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In support of what the others have said, the reason that we say all of the air in a room will end up on one side is the second law of thermodynamics: entropy in a closed system only increases. That is statistical mechanics, which is very much a matter of probability. The probability that the second law of thermodynamics will be violated is so vanishingly small that we say it will never happen.
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He managed to find free, command-line tools to read a proprietary data format. This means he could potentially wrap a simple script around them and automate the process if he needed to do it on a regular basis.

Would this be free & scriptable on Windows? It's been a while since I had to do anything comparable on Win, but I think he would have had to buy MS Office (Pro?) with VB or Visual C++ to do it.
Iceland's a small country. Following wikipedia statistics, 318000*0.02 = 6360 people would be expected to contribute maximum. Excluding people of non-voting age, and considering that even less have the expertise to contribute, the number of people involved is not much higher than the size of a parliament + advisories.

Also, what about groups that will be misrepresented in the authoring process (e.g. women contribute much less in wikipedia)? I 'm very sceptical about the whole "wisdom of the crowds" politics here.
They would still age. Were talking thousands of years here. In space, with all the radiation. In interstellar space.
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.com - My first choice but it is tough to secure a brandable domain with 6 chars or less.

.net/.org - To secure it from cyber squatters.

.me/.co - Any projects/gigs related to the startup.
What about a donation system? Like some channels here in the US have. That way, those who do like the service can pay and those who don't are free of the tax. Do you see that system working as an alternative to the BBC License fee?
Well, except that Access is not well-suited for typical pipeline use.

My objection is that the article is not Linux specific. The same program can probably be installed easily on OS X or FreeBSD.

"The Joy of people who make their software available" would be a more appropriate title.
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& I love how his letter from a student is in his notebook.
That question is so general, you could write 10 books answering it.

If you're selling a simple service/product that solves a technological problem and it doesn't really need customer support then it could be relatively simple.

Now if you are going in the lifestyle direction or your service is customer support heavy then you're in for a mess.

And Asia is a big place itself, I guess you mean south east Asian countries like South Korea, Japan, Singapore, HK, China, Taiwan etc. But those are already disconnected enough.

There is very very little overlap in web infrastructure between those countries. Even HK, China and Taiwan are completely different in those matters. You might be doing great in HK without getting a single customer from China or Taiwan.
So it's very hard to focus on a single market.

As you're saying you find it hard to reach them then I guess your product is not easy to adapt to foreign markets. Unless you're already doing great in the US don't waste your time.

What makes you think Asia is a good idea? Maybe we could help you more if we knew what're you're after.
There's definitely many cases in which entering Asian market would be a terrific idea.
Somehow I've a feeling that we're going to soon lose a lot of freedoms that we've previously had online. This further supports the argument that the internet should be 'policed and legislated' - of course this means restricting information also ... Hackers are winning right now, but in the longer term Government and Big Business will crack the whip ...
To compare Linux with MacOS (or Windows) you should buy also a computer MADE to run Linux.
Please, go ahead and install MacOS (or Windows) in a bunch of HP Proliants or in a Sun Blade. How about in a Compaq nc6300? OK, you probably like better a Thinkpad X1. Maybe in your Netbook? How about in that old P3 you have at the basement collecting dust? Even better, why don't you install Lion on your old PPC iMac?
Well, I have Linux running in ALL of those computers and ALL of them work pretty much "out-of-the-box".
You know, he could have inserted his installation DVD and installed it from there. Also, Ubuntu ships without make, Ruby or Python, too, so I can't really see that Linux is at an advantage there.

After that, both Linux and Mac are Unix systems and have package managers that can install stuff (third party on Mac). Personally, I spend most of my time in Chrome, a terminal and Vim. On OSX. Because I like it that way. But I could certainly replicate that same development process in some Linux distro.

Also, many Linux applications work just fine on OSX but not the other way around. So there is some argument for choosing OSX. Also, all that basic stuff like connecting to networks, having MS Office, etc. just plain works better on OSX. But to each his own.
Have you tried emailing them? They don't have a way to let you do it but might be able to do it manually. And either way you let them know that there is a desire for a feature they're not going to magically know about just because they have funding.
The 400 megatons comes from the estimate that the trip would require 2e18 joules (which is about 22x the 9e16 joules up there).

And he is getting away from conventional rockets, the 2e18 estimate assumes that the energy required to move the ship is coming from elsewhere, not carried along with the ship.

So he assumes a very small ship and mysterious ways of propelling it in order to sketch an estimate of the minimum amounts of energy involved. Ripping an even bigger hole in physics might throw acceleration and momentum out the window, but assuming 100% efficient transmission of energy across 24 light years already requires something pretty strange to us.

(his comparisons to present day production levels seem more illustrative than pessimistic)
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There's one great flaw in this article: the gross underestimation of man's potential, drive and constant progress.
You have an old "feature phone" (old Nokia phones, for example) that can still text just fine, but not run more modern apps. This is a perfect application for that.
Anonymous is the best that could ever happen for proponents of a crackdown on freedom (through/via/on the internet).

