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>> Count and record our money

I think recent history has shown this hasn't worked out quite that well in many cases, and that in other cases was easily manipulated for purposes of fraud. There are entire sections of various law enforcement agencies that focus on this very topic.

>> Operate and monitor medical equipment

What would be the benefit of manipulating this?

>> Monitor and control planes, trains, ships, and cars

What would be the benefit of manipulating this?

I would second guess anything that uses a computer to keep a record of something that someone would have a direct benefit if manipulated. It's not a matter of whether it works or not, it's a matter of how easy is it to manipulate for a particular goal.
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My longest travel was MIA-DOH-BKK-Chang Mai 33 hours of travel due to layovers etc. MIA-DOH was fairly pleasant on the qatar a380.
Show HN: Open Source Data Visualization
I keep seeing Three Body being called "hard sci-fi", and I can't understand why.

In my vocabulary, that term means scientifically plausible or at the very least not manifestly impossible. But core elements of Three Body are just that: impossible. Even without going into the bizarre dimensional unfolding of protons (which are not even fundamental particles) to nice 2D membranes on which circuits are etched using meson beams (...), the resulting sophons are then used to communicate instantaneously over interstellar distances, courtesy of quantum entanglement. And no, that's not how quantum entanglement works; you can't use it to transfer information at superluminal speeds.

The "science" in Three Body is at the level of Star Trek technobabble. It might sound sciency to laymen, but it is really just magic with a modern coat of paint.
Caddy, another web server, does this.
It's a shame that there are no "current" desktop class machines from Apple to run this on (since the only server class machine, Xserve, was dropped long ago). I hope this is a sign that updates to the Mac mini and Mac Pro are coming soon. I'm half-scared of any upcoming updates after seeing the MBP refresh from last week.
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Reboots are usually required for monthly "patch Tuesday" updates, though sometimes they are not. Out-of-band updates are rare but do happen in the event of a critical, urgent security update.

The OS only sets a deadline for the reboot (where it will force if you postpone too long) if the update includes a critical security update.

Firmware and core driver updates also require a reboot, but don't have deadlines and the schedule depends on the hardware vendor.

Oh, and if your machine is in the Windows Insider program, all build upgrades have deadlines so you hit the "forced reboot" much more often than a normal user.
I respectfully disagree. I'm all for root cause analysis and taking the time to fix things upstream, but I also think that it's easy to say that and hard to actually do it.

Yelp doesn't make more money and our infra isn't particularly more maintainable when I invest a few weeks debugging Ruby interpreter/library bugs, especially not when there are thousands of other higher priority bugs I could be determining the root cause of and fixing.

For context, we spent a few days trying to get a reproducible test case for a proper report upstream, but the issue was so infrequent and hard to reproduce that we made the call not to pursue it further and just mitigate it. I do believe that mitigate rather than root cause is sometimes the right engineering tradeoff.
I have never used them as a daily computer but I tried using them in the store. So in this case I tried the Dell the Asus and the Lenovo. And they all kind of are not in the same league. Scrolling is not smooth. Weird ghost touches.

I cannot explain this better. This is my experience.

I have a 6 year old Asus and I cannot see much improvement in the trackpad.
Typo: lightweight in the README should not be hyphenated :-)
We manually check the limit in our reports/graphs only, no requests are dropped.
Right, the second law simply is a result of selecting a result from a probability distribution that increases entropy, but drawing from tails of the distribution aren't impossible, only highly improbable.
What were Peter Thiel's grandparents, and parents, doing during WW2?
Hi does anyone know the answer to this question? Point me to any interviews where he tells the story?

Thanks.
I agree with the assessment of the Three-Body Problem.

I was excited about the premise and I enjoyed some of the SF concepts, but really the "back-story" was IMO the interesting piece, whereas the present time "action" was quite bland. I wouldn't go so far as to not recommend, but I agree the criticism is fair.
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What's wrong with big data?
Yeah. The impression I get from this article (which is pitifully short on specifics) is that they're going to exploit some of the seemingly-nonlocal properties of QM, like quantum teleportation.

So, a normal refrigerator decreases entropy in one region and increases it in another, but they're directly adjacent regions and the entropy (heat) is moving from one to another along a simple, everyday path (like a heat exhaust tube). It sounds like the researchers have proposed using some quantum-teleportation-like trick to have the heat show up in some unconnected region of space.
Kaplan Test Prep | Frontend Developer | New York City | Onsite | http://kaplan.com/work-with-us/our-culture/

Kaplan Test Prep is a market leader in test preparation, we serve college students and young professionals studying for the MCAT (medical school), GMAT (business school), LSAT (law school), GRE (Master's and PhD programs), SAT exams and many others. Our organization is entrepreneurial, growth-oriented, and energetic. Our people genuinely enjoy what they do and take pride in it. If you seek a challenging, exciting, and creative engineering role -- while working with talented and passionate people -- this might be the position for you. Email me at ken.warner at kaplan.com if you're interested.

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Sessions from Leetspeak 2016
"Software patents remain controversial; critics have contended that the U.S. Patent Office does not understand the industry and issues patents that are too broad. Patent attorneys said Wednesday's decision will encourage small software firms to use patents as leverage against the industry's big players"

Oh if only they knew what would happen
Ask HN: Who's Hiring Reviews
I'm not sure if this would be appropriate but I think it would be a good idea to have a place to review people's experience applying/ interviewing with the companies posting in the Who's Hiring thread.

