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McKinsey Says 20% of CEO Duties Could Be Automated
I had a similar experience, though I was on the other side. Under brute force login attack IT guy suggested I change login HTTP method from GET to POST (which is more appropriate anyway). While I agreed with him that this is better, I pointed out that this is very easy to circumvent. However he proved me wrong - the attacks stopped after that (and I am quite sure it is not because they gained access). Not all attackers are very determined...
Are you suggesting that any time a dividend is paid on a single share, that share's price drops by exactly the dividend payment amount?
The state here now only installs waterless urinals.

I guess with people having the easy choice to wash their hands after touching floor contaminated handles, making the doors open out (or go doorless like in new Walmarts) solves most of it.
> higher end DACs do sound better

This hasn't passed the blind tests either. A good, 100 dollar dac (a schiit or an odac) will sound just as good as a 1000 dollar dac.
When we build our nation up (I'm American) from the bottom up, that's when we become stronger as a society.

If we cared about this, we would be more supportive of parents, children, family. By the time you have a situation where we throw them in a dark hole and forget about them, things have gone very, very wrong and there are no easy answers. The guy profiled in the article is between a rock and a hard place because he would need to repudiate the Mexican Mafia to get out of solitary, something not likely to be good for his health.

That doesn't mean I am okay with what is going on. But sometimes there just aren't nice/easy ways to handle something.
the conservatives think disclosure of any spying by the USG is treason

Neoconservatives, anyway. Conservatives as classical liberals, as well as paleocons, would largely align with the anti-surveillance side.
Rescale (YC W12) is hiring a Sales Executive
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• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Engineering or equivalent

WORK EXPERIENCE
• A verifiable track record of selling innovative, leading edge solutions to Fortune 500 companies
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• Strategic account planning and excellence in execution
• Sales management experience is a plus

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• Extensive knowledge of the IT marketplace, engineering applications, and the consultative sales process required to close new business with an innovative product
• Advanced problem solving skills
• Ability to build effective and lasting relationships with customers and identify their business needs
• Strong presentation skills- Ability to captivate an audience with a new product
• Excellent ability to communicate customer needs to internal technical staff in a positive manner
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced negotiation tactics - A proven ability to navigate a complicated closing process efficiently
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
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Idea on how to cobble together code from usage
If people are storing data online that could be a risk to their lives or the life of their loved ones, then they should either not upload this data at all or strongly encrypt it before uploading such data. Whether it's stored in their own countries or abroad, criminal hackers don't care about borders.
Square’s IPO Terms Put Valuation Below Latest Funding Round
In mother Russia, cat sacrifices you.
I love the idea the author mentions in passing of a dedicated speaker assembly for ultrasonics. This seems like something that could be a huge margin business, and the parts costs would be as low as you wanted.
Ask HN: What are some design trends that have died out in the last 2-5 years?
I bring this up since our industry moves so fast, and I'm curious what others saw come and go either with a lot of fanfare and or nearly none at all, or something that didn't get a lot of attention fade away.

The one that really hits me now is Parallax Scrolling. I remember everybody scrambling to use this in their sites less than a year ago and now almost nobody uses it anymore.

What's your observation?
If you believe that only morally compromised people end up in prison, then you might believe this too.

Belief in a Just World creates an unjust one.
We turned on the Nintendo PlayStation: It's real and it works
You know what? You're totally right, and I'm wrong. I apologize.

I still want to push back on the idea that people raised in conservative Christian families are necessarily authoritarian, but I'd have better luck doing that in a conversation I hadn't already poisoned by jumping the gun.
TFA mentions that for recording and mastering there is a use. Furthermore, the headline implies it see the term "downloads" in the title.
It may not be illegal, but it has a few negative secondary effects, among them:

1) reduces the value of US hardware on the international market, as businesses want to use equipment without backdoors installed by foreign intelligence services

2) pits the intelligence community against large portions of the tech sector, who because of market pressure will be forced to consider such activity a security threat

3) obliderates any moral high ground from which to stand on to condemn foreign intelligence services for doing the exact same thing, e.g.the State department's hypocritical efforts to condemn the Chinese for various forms of espionage in which the NSA apparently routinely engages
>I'm ok with the government seeing these things with a warrant

Really? Maybe okay with your current government, but I bet their are governments out there that you would not be fine with seeing this information when they are in a position to attack you, warrant or not. And there is no guarantee that your government will not become the same.
The FAA is about to require drone registration. Here are the recommended rules
This was an all- too- characteristically dumb knee-jerk response from me. Sorry.
But its not the service of Twitter that makes people smarter or better. Its the people there.

