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Is it a plain text email? A special PDF? A Windows executable?
Chaos Communications Congress, an annual hacker convention in Germany run by CCC (Chaos Computer Club). Usually notoriously hard to get tickets to, but this year they switched venues (and cities) so hopefully it won't be an issue this time around.
Aggressive competition is a great thing. It incentivizes innovation to reduce cost and incentivizes competitors to differentiate themselves, which gives more options to consumers at lower prices.

Competition is not always beneficial. Consider copyrights and patents. These are deliberate monopolies, i.e. huge restrictions on competition, in order to foster desirable economic outcomes.

As an example, if we eliminated pharmaceutical patents, this would enable greater "competition" in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, but guess what? Private companies would cease to invest in drug research. Meaning that, you, as the consumer, lose out on potentially new treatments being invented and brought to market.
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That title is a good example of when to use commas.

The title actually says "Clearing to Neutral" CAUSES procrastination (you're procrastinating by "clearing to neutral").

Stop procrastinating, by "clearing to neutral."
Edit to add this Disclosure: His opposition to me is he's an Apple hater and I'm not. That's the background behind him deciding to call me names. Of course, since he regularly characterizes me, he chooses to accuse me of characterizing others. I don't make personal insults, I make arguments. I feel the later are more powerful. He can't so he attacks me. Is this what you want on this site? Are you able to put aside your opinion about Apple, or do you hate me and upvote him simply because I'm not an Apple basher? Think about that.

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Thank you for providing a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Rather than address my arguments, you characterize me (simple personal attack) and pretend like it's my fault. This is typical blame the victim. Yeah, I'm "douchy" for not towing the party line.

In case anyone is fooled by your kind of personal attack and "smear the queer" mentality, the fact of the matter is, I have tested it.

And if you were being honest, you'd address the fact that I pointed out that I have tested it. I'll give another example.

I once made a comment that consisted of this, in its entirety: "Apple licensed the technologies that appeared in Mac OS from Xerox via a deal that gave Xerox pre-IPO Shares in Apple".

This simple, innocent, factual, and let's be honest "douchy", statement wsa in response to someone who said "Apple stole Mac OS from Xerox".

Of course, me pointing out this easily verifiable fact was downvoted to invisibility.

You attack me because you cannot be honest enough to admit that you are intolerant of people, like me, who think differently, no matter how well behaved we are. So you smear me, and in doing so, you show why Hacker News is not a place where fruitful discussion can be expected.
I don't really like the parallel the title here draws between "big brother" and people filming with their own cameras. The difference between the city having cameras everywhere and citizens filming is that the city would be recording everything, where citizens with cameras will likely only furnish video of crimes. You aren't being watched all the time, but if you decide to do something like smash a bus window, you deserve to be turned in. It'd be the same as the cameraman serving as a witness, except that they have concrete evidence so they don't even need to appear in court.

When I composed this comment, the submission title was: "Little Brother is watching: San Francisco PD relying on citizens with cameras" (which doesn't match the current article title).
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"wasted their time fooling around with Facebook and iPhones"

Is the author oblivious to how the average user has changed how the interact with the Internet because of Facebook and the iPhone?

I'm glad he gets off on making an algorithm 10% faster but if people don't use your technology then it means shit.
Even if you ignore all of the bolted on options, his simple implementation of cat doesn't even handle "cat -" so I would say less than half. I think this is still a good exercise if you don't dig deep into the plumbing of all the tools you're reimplementing, but it's even better if you do.
I've often wondered if I could record traffic violations and upload them somewhere where the policen could act on them. I haven't done it because I'd be worried about retribution and because I doubt the police would act.

Examples, cars going 65-70 in a 50mph zone. The the San Francisco Bay area Between Oakland across the Bay Bridge all the way to Candlestick park is a 50-55mph zone but lots of cars drive 70 all the way. I don't know how hard it would be to compute their speed relative to mine from the video.

Easier examples, cars turning right from a left lane. Cars tailgating. Cars changing lanes without signaling. Cars changing lanes while crossing an intersection. Cars cutting people off. Cars passing on the right on a 1 lane street, essentially driving as though it's a two lane street.

I'm not trying to be a snitch. I'd just like the roads to be safer. People who break traffic laws are effectively risking your life. That's not cool.
You will find out sooner or later that having an understanding of coding and technology, is indispensable when it comes to:
a) briefing tech people
a) creating functional specs
a) creating technical specs
b) managing tech projects
c) testing results
d) resolving issues

It can be done by trial and error but that is a very expensive way to learn.

Best advice get a tech co-founder who understands and believes in your project and vision, and work with them to get it done.

