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If you put a coil up to a HVAC line and draw current from that coil, that is going to increase the impedance of the line and reduce the amount of power that can be delivered at the other end.

Yes, the energy loss would probably be tiny in proportion to the energy transmitted and the resistive loss on a power line, but it is nevertheless a real loss to the power company.

It could be more efficient than plugging the bot into a metered outlet, but the power company gets paid for energy drawn from a metered outlet.

By analogy, it is more efficient for a retail shop if you steal goods from their warehouse before they are stocked on the shelves than if you buy them off the shelves, but the first case is a net loss for the retail shop, while more efficient, because they don't derive any revenues, and the second case, while less efficient, leads to an increase in profit for the shop.

This is quite different from piracy, which has no direct marginal cost - copyright was created to allow the recovery of fixed costs on certain types of work when there are low marginal costs to production.
Making one of these available to every 5-7th (or so) student would be massive improvement to education than just about anything of comparable cost/effort.
No, I'd say someone who loves drama has spent a lot of time reporting on something that's as interesting as what sort of hat my cat wears. If this sort of tripe made it to Hacker News on a regular basis it'd become a wasteland pretty soon.
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Using a stone texture for the background of a business card or to enhance text on a brochure printing design is actually very simple with Photoshop.
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Yeah, but it's being used, and developed, a hell of a lot more now than it was as part of KDE.
I used to agree with you, and then I realized that when it comes to offense, there's no such thing as a misinterpretation. If somebody's offended by something, that's not your call to make. Certainly this can be reduced to absurdity (I'm offended you would make this argument about offensiveness!) but I don't think Tess & co are trying to be facetious here.

FWIW, I think brogramming is self-deprecating and ironic too, and not the least bit offensive. But Tess doesn't - and I respect that.

EDIT: You're not obligated to stop doing something simply because somebody thinks it's offensive. But it's kind of the polite thing to do.
Kickstarter, properly done, is actually not an investment but a product purchase. You are promised a "reward" priced for how much you donated; this is a tangible product in exchange for your money.
As I recall Apple was going to make use of both Azure and Amazon's cloud stuff.
Is there anything like this in javascript?
Hahaha that's so cool. Thats my laptop right there!
My understanding is that at transmission line voltages, a big source of power loss is via corona discharge.

There are electrons and ions moving near the power lines. Perhaps it's possible to obtain a some of that power at a low rate without coupling back-EMF to the lines.
I guess I don't understand, then, how society shifts. Some people who are racist/sexist/whateverist come around, but more often it seems to me that younger people grow up in a world with different paradigms. There has to be a huge number of people "faking" tolerance.

I could be completely wrong on this, however. This isn't something I've spent a ton of time thinking about.

On the other hand, I am pretty sure that Be Nice To People is considered a basic law of humanity.
I use http://Pinboard.in/, which is my favorite online bookmarking solution, hands-down. I use Instapaper to save articles I want to read later, and it auto-saves my favorite articles in it to Pinboard. I also use the Bookmarks bar in Chrome and Safari just to save links I want to come back to one-time, things I won't need to save forever. It works pretty good.
He's just stating a fact. It is considered a no-no by most people.

The most common problems happen when privileged information is exchanged between the competitors.

An example: Company A discovers a killer marketing technique that gives them a big advantage but they keep their success quiet. Then the shared VC tells Company B about it. Company A loses their competitive advantage (driving up their costs, etc).

That's one of a myriad of scenarios where information exchange can be unethical and highly damaging. The hard part is that even if your VC is 100% ethical they can easily make mistakes that cause problems.
Yes. We were filming a snowboard competition.
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Here's the problem: smartphones make terrible game controllers, mainly due to the shortcomings of touchscreens when compared to joypads, thumbsticks, and buttons for gaming.

I don't want to use my smartphone as a controller for a game that's not on my smartphone, I want a decent controller for games that are on my smartphone.
Think of the problem from the opposite direction. What the hell _else_ could the bulk of that possibly be?

