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> What he's really saying in this opinion piece is that he doesn't care a whit about evidence, and isn't interested enough in his fellow human beings to try to persuade them with careful reasoning

More accurately there is a different reason to do things. Remember that no one is compelled to go on the missions. We don't know what we don't know. Humans are naturally curious and natural explorers - look at what happened in the late 15th and 16th centuries. The various voyages that are celebrated (eg Columbus) were definitely not made based on evidence! There was a 90% mortality rate on the first British settlements in the US in that timeframe. At the beginning of the 20th century we had mad dashes for the poles. (They could and sometimes did fly over them which is "better" based on evidence.) In the middle of the century some people got to the top of Mt Everest and came back again - again pointless about the evidence. Lots of people died in these explorations. I think it is just fine encouraging people to explore. The only valid question is how much to subsidise it via tax payer's money. To put it into perspective in the US: "The entire running budget of NASA since it's inception in 1958 adds up to $526.18 billion. That's about $173 billion less than the 2008 bank bailout."

As for your pollution etc issues, it really is worth looking into the facts. From Matt Ridley's Rational Optimist: "When I was a student here in Oxford in the 1970s, the future of the world was bleak. The population explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. A cancer epidemic caused by chemicals in the environment was going to shorten our lives. The acid rain was falling on the forests. The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year. The oil was running out, and a nuclear winter would finish us off. None of those things happened, (Laughter) and astonishingly, if you look at what actually happened in my lifetime, the average per-capita income of the average person on the planet, in real terms, adjusted for inflation, has tripled. Lifespan is up by 30 percent in my lifetime. Child mortality is down by two-thirds. Per-capita food production is up by a third. And all this at a time when the population has doubled."

http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm...
Nobody is quick to accept aging or death. But it's understood that we are very far from medical technology that can tackle the problem. Aging is deeply ingrained in our DNA. So far the world has spent countless billions trying to cure cancer and has largely failed. We can't even control the growth of a few measly cells with mutated DNA. Yet we are composed of trillions of cells, all 'programmed' to deteriorate over time.
The idea that we can cure aging with some miracle cure is a pipe dream until we have a far better understanding and control of biological processes.
Could you please elaborate? Were you referring to the stories told in his book, or were you actually one of Feynman's students?

Here's the written story of Feynman's experimentation with ants if anyone is interested: http://books.google.com/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&pg=PA94...
Uploading is an expensive way to reproduce; it doesn't solve the problem at hand. You'd want a slow ongoing replacement and integration process of switching out neurons for machinery to achieve the translation of the mind to a machine substrate without either creating a copy or engaging in suicide. e.g. see thoughts here:

http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/08/19/the-million-year-life-sp...

Rejuvenation biotechnology of the sort put forward in great detail by the SENS Foundation and others is a much better prospect than cryonics for those who can wait for its advent, but that will require much greater investments in research - i.e. hundreds of millions or billions in funding rather than the present paltry few millions a year.

http://sens.org/sens-research/research-themes
see also - http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus
I mostly browse the Global timeline. It doesn't move too fast yet, maybe 10-20 messages per minute. I jump into interesting conversations, which results in finding interesting people to follow.

You should post the same question on app.net if you haven't already, someone will answer.
Google could absolutely use more creativity in their executives. The graveyard of failed Google products is vast, and its only because they indeed did choose the best business model in advertising for their search service that they have been able to survive and thrive through so many failures.

And giving credit were credit is definitely due, Sheryl Sandberg played an extremely important role in making that business what it is today. Her mistake, and Facebook's mistake, was thinking that it could be repeated - that somehow the data that Facebook was leveraging was as valuable to advertisers and as unobtrusive to users as the data that Google was leveraging. This is not going to turn out to be the case - you will simply never see Facebook doing $30B per year in advertising revenue like Google does. Their traffic numbers are already similar, there is no reason to believe Facebook will be able to 10x their revenue when their traffic is already peaking.
We use Freshdesk. They have a startup plan that we applied for. Took about 15-20 mins to setup and has been on autopilot so far.
Samsung teases a new Windows 8 notebook with brushed metal design
donated $40. Get well soon.
@sideprojectbook, if you reprice for a day at $25 ("launch day pricing") when the epub version is released I'll pick it up. 34 bucks though? eh....
Did you watch that Tyson clip all the way to the end?

Unless you classify Europe as third world, the final map refutes you convincingly.
Nope ... Buzz's response is the correct one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU
Do you think it might have to do with the specific countries you're in? I've never had an issue with Apple on this but that's from living in Japan and bouncing back and forth between the US/Japan stores. On the other hand, Google usually takes three days or so of warnings before gmail settles down.
OSX on the other hand isn't a jail. You can install whatever you want. It's a computer.

