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I've yet to hear of any right-wingers criticise the Koch brothers. Perhaps Themarorana is a rogue libertarian that doesn't like them, but I'd consider that one of the least-likely possibilities.

I'd also say that promoting fossil fuels, which are responsible for most of the prosperity we have today, is a pretty low bar to have to cross in order to be considered "evil".

ISIS are evil. The Leader of North Korea is evil. The Koch Brothers (or George Soros)? Not so much
But it would be a good alternative to bash one-liners.
Here is the previous post about this from 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009009
5-months and still working on it. For about 2 months did not do any work on it. Now i am resuming.
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A lot of funny claims in this article,

"Vantablack's practical uses include calibrating cameras used to take photographs of the oldest objects in the universe. This has to be done by pointing the camera at something as black as possible."

Just covering with a lens cap would seem to be a simpler way of accomplishing that,

and:

Stephen Westland, professor of colour science and technology at Leeds University, said traditional black was actually a colour of light and scientists were now pushing it to something out of this world.

"Many people think black is the absence of light. I totally disagree with that.

Really? I can't think of any better way of describing black.
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It's definitely KICAD— I've had a good experience with it. The OS X port has some nasty crashing bugs, unfortunately, and the library management leaves a lot to be desired. But for basic boards, it's terrific.
If a maths teacher wants to teach category theory, or algorithmic analysis (things which can be both interesting and relevant to a someone growing up), they can't.

Is that a better use case for you?
We believe that people should be able to buy what they want, when they want. And more often than not, that happens when we watch TV, see a billboard on the street or an ad in a magazine. So we made an app that can help us do just that.

We're now looking for brands and retailers from the EU and US to help us test it. Brands will know how their offline ads are performing in real time.
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robots.txt would have been the only reasonable option: force publishers to dereference content by putting censored content in their robots.txt file...

It's a scalable solution, already implemented by Google for this exact purpose: publishers can choose what they want indexed.

Don't you share my pov?
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What annoys me most is hitting snooze by mistake, you then have to open the clock app to toggle it off and on.

Otherwise you alarm goes off while you are in the shower, resulting in angry wife!
I personally feel like this is the core "feature" of the raspberry pi - the fixed "constraints" of its specs.

Constraints are good.

Fortunately there are many inexpensive alternatives to the raspberry pi (probably thanks to it) if you really do need more CPU power.
that was a simple example. A better example might be memorizing quotes from a book to regurgitate in the test*

* (I had to do this as part of GCSE English in the UK - I expect a similar situation in the US)
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See also the “Cluss Test”¹; a gibberish test which it is nevertheless possible to get 100% right using nothing but “tricks”. For those wanting to try their skill, I have made an interactive version here: http://www.recompile.se/~teddy/cluss-test

1) http://www.tmk.com/ftp/humor/quiz
oh absolutely, if they can get it general enough to do that. If they manage to include this in powershell (since it's MS), they could have the worlds greatest command line.

"Get all current running processes, select the ones that use over 5% CPU, and display them to me sorted descending by CPU usage"

More verbose than the normal, but damn it would make things easier for the non-initiated.
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Cannot see it now. Can you post the text ?
The default android clock app will give you a notification about an upcoming alarm, and give you the option to dismiss it in advance (once of course) without having to open it.
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I've worn a wristwatch since elementary school, and I'm noticing fewer and fewer people wearing them. As a second anecdotal data point, it's getting a lot harder to find replacement batteries and bands when they wear out - it used to be you could find them in any department store or electronics store, now you pretty much need to go to a shop that specializes in watches. (For context, my watch is a utility more than a piece of jewellery, so I don't want to spend more than I spent on my $25 Timex on replacement parts.)

That said, while I've been watching the smartwatch scene with interest, I'm not particularly interested in buying one yet; maybe when the market matures to the point where I can get a decent one for under $100.
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what a cliff hanger!
A year and half. And Then it failed. :)
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Isn't this behind a paywall? Doesn't HN got some guidelines on posting articles behind a paywall?
Never has a purely #000000 colored symbolic image been put to better use albeit being slightly incorrect.
Definitely a good point -- however, that article leans more toward the elimination of the snooze function entirely. (Which may indeed be advantageous for sleep!)

