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No one deserves this, especially not at 35. That is far too young. I've had more than a couple of people close to me pass away from cancer and other causes and it all seems very depressing that in some cases you can't really do anything at all.

Forgive me for asking but doesn't health insurance cover costs of cancer treatment even in the USA? I really don't want to sound like a narcissist and I'm not trying to judge in the least, but I'm curious why the OP wasn't more diligent about planning ahead in terms of health insurance given he made a decision to have/raise four children.

Do people really not take into account stuff like children's education, cost of living expenses per additional member of family, emergencies, black swan events? I know my parents decided to have only X number of kids because they knew that they wouldn't be able to provide well for more than X children. This was a conscious decision given that my father grew up with 7 siblings and my mom says she would have had more children if they would have been able to provide for them.

Also I'm genuinely curious whether $20,000 for a final resting place seems like a good amount to put on a list of priorities given all the other costs involved? Mortgage and transportation seem like good goals, but minus the cancer, if some one else decided to raise money from the internet to spend it on traveling, I'm not sure a lot of the comments would be so positive?

I'm really sorry for being so negative, but these are general questions that I have and they are in no way directed towards the OP. Cancer sucks. Period.
Reading this makes me glad we both have life insurance that pays off half the mortgage in case of our untimely death. That way, whoever is left behind will only have to deal with half the financial burden.
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Can you provide any data or any additional clarity? There's enough food produced in the world, for example, but it just doesn't get to the people who need it. I'd like to add that I wasn't saying that money is necessarily the answer. The power of crowd-sourcing, for instance, can help in other ways.
I think the issue with the search is that it makes it very difficult to search for text within files, for example. You have to do a search and then modify it afterwards. The same is true in Finder. It's backwards.
No, there isn't. Democracy might not be great, but it is orders of magnitude better than not-democracy. The main function of democracy is to keep true tyrants out of power, and it's very effective at that.
According to Wikipedia, 4% of young H1N1 infectees are hospitalized and only 5% of those die. The study found that the vaccination increased risk of narcolepsy in children by factor of 6.5. Baseline prevalence of narcolepsy is one in 3,000.[1] So even assuming certain infection with the flu, chance of getting narcolepsy from the vaccination is on par with dying from the flu.

The problem with this vaccination was that it was rushed to the market in the flu pandemia scare without proper trials.

[1]: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/narcolepsy/detail_narcole...
Maybe I was a bit harsh. Now on to create something that's both cool and really matters (satisfying both the kids and the elders).

If you're viewing GIFs on Windows and it is drawn using GDI or GDI+, nothing is accelerated. It's bust.
I did not find the disappearance of the aircraft to be the least plausible plot device in Lost.
This was on HN a couple days ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Boeing_727-223_disappearan...

Just 10 years ago someone has stolen a Boeing 727 from an airport,took off, turned off the transponder and landed somewhere. Even FBI looked for that plane and couldn't find it. So I guess it's very much possible to fly undetected.
Without sounding unfeeling, do we really want to add to the overcrowding and population explosion problem that much?

Earth is full. Our population has doubled in the short time I've been alive. Doesn't that scare the shit out of anyone else?

Imagine what would happen if you suddenly cured all forms of cancer. People would live even longer. Population would shoot up. Lack of housing, lack of jobs. More pensioners...

edit: Downvote brigade... why am I wrong? What's going to save us from our own 'success'? How many more billion people can the planet take?
In Netherland, you can choose to refuse an inheritance. If you accept it, you get everything, including the debts; if you refuse it, you get nothing, not even small trinkets with sentimental value.

Though in the case of a mortgage, losing the debt also means losing the house. I totally understand wanting your family to be able to keep the house. Losing your dad/husband and also having to leave the house with all the memories of him, would suck double.
What purpose does that giant blue bar have at the bottom of Windows Explorer? It isn't resizable and you can't get rid of it. One bonus is that it has a gradient so isn't ugly, but I can't see the point of it???
People smoking too much weeds? Ban weeds.

Several firearm slaughters? Ban guns.

Couple of knife mass murderings in China? Ban knifes!

1 reported vehicular violent murders? Ban people driving.

Perpetual occupational wars for Democracy(oil) that kill in the millions? Meh.
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So the house you purchased and the van you upgraded to are not yours, disposing of your body costs more than a car, visiting family means you have to stay in a hotel, the basic survival needs of your wife and four children are not guaranteed and you want to visit Disneyland and meet celebrities before you die?

Capitalism is beautiful.
Earth is not full, it is just badly managed. And overcrowding is only happening for poor people in parts of the world historically exploited by people who are now rich.