There is always another social network: Reddit, Usenet, Forums, IRC. Twitter is a place where we have conversations for now, but the "innovation" of fast-paced conversations can exist anywhere... and already exists anywhere.
>Max range for birdshot is ~120 feet

Effective range for taking out a drone is "as far as the bird shot will shoot" which is much further than ~120ft. We aren't talking about effective range (e.g "breaking a clay plate").

That being said - your point about increasing altitude still stands. I'm not sure how birdshot will go when shot near vertically - but it can travel well over 200 yards horizontally depending on if you're using 04 or 08, etc. At a certain point its harmless to humans unless it hits in the eye but as long as it hits a blade of a drone it could still damage the drone and bring it down. It doesn't need to completely destroy the drone like a point blank blast of a double barrel with buckshot would.
Even if they do, it doesn't matter when the law itself is horrendous.
The 787 was supposed to be a much more efficient aircraft, though it's not cheap and it's had several reliability issues
Startup cofounder held hostage for over two days by laid-off employees
Sharpening the Yak
The idea that a UUID should have a "version" and the random one uses 122 bits instead of 128 bits sorta makes ya wonder how concerned they were.
Congratulations on a great tenure at YC and best wishes for whatever's next! Your advice and friendship at YC are one of my fondest memories of our time there.
It can't be any more nefarious than an assault rifle (there are at least purposes for spying implants that don't involve killing people). If you feel like all military hardware is nefarious, and think people should leak secret weapon plans, that's an intellectually coherent argument.

Personally, guns bother me a lot more than SIGINT implants.
Why ‘Do What You Love’ Is Pernicious Advice
Garry Tan provided some great feedback on my teams YC application, thanks man. I wish you the best moving forward!
Why I Migrated Away from MongoDB
Yep, I read that too. Even so, there are low-pass filters in some consumer gear that benefit from, say, 96k sampling rates and result in better quality sound. This does imply that at 44.1 or 48 they don't represent up to 20kHz properly, of course.
Gary, our conversations were insightful and sharp. I always enjoyed the cut of your jib -- you'll be missed. Enjoy your adventure!
Higher end DACs. My fireface 400 has many DACs in it and it cost £549 new when it came out, in 2007. It sounds obviously better than the ~£80 USB soundcards and various built-in DACs in laptops. I've done A/B testing. (I didn't buy it for the converters btw, I bought it for the features and the build quality, which are unmatched.)

Forget about spending £1000s though. I'm sure that ODAC thing sounds better than the RME, I saw that test where it was identical to the various industry standard units.
Strange, we have entirely opposite views on this.

One thing Jeff Bezos can't do is trump up "structuring" charges, arrest me, prevent access to decent legal representation by freezing my assets, and then use the threat of decades in prison to extort me into accepting a plea deal of being locked in a cage with violent people for just a few years.

I'd be FAR more accepting of Amazon having full detailed knowledge of my financial life than an entity with the real power to destroy my life on a whim.
Well that's nice of you...

Does this include the toilets at work, or just in dirty places? (Which can be a lot of places, in certain countries.)

Urinals in much of the world don't include a flush. It's probably more considerate of you to skip flushing the urinal.
But if you don't upgrade, you're even more likely to find that things that used to work are suddenly broken. The developers are only going to support so many old versions of their product, and eventually they'll break the server API your app depends on. And if you contact support for any reason, they'll assume the bugs are fixed in a newer version and that you should upgrade.
It also relies on things like eyewitness testimony which has proven quite unreliable. All in all it is a very dated system that is in serious need of an upgrade.
Ask HN: What happened to the HNNotify service?
We used to get emails whenever anyone replied to a comment we posted on HN - but that seems to have stopped... Anyone know why?
Great feedback, thanks.

The 180 day guidance you reference falls under a "Last Resort" clause when "... the Response Team [is] unable or unwilling to provide a disclosure timeline". (which, at first glance, might not have been the case here?)

These "Last Resort" scenarios have not yet been fully codified. As a safety precaution, the workflow is still initiated manually with support as these scenarios are extremely rare and littered with edge cases. We've been learning a lot from studying disclosures like this one and you can expect to see the "Last Resort" workflow codified in the product in the future.

