skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fine if it lets you check the state of devices and sensors over the net. It's even fine if it lets you control it on-line. What's totally, absolutely not fine is if it requires the Internet to work. It's ridiculous from engineering point of view, and only done by companies who want to monetize you through butt bullshit. If your home automation needs my butt, I ain't buying it.
Very briefly, because the bulk of GDP growth (and GDP) has been investment, either in infrastructure out production capacity (in support of exports). Great way to industrialize, but it's not sustainable as China starts to have more capacity than the world can consume, and if continued investment in infrastructure doesn't result in higher long term productivity (cf ghost cities).

The'correct' way forward is to rebalance toward domestic consumption: make the Chinese people richer, and sell more to themselves. The balance sheet argument says consumption must therefore grow faster than investment, which should probably contract (we're well past the point of a dollar of investment producing a dollar of future productivity), but since consumption is starting from a relatively small base it has to grow impossibly fast to maintain the current growth levels.

Critical to this argument is Pettis's concept of 'financial repression,' that a lot of the uneconomic behavior and investing is a result of below-inflation deposits rates that have made household wealth shrink at the expense of cheap capital for business, particularly large and inefficient state owned enterprises. That implicit subsidy meant a lot of malinvestment was rational, but also implied an unsustainable environment.

Current global contraction is maybe the pin pricing the bubble, because what's ultimately unsustainable is the world's capacity to absorb Chinese production. In other words, demand-side softness, which is a global problem.

Sorry, that's not brief, nor is it necessarily easy to understand, but it's a complex issue that manner economists and China watchers don't necessarily understand (I'm assuming Pettis if correct, just in the strength of his arguments and other references agreeing; IANA economist)...
You mean, what was the name of the game? You can still call it Riding the Gravy Train [1].

Summary of Failure: Failed to close enterprise sales leads. (Started with the erroneous assumption that being technically able to develop an MVP will prove sufficient to "sell" to enterprises.)

Reasons:
1. Small team (enterprises no like small teams [sic] ... unless ... but we learned the "unlesses" only recently)
2. Small team part II - fewer initial leads to grow from consultancy domain experience
3. Sales pitches always too technical.
4. Solution offering too monolithic (modules preferred by enterprises)
5. High overheads during sales periods (enterprise sales lead times went on for 24 months!)
6. Couldn't adequately manage emotional temperament during dry spell (spending on overheads - salaries esp didn't help) - resulting in poor major and minor knock-on decisions.
7. Emotional Temperament Part II - weak emotional resolve affected creative aspect of job (building the MVP). Health suffered too with stress. Spiralled.

However, and the irony is amazing - we closed our first sale after 2 years. This after letting go two staffers and an office, right before switching the lights off.

We build from here. Making new mistakes. And looking stupid for an analysis of decisions later on.

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[1] "Have A Cigar"
by Pink Floyd

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try; they're gonna love you.

Well, I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.

We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
You gotta get an album out,
You owe it to the people. We're so happy we can hardly count.

Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?
It's a helluva start, it could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team.

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
On what should they be based, if not a sound foundation that lends itself to rigorously proveable statements (I carefully say only proveable, not proven) and the well developed intuition of a community of experts? To say that, because mathematicians understand and can think about something, they will be able to solve it, seems to be denying the existence of long- (and still-) unsolved elementary problems.
The video on this page blew my mind. Hope it helps you understand how it's actually all states at once. http://themindunleashed.org/2015/06/new-mind-blowing-experim...
If you can come up with ANY variants that remove ANY other heavy metals the implications for EVERYWHERE are huge.
This documentary does the best ELI5 of the double slit experiment and how it has confounded physicists that I've seen:

https://vimeo.com/126833477
"Jeremy Blum's home-automation system, which he calls Jarvis, can control lights, curtains and music and can answer questions about anything using a phone, voice commands or this command center."

Implementations like this kind of scare me. It is certainly cool to be 'able' to automate these things, but should we? Are we going to use technology to make our lives lazier, or better? No, they aren't mutually-exclusive, but I can't help but think that making it so you don't have to leave your couch in order to turn off the lights is a movement toward a worse lifestyle. Your health has a much larger contribution to your standard of living than convenience, and to me, this seems like trading off one for the other (in a subtle way). However, maybe I will eventually be convinced of the net benefits. Am I approaching this wrong?
Here's the Truth, Sometimes I Lie
DA 2: Dividend Growth Investing vs. Other Investments
More specifically, the GS alumni who lead the Athena and Quartz builds at JP and BAML are now commercialising that approach as wsq.io
Making Basecamp 3 Insanely Fast with David Heinemeier Hansson
I've been using it recently and as a user it feels like a negative synthesis as much as a positive one.

Its memory footprint bloats with tabs much like a web-browser does and now my machine just lives in swap in a way that it doesn't with more traditional text editors.
I would argue they are typical, perhaps good signings for a club such as Arsenal. They were all however known, and already playing at big European clubs.

None were say playing for say Halmstads BK or unknown to everyone in the top tear other than vai some obscure stats system...
Probably just you. Practically over purity.
How are we to read those slides on mobile if navigation requires a keyboard? (iPhone Safari here)
Took me a while...a long while...to wade through all of the fluff describing how plex is so awesome and can do everything before I found it still won't play ISOs. I guess it is awesome, it does all you need....as long as you preprocess and encode your media to a format it accepts. I feel like they really bury this key piece of information (as if, "who would even want that?"), but maybe I am a dinosaur with my preference for the quality of ripped vs. streamed media.

Anyways, I could do with a simple soup to nuts spec sheet and less marketing fluff.
Phone in sick: it's a small act of rebellion against wage slavery
How are you watching sports on a Plex?
I agree in principle, although in practice I am sceptical about the practicality of applying formal methods to large systems. The ratio of effort to reward just seems too large for most domains.
Indeed. Home automation has been a solution looking for a problem for decades. Some people find it a fun toy, but it's just not a labour saving invention - there isn't enough labour spent in the first place to be worth saving. We spend a few seconds each day with light switches and maybe up to a minute with garage doors - less if you already have a simple door remote.

Heating is more worthwhile to improve, but harder.
WinDocks First Look Port of Docker Daemon to Windows Server 2012
While mention of that possibility appears in the literature, the only tests I can find are on animals, and they don't seem all that conclusive to me.

To be a useful recommendation, I would like to know the dose. That is, if the water has a 50% higher lead concentration, how much garlic (etc.) should I eat to mitigate the possible ill effects? Is a clove/week enough? 20 bulbs/day?

For example, if I go by http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279617/ which tests "A. sativum extract (400 mg kg-1 ..." on rodents, then that's equivalent to someone weighing 100 kg eating 40 g of garlic. A clove is about 3 grams, so 40 grams is a bit over a head of garlic per day. Which is rather a lot.

I would think the garlic (etc.) growers would be all over this, since if they could convince the millions of people living in areas with high lead concentrations to eat an extra head or two of garlic (etc.) per day, then that's an economic boom for them.

I would also worry that it depends on the kind of food. Does it exclude Vidalia onions? What other onions should we avoid? How should they be labeled?

I also can't help but think of scurvy treatments. The British Navy first used limes. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy :

> West Indian limes replaced lemons because they were more easily obtained from Britain's Caribbean colonies[18] and were believed to be more effective because they were more acidic, and it was the acid, not the (then-unknown) Vitamin C that was believed to cure scurvy. In fact, the West Indian limes were significantly lower in Vitamin C than the previous lemons and further were not served fresh but rather as lime juice, which had been exposed to light and air and piped through copper tubing, all of which significantly reduced the Vitamin C.

That is, is it really the high sulfur in garlic (etc.) which helps, or is it something else?

I tried to find this information, but was overwhelmed by people saying they are traditional medicine, with pointers to others who then point to etc. I didn't find anything like a dose/response curve, even for rodents.
The key fact that most people miss out on when explaining Schrodinger's cat is that the box is not simply "a box", say, a cardboard box or a plastic box or something. It's a magic box that completely isolates the cat from the entire rest of the universe. No neutrinos, no photons of any frequency, no quantum interaction of any kinds between the inside and the outside of the box, probably not even any gravity (though how important that is is currently unknown). The "cat in the box" is effectively in a separate universe until we open the box.

That point has to be hammered on, rather than neglected, because in reality it is completely true that no such box exists, and almost certainly no such box could exist, and it's very important when explaining this to people that it's a thought experiment, a metaphor, not something that actually happens in the macroscopic world.
Do not trust the CDN:

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America has great options for vegetarians. In a lot of languages there isn't even a native word for vegetarian, not to mention vegan.
> That's the everyday user...and you want her to automate a home?

