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Ask HN: What technology/products do you use for home automation?
I am very new to home automation and would like to implement the home automation for controlling:
Lighting (Indoor/Outdoor),
Home Security &
Thermostat

Finding a lot of material related to home automation on the internet and I am not sure which one to use:
Home automation protocols : Z-Wave, ZigBee, Insteon ;
Home Automation Hubs: SmartThings, Wink, Vera

Also very interested to know if someone has worked on open hardware for home automation using Raspberry Pi/Arduino. Are there any good websites/blogs to learn more about all this?
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Oh.. so that's what we call it. ARG! While I was looking for a headstart on google, I was like.. "Has no one ever built things like this before". Thanks :) This is cool.
It isn't that I don't trust LastPass the company. It is that I'm no longer sure if the entire model of the product/service offers enough additional (or comparable) security over what Chrome offers, wrt to the syncing of encrypted credentials to the cloud.

If your're only considering vulnerabilities that pertain to that, I would think native Chrome has an inherent security advantage over a Chrome plugin. I am happy to be wrong about this, though.

Edit/Addition: While I give them props for the full disclosure about the salts being exposed, we don't have any evidence that this has ever happened to Google, so setting everything else aside, we already know for certain LastPass has been exploited in a way we don't have any evidence that Google has. That's not intended to be a slight on LastPass or praise for Google, just that, "it is what it is."
It should get down-voted.

The original post was two words. Okay, cute. But then the subsequent "explanation" was four words.

There should have been at least a sentence or two of explanation. At the minimum there could have been a link to Wikipedia. That's common courtesy.

Most people don't come to HN to spend decades learning obscure things, very slowly, from Zen masters.
It does indeed fourier analysis to find the notes. But I'm sorry to disappoint you, it does no progression analysis, so it's useless for this particular exercise (it's only handy to see the notes when you don't have an absolute pitch earing).
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I believe a website is responsible for everything that is delivered and all tracking that happens when they publish a page and deliver it. They don't get to segregate their content from ad content and wash their hands of responsibility for any lies or misuse of data by the later.

So forcing domains to host the ads they insert and all the tracking that goes with makes that more explicit and thus a good thing.
>What I've read is that, ironically, kids with perfect SATs, 80 extracurriculars, who play the violin and speak 5 languages fluently are so common that they don't stand out anymore.

Can't wait for the day when traditional parents catch on and we see the mass enrollment of Chinese kids in linebacker camps.
You dont know if target is ad supported when you click on a link.
So what, other than language, prevents somebody from starting only European-wide initiatives and reaping the benefits of the entire European market?

I don't mean to sound like I'm minimizing the language issue, but it is surmountable.

To contradict my devil's advocate question above:

My guess and observation is that the ROI on certain localizations isn't good enough to justify the work needed to make a pan-European go at something. So people pick markets where the ROI will be good: England, Germany, France....maybe Italy, and then it all stops there. Neighboring countries with high ROI demographics usually have speakers of those major languages as a second language and can get by well enough with those offerings. And nobody really targets minor dialects for big offerings.
If the authors truly cared about animals, they would not subject them to unnatural habitats and perpetuate the morally bankrupt ideology that animals are commodities for humans to enjoy -- they are not. They are sentient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness#Cambridge...), loving and caring beings with capacity to feel pain that is not different from ours. So, please ... just leave them the fuck alone!
Plenty of companies can incorporate offshore though. That's probably easier than in the US.
I lived for years in Earley. That's totally not confusing.

Cache invalidation and naming: the two hard problems in computer science...
> http://www.notion.so/

I love more than anything else, sites that treat me as a second-class citizen for using a non-proprietary browser. They must have so many users already, that they don't mind alienating a large portion of their audience.
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Puts a damper on the SPA + AWS Gateway API + Lambda app I was developing.
That's like saying "stop downloading F2P games" or "don't support the RIAA/MPAA". There are really just so few sites that aren't ad supported.

"It's a simple solution that works for everyone involved."

It's literally none of those things. It's not simple, it's not a solution, and it doesn't work for anyone involved.
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I certainly agree that children are a big responsibility, and take a lot of time... From what I've seen, though, of small businesses? Experience matters even more. I know a bunch of Entrepreneurs who are also parents. I don't personally understand how, I don't think I could handle being a parent even with an easy office job, but many entrepreneurs seem to be able to be a parent and run a business at the same time. I can't tell you how many of the informal meetings that are also dinner parties had children underfoot, but it's a reasonably large percentage.

