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Part of making anything and telling the world about it is sticking your neck out. The absolute worst thing is making something that ends up having no impact.

When you do make something that garners some attention you need to realize that a lot of people will be jealous. Their only valid rebuttal would be to make something that is better than your thing.

People don't say these things to your face because on top of being jealous, they are also cowards. The fear that drives their life is the reason why they never make anything in the first place.

If you make things that are a bit more intelligent and refined you won't attract the kind of idiots who are gonna post a bunch of mindless crap on Internet message boards... but then you might have to deal with a very intelligent and refined review from a noted critic. But no worries, as Frank Zappa summed up brilliantly:

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."

Just make stuff. Haters gonna hate.
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Oh, interesting. And I'm definitely not defending anybody. (Does my post sound like that? I was afraid it might but that's not what I meant.)
That was a great read. It reminds me of the Monty Hall problem fiasco that arose from the "Ask Marilyn" column about it. I appreciate the author of Polymath actually refuting all of the arguments against his post (to a reasonable degree).

Coding Horror describes it here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/monty-hall-monty-fa...
Same here. If they were really cunning, they could fabricate their own signal with a different timestamp. You could shut down rivals by making their computers believe that the trading day was over, or that their market feed was too slow to trust...
GPS is convenient, but it has other advantages as well. It's almost always available, it's highly accurate, has a quick time-to-fix, etc.

Inertial navigation systems require finicky setup and drift over time. (Ask the passengers of KAL 007 about that one.) However, the setup can easily be automated using GPS inputs, and the drift can also be corrected that way. This way, you have two systems which help keep tabs on each other. The INS can't be spoofed, and so can tell you when your GPS goes out of whack. The GPS won't drift, and so can keep your INS up to date when it's not being spoofed. Cost aside, two systems are better than one.
I understand that, but I think this reading of my article is too simplified.

A large part of my article has one goal: discussing the fact that the GPL has, on one hand, spurred the FLOSS ecosystem in software components, whilst on the other failed its goal of terminating the existence/relevance of proprietary software. Given the decreasing importance of desktop systems in the consumer world, I also maintain that this failure is now final, that is not subject to change before the end of mainstream relevance of desktop apps (a.k.a "there will never be a Linux desktop year").

You may disagree with this of course, but I wouldn't say that my article implies that I do not understand the GPL, as motters said.
IANAL so this question isn't meant to be facetious or assert that this next bit is the case, but wouldn't this seem to conflict with the assertion that one (many times) does not buy software but rather license it?
There are different grades of GPS receivers, all licensed differently. Consumer-grade receivers have a maximum accuracy of something like 3 meters and a slow response time. There are also aviation grade and military grade receivers, which cost more (build & calibration) but also require a special license.
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Bane?
A country with a Supreme Court that believes threshing wheat is interstate commerce is not a republic. Ditto for a country with federal bunny rabbit inspectors.
It sounds like you have a lot of upside. You're smart enough for law school and a good enough programmer to get hired by a company.

Now you're going through a down cycle in your life. That's only natural. What you need now is to identify what resources are available to you. Find your safety net: are you eligible for employment insurance? Social assistance? Where is the local food bank?

Identify what you may need and start making phone calls and visits.

Your situation isn't much different than a severe storm warning. You know a storm is imminent. You need to calmly and purposefully make preparations. Bunker down. You'll survive and be wiser for it.
It turns out, this isn't an uncommon experience. My co-worker is in the exact same situation and she's setup a similar blog here: http://photosfrommystolenphone.tumblr.com/
I don't see how either party is excused here.

Phil Fish constantly posted caustic, abusive remarks to everyone on his twitter feed. His public persona was one of a complete and utter asshole. Nothing excuses that behavior. While the internet's response to it is contemptible, I have absolutely no sympathy for Fish. He dished it out constantly, the fact that people replied in kind is expected.

On the other hand, I have a ton of sympathy for the Treyarch dev. He didn't deserve or invite any of the remarks aimed at him, and he didn't do anything to get that level of response.
Well I have a few doctors in my family so I know the intricacies. There are several hospitals/clinics in India which still provide affordable care. No one in my family has a medical insurance. We have had a few health emergencies,in metros too, but the cost was always managed. We only have Life Insurances.It doesnt make sense to pay someone else a hefty insurance premium every year, which may or may not pay back, when the best insurance you can have is a family who shares. You get sick, I pay and vice-versa. I think instead of an inflated health insurance plan we can have a friends or family plan where you get together put some money and use it whenever a situation arises. Hey! I have a startup idea.
I used to write animation, physics and AI code for video games. I got the point where I was just moving company to company and writing the same system. What I moved into was still video game related but server side. This way I had to learn a whole new set of skills and a new knowledge domain, which brought challenge back to the job. But in addition I had been changing as a person, and I fit in better with server guys and execs than game devs.
I once tried to code an assignment involving TF-IDF on a corpus of docs. It ran blazingly fast compared to python.
But was debugging segmentation faults until the last minute.
GPS used to be that way to give the military access to accurate positioning and provide lower accuracy to others. They can still do this selectively to whole areas of the world should they want to.
Are you referring to the library or Georgia Tech in general?
Very similar to what I am currently working on, so I would say: superb idea ;) I would obviously love to ear updates along the way about how you guys are doing...

