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This is what I always wonder too.

If I lived alone with no pets I'd love to be able to automate the temperature to save money when I wasn't home. But there are usually people in my house, and there are always pets there, so I have to keep it pretty temperate in there at all times.

Other automatable things (lights, lawn sprinklers) are so easily accomplished with simple analog timers that I really do not see the attraction in controlling them via an app. Maybe it's just the programmer in me thinking... at this point in my life, I'm very jaded when it comes to software.

Security is a big one, I guess. It would be nice to be able to monitor that remotely. Though honestly I already have a dog in the house which is probably more effective than 90% of the solutions on the market.

My big thing is whole-house streaming audio, and we've had that for years with Airplay and Sonos and now with Chromecast as well. So that's cool.
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This is why you avoid in-band signalling if you can. If you must do it, at least have escape sequences which are consistently applied.
Yeah, that's reasonable -- haven't had to do that yet in production but I'd probably do the same.
And there's at least tens of millions of people who only have one name:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononymous_person#Modern_times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_names#Mononymic_nam...
JJB is also a nice tool that seems like it allows similar functionality (I haven't worked with DotCi, so I can't say how they compare)

http://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/
Hi! Thanks a lot for sharing details about it, it's an ingenious app. :)

Could you please elaborate a bit on how you work with the TCP window size -- how might I set it to 0 and back? Do you simply use SO_RCVBUF or is there more to it?

If you happen to go through with making more variants of this, it would be amazing if you could make them open source as well (even just the backend). It's a clever idea that solves a very real problem!
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Looking at what Amazon's posted, it looks like what they've released doesn't even give you the "always listening" option.

You have to click on the "start listening" button and then the "stop listening" button.
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Yes, but it won't work as well as the Echo, especially in a noisy environment.
Jenkins + generated jobs (i.e. jenkins-job-dsl or the new Pipeline DSL), and keep as much as the build configuration and logic in your project where it belongs. The configuration that lives on the CI server should be pretty minimal.

We have a custom wrapper around the jenkins-job-dsl that encodes our conventions and templates to generate several hundred jobs, and it works very well for our medium-scale instance.
char key[5] = { 0 };

Simple enough – this is supposed to zero the entire array, but instead it only zeroed the first four bytes.

In C++ and on the stack "{0}" is not required as memory is zeroized. On heap (in a new) "{0,0,0,0,0}" should be used (or memset()). Not sure about that in C.

My understanding is that it's not a bug.
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Imagine the screaming worldwide if hackers working for the CIA were breaking into Iranian dams and financial institutions.

They broke into the Iranian nuclear program without much condemnation, so...
Mandatory infographic explaining all of the sounds:

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...
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My favourite:

> like a wizard casting a poultry hex
But 'NULL' !== NULL. Well, in a more perfect world ;)
Sadly, that RealSense feature has been deprecated: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/realsense/topic/5652...
Hipchat is having an outage. The fourth in the last 2 weeks
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Yup, MSVC is the bar that I hold every other IDE to. IntelliJ comes close but all others (Eclipse I'm looking at you) fall far short.
Me neither. This is definitely not an Instagram. Not even remotely close.
Came here for this. Rethinkdb is awesome, changefeed analytics, I'm in!
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This comment perfectly illustrates the complete and utter ignorance some people over the developing world. It's shameful, you visited India but you learned nearly nothing from the trip.

"One step from the taliban" - seriously where have you traveled ? Have you been to Saudi Arabia ? Do you think India is a country that does state sponsored killings adultry. I have 5 female cousins in India who vote, work as engineers and doctors, and chose their husbands. Do you think that was even possible in Afghanistan ?

"Dog eat dog" - a functioning 1 billion person democracy is a dog eat dog world?

"Better under British rule" - do you have any idea what the impact of British rule did to India ? My grandfathers shed blood, sweat, and tears to fight british imperialist which raped and ravaged our country. Do know about the 10s of millions killed in famines directly linked to British rule? Do you realize the British literally starved to death many of my ancestors ?

Do you know anything about partitions history? Do know that after sucking the resources of India for over 100 years divied up the subcontinent in two weeks without consulting the natives and mismanaged the process so badly that 10s of millions died during partition. Go google the British chancellor in charge partition to understand how disgraceful rule contributed to millions stranded and dead during independence.

"Raping women every day" have you been to South Africa? Indias rape rate is not even in the bottom quartile of rape rates in the world. again it's a huge social issue but to say that it's specific to India is profoundly ignorant.

