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My mistake on deleting my reply.

Humans acting on this instinct for survival seems irrational in view of the scientific big picture, does it not? A longer survival nets nothing if the fate of all things (including the memory of those things) is nothingness. What is the payoff if one creature lives 10,000 years instead of 100?
The research priorities document should be read first... http://futureoflife.org/static/data/documents/research_prior...

without that the open letter makes almost no sense. The open letter is really just a way for the signatories to say "I support the research priorities document."
>we have a much higher quality

Who is we?
If anybody has interest in working on some of the Econ-related issues, please tweet me at @brandonjcarl
There's nothing in your life that couldn't be solved with a bit of automation?
You could say the same thing about curing small pox or any disease. Aging is just a really widespread one.
> It's also a highly selective retelling of the story that completely omits the __only__ part of the story that the courts objected to: upon identifying certain plants on his property as roundup-resistant, Schmeiser purposefully cultivated large quantities of roundup-resistant plants and took advantage of their roundup-resistance for commercial gain.

Farmers have been doing this for thousands of years. That's the reason we have these extremely efficient crops to begin with.

Your typical apple, orange, lemon, grains, rice, potato, soy bean and so on as found 'wild' bear little to no resemblance to what we use as crops. Your looking at an end-product of a lot of hard work.

Farmers have been in the food improvement business since just about forever.

What should bother you is that there even is such a thing as IP rights over organisms.

It's not as if Monsanto created that organism.

If you're going for analogies: Monsanto has taken a public domain item (say a fairy tale) and has added some minor changes to that (see: Disney and the Grimm brothers tales, which in turn were recorded in Germany from old ladies) and has proceeded to restrict the further reproduction of the derived work.

Keep in mind that every living organism tends to reproduce all by itself and that we're merely helping things along a bit.

I'm not happy about the whole patents and genes situation, misinformation from either side of the divide does not help at all, I think Monsanto is excellent at lobbying and finding ways to gain a competitive edge and getting people to use their products (see: Posilac: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/monsanto-forced-...) and I think that they have totally blown their chance to portray GMO in a positive light by their attitude.

The C4 Rice project may be able to restore the balance, let's hope that the way Monsanto has been positioning itself and GMO will not hurt their prospects.
Just this week we started to get stupid priceg.com and blackhatworth.com hits from nowhere. Good to know I'm not the only one with this issue.
I don't know where you live, but here nowdays all the business cards have different sizes :)

No, it's just for calibration. Maybe I could add also "ATM card"
I've always said that language development should follow library development. Think about what your standard libraries are going to do, then write the language for doing those tasks consistently and elegantly.

I'm always disappointed when I see a language with syntax and semantics but no real library. You have no way of knowing if it is a good design. It's like buying building parts out of a catalogue and hoping the architect will be able to build you something great with what you've ordered.
Btw, the Tetris field is always exactly 10x20.
It's an odd new case in English: a proper noun which canonically stays lower-case at all times, not upper-case.
error and check and throwing mad -vv after python2.7 resulted in some sort of standard out directions.

python2.7 index_emails.py --infile=test.mbox

above is working
I am sure Einstein and his generation would like a word with you.
Too much trouble - go Bitcoin.
Quil/quil
This is not an exercise in "valid" tetris configurations, per se. It's a matter of arranging these blocks to make a clean square - plain and simple. The "malicious design" is tongue-in-cheek.

Every engineer who has this lamp on their desk has thought of this.
Io and Lua are light and embeddable but while Io is much slower than Go (and much higher level), I suspect Lua is probably the fastest scripting language around and LuaJIT may be competitive (perhaps even faster) than lower level garbage collected systems languages like Go and Java.

Looking back, I wish I had written Io in Lua.
Terrific reasoning! That same "checkerboard coloring" strategy is used a lot for figuring out tiling problems.

It is too bad the lamp wasn't made of pentominoes (the 12 Tetris-like pieces with 5 squares vs. your tetrominoes with 4 squares.). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino. There are 2339 ways to form these into a perfect 6x10 rectangle (more if you include rotations and reflections).

