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When I hear the "shouldn't we solve poverty and climate change here first?" argument about space exploration, I feel it's useful to remember that almost all improvement in the human condition throughout history is directly attributable to advances in human technology grounded in investment in exploration and basic research. Spending on science, technology development and exploration are the real "trickle down economics". I don't think it has to be an either-or proposition. ;)
I remember this webcomic whenever the subject of longevity comes up:

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1384

Specifically the quote "Hey, since we live for millions of years, let's go make some staggeringly beautiful art that can only be created by synthesizing thousands of years of experience, hopes, fears, triumphs and failures into one transcendental expression of life!"

I think the problem with the question as posed by the author is that he offers no "very long but finite" life span. Most people reject (correctly, I think) the possibility of living forever; "living forever" is actually code for "living until some accident kills you" or "living until society breaks down to the point where your life-extension technology is irrelevant." Moreover, people may realize that there may come a time at which they have accomplished everything they want to do. If you live forever, however, you would be forced to carry on living with no goal in life. Could you endure 10 years of life without a purpose? 100 years? In other words, people may ultimately want to die even though they are healthy. An "infinite" lifespan raises the possibility that you might just kill yourself at some point.

A better set of numbers might have been 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years, etc.
I'd be careful if I were Samsung. Their motives over the FRAND patents are extremely questionable and they are already being investigated for antitrust over the abuse of these patents. The fact they revoked patents clearly in a bid to extort monies, either through relicensing or litigation, is an antitrust violation. Again, these are the facts as they stand.
On the contrary, I can easily see a pile of fascinating societal consequences if everyone lives forever. Sounds like an awesome set of problems to have; bring them on.
"Hence the reason the law should be reformed to attach patentable rights to have a enforceable requirement to actually 'use' the patent - thus destroying the majority of trolls."

Not really. It will simply create a new class of startup pitches. "We have this idea. Fund us now and we will return to you with a MVPFP - "Minimally Viable Product For Patent". Big companies of the world will still fund it.
> No one needs to accept anything ...

Suit yourself. But time is well-spent learning to craft readable sentences.

> The interesting part is that x, (being well spoken), is not a necessary and sufficient condition for y(having a solid argument)

It's necessary but not sufficient. Having literary skill won't save a bad argument, but lacking literary skill will surely undermine a good one.

Grammatical ability is a sign of respect for the reader/listener. Without that sign of respect, one is placed at a crippling disadvantage in advance of presenting the argument.
Mediaa4football: Liverpool vs Manchestre city live
actors must act with other actors- sort of like... a team?
the must be... directed, sort of like a manager?
André Lima Summer 2013, São Paulo
More than twice; experience makes you increasingly productive over time.
NBC aired a race from Newport a month ago, and a similar round of articles circulated. does anybody remember all the 3D racecourses and SGI logos everywhere in 1992 america's cup? or all the wild Quokka webcoverage of the 95-98 stuff?
> You can't get your favorite TV shows or apps on Linux.

I would agree with TV shows not being legally available as easily on Linux as on Mac or Windows, primarily due to the lack of support for Linux from Netflix. That doesn't affect me personally, since I just pirate everything anyway, and there are a dozen different Linux video players you can pick from if you've got a DRM-free x264-encoded video file.

Either way, when one is developing, access to TV shows isn't exactly a big concern.

As for apps, I don't see the big deal, especially for development work (and it's developers we're talking about here). All the necessary tools for webdev are available.
Not only where they the only reasonable choice - they were the perfect choice - I can recall our entire executive team living on their blackberries non-stop. Before Push-Email, unlimited SMS (and IP based alternatives, like WhatsApp), and Enterprise IM became so predominant, blackberries were the best way of staying in 24x7 contact with everyone else.

I'll even make the argument that the Blackberry might have been the better choice in 2007/2008, and, just possibly, sneaking into 2009. The iPhone lacked reasonable exchange support for it's first iteration, push email wasn't there, and the Mobile Data Management (MDM) policies and security were slim to none.

But any company that was agile, and technologically savvy, and particularly those that were focussed on consumer digital strategies, started shifting over to the popular smartphones (IOS first, Android Second) by 2011 at the very latest. Yahoo! IT's love of the blackberry has held that company back. If every one of their engineers, and executives lived on an Android/iPhone, their mobile strategy would be seeing a lot more love.

The Department of Defense might make an argument for using blackberries. Yahoo! can't.
Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
It's not necessary nor sufficient. The logic of argument, does not rely on the emotions of a listener.

Eg.
Claim1: The motherfucking sun is deff larger than da moonz!

