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According to my own calculations very few of the baby boomers will retire. Most of us spent our lives fighting a losing war, the inflation of the eighties, the rising housing prices. Schooling for the kids from being a very small amount of a family's life to eating a major portion of one's work efforts. Personally add one wrong move where I lost all my capital and still fighting to recover.

Most of us are still supporting our kids as they are the kids of the recessions or helping them with capital for their start-up and hey we don't want to rust in the port like an old ship. Many other of us have build Companies where these X's are currently employed.

Change 'people' to Companies and 'lunch' to goods and you are onto something. My delivery van is going to Town X and is half-empty and you are only a block away needing to deliver something to Town X.

Why are the slides not using coffeescript?

How does this relate to freebase.org? I see some of the js ajaxing to the freebase API.

It always puzzled me that a simpler algorithm has never been considered.

Passengers with heavier hand luggage or more than one piece (say hand-luggage and laptop) should be given back-seats. Anyone without hand luggage should be placed at the front seats.

It looks like a Festo bird see http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11439.htm#id_11439

Nice project. Check also some of the i18n classes in Google's Closure package (http://code.google.com/closure/library/), for more comprehensive routines and support for almost any currency.

good idea!

This will only happen, when robots will be able to dream. Feel safe!

Ever been to a food court? They all essentially sell food and more or less all of them make a success of it. You need to get to the core of the idea and breed a USP around it.

My first encounter with viri. The waterfall virus and michelangelo.

Think positive, that is why you and I are on HN and our colleagues live in 30 year old specs space.

I am particularly interested in the software implementation. I am a Mechanical Engineer, involved with high rise construction. Looking to disrupt Building Management Systems.

Interesting presentation, would do better with some more details in a blog or pdf.

>Or, he says, if the operators transported you to their reality (which, of course, may itself be a simulation).

This is what probably happens when hackers die and go to paradise, they are transported to another computer system. Except of course teleportation would have been much more interesting.

I am not sure about the selection of content, but impressively nice and simple design that is amazingly fast! Another impressive fact is that it does not carry any ads!

I find the statement of Greg Maxwell - who uploaded the text - courageous; quoting as to why he did not upload them anonymously:

"...that the obviously overzealous prosecutors of Aaron Swartz would probably accuse him of it and add it to their growing list of ridiculous charges. This didn't sit well with my conscience, and I generally believe that anything worth doing is worth attaching your name to.

I'm interested in hearing about any enjoyable discoveries or even useful applications which come of this archive..."

Any ideas for useful applications and legal implications?

This is a nice presentation. It would be great if there was a pdf to cover the services in the same logical way.

> Particularly the wording - "ask your doctor for ..."

This of course just adds to the stress and unhappiness as described by Barry Schwartz in this interesting TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...

Put some instructions using TeX/LaTeX code as it is probably the only language to survive an Apocalypse

      \documentclass{article}
      \begin{document}
      \def\alist{boil water, keep calm, move to countyside, 
        carry a knife, take food, take clothes, take 3 books}
      \makeatletter
      \@for \i:=\alist \do{
        \texttt{\i $\rightarrow$ }
      }
      \makeatother
      \end{document}

Does membership to the Society automatically qualify one for Flat Earth Society membership as well?

Great work and is all build on open source stack.

To find more about the data bank use http://data.worldbank.org/

You can run the examples at http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Views/SiteMap/Default.html with your favourite browser and sneak at the code. Great if you are familiarizing yourself with HTLM5 and CSS3.

You can reduce the cost by a factor of 10, if you make the tents "underground".

A good background to Erlang is Armstrong's thesis, it really reads like a popular book http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf. He discusses many of the points raised in the slides.

Or you can see how ants calculate it in "The accuracy of Buffon’s needle: a rule of thumb used by ants to estimate area" at http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/6/655.full.pdf

You can have a look at http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/. What I did downloaded the files and peeked through all of them. Closure has not been very popular with the community, but is currently running all google applications such as Gmail.

You can run the charts through Google's closure locally http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog...

All the routines are public, there is no need to go through the API.

Certainly it has a steep learning curve but it has a very large community that supports its packages and now also has a friendly and helpful community http://tex.stackexchange.com/