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Sometimes not even challenging work, but sometimes menial work that is below others.

Every internship I have had, I was with a team that tried to give me the best experience I could, and never gave me boring or menial tasks just because I was the intern. In fact they actively avoided doing so and did these things themselves.

On my first internship there was a task that came in. As part of a security audit, we had to verify that all ssh keys that had access to sensitive infrastructure. That had to be done by hand, by running around and finding these people and checking their keys manually, which was nearly a days work. I volunteered to do it, as really that's the sort of stuff that I should be doing as it would be wasteful for the others to be spending their time on it.

Things like that got me a lot of respect. As an intern, you need to make the lives of those you work with easier. If this means occasionally taking some menial work or writing scripts to automate their tasks.
That's my point. HN is now filled with passive-aggressive assholes baiting each other.

Hell, just read what you wrote to me and convince yourself that you're something other than an asshole, and that your comment is something other than rude.

Nice job being a pointless, non-contributing dick as well.

Thank you for the additional datapoint that HN is now totally infested by useless cunts.
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Whats interesting in this regard is societies relationship to housing and what it is. Is it an investment or is it a basic human right to have a house over your head?

I live in Australia, and there are a lot of "rich" people who made a money off property, just flipping regular houses in our insane market.

All the components of a medium house are reasonably cheap. But then market value comes into play you you add thousands to a sale price. I think the real issue is that a house (basic human need) is being used like any other financial tool. There should be restrictions on the types of investment that uses residential property, to protect people and to allow them to live where they work.

But good luck controlling capitalism, last GFC started because of houses. But nothings really has changed.

Just to add in the Australian context people see property as a way to get rich. the idea of starting business or generating wealth via new ideas, services, technology is sadly not as prevalent as other places.
This article is unbelievably idiotic. The author lumps all external forces that wish you no harm into a single entity that is somehow your master and is toying with you. This is how religions get started.
And dozens of other languages.
Tidal offers little potential at tremendous cost and impacts. Outside a very small number of modest sites, it's not likely to see much application.

Wave power is even worse.

Geothermal from high-flux sites does work and works well, though its limited to a relatively small number of regions worldwide. Many of those have already developed much of the available potential. Iceland, Indinesia, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the United States most notably. Kenya's Rift Valley is probably the biggest greenfield opportunity with significant impact opportunity (Kenya's existing electrical infrastructure is minuscule). In the US, resources generally exclude both the Yellowstone Caldera and Cascade range.
Terrible eye-witness account:

"Witnesses described him as an unshaven white male in his 20s, wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, cut off shorts. He also reportedly had a * noticeable tattoo of a woman somewhere on his body *."

emphasis mine. If it was noticeable, at least they'd say which part of his body!
I've experienced many of the same frustrations.

Here's another one. This might be specific to the Note 4.

When clicking the back button, nothing happens...

I'm wondering, did it accept my press or is it just lagging...

Hmm, still nothing... better click it again...

Then it goes back TWICE!

WTF, at least give me some kind of visual feedback that it was clicked. Some kind of ripple or something. I thought it was part of Material Design that there is supposed to be feedback when clicking things.

Other times, I find the screen is not sensitive enough and other times I click something on the side of the screen from just the side of my hand coming too close to the screen.
Since we're complaining - I'm so tired of the (hopefully) thoughtless use of "we". It is incredibly presumptuous. Every time I hear it I'm reminded of the artificially simplified narrative portrayed by WWII propaganda posters - where if you do your part, Rosie the riveter, then we'll save the world†!

†Saving the world means unwittingly working to further the military industrial complex, undermining your long term interests, terms and conditions may apply, see reverse side of poster for eligibility and placement in the new power superstructure.
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They'll go to Walmart to buy a replacement the same day just like they would replace any home appliance.

By that time, I bet batteries would sell for less than a thousand, much less.
I'll defer to your expert opinion of course, but it seems like faraday discovered some odd behavior in 1821, maxwell codified it in 1861. By 1884 Heaviside reformulated them into the modern form.

Perhaps 100 years is an exaggeration, but the point is it takes time to make sense of what the heck is going on.

Really, pick anything. someone notices something odd, tries to explain it. there are many many experiments. Someone really clever ties them together in a nice way. Someone else really clever cleans it up.

Einstein and general relativity is the only counterexample i can think of. But I'm pretty sure Poincare had a formulation of special relativity.
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> Some people just struggle to make and keep friends.

