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If his claim is correct it seems they would call the town in question. Maybe the EU has a database that includes Germans though.
> A big problem with crowdfunding is that many backers don't seem to understand the risk they are taking on.

The bigger problem is that the people starting crowdfunding initiatives have no idea about what it takes to bring a new product to market, if they're not outright scams.
Dependence on a few companies to design and make processors will not work in the long term. Open source processor design that can be manufactured by anyone is the way out of this problem. Even if this never happens the attempt to go there is enough to make the large companies involved with cpus beg and serve.
This has been up for an hour and made the front page and we still don't have a Google Reader mention? Who are you and what have you done with Hacker News?
The number is in the CloudFlare blog post that started this.

> Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious. That doesn’t mean they are visiting controversial content, but instead that they are automated requests designed to harm our customers.
> Plastic parts? I don't know. Can't be that much, can it?

Yes, it really can be that much. Making ordinary plastic parts involves electro-machining very precisely shaped chunks of metal designed to optimise the flow of the hot plastic injected into them at high pressure and make sure it cools properly without too much shrinkage or warping and then ejects reliably. It's expensive. Since this is a cooler that needs a foamed plastic insulating layer as well, I imagine it's even more complicated.
Same with Gentoo. Some people pretended like doing a stage 1 install taught you more about the system. Besides chroot I don't remember anything I learned from it. Loved Gentoo though. Especially how configurable it was.
It's a quantum leap in surveillance tech -- the latency for nation-wide tracking of individuals will be phenomenally reduced. HUMINT resources can be more effectively allocated and target acquisition times can be reduced.

That said, the false positive rate is guaranteed to be high at first but the tech will be improved, furthermore the data will be correlated with other's rather than sole-sourced.

Sure they won't mind if there's collateral damage, but it's useless if it wastes time and effort by leading to the wrong person too often.
Chrome extension caught hijacking users' browsers
I've not used API Gateway, but I believe Microsoft support invoking their 'Azure Functions' style lambda service via HTTP calls

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/fun...
I doubt it has accelerated graphics drivers.
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They tested the waters with GPUs. after nobody complained at all, they just moved to CPUs.
I don't understand why Amazon doesn't launch a clone of App Engine. This is the holy grail in NoOps. AWS Lambda + API Gateway is a bureaucratic exercise in pain, true to AWS form, while App Engine is a pleasure to use. Anyone who have used both services will understand me.

It seems to me (from reading HN) like most people are avoiding using App Engine because Google tortured and killed their pet, err, I mean cancelled Google Reader three years ago.

(And I guess, the inference is that because Google killed a tiny unprofitable service once in the past, you can not realistically depend on them to continue to provide services they are actually putting real money into because it is of strategical interest. Yeah, that makes total brogrammer sense, let's go with that line of thinking.)
They want to meet all together at once place? Do they really think that is a good idea?
"10:01 AM", by Alexander Malec, 1966. Same idea, but for flying cars.

Reckless driver kills child pedestrian. Gets caught, grabbed in air by large police vehicle. Driver has disabled vehicle recorder. Backup vehicle recorder hidden in lug nut is played back.

"At 11 am, James 'Poxie' Smith was vaporized."
Yes, new SPACE processors are coming out. The chips are being made available but the intellectual property isn't.
Don't forget the plastic plates!

I can actually understand why the costs might be so high if they're doing custom parts. The per-unit cost might be low but setting up molds etc. could be quite expensive. (Though that doesn't quite square with the claim of needing more money to complete an additional lot.)

In general, this seems like the sort of thing which really doesn't make a lot of sense in a Kickstarter context. I get the fact that it's cute in a certain gimicky sort of way but if I actually wanted something like this personally, I'd buy whatever size cooler at whatever price point made sense to me and put together a nice kit with whatever other accessories I wanted.
Running FreeBSD at work on my workstation (10-STABLE) and oncall laptop (11-CURRENT) on the regular Dell hardware the company hands out.

I do not use suspend/resume though due to disk encryption which is ineffective if your suspended laptop gets lost.
Has potential.. although I fail to see how "I tried to virtually stalk Mark Zuck..." at first glance has Python significance, and there's no way to vote down.
I avoid official apps in general. Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. They immediately leech into your contact list.
If I'm forced to install, I make sure the contacts permission is turned off before launching the app for the first time.

