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I disagree. There is a larger need for skilled workers: that's why they command much higher wages.

I think dmk23 is right. Since Obama got elected there seems to be a higher rate of denials for H1B applications and renewals, without clear guidelines why. Looks like pressure from above. See http://www.indianexpress.com/news/obama-warned-over-h1b-visa...

It does seem like Obama favors unskilled immigration (amnesty for illegals and the like) over skilled immigration, which I think frankly, is stupid and short-sighted, pandering to his increasingly powerful latino (mostly Mexican-American) voters.
Prevents inbreeding of ideas. Some of those immigrants may be a heretic monkey. This passage from the anime "Irresponsible Captain Tylor" [1] explains it better.

"Do you know about monkey tribes? Monkey tribes are very organized, with a leader at the top. Now, once every few years without fail, a renegade monkey leaves his tribe and tries to join another one. The members of the new tribe greet the renegade monkey by beating it to a bloody pulp. And yet those renegade monkeys, those heretic monkeys if you will, are a providence from nature. Why? Because they keep the bloodlines from becoming too thick, from too much inbreeding within the tribe. So, you could say that those heretics are essential for survival. Heretics are essential for survival."

[1] http://greybeta.dreamwidth.org/179747.html
It was the democratic candidate in this election who signed it into law.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/ndaa-biggest-election-issue-no-o...
That is true. It is also true that many regard their limited nature as a cancer risk. (Not being sarcastic; there is a divide here.)

I think we can all agree that telomeres are critical for preventing non-homologous end joining where it shouldn't be occurring.
Did this account get hacked between this post and the ones that immediately reply to it? (This post is rational, the others are completely nuts.)
"n April 2010, during a 6:30 a.m. check of his servers -- by then part of his daily routine -- Milburn stumbled on a folder buried in an obscure Microsoft directory, one that’s normally unused. What he found inside startled him. The file contained the encrypted versions of all eight passwords in his system -- the keys to the entire network. The hackers could use the passwords to control just about anything he could, from web servers to e-mail."

Ah. He just decrypted the encrypted versions of his passwords by looking at them. I see.

And he "stumbled upon" a directory during his routine 6:30am check. Really? He's manually inspecting servers every morning at 6:30am?

This entire story is several levels of /headdesk.
No, English is not thought to be descended from Norse until this press release: see Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages#Diachronic]. It's thought to be related to the modern Scandinavian languages by a split that occurred around two millennia ago. You're confusing "descended from" and "related to".

Linguists, like biologists, draw a distinction between "descent" and "convergent evolution" (with "lateral gene transfer" being like what linguists call "contact-induced change").

[edited to add wiki link]
The prices on amazon are aprox $20/lb
It sounds a bit like the site owner was playing wack-a-mole for three years when he should have just wiped out everything. Once you have an intrusion, unfortunately you can't trust anything that a machine has access to and you should start again from a totally clean install. If this was a huge corporate network I could understand that may be impossible. But for a small shop with a few people, there's no reason not to go around and just wipe out every machine in the company.

If this was a government sanctioned job, though, I imagine they could have stepped things up if the script-kiddie stuff didn't work. Why bring out the nuclear weapons if bottle rockets are doing the job just fine.
Since telomerase is not really an oncogene, I'm not sure that the notion of "pre-cancerous" that you're advocating has any meaning. By that token, nearly every cell is pre-cancerous, and in a fetus even more so.
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Thanks for shedding some light on this. I've been wondering about what happened to those devs who complained when Google bumped up their appengine prices. The complaints lasted for a while but then they seemed to stop. Perhaps that supports your "maturation" observation.
I can nearly eliminate cholesterol in mice (well, they start out with very little to begin with) and my roommate can cure a Huntington's disease model in his lab mice. If media attention were given to every group to achieve something remarkable in mice, we would end up hearing about a lot of false starts. And false starts are a critical/inevitable part of science, so the only thing I'm really saying is that the media attention to this topic is most likely premature.

Mice are a useful model, but they are different enough from humans that we should be cautious when interpreting mouse data in a broader context.

Once repeated studies attacking the same problem from different angles in different institutions start to align, that's when my interest gets piqued. (Unless it's research within my field, in which case I feel better able to understand the strengths and limitations of early-stage studies.)