That was my point. Why?
Who wants to go hand gliding?
I strongly believe that Augmented Reality (AR) will trump VR in the long run. AR will integrate with existing spaces much better than isolated VR.
No. You are wrong on so many levels:

1) the comment I responded to was a broad-based insult lobbed at anybody who believed that malaria research is more important than Uber. Calling it 'teen angst' showed it wasn't a serious suggestion, it was just a way to insult people who disagree with him.

That comment made INCREDIBLY clear that he wasn't here for discussion, he was here to shit on people who hold a different worldview.

Fuck you for pretending it was a real comment. It's disgusting that you're pretending it was a real comment. Losers like you are the reason HN is a piece of shit now.

2) I am advocating banning people for being rude. Being rude is against HN's approach to comments. I am advocating that we either adhere to those rules, or we admit that they don't exist. Either is fine.

2b) read the fucking guidelines. They're linked right under the comment box that you used to spew your gibberish. They talk about rudeness.

My point is that dang and altman only ban rudeness like calling somebody an asshole. But they ignore far more pernicious forms of rudeness, like lobbing insults at people out of left field because they think malaria is more important than Uber.

HN would be a better place if they started banning people who are shitty towards others, even if those people don't use profanity.

Have a nice day.
Why? :-)

Assuming it's a question asked by a doorknob manufacturer, we actually want to count the "real" doors that have doorknobs, not the moral doors that you may conceptually have at the entrance of some shack. We could also evaluate entrances and such.

Let's take the population per continent:

http://www.ecology.com/world-population-continent/

Current World Population by Continent
Population estimates as of 2010.
Source: Population Reference Bureau
Asia 4157300000
Africa 1030400000
Europe 738600000
North America* 461114000
South America 390700000
Australia** 36700000
Antarctica*** 0

Now, we'll estimate the number of houses per person, for each continent (related to family size, existence of work office and administration buildings), along with the number of doors per house/office.

#| Asia |# (+ (* 4157300000 (+ 1/4 1/12) 4)
#| Africa |# (* 1030400000 (+ 1/6 1/30) 4)
#| Europe |# (* 738600000 (+ 1/3 1/2) 6)
#| North America* |# (* 461114000 (+ 1/3 1/2) 6)
#| South America |# (* 390700000 (+ 1/4 1/12) 4)
#| Australia** |# (* 36700000 (+ 1/3 1/2) 6)
#| Antarctica*** |# (* 0 (+ 1/6 1) 8))

Which gives an estimated total of 13,070,390,000 doors, about 1.9 door per person.
(The number of doors in Antartica is grossly underestimated, sorry).

PS: If you want to know if I'm right, you'll have to pay USD 2200.00 ;-) :
http://www.chinamarketresearchreports.org/report/global-and-...
(don't forget to divide the number of doorknobs by two to get the number of doors (ignoring revolving doors)).
That last paragraph goes to show that regulations will be in place sooner than later. And of course, in Australia, there will be a yearly license and a fee... cause you know.

It's pretty sad that the owner of the $1200 flying machine is depicted as the perpetrator of a planned crime.
So that's why kids cover their eyes when they want to hide.
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I'm just praying it doesn't result in all of the fun that was had when the Microsoft Yahoo Search Alliance came about.

Anyone who had to deal with the billing headaches at a search agency <raises hand> does not look fondly at that time.

I wonder what this will do to Search Partner Network performance for AdWords customers. AOL represented one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) search partners.

The Search Partner Network is one of the few areas of AdWords that is still a black box wrt placement-level performance (unlike the GDN). Previously the only way to get visibility into the AOL portion of it was to run directly with AOL using AOL's licensed version of the AdWords UI, but with some minor differences in how you used it.

If the biggest volume driver of Search Partner volume goes >poof< I'd expect that to noticeably impact performance for Search Partner traffic. Would love an official comment from Google on this here, on their blog, or through industry pubs like SearchEngineLand.
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As author of https://passwordless.net I've been advocating for this since quite a while. Great to see a major site adopting it.
I've been using KanbanFlow[1] and it's been doing the trick for me.

I also like Producteev[2]. It's full-featured and free for personal use (they make their money on business accounts).

[1] http://kanbanflow.com

[2] http://producteev.com
There's nothing magical about the required properties, so I'm not sure why anyone would describe them that way. They are no different than the properties imputed to neutrinos or the aether: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1801

The important thing about extra-galactic dark matter is there is too much of it to be made of ordinary particles: protons and neutrons and electrons. We know how many ordinary nucleons there are because we have a pretty reasonable estimate of the primoridal ratio of hydrogen to helium. As the Big Bang cooled quarks eventually cooled down enough to make protons and neutrons. Free neutrons only live about fifteen minutes so they only had a short time to capture onto protons and make deuterium nuclei which could further colide to make helium. The ratio of He/H in the early universe is therefore a sensitive measure of the denisty of the universe at the time of nucleon condensation, and we know the radius from the temperature, so we can calculate the total number of particles. There aren't enough to make up extra-galactic dark matter. There are enough to make up galactic dark matter, so there may be two totally unrelated dark matter problems.

