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wot the article don´t tell u: the price of the switch to power the system - it´s about the cost of a car.
A lot of it is common sense, but I rarely meet people truly living that way. So, the take-away from the article is that it's really possible to have it all at once.
This is interesting, thanks for the link.
NASA needs to dedicate its pittance of a budget to another manned Moon mission right now about as much as I need another person to point out to me just how much money our government likes to spend on military boondoggles.
I rely almost exclusively on my history (that's why I can't use Chrome with its "less-than-awesome" url bar (compared to Firefox), but that's another story.)

Anyway, a much better way would be to clear by frequency of visit:

. all
. all but visited daily
. all but visited weekly
. all but visited monthly

or by date of last visit

. all
. all but visited during the last 24 hours
. all but visited during the last week
. all but visited during the last month

EDIT: like said below I never, ever, should have to even think about this, the user is not a garbage collector.
Advanced technology has tended to get cheaper over
time, often dramatically

That's because as far as technology in the software industry goes, the bottleneck has been our own knowledge.

That's why space travel to inhabitable planets is nothing more than an utopia right now, because for achieving the speed of light we need efficient fuel that can power a space-ship for several years. As far as this problem goes, our knowledge of the universe is not the only bottleneck -- building such a ship will also be freaking expensive in terms of material resources consumed.

You really shouldn't confuse technological advancements in silicon chips manufacturing with anything else. Moore's law is severely limited to a niche ;-)

the alternative is to slowly sicken and decay into
oblivion before you've had even a single century of
life. This should not be a tough decision!

Advocates of immortality are completely oblivious to the social challenges this will bring.

First of all -- nobody will be able to have children anymore, since that will over-populate the planet. It's already happening since humans don't have natural enemies and we live in times of peace.

Yet as a species we feel the need to have children. Personally I would give my life just so my 1 year-old boy could live a happy life. And while it saddens me that one day he too will be dead, I don't want to rob him of one of the most enjoyable and fulfilling purposes in life -- that of raising children of his own.

Of course, this is a problem of humanity in general -- we tend to be selfish mother-fuckers.
In this case, it looks like Apple is looking to fire the cheapest missiles that have a chance of hurting. The patent does indeed seem to cover the packaging of (what used to be called in OS9 days) "apple data detectors" with a computer. IIRC, Steve Jobs, in his iPhone announcement keynote speech, said that they've filed about 200 patents. This shows how serious they are about not only building these path breaking things, but also about protecting their inventions. I haven't checked, but it seems a bit unlikely that those 200 applications (or the late part of them) haven't yet been granted.

The situation, in other words, looks like a ticking time bomb for the other phones looking to copy the iphone - android or whatever.

Is there anyone who's analyzed apple potential patent portfolio in the mobile space?
Hi :) Don't know about Prague, have not been in a long time, but you could certainly say that in countries that are still lacking a bit economically, just implementing what exists already in more advanced nations can lead to big gains.
From looking at it, each twait block is blocking as a unit, but other code elsewhere from the twait block will still run.
It's funny how we're slowly heading back toward mainframe computing. Granted, they're dynamically virtualized across 48 cores and 192 GB RAM, but still.
I really hate this damned machine

I wish they would sell it.

It never does quite what I want

But what I tell it.
Thanks. I somehow completely missed that. Now to go read the discussion over there.
I can't really think of any written example of any traveler who came up with different conclusions about the world.
Excellent read. As someone who has (hopefully) just taken up the travelling+programming lifestyle myself I was really inspired by the website. There's a lot of interesting articles on there.
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My computer lab in high school had a nice beefy terminal server, but when you turned on 20 clients, it could take about 20 seconds to type a sentence in Word. That was back in 2000 though, so the same amount of money now will get you about 10x more processing power and network bandwidth.
I think he misunderstands the command line. If you have tasks you need to do a lot, such as compilation, committing a change, and so on, it's easier to use a GUI or key shortcut. There is no "badge" in typing "git commit" or "make" as you know them by heart soon enough.

But for specific manipulation of the version control system, or specific queries, a command line is much more expressive. For a lot of functionality there isn't even a (good) GUI because the use case doesn't come up enough for someone to build it, or you're doing something no one has thought of before. Sometimes you need to take the path less traveled :-)
It also makes it seem like there's not that much to learn by spending large amounts of time travelling. That's because people on average are similar, so it's equally probable you will meet the people who will make a difference in your life, travelling or no-travelling. Maybe in the end you will be wiser using the internet, which can actually help you find people with common aspirations/interests etc.
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> No, I don't know what would be better than passwords.