FYI: The creator of Tetris actually got the idea for his game pieces from Solomon W. Golomb's book "Polyominoes" that introduced all kinds of variations on tiling puzzles and proofs. Chapter one starts using checkerboard reasoning right off the bat. So, you are in good company.
> I could go on in detail about how there is approximately zero research being devoted to, eg, automated refactoring of large codebases and other stuff that you'd expect to be absolutely essential to general AI.

the programming languages community has a fairly significant amount of effort devoted to automated re-factoring of large codebases, there is even a DARPA program for this: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Mining_and_Unders...

this isn't seen as "AI" work though...
Tommy Caldwell also recently made the first ascent of the Fitz Traverse in Patagonia. This route spanning an entire mountain range was considered classic before it was ever accomplished due to the sheer magnitude of the objective. His partner for that project was renown climber Alex Hannold.

There's a film of that ascent coming out later this year, the preview was just released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOScetWwEwc
Sadly, over the top is about the only way a lot of companies take notice of a problem. How many times have we seen widely spread stories making a company fix a situation? It's also the nature of the modern journalism beast. Page views are cash, so sensationalizing everything is how its going to go. He should be happy the headline had something to do with what he wrote.

Maybe, just maybe, someone at Apple will authorize Snow Leopard part 2.
Useful powershell style prompt
You should put a bit of effort into making sure you use the most appropriate status code.

If a client isn't already aware of the code, it decides what to do based on the first number:

- 1xx - continue receiving content

- 2xx - finished receiving content

- 3xx - follow redirect

- 4xx - client error occurred, show error page

- 5xx - server error occurred, show error page

So there is no harm in using better (but less commonly known) codes
>And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!

From HPMOR.
I don't think you can extrapolate like that. The computer revolution took place much faster than generation turnover did, for example. And if the young ever find themselves under the yoke of a bunch of really old people, with no prospects at all, you can bet the more violent ones will take it upon themselves to "even the scales". Adapt or perish will continue to hold, it might just not look quite like what you're used to.
I read the article. I think it's being deliberately obfuscatory. It did not make clear whether the restrictions would apply to all seeds, to a particular group of banked sends, or specifically to GMOs purchased with this provision already in the contract.

I suspect the reason they're waxing ambiguous is that it's the latter of that list and they want to make it sound more nefarious than it is.
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Yes. Every time you get a problem with a rectangle table, you must paint it like a chessboard. If that is not enough to find the solution, you must try to think.

A small technical detail, dew to professional deformation. The article says that the numbers of squares of each color must be the same, but that only happens if the total number is even, like in this case 13+15=28. If the total number of squares is odd, then you get one extra square of one of the colors.
Really? The article talks about what external parties think about why these laws are being written, but doesn't any provide any direct evidence. And none of those even talk about "approved" sources.
Hi. Can you comment on the attack vector used to infiltrate bitstamp? was it a zeroday, misconfiguration? logic problem with their code? How did you discover and fix the problem before relaunching the server so quickly?

I'm confused - "an investigation is underway" - and investigation as to how they got in? or WHO did it?

I wish I knew more specifics about this situation but I'm starting to feel that you guys rushed the relaunch of the service post-intrusion.
Monte Carlo method, calculating π
It's hard to tell if you should get rid of a free trial without knowing more about your SaaS, but if you can get away with a shorter period you definitely should. Use the shortest period of time that it takes for your customer to get value from you business.

You should A/B test these things.
Are the relative rankings in search results (e.g. moving from 25th to 15th or 2nd to 1st) for a set of pre-defined searches considered poor metrics?

Sure it will be hard to determine if the improvements are due to the cause of SEO or some other update, but using revenue as a metric has the same issue.

(Ideally one would use a "difference in differences"[1] approach, but it could be difficult without good comparators).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_in_differences
This is where you consider buying a life annuity from a life insurance company if this really concerns you.
The decline of global pirate population has correlated strongly with the rise of global temperatures, too.
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I think you might be reading too much into it. Spending time in EPA was a constant reminder that I was voluntarily stepping into a bubble everytime we left. The dichotomy was and is still unbelievable.

A lot of people have the distorted view of SV as some golden paradise, where the roads are paved with 1's and 0's. That is not the case. There are very real problems, but most times people try to talk about it, it's always rooted in some struggle to make SV better (e.g. housing).
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If you hear such, you should be able to provide more than one case like Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser (see my other comment in this subthread), which is the closest I've ever heard.

Monsanto is not stupid.
Why are they doing this in the winter?
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You could rotate some pieces such that they're partially jutting out of the back of the lamp, which might make it possible.
Well with the plunging birth rates in developed countries, I think this would be feasible. Robots and automation would solve the economic issues of having an inverted pyramid entering the workforce. We would in a sense become long-lived rich eloi.

