skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing really prevents you from having a safe that after N failed attempts from destroying the contents with explosives.

I would hope that a number of laws prohibit my carrying on my person a small safe filled with explosives and a known-effective trigger. Hypothetically, we could create such a safe.

Practically, however, we could not create one that would be as easily and broadly used as an iPhone. Therefore, the nature of the social question presented by a perfectly secure (for all intents and purposes, or at least a future iteration that is) mass market device is fairly novel.
Great question. Fortunately showerheads are often something that people need more than one of for different bathrooms in their home. So if they like one, hopefully they will buy more.

Further to that we have plans for making the Nebia experience more customizable. And so in future versions there will be features that allow you to make the experience even more personal, and these will allow for repeated brand interactions with the customer.
pretty neat hack
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Considering how slow they are you'd need some very clueless guards.
So saying Vim is bad because it doesn't do what it was intended and take away potential funding and mindshare with vim to do a "refactoring." They were saying make Vim good like emacs? Vim vs Emacs will never be settled and this is such a waste. Vim works and does great things. If you want to do something else entirely besides keeping vim scripts and the UI call it something else.
The honest answer is that it depends. There is not a clear cut answer for this because it highly depends on the market, business model, value proposition, etc.

Development and production of hardware is fundamentally different than software. Thinking and making are separated much further in time and resources, and copy-paste simply doesn't work the same way.

The statement of open sourcing hardware and focusing solely on the software implies someone out there is magically going to make high-quality hardware for your software to run on. That's a thorny assumption.

Most IoT is more than just PCB's. There are also enclosures, actuators, and physical UI/UX. Relying on someone else to provide that much of the user-experience is a brittle proposition for a business.
I don't believe that there's anything like the FDA that mandates something equivalent to food safety for room rentals.
What about a problem that you wish you could solve for yourself?
Encryption and privacy are what make this reality work. You think you are you. I think I am me. This reality's ability to keep those separate is a privacy feature. From a Buddhist's perspective our understanding (Dharma) is that we are, on some level, all the same entity.

One of the early sutras put it this way:

> "Discrimination is consciousness. Nondiscrimination is wisdom. Clinging to consciousness will bring disgrace but clinging to wisdom will bring purity. Disgrace leads to birth and death but purity leads to Nirvana."

Encryption gives the means by which we can enable privacy between ourselves, or what we think of as self. If we enable complete privacy from all others, we drop into a self-world. If we disable privacy, and join all the others disabling privacy, we drop into an isolated type of Nirvana, with the implication everything becomes quite boring. I have compared this in the past to the observed push and pull of public and private cloud business models.

One solution may come via virtual realities where we can arrive at consensus in a fair and measured way without centralized control. It is my belief that immutable data structures backed by encryption, such as a blockchain, are the path out of this mess.

Here's Alan Watts talking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOcFwUzIIQ
This looks great. It would be awesome if you could add a direct link to the XML feed for the podcast since it's a pain to pull it out[0] and super useful for those not using iTunes.

[0] https://gist.github.com/aderyabin/4479240
It is certainly included in most people's definition of the soul, and it is difficult to satisfy the definition I provided above and still be a material reductivist.
As engineers we have poor soft skills that lead to weak professional networks

Yeah, I dunno. I mean, some have poor soft skills, definitely. But I would argue that engineers in many companies are simply insulated more than other groups. The biggest reason for this is that Engineering is thought of as a cost center, which has a number of resulting consequences.

Other groups like Product are exposed to many other groups (Sales, BD, Exec, Engineering) and so naturally their networks are larger and more diverse.
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Serious question: How do you keep your stuff from getting replicated, tweaked and crushed by people with possibly better tooling and more machines than you? China comes to mind tbh.
More and more people are using blockers. The problem is that the utility of the software is high, so the number of users installing ad blockers (Which is really easy. Thanks Chrome!) is going to outpace the number of users not using ad blockers. Depending on your demographics, over 50% of your traffic might be using an ad blocker. I recall reddit reporting numbers of over 80% in some instances.
That's not my problem. You're not entitled to that hosting and bandwidth. If I wanted to, I could host a website off my laptop for a couple hours a day if I wanted to. There is no law of the internet that guarantees a user can be subjected to ads without their consent. The only rule is that any device with a browser can view your content across the world.

