skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Merrill Lynch isn't a bank, it's more like a trading house. AVP is a somewhat inflated title, but that usage typically means something like "experienced employee" or "team lead". That's the highest a lot of people reach, in fact.
Infrastructure Engineers Prepare for Tsunami of Data from Virtual Reality, IoT
Not an accusation. Just an observation.

And that's all I've got. Could be pretty much anyone, clearly.

Well. Anyone of the top 0.01% or so, if you want to narrow your search down a tad.
But with triple the maintenance cost and many times more issues, interfaces and glue.
Why Gold? Why not Silver? Gold isn't useless, as others have said. Silver's a lot less useless; it's used in so many useful things, and both gold and silver are currently undervalued.

I liked the article, although I was hoping to read more about its value as an investment, and how it's survived and thrived through all of our past depressions.
Implement Social Media Sharing in a NativeScript App
From another article on the same topic[1]:

>The Kyoto researchers identified the gene in the bacteria's DNA that is responsible for the PET-digesting enzyme. They then were able to manufacture more of the enzyme and then demonstrate that PET could be broken down with the enzyme alone.

Sounds like this is quite a big step forward in our ability to reduce plastics to more base elements.

Has anyone caught what the exact output of this process is? Some waste must be excreted by these microbes, right?

[1] http://phys.org/news/2016-03-plastic-munching-bacteria-fuel-...
It would not be in the interest of 99.9% of your customer if you try to to satisfy those 0.1% of stupid-and-crazy customers. Because somebody would have to pay for it. And in this case it wasn't even a customer.
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I'm severely disappointed that their "developer" edition XPS 13 can only be configured with a touchscreen
We can't keep creating new garbage dumps, eventually we'll run out of land. If we can decompose plastic, let all the organics and paper based garbage decompose, then you have a lot more space for new garbage to be added.
Don't worry, this hotel also has a modbus-controlled window washer's crane on the same network.
It was on Hacker News at the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11214992
Not to sound harsh, but are there any historical sources or references for this essay?

It's likely another just-so story about gold and the emergence of money from the barter economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-so_story
Gold has some uses, but the utility value is far less than the monetary value.

The reason for this is a sort of religious idolization.

>When I was older, I learned what the fighting was about that winter and the next summer. Up on the Madison Fork the Wasichus had found much of the yellow metal that they worship and that makes them crazy, and they wanted to have a road up through our country to the place where the yellow metal was...Our people knew there was yellow metal in little chunks up there; but they did not bother with it, because it was not good for anything.

-Black Elk
> I would argue that for one person it is cheaper to eat out in NYC if you know where to look

I find this hard to believe. Is there seriously a place you can eat out (and eat reasonaly well) for $1 a time? Or, how expensive is your home-cooked food?
> I imagine he'll soon have a queue of VCs lining up to fund his next thing....

That's assuming he's not going to continue working on Cruise at GE. I would suspect he'll work on it for at least a year or two though depending on how passionate he is about it he may just stay at GE for along time.
First off, this already happens: every major corporation uses multi-party disk encryption, usually branded as "recovery options" or some such. They keep their private keys secure.

Second off, the FBI is not asking for a special door to every apartment. They are asking a lock manufacturer to create a key and use it to unlock a single lock that is brought to them, after the lock manufacturer explicitly designed their locks to make the creation of such a key possible, so that this legal case would exist.

There is an interesting debate to be had here, but this rhetoric using overly simplified analogies is not it.
I'm no expert, but when I was teaching college I had a few homeschooled students. They were usually younger (still high-school aged) and better students than the traditional students in my classes. So I saw a select group.

It seems to me that homeschooling is a great option for kids well away from the mean of the 'bell curve' - in either direction. It's difficult for the schools to properly handle kids that are far from normal. So for the kid who just needs to learn life skills as well as the kid who is taking the college physics class at 15 years old home schooling seems like a reasonable choice- if the parents are up to it.

I think tokenadult has a lot of interesting insight on this subject.
You can injure yourself even with a good trainer.

I trained with one on the Starting Strength lifts for 4 months. Made crazy gains, but I ended up stopping after an injury. I was not listening to my body the way I would have if I hadn't had the trainer.

I'm starting Crossfit now, and my number one goal is zero injuries. I like that it's more of a class format than it is a one on one training format. I can go at my own pace.
That's what I've been doing.

For the local hardware, I use Arduino Nano clones, nRF24L01+ mesh networking chip, whatever sensors/actuators, and the MySensors library. Encryption and packet signing are both turned on.

On the gateway, it is just a serial console opened up to a Arduino Nano and nRF24L01+. I use Node-Red on the machine the serial gateway is plugged into. I also use the MQTT broker Mosquitto as my backing store for IoT data, from any of my machines. I design my architecture around that.

