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acoustic coupled modems anyone?

For those unfamiliar, a geeky etymology [1] of Hanlon's Razor.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor#Origins_and...

Yes, what wcrichton said. Additionally, I have a suggestion. One of the deciding factors for me to fall in love with Rust was my habitual use of metaphor to distance my personal feelings from the issue at hand to reach an impartial decision. In this case, I suggest you replace "libraries" which may hold emotional significance for you with another concept of similar enough nature. Bias may also come from misperceptions, such as some inexperienced web devs feeling compelled to use jQuery to make everything, or naïve hobbyists thinking Arduino boards are the hammer for all nails.

For the sake of hypothetical example, presume I have had a long history of involvement in some C++ libs which I associate with good times, hilarious IRC sessions, friends, and pouring love into the labor of creating them during 0300 caffeine overdoses. How could I possibly evaluate leaving this behind without such bias?

Many choices are vulnerable to silly human biases which are hard to detect. Debating C++ versus Rust seems to be tough for some, and technical arguments have a propensity for becoming circular, so here's an analogy instead.

- Imagine, (if you have no extreme attachments to the web) that we have created a new web with new protocols, software, hardware, solved most crypto issues, authentication is reliable, we created the safe and anonymous place of everyone's (some ppls) dreams. Most of the advances are wonderful and (mostly) fueled by the latest research and smart minds, but there are a few bugs. Overall, an improvement and well adopted but still needing polish. The problem? All the old content isn't there. Some amazing new experiences await, but reddit and youpn are not unless you pull up an old web browser. If you were tasked with creating new content, which web would you choose and why?

I propose devs consider following either this, or some other method to evaluate C++ vs. Rust more objectively and try to set attachments aside. If, rather than thinking "but I won't have libX", you ask "how can I implement this functionality better today", you may decide that casting off old clutter is liberating and insightful.

I hope this helps some of you.

A misunderstanding, I thought another article said something about FF getting a rebrand as part of this. Phew. The Mozilla icon I'm not attached to.

Oil Sector... Being in south Texas, I believe I've made an incorrect assumption that readers would understand the potential volatility of such jobs, especially for a Nigerian immigrant.

To clarify, I've watched friends and colleagues gain and lose employment like crazy and I've seen a lot of racism in the industry, among other things.

I think you're on to something. Say we record monaural audio with directional mics on/beside each cam, then encode and compress each stream, allowing for realtime stereo mixing during playback determined by view angle. Add a compass, accelerometer, gyro to track orientation. Couldn't we then achieve the desired effect and even simulate spatial audio effects, 6DoF movement in scene, blend UI sounds and add 3D sound to the environment? AR anyone? With a small peripheral you could emit a few chirps at diff frequencies and measure them using same mic rig to create a virtual map of the environment's acoustic characteristics and use it to render sound effects for composite elements, generated UI, nav feedback, similar to the way image based lighting is used today to make artificially generated objects appear as if they were really present in the scene.

Sounds like a good open hardware/software project but I'm short on cameras and mics for something like that. Anyone see potential there?

Combine with laser rangers and filters for their wavelength on the cams, and you can sample 3d point cloud data too and render the environment as a 3D (4D) scene, use it for composite reference, or slap a small LiDAR scanner under the whole thing for precise measurement.

Weird... I've had a strange urge to take up farming and hack the hell out of it. What's with that?

With a little humanity, it all worked out ok. Didn't see that coming, but awesome. Now this guy can be an unemployed American graduate lol.

I worked with a talented Nigerian radiologic technologist who abruptly left and went home to sell tires and car parts because he couldn't handle people being so cruel all the time (West Texas). I hope this guy has a better go of it than he did.

Clickbait title, article is mostly speculation. The US did not make any act of aggression or declare war. Joe Biden (spelled блядь сука in Russian I think ;)) said some dumb shit about sending Putin a "message".

The article leads with subtitle "Vice President Biden announces a forthcoming covert strike against Russian president Putin..."

