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I managed to order a couple - my plan for them is to use them in a couple of data loggers I'm currently using Arduinos for, but would like to integrate video storage along with the logged data - I've also got a couple of these on the way too: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite... for the same reason.
The audience for games has expanded out of the computer club and into all walks of life. By some estimates, the number of people playing some sort of video game has tripled in the past five years. As it happens, different people like different kinds of games.

The classical male introvert gamer really enjoys difficult challenges that require focus and mastery to overcome. But, today there is a new, additional audience that enjoys a simple pleasure of directed progress much more than the thrill of defeating great threats. There is also a new audience of part-time gamers who play in very short spurts, but can't devote the extended, continuous blocks of time required to mentally log the details of complicated situations (required to recover from being lost).

The classic audience is still here. And, after a lifetime of nearly all games being focused on a fairly uniform audience, some classical gamers are having a hard time adjusting to the huge influx of new games that are explicitly not targeting them for the first time.

But, the old-skool games, full of challenges to overcome, are still around if you are still interested. If you want a game that cruelly beats you down until you finally get good enough to genuinely beat it back, try Dark Souls. If want a game where no matter how smart you are, there is always a smarter way to do it, try SpaceChem. If you want a strange and dangerous new world to trip you up, try Zeno Clash. If you want some sarcastic fun with friends, try Magicka. If you want to compete at any level from pants-on-head to world-champion, try StarCraft II. If you want a game where you make incredible things come to be, but there are no graphics to speak of, try Dwarf Fortress. And, if you need more suggestions, here's a list of what reddit.com/r/gaming is talking about: http://nowplaying.gamedifferences.com/
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Ouch, now you're making me feel old, I still do those things, and yes have done for 15 years.
What are you trying to say? It's not like Google invented the concept of a search engine either. I always use that example to explain to people that it is not about the idea, but about execution.
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The difference is that the back taxes don't fall on the previous owners, they stay with the property and keep piling up along with penalties, interest and fees. The new buyer has to pay it all.

Once a property "sinks" (becomes worth less than its back taxes), its over.
Especially if you want to work on premise. I can understand if you want to get a remote job; that's really hard. Not freelance, but really a fulltime remote job with all benefits without coming into the office more than twice / year or something. No matter how brilliant you are. I think that's a big miss for employers; because they want to have the sense of 'control', they want all people present. Sure in some cases it helps to have the team sitting in one place, but in my experience remote employees are far more productive (as they have something to prove) and work harder than on-premise.

Sorry; offtopic, just a pet-peeve with 'modern employers' :)
The photo of Timberline was nice though:-) Linus has got to be one of Oregon's more illustrious citizens.
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Please stop spreading FUD, thanks :

http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/02/07/six-lies/
Amazon has sites all over the world, including the UK, for which it also offers fulfillment services.

I suspect the larger reason this hasn't been done yet is that it allows them to first take the orders and then scale the production run size to that.
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I'm just hoping to edge out "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Pooping During Childbirth" in Google search results.
I do understand that the transfers were peer-to-peer. I could hand you eCash in an offline way, from my device to yours, as if I was handing you a bill, without going through a bank/clearing house network to authorize and validate the transfer.

But the issuance of eCash was still done by the bank. This is what makes eCash not 100% decentralized... I would compare eCash to the "pseudo p2p" Napster file sharing network which still relied on a central server (gasp!) to index the files, which allowed authorities to shut down the "p2p" network by closing down that central server.
Sharing my personal experience in reaching out to random people:

A few months back, after reading lots of posts on HN here of people sharing their experience in "cold emailing" people, I reached out to quite a few people on the web - people whom I thought would be able to offer valuable insights on some thing I'm building. And, I was surprised how many people actually diligently replied to my email, and spent a lot of time offering suggestions etc.