However in pockets of the world which won't use contraception - such as religious states, or poor areas, there will be age-old issue of producing a lot of babies who go and consume the resources of the "1st world". These places still exist on earth and the lives produced there are just as valuable so the ethical question would be, how would the rich countries deny the life extending medicine and procedures to others? It almost has to be a function of population growth.

I wanted to write a novel one day about the year 2278 when a couple of married Elders finally decides to have children and therefore forfeits their access to prolonging their life more than 50 years. The idea is that it would become one or the other.
I was afraid that if you read my comment in a certain tone, then it might come off as smug. It wasn't meant to be. I've edited it so it will be less so.
From what I've been told, Pixar uses Io as an embeded scripting language for their IT (Image Processing) application and for some build systems.
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> Farmers have been doing this for thousands of years.

If Schmeiser had done "what farmers have been doing for thousands of years" and had selectively bred a roundup-resistant plant without using Monsanto's addition (farmers thousands of years ago didn't have Monsanto plants to breed, did they?) then the courts would have found no issue with it.

> IP rights over organisms

Monsanto didn't claim IP rights over the organism, they claimed IP rights over their addition to the organism. If Schmeiser had grown "pirated" Monsanto canola without taking advantage of Monsanto's roundup-resistant gene, he would not have been in any trouble with the law whatsoever.

Calling Monsanto's patent "IP rights over organisms" is like calling Adobe's rights over Illustrator "IP rights over computers." It makes a sensible patent on a particular piece of the whole look like a nonsensical patent on the whole.

> misinformation from either side of the divide does not help at all

Right back at you.

> If you're going for analogies: Monsanto has taken a public domain item (say a fairy tale) and has added some minor changes to that (see: Disney and the Grimm brothers tales, which in turn were recorded in Germany from old ladies) and has proceeded to restrict the further reproduction of the derived work.

You realize that it's illegal to copy Disney movies even though they were based on Grimm fairy tails, right? Most people seem to agree that this state of affairs promotes the production of further artwork, as do I. Ditto for the Monsanto case.

> I think that they have totally blown their chance to portray GMO in a positive light by their attitude

To me it looks like they are being minimally restrictive subject to the constraint that they are allowed to charge for their product. What "attitude" change would you suggest?
Japan's birthrate has steadily slowed, and the population is actually shrinking now. This seems to happen any time population hits the maximum.
Blood transfusions are old and safe tech. I don't see any reason why you couldn't right now go into a nursing home and begin intensive transfusion therapy and see what happened. in fact, the weird thing here is that only Stanford is doing something like this.

Which leads me to believe that one of the real obstacles here is going to be the legalities and logistics of actually testing something and bringing it to market. If you have a cough and I give you a pill, either you stop coughing or you don't. We have a very tight feedback loop: in the order of hours or days. But if you're 50-years-old and want to live another ten years? We just can't wait around for 40-year feedback loops. It simply won't work.

So I'm convinced that some improvement is possible over the next decade: perhaps on the order of 10-20 extra years of life. But treatment is going to exist in a really weird grey area. You could either travel to a country with little or no drug oversight or you could try getting off-label or black market treatments. The drug approval system in the U.S. is simply not equipped to make serious decisions about medicines with these kinds of effects.

Sidebar: the interesting question is whether or not we're close to the point where increases in lifespan happen faster than aging itself: have we reached the 1000-year person point? I'm almost certain the answer is no, but I think we may be within 100 years of it. My intuition is that as we keep pushing the human biological machine, it will find new and unique ways of breaking down. The most obvious example is cancer. The longer you live, the more likely you are to get cancer -- and we're a long ways from a cure for cancer. Still, this is a very fascinating field to watch.
Except my job is to get you traffic. I don't control how good or crappy your product is. So the biz can think of it in terms of rev but not fair to pay the SEO person on it
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actually no I used to work at one of the big publishers we did not get our properties listed automatically.
Let's for the moment assume that Monsanto sticks to its promise and will not sue farmers that have 'slight' (however that is defined) presence of the GMO within their otherwise normal crop.

If they use roundup (which farmers tend to do, roundup use preceded roundup ready crops by decades) and the GMO is more resistant to roundup than the regular crop it stands to reason that if the farmer simply saves seed from each crop and replants the next year that after a few cycles the percentage of GMO within that population will no longer be slight.

Seems like a long term problem to me.
Have they had to rely on the ropes at all so far in this climb?
> 1) Why limit yourself to 4x7? The 1988 NES version of Tetris is 10 units wide.

