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The most likely form of longevity assurance technologies will be infusions. Think about the cost of, say, TNF inhibitors today. It is a mass-produced biologic that a bored technician runs into you through an IV, and is $5-8K per procedure last time I looked.

The really expensive medicine today is either experimental (new technologies still in development) or requires the attention of a lot of highly trained staff for some time (surgeries, chemotherapies).

But the mature longevity assurance technologies of tomorrow will not be individualized, since everyone ages due to the same root causes. They will be mass produced infusions of nanoparticles, gene therapy vectors, drugs to break down metabolic byproducts, that sort of thing. Factories will make them in bulk, and clinical assistants will inject a program of these things into individual patients once every ten to twenty years. Since everyone will benefit, the individual cost will drop with the massive scale of sales and delivery.
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Out of all the things to worry about AI is at the bottom of my list. 3rd world countries, declining air quality, war, ect. are all things more deserving of our time and energy.
Or gay.
Who is going to hire you? Try getting a job at 62 right now.
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This intrigued me:

> Don’t even get me started about URL parameters. No, not querystrings – there was originally a specification where you could do something like “/key1:value1/key2:value2/” to pass data into a request.

I couldn't find a specification, but I did find [1] which led to [2], both of which indicate that there's an idea of parameters within the URL hierarchy itself. It seems to me that it could be useful for API versioning at least.

As to the article itself, I completely agree. The problem is, though, that there's just not enough incentive for folks to actually use the Web standards suite the way (I want to believe) it was meant to be used. How much would cost to make a fully-semantic, JavaScript-extended (but not -requiring), machine-usable website which is also adaptive and beautiful and appealing to humans? And how much benefit would one realise?

Rather than do things the Right Way, folks just hack through and do it A Way, and get on with life. I wish that it weren't so, I truly do, but it is. At this point, railing against it feels like railing against the tides.

[1] http://doriantaylor.com/policy/http-url-path-parameter-synta...

[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.3
Once again you point out how someone is obviously a fool who doesn't know what he is talking about. Once again you completely miss the fact that he is actually quite knowledgeable and you have failed to read the post while giving the author sufficient credit to actually get his point. You probably don't realize how incredibly arrogant and condescending you seem.
Most of the good stuff here (using the full range of HTTP verbs and status codes, idempotent GET, stable URLs) is already common knowledge among web developers and built into any modern framework.

URNs are interesting but difficult to work with in practice; 402 Payment Required has been "reserved for future use" forever. Then there's the suggestion to use custom HTTP methods, which is ill-advised [1].

[1]: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/193826
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Microsoft's development tools are (therefore) expensive, so unless you're getting paid to use them, it's harder to invest yourself in them.
If one could sell one reactor's worth, a gigawatt, of continuous power at that price, it'd be 1,8 million dollars per day and over 500 million dollars per year. Over 30 years it'd be 15 billion dollars.

You have to put up quite a few windmills and solar panels to get to such numbers.

On the other hand, the Olkiluoto three 1,6 GW nuclear plant has taken more than a decade and countless billions and still isn't ready.
And if you thought it was hard to get hired in tech at the age of 50, wait until you try at 100 :-)

On a more serious note, it is going to be a huge financial disaster if folks "suddenly" start living to 120. There are many many things which have nominal lifespans "baked in" and if that changes gradually the algorithm can be adjusted gradually but if it changes suddenly, that results in insufficient money collected to pay out promised payments.

When you get to a certain age (varies by individual) you start talking to or consulting retirement advisors. Those advisors will ask you something like "when do you want to retire?" and "what sort of net income do you want?" and they will take your expected lifetime (say 100) and tell you when you can stop working such that paying out at that rate will exhaust your savings when you hit 100. But if you roll with that plan and at 75 get a treatment that extends your life to 120, well that is something of a problem right?
Yes, you can, both EU residents and out of EU residents.

But you need an official address in UK (registered address) for your company, where Government can send you official mail. There are companies that give you this service, so it's not a big problem.
I feel horrified as they (the masses) do not have any glue what they are doing.
I think he is referring to apps that only show content, like a news-site reader or something along the lines of that.

However, most of the apps I've seen have a Share feature which one can use to retrieve the link.
The problem is that Stallman has painted himself in a corner here. On the one hand, he says: don't use LLVM/Clang, it's dangerous, use GCC instead; on the other hand, he says, no, you cannot add to GCC the features that you would need to use it instead of LLVM/Clang. The net result is that Emacs will not have a set of features that are _essential_ for development of C++ software, which in turn drives people away from using Emacs to other IDEs.

