skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also you can decouple the handling of ac and heat, and check the current state to prevent a redundant transition into the current state.

if (temp > max + error)
if (off (ac))
turn_on (ac);

if (temp < max - error)
if (on (ac))
turn_off (ac);

if (temp < min - error)
if (off (heat))
turn_on (heat);

if (temp > min + error)
if (on (heat))
turn_off (heat);
Not necessarily. The city decides what amount of revenue it wants to generate, then divides that amongst all properties based on accessed value. If in a year everyone's accessed value increases by the exact same amount, and the city doesn't increase the amount of total income they want to generate, no ones property taxes change.
The use of a framework Does not mean the code is better, i would argue the opposite, many a new dev learns on a framework and often doesn't know the underlying language, whereas choosing not to use a framework is usually a conscious decision based on evaluation of actual needs.
Just curious: How did you manage to transfer your Bay Area salary to Austin? I would imagine that $120K is a ridiculous amount there. How did you even ask for it with a straight face? Are you making 2X all of your co-workers or something?
It kind of depends. If you consider the achievement in the context of the time period it was done vs achievement of all time you'll get different answers.

Semiconductors are a marvelous feat of engineering but in the time from when they were first developed until now the ability to share communication has been unparalleled allowing this to happen.

In the other hand the concrete dome on the Pantheon is quite a feat as well considering their relatively basic understanding of the principals of forces and simplistic methods of collaborative sharing.
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Colorblindness isn't a uniform condition. Best practice is to utilize multiple signifiers (hue, lightness/darkness, iconography, etc)
This isn't an argument in favor of the espionage state, upfront clarification. People typically aren't afraid of things they haven't yet personally been given a reason to be afraid of.

Americans are told the spying makes them safer. Americans fear terrorism, and they're told the focus of the spying is terrorism. Very, very, very few Americans have seen negative repercussions from the spying (so far as they personally notice or 'feel' going about their daily lives). So far, to that typical American, it's almost all theoretically helpful and not harmful.

I agree that a lack of understanding - properly comprehending the full historical scope and risks of such power - is at the root of why it's tolerated. I think inside of most Americans, you'll find a belief that their government can't be fundamentally evil (thus they don't fear the really bad potential outcome scenarios of such spying), even if it occasionally does something bad.
That's because it paints black people in a negative light. Search for videos of its use, they're out there.
Who's next?
Ha, yeah this makes me laugh. Startups that run completely on virtual machines in the cloud and their mission is to disrupt industry X but all of this can only be done from an open plan office space in SOMA.
Also usable from 2.7 with backported and forward compatible io.open().
I suggest you read the criticisms of 1st and 2nd wave feminism. Historically, mainstream feminism has not been supportive of women of color.
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Throw an anti-short-cycle delay in there. You've never programmed HVAC have you.
I'm assuming Telegram.
AFAIK this is configurable. We did squashed merges, which I quite liked, because "git log" for master read nicely but you could go look up the more granular history if you wanted to.
Technically it's recast as NL.
I don't think proprietary is the word I was looking for. Maybe proper or decent.
My expectation as a consumer of these kinds of devices was not, at all, met by what Dropcam is.
I consider it unethical (particularly the misleading copy on their packaging, but the general case of a device being ransomware, as well)

Why didn't you just simply return the camera once you realized there was platform lock-in? Even after using Dropcam for significant time, the largest "investment" is the content captured during the "DVR" sliding window of 7 or 30 days--which you can export and manually download in chunks. How exactly was their product "ransomware"?

"I can't make people care about privacy, security"

FWIW, I care deeply about privacy/security, even more than some here. But how how does privacy / security relate to the service lock-in. If anything, the alternate "open" model has proven to be far worse in terms of privacy and security. I used my Dropcam to monitor the exterior of my house, pointed outward from a window. I accepted the tradeoffs, accepting the potential risk of Dropcam being hacked or a rogue engineer/admin, but trusting that they understood that risk and the need for appearing to care. Now, there's currently no consumer device on the market that I'd trust to continuously capture video in all common rooms (e.g. not bath/bed) in my house--even if only streaming to an on-prem server. The only option I'm comfortable with is building my own cameras, where I have control over the os/security/patches of the cameras.

So...we're agreed, then, that you are at their mercy.
Sure, I agree that when purchasing a paired device and service offering, that you're at the mercy of that company to continue offering said service. I fully understood what I was getting when I purchased the camera, and felt that their model was worth $149. Maybe the marketing copy has changed since launch, but i fail to see how they were "unethical" or that the device is "ransomware". To be clear, I'm referring to Dropcam in 2012, not Nest.
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Or big FY to privacy conscious users. Does not mean that these are not a strong indicators of a possible fraud, but when applied fiercely would really hurt legitimate users.
Nest is permanently disabling the Revolv smart home hub
Programming = Computational thought with rigor
Boston seems pretty reasonable in terms of rent, and has pretty good tech community. With exceptional schools, which you have access to for eg. take courses at Harvard, attend events at MIT, MediaLab, or big tech firms like Google, fb etc. And its great if you have kids too as public schools are also highly rated.
Signs of things to come. Only a matter of time until we have to do this to humans because the planet or the economic system can no longer sustain human life. I give it at most another 1,000 years... more like 300-400 years to be more conservative.

