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just sharing dude. Firefox plugins aren't hard when you know what you're doing or when you use a higher level API like Jetpack and/or Greasemonkey and get your users to install them. But they are still a pain to setup when you have to get so many different files structured perfectly (or the plugin will silently fail). And sometimes you can't ask users to install third party software and higher-level APIs suffer from limitations like an inability to handle file encodings properly.

This is intended for people who would otherwise be dealing with this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_dev...

It's a package that compiles with a big start here arrow and intelligent defaults for toggle-on behavior and cross-tabbed browsing. As for the time savings? It reduced my own development time for a recent plugin to something on the order of 20 minutes. I'm sharing because it might be useful to someone else, not because I'm building a higher level API for Firefox. I don't have the time or inclination for that. :)
He has admitted that part of his skepticism is due to the fact that he doesn't like the concept of intelligence in a general sense. He is far more critical of claims of heredity than he is of environment. Even half the level of scrutiny he applies to twin studies would invalidate nearly the entirety of sociological research on account of "not controlling for genetics". That is why I say he has an axe to grind.

As for his credentials, he's an associate prof with little to no background in biology, psychology or the study of the brain.

Steven Pinker, on the other hand is a full professor at Harvard (formerly MIT), and is the world's premier on the subject he's writing on.
Since you can get a warrant in mere hours in some cases, and it takes hours for this guy to even arrive, I don't think that's true.

There is some reason that they can't or won't just ask the police to secure the plane, though, and my guess is that the reason is more that it's legally unclear whose plane it is. That is, in some cases, this is legally just theft that's papered over later.
there are other sets like credit card icons or country flags that are fairly independent.
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I was about to download it, but 250MB? That is more than the total size of all the browsers it supports!
Slides? Seriously?
Assuming your premise is correct: What did you expect?

The origin of modern America dates back about 400 years, the origin of Europe about 2000 years. Also, the reason for many early US immigrants was to escape ancient European social structures. Europe was already crowded before America was explored: there simply was less room for outside influence from other parts of the world.

Even so, there are also quite a few attitudes, customs, social structures, and institutions in the US that would seem out of place in (most of) Europe. In fact, the sentence may even hold true for many comparisons within Europe.

I doubt, one could conclude that -- due to such differences -- one country or nation is more liberal then the other.
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"I'd like to see some reliable studies to back up this statement."

http://searchyc.com/alex3917+gpa

(Some of these comments may be part of threads with other relevant info.)
Sounds like we're in agreement then.

If you want to use Comet today, you need to build something custom, and it will probably take a lot of time, but it will pay off as you describe in terms of flexibility.
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File sharing is not not stealing.
You fail to address the article's primary point, which is that they're in competition with offline media for ad buyers, and in this broader market, they have <3%.

I think the stuff you wrote is mostly actually in the article.
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That's why ST6 has multiple assault groups:)
You don't have to use Java. That's exactly the reason I hacked together EvServer:
http://code.google.com/p/evserver/wiki/Documentation

Because of GIL, there is no point of using multiple threads in Python. Scaling must be done through adding more processes. Than an IPC communication starts to be an issue - that's what messaging middleware is for. The sooner you integrate messaging with your project - the better.

Once you have a messaging platform - comet can be done in any technology you prefer, it really doesn't matter. That's because the scaling complexity is handled by the message broker.
Im cetainly not, iserve, yaws and mochiweb are all "off the shelf" web servers that can handle comet pretty well. I cant believe erlang has the monopoly on lightweight web servers either.
Which countries are in perpetual civil war? Are these wars confined to smaller regions within the country or do they encompass the entire country?

What's your opinion on the Balkan countries? Are they also in perpertual civil war?
What if it's impossible to develop an autonomous machine intelligence? I know that statement is equivalent to "what if it's impossible to develop heavier-than-air flight," and I think that we definitely should pursue AI research, but it is by no means guaranteed that we will end up with anything that behaves like a self-directed mind.

I'm choosing my words here, because obviously a Singularity situation would not require a human-like intelligence. But as far as I know, neurologists and psychologists don't really know how human minds work, and computer scientists haven't built a computer mind that showed even a glimmer of "free will" or "self-awareness," if you'll pardon the terms. How can we take it for granted that we'll get there?
I hope you're right. Requiring censoring software to be installed on people's PC's may get people's attention. Currently awareness here is very low. The performance issues have been getting a big portion of the attention, if is to be had. This has been ammunition for the opposition to the plan on with hand but a mask on the issue with the other.