1) We don't announce covert operations. 2) It's personal now? US vs. Putin himself? lol 3) The author declares "presumably in the form of some kind of cyber-attack" without citing where this comes from at all. You get the idea... I could go on and on.

Please don't post this drivel here, articles with journalistic integrity and facts are preferred.

Judgement of parenting from a single event is arbitrary at best and criminal at worst. Child Protection Services investigated my mother and accused her of burning me with a cigarette (it was a mosquito bite, I'm allergic to their anticoagulant) but years later turned me in to her custody, told me 'back in my day' stories and treated me as a trouble making 'runaway' after witnesses described her physically attacking me with punches, threatening me with a handgun, and swinging a stoneware coffee mug at my head. My great grandmother however was kind, had 14 kids, 7 survived. That was farm life then... I wonder how she'd have been judged today? Investigated for abuse, neglect, or murder? My mother's A-OK though apparently. We don't speak.

"Burst" reminds me of an Eve Online star chart. Bonus points. To me it represents linked entities, connections, unity, and the Internet more than the others. I dig the colors against dark backgrounds too. But...

While typing this on Firefox mobile (just installed to reevaluate), I must use portrait mode for my keybpard to work, my on-screen nav buttons are not redrawing because my screen lock activated w/FF up causing a bug to manifest, and I'm only here on HN because the sites I intended to browse won't load or perform very poorly, one site linked from an article had a 1 min load time, and video plays at ~3fps on any site.) After I type this I'm returning to mobile Chromium, even though I hate Google. I feel like just throwing this phone at the moment. Some user experience.

Is a logo going to correct this? Same reasons I've evaluated and dismissed FF for years now.

That, and I am attached to the damn Firefox, they're killing my favorite software mascot of all time.

Heck, I'm done typing, I get a half second delay every time I backspace and my on-screen arrows which magically reappeared a second ago are behaving randomly (i.e., jumping right one word and one space when I hit hit left once.) T9 would have been easier. Off to remove блядь FF... Congrats on like half a logo design though Moz, I'm sure it will solve your problems, lol. Maybe try not letting your enemy choose the battles, push for usable and accessible standards that aren't designed to sell us more middleware and Enterprise Edition duct tape.

I want this on a shirt with the filename and line number on it for doubters.

Yeah, but how often does an anti-missile researcher go homicidal on mosquitoes with a laser? :) The idea was neat at least.

"I haven't whitelisted a site from ad blocking in over a year" where does that say HN isn't on my whitelist? Liar, lol.. where? I never made any statement about your morals, comparisons or claims that it was "right", I said it was the only option I see. So far I've been downvoted, called a hypocrite and a liar, by you. Run an ad based site with poor revenue or something? Haha

And no, I wouldn't tip a stripper if she tried to break into my house, or steal my things. I've given up cable television, browsing most ad supported sites, using Windows, Twitter, FB, the convenience of hands-free voice search, et al., and I've been targeted by real state actors, and have real world concerns about security for myself and my family. For me, malware is more than merely an annoyance, I have a responsibility to protect my family. I've run advertising based businesses and have since stopped doing that. I ran my own ads for years and never once ran a campaign with a network who allowed popups, popunders, any content blocking graphic or video ad, never Flash content, and probably made a lot less money for it. I instead pay for services after evaluation, such as choosing Spotify over YouTube since the average payout to artists is more than double YT and they don't harass me with half baked marketing bullshit as a subscriber or bait-and-switch users. I deal with harassment from civilian friends nearly every time I have to say 'I don't use X social network' and miss out on some things. I rid myself of threats at the cost of losing the use of some important and expensive software I've paid for, hardware investments, friends, and years of studying my aft off. I sleep good knowing I'm not feeding that industry and I'm exercising my right to choose, one of the rights I personally fought to protect and have the scars, lost comrades, and fscked up life to match. Hypocritical... lol wtfever

I'll tip a stripper directly before I'll invite malvertising to infect my devices so she can get 5% of what her performance is worth is what I'm saying. I subscribe to services worth their salt.