Without getting into petty semantic deconstruction, the essence of the statement is true, regardless of the respect (or lack thereof) for the listener. You seem to be confusing logic, with persuasion and communication.
Yeah, I think the transition point was 2009-2010 with the 3GS and commercial MDMs. Deploying iPhone/Android today without an MDM is actually still worse in a corp environment than using blackberry+BES, and when the first iphones and androids came out, there was no MDM available.

I don't remember 2008-2009 all that well, but I think Airwatch was 2009, and there was some weak Zenprise support in late 2008.
It's not about blame, it's about preventable injury. It's about reducing the chance you'll get a call from the hospital saying "your kid has had a bike accident and she is in a coma." I've had friends who work in ERs have to make those calls. In many cases if the kid had been wearing a helmet they would have had a mild concussion. Instead their life as they knew it is over.

If you don't want to wear a helmet, that is of course your decision. I just object--strongly--to your contention that helmets aren't necessary in commuting. That statement is just not based on any measurable facts.
Hilariously, the link is inaccessible from QLD rail's free wifi, in Australia. Apparently the link (nasa.gov) contains pornography, illegal content, peer-to-peer or hacking, etc. People who make these woeful, idiotic filters that filter out harmless content should be embarrassed! (It also blocks the "Your brain can be hacked" technorati link. Odd that HN itself passes muster!)
A typical sentence from the article:

> However, I’ve noticed more and more that friends who I know practice good or even excellent password practices have had there [sic] logins compromised

I wish people would learn to write in advance of posting articles, not afterward.

> friends who I know

That would be "friends". Yes? Unless you have friends you don't know.

> practice good or even excellent password practices

"Practice ... practices". Yes, I think we get it.

> have had there [sic] logins compromised

People who only hear words, who never read or write them, famously cannot distinguish between the homonyms "their" and "there". A similar problem comes up with "site|sight|cite" and a few other common words -- but apparently they're not common enough to learn the difference.

And why point this out? Because learning to write before posting articles online is a sign of respect for the reader. It's identical to sloppy programming -- the originator rushes the job and saves himself a few minutes, but the program then wastes the time of thousands of users.

Ironically, pointing out bad programming methods is perfectly acceptable, but pointing out bad grammar is almost universally disparaged. To me, the two cases seem perfectly symmetrical, but this is a minority view.
Very interesting, thank you. Could you talk about what the liability is if you buy from someone who is (unbeknownst to you) infringing, and what your responsibility is if the seller turned out not to have a license?

What if the component you bought has already made it into your products?
Aren't the Apple look-alike products being pulled? The best ad serves no purpose if there's no product to sell.
> The logic of argument, does not rely on the emotions of a listener.

No, only the outcome -- effective communication.

> You seem to be confusing logic, with persuasion and communication.

You seem to be confused about the purpose of writing -- which is effective communication. Without an awareness of the recipient, writing becomes onanism.

BTW apropos the topic, both your sentences above contain an unnecessary comma.
Does anyone have another source for this story?

I don't trust The Daily Mail.
I applaud the project and effort, but the landing pages don't look very good. You can see screenshots here: http://bootstraplanding.site44.com
I know, right? Boy are those folks going to be disappointed when they bring home their new Samsung laptop and can't find the "OS/X" button.
It never ceases to amaze me how often people are against free speech when they don't agree with the speaker.

In political debate, all sides are sometimes guilty of various kinds of bad behavior, but it's usually lefties who have this particular problem. For example:

Think homosexuality is wrong? You're guilty of Hate Speech!

Think affirmative action isn't a good thing? You're guilty of Racism!

Approve of your town's Christmas celebration? You're Intolerant of Other Religions!

Regardless of your politics, name calling and ad hominem attacks like these do not inspire confidence in the strength of their originators' positions.

I'm not saying you're not within your rights to close down your service if you disagree with how it's being used, but it's interesting that your instinctive reaction to a message you don't agree with is to suppress it.
And what law says that borrowing features and ideas from competitors is illegal or grounds for compensation?

If you quote the 43(a) of the Landham Act which covers trade dress, please specify which "word, term, name, symbol, or device" that Samsung used that was:

A) "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive" people into thinking these were Apple products, OR
B) "in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person's goods, services, or commercial activities, shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act."

If your argument is that people purchased Samsung products thinking they were Apple products, please provide evidence of this fact.
favorite apps at the bottom

Quicklaunch bars certainly predate the iphone
Whit,
I did a lot of loans via Kiva (I saw that you did mention this in some of your comparisons) and even with indiegogo to total stranger after reading about their stories on google+. I did also donate to several developers using flattr.

