy life worldwide, but I worry that you're missing the point: death will still come. We are certainly responsible for not doing the best we can with what paltry time and resources we have.

This may seem like I'm belaboring a meaningless distinction, but it has practical implications. We spend extraordinary sums on futile end-of-life care instead of on the things you name. And people who are unprepared for death, their own or that of loved ones, suffer immensely.

Deciding that every death is a failure is denying a reality that we must confront if we really want to make the most of what we have.
>That's even worse. No rational person would risk their life in warfare if they otherwise stood to live forever.

Think about what you're saying here. You think no one in Germany was rational? They would have had the same risk of dying we would. Hitler was only powerful because there were people willing to follow his orders.

And there was no shortage of true believers on the Allied side either (think patriotism), in any case.
Singularity's Reality Distortion Field
The title was better for Forbes, but the article length was more relevant I think. Forbes article was two short pages while the NY Times was 7 long pages. I have half a dozen long NY Times articles bookmarked to read later. I don't know if I'll ever get around to it.
TAOUP?
I think it's actually something fundamental about scientists :) (and engineers).
Do you actually believe America is a fascist country?

Also do you have a link to the pg article?
Or, the browser can just not default to name servers it deems best for everyone and work how it's always worked: well.

This just seems like adding duck tape to a self-inflicted problem.
I see the health care issue as being pivotal. Many people can't find insurance on the private market at any price.
Could you point out the typos? I'd be happy to fix them.
I frankly don't understand why you were downvoted. I agree with this opinion...
Wish I still had the data on hand - as you would imagine - mostly porn.
The problem with a safety net is that somebody has to weave it. If a person want to live the life of a start-up, that's fine. Go for it. Just don't expect me to pay for your essentials just because you want to spend a couple of years of your life building a social network or recipe exchange. Sorry, it's just not that important to me or to most other people.

Life is not without risk. I can minimize it by being smart about things. I could get hit by a car when crossing the street. So I look both ways and then hustle across. I want to start my own business. So I read books and running a company for awhile. I find a problem to solve. I come up with a plan. Then I attempt to execute it. I may fail, but that's life. I learn. I get a job to pay off any debts I ran up. Then I try again.

The one thing I can say I did agree with is the need to stop favoring large established companies over smaller ones. These laws and regulations need to be tackled at all levels of government: federal, state , and local. But to do that requires a fundamental attitude change about risk. Small companies are risky. Big companies are not as risky. Ultimately it needs to be about people educating themselves and deciding accordingly.
It's definitely relevant here on HN -- a good article with a bad title probably won't go anywhere. A good article with a great title will stay on the front page for hours.
> My friends couldn't give a crap what I click Like on.

Well, in case of my friends Liking things, I do. It's a good recomendation engine. Especially, if your friends are not from the same industry as you, looking at what they Like is a way to avoid filter bubble.
> can be best described as "fascist."

Only by those ignorant of what fascism was actually like, and lacking the knowledge and/or imagination to label "bad government" with more appropriate labels.

No one ever talked about denying that there are problems in the US, but coming up with nonsensical, hyperbolic, historically inappropriate labels for them is not a means to direct the debate in a useful direction, either.
Ok. Assume for a second the author is right. Now what? Where would we go?

I recently moved from Austin, TX, to SF. Austin is a better place to live and work, in terms of business friendliness and cost, but is a significantly worse place to start a startup, due to worse investment climate, and lower critical mass of developers, customers and support group familiar with the startup culture.

Even though SF is at the leading edge of the the trends the author describes, it's still a better place to do a startup. I expect that will remain true for a while, even as things get worse.
Relative (i.e. proportional/percentage) size is only apparent when you start a chart at 0. The absolute difference between 25 and 31 is 6. If you start the chart at 25, that's graphed as an ∞% difference, when it's really only a 24% difference.
I think they chose the [] for arrays and {} for dictionaries as that is the style that seems to be most popular right now. Python for instance uses this.
You've got me wrong. I agree entirely that we must make the most of what we have. Which is why I think it's important to face the inevitability of death. If you aren't realistic about what you have, you can't make the best use of it.

