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Single page link for those who prefer not to read the article chopped up into five separate pages:

http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?expire=&tit...
I couldn't agree more. I need a quiet place alone to program, and I've just recently moved into a coworking space. Total loss of productivity. I'm going to start working from home again, at least 2-3 days a week...
> Are you a straight white male?

Close. Bisexual. Good guess though. /sarcasm

> If someone wants to make a point of a difference they're proud of, they'll do it themselves. Don't force it upon them!

I fundamentally disagree with this. That's not to say that people should be dragged kicking and screaming into acknowledgment of trivial differences, but occasionally being reminded, in a friendly environment, that those differences do exist - and more importantly, that nobody cares - is incredibly important.

(Of course, some people do care, and that's a problem. But you don't get it fixed by attacking the surface symptoms!)

This is the sort of argument liable to rapidly descend into flaming, and I'm happy to leave it here if you are. ;-) (Although I will bring it up again the next time another one of these links is posted.)
How do sites like PlasticJungle verify gift card balances and prevent fraud
I have the below 2 questions that I was hoping somebody from the community would probably be able to help me with:

1. Say I sell a gift card to PlasticJungle (or other similar sites). How do they verify the balance on the gift card? Do they check it once they get the physical card (I send them via mail) or do they have some sort of APIs exposed by all major retailers to check the balance electronically when I key in the gift card number and the pin on their website? Though the latter doesn't sound like how it's done, thought would still ask.

2. How do they prevent fraud? Say I mailed them the gift card. After getting it, they check and confirm that everything looks good and then they proceed to pay me (check, paypal, amazon gift card). Now once I get paid, what if I go ahead and use the gift card online since I know the gift card number and the pin. How do they prevent such a thing?
Thanks for putting this on and leading me to smashthestack.org, I had looked (admittedly, a shallow look) for a CTF style game after doing one at a conference last year. These things are crazy addictive to me..
Awesome guys. I greatly enjoyed being there for the final presentation, especially hearing all of the different ways people had solved the levels. Thanks for publishing the AMIs.
This is absurd (and I can't believe its at the top of hacker news).

The article insinuates this is human powered flight.

Any realistic attempt at a solely human powered flying machine would utilize leg power, not arms which pale in comparison in terms of power output.

Also seems a bit fishy a buzzing sound, much like that of an engine, starts the same time as the wing flapping.

Interesting engineering feat but definitely not the holy grail of man powered flight. This is Turnigy powered flight, big deal.

"The design is based on mechanics used in robotic prosthetics."
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Didn't that happen a couple years ago (late 2008?)
Good idea, but I just tried it and it's a pretty poor experience.
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I pop up a dialog asking for their e-mail after 3 app loads. I'm not actually sure what the rate is (signups per impression). I have surprisingly little analytics in my apps, I really should incorporate some of that. Do you know of any good services for that?
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I'm not really familiar with CPUs, but I got a hyperthreaded, quad core Xeon with 24 GB RAM, 750 2xRAID1 disks and 10 TB bandwidth from Hetzner for 60 euros a month... Isn't that comparable to what you mention, apart from being many times cheaper?

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex5
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obviously faked ... but i hope i'm wrong!!
at least thanks for the short moment before i started doubting :-)!
Definitely fake as there is a black square on the right wing in the later (CGI, after the camera has looked up again) images that doesn't exist in the earlier (real) footage. You can clearly see this in the video and your screengrab.

From the video it is also obvious that there is no way someone could have stuck that there in the time it took for the camera to turn away and back again.
You're right, it's a multi-part problem. I don't quite agree with "society primes girls not to go into technology" part; although it does have some truth to it, I don't think all the gender gap in the filed can be attributed to societal factors. I can give two arguments:

(i) Not all technical fields have the gender gap, e.g. in biological and agricultural studies 51% of PhDs were awarded to women in 2009, whereas it was 22% in engineering and 27% in math and computer science (so engineering is worse but people usually don't tackle, say, the gender gap in civil or electrical engineering) (http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/14/doctorates);

(ii) It's a widely popularized finding that, when adjusted for gender equality in the country, the gender gap in sciences, e.g. math, disappears (http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32949/title/Math_...). This fits in with your society influence theory. Yet, AFAIK (the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo aside) the hacker cultures for those top (generally Scandinavian) countries are still dominated by males (can't point to a study, anecdotal evidence, will be happy to retract if given convincing evidence to teh contrary).
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I almost bought this thinking it was about web design, but from the screenshots its a Mac app... that is a little bit confusing to me :)
How is being shot down better than being shut down?
"I encourage all of our portoflio companies to file for as many as they need"

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2006/04/patently_absurd.html

If you're letting them spend your money on filing patents without any kind of binding commitment to use them only in defense, and there's plenty of evidence at USPTO that your portfolio companies are still doing just that, then you're not clearly any different than any other VC in that regard.

