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Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that a mechanic was able to accomplish something that first world medical industry said couldn't be done?

It just goes to show that if you have a disease, condition or injury, life threatening or not. It pays to self diagnose and be your own doctor. We can specialize more in our specific problem than an entire industry devoted to the body of all problems.
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>You can't say that just because he's one level farther removed from the final product.

Indeed. It'd be like arguing that an engineer who goes into management is now contributing less to the company since they are no longer writing code.
All programming is web programming, as much as all industry is consumer goods industry.
My son has cerebral palsy and I can see the immediate benefit that a machine like this would bring to him. We are currently using a similar harness on a regular treadmill, but this therapy doesn't help him learn that he needs to raise his feet and move them in a circular motion forward and then set them down again - seeing how the machine handles this using the same idea as an elliptical trainer immediately opened my eyes to the deficiencies in the approach we're using in the modern clinic we're attending. I would love to be able to help fund the development and manufacture of these devices in some way.
Thanks for bringing this up / posting the link.

Someone brought up a similar point in comments on the poem itself--I added a direct link in the attribution.
This is the kind of entrepreneur I hope to be someday. A man on a mission, fixing something close to his heart. Just awesome.
Hi Skore!

I just wanted to say it's been fantastic to read what you've written. Thank you.

Emil
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That's how we learned of resveratrol in the first place: by studying how ridiculously healthy the French are given what they eat and drink on a daily basis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Paradox

A healthy intake of red wine seemed to be a common factor in the French story, and from chemical analysis of wines we found resveratrol.
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>The fact that Apple compensated Xerox with pre-IPO stock, and more importantly, had a license agreement from Xerox, and even more importantly, Xerox didn't' have the GUI to steal (that being an invention of Apple made based on being awakened to the possibility by Xerox) is still ignored or claimed to be false, even here on hacker news.

kenjackson's comment is pretty insightful in this regard.
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Good question. I am using pycrypto - which is compatible with Openssl.

Thanks. Fixing the typo.
Is there a way to get more than 1 type of tea in 1 month? Say a sampler of 3-6 types of teas?
As a Latin major in college (one thing I would have changed), I think it's a far more useful skill than people let on. Latin in particular forces you to think about grammar in a more rigorous way than English does, and in doing so, it helps you ensure that you say exactly what you mean. Latin is a highly inflected language, meaning that individual words carry almost all of the grammatical information necessary to parse a sentence. Large classes of ambiguity that exist in English are simply impossible in Latin because of this. I've compared Latin to statically typed languages in the past, and I think it's an apt comparison.

You have to think through what you say before you begin, because otherwise it's nearly impossible to make a grammatically correct sentence if you need to switch your phrasing. This practice has the side benefit of making sure that what you're trying to say actually makes sense. Put another way, clarity of grammar leads to clarity of thought. Near fluency in Latin has changed the way I speak English for the better, primarily for this reason.

I do not know Arabic, but as I said, I think that knowing Latin has helped me tremendously even though I can no longer speak it or actively use it.
Okay, well in that case let us both hope there are more people like you than me! :)
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Mint will be running "Gnome 3", the framework, but not "gnome-shell", the user interface. Unity itself is similarly just a interface atop Gnome 3. Mint will be running its own new environment called "MGSE" (mint gnome-shell extensions), which is basically gnome-shell customized to look and behave like Gnome 2, because that traditional desktop experience is what most current users want and can get neither with Unity nor gnome-shell, which both have basically abandoned their traditional desktop user base and are now betting their future on tablets.
But in economic terms (what I believe Pincus/Zynga meant), no, the chef did not contribute substantially to revenue/profits the way engineers and sales people did.

I think you and Pincus are lumping together the typical market value of a chef, on average, with the specific contribution of this particular chef in this particular situation. Ron has argued pretty forcefully that Charlie did, in fact, contribute very substantially. His contribution was indirect, okay, but lots of people's contributions are indirect, including senior management's!

Look at the picture at the time Charlie was hired. It's true, Google could probably have hired any number of mediocre or even pretty good chefs without offering them stock options. But somehow they determined that Charlie was exceptional, and they decided it was worth offering him options to get him on board. There are, after all, some chefs in the world who own several restaurants and are fairly wealthy.

But he's wrong for lumping economic contributions as an employee (charlie the chef) and asset appreciation (charlie the investor) together.

This point I agree with.
Well-said!

