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Default functionality?

"Ok Google, will it rain today?" - This I use pretty regularly while I'm getting ready in the morning.

Personally hacked together functionality!

"Ok Google, turn the bedroom light on."

"Ok Google, turn all lights off."

"Ok Google, turn (?:the )?(?<loc>.+) lights? (?<state>.+)" Tasker-flavored regular expression.

Controls the relevant Hue lights in my apartment using Tasker + AutoVoice + Hue Pro Tasker.

I occasionally tinker and extend my hacked together Tasker functionality during my morning commute.

I never use the "Ok Google" functionality in public, only in the privacy of my own home.
You've copy-pasted the exact same text several times in this thread already. Your worry about repeating yourself is justified. This seems like blatant advertising to me.
Maybe when a social gathering starts you could just ask everyone if they would like to have a no-screens norm. People who want a screen ban would say why, and so would the ones who are opposed. I am thinking that this might work because someone who would want to take out their phone would be unhappy if someone else did, but feels like he or she can't stop it because it is an acceptable norm today. Maybe the person even realizes they have an addiction and would appreciate help fighting it. Maybe you could set a norm of only two minutes on the phone. Maybe people could think of other ideas. Maybe nothing would be decided on, but it would be an interesting discussion.

We could even have a web site where people would describe what happened. Speaking of which, are there any sites on overcoming web addiction?
Interestingly enough that just yesterday I read that the famous "ego depletion" theory backed by tons of serious research might got debunked. And today, "the research is clear" that we should ban elementary homework. I just can't help but think how "clear" the research actually is....
I would be interested to see the body of research on the effects of Ramadan (1 month of fasting, both food and liquid until sunset) on the health of those who fast.

The effects on the economy were clear from what I observed in Afghanistan - at least 5% potential GDP loss due to reduced working hours, shutdown of public services, overall latency of business transactions during this time. An actual study across different observing countries would be intriguing.
As if they didn't have enough to convict even he the man wasn't already dead.
I poked at a different part of this post, but I'm glad you replied with tihs. You've isolated a big problem with the rhetoric in this thread. Kipling would be nodding at a whole bunch of it.
So, I'm not trying to say they wouldn't be found guilty of an offence. I'm saying that they wouldn't go to jail unless there was recklessness or intent to deceive.

For a tax offence this would mean they'd have to repay the tax, with some penalty. Non-payment would then result in a prison sentence.

And I'm only talking about taxes.
When you think about the governance of cults, do you think the latitude society could've worked if the authors had been upfront about their intentions from day 1?

That is to say, if the invitation had said "we are building a secret society for the elite", would that have sufficiently filtered the population such that monetization would've been possible? I'm thinking of this from the perspective of startups which have a false freemium narrative vs companies which monetize from day 1. User acquisition would've been harder, but each user would've crossed a wider moat to entry.
The time requirement doesn't just set a limit for the candidate though, it also serves as a limit to consider for the interviewer when speccing out the project.

Having a time limit of a day or two is fine if the actual project should reasonably take a couple of hours, but if the project actually takes more than a whole work day to complete, then that's a different story (in my humble opinion, anything that would take more than a couple of hours is an unreasonable demand on the candidates time unless you offer some kind of compensation).
Really? Alloy specifically said they were blasting a free service's infrastructure for their own benefit. Told about the issues, the response was basically Alloy et al wanted to invest no time or money into a better situation. Even cited HR and funding benefits.

That's selfish to the point that it could be a textbook example of an externality. Fortunately, like you said, things got agreeable by the end with Alloy taking simple steps he was given to make thjngs better for everyone.
It's a very practical distinction since you can avoid exploiting it in certain ways and thus not get into any trouble at all. Violator monopolies do not exert predatory pricing, etc, by accident.
The whole point is to build a precedent, remember?
Don't forget the great fun to be had with out-of-order SMS messages. I really don't get this app. All the macros advertised in the article are so basic I can do (or already do) them via voice activation, which is so quick I don't even need to grab and turn on my phone's display. For more interesting stuff I want to have block diagrams for flows and triggers (kind of like the Automate app actually). Another downside is the likely closed or at least very opaque nature of the commands. Dominoes is gross, I want anything else. No one wrote a plugin for Papa Johns, and I don't know how or it would take forever, and even if the Dominoes plugin was open source I doubt it would be very enlightening for writing one for another pizza place. Guess I'll go hungry. Or, how about something as dead-simple as recording a workflow with hooks for interaction like password entry so that I do it once myself and then afterwards it replays it, even alerting me if during a future replay things aren't as expected? That might not be allowed on the app store though, because god forbid our phones be general purpose computational devices.
> If it turns out that the auto-erase feature is on, and the Effaceable Storage gets erased, they can remove the chip, copy the original information back in, and replace it.

