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>Hittite secret of iron wasn't for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari's poignant novel "The Egyptian" which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut

I think several sources are saying that Hittites had some iron artifacts already around 1800 BC and had iron works in 1380 BC?

I don't recall that scene from the book, but anyway, Waltari wrote it during WW II using just library sources in Helsinki; he never set foot in Egypt. (He said "I have lived in Egypt although I've never been there.")
Of possible interest:

http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/Lambda.html
I commuted daily on a motorcycle in Saigon and it's not as dangerous as it is here in North America (well, sometimes it is, but mostly because of idiots riding drunk with no helmet while texting).

Everyone drives slower (~40km/h at most) and cars actively look out for motorcycles and make slow, smooth controlled changes in direction that everyone can anticipate.
Love it, thanks!

Keep up the good work.
This is interesting. I have had Nest thermostats for several years, and overall I think they're great, but I have definitely felt the need for remote sensors (our upstairs thermostat in particular is in a really bad spot). A couple of months ago I seriously considered getting an Ecobee, but I read a bunch of reviews that complained of stuff like unresponsive touchscreen, bad UI, etc. The main thing I love about the Nest is that the UX is very simple, and works well. Anyone in the house can use it without instructions, and it feels like a thermostat, not a slow Android device or something.

Did you find those to not be issues? Definitely most of the reviews were good, so maybe it's just isolated people having problems. But I couldn't tell if it was that, or more that people either aren't as picky about UX as I am, or they didn't have another point of comparison... I'm very open to re-considering them if someone can convince me this stuff is a non-issue, because the remote sensor would certainly make our system work better.
Which is why the GDS builds in house rather than getting bids.
Would you recommend OVH or Vultr?

I've always been a bit suspicious of OVH, not sure why...
Oh my, at least I didn't leave anyone wondering ;)
You didn't read the article, did you? Ads are all about privacy, malware, and arbitration of _you_.

Also, did you read today's other post about ad networks and malware?