It's funny we create all of these things, they are not pushed upon us. Yet we act as if we have no choice in the matter.
Viral Video Experiment
They probably have a program that swaps their silicon for others as it's in transit from wholesale, probably called something like FRIEDPOTATOS probably in cooperation with DIGIKEY… jokingly of course.
In my experience, FindFirstFile and friends don't eat forward slashes, unfortunately.
Even more important to consider: how bad the typical advice is, due to rampant misunderstanding of "colorblindness".
Both are necessary.

You are absolutely right that you need to account for hysteresis.

Debounce is also necessary for sensors that have precision problems, where, in boundary conditions, they bounce back and forth between a measurement that would cause an "on" signal and a measurement that would cause an "off" signal. But, I think we're agreeing with each other :)
Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I did find that interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Hardly surprising when most resources are spent on mass surveillance, reliant on weak security.

Snowden's leaks show the focus is to "prevent public debate about the mass surveillance program." - GCHQ, leaked slide.

> "The mass surveillance program has done nothing to prevent terrorist attacks, it has not stopped a single one.", concludes Obama's 2014 report chaired by the ex-deputy director of the CIA.

Compromising public safety by starving resources from real investigative intelligence.

> "If you collect it all, you understand nothing." Snowden

They were warned of the Belgian Bombers by Turkish Intelligence. Warned he had just returned from training camps. Warned a Tsarnev brother had been at a training camp just before he bombed Boston.

Real warnings about activated radical, single dangerous individuals - not a needle in haystack - direct advance warnings. Same with London 7/7 and in all cases the response is "we didn't have sufficient resources to target these individuals."

If these attacks were preventable - why weren't they ?

This question must be asked again and again and we should be unsatisfied with 'closing the stable door' answers like 'because they had burner phones'. Because that is not their focus is the awful, sad, inescapable truth.

All sources from this debate between Greenwald, Chomsky & Snowden: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/edward-snowden-noam-chom...
Bug or feature? (2009)
Except that's not how it actually works (you can push fake commits to your repos). If someone can log into your account (to be able to push fake commits to the account's repos) they can also add their GPG key. The point is that no additional security is added by this feature.
I'm not sure deregulation is actually the answer here. It's more that our municipalities have bought into car oriented design and have adopted a terrible philosophy and awful set of regulations.

We need to regulate good design that leads to compact and efficient communities instead.

My fear with less regulations is that while you could see taller, and denser buildings in some areas, you'd also open up the potential for an increase in sprawl, as lazy developers chasing profits would equally be allowed to build low density sprawl if there was an incentive to.

The local example of this is that in Metro Vancouver it is basically now impossible to build a typical suburban mall. No city will allow it because it's a terrible idea from an urban design and planning point of view. However, two malls have recently been built nonetheless! This happened because the developers found land near the airport and on First Nations land that was outside the jurisdiction of local government, and they could build whatever they wanted with little to no oversight.
Plus you don't have state taxes in Texas. I don't know if Austin has city tax but I doubt it.
The reason it matters is because foreign actors can use that data to coerce someone into doing something they may not otherwise do.
I always snort at what people call luxury in the bay area. 'luxury' here is the honda civic equivalent of new housing elsewhere in the USA. This is luxury housing: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2793242/a-95million-...

I'm also surprised that you would still think the math does not apply. A 100 unit building taking up the space of 12 SFH $1.5mm homes will sell many more $800k 2 bedroom apartments comparing what houses and apartments sell for Build about 1000 of the buildings close to bart and muni tunnel stations and you would get 100'000 units for the price of 3000 SFH / in law units and a larger city budget to fund the new required transit system capacity.
Filesystem metadata overhead (Richard W.M. Jones, 2009)
There was another comment in this thread that said one of you might have stale data. If you kill the app and try again it should update.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11432356
HIRED indicates it's not unreasonable at all: http://get.hired.com/rs/348-IPO-044/images/Hired-State-of-Sa...
Pweh... You had me worried there. I thought it would languish for years after the spec had been accepted and other major vendors had implemented it.
I get a tiny ping of irritation every time I use an application to do some mundane, repeatable, well-defined task and it doesn't have a CLI.
That's actually the use case for Safari Read mode, right ? Just the article to read, not "next page", ads, popup or anything.
ahh, wasn't aware of the guidelines!
Always good to see someone familiar with them. Unfortunately, NSA is transitioning to some new program that allows rapid certification of COTS security products at what looks like EAL1 and in IIRC about 90 days. Great for time to market and COTS acquisition but bad for security.

