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The DARPA challenge was five years ago! This is the result of advances made in those challenges.

The Stanford guys have advanced so much that they'll take it on a rally track this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CuVVZq9GfY
I'm not sure you can beat up on humans alone for exterminating species, after all, species have gone extinct before humanity.

We are substantially better at wiping out other species but that's more due to our technological advancement than any extra maliciousness on our part.
Quality rarely drives market share in software. In this case I blame nearly all of the 5.2 million PHP and MySQL tutorials out there for exemplifying shoddy practices that inevitably lead to quietly truncated fields, phantom reads, and SQL injection attacks.
If you've never read anything by David Foster Wallace, this is an excellent place to start. It has all of his tricks — the footnotes, the hyperliterate sentences, the disregard for periods, total maximalism — and not a few examples of his descriptive virtuosity.

It'll also, no matter how much you may already be awed, keep you from ever watching another of Federer's match without seeing the effervescent white light surrounding him or looking to see if his feet every really do touch the ground.
It would be dolphin steak mislabeled as some other kind of meat... because of their place at the top of the food chain, dolphin meat is dangerously high in mercury.
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I did not disagree with the author's main point, merely the assertion I singled out.
Ask HN: Hacker News for electronics enthusiast?
I like HN very much, I like the discussions,the people, the ideas and .... that's maybe all there is to HN. But the discussions here are mainly oriented towards computer science, web dev, computer languages etc. I would like a more electronics oriented discussion. So, can anyone direct me to some place where I can get people like you all but talking more about circuits, radios and robots?
Since it's a reference design, it's not clear to me whether the $199 price tag is the BOM cost or the consumer cost. I would not be surprised if it's just BOM cost.
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Is it bad to give friends 150$ to hire movers, instead of helping by oneself? I was actually planning to do the same thing on the next occasion. Since I am over 30 now, it probably is a lot cheaper too - not only in terms of my hourly wage, but also if I multiply the odds of getting a lumbago with the costs of treating it.

I know moving is supposed to be the occasion where true friends are revealed, but doesn't it make too much sense to simply pay? Also, maybe true friends wouldn't ask their friends to help moving, if they could afford to hire movers?

As for charities, I admit I also have problems to donate or "invest fairly": it seems a "fair price" is probably the market price, to investing fairly seems alien indeed. At least unless there is more information (I don't want to support exploitation). As for charities, I am also often not sure how much good they will really do - I am much more interested in changing the underlying causes.
I use Evernote for todo management. For me, the essential feature is, that the todo application is the same as the knowledge management (or notetaking) application.

For example, the todo might be "Fix the bug #1234". In Evernote, this will be the name of the note, and in the body of the note, I copy the bug description, and write any other stuff I discovered during my work. I found that the applications which only maintains the lists of todos are not useful for me.
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all the truly intelligent people I know realized at some point that they were getting diminishing returns with more technical knowledge and devoted some of their time to refining their people and business skills.
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"... heavy water sabotage in Norway during the second world war that Hauglund was a part of ..."

Hauglund was a Norwegian Commando who with British backing during WW2 survived on the Hardanger plateau ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardangervidda before sucessfully attacking and then escaping from the ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vemork power station.

Ray Mears ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears_(author) recreated the effort Hauglund and his fellow Commandos endured using members of UK RM 3 Commando, mountain leader training cadre ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Leader_Training_Cadre in 2003.

You can watch how difficult a time Hauglund and his team (and their modern day equivalents) had here ~ http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=The+Real+Heroes+of+Tel...
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This is actually very similar to the "multitape" utility I wrote back in October/November 2006 which turned into "multitar" (when I integrated it with libarchive and made several major optimizations) in January-May 2006 before turning into Tarsnap (when I added encryption and an online storage protocol).

Important differences between bup and multitape: I used C, not Python; I used a more sophisticated chunking algorithm; I used tape names rather than just numbering them.
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Ask HN: What percentage of your holiday project did you complete?
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I got as far as a design document and a time-line with milestones. So i'll go with 10%.

Of course the vision was to take it completion over a three day programming marathon with large amounts of microwaved hot chocolate, but life got in the way.
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I've also been approached by a number of clients with a very similar request. I work out of Hollywood, so its actually something like 1 out of 5 startups have this model... Just saying..
If you want to go back to Kant (my grasp is a bit shaky but it will do), the reason we care about conscious beings over non-conscious beings/things is because they are the source of the "good will" and produce value in the world. The world is dark and valueless without thinking being to grant value to the valueless. If dolphins are conscious, then they too are sources of the "good will" and are deserving of treatment befitting of it.

