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This isn't an issue with the USB protocol. The software has to be installed manually, and should not even have been included (why do you need special software to charge batteries?)
sure, I understand what you mean. But surely no one would really install and sync a 50GB Dropbox on someone else's computer?

The web front end allows you to have the best of both worlds.
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I really wonder how the backdoor got there in the first place.
true, but this service is also incremental so it'll (in theory) backup more than 750Gb.
I tend to agree with you. All the professor had to reply was: "Sorry, I find it really hard to teach when people walk in late, so that is the reason for the policy." There was no sense of humbleness, or trying to see any alternative point of view on the part of the professor at all.
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If I understand correctly this means we should just write small program that can learn which reactions to given stimuli of the program are good, and which aren't, based on history of signals and responses of the program that are known to be good.

While interesting, I doubt it will do much to make programs more correct.

Somebody has to tell the program that this new reaction is good, so you should learn it as an exception to the older rules, or it is wrong, and we have found a bug.
Pogoplug support would be great. Especially if I can limit the bandwidth on the device and leave it at a friends house.
In fact, I'd leave it at work.
What's the business domain ?
I get around the HTMLElement issue by wrapping the element with $() every time I access it. It comes as second nature after a while, really.
Also they have been pushing LLVM, OpenCL; released Grand Central Dispatch libs; still are the one of the main contributors for WebKit and push HTML5 forward.
Also they make XCode and their SDKs available for free and even include XCode with every single distribution of the OS.
But I guess that should not stop some parroting about Apple locking down. How do those Google apps for Android sources look like?
The canonical solution to this problem is not to buy absolute top-of-the-line hardware; it's seldom good value for money.

(Yeah, I know, sometimes you just gotta have the best. But still.)
That remembers me the time when i played sim city on my C64 !
I'm not sure the singularity would make the change much faster. because in most industries the barriers to change are things like capital , time to test , and various human factors like risk aversion , politics , etc...

So change will be somewhat faster.
The biggest difference will be higher level of machines taking people jobs , but we already have this. this will just increase.
not something a reasonable person would expect to find in this sort of agreement

What sort of agreement is that? From what I hear, none of this is unusual in mobile or consoles.
So, how do I build the next Google?
There is still a remaining issue with plugging in devices, especially cameras and phones, where the charger has the opportunity to inappropriately, given the context, access the filesystem: software can maliciously be installed a result.

When wanting to charge a camera on an airplane, for instance, the user shouldn't be left to guess if his photos are going to be copied off the device.
Pylons is awesome because its purpose is to provide me with the magic that makes Python websites easier and that's it. After that, it leaves me alone to write Python. It doesn't impose a certain toolkit on me; though Pylons suggests a certain ORM and templating language, there is no obligation to use them, and everything will swim along just swimmingly if I want to use something else. These things are all replaceable and interchangeable.

In my mind, Pylons is what a framework should be. It gives you a handy set of conveniences, functions, and configurations designed to overcome and share much of the monotonous and repetitive solutions necessary to reach the specified end (in Pylons's case, developing web apps in Python) and then it gets out of your way.

When I write Pylons, I am mostly writing Python; it's just like any other Python application, except in the places where I want a shortcut specific to the web-based nature of my program, and then it's an elegant, unassuming function name or shortcut that doesn't get in the way or announce itself.

However, when I've used other frameworks, like Rails and CakePHP, I've felt more like I am writing programs in Rails or CakePHP than "real" Ruby or "real" PHP. They all seem to demand a way of doing things that's quite different from the usual flow of those languages, and the resulting apps don't feel like apps anyone who reads Ruby or PHP could follow. CakePHP particularly has its own implementation of almost everything and relatively few lines of pure PHP ended up in the codebase.

Worse, those frameworks were tightly coupled with their custom ORMs, templating languages, and other important affixes that really deserve their own projects. Pylons's assumed toolkits are full-fledged, external projects, and if I don't like their suggestions of Mako and SQLA, it's really easy to drop in whatever suits my fancy. It's done in the normal Python way. Pylons isn't going to give me any extra guff over it, and it doesn't care if I use SQLAlchemy or DB-API directly or whatever I want to use.

