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The section of Gulliver's Travels on the Struldbrugs has permanently changed my view of immortality: http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/jswift/bl-jswi...
I'd like this to be an icon font.
Yes. It's ugly, faux-cutesy and it doesn't tell me anything about the service.
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It's not all about the focus groups, dude. This sort of thinking is ruining politics and business.
Fantastic work. The website is wonderfully crafted, and the icons are awesome. I really needed this. Quick question, where would one place an attribution to this work? I was thinking at the end of the about page in my application(s).
'What you don't get to do is just charge ahead on a wish and a prayer that maybe you can mitigate the consequences.'

Why should you get to say whether I can live forever? You don't want to, go ahead and die.

That came across as more confrontational than I intended. There will never be a credible strategy until the situation is faced, humanity does not seem to work the other way (with actual foresight).
No, the quality of life that America still enjoys is the legacy of an extraordinary free market system, one of the first and still most powerful that has ever existed. That market system developed the most advanced and successful capital market in history (that no longer exists), which is why America even still has the dollar global reserve currency, because the 'ol green back was "good as gold" for 150 years. Even today in its deteriorated form, the US monetary system is considered radically safer than all but a few in the world. That market system hinged in part on what was at the time the strongest private property rights in history, and a great judicial system to protect them.

China to this day is struggling just to emulate the kind of innovative success in free market economy that America pioneered centuries ago.

To the extent China is enjoying any success today, it's largely due to free market style reforms of their economy, attempting to abandon the destructive policies of Communism. There's no little irony in the fact that as China has moved more Capitalist, America has shifted far more Socialist (with predictable results).

Which countries did America extort from 1800 to 1965 in order to build its formerly tremendous wealth and resources exactly?

Are you talking oil? America discovered oil, and invented most of its processes. It also discovered oil in the Middle East using said technology, and that oil was then nationalized across the region and countless contracts were violated in the process.

Are you talking industrial technology? America was one of the few countries (eg along with Britain and France) leading the industrial revolution.

Are you talking computer technology? No comment even necessary.

Are you talking biotech? Again, no comment even necessary. Who did America steal its biotech from? Cambodia? Afghanistan? Vietnam? China? Panama?

Pick an industry, pick a technology, you'll find America's entrepreneurial fingerprint all over it.
How about their ranking algorithm. Wouldn't that lead to a more transparent Internet?
Also frankly - fck the consequences and fck society.
There's is quite a list of inventors from around the world who independently invented powered flight at about the same time as the Wright brothers. Flight being invented in 1903 actually has more to do with the evolution of petrol motor power to weight ratios than it did discovering the principles of flight. It would have happened within 1 year of 1903 with or without the Wright bros.
If you've ever caught a train in China there are airport-style security checks there - put your bag through the X-ray, walk through the arch, show your passport. In fact the whole experience is airport-style - you wait in a numbered lounge and only go onto the platform when your specific train is called.

Even taking the subway means passing through a quick bag check.

Airport-style security at train stations is a terrible idea for many reasons, but it's not as impractical as you make it sound.
I thought of the exact same xkcd when I read this email. Let's just create more fragmentation on something already exaggeratedly fragmented..

Until the next "standard".
I suppose it's nice that GNU has a "GNU-branded" package manager... I guess...
Looks great, quick question someone may be able to answer: in the license he says "[free to use in] any personal or commercial work...Do not redistribute or sell", which is fair enough, but does that restrict use in paid-for apps (such as on mobile devices etc)?
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Has the next Cold War already begun in cyberspace?
I'm sure it's easier to get people to email or tweet, it might help to also give addresses & phone numbers.
Why utilize scheme?

If emacs has thaught us anything, it is that when you give people a fully featured language to fool around with, things you could never imagine can start happening.

Why not scheme? It's liberally licensed and already has mind-share. It's a simple, no fuzz language with little obfuscating magic and great expressive power.

It allows you to build your solutions as bare-bones as you like or go on full architect should you need to. Sounds like just what the doctor ordered.
>6 people in your anecdotal experience is a good rebuttal //

No, it's not and we all know that. That's why I phrased it that way. However it does falsify the [apparent] claim of it being a universal truth, for me - obviously you'd need to weigh my trustworthiness as an observer+reporter for it to count as evidence.

Specific to my statement and your rebuttal. I only know about the current UK police's history. What's the earliest police force and how do we know they hired sadistic sociopaths?
I worked for 7 years with the same language and tools, but lately, I can't tell which language I'll be using next week.
And I love this.