Plus, the web experience is getting very good. eg. I only use Facebook via Chrome on my phone. It even supports background notifications.
Is this similar to https://www.getpostman.com/ ? If so, what do you think will differentiate your app? Thanks!
Exactly. There's a ton of implementations ranging from free for FPGA's to S-ASIC's from eASIC to embedded CPU's from Gaisler to cloud servers from Oracle to mainframes from Fujitsu & Russia. One can also legally clean-slate a SPARC chip without legal fears. Unlike POWER, ARM, and MIPS. The ISA, its docs, a firmware standard... all of that already open.

So, why is it not on the table for... anything in FOSS? Doesn't seem rational. Even a bit hypocritical given vendors like Gaisler and nonprofits like SPARC International have met FOSS halfway or almost wholly. Unlike the others that sue FOSS developers.
I think it's unfair to call it greed. It feels like a strawman dismissal. It's actually hard to make money from content, and the best content creators almost certainly aren't also the best monetizers.

So people do the default thing. The default thing is ads.

And the problem is that ads don't work very well, and they are working less and less well as time goes on because people are acclimating to them like a war of escalation.

To squeeze small a bit of money out of content, you run ads that are increasingly obtrusive.

If they aren't, they don't make any money at all.

There's a huge market opportunity here. It's not greed, it's an obvious outcome of incentives.
There are more "pro" oriented boards than the Pi series. ODROID, e.g. It indeed has faster I/O and better CPU. You lose out on the scale benefits from Pi.

Few if any of them have "enterprise" grade quality IMO. The ones that strive for this (HP Moonshot, e.g.) are significantly more expensive than $50-100.

Note that the topic at hand is binary blobs and trust and Pi and other ARM SoC fall short there.
2015 release used kernel 3.18, some drivers were lagging[1] so I went back to arch. But the latest 2016.03 release is now on 4.4, I'm about to try. I saw many people saying they were happy using nixos on twitter. It's a paradigm shift that require a good deal of RTFM. Felt like the first time I used linux somehow.

[1] my wifi chip took minutes to initialize due to proprietary blob issues.
> The problem is that the people providing content should own and manage what ads they show me.

I started building something that would do this, but was never able to generate any interest and gave up eventually. Do you think there is interest outside of us and I should continue that? Where would I find interested parties? Does it already exist?
Well keeping the distance certainly helps ... but not in all situations.
That's really not true. The FT is pretty varied but there is a lot of market criticism.
I'm really surprised by this article. Electric cars shouldn't be discounted just because they aren't as green as the seem/are advertised to be - they are still by all accounts more efficient than ICE vehicles (even with our terrible electric grid and issues with demand).

Load demand will be solved with local and utility scale energy storage, something which is occurring already in Hawaii where solar is so widely deployed that utilities have placed a moratorium on storage-less solar deployments because they can't handle the demand changes when a cloud rolls through town.

The issue with our electric grid is recognized at the highest levels of our nation. President Obama brought this up largely unprompted during his recent interview with Destin Sandlin.

Destin: "These huge technological projects that you're talking about, stuff America builds with our hands; I'm thinking of the Hoover Dam, the Eisenhower interstate system, Kennedy launched Apollo... Am I gonna to see that, ever again, in my generation?"

Obama: "I would like to see it - you know - in that order for us to do that, it requires a common vision of some of these big projects - now, I'll give you an example of an area where we should be investing, and that is creating a smart grid. This is something I've been interested in for a while. The way we link up energy is hugely inefficient in this country ... but the basic electricity grid that we have wastes huge amounts of energy."

This leaves us with only the range/changing issues which will both resolve as battery tech improves. Either of increased range or faster charging batteries will help, and we are seeing both. The demand for the Tesla proves we are already at parity.
In Germany 33 non-conformist were also called backwards and conservative. The Web today is Germany 33 and js is the elephant in the room who makes life a little bit worse.
> I personally hate stored procedures because they invite bad design. The code for them rarely makes it into source control, and even when it does there are often contextual parts of the schema that aren't included.

That's kinda like saying "I personal hate <Language> because it invites bad design. The code for them rarely makes it into source control". I've never worked on a project that used stored procedures where they were not only checked into source control but provided the full necessary context so any "fresh" dev box could grab them and test them. Half the projects I've worked on with stored procedures even had unit tests!

> Stored procedures, IMO, are a case where DBAs should be pushing their pain down to the software engineering teams.

DBAs are just specialized developers or dev-ops. There is no reason stored procedures shouldn't be written by whoever is writing the application itself.