As long as your credit card is on file with apple.

You might be surprised what happens to 'your' computer after an attempted purchase fails for any reason. You won't be able to update or install any software from the app-store anymore. This includes updates for and re-downloads of apps that you have 'bought'.
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I've always been more of a lurker. But, I like the idea of jumping in on interesting conversations. Thanks!
> Yet we are composed of trillions of cells, all 'programmed' to deteriorate over time.

That is incorrect. The diseases of aging are the result of evolutionary neglect, they aren't 'programmed in' as if there was a timer running. They're a bug, not a feature.

I suggest you have a look at:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312367066

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbA1pFvfNp4&feature=gv...

http://michaelgr.com/2011/10/24/aubrey-de-grey-on-the-diseas...

The lack of progress so far certainly doesn't mean that we can't make progress, especially if we take a different approach and we use tools that weren't available before (and never underestimate using a different angle/mindset -- as long as we consider aging itself 'normal' and just something to be slightly delayed, we certainly won't make progress). The SENS 'engineering' approach mean that we don't have to understand metabolism or fix everything that goes wrong, just to periodically do repairs on whatever long-lived molecules are accumulating over time to cause pathologies. That's a lot easier than the past gerontological approaches of trying to understand and cure everything.
I would think Samsung would like to cross-examine this expert witness.
I think you're one of those HN readers that think this is Apple vs Android, but really it's a case against Samsung and their cloning behavior.

Except it's not, as one of the infringing phones was Nexus S, i.e., vanilla Android.
The camera was in one of the equipment packages (MESA) that was swung down before the astronauts stepped out of the lander. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_TV_camera
Please see the following links on the two broad and very different approaches to research into interventions in aging. Your comment is only reflective of one of them, the slow and very hard task of slowing aging by reprogramming metabolism and epigenetics, which is an immense and very poorly understood challenge at this time. The research community is struggling to fully figure out calorie restriction - a billion dollars on sirtuin biochemistry alone, and next to nothing to show for it - which itself is just a tiny slice of the realm of evolved alterations to aging:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/02/enthusiasm-for-th...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/09/the-scientific-de...

The other path ahead is much more clear, however: it is based on identifying and reversing fundamental changes/damage/lesions at the level of cells and biomolecules, and sidesteps much of the complexity of metabolism by focusing only on reversing these changes, not on the vast networks of reaction in our biochemistry that spiral outward from these comparatively few changes.

There is in fact a very detailed set of proposals out there on how to reverse aging and make its root causes go away, including everything from broad cost and time estimates through to exact descriptions of the biotechnologies needed, some of which are partially realized already. See this is a starting point for a layperson's overview, and then feel free to delve as deeply into the papers and ongoing research as you like:

http://sens.org/sens-research/research-themes
I don't think he was signalling his actual approval, but merely conveying what he interpreted to be Apple's assessment of his lifestyle.

Apple thinks he is doing it "wrong" because he isn't fitting into one of the common cases they bothered to plan for.

This comment serves to both emphasise that Apple ignores the long tail and that Apple has the tendency to get people to think that they are "wrong" for wanting something Apple does not currently provide. See: people talking several years ago about why anyone who wanted copy/paste in iOS didn't understand why that was unnecessary.
While

> many of our children are literally too hungry to learn

here http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html we learn that

> Approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese.

So SNAP in its current incarnation is not as clear-cut of a panacea as Charles M Blow suggests. Even USDA happily reports http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailers/eligible.htm that

> Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream are food items and are therefore eligible items

> Energy drinks that have a nutrition facts label are eligible foods
Indeed. People also need to realize that you live one day at a time, and if today you are healthy and having fun, you'll want to live until tomorrow. Asking people "do you want to live 500 years" makes people look at all those years at once rather than at how these years would actually be experienced.

If everybody died at 25 and you asked someone "do you want to live to be 100?" it would seem like a very long time and I'm sure people who thought it wasn't possible would rationalize and find excuses why it's not desirable anyway and it's better to die at 25 ("makes life more meaningful" or some other BS).
Also, Linux GUIs aren't necessarily insecure or unstable. The big advantage of shells over GUIs comes from economies of scale: if you're managing a data center full of machines, you'd much rather automate your tasks with shell scripts than perform the same operation over and over again in the GUI. This isn't unique to Linux. People who manage large Windows-based data centers also use scripts (e.g., PowerShell) for administration.
Why do you single out and blame Sheryl Sandberg for this? Everyone making money on the consumer web agrees with her. If you aren't a selling hardware or consumables, you sell ads.
Have you had to take care of an aging relative?