Do not under estimate how difficult it is to do what appears to be the most simple tasks.
Those failures don't really look like moderately too much power dissipation. I'd be worried about static at the drain or counterfeit FETs. I suppose the switcher in the drives could just be drawing several amps as it's input voltage decreased and maybe those FETs don't have the best thermal resistance, but sheesh.
I find this interesting, because as some have pointed out here, there is a LOT of noise on HN. There's a simple fix for this though, don't click on the posts.

I went for a couple months without checking HN and to be honest I felt like I was missing something. I like knowing what the latest things are and what cool projects people are working on. I enjoy many of the well written comments.

I find that the things I learn about on HN aren't necessarily something that is helpful immediately, but something that I can recall when I have an itch. Perhaps we're implementing analytics emails for consumers at work and using PhantomJS is an interesting option. Or... whatever.

There is a ton of noise, I simply don't click on posts about languages any longer.
I think there are a lot of exaggerations in this.

> In the last decade Google invented the web.

> They built an amazing cloud infrastructure that if it's not 'running' the internet today, there's a good change it will in the future

What is this referring to? App Engine?

> No one comes close to Google's reliability and ability to scale. Anyone can fail but Google.

App engine, gmail, google voice have all failed in the past year.

> Google is a leader in website optimizations.

Google are great at optimisation but mozilla and the webkit team are almost on equal footing. They are definitely not "light years ahead".

Even so, I agree with the sentiment. I think google is a great company and some of the more lesser known stuff they do is really exciting. I remember the journal earlier this year about Google's advances in distributed databases. Those kinds of things is what this article should referencing.
It's the 29th annual "Chaos Communication Congress (CCC)" [1],
a symposium organized by the largest german hacker organization "Chaos Computer Club (ambiguiously also CCC)" [2] founded by Wau Holland [3] in 1981

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wau_Holland
It may not be hard to make, but a lot of people can't make it, lacking the skills, knowledge, or experience.
I was open to that hypothesis until I posted "Apple licensed the technology in Mac OS from Xerox via an arrangment that gave Xerox pre-IPO shares of Apple", and that comment was downvoted to oblivion. (Of course, that's not the only one.)

There are actually people who seem to follow me around (like the one who attacked me in this thread) for the sole purpose of harassing me... for the "crime" of thinking differently.

If you find the right subject at the right time, you can make an argument that is good and get upvoted. I don't deny that.

I'm not saying always, I'm saying too often, and it feels to me, the majority of the time, its ideological.
The atmosphere on Mars is about 100x less dense than Earth's, so winds probably won't pack much of a punch.

The "circuits" you see on the exterior of the rover are mostly just bundles of copper wires. Sensitive electronics and instruments are securely housed on the inside.
Inequality within countries might be rising, but the last decade was economically the best ever for developing nations, and they have enough of the world's population that the global Gini coefficient has been falling since 2002.
I'm quite prone to oversubscribing to MOOCs and then dropping out quickly. Sometimes it's because I realize that though I'm interested in the topic I'm "long magazine article" interested not 12-week class interested. And sometimes I drop out due to lack of time to make the commitment to do well in the course; I find that "coursera guilt" is recognizable to most of my social group, and my threshold is that if I'm more than two weeks behind I'll drop out.

There are some things that I think these outfits could do to improve the retention rates for students; most of these features should be optional but providing support for students to complete courses should be a priority for online learning companies; regardless of their business model.

Herewith, a list of features that would help me stay on top of courses I am taking for reasons somewhere on the spectrum from recreational intellectual interest to professional development:

1. export syllabus/course schedule to calendar; I do this manually for some courses where I really do want to reach the finish line.

2. Optional daily reminders on weekdays; this would encompass the videos you should watch and the readings you should complete that day to stay even with the course schedule, the upcoming class assignments and the results of the last assignment, as well as a digest of forum threads.

3. In tandem with the above, improved course dashboards; there should be one place to go to find out what you should look at, read, or do; next.

4. Video editing and presentation coaching for instructors. Some people are really good at presenting course material, others need some editorial coaching to focus their videos. I can think of a couple of courses where the lecturers lack of stage presence and inability to be concise made watching the videos such a chore that I would rather do anything else than watch them; and that's often the point where I decide my life won't be worse if I drop that course and see if I can find a different one covering the same material.

On another note: Does anyone offer a course on how to read mathematical notation? I often find myself trying to read equations in notations that are not that familiar to me, and it feels like a fundamental lack of literacy to me.
I'd love to be able to vote thru the internet, with a state-issued certificate to authenticate me. It'll be a while before society's tech savvy enough for this tho so I won't hold my breath.
This is utter bullshit. The author uses sweeping generalizations, claiming that the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter are "shiny things" which people waste their time fooling around with. But Google is this holy, beautiful tool which has forever changed the history of mankind?