No. I want to automate mine. Here's a thing - every company tries to jump for the big market of "normal people" immediately. They got used to completely ignoring the tech-savvy with mobile tech over the last decade. So they fail making something compelling for regular users, and refuse to make something for techies.
Yep. I am sure Paul Graham found Common Lisp "useful".
The best part is that it's wrapped in with Google Play Music. So I don't have to pay anything extra for more stuff? Works for me.
Real. The isn't a statement about exchange rates or currency, it's a statement about the real state of the Chinese economy (even though parent post is definitely about monetary issues). We should expect Chinese growth to average 3% or less in real terms for the next ~decade if Pettis is correct. How's that for a bold economic prediction?
I haven't worked with it too much, but being on the JVM is one of the things I like about Clojure. The JVM has a huge standard library, but I don't really like Java so Clojure gives me a way to use all that existing code in a language I enjoy writing. There are definitely some downsides to the canonical implementation being on the JVM, but any move away from that is going to end up "wasting" a lot of effort reimplementing all of that library and I just don't see it being worth it, at least at this point.
If Uber works, you might be less happy with your transport options
New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos
Next, they should fuzz IronFleet: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2558...
These researchers have discovered the perfect password that’s easy to remember
Android 6 Marshmallow vs. iOS 9 visual interface comparison: we have a winner
Rallying Behind One Goal
This also allows you to have access to Google Play Music which is currently $9.99 / mo. This rocks.
Exactly. If you had a very low outlier, you could easily have >75% smarter than average and it would be accurate.
System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance
> The idea that you can have a language which is portable/reimplementable on any platform is fundamentally flawed. You can't.

If you can't implement C on a platform, I think you're in some pretty strange territory and you're probably having to invent your own language to match the platform.
You missed by about 20 years, but yeah. And no, I watched the same things as my parents on an old B&W TV every evening. This fracture has not been going on forever; its not healthy or natural; its only happened since TV hit the mainstream. For the first 1M years we all heard the same stories; we shared a culture.
5 mistakes I made writing my first Clojure application
I think I get idea behind it, although not sure. What would totally make it "click" with my brain - is some real use case. Do you know any?
People can still choose to get enough exercise to be healthy even with all these convenient options. When I go to the gym in the morning, I'm exhausted and I would gladly choose not to get up to turn off the lights if I didn't have to. This doesn't take away people's option to live a healthy lifestyle and I don't see this as a valid reason to be against automation.
Example of the absurdity of occupational licensing in regard to hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjTheDqQrw
What about the chiptunes that went along with the key-gens?
The lifetime license is now doubled: MONTHLY $4.99 YEARLY $39.99 LIFETIME $149.99.
Best media playback engine in the world. Needs to play every format under the sun.

So both SACD and Dolby Atmos work now?
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Rosea: DSL in Tcl with relational algebra for generating executable UML
These sound like potentially pretty serious problems:

> felt weak all the time, lacking all the energy to run and play sports like his friends

> Besides relentless fatigue, other common symptoms appear to include severe headaches and stomach cramps.

> plagued with an irritable bowel

> “I would go more than a week without a bowel movement while ‘hungry’, and feel nausea if I ate anything other than my ‘cure food’,”

I don't know what's going on, but dismissing it as delusion seems unhelpful, unkind, and untrue.
>Your equipment can suddenly stop working if...

That's part of what makes it a weak link!

>your home internet connection can and will go down

Yup
It sounds like a botched system change. They say they had switched their upstream processor when this problem occurred.

There are also reports of people having their accounts drained. So they could have other problems as well.

According to a story in NPR, this is an area of the financial sector with very little oversight, and with little in the way of consumer protections.

http://www.npr.org/2015/10/21/450611721/technical-glitch-leaves-rushcard-owners-unable-to-access-funds

Most of the people using this service are poor and use no other financial services such as traditional banks or credit cards.

Sad this is not a bigger on HN, if this had been a problem at Bank of America, we would be all over the story.
Python's json parser is written in C.
I'm confused. Are you claiming that they copied paying below market salaries and having clueless technical staff from Silicon Valley?

I honestly wasn't aware that clueless technical staff was a common plight in SV (such that someone like Rocket would emulate it). That some developers or companies get caught up in fads, certainly wouldn't inherently indicate that they're clueless.

Maybe I'm behind the times on this. Is Silicon Valley now regarded as being filled full of low quality / clueless engineers? And what location has replaced SV as the best in the world?
I did a double take at that too - a 130 horsepower V6 seems like a typo when read with our modern eyes!! The last thirty years have been very good for engines...
What a terrible title. Lisp has been useful for a long time, and it's annoying to see so many Clojure programmers pretend that it's the revolutionary, useful Lisp we've all been waiting for.