Even if you do think that having a child will slow you down, being older doesn't automatically mean you will become a parent... the technology in that field is pretty good at this point.
There are other bases for compensation. Conversions / actions / clickthroughs.

Measure what you can see. Don't obsess over what you cannot.
yep ... same thing!
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martin parr:

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FWIW, you could classify this as "Interrogative Design," a practice accelerated by Krzysztof Wodiczko, who lived under communist oppression in Poland, but now has had cushy positions at MIT and Harvard [1 ]

He focuses a lot on projections now, but in the past and his students have, made lots of "fake devices" or in Chris Csiksmihalyi's practice "edgy products" which typically misfunction in order to start conversations or get us to see things outside our usual waking trance. In a way, they're like small hacks that hackers do which invert or reveal power relationships.... (the big difference is these art projects don't usually always actually work -not that they really have to though, but if it often creates confusion and/or animosity from real hackers). Anyway, there are lots of great pieces in this category, see [2] and there are many more.

Protip: Once you start to see things through this lens, you'll realize that so many other actual projects have unintentional profiles as Interrogative Designs

[ 1 ]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wodiczko

[ 2 ] http://www.interrogative.org/projects/
I've heard some Ad networks are asking clients to setup reverse-proxys, so they can make the image APPEAR to come from same origin. It's getting crazy!
Ad blockers don't just block domains. They also block (full) url patterns, which are easily adapted to sites (and there are many) which host ads for themselves.
If you know of someone who is advertising products as organic when they aren't, I suggest reporting them to the local farmer's group, chamber of commerce, industry association, or (groan) the FDA.

"Organic salt," although counter-intuitive, has a meaning: that the product does not have additives or anti-caking agents. (In some countries, the harvesting processing must also comport to environmental standards). Although the FDA does not certify salt as "organic," I believe that it still handles reports of salt that does contain additives or anti-caking agents being advertised as "organic."

I'm not sure that it's reasonable to care whether salt is "organic," but it's not a capricious term. It's well-defined and easy to understand.

Some other products, such as butter, are chemically quite distinct from their counterparts which are produced by orthodox techniques and quite worth caring about. It is easy to have these products lab tested to determine whether or not they are organic. If you eat butter, then switching to organic butter will remove a substantial mass of chemical pesticides, including organophosphate, prenatal exposure to which is known to cause some serious problems.
The camera could take his one stage further - when you pick the camera up in a well-photographed location, it just downloads the most popular shot from there. This would save you the effort of framing your shot entirely, and you'd always end up with a perfect picture :)
But they don't far miss or distant miss. They weren't aiming for each other. "Near miss" is the only way you would ever refer to planes almost colliding with the word "miss", so the "near" part is redundant. They missed. If you wanted to say they were close, you could say they almost hit, which is not only more accurate, it's not redundant, because you can't take out either word and still express the same idea.

This isn't just to be pedantic; there's lots of redundant or incorrect language out there which Carlin talks about at length.
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Only if you're not from Mexico and realized that their banking industry is robust and well regulated...
Ask HN: Affordable Business Plan Writing Service(s)?
Hi,

I think I'm better at techy things than writing, plus I don't want to stop working on my MVP, but I understand the necessity of having a Business Plan early on. I'm interested in hiring someone to write one up for me, but have no experience in this space. I don't know what to expect as to pricing, nor do I have much money to go around. Thus, I'm seeking input to maybe learn of affordable services. Any input is appreciated. Thanks.
Exits are the key to a successful startup ecosystem. Scarce exits at low valuations means scarce venture capital, and less enthusiasm among potential employees and even founders.

Silicon Valley is dense with natural acquirers. China has a market for exits. Other aspiring startups hubs around the world just do not. I realized this from spending time in Tokyo and Singapore. People commonly think "everything would be different if we just had a few more VCs", or some such. But really, it's not complicated. Investors want exits, and when they dream, they dream of big exits. They're not in the business to lend a helping hand, or reward the deserving.
Ask HN: Why do keyboards still have the CAPS LOCK key?
It's unnecessarily large, takes up a very good position on the standard keyboard layout, and seems NOBODY USES IT. Why is it still there?
I guess one of the "benefits" of serving ads from a third party site is that you can cookie the user on the thirdparty domain, and build a profile as the user moves between participant sites. ("Re-targeting"). Serving ads from a first party domain likely loses this information since there won't be a shared cookie? Also it might complicate installation (you'd need to install some server side software that fetches ad content from the ad network, and probably some custom development to integrate it without being caught by a one-line rule in adblock?)

Also! With more and more ads running javascript based animations, you really don't want shady ad-network-provided JS running in the context of your main site. (XSS)
Yes, thanks for pointing out that important distinction.
Could we add a "(2013)" to the title?

