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Ask HN: Is it possible to locate a dog through its microchip (RFID)?
The beloved dog of a friend went missing hours ago, in San Francisco. Jackie, female boston terrier, 3 years old. We believe she was kidnapped, and it's likely that she is still in the city.

Jackie has a microchip (a passive RFID) - it usually has a very short scan range, which means that RFID readers can read the dog ID only when at close proximity.

I am not a hardware guy, but I am trying to find out if there's any way to "extend" the reading range of an RFID reader and possibly locate the dog by, well, driving around the city with the scanner in search of the right ID.

Any help is very much appreciated.
The odd thing to many is how well MM was paid for that performance.
> To be clear his position here isn't about the value of encryption in all cases. But the specific case of whether law enforcement should be able to access the data on a phone that they have physical possession of.

These are the same thing; that's what makes encryption policy so hard. If you punch a hole in encryption for law enforcement, the hole is there for everyone.

Everybody currently or formerly in a senior position at the federal level believes that law enforcement should be able to access information on a seized phone. That's not controversial.

But at what cost? Shall we sacrifice the safety and security of everyone to meet this need for law enforcement? That's a harder question, and quite a few federal leaders have reversed themselves on it after leaving office (and a few in office).

So, I reject your bet because it relies on a false separation between what people like the President want, and what it costs to get that.
I do SEO for a living! No distaste here for anything other than spam and decades old strategies that are a net negative for the world and the SERPs
this is pretty amazing and daring.

I guess this would work better with those with gaps or very mildly crowded teeth.

Often crowded teeth result in pulling teeth to make room.
What advantage does this solution have over having a custom font configuration on Linux with fallback support for a font with unique unicode glyph support? In my case, I have Google's Noto font as my main font and have Font Awesome and Emoji One as my fallback fonts and it seems to cover everything.

What exactly do these patched fonts do or add?
I had a Canon Pixma iP1600 that would still work after months of non-use. I was in awe, since every other inkjet is like you described -- I had several HPs.
Long-run strategies are a human crutch. It's easiest to see when you solved a game mathematically, that you can just value positions independently.

Go hasn't been solved to that level, but it's apparently been solved to higher level than humans ever reached.

I am just parroting http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12677/763 here, so I might as well quote:

"To catch an alleged cheater, Regan takes a set of chess positions played by a single player—ideally 200 or more but his analysis can work with as few as 20—and treats each position like a ques­tion on a multiple-choice exam. The score on this exam translates to an Elo rating, a score Regan calls an Intrinsic Perfor­mance Rating (IPR)."

This approach also allows to score historic players absolutely, instead of only relatively and trying to find sets of overlapping lifetimes until we reach the modern age.
Awesome guide, thanks for sharing this in so much detail with all the steps (including email templates, etc). Ton of work, but huge payoff.
Forgive me, but the headline, all by itself, left me thinking:

Why are there so many young programmers adopting the Go
programming language, throughout Asia, exclusively?
The interesting thing is that exerting physical control of this place might not be that hard given the lack of anyone else trying to do the same. You'd probably just need to build a runway to be able to bring in supplies etc (no idea how hard that would be obviously).

Once you had control then maybe it would be possible to create a libertarian fantasy land of the kind envisioned by the sea-steading folks. Feels like controlling this desert will be easier than building a floating city.
This is really amazing, man. It's honestly the first 3D printing application I've seen that I can see quickly improving thousands of lives. Just to think of all the people who right now can't afford this procedure, that soon will be able to... it's just really wonderful.
AI, VR, and AlphaGo
Good article. I've moved a bit from the five-year-old daughter's position to the "thinking about identity, community, purpose – the things that provide meaning and motivation" stuff. Still working on it.
Well, the whole point of this match has been to demonstrate that it is not...
It seems that normal RFIDs used for pet identifications have an EXTREMELY short scan range [0].

[0]: http://www.datamars.com/products/companion-animal-id/
Well, the trade exchanging one Boss' Nephew for one Smelly Weirdo is actually turning out to be an improvement.
1) The slowdown is in VC funding for startups trying to raise series A and growth rounds. The companies that are hardest hit are the startups that are just barely above $1B in valuation. Think: Instacart, Zenefits, etc. Also companies trying to raise Series A.

2) All the big companies Google, FB, Apple, Amazon, etc. are still printing money like crazy and hiring all the engineers they can find.

3) Well established pre-IPO companies like Airbnb and Uber are still hiring like crazy and have no trouble finding funding. Uber claims it's profitable in the US, for example, so I don't see any reason Uber is going to collapse any time soon.