No one knows who's behind it, so no one will stand up for them, no one will complain if they get harassed and all the blaim for everything that goes wrong in the future goes to Anon/hackers. It's the perfect scapegoat for incompetence.
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His point is that exactly every single notable achievement in the history of mankind has been preceeded by people saying things just like these - skeptics who keep saying "it can't be done" up until the very last second before "it" is done.

It was said about crossing the seas. It was said about colonizing the surface of the planet. It was said about diving deep into the seas and it was said about taking off ground. It was said about leaving the atmosphere. It was said about reaching out into space. It is currently being said by some about colonizing our solar system, and most people currently feel that the thought of us not colonizing our solar system is ridiculous, and in time the thought of us not leaving this solar system to go on to the next one will be considered just as ridiculous. "Scientists" like these often suffer from the common problem of never being able to see farther than their own nose; they constantly forget that we grow, and grow, and grow. Without meaning to sound pretentious and cheesy, here's a nice quote from a certain sci-fi series that came to mind: "It's our destiny to walk among the stars", and you can be damned sure that we will, providing we won't kill ourselves on the way.
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Nice troll, It's been a long time since capital has no borders and large companies employ people from all over the world...
The problem with HackerNews jokes is that you get labelled as Redditer and get downvotted
Just want to point that the most underrated reason why people choose the social app path is not the cost but politics (i.e. asking for permission).
You have to ask the permission of fewer people (actually 0) to launch a social web app than to build a new hardware product.
>Ubuntu ships without make, Ruby or Python
Since when does Ubuntu ship without make and python? Python 2.X has been included in standard installations for quite a few releases now. I also can't remember the last time I had to manually install make.
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I've had this exact experience as well. Where everything turned out perfect, I coded, went home and went to sleep and woke up with a perfect solution and got going _right_ away.

More often than not though, this method has left me lying in bed awake for 2-3 hours of inability to sleep due to thinking about nothing but that problem.

If I could get over the sleeplessness somehow, I would do this every time!
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Why not? Doesn't gravity work in the Z coordinate?

But seriously - is there a physical reason not to send a probe "over the top" of the sun and fling it up, rather that out?

[Edit] Note to self. Always consult Wikipedia before opening your trap on HN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_effect
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I also missed collaboration and sharing capabilities but Apple likes to take one step at a time. They are too good at this to just overlook collaboration and sharing, the only problem might be that implementing it could take them quite some time.
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I think a good analogy is when you leave a paused DVD on a plasma TV for too long so it starts ghosting. Your brain, being a neural net, works suspiciously like a neural net. If you 'practice' being depressed for long enough then it's going to get easier and easier to be depressed, and being not depressed gets harder and harder.

That's not to say what actually causes mental illness or what the solution is, but if you want a metaphor that operates on the hardware layer of abstraction that you can frame other theories and/or best practices in terms of then I think that's probably as good as any.
I suspect most people have not read the full essay, so they never saw this paragraph:

The long and the short of what I'm trying to get across is quite simply that, in the absence of technology indistinguishable from magic — magic tech that, furthermore, does things that from today's perspective appear to play fast and loose with the laws of physics — interstellar travel for human beings is near-as-dammit a non-starter. And while I won't rule out the possibility of such seemingly-magical technology appearing at some time in the future, the conclusion I draw as a science fiction writer is that if interstellar colonization ever happens, it will not follow the pattern of historical colonization drives that are followed by mass emigration and trade between the colonies and the old home soil.

Many people here are arguing for "magic tech that ... does things that from today's perspective appear to play fast and loose with the laws of physics." I suspect that many of the people doing this either don't realize they are, and/or don't really understand physical laws as we currently understand them.
I completely agree with @auganov. If OP hasn't looked at the map for a while, Asia definitely is HUGE :) Perhaps start with 1 country--the question would then become "How do you reach Vietnam?" or "How do you reach Japan?" Which is much more answerable (even if the answer would be pretty long).
well you got to think about the future or else voyager 1 and 2 never would been sent out.

they would have just thought "lets not do it because we may not get interesting stuff until 2011"

if something takes time, the smartest thing is to start as quick as possible so you get results that much quicker
Do those channels produce high quality TV?

My instinct is that it wouldn't bring in enough money to maintain quality, and that the incessant appeals for money would be as annoying as adverts.
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Well, the more reason to launch them now and not wait another year.
This is a typical case of poor administration at a company blaming a vendor for their problems:
1. Yes, any storage array should work to first protect the integrity of the data
2. Yes, a good DR solution is only as good as the testing and tuning that the administrators have done to ensure it is working properly

Here are some questions:
- How many spare drives were in the system when the first and second drive failed? Netapp does not shut down volumes of storage if spares are in the system to take over for the failed drives.
- How long was it really before those drives were replaced with a spare that could take over and rebuild?
- Why don't you publish your DR plan and explain exactly where it didn't go as tested and planned? Point this out to show where the issue occurred that had been previously tested and shown to work properly.

I am not an employee of NetApp and not even a customer of NetApp. I have used it in the past and like all technologies it requires the care and feeding that is well documented in manuals they provide. And it requires good administrators to do their jobs to test and monitor things and ensure the resources are available for the system to work as designed.