The ISPs and other opposition press the performance issues because it's easy & doesn't require value judgements. But we should be talking about (I hate to sound like an American Libertarian) the liberty issues.
Anyone who can buy a jet plane, can buy a judge.
Wouldn't you say that any application thinking of using Comet would by definition be an edge case?

But yeah, I'd disagree that the barrier to Comet is low. The natural thing to compare it to is HTTP Polling, which has no barrier whatsoever beyond knowing about window.setInterval(); (is it correct to end a sentence containing code with a semicolon?:)

Twiddla went from concept to launch in ten hours, largely because I didn't need to spend any time thinking about how to handle communications. The intention was to replace Polling with Comet at some point in the future, but you know what? It just isn't anywhere near as slow or problematic as I was expecting.

Back to my original point, there are a lot of smart people (such as yourself) working on this problem. Before the year is out, I suspect that somebody will have a good, proven, out-of-the-box Comet server that you can simply drop your application onto. That's the day I'm waiting for.
If it offered a real-time html/css editing facility for any browser it contained akin to firebug, I'd be a happy boy.
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so a piece of software should be sold for $100,000 because under that logic it will only ever sell one copy...

or

you're suggesting that people who make apps, movies, and music don't deserve to get paid for their work
CMIS, or DMIS?
This is a well spread around graphic: and makes IMO a pointless point. It is often used to try and legitimise illegal file sharing - which I dont think is a fair argument at all. Yes distribution of copyrighted material is not theft. It doesnt make it not illegal.

I feel justified in calling it theft though: the legal definition of theft is old and out of date for starters (same with copyright law: these sharers cannot have double standards on that surely).

What we call it is immaterial: recognising the problem is potentially more important. And I believe if calling it theft makes people consider it a crime much more than copyright infringement then that is, surely, a good thing.

And at the end of the day it morally feels like theft. :D

I approve of the effort to highlight the differences between the activities. But as an attempt to legitimise piracy and illegal file sharing I think it is wrong and highly misleading (the suggestion being the last of the 3 examples is not illegal).
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The Singularity doesn't require computer sentience. Researchers at the Singularity Institute* refer to their goal as a "powerful optimization process."* All that's required is that it's better at general-purpose goal-seeking than humans; that would logically include the ability to wipe out the human race and tile the solar system with little smiley faces if we set its goal incorrectly.

* http://www.singinst.org/

* http://www.sl4.org/archive/0512/13006.html
Is an actual c++ implementation of the java's nio is strictly better than nginx's one? Is it using epool() and sendfine()? Isn't all those java's abstraction leyers are overhead?

It seems like yet another attempt to put some more air into java's bubble.
heh the point of all 3 of my comments is that there is a good, proven, out-of-the-box* comet server. mochiweb, I havent tested but I would imagine iserve and yaws handle themselves similarly well.

* depending on your definition of out-of-the-box, mochiweb doesnt actually enforce any "protocol" for handling comet for you, those are application specific and reasonably trivial to code.

* I also forgot about erlycomet, which is built on mochiweb, and is a straight out of the box comet server
Ask HN: So you've just pulled an all nighter, how do you get through the day?
I'm running on approximately 3 hours of sleep. My hands are shaky. If I sit still for too long I run the risk of falling back asleep. I've done all nighters before so I have my routine and tools to fall back on, I'm just curious how other hackers do it.

Coffee? Teas? Energy drinks? Sleep?
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Question: Would VMing Ubuntu get you around this problem, or does the software block reach into it?
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"Hyper usable" made me smile :)
I liked the skill of being able to explain something with a simple drawing.

I find the author cautious enough to have drawn around the difference between file sharing and piracy. Details such as "not not stealing" and the non smiling face enforce this idea.

I just wanted to promote the way of explaining things with drawings just like the http://commoncraft.com/ series.
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There is a fundamental difference. Garfield is cat, and the comics is basically its point of view. Kind of pet perceiving a human world.Which is most often intended to be stupid and funny and readers are not supposed to relate to Garfield's point of view any ways.

in C&H its a stuffed tiger who and other aspects are imagined by Calvin a 5 year old kid. Calvin's interpretation is very smart and we can always relate to his thoughts. Often Calvins thoughts give us food for thought unlike in Garfield.

