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Ask HN: Recommendations for consumer home security systems?
The post on SimpliSafe today reminded me that I need to do more home security research to find a system/service.

It seems like most of the consumer offerings out there are overpriced and customers have very poor experiences with the likes of ADT, etc.

I don't have time to mess around with installing it myself or hacking together some homebrew system, nor am I able to pay a fortune for a top-end system or a high monthly fee. Does something even exist with those criteria? I feel home security should be something accessible to all, but all I see are unreliable products with expensive monthly fees on multi-year contracts (which I don't want to commit to in case I move).

I realize I'm looking for a solution that does everything for not a ton of money and that may not exist, but I'd love to know others' experiences in case I'm missing something obvious or need to adjust my expectations.

I'm in the Bay Area (Peninsula) FWIW.
The problem with this viewpoint is that historically, and especially today, free speech and press is conducted primarily through corporations.

Campaigning is done on corporate television. The print press is for profit corporations.

Can you imagine a free election without the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Twitter, Reddit, etc.

Why can't Koch brothers buy advertisements trashing Hillary Clinton when Jeff Bezos can buy the Washington Post and then run a hit piece on Marco Rubio?

Getting private corporations out of the speech business is probably impossible because of the internet. You could probably devise a system to attempt it, but it would be radical.
I'd like to preface this with the fact that I have next to zero experience about the topic of pricing/charging for such service's, so what I say might sound naïve, but…

Is it really that expensive, though? I mean I can see it being expensive if you use it inside a product you offer for free, but if it's a commercial product, I imagine the pricing isn't that much especially if you consider that using your own infrastructure for this type of machine learning and image scanning would be much much more expensive.
Analogy: One kid stood up to the bully, and the other kids are waiting to see what the consequences are before they pick a side.
I hear ya. I just look at some of the recent lists and have sort of a "meh" reaction.

Ironic that Zenefits is the last major breakout.
Some people deeply commit to micro-benchmarks. And sure, netty wins the micro-benchmark. But Java's concurrency model is harder to get right AND fast, so maybe it's a wash for real programs?

You can just be assured that ASP.NET is not going to suplex you with poor performance.
It's a generalization, and it makes sense as one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_%28mathematics%29

It allows you to think about |x| when x is a vector (or even other kinds of objects!) rather than just a real number. This kind of generalization can be a really powerful thing about mathematics, making existing insights more broadly applicable.
All anyone has accused Zenefits of doing is using a macro to prevent people from being auto-logged out of training. E.g.: http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/zenefits-program-let-in...

The Macro functioned to keep a person logged into the course and prevented the person from being logged out for inactivity. The Macro did not advance through the required material or quizzes in the education course — the Macro only kept the person logged in. The Macro only pertained to the prelicensing education course and did not affect the broker exam taken later.

If you have even accusations of some other activity (let alone evidence of it), go ahead and post it.
All these things you're naming are brand names for software and companies.
AppleScript isn't backwards compatible, sounds like that would fit just about any definition of a breaking change.
IMHO, the best thing for the US would be a legitimate third party. Doesn't even really matter too much what it stands for as long as it forces coalitions to form which I hope will pull everyone back towards the center.
Interesting ... So apple was falling back on the 4 digit pin anyways when you failed the touch ID. So it seems fair to say that this change doesn't compromise the security of the device at all.
I'm not sure who in this scenario you think is delusional, or if you're conflating being delusion with being uninformed of the specific employment arrangement between the people you interact with and their employers. Excuse me, they aren't employers anymore, it's a contractor/"logistics match-making company" relationship now.
I like to think it's about the 3rd amendment. The backdoor is a digital soldier.

Frankly though, I hope Apple loses this one. I'd like to see it spur them into developing a device that they do not have the ability to compromise, because it gives the end user the freedom to modify all the way down to the firmware. Like how you can theoretically flash your own signed coreboot into a chromebook.
This is my favorite part! There's so much and learning to be had in engineering solving problems with no real practical use. I don't consider it a waste of time at all and I'm glad they went ahead with their experiment.
Probably. Trademarks are contextual. Two companies can both trademark the word "Apple". One in the context of computers, another in music distribution. So long as they don't get into each other's business, it's OK. Hmm... Yeah, Apple Records wasn't too happy with iTunes.
This reminds me of the free market drive in India. First generation of companies after market reforms, like Airtel, would openly scream "free market" and destroy state held BSNL's monopoly.

