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This happens on every moderated forum all the time, including HN. I've learned to get over the idea that the most correct answer will be moderated highest. One reason is that the righter answer might have been posted later. Another is that a less right answer might have been written in a more entertaining or attention-grabbing way.

If you want a HN example, take my post on "Google's Android faces a serious Linux copyright issue."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337340

It was moderated 8, and contains the precise answer to the issue/controversy (it quotes the exception from Linux's COPYING file that both LWN and Linus himself cited later to refute the alleged "copyright issue")

The highest-voted comment on the article (38) does not mention this exception, and is full of inaccuracies like "Unless these programs are actually copying parts of the kernel into their source, they are not derived works."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2337054
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Did this last summer. Fantastic program - was really a great opportunity and they were very, very helpful.
Not true. There was no binding obligation whatsoever.
Film cameras + lenses are expensive, $100k expensive. They are typically leased for each production from rental houses that have many $M of stock on their shelves - and are often also manufacturers (panaflex didn't used to sell cameras at all - you had to rent)

Then you need a camera operator that is trained on that camera. Imagine if a pro-photographer had 6 different camera brands that they didn't own and didn't know which one they would be presented with on their next job.

Then there is a whole industry of labs, dailies, neg cutters that work with film. Replacing all these with data wranglers, DBAs and sysadmins is expensive - especially with no market leader means you need to hire a team that all know the model you are using.

A recent BBC documentary shot on regular HD cameras had 2people who spent all night copying all the memory cards to hard drives and making backups.

Digital cameras will catch on, probably in independant first - but it's not because of any artistic reason, it's just a cost/time/benefit calculation
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5% is horrendously expensive. Just the other week I was ragging on Braintree for being very slighty above wholesale merchant rates.

Stripe is quite literally double Braintree's rates, with no value-add.

And on top of that, they hold the float for up to thirty days?

Good luck, guys. You're going to need it.
Disclaimer: I work on the PR2 day-to-day.

Believe it or not... It is fairly trivial to consume _all_ computational resources on the robot. A few examples of concurrently running tasks: AMCL SLAM (mapping); assembling incoming laser scans and transforming them to various frames; multiple occupancy grids (obstacle detection / planning) at various resolutions; 3D point-cloud perception for object recognition, person tracking, or 3D mapping; motion-planning controllers for mobility (base) or manipulation (arms) running at 100+ Hz; computer vision algorithms; the list goes on...

It is possible to offload some of these tasks (especially high-level planning or recognition tasks) to people via MechTurk or the cloud (see "Cloud Robotics"). However, there will always be some computation that needs to occur with real-time constraints -- which likely means on-robot.

The _big deal_ in the last 2 years is ROS. ROS has changed everything, and is causing robotics to accelerate! Now, if you need one of those previously mentioned tools... they're open source, well documented, and ready to use.
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What is morally wrong isn't teenagers having sex, it's teenagers having babies.
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The phones will do 4G once AT&T enables it, so it's only half deceptive.
My reading of that comment is that he's saying you're in the top 4 worldwide..
This is gold:

Appropriate to today, Gerard, The space futurist, asked John and Freeman about what computers will mean to us in the next 50 years. Freeman said "everyone would have one or more to do many tasks so that humans could spend time doing more important things".

John paused for about a minute and said "Freeman that is ridiculous, computers will be used to calculate better chances to date the pretty girl next door that does not notice you".
Server names at my university's CS department (and at least 2 other universities I know of) are biblical characters- Matthew, Mark, John, Gabriel, Mary, Martha, etc...

And, of course, Saul is a alias for Paul.
The sensor is the easy bit - it's getting the data out that is clever. The 5D can only store heavily compressed H264 even at 1080p30.

2k lines @ 120fps is 1GBytes/s - thats a lot of data to push
There's a lot of things wrong with what you are assuming, and assuming that the DOE adds massive bureaucratic overhead is a bit naive, frankly.

The NSF doesn't have a physical presence, and given that particle physics is a very natural extension of nuclear physics, that's why the DOE does particle physics (which includes lightsources). DARPA is purposefully limited in scope, they also have very few facilities (really, they are sort of like the NSF for weapons). Nuclear Weapons research is a small (but very important) part of the DOE's mission, but weapons and reactors are so closely tied together that it's really impossible to separate the too. There's certain levels of civilian and military separation that have been put into place by law. Many of the labs do weapons (usually conventional, only two do nuclear) research, many do only science, some do both, some do reactors and some do accelerators. The DOE services everyone though, defense, civilian, academic, everything, and that's largely why they are there and set up the way they are. It sort of ends up being this buffer zone between pure science and defense, and that's generally a good thing I think.
How much of a performance hit would they really take if they included word boundary metacharacters in their filtering regexes? Is this something people have benchmarked? Can anyone make a reasonable guess?

