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I've read a discussion or two on the subject by amateur astronomers far more knowledgeable than myself.

The clear consensus was that it's quite unlikely.

As I understand it, the general reasoning is that multiple star systems, even those which are quite far apart by multiple star system standards are still so close together that if we had a partner in even the high end of that observed range it would be easily detectable. Also, if the partner were so far away as to be hard to detect it would be exceptional and have an orbit in the hundreds of thousands to millions of years, not a mere 20,000.
Compulsively. I hate it when my magic mouse sometimes registers it as a right click.
Halfway through reading this I closed it with two conclusions:

1. Thank God I didn't read "The Best".

2. Why the hell am I reading this.

I don't have the energy to have such a trite opinion, let alone read a thousand words about it from someone else. I hate these pithy comments but this stuff feels like "Hacker Drama", not "Hacker News".
If you (and Apple) assume that the Apple Maps app will always be 'worse' than Google's, then they've already lost. Their sights are too low; they've decided to accept being a distant 2nd place also-ran in quality and features.

If on the other hand the goal is to have the 'best' mapping app and location services -- to spend whatever billions are necessary, because it's strategically necessary for the mobile world -- then they should have an offering everywhere, showing off whatever they're best at.

ITunes on Windows, especially as a client to Apple's content store and as an enabler for their mobile devices, is a better analogy than Safari. If Windows users couldn't have easily used iPods, iPhones, iPads, and the ITunes Store, Apple could not have achieved their current profitability.

(I believe the same logic applies to Apple Passbook. If its usage is capped at whatever Apple's device market share is, it won't achieve the ubiquity necessary for greatest success in the mobile wallet wars.)
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... or at least that's what the SEO slimeballs want you to think.
A "warp drive" is a time travelling device as much as it's a space travelling device.

Travelling to Alpha Centauri in 2 weeks means travelling about 4 years 3 months into the past. If that holds true then leaving today, spending 6 months "at warp", you could look back on Earth in the early 1960s. After a 2 year journey Earth could be seen in the early 1800s. Travel for 25 years, and see Earth in 500BC.
You're right, although you can run 64-bit apps on the 32-bit kernel with 32-bit drivers.
Every single one of your numbered points.

1) discard REMOTE SHELL solely for OS statistics

2) write your own TINY WEB APPLICATION SERVED BY NGINX/APACHE

3) run it as SOME USER THAT can read STATISTICS DATA

4) BE safer
To add to that, the cycling lanes on google maps help me not die by staying on safe roads.
I don't think striping is the main issue - It's the lack of repeatability. Because of patents on things like heated build chambers, it's hard to get consistent, dimensional parts off hobby machines. If you have access to one of the higher priced Stratasys systems, I agree that FDM is competitive.

Formlabs technology works much better at the low prices. While their resins are proprietary, when you factor in the cost of wasted plastic (and time) due to failed print jobs, it's not bad.

And Formlabs, and stereolithography based systems generally, have many benefits beyond figurines. Consumer electronics shells are much better suited to that format. As are most designs that have undercuts or voided internal geometries. They can also produce parts in a variety of materials, e.g. wax for jewelry castings.

I'm all for the experimentation and low cost machines, but they're far closer to toy than tool.
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You can use VOIP solutions with it (GroveIP is one, it works okay), or just call from your computer.
I used to scroll. Then I started scrolling so that the line I am reading is always the first line in the window (thus obscuring everything above), which means I can read about tracking downwards, and I don't have muck about with text selection.
Rails is written in Ruby, and Django in Python. That's by far the biggest (and maybe only) difference.
Ctrl+R SPACE seems like it's a bit iffy for some cases, especially since I use Ctrl+R so frequently for history searches. Using it instinctively (like I use Ctrl+W) wreaks all kinds of havoc; if I do something like Ctrl+R python to get a previously run command, then hit Ctrl+R SPACE, then it moves to the previous commandline that contains python instead of staying where I am and moving back a word. Still, something to explore -- I can probably find a way to use this.
Markerly's javascript allows us to collect all text selection as well as text selected and shared. It's all aggregate data, not personally identifiable. You can read about how publishers are able to optimize their content using the copy and paste analytics on this post http://blog.markerly.com/
This. Many startups claim to offer "competitive" salaries, but really only mean "competitive for someone with little experience".

Now here's the question, if I'm asking for twice what a company claims that they can afford, are they better off employing me, or two (or three) engineers with little experience?