I've got 4TB of storage on my media server, last time I checked at ~60% used.At _best_, possibly 0.5% of that is stuff that I've personally created and have copyright over. Hell, all the email I've sent _or recieved_ that wasnt spam filtered since mid 1995 only comes to a few hundred meg - including attachments! Smething less than half a TB of it is music which I have some kind of right to have as digital files (some of it purchased as files, some of it ripped from cd and vinyl - which is somewhat less clear legally with respect to my rights to have a "copy" as a file on my hard drives). Realistically, outside of academia and industry (who presumably aren't significant users of MegaUpload) chances are so close to 100% that any 1GB+ file is copyright encumbered in a way that gives the MPAA an interest that it doesn't matter. The nearest I cold come to justifying the rest is that some of it it "time shifted" TV (from the PS3 TV tuner/PVR), some of it is DVD backups for discs I own, some migh euphemistically be referred to as "timeshifted DVD rentals or loans", but a _lot_ is copyrited content found on "channel BitTorrent" or downloaded from YouTube. If the copyright police confiscated _my_ hard disks and catalogued them in front of a judge, I'd have a very hard time looking him in the eye and saying "I didn't think I was doing anything wrong!"

I fear that line of argument bodes badly for dotcom…
Hacking News Aggregation with Smart Tagging
How can I get all news on a particular topic in one place? It’s not possible at all. You have to go to five or ten different sites to get news on something. Say you want to know what’s hot today on startup. You may visit Hacker News, TechCrunch and the Next Web to get information on them. You do that daily. But say you are interested in JRuby or Ruby. Where would you go to get hot news on them? Yes you can be seeing content in sub-redits or you can go to a mailing list which talks about it. But you may miss out on news around Ruby in other websites.

So what’s the problem here? We do not have a website which allows us to get content from all other websites and categorize them. So how this web site should work? Here is an attempt from us to solve this very problem. We call it - “News Problem”.

This web site should have the following:

It should be an aggregator of various web sites. It should allow the user to follow one or more topics that he is interested in. it should somehow know how to categorize content from other website and then deliver it to the user.

This was the requirement that was there. And guess what two programmers would do about it? Yeah code the ass out to get a service like this.

So what we did from last summer?

We (Vinod and I) like to work with each other and we have built over time a micro blogging site - ScoopSpot. So we thought, let us use ScoopSpot as a platform to get the news problem solve. So we started off.

Problem #1: We need a list of web sites which we want to get news from.

We love to visit several web sites, like Hacker News, TechCrunch etc. So we actually have had a list. Also we felt that to keep our web site clean there should be a minimum editing required about web sites to crawl.

Problem #2: How can we get the content?

This problem is already solved with RSS feeds. So we built a RSS feed reader which would crawl the web sites periodically.

Problem #3: How do we define topic?

We needed a way to define the concept of topics in our web site. We choose to define it as tag. We added the functionality to follow a tag. We already had following people, so it was natural next move.

Problem #3: The big one – how the hell we know which content belongs where?

This where we have worked hard of late. We needed a system which can read an article and automatically tags them. We had to build a system which understands English, also a battery of statistical methods were built to get to know what the tags in an article are. We have got some success with this approach – we are not saying that we have solved it completely, there are still work going on – to reduce the false positives.
So we now have a system which gives us news about a lot of favorite topic to us. Here are some links with tag names:

Ruby: http://www.scoopspot.com/ruby

Startup: http://www.scoopspot.com/startup

Music: http://www.scoopspot.com/music

If you would like to try out ScoopSpot please login with your Google/Faceboo/Yahoo id. We are looking forward to your feedback.

Thanks for reading.
One of the points that I make in my post is that it's not up to YOU (or even your girlfriend) to decide what offends ME (or any other woman in CS). If you take nothing else away, please understand that.

With regards to "brogramming," I personally don't find the idea all that offensive. But there's a critical mass of women in tech who do, and I think that it's my responsibility--and yours--to respect that.
I don't think you should expect every bug to be caught by unit testing. But where it helps with a problem like that is eliminating a lot of other possible causes of bugs. Debugging something like this is often a needle-in-a-haystack problem, but it's nice if you can rule out most of the hay from the beginning.

In this case, once I discovered the cause of the bug I would have written a unit test that exposed it, probably a very focused one. Then I would have gone hunting for other missed opportunities to test for this, and I imagine my team would have come up with some sort of general rule for testing signal handlers.
So I don't actually find brogramming particularly offensive. A little exclusive? Yeah. Inappropriate as a recruiting tool? Definitely.

But there are a large number of women who DO feel that it's offensive. And I cede to them. (Which is what Alexey's getting at.)
It just makes me think of non-technical programmers that recently started programming after watching a few screencasts of "pick your 'hip' web framework" and now consider themselves to be uber-hackers or something.
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When I talked about making quadcopters to my friend, the first thing that popped into his head was something similar. He was thinking about making small weed delivery copters. that was actually a very good idea; not suggestible at all ofcourse.
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This actually is less "Tess writes about brogramming" and more "CS students (of ALL genders) got together and talked about it."