But they now want more regulations on a free internet, they work against net neutrality because "a large amount of their invested money" would be derailed.

Basically when it happens to others, its free market. When it happens to you its unfair/harsh.
> because it's not actually a market

It is a market. Just not a free market.
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Xiaomi employs Hugo barras, former head of android. China has the source code to Windows (not sure if current versions). And on top of all that no Chinese person uses googles ecosystem on android and they cannot use many of iOS features like Apple Pay. They jailbreak and side load apps.
How about CRISPR? There is a tremendous controversy right now over who should get recognized (Nobel? Patents?) for CRISPR's invention
There's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus" by Spivak, and it's actually a really easy read while giving you an excellent mental model of Calculus.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. You're exactly right. "Oh, our stack is Rails on top of Postgres, we interface with Neo4j for some things. We use Ionic (which is of course Angular) for mobile and are playing with React."

To pretend that anything above the most fundamental abstractions doesn't involve domain-specific, obtuse, arbitrary lingo is just silly.
Your comment would be a lot more valuable if you replaced "There is so much wrong" with specifics.
Sounds like the American economy.
The "repo landing page" is already handled, somewhat, by GitHub Pages—the idiomatic repo setup is to have a GitHub Pages site "about" your software, linked from the description field of the repo; to link Release downloads directly from the GitHub Pages site, bypassing the repo; and to link to the repo from the GitHub Pages site under a "view source" or "contribute" Call-to-Action. The repo itself, with its README.md, then serves just to document the implementation—setup, usage, release notes, etc.—rather than to describe, explain, or teach you how to use the software.

Speaking of GitHub Pages, this feature complements it perfectly. Now you can create a GitHub-powered website—including images et al—without touching git, in much the same way you'd use one of those "FTP web interface" panels on a VPS. Except that each upload becomes a commit, rather than just mutating some ephemeral folder somewhere.
In my native tongue(Urdu) and region(South India), we have a saying that goes like this-

"If you wish to destroy a persons fortunes, advice him to start a transportation business".
Principle of Charity, for hell's sake. There's no reason to assume they're saying "I have an irrational dislike of Apple which new evidence will not change" when "I've developed an unfavorable view of Apple and have been critical of them in the past" is just as reasonable an interpretation.
Maybe not as useful but you can also detect pulse using a simple webcam and some software. That combined with speech might give some more insight.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/149623-mit-releases-open-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWycBEHn3s
It has an Apache licence checked in.
From the HN guidelines
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Getting down voted for merely asking a question and trying to provoke actual thought?

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> I feel like I've already outgrown it and I haven't even been a part of it that long.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a common semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
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Further, suppose we brought back only the economic protectionism bits - would that change things and make Jim Crow somewhat more acceptable? (As asked in my second paragraph.)

Suppose we literallytook some sort of randomized occupational licensing. I.e. suppose we have a cutoff of 10,000 taxi drivers, selected via shuffle(applications)[0:10000]. Now suppose we replace that random process with a racist one - first we allocate the 10k slots among white/asian people, and allocate the remainder among non-Asian minorities. Would that be morally acceptable and have the positive economic effects that pron claims?

Why is the first process morally acceptable and economically beneficial but the second one isn't?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s New Logo Is a Typographic Bus Crash
Insurance needs tech
Just found out that most if not all insurance companies pay out in checks only. For some businesses that is a problem. It was worth me making an account to let you know if anyone is interested
The official Flask tutorial includes Jinja2 as an integral part of flask and assumes the user will be using it for all their templating needs.

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/tutorial/templates/
4. Holy shit 4. I actually disagree with some of your other points; if I need DF calculation I'll do pandas in python, and in a pinch can make some raw SQL/terrible LINQ work; dynamic dashboards exist but data segregation is indeed a problem I don't see solved outside of the slightly aformentioned "make views and give very fine grained permissions" runaround; 3 I'm not sure I am understanding you right because I feel like I can do this in a combination of sql views and powerpivot, and 5, see the above, powerpivot.

But 4, someday if it weren't the property of some company now I would LOVE to show off some of the hacks I've done to get manual value input in Excel to work to do live re-processing on data originally sourced elsewhere. Probably some of the least maintainable and robust code I have _ever_ written, and that's saying something at this point, unfortunately...
So? They're also solutions, or parts of a solution, to larger problems. They're tools, just like the kronecker delta.

'awk '{print $1'/'$2}' | xargs curl | jq .'

None of the those programs things have any meaningful names. but they're all used in a common programming, or scripting, expression.

If someone says "Oh, you should use Hadoop for that", this is a proposal to solving a problem.
Interesting thought, though I'd imagine that if Apple loses the kind of device you're talking about might be by extension criminalized depending on the breadth of the ruling - or explicitly criminalized by congress.

I'd actually like to think of encryption as a 2nd amendment issue - protection against an unruly and intrusive government. Encryption being necessary to the security of a free state...or something.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but first world social services (by which I suspect you mean universal healthcare) aren't going to happen either, Bernie or no Bernie. For that to happen one would have to dismantle the healthcare insurance industry (which Obama had to give hundreds of billions to, in order to pass ACA) and screw over the doctors who currently charge an arm and a leg because they can (ACA does little to nothing to control the costs, which is why they are still rising). That's a trillion dollar industry, the best you can hope for is very gradual evolution in the right direction. It's "hope, change" bullshit all over again, except Bernie is very likely to keel over in the next 9 years.
Does this work for anyone, even if you're not their friend?
Not only is it still true, it is probably getting more true. I've had multiple YC and non-YC CEOs tell me this. And look at the announced valuations in the last batch for raising on safes.
The performance improvements that Ben Adams and other ASP.NET Core contributors have made haven't been Windows specific for the most part. Personally, I do most of my perf testing on Windows, but that doesn't mean Linux is completely left out.

Last month, I did some Linux profiling in our perf lab. As part of that, I ran the exact same benchmark shown in that graph on the exact same equipment and got over double the RPS numbers we got back in November much like we did on Windows.

I just updated the https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/ repo with the linux numbers I got last month since Ben's blog post has brought some increased attention to it. We plan to do a more complete benchmark run soon so we can update more numbers.
Already tried it, and I absolutely love it!

It was something we were waiting for for a long time. Now GitHub is light years ahead of its competitors because of this -seemingly small, but actually important- UX change.
Check out pyramid. It is more even more 'pay as you go' than flask. And more amenable to extension (ej. Router strategies)
It is a story he tells but he made the same claim on Digg and other places as well. It was effective social marketing but there are a few things like that about that just are popular beliefs that are just repeated 'cause the founder was a college student at the time.

Most of the original links/evidence of that are gone from the internet at this point tho and I'm tired of digging for them. :/

EDIT:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090328080325/http://digg.com/od...

http://archive.is/JS5DV

> imgur - the simple image sharer. The best in image hosting.
imgur.com — imgur is a free image sharing/hosting service that allows you to quickly upload and edit your photos and share them with friends the Internet. Now you're asking, "How is this different from imageshack, tinypic, or photobucket?" Well that's simple. imgur is free (as in beer), no ads, anonymous, and easier to use. It's my gift to the Internet. Enjoy!

Ah archive.org still has it.

But yeh, it was effective guerilla marketing only. It was posted to Digg slightly before Reddit btw.
The current landing page format has long been an annoying thorn. Only having a one line summary and URL "above the fold" is a terrible UX for people just arriving at a new repo. I wish they'd add a reactive layout for widescreen displays that shows the README and dev info side by side.
> And the names "imaginary number" and "complex number" seem almost deliberately designed to intimidate outsiders. IMO they should be called "oscillating numbers" and "rotating numbers

are you serious?
John McAfee: “I'll decrypt the San Bernardino phone free of charge”
So it's a special notation that I can overload to use with multiple types. I can already do that with normal function call notation. How does the added complexity benefit me?
You're free to your opinion! Progress occurs one funeral at a time (the US is slowly turning progressive as the 65+ cohort ages). Maybe it takes a year. Maybe it takes ten. People like myself just continue pushing in the direction we'd like to go.

Its unfortunate you're jaded into the idea that no change can occur.
This or a variation is on almost every physicist's shelf I know...

Unfortunately, that is a significant part of the problem.

Numerical Recipes was an OK book for its time, and certainly a popular one given the limited material available in the field. However, neither the recipes themselves nor the book's general presentation are ideal today, and in many cases, someone interested in implementing robust, efficient algorithms for various mathematical constructs would do better now to read other sources.

For example, substantial linear algebra computations are probably going to use some variation of BLAS/LAPACK today. There is also a lot of background material available about the algorithms used within these libraries and the underlying mathematical foundations, for those who need to implement something a little different or who are simply curious.

In most fields, and excluding those who are actually writing this kind of mathematical library, a programmer will do better to use the tools that are already freely available today rather than trying to implement their own code based on ideas from Numerical Recipes.
Why not ditch the Gollum wiki and just use the main git repo with relative links? It also renders markdown files. https://github.com/blog/1395-relative-links-in-markup-files
because we know how to read and don't care what a bunch of outsiders think.
Some people might take issue with it, but the writing for this had me in stitches. I very much agree with the author on graphing libraries - there are a few good simple ones, but as soon as you want anything unusual you have to jump to these big, hard to configure monstrosities. More than once I've just given up and written my own server-side generator.
Do you honestly expect him to switch his setup because of your particular situation?
Preliminary thoughts on the Apple iPhone order in the San Bernardino case
The dirty open secret is very few countries actually tax the capital owning class all that much. It's just too easy to pack up and move to a country that doesn't.

The upper middle class and income rich pay the brunt. But there isn't enough to fix all of societies problems.
I think you might be mistaking reality with fantasy. Call me a pessimist, but in my reality people look at all sorts of social cues and shortcuts to make decisions.

You can either acknowledge reality and let it work for you, or ignore it and let it run you over.
I, too, am laughing way too much whilst at work over the writing of this.
I'm not crawling for price. Knowing where our products are being sold online is important to understand the landscape for a large manufacture. Understanding opportunities to develop sales relationships we may or may not have directly, and knowing category expansion opportunity is also important.
If the key is a sizable part of the data, then sorting could allow you to shave a few bytes from the key and reduce the overall storage needed. (Going from 50,000 drives to 40,000 drives is pretty significant even for someone who can afford 50,000 drives.) But I have no idea if there are real world cases where that is the right way to compress the data.
Ask HN: For those that are developers what are your favorite brands/products?
Specifically, what products/services leave you feeling delighted. Also, what about those products/services is most delightful?
How can a VideoGame revolutionize school education
Because it was overly sarcastic. Hacker News, correctly, prefers commenters to make extended comments arguing a point rather than engaging in 'gotcha!' soundbite counterarguments.

This is both for improved civility (so that actual discussions can take place), and so that people flesh out their counterarguments more.

I apologize to adrusi for my response.
"equality operator"
The equality function? Actually Knuth advocated a notation that went something like [x=y] for the Kronecker delta of x and y, with the obvious generalization to other conditionals.
Teaser of cross-platform 2D game dev in Swift
MMUs are pretty rare in the area this OS is going after. You've got the regular size constraints, plus you have fun things like memory aliasing, where the same block of memory can be accessed from multiple addresses.
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Interesting read. Thank you for sharing.
I have a friend who succeeded in emulating a microwave using MAME and a dump of the microwave's ROM. (I don't remember exactly what all of the microcontroller outputs are; most of them have to do with the LED user interface rather than activating the magnetron.) Of course the emulated microwave can't really cook food (maybe only emulated food...), but you could use that kind of emulation with a debugger to experiment with possible software vulnerabilities.

Since it was possible to reprogram Super Mario World through the controller, it seems pretty plausible that it's possible to reprogram some embedded systems through their UI even when they're not designed for that!

http://hackaday.com/2015/01/22/reprogramming-super-mario-wor...
I think the alphago program is getting similar crazy scale burn-in access to the gpu computing that google will soon offer in its cloud. Recall alphago was the first program to beat a professional in a tournament setting. They published in nature. The emphasis was on their deep learning approach, but the technical details were pretty impressive. Alphago beat Fan Hui, a 2 dan professional, using a 1202 cpu/776 gpu diatributed system. They don't give hardware details, but my back-of-the-envelope estimate based on recent hardware is they were at around the petaflop calculation rate. In the nature paper they examine how the program's ELO rating varies with computation power; it looks like to reach world champion level they need at least an order of magnitude more computation. They challenged a player at that level (Lee Sedol) for a series in March and express a quiet confidence in winning. On their blog they give google cloud credit for supplying the compute power, but google cloud doesn't yet have gpu units available publicly. I am thinking alphago is getting to do burn-in on a massive gpu cloud computing center. Look for public availability shortly after the Sedol match!
Why? They're suggesting the data doesn't support the claim - They only needs data of their own if they had their own claim. The burden of proof is not on them.

This isn't a trial, it's an argument. And regardless of context, you should support your argument with facts, not pure speculation. The entire article is completely devoid of supporting evidence. There's nothing wrong with saying that the original study lacked evidence (if that's true), but making up your own facts without either citing a source or acknowledging that they're just speculation is not valid criticism.