More and cheaper may be better, YMMV
Yep, if OVH were referred to it would only have been in a negative context, e.g. outing a P2L (Pay to Leech) site or someone seeding files to torrent trackers.
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Yep, now people will be waiting for "that Django library that doesn't work with Python 3". Hopefully those are much fewer. I'll start experimenting with 3 when 1.5 us released, I hear it's the default on ubuntu 12.10, but I might be wrong (I should check).
I've had a couple prgmr VPSes for about a year and I'll say this: I've never had any interruptions, they are always fast when sshed into, and make good web servers. The only problem, and its kind of a big one, is that support sucks. Reseting your ssh key (which I stupidly have needed to do a couple of times) takes about 3 days. You send them an email and they respond... eventually. But you get what you pay for and its hard to ask for much service when you're paying those low prices. For the price, the servers themselves are awesome.

I'm switching to Azure because their prices are reasonable and you get the full management experience.
hmmm, scrolling-with-space works for me...

You have to make sure the article body has the keyboard focus first though (e.g. by clicking somewhere on the text); it would be nice if they'd somehow arrange for that to happen by default...
1.

> One way would be to publish a HTTP/JSON API for fetching a specific set of stats from a server

> given an authorization key

2.

> provide a reference implementation, and allow customers to build their own if they're not comfortable with that.

Implies 3: entire point of the implementation is to read sensors, which requires root, or further messing with the security properties of the base system (e.g. sudo), and expecting users to do this correctly.

So basically what you're advocating is to encourage users to run custom HTTP servers as root.

Edit: and I see you edited your comment, and now advocating running nginx as root.
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Why don't you use SNMPv3, which is purpose built for this stuff?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Prot...
Out of curiosity; wouldn't a Raspberry Pi be sufficient for the lower levels if you don't account for reliability and high-performance?

I am very happy at the moment managing two Linode accounts, one for personal use and another for an organization I am the IT guy for.
Thats a really great lil' snippet
I do the same. But I've figured out it's a leftover habit from the olden days when macs used to crash all the time. I kept my mouse moving to know there was still LIFE beneath that screen. Pointer used to freeze when the system did. God, I'm old.
We use simplifications when we teach things (eg crypto) to people.

When people learn about cryptography they learn that one time pads (OTP) are the only mathematically provable secure cryptography. Everything else is thought to be secure, but we don't know.

Then they learn why OTPs are not used more often. (You need a pad as large as the text you want to encrypt; the pad must be really random; you must never reuse the pads; you have to get the pads to the person doing the encrypting and decrypting.)

And then they learn a bit more and one of the simplifications they learn is to XOR a bit of text with a string; they encrypt plaintext with a key. This is not a real crypto system, it's just a silly little demonstration.

But a disturbing number of people seem to stop there and say something like "Let's use XOR and a secret key and it's a bit like a OTP so super secure!!" but they forget that you must have a pad as large as the plain text.

So their crypto system is really very very weak.

Other DRM systems have been broken, but usually by smart people working hard with advanced techniques.

I could have broken this system.

The other thing that's bad about it is that it is ridiculously easy to intercept the decrypted files and copy those.

So they've sold a system to small un-clueful content distributors and they've used hyperbole to do so.

And the law prevents us from telling those content distributors because we're not allowed to circumvent a technical copyright protection method.
He recommends an iPod Touch for 300$ - hasn't heard about the Nexus 4 yet?

Is mobile internet really 100$/month in the US? I pay 10€ a month for 1GB, and there are cheaper plans available, too.
Look, I don't know why two extremities are battling it out like this when the reasonable and rational answer lies somewhere in the middle.

I care deeply about an item if it relates to a hobby. As a geek, I research every part of a computer I am building thoroughly. I read reviews, compare specs and prices, run it by friends on tech message boards for opinions, etc. When the time comes to play Skyrim on uber settings on the machine I built, I get more enjoyment out of it, and feel satisfied in knowing that the components in it won't melt.

Same mindset applies to my other hobbies. I always try to get the best and most reliable matches when I go cross-country backpacking, because if a storm comes and I need to light a fire, I want to make sure the matches won't fail me. Last month I bought a new set of tires for my commuter bike, and I did actually get the most tires because for the types of trips I make, it matters.

In contrast, I don't give a crap about things that don't relate to hobbies. I moved to a new apartment recently and was in need of a new trash bin. I went to the nearest Walmart (conveniently located across the across the street) and purchased the cheapest one that had a lid. Had I done more research, I might have gone with a metal one that had a mechanism for securing the trash bag in place, but I don't care. Here's why: a trash can is not something I want to be proud of.
And then why don't I find a large glass jar filled with live wriggling cockroaches and compete with my coworkers to see how many of them I can swallow whole?

SNMP is awful. SNMP implementations are scarier than web apps (though admittedly not as scary as SSH logins). SNMP is harder to secure. It would be much harder for customers to provide their own trusted implementation of SNMP. I could go on.
From my testing the Raspberry Pi benchmarks similar to the Amazon Micro instance. Happy to post some results if you want to see them.
> Proportions seem about the same to me.

Are you sure the proportion was the same? Reason I am asking is because for people who are bad at programming, there are various process/ management roles available that might better suit.

It seems rather impossible to me that someone would voluntarily continue programming for a couple of decades and not be excellent.

Beyond the 30's, I imagine people would be passionate about it to continue taking up programming roles. And this passion should translate into excellence.

Happy to be corrected if you have any data-points.
My personal read: there are lots of people that didn't "fit in" as a teen/young adult. Instead of learning that excluding people for being different is ignorant they learned that one day they would be the one doing the maltreatment, at which point it would be totally cool.
Heh, same here!
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Linode has consistently amazed me with their stable service and excellent customer support. I've only needed support a handful of times, but when I submitted tickets a response usually came within 10 minutes, and has never took more than 30 minutes (during normal pacific-time business hours).

I've had fewer issues with my Linode hosts than with EC2. Granted, the services offered by EC2 are much more advanced -- VPC, routing, firewalls, NAT, etc.. so perhaps this is to be expected.
I have no idea what you're talking about or who you think you're arguing with but it isn't me.

Especially amusing that whoever would say these crazy things you're saying would still be better off than giving remote root SSH away for stats collection.

Sheesh.
Just ordered my third smartphone, a Google Nexus 4. After a Nokia Lumia 810 (gave to wife), and previously a Google Nexus S (handed down to daughter).

I don't tweet from it, or do Foursquare.

I did some emails on the WP8, but use my phone primarily for SMS and maps/navigation.

I very occasionally tether a laptop or tablet, usually just to fetch a file while in an airport.

What I want to do on my mobile device is software development, almost any language will do. I know it has a very small screen, but without my glasses on I have this really neat microscope-like vision.

When I get my Nexus 4, I'm thinking of putting a Linux-from-scratch type of system on it. If I can still use it as a phone, and program OpenGL ES with a keyboard, I would be happy as a lark.

Just a data point, since you asked. :-)
Whether or not voting is a system to avoid violence and conflict or create accountability, it's dominated by a system that allows for those outcomes (assuming they are binary) and a third: a better candidate is elected to the position. As long as the process is generally known and makes sense (whatever that means), I'd rather have all three outcomes than just two. I think the author's point is a simple and important one.
Just try to hack someone messages and you'll know

I think that whatsapp retrieve your phone number thanks to your sim card or similar so I don't think that someone can hack your messages
Hope you have fun in San Diego! We will have our HN event in Kansai, Japan, on the same day (http://hnkansai.doorkeeper.jp/events/2094)
Yeah I was more pointing out that the things touched upon in an interview environment for inexperienced and experienced engineers can be wildly different. For inexperienced engineers, the interview can be spent talking about "new" technology, "new" ideas, and so on with excitement (despite the fact these things might altogether not be new or may be flawed.) For experienced engineers, at least in my experience, interviews tend to be more sobering and focused on blowing holes in ideas and talking about how they were bit by such-and-such an issue.

It's a hard balance. In the long haul, you often want people who are careful and diligent and have experience that tempers their urge to jump into things too quickly. But, this type of attitude can actually hurt in startups. In an interview where the particular 3 or 4 things you touch upon are extrapolated (correctly or not) to be the main self-identifying traits of how you work and how you think about problems, if you tell even just one story about superior databases from the 70's or seem to be overly-pedantic when it comes to blowing holes in ideas this can be a 'red flag.'

In a startup environment, I'd rather have the engineer who I think will fall in a hole 3 times and figure out a solution eventually than another who I think will think too hard and fall in one in 3x the time due to their fear built up from previous failures. In an interview, if I am spending my time with the person mostly talking about things that have gone wrong and how everything new is old, I will worry they will be too paralyzed to just hack on and break things -- and this type of focus, while obviously invaluable in many situations, tends to come from more experienced engineers since they have seen more shit go wrong.
That certainly is a big distinction, but is not the only difference.

An older overview is available here: http://www.vaporbase.com/rails-django
Why is this downvoted? He politely corrected parent's word usage and that should be encouraged, no?
Yes, just by habit!
At the end, the author suggests getting an iPod Touch. A friend I just visited in NYC does this. My friend has an iPod Touch he uses to make Google Voice calls when wifi is available (which is most of the time). He also has a dumbphone for making calls/texts when they're absolutely necessary and wifi isn't available. The dumbphone is prepaid with a very small allowance of minutes and costs him $10/mo.

I felt inspired by this setup, but the truth is I do rely on using Google Maps when in unfamiliar places, and that requires a data connection. To a lesser extent, finding local business listings/reviews without wifi comes in handy, too. I don't need it all the time, but when I do, these features are crucial.

If it were possible to refine my friend's idea by using only one device (say an unlocked Nexus 4), and getting a small prepaid data plan as well (say 500MB/mo), I'd consider doing the same. Does that exist?
Thank you for stating this more eloquently than I could. I don't think it can be emphasized enough that not everyone is obsessed with playing "the game".
I'm not sure if Google used leverage or some kind of weirding way but Mozilla foundation's activities since 2008 or so tie in nicely with Google's priorities.

According to the Wikipedia page on Mozilla, Google gives Mozilla money considerably beyond search royalties ($5M in 2006 for example).

Every Chrome user is presumably someone using Google for search whom Google doesn't need to pay. (I doubt that makes Chrome profitable though.) I think Chrome and Android only make sense as defensive measures against Microsoft/Mozilla and Apple respectively.
I used to select text much more than I do now. When I was taking the Series 7 exam, I was selecting so much text and clicking as I did so, that the exam software froze (I was about 75% done with the test). Luckily the system reboot didn't result in any data loss- I'm not sure who was happier, the test proctor or me ;).
It's OK, we all give bad advice sometimes. You clearly just advocated replacing SSH with a custom HTTP server that effectively always requires root, and furthermore to advocate users mess with this root-running code. I don't understand why you can't see this.
Which company/companies, if I may ask?
IIRC, you can also just strip the file extension altogether.

I had to send some DLLs once -- that was a pain. I think the only thing that ended up working was zipping them and stripping the .zip extension off the file.
Absolutely love both of these, thank you so much. My only nitpick would be that when you have text typed, say '$ vim' and go up, finding '$vim somefile', then going down again should bring you back to what you originally typed. This is also the behaviour in vim, I believe.

Any other tips? These two were brilliant!
Am I the only geek who really loves my smartphone? It seems the popular "geek-chic" position to have these days is "you can have my old-fashioned phone when you pry it from my cold, dead, fingers". If anything, my smartphone doesn't have ENOUGH features, but that's currently due to the "dumbed down" mobile experience that many websites and Facebook seem to be content with giving me.

I can't wait for semi-Augmented-Reality with Google Glass and always-connected Internet with (hopefully) better carrier coverage.

Edit: The contract is too expensive though - I'm paying for tethering as well (AT&T) and with my work discount that puts me just over $80/month. I know, switch providers... (AT&T and Verizon are my only "real" options where I travel).
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yes, always :)
http://batsov.com/articles/2011/06/19/django-vs-rails/ appears to give a quick breakdown, but also misses some key features in my opinion. I've worked with rails for about 5 years and Django for a little over 16 months now. There's some things I do and don't like respectively for each framework.

I suggest testing each out and see which you prefer. Ruby and Python are similar languages but different enough that you'll want to spend some time learning each. Both will benefit you in the long run, as I work with ruby and python daily and is useful knowing both.

I will warn you that Django was easier for me to pick up than rails. Rails guys (me included) tout how easy it is to get going with rails, which is true. However, getting really good with rails is hard. Knowing exactly what's going on and why, how to extend ActiveModel or ActionController properly, monkey patching, proper testing practices, etc are quite the time sink, albeit a beneficial one in my opinion. I think if you have TDD or a client adamant about full test coverage, I've found rails support and practices are more flushed out than django's take.

EDIT: typos
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Aeron chairs in a place where you'd spend many, many hours studying are useful. Not for an hour-long lecture.
Maybe this is just that we are dealing with different businesses? I am sure there are indeed some businesses like the ones you describe where "building the app" is the only thing they care about. I was just saying that the idea of "Experience" instead of "Product/App" has been floating around for a long time in many different fields. When you book a trip somewhere, the travel agent does not go into describing each particular aspect of the trip, they try to make you imagine what it's like to be there. When you go in Disneyland, everything is made to make you feel like you step in their world. Advertisers know this very well and their whole business is about creating experiences out of products.

So, my point is that this narrative is very, very well known and I think this was already described in marketing books from the 60s-70s but this is just out of memory. So, that is why I said this is nothing really new.
The new Rdio design is really nice, but there's really only one thing about Rdio that I find extremely lacking (and it was never their design).

I wish I could play my phone's iTunes music collection from Rdio. The fact is, you can't find everything on Rdio (hello, Led Zeppelin?) and it's kind of sucky that you would have to switch to a totally different app for that.
I would suspect that most people majoring in Computer science are interested in developing software and only take courses on subjects like Calculus and Computer theory because they need to.
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Not all that useful if I want to respond to more than one quote, is it?
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This is psudeo-science bunk.

Their papers are non-existent, their sources jokes and the whole thing is based in religion. You need evidence for your claims, especially when they fly in the face of all of modern cosmology.

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