(I'm honestly curious, and wondering if this isn't an engineering trade-off as opposed to just a dumb mistake.)
I don't really follow it either, just some tech/science news outlets that waste my time by covering [edit: Energy], too... :-)
I think it had more to do with Čapek subscribing to Marxist theories about historical inevitability and such. His robots are in fact a mental abstraction, a caricature of early 20th century proletariat that was supposedly bound to revolt, sooner or later. Čapek is taking this to extremes, purporting to show that even a race that was bred especially for labor would inevitably revolt, if only they were afforded the modicum of intelligence that was needed for that labor.

Of course, we now know that Marx's inflexible theories were wrong, and proletarian revolution is by no means inevitable. We are, however, still stuck with a half-baked idea of the inevitable robot revolution, which tinges the whole field of robotics research, at least as seen from the outside, with a subconscious bitterness of fear.
I wear all of those hats from time to time, and I'm a Remote International, and it works ok.
Threads are not deleted, though they can get hard to find.
Definitely save the URL, but don't worry about copy and pasting the contents.

Another great HN tool is http://searchyc.com. You can search submission submission titles, comments, and get feeds for most types of things.
I may have not made myself clear; I think it is largely true that programmers start writing COBOL in language x; some rapidly progress, others don't. It's the latter group that are red flags to me — it signals a lack of intellectual curiosity.

Again, it's not dispositive or anything; sometimes programmers, particularly younger ones, just haven't seen the strengths of the idiom in their alternate languages.
Thanks for pointing this out! This needs a lot more attention IMO! The PCI verbage is "store, process, or transmit", which means that if you host a payment form on your site, you are on the hook for SAQ-D.
The last ditch effort they make to grab the ball before it falls feels very human.
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It's important to note that most of what Square brings to the table is not hardware. It acquires merchant transactions and manages payment risk. Square can simply support other hardware technology, but their focus is on the merchant side.
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Interview someone in the technology/engineering feild please help
hi i need to interview/ talk to someone for about 30 min for a school project about the field i am interested in. is any one available for this please?
Relevant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightSquared#Spectrum_policy_is...

http://www.saveourgps.org/
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Thanks for clarifying. That's my understanding of it, too.

If the form that the user puts their credit card info into POSTs to your web server, then you are on the hook. Now that I think about it, the form may POST to a third party payment processing web service from your web app which prevents the user from feeling like they have left your web app. In that case, I think that your web app is off the hook for PCI compliance.
Motorola Atrix = Palm Foleo?
Anyone remember the Foleo? Seems to have come 4 years too early.
Amazon releases Cloud Music Player for web and Android
Thanks! Both the explanation and the keywords will direct my search handily :)

There's also a section on the Wikipedia article on Argumentation theory:

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

"Computational argumentation systems have found particular application in domains where formal logic and classical decision theory are unable to capture the richness of reasoning, domains such as law and medicine"
Thanks for this analysis! It makes sense. I believe one of the reasons to launch early is to observe how users actually use the product. Now I am thinking maybe I need more than a co-founder, or in addition to a co-founder, “brand ambassadors” or paid users who would try out the application. I may put an ad in Craigslist and see what happens there. Thanks again to everyone for great comments.
> There is no plaintext passphrases stored anywhere...

Sure there are - in the config file, and in the command line.

59: `ssh-keygen -q -f ~/.ssh/id_{$server['type']} -t {$server['type']} -N '{$server['remote_pass']}'`;
71: $server['conn']->shell("ssh-keygen -q -f ~/.ssh/id_{$server['type']} -t {$server['type']} -N '{$server['remote_pass']}'");

It gets even better - if you forgot to set REMOTE_PASS in the config file, it defaults to empty, and you end up with a passwordless key on most of your machines:

39: $_SERVERS[$k]['remote_pass'] = ($_SERVERS[$k]['remote_pass']) ? $_SERVERS[$k]['remote_pass'] : '' ;

Even if you're only copying keys "to and from the localhost", you've still just given all your servers access -- likely without a password -- to your desktop computer.
Late Monday night seems odd to me. Maybe they caught wind of Apple announcing something on Tuesday morning (traditional time for Apple to drop news)?
I got scholarship on 2008 and 2010, i expect them to offer the same thing this year, just be patient and wait for a few days until the details come out =)
Gee, if only you were around when they were letting all the white kids go to better schools to help them out.
A bit disappointed that the MP3 uploader doesn't support Linux, and that I can't just import all my previously purchased Amazon MP3s. Seems like a nice feature though.
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In my personal experience, somewhere between 'very little' and 'lol'. I'm sure there is quality somewhere on that site but between the hard to look at design and the piles of low quality answers it's difficult to find.