Fortunately, DARPA, NSF, and other organizations are funding a lot of good work. Here's a few:

http://www.crash-safe.org/

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/softbound/
(See hardware papers like Hardbound and Watchdog)

http://safecode.cs.illinois.edu/sva.html

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10112006-2048...

Much of Galois Inc's work is government funded. That includes CRYPTOL language, Ivory language, Xen work, Haskell work, and so on. NSA partly funded demo's from Praxis (now Altran) on their Correct by Construction process with Z specs and SPARK Ada code. They built SPARK, too.

So, lots of stuff going on that is already practical. There's even more that are academic prototypes or exist in simulation. Leaving them off for now.
It's more like 1 hr a day on a train if you're close to a bart station. It's closer than living in the sunset for most jobs!
OpenWebRTC (by Ericsson) has a number of LGPL dependencies, and the way apps are packaged on iOS (eg, totally locked down) makes it difficult to completely follow through on the requirements of the LGPL, from a technical perspective. I'm not sure if iOS dynamic linking makes this easier?

That's without getting into the question of whether the LGPL is legally compatible with the App Store TOS. While the LGPL's use/redistribution requirements aren't as stringent as the GPL's, I'm not qualified to make that analysis, and IIRC it hasn't been tested anywhere.
[Here's a link to the original response video which the article failed to include.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ShfNQOUeAY) Probably to reduce bounce rates or something.
I spent some time figuring out an automated seamless git signing workflow (on OSX): https://gist.github.com/bmhatfield/cc21ec0a3a2df963bffa3c1f8...

I imagine alternate pinentry implementations exist for other OSes as well.
Isn't it just a limit then? The best politician simply changes his beliefs for every person he talks to until "belief" is so fluid it becomes completely unmoored and meaningless. Hence no consideration of truth or falsehood and being able to sincerely tell everyone what they want to hear.
Funny. Fair enough. I could have articulated that better. To the OP, I'm sorry it wasn't meant to be mean.
that is not something that should be presumed, this kind of error is super common, especially with people that are otherwise not statistically well grounded.

if 1% of transactions are fraudulent, and these indicators have only a 1% false positive rate (which it has nowhere close to), and it will match the fingerprint of every fraudulent transaction (which it wont) you get an absolutely titanic false overall positive rate, somewhere around >50% false positive.

This is not some trivial pedantic thing, its a very important aspect of statistical models that must be explicitly stated to be accounted for. It is not enough to say "every y has characteristic X" if no other information about X is provided.
Proper mindset
Interesting, but didn't SA already tell us about a gravity-defying superfluid in 2009? [1] One that doesn't need a gazillion GPa of pressure to work with?

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superfluid-can-cli...
Ugh. The author just gave away all the good tricks.

This is one area where security by obscurity actually works (well worked, depending on how many fraudsters read this).

Fraudsters are generally pretty dumb when it comes to technology, so even if a lot of these seem obvious to the tech savvy HN audience, they weren't obvious to the fraudsters till now.

The good news is that most of them don't read HN.
Are you talking about paid sabbaticals or unpaid.

My company allows unpaid sabbaticals.
That's why I put "luxury" in quotations. A "luxury" townhouse here is simply a very expensive tiny home, thrown together with cheap materials, faux-everything, bland interiors that look like generic hotel rooms, sometimes displaying a fake stone facade or arched entryway in an attempt to mimic class.
Yes. Sandia and others have certified fabs for developing classified stuff. The NSA has their own developments called Government Off The Shelf (GOTS) tools. They also contract out developments from defense contractors through certifications like their Type 1 process. They keep the best stuff for themselves and defense contractors.

Here's an interesting example I copied in a design at one point:

https://www.nsa.gov/ia/programs/inline_media_encryptor/index...

Compare that to the average tool for disk encryption. I bet the commercial one leaves off some requirements or countermeasures. ;)
Considering a long term project, signing using a private GPG key does not seem to be practical. What happens if the key expires? What happens if the key gets revoked? Or stolen? Are you going to sign every commit again?
Wow. Amazing. The UI is simple and beautiful.

Are you using JS Navigator or NavigatorIOS for the app?
Being pegged as a fraud risk just because the user is concerned about privacy rubs me the wrong way. Even if it is entirely legal and the statistical model is valid.

Some years back, some law enforcement agency in the US (but I forgot which) produced a highly-reliable indicator of drug mules on highways. The indicator was black male, driving a late-model sedan, and traveling at exactly the speed limit (when everyone else was traveling 10-15 mph over the limit). The police were stopping and searching anyone who fit these indicators.