Sounds like a better hack would be to interpose the flash memory interface with a RAM cache that simulates writes without modifying the original flash data. Then they can hammer away at brute forcing it without the delay of reburning the flash.
Did I reinvent the wheel? (JS plugin to link to page selection)
Spent quite some time looking for a JavaScript library that would allow me to select a part of a web page and send a link to that selection to someone else. I know there are scripts like AnchorJS that allow to deep-link sections and paragraphs, but didn't find any that would allow linking to a specific word, phrase or image.

So failing to find what I need, I wrote my own thing: https://github.com/iafan/LinkToSelection

Can't believe I'm the only one who thought about this — it seems to be super-useful for any documentation pages. Do you know of other implementations?
My Dad grew up there and I grew up in Madison and lived in Minneapolis after college for a while. No mountains is a bummer but there is a shit ton of cool outdoor stuff to do.

It's called the land of thousand lakes for a reason. And the city planners were brilliant, every lake in the city has a green belt around it, nobody was allowed to buy land that was on the lake. Greenbelt, with a walk/bike lane, more green, then the road, then the houses. It's awesome.

On the border with Canada is the Quetico Provincial Park which is where you will start your love affair with canoe camping. If you are like me and my dad, it won't end there, there are too many people, so you just keep pushing farther and farther north into Ontario for your annual canoe trip. I could fill a book with my love for that area, it's one huge granite shield that was scraped into a series of lakes. Imagine waking up in the morning, the lake is covered in fog, Dad's asleep, you slip the canoe into the water and fog and paddle towards the sounds of the loons singing. The canoe parts the fog which closes around you. You just paddle into it, it's silent except for the sound of the water dripping off your paddle and the loons. Paddle some more, the sense of peacefulness is so hard to explain but so powerful. The sun comes up, melts the fog, you can see that Dad is awake so back you go for breakfast.

I adore the mountains, when I moved to the Bay Area I was a contractor for the first year for Sun and they didn't want me to bill more than 40 hours/week. I busted ass, pulled 80 hour weeks, then took the next week and both weekends off. Spent 29 days skiing and spent 6 weeks in the Sierras backpacking. Best year of my life. I still have fonder memories of canoeing with my Dad in Canada.

You could do a lot worse than living there. Hell, Prince is from there, I saw him at First Avenue in 1986 or 87 I think.

All the worry about cold is over rated. You end up helping other people because it's a little crazy to live through that so when their car is in the ditch you get out and help push it out and everyone is laughing at how crazy it is but everyone is happy. Cool place.
>are those that they have chosen

That's a little unfair to the authors. Quoting the article:

>In total, 6,418 innovators were contacted for this report, and 923 provided viable responses. This diverse, yet focused sampling approach enables a broad, yet nuanced examination of individuals driving innovation in the United States.

You can read the report for further elaboration, but basically, they counted the ones they could and acknowledged possible sample biases.

Biased sample? Possibly. Can we blame the authors for not holding a gun to the ~6000's heads? Probably not.
I don't use Siri very often, but I have one use case that I really like with a jailbroken phone.

I walk around a bit, eg. walking to work, and I don't have a fancy Apple Watch, so instead I have setup an Activator action to ask Siri the time when I hold in the Apple earbud pause/play button.

Pretty simple but it saves me from taking the phone out of my pocket to look at the time
Why I’m moving to the place I called ‘America’s worst place to live’
The TL;DR should be "iPhone 5C NAND flash can be wiped and restored to default, making brute forcing the PIN a possibility," not this speculative snippet.
That response was sheer excellence except maybe it was too nice about how ridiculous the situation was. I'm pretty diplomatic on job but an aggressive freeloader braggjng about what tge damage saves them would try my patience.

GitHub people are truly going above and beyond in service even when barely warranted. I'll give them that.
"Shame! You're not terminating your pseudo-code with semicolons!!!"

I'd respond to that by drawing one huge semi-colon that spanned all 20 lines of pseudo-code.
Homework is good because it solves the problem of schools and home being bad?
I suppose the next step would be to see how hard it would be to lift a usable fingerprint from a stolen phone. Would that be good enough?
Yes, but presumably they might want to bring what they find as evidence in such future cases.
Yeap, you're right. These guys at least aren't paying a bounty for Facebook/Google bugs: https://www.zerodium.com/program.html
Well i dont know about where you live but the changes madd to how reading is taught have been a complete disaster. The amount of kids around 10 who are unable to read properly has never been so high in recent history. Change is not always for the best.
Don't fool yourself, the student run co-ops are no different from the venture capital that runs any other co-living/"nomad house" you speak of.

Because, in a way, the student is the "start-up" and the money paid for tuition is "venture capital," put up in hopes to see an ROI, in terms of money or societal contribution, from the student.