What does it matter if your body is OK when your mind is gone?
Where the fuck is my Ari Gold?
This sort of thing is exactly why we're creating matchist (matchist.com). If you've ever worked as freelance developer with a recruiter to help you find gigs, you've probably had the recruiter propose some Java work because you had Javascript on your resume.

#facepalm
It's not an article; it's a press release. They're all the same whether they come from Harvard, MIT or Podunk U.
You mean like dotMac? $100 pet year, much better than facebook photos, mildly popular, and crushed by free ad-supported, like every other piece of consumer software that isn't controlled by a platform monopoly gatekeeper.
Anyone play with a pinhole on a CCD or CMOS sensor, or otherwise "no" lens? For a non-lens-distorted picture?
It's a mirrored version of Apple's connector. This was an especially goofy choice, as there's already a standard called PDMI they could have used.

There's a detailed discussion here: http://www.pocketables.com/forum//showthread.php?p=55941
Absolutely. I wear dress shirts on a daily basis and whenever J.Crew Factory has a good 40% off sale I buy six of them and just get the sleeves shortened. It's one of the easiest alterations out there and only costs about five bucks a shirt.
I always just tell recruiters that I'm not looking at the moment but please keep me on their list. Who knows when a startup fails or company downsizes and you're looking for a new gig.
I dunno. I mean I think it's all true minus the part about the customers talking to each other and then talking to him.
There are attributes of American society that enable the country to excel, and which have nothing to do with quality of public education. First, parents in general are less active in managing their kids' time than other countries. Kids have more leeway to determine what they do with their time. Many do slack off, or get into trouble, and sometimes it is serious. But many others find out what really interests them. They are not told they have to prepare to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. They are more likely to be able to try everything and see where their mind returns to over and over. No cookie cutters or escalators.

Second, we have a different view of failure than many other nations. The relatively low social and legal consequence of failure allows Americans to stand back up, shake off the failure and try again. Think about how many restaurants there are and the number that will fail within a year or two. It is millions of failures annually. In Germany, for example, if a business does not notify its creditors 30 days before running out of cash, the president can go to prison. In the US, a business has no requirement to ever notify their creditors at all. We seem to see failure as a consequence of taking a risk, not as a scarlet letter. To never fail, is to never try.

If you combine the two, we have a society where people not only have a better opportunity to discover their passions, they feel much less encumbered by the prospect of failure than in other countries. Passion drives innovation, creativity, persistence and the competitive spirit. Can you imagine Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, Amazon, MacDonald's or any other 'huge success' without a passionate, risk-taking founder? Even Subway has such a story.

The product of our education system may not do as well on tests as their peers from other countries, but when they get into college and choose a major, they are more likely to be passionate and self-motivated and excel in their chosen curriculum.

Our educational system needs help, there is no doubt. Since my grade school days, funding for the arts has completely disappeared. Schools are run down to the point of being shameful. But the key ingredients that produce greatness are still there.
Things you SHOULDN'T do in an agile SAP implementation
Even if I asked them to imagine that a pill had been invented to slow aging down by one-half, allowing a person who is, say, 60 years old to have the body of a 30-year-old, only about 10 percent of audiences switched to favoring a life span of 150 years.

Bring it on. If you can double my lifespan, I can do twice as much good.
Spammy rewrite and spam submission of an article about a youtube video:

http://youtu.be/sk8hNsdwbFM
I'm not implying people from the past where any more productive or interested in challenge than today's (they were not). The main difference, though, is that a larger number of people leave in stable/confortable enough lives today than in the past - thus the number of people doing nothing but indulging themselves is proportionally larger...
They can't get an appeal hearing on the basis of their own mistakes, unless they claim their lawyers are incompetent to the level of malpractice.
People have already said this, but to reinforce: what a dumb question. The surrounding context is more important than the actual question. Very few would choose to live to any age if it required massive medical intervention, and very few would ever choose to die if they were happy, healthy and general content.
This is great and refreshing to hear. I treat recruiters with respect because: a.) I've been down-and-out before and consider myself blessed to be in demand, b.) their job seems pretty tough, and c.) it would be really arrogant to complain about someone offering me work.
Quite possibly. They may have a much lower threshold for fraud detection for countries like Vietnam or Thailand than they do for Europe or Japan.
Those are the ones. He came to USC and as a guest lecturer for my quantum mechanics class and recounted this story. I really like it because it crystallized in me the understanding that this is how you figure out systems for which there is no manual or documentation. Observe the working system, inject change in various ways, measure the effects of that change. Rinse and repeat and learn.