Now that the report has been Resolved, you should see the normal disclosure options available. Please always feel free to send me a note if you have any questions or feedback on our disclosure workflows - especially if we don't support your preferred route.
For those interesting in different versions of an album where it was mastered by a different audio engineer, you should check out the Steve Hoffman forums: http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/
I always love this story.

I wonder about the potential for error due to bias in the collection process. For example, I would expect older tanks to be more prone to breaking down due to mechanical problems, which might change how likely they are to be captured or destroyed. (I can't tell if that likelihood would go up, because they're more likely to break down in combat, or if it would go down, because they're more likely to be in the shop instead of on the battlefield.)

Evidently it didn't affect the accuracy of this technique too badly, but it makes me wonder.
> That is really the central issue. It's much like imaging since the time of Ansel Adams: the sensor can capture more dynamic range than the human eye can experience.

That's not really true. Dynamic range refers to the difference between the biggest value that isn't clipped and the smallest value that isn't rounded to zero. The human eye is a logarithmic detector, cameras are linear. The only reason HDR is a thing is because cameras DON'T have enough dynamic range.

http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/21579/how-does-the-...
To me, this is the best explanation. Very visual and intuitive. Cheers.
Function fitting by minimization – a demonstration
Better masters are the key difference. See for example [1]; everyone agreed that the DVD-A and SACDs sounded better when truncated to 16 bits then a printed CD.

1: http://drewdaniels.com/audible.pdf
Oh, then you've got some surprises waiting for you in the docs. I can't remember the specifics years later, but I recall thinking "odd that $SOMETHING <could have been the 'spam and eggs' thing> is sprinkled throughout the docs. I wonder why...oh."
Leukaemia success heralds wave of gene-editing therapies
Has anything changed with pilots unions?

"The interaction between labor laws and FAA regulations results in pilot unions having a strong claim on 100 percent of an airline's profits. An investor in a unionized U.S. airline should not expect to see a return on that investment and, indeed, should expect an eventual Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to wipe out his or her investment altogether."

http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
Depends on why you want to obscure. Works for the context of the article, but what if you want to look non-threatening to your large neighbor, to avoid an attack?
This article hits close to home: before I became a programmer I worked as an audio engineer at a fledgling studio in my hometown.

The amount of misinformation / junk-science in the audio world is preposterous. There's a religious-cult of an industry that feeds off the ignorance and placebos of its participants. I have many friends who swear by their What.cd 24/192 FLAC vinyl rips and spend hundreds of dollars on audiophile AC wall outlets. Not to say that there are no differences in high-end audio equipment, but so much of what's "good" is subjective.
> I have a choice between regular "Parmesan cheese", which is held to no particular standards in the US, and "Parmigiano-Reggiano"

What if nobody bothers making quality "Parmigiano-Reggiano" in the US because they know it is close to impossible to compete against the brand name and the margin are not worth it to even try? Maybe, if Americans were allowed to call theirs "Parmigiano-Reggiano" they'd put a lot more effort into making it high quality given that they'd have a much bigger chance of making a profit.
We Used Functional Reactive Programming to Build a Parallax Scroller
NASA Thermonuclear Art – The Sun in Ultra-HD (4K) [video]
I've heard this is the reason why Disneyland sets their parking lot speed limit to 14 MPH. I can confirm that it is 14 MPH. Never bothered to confirm that this is the reason why.
So, is kidnapping not a crime in India?
Depends on the field. This does happen in fields with low turnover and high longevity. The point is if you want to railroad people into apprenticeship programs you need to limit it to fields that people can do for 30+ years.

Otherwise as I said in a different post you end up handing out medical disability early retirements to lots of people which is extremely expensive.
It's all pretty ludicrous even on the surface. A lot of vaping proponents try to argue the relative safety of water vapor to smoke, but in the end it's still just a delivery method for various chemicals including nicotine. Not to mention the vapor is just as obnoxious as smoke.
I agree. At the same time I have enough empathy to see where that comment comes from: It seems twitter has been hyped since its arrival but so far a lot of us cannot understand its appeal despite multiple year-long attempts. Just think what other companies/projects would have given for that kind of year long (and in manys eyes, undeserved) hype : )

The only reason for twitter instead of something else seems to be network effect. In a couple of paticular niches I use google+ and it is, believe me, a whole lot better as long as there are people there. (Of course I am annoyed by the fact that it doesn't have a working API etc etc but then again twitter has made that point mostly irrelevant.)

