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Nice. I did something like this (tho MUCH more limited!) back in the 80s. I created a little Turbo Pascal program that let you enter the wake-up time, and at that time it would make my home phone ring, which was guaranteed to always wake me up.

It used the AT commands of the modem to do a little onhook/offhook toggling and then dialing my own number and then going back onhook. The local phone company would interpret the sequence as a ring-test request and call my number.

It was fun to write and I used it for years.

Good luck!
I can't use Skype because I have an iPhone 3GS which doesn't have the latest iOS (available only on iPhones 4).

So I don't really get your point.
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Actually, no: I will contend I am "doing it right". I am not arguing that my explanation is true (if I were, I'd be just as bad as these people I'm ranting about); I only will claim that my explanation is obvious and reasonable and thereby has to be considered and explicitly countered or controlled for before you can just assume that it is due to something else.

I totally accept that it /might/ be true that if you are older when you have children, the children will live longer, but this paper does not demonstrate that. That said, I don't even think the researchers of this paper were /really/ attempting to demonstrate that, and so I will put the blame squarly on this "Extreme Longevity" site for not paying enough attention.

(edit:) Actually, while I maintain that ajross' commentary was unhelpful (as I stand by my first paragraph in this comment), as pointed out by stiff this article does conclude with an explicit note discounting the notion that this article is establishing causation.
IIRC Deep Space 1 used an ion thruster and obtained comparable speeds to voyager.
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In the Heinlein (SF, eg. "Time enough for love", and related books) universe, long life is achieved by paying children of long lived parents too marry each other.

Ultimately the program is so successful that they are persecuted by the rest of the earth of being so long lived that they have to flee the earth!
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I think that statement only makes sense if people who live longer also have higher fertility rates.
I've tried services likes this before but it's too easy to know what it is and ignore it and then fall back asleep. Maybe I'm just more stubborn than everyone else.
Great idea! My only complaint - I copied your URL without the "www." and thought the site was broken, but apparently it's just a subdomain issue. Other than that I like the clean design and usability. Also I imagine you did the hours until time instead of time itself because of tricky time zone issues, but if you had both options it'd be even easier to use. Good luck.
I think that these craft are one of mans greatest achievements, so I don't mind hearing this over and over again :). The thought that no matter what, these craft will outlive the human race and continue hurtling through deep space for eons, is one that really blows me away.
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I'd imagine it's essentially a settlement offer.
This. it also makes doing things that were not thought of in 2000 nearly impossible. popovers , css3, JavaScript, And animAtion libraries all have problems. its not just a bunch of zoom 1 fixes anymore. the web has moved on. display bugs are not the only problem
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The Dawn spacecraft use ion drives. "With the propellant it carries, it can perform a velocity change of over 10 km/s, far more than any other spacecraft has done with onboard propellant after separation from the launch rocket." Voyager 2 got a 20km/s boost from Jupiter, and almost the same from Saturn, about 4km/s from Uranus, and about 10 from Neptune. (See http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf4-1.php )

In other words, even the best rockets we have now are not as good as that rare lineup of all four gas giants in this system.

Also, we don't have a better energy source. Voyager used RTGs, and that's still what we have. In any case, power isn't the limiting factor, it's exhaust velocity and amount of fuel.
When your what is as big as Apple is?
"as sales of their desktop processors decline"

Why will their sales of desktop processors decline?
Don't know about speed. I think the mere fact that it works on vmware vm framebuffer is amazing!
What's your evidence of this? Have you built a large Backbone application? As it stands, your comment comes across as snide and indefensible.
1 month = ~44million km which is not exactly a hard edge even by these standards. (17km/s * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30)
> (Remember that the real impetus for adding them to Unix
was X11 and its big and badly-factored libraries, which most of us aren't blessed with.)

Really? Today we are very much blessed with quite a few large libraries - not just X but Qt on top of that and KDE on top of that. WebKit. ICU. These come out to dozens of megabytes. Static linking would add somewhat less by eliminating unused symbols, but you'd still end up with massive bloat for your GUI processes; maybe with today's disk and memory sizes and SSDs that's not the end of the world, but it would be a rather pointless performance drag. That's not counting the difference between Go and Plan 9: I count 4,000 odd binaries in my PATH; if they each had the 1 MB overhead of hello world in Go, I'd be out 4 GB, more than I pay for the entire set of libraries on my system (with some redundancy). (And I hope you don't mind waiting for your programs to compile; despite the Go compiler's vaunted speed, it actually takes over 4 times as long to build hello world as clang for the same in C, the vast majority of which is spent in the linker.)