Once at NetApp there was a question about whether or not we were wasting all of our time randomly seeking the drives (drive seeks being of course the worst if you're looking to improve performance). But the code paths were very complex, asynchronous, and difficult to model. We figured it out by injecting random seeks which was pretty easy to do. You could flood the disk driver with random seeks and get the 'floor' of performance, then you could back off on the random seek injection to see where performance started to pick up. That told us that counter to our thinking we weren't actually being plagued by seeks, the performance issue was elsewhere in the system.

That the ants had, through natural selection, derived a congestion control system that is very close to the TCP one is a fun result because it suggests that the TCP one is probably close to optimal. (Ants have been working on it a lot longer)
Not true. 'Regular' people probably didn't think anything about this before the lawsuit. Now they think something.

Cars and computers all look pretty similar, but people manage to distinguish them. The only difference between cars, computers and mobile devices is that mobile devices were only just invented in our lifetime. We have had the experience of seeing none of them, then only one brand, then finally more brands. Cars and computers? We were born (most of us) into the reality of them already existing. With all of the different brands and models.

Trust me, once mobile devices have been around for a person's entire lifetime, that person would laugh at this lawsuit just as much as we today would laugh at a lawsuit based on 'damages' incurred from mistaking a Ford for a Honda, or for mistaking a 50" LG Plasma for a 48" Sony LCD. Mobile devices seem different because they are new. That's not Samgsung's fault..
I would personally disagree, anything that's GPU accelerated is noticeably laggy inside Fusion and worse in Workstation. Notification Center, Launchpad, Mission Control, entering Time Machine, they all stutter. I applaud VMWare's efforts so far, but it's not the same desktop experience like Windows inside a VM can be. Further, Apple's trackpad and the gestures they integrate adds quite a bit to the OSX experience. No PC vendor comes close to replicating that and it's something you'd have to just resign yourself to never replicating fully.

But ignoring the trackpad, pitting a full screen OSX VM under optimal but real-world conditions against native OSX, I would still bet anyone could tell the difference.
That's Dells actual ad campaign. It doesn't work. If A mentions B, and everyone knows it is because B is better. Sociology 101.
On the flipside, I'm not sure I'd want to live if my body is a wrecked vessel but my mind is intact.
From my own experiences and thoughts on this, I think part of the problem is that this would give people unpresented amounts of freedom in defining their own life. I can barely figure out what to do with my one pathetic life span, with only a couple or few decades of productivity if I do things right (and by all accounts I am not doing it right; I can barely summon the strength now).

What would it mean to have several or perhaps an infinite amount of time and freedom to figure out what to do with as many lives as you want?

I think most people can't handle that responsibility at this stage in human history so people kind of reject the question.
That's a victory of the free market. Giving people what they want at a price they can afford, not overpriced luxury.
Most older people seem to be less likely to adapt to changes to society. E.g. Elderly people are less likely to take up new technology. Perhaps it might be related to the fact that babies' brains form new connections at a much faster rate than a thirty year old's whose brain form new connections at a much faster rate than an eighty year old's?

If you've played with machine learning, many machine learning algorithms are able to "learn" quickly initially but later on, it can less quickly adapt to changes. (Someone more knowledgeable may correct me here).

Consider the possibility that old people can have young bodies forever, but their brain / world view / whatever will not fundamentally change from when they were teenagers. i.e old people will continue to think outdated ideas and use outdated technologies, and not die. Whenever we talk about the establishment, congressmen thinking in outdated ways, these are the exact same people! Unless we can find a way to keep the brain young without continually causing amnesia, people with control over society to its detriment will continue living, forever.

Do you want to be a 250 year old who thinks that the world is wrong and you are right, that the old ways are best, while everyone else tries to convince you to move on?

I'd like to live as a 22 year old forever, but unfortunately that is not possible without freezing time (or resetting my brain using version control every birthday).
I've done this—I've even added a different rescue address to try to override whatever's in the database—and still get the message, "Your Apple ID cannot be the same as your rescue email address." ... Totally inexplicable.
Exactly. I'm much happier overall on a Linux machine but I have to be able to deal with Photoshop and to a lesser extent Fireworks. If Adobe ever makes a non-crap port of either of these to Linux I will be the first in line with cash in hand to buy it.
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The point the article was going for (and that I think it made successfully) is that the concept/language has more possibilities than have been explored in the two years its been publicly available. So far most third-party apps have done little more with the ideas than copy how Microsoft has used them so far, that doesn't mean there's no possibilities to do more.

It reminds me a bit of my first Powerbook running OS X and the slew of poorly-Aquified 3rd party apps that didn't take real advantages of the differences in the OS X interface, but just slapped on the pinstripes and gumdrops.
I seem to recall literal turnstiles.