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I also remember reading that during the Alistair Campbell days that the Today program on Radio 4 would get a call immediately they said anything critical of the Blair government. However, these calls would often be answered by someone senior picking up the phone, listening politely for a short while and then the caller (who was presumably calling from No 10) being told to "F*ck Off".
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> WindowMaker

That's my 2nd choice. It's simple, lightning-fast, with almost no memory footprint.

> bug=815586

That's a perfect example of the problem with the 0pointer monoculture. I works great, until you do something slightly more complicated. Of course, the suggested fix is to update to a newer version of systemd. I guess you're out of luck if that newer version has compatibility issues.

> their own favourite toolkit again

I guess I never cared much about looks. Looks and feel is important, but "working" and "not crashing" are far more important.

One of the problems we're seeing is that the concept of the "distro" is largely dead. The damage done by systemd/etc wasn't just the bugs like your [1]. The forced monoculture killed the idea of different distros.
You can improve the reliability of stuff like this by minimizing programmability and by using reliable parts. I have a mercury thermostat in the basement set to 12C connected directly across the heat demand leads. So my house is pretty much not going to freeze down no matter what the software does.

I have a mercury thermostat upstairs set to my normal indoor temperature. It is connected across the heat demand leads through a software controlled switch. So no matter what the software does, the house can not get too hot or two cold. This means that I only have two set temperatures, but in practice that is enough. Setback occurs whenever the system detects that the alarm is set or when I set it before I go to bed.

The alarm panel is a traditional system in a box with a separate backup battery. It tells the automation when it is armed. It can be disarmed from the automation with a code, which the automation has to generate as a hash from an electronic key.
Any book or article recommendations on the subject of how power is created and traded in organizations? I'm fascinated by the subject but don't know the first thing about it. (Like many engineers.)
why did you buy the book, you can read it free online
Let's start a Kickstarter to help kanye west afford a copy of Serum.
"Secret evil plan"? That's the very open and natural thing for any monopoly to do. It has been done by monopolies time and again.

Amazon just haven't reached that status in most areas yet.

And where it has, e.g. books, it already used its power to manipulate producers and the market in its favor. Siphoning millions for selling books below what you pay for them is not some kind of marketing trick, it's anti-competitive behavior meant to kill less loaded rivals...
Culture always shapes how we view substances. For folks in that region I'm not sure there's any stigma attached but I'll take a guess by saying they probably don't see it as a viable past time or fun to consume.
Ovens are pretty simple machines, there's a gradation surely. People are not so surprised when a digital oven timer fails as when an analogue thermostat dial. fails.
> I don't mean e.g. tobacco here; I mean the far more dangerous ones

That's a very strange thing to say, given we know very well that tobacco is much more dangerous than many illegal drugs.
HNJobs is 2 letters away from HandJobs. Maybe write out Hacker News?
When you say high, how high are we talking? One thing to consider is that in most high tax countries (i.e. Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, etc) high (in terms of total cost, after accounting for employer tax + social security) actually isn't that high.

I would consider an after tax salary of €2,500 not high, for example. But that salary might already cost the company €5,000-8,000 per month
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The US works well because it's united at the federal level. What you are suggesting would only work if that level didn't exist.
Any masters gives you an edge when applying for the H-1B visa:

>An advanced degree exemption is available for the first 20,000 petitions filed for a beneficiary who has obtained a U.S. master’s degree or higher. [0]

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
Well said - I agree that a lot of the danger of illicit drugs comes from them being cut/tampered with.

If you legalise, you can regulate, tax and educate - then drugs can be made as safely as possible, and most drug-related violence and crime dissapears.
It becomes a technique once you realise it is a specific case of change of bases.
Even just getting to basic theorem of algebra does not provide this insight.
I can't speak to the Insteon but I have Z-Wave devices throughout the house. I chose Z-Wave for the same reason you're interested: in theory they have an attempt at security. I've read about some possible shortcomings, but it frankly seemed like the best option available.

Initial pairing can be awkward because they require that they're within about a meter, maybe two, in order to set up the relationship.

After that, devices that are hard wired typically create a range extending mesh network which has allowed me to get communication with devices all the way across the house and upstairs even though my hub is way too far away for direct communication.

I've got outlets, a thermostat, light switches, temp/humidity sensors, and motion detectors that are all Z-Wave based and they have worked flawlessly for going on a year.