https://kalkis-research.com/clickbait-and-traffic-laundering...
I just wrote BusQue, a Redis-based message queue and scheduler for PHP7
It's basically the same word. Just spelling/pronouncation getting corrupted down the years as it went latin-french-english.
The wealthy would still get bribed, and a lot more than the pittance that the populace would get.
That awkward balancing act they do between "I'm gone but don't be too scared I'm still here but really I'm gone" I mean this is like a sentence tennis match:

```Although this news may feel sudden to some, this transition has been in progress since late last year and while I won’t be present day to day at Nest, I’ll remain involved in my new capacity as an advisor to Alphabet and Larry Page. This will give me the time and flexibility to pursue new opportunities to create and disrupt other industries – and to support others who want to do the same – just as we’ve done at Nest. We should all be disrupters!

I will miss this company and my Nest family (although I’ll be around to provide advice and guidance and help the team with the transition), but I am excited about what’s coming next, both for Nest and for me.```
I am familiar with your name, but hadn't tracked you well enough to remember anything more than, "He knows Perl." I left Usenet about a year before I learned Perl, so I was never in clpm.

So you just failed to register the cryptography reference and then backsolve to what he really meant. If that's the worst thing that you did last month, then you're a better person than I...
Certainly, but Uber has Uber-controlled protections (however they're determined). It certainly appears as "vehicles that can pick people up off the street with no prior arrangement". I'm not advocating for a return to what was, I'm advocating for a reasonable set of protections in this brave new world that aren't controlled by the company. The company has no compulsion to maintain any protections beyond the minimum required to maintain profitability.
> To run Spyglass, you need extra permissions above that of a normal user in order to capture network traffic at the data-link layer, below IP, and without having to alter or interfere with the regular data flow between the client app and database servers. We recommend running it using “sudo.”

Wouldn't it be better to use some kind of privilege separation? I think there is a reason WireShark does this...
And even saying Rust is a safe Language won't save you from programming errors, it just makes them more diffcult.
Microsoft is doing this because the .Net developers numbers are most likely dwindling (or at least stagnant, which is just as bad since it means there's not enough young blood coming in).

As a result the new solution must also cater to the new recruits they're trying to draw. I doubt many of those would like MSBuild, since it's not even liked by existing .NET devs :)
I read the news on this but just assumed there would be a catch.

Is it for web traffic only? So no torrents? Any logging? Speed?
What changes are you hoping for in the experience? I think my Nest thermostats work great, and frankly I'd rather that they not muck with that in the name of "improvement." It's basically an appliance, and part of my house, and regular software changes would be a real annoyance (other than fixing bugs, of course). I'd rather they spend their energy on creating new products than on changing the already (IMHO) solid experience on the existing ones.
The man is beyond brilliant. Check out his take on computer security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc
Yeah, I definitely agree on the first and the third, but I'm not so sure about the second.

Even though they might be unsupported or unusable that doesn't mean that the legal team would be happy to ignore them.

Sometimes (most times?) companies are very aggressive when it comes to their IP, especially when it's a core product.

Don't get me wrong. I think it's really cool that we have access to these things, just out of curiosity (although I doubt I'll ever download and install them, because of laziness). But things like the emails and such, just seems like a fuzzy/gray area.

In the end I was hoping there was some other kind of answer like, Microsoft actually let them publish things or something like that, but I'm skeptical.
why is your comment even on hn?
Gold was also the heaviest known element until the middle of the 19th century, which means that all impurities swim at the top and so it is easy to purify simply by melting it. Plus you can assay it by a touchstone. So there are a lot properties that make Gold the best metal for coins.
Profitability in their case does include a requirement of an expectation of safety (one that in my experience exceeds the expectation of safety I can expect with city-approved taxi services, incidentally). I am not, in general, a fan of appeals to the invisible hand (I fit somewhere on the socialist end of things, to be honest), but the truth is that the capitalism of uber is an improvement on the quasifeudalism of taxi oligopolies.

And no, it does not appear as that at all. The prior arrangement may only be minutes before, but it includes knowing the name, license plate, and location of the person who's picking you up, all of which can be verified before getting in the car. This is categorically different from a taxi hail. It baffles me that someone could assert they're the same.
