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Indeed; my first thought was the bodies. Likewise, if there aren't hundreds of clones, the poignancy of the whole 'paying the price' theme is lost. One twin's death is less tragic than knowingly inflicting hundreds of drowning deaths on oneself.

On the other hand, the parent's post illustrates how easily the film could be changed into a different interpretation, one which is arguably better.

(This isn't quite as good as the reinterpretation of _The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya_ in which Kyon is God, since it requires some changes in the movie, but then, it requires much less careful analysis to prove it.)
- because you need a good connection with high upload rate. Which may cost a lot, depends of your location. And you will need at least TWO.
- because your cat can eat a part of you utp cable => no connection
- because your neighbor decide to dig a hole in the ground and he hit an AC wire => no more electricity
- because of temperature. If you stay in a hot area (35°C/95°F) you will need an air conditioner unit (on my 2 years old machine there is a difference of 5-10°C with my AC on vs AC off)

Do you want more?

- because a good ssd costs A LOT and ssd's have some Disadvantages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Disadvantages
- because two (or even four?) 10k rpm hdd's (you will need raid after all, right?) costs pretty much

Do you still want more?

- because a VPS is pretty cheap http://www.slicehost.com/ :)
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Please. The version of GNOME you'll find in Sol 10 is way behind RHEL 5, the desktop / kernel integration is poor, and the amount of apps that actually make use of the desktop is minimal.
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Seems like basically a 2D _Contra_ clone with _Halo_ graphics.

(Are the controls listed anywhere?)
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Ask HN: How do I re-educate myself?
I have a PG degree in CS (systems), and a fairly good knowledge of most of the basic concepts in systems and distributed systems.

I am highly interested in systems and distributed systems but I find my education is lacking. I have identified this to be mostly a problem of ignorance - I do not know of many of the interesting systems projects in the research area, of the problems faced and how they were solved.
Consequently, I am unable to contrast and compare
different methods of solving problems, etc.

I'm not only missing the more basic advanced knowledge (e.g. the more advanced data structures) but the deeper "domain" knowledge that comes with systems.

However, I have tried plugging this gap by reading books, papers,etc but I don't find myself getting a lot out of them - sure I can understand them, etc but there is no creativity that follows (e.g. new ideas or application of ideas to the problems I have). Soon I forget about the papers, ideas etc. Considering the time and effort it takes to properly understand an academic work (for me at least), the whole effort becomes very heavy,
draining and often pointless.

I find I have this problem even with stuff that I'm really
familiar with. For example, I know the average time complexity of quicksort but I'll be damned if I can implement it without looking it up. I know an algorithm called "heap sort" exists but that's about it - I can look it up in wikipedia NOW but I'll forget it in 6 months.

I want to educate myself to have a really sound and broad baseknowledge that I can build on and use to become better at what I do. I want to do this in the evenings and weekends, and in what I'm looking for is a way to "classically" educate myself from the ground up so that I don't have little bits and pieces of unrelated "facts" in my head that are of no practical use to me and that I continually refresh but rather a good foundation of
ideas, base abstractions, properties etc that I can build on. I have often been struck by the fact that if I properly retained and understood 20% of everything I read, I would be a much better computer scientist.

I know that knowledge acquisition is a personal thing so I'm
asking more about the techniques that one can use to acquire this knowledge without getting bogged down.
Long-term projects are so rare. It takes real insight to carry out a project like this before digital cameras came around and made taking pictures too cheap to measure.

I recently got a laptop with a built-in webcamera. Once I got it working with Ubuntu, I thought, why not have the webcam take a picture every day or so? Ultimately I set it, via cron, to take a picture and a screenshot every hour that the lid is open, like so:

@hourly if grep open /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state; then import -quality 80 -window root png:$HOME/photos/webcam/xwd-`date \+\%\s`.png && optipng -o9 -fix `ls -t ~/photos/webcam/*.png|head -1`; fi

@hourly if grep open /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state; then fswebcam --resolution 1280x1024 -S 2 -F 3 ~/photos/webcam/`date \+\%\s`.jpg && jpegoptim -m80 `ls -t ~/photos/webcam/*.jpg|head -1`; fi

(Check for lid being open, use imagemagick/fswebcam to grab an image, output a date-stamped file, and then optimize it - saves space like 40% for the screenshots, not so much for the webcam. It doesn't matter so much when a few weeks has yielded about 60MB, but it will help in the long run.)