A few things I learned in the process:

* Making the email as short and as highly targeted as possible made a difference (anecdotal, not measured)

* When somebody replied saying that they will look into it in a day or so, I did not immediately reply back saying "Thank you" etc. Instead I waited for a day or two and then replied. The second email actually served as a gentle reminder and I got a response immediately after that.

* In many cases, I specifically looked for people looking at a specific problem which what I was building helped to alleviate. This naturally increased the response rates.

* Lastly, people are generally wary of people selling things. So, I suggest genuinely trying to seek people's insights and guidance rather than directly sell them your idea. If people liked your idea, they themselves will go out of their way to do that.

And for what it's worth, I am going to shamelessly use this opportunity to offer the same: if you are looking for design related feedback on what you are building, say hello (email in profile!)
As someone coming from a very small village from the French countryside (probably not too different from the one that is to sell here), it does appeal to me ...

As a matter of fact, I was thinking of just that the other day, coming back in my village in a couple of years and try to start a hackers/startup/"IT" hub ... (maybe just starting with a hackathon or something similar).

You could wonder who would be interested ? And how the locals would react ?

Well, first, you have to imagine being in the countryside, being able to take a bike, roam in the woods, go on the river ... Then there is complete silence (like, really really silent). And of course, the food.

There's also a plan (although I think it's partially on hold right now) to have fiber everywhere. And no doubt that the local administration would help with that if you have a serious projects.

As for the locals, they are very friendly, the only thing they ask is that you take part in the community (for instance, buy at the local bakery or butcher). In the area I come from, there has been a steady stream of Dutch people buying secondary houses for the last 20 years. They all enjoy it, and are very welcome.

Yes, there is a language barrier, but this can definitely be overcome with good will from both sides (I've seen it in action).

Anyway, just a thought ...
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Er, bonds are denominated in currencies. There is no independent value.
There's a reason I said "Maybe a mindset change is needed though." It's the little things and attention to detail. For large organizations, that can be very hard to grasp. It's things like telling you when configuring a Dell computer about every little sticker. No one cares. However, there are plenty of people who still want to be able to configure their computer to the detail Dell allows, without building it yourself.
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This is where a good headhunter is worth their weight in gold, they can make matches neither party could do on their own.
Indiegogo offers a very similar service without that limitation.
One can just as easily say that currencies are denominated in assets. When valuing a currency one inevitably resorts to trade flow and capital production statistics. A better way to think of these flows is as swaps instead of "buying" things with money.

In the modern banking system Treasury bonds function just as much as money as Federal Reserve notes (which are technically a debt). Before the crisis AAA corporate bonds were accepted as collateral nearly on par with Treasury bonds.
Who is this a tremendous failure for? RaspberryPI, or Farnell and RS?
The iPad and iPhone are closely related. If one drops the home button, then likely the other will follow shortly.
86 comments worth of discussion here --- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644907

(But the earlier HN post linked to Linus's profile instead of to this specific post.)
Hi guys,

I'm responsible for the Tengine project. We're very excited to see the news of Tengine appears on ycombinator.

Just a few clarifications:

Q: Why Tengine is 'forking' Nginx instead of committing the patches to the official Nginx?

A: First, we are developing our own Nginx version because we have strong requirements to enhance it. Our website is very busy (ranked #14 on Alexa's top sites list) and many features we need can't be done by writing modules.
We would love to contribute our work to the official Nginx. We consider it as a great honor to share our achievements with the community. That's why we have open sourced it. We are also trying our best to contribute back to Nginx. Actually we have contacted the core members of the Nginx team last December, including Andrew Alexeev, the people in charge of their Business Development and their COO/GM, Maxim Konovalov. We asked how to collaborate with them. Their replied as following:

"It's interesting what you guys do and let's keep in touch. I'm not really quite sure right away in regards to what can be imported to the main branch, but hopefully we'll find things to collaborate on. We're a bit busy towards the end of the year, so probably a good idea to catch up in January."

