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I'm curious- Was this ever released anywhere? I can see you mentioned a multitape layer in tarsnap, but I'm curious if you released a standalone version of the archiving tool.

Hopefully you don't view bup as competition for tarsnap. There's a lot of situations such as Xen backups, where I really want to dump things to a local backup machine, then off to tape- I'm not interested in any form of hosted service, but tools that make binary diffs efficient and easy would certainly be welcome.

It might also be interesting to expand bup (or multitape/multitar, if it is public), to use the method described in your thesis paper- http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/

I apologize for potentially touching on a delicate subject. I certainly wouldn't want to come across as advising someone to use your theories to steal food out of your mouth, but local v. remote bkp seem to be sufficiently different markets.
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This reminds me of something I think about quite a bit. Right now I'm in Los Angeles for just a couple more days before heading off to Taiwan. I've spent a little under a year here in LA, and - there's a lot of homeless people here. Good weather plus forgiving vagrancy laws plus charitable people makes Los Angeles something of a homeless mecca.

I see people giving homeless people a dollar or two all the time. Then I see the same homeless guy getting an 89 cent taco at Taco Bell, or a $1.60 coffee at Starbucks. This whole thing seems like a tremendous waste to me.

Consider someone who gives $1 per weekday to homeless persons. That's $260/year. That buys something like 116 tacos and 81 cups of coffee. Which is nice.

Except - you know how many tacos a proper homeless shelter can cook with a $260 donation? You know how much coffee costs in bulk? I know I was making coffee that averaged me 4 cents/cup for decent stuff in bulk, and it wasn't a crazy amount of bulk. You can prepare a decent full meal for under 50 cents if buying rice, beans, lettuce, tortillas, and meat in bulk. That's a full meal as compared to one small taco.

So y'know, that sucks. It also encourages begging, which is demeaning for the beggar, and can scare, intimidate, and upset people passing by. It's a bad gig all the way around.

So how come people give out $1 per day instead of cut a check for $260 to a shelter? My thought - and it's somewhat cynical - is that people get a "hit of good feelings" when they give the buck away. Writing a check for $260 once a year doesn't give that same hit when you make $50,000. It feels very small. But a dollar every weekday? Oh yeah, that's 260 hits on the "I'm a good person" pipe.

Now, being an economics-minded individual, I'm not going to explain it like this to people who patronize panhandlers. Oh no, I'm quite sure it wouldn't work. Instead, I'm curious to ask - "How could we get people donating to shelters instead of passing out change?"

Hard question. Maybe - just maybe - when you donate, the charity could give you slips of paper to print from your computer to give to homeless people letting them know that food and comfort is nearby. Or maybe we could encourage people to save up and help a specific homeless person get an inexpensive hotel room, shave, haircut, shower, and set of clean clothes once every few months instead of a little petty change every day. Something like that.

It's something I roll over in my mind a fair bit - every time, in fact, that I'm at the Westwood Taco Bell or Starbucks. It just seems like a tremendous waste, as I've volunteered at shelters before and know they can get a heck of a lot better economies of scale and make a heck of a lot more of a difference. And paying people to beg sucks - begging must be miserable for a person's self esteem, and has negative effects on people around too. Much better to give that money to a charity and let a homeless person know where they can get help.
Not useful to me, but I love seeing stuff built that's compatible with Git.
Who still uses Google's homepage anyway?
Such services like http://radar.zhaw.ch used to have a 15 min delay one year ago for security reasons. Not sure if that is still true, it seems like it's realtime now.
I don't see what's wrong with it either. It's a pleasant surprise. They shouldn't go overboard with these things, that's all.
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I was surprised - I tensed my shoulders for a bono-spray of the problems of the world. In fact what I found was a readable article with a little bit of humor, a little bit of lecturing, and a little bit of free thinking. I may even get an old U2 album back out.
Hey, just a quick question:

Why don't you make it possible for the user to move the UI library pane from the top of the app to the left? It's a little bit of a pain to scroll left/right instead of up/down.
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Honda / Toyota advantage was cost. They produced a better product for slightly less money because they had lower production costs. If you look at early Toyota cars they where all low end and cheap because that's all they could make. Just look a the size of the Accord when it was introduced vs the Civic vs the Fit. It's all about starting at the low end of the market and working your way up to the less price focused customer.

PS: Don't forget the market decides price, you can only really control cost if you want to be more than a nitch player.
1 second * eleventy hojillion hits to the home page every day = a metric pants load of total time lost

There was a time when google considered a streamlined search landing page a feature, because it loaded fast and got out of the user's way. I guess times are changing.
This is just the kind of site that I am looking for. I've had lots of GPX/KML data from my Android phone (with the My Tracks app) and no where to put it. I'm incredibly excited to start using this daily after every ride, to both share what I've done with my buddies and keep track of how far I go.

I really wish I was doing this all day every day whenever I ride... I think I rode 10 miles a day for the past 2 years rain or shine to and from my job and it would have been super rad to see the hundreds of miles ridden all added up!