Is this the same Google that posts fun "doodles" for various holidays? Is this the same Google which also sells "shiny" toys that directly compete with Apples? And as for Twitter and Facebook, haven't these social networks been used in numerous protests and as tools empowering free-speech around the world?

The truth is that all of these new services and technologies are both frivolous and meaningful. The truth about FB/Twitter/Apple/Google is that they are all somewhere in between a total time-waste and the savior of humanity. But this nuanced answer seems too subtle for this author to grasp.
The email field in your profile isn't visible.
Saylor maps out all of the details of a degree plan with free online resources (they'll point to khan academy ,slideshare, lecture online, whatever).

For example, here is computer science: http://www.saylor.org/majors/computer-science/
I'd have to disagree a bit with the basic assertion of this article. While focusing on higher quality output of content is clearly useful, it can't be said that it is necessarily more useful than analytics. First, how do you quantify the quality of content? Is it by personal preference or by the number of site users engaging with that content? I'd probably use engagement (the stuff that leads to revenue) as the metric of choice for ascertaining the qualitative value of content, and , of course, that would be most accurately measured by the site's analytic data. Analytics help objectify what content people like and removes the aspect of personal preference.

Additionally, we need to understand why our traffic does certain things and, more importantly, why they do not do certain things. Analytics can help identify deficiencies in our site's user interface that cause friction for users to do the things we need. Without the proper data to show how users are interacting on a site, UI designers may be shooting in the dark if the goals are conversion rates and not just slick designs.
> But the fanboys are loving it.

I see that it's problematic to point at people on the internet - but is there any proof of this? I get the impression that the whole internet knows that "Apple fanboys are like that" when there are only 2.5 people somewhere deep inside MacRumors who actually confirm the stereotype.
In certain situations there is an engineering cost to miniaturization of components.
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Friday lunch time idea turned into this
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My Pi is hooked up to a powerline network thing just through the RJ45 on the Pi, but I suppose you could use a wifi dongle if you want. On the laptop, you just set the pulse sink to be the Pi's pulseaudio (need avahi running on both to see the Pi in the audio preferences pane on the laptop). You can play whatever you like on the laptop itself and the audio is routed through the Pi, so there's no need to log into the Pi itself once it's set up.
Except they removed GPS from the 10-inch Nexus. Stupid.
For anonymous users, generate a random token and store it in a cookie. Or you can use the IP address as nivla suggested.

Yes, at with these techniques you're tracking users across requests. But that's the point of this kind of analytics, isn't it?
Erm, doesn't this end up potentially exposing everyone's voting choices? I guess anonymous voting isn't important right?
This is also what cperciva's Tarsnap does, right?
Depends on what your goal is.
The USPS has a number of products that do this kind of thing (See https://ribbs.usps.gov under Address Quality Services).

So if you are looking for something specifically to clean up or test software that cleans up USPS addresses, there you go.

If you want something that takes random address-looking things and tries to find a USPS address that matches it, that's harder :)
And the PD has always relied on citizens with eyes. Cameras are just more reliable.
A few years back I remember submitting the implementation of a couple of Unix tools in Perl. The idea was to implement as many of the standard tools as possible, in perl.

The project seems to be sleeping, although there are many contributions:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/ppt/
that sounds really cool. thanks very much - will investigate further.
> I have pics of my kid and feel I have the duty to ensure these will still exist in 30 years, and in 30 years most likely none of Amazon or Apple or Google or Dropbox services will be the same as they are now, if they are not simply discontinued.

I never got why people mistrusting the cloud implied the cloud should not be used. Surely a local server AND a cloud server would be the best solution? It's been drilled into my head that everything will fail eventually, so you should base your technology across many different services that are unlikely to fail simultaneously.
I characterize it as you being an asshole because that's how you write in every post I can remember your name attached to. I'm sorry that you don't like that. I'm sure there are some people who downvote you because they don't agree with you. I'm equally sure there are many more who do it because your style of writing is infuriating and not conducive to discussion.

Right now that post has 32 points, so apparently some folks think I have a point when I say it has nothing to do with what you say and how you say it. But I realize that that means nothing to you--once you have decided that people are out to get you, an observation like that just means that the people who vote are out to get you.

I once made a comment that consisted of this, in its entirety: "Apple licensed the technologies that appeared in Mac OS from Xerox via a deal that gave Xerox pre-IPO Shares in Apple".