This madness will not stop until there's more retaliatory capability than first-strike, and that won't happen as long as there's money pouring into the acquisition of first-strike weapons. Those who fund the stockpiling are culpable, no matter what they say as they're doing it.
What do you consider painful about the account creation process? For me, I just log-in to a new site (using OpenID) and it automatically detects the other accounts and asks me if I want to combine them. Or are you talking about not having karma from the start?
Sorry, I meant the Super Nintendo, which I guess is 16-bit. I knew 32-bit sounded a little wrong...
I'd imagine it is easy to move there but getting a work visa for the US is the challenging part.
OK, so how about blacks serving a predominantly white group? I think my other race metaphor went too far, but this one works. There's nothing wrong with a black person working as a server/waiter. They're still considered by most people to be completely equal, and blacks are welcome to participate in the event alongside whites, it just so happens that their drinks will be brought by blacks.

If you don't think it's fair to compare racism and sexism, I suggest reading this Person Paper: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
"Justice Breyer rejected a proposed middle ground that had been offered by the federal government. It had urged the court to rule that the Prometheus method was eligible to be patented as an initial matter but could then probably be challenged as invalid because it was obvious and insufficiently novel. "

sighs

I guess unless the company was in bankruptcy and the judge ruled you couldn't challenge their patents ala Kodak. Then having granted stupid patents in the first place would not have been such a good idea Mr. Holder.
Your comment led to a TIL: women ninjas exist and were called kunoichi. Thanks.
I moved to Toronto (from Melbourne Australia). Use to be obsessed with cars. When we moved we sold both our cars and I love not having to drive anymore. It helps that the public transport is a million times better in Toronto than back home.
This video is fake, that has been established beyond doubt. But CGI, even "prosumer" CGI like this, is really getting better. Even at this level, people are relying on "hints" that a CGI transition has taken place - camera looks away, is obscured, or the picture is blurry.

Give it a couple of years and those distracting-from-transition tricks probably won't be necessary any more. Then what?
> You won't get to that discussion without calling out the problems at hand.

Exactly! And my claim is that the larger, more subtle "women just aren't good at science/technology" problem, is now more pressing than the blatant misogyny, and furthermore that the larger problem cannot be solved simply by calling out misogyny. It is a distinct problem - the two may influence each other, but the one will not go away just because we all know about and hate the other.

I guess that's actually really my main gripe with most of the talk here - people are conflating what to me are two very separate problems, and, as far as I can see, not doing anything to solve the bigger one. And it makes me mad.

I know a great many people who would be instantly disgusted at the sort of thing this moron put on the flier, as you all were, and yet have subtly and not-so-subtly showed the bias that women can simply never be as good as programming as men can. (In one particular case, fairly openly, to the person's face - and that person, one of the best programmers I know, is no longer planning to go into computer science, despite my best efforts to convince her otherwise.) So I'm convinced that open misogyny and "women belong in the kitchen" are, at least in the tech community, separate problems, and the latter needs to be attacked directly.
Nope. The relevant info is literally the first warning callout on the Python guide: http://docs.dotcloud.com/services/python/

Thanks again for taking the time to set me straight on this.
Not sure why the title was not prefixed with "Ask HN:". Since this is my first time posting, I would appreciate if somebody could let me know in what cases "Ask HN:" shows up.
> Of course, there are many skeptical experts out there that have pointed out the fact that SpaceX has only attempted a rocket launch seven times. Of those seven, three were total failures.

Ouch. I hope that $500,000 is refundable in case of death or accident.

> Any human that makes the trip will be stuck inside the vehicle for the 214 days it would take to actually travel to the Red Planet.

I once made a road trip from Seattle to Tennessee in 3 days. In the middle of a frigid winter. During blizzard conditions. Of course we took breaks to get out of the car, stretch our legs, have a piss and get some fresh air. At the end of the trip I was ready to hang myself. The boredom and rigor of endless driving became unbearable. The prospect of taking a similar trip, over a much longer timespan, in much more hostile conditions and paying for the privilege is not appealing, at all.
Missed that. Thank-you!
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Not to be a jerk, both those three videos you posted don't seem to encompass exactly what happened here.

