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Project idea for repeatable, smart and open source living spaces
Initial specification / idea for accessible and open source living spaces.

An idea for affordable and intelligent living spaces. If it makes sense to you then please consider the idea, it could be an open source community effort. I think something like this is really important. Our modern accommodation system is backwards - it needs a revision.

-All containers are 10x10ft shipping containers.
-All aspects of design are optimised for utility.
-Aesthetic is minimal.
-All design is open source.
-Intended for urban areas.
-Some spaces are shared, with an app for time sharing - laundry notification. (smart)
-Central foundation for research into planning permission and logistical concerns. For example, optimum locations, using the spaces effectively, connecting communities. Could even pay rent in bitcoin!?

[space_01_infrastructure]
security, high-speed internet, water, sewage, electricity, planning permission, land ownership.

[space_02_garden]
plants and flowers, grass, recreational space.

[container_01_bedroom]
bed, window, curtain, clothes rail, power sockets.

[container_02_bathroom]
rain-shower, sink, mirror.

[container_03_kitchen]
induction hob, food storage, utensils storage, food preparation countertop, power sockets.

[container_04_laundry]
washers, dryers.

[container_05_office]
desk, chair, power sockets.

[container_06_maintenance]
hoover, cleaning utilities, garden utilities.

*Logistics of the project are open sourced for repeatability, all aspects of production are optimised for the best value; for humanity.

Ya dig?
> Social-media messaging would only muddle the company’s effort to sell its massively popular corporate brand as a neighborhood secret.

I think this is key. Being "local" is important. I saw this in the comic/gaming shop I volunteered in. We had a web presence and facebook page, but no one used them except for memes and news links. The money was made with people coming into the store and impulse-spending during a Friday Night Magic tournament or RPG sessions. Conversations and real-life interactions with people are why these shops have survived the move to online and big-box outlet stores.

I've recently become aware of how problematic the lack of "local" news is in my community. Our local papers have vanished, so that we rely on a patchwork of blogs and government facebook pages to know what's going on--but those get drowned out in the ocean of other national-news posts and facebook filters. My wife and I have made it a point to always attend our town hall meetings each month so we can know what's going on in our neighborhood. Our local government is getting away with some pretty outrageous things now because social media fails to inform local citizens about what's going on. People have strong opinions about national politics, but have no idea how their local politicians are bringing down their quality of life.

Local is important, it's what's going on around our immediate area and it's where we can make the biggest difference in the world. Unfortunately, the World Wide Web has us so focused on global oftentimes that we are ceding our localities to other to our own detriment.
Yes, but why? Why not just leave them attached there?
Heinlein's _The Man Who Sold The Moon_ has the main character extort money from basically everyone by telling them that their rivals were planning on drawing a logo on the moon. He either names Coca-Cola explicitly, or else uses an expy of them...
Great post!

If you liked this kind of descent to the low-level realm, the post author (Julia Evans) did a great presentation on Pycon 2015:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v6o-VsLAew

Sometimes when shit hits the fan it's nice to know what is going on behind all those layers of abstraction.
Dot and Tap are two different products.

Dot - $90 external-speaker-port echo.

Tap - $130 battery powered speaker, wifi, Bluetooth with echo, for portable use. (I'll get one if it works great in hotel rooms; otherwise won't.)
This sounds like biblical history in the making...
Nutanix Announces .NEXT Conference 2016
Product Ideation: Building Innovation into Your Development Process
Sorry if anyone is seeing this for the second time today. I deleted the original post due to a problem with the link. Fixed now though.
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While Saddam Hussein may not have been a friend of human rights I doubt he would have had European engineers killed for declining to work on his project.
I have google watching me in my house with my Nest cameras, and for some reason I won't mind Amazon listening to me with microphones in every roon.

I really like the "whole house music" concept.
I don't suppose it would have been one of the Annales historians, would it? There are far too many participants to hazard a guess, but the notable leaders of the different generations of Annales historians would be Febvre, Braudel, Ladurie, and Chartier.
compare to Li-ion's 400-1200

This may be true for some kinds of li-ion batteries, but they can be engineered to last much longer than that. Tesla's daily cycle home battery is warrantied for 5,000 cycles, for example.

Assuming the battery doesn't die the day the warranty expires, this should give you at least 15 years of life. Not quite the 20 to 30 you're quoting, but current prices are much cheaper (and this seems likely to remain true, as vanadium in inherently expensive, and li-ion batteries have a head start in economies of scale). With massively reduced size and weight, shipping and installation should be much lower as well, and I suspect consumer uptake will likely be much higher for the foreseeable future.
On the Mercedes AMG performance line, a single master craftsman builds the engine by himself. His signature is on the engine block. Mercedes doing something like this is interesting but they are a niche, luxury manufacturer (though they are the largest luxury brand at least in the us and maybe world wide). A change like this at Toyota would be more interesting to me.
That's just mean, no need to got that high up, and you also risk the students getting bored and giving up. I'd go to fewer amounts (5 to 10) and then explain the loop. If they then complain it's complicated you tell them "imagine you had to copy this thing million times!".
FWIW, I have ghostery (36 trackers blocked on the parent) and am able to see the post content. So it may be some configuration problem on your end.
40MJ is a bit over 11kWh, which should be enough to run a typical house overnight. My house uses something like 500W average, not counting the car, so it could run almost a full day on this.