Another long-term project I'm trying is recording predictions and my confidence in them: http://predictionbook.com/users/gwern

Presumably this will teach me exactly how foolish I was when I was younger, and what strange beliefs I held about the future. world
Can you imagine the new levels of abuse such a system would introduce?

Actually yes, it's called Rails.

But anyway, a system that can't be broken is also one that can't be fixed. PHP programmers switching to Rails did some weird stuff, but without that ability to do weird stuff, Rails wouldn't have even been possible.
Just a thought there... The first transition is generally the least appealing (and most choppy) due to setTimeout being called on docReady. Might I suggest you use:

$(window).load(function() {
// load
});

Which would allow you to delay the animation for maximum sexiness.
Ukraine is not bad for outstaffing to - the're a lot of US and EU companies doing so. Outsourcing business is about $300MM/year (http://www.bughuntress.com/files1/ITOUkraine2007.pdf). Internet is everywhere in Kyiv, cheap food, low rental prices, decent programmers for $25-40K/yr, nice city, no visa needed to come for up to 90 days. However establishing headquarters in Ukraine is bad idea because of totally corrupted government and local authorities. Also sometimes simplest things like getting money from PayPal to Ukrainian bank account unexpectedly appear very cumbersome to do. (Disclaimer - I live in Ukraine).
In my opinion, zero hedge is sensationalist and is worthy of blocking. People I know in the business disregard it entirely. I find myself flagging submissions of ZH.
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Given that it had pretty good traction as a bookmark site (and certainly wasn't the only project joshu had developed...actually several of the others were more interesting), it's very reasonable to believe it would have evolved into something different from what it was when sold. At Yahoo, it stagnated, just like every other acquisition Yahoo has made (Flickr is probably the most similar).
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no, but you can achieve the nearly same thing using multiple databases in MySQL. Databases in MySQL are like schemas in PostgreSQL
The reason is because it doesn't scale, and you will end up spending most of your time managing the server stack rather than deploying and selling the product.
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The worst part is the acceleration. The older you get, the faster the days fly by.
Right, but was his objective to use Benford's law, or was it to test whether the data was tampered with?
You are missing the point. The end user does not need to know, and more importantly, doesnt even care what language you use. Just solve their problem.
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Having a shared core and a lot of hooks for customization is the road we have taken for our application. I've written a lengthy post about it just last friday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1557218
He drops knowledge quite frequently on the subject.
I agree that it's not a very useful metric. On the confessions: Japanese police can detain suspects and question them days on end without allowing them to talk to a lawyer.
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I agree that the scene in which he sees his children's faces is suspicious -- everything after he wakes up is a bit convenient. Cobb breezes through customs, Michael Caine's character is right there waiting for him, and his kids are right where he left them. It's certainly plausible that Cobb is lost in a dream.

But I don't think the top is evidence of that. At the level of reality in which the plane ride occurs, we've seen the top fall. Consequently, it seems clear that, in the last scene, the top will fall, and we do see it start to wobble before it cuts to the credits.

The question, then, becomes whether the top actually is the reliable indicator of reality that Cobb thinks it is. If the top really is a totem, then Cobb made it back to the real world. But where did the top come from? He got it from his wife after she died. If his wife really did escape from a dream by dying (if Cobb was dreaming the whole time, this is possible), then Cobb acquired the top in a dream, and whether it falls or not proves nothing.

I'm pretty sure that I'm reading too much into the ending of the movie. Personally, I think he made it back to the real world. But the director has made other movies that invite a similar degree of scrutiny, so who knows?
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Thanks! I will look into it and get it fixed.
Yeah it would. I think there was a Real World Haskell exercise that involved that actually.
Wow! I saw some actual code/command that I could use at work. Like PHP itself, his talk was very practical. Thanks for the link!
Yes. Mostly time to get interested in the industry again and then to get back into the swing of things. The first few projects were rough but each new project was written better and faster.
Over an year this costs you about $1200 for bandwidth + $500 for hardware + electricity/service. Let's say an even $1600 or ~ $135 / month.

$135 / month buys you two 1.5GB Linode instances or one 2GB Slicehost instance (I use Slicehost but they seem to be much more expensive compared to Linode).