Security? Today's security environment requires frequent patches to library code. If you have a system to automatically re-link all the programs that link against libraries with security updates, great (make sure you don't miss any, such as manually compiled or copied binaries); otherwise, your system is impossible to keep secure.
You should ask "Why?"

It sounds from your previous comments that you are a traffic acquisition play for these providers. You do the leg work and bring them customers, and for that they give you a cut of the action.

Its not a bad place to be, but it isn't necessarily a 'viable' place to be. For each customer you bring to them, how much do you make initially? Does the customer come back to you or do they start dealing directly with the vendor? Who answers support calls? What happens during an outage, do you get paged or the underlying cloud vendor?

If you don't make a whole lot per customer you have to make it up in volume, and you have to be sure that you are not spending more to get to that customer than the customer pays you. If the customer can cut you out of the loop, you have to know when they are likely to do that and why (volume requirements? custom configurations? etc) and generate a way to predict their exit. That will give you insight into their 'lifetime value.' Finally you need to figure out what is the barrier, if any, to someone else being in your space and going after the same customers (is your offering unique? protectable? etc).

Once you know those things then you know what sort of revenue you can expect for 1 customers, 10 customers, and 10,000 customes, and what it might cost you to acquire 1, 10 or 10,000 and by subtracting the second number from the first number, you can figure out how much money you have to pay staff and for facilities, and if you subtract off that cost and the number you have left is positive, then that number, as a percentage of the number you started with, can tell you if this business of yours makes any sense at all. Greater than 15% you can live off it, greater than 50% and you'll be able to expand into adjacent markets, greater than 80% and you'll grow like Google or Microsoft in its early days.
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We call them terrorists. And the rest of the world has picked up on this new vocabulary too. "Syria is at war against armed groups that choose terrorism." -Bashar al-Assad
People suggesting that Go is a potential replacement for Python, Lua or Ruby are missing the point. IMO, Go isn't designed to compete with those existing languages for existing opportunities.

The key opportunity in the future is smart devices everywhere. Embedded, connected intellgence, everywhere. Everything is a communication device. Today your phone and your car; tomorrow: Your shoes, your office, the grocery store, your refrigerator. Think of xbox Kinect-type sensors embedded into everything.

Writing solid C code for all those systems will be too hard. We also definitely do not want an serendipitously-designed language (Javascript). Yes, that leaves Python Ruby and so on, which brings us full circle. Go will compete with those languages but not in the domains that are evident today. Not in web browser, and not in a new! improved! web server. It seems to me that Go is a forward-looking design, aimed to meet the challenges of the everything-connected world of tomorrow.

To make tomorrow happen, we need a better C. Go is that.
This year I built http://inflooenz.com It's a tool to explore music influences. I have around 100 visitors each day, but I'm a bit stacked with the site as a product. At the beginning I did some PR. I had some ideas for monetizing, but those are yet to be proved (analytics so far are not showing a good scenario). I had some really cool feedback for the music community, and a lot of ideas for features, but I don't want to start adding features without a clear reason and direction. Right now, I'm working on site engagement, because I think I'm not taking full profit from my already existent visitors.
I wasn't hoping to be profitable in the short term, but I expected more feedback and real interest in the product (some to-be-developed features right now allow people to leave their email if they wish to hear from me, but that didn't happen often).

PS: Anyways, this was very good as a personal challenge!
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what do you use for a mumble server? I would happily choose this if there were an easy to use free version like skype.
How does your app do text-to-speech, if you don't mind me asking?

The reason for building this as a service is because I thought there's more to this than just a single player alarm system if enough people want to use this. I just wanted to test it out and see enough people will like this. Hope this makes sense? :)
Though it could be argued that a digital lynch mob could be defined as a group who "kills" someone online. If this gets any more out of hand, how much business or reputation do you think this lawyer would have left?

A digital lynch mob killed HB Gary Federal. It's happened before.

++edit++ guys, I wasn't arguing that this guy deserves reputation or has a right to do whatever he wants. I was arguing that a "lynch mob" can and does exist on the Internet. Like the parent said, lynch mobs harass and sometimes kill people. Digital equivalents to lynch mobs exist.
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It's too bad that the Voyager doesn't have a 24/7 streaming on the web webcam.
mrkurt, ChuckMcM: As my co-founder mentioned in another comment a bit further down "We had been approached and offered investment as well as a global IT company asking for an exclusivity deal. However, I think the numbers that the Valley works on is on a different scale and that's what we are trying to convey in the blog post (not bulshitting without basis)." (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4112064)

So I think we're passed the research stage, and we are actively developing software at the moment (no more research). Overall, as I mentioned in the post, the experience of going through a YC interview is definitely worth it, specially for guys like us who're doing our first startup. But we got the feeling that YC is after more consumer-oriented startups that can scale to huge numbers.
When I was in Omaha for Big Omaha this past May, I had the opportunity to participate in a little press day they had set up to showcase the Omaha entrepreneur and technology community.