But if I hadn't been a specialist in something at some point of my life, I don't believe I would be writing good code in those new languages.
And I still think it's better to have at least some specialists on the team too, because sometimes you get some bizarre bugs that someone that knows the language for some time may be used to.
Thanks alot! Cant wait to see it :)
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I think that means you can use them in commercial applications, but you aren't allowed to sell the icons themselves.
Sun was responsible for a lot of tremendous technology (understatement of the year), the only point was that while McNealy was whining, his company was burning.
Interesting that you're rundown is the opposite of what I've recently heard.

I run a small WP group and we invited a couple of companies to come along and share their experiences in using WP for ecommerce/sales and WP e-commerce was slammed pretty hard.

WooCommerce was given a lot of praise but they, like you, agreed it was early days.

None of them had used MP but I've used it for a large project when it was very early in development and my developer hacked the core so much (we needed digital downloads) it no longer resembled the original product.

A few other carts were mentioned, none really of note. I think the point that you made about 'comfortable around code' is perfect, none of these are really for the novice.
That particular Xkcd comic has been posted 79 times in the past year or so† and has quickly become a cliché. The authors' stated goals are to make a "purely functional" and "practical 100% free" package manager.†† They don't mention competition, proliferation, or winning market share. A vague hope of consistency and cohesion accompanying the announcement of a program "approaching its first alpha release" isn't a rallying cry. I think they made this announcement simply so that people interested in this sort of thing might take a look.

† http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=http%3A%2F%...

†† http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/ROADMAP
While an attribution would be appreciated, you aren't required to include one.

If you'd like to however, you can put the mention anywhere you'd like.
What do you mean?

I launched two sites while typing this comment.
Would you mind linking to your first flash game, for the curious?
I added a wiki entry for the Python libs for logic programming: http://wiki.python.org/moin/LogicProgramming
Awesome! Would have paid for them. Donation coming your way!
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Anthropic principle? If it had hit we wouldn't be talking about it.
I didn't take that as confrontational, just direct and to the point given the context of what we're talking about.

Our society has laws and I don't know where you live, but I'm a Brit and live in a democracy. The majority will get to decide. There will be ways round it - going to other countries, etc but as a society that's just how we do things. There are things that are more important (to some of us) than one person, or even a group of people, or even everyone living for ever and those things are worth protecting.
That's in the pipeline - they take a fair amount of time to get right :)
Sounds like what actually happened is Woz had a long friendly open far-reaching conversation with a guy from Tech Crunch and then got quoted out of context.

I would imagine that any intelligent Apple exec (presumably a tautology) would also worry about Microsoft, they just wouldn't chat amiably about it with someone from TechChrunch.
I know myself that I had a high regard for LuaJIT before benchmarking, and an even higher regard for it afterwards. Richards is an oldish benchmark, and none of the subsequent versions (Lua, Python, Converge) is exactly "native", so I'm not sure that any of those languages has an advantage. It's a datapoint, no more, no less. As to which VM would be faster on "large" programs - well, personally I agree with your implication that it's a matter of conjecture, and we'll probably never know because it's hard to write large cross-language benchmarks.

I do, however, think you might be a little harsh on meta-tracing. It's an interesting approach, in no small part because it allows VMs to be written for languages other than Python. LuaJIT can be retargeted too (I've been impressed by Thomas Schilling's work), but I think it would be fair to say that it's harder work than writing a new RPython interpreter. In other words, IMHO, there is plenty of scope for both LuaJIT and RPython/PyPy to co-exist happily alongside each other.
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Ever tried to build distribution packages? If it works for you, doesn't mean it works everywhere. Slight errors in the dependency specifications of a package may make it fail if you have wrongly versioned/missing libraries etc. It's often very difficult to verify that package dependencies are 100% correct. Sometimes package builds are not reproducable, as autoconf doesn't care about the build dependencies you defined but just adds any dependency it can auto-detect at compile-time. So you have to double-test your package when build on a build server etc. etc.

AFAIU the Nix package manager fixes that by trying to assure bit-for-bit matching dependant packages are present by making every package version a hash of the installed files, hashed with the hash of all dependencies (similar somehow to how the filesystem/history data are managed in Git, BTW).

The Nix package builder (named hydra) on the other hand makes sure that builds are performed in complete isolation via enhanced chroots, so that every build is 100% reproducible. It locks the build process down so much that it can't even access the network nor would the process be able to observe varying host names. [1]

This is why they call it a "purely functional" build system. As in purely functional programming: there's no state at all. Inputs completely define the output.

Now Guix sits on top of Nix and somehow attempts to make its features available on a higher level via a Scheme API (Nix uses its own language for package dependency and build descriptions)

I haven't used Nix before, just read about it, but having suffered through writing complex package build recipies for OpenWrt, I very much appreciate the approach.

[1] http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2860022/download/3/release-note...
I agree that any good legal system should have the adaptive quality of common law. I'd agree that the major source of accidental complexity in the law is poorly written laws, but I also think that there is significant room for improving the framework in which laws are written, such that many rules (e.g. the rule against Hearsay) that have lots of explicit exceptions would be better served a simpler framework with a few principles from which the exceptions emerge.
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I punched through a dozen or so and 100% of those were rhetorical.

You need to combine it with some NLP like Kevin's doing here: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/
> Their cost of war probably outweighs by far any direct/indirect profit they can expect to get out of them. In addition, there are plenty of prosperous countries that are not involved in any wars.

You are telling me that, for example, Iraq was invaded, for what exact reason, if not for their massive petroleum resources? Menace of WMD? C'mon. The "plenty of countries" you mention is a small fraction of the world, and are extorting and exploiting the third world.

> Fixed pie fallacy. Rich people are not rich because they exploit poor people.

Yeah, great call. Except I never said people in the city are rich because of the contryside. I said they are sustained, they need food and other goods produced by agriculture and such, which is only produced in the countryside. If your born on the countryside, they don't even let you move to the city.
A good example of why you should always fall back to validation on the server. Never trust the client.
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Neat! Feel a bit awkward tweeting at strangers though.
This is the occurence of each leter in the message:

K = 10;
N = 9;
A = 9;
H = 8;
R = 8;
F = 7;
P = 7;
O = 7;
D = 6;
Q = 6;
M = 5;
J = 5;
G = 5;
W = 5;
T = 5;
X = 4;
E = 4;
Z = 4;
I = 4;
C = 3;
B = 3;
L = 3;
Y = 3;
V = 2;
S = 2;
U = 1

Doesn't seem like a trully random (white-noise) distribution.
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According to Wikipedia, it seems to be a perfect storm of incompetence, weather and (understandable) preoccupation with WW II.

Also, your reference doesn't fare to good there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
It is probably the Guile extension language variety of scheme which is the "official GNU extension language". It makes sense really.
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I doubt this works. All it does is change the client side DOM. When the form gets sent to the server they can still ignore those friends.
It is finished. It just has no drivers and doesn't work :)
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From the second sentence of your link: The term derives from the aphorism 'When you hear hoofbeats behind you, don't expect to see a zebra'.
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What is so ignorant about the statement? Enlighten me...
You can take it that I disagree with the idea that a democracy should be able to get anywhere close to ruling on whether or not the individuals within said democracy get to live or die.

Your post does make an amusing (and very sci-fi) idea pop into my head though, that of fugitive, criminal immortals. The idea of an immortal hiding what they are isn't new - it's usually because they don't know how people will react, or they wouldn't be able to fit into society, or they might get experimented upon to find the secret. It seems at least a little novel to have a situation in which it is known that some people will live forever, and by the very nature of having taken on immortality they are necessarily fugitive.

I suppose it's not too dissimilar from some of Asimov's robot stuff.
Why not use the RFID tags to "swipe" in and out (e.g. just have a reader at the entrance), rather than tracking their exact location across the whole campus?
The blue cameras on main roads are for congestion tracking.
Good on you for giving your hard work away.

I would make a suggestion though to tighten up those pixels in the demo png, the half pixels are making most icons look blurry http://cl.ly/image/093M0z0z3a2W
Both the idea, and how fast it all came together, is awesome. Great job!

I wonder what twitter's reaction will be if this keeps growing, considering all the recent talk about them being hostile towards people making the most out of their API.
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> Yes it is owned by the likes of shopkeepers, but all of it is accessible by the state on demand

Yes, if they walk into the shop with a warrant and ask to see their tapes. They can't track us all walking around in realtime, which is a huge distinction.
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Thanks for your very informative comment(s) and several good points on this discussion.

As an aside: Would love to know how is it in Iran, from a guy like you and who lives there. So any great summary (like your comment above I am replying to), of situation in Iran, with references also if possible, would be great.