Taking what other posters saying are saying a little bit farther: stack overflow is for work, quora is for fun, metafilter is for nothing.
Because they have no sensors, no sense of height, speed, or their position in space The room they are in determines their position in space and guides them through it.
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Mozilla ends Gecko embedding. Camino project considers switch to Webkit.
not really necessary...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-in_weapon_system
Ask HN: interview for class project please help
i need to interview someone for my class project about someone who is in the engineering/computer/technology feild. please help. my grade rests in your hands.
It doesn't use the Rails migrations -- it reads the schema from schema.rb, which is generated by `rake db:schema`. You usually don't run this directly as it happens whenever you run `rake db:migrate`, but it's not dependent on migrations.
Even a leaky reactor won't do much to the RF signal, but it can affect basically every other aspect of the electronics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening
Didn't AT&T already come out and say that their "4G" network is just a rebranded and slightly upgraded version of their existing 3G network?
Are you really generating a separate keypair for each server? Why?

Why not generate one key pair on your management host, and then use the standard "ssh-copy-id" command to push the public key out to each managed server?
No question here. But if you submitted a special URL for your demo, you can check the IP if any coming from Palo Alto has visited your site.
If Stanford wants to really lead when they get to NYC they should open the campus in Brooklyn instead of doing the me too thing and going to Manhattan.
At some of the big companies I've worked for in industry, there is such a segregation between cubicles and closed office doors that I find my remote side projects much more productive and efficient.
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Storage cost is $1/yr/GB which is similar to Amazon's S3 reduced redundancy storage. It is unclear which level of reliability Amazon is promising for the cloud drive. If it is the higher level, it is a good deal.
Lack of an iOS player is interesting. I don't see a technical reason why Amazon couldn't make one. Ditto with an iOS video player for Amazon Video-on-Demand. Not making either of those (plus the Amazon Appstore & Kindle) makes me think Amazon is working on an Android platform of their own. They have the capabilities for a pretty solid media-ecosystem (music, video, apps, books, etc).
This will all be overtaken within the next year by bitcoin and the services built around it. Traditonal payment methods, systems and the e-wallet concept have had their chance, but their time has come and gone.
The best comment, in my opinion, is the one that had this nugget. Sadly, it isn't the top rated comment. Here's the link:

http://www.quora.com/What-was-John-Nash-like-as-a-professor/...
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When you run ssh-keygen it creates the two keys, public and private, neither contain the 'plaintext' passphrase in your home directory like you mentioned. The only concern may be bash history, I'll include a wipe for that. Secondly, even while being transmitted using SSH they are NOT in plain-text. As the SSH connection itself is encrypted, so while executed in plaintext, the password is NOT stored in plain text, or transmitted in plaintext as identified by those commands.

Finally, the remote_password being blank is by design, passwordless keys are less of a security threat than any weak user supplied password. They serve their purpose in the real world amongst private networks.

EDIT for 'and in the command line.': Reviewing the command history doesn't show the libssh2 or php5 commands being executed on either BSD or debian.

EDIT for your comment 'in the config file': If your suggesting that the software is insecure by the fact that the user leaves the config file after usage, then perhaps that user should be allowed in the environment to begin with.
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I hope you got your ticket for Google I/O already. It sold out in less than an hour this year.

(I think they are still doing the competitions so if your going that route then "good luck!")
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Timing matters so much.

There were definitely companies that had exactly this business model in 1999. They were sued into oblivion. Well, I suppose they kept one copy of the files for streaming back, as opposed to one copy per person.

I doubt very much that Amazon will be sued by the RIAA over this, though. Timing and giant lawyer posses. The stuff business empires are made of..
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If you use enough bandwidth it's a good deal even for the reduced redundancy storage. Only having a web interface makes it a lot less simple than Dropbox, though.
Unless this work differs completely from Nocera's previous work, the device relies on a conventional solar cell (with sub 20% efficiency if made from silicon as suggested in the press release) to provide current for electrolysis of water. Nocera's group focuses on developing low-cost, durable catalysts for electrolysis that can work efficiently at neutral pH. This would allow electrical energy (from solar or other sources) to be stored as hydrogen gas.