If they do choose to include a snooze button, though, I'd prefer they get it right.
In American business over the past decade, I've experienced an order of magnitude more RFID-detector door locks than keypad door locks. Get your badge/wallet/purse/backpack within a few inches of the detector and you are in.
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That blog in [1] is a good read, so thanks for the link. If anyone wants to get around the required registration, pasting 'drip-drip-drip-the-emergency-surveillance-law-erodes-our-civil-liberties' into Google News search and following the link from there lets you read the blog post in full.

I don't know enough about the legal environment or the consequences of this legislation to really comment, but I do find the whole affair highly suspicious.
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That annoys me too! Maybe that can be in part 2 of the article :-)
There are several pages on his work on calculating stuff in the James Gleick biography.
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The first one would be a ham-fisted reference to a black-body reference body for determining z for extra-galactic objects. This is not it - nor is a lens cap!

Black as a colour - nonsense. What we perceive as black is brought about by maximal absorption or minimal emission of visible light by a body.

Frankly it's all based on what a wobbly sphere of cells can and can't detect, so you could have something that pounds out UV, IR, microwaves and gamma radiation and still call it black.
I'm assuming this is true

var a = [1,2,3]
var b = a
b[0] = 10]

> a
[10,2,3]

and so copy-on-assign only applies when assigning an immutable reference to a mutable one.
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I'm sure his lawyer did.
If the human eye can't see it, then it makes no sense to call it a color.
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The original post is at the Hensilki Times, here: http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/11...

I suspect car ownership will decline over the next decade or two, regardless of what most governments do, because self-driving cars and services like Uber look likely to make on-demand transportation more convenient and economical than owning a vehicle for the vast majority of people.
iOS gets this really wrong. More than once I've accidentally swiped it to 'off' in an effort to hit the snooze button, then slumbered on for an hour. And then there's the fact that to disable the alarm during a snooze period, you have to go into the clock app and manually switch it off, which is a pain. And don't get me started on the pointless complexity of the 'Which days would you like this alarm on' feature - the price of failing to pay attention to that arcane option is that nobody will ever arrange to meet you on a Saturday morning ever again...
"black" is not a wavelength of light. It's the absence of light.
"Really? I can't think of any better way of describing black."

I suspect the quote got mangled to suit the article. He was probably referring to the fact that since "black" is generally still reflective, it therefore must have some color. We may not be able to see it, but it has something. I'm sure we've all had the experience of seeing something that was "black" become "navy blue" in the sunlight or something.

This substance is much closer to "black", and given the mechanism by which it is working it is plausible that the remaining light is essentially reflected without preference, in which case it would technically be a black mirror, which could not be said to have a color in the usual sense of the term. (While, again, I'm sure we've all seen shaded mirrors, we do not tend to call perfect mirrors "white".)
This is my problem with snooze functionality. Not very often would I actually like to snooze. I'd prefer to eliminate the option as a whole and simply set my alarm back for N minutes if I decide to sleep longer that morning.

That also helps a little with the problem of snap decision making that happens so often when it comes to how many times to hit snooze. If you actually have to think about how much longer you can sleep and set an alarm for it, then you're a lot more likely to make a good choice.
So I have an alarm clock where it's the other way around - the snooze button is tiny and badly placed compared to the alarm button.

I don't have a problem accidentally turning the alarm off. I do however have a problem snoozing too many times and I've found that having a snooze button that requires some effort instead of just smashing the clock reduces the drowsiness between snoozes.
I sure hope this doesn't get folded into a future CentOS 7.x version

Cannot handle all the radical changes, too much: grub2, systemd, firewalld and now DNF
I'd argue that very few tech companies are like RapGenius.

The new wave of "X service on the web" companies are not tech companies, they are "X service" companies, whether that X is travel, music, laundry, home cleaning, etc. And since the problems they are solving are trivial and not remotely technologically challenging, they can afford to have this kind of arrogant culture that would never fly at a legitimate tech company where the difficulty of problems being solved forces at least some degree of humility on the problem-solver.
'Unix hippies' - indeed! I just had a flashback to the late eighties - the first MUD I became addicted to was in fact run by a long haired chap with very few teeth. Eventually met up with him at a computer fair that myself and a schoolfriend trekked into London for.
I remember being accused ingame of using Macros to run straight to juicy loot after a reset, but no it was just my geeky 14yr old self remembering 40 or so N/S/E/W directions and typing ahead of the 75 baud connection. As if my C64 had macros!
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It has been tried before in Sweden, and it didn't work then either. It actually made workers sicker, and people were expected to do the same amount of work in less time.
yeahhh.... how about one where you tap anywhere on the screen to snooze, but have to swipe to turn it off?