I also admit that, to a certain extent, this is akin to a "middlebrow dismissal" (though I'm not trying to dismiss their work), and I'd love to hear from an expert in their specific domain.
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P-Dub is the same guy, there was later some fallout re: donation situation. His "fame" through the homework meme and a few other things was what allowed him to be the subject of such "support" from the community.
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I'd be interested. Could you email me too?
Also... Stripe is easy enough! I've implemented it a couple of times, and it only takes a few hours. No way I'd pass up 2% to spare a few hours.
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It takes away the Republicans' opportunity to claim they already addressed immigration reform and that any further action is the President "going too far."

The Republicans are between a rock and a hard place politically on immigration. Latinos are the fastest-growing demographic in the country, and Republican hostility toward immigration reform is starting to cost them in elections. e.g., Obama pummeled Romney among Latino voters in Florida by an over 2-to-1 margin. [1]

The Republicans have essentially painted themselves into a corner on the issue and are in a no-win situation. If they continue to aggressively oppose immigration reform, it's going to hurt them with an increasingly-important demographic. If they concede and compromise, Obama and the Democrats get to claim themselves as the champions of immigration reform, which still hurts the Republicans, though to a lesser degree.

Obama knows he has major leverage over the Republicans on this issue; it doesn't make political sense to make concessions they can paint as wins if it's not the reform he's actually after.

[1] http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/11/07/latino-voters-in-the-2...
Hmm, I see it as the opposite. Why wouldn't Facebook want to register themselves as a sharing output for images and text? They want us to share as much as possible, and this would just make it easier for users.

Otherwise, you'd see sharing menus across the web with "Google+, Twitter, etc." on them and no Facebook. Not a position I think they would want to be in.
Second decision box: the word "need" is duplicated.

Left exit from first decision box: should say '90s, not 90'ss.
You use a false premise, that in order to create a social network, it has to be set up to profit from users information through advertisement. Who said it has to be so in the first place?
I liked "He taught himself how to write code, and eventually mastered complex Internet software protocols."

Seems like a lot of the issues would of been solved by moving to AWS. At least they would of still been making money.
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Well, yes, when you are making the decision based on someone being from a poor country. There are better measures on which visas could be distributed. I strongly support increasing the number of total visas, but that is separate.
Why do you put a hardware cost of 0? If you put the true cost, let's assume $1000, it'll take you 273 years to make your money back. I assume the value of the currency will increase, but still... am I missing something as it seems a pretty flawed way to make money.
We have lived with the Windows and OSX aps looking the same but offering different functionality. Why can't web apps do that, and be more functional?
In the "prompt dialog" the buttons don't get highlighted when I tab over to them ... so instead my browsers buttons get highlighted, and I end up hitting back instead of Ok or Cancel...
"arbitrage definition"
most people's lifespans are currently not long enough for telomerase activity to make a meaningful impact on their cell longevity.
What's so wrong with a ~7% return per month ?
You may want to take a look at browserver

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555
http://browserver.org/
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Likely. I don't want to be too hard on the guy because I can recognize a bit of myself in him, but this is a great example of why you should concentrate on your core competency and pay someone else to do the stuff you're not expert at.
And that's what I was thinking as I read this - a guy/team who can write net filtering software would surely know what side is up. I was waiting for the part where he set up a GNU/Linix box and just rebuilt his site and perhaps directing his support email to/via GMail, heck how long would that take to setup, a week and cost far less than the lost sales and it would keep the engine running till a more permanent setup was devised. Or just clean installed to all his Windows machines. So many options and he choose the hard one. There has to be more to this story.
Early days, only mice so far, etc. etc. but this is pretty exciting. However ...

One of my greatest fears is that my body will outlive my brain function. Hopefully research into various forms of senility will keep pace with longevity research so I don't wind up buff and spry at 120, completely unable to recognise my friends and loved ones.

I have a family member in that state currently and it is heartbreaking to watch; I know that I'd prefer to die than live like that.
I'm a software developer and I find it hard to use. The documentation isn't so great. If "I" find it hard, imagine what a layman would feel like?

I don't think Github pages is easy to use.
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Obama had the same superpac corporate support that Romney did. The whole emails asking people to donate $3-$5 was to bring his average donation rate down.
Serious question for you and everyone else urging this:

How do you maintain weak ties?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties#Research_da...

Like people you see once a year or less, maybe because they live far away, or maybe they're locals you met once or twice but just don't know that well.

Weak ties can be incredibly valuable for finding events, housing (or roommates), partners, even jobs.