4) If gasp you can't find work at a hot startup, you can always try to work at a big tech company or big pre-IPO company.
And you know that some high-paid exec decided it was a good idea to refuse to print when low on ink... "to ensure quality" and uphold the brand name. Haha - it had the opposite effect.
If you're poor, you're already relying on the government, and have no means to apply any more effort.
Ah, but what if they did another in the next three years? Perhaps that will work?
In this hypothetical construct, the arrangements for the attack were coordinated via cell phones. We had the ability to be able to control this information but forfeited that ability due to concerns about privacy.

When I tell my friend I'm sorry he lost his family and I hope the people responsible are caught and punished, it will beg the retort that the situation could have been prevented. And people like me are the reason this wasn't prevented.

The hard part of the question is when you look someone in the eye and tell them that their horrible loss is necessary for a greater ideal. I think a lot of idealistic talk goes away when it gets real. (Especially if you have kids.) And my main point is that I can empathize with a candidate who espouses the "ideal" but when it gets real has misgivings.
The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent
Do you feel that jobs that provide lots of money are not incentives or opportunities to do better? If not, why doesn't everyone work at starbucks?
they work in more places

e.g. other operating systems
Why I Hope to Die at 75
When did startup equity get so tiny?

Non-technical line employee past Series A. See also the top 25% salary of $64.5k, which is roughly half of what new college grads get offered in engineering at AppAmaGooFaceSoft.

Fundamentally this is driven by one number which is an iron law in the Valley: the employee options pool gets 20% of the company. This is 2000 basis points. It will never, under any circumstances, suddenly have more than 2000 basis points in it. That's 2000 basis points you can issue to every employee from engineer #1 to social media marketing intern #6 in year 8.

What's the average equity allocation going to be when you have 400 employees? Well, it can't be 6 basis points, because 6 * 400 is greater than 2000. Is 400 employees a reasonable amount of a company at IPO? It's actually on the low side, particularly as companies are waiting longer and longer to IPO.

This means that, as companies get de-risked by succeeding investment rounds, equity available to employees drops sharply. Engineer #1 might get 200 basis points out of that pool, for giving up a sleepwalk-to-$300k offer from Google to take a flyer on a company paying $80k which needs to, ahem, build a CRUD app. (Not casting aspersions on any company by calling them CRUD apps. CRUD apps make the world go round.) That's still a low number relative to the amount of risk that engineer is taking and their opportunity cost.

I've heard on the grapevine that the iron law might be relaxed. Investors are pretty in favor of this, as long as the extra basis points come out of founder pockets rather than investor pockets.
As millennials, we're all in dire straits. But I worry most about our men
Don't underestimate algorithmic improvements. Today's chess engines running on DeepBlue hardware outperform DeepBlue running on today's hardware.

Modern chess engines are built on a testing infrastructure that makes it possible to measure how each potential change affects the playing strength. This "Testing revolution" has brought massive improvements in playing strength.

For AlphaGo, it's probably the training that requires the most computational resources. The 'distilled knowledge' could perhaps run on a desktop PC. The program would search fewer variations and would be weaker, but if AlphaGo improves further, that version might still be stronger than any human.
The same would likely be true of an RTS. An AI could scroll the viewport around and click units to issue orders at ludicrous speeds. Even if it had to use the same interface as a human, it'd still have a huge mechanical advantage.
it doesn't sound moralistic. I think you make great points and they're entirely plausible for many people.
Agree with this 100% as I found this to be the case, repeatedly.

Bought an HP LaserJet P1606DN and a Fuji ScanSnap scanner a few years ago and never looked back. Amazing.
> What our modern society needs are some new myths, legends, stories and rituals that we can all identify with in our more cosmopolitan world. Without such identification we could end up like a rudderless ship in the ocean, not knowing who we are, or where we are going. Isn’t that something that our leaders, whether in business or politics, should be concerned with?

Bill Moyers on Joseph Campbell (http://blog.iese.edu/leggett/2012/02/27/the-power-of-myth-by...)
It is the consumer's problem for me. Because I travel a lot I get charges denied because the card company's computer decides the charge looks suspisious. I have to spend 20-40 minutes dealing with it on top of which I lose hotel reservations (last room available->charge denied->20-40 minutes to resolve->room gone) or I'm standing in a line to buy something, charge denied. Now I have to go somewhere quiet to spend the 20-40 minutes to resolve. Then get back in line. This happens about once a every 2 months. It's super annoying.

It's infuriating there's any chance for fraud at all when it seems like a solveable problem in 2015
Neuroscience’s New Toolbox
Fair. Realistically though they'll be shut out without company cooperation. As computing power and techniques improve both being able to use and break encryption will increase but breaking encryption, just because of how it works, always takes more power than the creation.
I've just purchased one, and to go along with it, I ordered a 128GB SD card and a 64GB USB C pen drive, bringing the total capacity to 256GB. The removable storage obviously won't be as fast, but I believe I can keep my daily work stuff and OS entirely on the SSD, and use the other storage for more extraneous things.