I really love Pylons for all of this. I hope more frameworks start adopting these philosophies.
I would like to note that I and 44 people that voted me up initially missed that the feature and code as written were for all self posts, not just for ask posts.

So far it looks like the feature is working perfectly; the vibrant discussions on self posts were one of the best things about the earlier days of Hacker News and Startup News.
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Depends on what are you going to do - I created quite big apps in both jQuery and Prototype.

Whatever you want to do - you can do in both - it all depends on the size. I find Prototype better for big projects where you can use it's class system. It feels like Ruby as well.

jQuery on the other hand is small and gets the job done, but without a plan on how to structure your code things can get really messy.
similar to how stirred coffee can rise and splash out of a cup

That sounds pretty violent at Earth-orbit scale.
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The tale of how this backdoor got into a battery charging product is going to be interesting to hear.
coming up with the idea counts for nothing
"I'm tired of hearing about how Apple is 'abusing' developers".

Well, it's worth pointing out that the only way that EFF could get hold (and publicise) this document was by freaking FOIA'ing NASA (who signed it to be able to upload their NASA app). So, in one sense, you only get to "hear" about this contract if people like EFF actually do some pretty clever workarounds to obtain the document. Secondly, the very fact that public bodies are agreeing to this document make it something that I'd like to know more about. After all, they're signing it on our behalf.
You can easily solve this problem by getting a usb cable without data wires. A few things I have came with these included with the charger. It pissed me off at first because they look like regular usb cables and I tried to hook up a disk drive. I marked them with a big X but soon realized how handy they could be when I wanted to charge a media player from a laptop I knew had some issues.

I've done surgery with a razor and some good shrink tube twice now to make more of these little gems.

Smarter devices like my Palm Pre actually ask if you want to let the host connect to them or just take power.
Your example disproves your point. Most people don't even know what a registry is. In general, people don't realize what you can do with a computer aside from the basics, which is what keeps them (relatively) safe.
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could an engineer/physicist be kind enough to calculate how hard that lamp would have hit the nice wall, door or window had things gone a little awry?
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My guess is that whoever made the installer had his computer infected. Not all companies have strict rules about what can be on the computer (or developers choose to not follow them and find ways around their enforcements) and this can be one of the downsides. I can't guess whether they virus-scanned the installation or not because it's quite possible that the trojan was new and not being picked up by scanner when they released the charger.
I find that metaphors on HN have to have really sharp edges or you have to spend a few follow ups on clarification. I'm not yet particularly good at it but this is a very good place to practice. :)
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I wouldn't be concerned so much with glass shrapnel, as with almost molten wax spraying out.

Have you ever opened up a lava lamp? The bottle is capped with an old-fashioned pull-off bottle cap. I guarantee that if anything goes pearshaped, it'll be the integrity of that cap.
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I graduated from college 3 months ago and didn't get a real job and I haven't been looking for a real job. My Tim Ferris-like businesses pay the bills so I've had a lot of time to read on the internet. I also figured out how to keep up with the comments on Less Wrong, and it feels like being able to comment there without getting downmodded for being wrong has really changed my thought patterns. I'd really recommend trying to read the recent comments page and reply whenever you can say something that isn't wrong, even if you need to minimize yourself by adding lots of phrases like "I think."

I've basically given up on politics. I self-identify as a left-libertarian, but I think most left-libertarians are deeply misguided, just like most right-libertarians. Most right-libertarians can't even see that they have a great deal of shared beliefs with left-libertarians. Anarchism is just my favorite political utopia; not a pragmatic ideology. Some hybrid of left and right libertarianism would be much better in practice than either extreme. Political discourse needs a healthy dose of meta-discussion.

An example reason why I've given up on politics: We know exactly what is happening with global warming, the IPCC report from 2007 is basically correct. Global warming is happening, and thousands and thousands of animal species are going to go extinct, and hundreds of millions of people are going to have more trouble getting food and water. That's bad, and we should be doing a lot to stop it, but it's basically too late to stop. The current argument about global warming will just preserve the scenarios outlined by the IPCC in 2007.