For a stationary application, half a ton doesn't seem like a big deal. Surely a normal house can hold up that much weight? That's equivalent to only six or seven people. If the weight is a problem, put it on the ground level or in the basement.
God I would love to use this for building 3D game models, the art aesthetic would be an awesome change from either super photo realistic or flat polygonal. A sketchy/painty look like the video could really make an indie game stand out from the crowd
We adopt that. We buck the "Program Files" silliness, and go all-in for FHS layout and shared libraries.
It sounds like it will be such a huge event that the camera's will need to be on satellites.
So far we've got social and local, and everyone knows how important mobile is. SoMoLo.
Amazon was the only Big Four company silent on the data privacy lawsuit with Apple. Why would I place one of their always-listening products in my living room?
Banksy has been tagged, thanks to mathematics
Heck, what's a riser? I mean, I am familiar with the term, but I have no way to identify what a Soyuz capsule's risers are, so ho do I know if they're attached or not?
Technically yes, but geostationary is over 22 thousand miles out (nearly a hundred times as far away as the ISS). You'd need a big-ass billboard.
From the article: ". . . if combined in an ideal fashion, could lead to individuals with intelligence that is qualitatively higher than has ever existed on Earth: Crudely speaking, IQs of order 1,000, if the scale were to continue to have meaning."

That's an amazingly ignorant comment. First of all, the better evidence is behind the idea that currently observed high human IQ, when the "g" factor is factored into consideration, consists mostly just of luckily lacking deficiencies in function that other human individuals have. In other words, the centuries-long factor-analytic approach mostly suggests that high-IQ individuals luckily lack "general stupidity," but still are subject to hard limits on human cognition (Mackintosh, IQ and Human Intelligence second edition 2011, pages 155-156).

And the hard limits on human cognition are intractable, and actually illustrated by the article kindly submitted here. Psychologist Keith R. Stanovich points out in his book What Intelligence Tests Miss that even very high-IQ individuals (studied in studies of members of high-IQ societies) are still subject to most human cognitive biases, and they can be MORE subject to delusional beliefs than members of the general public because they can make up elaborate rationalizations for anything they choose to believe, including a belief in superintelligence.

I doubt the statements in this article also because there is a long line of research that goes back to before when the article author was born on selective breeding of mice and rats for high intelligence in their behavioral context. (One kind of test of intelligence given to rats and mice is running through mazes to find food.) Since before the author was born, there have been purebred strains of "maze-bright" and "maze-dull" rats that have been tested by psychologists. Now that there are gene technology methods in animal research, there are transgenic mice with knocked-out genes and added genes, and the author significantly fails to mention any experimentation in animal models that shows that his speculation is likely to become true.

The Wikipedia article on IQ classification adequately cites references to demonstrate that the IQ scale is strictly ordinal, so indeed a notion of "IQ 1000" is meaningless.

If you'd like to read a more thoughful article on genetic influences on human IQ, by a researcher who has been closer to the research for longer and who has published in better journals than the author whose essay was kindly submitted here, see Wendy Johnson's article "Understanding the Genetics of Intelligence: Can Height Help? Can Corn Oil?"[1] which has an excellent review of decades of research on genetics and on human intelligence.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Understanding+the+Genet...
I have two echoes now. Timers are separate, backend content is synced. You could use the Amazon dev kit to make a universal timer. (That is a good use case)

The Alexa iOS app has a good drop down to manage each device separately.
What does the bracket thingy mean in light of your comment? It doesn't seem to convey anything related. Perhaps it is the millennial emoticon for "I shit on this"
That is what Rod Brooks is pushing with Rethink. We'll see if it works.
Privacy: A Short History by David Vincent
An article about architecture with no pictures, seems a waste. Apart from that it was very interesting.
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
If ZBrush announces a VR version I think I'll be having another "shut up and process my credit card" moment...
It doesn't seem to work in Safari on iOS :(
I absolutely adore my Echo. But I live in a small apartment, so I really don't see a need to buy a Dot as a second Echo device, even if the size and price make it a more attractive option than the original Echo.
US agency says it has beaten Musk and Gates to holy grail of battery storage
Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (currently looking for opportunities in Canada)

Technologies: Objective-C, iOS, Python, Flask, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, PostgreSQL.