I'm quite happy with Google's Implementation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication called "2-step verification".
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Then go for it. Any role that involves delivering presentations or reports to teams or stakeholders requires people with confidence and strong delivery skills. Having a video that demonstrates these qualities will always be a bonus.
I don't think he takes pride in ignorance. I think he's criticizing computer interfaces for requiring obscure knowledge unnecessarily. And I completely agree with that.

I think current computing UIs are horrible, in the same way that the Nokia UI was bad, but only became visible upon the release of the iPhone.
Wait until there's a significant pause in typing before updating.
If the user interact with the list (keys or mouse) then the browser should not modify it, until the user type again.
1) Standard LAMP stack + codeigniter

2) Yes, there is full i18n support. The beta will initially launch in the UK, Italy and Spain (see later comments for why).

3) I have no plans to open source the code at present

4) There's a very strong mobile component. I have a contractor building iphone and android apps using Rhodes (http://rhomobile.com/products/rhodes/). The site itself is html5 and mobile friendly, but a mobile app will be required for anyone undertaking a task

When I said it's similar to taskrabbit and zaarly I didn't mean to say it's a clone. It's similar to those sites the same way airbnb is similar to ebay or HN is similar to reddit - the underlying concept is similar but the implementation is very different.

I'm not sure which market you're thinking of targeting but my site is focused on a niche in the travel sector, hence the three-country launch. I'm trying to solve a specific problem which will make use of the mobile camera, mic and sensors while a task is being carried out, hence the native mobile apps. It's intended for people already working in the travel industry so I'm not sure how relevant the code would be to your idea but it could easily be updated to a different market (with or without the mobile component). I'd be happy to discuss specifics by email.
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The author addresses that exact point in his article. Take a look -- apparently he has no money.
I assign them a token that is associated with their account.

The token is included in the link sent to them (via email) that directs them to where they can reset their password.

The token is only valid for 24 hours and is unique so it can be authenticated against their email when they're resetting their password.

If someone logs into that account in the meantime, the token is removed and the link to resetting their password becomes invalid.
I'd caution against using this port. I had on a couple of occasions my files get emptied from using it. Probably user error but still.
I don't think this was the problem with Borders. With Borders, the selection was just poor. There are canonical books on many topics. If you went into the computer section, you wouldn't find things like K&R, Stroustrup, etc., but the latest and crappiest C and C++ books. The same thing was true of books on most topics -- music, photography, sewing, etc. -- there are classics, and instead of carrying those, Borders would carry Dummies and other books.

If you went into the sci-fi section, you wouldn't find Philip Dick, Stanislaw Lem, or even a decent selection of Asimov -- you'd find a bunch of sci-fi books written the previous couple of years, and in many cases, sequels without the originals.

Finding books of quality at Borders was hard. I'd often want a book, go in there for half an hour, and find nothing. The value-add of a good bookstore is that they will have pre-selected the best books for you. If I go many of the little used book shops in my area, it will be a rotating selection of excellent books. Not every book will necessarily be my style, but every book on the shelves will be great, and there will be books on most topics. This is much more useful.

I don't really understand why this was the case. Borders ought to have economies of scale, and really ought to be able to have some central office somewhere picking out good books. Somehow, the selection was random and crappy instead.

I think part of the problem was that Borders probably went the route of overusing metrics, and providing more books similar to the ones that sold, which lead to a bunch of crappy books on popular topics (where it's much more useful to the customer to e.g. have the top 3 books on videography than the top 3 books, hidden in a bookcase of crappy books, where the good ones take an hour or two to find).
...there is absolutely no moral equivalence between an innocent person executed and an innocent person who spends some time in prison and is freed.

Now you are moving from moral questions to empirical ones.

Consider two hypothetical options - one is a 10% chance of being wrongfully convicted and being executed. The other is a a 20% chance of being wrongfully convicted and locked in jail with a 25% chance of being later exonerated, resulting in a 15% chance of being wrongfully locked in jail until one dies.

I'd suggest that morally, a 10% chance of wrongful execution is better than a 15% chance of being locked in jail until death + 5% chance of being locked in jail for years until exoneration.