So the left misses that global warming has absolutely no chance of bringing the end of human civilization. And the right misses that global warming is certainly happening and is still really bad, even though it isn't going to bring about the downfall of human civilization.

My private discussions since my Less Wrong post about the Craigslist Revolution have actually lead to some very interesting private discussions about saving humanity with social engineering, but you're right, it's basically technology or bust. I'm an optimist.
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It's good, but I clicked through hoping it was actually announcing some new feature/power - this really is nothing but a PR statement and a nice but oh-so-cursory introduction to Franz Och.

I'm a little suspicious. I note that Google serves the ads on the site. And now look at that author's list of recent articles - it's almost entirely Google. And articles about the Buzz cockup, for example, start ("Google moved quickly over the weekend to try to contain mounting criticism of Buzz") and finish ("“I suspect Google might have a minor hit on its hands already,” he said.") on quite positive notes.

I don't want to step up any allegations of dishonesty, it's more likely to be lax or fanboyish journalism, but it's really quite poor stuff from that journalist.
I also taught myself programming/CS as a teen. Funnily enough, I later ended up teaching my computing classmates because the real teachers were so bad.

One teacher was so bad that one of his lessons actually removed my understanding of some CS concept I had understood for years.
Yes, you can set a maximum transfer rate. You can also choose "automatic transfer rate" which slows backups when you're using the Internet interactively.
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Groves? I think that should be "grooves"; I thought this was about limitations in the amount of trees on a golf course, which seemed cool. :)

I was a bit surprised about the unit though, "volume per square inch" is weird.
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It's the same with printers. They always want you to install some stupid software that "manages" printing for you. Um no, I just want the printer driver thanks.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. The student's behavior was completely justified, and the professor comes off as a self-important prick.

Whenever there are several courses competing for the same time slot, it's reasonable to visit all of them in the first 1-2 weeks of the semester, to understand which one you want to choose. Going just by the course description isn't sufficient, because the quality of the lecturer matters, and varies greatly. For example, you may want to know in advance that the professor is a self-important prick, and take that into account when deciding whether to take their course.

The professors and the students all know that, and late entry during weeks 1-2 of the semester is a normal, expected occurrence. Good manners dictate that the student who walks out in the middle or walks in late sit close to the entrance, to minimize the disruption to others. That's all, really.

Even beyond the first few weeks of the semester, walking in late to a lecture shouldn't be a big deal. The one who's hurt by this is the student who misses the material. The lecturer with a penchant to interrupt their lecture, deliver a brief sermon to the student and expel them are advised to grow the hell up and focus on their teaching.

The comparison with walking late into meetings doesn't have any legs to stand on. The professor is not harmed by the student's initial absence and can proceed with the lecture as planned. Each particular student's participation and feedback aren't essential to the lecture. And meetings that overlap or coincide can be rescheduled, unlike university courses.
>> "I thought USB battery chargers were "dumb" devices."

They are, but they offer "software" for stupid people who like installing crap. (I actually own this battery charger, it's pretty neat).
Ok, I found this analysis by Symantec which makes the whole thing less naive than I originally thought:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/trojan-found-usb-ba...
No idea if no-data-wire USB cables are actually sold or do you have to roll your own?

Mind you, I find the point that there should be software for managing a battery recharger incredible.
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Did you install the software? If it's neat does the software have any point to it?
Listen, this is surely true. But that's irrelevant to the countless people who have learned that sometimes their computers do frustrating shit that seems beyond their control ("what the hell do you mean the article I just made sure to save every 5 minutes for the last week is 'corrupted'? Blargh!!") and by consequence think of them as both fickle and difficult-to-trust-or-experiment-with machines.

Just about everyone I know, tech savvy or not, has numerous computer horror stories. I don't know anyone who failed serving Trump some toast. (There are also cooking nightmares, to be sure, which is why I personally am not rushing out to cook a turkey, and will stick with my stir fry, pasta, and fried eggs. Some food preparation seems difficult and fraught with peril from this newbie's perspective.)
If I understand the USB spec right, getting more than 100mA of power requires a negotiation with the host, thus data wires. There might be a market for a USB data blocker, a device that negotiates the 500mA output with the host and with the guest but does not pass through any data.
Isn't this off topic?
Collaboration doesn't scale.