When physicists talk about "dark matter" we are sliding back and forth between meanings according to context, but this is all lost on outsiders, unfortunately. It's needlessly confusing, but unfortunately it's the way it is.

So amongst the perfectly ordinary, non-magical properties that extra-galactic dark matter has to have is to be something other then ordinary neutrons and protons. There are some other contraints on its various interaction strengths that come from the scale of galaxy formation and larger scale structures in the universe too. Again, these are perfectly ordinary properties, inferred based on the evidence in exactly the same way the properties of aether and neutrinos were.

Dark matter may or may not exist (neutrinos do, aether does not) but there is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about it. It is just normal science doing what science normally does.
Sorry, I have no idea what you are trying to say. Maybe stick to the relevant issue and be less abstract?
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Ask HN: I picked up a coworker's book today - Writing Secure Code by David LeBlanc and Michael Howard. I immediately went to a chapter on buffer overruns because I've always heard this is a major source for security issues, but never knew why. I was surprised and pleased when the authors immediately showed code examples in C of how to exploit buffer overruns. I liked being able to see a concrete example of why certain code is a security risk.
What are some good [introductory] book(s) that give concrete examples of vulnerable code?
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As author of https://passwordless.net I've been advocating for this since quite a while. Great to see a major site adopting it.
>>Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella, who has been in his post for 17 months, has made clear–including in an employee memo last week–that Microsoft needs to concentrate on technology areas where it has the biggest opportunities for success, and make “tough choices” in fringe areas.

So instead of layoffs, they're just selling their employees*?

(Uber deal): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799997
So... the real obstacle between Bill Gates and curing malaria is more money.

And it's one that'll be solved if enough of us start/sell businesses at a level of profit that'll move the needle on the amount of money Bill has.
Apparently, squatting has recently (2012) been made into a criminal offence in England, meaning a criminal record if convicted, so... not worth it.

Squatting used to be a ~fairly~ normal thing in England, going by impressions from my youth, but this could have been media fear-mongering the middle class with tales of home-invaders, after reading that Wikipedia article[1]. It's a shame that it's a criminal offence now, considering the housing shortfall and rising inequality in the UK.

However, these specific properties/flats would be very difficult to squat anyway, as the buildings are presumably guarded by doormen and at least a few sets of high-security doors.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting_in_England_and_Wales
Or, maybe, Everett was right.
I imagine leaving the scene of an accident you caused might well be a crime.
What would you prefer? The guy allegedly seriously injured someone due to what would appear to be clear negligence (flying it over a crowd and into objects) and then presumably fled the scene rather than try to retrieve his drone.

You'd prefer we all just... shrug and figure this stuff is going to happen and there's no reason to worry our little heads about it?
To me this is a bit of a 'baby with the bathwater' scenario. CSS has problems (particularly lack of namespacing), but I don't think the solution is to just pack up shop on stylesheets and port everything to js. If the argument is about logic, then postCSS and manipulating the CSSOM are cleaner approaches IMO. And with web components the modularity concern is pretty much entirely mitigated. There's definitely an argument to be made about javascript's role styling, but I think it should be complimentary alongside the purely declarative stylesheet.
It's the equivalent of a hit and run. The crime is the run part.
If you accidentally hit someone with your car and drive away, people call the police then too.

I'm struggling to see a meaningful difference here. Giving someone a concussion is not a minor thing.
With how expensive college is, and the fact that kids can borrow money from the government to pay for it, how is it possible for them to go broke?
Chris was really, really stupid to purge JERRYP for badthink; if Jerry had been intent on revenge vs. reform, he could have done a lot of damage to certain parties, although not of course the Internet itself, which that year was starting to be substantially extended by the NSFNet.
Probably because Russia has a very different approach to whistleblowers compared to most other countries on their list.
Noticeable as in visible with the described clothing. People can remember seeing a tattoo without remembering whether it was arm or leg, etc.
Fleming discovered Penicillin accidentally, but he was a bacteriologist, and he was doing research into antiseptics. It was a discovery that was entirely related to his work.
Where do you get "planned" from that? It looks similar to what I would expect if a cyclist, or car driver, or hot dog cart operator, through negligence, let the expensive rolling machine knock someone unconscious.
John Wheeler's delayed choice thought experiment was already confirmed in the lab over ten years ago. It's neat that they were able to get results with baryonic matter, and it was definitely worthwhile to try to do that, but this article seems to be implying that the results could have been anything else than what they were, or that there is new physics here, and is wrong on both counts.