In any case, this probabilistic example invalidates your absolute claim that imprisonment is better because someone might later be exonerated.

Because they might be innocent?

Apriori, I'm asking you to distinguish between:

a) imprisoning until death a guilty person or executing them.

b) imprisoning until death an innocent person or executing them.

As far as putting people into the wrong categories, that's a probabilistic matter rather than a moral one.
A solution to this would be to not have the omnibar scan through the entire history when typing in it. Instead, if the history does become too big, it should only wade through frequently visited pages and pages visited in the past month (or whatever is the best tradeoff for speed).
And we thought Facebook was about making things more open...
Ideally, you wouldn't store the iris fingerprint itself - that's just as bad as storing a cleartext password today.

Rather, a good solution would involve deriving a (site-specific) token from the fingerprint and handing it off to the remote service, which then deals with it in much the same way we expect sites to deal with passwords.

This, of course, presupposes that we can retrieve a consistent and unique fingerprint from the same iris from various different images of it, and breaks down if all we can do is check an iris image to see if it matches a fingerprint.
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> This looks like a custom protocol for VMWare systems

VMWare had something that resembled VNC a lot.

> A clear downside is the extra horsepower that will be needed on the server

Some of the work could be done inside the network interface. I suspect Cisco has (or will have, shortly) a chipset for that.
Considering the abundance of improperly implemented password storage schemes, shouldn't users just presume that their password(s) may be stolen and use unique passwords for each service so that damage is minimized in an attack? It's really all about choosing "bad passwords" if the password exists on more than one site. It is just silly to trust others to implement password security correctly -- use throwaway, randomly generated passwords for all third-party services.

I implement this personally by keeping my GPG keypair available, encrypting an email to myself with the relevant login information, and pulling this email up when I need to log in. In most cases it's a simple copy and paste operation and that works great. :)
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Agree - as long as money buys you time, it's valuable, because time is the only truly limited resource we have. From a certain income level and up, though, there is very little gain in happiness, so i find the western world's fascination with very rich people absurd.
The article uses the fact that tomato mechanization blossomed after Bocero ended as evidence that the same will happen in this case.

There are a number of problems with that.

First, tomato mechanization had been researched for what looks like a couple of decades before Bocero ended. It was a solution in search of a problem, then the problem came. So not all fruits yet have suitable mechanical harvesting mechanisms.

Secondly, in order to use mechanical harvesting (with today's equipment anyway), you have to actually plant differently! Wider, longer rows for example. Or different varieties. So farmers would need some time to prepare.

In the long run certainly it should be mechanized from an economic point of view.

From a technical point of view, someone on HN needs to hack a Kinect onto a robot and make an autonomous harvester that can work with multiple types of plants!
I've spent almost 10 years not having a stable place/work relationships. I also travelled a lot and came to almost same conclusions. But.

Looking back at it now I think that's everything should be limited. Including TV, including reading books alone and including travelling around the world. But.

The only thing that shouldn't be limited - is the pursue of your own unique excellence.

ADD:

So, if you want to be an excellent traveller - travel,
if you want to be an excellent writer - write even not seeing others,
if you want to be anything you like - do want you like.
And try to be excellent.

That's the only life advice I have!

ADD 2:
Naturally, if you don't want to be excellent, try to be excellent to be non-excellent !!!
Travelling is different than living abroad though, right?
Damn, long thread. I use Java, PHP, and Ruby: whever gets the job done in the given problem domain. Not a fan of a technical monoculture at all. PHP has been the language that is fashionable to hate for years now, but I still love it for web apps.
So, now it will take 2 seconds to type a sentence ;-)

Actually, it's more likely they will run 200 clients per box...
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Another one added to the NP-hard list, mhm.

Maybe some things to clear stuff up:

NP-complete is a subset of NP-hard.
NP-complete is entirely in NP, not all NP-hard are in NP.
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What makes it fantastic, though? What is the hypothesis / theory exactly that they are espousing, when they talk about evolutionary psychology for example?

Isn't it the fact that our behaviors all have an evolutionary basis, including e.g. the desire for a human male to sleep after sex? Each of these gets its specially concocted rendition of the narrator's fantasy -- e.g. "so that the women could get away more often after copulating".

I find this to be completely unscientific and wonder what falsifiable predictions these theories make. I mean the ones that imply that everything can be explained simply in terms of "evolution" by mutation and natural selection.
While I agree their Android phones are very Apple-ish, Apple doesn't have anything like these.