He's not furthering the cause of GNU and the FSF, he is not promoting free software, he is _driving people away from it_.

What's the point of making all those talks about the importance of free software, if you then actively _prevent_ free software from being useful?

Software exist because it has a use, otherwise it's just a worthless exercise in futility.
Yeah. Like the way the elite have kept big screen TVs and pocket computer/phones for only themselves.
Sorta related, The HTTP2 Error Code of ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM strikes me as a joke because of the name...

http://http2.github.io/http2-spec/index.html#ErrorCodes

A quick Google shows that it's previously just been used by Twitter to demonstrate rate limiting.
In this case the situation is different. AI researchers didn't succeed at program analysis; they gave up. @fiatmoney is right: it's no longer considered an AI problem. But computer scientists haven't solved it either, because they keep bumping their heads against the computability ceiling. It's very clear to me that AI is actually required for general, accurate program analysis.
Wrong. You underestimate the power of AI. AI profoundly affects economics, since economics is fundamentally computational.
"There are companies that give you this service, so it's not a big problem.", can you list some companies who provide this kind of service?
What sp332 said - there wouldn't be any extra steps as you would have to go to your email to complete registration anyhow.

You could have an extra link in your email which lets you update your existing registration details with the ones you've just entered, but that's not going to significantly extend the amount of time you take to register.
Having used STM in Haskell, actors look like a draconian way to handle shared mutable state.
Use ethic monoids to combine seemingly disparate ethical systems. https://medium.com/@yanazendo/ethic-monoids-913c3046079c
Fido is a great shop and 100K is relatively cheap for that important of a lesson... and of course we shouldn't ask too many what-ifs.
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> Of course I know about HTTP verbs PUT and DELETE and HEAD-- is there really any web dev who doesn't?

Yes: I've interviewed some. Very few realise there's any more than GET/PUT/POST/DELETE, which astonished me: surely everyone's left an HTTP debugger running while updating an SVN repo or browsing a WebDAV share?
"Anything other than your speculation to back up your belief in individuals neural plasticity having anything to do with the social advances you mention?"

You seem deeply confused. If those changes happened entirely because old people changed their minds, then individual neuroplasticity has a tremendous amount to do with the changes mentioned. On the flip side, in a world with no neuroplasticity at all, we would only see change when people are born with different views.

"Young people have not had a great record of voting. So those changes you are attributing to neural plasticity are likely brought about by those old frozen minds you mention, and less so the young plyable ones if you ask me."

"Young people" and "old people" are not static sets. Imagine a world where young people change their mind frequently until 25, when they stop changing their mind and start voting. You would never see the mind of any individual over-25-year-old change, but the distribution of views in the over-25 population would still change as people enter and leave that population. If social change requires support of some proportion of that population, stopping people from leaving it will slow social change.

I have no strong opinion about just how much our world resembles that one, but your reasoning does not support your claim here. There is some evidence that neuroplasticity tends to decline as people age.
I don't know why ChatSecure by the guardian project never comes up in these discussions: https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/

It uses Otr for encrypted chat, so you can use any otr client for the other side of the chat. I personally use pidgin on my laptop and ChatSecure on my cell. It currently supports at least iOS and Android, which encompasses most people that I know.
It's not the corporation that makes a communication tool bad, it's the selection bias introduced by some of those tools that make them bad for purpose of sampling opinions of general population.

You can assume that almost every citizen has a permanent address, and thus a mailbox. Nowdays in many countries you can also assume that almost everyone has a phone. But the demographics of Twitter are much different. Your average farmer, or liberal arts major, or most of the people over 50 probably haven't even heard about it. Using tweets to approximate vox populi will make your result heavily biased towards a particular group of people.
You can make a rectangle as long as you don't use all of the pieces (maybe that is part of the puzzle?). For example, from http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lychee-Tetris-Constructible-Three-di..., remove the purple piece, shift the red piece to the left one space and flip it, then place the blue piece vertically on the right hand side.
I registered my UK company while I was living in Germany. I used these guys for my registered company address: https://www.smallfirmsservices.com/Default.aspx

I used their cheapest service (£80/year) for which you get the company address, and they will only forward mail from HMRC and Companies House - anything else gets returned to sender.