I would like to donate via gittip but I see some issues:
a) As a non U.S. resident/citizen I only used trusted providers like paypal for the above mentioned donations/loans (both kiva and indiegogo support it)
b) Anonymous: this is in general a turn off. You did mention Kiva and how people pay to be part of the story. This is very right but don't forget the show off power of Kiva. I don't know if this is right or wrong but for any donation I did not want to be anonymous. I honestly doubt that a developer would take a tip or donation as a limitation of freedom but what I do know is that it takes a lot of away from the donor. At any rate I applaud your initiative but I think that paypal is a must.
The 3.5" screen is better for me because it easily fits in any pocket, so I always have it with me, and the battery easily lasts all day even with heavy web browsing.
really interesting comment about life extension on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/yswxw/what_techn...
WebGL Deferred Irradiance Volumes
I'm reminded of an old joke: "In Soviet Russia reasonable and appropriate considerations are made before awarding 1B in damages based on vaguely similar designs".
Python on AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Flask Gotchas)
True, though the professional analysis from groklaw is a pretty good read.
I couldn't disagree with this more.

Recruiters are almost exclusively focussed on one thing alone: making commission. They're not necessarily bad people, but they are not interested in how polite you are, how long your response email is, or anything else than the information they require.

Sending long-winded emails thanking them for their time and interest is _wasting their time_.

If I want to reply, the first line gives them the info they need. "Not looking for a job", and the rest gives other information if the opp looked good.

If you want to try and build up a relationship to get out of where you are, then fine. But they are interested in placing you, nothing more. Anything else they're generally faking.

It's how the game works. We geeks have a hard time getting this, because we're essentially honest.
I wouldn't say "almost entirely." A couple more minutes of Googling brought up this:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db88.pdf

which says that yes, the greatest reductions in death rates were for infants and children, but for every group under 85, mortality dropped by at least 50% from 1935 to 2010.

Also there are some tables at

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Tbl_6.html

which seem to say that those who are 18 today expect about 15 more years than they would have in 1900.

Not to mention nutrition, hygiene, and antibiotics are probably reasonably important in reducing infant mortality. I do agree that for an article specifically about aging they might have been more careful about those numbers, though.
There are many people who actually think that way. C.f. Poe's law
I agree with you that the article doesn't give enough context. We can't know whether or not the jury came back to it. Though, by the same token I find your assumption that "they must have had _some_ further discussions" to be spurious for the same reasons. You're both reading assumptions into the quote.

The fact is, we can't really know whether they came back to it or not unless they tell us. I'm basically advocating that we can't assume the _did_ or _did not_ come back to it.
Maybe it's just me, but I would answer "no" to the question phrased either way. Honestly, neither of those seems like a very big deal. I'm actually surprised people would even bother complaining about something like that.
> Samsung's iPad is the same as Apple's iPad, and I paid how much for the Apple one? Honey, I told you they were a ripoff"

Maybe now, but if Samsung has to pay a billion-dollar fine, the prices will be more comparable -- assuming that Samsung isn't also ordered to stop building machines so much like Apple's.

The sense of the article is that the lawsuit outcome favors Samsung -- that Apple is outing Samsung's units as being similar to Apple's but less money. This only works if Samsung's business isn't crippled by fines and cease-and-desist orders.
- there SHALL NOT BE differences of content on the Internet set by physical regions on the Earth!
- there SHALL NOT BE on the Internet any laws that are in place for each physical region on the Earth!
- the Internet SHALL NOT BE changed !
- the Internet SHALL NOT BE ruled by any Government !
Pricing Your Product: it Doesn’t Have to Be so Complicated
The real Ari is on our board of directors. It doesn't help recruiting. Telling and believing a great story and treating your culture and team as its own product does.
Can you point me to where it says this in the article? Because I don't see it - he mentions talking to people from "all walks of life", but that's different to having no correlation.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to learn from this article. The author spends three paragraphs setting up an analogy and the the next 17 paragraphs explaining why that analogy is broken.
Exactly. This is a huge pet peeve of mine.

Socrates' death is famous for how it was done; nobody mentioned that he lived "twice the average life expectancy" (You'd think we'd make a note of killing a 70 year old -- a 150 year-old in today's terms).
> It doesn't make sense to have multiple iTunes accounts, and it would be good if Apple would let your merge them.

This is impossible. Apple does not let you merge accounts, no matter how high you jump or how much money you're willing to throw at them.