The great thing about Linux – its killer feature compared to Windows or Mac – is that it's open-source, meaning each user is free to tweak it however they see fit. Ubuntu has been an interesting experiment in whether such an open-source system can also be designed to be competitive with a casual market; they're finding that the casual market's extremely difficult to penetrate, and so they're trying to innovate and make something genuinely appealing. I'm curious to see if they succeed or not, but it doesn't really matter either way, because Linux remains the turn-into-anything choice for people who need (or just want) more control over their computing environment.

As Ubuntu makes drastic changes, a new iteration of Linux becomes the go-to for people who want a conventional installation. Maybe it would have made more sense for Ubuntu to remain the conventional brand and for a newly-branded brand name to be the one fiddling with Unity, but Ubuntu's already got a name for itself and Shuttlesworth wants to take advantage of it. I think it's beautiful how Linux is capable of branching and splitting so painlessly. I don't use it myself, but that's okay – Linux doesn't need considerable market share to remain the valuable tool that it is.
No, most customers will win. Their experience is improved by the layer of curating to weed out broken and scammy stuff. Most customers don't have needs that can't be satisfied within the set of apps that Microsoft and Apple approve, plus the entire public browser-accessible web.

It's not black-and-white that "OPEN == GOOD" and "CLOSED == BAD". There are tradeoffs both ways.
He was making a prediction about the future. A prediction which was provably wrong in 2009 and has become even more wrong today. If there's no accountability--if we don't look back on the things we write about the future and learn from them--we will not grow and will continue making inane predictions.
If you're going to bash someone based solely on their watch purchase, please at least do it with a coherent sentence.
I switched to Ubuntu coming from Debian (and some Gentoo) because I was at the point where I needed my system to be productive instead of spending all day tweaking it.

Canonical has done great things to make Ubuntu Just Work. It works great out of the box under most virtualization solutions. It's also one of the only distros that has done away with most font bugs in Linux, for example. At least Linux Mint DE still has many of those - I tried it briefly after the Ubuntu 11.10 debacle.

The outrage is there because Canonical is actively breaking workflows that used to work, in other words, forcing users to spend time tweaking their system instead of being productive. That's a recipe for disaster and user outrage. Just ask the Firefox devs :-)
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No, not at all. There is a spec for HTML5 and it is most certainly not 'next generation web technology'. It goes into great detail on a couple of specific features that browsers will aim to support.

The problem is that people often want the latest and greatest technology. Geolocation is a good example of this. They think because chrome is an html5 browser they can have geolocation and often are confused when you try to explain why that feature won't always work. "But it's part of html5!" they say.

Instead of bundling everything under "HTML5" I wish we could just talk about the actual features.
That's expected from someone who does not know C. Not all programming is gluing stuff together..
I'm going for Debian, will try gnome shell to see how far it has come since it's beginnings and once I find out it sucks (most likely outcome) I will install XFCE.
I'm implicitly wondering whether you think the back side of the iPhone is good enough for Ive, why or why not, and what that implies about the amount of details Apple "sweats."

It seems to me Apple "sweats" details until they don't, and the classification under which the underside of the X1 wouldn't be good enough but the back side of the iPhone - complete with FCC and CE logos - is seems rather arbitrary.
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I think I read somewhere that the system was designed specifically for this kind of attack. It uses two tones of widely different frequencies.

Of course, if you had a friend....
You can still use KDE with (K)ubuntu http://www.kubuntu.org/

I find that it is a stable solution and allows you to sidestep the Gnome/Unity wars.
The 6 extra keys (*, #, A, B, C, and D) where meant to be used for remote control of devices attached to the telephone network. They were heavily used for test equipment. Another use was in the old Army AUTOVON system where the letters were mapped to call precedence levels.
I am glad about Unity and Gnome3, because it made me try the Xfce4-Desktop. Simple, fast, without many settings and other stuff that distracts from work. It's what Gnome should be according to the original philosophy of the Gnome project.
Record labels can be useful.

For example, take Mo'Wax from back in the day. Under James Lavelle they cultivated an impressive collection of up and coming artists in the electronica scene. Finding similar artists became a breeze by browsing through their artist roster. Similar things can be said about Breakin' Bread and Metalheadz

Problem is that record labels became to large and too broad. Their only real purpose to create revenue instead of giving exposure to artists.
I really hate to be this guy - but why "ur"? Why not "your"?
I hope so too.

I know there are passionate people for all types of products. I think it was bemmu (an HNer) who started Candy Japan, a subscription service for Japanese candy, of all things. I'd think tea would have a larger market :)

Thanks for your well-wishes.
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Sure, not everyone can be a chef—I completely agree. I spent my summers working in restaurants growing up, so I’ve seen firsthand just how brutal the work is and how much skill it takes. But certainly there is no doubt in my mind that more people can be good chefs than can be good software engineers.