We still use them, even though we have a trading address now.
This site is so busy it almost reminds me of a tabloid:

- three signup buttons (top-right and top-left, and the bottom of the article)

- permanent left overlay

- permanent double overlay on the top, including 9 'share' links

- red banner at the top for the latest campaign

- popular linkbait articles with pictures along the left side

- self-advertisement in the middle of the article

- giant modal signup popup after about 10 seconds of activity -- "Are you Prepared for Your Next Interview?"
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My team made this back in 1996, on a Pentium Pro 180. I had to dump the frames off every 4 hours for three days straight. How things have changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8pfwlPF4I
> RMS doesn't care about "open source"

Apparently, he also doesn't care about free software enough either, since he apparently prefers users to switch to something they can _use_ than allow provision of the functionality they need, on the basis that the same functionality could be used by non-free software.
> URN's I had not heard of, but the article didn't make it clear to me what problem they would solve.

It's a universal namespace, just like UUIDs, but with just enough extra sauce to make it theoretically possible to do interesting things with it. So 'urn:isbn:0451450523' might represent The Last Unicorn, and if you fed it to your Kindle it might enable you to buy it, and if you fed it into Nook ditto, and if you fed it into Project Gutenberg you might get a notice that it won't fall out of copyright until A.D. 3172, and if you fed it into your browser it might do any of those things or just look it up on ibiblio or Wikipedia.

Unfortunately, like many good ideas, it didn't take off because folks couldn't imagine a profitable use for it.
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I don't use auto brightness. I have it set to 50% pretty much all the time.
I can see a post-labour future, where automation has eaten so many jobs, and improved our quality of life so much, that noone really needs to work, you can have a job as a hobby if you want, but most people don't.

And as you point out, healthy elders won't retire. In a lot of countries there's talk of increasing the standard retirement age from 65, where it's been for many, many decades, which is a step in the completely wrong direction, since that just accelerates the job shortage. It's no coincidence that youth unemployment is higher than ever.

I can see the bright future, but I cannot see the way forward. Every political party is about keeping the status quo, keeping the 9-to-5-and-a-mortgage going, the left/right divide is about who owns the means of production, but both are firmly set on the notion that everyone should work. There are no incentives for existing power elites to change either. They will benefit immensely from the automation improvement, because the owners get all the profits, while the employees get less and less, since there's fewer and fewer of them.

It's interesting that the work week has been stuck at 8 hours for over a century, while worker productivity has increased magnitudes.

I don't know what to do, how to change this. What political steps need to be taken?
Umm... smart phones do this? It's a big reason phones can last so long with serious power requirements. A big reason for the phone/mobile specific chipsets was to enable these features.
> Do you know why your FORM tag has an attribute called “method”? Because you’re calling a method on a web server, like a method on an object in OOP. Did you know there are other methods besides GET and POST? There’s HEAD and OPTIONS and PUT and DELETE.

Except HTML(5) forms do not support any methods other than GET and POST.
I have a hunch that the field reporters are enjoying this because they are likely not camping, staying at the Awahnee on the company dime, not a whole lot goes on when watching the climbers try burns as there is a lot of downtime on a big wall. It is also likely that some of the field reporters are climbers and that the editors aren't so the story gets put into terms that no climber would say.
No you misunderstand. He's referring to not seeing RedStar in use DPRK.
This was posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867923
That seems logical. I think the average lifespan is factored into nearly all facets of human civilization, implicitly and explicitly. Come to think of it, I probably take my expected lifespan into account when making all kinds of decisions, both consciously and unconsciously.
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I think a plain wrong is mistakenly assuming you both have the same definition of AI.

I suspect the parent comment meant "of all things, an Intelligence Explosion by general purpose AI", which to be fair even the group set up here to study do not seriously believe in.

You are right in that It's almost impossible to deny the impact that some AI research has lead to - but that is the field of AI not the existence of "real" AI.

You might both be talking past each other
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This bit of exaggerated pedantry has convinced me that you're not arguing in good faith.
Does it not seem possible that many of the factors leading to this gender grouping are influenced by biological age? For example, research shows that our brains are hugely influenceable until our mid to late 20's. At that point major pathways have been established which influence our thinking for the rest of our lives.

What if we counter aging such that people never leave their peak physical condition? (25 years old?)

Will they still group by the generation in which they were born?
From what I understand, the difference between this and "click your mouse on a video screen, and it will acquire the target and hit it" is for a considerable part psychological. You do the clicking through a gun scope, and the gun more or less expects you to not hold it stable, then fires itself at the moment that you accidentally point it the right way. That makes it feel more like you do the shooting than a video-game like experience, but from a technical point of view, the difference isn't that large.
Alex Honnold is known for free solo climbing; e.g. http://vimeo.com/73901538
A lot of company regulation in the UK is tiered - there are 'micro', 'small', 'medium' and 'large' categories which need different accounts and auditing, sales thresholds below which you don't need to register for VAT and things like that. The idea being to make it easy to start a company.