The reason I see renting VPSs, especially at the beginning, as a smart thing is that you are postponing the actual hardware costs towards a later time, when you are (presumably) profitable. And if you decide to cancel the whole thing, it's just a matter of shutting down the instances and that's it. It just seems much more convenient.

Now, if you already have the hardware and you trust the electricity/bandwidth provider you could self-host. But investing time and money in hardware and self-hosting might just be the one thing that stops you from doing the right job software-wise. (Of course, unless your service depends precisely on the fine-tuned hardware that you might manage yourself, but I don't think you are in this situation -- it's just a cost discussion).
http://codemonkeyism.com/6-reasons-why-my-vc-funded-startup-...
That is implied in what I've said: hackers are a minority.
No, not sure why you would assume that. While I thought the book recommendations were okay, the main reason I shared this is the concept of the fivebooks site. Lots of other interesting topics on there.
I think the issue here is buy in from management. If I work at a Windows-centric shop, it's much easier to sell a different platform if it doesn't require building new servers for it. It's much harder to pitch a project when your requirements include new OSes and servers.

For example, I work at a Windows-centric shop, but if I could make a compelling case to build a tool/product on a different platform, I could get my boss to approve it if it didn't require a new piece of hardware. We have written tools in other languages besides C#, but we stick to languages that are easy to deploy on our current servers.
The tanks don't actually have any bodies in them, at least not bodies that you can see. I checked once: all the tanks hold lifeless human-looking blobs, but you can't see them. Except for the last tank, but that could be the body of the actual double.

The reason the tanks are there is for the same reason the diary was written: to fool Borden.

There are even some people who say that there are differences in makeup between the real Angier and his look-alike, and that you can see that the only real, visible body in the tanks is clearly the twin. Can't say I noticed it myself.

As for the book, still haven't read it, but it doesn't matter: from what I've heard, the book also doesn't have the whole "killing doubles" theme, since the replicas are lifeless anyway. But it doesn't matter, the film is its own story.

I got this whole theory from this forum post, which you should read for a better explanation of everything: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=531777.
And here I was thinking Sandvik only makes excellent hand tools... Thanks for opening my eyes to this. And what an interesting job you must have.
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You could also just rent the smallest server at hetzner.de for 59 EUR/mo and have them add a 128G SSD for 44 EUR/mo.

That way you pay 103 EUR/mo (about 134 USD) and skip a lot of headache.
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Can a similar, simpler method be used to steal WEP/WPA passwords?

Set up a wireless AP broadcasting an existing SSID. Some existing clients connect to it passing the keyphrase. Verify against the actual AP.

Would this work?
Thanks for pointing this out, too.

Indeed Haskell lacks a proof of concept of its superiority. And you can't provide such a proof with a few lines of code.

When I studied Erlang, I was flabbergasted by both code size reduction and expressiveness thanks to pattern matching, by its fault tolerant capabilities, by its hot-code swapping... then reading how Yaws was alive and kicking long after Apache died under heavy load.
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To be clear, I regret pushing so hard that I let myself burn out. Even though I'm working long hours again, I'm being careful not to repeat my burnout.

There are times I don't feel like taking a break but I do anyway. If I've been working on the same thing night and day then I'll stop and work on a fun project that's not related.
This is the 2nd day in a row I've heard of hetzner.de. If they remove their one-time setup fee of 149 eur I might give them a try.
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Some improvements are pretty major, IMHO. The distribution of traffic load between CPUs, KDB integration and the improvements done to perf are my favorites for this release.

And, as a BtrFS user, I am always looking forward to improvements. After accidentally deleting 70+gigs of stuff out of an ext4 partition, I became very fond of snapshots and I can't imagine how I ever lived before that.
The mobile market reminds me of biology at times rather than technology. Species are just as as hard to define as mobile devices are (an Ipad has all the trappings of a mobile phone except that you can't make calls with it) and the changes come and go faster than you can keep up with them.

Indeed, the numbers are big, very big. But so far most of the players (except for google, maybe) seem to be very busy to try to create a walled garden with as much lock-in as they can get away with.

That's a real pity, because 'mobile' to me should be synonymous with more freedom, and in many cases it seems to be synonymous with less. I think it should be more free because the big difference between a computer and a phone is just that the one has a bunch of wires and a size that hold it down and a phone does not.