Even if we accepted that Earth is full, surely we don't just let all the poorest people die? And extending that reasoning, why treat any diseases at all?

The fact is that we could feed everyone and cure some of the biggest killers in the world today. These are not insoluble problems, they just aren't priorities for the richest nations because they're happening elsewhere.
The study outlined in the article hasn't convinced me and like all studies on matters of bullshit I'm pretty sure other studies will follow trying to prove the opposite.

Personally I have had problems much bigger than what I can handle and as a passive aggressive personality my mind's response is to simply ignore many problems which are otherwise very serious, which has led me into even bigger problems and on the edge of depression. But when I do happen to let my anger out, an interesting thing happens - I take steps to solve those problems, because vetting in itself can also be acknowledgement that you do have a problem in need of a fix.

That's why I don't like the study outlined, because like many other studies of psychology, it's very, very shallow and has a problem with causality.

Also, be mindful about the studies you read about. Before believing anything, be mindful about the science, the methodology behind it. For example if you take a look in the last 60 years, you'll probably discover hundreds of flawed studies on nutrition and cholesterol based on which medical personnel in all countries have been spreading myths as some sort of gospel.
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That's a good point, if the timestamps have the necessary precision and their clock drift info hasn't been lost by a resync since then. I'd guess that since exact time isn't crucial to the purpose of these messages, though, that they probably don't have very high precision timestamps. :-(
Yeah, the fact that millions of people still die of diseases we can treat, and are often even trivially preventable, is a far bigger social tragedy than there being some diseases we cannot cure yet.

Life sucks sometimes, but there's so much more we could be doing to make it suck a lot less for a lot of people.
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I think the magnetic strip isn't used by terminals; the chip is.
>I thought nearly the same. But my thought went more along the lines of "it's sad that this person's highest priorities are all about money".

You make it sound like it's his fault, or he wants money to hoard it or spend it.

He wants it for his family. His highest priorities are having them secure.
I would be more than happy to have modern versions that were so great to type on. While I really enjoy my iMac I cannot stand Apple keyboards or mice. The mush boards at work provided by Dell aren't much better.
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Replicants find back door to Android
Funnily enough, the Google self-driving car system is called Google Chauffeur.
We've found a file spying backdoor in Samsung phones – Replicant devs
Seems like a lot of work. I would prefer just hacking a bitcoin exchange.
Ask HN: How a responsive website builder raises 1.5 million?
Y Combinator backed startup WebFlow raises 1.5 million. (TC news is here: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/11/responsive-website-builder-webflow-raises-1-5-million-from-khosla-tim-draper-others/)

IN 2014, even there are lots of services and alternatives, how these kind of startup plan to build business and raises 1.5 million seed invesment?

I think product is not so impressive and the problem they solve, already can be solved many different, easy and cheap ways.

What investor and entrepreneur think about that?
Some ideas from Michio Kaku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLcEYbAdyxk (goto 5:13)
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May favorite part is the sound byte when you finish a level. "Yeaaah"
You could try using RPG Maker to create it. A lot of people made stuff for PSX back in the day like that. Not as cool/hard as making an entire game on your own but still something.

http://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_ISOs/RPG_Maker_%5...
I think this is really awesome and just donated.

Some tips that might help to get even more supporters:

* There should really be some kind of 'Tweet this' or 'Facebook this' link at the end of the payment process.

* It's not very visible that you don't need to enter your home address at the registration page.

* The 'Bronze', 'Silver' and 'Gold' sponsor pledges are only visible at the donation page, not on the main site.

* The homepage could explain better why you're writing 'film history' by donating. The headline is 'Support an open source animation feature film'. That sounds a bit tame. Why not use a headline like 'Be part of the world's first feature-length open source animated movie?'

* Tell us more about the movie. How many minutes will it run? Who are the main characters? Who will voice the characters?
Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games are amongst by favorite games of all time. It's probably because I had a NES and playing SNES or Genesis at a friend's place had such a huge 'WOW' factor for me. The games were so smooth and so beautiful. The stories were so much better!

Chrono Trigger has to be one of my all time favorites. The games and their stories seemed so deep, so philosophical, so transcendental. Somehow games today fail to grip me the same way. It's probably me.
So $\exp^{-x^2}$.
Why would I want to have to pay mobile when I can carry a much more durable and less valuable piece of plastic that performs just as well and never runs out of battery?
> But, most users in the world do not know how to install apps

That's a ridiculous claim.

> if they did they shouldn't because of security concerns.

Equally ridiculous. All the new shiny HTML5 tech is also bringing its load of security issues and an ever-increasing attack surface as the Web Browser slowly transforms itself into an OS.