More than two months have passed. We are still waiting for their requests. We are very confused because we don't know which features and bug fixes they think should be merged into Nginx. Some feature such as the syslog and pipe support are explicitly refused to implement; A 'bug fix' of the error_page directive I wanted to send to the Nginx developer but they thought that behavior was OK though many users think it's a bug... Frankly, we are a little bit frustrated. It's very sad that we haven't done too much things together yet. But the Tengine team are open to hear the ideas from the Nginx guys. And we're going to knock their door again.

Q: "input filters" in Tengine have anything to do with Chinese requirements for censoring?

A: No. It's just a mechanism to help implement something similar to Apache's mod_security. E.g. I have written a module to demonstrate how to fight the hash collision DoS attack:
http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2012/01/a-mechanism-to-help-writ...
BTW, please don't connect everything to censoring so rashly. The idea of 'people in China are willing to do censoring' is also stupid.
Ah, so you haven't.
Thanks. You should avoid underlined text for non-links, though.
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The boom was abruptly interrupted here, as it was everywhere else, in 2008 when the GFC kicked off. My old man works for Rio, who dumped tens of thousands of contractors almost immediately, freezing tens of billions of dollars of projects.

What really saved our bacon was a) labour market flexibility (ie many companies renegotiated hours instead of being forced to sack people) and b) that the Reserve Bank had lots of room to manoeuvre. The Commonwealth could also borrow deeply because it had no long term debt.

None of these conditions was accidental. They were, as I said, consequences of decades of sensible reform by both major parties.

> Easy, right? Now name one innovative Australian company.

There are thousands. They're just not necessarily talked about by the HN set. Off the top of my head there's Cochlear, the half dozen companies spun off from NICTA, Kaggle, Computershare which was the first of its kind and so on.
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The RS website just seems to be taking details atm, there is no purchase process available.
"I'm particularly interested in working on challenging problems dealing with algorithms and big data"

Give one of our competitions a shot - http://kaggle.com/. They're a good way to experiment with algorithms and machine learning on well-defined problems, and collaborate with people who have similar interests. Also, we love hiring people who win competitions.
I imply nothing negative. I am simply saying it is a significant endorsement of the concept of Bitcoin, when Larry and Sergei look at it and think "maybe we should do something similar".
How's about sum Accept headers up in there?
I gave up on Popular Science years ago because of exactly that...
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Great points! This needs to be its own blog post.
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"Real" cash is also issued centrally but nobody doubts that it can be used in a 'peer to peer' fashion for payments.

Anyway, I think we're well into 'no true Scotsman' territory here.
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There are a lot of talented math/maths people on HN, and even more who are interested in the topic, but not necessarily trained. It's just not the major focus of this site, but still, a lot of good links show up here on a fairly regular basis.

One of the best people on HN for mathematics stuff is Colin Wright. He's always busy, but if you contacted him privately with your general question (finding math folks), he stands a very good chance of being able to answer it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ColinWright

His article submissions to HN should give you an idea of the stuff he's into:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ColinWright

Also, the person in the following link has a Masters in Mathematics and might be interested in doing some freelance work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644870

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lesterfremn
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Somewhat better now, but it still grabs a lot of the boilerplate too.

(Also, out of curiosity, what did you change to fix it?)
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The NDAA bill is absolutely what wiped out habeas corpus. Until that was enshrined the US military had no right to domestic policing, and was in fact for most of US history specifically banned from such (except for eg the civil war). As you know, habeas corpus protects against unlawful detention; the NDAA bill is designed to enable permanent unlawful detention of US citizens.

The NDAA bill gave the US military the ability to black bag you without any civilian judicial oversight. The FBI, Pentagon, CIA, among others came out strongly against the NDAA bill and warned Congress and the President not to do it. They know what it can lead to.

You are now guaranteed absolutely zero protections as a US citizen. There is nobody except the President, as commander in chief, that can retrieve you once they've decided to make you disappear. Your liberty rests in the hands of one person at that point.

