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This is a question I see pop up every now and then, it was never legal, but I just looked it up again.

Unfortunately, no, that's not allowed, your host OS must be an apple supplied OS.

See also [1] and here's the excerpt:

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software
within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software

[1] http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1011.pdf
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I think you mounted the main spring the wrong way? The way it is currently, the clock's operation would wind it tighter.
Population growth is exclusively cultural. See how it's declining in Europe, still growing fast in Africa, etc.

Science could change that very fast: birth control isn't available to everyone on earth... yet. But religion could change that fast too.

So I guess estimates for the earth population will depend on both science and religion more than anything.
Sqlite now supports JSON.
The 3D CAD software CATIA has a very good UI. It has themes for Windows and Unix. I would say all other 3D programs have a better UI than Blender (even 2.6, though it was a lot worse pre 2.6). Blender just doesn't adhere to common conventions and is inconsitent, has little tooltips, and some function only accessable via shortcuts. Gimp had similar UI problems in old versions - it could be a lot more popular, but Photoshop's UI simply sucks a lot less.
Most developed nations currently have declining populations. For now it seems like we can simply stop population growth by bringing the rest of the world to our level of wealth. Then again there's the question whether earth has enough resources to make that even possible.
IM2000 is a good idea. However, I would propose at least one additional idea [0]: Linked attachments. That should drastically reduce storage space in a corporate environment.

[0] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/better_email.html
Are you sure? "ISO 129 Technical drawings -- Indication of dimensions and tolerances" specifies that SI units be used, i.e. µm, mm, m, km.

I've only seen British drawings, which almost exclusively use mm for things up to the size of a moderate building (school etc). I've seen metres used on really big things, like 10km of railway.
The arithmetic operators in x86/x86-64 are certainly polymorphic (over word-length, plus integer vs. x87 vs. SSE).

I think the distinction is that #3b-types, which denote the "encoding" of a value, mapping it to its meaning, are often used as a basis for a #2-types system (to parametrize operations).
>that pushes the cost to over $2,000 per device.

Sounds like a market that is ripe for disruption. $2,000 cannot be remotely close to the cost of production. This price is the result of having a small, wealthy customer base that is required by law to purchase it. If someone introduces one with pricing that reflects both the cost of production and a dramatically expanded customer base, that company will make a ton of money.
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I have tried the referenced implementation (SmartDeblur) on a few (similar) slightly de-focused images. From memory, I had the artefacts without any noticeable improvement. I don't think I even saved the results. YMMV and I would almost certainly try it on photographs with a larger blur than mine (approximately a disc kernel with radius of 0.8px). Since then I've been working on other methods with mixed results.

I've found a few things out: Firstly, many articles mention some form of Richardson Lucy with regularization as if de-convolution with a known Point Spread Function is a solved problem. The regularization can indeed produce better results, but usually introduces new parameters. I've found, with real photographs, I have had far better results using less statistically sound methods. This is especially true as I've found that RL, more often than not, begins to diverge quite early.

The reality is that there are papers surrounding deconvolution and blind deconvolution that get apparently good results and work poorly in practice. It is only once implemented that the flaws of the algorithms proposed are exposed. This is compounded by the fact that we have a wonderful error metric with this inverse problem: the euclidean distance between
1. the solution convolved with the point-spread function used for deconvolution; and
2. the original (blurred) image.
With many algorithms, lowering the euclidean distance decreases the perceived quality by introducing more artefacts. Nonetheless, I have only seen a handful of papers that include this metric when considering a proposed regularisation scheme, and this is one of the only times when this particular metric makes any sense in computer vision -- if your deconvolution is working, and your PSF is correct (which it is in many cases as the blur is synthetic) then the euclidean distance is the measure you want.

I have since switched to least squares using L-BFGS-B for fitting which has lowered again the Euclidean distance and produced the best, most natural-looking results by far on real photographic images. Unfortunately, estimating the PSF is difficult for small out-of-focus blurs. Optics applied to an ideal lens would suggest a disc kernel, but at this scale other factors are playing a part.

I'll probably do a writeup of this when I'm done -- though I don't know when that will be. I'll also be putting any code on Github in due course. In the meantime if anybody has any pointers or is interested in further details or source code please grab my email address from my profile.
It sounds like you're describing an embeddable document store. There are options for that as well:

- UnQLite: http://charlesleifer.com/blog/python-bindings-for-unqlite-an...

- tinydb: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tinydb/

- Blitz: https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb
Can you explain how civil asset forfeiture is not unconstitutional? Your property is taken without due process. You can get it back, if you go to court. The due process happens after it is taken.
You still have to use SQL to query it though, right? JSON is just a data type option, to my knowledge.
The problem with VMs is that it presents virtual hardware to the Guest OS and as such it is not apple hardware by definition. Besides that Apple has a restriction that your guest OS must run under an Apple host OS.