They had it in an old android ICS custom rom i was using, but it's easy enough to find and download one that does the same thing. If you don't like your alarm clock, customize it instead of complaining about it on HN.
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I also find the Android alarm to be not nearly persistent enough. The clock radio I have at home goes off until you turn it off or snooze it - for hours if needed. But the Android alarm stops after a few minutes, and I've slept through it many times. (Doesn't help that it's quieter too.)
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Oh my, yes. 128-bit RSA signatures, anyone? AES-256... in ECB mode, with a static key that's the MD5 of a super-secret string in the binary with each byte sign-extended to 16-bit? ^0xA5? ROT13? I have seen them all, and I have despaired.

So many vendor "engineering" backdoors, too. Gah.
"especially since it only has a 10/100 NIC"

I'm my experience I've found it hard to push the CPU/memory/"disk" enough to saturate the NIC, so don't worry about it.

The limiter to streaming multiple high def video streams (one at a time is OK) or doing SDR/DSP work doesn't seem to be the NIC.

I'm having trouble thinking of a real app that wouldn't be memory/SD card/CPU limited on my pi that would simultaneously be limited by the NIC. By real app, I don't mean sending ping floods or running weird benchmarks, or something that isn't an app, like transferring a file.

My main pain point with the pi hardware at this time is there's some JVM stuff I'd like to fool around with where I'm totally patient with something that takes an imperceptible 5 ms on the desktop taking a still imperceptible 50 ms on the pi, but can't handle only having a half gig of ram.
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Reminds me of Roger Penrose and toilet paper plagiarism: http://web.archive.org/web/20050312084035/http://www.parasco...
Sleep Cycle, a sleep tracking alarm clock for iOS, uses the accelerometer to implement snooze with a smack of the phone (while it is on your bed), while the alarm off is the de facto slide to the right. I think this is about the best phone alarm clock I've used for this feature alone. It is so similar to interacting with a regular alarm clock.
The Ethernet chip is a new one tho - maybe it's a little less terrible?

(No idea - my applications for the rpi don't depend on it being a speed demon on the network.)
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Erm.. Clicking any physical button on iPhone will snooze the alarm. Swiping will turn it off. I always click without looking, never ever had the same problems as the author. They probably should remove touch snooze completely, and just rely on click snooze. Maybe then it wouldn't be confusing.
If you press the hardware volume button, it will also snooze. Much easier to perform with your eyes closed :)
ADP off the top of my head
Yes I agree, the Ethernet is the one thing (other than the price in Australia) that stops me from using a pi
Please do unto them what they would have done unto you.
Not only do you stand to make some money but you'll be helping correct a bad behavior.
This is a beautiful result that I've written up and spoken about a few times - http://michaelrbernste.in/2014/02/24/papers-we-love-garbage.... - it's surprisingly deep and foments a deep intuition that may developers have.
Could fseek be considered more harmful than goto?
The parts all tie together. The increase in vulgarity drives the grievances and pattern matching. The Hayes code was a social gentleman's agreement not to pollute the culture too badly, thus you had Jewish studios pumping out a good number of socially beneficial messages. The black middle class used to do a lot more to keep black society as a whole well behaved, but now they apparently have washed their hands of the urban underclass.
This is an advert for Thompson Reuters' services. The copy borders on gobbldygook.
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It's better to use one-time passphrases, I think.
>Just covering with a lens cap would seem to be a simpler way of accomplishing that

I'm sure it's a bit more complicated than that.

>Really? I can't think of any better way of describing black.

Good for you...? You must not be a scientist.
I've seen a few references to this today, but this is certainly the most link-baity of the bunch.
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ah, thanks! will try to remember that. seems to go some way to answering the original article's point, too.
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Yes. It's the same principle that is used in both microwave and audio anechoic chambers. The pyramidal spikes on the walls [1] of an anechoic chamber are much bigger equivalents of the nanotube spikes being used for light.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Radio-fr...
To your first point, I think a common misconception with this as developers and skilled knowledge workers is that we only look at our personal productivity. Yes, an individual programmer's productivity may be decreased by working 50 hours in a week, but if the company's productivity overall is increased, you'd be hard-pressed to make an argument against it. This is assuming that extended periods of 50 hours weekly (including all planning and meetings, not just programming) is below the level that would induce burnout in most, or that that's factored into whether it's "better" for the company or not.
I found it pretty amusing. You should know well that reversing really really ugly "here be dragons" code is full of even slightly more frustration than writing it. It's reasonable to communicate that frustration. Hopefully we can avoid it in future, a little bit.

I assume that the comment at the end - that this vendor tool was probably a hurried, barely-documented port of a DOS tool (which would have been safer 'because DOS doesn't do anything') - is probably right on the mark.
What I think the question is, is whether it's possible to create a surface of light that reflects only a very specific (range of) wavelengths; that would be quite interesting actually. Highly accurate colors and such.
Did you read to the end of the article? I love Timely, which is what I use. I'm just saying that it's high time that stock alarm clocks work this way as well.
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Feynman did some interesting work on computers - he used his fine physics-trained calculus skills to analyze a chip and message passing - a discrete system:

> By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange. Feynman's router equations were in terms of variables representing continuous quantities such as "the average number of 1 bits in a message address." I was much more accustomed to seeing analysis in terms of inductive proof and case analysis than taking the derivative of "the number of 1's" with respect to time. Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman's equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

> The decision to ignore Feynman's analysis was made in September, but by next spring we were up against a wall. The chips that we had designed were slightly too big to manufacture and the only way to solve the problem was to cut the number of buffers per chip back to five. Since Feynman's equations claimed we could do this safely, his unconventional methods of analysis started looking better and better to us. We decided to go ahead and make the chips with the smaller number of buffers.

> Fortunately, he was right. When we put together the chips the machine worked. The first program run on the machine in April of 1985 was Conway's game of Life.

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Are you blaming the test makers here?
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I'd use it to backup my folder on a ZFS volume through the network (which btw syncs itself to a remote computer) instead of doing this manually. So I'd say this is a tool, which helps a lot with your backups. Only if it supported the rsync protocol...

Anyone know of a good rsync implementation for Windows?
Heh,that poor miserable employee who probably thought nothing of copying a cool maze off the Internet.(Not to imply that makes it any less illegal)

That's certainly got to be interesting/validating for the op though (albeit simultaneously violating/annoying).

Definitely curious to hear how Kraft responds; if op is willing to share even more about something he shouldn't have had to deal with in the first place that is.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll update the article to reflect that new piece of info :-)
Lovely looking application. The animations are super smooth. Would you mind sharing what technologies and tools you use? Also, and this is a strange request but this is HN! but what editor theme and font are you using in this screenshot? http://bvckup2.com/wip/tree-db.png
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"became a hand-me-down"

Speaking of "hand-me-down", the pi kind of kills the used/junker PC marketplace for little experimental projects, when you can work on your project instead of debugging old/worn out hardware for only $40 or so. Also it uses about 1/10th the power of a repurposed desktop, so why not.

For an experiment, I could pick up a free, dusty, worn out desktop that draws 100 watts and stick a new small/tiny hard drive in it for about $50 and have a giant paperweight that needs hardware troubleshooting, or spend the same cash on something tiny that draws about as much power as a clock radio and is new so presumably more reliable.

Its hard to justify picking up junker "free" PCs in the era of the pi.
Quite the trade-off, so instead of shaky unaligned horizons you now get irritating zooms effects [1], plus up to more than 2/3 of the original frame missing? (at least that's what the online demo represents).

At least the constant zooming could be easily lessened by defining a safe area of the frame as the active content while using the remaining sensor area for compensation only.

[1] http://www.horizon.camera/demo
A Dichroic Filter is an example of what you describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic_filter
And in practice, exit nodes are extremely untrustworthy. I just recently had one providing self-signed certificates for HTTPS. Someone was up to no good.
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It's not a conspiracy, it's a self-organizing system. Each person acts in their own interests with the information and resources they have available, and this is the end result.
>You could write just the same kind of article about how Rust will bring out-of-touch theorists into modern software engineering where you actually need a C-level of performance and predictability. And then show examples of all the same "for" loops with mutable variables that you're used to writing in C have direct analogs in Rust.

It's not like immutable variables are some magic bullet...
Fyi, on iOS you can also just press the power button to snooze.
You can save yourself the trouble of finding out the address of their lawyers by simply putting a Kraft and/or Spongebob logo on your website... They'll come to you quick smart!
One thing the SAT gets right, you have to go to an independent location for the testing.
related to this, if you have a daily alarm and wake up 2 minutes before it, you have to remember to toggle it off before getting in the shower. Anyone know an app to get around this problem (like a "skip today" button) ?
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Ah yes, the silver rule.
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