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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Novena: Building a laptop from scratch [video]

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www.ohwr.org 14y ago

Call for comment on CERN open hardware license

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www.makerbot.com 14y ago

Two-color Makerbot released

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: something in between Jekyll and a social network?

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beagleboard.org 14y ago

Beaglebone: new version of BeagleBoard

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www.samharris.org 14y ago

The future of the book

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www.xconomy.com 14y ago

Entrepreneur walk of fame dedicated in Boston

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www.microchip.com 14y ago

Microchip open source USB/TCPIP stack competition rules announced

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dangerousprototypes.com 14y ago

Microchip open source USB/TCPIP stack competition with $1100+ bounty

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blog.makezine.com 14y ago

Microchip responds to Ian Lesnet's criticism

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angerlights.com 14y ago

Express your wrath digitally

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oshwlogo.com 14y ago

The open source hardware logo needed a home, so I built it one

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ces.cnet.com 15y ago

Sifteo cubes promise revolutionary tabletop gameplay

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www.sparkfun.com 15y ago

Robotic snow plow

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maycontaintracesofbolts.blogspot.com 15y ago

OpenBSD IPSec backdoor allegations: triple $100 bounty

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mindtribe.com 15y ago

Offer HN: hardware engineering advice from MindTribe, Palo Alto, Jan. 13

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www.theseasontv.com 15y ago

Anti-cam documentary (The Season, ep. 21)

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macapps.fournova.com 15y ago

Tower (OS X Git GUI) public beta

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mindtribe.com 15y ago

Offer HN: hardware engineering advice from MindTribe, Palo Alto, Dec. 9

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www.digitimes.com 15y ago

Color E-Ink displays by end of 2010

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blog.ravelry.com 16y ago

Getting users to tag the 166,000 patterns on Ravelry

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www.alistapart.com 16y ago

Web fonts at the crossing

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pingswept.org 16y ago

Designing embedded systems with web frameworks

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www.ebb.org 16y ago

Back home with Debian

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blog.steelandsilicon.com 16y ago

Engineering business card

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blog.steelandsilicon.com 16y ago

One-Day Company Setup (Ops and IT)

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blog.mindtribe.com 16y ago

On Espresso - Part 1

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sifteo.com 16y ago

Siftables (sweet electronic blocks) is hiring

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sciencepolicy.colorado.edu 16y ago

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

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fiveislandsorchard.wordpress.com 16y ago

Tinkering back America

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I scanned through the 25-page unclassified report released a couple of days ago. I found no technical details, which I'm afraid means that the question devolves to whether you trust the FBI, CIA, and the NSA, (plus the non-technical arguments about Putin's motivations in the report, which I found reasonably compelling).

It seems to me that it would be difficult to get all three agencies to agree that Russia was behind the DNC email hack if that weren't true, so I suspect it's probably true, but not with great certainty.

"But plenty of people have permanently damaged their knees by consistently running without getting advice on how best to do it."

The people who read running boards all the time roll their eyes at stuff like this. Saying that running will hurt your knees is the running equivalent of "The GPL will infect your codebase." It's not true, but it sounds scary.

Usually, if you ask runners how to run, they will say something like, "It's not that complicated. Run more miles, slowly."

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/wi8zq/want_an_easy...

Seems kind of like Zwrite: text-only, ephemeral messages. It was just text that appeared in your terminal session. My friends and I used it in (engineering) grad school in the late 90's.

Good god, there's still a manual online: http://web.stanford.edu/group/privacyproject/currentStateUni...

"They have no control over what text the message replaces, but can always press the key combination control-L to restore their screen."

A company being successful doing X does not mean that X is what users want.

Some users probably want Google etc. to use all data available to improve their services, but some don't. The vast majority of those companies' users don't think about how the companies use their data at all. The services get better, sure, but I don't think the full price has yet been paid.

I do business with verbal deals constantly in the US. I also do deals with written contracts, but in my experience, the cost to enforce a written contract through legal avenues means that they're not useful for most of my work.

Seems like if you rounded up to integer values of animals, the maintenance of the animals could be even cheaper, especially with the need for a freezer obviated. For integers >= 2, the animals may even display non-zero growth rates.

I agree. If I were a utility, I would be working hard to figure out how to be a storage broker, because if homeowners figure out storage without the utility, the utility will eventually be left with nothing other than large industrial consumers (which might be a decent business, but probably less than half the size of the utility's current market).

Mostly agreed about your meta point. I think you're omitting the possibility that someone might be opposed to something that benefits them.

But in the non-meta discussion, all I'm saying is that you don't know which commenters are in which situation, and especially not with 95% certainty, like you claimed. Some of the commenters might oppose rent control, even though they benefit from it. Other commenters might strongly support rent control in San Francisco, even though they live in Wyoming. We just don't know.

I agree with you that we should agree to a set of rules without knowing our circumstances.

But the rest of your argument doesn't make sense. You've never met an SF real estate owner with a certain opinion, so you know something about most of them? There are at least 10,000 SF real estate owners. Have you talked to more than 0.1% of them? And even if you had, how would that help with your original claim that you can identify whether commenters in this thread were SF real estate owners or not?