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I'm very interested.

The whole idea of home automation (and most of IoT) over cloud is absurd. The devices in your home should not communicate by sending packets around the entire globe. The data should never leave your internal network unless explicitly meant to (web interfaces are cool and all, and you want to have remote access).

I'm actually somewhat surprised people don't seem how wrong the current model is, but I suspect it's a mix of cloud being The Hot Sexy Thing and being paid not to understand this (via business models that rely on monetizing users through cloud solution; as some of my hardware startup friends told me once after talking with the investors, hardware won't be making money, the cloud platform will).

So yes, I would be very willing to help reverse this and make local network communication the default for home automation and relevant technologies.
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I run a couple of SAAS solo and the topic has never come up.
https://tunnelbroker.net/ (HE) or other free IPv6 tunnel brokers are one approach.
Have you ever tried an AVM Router? Amazing things, several of their Fritz!Box lineup are actually better specs-wise than this Google router (and don’t come from a company with rather questionable update and privacy record)
Pre-registration would not hinder them doing that discovery, but they would have had to do another registration and study to get it to the market with the new use. They would likely still be able to use the outcome of the original study to assess the safety of the drug.
> if I may, your response is "any change would annoy someone, so we can't change anything". I'm finding that ... curious coming from a tech/startup site

HN isn't a startup. We're not after rapid growth. Indeed, rapid growth would kill the things we care about here.

I do understand why my comment sounded like your description, but that was an artifact of haste on my part rather than a true picture of what we think.
In America, we have this principle called innocent until proven guilty. In my own life, I have found that is a good rubric to apply. Applying anything else makes racism, classicism, sexism, etc. worse, not better. I have had people call me naïve and told me "It looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, only a fool would believe it is not duck." But that kind of position only deepens problems.

Of course, you are free to be driven by your personal biases. But arguing that "it is a general trend, therefore waiting for actual evidence is foolish" doesn't fly with me. It never has. It never will. I will continue to wait for actual evidence and try to not jump to conclusions.

I am aware it is a hard path to take. It is a path I take regularly and I see payoffs for trying my damnedest to stick to that path, in spite of how hard it legitimately is.
> read access
Fair enough... but the issue here is about findings of an effect versus no effect. It's about statistical significance. In order for single-comparison p-values and the like to be valid, there has to be a (one) single comparison. There is a way to do 'any-of-k' testing, but the required effect sizes get larger.
I'll try not to put this in a way that may be interpreted as "gratuitous negativity", but I stopped caring about Google branded hardware a long time ago, since the odds of it being available in many countries outside the US sometime this century are near zero.
Thanks for the advice.

I think the underlying problem is my incentive is for people to disbelieve me the first time I tell them something. I don't really care if they believe me since after I am proven right I get more to fix the problem. [e.g. The last time, I got ~$6k] :/

So I'm not really motivated to fix it, y'know?

I probably should fix it since I'd be a better person for it but my financial incentive isn't aligned with fixing it.
The sad thing is, they're completely oblivious of the sidebar. The idea behind it is, to use the much larger vertical screen space of current monitors. In 5.0, you can hide all toolbars and exclusively use the sidebar.

Try it!
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Which is a standard feature in a lot of other routers, too, like the Fritz!Box 7490. http://en.avm.de/products/fritzbox/fritzbox-7490/

Google is doing nothing special here.
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Given the substantial drop-off in build quality that I've seen over the years since the first G routers until maybe _very_ recently, I'm not so sure about this statement.

I've got v1-4 WRT54Gs that are still going strong while I've seen several dozen newer routers shit themselves over the years.

Also, why do we NEED to upgrade phones every 2 years?
When Slack was released it was the only one with unread-lines. I love this feature.
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I totally agree with you. I am as likely to buy this as I am to buy a router made by Facebook.
> I highly doubt they added a Google account requirement to improve ad targeting.

Ad delivery networks, and google is one of the biggest, have one core business: delivering ads. Everything is setup to make that as big and as solid as possible. Whatever it takes (and we all know how far ad delivery networks will go: almost infinitely far).

Now they ship a piece of hardware, require signing up with an account, and it's not for prolonging / helping their core business? If you believe that, I have a piece of land I want to sell to you, special price.
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I would stick with Django. It has matured significantly in the past few years, and you don't have to write a single Django form/view if you don't want. DRF and the Django ORM are great , integrate with your own non-Django Python code and other backends as you wish.
Former head of engineering at Pinterest here. Marty was one of the first three engineers at the company. He is an amazing guy -- smart, personable, fun to work with.