The thing that is mainly taking me aback is your pricing. I had settled on a much higher one (kind of)... That would be one-time 300$ for publication and 5% revenue but without the cap. Although the cap is amazing for big publishers I would avoid it for the complexity added to the pricing model.

There is great value there why is you guys's pricing so low? Is it because all the features are not yet developed, and are you then planning on increasing the pricing in the future? What are you thoughts about the pricing suggested above?

(we used to sell copies of famous editing software thrice the price to individuals. Things are sure evolving!)
But there has to be some degree of good faith in what you believe.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/
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That's easy to avoid - just send the money through a mixer like this one https://blockchain.info/wallet/send-shared . Or any Bitcoin exchange or gambling site. Or a combination of three or four. Or you can just buy the bitcoins in person.
Because you aren't really showing the pattern that is being discussed. In that example, the two incr variables are in the same lexical scope, and you are calling your closure in that same scope. So when your inner function calls incr, it calls the first one it sees, moving outwards through nested scopes. Later, when you overwrite incr, the new one gets called. You've really effectively only closed over the variable x with respect to the lexical scope that incr is in.

Here's four variations that hopefully show the difference.

http://jsfiddle.net/7ZfvP/1/

edit: bad link
They brought me back from the dead, how much is that worth?

I'm glad you're well. How much would it be worth if you'd had to sell your house and/or declare bankruptcy, while knowing that similar-quality treatment was available for 1/20th the price in India and elsewhere?

Not just being snarky. Since leaving corporate America (and the healthcare plan) to start my own thing, I think about healthcare costs a lot. For starters, the lack of transparency or price-competitive marketplace, for such an expensive purchase, is mind-blowing.
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I fail to see how this is a defense in this context. Given the rest of the tweets, it doesn't seem that Fish was joking in any way, shape, or form.
Selective Availability hasn't been used for over a decade: http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/
Given your ID, I know you probably won't see my reply. But still, here's my 2¢'s worth:

> I have entered this world unknown to all except 2 people, both of who do not care if I existed or not.

Why exactly is that relevant? Your life can be worthwhile for you, whether or not anyone else knows about it. If you got to eat the best meal ever, would it taste any worse to you if no one else knew about it?

> soon I plan to leave this apartment and just walk.

Sounds good to me. I mean... the ending of toxic relationships. Do take care of yourself.
I'm a bit confused about how you use this system with immutable keys. At face value it's a great idea, but I need a simple example of how's it is used to say retrieve a piece of data, then later update that to a new value.

Is this anything like how vector clocks are used, where the client uses the clocks to figure out which is the right state in a distributed system?
I recommend you take down this blog as most stolen phones end up being sold and not directly used by the thief him/herself.

So you are probably public-shaming an innocent man.
If you're right handed: bottom right corner in the fold of your palm, supporting the back with your ring and middle fingers, and support the bottom edge with your pinky. Works fine as long as you're not gesticulating aggressively with the same hand.
To my knowledge this is incorrect. Assistive technologies don't recognize input names when nested inside of label elements, and as a result is frowned upon by the W3C. Unless you meant something else by, "...HTML has always allowed nesting an <input> inside <label>..."

Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F68.html
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The norm that creatives should be accessible at all times directly from Twitter or whatever is an extremely new one. The norm that people should use the internet all the time to socialize is also new.

It's becoming more and more apparent that the internet sort of sucks for a lot of the purposes that people tend to use it for (socialization in particular). The distance and abstraction of the internet can promote antisocial behavior.

Creative people need isolation and cultivation to produce great art. Exposing yourself to too much unfiltered internet makes you too familiar and diminishes your cultivation by exposing it to too much deleterious 'democratic' influence.

Down one road is Bach, down the other is Buzzfeed. I know which artistic mode will last, and which will expire. The open internet is relentlessly mediocre. Excellence needs to be protected and cultivated, away from the destructive influence of dirty crowds, digital or otherwise. Shakespeare may have put on plays for commoners as well as nobles, but he didn't ask fishmongers for writing advice.

The 'internet' isn't at war with anyone. I suggest that Phil Fish is being mercilessly selected for removal by the forces of nature. Perhaps artists who want to persist and be remembered in the future ought to adopt different norms of behavior around internet communications than he did.
Yep, I gather that nowadays they use this type of instrument to measure e.g. how fast California is sliding into the Pacific ^_^.
So going in the other direction, are there cheap eLoran receivers available? Would one be any use as a backup to, say, someone with a cheap second-hand yacht who occasionally goes sailing?
There is no existing project. Go back to Apple.

Edit:

From your Dribbble link - http://imgur.com/CYyDy48

I really think it's clear that you're just upset some other people had the same idea, but did it better.
This had the potential to be interesting, but I have no idea what anything does or why I should care, so I left.

Put some time into making the UI more friendly and consider something like Intro.js that gives user's a tour and helps them see the value in your site.
In principle, GPS jammers are illegal, right? FCC regulations or some such?
Even if you treat it as a real question, it's not that hard, because buses meet maximum vehicle width restrictions, are of a few common lengths (which are rarely violated because they want to meet CDL gross vehicle weight restrictions so normal bus drivers can drive them), and the interiors are basically standardized.

Using 35' x 7.5' x 6.5' would give you a reasonably close interior volume.

Golf balls, on the other hand, have a standard volume (2.483 cubic inches). Even if you didn't know the number, you could guess pretty well and say the radius was an inch (which would get you close).

Even if you start varying the bus width, length, and height, you can see the answer is somewhere between 1 and 2 million for a sanely sized bus.
Cops at the scene should not be looking up phone numbers for this week's roster of towing companies. That is handled by the central police dispatcher. Who also dispatches SWAT, bomb disposal, fire, hazmat, linemen for downed electric wires, animal control for welfare checks of sick people who have pets, etc. 911 is just one part of an integrated emergency response system.
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Ask HN: why are there no dates in the HN RSS feed?
I use Planet to aggregate all the RSS feeds that I want to read:

http://www.planetplanet.org/

But the Hacker News RSS feed has no date or pubDate, or any other kind of timestamp suggesting when the item went live:

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Because of this, Planet glumps all the HN stuff at the top of my RSS feed. I'd like for the material to show up chronologically, like all of the other items in my feed.

Why does HN RSS not support any kind of date?
What I find is that people consider "saying anything offensive" to be an ad-hominem attack, but completely omit very common forms of ad-hominem attacks such as attacks on supposed ideology or bringing or other views and arguing that their views are contradictory -- or arguing against another viewpoint that they hold -- in an attempt to refute their views.

To use a real example I recently saw: "Russ Feingold said the Patriot Act violates the 4th amendment, voted against it, and says we should repeal it; however, Feingold sponsored the McCain-Feingold act -- parts of which were found to have violated the first amendment -- so his argument against the Patriot Act is invalid because he and other liberals also violate the constitution". This is an example of not only an ad-hominem, but also false equivalence, and to-quoque -- but yet I see these arguments commonly asserted and unchallenged.

For the record I do think the grand-parent comment does not constitute a particularly strong argument to me: there's no proof that Thailand fails to punish paedophiles any more than any other country (keep in mind these kind of crimes are grossly under-reported) and even if that is indeed the case, there's no proof that the same dynamic would mean laws against bitcoin would not be enforced.
I should syndicate my 4chan inbox somewhere. 10 years of "FAK U FAGET" has left me with a mountain of wonderful e-mail.
That cant be right/Probably has a thesis of prohibitive clauses where you dont get the monies
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I understand the position (and enjoy your analogy), I just simply disagree with it. I find it hard to believe that anyone who is drinking an alcoholic beverage is going to be tricked into thinking the effects of said alcohol are any different just because a straw or cup says "SAFE."
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I am so sorry you're going through this. Remember, you can always procrastinate ending it all, and do it later while you examine other options.

There is a community at DevPressed[1] of developers who struggle with depression.

I am a developer and gave a talk on my struggle with depression and the greater issue of Developers and Depression [2]. Email me if you'd like to chat - greg at baugues.com

1. http://www.devpressed.com

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIa-Mc2KSk
I applaud you for having the courage to attempt something and then saying that it's not what you're looking for.
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My level of conscious figures highly. That which I find sufficiently satisfying depends on my level of consciousness.

When my consciousness level is low I am satisfied to mope around aimlessly, watch stupid tv and sleep a lot.

When my consciousness level is high I demand higher joys like cool projects, am happy and motivated and my shit is together.

I keep my consciousness level high by taking care of my body and meditating a lot. You see how it can be an upward spiral.

However sometimes I fall into laziness, life upsets my wagon, etc. So there's the "get back on the horse" thing.
what user would want to operate an exit node?

I'm thinking that malicious individuals would run Tor exit nodes in order to sniff traffic.
This was posted and deleted yesterday too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120728
FEZ is among my favorite video games of all time. I believe that it is a perfect expression of a 20-something's love of video games, a game mechanical representation of spiritual enlightenment, and a fiendish hedge maze of fractally spiraling content all at once. I played the hell out of that game, all the way to the end with every secret (rare for me), and devoted many pages of a notebook to walking that hedge maze. Truly a great work of art.

I have tremendous respect for Phil Fish, but I would never want to work with him. His kind of passion, devotion, and energy would probably chew me up and spit me out so fast I wouldn't know what hit me. And, yeah, he gives as good as he gets in the Land of the Trolls.

But, man, he made a helluva game. Right now I'm selfishly hoping that the need to create overwhelms the desire to heal and we'll see another few games out of him before too long.
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I run this blog. I have made it because there is not even a single python blog which gets updated daily. It's my effort of making a regularly updated python blog. http://freepythontips.wordpress.com/
you can google the spec sheet for the receiver described. it can measure carrier phase to 0.2mm rms. that translates to an accuracy after post-processing of 3mm horizontal (with a fancy antenna).

the trick is to use the carrier itself, which is higher frequency than the signal modulated on it. also, relative offsets are easier that absolutes (removes many systematic errors).

i wrote (the software for part of) one of these (not for leica, for some geophysical survey company) back in the day (although it was not mm resolution!)
Lovely demo of checkout! Would be great to see a "How we built stripe shop in 1 day using Stripe Checkout" blog post to go with it :)
In principle, you'd read the article before commenting.
There are tons of creative people who have an issue with Fish. It's slightly frustrating to see someone with mediocre talent become hugely popular, but it can be infuriating when they make comments like, "i just won the grand prize at IGF tonight. suck my dick. choke on it." He's given "indie" game developers a bad name.
On the topic of not being aware of the "spoofability" of GPS, it is interesting to note that many of the older Inertial Navigation Systems (GPS + IMU) use GPS to check against the accelerometers and gyroscopes in the IMU. Effectively, they would throw out the results from the internal dead-reckoning system if it didn't agree with GPS, instead of the other way around!

I guess it has more to do with the fact that unless you have a great Kalmann filter design, your IMU will likely drift off course rather rapidly, whereas GPS spoofing wasn't as easy or as popular as it is today (and I would say it really isn't that popular outside of major areas today, as it stands). Either way, you're right, the GPS coordinates should definitely be checked against the internal dead-reckoning. However, then you have to ask yourself how you know the internal dead-reckoning is still on course. It's a tricky problem, and hopefully the solution doesn't just tend towards "add more sensors."

EDIT: changed an "isn't" to "wasn't"
Buying stolen goods isn't cool.

(I don't think it should be a crime but it is immoral).

He doesn't have anyone to blame but himself.
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Best way for an individual to sell a server?
I was given a couple of old servers Dell Poweredge 2850 & R510 that were being tossed in a move. So I'm pondering whether to use them or sell them.

First question is, how or where would you sell them, craigslist/ebay/??? Would you sell them whole or piece by piece, drives separately from rack? I haven't looked too closely at the hardware, but it looks typical of midrange systems.

On the other hand, I just moved to SF and set up a static ip for my dsl and would love to play with a home network/nas/server. I'm thinking of installing CentOS. The only prob is that my internet isn't a business class line, so they limit the bandwidth and data that you can use (sonic.net).

Would love to hear thoughts and comments about either option. Thanks.
>back in germany, a few days after christmas, 4 month after the ibiza trip, i turned on my computer and noticed fifteen new pictures inside my dropbox camera upload folder.

I think you're right. 4 months is more than enough time for a smartphone to be bought and used by a new person.
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"when i ran back to the deck chair to get rid of my underpants, i noticed someone lying stiffly under the chair. not moving, not reacting."

Kind of creepy, but still - she didn't actually see his face. Could be someone completely different, like you say.
TCP really isn't a virtual circuit protocol in the same sense that X.25 PLP is a virtual circuit protocol: In VC protocols you say something like "network, I want to talk to address X," establish a channel (getting a channel ID allocated) and from then on send packets to the channel (not mentioning the remote address again), knowing that they'll arrive there. This means the routers on the way are stateful. TCP theoretically doesn't care about routing, and IP is stateless.
The Radon transform was the first thing that came to my mind, too[0].

It does the same thing, but more rigorously and flexibly. Imagine instead of just looking at the shadows (which are essentially a binary 'this is part of the object/this is not') and reconstructing the surface ad hoc like OP did[1], you could also apply it to a translucent object and reconstruct its interior as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon_transform

[1] Not to criticize OP here. It's cool to solve problems from scratch as practice and I don't think the Radon transform is common knowledge.