EDIT: With all the IoT horror stories on HN lately- I wanted to add that I purposely chose a set of devices that do not directly connect to the Internet for all the reasons we are hearing about. Phoning home, hidden unsecured networks, etc.

With Z-Wave (and ZigBee, and others) you don't need the Internet at all. If I removed my home hub right now everything would work (except for some macros) as if they were regular ol' non-connected devices. This was the absolute most important thing to me and why I chose a $60 Z-Wave thermostat that looks like an old $20 programmable one instead of Nest or some of the others.
Source: https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/704878038937243648
I still struggle to understand why this is worth the trouble even if it did work. Maybe if you were a head in a jar living a life of quiet dignity like in Futurama. But you're not. You want to turn the lights on you go flick the switch. What's the problem?
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It could have been worse, he could have had a tab open with midget porn ;P

Seriously, guys, sanitize your screenshots. Every screenshot I take, I crop down as much as possible and check for stuff like that thoroughly. Bookmarks, tabs, windows, system tray, notification, they all could potentially contain very private or even incriminating information.
Socialism in New Hampshire? Did you mean Vermont?
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Actually the UN thinks this already but politics got in the way of a statement being released:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11940643/United...
Relevant paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.05314v1.pdf
Perhaps worth noting that when Saddam invaded Iran he was presented very much as the "good guy" in Western media.
Is that the fixed cost/book? What field(s) are you publishing in?
> ...is this "impossible to shut down" presuming ISPs don't analyze their own users traffic...

It reminds me the Gnutella slogan (The network than can resist a nuclear attack).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnutella
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As you mentioned the problem is IoT 'gone wild', not necessarily with home automation specifically. It's great to see companies in that space doing interesting research and coming out with useful products ... but this whole things seems more like a 'gold rush' for now. Maturity of this market will eventually come.
But the point is that Apple has that infrastructure. If the FBI asked the right person or people, I would bet they could get this done on their lunch break.

People are making it out like the FBI is asking Apple to rewrite a big part of iOS. That's not the part of the request that's the problem.
The answer to all of your questions is approximately yes (names vary). I've also done a lot of work to address these problems when they come up, and I've read the data on the current state of the economy. How many of these things have you done?

Have you ever had people pleading with you for food/money and, instead of berating people on the internet, got them into the drugs treatment programme that they desperately needed? Have you ever got people to correctly file appeals when the jobcentre made a mistake and didn't give them the money they were entitled to? Have you ever taught people the skills they need to be productive members of society and provide for themselves?

Because I've also done all of those things on multiple occasions, and I think I have a much better sense of the problems that we face than you do. I also think that your refusal to admit these are the real problems and put work into fixing them is one of the major reasons why we still have them. It's very easy to say "I want more, it's not fair", and much harder to figure out why things aren't working when there's plenty for everybody and get something done about that.
What the government knows (legalization with education and rehab being better than current methods) and what it does is normal. The government consists of hundreds of thousands of employees (military, civilian and contractor) plus a small handful of politicians who decide the rules.

Being politicians, it doesn't matter so much what they know as what their constituents want (or believe they want). Which leads to the government being a screwed up, multi-headed entity with many competing and opposing objectives and directives.
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Or just take a screenshot of the intended content instead of the whole screen. Most (?) screenshot software have a feature for choosing a specific window / section of a window.
The MBA seems very much geared towards creating the middle management layers that bloat many organizations. A class of people too low down to really influence change but too high up to actually do anything. Many companies are slashing such positions and that's only a good thing in my opinion.

Be really go at "doing" stuff (as in owning and delivering output) and then as one advances they become able to inspire others to do stuff too and inflict positive change in a company. That's what makes a good manager, not an MBA.

Also in my observation the people going for MBAs largely wanted to tick the "advanced degree" box but weren't in a position to get an advanced degree in a 'real' subject. That's what led to the mass proliferation of programs that has really significantly devalued the MBA overall.
kevinr used that phrase poorly. Working well below market means that there is enough demand for your services so where you could charge more, but you choose not to, typically due to inexperience.

But that's not the case, the market for the output of authors cannot sustain living wages, there is no 'market wage' to make. If you look closely at this and other creative professions, that has always been the case; there is always more people that want to make a living with creative work than there are people that want to pay well enough for that work so that the creators can live.

