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I fear getting old - don't fear death itself, but the thought of being incapable of taking care of myself, of becoming a burden for my children, or of dying in pain. I fear Alzheimer's or dementia or cancer more than I fear the thought of going into an eternal slumber.

> Believe it or not, everyone hates diseases, but everyone seems to love death

That's totally understandable IMHO. People are conservative in nature and an anti-aging treatment would change the very fabric of our society. Examples: death would no longer be a potential cure for despotism. We would no longer be able to raise children. What would happen with a brain that has 500 years worth of memories? Etc, etc... This is one of those cases in which we think further than our own personal interest.

And surely, if an anti-aging treatment gets invented, I don't think anybody would reject it, mostly because we are creatures favoring instant gratification.

Therefore I have trouble believing that Aubrey de Grey couldn't get funding because the population is against such a treatment. The simplest possible reason for why Aubrey de Grey couldn't get funding is because the potential investors saw snake oil.
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I love curl so much. I just learned that you can 'copy to curl command' from the chrome inspector's network panel by right clicking on any request!!

I want to make a library that reads the curl command (and maybe request syntax?) and outputs a function that will do that command.
The first documented version of HTTP was HTTP V0.9 (1991) has only GET: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html

Basic HTTP as defined in 1992 had GET, PUT, HEAD, POST, LINK, TEXTSEARCH, CHECKIN, etc.:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Methods.html

More generic info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
Americans never had a problem with entering Myanmar. All you needed was a visa from the embassy in Beijing (you could probably get one at the consulate in Kunming also).
The characterization "six times the size of New York City" evokes images of area with the same building density. Actually it seems to be quite sparse

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Republic+of+the+Union+of+M...
Nice job there, trying to derail the discussion. Let's go back to talking about google and how it was blackmailing websites in order to take their unique content and display it directly in search results.

Any opinions on that?
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That wouldn't be that surprising depending on what they mean. Assuming that Google or Facebook use curl in various applications, 1 billion sounds about right.
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The most common language used on websites is PHP which uses libcurl to handle HTTP requests.
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I've wondered about this too and my best guess it that writing a good optimizing compiler for a dynamic language like Ruby or Javascript is quite difficult and beyond the abilities of most developers. The JS engines in the major browsers are only fast because tremendous resources have been devoted to making them fast. I don't think PyPy or Rubinius have had anything close to the same level of investment. This is why I think JS is pretty much guaranteed to "win" the dynamic language race in the long run.
If the treatment is a product of the current pharmaceutical industry, I think one might have to worry about that - especially in the beginning.

It might be seen as even less important than distributing food to the starving, and medicine to the sick, of which there is still not enough going on.

But there is at least one other pathway. As an AGI researcher, I believe that artificial intelligence will solve the problem for us, and, all other things being equal, the cure will be made available everywhere, at the same time.

My own research makes me believe that we are not very far from that outcome.
We just built something[1] similar, but it uses the HAR request object to describe the request.

[1] https://github.com/Mashape/httpsnippet
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Any sufficiently large quantitative change becomes a qualitative change. Orders of magnitude usually do that.
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curl has a --libcurl option which you can add to a curl command line, and then it'll generate a libcurl-using C code template for that same operation...
Thank you for pointing this out (reading on a desktop, so I'm wouldn't have noticed otherwise). The source does this via:

<figure
class="book-fullbleed ipad-portrait-img">
<img src="ima( … )9.jpg" alt="">
</figure>
<figure
class="book-fullbleed ipad-landscape-img">
<img src="imag( … )x1039.jpg" alt="">
</figure>

And where ipad-landscape-img is backed by media-selectors in
bookstrap.js.

I wonder if this "bookstrap" think is related to
bookstrap.org? The site is blank, and the github-repo linked to from
https://www.npmjs.com/package/bookstrap is gone/empty …

Either way it's refreshing to see some people still make sensible design
without a ton of minimized CSS (even if this still pulls in two big
stylesheets and a js-file … all to display some text … ).
> ubiquitous, functional, and necessary

I think it's like the plumage of the male peacock. It doesn't make sense at all to put on that display, but if everyone does it you can't be the only one out, because it's expected.

Here in old-timey Europe I know only one shop that has an open sign like that, and it's a massage parlor.
He didn't co-found neither Tesla, much less PayPal.

I like him, he has done well but his PR has done even better.
I remember a good discussion with Phillip at ISMB 2012, which lets me vouch for the quality/seriousness of his work. If you use emacs, it is worth your time to follow up on this.