I've been living happily without Facebook for over a year and doing fine. But I realized I didn't have a solution to the weak tie problem, and was missing out on opportunities.

Visiting New York City, I met some great people and thought how nice it would be to hang out with those same people next time I'm in NYC, so I wouldn't have to start over there socially. But that could be a year from now. After a year of no contact, if I call them out of the blue, it'd be awkward at best.

This problem actually motivated me to sign back up for Facebook. In theory any social network could do the trick, but no one's heard of Tent or Diaspora, and only a handful of people you meet are even on Twitter. What most of these folks are on, is Facebook.

I'd really like to know what other ways people keep up with weak ties, or if some just hate Facebook so much they accept the loss of opportunities as a cost of living without it.
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But it doesn't go straight next door. It goes to a cell tower and then is pinged back again, possibly through other cell towers if the person is on another network.

Don't get me wrong, SMS prices are insane. But this is a bad example.
[May 2012]
Smith's view of specialization is not the same as today's "interchangeable cogs" view of disposable labor. He's talking about skilled crafts- and trades-man who can both use specialized machinery and acquire skill in its use, as well as avoiding the task-switching costs of single-person fabrication. Smith talks of market clearing not in hours or days, but months and years. His view of labor mobility tends to be generational rather than of a person having multiple careers in a single lifetime, as is the present fashion.

And while a given software program on its own won't generally improve performance over time (absent some learning and adaptive algorithms, though these are still in very limited use), in an appropriate (e.g.: Free Software or other iterative / continuous improvement) environment, coders will make incremental changes to code, which is far easier to accomplish when a program does a single, clearly identifiable task (or can be divided into modules which perform similarly).

Smith's use of the "invisible hand" analogy is a grossly misinterpreted and minor element within The Wealth of Nations.
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But it is accurate re: the linkbait title.
On the contrary, this sort of things allows us to write clients in a uniform way. It will be nice to be able to debug the redis client in a jsfiddle. :)
The folks behind web components are super open to feedback. I'd be happy to introduce you so you can provide some feedback on where the spec should go to better address the pain points you have.
Thanks for the insight, I suppose it does sound like he made the right choice for his party. Interesting.
This is going to sound snarky, but isn't Stripe a simple way to accept payments through Stripe?
Thanks for the link, very interesting stuff.
I'll preface this by saying that it is all too easy to criticize from the outside and without all of the relevant information and history.

Once I got to the point in the article where it was obvious that he was under some form of a coordinated attack I almost wanted to send myself back in time to be able to go over to his office and yell "AWS! AWS!" in his ear.

In addition to that, it seems it should have been obvious that bringing a team of experts to help secure the network (or transition it away) and fight the fight would have been the smartest idea. I would think that the quoted losses of some $58K per month would have covered this just fine. And, perhaps what is more important, it is likely that the technology fight wouldn't have lasted three years.

The other thing that struck me --again, don't have perfect data, don't know all the facts-- is the apparent lack of help from the likes of the FBI. You would think that they'd be there in some sustained fashion to help out.

This fellow was out of his league and paid a dear price for it. Hopefully the settlement compensated for some of it. It sounds like he might have ended-up with stress related health issues which are no laughing matter.

It'll be really sad if the Internet becomes just another weapon of war. That should not be permitted. How? Not sure. Is it too late?
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That seems like one good way of doing it. The other one I can think of is using a widget containing html form generated dynamically by stripe, along with a back link with a unique hash param that verifies it's authenticity.
One step at a time, they already had online code editor, this all starts to make sense know...

https://script.google.com

Update: They even had a folder view, this is amazing.

Here is their demo websites source files:

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B716ywBKT84AcHZfMWgtNk5aeX...
Maybe what you're saying is the only way. Or maybe there are some options (two options in the above comment). But whatever it is, we cannot resort to an insecure way of payment just because there is no other way.
The diversity lottery is actually good immigration policy. Each year you take a sample of average or above average (applicants must have a high school education and no criminal history, and must pass some health tests as well; they must also show they will not be a burden to society once they get in) from countries around the world with historically low immigration rates to your country.

