skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my friend's art project? I'm not gonna care about any of that. (Not _quite_ true, I'll "care" about the webserver part by making it an HTML5 offline app - mostly to remove any chance that webserver problems make my phone ring while I'm asleep or out drinking).

You're inventing requirements which, while no doubt genuinely part of the TSA's requirements, go way beyond my single simple requirement as discussed.
clang now has a mostly-working CUDA frontend (disclaimer, I work on it). And it has an AMD GPU backend (whether this is in a good state I don't know). I don't expect that putting these pieces together would be a huge project.
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Do you have a source for this? It sounds interesting, but also like an urban legend.
Honest question: what would make a bacteria better for factoring than a conventional computer?
I don't live in Mountain View; I was just using that commute as an example. (As mentioned, I'm in San Jose.)

I just strongly agree with many of the academic articles showing strong correlation between long commutes and unhappiness. By the time you factor in a 90-minute SF-MTV commute, you really don't get many benefits of the city on weekdays anyway...
In home systems aren't most of those problems handled by the furnace/ac system itself? Thermostats are pretty dumb.
Good point. However, Tesla also missed its 2015 production target because retooling the factory to produce Model X and to produce more Model S took longer than expected and impacted the existing production line at the same time. I think the exact same thing will happen with Model 3, only moreso given the huge ramp-up needed. Rather than linear growth it's probably going to be more like big staggered increases.
Now we know they will give back something but are not sure how much.

The Nest/Revolv situation is reminiscent of when Netflix raised prices in 2011 [1]. It was a great product, and despite being the industry leader, customers disappeared overnight. Then Netflix made the correction and recovered strong as ever. In that moment Netflix was touch and go and needed money. Fortunately for consumers, they survived.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/netflixs-lost-year-the-inside-story...
Looks interesting, but Java is a turn-off for me.

Even more of a turn-off for me is storing data in Postgres. Postgres is great, but one of the primary benefits of Org is that it stores data in plain-text. I can get data out of my Org files on any platform with any program that can view text files. To get data out of a Postgres file...is orders of magnitude more complicated.

But it looks interesting. I'd recommend putting up some screenshots, because the front page of your site is a list of links without much actual information. :)
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Are they actually damaging the devices or are they just turning off the remote servers that the devices rely on?
The only people talking about this are people who already know the risks.
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Well... they just told you: You don't really own those devices. You're paying upfront for a lease that lasts until they decide to deprecate the service. Yay, IoT!
That's true, I'd forgotten. Win 2k was fairly consistent about things, and even XP had a fairly decent classic fallback mode.

I understand a lot of the baggage they're carrying for keeping compatibility and suffering 20 year old choices etc. I can't help but feel that 7 or 8 should have drawn a hard MacOS/OSX like line under things and given us a modern windows with newer choices. Add a VM for running your old XP app. Throw cmd and dos away entirely.

I actually respect MS for being brave enough to experiment with the GUI as much as they have, yes and get it terribly wrong sometimes. A classic fallback, or a 7 fallback for 8 would have made the 8 fail easier to bear.

Not entirely sure the company / open comparison is the whole story. Someone somewhere designed metro (or 7, or 10), figured out a UI and design language, and had some principles behind it. Those could be made the contract for the team's software being seen in the world. Again Windows has it more complex as so much of the GUI ends up in the .exe, so what you see is when it was made not what it runs on.

I think you're right in that having got where we are, it's unlikely to easily improve.
Maybe you are just looking at the AAA battery the wrong way up..
This article is too edgy for me
Deft is good if you store notes in many small files, but doing that gives up many of the powerful features built-in to Org, like the Agenda. (Unless you want to add every little file to your agenda-files list...) You might find this useful:

https://github.com/alphapapa/helm-org-rifle
Your comment is rude, unnecessary, and funny.
I know what debouncing is, but I don't really grok it. Is there a Khan Academy-style explaination somewhere?
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> "Great parents make huge sacrifices in the best interest of their children".

I have 3 kids all below 6yo, and can't understand why people believe they have to make so many sacrifices for their kids. I go drink beers with friends every week-end, my wife and I watch movies, go hiking or camping with the kids, do normal stuff adult do. At home, with the kids, I do the stuff that I like and listen to the music I like, watch cartoons with them. I'll never force myself to listen to shitty kid music, or watch silly cartoons: I have found some cartoons that we all can enjoy (Miyasaki, Les Shadocks, Old Disneys, Pink Panther, ...)

I also consider that sacrificing yourself to your kids is not only bad for you, it is bad for them too: it is a burden on their shoulder they didn't ask for. Moreover, faking it do not work, they'll know before you that you are bored by shitty kid's music or cartoons. Oh, and we play Lego together too.
There seems to be a healthy competition between various ci software that works with github. Why would github try to kill that and take on such a high touch area.

Its quite puzzling why gitlab went that route, they are basically discouraging ci systems from integrating with them. I think this is would turn out to be a bad decision for gitlab.
Whatsapp may have brought end-to-end encryption to 1 billion people, but it helps 0 Slack users. ClearChat brings end-to-end encryption, privacy and security, to the workplace.
I would posit that all news companies (some legal definition) should be required to be non-profit entities. They could also operate with some portion of subsidization if necessary. The public allocation model would be interesting, if difficult to implement.
Start with the definitive reference: http://www.amazon.com/Mushrooms-Demystified-David-Arora/dp/0...

Take a class or find a friend who is already knowledgeable. Or you could try getting in touch with culinary foraging folks. You'll quickly find out that there are only a few species of mushrooms that people tend to forage for, and there are fairly easy ways to tell the good ones apart from the potentially dangerous ones. There are also only a handful of truly deadly mushrooms, once you have familiarity with both sets it becomes a lot easier to trust eating something you find out in the woods. Generally, avoid the "stereotypical" looking mushrooms (the "little brown mushrooms" and toadstools), and stick to the most distinctive and easiest to avoid confusing edible fungi.
I think they'd have major legal issues to shutting off people's thermostats. Losing control over heat and cooling could be a major health and safety risk.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if nest cams were on the chopping block.. despite how many parents use them for monitoring infants.
> Perhaps part of the reason is the massive wealth gap between the tech migrants (tech workers) and the local population. It causes a lot of friction between locals and the new migrants. The lower earners are being forced out of the city and they probably make a up a large chunk of the service workers.

The current disparity certainly causes plenty of concerning issues, though SF's early closing has been a thing since at least 2007 when I first lived there, at which point cost of living was somewhat reasonable.
Throwback and maybe not so useful anecdote.. the first startup I worked at created an analog/mixed signal circuit design suite that seemed fairly innovative. I am not a EE, so I really don't know how much of that was the founder's kool aid, but the space did seem very under-served.. think mainstream analog/mixed chip layout tools as everyone writing technical documentation in MS Word and there being an opening for something like FrameMaker.

Analog placement and routing is a lot harder than digital, and key to a lot of this was simulation of many permutations. We found Gnucap and iverilog to be capable tools versus the commercial simulators that cost six figures.

Chip design tools are an interesting space for sure, but I'm glad to be out of it due to the slow pace of change by both tools vendors and design houses. The startup has also never sold any software due to the quirkiness of the founder, and the end of the experience cooled my desire to work in startup space because so much is outside of your control even when you're in control if that makes any sense.
In my last (rental) house, I actually went to the trouble of moving the thermostat off the wall and mounting it on my nightstand, courtesy of 50' of Cat5 UTP cable. Highly recommended "life hack."
http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v6/n4/full/tp201642a.html
What do you mean "Don't give a crap about life"?
This is the key point indeed.

Some of us probably have a mental image of a large ec2 instance plugged into an Oracle RDS instance, nicely monitored, disaster recovery plan tested and ready, chugging away just fine. Maybe a few $10Ks per year to keep it running. Why would they piss their customers off just to save a few thousand bucks?

But in reality, maybe the back end is a teetering pile of doggy do, running on old bare metal machines in a couple of racks, backups not trusted 100%, lots of humans involved in keeping it running and answering customer support inquiries - so more like many $100Ks per year (indeed some companies would be able to spend $1Ms). In this case it would be crazy to try and keep it running, since there is no new business coming from it.

Likely the truth is somewhere in between.

Some transparency here from Nest would be a PR win.
Or just put in a deadband, that's what most thermostats do.

Also, you should note that most of them also don't show the exact temperature in the room... it's an algorithm. Your furnace might heat to 68 on the display but the actual temp may be between 67 and 69, but if your display temp constantly bounced it would result in mass consumer disappointment.
You're right. Then again, an iOS app doesn't need to request permission to get that data either. Both need permission to access the camera.
> Stay in the Agenda, and if you must look at a file, do it with <SPC> on the headline (followed by "o" when you're done)

I've been using Org for several years, but I never knew about the SPC/o combination in the Agenda (I recently discovered TAB). Thanks for sharing that!

Another great agenda feature is bulk editing. Mark entries with `m`, and then use `B` to act on them. Bulk refiling is really handy! Scatter is a neat feature too.

Also, I've come to really like indirect buffers (`org-tree-to-indirect-buffer`). You might also find this useful:

(defun ap/org-agenda-goto-heading-in-indirect-buffer (&optional switch-to)
"Go to the current agenda headline in an indirect buffer. If SWITCH-TO is non-nil, close the org-agenda window."
(interactive)
(if switch-to
(org-agenda-switch-to)
(org-agenda-goto))
(org-tree-to-indirect-buffer)

;; Put the non-indirect buffer at the bottom of the prev-buffers
;; list so it won't be selected when the indirect buffer is killed
(set-window-prev-buffers nil (append (cdr (window-prev-buffers))
(car (window-prev-buffers)))))

(defun ap/org-agenda-switch-to-heading-in-indirect-buffer ()
(interactive)
(ap/org-agenda-goto-heading-in-indirect-buffer t))
Yes they're hardly competent to manage conspiricies. Just tawdry little deals deriving from this bizarre culture that believes its enemy is oversight & the citizenry.

