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2,887 karma · joined February 13, 2011

German student freelancing and pursuing his masters degree. Do you need a Software- or Web-Developer, a Sysadmin or Designer, hire me.
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X4··on GitHub Résumé
Yup, it's pretty inaccurate. I think it's inaccurate to not "deface" people, or an act of nicety. Altough, seeing that someone is 24 coding all week, isn't a good sign of health too.
X4··on GitHub Résumé
Meh, pretty frustrating. All it shows is that I have no life. Wish I could hide my github profile. I don't care to impress employers with how nerdy or willingly to contribute I am.

The less they know from 3rd party, but me, the better!

X4··on Pair programming made easy
Good idea, but when you focus on personality, by showing faces, then show the subject and reason to take the "workshop". Also make signing up easier, by allowing one to try it out, before joining in. Maybe with a "simulated partner", that would be novel. Nobody offers simulated partners. You could use code-metric tools and nlp to make the simulated partner useful. However concentrate on the main idea: let people in, as easy as possible. Make them actively seek the signup button, instead of showing it into the face, without convincing arguments.

Please follow these guidelines: http://www.goodui.org/

X4··on Microsoft ditches the stack ranking system. Yahoo lays off 600 because of it
They should've hired a mathematician to at least analyse who should not be fired.
X4··on Protean Echo – Fuse All Your Cards into One
@Amadou you could directly message the authors on their kickstarter page or their contact page, with that issue.

@HN @pg Is it an ethical requirement, or is there any obligation, that we as submitters have to inform page owners about their site being submitted on HN? Wouldn't it be very very useful to be able to get some kind of "subscription", that informs page owners about their product/site/idea/blog being posted on HN? Hey maybe even worth thinking about this as a business-model? I sometimes feel that I should've informed the page owner, about the load that's going to come, before their page get's DDoSSed, bu5 I's impossible to predict that, without the data you have in the HN 'backends'.

X4··on Why Are We Building Jailbait Sexbots?
unbelievable interesting. I'm working on studies of human behaviour in various channels, including darknets like those. I am curious how psychological manipulation can be used to subconsciously counter this, the CG-Sexbot was the missing piece.
X4··on Coin
wow, I think this seems to be HOT Topic, took a while for me load this.

I know of an alternative that I bookmarked a long time ago. Have just submitted a link to their landing page, they're practically doing the same, but allow more card types to be fused and it's a mini-computer. They were on the market much earlier than Coin and it looks very prestigious & elegant.

The alternative card can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6736606

(A post, because I'm curious how the Echo is worse or better, without interrupting the Marketing of the Coin, on this board)

I am not sure how to think about this in general, but @nlh has really good points. I agree with him that he needs the imprints, but to be honest, those imprints don't guarantee security.

X4··on Is Economics a Science?
It is a meta-science. Not a nature science. I think that's it. Yes it's still a science. The reason it's not thought really scientifically is a different problem, common to this field.
X4··on Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
People work their entire life and when they're rich, they think that working is the worst thing that could happen to them. Nature only allows the fittest to win. Somebody who never works on his own, is in no way fit, useful or in any sense going to be happy with anything he owns or will own. Switzerland is doing the right thing, by paying it's citizen for living. The citizen make the country worth, what it's worth, not the banks, not the government or anything else.

I can understand how they value that offer by that logic. It's always a risk, but that's what makes the game worth playing. 3 Billion is a lot, but their future valuation must be close to that, if they are sure enough to decline the offer. Alright dear traders, get your keyboards undusted and unleash your bids when Snapchat files an IPO.

X4··on Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
That's 16mbit/1mbit ADSL:
X4··on Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook
Totally 0wned!

wow, what are you doing? How comes you could afford it? Are you a developer? You're living the dream!

X4··on A collaborative spreadsheet in less than 45 lines of JS, one library used
source: http://hastebin.com/verowotihe.html
X4··on A collaborative spreadsheet in less than 45 lines of JS, one library used
yup. I guess some couldn't resist the urge. I hope there aren't more malicious minds, trying to steal cookies or stuff.
X4··on A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript, no library used
should be easy with flexbox (crossbrowser possible)

simple demo: http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/vertic...

X4··on Amazon WorkSpaces
Is MOSAD more efficient than the NSA on spying?
X4··on Amazon WorkSpaces
how comes that governments are allowed to destroy international relations, just to keep "control of everything"? I can't find any reason that would give the government an advantage for doing so. Ok, one maybe, selling insider data to traders, companies and enemies. But we have no proof for that.
X4··on Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?
Have you questioned yourself, why so many people try to help you to help other people? =) There is hope in humanity, aside from politics, there are human beings who all want each other to help each other. Embettering the world. I wish you best of luck. Hope to hear back from your experience in a a Blog or on HN.
X4··on End of Inception decoded [video]
I hope you do not. How will you find out that things are real or not?

It makes you really skeptic and a little more cautions, but also open to risk than you would usually be. Maybe a good attitude for an entrepreneur, but all your logic and fear induced by that logic mostly fades away at some times. That's when you think it could be a dream subconsciously, at that time you start doing things you never would. It's twisted, it could also make you overly cautious, because you start valuing real life as something more wonderful than you thought, a unique thing, something you are deadly afraid of losing control of. The worst is: "What if you understand your multi-level dream as bad as you understood Inception?" Just like some friend of yours who had trouble getting Matrix in example. Could that mean you see draw a pattern and believe reality is the 5th dream? Could that when you really wake up, make everything make appear surreal? Would you try to jump from a window or do something to find out if you're dreaming?