because nobody is complaining about this. the fact that this is reddit for tech.
> Tutankhamun is an interesting figure largely due to his father, Akhenaten

No. he is famous because his tomb was found intact by Howard carter.
> Isn't it obvious that some level of regulation is too costly for consumers to justify the benefits they receive? To me, that's the charitable reading of bsbechtel's comment.

I don't dispute this. If you want the regulation changed, vote on it. If you simply ignore it because you think it doesn't apply to you, I hope to see you go out of business.
Harder still when wage growth has been this anemic for this long.

The number of niches in the economy are not expanding.

When the average worker gets laid off, he or she stays laid off.

We could sprinkle the market with PhDs and it would solve nothing. The underlying issue is much more structural than the NYT wants to admit.
There is dignity in work.
I have 3 Ecobee3 thermostats at home and in general very pleased with them. The only issues I had - from time to time they loose connection to remote sensors (reconnect back without me doing anything) and once a thermostat got stuck on heating - rebooting fixed the issue. Otherwise works great, with great set of features that work as advertised and new updates coming regularly (Ecobee3 was first thermostat natively supported by Amazon Echo)
I'm reluctant to pre-judge someone in a situation like this (having zero facts, only allegations from people, some of whom I trust by default), but stepping down when allegations like this happen, even if you dispute their veracity, is often the best thing to do for the organization (and yourself).

This has to be tough for everyone involved. Tor is unpopular with a lot of people, and there are both internal-to-scene and journalist-vs-securitypeople historical dramas here, plus people often do bad things.

I'm confident the Tor Project will survive this; I hope justice for the people involved is served as well.
You can't blame college admissions staff for trying it on, but no.
It was a crowd of Apple Mac OS X developers though, with a great deal of expertise in Obj-C, not the web, so it shouldn't be taken as an objective verdict on whether it was a good strategy or not.
the 4/6 year ones are way too high unless you're going for some sort of specific role they need. like if you specialize in robotics or machine learning
My assumption had always been that our modern languages had already done that for us, so we don't need to.

But you are right, the original statement is absurd. Ada and (at least Turbo-) Pascal have pointers. And so does Java.
The article recommends 'Streisand' [1]. According to their GitHub page their VPN is resistant to DPI.

>Distinct services and multiple daemons provide an enormous amount of flexibility. If one connection method gets blocked there are numerous options available, most of which are resistant to Deep Packet Inspection.

I don't know too much about networking, but didn't realise it was possible? How can they do that? What protocol/service can bypass this? The network security team at work challenged me to see if I could bypass their WSA, so would like to give it a try.

[1]: https://github.com/jlund/streisand
> the unemployment rate dropped because more people left the workforce and became discouraged workers

For the last monthly downtick, if you look at all the alternative measures [0], that's not the case. Actually, what you see is that the headline unemployment rate dropped, but the difference is mostly a shift from unemployed to working part time for economic reasons; discouraged workers have stayed about the same.

> (a la haven't searched for work in the past 4 weeks).

Discouraged workers are not "haven't searched for work in the past 4 weeks" its that subset of the marginally attached ("those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months") who "have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work." [0, again]

[0] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Actually the sandbox used for Flatpak can also be used to run AppImages already now:

https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/152
After 2 homes with Nest, I decided to try an Ecobee last December. I prefer the Ecobee.

1) Vacations: with the Ecobee, tell it when you'll be away (date/time range) and it will go into vacation mode. I travel often and I can add multiple vacations in advance. Not a complex feature and surprising Nest doesn't have this. With the Nest I have to keep tweaking my Away mode temps to ensure that it warms up when I return and doesn't just switch back to Away and stop heating (it can take hours to go from 50=>70 when its 15 outside).

2) Learning with the Nest was always wrong for me because I have an irregular schedule so I turned that off. For me, that was originally an appeal of the Nest.

3) Ecobee multi-room sensors are awesome. Unfortunately I've learned that my office is always 10 degrees warmer/cooler in summer/winter.

4) Ecobee is HomeKit/Siri compatible which I haven't really used much.

I installed the Ecobee myself and had to install the little box on my furnace to provide power. Not ideal, but easy.
Personally, I'm looking forward to phk's Ntimed (currently funded by the Linux Foundation).
A good, older introduction can be found here:

http://www.gamasutra.com/resource_guide/20030121/jacobson_pf...