That explains why we can have a animation movie on Garfield adventures for kids, i am not sure it will be so easy with Calvin.
The WP article title is "Perl 6 rules". It's just as well Larry Wall decided to call the new feature "rules" rather than, say, "sucks"...
you can not seriously quote the unabomber as an authoritative source on the morality of human achievement.
I wish that would happen. I really wish. Foreign Policy is generally an excellent publication but I just don't see that happening.

Apart from a few countries such as South Africa or Botswana, African countries don't have anything resembling a middle class, whose existence is indisposable for things like commerce, political stability or a fair judicial system.

It's really a shame but I'm afraid Africa will remain impoverished for a very long time and I can't see the Western World or anyone else being able to help them as it is now obvious that throwing money at the problem won't solve it.
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Sleep. Swimming in a lake sometimes is good, too (but don't drown).
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My point is that they're not in competition with offline media. My point is that such an assertion is absurd. As I pointed out, they're quitting offline ads.

Not to mention the trend that more and more dollars are being spent online, not offline.
Eat something. Not too much or it'll make you more tired.

Caffeine is a double-edged sword. It'll keep you going for a short period of time followed by a crash. Either drink A LOT of it throughout the day or don't drink it at all.

Vitamin B can help in my experience.

Go to bed.
Lots and lots of water and do NOT expect to be productive. Wash your face often too and go for walks.

Essentially, "jjs" is right. You may as well go to sleep, because you will as productive as if you were.
Fair enough. Like you said elsewhere on this thread, we're down to defining "off the shelf" now, so I think we should probably call it a day.

http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/issues/detail?id=2
http://www.google.com/search?q=comet+site:http://yaws.hyber.org/
http://frihjul.net/iserve

Those are the available docs for the technologies you mentioned. Yaws has some real documentation, but not for its Comet implementation. The others give you some source code and tell you to have fun.

So yeah, it's right there on the shelf (how 'bout we settle on "perched on the edge of the shelf?") I'm just not smart enough (or motivated enough) to actually use any of it.
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Calvin and Hobbes ran from 1985 to 1995. Bill Watterson drew thousands of strips, and while I wish like hell that he would come back and draw more, it's probably best to reflect and be thankful for what he's done.

This is what I admired most about Bill. Sure he could present the classic slashdot conundrum of being simultaneously insightful and funny, but the admirable thing was that he decided when to quit. He said what he wanted to say, and then stopped. Without generating 4 more decades of unfunny pointless rehashes. Have you ever seen a funny "Beetle Bailey"? I think there might have been a few in 1953.

He saw the shark, stopped the boat, and took off his skis. Hats off to you wherever you are Mr. W.
Cold shower, eat, coffee, and 20mg of Aderall (generic), but proceed with extreme caution. Self-monitor your thoughts and behavior closely but not too closely, don't forget to relax, and don't be shy about letting others know that you're tired or had trouble getting sleep last night. Lastly, don't make all-nighters a regular habit, it'll be your down-fall.
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Man up. Most of its in your head, being tired just makes it harder to calculate, kick back comfortably with a brew and work away.
I prefer to just unobstrusively pre-fill the country field based on IP, but this is pretty cool.

Keep in mind it's gonna get it wrong for users on VPNs or web proxies.
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Go to the gym. Sweat. Then, go outside and breathe the fresh air. That has always done the trick for me.
So apparently Perl 6's regexes are not so much traditional regexes as a compact and efficient syntax for creating parsers and defining grammars... that sounds incredibly useful. I assume other more traditional Perlisms like implicit variable names are coming along for the ride too, though - if they weren't, I'd definitely be more interested in Perl 6.
I've used it for school work, but not for a real paying job. It can be good, but I used MPI raw, which is C based. So there is tons of rope to hang yourself. I just remember that it was a little difficult to have each spun process talk to the main process.
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For the next Day? I prefer sleep though, even coffee can help you pull the day,but at the end, you still have to sleep.
Douban uses a lightweight python framework called Quixote.
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Here's the mail sent about two years back to the quixote users list:
http://mail.mems-exchange.org/durusmail/quixote-users/5657/
Don't do all nighters. They will make you lose a lot more time recovering compared to just sleeping little. If you actually need to get a lot done in a short amount of time, go to sleep, and wake up after 3 hours, then kick down some energy drinks.
I'm really happy they are bringing online people worries (privacy, narrower copyright, less patents) to the european political level. I think this is an important turning point, just like when the ecological ideas popped up.