Once you have heard both sides of the story the only thing you learn is that there are more the 2 sides to the story.

When these types of things happen the folks closest to them always leave out details or cannibalize the story so that they can be found blameless. I have been in the IT field for 15 years and seen it time and time again (with many technologies).

I read an email from Grasshopper this AM detailing to their customers what this issue was. It was so vague and left so much to interpretation that it really came across as whiny and misinformed. It was extremely unprofessional to apologize and then blame (without full explanation or root cause).

There's more to this than meets the eye. Believe me.

Since you all are replacing NetApp, I would suggest paying for a full time engineer from the next storage company you buy from. They can manage the array for you (properly) and ensure these things don't happen. Otherwise you'll need your sysadmins to start reading product documentation, following best practices, and testing procedures.
> really? dribble.com has loads.

You meant dribbble.com. But yes ... these days it's pretty easy to find a good icon designer.
I always wondered why those pictures depicted the sun's magnetic field limits as so clean cut from the rest of the galaxy.. didn't seem natural..

Maybe I should have followed my science instincts and perform a career in physics instead of System's Engineering
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I think the NASA/ESA Ulysses probe did that - it used Jupiter to flip the probe out of the plane of the ecliptic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28spacecraft%29
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Because BTC is wothless. Or rather that is what you could try to claim. If I mine a bunch of BTC and then pay you with it, I have not assigned any value to it. And if you never convert it to USD, you do not assign value to it either. When you fill out your tax forms, what would you put for its value? Moreover the IRS has no standard way to measure it. They cannot use Mt Gox any more than they can use Craig's list. The BTC is way too small and fluctuates too much to be accurately measured unless USD is involved somewhere.

I am not a lawyer or a CPA and the above is just a theory, not advice.
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I was expecting to see some reference to fortress, scala and abcl in order to discriminate what's important about Clojure. An important question: Of those books listed, are there any you think every programmer should read?, yes, Fogus, your book should be read by all programmers.
At the same time we are very certain on some issues.

As an example there will not be a theory which says "You can lift yourself up" and suddenly people grabbing their own belts could lift themselves up into the air.

Any future theory will predict exactly the same things as current theories on the cases where current theories have been experimentally verified.
Humans are too smart to let a bunch of bureaucrats with their pseudo-scientific rationalizations destroy the economy in the pursuit of more power for the bureaucracies.
Is thie guy Rocky related to DailyDeals? (See his email address at the conclusion). If so, then I would say that Techcrunch ran this post in bad taste.
Who cares about this stuff, when JavaScript/ECMAScript hasn't even a sane split function. And when will ECMAScript receive for each?

Why hype new stuff when the foundation isn't nice by now?

The only real reason for JavaScript being so popular is that web developers have to learn it.

However, I do admit JavaScript has a lot of potential. Just start on the bottom or you'll at some point have to break everything or live with annoying stuff.

I think OO is fine. If you want more there is Joose: http://code.google.com/p/joose-js/
... and other libraries. That way you don't have to care about making everyone happy.

Deliver a good foundation and the community will take care about the rest.
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I suspect the energy requirements to do so would so large as to be impractical.
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In short: the southern hemisphere. SMS is the internet of africa, among other places.

Maybe that wasn't the driving force behind the development, but its certainly a potential use.
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Perhaps just "null."

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When I briefly used Clojure, I was very impressed with clojure.set. (Probably the "relational algebra" Hickey mentioned in the interview, with operators like project, rename, join, etc. Stuff that anyone who knows SQL will be familiar with. A good example of what such abstractness buys you.)
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What is better than HN itself. Post your idea here and check for feedback. This is what i have personally done. I keep track of my ideas in my blog and post them here on HN. If people read it and think it has some potential, they will respond back to it. And it could be your lucky day, and PG himself will give u some inputs (kind of like limited version of virtual office hrs). I do share my ideas with my friends too as some time they give the best of the advice.
This is an impressive laundry-list of Unicode-compatibility switches in Perl, but the text under the heading "Assume Brokenness" is worth considering no matter what language you're using.
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The outlook for internet freedoms appears quite doomy over the next few years. Although in this case LulzSec doesn't appear to have done anything other than highlight security failings stories like this, along with the various doings of Anonymous and any other similar groups or individuals, can easily be exploited by politicians to advocate for a Chinese-style censorship regime and an end to net neutrality. Any hint that medical records might have been compromised would cause considerable public fear and alarm, which could then be channelled for political purposes.
Or perhaps not taken from the taxpayers in the first place?

[Edit: I am actually fairly left of center politically, but this does not mean that I am completely uncritical of what a government does with taxpayers money - and the last Labour government went insane with so many stupid projects and initiatives that we will have to live with for decades.]
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It would have been great, if there is some platform , or extention of HN which will help us to participate in a virtual Office Hrs with PG.

People could post their ideas in HN (may be we could tag these posts with :Idea:) and later based on some frequency (weekly/daily) PG could provide his inputs on the ideas like the way he provide during his famous office hrs. Others can up vote an idea so that PG can concentrate on what most of the people feel good.