If you want to look into more rigorous and advanced version, reading position based dynamics papers (http://matthias-mueller-fischer.ch) will give you a lot to chew on. Generally speaking Googling "verlet physics" or "position based dynamics" will give you a lot of resources.
Luxembourg invests heavily in space mining
Anyone an idea what I can reasonable expect as a student in Germany?

I am working for a company in the Metal industry as a software Developer.
I am working very independently.
You have to love pop sci headlines with phrases like "...promises possible..."

I promise you, BBC's Roland Pease, that it's possible the sun won't rise tomorrow and Linus Torvalds with announce that he will be Microsoft's next CEO.
bubblewrap works for sandboxing AppImages:

https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/issues/152
Fast Deterministic Selection (2016) [pdf]
What do you by inform your position? Can you give an example of what to look for?
Moreover, the article is touting that "Uber and Lyft Are Adding Jobs, Not Just Stealing Them" without mentioning this VERY important caveat that makes such a headline quite an inaccurate statement.
It was flagged. Not to mention it was a poorly written, heavily biased piece from a sketchy source.
I would lol at someone who fired me expecting me to say it this way. If you fire me I have no further obligation to your doublespeak.
You forgot:

0. Gold doesn't corrode/oxydize/otherwise react easily with most common elements, thus keeping it properties over extremely long periods of time.

I doubt they knew or cared about 2). They did care about 1) being malleable and therefore easy to turn into pretty objects. They also cared that 3) it was shiny. But the main selling point was the fact that those pretty, shiny things lasted and could even be passed to the next generation ;)
Strange how it doesn't credit GDS
I have been cringing every time I see/hear the word "disrupt" (in its various forms) for a couple years now. In pretty much all cases, the more often a given person uses that word, the more vapid I come to think they are.
Hi, thanks for voting this up! I created this with a few colleagues. Our goal was to make a fabric simulation tool that might inspire creative exploration among artists and engineers. I hope you find it fun to play with, and welcome any feedback and suggestions on how to improve this.

We started from a three.js cloth simulation example and made a bunch of modifications. The cloth is modeled as a grid of point masses (particles) connected by springs. We've got options for horizontal & vertical springs (simulating cross grain, where the cloth threads run parallel to the edges), diagonal springs (simulating bias grain, where the cloth threads run diagonally), and springs that connect particles two units apart (simulating drape / bending stiffness, similar to a starched tablecloth). It's kind of amazing how a simple system of particles and springs can result in such rich cloth-like behavior. Other than the springs (which are modeled as constraints on the distance between particles), the only forces on the particles are wind and gravity. In addition we have constraints that account for collisions and simulate friction-like behavior.

We've submitted a paper that explains the details of how this works which I'll share once it's published, but for now if you're interested in learning more here are a few references, or google 'verlet integration constraints'. Also happy to try to answer your questions.

https://graphics.stanford.edu/~mdfisher/cloth.html
http://www.pagines.ma1.upc.edu/~susin/files/AdvancedCharacte...
http://kucg.korea.ac.kr/education/2005/CSCE352/paper/provot9...
http://luthuli.cs.uiuc.edu/~daf/courses/Games/SimList/Papers...
Improved Facade Design Pattern in Automated Testing V.2.0
Caloric Lab – AI Photo Calorie Counter
I was just thinking about writing a minimal traffic-analyzer and libpnet looks way more suitable for this task than libpcap.

And adding the functionality for a pcap like fileformat doesn't seem that difficult.

The filters are a major pain point, I don't know how libpcap handles this, but at least it says it won't copy packets from kernel- to userspace that are not matching. Thus avoiding alot of overhead, maybe it's possible to introduce some rusty kind of filtering in libpnet, too.

Going to log into Github now and see if I can do something.

EDIT: fixed spelling
Sure, if you want to interview for the position so badly, name some arbitrary high number. But Patrick's original point is that you should never disclose your current salary or the number you're truly willing to settle for, since it sets a premature upper ceiling on what you could end up making.
NodeChef is probably the most advanced offering right now for fully managed Parse Server, just like the popular Parse.com. You may want to include it in your article.

https://nodechef.com/parse-server
Norway reportedly agrees on banning new sales of gas-powered cars by 2025
We have two people who are on 4-day weeks. It depends on your role(s)... Some are less compatible with part time work.
I find your Ruby code super awkward. Like you're trying to turn it into a language that it is not. At least it is not in my book but then again I'm just some random dude on the internet, a sample of one ;)
oh i'm still not used to the autocorrect on OS X. Thank you for correcting my error.
That's why they usually couple it with some sort of a cash payoff / severance package for playing nice.