Edit(After thought): Please ignore my comment and do not reply, even if there is a slightest possibility of you facing any discomfort because of it...
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Those counts look fairly typical from a uniform distribution to me. There are fancy tests you could do, but to get a feel for it, I suggest simulation and eyeballing. Add up the counts after drawing 135 characters from a uniform character distribution 20 times, and compare the sorted lists of counts to this set of numbers after sorting.
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In June one was sold for USD 374500 at a Sotheby’s auction.
The minimum bid of 70000 EUR seems low to me, especially because the description says it's "100 % authentic and in full working condition!"

Also:
"The current vendor has offered to set up, install and put it into operation anywhere in the world in exchange of his expenses."

There is a 7-minute demo-video[1] of the Apple I in action.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/AuctionTeamBreker
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Thanks dude. I used tinypng to compress the preview (as it's pretty large) and that can produce mild artifacting.
> You are telling me that, for example, Iraq was invaded, for what exact reason, if not for their massive petroleum resources? Menace of WMD? C'mon.

There were certainly a few interested parties which have/will indeed greatly profit from the war. I'm not denying that. As a whole though, I'd be surprised if there is a net gain for the US considering the astronomical amount of money the they have spent on the war.

> The "plenty of countries" you mention is a small fraction of the world, and are extorting and exploiting the third world.

Which country is Sweden exploiting? Which country is Switzerland exploiting? The vast majority of third world countries are sovereign and free from foreign exploitation. In fact, many third world countries receive foreign aid from the US.

> I said they are sustained, they need food and other goods produced by agriculture and such, which is only produced in the countryside.

Agreed. What's your point?

> If your born on the countryside, they don't even let you move to the city.

That's not true at all. I'd say about 90% of Shenzhen people were born in the country-side. You very seldom meet someone who was actually born in Shenzhen given that the city is ~30 years old.
Yes, you are right, the USA has used it's superior technology and industry to gain advantage of other countries.

I was merely pointing out that america, too, causes great destruction (outside their borders), and takes advantage of underdeveloped countries, selling their technologically manufactured goods for cheap raw goods.

I am not saying that it is more destructive than China (which is highly subjective), nor that america must stop or any such nonsense, which you seem to believe I'm heading to. I just want you to acknowledge that america is not morally immaculate, quite the contrary.
Logging isn't enough. You would need to be able to prove that the encrypted blob originated from the potentially infringing IP address and wasn't just merely passing through it. Because if it was the potentially infringing node couldn't have had any clue about what the packet contained.

If all you can see is routing you can't know where packets originate or are destined to. You receive a packet, open your layer of encryption, see where the packet should be going next, log it, and send it forward. You can't possibly know whether the sender created the packet or forwarded it, and you can't possibly know whether the recipient consumed the packet or forwarded it.

You would need to monitor physical network links to determine patterns how the onion style packets travel around.
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Wikipedia on Naivety

"Naivety (or naïvety, naïveté, etc.), is the state of being naive—having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication, often in a context where one neglects pragmatism in favor of moral idealism."

Naivety does not exclude hidden agendas, cunning or anything else. Your definition of naivety to me seems no the common consensus.
Somehow the really random distributions look less random than ones biased towards flattening-out. Within 500 truly random points in a square you'll see suspiciously looking clusters of points, choose 5 in each of the 10x10 subsquares and suddenly it looks much more "random".

Edit: A bookmarklet to display some random points in a square, tested in Firefox 10 only:

javascript:"<html><body><canvas id=\"tutorial\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">foo</canvas><script>var canvas = document.getElementById('tutorial');var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');ctx.fillStyle = \"rgb(000,0,0)\";for (var i=0;i<150;i++) {ctx.fillRect (Math.random() * 150,Math.random() * 150, 2, 2); };</script></body></html>"
Certain tech geeks like to uncritically fawn over every inane thing Woz says.

Nobody else in the world actually cares, "Streisand effect" remarks aside. The guy's a putterer and a philanthropist - and as much as the same geeks like to pit him against the hated Jobs as if the two men were "geek" and "suit" archetypes, Woz has only been able to putter about with various projects and give away money because Jobs actually made them both rich.
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Lady luck herself has bestowed this opportunity upon you.

I concur the localisation efforts are fantastic.

To keep traffic up, I would investigate turning each question and answer into a index-able page. So other people who Google the same questions might find luck in the twitter dialogue.

Good luck!
This is a ludicrous distortion of facts. French law only forbid some kind of dressing. Furthermore, it was done in the name of women's rights and dignity, pretty much the opposite of KSA.
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