Résumé/CV: https://br.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-borelli-6080408 and https://careers.stackoverflow.com/ricardo

Email: ricardo.abc at gmail dot com

I'm a long-time iOS developer, with experience with server-side development using Python and Flask and currently looking for a job in Canada.
I was just thinking "I want echo with a speaker port" 3 days ago.

The thing I really really want from them is echo in the car.
"Say little and do much." - Pirkei Avot
It's not necessarily a faulty design. It simply requires maintenance that's not happening just like you car engine needs oil and you need to keep swapping that oil out after a while.

ex: A spent fuel pool is actually really simple and 'safe' just add water and keep cool. That does not mean you can walk away and not touch one for a year and expect everything to be ok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_fuel_pool
I knew about the small FOV but I thought the big selling point was that everything was NOT translucent?
I would not be surprised if it turns out that Alexa is the biggest thing they've ever done, including AWS.
That's called a spillway BTW and the problem with spillways is erosion and the energy of the water. So spillways have to be made of reinforced concrete or similarly strong materials when the local rock isn't hard enough and they have to be shaped to dissipate the energy.

The spillway of the Mosul dam is made of concrete the problem with it appears to be that it allows too high a water level for the dam in its current shape even when fully open.
I have the same problem. Curl is "unix-y" in the sense that the default options are optimized for a shell script and make no sense for interactive usage.

bropages is where it's at for that kind of stuff. curl is actually their usage example :)

http://bropages.org/
No, it needs external speakers, unlike the original Echo. However, you only need an Echo to preorder a Dot, you don't need an Echo for a Dot to work.
Ask HN: Freelancers, what do you use to for time management and invoicing?
I'm doing more and more freelance work and need a better way of invoicing with time tracking + expenses. One that takes an online payment from a client would be great, but not required.
Turtles all the way down.
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I would also gladly move to Copenhagen if there was a work visa to make it possible.
x-10 FTW!
We have 100% deliverability with clients who sends emails on double optin database. You are right for other senders there will be ups and downs in rate, based on the database.
Thanks, for a minute I thought I am stupid for not understanding the Wikipedia definition :)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1340066560/velkess-ener... ... seemed to be going ahead until oil prices fell recently.

Market conditions aside, we remain absolutely confident in flexible flywheel technology and its ability to deliver safe, dependable, high performance energy storage at a small fraction of the cost of today's best storage solutions. We believe someday flexible flywheel technology can and will become a foundational technology in our clean energy future.
I agree with you since I had a very similar story with computers. Some day my brothers and I discovered the computer had something called QBASIC and it had a few games, which we then noticed you coudl change and totally mess up. And it had a HELP that explained everything! And it had a way to do prettier graphics than what NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS had! Eventually my older brother found the QBASIC compiler and we kept copies of that floppy just in case some failed.

When I got older I did a few things in C, but didn't get the chance to go too deep much into it because when I started university at 18 I pretty much stopped programming for fun, until my graduation project began and I got in touch with Python.
For medium.com would it make sense to include the username in the title, like this:

Why energy storage sucks (medium.com/@atilev)
Babun brings nothing to the table. I hate what they did to the apt-cyg copyright notices. Bad behaviour.
The problem is scale and safety.

I can start a company tomorrow selling farm churned butter from the cows that operate at my farm. It is the best butter because every morning I go to the cows and tell them they are the best cows this side of the Mississippi. I churn the butter by hand and sell out a lot of product. However, when I max out the cows on my location, I need to buy more cows for my farm and increase the amount of land or I can ask Farmer Jed next door to talk to his cows in the morning and tell them that his cows are the best cows this side of the Mississippi. Farmer Jed churns the butter by hand, but he forgets to wash his hands after he goes to the bathroom, something I never did like about him, but he tells this great story about him and the milk maid over in Aberdeen.

Multiply my success more and more and finally I am needing thousands of gallons of milk, a centralized processing system to churn the butter and ensure quality control of my brand and then I have a knock on my door from a white glove butter churner. They have gone through the regulatory process with the FDA, have done butter churning for other companies successfully, and have a great track record. I will hand over that portion to them.

This is why the companies start out warm and fuzzy, but regulatory issues, meeting demand, and other fun things cause a drive to outsourced production.
History has proven over and over again that this kind of public shame and blame approach doesn't help in any way, quite the opposite.

Hand this over to the Free Software Conservancy or the SFLC. And that should have been the first step.