Presumably, the objective is to arrange the tetriminos into a pleasing rectangle shape. Unfortunately, the factors of 28 are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 28, so 4x7 is the closest you can get to a square, and 2x14 has a similar problem of having the same number of 'white' squares as 'black' squares. The closest one can get is 5x6 with two holes removed.
Most of what Einstein achieved were during his miracle years from 1905 - 1915 when he was in his 20's and 30's. But just to level set, I am not an ageist, I am 58 years old. And all this is just my opinion of course, but I find for myself it is harder and harder to accept new ideas. But being aware of this, I try to always listen and embrace new "crazy" ideas young people come up with. I think older people like me have wisdom and younger people have new ideas and if there was a way to combine those things it would be powerful. Perhaps stating the obvious there.
You can determine that an issue is systemic when any solution would require major changes all through society.

Other classes of issues include "budgetary", "political", "legal", and "personnel". The way you approach each class is different.

Although most issues that cross a public official's desk are not systemic, the most publicly debated ones are. That may explain your semantic fatigue around the word.
The post-WW2 baby-making bonanza is literally dying off. That's it. Japan's population is slowly returning to its equilibrium level.
This system already exists and is Measurement Protcol (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...) allowing you to send activity data via your webserver, so you won't need the javascript tool at all.

The problem is still there however as this is how the spammers send fake data. Essentially, even the server side API is still unauthenticated.
Well, this proof doesn't mean you can't. It's not sufficient to prove that you can.
While I do not want to take away from the large struggles that African Americans and hispanics/latinos face (I very well understand them, having attended a public high school in the NYC suburbs with over 70% being black in one of the most affluent counties in the US, where most of the affluent white parents moved their kids to nearby top 100 public schools or private schools), as a Korean American, I have encountered subtle reverse discrimination. It is partly due to luck that I have overcome the effects of such discrimination to succeed.

I would like to see us move towards a help people who need it mentality, and not have to worry so much about the ethnicity of the person who needs it. I realize that this isn't quite possible currently due to the strong correlation between the two at the moment, but it is the long term goal that would prevent this type of issue from perpetuating.
Using bitcoin will only have the effect of restricting the OP's potential number of customers, with no effect whatsoever on the OP's liability if the laws of the country are violated.
That really isn't what Kuhn is getting at with the idea of a paradigm shift. It's not an argument based on generational age or demographics, it's more about observational data slowly accumulating until current explanatory models become untenable. The people doing the accumulating and the people doing the sudden theoretical shift aren't necessarily the old in one camp and the young in the other. Granted I do see how that argument could be made, given the fact that a lot of the famous paradigm shifts were made by people in their 20s - it just isn't Kuhn's argument.
> Try marketing a smart phone that can't make phone calls and see how it goes.

http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/
Spammers likely use the public API to send the fake traffic (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...). The issue Google has is they need to provide a way to authentiate the data rather than rely on the public tracker id, then at least the data could be relayed server side after the server has already filtererd out spam; it would also be less trivial to generate fake traffic reports too.

One tip is to set the main view to filter only to include your actual domain name. I notice a lot of the fake traffic is for traffic on other domains. I don't think these spammers are crafting fake data specific for your website. Much like comment spam, the same HTTP GET is executed millions of times against a list of defined tracking ids they have obtained.
"In an interview with Dennis Protection Labs, Holly Stewart, the senior program manager of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, said that Microsoft Security Essentials was just a “baseline” that’s designed to “always be on the bottom” of antivirus tests. She said Microsoft sees MSE as a first layer of protection and advises Windows users to use a third-party antivirus instead."
How would a dramatic breakthrough in longevity affect the solvency of life insurance/annuity companies?
Nice idea because it would make for a more minimalistic core. One could then use some OO library (e.g. Guile's GOOPS) to implement polymorphic versions of+, -, *, etc.

Edit: ... as well as methods for reading and displaying numbers.
I don't understand what any of that has to do with it. Creatures with a survival instinct were better at passing on their genes. Apply this for a few billion years and creatures strongly prefer to keep living. That's it.
No, that is not what you were asking. I'd have been glad to answer that for you, but it really has little to do with my point. Regardless, I don't think your attitude indicates that it would be worth my time to explain. I'm not going to write an academic paper for your convenience.

>All you've told me is that it's good to be able to get there more quickly, which is almost tautological.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_definition
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