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Back in 1991 we took out a special insurance policy to cover the computers and hardware in our house (two professional coders). Just the hardware came to $22,000. (We figured the software was just licenses which couldn't effectively be stolen.)
Has the author of this article never used Spaces on OS X? The very first point seems to indicate they have not.
I know caltech is trying to be but isn't. It's way more academic.
I love a Linux environment over Windows and increasingly as 10.x progresses OS X, but none of the things on this list would be reasons I would cite.
For those who don't want to download: it's 1.7 MiB of assembler instructions with comments. Looking at this you start to understand how hard game development was in 80's (this game is from 1986).
So they basically deserve credit for being rich and having sold lots of devices. OK.
A story about Steve taking a photo, and his attention to detail in doing so, is especially fitting because of his apparent passion for photography. You could tell in his keynotes that he was especially proud of iPhoto, which seemed to be his favorite application to demo, and he is said to have served as photographer at Larry Ellison's wedding.

This story isn't about an important, busy man with his own problems stopping to have a normal interaction with naive strangers. It's about a man appreciating the important, everyday moment in life when a family asks a bypasser to take their picture to document their memories of going to a special place, and seeing through their eyes the difference his work has made.
I mean this in a good way, wouldn't it be better to stack up all of this on stack-overflow parent link ? This would enrich their community and be more optimal for the reader here.

p.s to the guy who down-voted my previous ( now deleted ) comment. you were right. It helped me think more precisely regarding why I was trying to crack a joke.
There is a distinction of trusted and untrusted, but I wasn't implying a trust by default method because that's not good either. I also wasn't trying to imply that a vetted device is necessarily a trusted device. For example, we allow Blackberry, Apple and Android devices on our network as "officially supported" mobile devices. We don't trust them but we know if something goes wrong we can issue a single command and wipe the device which effectively ends all access that device had/has to our network resources.

The point is, and you hit on it, that you have to prevent intrusion, compromise or infection from all places and allowing people to work on their own hardware or without a VPN means that job becomes exponentially more difficult.
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Here's a couple of reasons why Gate One is superior to PuTTY:

* Gate One makes temporary network disruptions a trivial inconvenience: If your connection drops (which is sadly very common with business VPNs and home Internet connections) you can instantly resume all your open terminals the moment it comes back online. This also works for when you need to reboot your computer (not that Windows ever makes you do that ;).

* Gate One's bookmark manager is vastly superior to PuTTY's built-in session manager. With PuTTY, if you have more than a few "Saved Sessions" you'll have to scroll and scroll to find the one you want and the connection window isn't resizable. Also, you can't attach notes or classify them in any way. Gate One's bookmark manager is so much nicer (and faster to navigate).

* Gate One terminals don't clutter up your task manager. I've seen Systems Administrators struggle to find the right window when they have dozens of PuTTY windows open. Some other SSH clients support tabs but those can get out of control just as quickly. Gate One's grid view lets you manage (and find) a large number of terminals very efficiently.

* Gate One's session logging/recording, playback, and sharing features. PuTTY supports raw, text-based logging but it is unreliable (if you don't shut down PuTTY properly the log will be lost).

Of course, there's other features you might like but I won't enumerate them all here. PuTTY does some things Gate One can't do (e.g. port forwarding) but for most day-to-day stuff Gate One will probably be better.

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Dan McDougall - Author of Gate One
Also, OSX has mission control. You don't necessarily have to "go back to the single desktop paradigm of Mac or Windows". There are solutions for that, and on OSX it's even built in.

It's a great feature in Ubuntu but it's definitely not exclusive.
Ahh, but the devil is in the details. In the given example, "Take my taxes from this pdf and put them into a spreadsheet", it sounds really nice. However, consider this: Anything that you can't tell a person to do, you won't be able to tell this system to do. If you task a person with "taking your taxes and putting them into a spreadsheet", they're going to ask, "how?" "What's the purpose?" "What do you want the spreadsheet to look like?" "Do you want everything from your taxes on one sheet?" The list goes on and on.

So, while the idea seems really nice, the idea that this or any A.I. implementation will be the kind of insane revolution the OP is predicting is laughable.
If you can manage to do it while you're working for someone else, it eliminates a considerable amount of risk. Not always possible, though.
Disney shoots 360° movies (since the 1960s, I believe) using an array of 35mm cameras mounted on vehicles or suspended from aircraft and displays them in a round theater with handrails (which it recommends you hold onto because you'll fall over if you don't). I saw one of the resulting movies back in 1982 at Disneyland in Anaheim.
> and a greater challenge for SSDs trying to catch up with the amount of storage on offer.

This technology is pretty much exclusively for backups, no? Not really the competitive space for SSDs. With only a single read/write head and 18TB of information on a drive, you're looking at an enormous performance bottleneck.
That's some good advice.

But, don't forget with enterprise customers you can offer to sell the company to them. 2-20 million for a long term strategic advantage plus your proven track record can be seen as net win for everyone. And if negotiations break down they are less likely to think they already own you.

I would be cautious of any sort of long term profit sharing, but offering to share a few years revenue from any 'connections' made in the industry can offset the feeling you are burning them by sharing the secret sauce.
This doesn't appear to address any of the numerical issues with representing money in floating-point numbers. I assume it's just meant for client-side previews and estimates?

If you're doing accurate conversions on the server side, I guess I don't see the advantage to doing different conversions that yield different results on the client side.
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my thoughts exactly - my guess is that the editor wanted to point out this potential source of an error, because his readers were likely to understand it. to me the error seems to be too trivial for an experiment of that magnitude.
Somewhat offtopic... But does anyone know of an inexpensive backup provider that works with rsync (or at least has Linux compatible software that doesn't require inotify)? I'm looking for something that will run on my Synology DS211j NAS. Crashplan was looking great until I realized the DS211j kernel doesn't support inotify. Backblaze is the same story. I'm using S3 right now, but it costs quite a bit more than Crashplan or Backblaze.
Many arcade games were done entirely in assembly.

Everything that came out of Williams/Midway for example (From Defender all the way to Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Crusin', basically everything not on PC-based hardware) were all completely done in assembly. Wrap your noggin around that one.
Siri has been in development for quite some time. Prior to spinning out, it was a DARPA funded research project at SRI. Give the guys credit. They didn't just slap down a bunch of glue to tie together Google and voice recognition.
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At my old lab we built something similar (camera + ball + throwable) 12 years ago: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/1999/5/ICRA_Cyclops_99.pdf

Available electronic components back then were way larger than what's available today: we could only fit a single CCD camera in the ball. It did send a real-time video stream, though.
As nice as this is, there's a fly in the ointment. Google (from where the exchange rates are harvested) Terms & Conditions:

> 5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.

> 5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Google, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.
Ok for me, storing an encrypted password that is reversible is the same thing as storing a plaintext password. Means that people at least in their company can see my PW. Which means that if I used same PW as my email, they have it.

Lets take it a step further... If this is insecure, how much trust can you put that your data is secure? The goal of good online backups is that the only way to actually read data from the backup is to have the user's password. They clearly don't have that as everything is reversible.

Dropbox used to claim to be like that, not anymore. Which is why I don't trust dropbox with private data. Instead I store it using AeroFS with local replication.
Since religion promises eternal life, and a large number of respected scientists are religious, I assume that you are Christian, right? Also Muslim? And maybe Jewish?
Virtual Desktops are insanely cool - You mean like those that OS X has and that a billion utilities for Windows give you?

The Community support is awesome - And there isn't ##windows or ##macosx, or sites like stackoverflow.com in addition to all the articles written by the 90%+ who use OS X or Windows?

Unity is better than ever - Unity being better than ever is an advantage over earlier versions of Ubuntu, not OS X and Windows. What happens if I connect my Dell laptop with an ATI card to a TV to watch a movie?

Beautiful Themes - They are beautiful indeed, but not very polished. OS X and Windows have huge teams whose only job is to make sure that the UI not only looks good, but also is functional and doesn't break down in all sorts of situations.

An enormous free software library - Can I run iTunes on it and sync my iPhone properly? I also want to watch Netflix and Hulu full-screen. Sometimes I like playing that Angry Birds game, is that on there? No? I can't do any of those things? But you say there's a 3D modeler there, as well as something called DDD?

Ubuntu is Free & Open Source - Because all developers and nerds rewrite parts of the kernel the way they work. Also, how does the OS being open source prevent the OS vendor from making huge changes to it? If Canonical introduced a breaking change to your application are you going to fork the OS or fix your app?

Ubuntu is a great OS and arguably the best Linux distro out there, but this article performs feats of logic I have never thought possible.
You can make those timelines instantly more cool by using oEmbeds, for example via http://embed.ly/ ;)
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I think you meant:

int value = c - '0';

Otherwise, value will be negative.
Gate One just comes with a bundled SSH plugin that makes using it for SSH really convenient. You can actually use Gate One to run any terminal application you desire. For example, if you run "sudo ./gateone.py --command=/bin/login" Gate One will instantly become the equivalent of logging into the host's console. It can be a great (secure) back door into a server in case SSH or PAM auth ever breaks.