Personally I loved sprocs! I can fine tune my DB access control so it's impossible to do anything but call a set of sprocs, the sprocs has zero dynamic code so no injection of commands are possible, each db user can access different sprocs and I have this nice separation of concerns where my DB layer is simply a dumb, black box to take in input and return output. The same for all of the other layers of the app.
What do engineers change in their houses that other people would not think of?
That's true. I'm also against buying Oracle's I.P. because they're too scheming and sue-happy. I'm listing those to show SPARC ISA has a series of implementations competitive with x86 on the high-end. It's actively developed and badass rather than dead. That's all.
> arrogance of a company making a webcam that sends your video to their servers, and provides no means to use the camera in a secure/local fashion

I basically say the same thing about every 'smart home' device.

I would love to be able to query my thermostat to find out when and how long it turned the heat/AC on and whatnot, but I only want it to talk to my local wifi and devices. I don't want it to use a cloud service at all for anything ever.

I don't have that option, so I don't use them.
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It's an unfinished cabin design. I doubt they're going to leave a monitor sitting in that spot as the end look. Most likely it'll be mounted flush into the dash in some manner.
This is neither the first time Google's done something like this to customers, nor the first time Tony Fadell has been directly involved. When they pulled Google Glass from the market, it was concurrent with moving the Glass team to Fadell's leadership. They didn't go quite so far as to push an update to brick devices, but they left the software in a broken state, and refused to open source their fork of Android so users could fix it themselves. Nest has also burned a lot of Google's goodwill with badly designed smoke detectors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpsMkLaEiOY) and thermostats (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/fashion/nest-thermostat-gl...).

And then there's this, on a recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11105510

> "I still wake up with something like PTSD occasionally from getting yelled at and bullied by Tony Fadell almost literally every day while I was there."

> "Tony literally stood up at an all-hands after the Alphabet thing and said "Fuck being Googley" (direct quote)."

I think Google/Alphabet need to take a serious look at what Nest has been doing to their brand. A few thousand very-pissed-off people here and a few thousand very-pissed-off people there add up to a serious liability for a company like Google.
And the compromise you're looking for is... that artists receive nothing? What justifies wholesale piracy of their hard work?
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Google/proto-quic is a standalone library for QUIC
So, on the subject of whether rear wheel drive electric cars will have trouble in snow, we've now heard from both a shopping cart driver and a performance racing instructor who configures cars to deliberately amplify rear axle steering effects under cornering. I can't help but think that the reality of driving a Tesla Model 3 in traffic in light snow might be somewhat different to both of those experiences.
What's "amusing" to me is it seems that all except the very lowest end TVs come with "smart" features, now. The good news is that it's not really a differentiator, the bad news is that a poor integration can cause your TV to "boot slowly" -- my current TV, purchased for other reasons but with smart features included, won't let you use the input selection button until about 30s after being turned on from standby.
You didn't claim 'not all vehicles are used to the same degree by their owners'. You claimed that if a report says 77+% of cars could be electric using the current grid, it probably means the least-used 77%. That's the strong claim.
For some reason I can't reply directly to your comment, but from that chart it looks like you can invoke a function, but not pass it any input, which makes it vastly less useful, and means that it can be used for serverless web frameworks.
I'm not sure it is so bad for technology to force us to confront our ideas about justice head on.

From a ridiculous bullshit standpoint, arrest by autocar isn't so far off from stop and frisk.
Coolest Cooler always reminds me of the "I can't believe they invented it" on the simpsons and the "S.S. Microwave".

https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E21/90156

or another quote from that episode "people are afraid of new things, you should have taken an existing product and added a clock".
I love stored procedures but I feel the pain of source control management. I hope a system comes around to make this easy, ideally a system where you give your current version number and branch when you are trying to update and it generates a sql update file, which really is just all the patches appended in order.

Ideally it would also allow you to restore to a previous point but anything that isn't purely schema related (like an UPDATE OR INSERT) probably needs to be done by hand.
Lambda is very limited due to the very short (5 min CPU time) and limited amount of disk space (500 MB /tmp). It's always been my thought the reason for this is that Amazon is effectively running lambda functions on unused (but possibly reserved) hosts, such that they can easily be shut down and don't consume a lot of disk space or do anything so no one will notice (or even tell) the slight performance hiccup.
Care to elaborate on what makes Singapore's tax scheme so good? A quick glance looks like they have a progressive system like ours, just with lower rates.

EDIT: That sounded hella confrontational, and I don't mean that at all. I'm really interested if Singapore has found a better way to fund their government that we don't use for some reason.
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I think you're supposed to be able to distinguish the message from the medium. Certain styles can definitely make that harder, but ultimately if you can't examine an issue by the facts presented, the failure falls on you, as do the consequences.