To connect between physical areas (from house to hackerspace), I use Tor Hidden Services, giving each endpoint a .onion address. With that, all my computers on the .Onion network can talk with each other as if they are on medium-high latency hub. And it also solves the problem of "staticIP/port forwarding/firewall rule change/dynDNS" crap. I drop Tor, set up a hidden service, route 22 to Tor, and off it goes. All I need do is keep track of that onion address.

And that provides me devices I have complete control over, utilizing a cloud of computers I own. I'm looking in how I can blend in IPFS as well for logging capabilities.
Most people don't utilize a IDE when writing a document in LaTeX that has spell-check or grammar. So it's much, much easier to insert oddities unless you do good proofreading.
Back in the days when I was a child firmly living in DOS/Windows 3.1 land, I was always wondering whether that rumor that you can brick a mac by just dragging the system folder into the trash was true or not.

Now I know that, yes, it was true.

Thank you for this piece of art. This was an amazing trip back memory lane.
Is there any way to have an end-user application that doesn't require a oauth certificate the way you created? I'm attempting to write some software now that would benefit from allowing people to keep data in Google Spreadsheets.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. This is a big part of what happened with internet security over the years.

Back at the dawn of time, less than a billion seconds from epoch, it was considered rude to exploit obvious security holes. People would actually track down casual hackers and get them in trouble. But once script kiddies came on the scene, it became a lost cause. Once it could be any 14-year-old idiot on the planet scanning your ports and exploiting your old, unpatched software, it became clear that tacit agreements and social pressure weren't enough. The burden of security began to shift to people who created the software.
IMO modifying a car you don't own would seem to be illegal, no matter how easy or hard it is to do. You wouldn't go and start swapping out engine parts, would you? Why is ECU firmware any different?
There's nothing in the article about Android, it's only in the title.
Friend of BillinghamJ here.

We do build mock facilities and we have recently started working on the Fukushima Daiichi inspections, and there is only so much I can actually say but I'll share what I can. I'll explain what caused the failure in this part and then I'll move onto the fun stuff in the next post (robots!).

In the past, the mock facilities we have made in the past were a quarter of a full scale reactor, rather than a quarter scale reactor, if that makes any sense at all.

Anyway back to Japan. I'm assuming people have a basic understanding of how fission reactors work (Boiling Water Reactors if you are interested in doing further reading).

To break the situation down, the cooling failed (believe it or not, diesel generators don't work too well on water!) on reactors 1, 2 and 3, causing a complete meltdown of the fuel rods. When cooling failed, all of the cooling water was turned into steam, which in turn reacted with the released radioactive isotopes creating hydrogen. I'm assuming people know mixing hydrogen with oxygen is basically a recipe for an explosion, and that is important for what happened next. They tried to vent the gases out to the atmosphere to prevent the pressure vessel from exploding, but the hydrogen went the wrong way and caused reactors 1 through to 3 to explode in various places. I can't remember correctly (I think its reactor 3?) but the explosion happened within the pressure vessel which is why there was a large contamination breach. Because of this complete loss of control of the reactors, and the meltdown currently happening, they flooded the whole system with sea water and pumped as much out into storage as they can, but they lose a lot of it out to the sea, hence the Americans whining about the radiation in the Pacific. Now, the reactors are stable (ish) and they are continuing to pump water in to stop them going critical again.

I'll move onto the robots when I get home in part two, but right now I need to go have an argument with a lawn mower as my hair is getting unruly. The video linked below explains more about the actual failure of the reactor:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMaEjEWL6PU

Brb.
Because in practice, for the moment, there is a difference between "insecure" and "insecure and being exploited in the wild".
James Hamilton listed some of the highlights over the last decade at his blog - http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2016/03/a-decade-of-innovat...
Can anyone explain what the solution is supposed to look like? What actually goes in the boxes?
Ask HN: Apple v/s FBI: why the FBI doesnt give the iPhone to Apple?
I dont get it. Why the FBI doesnt give the iPhone to Apple. Apple installs the Cracking-iOS; creates a backup and restores this to a new iPhone and gives it back to the FBI. Then Apple vaporizes the original iPhone & software.
So the FBI never gets the "golden Key" but a backup from the original iPhone.
Case closed.
> It's easy to build it in a way so that the worst that the software can do is cause it to turn into a "dumb" fridge.

If it's so easy, why don't more companies do it? Why didn't Nest build their thermostats so that when the battery runs out, it reverts to a "dumb" thermostat instead of turning off your heat? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/15/bug-nest-t...
My nest had a bad firmware update and my heat turned on to 99 degrees. Good thing I was home....
I think it's an option, but i'd like to get it playable (and fun!) first.

