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Yeah, PCB manufacturing really has opened up and become highly available.

On that note, the title neglects the price of the board, which will add to the total cost for building this. From OSH Park it's $4.60 for three copies of the board, bringing the total per token to $4.50 + $1.53 = ~$6.

That's a very interesting microcontroller by the way, I always think it's mildly amusing with 8-bit CPU cores sitting on a hardware USB peripheral. Looks like a nice chip, plenty of I/O, 5 V-capable, built-in 3.3 V regulator and USB firmware, and stuff. Thanks OP for sharing this!
Only if you assume that the only costs/inputs are the grain. There maybe other manufacturing costs, which do not receive any subsidy.
If you have robots in the entire supply chain down to the production of the fertiliser for the plants without any humans then why the hell not?
I've gotten great results with dirtyPCBs for $14, I've made about five batches with them so far.
Indians spend several times more money on Bollywood and Cricket than the space programs. Space programs are not what needs to be targeted for budgets.
I know why they're paying out Bitcoin and keeping everything anonymous. They are hoping quant hedge fund insiders submit their model to the site.
Indeed. I was very disappointed not to be able to see the details of the bridge construction instead of a silly logo a Brother sewing machine from WalMart could make. Me thinks the whole thing is a forced perspective cheat, heavy on the photoshop, not a giant photo.
Why is it that there is a cultural meme and expectation for an Employee to give notice to an Employer but, none the other way around?

In fact, it largely happens only because it's mandated by law.

If I have loyalty to an organization and I don't want to hurt the people who keeping that organization running, then yeah, I'll give notice but, that is a gift.

No one has ever told me that the company is going to be downsizing in two weeks; an exit interview and an escort out of the building is the only thing I've gotten.
What's cutting edge thought in OS design?
I imagine every intelligence agency in the world would dream of catching webcam footage of Zuckerberg masturbating to use it as leverage for data requests from FB.
Old Treos (and maybe Palm Pilots) had a similar switch to sound, which was great. You could turn it off and be completely sure that no software error can cause any sound whatsoever.
This looks fantastic, and doubly so because it uses KiCAD, which I love.
Ha, power companies don't even sell you electrons! The electrons just wiggle a bit back and forth.
OK, but how many physicists support the moon landing conspiracy? How many aerospace engineers support the moon landing conspiracy? What credentials do the experts of the moon landing conspiracy have that I should trust?

I think he has a valid point if you have bias in which experts you place trust. There are, in fact, a lot of experts -- and even academically tenured, credentialed, published experts -- that I agree, don't have much of anything worthwhile to say.
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It depends on the quality of your grid. For example, here in Germany, the grid quality is higher than the average US grid. I don't recall any power outage that lasted more than a few minutes.
Or a lid that can be slided over it. As a bonus, it would also protect the camera from being scratched
But of course, customers are free to disregard that date, I assume?
I can see where he is coming from, but this quote is wrong on so many levels.
corporate IT security policy?
You need to know those properties. But they are usually a strong simplification of reality. They will help you not to completely botch your engine design. But the see-through engine could also show you that your particular design of the pipes leads to pressure being above threshold at that particular point - and can give you clues to investigate further.

Which I think is why the closest equivalent to magic see-through engines - simulations - are actually used in engine design.
I don't think that this applies to this very case though. Django was not made for Instagram, it was made available to the general public for free, as an open source framework. Instagram engineers only decided to use what was on the table.

I also believe that Instagram needs Django to be OSS, and the same goes for any other framework/language/library that other companies use, as OSS in itself is an extremely powerful label for a project. It brings together developers to form a community with lots of great minds and inputs. It helps feasible projects become production-ready and stable much faster than if it was closed source as its use-cases are far more wider than what a single company would provide.

Taking this from a competetive standpoint isn't very realistic in my opinion. I dare say that if either Django or Python weren't open source software, Instagram wouldn't be built on it in the first place.

I think it's absurd how Instagram can grow financially fat from the hard work of the Django Software Foundation without even contributing a dime to their fundraising or provide engineers exclusively to the DSF. IMHO Instagram should bring that fundraising up to at least 100%, considering Instagram revenue is estimated to hit $5.8 billion USD by 2020, $160,000 USD per year is a small price for the amount of value Django brings them.