The question that reality is a dream is supported by the Simulated Reality Hypothesis and that is also factor that makes this film a great one. Because there is no answer to that question. You could wake up when you die, or you could die. Using stochastic maths and game theory would suggest to die, but that speaks against everything that makes a game, a dream or life out. Playing is winning. Not playing is losing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality

X4··on End of Inception decoded [video]
You know those days that are totally normal, the routine, what you do for a period of time in your life to just reach to the next level? OK, I had a 4 level deep dream, in which I dreamed that I woke up. I did in glaring detail what I would do, when I actually wake up, including the stupid things like opening the fridge just remember what I was about to do. I didn't notice that I dreamt until a single detail made me curious and I instantly woke up, before I could notice what it was. However this was the 3rd level of the dream and much more realistic than the 4th level. I'll skip the 2nd level, but in the 1st level of the dream I could not find a single thing that made me curious, heck I even did what I would do, if I were suspecting that I was "dreaming", like washing my face with icecold water, phoning to someone I know, asking someone to pinch me. Unfortunately the pain and everything else was realistic so I kept dreaming that I actually woke up now and was somehow fooled to become relieved by that matter. After my routine day (which of course includes brushing teeth, washing face, shower, going out, taking a bus ride, going through the city and such random stuff) I turned back home and was just about to think about the day, when I noticed something was wrong. I couldn't remember what a professor said (you'd think that's normal, huh, haha?). And In the glimpse of an eyeblink I woke up again. This time I was really awake, but couldn't believe it for several weeks until I gave up finding out what's real or not, hoping to be really awake. Everybody who had a very very long dream taking years (in detail), knows that when dreaming there is no time limit. A second can be an infinity in a dream.

After "waking up" into what I think is reality, I experienced a single difference between dreams and reality. In every dream that I woke up, I could see myself from the top and then immediately when my dreaming self opened it's eyes I started seeing things through that perspective .

>> Is sleeping inside a dream possible? If not, that could be a trustable way to find out if one is a dream or not. Much more reliable than a ring ;)

X4··on CMU's Introduction to Machine Learning Course
All I can say:

1971–75: DARPA's frustration with the Speech Understanding Research program at Carnegie Mellon University

X4··on Poll: Does the name of a startup matter?
The reason you have to ask this question, means that it probably does. And imho. it does.
X4··on Show HN: Test your E-Mail for IP Leaks
I don't know and I can't tell that, so you may be totally right. However, it left a bad aftertaste on me, when I heard that prominent hackers were busted, because their VPN provider outed them.
X4··on Marelle: logic programming for devops
interesting! what is it for?
X4··on Why Teenagers Are Fleeing Facebook
yep, that's a realistic observation. seen that too
X4··on Why Teenagers Are Fleeing Facebook
you forgot skype and many other new contenders, what you say sounds highly biased and short sighted. I totally agree with @raverbashing he is so right that Facebook is nothing more than a friends catalog.
X4··on Marelle: logic programming for devops
@keenerd try to build a DSL ontop of prolog and they'll come & play.
X4··on Marelle: logic programming for devops
These are the package management systems that I use. A new package management systems just does this http://xkcd.com/927/ What we need is a cross-platform cross-applicaton meta package management system which comes as configuration management that evolves to a general purpose package manager without relying on any external package manager.

I'm not fanboy enough and would happily replace:

emerge, equo, apt-get, aptitude, ipkg, dpkg, zypp rpm, yum, tazpkg, pacman, homebrew

tar/gzip, slackpkg (Yeah, you, Slackware, we were friends and you helped me for long enough. You shouldn't do all my work anymore, you're old. Take a rest)

pip, cabal, bundler, gem, composer, pear, cpan, ctan, cran, maven, vundle – haven't you also a love hate relationship with these?

X4··on Show HN: Test your E-Mail for IP Leaks
Same feel: Copyright (C) 2013 London Trust Media, Inc.

Immediately lost my "Trust".

Added to that, knowing how persuasive and creepily mad London politics is about evading privacy is (even more than the US), this being a blatant double agent maneuver, wouldn't even surprise me. Maybe some now suspect journalist, who thinks, he needs to hide traces would jump into the trap. So this would reduce the IP's to those people, who feel like they need to hide something. Everybody else already knows that this info can be easily found out by sending an email to yourself. It's obvious that gmail doesn't need your IP, they have your social profile and all you web-habits recorded actively (services) and passively (adsense)

In the other case that this is legitimate company not serving as a shell company, not trying to collect IP's or E-Mail addresses. I'm sorry for spreading paranoia, to those who are sensible about it.

X4··on Kano - Make a computer
They keyboard on the video looks much much better than to keyboard on the archived version though.
X4··on Kano - Make a computer
awesome, I was also curious about buying this for my little cousin (6). I think my other 10y cousin would love this too, she already told me how good a netbook fits to her tiny fingers, so sweet. But the tutorials, manual and software is all English, so he'd first have to learn English :-/

Wish people would value internationalization much more, other than just assuming English fits all.

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