If you don't use emacs, the f^hvi upon you!
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Yes, but the criticisms of Scientology having merit doesn't mean that these criticisms have merit. And people thinking that airplanes were overly ambitious when they were just around the corner doesn't mean that a cure for death is just around the corner.

Both those things might be true, but I would need stronger evidence than has been presented thus far to convince me.
Perhaps the opposite: Maybe he was referencing the physics research there?
Has Apple betrayed its moral healthcare obligations in favour of fashion?
Yeah, these LED "OPEN" signs indicate cheap/tacky to me, because I only ever notice them on places I would match in these categories. (I'm in Germany)
I just wonder why noone ssem to be interested here is this - quite unique - event.
The flat screens are better and I think there were power plugs, the first I've seen so far. I'm not the biggest fan of the electronically dimmed windows since you can't make it completely opaque. Other than that no big changes as far as I remember.
As if email wasn't distracting enough already, now you're giving it steriods???

(right, the article is a promo for Mail Chimp, which I use and enjoy. Just missing my /. days, when reading the source article was always bad form. Anyone else miss Soviet Russia, where television watches you? Oh, wait...)
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Google reportedly blackmailed websites into giving it content for free
And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a 'host' header. Curl just works.
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depreciating asset that's only major benefit over a $10k Honda Civic is as a status symbol.

Some people think that driving is fun and think of having a car that is fun to drive as a major benefit.
Google Inbox is insanely slow on Firefox
I use Firefox browser on all platforms. I use Google Inbox in mobile(Android) and GMail on desktop. With the recent launch of Inbox for Firefox, I gave it a run.

Inbox was insanely slow on Firefox. I takes around 80MB of memory(took the stat from about:memory). The rendering is very slow. The animations are not smooth while switching from one view to another.

I have two questions here,

1. Is there anyone who is facing similar behavior?
2. How do I take more metrics (or what are metric I should compare), to check the performance across different browsers from the client side
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Part of the problem is that one of Ruby's good sides is that most of the time, it does what you want without requiring most developers to delve into the darker corners of the language. Or indeed care much about performance.

While there are lots of productive, opinionated Ruby developers, the vast majority of us don't know much about the internals of the language.

Heck, for my part I'm working on a Ruby compiler (and have been writing about it for 7 years now... Unfortunately I have far too little time to devote to it), and part of the challenge is that there's no proper language spec and even most people working on MRI does not know the full semantics of the language.

My favourite example of this, is that for a long time during the 1.8.x, the inheritance of one of the core classes was different than what was documented - I wrote an article about the Ruby object model and was "corrected"; except my diagram had been created based on instrumenting the interpreter to verify what actually happened. It was like that for years without anyone noticing (and to be fair, it was a dark corner of the language - very little code depends on the specifics of the inheritance of the eigenclasses of the core classes).

Of those of us who love Ruby and are interested in compiler technology and have the motivation to slog it out to try to get working compilers - whether JIT or AOT - there are extremely few.

And most of that effort is going into JRuby, which is definitively seeing some impressive improvements (e.g. with Truffle) but which a lot of us avoid because of the JVM.

Ruby will get faster. And will get better implementations, but it may still take some time to have much impact.
Which, incidentally, is probably the majority of the people, ~everyone~. Explaining the question quite well in my opinion?
Can I just say thank you for all those hours of hard work the maintainers have put in over the years?
Sorry for going all ed on you, but SI is THE standard for measurements and measurement prefixes. And that's the end of the story.
"True parallelism" is not a problem in Ruby at all.

If you stick to threads, then there is the global interpreter lock, yes, but that has much less impact than people tend to think unless you depend on lots of poorly written C extensions. Especially on small systems without lots of cores.

And you don't need to stick to threads.
I wonder how much of Ruby's adoption was driven by Rails, and how much of Rails' adoption was driven by developers who previously only had experience with languages like Java or PHP.

I say this because as nice as Ruby is (at least in some ways), someone already familiar with Lisp or Smalltalk will learn nothing new from it, and yet there are no shortage of blog posts by Rubyists touting its borrowed features as if they didn't exist before Ruby, suggesting, perhaps, ignorance on the part of its more vocal advocates and of those persuaded by them
Especially interesting would be a Go or Node.js project that use a caching layer (like Memcached) to scale better than writing directly to a SQL/NoSQL database.
Thanks a lot. That's actually the state I live in (and was raised in). Guess I'm clueless, because my little ones are still 4-6 years too young for me to worry or care about those primary school programs. :-)

During my time we started with English in 5th grade/at age 11 I think. And I'm still having trouble believing that these lessons were English only / full immersion right from the start, but .. I wouldn't know anymore, tbh.