And, as somebody else pointed out, the chef's existence -- and the supreme quality of his work -- was one of the big draws for tech talent to come to Google. And, furthermore, by freeing the tech talent from having to worry about food or leave work to get it, he contributed to the value they created.

I didn’t set up a straw man, but I did draw some hyperbolic distinctions for the sake of exposition. (In fact, I worked as a line cook one summer and I wasn’t very good at it—so not everyone can even be a line cook.) There is obviously a spectrum, and if we’re going to point out fallacies then you’ve set up a false dichotomy: that there’s either things everyone can be or things few people can be. This isn’t true, and I’m simply saying that software engineers are a scarcer resource than chefs. I don’t disagree that the chef at Google legitimately contributed to the value the company created, but I think there are plenty more chefs that could have done so than there were software engineers who could have built the core technology the company was built on. My point is that the salaries are, broadly speaking, a reflection of supply and demand and not difficulty of work.
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Then you don't understand the sandbox. There's nothing to stop something like Avid Media Composer being able to access your video.

But it doesn't need to access your address book.
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Or you could whistle a 2600Hz tone.
All I'm saying is that you have to evaluate each employees contributions and a chef is less likely to be as valuable as an engineer in an engineering company, for a variety of reasons, and then should be compensated accordingly.
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just wanted to be hackery along with the font

edit: sorry if it came off as rude. in a meeting and replied in a rush.
The GNOME/KDE development model is pretty strange. They release a new major version that changes everything so they spend years fixing and stabilizing, and then they release another major version and repeat the process.

XFCE does a better job. "XFCE4" has been around for 7 years and they provide small improvements but don't make any radical changes.

Unity was pushed out before it was ready. I understand the need to get people using it but it's still not a passable desktop for many people and probably won't be for another couple of Ubuntu release cycles. Hopefully once it stabilizes they won't repeat the mistakes of GNOME/KDE and decide to change everything again.
Which is completely unfounded given that, with Spotify, one pays a flat fee to listen to as much music as one can; there is nothing stopping him or her from listening to the entire album.
Some responses to various assertions in your post:

- transistor density: only when taking 2D density into account. There is a whole third dimension to start using. Although it won't scale exponentially in sheer numbers, it may scale by introducting new topologies.

- 'Heisenberg effect': single atom transistors have been built and uncertainty in the observation of its state is not the problem. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is not the issue here.

- Quantum computing will not solve the issue. It can solve some specific classes of problems spectacularly fast. For most common problems, it's not even (significantly) faster in theory.

- Nobody knows what kind of quantum computers will be technologically possible. There is no reason whatsoever to assume that quantum computing will ever replace 'regular' computing. My personal prediction is that it will track the record of fusion power for the decades to come: i.e. no practically useful results. Experiments in my university tended to go awry if someone in across the hall received a mobile telephone call. They invested quite some time and energy into shielding the experiments, to little avail.

And a minor nitpick:

- "quantum physics" is a theory. The obstacle isn't "quantum physics", it's the experimentally observed granularity of reality and what you can reasonably build out of those granules. "Quantum physics" is the problem as much in this realm as "Quantum physics" is the reason you can't make anything you want out of legos.
I have been doing #hashtag sentiment tracking on the http://moodpanda.com data so when the user posts I Love #coke or #coke is sick it is attached to there chosen mood number (1-10) that way i can get a exact rating of how people feels about the product or brand etc. over time, its quite cool to see the results.

It is this form of direct Sentiment analysis and does not fall foul of the normal issues with Sentiment analysis e.g. is the word sick good or bad? Different ways of phrasing etc. are not an issue from http://moodpanda.com data.
A one-line change to xmonad.hs to make it use xfce instead of gnome, and I was on my way.
Indeed.

I (a systems programmer) can write web code just as well as a good web programmer can write systems code: badly. That web frameworks and infrastructure tend to be more forgiving than bare hardware and system architecture is likely why the stereotype of the incompetent web programmer has come about, but the quality of a good web programmer is roughly equivalent to the quality of a good mobile developer or a good systems programmer or a good desktop application programmer.
It should probably be expressed as a "sub-state".

- Solid
- However many states there are...
- Liquid
- Odd Liquid
- Gas
- Plasma?
Fandroids? Wow, had to check if I was on Reddit.