Mobile phones are coming from an appliance background, not from a computer background and telcos have historically been some of the most anti-competitive entities out there.

So now you get these alliances between hardware manufacturers, media companies and telcos trying to place you, the user in their virtual restaurant where every dish costs you money by virtue of the easy way in which they can bill you (and make those charges stick).

Bandwidth gets sold at insane prices, phones are routinely crippled in both capabilities as well as connectivity, applications that are available for free on regular computers suddenly are available only for sale and so on.

I'm still holding out for that open source phone, the one that gives you all the freedom with none of the hassle, where the only thing you pay for is the bandwidth that you use (and a reasonable amount!).

There have been a few attempts in this direction but so far nobody has managed to really make a go of it. I really hope that the size of the market will attract someone bright enough and with deep enough pockets that the open source model will take hold permanently.

I know that Android attempts to fill that niche, and maybe it will succeed, but for now I think it is too beholden to Google to really succeed.

I'm more thinking along the lines of a bunch of maverick hackers that have no ties to any major corporation that will create a platform that is truly free and open.

Apple, RIM, Google, Microsoft, Nokia the telcos and so on they all probably have their own agenda and do not have the users best interest and/or freedom at heart. That should change.

Phones should be IP devices (IPV6), and all voice calls should be VOIP connections, also on the mobile networks. Why bother making a distinction between voice and data traffic, voice is data. No more per minute fees, no government mandated encryption breaking, phones are powerful computers (more powerful than anything you could buy for ordinary money up to 5 years ago) so let's use them as such.
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> Monadic function composition is just like regular composition, except that the programmer is given the ability to make "f of g of x" do something more than just pipe the result of g(x) into f. This can look like imperative programming, but it's still purely functional.

> If you're willing to call monads Kleisli arrows instead, then you can even the same syntax to chain monadic computations as "regular" computations.

I have no idea what any of that is meant to mean! Are you just trying to prove wisty's assertion that "Haskell programmers introduce them in the most incredibly obscure double-talk"?
Way to make his point. Only programming language where Arrows ever come up, Haskell. Wiki page on Arrows "Generalized Monads". So far our definition of a Monad is a specialized version of the generalization of Monads.
There is a higher concentration of technical people there. Most hackers I met by chance in Sydney were in Newtown.
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From what you write it would seem to me that you are trying to approach the problem from a purely theoretical point of view. That's fine, but you can read papers and books until the cows come home, at the end of the day the only way to really educate yourself is to apply your knowledge.

In short, go do something, stop reading! Before long, because you are trying to actually get something done you'll find that you are reading again, but this time you are reading with a clear purpose, some problem that you need to solve. And you'll be reading about technologies that are relevant to you, not just about whatever somehow made it on your reading list.

Those are the lessons that stay learned, and then, after doing that for a while you may find that learning by doing is far more rewarding and far faster than learning for its own sake.
Agreed. Noone calls a builder fancy for wanting working tools.
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A classic example: Xanadu - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html

It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson and his intrepid band of true believers into what became the longest-running vaporware project in the history of computing - a 30-year saga of rabid prototyping and heart-slashing despair. The amazing epic tragedy.
Yeah, and once you have kids it seems to get even worse... on the plus side, not having to wonder "am I doing anything really meaningful with my life?" any more is a bonus. On the other hand, you're forced to face more mortality; but even this has its advantages (c.f. "meaningful" above).
Perhaps this is a inane question, but why should we care about Solaris? What does it bring to the table over BSD or Linux? If it died tomorrow would your shop close up and everyone go home?

I know some of its features (DTrace and ZFS) are quite impressive but they are not really deal breakers. A kernel is great but it doesn't do much on its own. You still need applications and drivers to have a complete system.
It wasn't me who downvoted. I can't (since you responded to me) and wouldn't have anyway. If you use last then that means the whole list will have to be sorted O(n log n ish) then the last element retrieved. And yes, I'm assuming a merge sort. But I still don't think that detracts too much from my point.
It's simply asking that you have 4 years of experience as a developer (or designer), and not a specific technology. I think that's completely reasonable. So it wouldn't matter if the longest you've ever used a specific tech has been 3 months, as long as you've been coding in general for 4 years.