This is structural and unlikely to change barring something like basic income. The usual answer given to aspiring creator is both to generate the income you need to live in the service industry, say as a waiter, and also to be your own agent and pimp out your professional services yourself.
My point was to demonstrate that you sentence "That area is not that much bigger than Germany (if at all)" is completely wrong.
> My Nest thermostat, which after some early teething problems I’ve come to like, falls flat on its face when my broadband connection goes down. No wifi, no heating in the house.

Could this be due to relying on the broadband provider's box for Wi-Fi instead of your own Wi-Fi router for running your local network?

I can still reach my webserver or printer when broadband is down. Gee, why is that?
It's a failsafe to shut things off. If it fails on then there are disastrous possibilities, failing off leaves more annoyances, no?
But I thought only criminals had something to hide /s!
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I don't see any complex NSTableView in GitUp, they definitely use something other. When i worked at Telegram, we worked hard to make default lists smooth and it is almost impossible. Eventually main client became Qt-based instead of native frameworks.
All other Git tools also very slow on my MPB Retina. All of them are laggy in lists and only lists.

Having nothing good for long lists doesn't matter as rendering pipline on OSX didn't updated for a years. Almost everything in UI on OSX is still software rendered instead of GPU. And Chrome extensively use GPU for rendering and that outperforms everything.
> We may be on the verge of creating a new life form, one that could mark not only an evolutionary breakthrough, but a potential threat to our survival as a species

This is exactly what's wrong with the press and peoples expectations about AI. That single paragraph set the tone for the article to me, and know I'm totally biased to thinking "this is just sensationalism media".

Edit: I expand a bit after reading, and totally agree with seiji's comment.

> But gradually it rises, and begins to stumble-run toward the goal. You can almost see it gaining confidence, its legs moving beneath it, now picking up speed like a running back.

(emphasis is mine) No, it's not gaining confidence, it's just optimizing a function. Despite what magical words have been used by those explaining to the journalist the works of the algorithm, there robot doesn't feel or pursue anything other than what it is being programmed to do: optimize an energy function with respect to some parameters, which are set ahead of the training sesion.

Like others commented, the journalistic quality of the article is on the low end of the spectrum. I wonder how this made it to the front page. I began reading expecting something of a certain quality, and that expectation was certainly not met.
Amazon and Netflix both operate studios. I think in both cases as distinct subsidiaries -- e.g., Amazon Studios.
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you expect someone who doesnt even know how to actually take a screenshot (with some software) to know how to crop said screenshot?
It's possible to have the thing on sale while banning advertising for it; much of Europe has restrictions on tobacco advertising, sale, "plain packaging" requirements, etc.

Note that drinking at work has gone away without government intervention.
Hassle? Stigma? Hardcore drug addicts will do anything to get their fix. I have known heroin addicts, for example (one was a friend who sadly got sucked into that world). When you're zonked out on heroin most of the time, the way society perceives you is of very, very little consequence.
Politics, dogma, corruption, racism. This is what prevents your logical conclusion.
>The network than can resist a nuclear attack

Wasn't that the intent when creating the Internet as a whole?
TorrentFreak comments in more detail on the screenshot: https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-offers-tech-support-to-p... and makes it seem less likely.
> There is no automating taste.

Recommendation engines are real and are improving. Spellcheck fixes typos and some decent neural-network training can be pushed into literary land (already MS Word "dares" here and there, and that's not even centralized). Would a "digital editor" be foolproof, or particularly good? No, but it would likely do a lot of the grunt work fairly reliably, so you can shrink the workforce or increase output (more books, argh). When I hear of the "slush pile", I cringe. That's a job for a machine and not a very smart one at that.

> Netflix and Amazon are studios

No, they are content distributors who happen to produce content because of supply failures up the chain. The middlemen upstream are failing to see opportunities, so downstream is taking charge. The minute this changes, they will go back to being content distributors because that's what they do.
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I think it's partly a matter of priming the pump with a one or two fantastic initial hires. Go above and beyond to get a couple terrific people on board (offer a title, or an opportunity to earn a title, or a big piece of equity, etc.), and then you have "and we have an amazing team" as a big new piece of your sales pitch to the rest.

