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This is some sensible response to the evil Chinese hype.

As Feynman put it, when a researcher over blow his findings, he's doing "Cargo Cult Science" (See the ending chapter of "Surely, you're joking, MR. Feynman").
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I said wkhtmltopdf's purpose is to generate a PDF, mine is to simply generate an image. And both are lightweight since they can run on a EC2 micro instance, generating multiple previews , without increasing the server load significantly. As for the need to a framebuffer, that's just the way it is when you want to render something. You could write an embedded framebuffer (and an embedded GUI kit for that matter) to the tool but that would make it a giant mess. To goal of the tool is to be simple and I believe that was achieved by writing a software with only 5 source files.
Do we even know its engineers getting laid off?
Exactly. Sidekick was thrown into the trash before the customers even knew it, and Kin was pitched into the dumpster before the launch party was even over.

The only non-Microsoft brand to come out of Microsoft is, curiously, the XBox.
Next, tell us why goto is bad.
There's actually a proven and safe method to accomplish the same task, that has been occurring for centuries now. It works by having passengers wait on a platform, step onto a carriage then take a seat while the driver does all the work. Yeah, it's called a railway. :)

You can even take your car onto such a system (motor rail). While it's currently an expensive niche, perhaps prices would come down with greater utilisation. Indeed, if world oil prices should increase enough then it may well be cheaper load a bunch of vehicles onto a train and tow them along for long distances rather than drive them individually on roads.
Could not disagree more.

The inclusion of "I think" (a) makes it clear that this is one person's view(which itself may change) and not some world order (b) gives the audience permission at some level to form their own view.
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One reason I've not gotten a mac is because I wanted a 15" laptop with 1920x1200.

I'm using a thinkpad W500 now. With kubuntu; I find Spaces to be practically unusable compared to true multiple desktops.

But to each their own. We each need to pick the hardware and OS combo that works for us.
The perception of those domains are not very good. I think you will get more clicks if you present a .com site

I find it very interesting to take decisions based on psychology too and not only rational. Watch this video about perception in Advertising http://youtu.be/iueVZJVEmEs
Humor in programming considered hardful.
FYI it appears these are older: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalithic_Temples_of_Malta
I don't think it's easy to destroy a small moving object so far away that you can barely see it. The UAV don't has to fly too close to take photos or video and it can be very small.
A more useful thing for the criminals would be a jamming device against the wireless signals of the UAV, but then they can make the UAV work without wireless (without the live stream it can still take photos and videos of the place).
It's interesting that the author wrote the article ironically, but that it still kind of resonates with what Dijkstra observed. Every joke has a kernel of truth.
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The reason corrections to sensational stories never make it as far as the original is because the people who propagated the first story have to admit they were fooled, or at least misinformed. I'm about to share this correction to my own link feeds -- but I'll be honest, I'm not enthusiastic about looking dumb.
> Although I imagine we'll just start seeing a lot of silencers

I wouldn't bet on this. Suppressors are highly controlled Federally, and completely illegal to own in Illinois (and Iowa and Michigan and a number of other states as well). You may think that doesn't matter to criminals, but most illegal firearms are purchased legally at some point-- not gonna happen for suppressors. And they aren't mix-and-match; you need a threaded barrel for your gun specifically. (There's a nice little scene in Goodfellas about this problem.)

But let's say you get ahold of one. You've got a line with a crooked Class 3 dealer in Indiana (this is someone who is also allowed to sell machine guns and grenade launchers) and he decides he's gonna risk his life by selling to a gang banger. Fair enough. So you get home, you load up your 9mm, screw on your shiny new suppressor, and go outside to take a potshot at some asshole you got beef with. Two minutes later, a couple of squad cars show up, lights flashing.

What happened? Well, you got your suppressor, but you're still using your same old bog-standard black-market ammunition. The can turns the hearing-damaging bang of your gun into a merely very loud bang, but it does nothing about the supersonic crack your bullet makes. You were quieter, but far from quiet; a ShotSpotter that was close enough easily picked you out.

If your dealer was looking out for you, he would have mentioned this, and recommended you switch to a subsonic ammunition. If he was really looking out for you, he'd also mention that this ammunition has significantly reduced range and stopping power, and probably does not have enough operating pressure to reliably cycle your automatic-- meaning you need to cock your gun every other shot like Jack Bauer. Sounds pretty much ideal for your inner-city gang fight, right?