My guide, a member of the Nebraska Angels, drove me around to meet a few local entrepreneurs. We left downtown Omaha, cruised past Warren Buffet's modest house (that he still lives in), past a large university surrounded by a gigantic public park, down a little hill, to an area that used to be a racetrack, but now is being redeveloped into retail and condos.

We pulled up to a new looking building and opened a door on the first floor to walk into the office of SkyVu Entertainment. The place was bustling with 20-30 young people working on SkyVu's latest mobile game apps. They created the popular Battle Bears games (which I had coincidentally never heard of before visiting SkyVu).

I took an amazing tour of their office, learned a lot more about their games, their team, and their culture, and about their founder Ben Vu.

Why am I even sharing this?

Because I was blown away that this profitable, growing, exciting mobile game studio, who has a series of hit iPhone games, is located a few miles outside of downtown Omaha, NE.

The students attending that university who want to be a mobile game developer don't have to leave Omaha and head for the big city. They can get their career started right there.
In general they are worse than the actual paper and marker, but when you end up waiting somewhere and you left the kids coloring stuff in the car, apps like this are a life-saver.

That being said, my kids like the free-form doodle apps more than the coloring-book style ones.
I used to think that kind of crappy service was sufficient but personal experience is that you will be able to get your hotmail every other day, and the connection will be good enough to upload a 1M picture every third day or so.
I didn't read the whole paper and I'm no electrical engineer, but I'm also quite skeptical that this works. I'd probably believe it if current propagated infinitely fast, but obviously it doesn't.

My first attempt to tap into a channel with this system would be to tap into two points at some distance apart, then measure then changes in current at each point. Since the receiving resistor is flipped randomly and the sending resistor is flipped with the data, it seems to me intuitively that all you need to do to crack this is use a bit of basic electromagnetic physics to derive a formula to extract the data from propagation delays of the effective resistance experienced by the circuit measured at two distant points. I could be wrong though.
This already basically exists with the adhoc system. For $99/year, I can load up to 100 devices with anything I sign with my certificate, no app store required.
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Yeah I kind of struggled with time zone thing for about an hour and decided not to bother with it, just to build the minimal version. But I think for the sake of usability, I should add it in the future.
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someone concisely help me refute this drivel.
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I've posted here about my similar case before. I spent easily as much on lawyers fighting a frivolous copyright claim against my app, and after initially prevailing, the other guy simply moved jurisdictions and started over. This was two years ago, so things might have changed, but Apple was patient and did not pull my app while the legal process was in motion.
it's obvious that he meant you are. Please, not everyone is a native English speaker and even if he was a typo can happen to anyone. There is no need to correct everybody. I think this is an enough mature community to understand that.
I find it sad that Skype has evolved to be MSN Messenger-replacement, there were so many good alternatives. At one point MSN was even usable-ish, as you could choose whatever client you wanted. With Skype, not so much.

I'm switching a lot between OSX and Windows, and sometimes even Linux, and the clients are totally different on each platform to the point where it get's hard to use. And don't get me started on that Android-client they have made, total utter garbadge.
What a waste of fuel.
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Doesn't this defeat the purpose of a patent, though? If I file a defensive patent, and someone blatantly copies my patent and uses it in their own design, what legal recourse do I have? Wasn't protection against copying the original purpose of patents?
Could you elaborate? Are you talking about velocity outwards from the sun or including the orbital term as well? Are you talking about the Voyager I speed now, or just after the Jupiter gravity assist?

From what I can find, the best ion craft we have now (Dawn) is about 1/2 as effective as a Jupiter flyby, and 1/6 as effective as the series of flybys that Voyager did.
Because you're already at the command line and your skills with them are such that it's actually lower impedance to just rock it out, rather than write up a proper script. Not true of everyone, but it happens.
> Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do.

There are plenty of activities in the world that are not illegal. But "legally allowable" is not the sole test of what is right or moral.

There is no excuse for not applying your best judgement to every situation. If you think something is immoral or otherwise wrong, you should not do it, even if your boss said it was OK.
No it's not the same. It's not even close to that. I am fine with the 99$/year, I am fine with the no appstore, I can find my methods, but limiting me to 100 devices it's whole another story.
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More than likely using the Twilio Text-To-Speech API: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/say
This sounds great. I'm not a PL THEORY geek, but better options on the metal sound good - at the moment it's C or Forth. others have been done, but not often.