However, if you want your income from the business to be counted as your income for purposes of a loan or mortgage, you'll have a much easier time if an accountant can certify that the business really exists! And for a small business you can get the accounts done for £200-300 a year, so I doubt many people do their own :)
I've heard good things about Estonia as well. Don't forget, merely incorporating a company in a different jurisdiction will NOT mean it is resident there.

Establishing companies in different jurisdictions can be a viable way to run (internet) businesses, but care needs to be taken in various areas.

If you have limited understanding about business and international structuring, go with a South Korean company. If you want to use a foreign company, you will probably need to register it in SK regardless. Especially if you're the sole director/shareholder and running it from SK.

'Offshore' havens often serve very specific purposes, i.e. holding of assets or stakes in companies, as a tax neutral special purpose vehicle to easily structure a joint venture, etc

If you take the foreign route, talk to a (South Korean tax) lawyer! That way, you can get it set up properly. You might get pummeled with fines otherwise.
If we extend life to 120 it buys us more time to go for 150, then that buys us more time to go for 300 etc.
Wanted to share our entry in The Happiness Apps Challenge (http://happinessapps.challengepost.com/submissions/30737-out...).

We too rarely tell people we love them, but people should know that we do. Trying to make the world a happier and more loving place!
Great points. I often forget how many of my breakthroughs come from careful reflective synthesis, and I forget that, in general, it's a slow process.

It turns out, immersive learning is absolutely capable of compressing synthesis time as well as knowledge transfer. One of the best parts of Hack Reactor is the time after the 'solution lecture', during which everyone gets the chance to reflect on their code and solutions and discuss macro and micro optimizations that were possible.

For general reflection, Socratic seminars are a great way of condensing the synthesis time. Those who have had small epiphanies share them, and hopefully it avalanches.

But you're correct. The deepest learning is very personal and requires effort, solitude, and time. Immersive learning gives you the trunk and knowledge of a few select branches, but if you want to see the leaves you must find them yourself, or at most with one other person. In Hack Reactor's case, only half of the course is absorbing information. The second half is left to projects, during which synthesis must occur and individuals specialize and gain deep knowledge.

500+ hours of steady research and application is nothing to scoff at, especially since it happens while connected to a huge wealth of intellectual resources (I worked directly with Neo4j peoples for a project).
Bug: On Nokia N900's MicroB browser on each step forward or backward it jumps over one question, effectively skipping half of them in total.

I'm aware that it's a really old engine (from somewhere around Firefox 3.5 times), but it sounds like something trivial to fix.
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It sounds like you except that to happen. I don't think they will ever do that.
Hopefully this ends up making i2p a stronger alternative to Tor, by having more crypto guys taking a look at it and finding bugs or bad designs in it.
Any metric that you choose will have the same problem. The metric may improve over a period because of actions that you take, or they may improve because of something entirely unrelated. This is an important thing to be aware of.

However, there is another problem with metrics. Sometimes, it is too easy to pay too much attention to vanity metrics that won't add anything to your bottom line. Will moving from a 25th place to 1st place for a search help your business? That depends - does that search generate traffic, and does that traffic generate revenue? On the other hand, increasing revenue is never a bad thing.

I'd argue that unless decision makers have too much time on their hands, they're better off focusing on metrics like revenue than metrics like search results. Validity will be a problem across all metrics, but at least there isn't a tendency to optimize useless metrics.
The argument in the article was that it's the purple piece (the "T") that is the problem (or least that makes the proof trivial). Can you make a rectangle with a subset that includes the T?
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Actually it seems that all laptops now use white LED backlights in their "intended" configuration. That suggests to me that if the phosphors on your projection light source LEDs were equivalent to the ones on the backlight LEDs you would get the same colors coming of the screen as you would from it on a laptop. At that point it becomes a question of the reflection surface as to how well it reflects the spectra you throw at it.

And I agree with you that taking pictures is a different application than room lighting, but there is significant overlap. Essentially I'd like to have a "perfect" broad spectrum lamp for my pictures, and I'm happy to bias the spectrum one way or the other for room lighting. That said, the combination of a broad spectrum room light and a digital photo processing stream lets me get back to the 'original' colors. That was not always true with LEDs but with the high CRI ones it works well for me.
I propose Brian's Law - any AI sufficiently advanced to learn faster than humans would learn from human history and stop talking to us.
Valproate, valproic acid, and sodium butyrate affect histone deacetylase, which might help rejuvenate brain plasticity. See also:

* http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010....

* http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24831-learning-drugs-r...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleability_of_intelligence