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The main reason why practically nobody gets cryopreserved is that Cryonics is a form of scientific scam.

It sells people confidence that their mind can be preserved by freezing it.

http://aidevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/12/cryonics.html

That said, the author seems to be a true believer in Cryonics (however that does not make Cryonics legitimate).

The article has interesting points, but cannot really be trusted, because of multiple outrageous statements.

For example, the author states:
"In hindsight, it seems clear that if humanity had decided in 1939 to colonize space, instead of ... war [WW2], we would have ... very likely self-sustaining outposts on the moon and Mars."

As of today, the humanity does not have self-sustaining outposts even in Antarctica. Self-sustaining outposts on Mars are totally unrealistic in the next 100 years.
Not only because of technological impossibility, but mostly because of no need for that.

The bottom line: the author is unrealistic dreamer. His ideas might be unusual (which is good), but it's better to be very skeptical and not to trust these ideas by default.
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According to this link, LLoydsTSB is in QIF format:

http://www.accountz.com/accountz/online-bank-statement-downl...

A number of other UK banks there too.
>> Ethernet in the walls is a definite yes of course.

Why Ethernet instead of PLC? I know EthCat6 is faster and reliable... but you can get now 500Mbps from some PLC kits, and no maintaining is required
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> Are you saying that war increases technological growth? That's crappy pop-history that's largely been discredited.

That is not quite entirely true, war -- especially long-term -- results in huge funds being funnelled towards things that can blow up the other guy, which can then move into more peaceful realms. Not to mention the requirements for research safety and grants are often quite different.

Without WWII, would we have operational jets in the early 40s? What about rockets? All of rocket science from the late 40s and early 50s came from WWII germany. Likewise for fission and fusion research, how much longer would it have taken without Los Alamos?

> Competition invites advancement, blowing up your competitors does nothing.

That's crappy pop-history that's largely been discredited. Inventors generally don't need motivation, only funds (of time, of money, of equipment, of relations). And the reason for those funds and where they come from is the lowest of worry, as long as they are provided. Competition is irrelevant to invention and advancement.
> From a high-level outsider perspective, the shift from 2.x to "current" looks like amateur hour.

You are hearing a lot of noise now, because 3.X has finally become viable enough to be interesting to the wider python community, I hope. That's why people keep hyping it.

3.0 was not ready, and only a few dedicated pythoneers (like Mark Pilgrim) pushed it.

It was very professional of the python community to keep 3.X in it's mother's basement until it was well-enough dressed to be seen in public.
Perhaps my biggest complaint is that until recently, Python-2.x releases were not packaged with an executable named "python2", thus during the transition to Python-3.x, there is no safe way to specify which major version your script requires in the shebang. Arch Linux is already using version 3 for /usr/bin/python so any third-party scripts that require version 2 are broken. Other distros may wait a few years to do this, but it will still be painful. It would be much nicer if script writers could update the shebang to use "python2" if that is what they need. (It is difficult to make the same code be valid in python3 and python2 if you have to support people on RHEL4 or RHEL5 (python 2.3 and 2.4 respectively), for example.)
Oh, yes absolutely. I wish I had made the decision to tear down the cement leveling and installed floor heating when I has the chance. Gas heating is killing me, and don't even get me started on electrical. That, combined with a coke heater will reduce your heating bill significantly. Also, consider solar water heating panels - those are subsidized by the state in some areas.
Also, a power monitor might make sense - there's a project that uses the Arduino if you're feeling like building one yourself.
USB power outlets seem cool:

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/truepower-ucs-usb-power-outlet-...
First and last para of the article:

"Marvin Walter Wimberly, Jr., a sixty one year-old programmer and game board designer has been charged by authorities in Florida with committing computer crimes with the intent to defraud after his employer, game maker Bob's Space Racers (BSR) uncovered an elaborate scheme in which popular arcade games were programmed to self destruct."

"Reached by phone, Wimberly said that the information contained in the affadavit was inaccurate, but declined to comment further, citing the wishes of his attorneys." [sic]
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No... just no. :S

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I'm not going to do it here.
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A couple of points on generators: make sure you can use it in the dark, while you are panicking (I've heard horror stories about generators that couldn't be switched on in an emergency, because nobody could see, and nobody knew how to work them); and make sure that it can't fill your house with poisonous fumes (or even just CO2).