There's a valid reason for running small games into the browser, but there'll never be a good reason to do that for a performance demanding game.
I don't believe in agile. Agile come from inexperience project manager who tough programmer is cheap .The most problem this type of manager is,wanted to prove,if not from him company will gain zero income and income come from his negotiation and paperwork .
Security,quality code all is abandon.It's about if the customer love it do it by hook or crook and wanted 110% quality ..
In the end,customer is tired because changing of idea and implementation delay because didn't take counter measurement analysis on each request agile and time. both loose.
The Malaysian transport minister has just denied this article's accuracy at a press conference in KL.

Which is interesting. The WSJ isn't just some random blog. I wonder where they got their information.
IMHO we should focus on quality of life. Not quantity.
Am I underestimating what is possible or are you under estimating what becomes possible when you spend those millions of years developing technology that could feasibly pull off any of those interstellar extermination methods?

The technology necessary to reach out and destroy another civilization light years away cannot be developed in a vacuum. No matter how you accelerate the nuke, navigate it or protect the payload from the harsh realities of relativistic flight, you will develop an entire canon of technologies and an understanding of the universe that before you would ever be capable of identifying, let alone destroying, another intelligent civilization.
can't miss an opportunity for pointless snark, eh?
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More than half the passengers were Chinese. That wouldn't go down very well with the home crowd.
Plus "idiomatic code" is overrated.

For example idiomatic Java was a clusterfuck for nearly a decade, with all the EJB's and FactorySingletonProxies and XML everywhere. It would be better for Java programmers to ignore the idiomatic BS prevalent in the community, and just use the language in a saner way.

Idiomatic is often just another name for "how lots of people prefer to do it" or "cargo cult".
If it malfunctions you don't want it to overheat and burn the plane down. Thus the ability to cut power.
Are you not yourself adding to it ?
They also put three journalists in the by-line. Is that typical?
I would have been perfectly happy to be working with the JVM here, except that the JVM as a platform for web-type client stuff died because the user experience was implemented so shoddily.

There was no conspiracy against it. It had its chance. It used to have high install rates. It was placed about as perfectly for success as you could hope to be. If it hadn't failed so miserably at what it set out to do and be (and instead succeeded in a different area), we would be using it now, and living in the utopia you wish for.

As an aside, a lot of your complaints against web technologies make it sound as if there is a cohesive group of people designing something and doing it wrong. Actually it's a much more chaotic process involving a diverse group of people and companies and competing interests. It doesn't guarantee that we end up with the best designs, but such a process has benefits too, and since it's happening in the open, you could actually take part too (assuming you aren't already).
Sure.

The WHO produces a report on causes of death wordwide[0]. Heart disease and stroke are the biggest killers, but these are, like cancer, really quite complex. Diarrhoeal diseases and respiratory infections kill a ridiculous number of people, but these are largely solved problems in the western world. Organisations like the Gates Foundation are doing great work exporting what we know about these diseases to the developing world, but governments do a pitiful amount. A number of chronic lifestyle diseases are rising: lung/throat cancer (due to smoking) and diabetes (due to eating sugar). My suggestion is that we should prioritise disease research and treatment based on how many people are dying and how easily those problems could be solved. But because funding bodies are all human, and all in the developed world, the disease they most fear is cancer.

Regarding food security, there is technically enough food produced in the world to feed everyone, if we could solve the distribution and storage problems and prevent rich governments' protectionist interference in agricultural markets and corruption in developing nations' governments. But a large amount of that wastage is also not really suitable for human nutrition. Probably the fastest way to alleviate hunger is to enable each part of the world to feed itself with food produced nearby. Because we've reached the limits of arable land in much of the world, this means making more land suitable for food production, finding new ways to provide water, and making crops be able to grow better in different conditions. The FAO's State of Food Insecurity report[1] is a good summary.

0. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/.

1. http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/
Thanks! Yeah, it does make some sense.
Spot-on. Also, don't get me started on mobile internet and broadband. Every time I go to America it's like going to a 3rd world country.
SERIOUSLY, Is this really the place for this?
It wasn't until I got to the bottom that I realised that they were after money rather than artists donating their time, i think that needs to be more clear from the start.
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My two cents: I don't think vaccination is dangerous per se, I think that type of vaccine might be the culprit.
Tragic as this story is, I would like to raise a point that could make life easier in event of untimely death i.e. term insurance. Term insurance is something that one should always get after getting married (or even before if your family is dependent on you). Multiple term insurances can be bought so you can keep buying more as your liabilities increase.
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Same: UK too and employer provides life insurance.