Again, thanks for enlightening me.
Most people assume that, and most sci-fi reinforces that opinion. But a generic Thermos is a vacuum flask.

Space is an incredible insulator. The only way to cool things is to radiate heat.
A number of the DDoSes from China are involuntary induced by DNS Poisoning. When users query a block dns name, they may receive an IP other than the website they want to visit. It may used to redirect traffic to make DDoS without those 'drones' even know about they're involved. Just like for a week long, whenever I try to access Facebook, I got redirected to some german IP, and receive a TLS CN mismatch error.
You already have the option of paying extra for accidents that aren't your fault. Why would that be free now?
"that's what grandparents are for"

Yeah, luckily they are guaranteed to be alive in your twenties.
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> And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a 'host' header.

Well I had to check, but this is not true at all:

$ nc -l -p 9999
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Wget/1.15 (linux-gnu)
Accept: */*
Host: localhost:9999
Connection: Keep-Alive

Also wget can recursively mirror webpages and there are nice options to carefully select contents you want to download. It's quite dated though, I wish it could use an external downloader (like aria2) and only do the walking and converting links part itself.
Their website alone can't help those Chinese users get rid of GFW, but can provide information to those who already can.

Attacking a single site is like more pro-active movement of the GFW itself, and a sign it can be so much worse.
Any plans to support Romo? http://www.romotive.com/
I think the neon one is a really great looking sign, particularly the one in cyan with a cyan surround.

Not so sure on the LED ones though!
flew on one of these a few times and the flat screens were shit. constant issues with touch sensitivity and responsiveness. on one flight the screen kept having random phantom touch inputs, which was an issue because I was trying to sleep and it kept waking me up. I had to tape the inflight magazine over it.
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In Italy, I kind of associate signs like that with fast food - kebab shops, for instance.
Have a look at assp, complex set-up but very powerful.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/assp/
Very interesting, thanks! I had seen el wire before but only in the context of building suits like those from Tron Legacy. I was hoping there was a way I could put a line of cool clue around my bass cabinet for cool soft blueness.
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"There is no way around balancing work and life if you want to have children" - it's probably more about being picky.
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You'd rather them pay {m,b}illions more making their own system?
I would figure that by 1997 most people stopped using gopher/archive/veronica. I think I stopped by 1995 or so.

now days we use curl/wget for web dev it seems? probably used it for the same thing back then but I also image that lots of people just used their own ad-hoc scripts or whatever; i wish i had firsthand knowledge of that.

i used wget to download copies of websites when i found one that was mostly documents/images rather than webapps.
(no idea where the GP comes from, but 'DNS' would be the localized version here. The D/N parts are the same, but Acid is often localized and .. turns to S)
Here's a direct link to the tutorial: https://www.dataquest.io/mission/24

I don't understand why it is in an iframe.
`lynx -dump` was a very useful tool.
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Suited in terms of desired quality, not necessarily file size. Sometimes you need pixel perfect frames, not 4:2:2 b-frame messiness.
I hope you keep us up to date. I live in the US and I've had accounts suddenly locked out after their passwords were changed even for criticizing some Chinese issue. Several email accounts, among other sites. With the amount of money the Chinese are spending, I think it's not going to be easy in the US. Maybe you're an American and things will be easier for you, but I've learned not to trust the natives. Not even their law enforcement.

Maybe the corporations might be more stable and have more integrity, but you have to realize that China is the largest economy in the world now, and they can flick Amazon out of their market with their pinky and not even blink.
I've had that experience as well but it's arguably a pretty self selected thing. It's only people living abroad who are almost all people who wanted to live abroad. Ask the same questions to an actual slice of Japanese natives living in Japan and the number of people that want those things will likely be a tiny percentage of the total.
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That's because it is easy to pirate music.

There are plenty of people who are unhappy with the way that banks have and continue to behave. It is however a bit more difficult to help yourself to some of the money in the banks even if you feel justified to.
I actually got into Ruby before Rails hit and was immediately taken by it because it brought some of the best features of Lisp and Smalltalk and Icon into a language with a very practical, unix-friendly implementation. So I could drop in Ruby where I previously might have used Python or Perl. This was much harder to do with Lisp or Smalltalk, for example.

But I didn't have a good excuse to really use it at work until Rails came along and completely blew the existing Java frameworks out of the water for productivity.
They've been in stealth mode all this time and all they can come up with is a completely generic, implausible VR scenario. Yet another example of the way VR is pure hype.
> What's really amusing is that a previous generation of art critics had exactly the same complaints about the "spectacularly flexible and inarguably lovely" neon signs that this guy likes.

