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This proposal doesn't have my vote.

The present system is good enough in that every one has an equal chance for special events in their lives to fall on a weekend.
I don't understand how reading books correlates to reading out of your comfort zone.

If you browse online outside your comfort zone, you are even more likely to be exposed to new ideas.
A very valid question, haha. JavaScript is full of mysteries.
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Whose in re-writing lot of software?

I am not :)
This is due to one of my least favorite traits about reddit: the hivemind criminalizes the rich and powerful by defining them as naturally evil. I don't know how this mindset got started on reddit; I would love to find out. It seems to be their way of justifying being middle/lower class by saying the reason the rich/powerful succeed is due the rich/powerful not having a heart and gaming people of their money.
In a democracy, people don't get re-elected when they're shown to be crooks in such a huge way that it's impossible to ignore. We already know, to some extent, how crook-y some of these people are. In particular, we know how easily they assault our civil liberties, or perhaps better stated our right to privacy. If assaulting theirs is how we convince the masses that they should not be there, then it is perhaps reasonable to do so. Ours are already under fire, the question is whether destroying theirs will produce a big enough result to make it worth it. I don't think the answer is clear-cut in general, and time will tell in this case, but I don't know that it's as cognitively dissonant as it seems.

In the case of the government, they can't say “well we're watching everyone's conversations because so are the terrorists”. That makes their justification very different from the one in use here, and thus changes the equation a lot.
It's really hard to generalize about this in the US, each state has their own laws, FOIA isn't applicable to state and local governments:
http://www.nfoic.org/state-foi-laws

The allowable exemptions -- and penalties for non-compliance -- vary wildly from state to state.
The US Department of Transportation, for example, does not use SI units. They did try to pass a mandate to change to SI by 2000 by tying federal funds to states that make the change, but that was rejected.
That's just substituting one sort of confusion for another, I think.
I totally agree on you. I have some concerns about the update issue so for resolution, I am planning to wait the start of January. Today, there was news about update is very likely. If it is the case, I will go for Galaxy II. Moreover, I have already asked Nexus, it wasn't on the stock now.
Imagine the cost of changing all the software in the world to use a new calendar system. This will never happen.
Yeah, except you lose the morning/night distinction, because they also suggest that the entire world use one timezone. This, in my humble opinion, seems to a very cumbersome and onerous system. Yes, there are obvious business advantages to having just one timezone, but it also completely robs us of heuristics that have been developed over centuries.
There are probably several dimensions to this.

Appetite regulation would be one, but that wouldn't explain studies in which food intake is strictly controlled. Metabolism regulation, insulin/glucagon regulation, intestinal flora, digestive efficiency, and other factors would certainly affect overall body mass.

And issues such as thyroid function do directly affect metabolism.
The problem with webapps using a BAAS intended for mobile apps is the same origin policy. I've yet to find any providers that support Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. This restriction doesn't apply to mobile apps (or Chrome extensions)
The only place I can think of seeing "dis" with one 's' is in reference to the Inferno virtual machine. By itself it always seems to be "diss".
This article paints Marconi in a really bad light. It seems like he was either not that bright or a liar to claim that people couldn't listen in to his specially tuned signals.
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Seems like that would only work in the simplest of cases. And then why would I pay someone for the backend of a trivial app?
does this mean wpa/wpa2 is totally unsafe now? or just for pre-shared key method(which is 99% home users use)?
If it were to operate as simply a REST API, then the service could simply return everything via JSONP to avoid the CORS trap.
Really I'd love to know why you stopped using Spotify (just out of curiosity).

Good point about the mixes, I may change that in the future but this isn't looking like it's gonna be a long term project so there might be marginal return on the time invested. Thanks for the feedback!
That's true I guess it's just to make it so that when you click the message it opens the spotify app but this definitely doesn't need to be specifically tied to it.
Seems unlikely, yet, Europe switched to the euro.

If we get better at software integration, different calendars might not be such a problem.
We already convert between currencies, times and date formats.

Is this really that much different to a new date-format, just with deeper syntactic changes? (rhetorical)
And contrast. And totally screws with lighting depth. And red-eye.