Obviously a 128GB SSD would've been preferable, but I think this strategy will work out.
Paypal is not a solution. They send my paypal email address to every merchant which is no different from the POV of fraud then sending any other identifying info. That's one thing I liked about Google Checkout, they had the option to send a one time email address.
Seneca on Social Media
It's kind of hard not to. I'm deeply suspicious of people who don't.
Thanks, this is exactly what I was hoping to hear. Curious if you dual boot Chrome/Arch or not; I plan to.
They did. It isn't explicitly stated, to the best of my knowledge, but the Minds are smart enough that they could easily have done that—and were shown to engineer other parts of the society, such as their deathism.

Humanity has very limited purpose in the Culture. On the surface, it looks nice, but they're effectively pets. Their willingness to ascend was cut off right along with their willingness to live.

All of which is done by social engineering. If you want to go the intelligence-enhancement route, they'll help. They just make sure that very few people do.
USDCHF: Broader Bias Remains Lower
I'm genuinely curious, do you have any idea how other OSs handle fonts? Does OSX have something similar to Linux's X11's font configuration? What about Windows?
Why do you believe we are anywhere near that point? The same thing has been going on too the last 300 years due to industrialization, and things have turned out great. Why is THIS innovation going to be any different?
It's controversial: http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/04/libertarians-on-basic-inco...

The case for it is basically that we should choose something terrible over something awful.
This is false.

Someone might pay millions of dollars to avoid making a spectacle that refocuses their efforts on something they are not interested in dealing with.

"You wouldn't want your wife and business partners to find out that you have a girlfriend, would you?"
Basically. They'd start with random moves.

That worked with backgammon without any problems. (http://www.bkgm.com/articles/tesauro/tdl.html)

In Go, a naive approach would probably also work, but would take ages. There's probably a slightly smarter approach possible.
The difference is not about who is more powerful. The difference is that I can choose to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. I cannot (barring extreme measures) choose to disobey the government.
According to the author, the passive investors are buying into indexes regardless of valuation. However, we know the private unicorns have gotten higher valuations than public companies, which is the opposite of what we'd expect. Further, real estate prices have been going up, and real estate is not a passive investment.
The problem I was alluding to is that this would radically change the risk management aspects of a business. There is a certain amount of subjectivity in regulatory frameworks. An honest business decision may trigger a fine due to interpretation of the regulation or even unforeseen complications. There are a variety of tools to manage financial risk (e.g. insurance) that businesses are very familiar with.

If you convert these civil violations into criminal violations those risk management techniques don't apply. You can't purchase insurance that sends someone else to jail if you are found in criminal violation of a regulation.

So what I was suggesting was that criminalizing regulatory violations would make companies highly risk adverse as well as giving regulators really big sticks to force concessions. Changing the business environment in such an extreme way is going to have lots of unintended consequences.
> Poorly encrypted documents are simply insecure - bad but not injurious.

Recipients of the numerous large scale security exploits we have had may state the "harm" in stronger terms than you did.
Same. Then again, I'm not where I want to be. Looking at all the workaholics in this thread I'm simultaneously intrigued and weirded out.
"most of their jobs will be replaced through automation in less than 10 years."

I sincerely doubt that this timescale is close to true. Even 25 years seems aggressive. Maybe some long distance trucking jobs will be replaced, but I doubt if all that many livery jobs will be replaced within your timeframe.
The full history of commerce. :p I'd suggest looking at the history of food and drug regulation and testing, or weights and measures regulation if you want more. The early years of both UK and US food and pharmaceutical regulation is terrifying!

TL;DR Immature locations cut more corners. More regulation, experience and reputation helps. Consumers are naive. Manufacturers want you to buy the same things many times over your life.

In all markets, There's always going to be someone willing to cut corners to secure a place in a market, or make a fast buck in a mature market. Or maybe it's a new market that can't yet have matured. That's only part of the problem.

As markets mature regulation increases and companies tend to trade more on reputation (not always deserved of course. eg Beats headphones). Now there's an opportunity to trade on the good reputation of wherever (Proudly Made in America! / Britain! / Japan!), whilst selling you cheap crap. That's the other half of the problem. The meaningless label to tell the consumer it's made wherever they currrently believe is good.

In the early 80s most things Japanese were crap. Hifi sounded awful, but had lots of LEDs. Bolts, tools and vehicles were made of soft cheese. Their stainless steel rusted (I kid you not)! Honda made cam chains of special stretchy metal and probably accidentally invented cheese strings. Now Denon make very nice hifi, Teng make very nice tools and their cars are pretty reliable.

Why pay £50 for a Snap On or Britool[1] spanner when there's an almost identically packaged one, made in the same place, for £3 or £40? Only one will last longer than you in daily use. One risks breaking on first use.