"Famous" and "interesting" are two different things.
I've had the opposite experience. I've avoided naming the number at least twice where the company then offered something higher than the range I had in mind.

Better, since I didn't start, I was able to still negotiate on top of their initial offer.
I'm starting to think Lifelock would be a better product for consumers if they completely avoided the protection side of the business and just beefed up the insurance side of the business.
Eerily Empty Louvre: What It’s Like When Floods Keep Tourists Away
Rio’s ‘symbol of hope’: The Olympic refugee team
Zoomooz.js: Make any web page zoom
How about lasers? How about flat lasers, on chips, using laser diodes and flat lenses? Or camera pixels on the nano scale?
I've had an ecobee 3 since November, and the UX has been very responsive and intuitive to me. My wife can use it well enough to set manual away and temperature overrides, which is pretty much all that you might need to do after you've set it up. The android and ios apps are nothing special, basically just a clone of the thermostat's UI itself, but they work. The web app is very good, and the graphs are very nice and useful, including the ability to export all data as a csv. I've never used a Nest so I don't know how it compares but I'm quite happy with the ecobee.
"Our goal was to make a fabric simulation tool that might inspire creative exploration among artists and engineers."
Maybe that's because the isn't much room for temperature innovation?
It looks like they create particles in a grid, and constraints between the particles to bind them together. Then they create springs and apply forces that simulate what wind would look like.
Is it too costly to check the source IP of UDP packets exiting ISPs networks?
I had same reservations as you before I bought my first Ecobee3. I probably read same negative reviews as you. However the thermostat worked very well for me, without all the issues that I've read. I bought two more over the year. In terms of UI and ease of use - I prefer a thermostat with which I don't need to fiddle after I program it. Ecobee3's programming and automatic features worked well for my family in two zones. Kitchen zone (used mostly by my wife) was impossible to program to her satisfaction but integration with Amazon Echo solved the issue.
Grimd – dns proxy built to black-hole internet advertisements
I was at work the other day when I got a push notification that there was smoke upstairs from Nest protect. I left work immediately and arrived home to the smell of burning, an incense plug had been left in and was melting.

Nest saved me, the ROI for me is priceless. Thanks Tony, good luck in your next venture - learn from your mistakes.
Try to follow README at https://github.com/micropython/micropython - it gives detailed (and simple) steps to build MicroPython. We also have continuous integration system ("build passing" badge in the same README), you can compare known good build process with what you get and see where it goes wrong for you. Finally, you can ask for help on the forum.
People that get fired tend to not want to say that they got fired and prefer this sort of doublespeak.
The biggest barrier for us has been quality and availability of fresh produce. There are 4 grocery stores very close to us and we usually end up hitting each one over the course of a week to see what's actually worth buying.

There's a fair amount of standard stuff we buy as well, but if we're already in the stores it doesn't take that much additional time to grab it.
> If you can get a machine to do something that a human can do then you give that human the opportunity to place his focus, time and attention elsewhere.

Assuming the human was rational, what they were doing was already the thing that provided them the greatest utility of the options they had -- if putting their focus, time, and attention elsewhere was more beneficial to them, they already would have been doing it.

If you remove that option, unless there is some better new option created for that same human -- rather than merely displacing them from their best option -- then they experience a net utility loss.
Ask HN: Is there a tool like Sketchapp for Windows?
I want to use Material UI components.
I've found that having coding responsibilities is almost detrimental because I never have time to complete them. If I take a dev story off the backlog, it tends to stay open forever because I'm too busy doing managery things. I'll bite off really small bits that I know I can do quickly to at least keep my skin in the game.
The critical challenge of unifying customer data
People can bicycle at 20mph too using their legs. On paths and lanes where these things are banned.

Common sense wattage restrictions (I have seen 1hp or 750W as a threshold, for example, and apparently parts of Europe do 250W limits) are perfectly feasible.

Apparently federal law on imports dictates that the class of 'low-speed electric bicycles' is defined by a maximum of 750W and 20mph, which is a surprisingly appropriate envelope - about as much as you'd want out of a single-rider passenger bicycle with a heavy rider or cargo in a hilly city.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws#Defined

* http://www.alysion.org/ebiketours/power.html
> Tor makes people more susceptible due to its reliance on an outdated version of Firefox.

Tor uses a current version of Firefox and automatically updates it.