Now that the bridges are burning, BMW will be far less open to civil discussion and cooperative solutions. Well done. #sarcasm
I would be super interested in Echo in my car, but mostly because I don't have one of the fancy new cars that connects to my phone over bluetooth for that sort of stuff.
Yeah, almost the whole page for the Amazon Tap is just listing its musical abilities. And the price comparison chart at the end is to other bluetooth speakers.
TJ has a Silicon Valley connection. It was started by a Stanford grad, before sold to a German grocery chain.
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On-site or Off-site SEO – Where should you focus first?
Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Currently looking to ramp up my SEO work... Is it more important to work on site architecture stuff first or build links/buzz first?
Weird; when I click it (I'm on mobile), it takes me to a special part of the Amazon app, and there's no price, and it says it can only be ordered by voice by people with existing Amazon hardware that can do that.
uMatrix has this (well, it doesn't exactly prevent script execution, but prevents fetching the scripts, which is roughly the same).
Oculus has a couple of roller-coaster demos already. They are amazingly immersive, even on the first dev kit.
In my game[0] it played well until it hit a position where it seemed to run out of ideas. At that point, it let me take its queen for a rook. The strange thing was that it felt like playing my five year old, who also plays well until he runs out of ideas and then just sacrifices a piece.

It also missed the kind of tactics that my kid misses and played surprisingly human like mistakes. Note move 35... Rxf2, as if it forgot about the bishop because it had moved to the other end of the board. That's the kind of mistake a human player might make and computers never do.

It strikes me that this would be a great engine for my five year old to practice against. I'd love to see it added to lichess or put into a phone app for that purpose.

0. http://en.lichess.org/beOA0Q2T#68
I want this technology, but I don't want to send this info to Amazon. Guess I have to continue on my own half-assed implementation.
FTA: Includes a built-in speaker so it can work on its own
App-only bank Mondo raised £1M on Crowdcube in just 96 seconds
Yes, I saw that the article is on Wired, and I decided not to click on it. That's where the adblock wars will lead, imo.
man that would suck. the computing internals of the echo are less impressive than a raspberry pi -0. The dot has bluetooth and apparently wifi to communicate with speakers and network devices. The real benefit of the echo over other homemade voice command devices like jasper(github.com/jasperproject) is the more proprietary far-field speaker array.
Wolfram Mathematica 10.4 Released
We note ones thas are awful, while most of modern buildings are "just" bad.

Of course this is subjective, but when you walk a street built in early XX century, every building blends in while being nice in detail. When you meet a building built in later age, it either sticks out, too geometrical, too glossy, strangely shaped for no reason, looks cheap, lacks details... It is never good enough.
"This app is incompatible with all of your devices."

Looks like it only works with "Alexa" devices
"The only winning move is not to play."
Will New Technology Tip the Scales Against Military Intervention?
Downloading PDFs from random people on the Internet might not be the best idea but I printed the article: https://mega.nz/#!yZ1g3a7I!abyz-XGGRPZ3sdkDW0CulmKRA8NGFKSHd...

I've been doing that a lot, printing to PDF, is it bad? I'm not sure I went as far to go into an "anonymous" account here.
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software[0]

My kids enjoyed this book, similar topic, but fairly playful in how it was put together and an extremely gentle introduction without actually shying away from how things actually work. It's hard to imagine a reader not coming away with a much better understanding of what computing is all about. It starts at gates and works up to actual (machine) code at the end of the book. Very good diagrams throughout.

Despite being from 2000, I don't think it's become outdated. I'd love it if there was a sequel that covered putting things together with a cheap FPGA.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...
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when I saw Amazon 'Tap' I was hoping to see a star trek communicator[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicator_(Star_Trek)
> We’re saving money and safeguarding our future by making a good PR move

FTFY.

Seriously though, the only reason is because they are customizing and non-intelligent robots are not good at making variations.

This doesn't solve the fundamental problem coming of robots who can handle variation.

And as encoderer noted, this is a niche luxury market.
My FireTV is also upgraded to Alexa silently recently and it's fun to play with.

Is it possible for me to upload my own content, say an audio book, some music I own etc so I can use Alexa as a voice command to fetch my own data too? be it on the cloud or my local NAS/DLNA box.
I don't understand who you think pays for costs. The customer ultimately pays for all costs. You take your monthly costs, divide them by the number of working days, you have your cost per day. Someone who has higher insurance cost will cost more per day. I don't think I can break this down further :(
I sorta agree. I got the original Echo for $100 when they had a special deal for Prime members. The timer is handy. The shopping list is handy. It's occasionally vaguely useful to ask it questions about the weather or other things--though it's not like my phone is that far away. I do use it for Amazon Music when I can't be bothered finding something to play on my stereo.

Potentially, the ability to interface with home automation devices will make it more useful but I'm honestly not sure how much of that stuff I will ever use.

I'm happy enough that I bought it but I probably wouldn't buy more to put in other rooms.

[Edit: I think if I lived in a small place and didn't have another music source I'd find it more generally useful.]
I like invoiceninja. No connection, just a happy user.

It's been going a few years, open source, free (paid option for no branding), payment gateways and so far has been reliable. You can also set scheduled recurring invoices, even on the free tier.