I'll stick with Guile Scheme, which has tail call semantics, first-class continuations (both regular and delimited varieties), and other things that are absent from Clojure.
I find plex works "better than anything else" too but it's in desperate need of an open source alternative.
Well, they are a company now and maintaining a half dozen apps isn't cheap. The alternative to a modest subscription would be ads; I prefer the subscription.
And we can all help make this happen:

http://www.solar-aid.org/
Ah, nice tip.
I cracked up while reading this. "Aren't WE Data Science???"
Your comment reminds me of a news report here in Australia - 3 banks suffered a multiple-day outage when their IBM mainframes hosting transactional data were corrupted so badly, the banks weren't sure they could even recover the transactions:

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/the-real-reason-st-...

The relevant paragraphs are these:

"But when the system came back up early Sunday morning, a major data corruption was found by IT experts in the IBM mainframe Information Management System (IMS) database hosting the data, so all systems were shut back down about midday Sunday AEDT, a source close to the bank told Fairfax Media.

"IBM IMS and CSC Hogan experts are trying to figure out how to restore the databases without losing any transactions that were done on Sunday morning," the source said on Monday afternoon, referring to IT outsourcers IBM and CSC being called in to assist, and Hogan, an integrated suite of core banking applications."
Fun fact: John Dee would sign his secret correspondence with Queen Elizabeth with a special symbol: two circles with a line above them that angles sharply to their right. This symbolized his service as "the Queen's eyes". In more modern times the symbol would be adapted into a form still synonymous with espionage: 007, James Bond's code number.
Selling Cars in Winter Is Not Hopeless
And most people only saw the tip of the iceberg. Lisp was the substrate on which many paradigm grew, prolog, ml, st.
The post talks about hypothetical improvements in non-QC approaches to the ECDLP.
the mobile apps are free as remote or for $4-5 or so you can unlock the ability to play and sync media without a plex pass like before.
Absolutely, that helps. But that doesn't help you if your page needs to make requests across 20 different domains.
Saudi prince accused of demanding assistants carry out bizarre sex acts
Own a Drone? You’ll Need to Register It
I didn't realize how big youtube was until I found out my girlfriend uses youtube to get ideas for makeup and how to apply it, clothing, recipes, reactions to things. Basically anything in real life has a reviewer, tester, or expert on it in youtube. There is a whole world on youtube.
Halloween Real Estate
I've heard the dreadlocks thing before, but the whole thing falls apart at point 1 - the natural hairstyle for anyone with long hair who doesn't comb/brush it is dreadlocks, and it's been "independently discovered" in a dozen regions around the world.

(Not saying you're arguing that they're correct, as you do point out it's full of flawed assumptions)

I roughly get an idea of what the beliefs behind their argument are, but they still seem absurd, and at times it certainly seems like they've "culturally appropriated" white European arrogance themselves.
I'd pose the question, why? From a personal privacy perspective you have a lot more to worry about from the determined actor targeting you than a data breach in which your genome (likely not even linked to any other PII if they have set up their database correctly) is just another entry in a sea of data. On the other side of the the coin, those individually worthless genomes could become valuable to the furthering of medical science if you can collect them in mass and start to look at statistical trends.
>Working a help desk you don't really see the every day user, you see the subset of every day users who had problems.

I didn't work a help-desk for a bank or large corporation but for a hospitality group where I "touched" every user and store. I had a more intimate relationship with all of our staff because they depended on the technology which made us money.

>And frankly, when I call help-desks, I play dumb, because it's easier then convincing them that yes, I did check that it was plugged in, yes, I did power cycle.

This isn't an option in my job since if a Manager "played dumb" while their POS is down, its really their neck on the line. It was in the best interest of the user to have the system working as they earned bonuses on throughput and other metrics.

It seems that you're attempting to justify your previous points, until this:

>Home automation also lacks a compelling use case. But security does not. The reason securing consumer networks is so hard is not because "users are losers", it's because security professionals have no idea about UX, UX professionals have no idea about security, and they both treat each other like shit.

This is a great comment and I completely agree with you; between compelling use cases, complicated UI/UX, and initial investment of time to set it up, most people aren't tempted to enter this realm.

The most compelling use of simple automation are Android NFC stickers (http://www.amazon.com/NFC-tags-Writeable-Programmable-Money-...). I got them for my brother-in-law and he uses them to close his garage door or get weather in the morning, etc. simple and effective.
One can be cautious without being overly cautious. And one can prudently take risks.

An example of stupid behavior might be betting $10,000 that you will win the office March Madness pool, because you personally know the coach of Duke and are just convinced that he is a winner that will go all the way. That's stupid.

But if you are Warren Buffet and bet $1 billion (with a 'b') that no one at all will correctly call every game in this years NCAA basketball tournament[0], that's not stupid, that's informed and prudent risk-taking.

[0] http://time.com/34358/no-one-won-warren-buffetts-1-billion-b...