Assuming built-in flash alligned with the camera lens. You can mitigate a lot of this with bounce and slave units. Still, I'm finding that natural lighting and a small tripod (even a 6" mini braceable on a wall or pole) does wonders and makes for some stunning photos. At other times, even motion blur can be useful (especially for night/club shots).
I wonder if calendar companies would lobby against this. I imagine people would still buy a new calendar every year or so, since they get worn/written on.
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Classic academic waste-of-time project to solve a problem that doesn't exist. I hope they didn't have any federal grant funding for this (have skimmed half a dozen web postings about this and none really address this question).
I'm not sure. It certainly couldn't handle every use case, but maybe with some convention-style configurations (e.g. a record created via a POST to /users would hash any "password" field) you could handle a bunch of typical web app scenarios.

And if that doesn't work, perhaps the schema-less prototyping is a free tier with a more robust backend service offering for the paid tier?
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That says very little about whether people are still writing software for Windows and Macs in general and quite a lot about the use case of QR codes for mobile devices vs desktops.
Sick of seeing projects that use twitter's bootstrap I'm building a simple api only cms: https://github.com/gvnn/flatwhite. It's a simple project that I'm using to teach myself node.js... in the future would be great if users can define their data structure and execute CRUD operations via REST calls
And you would be correct. He was a nice guy who had an unfortunate haircut.
For any purposes which require clear unambiguous time values, we already have UTC. This is just not a problem.
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Pedantically, RESTful APIs do not maintain session state on the server. This is important for scalability.
(Whether "pure" REST is appropriate for a given API, or will be adopted if it is, is another question.)

If too much is done on the client-side, it loses some of the benefits of webapps, such as easier to pirate the working code; so the competitive advantage needs to be in the data (or in the server side processing) rather than the client app itself.

EDIT There's a general problem with RESTful APIs: they are fixed and can't be adapted to every use. You might end up doing a lot of transformation on the client side to assemble the info you want, and it might take several calls, causing latency. What's needed is something like relations and SQL, so you can extract the data in whatever structure you need, taking into account latency (assembled on the server, the message short though including oft-needed related data, and minimizing slow network trips). An obvious solution is for the server to just accept SQL directly - i.e. for that to be your RESTful API.

This doesn't sound right - it's certainly not a conventional RESTful API - but what exactly is the problem with it?

I think we don't have it yet, because there isn't a need for it in these early days - because, so far, it's common for one server to be used by just one client application, so that they are specifically customized for that one use-case. But what will happen when several different client applications want to use the same server? Secondly, these APIs are new, and there has been little time for them to change much, so the problem of compatibility with old clients hasn't arisen much.

SQL solves both these problems, of different application and of changes, but these problem don't exist so far. And I guess it's not certain that they will exist - if clients are always silently upgraded; if for a second app you just create a second RESTful API for it (so the integration occurs further back, at the database, instead of at the API).
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You know, let's just use Unix timestamps when marking future dates. Removes all ambiguity from calendar types, time zones, etc.
If a "BaaS" for a web app sounds appealing, try http://github.com/adelevie/parse_resource.

It lets you use Parse in a Ruby/Rails app with a very ActiveRecord-y API. By using it, your web app gets the following for free: documented REST API, documented iOS and Android SDKs, and the guy who helped scale Scribd is your DBA.

I've been using parse_resource to make some throwaway apps, and I'm currently "dog-fooding" it for a production app. I've found that the schema-lessness and zero-db-admin makes prototyping a snap.

I'm fairly active in developing it, and would really like some feedback, feature requests, and contributors.
Yuck. The solstices and equinoxes would be on different dates from year to year.

And as far as making time calculations simpler for financiers -- that extra week "every five or six years" will be just as hard to deal with as leap years are now.
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Agreed, this is scummy anarchy just so they can watch the world burn.

I'm all for government transparency, however I believe the media has the right to privacy as they alone seem to do the work of keeping the government transparent. All the Anons are doing is fuelling fires that will allow the government more secrecy and ratting out the whistle blowers isn't going to help anybody.

If people would actually READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE instead of spouting off about governments hypocrisy to defend an attack against a news company.

