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Have you done more research into CF layup? A lot of the characteristics of carbon fiber and defined by the weave of the cloth and layup of the module.

The problem with quadrotors are that they're effectively 4 tubes on CF bolted together. A single module system with proper dampening would probably be perfect.

For example go ride a really cheap carbon fiber bicycle where they just stick carbon fabric into a mold and then go ride one of the really high end ones where a lot of engineering has gone into the layup and construction.
December is usually dominated by brand advertisers and holiday shopping ads which pay a higher CPM than direct response advertisers (like "shoot 5 ducks" and "you are the millionth visitor")will pay. You'll see these ads again come January, when CPM's drop to their normal rates.
>5th low power core

As did the Tegra 3.

Android breaks down battery use stats for each part of the phone; it really depends on what you are doing. But for the normal phone use; a bit of web browsing, simple apps etc, the screen dominates power consumption (say 70%).
Time to file "entitlement" alongside "hipster" as words that no longer mean anything.
But the price of the Tegra 4 isn't known. One of the most exciting aspects of Ouya is its price. You can get one for half of what a Nintendo Wii costs.

That's a sweet spot, people don't know the console but can consider giving it a try because of its price. Choosing Tegra 4 would probably increase the cost of the hardware.

Maybe in the future we will be able to buy a Ouya 2 (backwards compatible) with Tegra 4 at the same price, that would be wonderful.
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I agree with the main thrust of this article, although I'm not sure he's entirely right about the legal force of click-through agreements. Mainly I'm confused about the decisions and expectations of people who decide to use a service like this. I take pictures with my iPhone; if I want them to be public I put them on my website; if I want to share with certain people I either email the pictures or put them up at a secret URL. If I want to alter the pictures there are plenty of Apps to do that locally on the phone, or Gimp, ImageMagick, etc. on my computer. Why would I decide to give my pictures to some company? And why would I imagine that they would do things for me without trying to profit from it?
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>Actually, no it isn't and at scale it makes it even more expensive, because you need redundancy. We are talking about RAID and CDN, not to mention that at scale hardware breaks a lot more often.

That's related to reliability not scaling per see. Building a highly reliable system is far cheaper when you reach the scale of Google or Amazon because you can rationalize purchase. Actually, I bet price of hardware can totally be neglected next to admin and bandwidth cost.

> On the other hand I've got 50 GB worth of data uploaded on Flickr. You can't tell me that 50 GB of redundant on-demand storage is worth $25 / year, unless you live in some kind of fairy land.

I must live in fairy land. :-) You can buy 4 decent 1TB for 400$ that will allow you to cater for 20 users at 20$ per user. Conservatively you can expect them to live 3 years on average which brings the cost to 7$ per user per year. Add a 400$ server good enough to do software RAID. Let's say 5 years of life expectancy it adds 5$. It's 12$ per user plus network cost on a lan.

Flickr uses better material and pay bandwidth and admin. But they have economy of scale and can put far more than 20 50GB users on 1TB on average because a lot of them don't use them fully. I think they are above break even point at 25$/year.
All those big "social" networking platforms lately seem to be getting a little bit overconfident that they can just whatever they want with their users data. don't like the tendencies ... totalitarian on the network-side and mostly indifferent on the user-side.
I'm beginning to adopt a "I don't sign up for your service/social network if you don't know how to make money other than sell me someday" mindset because I'm sick of being burned. First the Twitter debacle, and now this. Instagram should be inspired by App.net, not Twitter. Sorry guys, I'm canceling my account. Flickr is starting to show signs of promise as a decent photo service again, and I'll happily pay them money for a Pro account.

Buh bye Instagram. Hope that ad thing works out for you. (Not.)
Oh, definitely, it's much better than Instagram and through its features (like creative-commons license statements and discovery based on those licenses) Flickr is actually providing a service that benefits the open web and all of us.

I was just saying though ... if you need to store your photos somewhere where they are readily available, choose general-purpose cloud storage, not Flickr, not Google+ or Picasa, or whatever else "photo sharing" service exists out there.

Leave Flickr and the likes of that for a "curated" photo stream of carefully chosen photos that you want to publish to the whole world and never trust their privacy settings.
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True, but I don't believe the votes at all. The most popular options have ~1700 votes, but obscure one at page 7 still have 1640 votes? That doesn't seem realistic..
As pointed out elsewhere, it's more than a little weird that they could use pictures you took of your friends. Even if the chance is incredibly small, I'm not ok with that.