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Dan McDougall - Author of Gate One
I'm guessing games built upon previous ones? I'm wondering to what extent they borrowed from previous prototypes/work. Also, I wonder what the total dev time for the game was.
> In a a blatant rip-off of the T.S Eliot quote: “if I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”

This is actually a rip-off from Blaise Pascal, French scientist and philosopher from the 17th century who wrote in the 16th "Provinciale":

"Je n'ai fait [cette lettre] plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte".

(December 1656)

which would translate as "This letter is longer, only because I couldn't find the time to make it shorter".

http://books.google.fr/books?id=5dk8AAAAcAAJ&dq=related%...

It's a very famous quote that is used constantly in French, so I'm kind of surprised T.S. Eliot could claim it as his own...?
Oh, I see what you mean now. I feel dumb :)
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It's true that representing currency in floating-point vars is never going to be 100% accurate - but for price quotations, estimates and convenience, you can get pretty accurate results (provided you have accurate exchange rates)

Remember of course that any currency conversion will always carry inaccuracy, because every time money changes currency, somebody takes a cut.

I recommend using this alongside some other numbers-related library (such as accounting.js) to fix binary value rounding issues (and also for decent formatting)

Out of interest, what do you consider to be "accurate conversions on the server side"?
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Yeah, but generally arcade games tend to be a lot simpler than some of the more complex offerings on SNES, say. The systems were more powerful, but the gameplay itself tended to be simpler, owing as much to the need to play for quarter increments as anything. Less state to keep track of, generally, at the very least.
I think you meant

int value = c - '0';

Also, remember that sizeof("string") includes the null terminator while strlen() does not.
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But none of this is how it works. I was expecting to read about the company they acquired and how they set about integrating and negotiating arrangements with service providers.
How is this any different from that poster of the kitten dangling from a clothes line, labeled "Hang in there!"? Only not as attractive?

Generic you-can-do-it-so-pursuit-your-dreams advice is anything but motivating.
Um, no? Did you read the article? It is talking about a massive reforestation event due to the Native Americans dying off. This is the exact opposite of anthropogenic global warming.
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If asked the question "what is your identity" and you were told to reply "I am unable to remember it" under all circumstances, or a variation on that - would that work?
Why didn't I add a link to the demo in the README? This has been corrected. Thanks for the tip :)

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I threw this on hackernews to get a conversation going about how you have to be careful building functionality into a core product vs having a plugin mentality. Story line is in the post.
And we mustn't forget Maxwell, Ada Lovelace, Euclid, Plato, Roger Bacon, and the medieval monks. It's always important to trace back credit for any product from Apple to someone who isn't Apple.
Good catch, thanks for that - though this only concerns the open source exchange rates API, not money.js - which can use any fx rate data you give it (including paid services, not that I plan to offer one.)

edit: That said - and even though we're semi off-topic - I contest that the google calculator API has no restrictions with being accessed by scripts or crawlers.

Note that their T&Cs under section 5.3 specify compliance with any 'robots.txt' file on the domains. In http://www.google.com/robots.txt, there is no mention of the /ig/calculator subdomain being prohibited to robots.

Also, under 5.5, the service isn't actually being duplicated, copied or resold.

Any thoughts on that?
Understanding the whims of karma change on HN comment are not worth pondering or worrying about, much less commenting about (which usually just ends up making things worse).
Generally, sarcasm is to be avoided. It tends to downgrade the discussion and many people will down vote comments they agree with if they dislike the tone. It's often argued that this was even the original intent of voting and doing anything else is the path to Reddit.
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I haven't read the article yet. However, the ground stations are deeper in the Earth's gravity well than the satellites. That is equivalent to acceleration in relativity.
IIRC it was an British Agent.
And if it is not a power of 2, the % operation will be anything but fast. If a size not a power of 2 is strictly required, a simple increment and compare is almost certainly faster.
your point is valid, but there are worse mistakes in the article. It must be possible to write for a non-technical audience without stating untruths that irritate technical readers.

"a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation" is a terrible description of source code, but I've heard worse.