This simple, innocent, factual, and let's be honest "douchy", statement wsa in response to someone who said "Apple stole Mac OS from Xerox".

Can you link me to the exact thread in which this happened? I'm interested in seeing it.

You attack me because you cannot be honest enough to admit that you are intolerant of people, like me, who think differently, no matter how well behaved we are.

I disagree, politely and even rather productively, on a fairly regular basis with many people. But I've noticed a consistent history of your posts being aggressive and unpleasant to read. I have noticed that you are, to use your own phrase, not "well behaved." And, as such, I am not surprised that many of your posts get downvotes.

A pursuit of "fruitful discussion" does not mean having to abide jerks.

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Edit to add this Disclosure: His opposition to me is he's an Apple hater and I'm not.

My opposition to you is because your behavior in this social forum is disruptive and unpleasant, not because of your beliefs. I quite literally do not care what you believe so long as you are pleasant to discuss with. In person I disengage from and avoid people who speak and act as you write, and my social circles tend to do likewise. On HN, the analogue to this is a downvote swarm.

(Also, as it happens I'm posting from my retina MBP, which is a brilliant piece of technology which I love very, very much, while I watch Netflix through the Mac mini attached to my TV. A true Apple hater, here.)
Here's some specifics:

Anything having to do with the 2008 fiscal crisis.
Anything having to do with monetary policy in general.

Hell, just try pointing out that the IR absorption of CO2 is less than that of water vapor (eg: clouds) in a discussion of global warming. You'll get no end of "all scientists believe in global warming[1]" and downvotes, for this scientific fact.

[1] This is, by far, the most anti-intellectual and offensive statement. Science doesn't work by majority. Worse, it is simply factually false. There is no survey of scientists to determine their votes, and there is a sizable contingent of scientists who refute it or dispute it. Further, the references to "science" that this side makes generally come from IPCC reports, which is to say, reports prepared by politicians which in the past have often been refuted by the very scientists whose research they claim to be summarizing.

This issue is really a good one, because it is a purely scientific one, it is relatively straightforward and easy to disprove (Mars was warming at the same time, with the earth and the solar cycle, despite having no Hummers, the earth has been getting cooler for the past decade, despite CO2 going up, the "warming" period coincides with ice ages, and the "evidence", namely the Mann "hockey stick" was the result of outright fraud).... yet the people who believe it believe it for ideological reasons, and actually reject science, making scientific discussions impossible. (Global warming is the left's creationism!) all you can get is insistence that all scientists believe in it (all christians believe in creationism, right? Actually they don't all believe in it, possibly a majority don't.) Or you can get pointers to scientific sounding blog posts that at the root end up being nonsense.

The closest I've ever gotten to an actual scientific debate on global warming was with a physicist who, in the end, was reduced to insisting that man made carbon dioxide had different effects on the atmosphere than "naturally occurring" carbon dioxide. At that point I gave up- I can't argue with a belief like that.

How many people do you think on Hacker News believe in Global Warming? How many of them have ever looked up the IR absorption of CO2? Or would listen to that point?

How many people on Hacker News reject intellectual property out of hand? How many of them can derive, from first principles, an explanation for any private property ownership? I believe the former is the majority and the latter is a tiny fraction. Yet they "believe in private property" -- but only situationally. (EG: Ok to steal movies, but not cars, or money, unless you're the government, then its ok to steal money if you call it taxes. Is that not a reasonable characterization of "leftist" positions? Ok, then how can a leftist believe in the principle of private property if its sometimes ok to steal? By redefining the word "steal"?)
That's a good one :)
> Valgrind interprets your program

No, it has a JIT. It's running compiled code. See http://valgrind.org/docs/valgrind2007.pdf for details, section 3 in particular.
Imagine two scenarios. On the one hand you have a Bangladesh as it exists today struggling against, say, flooding or drought or brownouts. On the other hand you have a Bangladesh that is industrially developed and wealthy (say, as wealthy and developed as South Korea is today). Obviously a wealthy and developed country is going to be better able to deal with such problems, and is going to make it less likely that war or famine result from disasters or adversities.
Unfortunately Syphon does not work over the network and the faq states that no such support is planned.

"Alternatively, MaxMSP/Jitter has jit.net.send and jit.net.recieve objects."

Hm, don't have MaxMSP/Jitter. Maybe I'll download their trial and experiment.
Can you sing? A website for uploading cover songs.
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I'm a big fan of Asian Efficiency, I read a similar article years ago (maybe it's the same one?). Clearing to neutral has definitely given me positive results.
It seems like someone living in a house like this with all it's safeguards would be at the bottom of a SAR helicopter mission.