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runarbon The World’s Loudest Sound (2014)

Video from the PEPCON disaster also show quit the shock wave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPVpzjxRjPk

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

Alva Technologies | Backend developer, full stack developer | Oslo, Norway | Full time | REMOTE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer and a full stack developer to join our team.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building a consumer facing automated valuation model for real estate. We are using Python on the backend, AngularJS on the frontend and PostgreSQL database running on AWS.

We would prefer that you are in the European timezone.

Read the full job listing at:

* Full Stack Developer: https://alva-technologies.homerun.co/full-stack-developer/en

* Back End Developer: https://alva-technologies.homerun.co/back-end-developer

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no .

Website: https://www.alva-tech.no/

runarbon When Telecom Companies Search Your Home for Piracy

> providing login credentials for his machines >

I would not recommend doing so without consulting with a lawyer either, but how does this work in civil law? There is no assumption of innocence in civil law as I understand it.

If one did not do what one is accused of, but refuse to prove that by not participating in discovery, can then the other party ask for a judgment against you?

runarbon Helm: Personal Email Server

> I thought that sending email from EC2 instance was not allowed and only option was using their SES service.

Amazon EC2 throttles traffic on port 25 of all EC2 instances by default, but you can request that this throttle be removed: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-p...

Doubt that AWS would allow anyone to send on behalf of 3 parties like Helm appears to do though.

runarbon The Japanese traffic light blues: Stop on red, go on what?

maaark probably referred to that the sun actually is white, but may appears with different colors if you see it through a filter (atmosphere): http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/activities/GreenSun.htm...

runarbon Larry Wall's Very Own Home Page

Looks like a false positive. Virustotal sees clean: https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/e1aefef6b413b1f232d72c7b37... (except Dr.Web, but they appear to basically flag everything)

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)

Alva Technologies | Backend developer, full stack developer | Oslo, Norway | Full time | ONSITE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer and a full stack developer to join our team in Oslo.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building two tools for the real estate marked. One tools is a machine learning based tool used by real estate brokers to extracting information from documents. The other tool is a consumer facing automated valuation model for real estate. Both tools are built with a Python backend, AngularJS frontend and PostgreSQL database running on AWS.

Read the full job listing at:

* Full Stack Developer: https://alva-technologies.homerun.co/full-stack-developer/en

* Back End Developer: https://alva-technologies.homerun.co/back-end-developer

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no . Website: https://www.alva-tech.no/

runarbon Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men

Yes, as I also understands it he was a direct member of the exchange. When this happened he owned 23 Twh of nordic and 11 TWh of german power derivatives contracts. That is 1/4 of Norway's consume in 1 year: https://www.hegnar.no/Nyheter/Energi/2018/09/Derfor-tapte-Ei...

He basically did become to big for the marked.

runarbon Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men

> The real wtf here is that he nearly bankrupted Nasdaq's emergency fund in doing so.

Nasdaq has several exchanges and clearing houses. This was only the found for Nasdaq OMX Commodities Europe[0]. A found only used for financial energy market for Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ_OMX_Commodities_Europe

runarbon Rain ruins one of Norway’s richest men

The rules also allowed a single trader to own 25% of the marked[0].

0: In norwagian: https://www.dn.no/nyheter/2018/09/14/1431/Finans/-einar-aas-...

runarbon Why the Navy Misses the Old F-14 Tomcat, Despite All of the Problems

> cheap turboprop planes carrying bombs. Equally good for bombing people armed with AK-47's and RPG's, and you'd save billions! :)

>

As I am understanding it the US is buying such a palne in the Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Attack/Armed_Reconnaissa...

Many other countries also use planes like the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano[0] to fight insurgents and other that do not have any anti aircraft capabilities.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano

runarbon Free-range parenting outside the US

There was an interesting map posted here a while back on how children lost the right to roam. In 1919 the grandfather could walk 6 miles to go fishing but today the son is only allowed to walk in the street where the family live: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-...

runarbon It’s hard to have an unusual name in China

I ones met a man named Jo Å. Have started to use that name when testing names in it systems.

People named Null also have a hard time: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160325-the-names-that-brea...

runarbon What's behind the quiet rise of homelessness in the countryside?

GDPR blocked for people in the EU. Google cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KnwGRKo...

runarbon Who controls glibc?

The documentation for the glibc abort() function had this entry, that was removed:

  @c Put in by rms.  Don't remove.
  @cartouche
  @strong{Future Change Warning:} Proposed Federal censorship regulations
  may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of
  calling this function.  We would be required to say that this is not an
  acceptable way of terminating a program.
  @end cartouche

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Alva Technologies | Backend developer, full stack developer, data scientist | Oslo, Norway | Full time | ONSITE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer, a full stack developer and a data scientist to join our team in Oslo.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building two tools for the real estate marked. One tools is a machine learning based tool used by real estate brokers to extracting information from documents. The other tool is a consumer facing automated valuation model for real estate. Both tools are built with a Python backend, AngularJS frontend and PostgreSQL database running on AWS.