Roleplaying and creativity is pretty high on my list. For example I'm working on a Quest Design system where you can hook together anything in the world to create a quest.

A simple example:

You create a Wizard NPC with an input of (4) (Boars tusks) (which you link to the Boar's monster area). Once completed it unlocks the (Gate) next to him, allowing the player to access the tower full of loot. The inputs and outputs would be completely flexible and could lead to some pretty funny situations. Careful balancing would be needed so players aren't walking halfway across the map just for a shoddy Wooden sword reward.
The single largest factor in determining how well a student does in High School is poverty.

Poor kids don't have the support nor the means to excel. They typically have to worry about other things. Like earning money or working the farm or just trying to keep the family together anyway they can. While other kids have computers, you didn't even have a desk to do your homework. Other kids get dinner, you go hungry. When your mom was sick it meant staying home to take care of her.

The potential that is lost to poverty is no different than the potential lost to Wars. Millions of people who could have changed the world never get a chance.
I should probably also mention there's 6 reactors on site, 4, 5 and 6 were relatively unharmed by the tsunami and 5 and 6 could actually be turned back on. However for obvious reasons they have been decommissioned and wont be turned on ever again.
I liked this:

What really drives the demand for gold is the social aspect. The primary driver is that rich people accumulate gold and so are associated with it.

This is also why Chanel can charge $3,000 for a purse.

It's also why Apple can charge a premium. It's been a part of their marketing strategy from the beginning.

From pg 78 of Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs:

The third and equally important principle, awkwardly named, was impute. It emphasized that people form an opinion about a company or product based on the signals it conveys. "People DO judge a book by its cover," he wrote. "We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software, etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities."

There's a great deal of value in perception of value. If you have enough imagination to see value in pieces of paper with dead Presidents on them, then you've got enough imagination to see value in perception.
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Is this article well-researched, or is it mostly speculation? I'm fine with speculation, just I'm surprised it made the front page of HN.
This doesn't prevent someone from just taking a pool towel to their room and then putting it in their suitcase.
Because the issue isn't the FBI having the software, but rather the government being able to compel Apple to do this in the future with any phone for any reason.
Sorry but this theory is completely wrong.

Gold has value because it is a currency (medium of exchange) and money (store of value) due to the following properties:

a) Indestructible - bury it in your garden for fifty years, still the same.

b) Infinitely divisible - use it to buy a goat or the neighbouring kingdom.

c) Easy to detect adulteration

d) Stable supply (around 2% growth in supply annually since time immemorial)

e) No other use - Gold is terrible for most other things (swords, stirrups, axes....) so demand for it is purely for its value as a currency.

This is why rich people had a lot of gold - rich people have money and gold is money

There is one other very precious thing and that is diamond, basically the same except not divisible. Silver also caught on but not as much as gold. Pretty much every other metal lacked on one or more of the above properties.

Bitcoin is exactly the same, except you can send it over the wire.

Over the millenia, the properties people have looked for in currency have not changed.
We can and should surveil the heck out of the rest of the world -- to be used for intelligence purposes only.

The problem is when this intelligence information gets used for domestic criminal cases -- no matter which country is involved. So if the Saudis want to know every detail about my life, who cares? They never release the data, I'm not a threat to them, and life goes on. But if the Saudis give that information to U.S. authorities, and then the U.S. authorities arrest me for a laundry list of crimes? I've effectively had my privacy and private papers violated without any kind of due process.

You can't start building "escape hatches" into the agreement you have with your government. It breaks the entire system. Used to be that grownups realized this, but lately the well-meaning idiots seem to be in charge.
In the first example, I think that the order has changed. I guess your complain is about the #3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266874

As the minimaxir said, it's more tangent than off-topic. I think that this comment is too general and the discussion gets drafted to general opinions. I usually prefer comments that are more specific about the current submission.
Depends what you mean by "Building Automation." If you mean things like a thermostat to control my heating, sure that has been around for decades. However, it can be a very simple mechanical device. Even for the computerized ones, I see little advantage to networking it (at least compared to the disadvantages).

If, however, by "Building Automation," you mean networked computers controlling your lights and every other aspect of your environment, this is not the norm now, never has been, and I would hazard a guess that it won't be any time soon because the cost and complexity is not worth the marginal advantages. Yes, some elements are creeping in: particularly systems to shut off lighting and environment control in office buildings at night because the power savings are worth it, but those systems are relatively simple and closed. There is no need to connect them to the sort of network that is featured in the article let alone the internet at large.
That sounds great. I pick Bend, Oregon.
How are they making money ? I mean they say they are about 50. They need a ton of money to pay them.
'Science' is also a method - one that took a long time to develop - and is fundamental in understanding the universe. It should also be included in your list of essentials...
Your nest is not built in this way...