A user is not entitled to pay / reward a content creator for creating content. That content creator made the content of their own free will. A website is a tool that drives revenue. If there's something to buy or purchase, I can buy it. But a content creator cannot tell me I should not be using an ad blocker because it's how they make money.
People in the 80s and 90s experienced computers crashing regularly, thus instilling the reflex of constant saving. I'm not sure young people have that reflex.
In my late-90s undergrad dorm, this happened all the time. Somebody down the hall would have the system cranked, hooked up to the computer. 3am, he gets an ICQ message. A thundrous UH-OH wakes half the hall.
I would recommend everyone to create separate email for their open-source work. After ten years on SourceForge, Google Code and now Github I get 200 spam messages a day.
"The fact that so many employers treat candidates like this tells me that the whole "it's hard to find good developers" line is a lie."

It's not a lie, you just forgot the last half of that sentence. "It's hard to find good developers, who are willing to work for the peanuts I'm offering."
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There are plenty of ways to make a living. If starbucks can sell you $5 coffee, you can make money from a website. But if your creativity is limited to create content + place ads, you have 0 right to bitch and moan about consumers using ad blockers.
I agree. A nice to have feature could attempt to derive the audio transcription and index podcasts based on keywords from that.
Upvote upvote upvote.

The whole point of the 2nd Amendment was that the country was founded by taking up arms against tyranny, and the framers knew that the new government they were forming could just as easily lean towards tyranny.

Well, we're here. The police are no longer community organizations, rather they're full military units charged with waging war against the citizens they purport to protect.

Personally, I lean towards the side of always needing guns available, as a check. Quote nukes and F-16s all you like, civil uprisings are much more likely in a country where people are armed, no matter how poorly in comparison to the military.

That said, as I see tyranny increasing and police militarization increasing there is no part of me willing to now part with the rights I have left.

All that said, guns are not safe, they are for killing. The woman quoted in the article got lax in a place that requires constant vigilance (gun safety). One of the biggest problems with our gun culture is that the divide runs along the "don't take our guns!" line, and rational discussion, where we can admit the truth about the dangers ownership presents aren't heard.
it's them that should feel humiliated. It's not like you showed up at their door right off the street; you successfully completed their take-home coding problem and i assume at least one prior telephone interview.
From experience and being on both sides of the table it's probably a good sign they didn't contact you.

Maybe it depends on the company, but for smaller companies and startups it's not only if you can do what they need it's if you fit in and the other employees like you and want to work with you. You don't want to hire or work with a jack ass, especially smaller teams. You could be the best developer/programmer/engineer in the world, but if no one wants to work with you, well, they probably won't contact or hire you.

It could be for the better and I'm not saying you are a jack ass. You might start there and after a month or 6 decide you don't fit in, feel miserable, and don't like the environment and decide to leave and have to go through this all over again.

Keep at it. Eventually you will find a company that wants your expertise and you enjoy working for and like people you work with. Both sides have to ultimately decide on a good balance. Technical abilities are not the only factor and I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it's an age issue.

As an aside I have not come across any issues with age and I'm in my lower-30's. I think it has less to do with age and more to do with how your present yourself, act, work, and communicate. No one believes I'm even nearing 30 when I interview or am being interviewed for example and it's never actually been brought up or mentioned for me that I recall.
> $100 pre-tax right?

Yes, but that's just a baseline. Even if you knock it down to $60, that doesn't change the overall result, especially when you consider the additional cost of groceries.

If you derive utility from cooking dinner, that's fine! I totally respect making individual choices which increase your utility. It's just the attitude that those of us who don't cook (and don't like cooking) are being economically irrational that annoys me.
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Where are all the "Betteridge's law of headlines" fanboys now?
C Python and Ruby should "just work" because you can compile their GC into you wasm module.

More general-purpose GC will be supported, but not in the initial release:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
Based on actual behaviour of the people, the survival of the human species does not score very high in the Values scale.
We don't even really care about most of the current population - save if by chance of a crude documentary we feel they are closer to us than where they really are.
I can't help but to think that this could be a huge win for binary modules in node.js, as it could finally allow for cross-platform, prebuilt binary modules without the tight coupling and build dependencies that are currently needed.
Feedback loops to have in place before rolling out Continuous Delivery
Can they work with my server logs yet?
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The creation of it certainly remains illegal, and its existence is a violation of individuals right to privacy (these images are never taken with consent, because the victims cannot consent). In the same way you could consider it a violation of your privacy for someone you do not want there taking your picture in private, child porn violates the same principle.

So child porn can be perfectly illegal without having an explicit law saying "Child Porn is illegal". Its creation violates so many fundamentals and its distribution violates a subset of those.

But the reason for the illegality is as important as the legality in the first place. Some of the most horrible nations commit acts we deem moral in consequence but often do them for still vile reasons (ie, you don't execute the mafia boss for rampant murder and robbery, but because hes threatening your own power).
Bots taking over everything! SO excited about this.
The point being that nobody uses or has any good reason to use HyperTalk these days. But the same is not true of many other languages. Javascript is not the last language anyone will ever need.
I didn't intend to be inflammatory (at least any more so than the parent), merely point out that a logical leap had been taken that was not entirely faithful (imho) on the part of the writer.

It is certainly not "mistrust government" ergo "disband government", especially when the government in question was formed near entirely upon the notion that a government should exist in a perpetual state of mistrust.
Show HN: WebGL Insight, a Debugging Toolkit for Chrome
Mock API endpoints outside of the application
The thing that the author misses is that JSX is very natural for designers. If you properly encapsulate any logic into methods on the component rather than having it all inline in the render return, even designers with mediocre technical skills can productively work with JSX files. This can be a huge productivity win, and beyond that honestly I don't know many engineers that enjoy translating designer mock-ups.
Covertly backdooring arbitrary hardware on an FPGA seems orders of magnitude more complex than sneaking a backdoor into a feature designed to have DMA and network access.
Why not just use arxiv.org?
A friend of mine participates, so I tried some of his pretzels/granola and they were fantastic (and I'm not just saying that because he's a friend). I haven't tried anything else yet, but I've talked to him about the service and he's had a positive experience thus far.
Looks interesting but there's no feedback for empty search results.
Your situation seems familiar to mine. I was never a comfortable typer using QWERTY, I would resort to hunt-and-peck after any hesitation or typo. I bought into the hype that DVORAK was more ergonomic and faster, so I gave it a try. I don't know if any of that is actually true nor does it really matter. The end result is that I am comfortable with DVORAK and I no reason to switch back. I can still type in QWERTY just as well (read: poorly) as I did before and I still use QWERTY for my mobile devices (sans physical keyboard).

I bought the stickers for my home only because if I left the layout in DVORAK (as I usually do), then my wife wouldn't be able to login. Or, at least, that was true when I made the switch. Now most lock screens have an easy way to switch layouts.

At work and with my personal laptop (that isn't shared), I do not use the stickers because it prevents me from looking at the keyboard. Plus, when I do look down and see the stickers, I see white-letters and blue-letters. It makes it more confusing which key I am about to press. I end up mixing up words between DVORAK and QWERTY regardless of layout.
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Great news, this is the beginning of the "Javascript Less" movement.
Definitely something I can see myself using on a regular basis. Awesome work.
Some FPGAs might. All the Xilinx ones that I have used need to be explicitly programmed from outside, usually via SPI.
Most people tend to think that giving unelected judges an armed police force is a bad idea.

Even in France and Germany.
Who mentioned riddles and puzzles?
Sorry but I will not write any code for you.

Furthermore, after providing ZERO feedback in the past when I have provided github links, offline code samples, personalized cover sheets, etc. to prospective employers this also will not be done. I'm not going to worry and beat myself up because you can't be bothered to provide feedback even when requested to do so.

Homework for programming jobs is just like homework for school: it is not used to judge competency but to demonstrate that your time is not your own as it belongs to someone else. In the case of programming jobs the homework assignment also acts as a filter to weed out employees who will not be properly subservient to the employer.
In all my new jobs I've appreciated most the solicitous and social first day. The ergo team came to my desk and made sure I had all I needed for my body to work well, I was introduced to my team, a couple of senior peeps went out to lunch with me, I got a tour of the studio, etc...

What really sucked, and it's probably obvious, is the time when I had to search out all my information: where I was sitting, who to talk to to get ergo stuff (and worst of all when they required a doctor's note for whatever), who my manager and coordinator were, heck who my whole team was.

Not entirely on topic, but the same place also treated me like an anonymous cog: was interviewed for one project, told on my first day I would be on another, ended up on a third for two weeks, went back to another (didn't have anything to do), and then bounced two more times before they ended my contract a month early. Ugh, never going back there again.
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Sprig's food is way better than spoonrocket, so at least their cost is justified. For SF, it's pretty normal pricing. Bento is meh, but munchery probably is the highest quality (and most expensive) of all.

Hadn't heard of healthyout or thistle until now, but they don't seem to be on-demand food services?
Lots of platforms exist for home automation, control of IoT devices, etc... HomeKit, Nest, Wink, etc.

