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Its not literary "anywhereintheworld.com". Its some domain name I made up when I signed up 15 years ago. Its taken now. It has some custom domain-parking-spam on it. Whois gives something like "lksjdfoiuwerkjsd@somespammerhidingcompany.com" as the contact email.

- if you are a bot, please tell me about your fathers occupation

> He is a famous gynecologist in Odessa. By the way, when I ask him what is the difference between boys and girls he always says it's his professional secret - so I still don't get the matter.

- if you are a bot, please tell me about your hobbies

> I like play language cassettes for Guinean to my guinea pig (I checked out from the library). My pig learned to say "grunt-grunt", though I'm not sure that it is Guinean.

- if you are a bot, please tell me about your age

> I'm a little boy 13 years old.

What base are numbers represented inside a computer? Are there really little "things" holding 0s and 1s in DRAM for example? Or is it technically a different base?

> human culture will have forked

We have that situation already. The Pirahã have only 2 numers in their languge. Roughly translatable as "few" and "many".

And scientists use different bases and scientific notation.

Good idea to mention the scientific notation. As it really is different from the positional notation. You can express some numbers in a shorter way then in the positional notation. Thats pretty nice. A variable length encoding with compression.

As for different bases: I consider these very similar to base 10. Maybe we will use base X in a million years, but that wouldnt be a big surprise. I was more thinking about a revolution like from "............." to "13".

Apart from a different base, how about something completely new? Nobody seems to expect that. Do we really have reached the be all and end all with the positional notation? Or will something come up that we cannot imagine by now?

What do chinese and africans use?

Yes. See "Genetic Programming" by John R. Koza for empirical research and in depth analysis of this approach.

"teach a computer to play Go using some form of machine learning"

It would work. Even unsupervised. Let random programs play against each other. Let the losers die and the winners breed offsprings with mutations. If you let that run long enough, i tend to think that the new world champion would arise with certainty.

The question is how long "long enough" is. Probably "too long" on current hardware.

Would be nice to let this experiment run and draw a graph showing the elo of the best program over time.

Nice to see how great PHP is doing. It is still my favorite language.

One thing is strange: The HHVM result on the "plaintext" test. How can HHVM only do 938 requests/sec if it can do 70,471 in the much more complicated "singly query" test?

    File > New e10s Window

Wow! Nice. Thanks for the info!

When I do calculations in the browser, opening a second window halves the performance in the first window in FF. In Chrome the performance stays the same.

> one straightforward way to do this is to look at what extensions and addons users install

Oh God No! I do not use adblock. I use noscript and im happy with it. I also do not use "Video DownloadHelper" which is the second most used addon. And neither do I use Firebug which is #3. Please do not put all this stuff into my browser! And not everybody uses noscript which I use and which is #4. Im completely fine with installing it.

How about improving on the basic stuff? For example make FF use all cores of my machine and not just one?

When i look at the streets and all that stuff that moves around there, i think: its somehow possible to turn this into a internet of things where stuff moves around like tcp packets in a network.

Without competition, UPS will probably never get there.

Will this become as successful as their cloud computing business? Most parcels I get are from Amazon anyhow. I guess its that way for many people. They will have an insane headstart going into this business.

Personally, I welcome our new delivery overlords. I would like to order stuff and have it at my door 1 hour later.

I dont understand the flash one.

The nasa one gives me this: http://i.imgur.com/E6JW3Ks.jpg

Too bad they show all those stars in the background. So its a bit hard to say what is what. But it looks like the sun and the planets are quite visible. But are the proportions really correct? It looks like the sun is not much bigger then the plantes.

I know that one. I would like the whole solar system in one image. So that it fits on my screen without scrolling.

Is there something like this where the proportions of size and distance are correct? I always wondered, how the solar system shrinken down to the size of a football would look like. Would the sun and all plantes be sub-pixel-size? So a correct image of the solar system would just be an empty image? Or would we be able to see the sun? Or the sun and some or all planets? I have no clue.

Good idea. Checked the logs on a high traffic website. And indeed, there are GET requests with the _sm_byp parameter. No referrers. But the user agent is "Mediapartners-Google". Also the IP is from Google. So either a bot from google added the parameter on its own, or it found it in the wild.

Misterious.

The IDs or hashes or whatever seem not to be unique.

Take the value from one url, put it into Google and you will find several other urls with the same value. Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ivv6tf7rfsr0klq5

PHP: C++ ain't good for the web.

What would be the theory of least effort? By that I mean least people involved, least criminal energy, least planning.

Could a pilot do this completely on his own? Turn off the communication system, fly 4 hours into a different direction and then nosedive into the ocean?

Thanks for the info. Inspiring. So you have other traffic sources apart from SEO?

Karpeles posting about himself "That fat fuck has been lying!!" is an amusing thought :)

Interesting. You make a living from this? Is it all SEO driven?

really really nice! thanks for creating it. the problem with the "hanging" games must be fixed though. you definately need clocks. so the enemy canmot think forever.

Does he have a new hn account? I love to read his stuff. But the account "losethos" has been inactive for over a month now.

"Due to rising costs, publishers will try to increase revenue by adding more Ads."

What rising costs?

Not even Amazon has ipv6 dns entries. So it cant be very important.

No, there is no button. Maybe because its "Mozilla Firefox for Linux Mint"? Did they fork Firefox and disabled updates?