Also, can anyone speak to the current state of affairs with respect to ext4, xfs, and btrfs?
I'd love to hear about the tooling and code quality in these file systems from an informed (and recent) point of view. Has Redhat been putting out fires since the switch? Did it go unnoticed? Are there measurable performance and/or reliability gains?
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Voting is only a small part of participating in the political system.

As an outsider, I find people here in the US (or probably just SF) to be more active for their causes. But it's not enough. There is no easy tech solution here. People have to have their voices heard. Otherwise, voting is useless. You can only choose between the choices given to you not the choices you want.
That's interesting, do you have any links you could point me to in order to learn more about this?
For instance, let's say we're in C Major.

Tune1 = C D F A G C

Tune2 = C F D A G C

How can you tell which (if any) is wrong or not and how?
You say that as it risk-averse comfort is a bad thing. I'd much rather have comfort than a unicorn that happened to start in my country.
No; all US launches are over ocean to satisfy FAA that you have a very small chance of damaging something on the ground. You could launch over land if you could prove that your rocket was about as likely to fail as an airliner, but there's currently no such thing.

Vandenburg AFB's launch facilities are good for defense sats because (1) they're from a DoD facility and (2) that's the premier US site for polar orbits. Most surveillance sats do polar or polar-ish orbits because that can put any particular part of the planet directly underneath it several times a day.

SpaceX also has an Air Force pad at Cape Canaveral, but that site is suited only for equatorial orbits, again due to geography. Those are mostly for comm sats, science (incl. interplanetary), and human missions.
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and the Ferrari doesn't even go 2x as fast in practice, because roads

OTOH a Ferrari is a conspicuous sign of wealth and bad taste... the hypersonic flight, while significantly time-saving and maybe good for a couple of selfies on instagram, probably doesn't function so well in that regard
> they can, e.g. face in the other direction so they don't have to see it (like I do in pubs that play sport on TV)

Some don't want to be in a pub at all.
"Doesn't it seem nasty to claim that a large established company may go out of business?"

I'm not sure how you can consider a company that's still dependent on VC funding for survival to be an "established" company. During that phase, a company is still in a precarious state, and its survival beyond the current funding round is hardly guaranteed. The investors, management, employees and customers are all aware of that (or should be).

And even companies that have been self-sufficient for a long time die on a regular basis. Technologies come and go, new competitors enter markets, management screws up, etc.

The business press writes about companies in trouble all the time. Potential investors and customers need to know what the downsides are before investing in or adopting a company's technology. Journalists who just write happy stories about companies are doing their readers a disservice.
> The third reason I hear is that the US market is bigger and therefore it’s easier to get traction.
> Yet there are 503 million Europeans living inside the EU vs. 319 million US living in the US.

That's a really dodgy reason to discount the "third reason".

Britons are not to Belgians what New Yorkers are to Californians!
> treat me as a second-class citizen

I think you're being a little excessively hyperbolic. They don't support your browser yet and state as much - that's hardly malicious or demeaning to you. They also promise support is coming soon. It's a very early phase product that uses a lot of newer and less universal APIs. It's not that they have so many users that they don't care - rather, it's that they're still beta testing and haven't been able to devote the resources yet. I really fail to see the problem here.
> I have sampled the "getting more involved" tactic. It is worse than a waste of time.

Well than kill democracy and invent a new government system. Voting is the most important part of a Democracy.

To what end is your point now? No one voting but a few and they decide the election????

"I hate politics!" does not mean I hate voting. Voting is making your statement of yes or no.

> Sometimes you suffer retaliation for "rubbing the cat the wrong way". Voting is silent and no one knows what you voted for.

If you live in a Democracy you have to vote. If you are fine with Democracy dying than don't vote especially in local elections.
The closest example I can probably give is that of Basecamp. They were formerly known as 37signals, and IIRC, they changed their name to Basecamp because it's their most well-known product, among other reasons.
This is actually a function built in by Google originally to help newspapers etc. It's called "first page free". News sites want their content to be indexed by Google so they can get search traffic, however, Google does not want to send users to a login page, so they compromised Google will index content that is normally blocked by a pay wall in exchange the publication is required to show the full content of that page to any visitor from Google. If you try navigating to another set of answers it will probably require to you login unless you go back to Google and search for it.