Bravo forensic, you seem to be one of the few capable of looking at the evidence on this issue.
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A decade ago Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) ran a bill that outlawed general purpose computers and made it a federal crime to posses a compiler without a license.

Citation needed. Not to be a pain in the 4ss, but because I want to read more about this idiocy!
"The password field is handled differently than the others; it is encrypted on the server and never returned to any client request."

https://www.parse.com/docs/rest#users
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I would tend to agree, but then we have things like DST shifting around all the time. The government just states they are making a change, and everyone does. Every software that isn't based on a network time server breaks, and is fixed, and we move on. The same could happen with this new calendar, the government simply mandates that by a certain year it has to be in place.

The largest burden will be on legacy software and getting that patched. That very well could be reason enough for the reversal of this calendar, as every government software breaks, and they find out how slow they are to keeping up with their own mandates.
So, if I'm reading this correctly, starting a business in a country lacking a robust economy and business culture did not work out.

Well, I believe that.
I think if Apple has their way (uncertain) then everything will become a backplane for Siri.
In Malaysia, if holiday falls on Sunday, it'll be "carried forward" to Monday (you still celebrate on Sunday, but Monday will be extra holiday).

And in some companies, if holiday falls on Saturday, you get extra 1 day leave entitlement.

Now, you can see conflicting interest here, especially between employees and employers :)
I love this idea, but there are a few things that aren't covered in the comments that I want to know about.

1) How does this calendar align to the phases of the moon? How many moons are there per-year? Is this variable? This is important due to archaic calendar systems and dates that are based on solar-lunar calendars (e.g. China & Japan)

2) Is there a quick and easy algorithm for re-mapping dates? My birthday was on Mar 30, 1991 - for example. Would I simply keep the old date, or adopt a new one? I assume keep the old since its still on the calendar, but what about people born January 31st?

3) How do seasons align and fluctuate along these new datelines? And how does this floating week influence it?
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Perhaps, but it's kinda different with websites. There are plenty of alternate marketplaces for products on the web other than Amazon. It's not the same as Microsoft having the vast majority of the market.
Thanks; upvoted! I think I'm beginning to appreciate that concurrent marking is tougher than I thought; specifically, I can see how it can be hard to prove an object is unreachable. So I imagine the marking side is where the difficulties are.

Your explanation for compaction makes perfect sense. Of course, this won't work trivially concurrently. Only if you stop the world can you complete examination of the entire live heap and know you've updated all references to the moved object and can collect the original space.
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People can accomplish the same thing after learning a mental algorithm to calculate the day of the week. Doomsday rule, invented by Mathematician John Conway, is one of the easier ones to remember.
> "You have a whole area in the mathematics of finance that could be cleared up, and lots of confusion, lots of error, done away with by going to this calendar," he said. People don't realize the time they're wasting simply because of the variable calendar, Hanke said.

Most economic and political activity in Western countries is to give people something to do so they'll conform, be it accounting and tax rules, legal requirements, or ICT interfaces. The actual labor required to mine resources, manufacture things, and grow and distribute food is some small percentage of overall economic activity. Taking away this complexity would put people out of work, more likely to question governments or occupy Wall Street.
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I don't think I was clear enough on that point - I didn't mean that the session state itself would be accessed as a REST resource.

I imagine the session state would consist of client side Javascript (since this service would be ideal for the type of single page apps served well by Backbone.js and the like). The javascript would probably submit time-expiring authentication tokens with each request. That way, session could be persisted client side, while maintaining permissioned access to the CRUD actions on the service side.

EDIT (to respond to 6ren's edit):

I agree that, in a production environment, the flexibility of the rapid prototyping could, in many cases, turn into rigidity when faced with just a RESTful API.

But not necessarily in all cases, especially when implementing a single page app style site, where you are more likely to persist data client side in the background for when you need it.

Ultimately, I think the tradeoff might be worth in some circumstances. And given the apparent success of the many mobile BaaS solutions, it seems to be often enough to capitalize on.
Same for the federal government in the US.
The point of my post is that nothing you read or hear prepares you for what's actually coming. The only way to know is to dive in.
So in a matter of a few thousand years we have gone from Emperors (Caesar) dictating calendars to scientists proposing new ones. :)

These type of reforms were quiet popular in the beginning of the 20th century. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Calendar

Had this proposal been suggested a century ago. I would have a good feeling it would have been made a reality since it doesn't interfere with a 7 day work weak.