Putting aside the questions of racial profiling and whether the statistical model was correct, do you think this is a good idea? I can't articulate my feelings exactly, but I feel it's wrong.
One of main reasons people work so hard is because they believe they can have everything. And all the stuff you have right now is "everything" to a great many people in human history, so it's obviously possible that you can have more.
You can use this logic if the range is wide enough and you don't check that often. Or better yet wait 5 min after changing state to check again. You often have at least high and low heat which adds complexity.

Also, overshooting you ideal temp is fairly easy to do as there can be a lot of hot air in the vents even after you turn down the heat. So a little predictive modeling can be useful.
> Are you doing some kind of special counting because even cursory googling suggests that this is not the case.

What I meant was there have been no deaths among members of amateur mycological associations. There have obviously been deaths among the general public, but that's not what I'm talking about.
Material wealth is only one form of wealth, the least gratifying and the most transient in my opinion. I'd argue that the parent who has a daughter that adores them is the rich one.

That being said, the conundrum becomes whether one should give up one's passions and dreams for one's children. You end up with all sorts of sick (IMO) scenarios where parents impose their dreams and goals on their kids and vicariously live through them. That's why I know I will never have children - because if I did, it would mean giving up on my dreams.
Wow, I stand corrected. Maybe I need to start looking at Austin...
I thought there was finally a proven business model pioneered by blendle for these sorts of articles (https://launch.blendle.com/).

Automatically pay per article, but have it be trivially refundable (to discourage low quality/clickbait). Is it just not profitable enough? Do they not control a large enough platform?
GPG signing every commit has dubious benefits. You have to rebase your entire history if your GPG key is compromised. It also increases the footprint of the repo, and having signatures for more than HEAD is redundant (if the repo state is valid, then the DAG has been verified already). The best thing to do is to sign tags, IMO.
> And also you need pay him to get something good.

Or her of course!

At higher levels, you actually have designers who specialize in specific topics, e.g. color. I know a visual designer who specialized in color personally (before moving into management), that isn't as crazy as it sounds on bigger projects. Other specializations could be typography/layout, touch, animation, and even sound. This is why the role of a designer/coder scares me so much: there is so much to know just in design!
Funny. Fair enough. I could have articulated that better. To the OP I apologize, it wasn't meant to be mean.
Thing is, salaries aren't comparable. My first job out in the bay area paid almost twice what I was offered by companies in the Metro Boston area.
Verilator, which is also open source, is a much higher performance simulator, as it compiles Verilog to C++ first, rather than traditional simulation like Icarus.

http://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilator
Fully-paid. An "unpaid sabbatical" is basically quitting your job with a pinky-promise that you'll have it back when you decide to come back.
Go on the NAMA website and find your local mycological association. They will have walks every Saturday or Sunday. Start going when the walks start up for the year, which is soon, and keep going until they end in November or whatever. By the end of the year you'll know most of the basic edible mushrooms.
Perfect forward secrecy is actually the opposite of what you mentioned.

"In cryptography, forward secrecy is a property of secure communication protocols in which compromise of long-term keys does not compromise past session keys."

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Forward_secrecy

If someone were to compromise your key and they had a packet log of all your communication then PFS, which Signal has, guarantees that they wouldn't be able to derive previous keys from the current key to decrypt previous messages from the packet log that came before the key compromise.

The thing you're talking about can be resolved by revoking compromised keys but knowing when to revoke those keys is a whole other problem that hasn't been solved by anyone to my knowledge...
Well, neither of "google.com" or "facebook.com" contains any slashes, so most people I know never type slashes in URLs.
Oh, but it's not the center for social/mobile/web companies so it isn't really tech that matters ;-)
China’s $2 trillion mortgage market looks like the US subprime bubble
http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_162.shtml:

>> "A once-through one-gigawatt nuclear power station uses 162 tons per year of uranium"

>> "World total (conventional reserves in the ground) 4.7[million tons]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

>> "The IEA estimates that, in 2013, total world energy consumption was 13,541 Mtoe , or 5.67 × 1020 joules, equal to an average power consumption of 18.0 terawatts.[3]"

One gigawatt nuclear plant uses 162 tons per year.

The world uses 18000 gigawatts per year. (40% oil, 10% coal, 15% natural gas, 35% other).

If all the fossil fuel-based energy were replaced with nuclear power, the nuclear power plants need to provide 18000 gigawatts times 65% = 11700 gigawatts.

11700 gigawatts times 162 tons of uranium is 1.9 million tons of uranium, per year.

The world's conventional reserves of 4.7 million tons will last for three years.

The 22 million tons in Phosphate deposits will last for another 10 years. (if and when methods to mine them economically are discovered)

Perhaps the seawater uranium will come in time, but as yet it is not an economical method of uranium extraction. The cost needs to be reduced by 5 to 10 times.