This is a boon for Reddit and as a Reddit user I'm very excited. Fortunately Pinterest has a strong bench and can afford to share the wealth of their amazing engineering team.
I've got 2 years of physic & electronic exercises on CS university course (they had too much physic teachers and too few CS teachers :) so why not). It was fun, but the thing that stuck with me the most was how rarely the results agreed with theory.

Usually it was off by orders of magnitude (and we had access to the laboratory for 45 mintues each week so once you've done your experiments you had to stick to the data you've got). Usually it turned out at home that the data makes no sense.

I don't think it was useful for my job, but it certainly made me appreciate practical physics more.
The title is misleading (or linkbait (or false)). From the article:

> Though not conscious the miniature brain, which resembles that of a five-week-old foetus, [...]

> The brain, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, [...]

If confirmed, it is bigger and it has more structure than the previous attempts, but it's not "almost fully-formed".
I'm guessing this was cleaning the toddler affected bathroom(s).
I don't think there is in Mattermost, I think it would be welcome.
It's computer fascism and people are stupid enough to sign up for it.
I'd be shocked if YC ever did that. The presumption has always been that founders are adults who make their own decisions. YC partners aren't founders' bosses or life organizers. They just offer advice about startups.
As will Eve!
The so-so way: use MATCH in one column to get the row numbers, INDEX in one column for each column you want to pull in to actually grab them using that row number.
Alternative: join the tables using Power Query so you could have it refresh and give you the combined version even after adding more columns.

I mean, point taken, but in case you were wondering, then yeah.
VBA also does SQL operations on Excel tables, but that's, well, worse.
Of course, although I'm a full-stack developer rather than a true HCI/UX expert. I'll send an email to happy@beyourmax.com with my contact info.
Thanks, looks interesting!
Parenting is not an engineering exercise. Relationships aren't all that amenable to those approaches either. There aren't universal answers or optimal algorithms (from a scientific perspective, systems of thought based on revelation are another matter). Putting a two year old in daycare may not be better for the child than an adventure in California...and that's assuming that daycare is even available on demand, which in many places (such as the US) it usually isn't.

Parents stand in line when sign-ups begin. They get on waiting lists before their child is born. Demand exceeding the supply of affordable daycare is typical in the US. I don't even want to imagine what it's like in the Valley. When you have children, brace yourself.
Well, cheaper, no. But easier wouldn't be hard. I have two nodemcu-s, and getting the toolchain to work on OSX or Ubuntu has been a series of headaches - drivers are nontrivial, flashing updates is touchy, etc.
Cmd + Enter should now work.
Ehm... that's pretty much the exact same method you use on Airport Extreme if you care about speeds (one being the NAT machine, others APs connected with cables).

If you're doing the wireless bridge you're trading off a lot of wireless bandwidth (and added noise) just to get data from one Airport to another. Far from an optimal setup.
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Far field speech recognition is _really_ hard. You can't just throw any random set of mic / speaker into a tube and expect it to work. The echo is almost exclusively mic / speaker, in a very specific configuration. There's no way the product they're shipping will be able to do far field speech recognition (much less while playing music).
Please stop reposting this.
me too. i can just see it!
Not yet, but I was thinking about starting with the robot turtles board game. I might also do some bread board and some basic logic chips with LEDs at some point to. I remember those cool little DIY manuals from radio shack. I still have the learning electronics one in my book collection.
"I did the right thing, she thought. But I’ll never do it again."

Somebody should change that for incubators and YC, being the most forward thinking and advanced one, should be the first to try:

IDEABOLT: Apply to next HN with non-profit startup to care for kids (preschool 2-5) of HN batchmates onsite at YC (with its blessing, taking over a large room or some converted space nearby). Not only this would increase the pool of applicants greatly (really?) it boosts the coolness of HN close to \infty.

The service will be free (9-5) so how to make money? Investigate innovative preschool learning methods using the kids (of course, with parents permission). This target group is perhaps the least served child demographic (no good solutions for something as mundane as poop/feed tracking, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10075191), except mundane stuff like diapers and bottles).

"He even struck up a bond with Paul Graham. Most people either talk down to two-year-olds or ignore them. But Graham took the time to figure out that Adam was fascinated with trains, says Kurnia, and the two of them spent 10 minutes drawing trains on a white board. Graham treated Adam like a little founder, interested in his interests."