Which is exactly what this article illustrates. Death comes for us all, and not facing that yields waste and suffering. Not in some abstract sense, either. As the author writes, "At a certain stage of life, aggressive medical treatment can become sanctioned torture." And the amount spent on futile end-of-life care is staggering.
This illustrates the business model NYT is pursuing. The NYT simply cannot put out an article with a headline like that. They would lose subscribers. People who subscribe to the NYT expect a higher level of discourse than "Target knows you're pregnant". Interestingly, Forbes pursues a dual strategy. I doubt they would publish a title like that in their magazine. On the web though, they might as well be The New York Post.
I watched my father die last year, and I'm thankful I did the dignified thing and let him go when he was obviously at the end. The metaphor of "checkmate" is quite apt--once you're old enough and you've developed enough problems, every plausible means of escape from one problem is blocked by the next.

If you don't want to spend your last days being tortured to death in a hospital, tell someone you love and trust and write up the legal documents necessary to enforce that decision. It's an incredibly hard decision to make though, and it's sad that not everyone has someone they can trust to make that decision. My dad was lucky to have an only child who followed his wishes. I can't imagine what it would be like to have some hysterical sibling try to undermine my dad's wishes, but that's what a lot of families go through.
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If you know perl, I highly recommend Mastering Algorithms With Perl - all code and barely any symbols :)
Without these violations of the constitution, it, rather than the supreme court, would be the highest law in the land ,and the constitution would no longer be toothless.

This is not just factually incorrect, it's... Holy cow. Do you know what judicial review is? It's what gives the Constitution teeth! And I'm at least partially repeating myself when I say this!

And why do you accuse me of being, your words, in "abject terror"?
Pretty far from crushing

https://github.com/carbonfive/hellod/blob/master/results.md
https://github.com/carbonfive/hellod/blob/61bcf7495470350ea1...

The OP benchmark is missing netty and other frameworks meant to be high performance, for higher performance languages.
>Do you actually believe America is a fascist country?

If it were we wouldn't be having this conversation. But likewise, I don't think it's the greatest country on earth either (nor can I think of any way such a concept would be meaningful really). To me, it is simply a first world county; it has its good points and its bad points. There are a lot of scary things happening in the western world right now and many of them are spearheaded by the US.

>Also do you have a link to the pg article?

Sure. http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Now that I think about it, even this viewpoint is invalid. Perhaps we simply have an insufficient understanding of the universe. In 5000 years, they might ridicule the people of their past (us) for ever thinking that the end of the universe is inevitable. Just because we can't conceive a workaround yet does not mean that there isn't one.

"travelling faster than 40 miles an hour is impossible"
"communicate with someone on the other side of the world instantly? Impossible!"
"fly to the moon?"
"end death?"

I'm sure that if we sat down, we could come up with thirty things that we have daily today, but were 'impossible' a hundred years ago.
If America is a fascist country then the word fascism has no meaning.
We MAY be able to solve, so why not try it? I'd put avoiding death at the top of any list of priorities.

To make money you should be solving a problem (stealing and monopolies being exceptions). Web startups exist to coordinate people, that's the only thing they are capable of - they cannot "physically" do anything else. (the exception is personal data backup such as dropbox).
3 Web App UX Lessons from The Starbucks Wi-Fi System
This particular change takes about fifteen minutes to fully understand. Adopting does not require changing any existing code. I can kind of see where you're coming from in general, but attaching the complaint to this feature makes no sense to me. This stuff is pretty much pure win and no effort.
Given that the postal workers seem to not have a clue about the proper protocol anyway, this is a gamble based on social engineering.

You're betting that the postal workers don't know or care enough to go against the book, and you're probably making their job easier anyway.
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What in the world are you talking about? What stupid distractions have been added in Lion? What have they locked down?
There's no way to know how many of our advances are made because of our mortality.

If you took away the ticking clock and each person had thousands of years to write his novel, prove his theorem, or complete his masterpiece, would we continue to advance--or would we stagnate?

You also assume that a 1000 year old Einstein would still be Einstein. We have no idea what the impact on the brain of living that long would be. More than likely at some point previous memories would begin to fade away, and at some point you've replaced so many parts (memories) that there's nothing of the original left.