So maybe you're just getting old and out of touch?
Wait, there's something _offensive_ about frat boys who enjoy being frat boys and intentionally go out to find like minded individuals to do said things with? And by being frat boys I mean lifting weights, drinking copious amounts of alcohol and playing beer pong. Sure, you don't have to take part, but what's offensive about that?
Frankly, I think comparing antisemitism to other prejudices... doesn't really work. Something about it means that it never really dies, it just integrates your new anti-prejudice measures into itself somehow. You teach everyone that Jews are just people, and antisemites pop up worrying about how they can no longer tell Jews apart.
THIS is why we invest in science. This.
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The question is, what responsibility does one have in response to another's offense? I don't think in general one has a responsibility to alter their behavior. Certain situations do entail responsibility onto the offender, any professional setting for example. But when it comes to behavior in a private setting (including public places on your private time) then you need more than just "I'm offended" to claim someone should alter their behavior.
That's a good idea. Will look into it, see if I can start something spontaneously... (;

But no--I really wish there were, and I think there will be plenty eventually. In the meantime? I think it's worth writing down the ways that college students, male and female, feel about these issues.
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They are the supposed victims of the alleged crime.
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I would wager that a good percentage of the data is completely redundant.
well I upvoted you...

I'm beginning to think that HN is getting sick and tired of having to think about women in tech. What a burden!
That sounds painful. And it's a regrettably common experience working with older code, code not written with testability in mind.

Regarding Android, Netflix has a nice article about what they do to test everything: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/03/testing-netflix-on-andro...

Personally, most of my testing code is unit tests. I try to isolate my code from third-party services in a variety of ways. I do have some integration tests that check that it all works together, but those are never as useful or as maintainable as I'd like.
I hate to be inflammatory but this is just stupidity masquerading as an evolutionary biology diatribe. No one is talking denying evolutionary theory; methinks thou doth protest too much.

I don't think a bunch of script-kiddies that learned a web framework and now think they are the second coming of Peter Norvig or Dennis but with the added benefit that they can "get naked chicks" are necessarily very high on the evolutionary ladder. Sorry to burst your bubble. I know a couple women PhD students that are brilliant Operating Systems researchers and work almost exclusively in the Linux kernel. They are not whipping RESTful CRUD apps with the Web framework du jour.

FACT: all this jibber jabber about evolutionary biology is completely irrelevant and just misses the point in a rather insidious way.
you wouldn't believe what many of the students in top-10 MBA programs paid to "admissions consultants" to get in. we're talking several thousand dollars per application. you can't go through the process without bumping into 'experts' and 'consultants' who will make you sick to your stomach. MBA applicants are an uber-competitive, wealthy population eager to "invest in the future"...in other words, you're onto something. do it.
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We've been going for about four months now. We have put in about $2250 and expect to put that same amount in again before we start collecting revenue. The plan is to be self sustaining immediately after we collect revenue, but we'll see how that goes eh? :)
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this looks awesome and what not, but i feel the screen itself is my biggest gripe. i'm only judging this based on the pictures on amazon, so it could look better in person. the screen makes it look like a device you would have found in the 90's :\
this looks awesome and what not, but i feel the screen itself seems like my biggest gripe. i'm only judging this based on the pictures from amazon, so it could look better in person. the screen makes it look like a device you would have found in the 90's :\
Why attempt to stand out? OP should follow his heart, his interests, and his inclinations, whether that's off the beaten path or on it.
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I apologize for your mistake also.
It rarely pays to be pedantic when parody is involved. If you want to get really nit picky are you really adding anything to a jest by imposing forum rules?
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I don't understand why newer stories should keep having higher and higher scores, instead of old stories having lower scores over time.

Actually I'd rather have a consistent system that allowed fair comparison of stories irrespective of time, to allow for choosing the "top ten stories of the year" for example.
For awhile, people who did aerial photography with rado-controlled helicopters tried to use a loophole. The invoice would itemize that the only fee was for post-processing (photoshop) of the images. FAA ignored it until recently. Lately, they've been really cracking down on any commercial usage whatsoever. Even Utah Highway Patrol got in trouble with the FAA for flying without the proper authorizations.
This is going to sound unfair, and maybe it is, but here goes:

The biggest difference between Ember and Knockout is that Knockout has excellent documentation and tutorials, and is very easy to pick up. The tooling and knowledge needed to get a basic proof of concept app up and running from scratch is trivial with Knockout. It fits into whatever toolchain or build process you already have; as a result it's easy to add Knockout to an existing Django or Node project.

