Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — hwh

hwh

HN member
Joined
Sun, Feb 05, 2012, 12:31 PM UTC
HN karma
321
Public activity
107 items

About hwh

I'm Hans-Werner Hilse and live in Göttingen, Germany.

Majored in law studies (yep, that), I am programmer and systems administrator in the IT department of the (rather large) university library, switching over to IT project engineering at the moment.

Hobbyist software and hardware hacker, application developer, Open Source proponent, yaddayadda. Too many projects and programming languages and stuff to remember it all, sorry.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #48775694

    I started OpenOven in my free time of which I had a lot when I was still studying law. Ovens were always something I was interested in and I created FunkyPizzaHeater, as it was nam…

  2. comment
    Comment #48224032

    I would be very surprised if the ebook license they bought does entail using it for training machines. In fact I'm pretty sure it didn't and I thus do not think they did such a thi…

  3. comment
    Comment #46081539

    it is, but the threshold for mandated debate is high. So high in fact that this doesn't really happen at all. Usually, petitions like this are mostly a PR vehicle. A lot of them is…

  4. comment
    Comment #34177263

    takedown DCMA requests are US law. Very different rules might apply, much more restrictive/punitive in a lot of countries. Also, you mentioning that it is about different countries…

  5. comment
    Comment #30456667

    An MCU is a chip in a package that just cannot interface with anything your consumer PC or notebook comes with. You'll need an adapter in any case. That said, lots of current MCUs …

  6. comment
    Comment #30385691

    That is not true. See https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs/blob/master/DES... Sorry, as a commenter on this pointed out, the comment I was replying to was probably talking …

  7. comment
    Comment #23007553

    No, it wouldn't. Your examples are mostly hints that it's actually your terminal emulator (which might also serve as your "SSH program" in cases like PuTTY) which might need a slap…

  8. comment
    Comment #22979514

    Here in Germany, the last mentioned tier will also have looked fondly upon getting the money wired in from Ireland and may have lived with the assumption that they don't have to th…

  9. comment
    Comment #22866886

    On the grounds of article 7, referencing article 2, of the Treaty on European Union (this is basically the constitution of the EU).

  10. comment
    Comment #22182099

    For me it's just easier to get my head around having a new network interface presented rather than this pile of security associations and transform configurations. I can just re-us…

  11. comment
    Comment #22182020

    Can you please elaborate? As far as I see it, IPsec is encrypting traffic. IKE is for setup of security associations. What part of IPsec would do routing, and in this case: potenti…

  12. comment
    Comment #22009575

    Actually they are writing them during that time and use their staff (paid by public money), too. Whether it's copywriting, news checking for the next edition or, in fact, writing p…

  13. comment
    Comment #20107031

    Actually this is default law in the EU if you are a "customer" and the other party is not. All "surprising" clauses within a T&C document are void.

  14. comment
    Comment #18920301

    I got mixed results with a completely different approach: starting with what actually exists within a Git repository (i.e. roughly: focusing on aspects of the plumbing layer first)…

  15. comment
    Comment #16911933

    You still need reliable clock sync / latency. Otherwise you can just announce, not communicate bi-directionally.

  16. comment
    Comment #16418443

    This is a strangely worded question. LuaJIT is compatible with PUC Lua 5.1. It will thus not run (without problems/tweaking) run code that is designed for Lua >= 5.2. However, the …

  17. comment
    Comment #16143863

    It mostly mirrors classic consumer protection law. It's a civil law issue and regulation in such issues is always a try to remedy imbalances of power. As law enforcement goes, ther…

  18. comment
    Comment #16143761

    This is for prosecution. The removal of such speech is a civil suit. Facebook/Twitter might have taken a post more serious when the police came and asked questions, but then, they …

  19. comment
    Comment #16143734

    A notion in the more calmed legal discussion (as opposed to lobby talk from the freedom movements, which I usually support but feel to be very narrow-sighted at the moment w/ regar…

  20. comment
    Comment #16143707

    Unless you give more facts, I'd say you are mostly repeating the argument the post you answered to, albeit from another viewpoint. Of course there is the notion that the law is app…

  21. comment
    Comment #16136354

    The right exists without a court order (and I'd wager it is more often granted than not by established outfits, with notable exceptions like tabloids - like Germany's largest newsp…

  22. comment
    Comment #16122455

    When seeing "simple" as an absolute measure, the author surely has a point. As for a relative measure - I think the argument is unjust, as you can easily come across much more comp…

  23. comment
    Comment #15636357

    It (the ESP32) is right in the middle of the bottom view photo. The actual SX1278 is smaller, on the right. On the bottom, you have the SPI flash for the ESP32.

  24. comment
    Comment #15634516

    It is all a question of use case. This reply comes up all the time when I talk about how I use microcontrollers and what I use them for. For myself, microcontrollers offer me maxim…

  25. comment
    Comment #15448280

    The fines you are probably thinking of are mostly antitrust law based. I don't see grounds for making this issue an antitrust case - at least as far as I can see, nobody else says …