Anecdotally -- from my own job search experiences, and from my experiences hiring engineers at a few different places -- a candidate's sense of the people they'll be working is a huge factor in their decision. Make that factor strongly in your favor and you'll be in good shape. Also, don't be afraid to have a rigorous technical interview process -- I think that can double as a sales pitch for great candidates who want to be at companies that recognize and appreciate their skills.
It might well be that the lack of concern by the general public is related to the 'UK's dirty little secrets - illiteracy and innumeracy' -
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/may/03/illiter...
Not sure if you are joking, but the tab title ends with Xfe[...], so it seems pretty likely that it's about Xfer Records Serum.
Seems like an awful return. Surely there are faster, easier, cheaper Masters degrees if you just want to enter a country?
Did he search Google for "Pirate bay torrent xfer"? Because the page title on pirate bay seems to be static no matter what you search for (unlike in the pic)

edit: someone posted above that he was on this site (might not have been on this specific page though) http://www.pirate-baytorrent.com/xfer-records-serum-1-07b4-v...
A tab with Pirate Bay, a tab of the software vendor's website, an article with "50 best VST plugins" open...

And on the Pirate Bay tab he had searched for Xfe... (the name of the plugin vendor, so probably typed "Xfer records Serum").

Sure looks like he was downloading it...

(Btw, I recommended anybody interest in electronic music product checks it out, it's an excellent wavetable/additive synthesis audio plugin with crazy good filters to avoid aliasing).
You see, the problem with blanket statements like that is that they're always wrong. Doctors prescribe drugs all the time; there must be something positive to them for doctors to expose their patients to such danger, don't you think?
I usually buy online books to support the project. Not the person who bought this book.
I love this

" You cannot impress Asian parents. Unhappiness is their default. And honestly, I believe they enjoy it."
Great article on Chrome DevTools-a must for all those aspiring Chromebook devs.
Meh, "people in glass houses...":

> @deadmau5

> I used a pirated copy of sylenth on my last 4 albums. #TrueReveal

https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/367265601640603648

Steve Aoki was also caught using the above software in a music video with Linkin Park, though he proved that he had bought the software but his assistants installed a pirated version on his road laptop. http://stoneyroads.com/2013/08/steve-aoki-responds-to-claims...

I think this all comes down to effort and usability. To purchase the software you have to go through a bunch of screens, enter payment info, download, install, and then enter a serial number. For pirating software you just search for it and it's usually easier to install, with some cracks even bypassing steps. What's interesting to me is that people don't question their own ethics before doing this, especially music producers like Kanye who don't like pirates. Then again we've seen similar backlash against people using adblockers, but most would sympathize with them instead for other reasons.
Yea good points, Delaware indeed. Guess we can see what the accountant costs will be for a year or two under both scenarios. Thanks
I'm really pleased you don't have any mobility problems. But for those of us who sometimes struggle to get from one side of the room to the other, it makes a world of difference to be able control things locally. Or set up timers. Or make the lights flash when there's a phone call.
When visiting one's parents, one has to be ready for products like this.
Wait, you are talking maybe about heroin addicts beyond saving. But if you just want to buy some weed, you definitely must go to shady characters standing on corners of dark streets in the night, and buy overpriced at-best-mediocre-quality stuff from there (I am not racist or anything, but 100% of them in Geneva are black - that's 5 years of experience). Police guys are constantly patrolling these areas (often with dogs), dealers are super suspicious that you are an undercover cop etc.

if you get caught with tiny amount (< 1g) at the border, you will face harsh fine, full body cavity inspection etc.

Nah, this country is definitely not a paradise, just there are worse places.
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Losing power is a disaster, a ruptured gas line is a disaster, and both of those things are required to have an operating furnace. Losing Internet is not a disaster, it's in fact a pretty much daily occurrence for I would argue the majority of Internet users (at least here the States, where Internet sucks). Losing the Internet shouldn't break my thermostat, much like having a clogged toilet shouldn't cut my power. They're two entirely different systems in the home.
Yes, but those of us in the east don't necessarily follow Seattle news. I have relatives and friends there, was out there for a few days last spring, and had no idea about it.

(There is the larger point that many people suppose that if it isn't mentioned in the NY Times it didn't happen. That is a discussion for another day.)
Possibly, but it's no longer the case. Too many aspects of the modern internet are centralized to a degree that makes resistance against that difficult.
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