I'm not disaknowledging the breadth of issues that our 1 billion person country faces, but you have no idea what you are talking about. Go spend a little bit time outside your bubble so you can understand that all the social issues you mention exist across our globe. have you ever visited a developing country before ?
If you are using iOS 8 on the iPhone 4, make sure you turn on "reduce motion" and turn on "reduce transparency" in settings > accessibility > increase contrast. That alone made my iPad 2 go from garbage unusable, to, ok.

Transparency and blur effects seem to be the culprit for most slowness on older devices.
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You could compare them to something like the Psion Series 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3), released in 1991. Possibly not common in America, though, as Psion was a UK company.

Prior to the Series 3, Psion produced the Organizer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser) - I had an Organizer II LZ64, bought in 1990 I think, a birthday present from my parents when I was a young teenager. These were a lot less practical than the Series 3, on account of the teeny tiny screen, but I found mine fun to program on.
Not necessarily, if you were probing you would do so in a way that didn't indicate your true intentions.
The "can't run tests without deleting production data" problem.

The yelling problem, I'd be tempted to fix for free...
Wasn't worth doubling rates again? :)
Yeah, that inspired a lot of stuff in a certain book by Vernor Vinge.
One of us is confused. A Roth is a tax-advantaged container; you should be able to get such an account at E-trade. Most places do have a fee for retirement accounts, but it is often waived for small investors and for Vanguard I think it is a relatively nominal fixed annual fee.

It's possible to have a 1% annual fee on an asset in either account, such as a mutual fund. That's ridiculously high, though. The point of index funds is to reduce those.

If I am interpreting you right, your two examples boil down to:

1. An E-trade IRA, containing something like SPDRs: $10 commission to buy and sell, plus 0.18% (last time I looked) annual fee to the folks who issue the SPDRs.

2. A Vanguard IRA containing a Vanguard index fund: no commission to buy or sell, possible fixed annual custodial fee, and 0.2% annual fee from the index fund.

Or, you can have either in a non-retirement account, in which case you pay income tax on dividends and capital gains. Or you can put a Vanguard index fund in an E-trade account; I'm not sure about commissions then.

In any case,

TL;DR: if someone tries to sell you something with a 1% annual fee, scream loudly in their ears and use the distraction to run away.
I used it for 2 days and deleted. No one I know uses it. Maybe hot with the tween crowd?

Instagram makes money because it shows ads. Are people going to buy Pepsi t-shirts for their Bitmoji and make Pepsi money? I don't see the path to money.
Almost only Chinese people speak Chinese. However, many people speak English (I come from Spain, for example), so in this case you can hardly pin it on a single culture.

I think in this case it has to do more with 4chan's culture than a regional culture.
fwiw, this is very much on the roadmap - https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-31094 - don't know when it'll land, but it will be done. =)
They should worry about this, but not because of the offense and outrage (mock or real -- I don't know). I'm certainly not offended, just amused.

It just seems kind of obvious that Twitter users would grief the bot. Now, they address this point, but it's interesting that they still didn't last a day.

Think about that -- they were expecting abuse, but they still lasted less than 24 hours. That's certainly interesting.
That's what happens when networks get social.
If you look at the demos for Bitmoji they probably skew _older_ than snapchat. Snapchat is in the unenviable of position of needing to grow marketshare amongst older people (until they figure their UX this will continue) so I suspect they are working incrementally up (in age) to capture demos.

Also bitmoji is very easily monetized. And custom keyboards in iOS was an incredible boon to their business.
Sometimes it's a tough sell. I work for a consulting company that I think would rate as very high quality. We try to bake it into contracts and sales pitches that we work a bit slower because we don't cut corners. This isn't always appreciated by a client who's rushing to market. If you think about the old project management triangle, it's scope, budget quality and you can only have 2 out of 3. If you have a contract with fixed scope and budget, it's quality that goes. Getting a client to sign a contract with flexible scope is not easy unless you have a ton of credibility.
I always wanted to have an MMO character named "Bobby Tables".

I do have one who's the III, only it's spelled Ill for reasons of forced capitalization.
That's roughly the fees for most index funds, IIRC.
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it's probably little consolation, but I thought your comment was hilarious. :)
What is the difference between a drug-seeker, and a patient aware of his options? It's too bad that the more logical you are with your psychiatrist, the more they find reason to diagnose you.

But I'm just commenting on an Internet forum.
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When I heard how much this company was bought for and I've never heard of them before, I had to check them out. I fielded the app and followed all the prompts and I have to say they did a pretty good job worth this so far. I can see this gaining a lot more adoption, especially from this news like it has done for me.

One reason I can see the evaluation being so high is the advertising power. There's a lot of ways they're already generating revenue(or should be) from their advertisement of featured movies. They have a bunch of different outfits like superman and batman for that new movie, and some contextual ones pertaining to zoolander and others in the theaters or coming out soon. And for those saying these are just emojis, that is incorrect. I wouldn't call these imojis. What Bitstrips provides is more of images with an avatar of you in them. Those avatars are also pretty customizable.
A friend of mine, last name O'Neil, legally changed it to ONeil so he could fill out more forms online.
No one's endorsing him by letting him speak to an interested group.

Is Hacker News endorsing you by letting you comment here?

And I'd be concerned too if this conference let him talk about his viewpoints, but that's not what he's on the stage for. If someone looked into your history deep enough, wouldn't they be able to find something distasteful too?

Imagine not being able to talk about your software development career just because something thinks something you did (even if entirely unrelated!) was distasteful.

Do you think anyone seriously looks at Moldbug as an authority figure? Come on, you're blowing this way out of proportion. I think someone should be allowed to have their fringe views and be a member of the wonderful programming community. I don't agree with his views, but I'll defend his right to have them.

If you think it's easy to make editorial decisions on, I think you're missing some part of this.
I'm thinking I should either name my child "Define", or change my surname to "Define"...should make Google searching for personal information somewhat frustrating.
Heck, even NULL !== NULL
London, along with most county towns in the UK shouldn't have a county appended to them. This isn't the case for New York.
They could; they don't want to. Most are trained to use their marriage as a way to be upwardly mobile.
Balinese use birth order in their names.
There are a lot of Wayans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balinese_name
He's going to have to revisit this when the Pine A64 ships. Also if you're willing to step up to the $99 price level, you should check out the Geekbox. RK3368 SOC, 8-core Cortex-A53 at 1.5GHz, 2GB RAM. http://www.geekbox.tv/

I've been porting some stuff to it lately, along with a Ugoos UT4 (same chip) and my old Raspberry Pi.

I've also pre-ordered an AMD Opteron A1100 board.
http://lenovator.com/product/103.html

Will be interesting to see how AMD's Cortex-A57 performs compared to these other Cortex-A53s.
I'm reading Working Effictively With Legacy Code. I cannot recommend this book enough. It gives practical advices on how to improve legacy code with small steps, without rewriting everything from scratch (which is too often considered as a magical solution which will resolve everything).
Mass Incarceration is truly one of those things I can't think too much about or I just feel an unrelenting hopelessness and rage. It seems absolutely diabolical to me that in the United States we have simply taken away the humanity of so many people (with absolutely egregious racial and class disparities) in the name of keeping "us" "safer". Not only is it an absolute failure from a moral perspective, it doesn't work from any pragmatic perspective either. Costs are high, recidivism is shocking, and prisons seem to be designed to absolutely foster the worst parts of the human-animals locked in cages.

I don't think there's an easy answer. From a systemic perspective we are locked into a socio-political ratchet. It is far easier to argue for harsher treatment for "criminals", with zero political downside, than to argue the opposite. As long as prison seems to be something that happens to other people: darker, poorer, less educated, there is an empathic gap that exists that makes it hard for the average schmo just trying to get by with his 60 hours a week of work to care very much.

I can only hope that someday we'll look back on the fact that the United States had the second highest incarceration rate in the entire world as an absolute black mark, right up there with slavery and genocide, or colonialism.
> It seems like many people on this forum would be considered by many psychiatric professionals to be suffering from delusions about the government,

The way the OP framed the therapist's response, sure. Of course, they're telling their perspective on what the therapist responded.

Having worked with therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and studied it to some degree in my early college including internships the more typical concern of a therapist is not the veracity of your beliefs (they're largely irrelevant), but the degree to which they are causing distress and if that distress is to a level that it interferes with your ability to function in society and form meaningful relationships With 'meaningful' defined by your personal satisfaction with the relationships and the satisfaction of those you have relationships with.

This is the criteria for all behaviors in the DSM that causes a spectrum of behaviors or beliefs to shift on the continuum of 'normal' to 'abnormal' for the purpose of diagnosis.

In practice, that means they could care less if you think the government (or God, or FSM, or Xenu) is watching your every move...but only if that keeps you from leaving your house or causes you significant distress. Or kept you from forming relationships because you thought they were government agents.

For example, here is the definition of delusion from the DSM V

Delusion. A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly sustained despite what almost everyone else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary. The belief is not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture* (e.g., it is not an article of religious faith). When a false belief involves a value judgment, it is regarded as a delusion only when the judgment is so extreme as to defy credibility.*

Emphasis mine. The point is by virtue of most people in the subculture of hackers believe this way means that, by definition, it is not delusional.

But again, if it keeps you from getting to the grocery store it would likely be worth considering medication. ;)
I'll describe it a different way:

Either:

- It is wrong to denigrate any group (religion, race, ethnicity, etc); or

- It is okay to denigrate any group (religion, race, ethnicity, etc); or

- It is wrong to denigrate certain groups (religion, race, ethnicity, etc) but not others.