Also the deference to the Copenhagen interpretation is annoying - it's wrong. What they've observed is a consequence of how decoherence works, and 'observation' has nothing to do with it. Not faulting the researchers on this but seriously, it's time to stop talking about mythical 'observation' as though it's some integral part of quantum theory.
My last post already addressed this but...The taxi system is not a free market, the supply was artificially restrained and prices monopolised. Hence for the Uber system to work as it does now it would be impossible to be a 'taxi company' because the laws, in effect, have outlawed a cheap and efficient means of transportation.

The SF market is proof that they are not only obliterating the former taxi market, their service is so superior that it's expanding the market 5 times.
I am convinced LFTRs are the way to go, they fit in with distributed generation model very well. For what it is worth 21st if it takes Nuclear turn will be clearly fission, actually fission is good enough. But if we were to ascend into space and beyond fusion gives us bigger wings.
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For example, a large international NGO (Mercy Corps) used our platform to do a financial education program using voice calls & sms soap operas with quizzes (to reinforce and test comprehension) for 20,000 people affected by a natural disaster: http://solutionscenter.nethope.org/blog/view/hitting-it-home...

And Cebu is a great place to live. If you're a diver, you can be diving in warm tropical waters in less than an hour from the office!
OT but funny enough I worked with an accounting PhD student to extract SEC filings and mine for some keywords and associated numbers and tables, from this same FTP and I remember it being so dog-slow. This was like 8 years ago too, sad its in the same shape.
think of finance in terms of latency/bandwidth [...] reactors are high latency - they're expensive and take a long time to set up

I like this metaphor. I think what you might have implied but didn't explicitly mention was distributed vs centralized when thinking about these systems as well. Solar can be a distributed system whereas fission & fusion systems are centralized.

Even though you can make small fission systems and IIRC Skunkworks is working on a small fusion reactor (small = fits on freight truck...once the damn thing works) you still have issues with waste, heat, faults etc. so they need to remain isolated from living space. Thus they are better utilized in a centralized manner.

Sticking with the computer/internet metaphors, you could consider solar to be like a Solid State Drive while fission is very much the classic HDD, moving parts and all. The elimination of moving parts/complexity to generate electricity makes solar suitable for the home just as NAND is better for portable devices like phones.

Pros: speed vs capacity, Cons: cost vs complexity - pick one from each pile.
I believe the most important unobserved benefit from decentralized solutions is the wave of innovation it would spark.

Private moneys would compete for a slice of the pie bringing to market millions of ideas putting the pedal of progress to the metal.
Or put on completely opaque sunglasses.
I believe s/he would prefer an accurate depiction of the incident.
The interest on their endowments does not exceed their operating expenses. They literally live on tuition; raising tuition is often counterproductive as students without aid will choose cheaper schools since prestige doesn't really come into play. Similarly, lowering tuition puts a bigger burden on the school - professors don't have grad students to abuse.
That's a meaningless hypothetical. Why would Uber do that? They have every incentive to make sure that drivers are getting paid as much as possible and that riders have the cheapest prices possible, they literally have hundreds of people working on finding the equilibrium.
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This is also assuming that the doorknob manufacturer manufactures doorknobs for house doors. What about cabinet doors, curio cabinet doors, and trap doors. Also, would car doors count?
I think it's simply a sign of how difficult it is to hire permanent staff which are seen as long-term commitments in a way that NTE (Not-To-Exceed) staff are not.

My impression from the outside is that people are working on a more permanent system to keep people around indefinitely without losing a way to jettison the retire-in-place types and are working to get something in place by the time it starts to matter. I don't think age discrimination is a goal – the people I know value experience and most of them are 30-somethings, mid-career and looking for something more sustainable than death-marches, churning institutional knowledge, etc.
What does this mean? If there was a supernova eons ago in another galaxy and I'm the only human who had been hit by a cosmic ray, does that mean it didn't exist or happen until ... ?

Does measurement have to include an agent? Could measurement mean interaction with other atoms?
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Or by putting the second if inside the body of the first.

Often there is no sane default value.
Recently watched Cosmos Episode 6 where Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks of photosynthesis and how all our energy problems would be solved if we were able to learn the 'trade secrets' of how plants do it.

This makes a lot of sense.

Can anyone point out current research on this field? I don't seem to hear much about it.

Edit: Just found this after searching #photosynthesis in Twitter: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/20/artificial-photosyn...