Today with computers, it isn't really necessary. Anyone is able to check when July 1st will be in 2500 without calculating. So it is not likely to gain to much interest except in by theorists.

This proposal introduces an artificial calendar that is neither solar or lunar but realigns every few years. It is quiet a novel idea.

The Jews did similar engineering in their calendar system. The rabbis did not want some holidays to fall out on certain days of the week because of varied reasons. So they engineered rules for the leap years and new months to happen in a pattern to prevent this.

The Jewish calendar is lunar but realigns itself with the solar calendar. It need to be certain Jewish holidays always accure in the same season.
Is there a more strict definition? Would this work:

SAAS - HTML = BAAS

Too broad or too narrow?
that "new memory load" is functionally zero, since no one would have to remember that. By the time the Extra week actually arrived, people would have been looking forward to it for an entire year, and it would not catch anyone by surprise. No memory required. Even subterranean cave trolls would be aware it is coming.

I think it's a nice idea especially if we could have a big weeklong worldwide party once every 5 or 6 years
They've already done that, only with patent law. The company in question is Monsanto. In their case, they sue you if their crops spread into your fields and start growing without you paying.
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Jesus dude stop fucking trolling. Mail tampering isn't illegal through an accident of legislature, it's illegal because even a hundred years ago they realised its a serious deal.

As long as I only copy your social insurance number, credit card numbers, banking information, etc, what does it matter? I'm just copying!
Thank you.

I think I have been confusing the various types of singularity here. http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools

I have been mixing the intelligence explosion with the accessing technological progress.

Ill have to give all of this a bit more thought.

Thanks again
There are dragon slayers and there are also those who tilt at windmills. I'll be a believer the day that Anonymous/Lulzie-ones core dump the archives of The City of London.

Slaying that dragon is a game changer; effectively random acts of cyber anarchy and antisocial behavior (people's CCs, for ex.) just raise dust and TPTB love occultation and delight in the demonstration of the emptiness of our "convictions" and "principles".

Have you ever considered that this is an intellectual/spiritual battle between a subset asserting superiority in every dimension of human endeavor that (literally) justifies their rule? If yes, then mind your "principles" and "convictions". That is the Human Front. Hold the line, please.
All I can think of is xkcd 927 ( http://xkcd.com/927/ )

There are already lots of calendars if one cares to look. Why bother with a 7 day week other than the biblical mandate? Why not use a lunar calendar? It would certainly simplify 'calculating' Easter. Having a leap day is a lot less intrusive than a leap week and does anyone actually bother to memorize the Metonic cycle? Is it because lunisolar calendars are uncommon or because they're a pain or both?

I think having timezones benefits us in the sense that we can say "It is lunch in city A when it is dinner in city B". Knowing when people are likely to be sleeping/working/playing in different places helps more than having One Timezone. Pilots use UTC because they're between timezones too much for them to follow a 'standard' schedule according to our approximations of the Sun's movements.
It seems silly they didn't just drop the concept of months and just refer to everything like the 5th Monday.
Why do browsers not allow non-readable javascript?
As more processing moves to the client side, would it not helpful to allow site admins to protect the source code in their Javascript?

Perhaps by encrypting the Javascript files and providing a mechanism for them to be decrypted by the browser internally?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for open source and openness but for some companies it just does not fit the culture.
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I've been using an independent calendar for my own records for over a decade now - it's the day-of-year, written base 7. It fits in with weeks; if we reset weeks every year (why not? we do worse things already with leap days and seconds) then dates become equivalent with weekdays. One number expresses the day-of-year, day-of-week, week-of-year, and month-of-year, using a 49-day month.

http://tylerneylon.com/b/archives/122

I don't really expect many other people to use this, despite being a better designed system. I think hardcore math/cs people would like it, though. I've written some small pieces of code that work with this system, if anyone's interested.
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