(OK, a few improvements have surfaced in twitter lately and I am once again interested.)
No, narrowbodies have lower cost per seat mile because they weigh less per seat because they fly shorter routes (=less fuel and structures).

Very small airplanes have the problem that many costs don't scale linearly like the wage for 2 pilots, structural weight, efficiency of combustion engines.

I found this Wikipedia article interesting... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Examp...
First, let me state that I believe that CD audio, played through a modern DAC and quality stereo equipment is pretty much the pinnacle of home audio listening. That is to say, I think 44.1kHz 16-bit PCM audio is plenty good and I'm in no rush to replace my CD collection, nor do I think significant investment in higher bandwidth audio (for playback, mixing and mastering are another story) buys you much.

That said, there's one thing the article does not address and that is "beating", or really inter-modulation distortion from instrumental overtones.

Instruments are not limited to 20-20kHz. They can have overtones well above this range. Additionally, note that short pulse-width signals, i.e. transients, like drum strikes, especially involving wooden percussion, can have infinite bandwidth. (Not really infinite, but pulse-width is inversely proportional to bandwidth.

In a real listening environment (i.e. live performance) these overtones have a chance to interact with one another in the air. It is possible that these overtones may beat with one another and cause inter-modulation products in the audible range. For an example of this, play a 1000 Hz tone through your left speaker, and a 1001 Hz through your right speaker. You will hear a distinct 1 Hz "beat". The audibility of these are largely dependent on listening position and amplitude, but it is possible to occur with instruments. Since most recordings are done using a "close mic" technique (placing the microphone very close to the source) the interactions such as this are never recorded.

However, if full bandwidth of the producing instruments is preserved, these interactions of the overtones can be reproduced in a playback environment given equipment having a wide enough bandwidth and degree of quality.
Bullshit. Vaping is tremendously less harmful than smoking, both to the user themselves, and more importantly to the people around them that are not being subjected to secondhand smoke.

Vapor condenses very quickly, and the secondhand effects are below the threshold of measurement. This is a marked difference from smoking.

I'm getting the impression you haven't done any research about this, though, and are just ranting.

PS: Smoking kills 50% of its users. What percentage of vapers have had their equipment blow up in their face? (Hint: it's not 1%.)
A thin layer of tp layed directly on the water helps minimize splashback events.
Party means party to the treaty. As in, a country. It has no bearing on private sector agreements, such as the GPL.
Really good jokes often do. Generally speaking, the more of a "leap" you have to make to get a joke, the funnier it seems to you (all else being equal). This is a large part of the appeal of "inside jokes" and online meme humor (which are inside jokes for online communities).

A good example that would appeal to some segments of the HN crowd, but leave everyone else baffled:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
"I know, I'll use the Banach-Tarski theorem."

Joke writers face a trade-off between targeting a very specific audience to exploit this effect, or broadening the appeal of the joke to make it more accessible (i.e., make it less funny for more people). The really great commedians figure out how to have it both ways by finding new spins on universal themes, and taking the entire audience on that "leap" together (good "observational humor" often falls into this category). The less successful ones often fall back on broad humor (large audience, not very surprising) or reference humor (surprising "click" for a small audience, baffling for the rest).
The common factor is lack of respect for software. They did very well when focused on just hardware with simple software. For example the hardware part of robotics and very advanced features phones. But the next stage requires advanced software such as AI and the iPhone. This is an issue not just in Japan, but Asia in general. Their history had a lot of hardware success, but no major software success. In the US there is both Intel and Microsoft, major success in both hardware and software.

This is actually a competitive advantage of software engineering in the US. We have a history and culture of respecting software. This is passed down generation to generation and allowed more success like Google and Facebook.

In Asia, software is a low status job with little pay and status.
Surely flushless urinals still need to be cleaned and having piped in water is both more efficient and safer (no sloshing water buckets around)?
It's not water vapor, it's glycerin and propylene glycol, primarily.

You'd be right, except that the vapor condenses in seconds and the effect on others nearby is below the threshold of measurement, whereas secondhand smoke lingers for minutes or hours and is extremely measurably harmful to anyone in proximity of a smoker.

Nicotine itself isn't that harmful.
It's easier to influence the direction of an international cabal of open source software developers than it is to get a sane result from international politics.