So, sorry I don't have any immediate feedback yet but I am using your app and hope to have some good feedback soon:)

Here I am - http://ridewithgps.com/users/4151
All the data I've imported thus far has been My Tracks data exported as GMX - http://ridewithgps.com/users/4151
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The flip side of this is that having been homeless you have nothing to fear. I had a period of homelessness in my early 20's - it was fairly self inflicted, I was burned out from the ridiculous hours in my first job and needed to escape from everything but I was already a decent programmer so I knew I could get back on the ladder - so nothing like what this guy went through.

The good thing though was that it made me feel like I could cope with anything. Homelessness reduces your horizons to "where am I going to sleep" and "how am I going to get some food" (to the point were those two things are all you think about most of the time) and having come through that I felt like I could try anything because no matter how badly it went wrong I would be ok.
It IS possible! :) Get the latest build, then in the View menu, look for "UI Library Position": http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups/desktop#download
Economist Robert Gordon, of Northwestern University, says he drives out of his way to go to a grocery store where prices are cheaper than at the nearby Whole Foods, even though it takes him an extra half hour to save no more than $5.

...

And the principles that can make economists seem cheap sometimes lead them to hire help, because they are taught to value their own time.

Hmmm.
It seems to me that you are experience that "lostness" sensation every teenager feels. I reiterate zaidf's advice. Take a year off or so, travel the world, enjoy your life. Having 18 is a great time to travel or do other stuff that you probably won't have the guts to do again.

In due time, you will probably feel the need to come back to get an education. Just don't let the education completely out of your life, in my experience having a degree is great both personally (you acquire alot of skills, meet interesting people, etc) and professionally (I would almost always prefer the guy with a good CS major AND some programming experience over the guy with 10+ years programming but no CS major).
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From an economic standpoint begging is just another low paying job. It might look like they are incapable of working in the real world but there is a reason it's not wall to wall beggars in high traffic areas. It's fairly violent and dangerous to keep a high traffic area so I suspect the homeless person feels much the same as a carnival worker. Smile, play nice, and take the chump for all he's worth.
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The trouble is that a pdf doesn't feel like an executable file. It feels like a simple document. Even though I know better, I don't think I treat it with the same caution as downloading a program or even a word file. Perhaps that will change with time.
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Maybe I'm tired, but I had one of those moments today where something seemed to make a lot of sense and you just had to tell someone about it. So here you go.
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Was this ever released anywhere?

No; I never really considered it to be useful except as a step towards Tarsnap.

Hopefully you don't view bup as competition for tarsnap

Not really, no. Of course, the author could follow the same path as I took, of integrating this with tar code, and end up producing a competitor to Tarsnap.

It might also be interesting to expand bup (or multitape/multitar, if it is public), to use the method described in your thesis paper- http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/*

That doesn't really work. Binary diffs are about comparing old and new files to produce a small patch; snapshotting compares the new file to a list of parts of the old file*. It's a tradeoff between needing more local state (with binary diffs you need to have the old file to compare against) and having larger deltas (with snapshotting, you have a new chunk even if only part of it changed).

That said, my experience with bsdiff was certainly useful in terms of shaping how I think about efficient deltas and compression, so even though none of the ideas translate directly it definitely helped me in writing Tarsnap.
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That seems something like I want, but are the people there as good as HN?That I will have to figure out. Also as it is hosted on the StackOverFlow code, it looks familiar.
Some of the last metallica album sounded really bad because of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Magnetic#Criticism_regard...
More than a few of my friends have been switching to good-quality, noise blocking headphones (like etymotics HF-2s). We can turn the music way down and enjoy it more.
As a long standing heavy metal fan I can tell you that all of the album sounded pretty bad and the compression was the least of their worries :)

It just goes to show that even VERY rich and VERY powerful bands are making a basic mistake of not listening to their masters before turning on the presses.
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Link to single page version:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125691.300-how-to-be...

But really, this is just another article saying that to be a genius you need to have average or better talent, and put in 10 to 15 years of dedicated, appropriate hard work.

Heard it before, although that doesn't make it less true.
Are your parents willing to pay for anything? If they aren't paying anything, my advice is to go to school somewhere where you don't have to rack up as much in student loans, unless it's a university that really has something special to offer (Stanford, MIT, etc.).

If you want to work for a year or two or start a startup before you transfer, go for it. To show potential employers you are good at what you do, build something cool.
Cool - now I want a link into Google Earth:

- First person view from cockpit.

- Look 'up' from current ground position, and identify what the various contrails I see are.

- General 3d free view of airways etc.
Can you explain how you're getting elevation data? Last time I asked around this wasn't possible (at least according to Yahoo! maps team at FOWA)
Anyone else here use Org-Mode (ala emacs?) Getting a text file sync'd is an rsync matter (but it does require 1 box with a public DNS name/static ip).
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That's probably Stanford University and not Standford University, yeah?
More relevant now than ever, but note that these slides are ~4 years old.
I second that. I also think that a person who quitted using email in 1990 for not loosing time for his studies, wouldn't have unlimited time for writing Tex.
Oh jesus, whoever designed that clearly hated people with sight.
To the best of my limited knowledge, general intelligence is produced by finding associations between ideas held in working memory. The machines that carry it out in the brain are unreliable and have capacity limits, so the fewer ideas and associations needed to solve a problem, the more likely success is.