It appears that we're in the third category. Therefore, whoever gets to define that list is in a position of great power to punish some while excusing others for the same action. And - as we've seen - since the stakes seem to be the livelihoods of the people involved, it's an important conversation to have.

The programming language conference is just the setting.
Coincidentally, I used this today for the first time. It was the 2nd result on Google for me, but was far superior to the first in ease of use. Thanks for your contribution and good luck going forward. My use case today was to create a fixture of initial data for a django app from csv. Oddly enough I wasn't able to find a specialized online tool to create the django fixture and was forced to use your tool along with some manual hacking.
At the next grooming/pointing/sprint-planning meeting you have, put down 2-4 hours to "investigate the issue" where the acceptance criteria is "a breakdown of how long it takes to get this done". This tells the manager that:

1. you are taking it seriously and not just looking for excuses.

2. if it is going to take 6 weeks to fix, then spending 2-4 hours upfront to investigate is well worth it.

3. they can trust your 6-week analysis at face value without digging into the details if they see that you spent 2-4 hours working on that analysis.
Really anything that implements the same interface, be it parallel, i2c, SPI, and ideally with the R/!W held high, disconnected, or ignored. I don't think anyone is actually considering reflowing a new IC for every try, that's completely unnecessary.
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What about replacing the newsgroup with a blockchain? <ducks>

(before anyone takes me seriously: this was a joke. Messaging must be ephemeral, anything else won't scale.)
By "human-animals" I was not being disparaging. I think all humans are animals, with large parts of the animal-brain still intact. Any animal locked in a tiny cage tends to start exhibiting highly strange and anti-social behaviors that wouldn't be the norm at all outside of captivity.
> In Cuba, for instance, movies, music, news, and games are traded on USB drives that are smuggled into the country every week.

In another third world country, things are more sophisticated thanks to the wide availability of cheap Android phones. In offices on Friday evenings, everyone swaps movies on SD cards so that they can watch them on the weekend on the phone itself.
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My major concern here is that to me, end users are reading into this way too much.

I say this because I caught a developer a few days ago implementing an online payment gateway using a Wordpress "form to email" plugin. The ensuing argument came down to his firm belief that email to gmail is now "encrypted", and thus, this is perfectly safe.

We need to be careful about sending this sort of message.
Things I've considered automating: different light settings (temperature, which light to keep on, watch-style notifications/interactions when not at my device (usually because it's charging), instructions to nearby screens or audio systems, reminders... A lot of it relates to integrations and interactions which require too many button pushes. Voice control is one step closer to "mind-reading"-like experiences and having knowledge of who is in which room would improve the context-awareness of existing apps and whole-home systems. For example, ideally if I said "play some music" it would know who I was and what I liked vs others in the house. This is more than voice control, and is likely phone- or app-integrated, but every small step gets us closer. ;-)
Also, a lot of websites have this thing where you have to enter your postal code and then you can pick your address from a list of addresses associated with the postal code. I used to live in a development for a while that was so new that it didn't appear in many of these databases, so signing up for various services (or even paying council tax) was near impossible.
Back in the day, you could escalate a bug to the next patch by emailing steve@mac.com claiming you lost work, or can't get something done. I did this twice, and got a patch both times. Once, they literally patched iMovie over a weekend after I emailed Steve.

I'd bet the teams were quite unhappy...
Ask HN: An inexpensive way to find my father (with Alzheimers) if he gets lost
Looking to find a reasonably priced solution to find my father (who has alzheimer's) if he gets lost. Some info:

* He's 75, lives in urban Vancouver, in his own apartment in an independent-living seniors centre

* He doesn't have or want a smartphone

* He hasn't gotten lost yet

* He's pretty stubborn and probably wouldn't wear something he knew was for this purpose

* Battery consumption is important, as I'd have to do the recharging for him

First thought is a "normal looking" smartwatch with GPS and mobile data. I can program Android, so could make a custom app that pings out his location on a timer, or listens for a push and then send out his location.

Maybe use SMS only with a pre-paid sim?

Any recommendations on the best watch? Alternative to mobile data?

Other ideas? I see there are shoe insoles as well...

Thanks
I agree with this, but arguably jail itself is an unreasonable punishment for many/most crimes, especially under the guise of rehabilitation, which it absolutely isn't designed for. Many countries have figured out how to balance public safety, restitution/punishment, and rehabilitation in ways that are empirically more effective on all fronts than the US good-ole-boy culture of "lock em up and let God sort em out". The Scandinavian countries especially come to mind.