I haven't whitelisted a site from ad blocking in over a year, nor will I again, this is mostly why. The only financial incentive I think we can leverage against supporters of unscrupulous advertising networks is refusing to browse their sites or view their ads.

I used to make exceptions for polite site operators who aren't needlessly rude to people who choose privacy and security, after evaluating their choice of ads. Never again. It is not our responsibility to support bad business practices out of guilt, perceived value of consumed content, disabling security features "to enable content" or otherwise. Crying that their business model is failing doesn't get any sympathy from me when it has been a problem for years.

Is there an ad network out there which you would trust to serve you content?

Agreed. Mosquitoes are important pollinators and necessary members of our food chain, we would be hurting without their help. Only reproducing females require a blood meal, further complicating the issue.

To that end, check out this [0] anti-mosquito laser weapon, which they claim can be tuned to target only females based on wing beat frequencies. While I disagree with the principal, a laser mosquito defense system gets cool points from me for creativity.

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/laser-...

Maybe we should create a community maintained list of blocker unfriendly sites, and serve a public blacklist compatible with existing software.

Forbes and others are blocked on my home DNS for hostility and crippling of features. If a company can demonstrate how it protects its visitors from its advertisers and respects my rights, I used to exempt them from my ad blocker. Now I'm sick of seeing rude messages targeting me as an ad blocker user telling me what a horrible person and a thief I am, so I block all ads, and I've discontinued use of nearly all ad supported software. Bottom line: It's not our job to make their business models work, they need to adapt and quit whining.

As an english speaking American, learning danish, I agree it is a little confusing, the zero versus Ø problem. but it is also confusing to see 0 and O written when the zero has no slash. I think maybe our zero needs a less ambiguous distinguishing feature. I can easily discern 0 and Ø but I think it may be that I am so used to seeing 0 with a slash.

Awesome! I was selecting a Matrix implementation but not anymore I think. Thank you.

This answers my question. I was just thinking about this and other methods like encoding data in pulses from a keyboard led at high enough frequencies that humans dont see a flicker but an optical sensor can read it, hard drive parking noise, drive activity indicators, and power state changes could be used to transmit sensitive data from air gapped systems.

Also smuggling data out of containers or vms might be possible by these means or manipulating signals measurable across security boundaries. One could encode bits in the cpu utilization of a process and watch the load from another app outside the secured area to read encoded data, or by loading/unloading a measurable amount of data in RAM, for example. Where did my foil hat go?

Yes, I think the author misses the point, which is that Arch is a mentality not a distro. I built my system from scratch and configured it that way, without any scripts to guide my install or anything else, and now I know Linux and its ecosystem better than ever. The only "Arch" things about my Arch anymore are Pacman and a handful of other tiny things which make life on the bleeding edge more convenient. The idea is to stay as close to upstream as possible while being nearly pure GNU/Linux without the duct tape and bailing wire which holds most distros together shoddily. About every day I'm glad I went this way and I thank myself for doing it every time an otherwise aggrivating experience becomes pleasant by virtue of ironically not using the 'convenience' methods usually provided by inflexible GUIs and scripts which attempt to predict every possible configuration. It's hard to develop for the world when you live in Beverly Hills, I think. I wouldn't call it a community either, so much as a hackerspace.

Imagine if they were all running Boinc instead. We might have cured Zika already.

Gridcoin pays cryptocurrency for 'mining' through a proof of work concept using Boinc credit.

But who cares where the carbon emissions from all that mining go? Someone else's atmosphere, no? At least a productive output would offset the needless waste.

A quote: "Researcher Sebastiaan Deetman came to the conclusion that at bitcoin’s current level of expansion, it will require 14 gigawatts of electricity to run by the year 2020 — an amount of energy equivalent to that of a small country, like Denmark. At the current time, a single bitcoin transaction requires as much electricity consumption as the daily consumption of approximately 1.6 American households."

via http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/04/03/bitcoin-could-consu...