However, Kant's philosophy leads to some strange places if you push it too far (like all philosophies). I think humans innately combine a mix of Utilitarianism with Kantianism to come up with intuitive judgements - which is a pretty obvious and useless statement, but if we take it at face value it means that when we are confronted with extrema, we would do well to consider both sides of the coin.
I don't think the data to developers is very useful. I mean let's say you are selling 30 copies per day at $20. Steam sells it for $2.50 during the holiday sale and you sell 3,000 copies that day. What useful data could you get other than "holy crap, Steam promotions get a ton of sales"?
I don't think they capitulated as much as they just realised that prolonged battles in court don't add any value to customers. As you say, they didn't really have any brand equity in the name, and so didn't really lose that much.
Man, what a great question for a technical interview. Show the candidate the first portion of this list, and ask them to sketch out a program that would generate that list for a given year. If they get it quickly, move on to the other permutations.
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Amazingly enough they also got an Oscar for the documentary about the kon tiki expedition. Preventing Hitler to get a nuclear bomb first, was not bad either.
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I have a huge problem with this edition of IEEE spectrum. It seems as if the editor tried to turn the version of IEEE spectrum into a political activist magazine (it is supposed to be a technical magazine for electronic and electric engineers covering technological developments, etc…).

The main article in that edition is “Powerless in Gaza” which is more political than technical (even if it were technical, it is not relevant).

Another article is supposed to be about Finland’s nuclear waste disposal system (by Sandra Upson) – which could have been extremely interesting if it wasn’t for the author’s completely unscientific anti-nuclear rant. This ridiculous article was discussed elsewhere: http://www.theresilientearth.com/?q=content/crank-week-decem...

The “Math Quiz: Why do men predominate” is also one of those political articles. What is worse, the final page that is supposed to contain data, contains a graph that is illegible and data that doesn’t support the premise.

Worst IEEE Spectrum edition ever (in all fairness, it was a December edition).
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For those of you, who don't know, Who Tim Sweeney is?

Tim Sweeney is the founder of Epic Games and the person behind very famous Unreal game engines. John Carmack,Tim Sweeney have been some of my heroes from gaming world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sweeney_%28game_developer%2...
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Radar will just be another crutch for a bad driver. Good drivers make sure that they always have an out, check their mirrors and blind spots as often as possible, stay safely away from other drivers, and do their best to control the situation. Adept use of brakes and speed can control how far people stay from you, as well as your position within a lane. These are skills every motorcyclist learns very, very quickly.
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This is a very good reason I prefer driving in the UK where lanes are only used for overtaking, and overtaking on the left is illegal.
They shouldn't be allowed a license.
what about Honda vs.... I dont know.. Detroit ?

That is a good example of manufacturing companies winning on cost.
It's an incentive for people to pay less attention when driving. It's a bad incentive IMHO.
I assume you were ironic. Anyway, what could (and did) go wrong is the systematic extermination of a particular subset of people in this database. (Sorry for the Godwin point reached so fast.)
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Similar app covering the Baltic region http://www.flightradar24.com/ which parses data from this system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc...
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The literary devices used in this are grating.

The repetition that the beginning is trite. Fake conversations, pretend thoughts, conversations with the reader, overly hip tone.

It might be normal in a business book but in the end it just gets in the way of the content.
This great article[1] covers a lot of finesses in the Tennis universe with its Swiss king. The high level beauty of Federers game can be seen even from Tennis newbies. With his smooth movement, it looks like he has an additional second of time. Where other players struggle with intense footwork, he seemingly floats around the court (probably best seen with his great inside-out shoot).

If you get a chance to seem them, probably some of the best modern matches are:

* ATP Wimbledon Final 2007 & 2008: Federer - Nadal

* ATP Australian Open Semi: Nadal - Verdasco

[1] from Aug. 2006, a time where Federer hasn't yet topped the Grand Slam record of Sampras
That'd be a second from me. It actually caused a firefox 2.0 running on an old computer here to glitch, the search bar never to appear and a clueless colleague to call and report that "the google is broken".

Whats next? Flash?
Make the RAM expandable and build it with a hard disk.

If it runs a Debian-like Linux (or BSD, let's not be picky) and emacs, that's more or less all I need. ;-)
Freescale would not like to burn their clients by creating impossible expectations at a consumer show.

OTOH, I've seen bigger blunders.
Link that to HN. It will be very interesting if you put up a thorough analysis of how advertising on reddit worked out.
There are some ideas in this direction as well. It makes sense to organize to-dos and notes in the same fashion.

I'm actually using Evernote myself, it's a good app, but still there are are a number of unnecessary features, and couple critical ones missing.
Have to admit - haven't tested it on Linux yet. Will look into this today.
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I am a big fan of gomockingbird. Fantastic app that does a great job in quickly cooking up a mockup. Plus...it's free!
Speaking openly, it's a business related issue.

The desktop app is free and it always will be. I'm even intending to open source it one day once the code is solid.

The business model is to provide added value via web-services. Some of it may also be free and some may be charged for.