This is exactly the sentiment i was talking about though.

If you buy a car that had a faulty AC unit, do you just swear off cars altogether because "they all have shitty AC"?

Why do so many people like to bring up bugs/issues with poor iot devices and act like it is something that can't be improved or fixed?
Don't fund marketing dreams, buy products.
Does that matter? And Apple does a ton of telemetry from iOS and it certainly has a sufficiently large userbase there.

All I see is a tribally applied double-standard.
Kinda off topic, but here's on Einstein's relativistic effects in gold atom, that give gold its glow: "Why is Gold yellow? Special relativity causes length contractions and time dilations in objects that travel at speeds approaching the speed of light. The valence electrons of large atoms such as gold have such high energies that their speeds actually approach the speed of light—and the relativistic effects on those electrons can become quite large.

Special relativity changes the energy levels of the 5d orbital in a gold atom so that the energy difference between 5d and 6s orbitals equals the energy of a ‘blue’ photon. Gold thus absorbs blue light when electrons are elevated from the 5d to the 6s orbitals, while other metals do not. These special relativistic changes to the energy levels of atomic orbitals are slightly different for each element.

Relativistic contractions on gold’s valence electrons (the 6s subshell) pull the 6s electron very close to the nucleus. Being closer to the nucleus makes the 6s electron less accessible to any potential reactants. Special relativity is not only the reason for gold’s yellow colour but also for its very low reactivity!"

https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/why-is-g...

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/
"However, Joyal also noted there is a bias in the findings; since many people refused to participate in the study, those who agreed might be more likely to have a predilection for, um, naughty behaviours. In short, they might have surveyed a lot of braggers."

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/03/10/quebecers-may-be-a-bit-...
Warning to people who are considering buying Towns: Don't.

Its abandoned and an unfinished mess.
Paper money (fiat currency in particular) gets value because you can pay debts and taxes with it.
How is the paper trail harder to mess with? A printing machine could do the trick simply enough
As a result of this article, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of groups engineering this bacteria's systems into something that could survive and grow at lower temperatures. Or maybe they'll try to encapsulate the two enzymes in nanoparticles.
I wouldn't say that's true. I have an app written in Scala [1], and the apk is just 4 MB. Sure, that's more than a comparable Java app, but many apps reach 20+ MB due to graphics anyway.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nutomic.en...
OP has posted this link before, both here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990206 (with the title "Get an interview at LinkedIn by solving this puzzle") and on the Who's Hiring threads https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014173

As an exercise, I wrote a quick and dirty python script to solve this back in February (albeit it's not the most elegant solution but far better than brute force) and submitted my answer and subsequent contact info hoping to eventually hear back about said interview, and never did.

Which is quite frustrating from the perspective of someone on the job hunt. Why use something like this as a hiring tool and not follow up on it?

</rant>
Comparing entire-home AirBnB rentals to hotel room costs seems like an unfair comparison. Renting out an entire home on AirBnB seems much more akin to getting a hotel suite, which is more expensive than a single room.
Not Seattle but Portland. It's a slight exaggeration, but not by much. The dreary overcast skies mean that it can be "dark" an hour before the sun sets and doesn't get fully light until well after sunrise.
I don't think your example of dating is a very good one. You're changing the functional nature of the date by having someone else go on it. That's like saying you can't outsource hair-cutting to a barber because it would be equivalent of telling your friend to go cut his hair for you. Clearly you need to be participatory in some degree for the activity to retain it's functionality, but that doesn't mean you can't outsource the hard parts to someone else and have everyone be better off. (Maybe it's unrealistic, but personally I think we do need a bit more outsourcing in dating. We don't need to have everyone muddle through it by themselves, we can have skilled people help educate and guide us in how to find healthy meaningful relationships.)

And honestly, I simply can't help disagreeing with the idea that everyone should raise children themselves, just because we will "look back on it with fondness". That seems to me to be the equivalent of saying (pardon the awful analogy) that people should kidnap women off the street and rape them because they find the experience "pleasurable". The way I see it is that by raising a child you are forcing your will upon them, they did not ask or consent to it and have no say in how it is done. And yet, child raising must be done somehow, and therefore you have a serious responsibility to try to ensure that it is done as well as it possibly can. You have no right to force poor parenting onto a child simply because you had a "nice experience".

I realize my views on this may be a bit unusual, but I think it's worth considering.
Ok, we added 'entire home' to the title.
Yeah, the stated election process and actual election outcome have to both be considered, but my point was more that there aren't any good ol' days to harken back to when it comes to evaluating how egalitarian US elections are in practice.

Personally, I'm more concerned that parties have easier access to the ballot and that people are prevented from voting than I am with records tampering.
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This might help getting rid of those that follow you: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate