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When I first read about Aubrey de Grey, I instinctively knew that he had the right approach to the problem of aging and immortality but I also suspected that he would run afoul of the religious, environmental, and social criticism that you're suggesting.

However, I no longer think that is the case, and I think if Calico takes the same tack they will mostly avoid it as well.

Here's why: a gross simplification of de Grey's entire research program is "aging and death happen because things start breaking faster than we can fix them, and because things start breaking that we have no idea how to fix." One of the greatest things about tackling the fountain of youth from this perspective is that it will continue to look like normal medicine and cosmetic procedures.

I predict that effective "eternal youth and immortality" will be achieved, but by the time the mass population notices enough to care, the majority of the population will be composed of people who grew up with the idea of accelerating progress on human health (in the same way that today's kids simply do not know an era without exponential advances in information technology). Thus, they will probably experience this threshold as completely normal, if they experience it at all.

In other words, there won't be a "magic moment". That moment will only appear retroactively, similar to today's magazine articles that say "hey look, here we are in the future with our video phones and what not! Isn't that nice?"

Let's say in the next 20 years the following things happen:

1. A therapeutic AIDS vaccine performs the equivalent of Polio eradication

2. Highly targeted and effective cancer therapies are developed at an increasingly alarming rate

3. An actual cure for baldness is found

4. A preventative therapeutic regimen for treating obesity at a genetic level is discovered

5. A "nano-cream" that restores collagen in the skin becomes available first by prescription, then over the counter

6. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's can be detected and prevented early and completely managed in those that are in advanced stages

Each one of those 6 things will likely face some opposition, but the opposition's voices will most probably not reach any kind of "critical mass"; people will (for example with the AIDS vaccine) simply regard as cruel the idea that people should die of AIDS because you don't want them having sex (a silly protest that I can still predict happening).

Each of these advances will happen individually, and to the average person they won't look anything alike.

But if you stack enough of these together long enough, you eventually get your fountain of youth. It's just that by the time it arrives there won't be riots in the streets, just 90% of the population saying "oh cool" and the other 10% viewed as harmless luddites with an interesting perspective on life.
This is the thought I immediately had.

Cyanogenmod thrives based on a couple of very grey legal areas:

- first, as you mention, the ability to install the "Google Apps" binaries, which include basic functionality (Play Store, google service apps, etc). If Cyanogenmod is viewed as any sort of threat, Google can immediately crack down on this distribution. CM could still be useful without Google services, but it would be decidedly less useful.

- second, the ability to acquire and redistribute proprietary binaries which ship with devices and make them actually work. A majority of CM-running devices rely on binary blobs extracted from the vendor's software for hardware support; CM rips them from the factory install and redistributes them.

So CM in its present form is dependent on 1) Google's good graces in allowing gapps to be redistributed and 2) manufacturers looking the other way on the redistribution of their proprietary blobs.

The only conclusion I can come to is that CM must position itself as a non-threat to the business models of both manufacturers and Google. That will be an interesting tightrope to walk.
I'm not left handed, and have never tried this, but you might take notes in mirrored writing, like Da Vinci did, and then flip the image when you scan it. Learning shorthand might also help.
ETL from mongo to MemSQL to analyze? SQL wipes the flow compared to Mongo's aggregation framework.
It's not a fact, I happen to find that exclamation sign too silly. I used Trello for keeping track of chores around the house, and I think more than 5 or 6 labels (what's so hard about adding more fields?) would be far more useful than these tacky emoji.

I'm just not into Trello Gold, I hate gaudy things.
Worth pointing out that screenshots have not really told the story, ever since iOS 7 was released to developers this spring. There's an overall lightness and fun feeling that's only really apparent in actual usage. Subjective, obviously, but I've been using it for months now, and when I pick up an iOS 6 device it feels ancient.
I find it interesting that they are actively pursuing it.

Kind of like watching a lion, king of the jungle, fighting and clawing furiously against a roaring avalanche to reach the top of a mountain

enjoy the show
Also this:

>It’s a little known fact that top contributors to EE got VIP treatment. They were flown to different locations around the world, wined & dined, and got lots of cool swag (computers, tablets, etc). When the experts came to visit us in San Luis Obispo, it was all-out fun for them. Experts on Experts Exchange have the potential to get some sweet perks.

Some of that money could've easily gone into improving the UX and adding features to the site which seemed to be stuck in 1999, or failing which, reducing the price of subscriptions. Throwing expensive swag around when there are better places to put it is a bad idea.
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Founder here. Returning total count is a very expensive action and most users don't use the result. Therefore, by returning paginated results you can allow the users that need that data, to loop through all the paginated pages and get the total count. It may add an extra step but for 98% of users the API will run faster.
> AngularFire is not really mature yet, too.

I am running into this issue as well, I kind of wish I had written my own firebase service instead of using theirs because (Especially in the 0.2 release) I was seeing the app re-draw a ton of times due to the way that angularFire was loading the data. That and a bunch of little inconsistencies, like when creating an angularFireCollection you can optionally pass in a callback as the second parameter that returns your data, great if you want to assign it all at once instead of each "child_added" being fired but the object it returns is the same as is returned from a ref.once() call (As can be seen in the code for angularFireCollection) and for that not only do you need to call .val() on what is passed in to get the value but it is not an angularFireCollection, it is just Firebase data and so it rather useless as the binding does not work and you can't call the angularFireCollection methods on the returned data (like .add()).

Please don't get me wrong, AngularJS is awesome and Firebase is really cool but there is learning curve and as you said angularFire isn't really mature yet. That said I am very impressed with the work being done on angularFire (and speed) so hopefully it will shape up nicely.
In the past I was always buying an Android phone first and check if CyanogenMod runs on it second. Several Android phones later and after holding back on older 4.x.x versions by countless manufacturers, I have learned that if an Android phone doesn't run CyanogenMod it's kind of worthless (from a hacker point of view).

These days I always check if an Android phone runs the latest version of CyanogenMod first and buy it second. My current phone is a Galaxy S2 (i9100) which according to CyanogenMod stats[1] is the second most popular phone. It runs Android 4.3 and you can update it nightly right from inside the settings. (Settings -> About -> CyanogenMod updates)

[1] http://stats.cyanogenmod.com/
Well, that and Emscripten[1], which is the tool Mozilla used to bring Unreal Engine 3 into the web[2].

Note taht Emscripten is actually entitled An LLVM-to-JavaScript Compiler

[1] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/03/27/mozilla-is-unlockin...
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So basically, Google are now openly admitting that they're trying to take over the world.
What's up with "Reimagining the Net" - I don't want a browser to mess up with my image of the .net :) - do I?
When it's worded "free trial" and the details about rolling over into a membership are shelved away in the fine print, it certainly doesn't give off that impression to me.

Although, you're right, at the end of the day any company that is taking credit card information up front like that is probably doing this.
When I read this type of criticism, I always get the impression that everyone thinks they are better at what they do than everyone else.
You're almost certainly amongst the oldest HN readers. I'd put you at around 40.
>>"You don't have any information on how much money they have invested."

I never said I had the info. The people that know this chose not to say it. I speculated, which is all we can do.

>>"And the enlightening insight that Google would probably drop this project if their profits started going down isn't really informative unless you think that we all here have problems with understanding fundamental logic."

It's not that informative, I give you that; it's Wall Street 101 and most know by now.

>>"about your aversion towards Google."

Not sure blind love and gullibility is any better, assuming that I have an aversion to everything Google.
I would say not great ideas, but small ones. One's I'd like to revisit in 6 months' time and mull over, connect the dots, etc.

I've been keeping a "sparks" log (can't remember where I read this, somewhere on HN) where I just jot down small ideas for side projects, etc. when I have them.

Then when I have some free time, I pick an idea off the list and try working on it.
Well, if we're being honest, this isn't particularly capitalist of Google. It's an idealist, good-intentions-and-ego-driven play. Yes, they want to capture some of the value that they eventually might create but they are not doing it primarily for money.
It always felt like Microsoft was chasing after markets that people are trying to leave. Bing trying to replace google search while google is desperately trying to expand their source of income by looking elsewhere while Facebook eats into their google's advertising revenue.

Which makes the last paragraph especially interesting. Insights. Have Microsoft finally figured that search doesn't have much revenue in there to milk anymore and since they have all these data they've collected at such massive scale, perhaps provide useful "interpretation" of these data? That gets me very excited.

And if the result of it all are APIs for developers to use these data, that's going to change a lot on how we make decisions, at least in the entertainment industry (which I work in).
I don't like having to hold a notebook open with two hands during a meeting. So I skip the Moleskine that doesn't fold over on itself (though I appreciate the Evernote edition), and go with a Japanese graph paper notebook that has a spiral binding, micro perf pages you can tear out and hand someone, tiny faint graph lines, and exquisite writing feel:

* Maruman Mnemosyne Inspiration Notebook, 5mm Squared *

Read a review here, covering how the paper interacts with pens, with an example of using the notebook for wireframe mockups: http://penaddict.com/blog/2009/5/13/review-maruman-mnemosyne...

Amazon in USA charges way too much: http://www.amazon.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-Inspiration-Grid-6-3...

There also JetPens, also way too much: http://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-Inspiration-Noteboo...

I find these at a local Jerry's Artarama. They carry Maruman paper pads for speciality art media, and don't mind stocking the graph pads as well. By having it a regular stock item, it ends up under $5 a pad.
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+1 to this. I moved to Manchester a couple of years after uni to help the startup I was working for expand into the UK market. I spent the first year either at my day job or in my room wondering how to make friends. One day I walked past a tiny Aussie bar that had recently opened in Chorlton and impulsively walked in and asked for a job. The world opened up to me while working behind that bar. I became friends with so many wonderful people I never would have met if I hadn't taken that single step. At first I was petrified talking to customers but gradually the fear wore off and I was all of a sudden wheeling people out of that place in wheelie bins and organising lock ins with half the clientele.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I realise that bar job was the difference between having the time of my life and wasting my entire two years worth of social life. Maybe it was the Manchester vibe but people just seemed to want a bartender in their life.
There's still no reason to add additional whitespace to a response that isn't going to be consumed by a human.

Also, it's worth pointing out that not all of your API consumers will necessarily support compression. The best practice is to use an Accept-Encoding header to allow the consumer to explicitly request a compressed response. This ensures that you can still serve uncompressed responses where necessary.
Reselling is not a problem as long as they offer the source and explicitly grant the same rights the got, right?
But sadly it doesn't taste very good.
"The Lamy Safari is pretty Social Democratic."

Beautiful, man.
Having grown up in the late 80s in an East Block country, this article resonated very strongly. Growing up in that place and time was akin to 50s America - no cable, consoles, arcades, VCRs or handhelds. We had TV, but it only had the single state broadcast channel which played only one cartoon.

The only thing to do was play which we did prodigiously - I was part of a large mix-aged group (6-12 kids, 5 years age difference) and we would play everything (sports, house, building things, demolishing things, raising stray animals, foraging fruit, fighting other kids). It was a great childhood and neither I nor my childhood friends (most of us are still friends, even across continents) would trade it for anything. Interestingly, it was almost the same childhood my mom and dad had.

My sister (the de-facto leader of our group) now has children and their childhood could not be any different - constantly shuttled from home to school to organized activity. Play only for a bit under heavily supervised conditions (ie, birthday party at another kids house) and filled to the brim with tablets, phones, computers etc.

I feel very bad for my nephew's effective lack of childhood, even more so because it seems that doing something differently is a big social taboo. My mom, siter and I have talked about this, and my sister described being almost powerless - who would they play with? Where? What are other parents going to think? etc etc.

When I go to places like rural Belize or small-town Costa Rica I see kids still playing and I wonder if that's not the best place to raise a small kid (4-10 years old).
> Do many people's minds really work like that? You are struck by a great idea out of the blue, and then you lose it minutes later?

I've found that as I've gotten older (and more busy) it's really important to keep notes. In my younger years I was more mentally agile and also more single-focused, and I got away with being not-very-rigorous with note taking (either digital or analog).
This seems like a possible win for Apple, and I hope they implement it. I just wanted to point out that OSX to iOS AirDrop is not as trivial as many people make it sound. There are edge cases, such as "what if the user doesn't have an app that supports this file?". It's different than email, because the file can't be saved in anyone's sandbox.
Thank you for the upvote and have one in return, but, oh, boy, are you opening up a can of worms that I am sure all of hacker news does not want to get into.

In a nutshell, the military was my ex's dream job that he thought I would not support. He pursued it anyway. (Reality: I supported it. It was his mother who was against it.) He liked to play the martyr card and act like deploying was some huge personal sacrifice for the good of the family -- while telling me I could not go off to college as it would destroy the marriage -- but it absolutely was not true. He loved that shit and taking care of his family was not a super high priority of his.

Second, most heterosexual relationships go (physically) where he wants to go/where his career takes him. That is the norm. That is not some aberration on the part of the OP.* It is part of why it has been relatively easy post divorce for me to keep telling attractive men that I found hot to take a fucking hike. I want a life. I am not interested in moving back in to some fucking gilded cage. I know the stats. Most marriages are strongly skewed towards supporting male privilege at female expense. Men and women alike are typically oblivious to the degree that this is true, so I get a lot of hatred when I start talking about such things.

Anyway, that's the short version. I have done lots of reading over the years related to such issues, so I know for a fact it is not peculiar to my (former) marriage. We can just agree to disagree here and not pursue some ugly bloodbath that will only make me a lightening rod for controversy, a role I loathe.

Have a great day.

* Edit: Which the OP states he did not do anyway, so let's not give me shit over that. It suggests he's less of a selfish asshole than your average guy, possibly not a good observation to make in a predominantly male forum, exactly why I don't really want to open this can of giant, writhing worms. Ugh.
I've had this debate with a friend who's a big proponent of EmberJS (and to a lesser degree Angular). My friend feels that without one of these libraries you will simply be writing way too much unnecessary boilerplate code for a single-page app of significant size. I personally prefer to rely on small modular dependencies, so Component appeals to me, but I've only played with Ember/Angular a little bit so I don't necessarily know what I'm missing. Can you recommend a set of Components that would provide similar functionality and productivity?
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Couldn't agree more, I have run into the same things it appears you have and come to similar conclusions. That was what was hardest for me when getting started, there are a billion examples of how to write a chat app, a todo list, etc but none of the examples I came across had, as you call it the "meat of how to build and Angular app with Firebase". I felt like most of what I was seeing was gimmicky and had no real use (on it's own).
I think you get a bag of tricks as you work on this stuff, for sure. But I think they are more like the tricks artisans gather, share and re-use than fundamental academic truths.
If you fill a fountain pen completely before air travel, it shouldn't leak (no air inside to act as a pressure differential). Also keep the pen pointing tip up.
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They used to have a service for exactly that: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/health/about/
Looks like a throw-away account. Who knows what the dude's problem (cowardice my guess) but he didn't want to take the rep hit.
Absolutely exactly what I've been looking for. Just ordered a couple of them. Thanks!
Clean water. Physical safety. Electricity. Maybe when you thought "pretty much everyone," you had the bay area in mind or something, but actually it includes a pretty large group of very poor people.
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One could also arrange to have 100,000 cars in SF stolen.
Aubrey has been talking about tackling aging as a disease for a long time now. Some of us have been waiting for some real serious investment in that direction because historically it seems he has been the lone voice in the field willing to challenge aging in this way.

This announcement could be interpreted as strong support for the general concepts that Aubrey talks about.
Assume that I am building an interface that displays data I have retrieved from your API.

Are you saying that your API would require my interface to mimic your pagination, as opposed to being able to retrieve data in such a way that I could paginate as I saw fit?
The root cause is sociopathic control freaks who think they know best, and want to tell other people what to do. It's the reason why so many victimless crimes are punishable with prison time. You can't dictate morality. Preventing someone from doing whatever they please with their body is what is truly immoral, society just needs to realize that.
Clean water. Basic health care. Not dying from diseases we've already been able to cheaply cure or prevent for decades.

Oh, I'm sorry, you don't consider yourself part of the elite?
You're off by 10 years..
I love writing on the "Sustainable Earth" notebooks from Staples [1]. The only thing I dislike is that the pages are perforated so they tear more easily than I'd prefer in a long-term notebook.

At only a few dollars, I don't feel bad scribbling on one or two pages, and then tearing them out and re-writing them more neatly afterwards. The paper is made mainly of recycled sugar cane, and is an absolute joy to write on. They also sell printer paper of the same.

1: http://www.staples.com/sustainable+earth+notebook/directory_...?
He's not, he's just well known as having put together the first clear roadmap for life extension and ultimately "curing" death. If anyone could be considered the "father" of the field, it's him. Hence the comparisons people are making.
It is the other guy's fault for not verifying their email address. If I register with someone@whitehouse.gov email address, I would assume someone with that email handle can claim my twitter account.
As a near-daily Solidworks user, I totally agree. The problem in my mind is just that the barrier to entry is so high due to cost that it prevents the kind of open collaboration on mechanical design that's been possible for years in software and electronic hardware. Just like 3D printers, prices will come down to better serve hobbyists and individuals -- it's just a matter of time.
Sorry, but no. Transhuman-level stuff is not safe or even morally allowable for our current society. No. Just freaking no.

I was born in a world where two things in life got to everyone: death, and taxes. They've already "relieved" the elite of taxes, and now they're looking to do the same for death.

No. We are not their cattle, and they are not our shepherds.

You want immortality, robots, and post-scarcity awesomeness? Great. Make it for everyone.

Don't develop The Future just so the capitalist elite can exploit even harder.
Why are we limited to this planets resources exclusively?
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I guess legally it's not a problem, but ethically? I just don't think the premium WordPress market is mature enough to exploit like this, but perhaps this is just the thing that will kick it into shape.
It has to do with the way UIViewController titles now work. When you tap something that pushes a new view controller onto the stack, the current title animates left and _becomes_ the new back button. The animation is not only pretty, it makes it really obvious where you are going, and how to get back.
I think you would be amazed at the sheer quantity of stuff that you forget. Looking back at old journals is always surprising and fascinating, even the stuff that back then seemed mundane. Writing is a way of augmenting one's working memory. Things that would otherwise flow off like water on a duck get another chance.
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