I would like to see an implementation?
Which sounds a lot a legal extortion to me.
The more rules are public the less power Apple has. Why Would it voluntarily limit itself?
I'd love to see this analysis broken down by qwerty, Dvorak and Colemak.
$99/year + a relatively recent Mac + $4.99 for XCode + extensive technical training on how to compile and sign a project + the source code of the app you're trying to install.
> To view this content, please install Wolfram CDF Player. This will take 538.4 MB of space on your computer.

Erh.. no thank you.
Yup. Gain 1 second. Lose hours debugging the problems that causes. Not worth it. :P
How are advertisements unsavory? Is this same opinion of yours applicable against google, for the ads on it's search engine?

Just curious. I've never had anything against ads personally unless they're intrusive -- or that my data is being bought & sold to show them. Not that I trust $vendor to keep that data private, but showing me the latest advertisement for some movie coming out next week isn't going to ruin my experience. Youtube's advertisement implementation for example, I find intrusive & frustrating as it literally displays over top of the content and returns on every video you watch.

Until skype starts strapping a pepsi logo to my partner-in-chat's face, I'm content.

If it helps keep skype around longer, kudos. I enjoy using the app.
Isn't the "murmur" server that comes from Mumble free to use?
This is definitely something you should worry about if you rolled any of your own time code. The POSIX standard is consistent across days, including leap seconds. That means that your Unix timestamp will jump back a second: it will go from 1341100800.9...[0] to 1341100800. If you're relying somewhere on seconds being continuous, or on a one-to-one mapping between timestamps and seconds, this could fuck things up.

Although 1341100800 refers to two seconds, when converting to UTC it should always become 00:00:00. Your implementation may not be conforming to the standard, though. Make sure to test.

(I'm sure if you rolled your own time code, you already know about this stuff. Probably other folks are curious though :)

[0] I think this is the second we're talking about, not positive though.
POSIX time will jump discontinuously backwards after the leap second, counting:

59.50
59.75
60.00
60.25
60.50
60.75
60.00

Or, if your clock implementation is not POSIX-compliant but follows Mills' paper instead:

59.50
59.75
60.00
59.25
59.50
59.75
60.00

It gets weird, though: since this information was only made available recently, your computer may not know the leap second exists. In that case, its upstream NTP servers will jump and the local ntpd will slew the clock smoothly over the discontinuity, IIRC.

OTOH, if your system is aware of the leap second and if you're using the system clock to calculate intervals (i.e. t2 - t1), expect possibly negative or zero intervals over this timeframe. If you're calculating rates over a roughly 1-second interval, divide-by-zero bugs are definitely possible.

On a related note, does anyone know what the Oracle and OpenJDK JVMs do with respect to System.currentTimeMillis? They claim it's number of seconds since the epoch, which would imply this timer will not encounter discontinuities. The only ways I can think of to achieve that are by reading the system clock state to look for the leap insert/del/doublecount flag, or read a copy of the leap second table.

[edit] You may be asking, "Why would anyone use a system of time in which two numbers could refer to the same instant, or one in which a given number could refer to no time at all? Why not use a time system in which you could subtract two times from each other to get the interval between them? Or hell, even a time system where time always increases, you know, so we could order events.

The closest thing we have to such a time scale is TAI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time), which is what most computer systems like to pretend their clocks are: "the number of seconds since an epoch".

UTC and POSIX time are adjusted, relative to TAI, to keep the number of seconds in a given day at a nice "easy" 86400, which is why we're in this mess. Given that it takes plenty of math to translate a number like 1339696998.435347 into a human-readable date, I think our computers should just be keeping TAI to begin with and make the whole process easier on ourselves; but so many systems assume UTC or POSIX time that we're stuck with it.
But Voyager 1 (the faster one) didn't even go the grand tour. It just flew by Jupiter and Saturn. That constellation should happen more often. And as you can see with the Pioneer missions even Jupiter alone can make you quite fast.
This one's a flyer, I think, because the answers to these questions aren't very compelling:

-How novel is this? (sort of novel)
-What is proprietary about it? (inherently nothing)
-How high is the barrier to entry for competitors? (low)
-Who are your possible competitors? (the cloud services themselves AND other companies like you)

So the end game looks like this: either the big cloud providers make their own tools like yours and make you irrelevant, or one of them acquires you. That doesn't seem too investable to me.

I do think it's a perfect 3-5 person startup that you have a good chance of cashing out of, so don't take my post as criticism. As far as I can tell you need an advisor to help you with the "how do I make money" question more than you need an investment.