Essentially these are candidates that have self-selected as being willing to start anew in a new country, working hard to improve their lives in the process. In return, your culture is enriched and your economy is boosted by a fresh set of ambitious, hard-working 1st-generation immigrants. Some of these immigrants may go on to become engineers, teachers, doctors, cab drivers, entrepreneurs, nurses etc. But they won't drain your social safety net, they will contribute to it. They're here to work, to make up for lost time, and to make a better future for their offspring. As immigration policies go, I think this is one of the better ones.
Not I... It's been 13 years since I've had easy access to academic papers.
The post measures $/kB, not $/(kB⋅m).
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Yes I mean ethically the idea of a single treatment extending life so dramatically doesn't sit well with me.
I appreciate the need to improve quality of life in old age.
I'm glad I switched to a more customer-friendly ISP.
You do realize that the Norman French were Vikings right? The area was settled by a massive group of Vikings under Rollo. They became the Normans and from Rollo would eventually come William the Conqueror? These Normans were in no way French.
Isn't telomerase-based aging mechanism more or less the same in all mammals?
I like working with colleagues from other countries. (I'm also marrying one.) I'd rather the best of the world do their great work inside of the US rather than outside.
Max Cleland is known to hate America. He was only willing to sacrifice three of his limbs in the service of the United States Army.

Saxby Chambliss, on the other hand, is a true patriot who proves this by yelling and screaming about it and never letting some pedantic BS about the "Constitution" obstruct his plans to remake America into his utopian vision as expressed by the movie "Idiocracy".
> I can nearly eliminate cholesterol in mice

"Cholesterol" is an organic compound that is essential for life. What exactly do you mean you can nearly eliminate it in mice?
thats correct. i have heard that from a first hand source
to be honest I haven't seen this. the lessons are same as always: stay lean, stick to the customer, iterate to market fit. if you do all three of those things your seed investors are quite likely to back you again (if you chose wisely among seed investors!), giving you more time to find that market fit. there's always growth capital available for companies that have found market fit.

so, yes - there are many companies flaming out, but those companies would have flamed out anyway. for good companies with good teams, i'm seeing multiple "seed" rounds which sometimes add up to what would be considered a pretty healthy series a. any of those folks if they're worth their salt will back you again (at the same valuation if need be), as long as you fullfil all other expectations, giving you plenty of time to achieve product market fit, at which you bring in multiple VCs, bid up to high valuations, and lock in the gains for your team, angels + early seed investors.

with the increasing ubiquity of angellist and ramp up of crowd-funding activity, there will be tons of capital for some time to come. is it hard to raise follow-on financing? fuck yeah. who said it had to be easy? was it "easy" to get that first check?

the real story/"news" in all of this is that the combination of readily available risk capital with the dramatic increase in capital efficiency by companies means that many, many successful companies will be created, grown to profitability, and exited without any participation from a non-seed VC.
True. But a lot of studies show that enhancing telomerase activity is related to longer telomere length, which is related to lower risks of mortality and diseases. Induced in vivo gene expression is really hard to accomplish -- and you have good reason to be dubious of direct application to Homo sapiens. But one very good take away from the article is that it furthers the argument that telomerase activity is very very good for mammals. And it turns out there are some good ways of enhancing telomerase activity without inducing gene expression: exercise, stress-reduction, and a good diet.

Here's some background literature:

The Nobel Prize in 2009 was related to work in this area!
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/20...

Good NEJM Review about Telomeres
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0903373

Very nice paper from Science, "Extension of Life-Span by Introduction of Telomerase into Normal Human Cells." Similar to the article posted, but was done with cell in vitro
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/279/5349/349.short

Finally, an article from PNAS "Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress"
http://www.pnas.org/content/101/49/17312.short

Enjoy!
Thank you, I stand corrected. I believe they are still both Scandinavian. Proto-Germanic, which all of these languages descended from, was spoken primarily in Denmark and Sweden:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language
> Oddly enough, the Swedes I know can't actually communicate with Danes in spoken language either, despite written Danish and Swedish being nearly identical.

It's not that odd. Take threedaymonk's example: English is written almost the same way in New York and in Glasgow, yet an American in Glasgow might have some difficulty understanding people at first. And of course mutual intelligibility between Danish and Swedish will be lower than between New Yorker and Glaswegian.

Written Portuguese and Spanish are also very similar, and while it's possible to keep a "bilingual" conversation with some effort, I (a Portuguese speaker) and my Spanish-speaking friends just use English instead.
Well you have one say. Don't use facebook.
Honestly, this feels like the sort of thing they were putting in contract work anyway, and just decided to change into a service since they had it anyway...
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