And lest we forget, when the fuzz finally catches up to you, whether with the ShotSpotter or with good-old-fashioned police work, you are not going to get slapped with possession and sent upstate. As soon as that suppressor gets entered into evidence, with its nicely filed-down serial number, they're going to make a phone call, and the ATF is going to come to town with some serious Federal prosecution heat. They will hang you up by your toes until you tell them who sold the thing to you, and then they will find that person and make them severely wish that they had not.

So... yeah. Don't bet on it.
Out of curiosity, has anyone reached out to camper and told them? It would be interesting to see if a dialogue can be started with the company to see how they would react.

EDIT - Sent em a tweet. Lets see what happens
Thanks. Never thought the name would be a turn off, but you have a point.
To what degree am I allowed to focus on my startup at work?

You are being paid to help their business grow, not yours. Give it a little perspective. If your startup succeeded, would you want employees planning their own startups while you pay them?
I see the Reddit-style "My Girlfriend" headlines have made their way to Hacker News.
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The original article was censored so it's hard to tell if it's bogus or not. I believe it's still very interesting. Here http://bit.ly/JKatpV it's an older paper from the same author detailing a technique about reading thermal signatures from individual transistors on the chip with a microscope and an astronomy camera. A little more advanced than jtag fuzzing.
However I agree that's very hard to insert a hardware backdoor on a mask, even a FPGA mask. Given the hundreds of variations and revisions that FPGAs normally have, it's about impossible to cover even a single familiy.
A more plausible explanation is: some big client got very angry in the past because they lost the password and the FPGA vendor didn't had a "master key" to unlock it. Still, very stupid move.
Glad you asked. To us in Singapore, the South Koreans and Japanese actually look a tad excessive (what with their headbands and everything in that article). But it's more likely just a function of how they display their emphasis on school testing. We probably care as much about test results, but don't display it in the same way.

Test results matter when a majority of successful people got where they were because of their results. They did well in school and got good jobs (often in foreign MNCs); not many started their own businesses. Add to this the cultural motivation of wanting to keep up with the Joneses (being 'kiasu', in our lingo) and you have a strong incentive for parents to be all "responsible" for their kid by making sure she gets tutoring in whatever subjects she's weak in and she does additional practice outside of homework, often at a harder level than in school.

And of course, in the good schools, the ones that take in a higher-scoring crop of students, the teachers create harder test papers for their students to keep them motivated (we can't have everyone getting As now, can we?), and so parents go to tutoring companies with "challenging" or "enriching" programmes to make sure their kids keep up. The problems at this end of the pool get a bit ridiculous, and people end up complaining: http://everythingalsocomplain.com/2011/09/10/primary-6-maths...

The tide is turning slightly as new parents, freshly emerged from the competitive sea of schooling, take a less intense view of the importance of academic performance, and recognise that there are other paths that their kids can take in life that don't rely on test scores. We've opened specialist schools in arts, music, sports and design in recent years. But there's still a heavy economic pressure to do well and get good jobs in finance, medicine, law and so on, so I don't expect the culture of focus on education will weaken significantly in the near future.

I think the fundamentally different culture of American schools means that many Asian approaches will never transfer well; but there are still improvements that can be made, e.g. in the area of curriculum, in teacher training and ongoing development, etc. American schools are incredibly diverse in populations and practices; they have big weaknesses and big strengths. I think it would be good to have a unified tough-but-capable program for the struggling schools in poorer neighbourhoods, while letting strong/specialised schools do their thing. That would be something like the best of both worlds.
I don't understand what this is, there is no real explanation on the homepage.
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill

It's not a new problem.
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With the lack of apps I feel no sympathy. I was working on and off with a company trying to get a well known app onto their store. Because of onerous T&C's that essentially said they had rights to revenue we made in app, our lawyers asked us to have this clause amended. Initially I thought no problem, we have done this a bunch of times and it is usually a quick turnaround. It took over 2 years of faffing about and was by far the worst app store experience I had to deal with.
Reading this sort of thing makes me want to go and buy this guys books.

I own perhaps a dozen books I've bought from amazon, and it vexes me continuously that they come drm locked and I can't do simple things like, swap them to a different device. I've regretted it every single time.

These days I get the free sample off of amazon, and if I like the book I go out of my way to find a way to get it DRM free, or buy a physical copy.
I would say any operating system which is Unix based is pretty good for programming. At least I feel like that.

If you take the famous ones, Ubuntu (Linux) is awesome for programming stuff and that command line makes development a lot better.

Along with the power of *nix, Mac has very good UI so many people are choosing it these days. Use what you have for now, don't spend your money buying a Mac because other people are using Macs.
Use what you know best right now. But keep learning other things on the side.