It's a topic of morale though, Instagram does not owe the DSF anything, but I guess this shows where Instagrams appreciation lies.
We're nowhere near "extreme" levels of noise yet, thankfully. Extreme levels of noise will – just like audio noise – cancel out any signal you're trying to emit. That's a real problem because everything communicates by radio these days.

But even though we're nowhere near extreme levels, this still causes problems in some areas of the world. I don't remember the specifics, but some train-related communications system where I live uses a part of the spectrum that's apparently very busy. This means the train drivers often have to rely on the civilian cell phone system to communicate, which in an emergency will be absolutely swamped and really hard to use.
You're paying for the full cost of today's equipment either way, the difference is that with the lease, once you reach the end of the lease term you have the choice of either throwing it in the trash or paying the cost of a new system to keep what you've already paid for once.
Don't even think about touching my free shipping.
It's "weakening".
Eric Schmidt would say something like that: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Apart from land rights, all the costs of everything are salaries being paid. I'm not be facetious. It's salaries all the way down until you hit land rights.
We had X-ray film fogging after the Fukushima accident too.
http://fujifilm.jp/important/article_20110322.html
if yes, he is definitely following rules
> I get the feeling this "pure dataset" is part of some framework that Numerai thinks will beat the market, given good predictors.

> That's not necessarily the case.

This is the part that I find most interesting. They have a hypothesis and they are testing it with real money.

They are even outsourcing computational power which I think is very interesting as running ml fund with thousands of algos would probably be quite hard to scale.
The main arguments of the author seem to be "I don't use a debugger", "Some people I respect don't use a debugger", "sometimes you can't use a debugger" and "we should make tools that are somehow better than debuggers". I don't find any of those very convincing.
So... is it possible to turn on a webcam without the light? (referring to macs)

I used to tape it, but stopped out of fear of looking stupid.
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Dude, in the context of an internet post "this is absolutely true" MEANS "I think so too."
> I'm going to hazard a guess that you have never sent money to family overseas.

Bitcoin is utterly useless in this regard. Converting bitcoin to usable currency is very impractical in most locales and nearly impossible in others (no, meeting up with strangers to exchange bitcoins for cash at a 20% markup does not count).
The light is controller via software, it would be wiser if the light took power from the camera (e.g. if camera was powered the light would be on), but currently it doesn't do that.
I would argue that this entire debate is about what it means to "explain".
If the MRI engineer we use is to believed, us leaving the scanner door open by accident led to a very grumpy letter to the MR vendor by the coast guard. 3T so I'm guessing 128ish MHz, I'll let someone else judge if this story is bs.
You've asked a lot of things here. Let me try to address them:

1. Do you have some reason to believe there is a meltdown risk?

No. I've read and heard from qualified people who do. I can't speak for them beyond saying they exist. I was trying to summarize their positions, but I probably missed some things.

2. Have you spent as much time worrying about the oil refineries within miles of fault lines all throughout the state?

Diablo canyon popped up on my radar due to a podcast (TUC radio) which had a 2-part series: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/77429 and http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/77528. I found the case for the shutdown of this specific site quite persuasive - you may be more skeptical...

3. What about oil train explosions?

No. Again, this is a specific case. The focus is on the safety of this one thing.

You can look at my comment history, I don't believe I'm an alarmist. The concerns of the suitability of the plant seemed valid outside of any anti-nuclear concern.
There's more to it than death by metabolism failure. We are a very social species, it's the biological norm for its members to suffer from forced or imposed loneliness.
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I think its a combo of two compounds that harden when mixed.

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/potting-compounds/1991402/
There's taking advantage of tax incentives, and then there's this:

"According to the Kroll report, SolarCity reports solar system costs when claiming tax credits that are 75 percent higher than solar system costs disclosed to investors in the company’s quarterly investor earnings call."
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It doesn't matter whether I researched it or not. I was responding to someone who suggested Tesla is a household name. Being a household name doesn't come from people researching the brand. Coca Cola is a household name, and it's not because people researched them. Similarly Honda is known for having reliable cars. That's not due to people doing tons of research.