To be clear, I also think the referenced bit is childish and detracts from the message. I just don't think that should affect your belief in whether it's important.
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Aside from a good lesson in "how to fuck up financial engineering" (give in to your shareholders every demand, without ever once mentioning that that's exactly why your share price dropped by a factor of 35-40% since the last CEO got appointed, even while debt increased a LOT and assets were reduced by even more (ie. despite the drop, IBM is definitely overvalued). We're getting close to the point that IBM might actually die, or at least get taken over by something like Oracle), what exactly does IBM still do that matters even a little bit ?

I always wonder about how companies with such resources manage to make so little use of the advantages they develop. For instance: why wasn't Watson running every callcenter on the planet 5 years ago ?

Right now there is little in Watson's tech that can't be duplicated by 10 other firms and give it another year or 5 and every startup can do it. It's too late. How can management of such behemoths as IBM let those things happen.

Not that Microsoft did better with Windows Speech Server, and Google and Facebook, well they're not even trying.
That Phil Schiller quote is, frankly, a pretty lousy attempt at establishing that that is Apple's "view" on planned obsolescence. The swipe at Apple in this context is absurd. I have 15-year-old Apple products that are still working perfectly well. I have a 9-year-old iMac on my desk that is still up 24/7.

I have zero (0) Apple products that have been unceremoniously bricked by Apple in the way Google is doing to the product in question. Zero.
There used to be a lot of competition between several types of RISC machine and several x86 vendors. I know about the consolidations on x86 side. I'm not sure why SPARC lost favor versus others, though. I wasn't able to afford RISC workstations back when all that was happening. It would be nice for one of older folks to chime in on what made SPARC unpopular back then.
I think curation is much needed here, as most of those libraries are unlikely to ever be adopted.
Nice for you to say as a developer, but not every customer cares about this. I mean of course one should be able to flash new firmware. But more importantly people like Google shouldn't brick devices the customer has bought, whether they can be flashed with a new / alt firmware or not.
Musk has said before that he wants people to buy a Tesla not because it is an electric car but because it is a really good car. He will keep adding features to it that make it an excellent car.

Tesla may pivot to other products but not IMO to selling self driving kits. In any case, I believe mobileye does the bulk of the computer vision stuff anyway.
Clever of them to make the world think they don't exist anymore! Only surpassed by the Czech navy... but I better not speak of such topics.
We are supposed to have collective bargaining; most don't. It's almost a foreign concept to any office worker in the US. Elsewhere, white collar unions (or at least enterprise agreements) are the norm.
>You can imagine a future where criminals, journalists, and political dissidents need to get plastic surgery to avoid disappearance.

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Sure, I know they're already hooked up. My point is just that these utilities, which are generally more difficult to connect, managed to be run to every dwelling, showing that hooking stuff up on a large scale is doable. It's an existence proof.

There does seem to be a chicken-and-egg problem as you describe. Making the spots with chargers EV-only would mitigate that, although I'm sure it would be unpopular with the non-EV owners. It would help if cities got out of the business of subsidizing parking for their residents, but that ship sailed long ago.
Virgin America is my fave way to fly cross country. This is beginning of the end of the quality service. :(
And to reply to myself:

Now that we have the leaks, look what is happening in Iceland and compare that to what is happening in Russia. In Iceland people are demanding their prime minister to resign. In Russia, people think that this is an attack from the west.
Why do investors ever park their money in airlines?
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Have you ever listened to the radio, gone to a theater, been to a nightclub or music venue, watched a movie on television? Of course there is a business use case for movies and music. A theater or TV station could pirate movies and show them for profit. A nightclub or DJ service or radio station that plays songs is running a business based on that music.

You asked "how would you feel if someone violated the GPL". My answer is that well the GPL can't be violated for personal use so it's not relevant at ALL to this discussion. Another software license? Most SW devs would say "if it's for personal use, who cares?" If software and music/movies are so fundamentally different w.r.t. piracy as you claim (since nobody can have a business based on music or movies? What?), you should have no trouble understanding why it's absurd to try to compare them in order to convince people piracy is bad.

And I never said we should remove copyright for anyone in particular (though perhaps we should remove it altogether -- piracy has a few minimal negative effects, many positive ones, I'm not convinced the cure isn't worse than the disease).

I'm explaining why your analogy is misguided and rhetorically ineffective.