However, there are other ways to store solar energy once it is converted to electrical energy or chemical energy. The bigger impediment to large scale adoption of solar is the high cost and low efficiency of initially capturing the energy in each photon. Unfortunately, Nocera's interesting work does not address this much greater challenge.

Also, why was the device tested for only 45 hours? It would have taken more than two days just to prepare the talk he gave. This almost certainly means that the efficiency started dropping and the experiment was stopped.

Anyone interested in this topic should check out the work of Michael Gratzel and others on photoelectrochemical cells, which are more deserving of the label "artificial leaf."
You may own a de-militarized fighter jet. To fly it, you'll need FAA approval (and it'll have to be inspected and made US-air worthy). You'll have to follow all of the rules for general aviation (as if you were in a Cessna), and then more. To actually pilot these planes, you'll have to be rated on them, which is the tricky part.

Here-y, have a link: http://www.classicjets.org/content/faq
And if those aren't modern enough, here's a civilian owned harrier (yes, I know it's not supersonic... but it's even more modern!) http://www.eaa.ca/news/2008/2008-10-15_nalls.asp

Btw, airplane magazines routinely (usually like once a year) have a blurb about the latest ex-military jet purchased by some rich dude.
Half the price of dropbox, this is just begging for a kick ass desktop/mobile app.
Is an iPhone app against the iOS T's&C's?
I'm salivating for the opportunity to write AI for this. Reminds me of these drones I saw at GDC: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/03/05/gdc-2011-a-r-drone-f...
How is this compared to SkyDrive?
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It's Adobe AIR, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Linux client soon. It's not that much more functionality than manually uploading folders through CloudDrive though.
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Wow, Amazon is doing all kinds of great things for Android. First Amazon's Android App store with the awesome Test Drive feature and now this!
Amazon Beats Apple And Google To Cloud-Based Music Storage/Streaming
Anyone know of a drive that I can stream videos from?
The 30% cut of in app sales has to figure in somewhere as well.

First time in a while I got a warm fuzzy for having an Android device.
How long will it be before someone writes a client sync portion (Windows, Mac and Linux) to make this work like Dropbox?

At 50GB and 100GB this costs half of what Dropbox costs. And it goes bigger. I'm currently at 70GB of Dropbox, and am wondering what happens when I hit 100GB.
Why would one not prefer to use http://droptun.es/.

Is it the added meta info about music and other things that Amazon can use since it has a huge collection of music?
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The 20gb free for purchasing an album makes this a pretty clutch deal.

They don't compete with dropbox's sync functionality, but they sure do on price and the mp3 cloud player!
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As a non-US there is no way for me to use this.

Just put aside that, is it actually any legal reason for using things like dropbox to upload music purchased and streamed for private uses?

BTW that one album/20GB offers only last until the end of the year, and it only last for a year. After that, you would have the habit of using the service but be reverted to the free plan.

However since all the new purchases on amazon are automatically saved without counting towards the quota, I guess that solves the problem for many android users. Just that I don't listen to many of bands/artists that put their songs on Amazon MP3 may make this offer less appealing.
For the ability to remove a key from a single device/server. Considering the keys are tagged with user+host, removal is easily identifiable. A single key solution isn't ideal for my configuration.

Using ssh-copy-id is the standard method, but doesn't suite what I wanted.
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I'm curious what they mean by "secure", since they seem to be trumpeting it as a major selling point. They say that all communication goes through HTTPS, which is nice, but they don't say if the information is encrypted on their servers as well. Can someone who gets a VM running on the same machine use clever side-channel trickery to peek at my files? Can a government get Amazon to quietly reveal all my data?

What would be really nice is something where files get stored fully encrypted, with the key derived client-side from your username and password, and the connections all use HTTPS. (Or something similar. I'm not a security expert, so take this with a grain of salt.)
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Exactly right. It's in practice impossible for politicians to draft legislation themselves and still have the time and political capital to pass it. In modern politics it's a mistake to see 'Senator Smith' as an independent entity; he is more like the CEO of 'Senator Smith Inc.': leading, glad-handling, and making high-level decisions - but the grunt-work of drafting laws falls to lower-level members of the organization, lobbyists, or so-called 'think tanks'.

There is a great book on this subject by Paul Light, "The President's Agenda", that goes into how even the president is usually forced to choose between pre-existing options rather than draft his own initiatives.
I wonder how telling this is:
"We do not guarantee that Your Files will not be subject to misappropriation, loss or damage and we will not be liable if they are. You're responsible for maintaining appropriate security, protection and backup of Your Files."
Is it "use at your own risk no matter how much money you pay us"?