Note that there is an interesting side case with vSphere ESXi where the host OS is a hypervisor not an apple provided OS. This appears to be legal as VMware clearly supports it, if an only if vSphere runs on apple hardware, but I'm not sure how that fits in the EULA.
Because most people listen to more different songs than they have (or need) different apps. If I have one to do app and am happy with it, there is strong disincentive to buy/use a different one.

Whereas if I have one hit song, chances are I'll buy another one, there really isn't any disincentive.

Or put another way: count the number of apps (you use) vs. the number of songs you listen to.
Another book that explores this (pretty in-depth) is The Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman. It won a couple of awards for sci-fi writing, and I found it enjoyable.

In it there are remote-controlled humanoid killing machines that are piloted by soilders from a bunker through an electronic hole in their head. They can communicate sub-lingually, hear eachother's thoughs, and feel eachothers feelings to such an extent that the men in the platoon (it's 5 men, 5 women) start getting PMS.
https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Dijkstra.html
This really looks interesting, I really like its simplicity. However it feels like that the arguments should either support the given statement or its converse. I think there should be other options too. As a physicist I would argue that the very statement "The universe is a simulation." is non-falsifiable, therefore it's not something we should argue about. There could be other problems with statements too, like "the GPL is freer than the BSD licence" where there is no consensus on the definition of free.

It would be nice if one could source other statements, it could integrate with it quite well.
It doesn't do anything and you can't use it for anything.

[I agree]
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Me too, I went from thinking I sort of new something about how clocks work to actually understanding it properly for the first time ever, reading a small amount if text, again to get to the 'I get it' moment.

I also think that this is possibly because this is a model of a real clock that really worked, once upon a time. So the WebGL model works as per the real world clock, not some 'example' model made from theoretical pieces.
So, why they look at the IP address at all when there is DKIM in place?
"Than Predicted" and "Than Thought" allows journalists to make true blog titles and for the audience it works better than expected.
The exiting news is that estonia is working let people open a bank account remotely, it should be live in Autumn 2016 [1], which is an year from now, but it will really bring a lot of changes...

[1]: http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d439c8680308c578a74dbd36...
So what? If every whale in the world died right now, that would be much better for humanity than the insane approach of ceasing all use of the ocean.
Why is this issue getting so much attention? It is a problem that will solve itself, wherever the limit is. The only reason to worry about where the limit is, is if you want to avoid it with birth control so that some nicer forces than famines or resource wars keep the population stable. But even that seems unnecessary, at least in the developed world, because the population growth rates or even the populations are already declining. Which of course is a good thing, why would you prefer a more densely populated world over the status quo? Why would you want to raise child after child if two and a half are enough to sustain the population?
Why is it behind a login screen? It would work better if I could just lurk.

What is your plan for getting big names to do AMAs? Surely they'll just go to Reddit?
Probably a lot less. While an airliner will probably survive a 20lb object in the engines I don't think they would be very keen on having that happen.
If you are e-citizen in estonia you can easily open a company there.

Taxation in estonia is pretty nice since basically the only tax you pay is when you pull money out of the company, not when you sell something, as long as the money are inside the company you don't own anything.

(Of course is a little bit more complex that this, but here is the idea, you need to pay tax if you have employee for example)
A couple of flaws in your back of the envelope calculations, but it doesn't change the major conclusions.

> Daily human caloric intake is 2500 calories... 12500 calories per human daily. 12500 calories is about 50k joules.

kilocalories not calories, so 50 MJ not 50 kJ.

> 20% efficiency
(...)
recover 99% of energy that we put into humans back out, that's another factor of 100 right there

Not sure how you can recover 99% of the energy while 20% was actually used efficiently, pretty much meaning with non-heat output. And you're not making new energy here, you're just reusing the 80% that was inefficient. If you want to do that, just consider the initial process was efficient.

> If we cover the planet in solar panels, why couldn't we recover most of that human-generated heat ?

Surely you mean cover the clouds with bottom-looking "solar" panels sensitive to infrared.

Anyway, this just changes things by a factor of 100000 or so, down to about 10^14 with some inevitable inefficiency before considering other energy sources, which is 100000 billion.

Finally, the current absorption by photosynthesis, that then goes into biomass is only 3000 EJ/year. If we consider 2000kcal per individual (there are about 50% women after all...), a gross estimation of what is currently extracted by the biomass would be enough for 10^12 humans, so 1000 billion.
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Found a link to the article myself:
http://qz.com/522844/volkswagen-is-pegging-its-fate-to-a-maj...
All this talk about TCP and HTTP streaming when they are actually trying to do low-latency UDP for broadcast production.