For a math test, reducing g loading means having simple problems that rely on previously-learned information, rather than multi-step problems and problems that require invention. This is trivial to arrange.

Obviously this will not make a dull person able to pass the test, but we're talking about college prep tests, where the competition is among the people on the top part of the g bell curve.

The MENSA issue is one of grossly insufficient correlation, since the organization is based on intelligence, not educational history.

g is the psychometric measure most highly correlated with practical outcomes like annual income and mortality risk. I suspect the second most correlated measure is attentional control (focus versus ADD), which is the fuel for the brain's g engine. (Time preference likely has more practical importance than either, but we don't yet know how to measure it.)
The surely you could just bet your own money on black and get 50% of the leverage?
Thanks, yes. Fixed.
I like it - it's a nice next step in their homepage doodles.

I tend to miss the doodles as I search from the address bar, and only end up on Google's homepage when I'm looking at them.
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Good luck man, so sorry I can't make it, I'll be back in London by then.
Assuming I write such a post, I'll submit it to both HN and Reddit. (And given how these things tend to work, I'll probably get more traffic from Reddit going to the blog post about advertising on Reddit than I get from the advertising itself...)
Privacy laws generally don't care about encryption, so -- since Tarsnap hosts data in the US -- Canadians who are bound by such laws won't find Tarsnap useful anyway.
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I am officially an idiot. I was trying to drag-drop the pane to the left, instead of doing the most logical thing. :-)

Thank you, kind sir.
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Backing up the file system solves the wrong problem. The real problem is that applications (for example, VMs and databases) don't automatically map onto the file system, and even sophisticated users (even sophisticated ones like the Jeff Atwood) don't find this very easy. I can see 3 ways around this:

- Applications could register with the back-up utility, so bup (for example) knows to get a hotcopy from the svn repository and a dump from the database.

- Applications could be told to dump to a specific locations on the file system on a regular basis.

- Unix magic could be used, so reading from certain parts of the file system would trigger a dump from the appropriate applications. I'm not quite sure if this is possible (I'm a Unix weenie).

I don't care is best (they would all work). The real solution would have the following features:

- Automated nags (SVN-style) about dirty looking locations.

- A white-list of locations to suppress nags on (the same way SVN can be set to ignore the /bin directory, and the .pyc files).

- A way to resolve the nags (i.e. telling the backup server what commands to run in order to backup certain applications).

- A file format for backup hints (left in a hidden file called .bup in the program's main directory), so applications could automatically tell give hints to the backup program on how to get them to dump.

A nice GUI that auto-suggests backp-up commands (with shell integration like tortise-SVN) would be cool, but not essential.

I've tried to use "applications" consistently in the post. It could mean a database, a repo, website server, or anything. As long as the "application" has some sane way to be back-up up.

And yes, I do know that talk is cheap.
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It should be mentioned that Freescale is not a no-name. :)

Doubtless, there will be $300 and $400 devices built upon this design, but also there will be $200 devices.

That said, the keyboard dock looks like a Speak and Spell..
I disagree. ICC is often use to optimize heavy computation code. As it have a reputation of producing faster code.
all three are great. but more recently you're forgetting the 2009 Wimbledon Final - he beats Soderling, passes Sampras's record of 15 grand slams, AND wins on a near-record 14 games to 12 fifth set.
An interesting question is, could google have successfully banned adblockers as a matter of policy once it published an API? It's not like there is an Apple-esque chokehold on extension publication, and nobody signs a TOS agreement or breaks an EULA seal to use Google. They could undoubtedly refrain from publishing adblockers in any google-hosted gallery, but that's a rather different thing.
Unfortunately, MP3's are here to stay. While some open source folks are pushing OGG Vorbis and FLAC, these technologies do not have the convenience and universal support of MP3's. The only thing that can sort of compete is AAC, but only while iPods are in majority.
As a one-day, one-time thing, I hardly think this is worthy of concern. With respect to the fading-in, in the blog post announcing it they said their studies showed that after users became accustomed to the change, they were using the new page faster than the old one. Data > Speculation
The limits of liberty are always this - you may move until it offends some rich coward who will demand you stop - and is prepared to cheat to do it.

Think about it - this describes the RIAA problem perfectly.
I can't make it, but perhaps if there is one in summer I may be around. How can I keep track of future meets?
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The Touchbook, however, still needs a lot of work .. both in the hardware design itself, and in the software - the good news is that the OS is going through many iterations and updates and is probably going to be quite slick within a few months.

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It distracted me enough to go check HN, just out of curiosity how others like it -- so it's at least 30 seconds or so.

I personally don't like it because the apple falls over the search bar when I type there.
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