And yeah, visit a hotel that was stylish in the 90s, and never got updated. Just think about the cringe factor your fancy gadgets will have in 10 years time, when everything is wireless and is controlled by iPhones and Androids.
The article mentioned:

"The Montgolfier brothers came up with the idea while lying beside a fire and watching hot ash and embers float upwards – and they thought about this in a military context – namely how to take Gibraltar from the British."

And later

"However, Hero of Alexandria (10–70 CE) was well known for constructing complex automata, had powered a pipe organ using his wind-wheel (windmill) and developed a variety of steam driven devices using his aeolipile; a primitive turbine type steam engine with surprising motive capacity."

From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_balloon
"Unmanned hot air balloons are popular in Chinese history. Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han kingdom, in the Three Kingdoms era (220–80 AD) used airborne lanterns for military signaling."

"In fact, von Braun was engaged in designing and building the V-2, and much more sophisticated rockets, solely because he wanted to achieve the exploration of space; both personally and for the human species."

In each example above where technologies were invented / discovered, you can see that these innovations were driven by individuals and their purpose. In the case of the automata and the hot air balloon, both were invented by a leader of their own respective society - "Hero of Alexandria" and "Zhuge Liang" - the chinese military genius. Von Braun wanted to invent rockets for the purpose of space exploration... but his effort was redirected into war and destruction.

Comparing to innovations we've made in the past, say, 30 years, you can see the same. Bill Gates commoditized hardware and brought computers onto many desks cheaply. And Steve Jobs... you know the rest.

Each story of humans' invention seems to just as much be a story of the individual who led its discovery, rather than the environment surrounding him/her, and when the environment is taking into account, it seems it does more to stifle innovation than to foster it.
For my app the real problem with GAE is high cost.
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I think that's what he's talking about.

The point in question is why are you doing this on a new application? The sort of caching you describe is something you put in place after your site starts seeing a lot of traffic, and running queries for every request start to slow things down to the point where optimizing them doesn't help.

If you're designing your app well and running it on a solid stack, that should be something you need to worry about in year 3, after you're being TechCrunched on a regular basis. In the Rails/Django/AppEngine world, it seems to be the case that you need to resort to that level of caching just to see regular, day to day, 100 request/second traffic.

It raises red flags to see that.
I really think it's time for TechCrunch to turn comments off.
True, but hackers are smart people and don't like dumb rules.

In real physical rolodex you can understand the limit, because it really exists. In Gmail it's hardcoded "OK <= 10000" and that's hard to understand, specially when there's upgrade for 20,000 contacts - so 10,000 is just an artificial dumb rule.
Put in some proper cable ducts so you don't have to tear up the wall once some new standard is introduced.

Put up some solar thermal panels; they last forever and really do work. Look into geothermal, maybe it's worthwhile where you live. But the biggest money saver will be better insulation. You can save up to 70% of your heating/cooling costs by proper insulation.
The conduit is a good idea. If not everywhere, then from various strategic locations, maybe running up and down to basement or attic.

It's an auspicious week to advocate this because Apple and Intel just released Thunderbolt, formerly known as Light Peak. The initial implementation is all copper, but the protocol is designed for fiberoptic, so within five years we may all be routinely plugging keyboards and monitors in one part of the house into a computer in another part, which in turn is plugged into the storage array in the attic. But only if we pull the cables.
It looks like Sony likes "open" when it's convenient for them.
Another project is http://code.google.com/p/appscale/.
Google’s history shows that people did not believe good idea to start with
With what? Knowledge? Get over yourself.
Django might not be the best tool for GAE.
There's a site for that: http://www.needanym.com/
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If I had had more time the last time around, I would have build in a 'secret' vault that is controlled by RFID. I have an RFID chip in my hand and I'd be able to open the vault by waving my hand in front of it.

You need to think this through if you want to do it, though - devise a way to unlock it mechanically, make sure it doesn't open when the power is off, etc.

More mundane things:

- induction cooking plates in your kitchen. That's a no-brainer.

- Ethernet to a few places, but don't fuss about it. The jacks will never be where you need them, anyway. Instead, make sure you have a solid backplane so that you can put wifi repeaters on each floor.

- Floor heating, as mentioned above. No-brainer too.