How worth it is it to integrate with these platforms? Should new IoT devices "cover all the bases", or is it not worth the extra cost & development?

Currently I'm doing an IoT project and I think I may just skip all those platforms. The HomeKit app costs $14.99, a Wink base station or a Nest costs money... Personally I'm doubtful consumers want to pay those extra costs.

Thoughts?
Would love to see reviews/ratings of podcasts
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Somebody once told me: you'll deal with patent infringement once you're successful, which is already a big milestone...so to try to get there first.
Funny automation fail:

The tech podcasts I listen to frequently end with recommendations.

One of the recommendations in the latest JavaScript Jabber is for a Taylor Swift album.

Podcat attributes the entire episode to Taylor Swift‽

JJ Episode Details: https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/202-jsj-donejs-canjs-with-justi...

Podcat Episode Details: https://www.podcat.com/podcasts/D13bdo-javascript-jabber/epi...

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Request:

Since most of my podcasts are technical (as I assume many other HN readers' podcasts are) many of them also have video. Sometimes only specific episodes have a video component (e.g. Lately in JavaScript), and sometimes every episode has a video component (e.g. JavaScript Air).

All of the ones I listen to that have video versions also provide an audio-only version, but the host or guests occasionally still refer to something on the screen.

So, it would be nice to be able to filter on episodes that do or don't have a video version.
Something strange is going on with scrolling. When I scroll quickly down the page, it jumps back to the top. Looks like a great resource, looking forward to checking it out in detail later!
Not surprisingly, they've been doing it for years.
Are you suggesting that my read was incorrect, and that they are cash flow positive after not just food costs but logistics as well?
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Building early relationships is better, but you also want to be reaching out with something interesting, real, or actionable. I think it depends on the situation - happy to chat about it some more, just email me at hello@getenflux.com
It's really, really easy to tell what contributions were made to a project by the person whose profile you're looking at. There's literally a "contributors" section where you can click on them and see every commit they ever made to that project.

Also, asking someone to code in front of you is a terrible way to figure out what it would be like to work with them.

1) It's an artificial non-cooperative environment.

2) It doesn't tell you anything at all about how they present and communicate their ideas.

3) The absolute best-case scenario is you figure out one degree of conscientiousness, which isn't enough to build a working profile model of them.

I'd be curious to know if you know the personality profiles of the people you already work with, which profile framework you use, if you know what composite mix of profiles will lead to meeting your institutional success criteria, and then how you go about assessing a person's profile to fill the gaps that you have in that composite.
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Why would bundling a Javascript engine in a webpage be faster? I guess it's likely if someone were to make an improved Javascript engine, but their effort would be better spent improving the Javascript engines in browsers (affecting all webpages) rather than bundling it as a many-megabyte download into their own webpages.
The psychological profiling of future attackers has nothing to do with getting away with this push to access that particular phone. That's simply not even on the radar at this point, the FBI would be laughed out of any court they went to if they presented that as the reason why they want access. Their fig-leaf is that the phone may contain valuable information regarding this particular crime.
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I use QFMLWY which according to http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization is even better than Dvorak and Colemak. It helped me greatly reduce my wrist pain. Once you get used to it, you immediately feel how it requires much less effort than QWERTY. Drawbacks are that it replaces nearly all keys so takes some getting used to. I went cold turkey (ie. simply stopped using QWERTY) and it took me about a month. Another drawback is that I'm now slow to type on QWERTY and others can't use my computer unless they change the keyboard layout. So it's not suited very well for when you do a lot of pair programming, for example. I'm really happy with it though, since I mostly work on my own. If anyone wants to get started, I can send you instructions for how to configure each OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) for that layout.
In which we are instructed as to why Wikipedia would be vastly improved by a paywall, apparently.

Seriously, does this guy expect us to buy into this?
You're screening more for knowledge of the particular php framework that you use than general programming ability. Which is fine if that's your intention.
Honestly, you don't. You just need to focus on building something that people want and making sure that the experience you deliver is better than any other.

Further, if you start to think about your hardware as a means of delivering something else (for us, that's food), then getting copycatted on the hardware won't be as hard to deal with from a business standpoint.
You'll still need to learn CSS and SVG as they are web techs, but you wont have to learn anything related to Javascript anymore. As for now Javascript has become irrelevant for good.
creator here: I'd love to speak to anyone that has their own podcast to find out what you need. feel free to email me at podcastcatalog@gmail.com

thank you for all the feedback and support!
Propaganda for fun, for profit, and for political gains dates a lot earlier than modern advertising.