And since it's not worth the hassle of constantly being mindful of what I'm uploading, I'm going to delete my account. Which is a pity, since Instagram's photo app seems to do a lot of nice automatic color balancing compared to the native Android app. :(
Family maybe, but figuring out the real name from friends can get difficult.

I know a guy who has been using an alias on facebook for the past 8 years or so. It is funny to watch when his alias creeps in to real life. Normal scenario, Bob meets Alice, a friend of a friend, at a party. They friend each other on facebook, Bob uses the alias Claude. Sometime passes and they run into each other elsewhere. Since Alice met many people that day and now mostly only remembers Bob as Claude from facebook. Some confusion occurs when Bob's friends call him Bob while Alice is convinced his name is Claude.
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Question: if people behaved like this would be reverted pronto, would it still be reverted?
I use XML comments on every function

I'm not talking about your opinion on point 2 here specifically, but your comment reminded me of a discussion I had with someone about comments... well, they were arguing (like the OP) that you should not use comments in your code but they would gladly use XML comments for the same reasons you have stated. So they would go to the lengths of helping out external developers with comments but not their own internal developers. Seemed very strange to me!
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Same here! Glad you like it. Would love any feedback you have on what could make it better.
We actually are setting up IPsec between our LAN and a Linode box in Japan (we love Linode, especially for things we know will be bandwidth intensive). But this is not necessarily possible for everybody.

As for SSH tunneling: no issue so far. A few years back, my tunnels used to be reset on a regular basis but not recently.
Well, I for one paid for it. 9.00 a month is a small amount to pay for my own education. I watched the free videos and gained enough from those videos that I felt there was value. On top of that, Ben is churning new videos out constantly, so the ongoing value was there, too. This is much better quality than what you find by googling or by hitting Stack Overflow. If your time is valuable, pay the $9 and get up to speed in a hurry in one place rather than trying to piece together things from a variety of sources with varying quality.
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IANAL. If Facebook didn't have a headquarters in Europe (Ireland, according to the article), would there be any chance of Germany enforcing this?

I can think of a number of communities which have chosen to require the use of real names, and I wonder what kind of corporate structure they need to have in order to make that policy legally defensible against laws like these.
LibreOffice/OpenOffice doesn't work as well as MS Office. Google Docs doesn't replicate all of the functionality that MS Office offers, and doesn't work as well. The productivity difference[1] would easily be worth over $200/person/month for people who use Office a lot.

[1] From features that Google Docs and to a lesser extent, LibreOffice, don't have or work poorly, and speed especially vs Google Docs.
One thing you can do is not starting a German subsidiary like Facebook has done. That removes any excuse of being a foreign internet based company.
It may be that you're suffering from a (some would say, unfortunate) technique that has been promoted for assessing interest in an idea: Quickly throw up a sign-up page with a brief description of the idea, announce and/or advertise, and then use received responses to gauge whether the idea is worth pursuing.
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Does paying for a service help keep my data private? For example, if I'm a paid user at Linkedin - does that mean they would treat my data differently than that of the free users?
Unfortunately it looks like the interest in Perl may be fading a little according to Google trends: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%2C%20python%2C%2... (Perl vs Python for comparison)
The government isn't. It's not _limiting_ anyone (except FB, and even there we seem to agree that enforcing that particular rule isn't happening/hard/no priority).

It just requires FB to allow pseudonyms, officially. People still _can_ register with their 'real name', so your use case wouldn't be broken. Unless the people around you would prefer to use another name.. Which is, frankly, their choice to make (and in practice _is_ already happening today).
I don't think that those of us who support teachers having firearms necessarily believe that every (or even most) teachers should have a firearm or be issued a firearm. I believe that carrying a firearm is a very personal choice and a very serious decision for an individual to make.

There currently exist laws that forbid law-abiding concealed carry permit holders from carrying firearms on school grounds. This law does not prevent dangerous people from bringing weapons into these zones and committing atrocities. Instead, I think we should really be encouraging teachers to make the commitment to go through the training process required for them to get their concealed handgun licenses and to regularly train to maintain safe gun-carrying habits. Perhaps teachers could receive some sort of compensation for having a concealed handgun license and engaging in regular firearms safety training.

I am sure that during the excruciatingly terrible events that took place in Newtown some teachers wished they had the means to defend the children and themselves. We should let teachers that want to legally and safely carry instruments of defense to do so. We shouldn't have laws that guarantee defenseless victims.
I think I interpreted Wheaton's post in a different way than you did. To me, the author didn't seem to make any bold claims about effects this would have, and he also did not give me the impression that he was an authority on the subject.