But when I bought a house, I was advised to get insurance cover specifically for the amount of debt remaining on the house; the policy lasts the length of the mortgage and pays out whatever is debt is outstanding.
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* You could have saved yourself a load of headache and incorporate in Delaware.

* If you don't have a physical office in each state you don't have a presence there. You shouldn't have needed to pay sales tax. Amazon only pays taxes in states they have a physical presence (warehouse, office, callcenter).
Is this a test of whether anyone actually reads these articles? Every 3rd paragraph has a viagra spam-link inserted in the middle of a sentence.
In my experience cellular phone networks behave very differently in different countries.

In some places I have made calls where I first hear one kind of ring which is then replaced by a second, different kind of ring. A hypothesis is that one network has played a ring tone while it connects to another network, and that the second network plays the other ring tone as the actual phone is ringing. I have even heard three different kinds of tones when making calls to phones that are roaming in foreign countries.

The global phone network is an incredibly heterogeneous spaghetti of different networks built with different gear installed at different times. The internet looks positively homogenous by comparison.

My point is that you shouldn't rush to positively say "No, you will not hear a ringing."
> You make it sound like it's his fault,

and in some sense, it is. When you do something as big as buying a house and taking on a huge mortgage, a premature death simply is something you have to think about. You can chose to insure your family against that (live insurance), or you can chose to take the risk. Or you can not think about it, and let life chose for you.

Even now, selling the house and/or car (and worrying less about money) is an option. It's not a popular option, but my point is that there are options, and that means that there is also choice in the order of priorities.

> or he wants money to hoard it or spend it.

That's totally not how I see it, and I'm sorry if it came across that way.
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It looks like everything either malfunctioned or was intentionally turned off all at once.
A long time ago one of my servers had a very crude monitoring system, it would send me an email every half hour saying "I'm still alive!". Hard to believe that kind of simple thing can't be implemented on a 21st century airliner ( or maybe it is, then forgive my ignorance please). A simple beep beep signal saying "I'm still flying!", every minute or so, with the plane's location as a bonus.

Edit: that said, if the plane starts breaking apart at cruising altitude, it wouldn't help much with finding it...so maybe self-powered transponders in nose, tail, wings, engines etc etc, nicely sealed in "black box" style casings might help. Or maybe they have that already and I know absolutely nothing about modern planes (or planes in general).
I don't know what RR is, but you don't have to transmit to any central authority. Just to the plane owner.

Make a law that the owner has to preserve the data for one week, but doesn't have to provide it to anyone.

And doesn't the US military track every overland flight anyway?
Two years ago, when I was 28, a 20cm large tumor was found between my lungs, after increasing problems with breathing. I was lucky enough to have "the right cancer", and to live in a western nation. As far as scans can tell, it is gone. I wish this guy the very very best.
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Not for me it doesn't. Try running a virus scan on your machine?
I think you need to run some anti-spy ware software on your computer. I don't see any ads of that sort on the blog page.
Yet another example why I try not to make any debts, especially when it comes to such large numbers, because you never know what tomorrow holds. Either you have the money or you don't. It really saddens me that it's normal nowadays to live on debts. I rather live my life less luxurious but debts free.

After all, I wish them all the best!
Fantastic, thanks so much :)
whenever someone is boasting about how the scandinavia is a paradise I'd suggest reading this article in Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-mi...
Wow - what a resource - cheers!
You're getting downvoted because:

1) Despite your disclaimer you are sounding unfeeling.

2) It seems convenient for a (presumably) relatively healthy and youthful person to be advocating large sacrifices that will hit others first.

3) Many of us don't share your pessimistic view of human progress. If we can figure out how to thwart death from disease, we can probably figure out how to deal with overpopulation.

4) And of course the obvious, and entirely heartless rejoinder: if you're so keen on death to reduce overpopulation, isn't it a bit selfish of you to keep on living?
Scrum Agile works great. Keep it light and loose and watch the code fly. I don't know much about the other flavors or taking it too far into process but I've seen the amazing things Agile as a philosophy can do.
Ha! Apologies :)
Yes, American cities are literally akin to 3rd world countries.
Let me guess: Sao Paolo is expensive because of government. And Moscow. Etc. In fact, no matter what country you pick, the most highest cost of living nearly always in the most thriving cities.

Any intelligent, sane, informed, and/or rational person would realize this means that this means markets are a driver.

But you, like most Libertarians on this site, pretend that it's always the government, though always for a different reason. This is because you're a closed-minded moron who recognizes that government is always one edge away in the graph, and thus you can blame every single bad thing on it.

You truly are a far-gone religious zealot who has lost any connection with reality.

Enjoy your lonely, shitty, ignorant, awful life.