You are not entitled to due process. You have no rights. There's no lawyer call. There's no jury. You may be detained forever without a hearing, and without having any accusations levied against you.

Martial law is precisely what it was intended to enable. They're about to start a war with Iran, it's pretty obvious why they'd want to be able to disappear some US citizens without due process when the shit hits the fan.
I know a lot of devs. For the ones who do it full time, almost none of them do this.
Note that the algorithm description claims to be patented (US Patent 7,991,713 B2), for those who aren't allowed to look at such things.

The algorithm itself has to do with game theory and concerns gradually lowering the duality gap by going through however many iterations of their algorithm.
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Would you be willing to put tengine code on github? It might be easier to send pull requests and patches.

Also, agreed on people not assuming the worst based on features.
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Thank you Patrick. At present I run a niche email marketing company. It can be rather isolating and my social circle or friends find it challenging to offer support/insight/help.

Reading blog posts (and comments on HN) from open, insightful, and yes inspirational people such as yourself has been great. I've often thought how wonderful it would be to meet or otherwise meaningfully communicate with those I respect and admire - and have made an effort in the last year to get out to Meetups (such as the Hacker News one in London last week). I've considered setting up my own sort of 'pay it forward' network; generally it's easier to provide meaningful insight or analysis into others issues, than it is to move forward on ones own.

I just wanted to let you know that your offer is greatly appreciated. I sincerely look forward to speaking or meeting with you.
Raspberry PI - Available to buy today. well, actually no.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ was updated early this morning to tell the world that today you can get your very own slice of RaspberryPI.

"The Raspberry Pi is available at either Premier Farnell or RS Components. Search for Raspberry Pi, and then follow the normal shopping and checkout process."

This is fantastic and exciting news, until you go to RS Components and find that you can't - and have to fill out another 'Let me know' customer contact form.

Speaking with a RS Components customer service representative I am told that they are aware of today's announcement but have not been supplied with any stock as yet and do not have any eta. on it's delivery.

So I guess all there is to do now is fill out a form - and wait patiently :)
The video is part of a series.

http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/category/slideshows/atpmovies

The second one illustrates your description.
Are you the type of person who should be in power?

If not, work on that first.

And if you are, you don't need trendy SWPL causes-du-jour.
Update: Unfortunately the second supplier - http://farnell.com/ - appears to be suffering from an unintentional DOS attack from PI lovers.

RasberryPI have updated their site to state - "Note: both websites are currently experiencing heavy load, and international customers may find that Raspberry Pi is not available yet in their territory. Please be patient, and consider checking back in a few hours' time..."
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Hum. I checked your link:

1. Government sponsoring startups. That sounds like soviet union. Remember, it's the same government that has a huge debt of thousands of billions of euros? That money won't last forever. It's going to be very expensive to get funds of the market for France, and they will have to cut into the sponsorship sooner or later. Not reliable.

2. It takes a long time to set up a company in France. NOt only the administrative tasks themselves, but getting to know what you need to do takes time prior to take action. It's not straightforward and there is not a single place to go to.

3. High taxes. High taxes are high taxes, no matter what you compare them to. Look at what an employer has to pay to the State before even paying a single employee. It's scary.

4. Talent pool. I don't argue on that point, you can find good people. Just like in every developed country with a relatively efficient education system, by the way.

5. This only mentions the trial period and the time when the employee is under a temporary contract. The situation is very different once that person is under a CDI (unlimited duration contract). Then they can take sick leave whenever they want to, and it will be very difficult to get rid of a non-performing employee. It's a fact.

6. Funny point. Most of those startups are virtually unknown internationally. And Dailymotion was bought over by a semi-public company (Orange), a well known public enemy of innovation and champion of statu quo. For a fact, there's no Twitter, no Facebook, no Google in France. Not even anything close to that.

Yeah, you are right, that says a lot about the startup investment scene in France.

Next time you want to call my claims a FUD, please find better links.
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