The only way to do that is to manually repurchase everything on the other account. That is assuming that it is still available of course, otherwise your SOL.
Wow.. a lil bit surprised at the down votes. Guess, I should make it clear, it's more of a personal opinion. Anyways, I have never been a fan of these kind of hardware specs when they don't map out to any real difference in usage. I have never been a fan of apple and their closed eco-system and have only recently started using apple products as I develop for the iPad. But I do feel they make products of superior quality.

About the S II, I know there are a lot of fans of it. I have used my friends S II for a bit, but didn't really find anything exceptional about it. Note, I had not even used a iPhone at the time, still don't own one. But, Samsung's product definitely didn't hit the spot. For one, Samsung's font always look crappy. Even their desktop software to manage the phone looks like its developed by university students. Anyways, thats just my personal opinion.

Samsung is just evil, a well-oiled business machine. So, I dunno why people are trying to defend it. Take for example, the fact that only their flagship models get upgrades to the new android versions and the rest are forced to buy a new phone to keep up.

I know that they are a major OEM in regards to phone components. And have the capability to produce high quality components. But when they sacrifice all that and use inferior materials in their own products to generate higher profits, it's not something I could agree with.

I agree that I do have some bias against Samsung, but that is because of what I have known about them from friends who worked there and the general impression they have in the software industry here in India.
Translation of Apples pathetic attempt to compete, not by innovation, but by litigation - Waaahan, Samsung made a better phone, quick call my lawyers.

Go read this before blindly supporting Apple and it's patents - http://blog.kenperlin.com/?p=9227

Also, patent for rectangle with rounded edges, or slide to unlock! I wouldn't be surprised if Apple's next patent is on how to wank. That should make it some serious dough
He mentions "we are not alone" twice. Clearly he's telling us that there are aliens on the moon.
Please link directly to the article, rather than to boingboing's link to the article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/tpp-creates-liabilitie...
You say that as if it's a bad thing.

To me, "the number of people doing nothing but indulging themselves is proportionally larger" sounds like a good thing, a clear indicator that we've come a long way - we're so well off now that you don't actually have to do anything useful in order to survive. That's awesome, to the extent that it's true.

Our goal should be a day when nobody has to work, and everything that we want done happens anyways. We're still pretty far from that, but I think motion in that direction is a positive indicator, not a negative one.
This post shows a deep misunderstanding of the key differences between Hollywood and programming.

In Hollywood, people often need to create a reasonable sized business, have it work for a year or two, and then it falls apart. That's what a film is. Most people's engagement in this business is only a few months, maybe less, no matter how well they do. Therefore you need to get hired again, and again, and again.

In programming, there is a hope and expectation that people will last substantially longer in a job. Therefore you do not need to go back to the hiring well nearly as often, so it does not make sense for you to have a dedicated person who is going to regularly try to hire you out.
Ask HN: How to learn Backbone
Backbone Tutorials isn't up to date, a simple "Backbone tutorial" search brings up results from 2011, early 2012. I need to learn 0.9.2 Backbone, not an older version.

Can someone provide me a single resource or multiple great resources to learn Backbone, start to finish (preferably quickly but not mandatory)
Working on a personal finance startup here in Sydney, Australia - https://www.pocket.bo/ok
So I decided to make my first app. All went to hell.
As an Apple shareholder I must say I'm loving this market punishment!
Loving that at the bottom right corner of the image there is a light source in the shape of a heart :).
I don't think there's ever been a patent lawsuit where I didn't root for the person being sued.

If someone sued North Korea for patent infringement, I'd root for North Korea to win.

It's a joke of a system, unfortunately too much money is being made by the lawyers for there to be any change anytime soon.
I do not only buy devices that are open in the eyes of the FSF. But I really do prefer devices that go in the right direction rather than others. And while apple uses and even develops some open source software I still can get the complete android source code.

Would you not like the idea "it means that much wasteful duplication of system programming effort will be avoided. This effort can go instead into advancing the state of the art"?
It's worth pointing out that the US' system of justice and government cares little for the qualifications of the jury:

The US is a democracy (or some variation thereof), not a technocracy.

Whether people who work in specific fields think that's right or not is independent of the principles the US espouses. In the eyes of the justice system, all jurors are equal regardless of skill. They are disqualified primarily by their biases.

I think it is rather unreasonable for people to be doubting their qualifications if we hold them as equal citizens. If they make technical mistakes, I think it's important to consider that they are representative of the mistakes of the people as a whole.

Sure, the US government doesn't reach the technically optimal result every time as a result, but this is the form of government (democracy, not technocracy) we in the US have selected. Aristotle writes quite a bit about the merits and pitfalls of this, and we are quite aware of them.
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