Looks like they are organizing themselves to conquer the world : http://www.pp-international.net/
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That merely seems to be a matter of taste. Some think Garfield is witty, others think Hobbes is witty, some think neither of the two are witty.

Honestly I can not see the big difference, sorry. I think it is acquired taste (identification with C&H, therefore interpreting it to be witty).
Sleep. I've pulled tons of all nighters…but I only do it if I honestly don't want/need sleep. I get far, far more done in 10 hours than I would in 20.

Don't lengthen your working hours, optimize them.
The role of journalist and spy is virtually the same in the western world, hence the use of some journalists as spies off an on by all countries over the last several decades. Their job is gathering information by talking to people.

A true "spy", however, is somebody who infiltrates and pretends to be somebody they are not in order to gather information to be kept secret by an opposing entity. If these journalists were going to publish, or had a history of publishing, and were acting as journalists normally do, then for all intents and purposes it makes no difference if they were also acting for an intelligence service or not -- they were journalists.

Countries that don't have freedom of the press can certainly view things differently, but then again, for them all journalists are spies simply by their job description of finding stuff out that used to be private and publishing it. So while NK may have a point, and may even be partially factually correct (I don't know) it's extremely likely that they're also just kidnapping easy targets and using them as pawns.
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Email may not be a "web technology", but integrating it with the web is easy, because it is still just text based with an open and simple protocol.

You'll have a much tougher time integrating Skype's audio conversations with the web for example ... it's not an open protocol, and it is not text-based. Flash was also a problem for a long time, even though Flash interfaces are served from HTTP servers. Adobe may have released tools to extract metadata from Flash movies, but it remains to be seen if those tools can be used effectively.

These are better examples of what it means to be truly web-incompatible. Email is not because it can be served through the web, and it's also a painless process.

I like mailing lists more than I like forums. With the tools available I can easily filter messages ... block people I don't like and tag messages related to a certain subject of interest. An online forum can support these features, but it usually does not.

That's the problem with online interfaces ... if the web interface doesn't provide an API to plug-in external tools then you cannot adapt it to your needs. And that's also why (IMHO) older protocols, like Email and IRC are still around and popular.
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you're right, this could become revolutionary - KUDOS to all visionaries who worked for this univ. - i always dreamt of an educational institution that doesn't charge money - also i liked the admission requirements (NO SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL etc.), this means if you think you can do it then go ahead and learn and pass the test ... the only thing that i'm wondering is how online exams/test will take place without any cheating done by the students???!!!

anyway this is a fantastic news for the whole humanity - this can change the directions of the world economy because if education cost is zero (or minimum) then the output cost of services will also be minimum - one of the main reason why GOOD lawyers, doctors, pharmacists, architects etc. are expensive is because they paid a huge amount on their education, but if the input cost (education cost) is low then it will also reflect in the services provided by the professionals. Not only that, the major debt of an individual in developed countries is because of their educational loans, so this will also change now and will bring new dimension to socio-economic conditions of the poor and middle-class (the biggest consumers of the world).

BRAVO, this is revolutionary!!!
Well that figures. We can't have a big corporation that actually makes money with out government help. That would just make Obama look stupid.
That's an argument from the authority of Nature. Why don't you read the paper and decide for yourself?
Most of them are probably owned by flailing corporations, not John Travolta. Flailing corporations make nice enemies. :)
firefox plugins are actually pretty tough to get started with if you are new to them, even for the adept hacker. there's just not that much in the way of introductory documentation out there. and sure all plugins are open source, but it isn't that fun to try and reverse engineer someone's plugin just to figure out how things work.

i really like the looks of this! thanks for posting.
The problem is that they were captured on the border - which could very well mean that they weren't even in NK.
My apologies, when you said "write a followup when better data proves it wrong," I thought you were suggesting that it was now good data.
Take out the nukes and then demand the hostages handed over unharmed. If they as much as flinch you nuke the country.

The only way you can deal with that guy is to play hardball and be very predictable.
Actually, that's not necessarily the case in Texas. Enforcement is growing stronger, but Texas courts are traditionally pretty reluctant to enforce non-compete agreements.

Nowadays, they are enforceable, but there are lots of restrictions: http://www.hersh-law.com/lawyer-attorney-1078665.html

It's a bit surprising, but Texas can be a rather employee and consumer-friendly state in a lot of respects. Granted, it's a pretty backwards state in most other respects.
Maybe you can just uninstall that sofware? If it is not programmed into NIC...