Except if you count an iMac as a monitor - it needs only a power cable to work.
OK. I retract the plagiarism accusation.

My belief was that Courtney Love had been influenced by the Albini document (which might have originated as a speech that Courney Love heard) but she brings enough in the way of sufficient new ideas to the table that it doesn't really matter that she doesn't cite her source.
> but its not needed

Depends. It's needed for non-local returns (returning from within blocks), and it's also useful for early returns within methods.

It's not needed for the final return of a method, or a normal exit from a block (not a bad thing in my opinion, and Python's lambda do the same)
It's a bit of a leap to go from 'Zynga must tell Facebook about any games it's about to launch' to 'FACEBOOK CAN VETO ZYNGA GAMES OMG!'

Facebook probably just wants a little warning so that it can get its software and hardware resources into position.
You appear to be suggesting that the real security benefit would come from off-loading the authentication process onto a third party, but we can already do that with password authentication by using OpenID / Facebook Connect / whatever.

It's not clear how using iris fingerprints rather than passwords really adds anything other than to increase the risk of a false negative, and introducing a third party dependency.

(I do take your point about storing a hash of the iris fingerprint, though. How this would intefere with the matching process is, I guess, outside of both our areas.)
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Having been writing web interactivity since before PHP, I'd disagree with you that PHP "is a language like Python".

Look at how it started, as personal home page template processing scripts in Perl, and you'll see it started with much more in common with a templating tool or web framework than with a formal language.

"PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple set of Perl scripts for tracking accesses to his online resume. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. As more functionality was required, Rasmus wrote a much larger C implementation, which was able to communicate with databases, and enabled users to develop simple dynamic Web applications..."

"PHP/FI, which stood for Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter, included some of the basic functionality of PHP as we know it today. It had Perl-like variables, automatic interpretation of form variables and HTML embedded syntax."

http://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php
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> Let me kindly remind you that every comfy house is built on ground first pioneered by people enduring hardships of camping.

I think Bruce is on about the people who have a comfy house, but still choose to endure the hardships of camping. That, he feels (and I couldn't agree more), is more like masochism than like pioneering.

For example, I really don't see why 'git commit -a -m "turd"' is pioneering while right-click, Commit, check boxes, enter "turd", click "Ok" is not.
This is likely to be a unique password actually, because it's relevant to the service the user was logging into, and it's only 5 chars (many website would not even accept it because it's too short).

I am just saying that every other week there is a new blog post with password analysis of leaked passwords: how many are 123456 and blah blah blah. I think it's time to cut some slack to the users and start blame HEAVILY whoever is taking care of the system or programming the service.

(BTW: you'd be better off using supergenpass or stanford PwdHash)
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> IMO, Django had great documentation in it's time (i.e. the django book)

The "great documentation" is not and has never been the django book. It's the official documentation on the website.

> but the competitors have caught up

Uh... no it has not. Even in the Python sphere, where Sphinx and Django have led to drastic improvements in documentary quality. One of the few projects which could lay claim to that would be Pocoo's/Armin's (Flask, Werkzeug, Jinja) and in my experience the API still feels much more like APIDoc than the craft I feel when I read Django's docs.

As to Rails, it's still a joke. The first documentation link on the rails website is this: http://api.rubyonrails.org/

> But I personally dislike generic views. They just feel a little like magic, and a little over-engineered. They might be good for larger projects, but using them from the start feels like premature overengineering.

That sounds very strange, especially for the older non-class-based generic views: they provide very simple behavior and usually end up replaced over time as it's not possible to customize them sufficiently (a major reason why class-based generic views were introduced).

I have to say I'm not sold on the class-based generic views, they feel far more complex than the old ones (because they are) and the documentation does not help and does not remove that feeling of complexity.
A friend of mine once told me she was too old to leave her cult-like religious group. She was 22.

That was 25 years ago and it seems she's still with them. I think her estimates were a little off.
I really don't understand his problem.
There's times when it makes sense to use a GUI-frontend, e.g. for `git diff`.

On the other hand, there's so many times, where a GUI hinders productivity severely.

E.g. a `find -name "*.foo" -exec mv {} . \;` in a heavily nested directory structure can be huge timesaver. Moving the desired files with a file manager would be so much more cumbersome.