So, it would be more accurate to say "isn't there a reason cheap tools break", "cheap materials break", "consumers naively expect $100 quality for $3.99" or "dishonest people are dishonest" than blame a specific locality.

The ONLY thing that has changed is all manufacturers adding built in obsolescence whenever possible. Now even the premium item is made to last "just long enough" (to get away with), but that doesn't make any one location especially good or bad at making stuff.

The only thing geography introduces is the further away it's made, the harder it is to audit your supply chain. Racism and nationalism has no relevance however.

[1] They're no longer British, or often made in Sheffield, they're just another meaningless brand of Stanley trading on 100 years of reputation. You're actually better served buying Teng these days.
Hmm, I haven't found this to be true. I researched and chose nearly the same stack at work about six months ago, except I chose and we use immutable.js, es7 async functions, flow, and axios.

What seems to be about right is that javascript spa frameworks go on two year hype cycles if you look at backbone->angular->react.

I suspect react will buck this trend though because it's so heavily used in production consumer apps at facebook/instagram, because of react-native because it got components so right that it's almost hard to build ridiculously long "controllers" when using it, and that it's one way data flow make it a lot harder to write an app with state spread out all over the place rather than in a single client side data model. But who knows, time will tell :-)
Nah, it's that folks who get their values from other folks are the only ones who bother to tell other folks how well they're doing at achieving their externally-gifted values. If your goal is to make a lot of money but you decided that was just your goal, why bother to tell anyone you've achieved it? (Indeed, it can be very counterproductive to tell other people.) If your goal is to be a good husband & father, then what does it matter what anyone besides your wife & kids think of you?

As a result, external discourse is filled with people crowing about how well they achieved this or that milestone, all of which is desirable only because other people think it's desirable. But then, the only people who care are the ones looking to others for their values.

There are plenty of people whose values are plenty clear, arrived at through some deep reflection about what they personally want. But then, since it's what they personally want, why would anyone else care?
"and also dramatically reduce administrative overhead."

They are all in the same Union. Good luck firing them.
>your dogs's high school's mascot's sweetheart

I'm not sure what that is exactly, but it sounds really sensitive. :)

In all seriousness, while the release of banking and identity information is certainly bad, I'd argue the contents of private communications or browsing/search history are potentially far more damaging for a lot of people. In order to include that in your hypothetical, it'd require either a lot of filtering or the 6TB number would balloon quite a bit.
We were talking about two different issues, then. I was referring to the persistent complaints by Vanguard's competitors that their fee structure is "unreasonably" low, often with blustering about anticompetitiveness and "dumping". Those complaints have been floating around for years, and more instances of them arose recently as everyone scrambled to throw in their two cents on the tax lawsuit.

But yes, the tax charges weren't quite as "ridiculous" (in that they require more than a moment's thought to dismiss), though I still think they're completely baseless. (And also, "tax avoidance" is the perfectly legal and sensible practice of paying as little tax as possible; the allegations against Vanguard were of "tax evasion".)

While the details would need careful comparison to the various laws in question (which I would hope Vanguard has done), I would argue that Vanguard's structure is similar in principle to that of a cooperative. If you have an organization owned by its members, that organization serves only its members, and that organization charges lower prices because its structure makes it reasonable to operate at cost for the benefit of its members, then that organization will pay less tax because it takes in less revenue. And that's completely reasonable. It's not reasonable to argue that the organization should charge more to its members specifically so it can pay more tax. The same reasoning should apply to Vanguard, though how it may set up such a structure would require a great deal more care and complexity at larger scale.

The details of the complaint would require careful evaluation against the exact letter of the law; in particular, this isn't a comment on the separate allegation about the "contingency fund". The above is simply an argument that in principle, I don't see why this should apply to Vanguard when it doesn't apply to smaller-scale organizations operated for the sole benefit of their members.
1. Adjust withholding. (Addresses "retroactive" issue for all near-normal employees.)

2. Allow regular payments for long-term situations, somewhat like the current US SSI system. (Addresses "retroactive" issue for unemployed & independent contractors.)

3. Allow immediate and regular payments for temporary situations, somewhat like the current US Unemployment Insurance system. (Addresses temporary/unplanned unemployment.)

4. Fix over/underpayments of negative income tax at tax time.

Is that an accurate understanding of the proposal?
I think a good mindset for building modern javascript apps is that they are full featured desktop / mobile apps, just like a windows / mac / ios / android native app. By definition these types of apps are complex, and always have been, but they are highly valuable!

Looking at it from the lens of "web apps are just some html and css with a little jquery" is a mindset that can make building very ambitious web applications seem disproportionately difficult.
wash a stack of bills and drink the water?