It always feels a little inappropriate to comment directly to their job post but maybe that is the correct place to comment.

I've recently found a new job through the who's hiring threads but I also had a other good and bad experiences along the way and having have a localized glassdoor of some type may be good. It would help to find the companies with good interview processes and those just collecting resumes or worse.
The article mentions that alpha was weak on bit-twiddling, which is something that almost certainly got fixed by introduction of BWX instructions on 21164.
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Native Instruments is a leading manufacturer of software and hardware for computer-based audio production and DJing. Our mission is to develop innovative, fully-integrated solutions for all musical styles and professions. We push technological boundaries and open up new creative horizons for professionals and amateurs alike.

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Can't see any intern applications on the page. I'm quite interested in embedded systems and general swe. A friend posted a video of the whale demo in the gymnasium - amazing stuff.
Monotweety – open-source Twitter client for android, just for tweeting
Use a recurrent neural network to generate said script!
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We've built a script like this internally, but would love to see it as an NGINX module :)
I'm left thinking if the extension mechanisms in NTFS can be used to implement a better compression scheme with support from the application level (instead of filesystem level).

Or if Microsoft could sit and define a new version of NTFS in which they change LZNT to LZNT2 with better compression ratios and different requirements for modern systems :)
AFAIK, cursive is still being taught at (most) schools here in Germany, although most of my peers had abandoned it for print lettering by grade 10.

Actually, when we had out introductory lecture for my university course, the prof strongly urged us to take notes on paper rather than digitally, as the added sensory input of the pen aids the memory. I followed his advice, though probably more because I find paper-based notetaking to be much more efficient than taking notes with a keyboard. (You're much more flexible when writing on paper.)
The poll workers can and will force you to do that. They take great pride every election in telling the local TV news types doing human interest stories that taking pictures of ballots accomplishes little other than pissing off the 80 year old poll workers who now have to work even harder. Some probably do successfully slip thru the system.

Another option is making a fake ballot. The local newspaper used to helpfully publish their suggestion of how a devout left wing progressive would fill out their ballot. They're currently the establishment, so they're likely to be the largest problem, and its solved right there.
It's never been worth using due to the slowdown and fragmentation it causes.
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I recall having an idea at least a bit similar to this years ago when I was heavily studying evolutionary informatics.

Some particularly avant garde types in that field have posited that the universe rather than having two constituents -- matter and energy -- has three primary first-order constituents. The third is information. Information is not merely an epiphenomena of matter and energy but a primary "thing."

If that is the case then there should be an E=mc^2 type equation that relates matter to information and energy to information and all three should be interconvertible. It would then further follow that energy can be converted into information and vice versa in the same way that matter can.

I then imagined a Dyson swarm of solar power satellites that produce a data stream encoding the energy they collect. This stream can be subscribed to and decoded to reconstitute this energy remotely. To globally conserve energy there would have to be a two-way aspect to this -- I imagined the receiver of energy transmitting "challenges" to the swarm that are then "solved" to yield energy stored in the form of the solution. The receiver then receives these solutions and executes them to generate what in effect would look like local perpetual motion. (But in reality energy is still being conserved.) It would look like a cryptographic hashcash-style challenge-response system with proof of work, but the energy input of the POW function can be reversibly extracted elsewhere.

If such a thing were possible and sufficiently efficient and could function in the presence of high latency, this could power a starship among many other things. If it were latency-tolerant it might also be a way to store energy. Save your laptop's power to its hard drive.

It reminds me a little bit of the "telematter stream" propulsion system from Peter Watts' Blindsight.
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Unmade is building a vertically-integrated customisation platform for the fashion industry. We’ve created the software to create unique manufacturing as a scaleable service. This allows customers to get involved in the design process, see a photo-realistic preview of their garment, and have it knitted on our industrial knitting machines.

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While we're at it, can we make it that easy for Weechat relays?
As long as nginx doesn't block on startup if it can't get the cert ;)

"sudo service nginx certify" would be nice though.
I use https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego and so far it works . I didn't get the to 90 day expiry yet, but it successfully automatically acquired the first certificate. I heard good things from people who have been using it for a while.

I recommend the nginx as ingress backend ( https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego/tree/master/examples/n... ), as GCE had problems talking over https. Also wait for a bit (e.g. 30 minutes) after updating your domain records and enabling kube-lego (i.e. just before this section: https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego/tree/master/examples/n... ).
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thank you, i couldn't agree more. The entire first book was boring. People playing a contrived video game! which sounds boring! but they are strangely fascinated!

The very first chapter, introducing the characters during the cultural revolution, was good but the rest ... not so good.

(retreats to Iain M Banks & Gene Wolfe)
The best designed and most useful architecture websites of 2016
I can especially recommend "Exploring StackOverflow data" by Evelina Gabasova
There should always be a prompt. There should never be reverted settings or reinstalled applications.

Are you on Insider builds? If so, you should expect more aggressive updates and bugs.
Pretty much every home router sold in the UK is shipped with a unique default wifi network name and password printed on a sticker and stuck to the device.

Manufacturers don't need to keep a credential database, as legitimate users can simply look at the label.