(When you have a hammer (web technologies) everything looks like a nail I guess)
"There is one odd-man-out: Celsius."

Two remarks: firstly, the unit for temperature is kelvin. Secondly, and more importantly I don't see how temperature would be special. The second is a larger outlier. Whe have milliseconds, microseconds, etc, but rarely use kiloseconds, megaseconds. Another outlier is angles, where degrees, minutes, and seconds are used more often than radians. More examples at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Unit...
An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch:

http://video.mit.edu/watch/an-electrical-engineering-view-of...
There are also cultures that vanished after thousands of years, and crisises in which millions of people died. Human ingenuity and technological progress didn't solve every problem. We just forgot about the dead (classic survivor bias). Collapse by Jared Diamond has some examples of societies that failed - by comparison, our current civilization is very young and hasn't really "played out" yet.

Maybe the estimates of Malthus were wrong, but the underlying concern is still correct. Our current food production is not sustainable because it relies on non-renewable energy sources. I don't claim no solution can be found for that, but there is also no reason to believe there will be a solution.

Another way to look at it makes it very plain: the surface area of earth certainly is limited. So if population would grow forever, we would reach a point where every person would only have one square foot of ground to live on.

Even that might be doable - we could live in a stacked way (skyscrapers), or Matrix-Style in coffins with virtual environment. Nevertheless it doesn't seem like a very desirable future.
Well, you also pay VAT when you sell something. You just don't pay corporate taxes.
also helpful in reducing birth rates: education and the available economic opportunities for young women
This is a nice feel-good story, but if you think for even five seconds about what it being true would have to imply about "the neighborhood", you'll prefer thinking "random good luck."
It will solve itself, but billions of people might die as part of the solution. Mankind will survive, but for the individual some worrying might make sense.
I think part of the point here is that you wouldn't have to say "230 millimeters" at all, because mm could be assumed. Therefore you'd simply be able to say "two thirty" in most contexts, and be clearly understood.
Heresy :-)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...:

"The habit of using pictorial aids, like any habit, is very difficult to get rid of. If, however, we take any responsibility for the effectiveness of our thinking habits, we should try to get rid of the habit as quickly as possible, for it is a bad habit, confusing and misleading up to the point of being paralysing"
"one of her colleagues signed his job contract on his mobile phone while out fishing on the sea."

so in addition to leading the way in digital citizenship, they also have impressive data coverage? Count me in!

Joke aside, I'm very interested in seeing how bigger countries will implement something similar
It wasn't too clear but I wonder if the author was referring to deconvolution under a Total Variation prior -- this is a little different to deconvolving and then applying TV denoising or just applying TV denoising.

Either way, the results of overdoing it with TV are the same: cartoony images with large regions of constant colour. The difference is that incorporating TV within iterative deconvolution reduces some compression artefacts and removes some of the ripples around large discontinuities shown in the author's pictures.
Has anyone applied to this?

How much is the cost of being an Estonian e-citizen?
When i was there i understood there was some cost, roughly < 100 euros.
Is every step of the procedure online? or some paperwork has to be done in Estonia (this is was my understanding of last time)
The old 12-base system is actually very useful once you put your calculator aside. Dividing 1 foot by 4 is much easier than dividing 30cm.

Also regarding your comment on mm vs cm, in my line of work (organ building [1]), we always talk in mm, just to prevent confusion, even for lengths of multiple meters).

[1] http://www.blumenroeder.fr
> Then again there's the question whether earth has enough resources to make that even possible.

In terms of energy: definitely. Nuclear or now solar suffices.
I think I might be able to offer another explanation.

People talk about the reputation of their individual IPs, but networks matter a lot too. DigitalOcean for instance is an occasional source of spam; Linode is very rarely; 1and1 is a HUGE headache; and so on.

I have some custom software in place that temporarily drops entire netblocks for abuse, and I did that to keep up with the spam filtering offered by larger services. With so many spammers now switching between cheap VPS hosts, it was getting impossible to do single-IP-only bans.

Ever since the software was put into place the amount of spam actually making it into users mailboxes has fallen off a cliff.

You have to be very very careful about which network you choose to host your mail server from.
Population limits are certainly a well-documented phenomenon. Chinese history shows excellent conformance to a "punctuated equilibrium" model -- the population is stable nearly all the time, with two obvious sudden increases. (From memory, I believe the increases correspond to (1) the local development of a new, more productive strain of rice, and (2) the introduction of crops from the new world.)