Tesla may be the best thing ever. All I am saying is that they do not have some enormous reservoir of brand equity.
How? What am I missing?
> Most people laughed at it, and said it's impossible and what not. But guess what, India did send a successful Mars mission that's orbiting the red planet right now. Since then I take 'Expert' HN comments with a pinch of salt.

I've been on HN for many years and my recollection is that the community here has been very supportive and encouraging of India's efforts in space technology.
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Yes, but you are not able to sell it when it's past the due date (but this may be not a problem for mrweasel).
Great work! My gentoo destroyed 2x2GB ram, so it's time to use them again thanks to memory trick.
About your server-thinkpad, I guess it's only broken fuse (F1, F2 or F3, the closest to power socket).
Also, sugar is listed in the ingredients list, while the nutrition facts list it at 0 (might be rounding?)

GMO or not, even the wikipage of carrageenan (e407) says:

"Some animal studies indicate tumor promotion or initiation by carrageenan.[22][23][24][25] In an industry-funded study, Cohen & Ito discuss methodological problems with four such studies, along with several evaluations of genotoxic activity, and state that there is no credible evidence that carrageenan contributes to tumor promotion or colon cancer."

Which might be FUD but better safe than sorry.
Is that green because it supports difs?!
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I think when you're a person as important as Zuckerberg - it'd not be unreasonable to think you're under surveillance by other governments and so you probably can't easily guarantee that your hardware hasn't been tampered with.
Weird... I actually tried with a couple of different browsers (FF, Chrome and Safari) to check that it wasn't me logged in or something like that. Could it be ip-based, as I did all my tests with the same computer? Hmm...

Anyway, thanks for expanding on it; I've shared a few images through imgur and never had this issue (maybe it was before this change, or maybe the people receiving them never complained), so I was a bit puzzled by your comment.
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If you use Apple hardware, then you trust them on many other levels. As for this particular feature, some hobbies or profs (like fixit) may have a good chance to disassemble it and check.
Compilers are in general far simpler than interpreters, especially if you're trying to build an interpreter with a reasonable performance.

For a simple language compiler is nothing more than a chain "parse -> strip off syntax sugar -> resolve lexical scope -> propagate types -> flatten the code -> emit target code", with each step being independent and trivial, nothing more than a set of tree rewrite rules.
It's not what I said. I meant that there probably are reasons apart from difficulty that people don't launch so many satellites at once.
Not to denigrate the Indian space program on their historic achievement, but since it has been done before (even if more expensively), it's of less interest to those that are looking forward to major advances in the field.

These types of achievements are great though, in the sense that they foster competition and help everyone improve.
I'm not convinced Apple design department will allow that.
Well no they better not, obviously!

The point was "all a hacker would really have to do is to intercept when you put your decryption key in and send it off to their own server" (emphasis added).

However this is more about keeping the Lastpass software secure than it is about keeping the encrypted user vaults secure. The documentation you quoted really obscures this by use of the passive voice, casting the end-user somehow as an active agent deliberately doing all the encryption/hashing and sending, implying that they are in full control :) Try this on for a change:

"LastPass says they never receive my Master Password. Doesn't the LastPass Software send it to the LastPass servers when I log in?

No, when you login to LastPass, the LastPass Software generates two things when you give it your Master Password, before the LastPass Software sends anything to the server: the password hash and the decryption key. The LastPass Software does all this locally.

The LastPass Software sends your password hash to our servers to verify you. Once verified, our server sends back your encrypted Vault. The LastPass Software only sends your hash to our server, not your Master Password that you just entered into the LastPass Software.

The LastPass Software then uses this decryption key, which should NEVER leave your computer, to decrypt your Vault once it comes back."