So, being said that, It makes sense to provide migration path from RTM and alike, but integrating directly with it - not so much.
I think DAR (http://dar.linux.free.fr/) already does most of that and is more mature at this point...
What, you don't watch Top Gear?

Though more entertaining than educational, I know the difference between my boot from my bonnet thanks to that show, as well as what a saloon, spanner, pillock and many other british-english mannerisms mean.
This actually gave me an idea. TXT file import/export and potentially automatic synchronization would make a lot of sense.

Especially since the primary niche I'm building this for is a technically-savvy crowd, such as developers and development teams.

This way you might even use a text file if you prefer for managing to-dos, but Codo would make sure it's synchronized to web and even take care of teamwork-related aspects.
While sitting on a plane over the holidays, I was thinking something like this would be pretty cool, especially if Google Earth was the visualization engine.
No, thats cool, and for today only.
I like the numbered list idea as well. Thanks for a tip!
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Looks pretty cool and well done. I think that it's definitely something where, if you get enough people, it will also start to be really interesting seeing routes other people put in.
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Google is going the wrong way: First they had the distracting fade-in effect, and now the fallen apple. It is distracting and it will make you lose time. Don't like it!
I'm intending to add a dashboard which would look kind of like a calendar with would show completed task on each day.
No, I thought it was kinda cool, and it wasn't Flash either which was nice.
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> Maybe I'm paranoid but I don't understand why more people aren't considering these things.

By today's standard, you are paranoid. By reasonable standards however, you are just informed. The internet is mainstream for 10, maybe 15 years. This is not enough for normal people to learn about it. This is not enough for parents to teach kids.

People are learning, however. See my aunt, while refusing to even use a computer, likes to "spy" on some of her acquaintances by asking her daughter to check the relevant Facebook profile.

I am confident that people will learn. They will make the distinction between private and public. They will see how massive centralization of data (Facebook, Gmail) could be used. I think, however that this will be long. Maybe another 10 or 15 years.
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I think the parent was talking more about third parties doing benchmarks. If someone (not Intel) uses benchmarking software compiled with ICC, it might report erroneously bad results on an AMD system.
True, but it's like saying 2010 = 2010.
See also Gibak by Mauricio Fernandez

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http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-0.3.0
This sounds like a good argument against working for large companies.
I think it is rather awesome that Google does these kinds of things. And they even make it clickable, so you learn something too!
If you read the article, it looks like Intel's CPU-type dispatcher actually does it the second way (sorta; it appears to only check Intel CPU family IDs), but at the bottom of that list there's a big "if(CPU string is not "GenuineIntel") { disable everything and use crappy fallback code path }".
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We certainly don't need to fear that dolphins could try to dominate or exterminate us. So why bother treating them in any special way? The reason for morale and ethics is to maintain society and minimize risk of revenge. In case of dolphins there's hardly a society, the risk of revenge is none. To keep natural balance we should restrain ourselves from killing them all off or domesticating all of them and that's it.

Maybe this is too brutal opinion for modern times but I think people have gone too far in their foolishness. We should remember our real place and our real power, so that we can learn to use it more responsibly, instead of playing silly Ramen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts_in_the_Ender%27s_Game_...) games out of the boredom.
Not only should they fix it, they should open source the code, so AMD can contribute.

Intel often makes noises about open source, so they should put their money where there mouth is.
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It's an emotional argument, not a logical argument.
I use my seatbelt as a crutch to lean on.
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Everyone who are interested in joining please comment / pm-via-profile.
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> I don't think they capitulated as much as they just realised that prolonged battles in court don't add any value to customers.

That's a very good point, you put it really well there. It's easy to get caught up in "are we the good guys?", "can we win the fight?", harder to ask - "What's best for our customers?" Insightful comment, I agree with you.
Offtopic - good on you for working over the Christmas break , i am finding it hard to get back into rhythm.
Dar has a lot of features (http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html), but I don't see iterative backups listed- That's what's really useful about bup- I make daily snapshots of hundreds of VM images, and spend a LOT of disk space keeping past copies, just in case...

I generally keep complete copies from the past, since there's no easy way to say "Use this 20G image file as the base, then store the changes in this .iterativebkp file."

bup looks like a nice way to do that, but it'll need to mature a bit more (Like.. Pruning bkps..) before I could deploy it, even as a test system.
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Intel does more than just make noises about open source. Their wifi and graphics chip set support has been excellent over the years. Prior to the recent changes at ATI they were pretty much the only company doing that.
Honda, Toyota, et al got a leg up on the US Automakers by delivering a higher quality and more efficient product. They also managed to do it cheaper, but their competitive advantage was NOT primarily price.

Car companies that tried to deliver a low-cost product without the quality behind it (eg Yugo) ultimately failed.
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