>From this I conclude that most people who oppose patents and innovation do not understand technology well enough, or do not have any engineering background, and thus cannot tell the difference between two sheets of plastic with a grid of intersecting wires where pressure causes the wires to connect, and a capacitive touch panel, that maps out the shape of each picture, uses an accelerometer to determine the orientation of the device and then figures out which finger of the hand is touching it and thus from that, which pixel in the amorphous blob of contact the user is intending to touch.

Are you claiming that Apple invented capacitative touch?

> Xerox didn't' have the GUI to steal (that being an invention of Apple made based on being awakened to the possibility by Xerox) is still ignored or claimed to be false, even here on hacker news.

Are you for real?
It honestly boggles my mind that people can't read things like these and see that it's "choice" here that's why Linux on the desktop is doomed to be nothing more than a niche product for us geeks.

Desktops succeed because they're consistent. Possibly the most important thing is to have a consistent API. X at this point is venerable. Nascent Linux desktops come complete with cruft. Lots of cruft.

Honestly I can understand why Canonical wants to start again (Wayland, Unity, etc). Even more honestly, I just don't see adoption of any Linux desktop going much above 1%.

I have a 6 core Xeon with 24GB of RAM on my desktop and Ubuntu still feels sluggish. Go down to 2 cores and 4GB of RAM and I'd have a better experience with either OSX or Win7.
Very true: "You have to stand up for yourself and sometimes that means being a bit more aggressive than you normally are. This is the way of the world."
Eh? What's special about C that means you don't glue things together? I'm pretty sure I've glued things together in C before...
I'm thinking of giving the option of a monthly sampler of 4 teas (1 per week). I'd have to charge a little more for that because of the extra packaging and other associated costs. It is on my list, however.

I also want to create a "gift" option to make it easy for users to give yearly subscriptions as gifts.

Any other ideas?
Brilliant. I don't work with cow-orkers, but I'll keep this for friends who do. Congrats on a nice app. :D
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dont do too much training all day long but rather do effective short period intensive trainings couple of times a day
a chef is less likely to be as valuable as an engineer in an engineering company

based on what?

You are assuming something about an individual's contribution to a group of people based on nothing but the job title.

Based on actual evidence from an early Google employee, this guy's contribution was huge. Will all chefs at company's have similarly large contributions? Not likely. But it doesn't change what this guy contributed and to assume something like this seems really unfair and useless.
Agreed - folks who are logged in as root a lot seem to have an uncanny tendency to type all kinds of stuff that probably shouldn't show up in a log anywhere.

These tend to be the same folks who think that using "sudo" is a waste of time and serves no purpose. Not that I've ever accidentally rebooted a box, of course. :P
Disclosure: I have designs on entering this space with my own apps. (thanks for providing me additional motivation to hustle!)

1. Opening up the crypto implementation is a very smart move. Whenever I talk to my wife about building crypto tools, her first question is "Why should people trust you?"

2. Think critically about first user impressions w.r.t. stuff like fonts, the tone of your text, etc. Per the above, you're asking people to trust their data to you. "ur Dropbox" might not give them that safe feeling they're looking for.

3. Another question to be wary of is "why not just use an encrypted disk image." I think you're handling some of that by promoting the ability to share files, but think about answering that question more directly in a FAQ.

Overall, lots of potential here.
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> I still can't understand why Canonical doesn't just put out a Gubuntu

Because they guessed that not many users would switch to Unity if they can keep using a Gnome-2-like. But they _want_ them to switch to Unity so they have to basically force them by forcibly removing the Gnome-2 option.
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Great comment. But allow me to disagree on comparing Gnome 2 to OSX. In my opinion old Gnome was exactly what you're talking about: "driving off the road". It wasn't like Windows or OSX, it was its own thing, the best desktop environment, in my opinion. The only element reminiscent of OSX (only visually, not functionally) perhaps was the menu at the top.

Unity, on the other hand, is the exact replica of Gnome 3, just not as polished graphically. They both have this weird "buaaa mode" where you're typing instead of clicking on a shortcut, they both destroy virtual desktop functionality and if anything, they're basically cloning OSX bad habits: instead of switching between windows on Alt+Tab they're now switching between apps (across virtual desktops!).

So I would suggest that the opposite is happening. Instead of staying in the "new place" Ubuntu is basically trying to get on the road and follow OSX.

Frankly, I'm not even sure it's possible to "drive off teh road to a new place" when it comes to desktop UX without a significant change in hardware: we're still using basically the same computers as we did in late 80s, even the screen real estate hasn't improved much.