Speaking as a former UC Berkeley Cloyne co-oper, I've seen a handful of former co-opers try to transition the "magic" of the USCA into normal life. They failed because the reality is that American society doesn't it lend itself well to collectivism and the lack of capital needed build a functioning co-op.

Sure the student co-ops ran great when everyone is unattached, uninhibited, young dumb, full of cum, and fueled by venture capital (e.g. student loans, scholarships, etc). But once you pull all that out, the wheels fall off the cart pretty quick.
The dam is still 30% empty and the floodgates have been opened a few times already. The floodgates are opening because of old regulations that require water to be released when Folsom Lake rises by a specified amount.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drough...
I have an Alfred workflow that fuzzy-searches through all unicode characters by name and inserts the character when selected. All it takes is a good interface to make it fluid.
I agree, and I think the GitHub employees who commented on the thread have been really patient, and that it's impressive that GitHub as a company has tolerated and supported this use case.

My point, though, is that it's not the CocoaPods developers who are ungrateful bastards. It's any Hacker News commenter here who also uses CocoaPods. If you think this behavior is insane, submit a pull request.
Is it just me or isn't this a case of a rich guy building his own cult? It either became too expensive or more likely he became bored with it and shut it down.
(re)building the Windy City
No. What I mean to say is, if someone claims to work at Google/Apple/Facebook/Microsoft, or a "cool" start-up like Uber or whatever else is popular these days, then everyone all of a sudden becomes more interested in talking to that person. "Oh wow, that's so cool! What do you do? How's it like working there??". If you work at a boring old enterprise company, most people react with "Oh, I see" and move on a different topic.
You have much bigger telescopes than the KH-12 on the ground, it won't help you much tho, magnification doesn't work with telescopes as you expect, and you can always stack lenses to get more magnification but it won't matter.

Large telescopes have a much bigger field of view that's pretty much it.
Even angular resolution wont matter that much at these distances, satellites that look like a blob on a prosumer telescope will look like a blob even if taken from a full scale observatory.
> even more important for me know that my application will look the same on every screen.

That's my whole point. It's a superfluous concern.
Interesting read! I've always love new experiences and have been thinking of ways to share with people. Do you think instead of a single entity covering the cost, a group splitting the cost would make this idea lasts? For example, businesses that sponsor the society can get 3 invitations each to give to their top three customers.
I'd love to brainstorm this if anyone in SoCal is interested.
This is the real "machine learning"...
If it's in fusible links, which IMO is very likely, wouldn't that mean you could read it back the same way you wrote it?

Maybe another HW key is required to do so.
Big O took about 15 minutes to teach. Sure, it went on and on a bit because a rigorous class will introduce proofs, but you are absolutely right - it's a trivial concept, and often flawed in practice (list is supposed to be faster for random inserts/deletions according to big O, but in practice they are almost always slower).
> While it is important to present a nice, clean interface, material design UIs with nice, large fonts and generous margins won't let me show what I need to show without making the user search through menus or scroll across a massive page.

Why is 'material design' itself important? It's an arbitrary standard cast by Google, and in the opinion of many of us, it's ugly-as-hell. Same with large fonts and generous margins!
I remember a math class from high school whose homework seemed like it took me way too long to complete. Looking back, the teacher was actually one of my best and the length of time I spent on that homework was more of a signal that I didn't excel in the course or subject matter.

But then I had other teachers who assigned homework which was likely motivated by a need to have things in the gradebook that weren't tests
Well, you have to make choices at some point. If your goal is to absolutely maximize muscle gains, then fasting in general may not prove to be beneficial for this particular goal.

Or it may prove beneficial, who knows. I'm not sure if any research exists on this topic. But intuitively I agree with you, maintaining large amounts of muscular mass requires a lot of nutrient input.
Second on Chattanooga. I help run a weekly lunchtime talk series. We've been having pretty good turn outs. For our size we have a very active community. Anywhere from 50 to 80 software professionals have been showing up every week.

OpenTable has offices here. There are a few startups and a decent number of consultancies.

Come visit!
And generally, when you see something that looks really odd, if there's someone around who's experienced in teaching it to put it in context, it becomes obvious fairly quickly. There seems to be a belief that just because it's elementary that anything a parent might see of their child's work should be immediately understandable. That may be true of the question and answer, but it's not necessarily true of the process.
To me it all seems like another planet from that of 'ordinary people' with a house and kids and hobbies. To each their own, I guess.
Confirmation bias is real :)

An experiment: list every topic/theory discussed by paleo enthusiasts. How many are currently supported by evidence? How many have been soundly refuted? How frequently does the evidence shift in either case?
Well, no, I think it's still very relevant.

To use the classic XKCD comic, the crux of the case is that FBI is the one arguing the first panel (i.e., some bogus magical encryption we can never break), and because of that claim, they need to be able to compel Apple to compromise the security features using the old wrench trick.