I'm not saying it's a real video but everyone's reaction is different towards any event. I don't think this can be counted as proof against the 'realness' of the video.
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This looks amazing! I've been using TinyMCE on a few projects, but I'm definitely taking this for a spin. Great job!
Wow, thanks. That clinches it for me.
curious to know uptake rate for Mac OS X. Sure there's a long list of nested dependencies, but it's only a few that usually cause me a lot of heartburn. E.g., as far as i know, the app advertised here depends on Graphite which in turn depends on py-cairo which in turn depends on cairo. I've never found installing that on any Mac OS X to be a pleasant experience.
Unlikely that a route over the north pole would help. Only if the traditional one were truly horrible.
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Just took a look at your sample chapter. Looks neat!

I have a question. I have been playing with landing page design recently, and just started using Google web fonts. I found it interesting that you excluded Google web fonts from your list of font resources. Was there a reason for this?
I haven't done anything ^ extreme or cool on that level, but I'm pretty introverted and don't necessarily get excited externally too much. It could be plausible that he's introverted as well and doesn't go crazy like some people. My parents often were upset with me because they didn't think I liked what they got me for my birthday, christmas, etc. but on the inside I really was happy/excited.

So all that to say, everyone handles events differently and it's hard to have a set guideline for how people act.
Now if only this could prevent people from accidentally using my email address instead of their own...
I just put together a directory of these $5 specials: http://www.comedyspecials.org

If people think it's a good idea I'll add a bunch of other fancy stuff :)
"If the US could create Avatar, it could fake 9/11" http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/if-us-could-create-avata...

Probably, we won't believe anything.
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This is good for sanity checking the right side of the '@' but detectable things go wrong on the left side sometimes, too. One phenomenon I've been seeing for years is the erroneous "www." prefix, often tacked on to @aol.com and @yahoo.com addresses. I don't think I've seen one of these that hasn't bounced.
I tried AIDE. It was very neat. I couldn't believe it was doing what it seemed to be doing. Tried it on an ASUS Transformer with a keyboard. Don't think I'll switch to that as my primary development mode but it is quite handy if I am on an airplane or doing something else and don't have my larger laptop but want to try something to see if it works.
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More good points, from a more practical, small-scale perspective than I can give. Thank you.

I find it interesting that you describe yourself as preferring to be a liminal figure, as do I (know that I know the word - which my spell-checker still does not), and we're both getting DV'd to oblivion on this one.
By the end of this decade we will have extremely high resolution displays pushing 10k x 6k most likely (consumer, given the ipad3 just came out and it took us 6 years for 1080p to get mainstream and ultra high resolution is in labs), and encoding video for that resolution will be on the order of potentially hundreds of gigabytes per hour, even with how lossy container formats like vorbis allow a logarithmic size growth relative to resolution.

I don't see the rate at which we use space slowing down any time soon, but we have physical magnetic platter limits to worry about going forward.

We will always have room for more space!
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Hi HN,
I am a new minted grad absolutely miserable at my new job (at a startup) where I was hopeful to do something better than what I am currently doing (which is writing one line of code in 2 months). I keep going through cycles of guilt (for wanting to quit my job), fear (will I get a job or not?) and dread (I am incredibly burnt out by the arbitrary and stochastic nature of the job market). All my friends keep telling me to suck it up and work there and then quit only after I find a new job. I was wondering if I could get some advice to either confirm their opinions or on the other end?

Sorry for the scant amount of details on why I want to quit my job (more details will probably narrow down the situation and I would rather not get fired before quitting )

Thanks
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We'll build a fort out back and eat candy for dinner every night, it'll be great.
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We don't need HN to turn into reddit, and we don't need it to turn into slashdot with its small-uid-envy either.
I don't find the idea of jumping out of a plane with only a parachute (that will probably open OK. maybe) to be appealing, yet thousands of people do it every year, willingly, and repeatedly. And that's downright mundane compared to the obvious exoticness and thrill those kinds of folks would get from setting foot on the planet Mars.
My biggest issue is with a piece of the machine that suddenly appears 2 seconds latter: http://i.imgur.com/xZCAu.jpg
I've thought about whether we'll start to see things like this soon with composites and nanofibers. I'd love to see the math taken apart, I assume we're still a ways away from it.

The first person to really fly like this may well be a double amputee or other person generally thought of as "disabled". Someone like Bob Wieland would have an enormous advantage on paper over someone like the guy in the video.
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We built this for a mate who loves English premier league (soccer) and tapes all of the Arsenal games. He wanted to know the scores of the other teams without spoiling his match.

We extended it the other day to grab Australian Football scores for another mate.

Are there any other leagues that people want to see represented?

This was built using Twitter bootstrap and the bottle.py web framework.
Seems to me a single storm might be capable of bringing down most all of these drones, wouldn't it? I wonder how they plan to account for this unless they plan to put them at extremely high altitudes.
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Do you have a reference for the 150M number? Disclaimer: This would've been over a year ago, and I don't remember specifics. I was an engineer, so my main focus was elsewhere.