I would have expected this! OK, Add to the idea to mine kids for ideas, Big fashion.
the difference is delivery times though -- uberEATS / caviar fastbite and friends deliver in < 10 minutes
oh man this needs es6 support, this is so cool.
Ok, we changed the title to that.
Same way the Mercury Seven were "founding astronauts": the first class, the inaugural group, etc.
I'm not going to say you're wrong, but Google has an interest in maximizing the number of people who have consistent, reliable, enjoyable internet experiences. If this hardware does not collect data to help them target ads (and that may very well be the case), but causes more eyeballs to spend more time online where they will find Google-hosted ads, it helps their core business AND the customer.
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It's a success because of IP protection for Magic. Nobody else is allowed to make their own version of MTGO.
Although my favorite free Unix-like is NetBSD, I have a great deal of admiration for what Debian does and how it does it. To me, it is one of the best Linux distibutions, along with Slackware and Arch.
I don't see anything on the spec sheets for the Fritz!Box 7490 that show it has more than 2 radios, like most dual band APs out there today.

Google's spec sheet [1] specifically has 3 radios:

http://i.imgur.com/x7CMktb.png

The first two radios do MIMO 3x3, and the third radio just has 1 antenna (since it isn't serving client traffic).

While this isn't completely new, it's definitely not common, especially for a consumer-grade AP/router.

[1]: https://on.google.com/hub/#specs
Perhaps it uses some local comms to bootstrap it. Like Bluetooth or sound waves.
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This was my weekend project. I have a huge RSS feed of academic journals, thought I would open my project of reading through the abstracts to find interesting ones open to all!
That's what I'm talking about, great video. I wish Love had gotten more love.

(To be honest I didn't enjoy playing it, but I also don't enjoy Minecraft, and this one I love the aesthetics).
Or, in other MadLibs terms:

___Municipal facilities___ are often built with ___municipal obligation/revenue____ bonds, and then the monopolies used as ___opportunities___ to local unions and service providers.
agree with everything you said, but

> Whose interested?

shouldn't that be "who's"?
I think you missed it -- I'm not saying they get fired for complaining, I'm saying they simply stop working with Uber after they have a bad experience.

A driver who stopped working at Uber would have no opportunity to express their complaints to you.

Try talking to Lyft drivers or drivers on other platforms who used uber in the past.
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What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.
> Try being a bit less myopic, and less rude while you're at it.

Please don't be personally abrasive on HN, even when another comment sounded rude. This comment would be great without the first sentence.
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So an Intel Atom is somehow a "supercomputer" now?
its fine on a desktop/laptop but I do most of my browsing while commuting to work. I even order my lunch on seamless on the phone
Obligatory "buy refurbished equipment from Apple" comment (full manufacturer's warranty; I've never had any problems). The refurbished Airport Extreme is $129, which seems like a pretty good deal. Try poking around under "Mac Accessories".
Apologies for not having full ES6 support yet, we actually do support a number of ES6 features (like destructuring). The rest are mainly due to my laziness (lack of time). The code undergoes a transformation where I need to know about all the local variables in each cell for the time traveling feature, and certain things like import statements add new local variables references that I just haven't had the time to support so they're not whitelisted.

The feature in question is the following. We support hosting, so you could have two cells like this:

[Cell 1]
f()

[Cell 2]
function f()
{
return 5;
}

Normally "dirtying" is simple, if a cell from the past has changes, then the future changes. However with hoisting, sometimes the future can change the past. You'll see that in Tonic if you were to change the 5 to a 7, Cell 1 would appropriately dim letting you know the machine will go back to that point to rerun.
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Pretty much any modern hardware. I bought a nice das keyboard only to find that they don't know how to make lights on it. Instead of having some sort of diffuser or screen to light up, like normal numlock indicators, this projects light in a cone. At night, it projects a big circle on my ceiling. Emailed them and they were flabbergasted this was a thing.
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It all depends on the claim vendors make. I think that is the great stuff about Kyle's series -- he often looks at how the systems behave vs. how they are documented and promoted.

If vendors fix things after the test, there are usually 2 types of fixes -- docs or code. Docs mean tell people how system really behaves and how data might be corrupted or actually fix the problem if possible.

So if Chronos just says in bold red letters on the front -- "You'll lose data in a partition" or "Our system is neither C or A if you use these options" that's ok too. The users can then at least make an informed choice.
Well, I think today there is too much emphasis on wireless and a sense almost that using wires is ritually unclean.

4G is NOT a wireless technology, 5G is about more optic fiber so that you can be closer to the infrastructure.

As much as possible I get ethernet out to security cameras, game consoles and things like that and leave the WiFi to things that are truly mobile.
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> I find it's a good indicator of the maturity of the teams working on them, and how much I'm willing to trust each system.