A strong, responsible citizenry won't quake in fear and protects itself.

In Switzerland where rifle training is commonplace & one in every other house's larder. Bank robbers don't get far there, the citizens camly and responsible detain or kill them long before their efficient police even get there.

Sadly in Europe & the US the Executive fears and seeks to weaken, terrify & disarm their electorates.
What's the difference between damaging the device and making it no longer able to perform the function it was designed and sold as?
That's a major over exaggeration and you know it. Name any neighborhood in the city, and I'll give you at least one place open until midnight.

You probably couldn't see anything open from your hotel in Union Square or SOMA, but it's there. Just open foursquare or Yelp.
He is referring to the anti LBGT antidiscrimination law just passed.
I understand that you feel that way, but do me a favour. Go back and look at some of the stuff RMS wrote 10-15 years ago, and then tell me to stop with the slippery slopes.

What they are talking about is a pretty big deal, it's a huge deal. What we're going through now is a quiet redefinition of the concept of ownership of property, and that is quite frankly something that we should be having a public and very open debate about. And we need to have it now; in a few years it will be too late.
You're a co-founder of the company. It's considered tacky (at best) to post about your own company on HN without disclosing your connection.

I think it's fairly acceptable in this case because you didn't editorialize at all (saying "ClearChat is awesome" or anything like that), but I thought I'd give you a heads-up.
As a seller, it is not your responsibility to compensate for the fraud issues impacting your customer's ability to participate in the marketplace without it being worth it.

I don't know exactly what causes Russia to be a fraud hot spot but Australia not to be, but the issue can only really be resolve inside Russia.
The blog this was posted on was a company that deals with fraud detection. I'm sure they thought about this and only posted things they already weight pretty low in their algorithm as the evidence isn't too valuable.
That clearly depends on how sustained and loud the pushback is for announcing the bricking of 18 month old devices.
What made colours much easier for me was stating them as hsl values, rather than rgb ones, because that's how we actually think about colours.

For example, I can tell just by looking at it that the HN banner is orange (hue: ~30), fully saturated (sat: ~100%), and neither light nor dark (l: ~50%).

The figures are also easier to fiddle with. Something is too saturated? Decrease saturation. Too bright? Decrease brightness. etc. With an rgb value it's very hard to fiddle with meaningfully.
Depends on the hardware. An old-fashioned bimetallic strip/mercury switch thermostat has mechanical hysteresis built in. (Actually, they can have too much lag -- some of them include heating elements to 'accelerate' their response.) Old-school mechanical devices aren't always as dumb as they look.

As far as short-cycling the compressor goes, my current HVAC is smart enough to disallow that, but I've lived in older houses where that wasn't the case. You could potentially damage the compressor by wiggling the thermostat back and forth, forcing it to start up against back pressure.

Understanding the requirements is really job #1, and first on the list of reasons why HVAC control isn't just a simple "if too cold then turn on heat else turn on A/C" statement. That doesn't mean people shouldn't jump in and try it, of course. It's the best way to learn, if not always the cheapest.
Time to buy a new car because Google no longer wants to support yours.

The wonders the future holds.
Thank you for recommending this, I love it!
Group Multiple Tasks into One HTTP Request to Achieve Batch Processing in Cloud
I'm having a hard time deciding if this is a troll. In a teaching position I'd agree wholeheartedly, but that's not what's being discussed. You're at work. By definition this means you're supposed to have at least some grasp of what your job duties are and it's a given that stuff outside of your job description is to be left to others unless you're given the go ahead before proceeding. Working a drive-thru, framing houses, industrial fabrication, structural steel work, tech support, professional development, they all have that in common. I certainly should not have to have the conversational equivalent of emailing a team member their job description to remind them to stay on their patch.
Yup, it's part of the EFF browser fingerprinting

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Please see the various links I found below, in case you're not aware of comparable taxes in the UK. In addition, my state doesn't have toll roads (only a few major bridges are tolled) or congestion charges like parts of London. Your point on unemployment tax is duly taken, however.

Gas tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#United_Kingdom

EDIT: To put that into perspective, the tax in the UK of "£2.19 per U.S. gallon" is far more than a gallon of gas costs most Americans right now. In addition, there's a 20% VAT on the gas price AND the duty, so Britons are being taxed at 20% on that duty.