1) We had a TON of users across many apps and not just our games (many thousands of apps when you include our user-generated ones).

2) These types of numbers were often "sum(MAU-app1 + MAU-app2 + ... + MAU-appN)". This point was always communicated clearly, but may not have been in the press, or could be a source of confusion? Even if communicated clearly, this may still seem like bloating the numbers: but my understanding is it more accurately represents the amount of impressions one would expect (from say a cross-promo with other games, or ad sales) than if you were to de-dupe them by Facebook ID. In other words, say you have 2 games with 10M MAU each, and 2M users play both: it's preferable to make decisions based on 20M as opposed to 18.

3) All apps' MAU/DAU numbers are public anyway, so there's not much to hide.

Thanks for complementing Ravenwood, btw. I really appreciate that. (I was a pre-alpha engineer)
Not saying it isn't fake, but the black squares look like silhouettes of some structure underneath. It could easily change as the fabric moves.
1) Backpack is clearly attached with better-than-normal strapping in front. Watch preflight carefully. EDIT: Look here (http://www.humanbirdwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG...)

2) If it's a kite and gets off the ground, so what? Worked, didn't it? Also, for wings, it just has to be glider plus produce enough thrust off the flapping to keep it aloft, yeah? We're not making an airplane here. EDIT: Looks like there is an internal core wing structure (http://www.humanbirdwings.net/wp-content/gallery/fixingwings...) with the extra fabric functioning somewhat like secondary feathers.

3) Motors alone aren't made for rapid oscillation--that's why we have other mechanical devices such as cams, pistons, etc. If you listen carefully at liftoff you can hear a highpitched whine, perhaps a small IC engine. EDIT: Confirmed as electric motors using battery packs.

4) You probably just need to change the angle of attack, and maybe dick around with Cg and Cp. So, until I see your numbers, I'm not discounting this out of hand.

5) Where in the press release does it say he uses an Android OS? It says he uses accelerometers from an HTC smartphone, sure, but I didn't see anything about running Android. EDIT: Taking my own advice, look here for system diagram: (http://www.humanbirdwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/exp...). He uses one phone per wing, plus additional computation power.

6) So what? That alone isn't implausible.

7) That's probably because this is worth good money in patents. EDIT: Check the website here (http://www.humanbirdwings.net/press/).

Why is it so absurd that this might work?
I've heard some experts in the field say that the hardest parts about space travel are the launching and the landing. The middle parts, like the long boring flight and keeping the crew alive and not crazy, are massively easier and less risky in comparison, engineering-wise. They've shown they can put something into orbit. Landing on Mars with humans will be tricky, but the technology seems to exist to allow it, and that general kind of thing has been done before. Parachutes and thrusters, etc.
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There's much more information on his site (motors, batteries, drawings): http://www.humanbirdwings.net/.

Maybe it's fake but plenty of effort went into it.
Cool until I checked the source and realised that the developer has to hard-code a list of domains they want to check against (there are none included).

Off-the-shelf usefulness would be improved a lot if the plugin contained a list of say 100 or so of the most commonly-found email domains.

My 2c.
I guess the opening of accounts itself isn't that painful. The auto-login notification + refresh when I've logged into one site and switch to another is annoying, but also not that painful. All of this is just unnecessary, in my mind. It's these little things that get in the way of simply joining and participating across multiple sites on a regular basis.
Hey, for all you people that are pulling things out from their collective asses, at least criticize from the damned website and press release:

http://www.humanbirdwings.net/press/

Closeup of backpack here:

http://www.humanbirdwings.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG...
This is a very good point, and one I didn't address in the post. In fact I may go back and add this.

From my understanding in talking with some of the ex-employees: it doesn't seem to have been the issue in this case. But it's a huge point to consider if you're looking for take-aways for your own startup.
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Just to be pedantic...

Stallman: I'm less concerned with what happens with embedded systems than I am with real computers. The real reason for this is the moral issues about software freedom are much more significant for computers that users see as a computer. And so I'm not really concerned with what's running inside my microwave oven.

Again, I'm happy if people find GNU/Linux useful for that. If some companies finds it useful in a microwave oven I'll say, "That's nice." But I don't think that's where the social and political issues arise. Those arise where the computers are visible to the user as computers. We can load software into them. We have thus the possibility of sharing and changing software. And then it becomes a significant question whether we are allowed to do so or whether we are blocked from doing so.
Agreed. There's no about page or the like. Looks awesome though if its legit!
Just seeing the footer, with the browser buttons and counter, gave me one of the craziest "chills up spine" nostalgia-flashbacks I've had in years.

That alone was worth the click.