I hate to nitpick but I'm generally curious. How do you know it's a good indicator? It can definitely be _an_ indicator but how do you know it was good? Did you have a follow up experience that validated what the indicator indicated?
Multiple accounts was a huge selling factor for me, though that might not have been included out of the gate. HipChat only _just_ enabled multiple accounts two months ago.

https://blog.hipchat.com/2015/06/08/connecting-multiple-acco...
> To set up your OnHub, you’ll also need:

> Google Account

No, thanks. SpyHub would be more adequate name.

I would reconsider it when I could put my own software on it, that would not require untrusted third-party accounts.
Users with this level of concern for HN's quality are the reason why the site survives as well as it does. Thank you.
anyone know how this compares to mikrotik's router which was recommended to me and I have in my cart about to purchase? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BGIXOHQ

any suggestion on docsis3 modem?
The moderation tools are absolutely archaic. Moderating any subreddit of sufficient size requires a small army of bots and third party tools.

Basic forum moderation tools like IP banning persistent troublemakers and spammers are still not available.
Absolutely, it's a bad joke. Endless data collection, personal profiling, total mass surveillance, NSA...

Need we say more?
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I have only interacted(If you can even call it that) with Linus online and I too have found him to be abrasive.

It was a completely non-technical discussion and Linus had a moment. I found it to be very off-putting.

He doesn't project the image of a Visionary, the way Jobs did. He doesn't project the image of an inspired Nerd, the way Gates did. He projects the image of a really smart and driven but annoying guy with whom you wouldn't choose to hang out recreationally.
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fun game! thanks for making this!
What are some of the books that expand your mind?
Wifi or ethernet? My client device is the latest MacBook Pro. It supports 5Ghz.
With such short lifespans, we can breed them for cooperation and kickstart an undersea agricultural revolution.
I was thinking something similar. Seems the daycare industry might be ripe for "disruption" (or preferably, innovation).
This is rad. Can't wait to see the results.
Anyone know which frequency these use to communicate? 26.9650 MHz?
It seems really surprising that you're not tracking location, as that might dramatically skew your distribution.
It's also incredibly ironic since the email itself is banking on Satoshi's charisma (or at least influence) to steer the discussion his/her way.

I noticed the u in "honour"---I thought previously that Satoshi wrote as an American, but this is the British spelling. Did I remember wrong?
The IRS has no say in the tax code. Their only job is to enforce the law as it is currently written. If you want the tax code to change, talk to your Congressman.
You know very well that's not the same thing...
Reminds me Paolo Bacigalupi's stories, "Wind-up girl", "The calorie men" and others. He's created a dystopian world of GM crops being the only viable food source on the planet.
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Can someone ELI5 this?
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lol. I like your name. I wonder how ISPs will react to this.
And here's an actual definition of the word (not a list of other useful, related words for use in a broader context:)

in·def·i·nite

adjective

lasting for an unknown or unstated length of time.
Whoa. This comment is a poster child for why HN has this guideline:

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

Your off-topic comment overwhelmed and ruined the thread, and provoked users to flag a fine story about medieval and 18th century history.

Please don't post things like this. Their awful effect is predictable.
> We chose the latter

And as a long-time user of Firefox, this is what got me to stop using Firefox.

There's been tons of people asking for the removal of Pocket from Firefox including hundreds of posts in the Mozilla governance forum asking for its removal but Mozilla sits there doing nothing claiming "sane privacy" and "oh you can disable it by going to your about:config and finding this key and setting it to false". Package it as an uninstallable extension or get rid of it completely.
I agree with you, but is this specific to only home automation? Shouldn't the same paranoia / concern (depending on who you're talking to) apply to critical company data (documents, source code, etc.) as well as personal health information (biometrics, etc.)?
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Or the development of seeds whose plants do not bear further seeds. Impossible with corn, which is entirely seeds, but possible with many fruits (apples, oranges, peaches). That way the consumer can't buy a piece fruit and plant a fruit tree... She'd have to buy the starter seeds from the company.

Call it BRM: Biological Rights (read: Restrictions) Management.

Edit: after some googling, I need to read the stories suggested by tartuffe78. They look really good.

tartuffe78's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10081875
I personally think the real answer is not to have a central device, but to spread it out into a peer2peer 'fog'.

There's been some movement in industrial applications via stuff like https://twitter.com/FilamentHQ which leverages hardware accelerated ECC and telehash, using blockchain based DNS systems and other decentralized methods of command and control.

I think a similar direction needs to be taken for consumer hardware and data. The cloud needs to become just another peer.

I've been working with a bunch of interesting ideas on trying to get a distributed IoT network setup using programmable blockchains and Eris industries stack as part of an internship with them.
> Professionals are routinely wrong about predicting economic trends.

But you're not, right?

There isn't an ounce of uncertainty in any of your comments despite the fact that you make several outlandish claims about the future.