To the contrary, I thought the theme of his post was specifically that he didn't know how Instagram's new policies would effect personal privacy, and that lack of understanding concerns him. When pondering the implications, he even goes as far as to ask whether a worrisome, fictional scenario was even a possibility rather than insisting that it would happen.

Where do you think he expressed a sense of entitlement? He's not a user of Instagram, so I didn't get the impression that he thought Instagram owed him something.

I think his whole post is a lead in to an excellent point: in the "social web" in which we all interact daily, we are seeing more and more that you don't have to use a service in any way in order to be affected by the decisions that services make about its own users' privacy. All entitlements aside, it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain control over your own privacy when the details of your life are extracted not as a result of your own deliberate decisions but by the decisions of others.

Opinions about whether Wil Wheaton is a self entitled geek aside, I hope we can all agree that that is a point worthy of consideration.
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Too much. They've gone way too far with this new policy.

Backup your photos here http://instaport.me/

Delete your account. Milk cows are no longer producing milk.

I hear Flickr is back in the game.
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Wikipedia? And surely you could just buy shots of them?
I really hope this doesn't turn into a sexism argument
Amazon actually distinguishes between accounts with the SAME email address but different passwords. I don't know of any other site that uses email as an account identifier and lets multiple people use the same one.
HTTP status code 200 (cache) vs status code 304?
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Dude. Women in tech. Come on, man. You can come up with a better title for you article than one that explicitly evokes body issues. Party foul.
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Content sites like Hulu, Netflix, Youtube seem to have no problem restricting access based on ip.

This isn't 100%, but it would effectively block everyone in my family except me.
If we assume that the good folks at Instagram (or at least their lawyers and public relations people) are not complete idiots, then they have no intention of actually following through with this change. Here's a prediction: it will be dropped due to "user feedback" or some such in a week or so and everyone will have a warm, fuzzy feeling.

The question is, what do they actually want to accomplish by floating this trial balloon?
>But what quickly emerges when you speak to those involved in New York's start-ups is how they are focused on solving specific everyday problems rather than Silicon Valley's broader game-shifting approach.

> ... [ShopMine] analyses Pinterest accounts and helps users know which of their friends to turn to for recommendations on specific products and services.

This is the kind of BS silicon valley gets mocked for. Not a good example of a starup "solving an everyday problem".
The modern perl5 production platform is mostly made up of modules built and maintained to intentionally make people -not- go 'wtf?' all the time.

Modern Perl and other recent books push people towards developing good habits.

The current generation of experts tend to either put our tricky in very well encapsulated CPAN modules, or comment the hell out of it, or both ... or if at all possible, stick it into a paste site somewhere for other people to go "whee!" at and do something sensible in the main codebase.

Your complaints about perl were absolutely valid a decade ago ... these days there's still some truth to them, but we've grown up a lot since then :)
There's a concept in the info marketing space called the "invisible funnel"

You collect credit card info upfront, deliver the information they opted in for with their cc, then the option to not process your cc is presented.
Yes, it does and is more formally called the European Court of Justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice

It only handles union law and not national law but I bet FB will try to get the ECJ to review the case as a free movement of goods issue.
Is there an open alternative that anyone would recommend?
Looks like OpenHosting launched this on Nov 6th...

I guess pricing info is here?

http://www.openhosting.com/pricing/calculator/
They are not deciding what Facebook must do in general, but what Facebook must do so that they can sell Germans to their advertisers.
Clarification (edit): With this I mean that they don't have to make pseudonyms available to, say, the French.
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php.net goes down relatively frequently for such an important site, it's nothing new. It's back up now. If you want to see it stay up more consider donating to the project.
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Please don't confuse a state with its government.
Ignoring the military, only 1 of the 3 separated powers is allowed to use violence.

That aside.

There's a huge difference between a company and a government. Because I only get to decide on the politics of the latter. But luckily my government has jurisdiction over companies operating in the country in question, giving me also some power over them.

So. To make this clear:
A government having control over people without the people having control over it: A potential problem.
A company having a monopoly and therefore control over people without the people having control over it: A potential problem.

Luckily the people get to control the first, which in turn has control over the latter.
Now its fixed. With thicker walls and weaker mousecursors. I think you cant make the boxes escape now...
u r a self-important dilettante!!!!!!!!!!
I like this! Perhaps, at random/scheduled times, post a challenge and see if the group can collaborate to achieve it. Give group points that accrue when accomplished. When you rejoin at some later time, you get a private message that shows who is in room that you have collaborated with in past. Keep all usernames anonymous . .
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I am surprised by your sound card story - I bought a graphics card last year where the initial batch had a lot of lemons, I got three broken graphics card in a row and each time Amazon refused to help me insisting that I should go through the manufacturer RMA process since the 1 month return window was over.
I'm probably coming across as totally devoid of emotion and just generally grumpy, but language like:

I use a fractional amount of healing herbs and large dose of love and reiki, making these chocolates extremely uplifting.