The inference is painfully obvious: for most of history, China has been populated at its own carrying capacity. The fact that the limit was broken (really, raised) a few times doesn't mean the limit isn't a worthy concept.
Wikipedia has that bird strikes "cause annual damages that have been estimated at $400 million within the United States of America alone and up to $1.2 billion to commercial aircraft worldwide."

So far drone strikes (excluding deliberate military stuff) have caused damages of $0 I think.
I highly doubt we'd be able to feed and house 100 billion people.
This is cool. If I do something illegal, I'm not only allowed to, but obligated to delete all evidence of it.
Are there security implications? If the last example was a blurred out license key or address for instance, this technique might be able to restore it.
Set up my startup in Estonia, or Singapore .. anyone with experience either way got hints/tips/advice?
Sorry. But for now we din't enable an email checker, so that everyone can take a look at it. We'll do that soon. Actually we are talking to a few and they seemed to like the idea, for example I asked https://twitter.com/CrazyLeoNet and https://twitter.com/dasjoshua . But I still don't know, we launched it just yesterday.
I personally love reddit, I see it as a great discussion board but not for AMAs. Once you take a look at ours, you'll feel the same.
Once you have the experiments and science, you still need to conclude for yourself. Empirical science does not give you perfectly proven insights. Especially, if the question is hard to define, costly to evaluate, and underfunded.

If you had 5 studies regarding open-plan offices, you still need to check which ones are the most trustworthy, find out if and why they disagree, decide which outliers you ignore, etc.
I just did a random google image search in French:
http://www.jeanbellanger.com/data/5190/f1f0/d3476/thumbnail/...

(it looks like this architect doesn't really understand the concept of thumbnails)

I think architecture is using a separate set of rules than mechanics.
It's not clear why wasting more money than necessary on a government program is a problem?
Conversion inefficiency, maximum conversion limits (a black leaf would burn up in full sunlight), consumption of energy by other bits and pieces of the planet other than living creatures (the atmosphere, for instance is a huge consumer, as is the planet itself, just to keep it above freezing, see also: albedo).
I think there might be a market for a "Stackoverflow for opinions".
I saw someone once refer to the great potato famine as a disaster from which Ireland never recovered. From an evolutionary perspective, this is far from obvious; the famine prompted a lot of emigration to the US, with the result that the world Irish population now dwarfs the old peak Irish population, even though the population of Irish in Ireland is smaller. With large ongoing emigration flows, it's hard to say that the smaller population in Ireland reflects hard times in Ireland... it could just as easily reflect good times!
I don't understand how he does it - just be good to people and they leave you alone? So all the other business owners who got mugged or even killed were bad to some people, and got what they deserved?

The article doesn't really give me the confidence that I could open a shop in that area, be nice to people and everything would be fine and dandy...
> I'm completely confident that if I could pick which people received the money, I could find a hundred people in London who would show the same pattern

And I'm completely confident that I could as well -- not because I'm a good judge of character just because I'd simply replicate this study grab 100 long term homeless addicts at random and give it to them.
Try phrasing the thesis of this article in a sentence beginning with the words "People in this neighborhood choose to..." It is absolutely, 100% clear what that thesis is and how that sentence must end. The decisionmaking model it implies is insane, unlikely, and also a thing that nobody who writes at any US newspaper (and certainly not the DFP) can actually get away with writing in any circumstance whatsoever, owing to the neighborhood demographics.
I was questioning the arrest and seizure over a mere paperwork error. Bad behavior, sure, but not for mere want of documentation.
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They should shift IP reputation to domain reputation though.
Oh, base 12 still has too many special cases. We should all switch to base 11, because then all (non-trivial) divisors are treated the same.
> So we are very, very, very far away, even on an exponential population curve, from the carrying capacity of the planet.

It's worth distinguishing between the theoretical maximum carrying capacity of the planet, and the current carrying capacity, which is lower.
Most GPS devices I've used provide a precision estimate already.
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In many poor, underprivileged environments, children are not encouraged to do these things with income. Furthermore, a lot of the socially encouraged spending patterns make it more likely for indoctrinated children to fall back into patterns of poverty even if they have the motivation and capability otherwise to get out.

I'm not sure if you've seen how kids interact much but peer pressure is extremely strong and if you're off reading books and playing with Legos at an early age there's little guarantee that it will persist into puberty and beyond. Plenty of friends I grew up with early on had a lot of these interests but most fell into a typical lower/lower-middle class trap of drugs and sex (with partying linking both together, of course). There were some middle-upper/upper class kids that participated a little, but there are different forces at work for those kids entirely that makes it quite easy for them to escape a bad cycle with merely competent parenting skills compared to a completely overworked, overwhelmed single parent or split parent household that defines a great deal of lower income household living situations.