VAT applies to hotels: "The exceptions are the UK and Slovakia where VAT stands at 20% for all goods and services including hotel accommodation" (https://www.instituteofhospitality.org/Publications/Insight_...)

Toll roads: https://www.gov.uk/uk-toll-roads

Electricity tax on certain usage levels: "The Climate Change Levy is a p/kWh tax on certain electricity use. Exempt supplies include domestic supplies and supplies using less than the de minimis threshold of 1,000 kWh / month" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_billing_in_the_UK)

TV licencing fee that I seem to always hear British taxpayers complaining about: "Since 1 April 2010 the annual licence fee has been £145.50 for colour and £49.00 for black and white." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...)

Alcohol and tobacco taxes: https://www.gov.uk/tax-on-shopping/alcohol-tobacco
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My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
Physical destruction.

The nest is affixed to a wall via quick-release bolts so that if it's mounted too high to reach, you can remote-eject it.

Properly reprogrammed, the incendiary charge on the quick-release can act as an autodestruct. Beyond vaporizing the device, in some cases it's taking out a chunk of wall or the family pet.
Is there a way to reasonably compile it out as its own so? I looked into it last year and it seemed you could not build Chromium's webrtc independently at all. Mozilla uses it by literally cloning and building Chromium trunk and taking the so out of it.
The rules for inversion are stupid. More laws more rules. More eventual loopholes. The game goes on.

Inversions are a symptom of a huge burdensome tax law that large businesses are incenventized to keep because they benefit from all the fine print.

The rest of us are left scratching our heads and ultimately paying the bulk of the taxes because we don't hire teams of tax lawyers.
luckily, software doesn't need to be all in one area...
success is a monotonic function of amount of work

nah, you're mis reading this. the issue is continuity. most people will never become successful because of hyper-competetion and the need for continuity (ie, being in the game). You don't see that many michael jordan career sabbaticals among the great athletes either. And obviously being a great athlete takes loads of work, but not each effort is the same contribution obviously either. But great athletes have a very short window to prove themselves as junior/early pro players, and 95%and fewer in the talen pool will never take a "sabbatical" from the NFL (or whatever league/sport) and get their job back with no questions asked...its cut throat enough as it is for a bench/roster seat.

Then, there are people who are so successful in terms of their brand and personal networks etc that they can dabble in and out of various projects at will. But that is not your typical junior partner or junior parent or early-career stage founder. At least not realistically.
Does it matter? The effect is the same, and it's a choice not that the company is insolvent so cannot continue.
Oh sure. Which I was certainly aware of. Unbelievable.
Why Microsoft needed to make Windows run Linux software
And silently delete that inane byte order mark anywhere it appears, at least within Visual Studio.
That seems really dubious. The entire price of an S80 is less than half a base Model S and aside from a dated computer has a far nicer interior in every way.

Of course I'm biased. Owned six Volvos. Always thought you couldn't buy a better interior. Simple tactile controls. Best seats in the business. And I loved the waterfall console in the three that had it.

I think I'm over cars for the most part, but if anything could tempt me it'd be the new S90. Makes a Model S interior look like cheap junk at half the price.
The joy of free markets. Sometimes they work!
I agree we need to learn the lesson, but am not convinced Nest's actions are overall beneficial. Learning a hard lesson isn't the only way to learn a lesson. We need more tech companies who can lead with positive messages about openness
Yes, keep up the propaganda! It keeps Rockridge nice and pleasant for the rest of us!
Most windows users who know how the filesystem hierarchy works probably never see a file path. Windows explorer doesn't show the slashes, it shows some kind of graphical blocks by default. They do see slashes in their web browser though. Maybe they never look at those, but when they print a webpage, they see the url obnoxiously present at the bottom of the page.
You're thinking Apple. Android 2.x still has 2 or 3 percent of users just fine.
An always appropriate quote by Alan Moore regarding conspiracy theory:

“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that
conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is
more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually
chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish
Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more
frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.”

Certainly, conspiracies exist, but the tendency to believe conspiracies to be all powerful and omnipresent is essentially a religious belief, a kind of occult thinking. Better to believe the world is being run competently by sinister forces than incompetently by sociopathic bureaucrats.
The devices were sold with the implicit promise that the servers operated by the manufacturer would remain in service, so I don't think there's much of a real distinction between bricking a device by shutting down servers vs. hitting it with a hammer.

That said, they probably tried to weasel themselves out of any obligation via the EULA.
If in between samples you go from above max to below min you'll have both heat and ac on.

The take-away is that like programming lift controllers[0] it's not quite as simple as it might first seem - many many edge cases.

[0] http://play.elevatorsaga.com/ (for example)
It's wrong when those signals come from birth.
The REAL middle ground could be something like a small business which doesn't require insane amounts of time to run, so that you can still raise your kids. You might not make it to a billion dollars, but boo hoo.