Additionally, society changes in large part because the people who make up society change. Would slavery have ever ended if older people hadn't passed away and younger ones with new ideas taken their place? Would we still be ruled by a thousand year old tyrant with a medieval morality?
Thank you. This guy is unbelievable. He blows my mind every time he publishes something.

I want his editor.
I think you have me wrong as well. I'm not for making deteriorating 90-year-olds suffer in bed for another 10 years to bump some stats. I'm talking about eliminating aging and natural death.

As things stand today, of course it doesn't make sense to hang on when you're only going to get a few more years of agony. But more research could be done in eliminating the effects of aging, etc. We've already lost many great minds but if we can stop this trend or even slow it down then it's worth persuing.
>>That's even worse. No rational person would risk their life in warfare if they otherwise stood to live forever.

You would have to be pretty damn patriotic to want to give your life to preserve a nation-state you expect to outlive anyway. If I'm going to die anyway, it doesn't make much difference; it makes sense to risk my life for some things. If my life is eternal, what principle could I possibly, rationally put ahead of my survival?

Eternal life gives the insane an advantage over the sane, and the idea that the insane are as likely to be good as evil seems like a risky bet to me.
Thank you guys. I prefer VLC on all the platforms I use. It gives me what I need for free.
Those first two and following aren't equivalent, are they? Wouldn't they compile, respectively, to:

objc_msgSend(self, @selector(bar));

And:

objc_msgSend(self, @selector(performSelector:), @selector(bar));

?
Hey Rob, sent you an e-mail a bit ago.

Do you see publishers getting on the bandwagon with serving the same assets across all platforms? The ones we work with have already sunk thousands and thousands into separate rigs for each place they run content.
The Daily Mail (UK) has a similar approach. Their site is the most popular newspaper site globally and while it shares content with its print edition, the site focuses hard on mass market and celebrity stories. The print edition, on the other hand, is IMHO mostly "immigrants are evil" and Fox News-style scaremongering that its retired, middle Englander audience relishes.
> slight insanity of staying up all night

I may be weird, but I find that sleep deprivation is sometimes helpful.

After 20 years of development I have put my fingers in every mousetrap there is. So I can be overcautious.

The critical voices seem to be silenced first when I'm sleep deprived. Granted I'm probably not at my best as a developer either, so I wish I could figure out some way to enter that state at will, and re-enter my critical mode when I need to test or debug.
You seem to be missing a framework there.
It's also notable that Starbucks may have chosen to keep 'attwifi' as a network name because it almost certainly will show at, or near, the top of the list of Wi-Fi networks should you ever need to find it or check what network you are on.
The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever
Ok, having read this comment again, here's a more measured response. You're assuming in this comment the value-type vs. object-type dichotomy that's used in, e.g., C#. That's one way to go, but I'm not sold that it's the best way. Deciding whether you want something to be storable inline in arrays or not when you define a type is kind of a strange thing. Maybe sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. So the bigger question is really if that's the best way to go about the matter.

It seems that in dynamically typed languages, you either need to have two kinds of objects (value types vs. object types), or two kinds of storage slots (e.g. arrays that hold values inline vs. arrays that hold references to heap-allocated values). The boxing aspect is really only part of that since you can't get the shared-reference behavior unless the storage is heap-allocated, regardless of whether there's a box header or not.

So yeah, it's a complicated issue.
I love how people seem to have trouble with the idea that Golden Uterus Complex isn't an offensive term to use.

It's the genderedness. If he'd called it Golden Genitals Complex I might've been less bothered.

But really, it's "argument that superior experience guarantees superior knowledge", and whether that is on the basis of the ownership of a vagina, a penis, a marriage license, a car, or really anything else, it's the same type of stupidity, and I'd like to see it called out as that.
Check out clang's -rewrite-objc option. It outputs C++, not C, and isn't entirely truthful since Obective-C is compiled directly these days, but should give you what you're after.
Aubrey de Gray's argument is more like - when would you choose to die. You're sitting there, perfectly happy and healthy, your existence has no negative impact on anyone else's. Will you just get up and say - I'll die now, for no apparent reason.
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"Does this say something fundamental about transistors or something fundamental about atoms?"