The reality of there being practical alternatives for the FBI to pursue should give pause as to whether they can compel Apple to compromise the security features, and arguably the method described/discussed is indeed very practical.

All in all, it's less about the FBI's ability to do any of this and instead more about "should be the allowed to force a company to do something like this?". By demonstrating the claim that it's impossible to proceed without Apple's help is not true, I would think it should give pause to any court as to how to rule, since the implication of the ruling is pretty big.
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Thank you for your detailed comment. I now think I understand where you stand.
It has less to do with complexity and more go do with REPL/Jupyter notebook support. Rust is a compiled language and you won't get some of the ease of exploratory data analysis you do with something like ipython.

I can use something like pandas or autograd to experiment with new optimization functions in seconds. For these big NN models it takes hours to days to wait for your model to train so squeezing out more performance is worth a more complex language.
+1. We're a 15-person YC company operating in San Diego.

Primary benefits:

- Strong pipeline of new engineering talent from schools like UCSD.

- Lots of talented senior engineers working in the chip fab, defense, and life science industries who are looking to make a lateral move to startups.

- Great quality of life with 30-40% reduction in COL vs SF. This translates to reduced burn for companies and more disposable income for employees.

- Fantastic weather, beaches, urban life, outdoors, great public schools, etc.

- It's SoCal so public transportation is limited, but with lots of highways there's reasonably low traffic (I'm looking at you Austin and LA), and you can get most places in the county within 30 minutes.

Contrary to popular opinion there's also a ton of VC investment in the area, and San Diego ranks ahead of Beijing, London, Austin, Seattle, Toronto, and Paris in terms of total dollars invested. [1]

[1] http://www.citylab.com/tech/2016/01/the-rise-of-global-start...
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This is a great description of why motors can make a big difference in racing. Even small differences in power output can make a big difference in an elite race where so little can mean the difference between winning and not. It's easy to imagine using a tiny motor (much smaller than the one mentioned in the article) could make the difference between winning and being an also ran.

However I have to nitpick on one point:

"Even a 2.5W power boost could be a game changer. If your muscles put out 250W, 2.5W is 1% more, which is significant. It's about 36 seconds shaved off a one hour haul."

Air resistance is one the most significant factor affecting riders at race speeds, and its force increases at a much greater than linear rate. You'd need about 3% more power in your example to save 36 seconds. In a flat time trial over one hour, 1% extra power would actually save you closer to 12 seconds. That said, the Tour de France has been won by less.
Evil Genius!
In my younger days when I lived in SF, I felt that most of the fun in the city was in it's subcultures and underground societies. The city officially closed very early 11 or 12, and then the "other" took over. I'm glad that it's not dead yet.
> The only exceptions are meals I eat for social reasons (e.g., work lunch meetings)

if i know beforehand there's work lunch i usually ends the "eating window" earlier the night before so i can reach the goal!
Meh, you say "within 2+ years", but I've learned the hard way that you have to think further ahead than that. I'd say that by the time my eldest turned 12, it was way too late to think about moving short of a job crisis situation. They have friends and track records with a ballet school, a softball team, etc.

Whenever I even halfway get the itch to move and propose it to the family, I am heartily disabused of the notion.

Luckily, I'm in Atlanta which is a fairly good all-around place to be: weather isn't too extreme, healthy tech scene, convenient to some good schools, good in-state lottery-funded scholarships, etc.
Tech Interviewer Theory
Question : why do people cheat?

Saying it is in the human nature is laughable. I see no one cheating at being poor sick, handicapped or being lazy.

People only cheat because they don't care about winning for themselves. They have no personalities and are lost in the recognition of a mindless crowd as a substitute to self esteem.

We have to focus society on individual realization to fight efficiently against hidden motors. Technical means of cheating are just a side problem.

Maybe we should forbid professional competition to remove the incentive of cheating.
SRP is not quite good thing to quote, as it's too vague to be applied
sensibly. And some people have allergy for Robert Martin.

I think it would be easier for a reader if you included terms "asynchronous
call" and "synchronous call" along "fire and forget" and "request and
response". The former pair is already used, at least in some circles, and the
latter pair seems your own terminology.
Cultural context in open source software
Very cool, thanks. I found a page that shows all the key combinations:

[0]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GtkComposeTable
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> Which can be easily countered by having one of their own team members sit down and take the test first. But of course, none of these places ever do that.

At my employer we send out homework exercises, and I personally did the backend developer exercise before we sent it to anyone. I did this specifically to test how long it took. (For the frontend exercise, we didn't have anyone skilled enough on staff to do it, which is why we were hiring a frontend dev).
Pretty sure there would be a fork. Many large tech companies (Google, Dropbox for two) are deeply invested in Python 2, and some of us already have some modifications to CPython. Python 2 is Too Big to Fail.
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