Is that really true though? Neon can be beautiful, e.g. see Dan Flavin. LEDs can be beautiful too, e.g. Leo Villareal. It's not about the medium, it's about the execution.

Maybe it's not a big deal in the scheme of things, but cities are hostile enough as is. It's the little things that can add up to making a place pleasant to live and work in or not...
And simplicity!
Meta: thank you for the <it's personal> tag. Many times in online comments we have no idea of the emotional context of the person posting. This helps.

Death sucks. No doubt about it. And, no matter what folks want to believe, I highly suspect that 99% of us will die sometime in the next 100 years. Maybe 95%, if we as a species are lucky.

It can't be emphasized enough that you are exactly right: for many of us, myself included, death will most likely involve total poverty, dependence on family, and the likelihood of ending up in some state institution. It's a terrible thing to contemplate, which is why you hear so many people talk about heart attacks and other ways of going quickly as being "lucky"
Thank you. TIL, actually not learned realized, space is actually a good insulator out of earth conditions too. Prejudices. We can never know what if something we thing is a reality or prejudice. Science and skepticism is that important.
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It is unification to a certain extent, but unification is slightly different IIRC the semantics correctly.
Sometimes just plain telnet. It wasn't pretty, but it worked:

$ telnet 80
GET /

It should be noted that the above isn't a strict HTTP request header, it's missing quite a lot of detail, but it works as an example.
My reaction was based on the interview where they say that the 30k$ charge was harming, not killing them. You're more knowledgeable than me on CloudFlare and it may very well be a strong option.

Now in a way their $ penalty with this attack is not unlike growth. To me it sounds like they invested in their branding and will have a name as a company that can sustain damage and keep its ground - important because their goal is to be credible in bringing content in/out China.

What if they had given in? They'd be yet another victim of an attack sort of linked with China.

I do see a business sense behind what I assumed was their moral stance and I definitely stand by it.
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nice way to try this way, sometimes it's not so easy to setup by yourself
I think this won't change any time soon.

Take a look at Angular Announcements[1] released in November 2014. The warning message is still visible today. I think it's a bug or something because once your file get that warning message it remains forever.

[1] https://docs.google.com/a/ideveloper.ro/presentation/d/1fE0P...
So what is that 4 ft wide for two way pedestrian traffic? That's kinda sad. #sidewalkshame
I'm really struggling to think of another creative interactive thing(?) that I've been more impressed by, and the fact that all of this was done by one person is astounding.
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Judging from the repo: "Collectors receive Snowplow events from trackers. Currently we have three different event collectors, sinking events either to Amazon S3 or Amazon Kinesis" (etc) -- it's still not viable to self-host snowplow on own hardware/internal cloud etc? Or is it possible, but you need to run a full cloud? (I understand why one would want a setup that runs on Amazon, if one uses amazon, but when you host your own infrastructure, a self-host option would be nice ... if viable).

Without an option to self-host, snowplow isn't really an alternative to pwiki.
For a second there, I was seriously questioning my understanding DNS.
Is it only aimed at beginners?
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> The organization no longer has control of its own email security.

Well it's not entirely true. They could have a strict client side encryption policy. However it could be even harder to manage than mail server.
This was -amazingly- helpful at $JOB-1 when hundreds of servers needed an SSL certificate check/update/restart.
So if I add "/edit" to the link that you provided, the doc seems fine.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fE0PW1FMlYU9Xhig_QIG...

I wonder if the bug you're seeing is something that is specific for Google slides in presentation mode.
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Yes. They have already proven they will. The Democrat party had a much tighter reign on its people in 2008 through 2010. The simple matter was, you vote along the party line or we will not support your reelection nor will you serve on any committee of consequence.

The Republican party is a bit more fractured, which is how all political parties should be. People should be scared of a political party where dissent is heavily punished and nearly absent. The reason is because it expressly puts the party before the people.

Fortunately the voters have three times shown the error of that thinking and the resulting control of Congress is the result. As for the office of the Presidency, politics of identity (race/sex/etc) has become the norm and unless the Republicans participate in that type electioneering they won't get into the White House.
Their app store could easily be viewed as rent seeking.
That's way more sensors than a human driver enjoys.
Why are your errors going to the browser ?
Danny Sullivan has much better coverage and explanation: http://marketingland.com/ftc-report-google-purposely-demoted...
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The difference is small if you take the whole trip into account. Assuming one stop, over 6 hours of total trip time, the difference become less than 5%.

I wonder how much a 10 minute stop charges a Tesla S. Probably a third. Once the superchargers become common enough, you can do several shorter stops instead.