By contrast, Ember has poor documentation and tutorials. This was especially bad at launch, but even today it's very limited, and significant chunks still refer to Sproutcore. Some of that documentation is apparently still relevant, refers to the Sproutcore v2 project, and just haven't been updated with the new name. Other bits are apparently referring to the Sproutcore v1 project, and aren't relevant. Good luck figuring out which ones are which. Ember also has very idiosyncratic ideas about how projects should be built; again this isn't really documented. It's hard to build an Ember app from scratch, and it probably will not work with your current build process. It feels, in some difficult to define fashion, more like what I'd expect from the Java ecosystem. I'm not a fan.

As I said, I'm sure that sound unfair, and it may well be. Ember fans will no doubt be able to explain that it's much easier than that, that my problems were all my own fault, that the documentation is already much improved, and that any quirks that do exist do so for very good historical reasons. And they're probably right! But I came at Ember cold a month or two ago, tried very hard to figure it out, and bounced. As a result, I have no idea how Ember really compares to Knockout, because I figured out how to write my app in Knockout, but I couldn't figure out how to write it in Ember despite a very concerted effort. Take that for what it's worth. :)

(My impression, incidentally, is that Knockout is sort of what the Ember project wants to be, but they're still struggling to strip out the cruft they inherited from Sproutcore. Both projects have a focus on magical "it just works" dynamic bindings, which means you have incredible awesome power but have to be a little careful not to blow your leg off via some behind-the-scenes magic you didn't even realize existed. Backbone, on the other hand, is a very barebones framework; it's almost more like a toolkit you can use to build your own MVC framework. That's valuable too, depending on your needs.)
Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

I should have probably made it clear that this is really only a little side project, with the aim being to make back the small amount it costs me to run. Sorry for the confusion.

I wanted to differentiate it from Chess.com by making it simple, which is what I didn’t like about Chess.com. With that in mind, it is designed primarily for casual players.

I strongly agree with your thoughts on the signing up process, and I’ll definitely work on that.

Thanks again for your feedback, it's given me a lot to think about.

Austin
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Thoughts on ameliorating that risk…

If I start heading about individuals being charged for content they have on their own machines (as opposed to content they're sharing is p2p), I'll invest in a few OpenWRT capable wifi/adsl routers, plug in some large disks, distribute them amongst nearby friends/neighbors (or out-of-wifi-range friends with adequate bandwidth), and run Tahoe on them all in a configuration that means its _provable_ that my sections of the encrypted files do not contain enough to decrypt into any identifiable copyrighted work.

That's still not foolproof, but adding the requirement that "they" identify the existence of a network of storage devices all storing encrypted segments of files, and then having them need to confiscate enough of them as well as my disks should put me that one step ahead of the "lower hanging fruit".
you underestimate the way patents tend to get worded, and the "broad" applicability of some software patents.
I'm going to frame this entire response in terms of watching football, because I want to be clear that it is not, here, the programming that is a problem, or even relevant.

If you hung out with your friends (who all happen to be male) to watch football, that's not necessarily sexist. (1)

If one of the friends brought along an out-of-town friend (who was a football fan, and male) one week to hang out and watch football with all of you, and you welcomed him in for the week, that's also not necessarily sexist. (2)

If one of the friends brought along an out-of-town friend (who was a football fan, and female) one week to hang out and watch football with all of you, and you objected that she wasn't part of the group and you like a time just with friends to hang out, that's still not necessarily sexist. (3)

But if (1), (2), and (3) all pertain, then we have a pretty clear case of sexism, I'd say. Maybe you'd think (1) and (2) pertain but not (3); but if you go around calling the weekly group "boys' night", then (3) is pretty strongly implicated, and if one of the group was thinking about bringing along his (female) friend, he might decide to just skip that week or not invite her, because that wouldn't make sense for something called "boys' night", right? Or maybe he'd bring her along, and someone would make a comment like, "guess it's not 'boys' night' this week, ha ha, I guess some girls like football too" thus calling attention to her sex and re-emphasising that she's weird and exceptional.

As soon as you take a bunch of friends hanging out---which is, at least presumptively, not a sexist activity---and slap a gendered label on it like "boys' night", or "brogramming", you know what? It's probably become a sexist experience. Even if that was not intended and even if you don't think it is.
Frankly, I'm wondering how nice a GUI you can write inside Inferno. Just have everyone install an Inferno client and serve your app as a mountable filesystem containing the VM code to JIT as a binary file.
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