- For optimal living comfort, thick insulation. 10cm (4") of PUR at the least, preferably 16 (6"). Make the house air tight. Put in a ventilation system, preferable with active intake and exhaust, with heat recuperation (it's called 'System D' here, don't know if that's international).

Also, put in an easter egg for the next person remodeling the house. Write a message on an inner wall that you drywall over, put a waterproof sealed envelope with some pictures of you and your family in a false ceiling, those type of things. It's awesome to discover one of those (I once did).
Well said. Personally, I make a point of never letting my liquid savings drop below $10k. That's a full year's travelling money, so it keeps me perpetually in a state of "I can drop everything and go", thus protecting me from toxic consulting clients.

If a relationship starts going downhill, I can simply retract my last invoice and wish them luck.
Is this standard practice for language new version roll-outs?
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That's what I had in the back of my mind indeed :)
a faraday cage embedded in the walls, with fractally-bent wires upto the roof :)
I wouldn't say induction cooking is a no-brainer, not everybody likes it. I rather cook on a gas stove.
The more you think about it, the more impressive it is that they maintained such a far-flung and orderly bureaucracy (relatively speaking) without the printing press.
> The machine was later tested and found to contain a virus believed to have been created by Wimberly.

I bet his next step was to start an arcade anti virus company.
>I do have a problem with defroost's position, which seems to be that using things like grids and golden ratios are somehow inherently "right" and if any of us don't agree then we just don't understand.

That's not my position, and again, I was responding to the guy above who called the OP's use of grids "rubbish". There is no right or wrong in design. Grids and golden ratios are just a couple of many techniques that web designers use. I'm not sure why you are arguing against such devices, because that's all they are. The are aids, compositional tools and saying they suck is a little like saying a hammer sucks for driving in nails.
I would go induction any day of the week, incredibly handy.
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For those curious on where those calculations are (like I was), some of them are here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295822
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Hi,

I posted before on HN about this, but at the moment I'm working on a series of sound toys for Android. Each one is 'organic' in its design, and resembles more an organism that produces sound than an instrument.

Initially I was planning on pricing them at $1 each, but maybe this is too steep for something that isn't a game, or has value that increases measurably over time. Should I package several of them into one app and sell it for $1? I've read somewhere that if people are given too much choice they have a hard time making a decision, so would it be best to package the organisms into one app? Also, is it an evil marketing trick to set a price when there is buzz around a product and say it only exists for a 'limited time'?
Yeah. Their export functionality requires logging out and in between reports (apparently a "known bug" to be fixed in the "next release" which doesn't have a set date to it). I was hoping there's a way to just point something at Lloyds and have it suck out all the data for browsing outside of the "LloydsTSB experience"...
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+1 for PVC pipe in the walls. A friend of mine did that, and it's worked on great for him.

If you have vent system for heating and cooling, it might be worthwhile to look at smart systems with per room control. In my house it's all or nothing, so the bathroom can be 85F while the living room is 65F. (My low tech solution was to cut out thin cardboard from cereal boxes and place it under the vent covers. It's visually unobtrusive, easy to do, and makes a big difference in the heating / cooling effectiveness.)
He's established that the stack pointer rolls over due to integer overflow. He hasn't established exactly which part of the input data gets copied over the return pointer, but you're only really interested in that if you're trying to exploit the weakness. Establishing that the stack pointer does overflow is sufficient for the purposes of fixing the bug.
While less exciting, make sure you have access to everywhere.

One day water will drip through the ceiling into the downstairs, and you'll have to start either tearing up the floorboards, or cutting holes in the ceiling, to find out what is leaking from where.
Agreed, but capacity planning is done on worst case.
Of course it is revenue.

Think about retail for a moment. The amount of money a retailer takes in is revenue. The fact that he needs to pay a wholesaler for the items sold doesn't change that fact.

If the money is being paid to Groupon, it's revenue.
I said "at least" instead of giving a more precise number exactly because the WSJ's "primary-care" statistic included "general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians" and I remembered seeing an older statistic claiming only a bit more than 100k general practitioners.
Interesting.

What also would be interesting is what made you release this as a commercial solution when so many similar free and open source solutions exist?
I think it's a bit arbitrary and ridiculous that Dan is getting the kind of attention he is for these projects given all the other products out there - but that's the way mob mentality and yellow journalism a la Tech Crunch work, so good for him for exploiting that.