Is not what I'm looking for when it comes to talk about ingredients in food items. In fact, it's rather the opposite.
Interesting.

Especially the Leapfrog integrator seems cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrog_integration
Yeah, but that's bordering on "scam". The service I'm envisioning is more "reminds you to pay after you've used something, if you found it useful", and even the e-mail address could be useful to the creator of the thing (for further marketing).

You could even also opt to not share your e-mail address with the developer by paying directly, before accessing the thing at all.
Maybe not more efficient than everything else out there, but more efficient than if it used 4 cores only - especially at that 40 nm process. I think Samsung's Exynos processor was a bit more efficient, even though it didn't have the 5th core, but it was made at 32nm.
Because male models are allowed to be chubby?

edit: Apologies if that is heavy on the snark, it's early.
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You don't own somebody's phone number because you have it in your contact DB. You are willingly giving them the phone numbers of everyone in your phone book... your contacts are not giving their consent to having their data sent wherever.

DRM would, hypothetically, solve the problem of giving your phone number to somebody but not allowing them to share it further without your consent. Except, of course, it doesn't.

By the way, because after years on the net I can see this coming from miles away, let me draw a distinction in advance between "I personally don't care about my number being shared without my knowledge out of other people's contact book to arbitrary third parties", and "I don't think anybody else should ever care about having their number shared out of somebody else's contact list with arbitrary other third parties." They aren't the same thing, and if you want to argue the latter point, that can be done without trying to argue that there isn't any consent issue at all, which is simply false. Whether you consider it right or wrong, some things are happening that some people don't want to occur.
Particularly the words "transferable" and "sub-licensable".
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This is my favorite part of the piece:
"I far prefer current_account.posts.visible_to(current_user) to involving a third query object."

I couldn't agree more.

People treating the single responsibility principle as the holy grail keep advocating an object for everything. In more complex cases, you may need an object for something, but not in every case. In those simpler cases, I think something like what DHH's example advocates is more appropriate.
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Oh yeah, I'm sure they don't intend to release one every 5 years, but every year. However, to me it would've made sense to release OUYA in 2013 with a 2013 chip, not a 2012 one. At the very least it would be on par with high-end phones and tablets from the same year.
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Of course corrupted governments don't want criticism from anonymous, hard to find sources.
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Normally I consider Poe's Law to be the internet's omnipresent excuse for gullibility, but in this case, I truly have no idea whether this is meant to be a legitimate complaint or a bad joke.
This reminds me of a "start up ideas" spreadsheet that was posted on HN awhile ago.

Will your app be able to "favorite" bands so I can be notified of new releases? That was one of the ideas posted in the spreadsheet. A sort of "apt-get/update" for music, if you're familiar with Linux.
It's not the same thing at all, because the German regulations would be stopping two consenting parties from interacting with each other, while Facebook does not such thing (it just prevents some from interacting with Facebook itself).

EDIT: People assuming that I'm against all kinds of such regulations: cut that out, I never claimed that.
You're ignoring the root cause of this discussions. Which service that you're listing has a 'real name' policy?

Skype: Pseudonym (this one)
Twitter: Pseudonym (the same)
Reddit: Pseudonym (the same)
AIM: Uhm.. Nope. Guess allows pseudonyms? Not sure
GMail: No restrictions either
G+: Same as FB, hopefully the next target on the list of this group.

So - most of your list aren't playing that 'give us your real name and be prepared to hand over your ID to prove that fact' game with their users. Which is what the discussion is about. Of the services that do this, FB clearly is the leader. Or in a monopoly-esque situation.
sorry everyone, internet is closed.
> IANAL. If Facebook didn't have a headquarters in Europe (Ireland, according to the article), would there be any chance of Germany enforcing this?

Not sure. But if they are offering their service to Germans, and, perhaps more important, make money from German companies via sale of advertising, there's probably a lever for German law to act on.
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Maybe one is integrated with iterated velocity and one is with both iterated?
I really wish someone with the skill and the money would build a C64/Atari 800/Acorn-style computer with one of these. I bet sub-$100 would be a possibility.
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No you don't.

You need to join g+ only to reply to the post, but didn't I need to join HN to reply to your post?
What? There are plenty of photo services that will license you photos of celebrities. Getty Images for one. We're not talking about publicity shy people here.