"Its free, open-source variant, Linux [...] serves as the foundation of operating systems, like Apple’s iOS". Simply not true. Android is linux. iOS is mach/BSD/Darwin/nextstep/OSX. None of which are derived from Linux.
> 'hardcore scientist guy' ignored next to a 'well-marketed guy'

Artists always get more press than the guy who does the amazing engineering or science. It is the way of the world. Certain exceptions exists, where the engineer / scientist has a unique look or style (e.g. Einstein). The public consciousness loves the archetype.

Ritchie was a great man, but if the article needs to degenerate Steve Jobs to prove it, then it is poorly written and tarnishes both their memories. Both learned their lessons well from the generations before them and used the tools of others to create great and amazing things.

[downvotes? really? how about you be the type of person to tell me what's untrue here?]
The neutrino is going through the earth - there's no tunnel - so there's no way to compare to a photon. Basically Gran Sasso is moving towards the neutrino as it travels, from the perspective of the GPS
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OK, those are the pros.

The cons:

1) Facebook
2) see #1
Obviously you do not personally pay after death, but you set aside money for a trust before hand, which amounts to the same thing.

I disagree with your assertion that you can get the company to live thousands of years. How many human organizations have lasted that long? Even the Catholic church has only been around for 2k (so they claim at least) and I can't think of anything else that approaches that longevity, not even nations. And there are way too many cases for potential failure to calculate real probabilities so arguing about getting them low enough is moot.
I thought exactly the same way. But I really like the new Ubuntu, gotta give it a try on my pc at home.

I think with all the possibilities you have now on the web, it is a nice thing to have a light weight operating system. There is not much native software that I regularly use, most things work in my browser.
Touché. This guy's going places. Somebody please get him to the White House.
Two thoughts came to mind: (1) WTF is this doing on Hacker News? (2) If people are so uncomfortable with unions and labor laws, are they willing to go the Soylent Green factory when they hit 30, fail to ship or have medical issues?
OOC, were your parents foreigners?
I've never been able to get squat out of Wolframe Alpha. Even on things that seem like it should be right up its alley ("compare health care costs in Texas to Wisconsin" -- "no data available" -- Oh really?)
He got his phd in 2000, so I assumed he was reasonably young :)
Agreed but you have to keep in mind what the algorithms are being used for.

You're going to have better luck implementing Dijkstra's quickly in a competition than you are A-Star. Not to mention A-Star is based mostly on heuristics and if you don't have time (or don't care) then bad heuristics makes it just as fast as Dikstra's.
If you want all-ones, shouldn't you just use ~0?
Here is Nathan's feedback:

http://flowingdata.com/2011/10/13/visualizing-yahoo-email-pr...

My feedback:

Impressive visualization. Can you make it play music? There is sound on mouseover but I wander if emails can generate a melody.

Thanks
The basic problem is that the OP motivated his decision to do what he did, while you just said that he were wrong without motivating why that second matters so much for him.

OP found a solution that worked for him, and then shared that solution to give other people with a similar problem the option to use the same solution. That is a good thing even if it doesn't apply everywhere. People are not sheep that copy things without reflecting on how it applies to them before implementing.

(Well - perhaps some are, but there are plenty of even more stupid stuff out there for them to copy, so this solution to OP's problem will hardly make this problem worse)

I didn't downvote you cause I don't have the downvote arrow, but I probably would have done so if I had had the ability to do so.
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Duffs device... Not unique to C but thats where I encountered it first.

Had a need for it recently, and found out it was not available in C#.
I still have Skype 2.8 and refuse to update, because even before Microsoft got involved, the newer versions of Skype were so inconsistent in communicating with other versions of Skype.

But lately, I've noticed Skype freezing on opening. It's probably my 3 year old MacBook Pro, but I like to think it's Microsoft somehow. :)
The hardware matters in the cloud. That's why we moved to all 10GigE. 
Tips on cloud benchmarking from http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/blog/2010/08/28/9-cloud-server-benchmarking
I personally learned from Skienna's other book Programming Challenges first (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Challenges-Steven-S-Skiena...). Then when my knowledge had matured a bit, I was able to digest The Algorithm Design Manual a little better.
Maybe, but Siri merely refers to Wolfram Alpha for most requests, so it is hardly an improvement.

I think it is an improvement in the way it is integrated into the phone, but not in AI capability.
So much hand waving...

On what basis do you claim there's a good chance I'm overconfident about cryonics' non-utility? I could say your overconfident in its utility and be standing on ground at leas as firm a you.

There's also a chance that you never get reanimated, or that you're reanimated by future humans who torture you to see how ancient humans react to stimulus, or any number of other possibilities that make cryonics unattractive.