Read the full job listing at:

* Full Stack Developer: https://alva-technologies.homerun.co/full-stack-developer/en

* Back End Developer: https://alva-technologies.homerun.co/back-end-developer

* Data Scientist: https://alva-technologies.homerun.co/data-scientist

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no . Website: https://www.alva-tech.no/

runarbon Elon Musk gives first glimpse inside Tesla Model 3 production line

That link redirects to an image of a testicle if the http referer is news.ycombinator.com...

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

Alva Technologies | Backend developer, full stack developer, data scientist, head of quality | Oslo, Norway | Full time | ONSITE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer, a full stack developer, a data scientist and a head of quality to join our team in Oslo.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building two tools for the real estate marked. One tools is a machine learning based tool used by real estate brokers to extracting information from documents. The other tool is a consumer facing automated valuation model for real estate. Both tools are built with a Python backend, AngularJS frontend and PostgreSQL database running on AWS.

Read the full job listing at: https://www.alva-tech.no/jointheteam/

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)

Alva Technologies | Backend developer, full stack developer, data scientist, head of quality | Oslo, Norway | Full time | ONSITE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer, a full stack developer, a data scientist and a head of quality to join our team in Oslo.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building two tools for the real estate marked. One tools is a machine learning based tool used by real estate brokers to extracting information from documents. The other tool is a consumer facing automated valuation model for real estate. Both tools are built with a Python backend, AngularJS frontend and PostgreSQL database running on AWS.

Read full job ad at: https://www.alva-tech.no/jointheteam/

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no

runarbon Americans are having less sex and researchers are blaming Netflix

> That the likes of tinder makes the most attractive men far more accessible to women, so they are no longer interested in the average man.

I think that has already started to happen: https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)

Alva Technologies | Backend developer, full stack developer, data scientist, real estate specialist | Oslo, Norway | Full time | ONSITE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer, a full stack developer, a data scientist and a real estate specialist to join our team in Oslo.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building two tools for the real estate marked. One tools is a machine learning based tool used by real estate brokers to extracting information from documents, the other is a consumer facing automated valuation model for real estate. Both tools are built with a Python backend, AngularJS frontend and PostgreSQL database.

Read full job ad at: https://www.alva-tech.no/jointheteam/

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no

runarbon Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’

Yes, as I understand it the petroleum found does very little active management, but instead have a mandate to hold stock based on the FTSE Global All Cap Index.

Changing the mandate require approval by the parliament.

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)

Alva Technologies | Backend Developer | Oslo, Norway | Full time | ONSITE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer, a fullstack developer and a data scientist to join our team in Oslo.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building two tools for the real estate marked. One tools is a machine learning based tool used by real estate brokers to extracting information from documents, the other is a consumer facing automated valuation model for real estate. Both tools are built with a Python backend, AngularJS frontend and PostgreSQL database.

Read full job ad at: https://www.alva-tech.no/jointheteam/

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no

runarbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)

Alva Technologies | Backend Developer | Oslo, Norway | Full time | ONSITE

Alva is looking for a experienced backend developer, a fullstack developer and a data scientist to join our team in Oslo.

We're a young, investor-backed startup building digital tools for the real estate marked. We use machine learning and other exciting technologies to solve problems for both the business and consumer market. We mainly use a Python backend, AngularJS frontend and PostgreSQL database.

Read full job ad at: https://www.alva-tech.no/jointheteam/

Email: post [at] alva-tech [dot] no

runarbon The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris

> ..employees who had given their careers to the company were told of their termination via a pre-recorded call — “robo-RIF’d”

This sounds awful, and very long from what would be the legal requirements demanded in the country I live in.

What would such a robot call say?

runarbon A French wine trade war

> Can you provide some sources for this?

As I understand it Africans are the main labour source for many farms in Spain.

Some articles to read:

https://migration.ucdavis.edu/cf/more.php?id=40

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/feb/07/spain-salad...

runarbon Prostitution decriminalized: Rhode Island’s experiment

> At times you may be required to fill out so many job applications (per week)

> and you are not allowed to refuse any interview offered.

>

We have this in Norway. If one has been unemployed for a while the state run employment agency will often force you to "voluntarily" agree to send 10 employment applications per week and you have to go to any offered interview.

Thus applicants are feared by everyone doing recruiting because no one wants to hire anyone that does not want to be hired. If you do the candidate may be totally unmotivated and even hostile to his new employer. This would be a very bad start for everyone.

In my experience candidates like this will often not show up for a scheduled interview, and if they do they will clearly state that they are there just to satisfy the state employment agency.

runarbon Norway, where no salaries are secret

No, it is not your salary per say, but your taxable income that is available for everyone to see. All income, including base salary, bonuses, and perks are taxed the same and included in this number.

runarbon Buried Alive: Stories from Inside Solitary Confinement

> Actually, it's pretty ironic to have this discussion the same week that a convicted child sex offender was killed in a Norwegian prison after numerous warnings.

That an inmate gets killed in a Norwegian prison is extremely rare. As you mention it did happened this week, but the last time before that was in 1982 (according to http://frifagbevegelse.no/nffmagasinet/drapet-i-ringerike-fe... )

runarbon Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience

They may catch you if they replay

* Your webcam video

* Your head movements

* Your eye movements

* Your mouth movements

that was all collected during the test.