Neither. It just says that someone has gotten better at using a hammer to guide an egg, into a frying pan, without breaking it. And they performed that trick while wearing thick gloves.

"The central achievement of the latest work is to use the STM–hydrogen-resist lithography approach to position a single phosphorus atom between source and drain contacts and two (more distant) gate electrodes."

Also, I take strong issue with the term "single-atom transistor". I would expect to hear that from a crank working out of his secret basement lab. You cannot build an electronic device out of a single atom, and obviously, they used many.

Lastly: "Single-atom transistors represent the ultimate limit in solid-state device miniaturization." That's patently false. Thousands of atoms were used here, so there is likely room for improvement.

http://nature.com/nnano//journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/nnano.201... (Transistors arrive at the atomic limit)(A single-atom transistor has been made by positioning a phosphorus atom between metallic electrodes, also made
of phosphorus, on a silicon surface)(2012-FEB-19)
Any reason you didn't use CakePHP 2.0?
A pretty good gamble though, probably the worst that can happen is that I have to do what I was already doing anyway. You're right this makes their job easier, as they no longer have to deal with my constant requests to get more and more of those forms.
Loved the piece. An amazing combination of math + medicine.

Does anyone know what type of math they're using to make the chains?
yeah I thought that was really strange too. Perhaps they could have gotten away with the metaphor if they didn't choose the "small" thing as the Vancouver office tower. Why not compare it to a house or something every is familiar with?
Oh please, this is so much brooha over nothing.

If I say guys who run out on their newborns are dicks, that doesn't imply anything about the male gender as a whole.

When this guy categorizes women with a "golden uterus complex", whatever that means, he's not grouping all women. Yes, all women do have a uterus, but that isn't what he is saying.

As for apologizing... I'd be sad to see him do it, as a man, of course.
Why must your first business idea be some sexy grandiose social network that requires perhaps millions of users to reach the critical mass required for it to generate one iota of value?

When did you wake up and say "oh I NEED a social network just for media?". Find something people NEED that doesn't require all this ancillary bullshit to be useful and sell it. Then when you can finally put the money problem aside you can dive into your big social network idea, if you even care to at that point.
Every person has a different reason to like them or not. I can speak of my case: I work making software in one of the supposed "right ways" on a daily basis. I also like getting together with buddies or new people, and code something exciting that keeps you up until the wee hours with some good food and drinks.

I don't go with the expectations of having a full blown product ready for market release in 24 hours. I certainly know I might learn something new from experimenting or from others, come out with a good prototype, and simply be back on sunday very happy after doing something really fun.

Also don't underestimate some engineers abilities. I've seen guys crank out things in days that would take months to others.
The Berkeley courses such as SaaS still appear to be on-track.
MongoDB was also hyped to hell and back, which probably accounts for more of its adoption than the fact that it's VC-backed. IIRC, most of the big name adopters (Foursquare, etc.) were using it before it got funding, too.
This always reminds me of the quote "Great art is never finished, only abandoned".
Not true. The purpose of hackathons is never to make good software - it's about prototyping, testing ideas and going outside your comfort zone.
I'm sure colourblind people would be even more "bummed out" that your design was unusable. Since, as you go on to mentioned, you don't have to sacrifice aesthetics for the sake of accessibility, I don't see why accessible design would be a problem.

While I take your point that ramps in particular aren't always appropriate, that doesn't mean that accessible design in general isn't.
Thanks! You probably don't get many higher res (2560x1440) visitors. :)

Fun fact: I actually have to zoom in 3 times to make HN readable from a normal viewing distance. Yes, 9pt fonts in 2012.
Fear of death is natural and healthy. Death is a bad thing. Arguments otherwise are borne of a desire to rationalize the inevitable.
One of my Philosophy professors was extremely adamant about paper titles as he argued that a paper will be read only if it has a clever or thought provoking title. After each assignment we critically reviewed all class paper titles while he provided feedback.