Forget about choosing frameworks. Pick the one with good documentation (code igniter in PHP) and hack away. Build it already.

The more time you waste "deciding", the less time you will be able to program. Jus tpick something anfd run with it.
On it — forgot to scale up Heroku workers before posting!
They probably just used a logit model, as Stata doesn't support fancy ML algorithms.

What puzzles me though, is that I don't see ANY reason for using alal of these tools together (Stata, R, SAS, etc.) and the code taking one hour to run in a big computer.
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Show HN: My diabetic kitten inspired me to create this app! Check it out and maybe he'll get insulin! /s
That would be solved by the 'polarlized' flat pins that the USA has, making the pins covered for part of the rod and making the grounding pin longer.
"While they did find a backdoor in a popular FPGA chip, there is no evidence the Chinese put it there, or even that it was intentionally malicious."

Nor did the original article specifically allege that it was "the Chinese", or that the backdoor was malicious. It did allege that it was inserted by the manufacturer (although technically anything on the chip is inserted by the manufacturer), presumably because it differed from a public spec, but the veracity of that statement is still unknown (at least to us). But I don't think that that's enough to call it "bogus".
I'm fairly sure [@"String" lowercaseString] doesn't return an uppercase string in Objective-C :)
I would bet on bows before crossbows (speed, easier to hide). Quite a few hunters here are learning bow because the number of rifle deer licenses this season have been cut in half, but a lot of bow licenses remain.
Mac's are a popular choice for programmers. They offer a great balance. Great UI (to each their own), they generally just work, but best of all the tools (mostly) just work. Getting Git, Ruby, Rails, PHP, Apache etc installed on Mac is a pretty painless experience (most of the time). Out of all the platforms I've used (Windows, Linux, Mac), I've spent the least time trying to get my environment "right" on my Mac.
Would be great if it supported clipboard pasting of images like Gmail does.
There seems to be a strange media campaign going on in Australia pushing for more investments in I.T.

It will be interesting to see how it pans out and what the motives/who the players are.
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I may be in the minority, but I don't understand why most people on twitter wish to consume most tweets. Outside of a synchronous or semi-synchronous (e.g. IRC) conversation, It's pretty hard to say anything worth saying in 140 characters. I hate twitter and I hate tl;dr as a meme. HN as a community tends to encourage longer posts for the same reason; they're more likely to be interesting.

It works better for sharing content, but I don't usually want to see all content that a particular person wants to share. Other mechanisms work better for getting a list of content to consume: RSS offers all the content from a particular source, and sites like HN and reddit show recent content that a particular community finds interesting.

The only thing I see twitter as good for is disseminating facts to a large audience when a non-internet-capable phone is the the only communication tool available. It has served that function a number of times during war, natural disasters and other breakdowns of civil infrastructure. Even so, I'd rather consume someone else's aggregation of the facts rather than track down which users to follow myself and unfollow them after the event is over. That's what reporters (including bloggers) are for.
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Exactly. The approach that my current employer used (that worked really well) was to start with consulting, find out what customers valued the most, and turn that into a product. This way they were profitable from day 1 and had absolute proof that the product would be successful before writing a line of code-pretty damn smart if you ask me.
localdatespots.com was an idea some microsofties worked on in 2006 :)
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Is the South Atlantic Anomaly - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly

[edit] Found a good description of the effects on compasses from a British Geological Survey article on magnetic reversals:

From these models and extrapolating down into the Earth, it is known that regions of reversed flux at the core-mantle boundary have grown over time. In these regions the compass points in the opposite direction, in or out of the core, compared to that of surrounding areas. It is the growth in area of such a reversed flux patch under the south Atlantic that is primarily responsible for the decay in the main dipolar field. This reverse patch is also responsible for the minimum in field strength called the South Atlantic Anomaly, centred over North-east Brazil. In this region energetic particles can approach Earth more closely, causing increased radiation risk to low Earth orbit satellites.

http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/education/reversals.html
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Also, an easy way to see data is to set your city to New York City. (There is presently none in San Francisco.)
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I'll write it and let you guys know :-)

I've basically been following some Ruby people for the last couple of months - and worked at a Ruby shop myself last year - they happen to know a lot more about testing than us, pythonistas, but hey, it's very good to learn, at least Mock being included into Python3 is a step in the right (well that depends what camp are you in) direction.
If self-replication really is the holy grail it seems like it'd be easier to have the system set up as a (self-)assembly line than a jack-of-all-trades: Print photoresist, etch, drill, pick & place, wave-solder, cut, etc. And doing anything "assembly" will also require intervention without also doing significant robotics work.