Source: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/3863/how-does-...
That solution doesn't work at all for the massive numbers of people who want content and don't want to pay for it.
If I made an ad system that needed to track a user, I would want to use my own domain because then I can save the user's state between websites using my own domain's local storage.
First, I don't think this is the NSA. It is far to sloppy for something like this. You probably wouldn't be able to detect them so easily. It is possible to be from another nation state though, or smart attacker. Also, we know that the NSA tries to cover their tracks: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/snowden-the-nsa-n... "Instead, the TAO’s hackers “bricked” the router, Snowden said. He described the event as an “oh shit” moment, as the TAO operations center team tried to repair the router and cover their tracks, to no avail."

What I am confused about is that I assumed IOS images were signed. How are people creating backdoored IOS images without failing signature checking? Maybe they patched rommon?
Above all, what matters is your true grit. There're MIT's in India, too. A renowned aerospace scientist, former President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was an alumnus of Madras Institute of Technology (MIT). The current CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella got his engineering degree from Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT). Think about the autodidacts listed at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts
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Leaching content is not much different than the early days of MP3s. So I'm hopeful we'll find a new business model that works without me having to pay for every site on the web I want to browse. I can't remember the last time I pirated an album. The ease of streaming services has made it so convenient that I don't want to manage local files.

Still I don't buy the argument that just because you don't want to pay for the content (by viewing ads) that you should still be able to consume it without ads. From a technical perspective I guess the client can do whatever it wants with the data returned but it's still not "right".
It's very short-sighted (even arrogant?) on the developer's part to assume that someone will switch to a different browser just for their site.

And it's not just non-proprietary browsers, it's just any browser not cherry picked by the developer, which for some inexplicable reason includes the iPhone but not Firefox, Edge or Opera.
I guess I should've put /s at the end of the first statement/question. I meant we shouldn't judge by stereotypes - I'm glad Chuck meant a different thing... at that level though.
I'd still be concerned for his safety right now. Hope he can get some protection stateside, just in case.
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Too much regulation and not enough testicular fortitude.
The only reason I know that it blocks these ads is because I also run an ad blocker.

We have a very strict ad policy; we manage all our ads internally, don't do any tracking, and all ads are 100% relevant to the content of the site. I have click-through rates on some ads types that are so far above the industry average you'd think I'm lying. We consider our ads just another service we provide on the site one that benefits us and our visitors.

The content is funded by ads and paying for content on the web to every single click you link isn't feasible. So morality aside, it's tragedy of the commons: People without adblockers effectively fund those that do. If the scales tip too far, the funds dry up and content will just go away.
Its a race that (if the ad industry gets smarter) will be very hard for the ad blockers to match.

Because publishers have control of the website, they can do things like randomize the div name, parameter names, javascript names, javascript functions, sizes of the ad, randomize images for the ad, use dynamic JS positioning, etc..

Basically if a publisher was serving their own ads and didn't want them blocked, you would be extremely hard pressed to counteract it.

As far as building your extension- You cant build it so its automated. No matter what you build, Any publisher could bypass it within minutes. The best you can do is make it so the site doesnt work if ads are showing, but publishers are already fine with this (hence why warnings are put up saying 'disable adblock to continue')
I certainly agree that "Europe has no Silicon Valley", but I'm not so sure about "or New York".

What part of "the full stack entrepreneurial ecosystem and access to funding" does London lack that New York has?

(Genuine question - I don't know NY well)
Jeff Atwood agrees with you about Experts Exchange, and wrote an article about it.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/whos-your-arch-enemy/
I like how posts about Prolog get populular very fast, but have little to no comments. People have heard that this language is special but have never actually used it in production, so they hope that someone will shed the light on it. Unfortunatelly it usually ends with a copypasted list of 15 projects(including Watson) where Prolog is used and thats it.
Maybe someone can share his/her production level experience with it this time...
Additionally, they should consider that the easiest way to reduce overall travel time of a journey is to make the slowest sections faster, not the fastest sections.
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You can't operate a network of ATM skimmers across this large an area without the police in your pocket. They were probably just using cheap, mass-produced skimmer tech from China; doing much more just costs more and makes it more complex.

Besides, why should they care? That area of Mexico is incredibly violent; nobody would dare fuck with the cartels' money because they kill for far less than that. Krebs had better watch his back on this one; the cartels have a long history of murdering journalists who expose their activities.
I use it everyday while at work of course and not to forget disabilities group.
Ok, we replaced "successful" with "$1B". I forgot that we'd used that in the past.
Just an e-mail signup page.
That's definitely a battery problem. I had the same issue after a few years, got the battery replaced and now it works as you'd expect. Of course, the batteries aren't cheap, so it depends on how annoying you find it :) I lived with it for about a year.
I guess you'll have to wait and see