Most entrepreneurs would kill for this kind of attention to their weekend projects. Now everything he does is inherently newsworthy because he's "the creator of Breakup Notifier."

The lesson here is - do something controversial and make a name for yourself. Notoriety is far better than obscurity for an entrepreneur.
Agreed, I much prefer cooking gas. Dislike induction.
This is a mistake on the part of Arch. The Python team intended that "python" would be the canonical name for the Python 2 binary, with "python3" used where Python 3 was intended.
From an economics standpoint and a personal opinion, I don't think there is any future value for Bitcoin (or any digital or virtual currency).

From what I've been told, there is a finite amount in Bitcoin which means there is a limit on how much one can theoretically amass.

However, that's not to say that people will not trade money for it. If it is worth a lot to someone (and I suppose not everyone), then the value of Bitcoin will be high. But not everyone wants a Bitcoin. Not everyone can do much with a Bitcoin compared to other currencies. It will only be worth a lot to those who know what to do with it.

It's not knocking on Bitcoin alone - currencies and gold work the same way. The only reason gold has such a high value is because of its perceived value and it's theoretically accepted everywhere in the world. If everyone said they will not accept gold but silver instead, then the value of gold will certainly drop.

That said, if you do want to data mine, make sure you do it when the times are hot. :) (which could well be right now)
But isn't ethernet way faster than your internet connection, which is your true bottleneck? Unless you're gonna do heaps of local movie streaming or something?
> It's sort of like trying to explain why one would use a I IV V chord progression, or why a major triad sounds good.

That's exactly the point. When people hear a chord progression or see a painting where the subject is placed according to certain rules of composition, it evokes a feeling of harmony. Conversely, a photograph with the subject bulls-eyed dead center feels motion-less. It's not wrong, but it can be less interesting, more stagnant.
Assuming Qaddafi is gonna be ousted soon, I doubt your money will have time to reach his pocket ;)
With wax tablets being used it's surprising too if none of the Romans thought to use an impression mechanism¹ to print with.

--

1 - Perhaps drawing initially on foil, backing with clay, heat and press and then wipe over an "ink" (which could also then be set on to paper). Or maybe simply forming letter shapes which are put together on a board and heating and impressing them in to the wax.

Indeed this brings me to think how easy duplication of clay tablets bearing cuneiform would be – impress a fired/set tablet on to a piece of wet clay, set that as the master and then "potato print" with that in to fresh clay pieces. It couldn’t really be simpler than that – why didn’t the Sumerians have printing presses in 4000BC?.
Could you compare with memcached etc, and describe some usecases where your solution would be much superior?
And you don't want to use Stackless Python because ... ?
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When you both feel like you're doing about 60% of the work, you're good; Aim for that.

Also, you could work separately (from home?) a few days a week, you probably don't need to see each other every day.
Cargo cult programming means copy and pasting code from examples and tutorials, often with a false or without deeper understanding of the code copied.

The first remedy against that is to understand the stuff you have been copying. That alone elevates you from cargo cult programmer to a copy and paste programmer. Now you need to understand why copy and pasting is a bad way to program and how to structure your code so it is better.

This is a totally different thing from learning nifty algorithms of people being far cleverer than you are. As someone else already said, you can go a complete programming career with happy coworkers and customers and never really go deep into algorithms. Learning and practicing good software engineering practice will help you more than abstract CS concepts.
I rebuilt a house in the SF Bay Area several years ago.

In-floor radiant heating is my absolute favorite feature. Nothing like it.

On-demand tankless hot water system. With two loops (one open, one closed) and a heat exchanger between the two, one on-demand system can serve your domestic hot water plus the in-floor heating.

Humidity switches in the bathrooms to kick on the exhaust fan when moisture builds up from the shower (an anti-mold measure).

I put in structured wiring for phone, Ethernet (CAT 6), and video. I feel really stupid now as the only video I watch is on the computer and I gave up my landline to go solely cellular. I still like the Ethernet jacks in every room but mostly because I can put my wireless router anywhere. Lesson learned: technology changes rapidly. My structured wiring box looks quaint instead of high-tech after only five years.

A solar tube (basically a round skylight with a thirty foot reflective tube) that brings natural light down to ground floor rooms. Very nice.

One piece of advice: Don't get started on house remodeling or construction if you're doing a startup or trying to run a business. It tends to demand far more time than you have. And it's true it can put a strain on relationships (for the same reason).