It might be straightforward to optimize the number of needed stations to "print" a reasonably-sized PCB that's fully populated and ready to use, though. Particularly if some stations could be combined due to similar hardware and precision needs: drilling vias and mounting holes could be done with almost the same hardware as pick & place. But full self-assembly will be orders of magnitude more difficult because of the need to move through several stations, potentially with manipulation in between. There you're getting into essentially small-scale factory design.

It'll be awesome when it happens though: An assembler that can autonomously create, "from scratch" (only basic components), another fully-functional assembler. That can create, "from scratch," yet another fully-functional assembler.

Just, uh, don't go combining all that with mobile resource foraging and extraction and an imperative to keep making copies.
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Signing in requires facebook or twitter.... ಠ_ಠ
Would be neat if midi files were available too. (Not mechanical ones generated from the score, but rather recorded via performance on a good digital piano by a proficient pianist.)
Even I who promised myself I would take all future stories about "cyber threats" with a huge grain of salt, because I know the US Government is very keen on expanding their (offensive) Cyber agencies, and would stop at nothing to spread propaganda about it, I still almost believed this story. Damn it.
This may be a case of the exception proving the rule but...

"The enemy's gate is down" is fairly quotable and has appeared both in http://xkcd.com/241/ and in HPMOR (Chapter 33 from memory...)
I don't really care about gunshot detection systems. I'm trying to bring a bit of balance to a thread that had the unqualified statement, "Are you really arguing that discharging firearms is a victimless crime?"

I wouldn't be surprised to believe that some percentage of the HN audience might actually _believe_ that discharging a firearm is a crime, so I was seeking to inform them that it is not the act of discharging a firearm that is a crime. It's doing so in a negligent manner, or in an inappropriate location. Check your state/municipal bylaws.
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I've always had a special admiration for Hackers News participants but I'm afraid to say there's a definite decline in technical rigor of articles. Obviously I still visit, but yesterday I wandered into reddit for the first time and subscribed to many of the technical subreddits to find them very lively and at least as interesting as hacker news.
Oh look, the "bait and switch" style of linkbait.
"Pledge"?

"Turn"?

"Prestige"?

I tried filling these fields in with silly text and got this error:

(Hidden field pledge_fsq_id) This field is required.
(Hidden field turn_fsq_id) This field is required.
(Hidden field prestige_fsq_id) This field is required.

I'm browsing on an iPad.
I can't tell if you're trolling or just did not actually test your UI, but beyond the fact that there are three fields that make no sense, submitting the form merely results in:
"""
(Hidden field pledge_fsq_id) This field is required.
(Hidden field turn_fsq_id) This field is required.
(Hidden field prestige_fsq_id) This field is required.
"""

So I'll just post my entry here and y'all can do with it what you will:

Name: A Factory Floor

Description:

If you're looking at this, you probably came from hackernews. You're probably an engineer or someone who can at least tolerate us. Yet, most of y'all are in software so ask yourself: Have you ever been on a factory floor? Or have you just been watching How Its Made on the discovery channel? Google for a local manufacturing business. Some give official tours. Others will gladly do so if you show interest in their business.
Fellas: Does your main squeeze yet have a cute picture of you standing looking studly and confused in front of a piece of equipment whose function you can barely describe?
Ladies: You may have fingernails that shine like justice, but are you able to tour the facilities while also picking up slack?

Pledge:
What is this, NPR?

Turn:
Left.

Prestige:
Was an OK Movie. Thomas Edison was actually pretty cool though.

Also, if you're not trolling, why does your source code seem to indicate that this is a music player?
Making the situation much, much worse to solve the problem is unfortunately unavoidable during the transition period.

This makes me lol. Marx should have included that in his Communist Manifesto right after the bit about taking despotic measures to guarantee freedom for the proletariat.
It's a printed circuit board. No one (sane) is talking about DIY fabbing of semiconductors.
1. A single worldwide 3G/4G handset is a difficult proposition.

2. Networks are fiercely competitive against being commoditised. While a single carrier in each country won't allow for sufficient coverage.

3. Consumer trust for facebook is decreasing, they're less likely to buy into something which they'll perceive as a big brother device.

4. It's a specific novelty device in comparison to everything-goes Android/iOS.

5. Android proves that price matters. Top of line hardware requires a top of line price. (Especially if supporting all 3G/4G implementations.)

6. Many of the services listed aren't internationally available.

7. How does Angry Birds fit into it?

8. How does this make money?
It's Elon Musk