You can't have 500 people in a room all discussing one topic. Well you can - but it won't be efficient. And people will actually end up learning less.

I think - past 30-35 people, collaboration starts losing its value.

But yes - if there are only 20-30 people in the room - collaboration works better than the lecture format.

(Paulo Freire actually taught English to Brazilian farmers in less than 60 days by using a collaborative approach instead of a lecture approach. His techniques are worth studying. But his techniques don't work for TED type events where huge audiences show up.)
Oh, by "dumb" I meant that they do not actually exchange data with the host, just their device descriptor. Having read the Symantec link elsewhere in the comments, I see this is indeed the case. So you actually have to download the software yourself?
this is a great idea. market it to paranoid corporate IT for blackberries with sensitive materials.
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Right, but with Arq, unlike most online backup offerings, you have direct access to the files being stored online (they're in your S3 account). So you can verify that Arq says what it does because you can look at the results.
The studies most favorable to Shenk's position put the heritability of IQ at around 0.5. That is, parents account for 50% of their descendant's IQ variance. Environmental factors would account for the other half. More recent meta-studies (http://www18.homepage.villanova.edu/diego.fernandezduque/Tea... for instance) put IQ heritability at around 0.8.

Even if the studies most favorable to Shenk are correct, the best way to be smart is still to choose your parents. Parents determine genes and a large amount of environment, which together are the largest influences on intelligence.

This is a bit off-topic, but I want to point out a distinction that is often overlooked. Heritability is not quite the same as genes. Genes definitely influence intelligence. If you could edit someone's genes, you could quite easily make them very sharp or very dumb. Scientists have identified individual genes and groups of genes that drastically influence intelligence. Down's syndrome is an obvious one. Single genes affecting intelligence include GDI1 (http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/11/21/2567) and ALDH5A1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldehyde_dehydrogenase_5_family...). There are others that cause problems such as autism and schizophrenia. (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7215/full/nature0...)

I really think the "ignore genetics, work hard to succeed" people are going about their argument the wrong way. Instead of disregarding the evidence, they should acknowledge it while stressing a caveat: Intelligence, to be useful, must be used effectively. The smartest person in the world might not be best-suited to solve a problem; similar to how the strongest person in the world might not be the best fighter.
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Actually, the examples you provide just confirm the article's point.

The kettle korn is just a small and specific example, but it's still valid.
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If your OS allows that, you need a better OS. Seriously, that's practically like having an OS that lets anyone on your LAN just SSH into your machine as root without a password just because they happen to be on the same subnet.
Linus didn't exactly shine in this discussion :/ Especially the part where he says: A scientific theory is an approximation of observed behaviour WITH NO
KNOWN HOLES.

Once there are known holes in the theory, it's not a scientific theory. At
best it's an approximation, but quite possibly it's just plain wrong.
META: I would just like to point out to all potential commenters that the degree to which IQ is genetic is one of the most controversial unresolved recurring topics on Hacker News. The arguments never really seem to go anywhere.
You are right. That's what the spec says. In reality, I've never found a single hub or host that actually does this. They mostly just dump somewhere between 300ma and 700ma right on the wire. The really advanced ones don't crash the all the ports on the whole machine if you short or overdraw a port. Actually, I think my macbook may get it right (i don't plug homemade usb junk into my macbook), but my toshiba I know for certain does not.

You've got a great idea though. A simple micro like a PIC or an arduino (atmel) could do this and get all kinds of neat data on the power flow as well.
I think it's a really good idea if you can afford it, and you're not wasting a lot of time going back and forth.

Working from home with a family is not a lot of fun - the end of your work day coincides with the time when everyone else gets home, like it or not.

I'm looking into options, but office space is spendy here in Italy, and I don't want someplace that takes 45 minutes to reach, either.
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Well, that's one less thing to worry about.
So I figured out much later. slaps hand to head.
But, thanks because it does give an idea towards a clause.
Most people never reinstall their OS at all, so this is analogous to saying that you shouldn't be worried about what can go wrong with doing your own wiring (to use someone else's example) because, after all, you could just rebuild the house.
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