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The above is IMHO a much better way to word the same documentation, since it doesn't try to gloss over a rather important part of the attack surface. It's not really fair to on the one hand congratulate a user for being security-aware enough to use a password manager, but then ignore this part. Good security software documentation should proudly present the last few exposed parts of the attack surface, especially if they are minor ones, so that a user can assess the limits of their trust--there are always limits, no sense in pretending there aren't, and it's better to know them so that the user gets to decide what they're okay with.
But probably 95% of usage uses the term to mean developing or under developed country which is probably a better definition now (as in that meaning indicates what the author meant).
> I fail to see much value in an abstract account of "pure language" as dissociated from the real communicative process

But this assumption makes assumptions of purity as well. The communicative process may just be a byproduct of a mental process which has little to do with communication. A mutation happens tens of thousands of years ago (say 50,000 years ago), a change happens in the Broca (and/or Wernecke) area of the brain, and suddenly a new mental process kicks off. This mental process can be modeled as a state machine, and has the abilities and limitations of a state machine. It also has known limitations of output, which Chomsky has talked about.

You're assuming the mutations which gave rise to the brain changes which created an internal language generator and parser have only one purpose - communication. But that's an assumption on your part. The ability to communicate may be just one byproduct of those changes which made things like communication possible.
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Cut a piece of black cardboard, fold it in half and hang it over the camera.

Or this https://ilovegreengrass.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/cover-the-c...
Linear scan register allocation is "good enough" in most cases and it is trivial if you're doing it on top of an SSA.
How do you know Microsoft will not compete with you sometime next quarter? Did you anticipate the LinkedIn purchase with which Microsoft enters the job search market?
The internet is full of people who will take it all apart and test the crap out of it!

It would be quite a claim and people really do love to put apple products to the test. see: bendgate.
> but there's also tape covering the Apple laptop's dual microphones

OK, how would that disable the microphone? Or is he just using a dummy plug?
Painting the lens black would keep your laptop stylish.
I think without visiting the root of the site many people are afraid these are ground rules for strong AI development as an open source project. If that were the case with Google's backing I would be more than apprehensive.

We all know strong AI wouldn't be some sort of robot running around shooting people like a movie, this would be an extinction event worse than a rather large asteroid if it fell into the wrong hands.

The first country or corporation to create strong AI capable of self evolution will either be able to immediately take control of the world as we know it, or worse create something capable of destroying humanity as we know it.

That's not what's going on at all for anyone else that at first glance though that (I'll admit I am guilty of thinking that after glancing at the article as well).

Goal 1: Measure our progress
Goal 2: Build a household robot
Goal 3: Build an agent with useful natural language understanding
Goal 4: Solve a wide variety of games using a single agent

That's all they are trying to accomplish with this (so far anyway). None of which requires strong AI.

TLDR they are formulating some laws of robotics that are a bit more granular for dumb AI which are incapable of self improvement and very task oriented.
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It sounds like they also have ended up producing synthetic blood. Someone should package that up for the vampire groupies.

Oh and incidentally, could it be developed into a medical blood replacement?
In case you're wondering why this isn't getting much of a reaction here, the situation has been discussed at length on a submission from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944011

It's a huge, sprawling thread, currently with 314 comments.
Indeed. I had a ThinkPad with a physical switch to turn wifi on and off. The OS got into a weird state one day (a driver or OS bug) and I was shocked to discover that wifi was working even though the switch was in the off position.

So even on a ThinkPad, these physical switches are fake, i.e., they are just software settings checked by the OS, and not a hardware override.
Other ways to disrupt established business are to visit their parking lot and slash everyone's tires, cut power and internet to their company buildings, slander them on public television, drive by their building and honk a really loud horn, find their business partners and spread false rumors, DDoS their website, make false tips to the SEC that they're scamming investors, etc.

That's the image that appears in my head whenever I hear about some startup disrupting an industry; like they're a criminal with poor impulse control.
Slightly off-topic but recently, Google Maps on Android has been asking me a lot of questions about a few places I've visited in the past (mainly businesses). Questions regarding things like "Is this place accessible for limited-mobility people?", "Does this place serve alcohol?", "Is this place opened late?" and so forth.

I reckon there needs to be at least questions about providing them with so much free information, but it's definitely an interesting crowdsourcing experiment and it could make for an extremely precise experience for everyone involved.
You know they have $1m, or are you guessing? References please?