Hacker News: aaren

New comment by aaren in "Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?"

aaren — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 23:18:04 +0000

You mind emailing me (in profile)? I'm looking for some Bali specific info - just want to work and surf basically :)

New comment by aaren in "Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?"

aaren — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 06:48:34 +0000

Can you explain how land value tax relates to current UK council tax? Is CT just a really poorly implemented LVT and could LVT be implemented by modifying the existing CT system?

I advocate for LVT in the abstract but get stuck on explaining implementation in a relatable way.

p.s. really appreciate your persistent posting on this :)

New comment by aaren in "Apple Jumps on the WebRTC Bandwagon"

aaren — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:34:58 +0000

Is this basically the same as what Whonix does (routing through a dedicated gateway VM)?

http://whonix.org

Anti Evil Maid 2 Turbo Edition

aaren — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:07:46 +0000

Article URL: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/35742.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11384012

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

North Carolina man arrested for not returning VHS tape rented in 2002

aaren — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:10:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/24/north-carolina-man-arrested-not-returning-vhs-tape

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11359129

Points: 12

# Comments: 5

New comment by aaren in "HN: Please add Reddit style collapsible comments"

aaren — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:44:04 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

Sadly it doesn't work on android firefox.

New comment by aaren in "Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer"

aaren — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 05:09:01 +0000

Sorry, I got excited and imprecise. I suppose I mean "developing on and around".

I'm just trying to counter the idea that the excitement around ethereum is somehow manufactured by 'clever marketing'.

New comment by aaren in "Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer"

aaren — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 19:49:40 +0000

Are you suggesting that Consensys, Microsoft, R3CEV and Red Hat are only developing on Ethereum because of clever marketing? There isn't some technical merit to the platform that means they are doing this?

Why didn't these companies develop their products on Bitcoin? Are they incapable of due diligence in this space?

https://consensys.net/

http://www.blockapps.net/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/ethereum-blockchain-a...

https://consensys.net/static/blockappsRedhat.pdf

http://r3cev.com/

New comment by aaren in "What future for BT and the UK's broadband?"

aaren — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:52:06 +0000

Someone linked to B4RN [1] the other day: community owned, non profit, symmetric gigabit internet in the north west of England, for £30 / month.

If more of these networks spring up, then maybe something good will come of BT's tardiness in laying decent infrastructure. Granted, B4RN is strongly enabled by being able to easily lay fibre under farmland, but there are other models that are more appropriate in urban areas - see e.g. the guifi network [2] in Catalonia.

[1]: http://b4rn.org.uk [2]: http://guifi.net

New comment by aaren in "Tails installer is now in Debian"

aaren — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:46:12 +0000

This is a big improvement over the previous setup, but I feel that it could do with handling the most insecure part of the process: downloading and verifying the tails iso.

It would be great if this installer could leverage the trust I have in my system to painlessly acquire and then validate the tails iso, without having to deal with

I just tried feeding a regular debian iso to the installer and it didn't complain at all. This shouldn't be possible - what if this was a bad tails iso?

New comment by aaren in "In Ecuador, the Frugal Traveler Tries Luxury"

aaren — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:50:18 +0000

Is it easy to change the local 'dollars' for true US dollars? Is it 1:1 or are they less valuable?

New comment by aaren in "After 60 Years, B-52s Still Dominate U.S. Fleet"

aaren — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:49:11 +0000

"Fatal Terrain" is good as well. Released in 1997 so slightly more up to date. I read it hoping for fantastical descriptions of flying battleships hanging from a paper thin plot and was not remotely disappointed.

Nuitka - Python Compiler - Release 0.5.15

aaren — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 11:05:56 +0000

Article URL: http://nuitka.net/posts/nuitka-release-0515.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392434

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aaren in "MH17 Report"

aaren — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:11:20 +0000

The problem is complicated if we consider that the missile is moving at supersonic speeds (~mach 3 + aircraft speed).

I don't know much about supersonic fluids. For anyone interested in following this up, here is a paper on "Reproduction of Virtual Sound Sources Moving at Supersonic Speeds in Wave Field Synthesis":

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/230702229

New comment by aaren in "MH17 Report"

aaren — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:46:22 +0000

There were actually four microphones - captain, first officer, cockpit and observer (see page 46, Figure 9). Four receivers is sufficient to determine the sound origin at a point in space, with an associated error volume (three receivers only allows you to determine a curve in space).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration

New comment by aaren in "“I have [bash] history back to ~2003”"

aaren — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:23:19 +0000

Also have a look at fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

New comment by aaren in "“I have [bash] history back to ~2003”"

aaren — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:22:20 +0000

If you're going to store a lot of history, you might want something nicer than the standard ctrl-r to search it with.

[fzf] is ctrl-r on steroids.

[fzf]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

It's a fuzzy pattern matcher for your shell history (and lots more).

New comment by aaren in "Ask HN: The Internet is getting lame. What's next?"

aaren — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 08:47:06 +0000

What's your idea of expensive, just so I can calibrate against my corner of the UK?

New comment by aaren in "Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK"

aaren — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 09:32:56 +0000

Can you be more specific about the useful skills? Like a list, out of which you need 2 or 3. Would be good to know what specifically companies want you to be confident about :)

New comment by aaren in "Becoming a contractor programmer in the UK"

aaren — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:23:51 +0000

Any more specific advice on enforcing payment if you deliver the contract early?