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> Most new homes get a prepay meter which they can wirelessly disconnect.

I'm really not clear on why this is insidious. A utility worker has the legal right to come shut it off, why shouldn't they be able to do it remotely?
> I figured by the time the product was "bricked" (e.g. company going bust, product end-of-life, etc), that the hardware would be so out of date that it'd be time to replace it anyway

How "out of date" can a simple webcam get? Not to the point of it not still being useful I would think. And the decision of hardware still being useful/usable should be the users choice, not the manufacturer.
I'm pretty sure it's the catheral model. I'm not even sure that they're doing open-source with Leon4 onward as pretty much nothing happened with GPL'd Leon3 and GRLIB. Comp Sci people and companies doing rad-hard, space apps are still getting and building on it.

Best way to deal with them is to straight-up license their tech for a Pi- or router-style board. Then fab, assemble, and sell that joker. That gets the ecosystem going. CompSci people doing CPU's or RISC-V work can keep building reusable components both can use. Then we just pay for the integrations.
> I'll take 6watts consumption in a router in exchange for quad-core, IOMMU-enabled, fault-tolerant, open CPU.

The router vendor surely looks at the cost of the CPU - ARM and MIPS cores are probably much cheaper.
Except there's no proof it's his billions (Putin's name isn't in the leaks). Just that someone he knows may have been involved.

Everyone knows Putin will use the oligarchs when expedient, and crush them when he needs to. And he has cracked down on them over the years. Still no actual proof he's done anything to enrich himself.

Meanwhile, as the media turns that molehill into a mountain, there's an actual smoking gun in Poroshenko, and many western leaders. But in the media it's all about Putin.
It's not just smarter it's the only possible solution out of the two.

Many people wrongly discuss the premise of basic income in the context of whether it's a better solution for for the job market. I.e. as a better way to solve unemployment fluctuations which in this view are still going up.

But the whole point about Basic Income is what we do about there being fewer and fewer jobs that pay a proper salary.
Happiness economics
There's an interesting part in Alasdair MacIntyre's book "After Virtue" on the "interminable nature of contemporary moral discussions."
even no `margin`, `background`..etc. I guess it counts as separated property.

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I see it as an extension of their consumer software policy.

Have little to no customer service, even when money is involved, letting products stagnate for years and frequently pulling the plug on services.

Which is scary, because this hardware is dependent on Google-owned software and services.
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But what about existing entitlement sending, which keeps growing? A UBI without preconditions will only compound that problem, because what is to stop people from wasting their basic income on frivolities while also drawing from existing welfare programs.

Many people may agree to work for less than the current minimum wage, and on more flexible terms, if they're supplementing a guaranteed income, not scrambling to avoid having to beg for food.

But this is not the case. What everyone seems to forget that despite the low labor force participation rate, the poorest are not starving to death; in fact, they're more likely to be obese than higher earners.

The assumption that a UBI, on top of existing welfare programs, will make people more compelled to work seems like a stretch.
On the behalf of all Kurds worldwide, I would like to congratulate the wonderful people who did this hack and released the information. You guys are just like those who opposed Nazi Germany. We Kurds shall be forever grateful to you.

To any Turk that may read this: Ne Mutlu Kürdüm Diyene (Happy is he who says I am a Kurd :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX4y9qUG8is
You are stuck in a gasoline mindset where you drive until empty, then you put some more dead trees in. That is not how you use an electric car, at all.

Very few people will use the entirety of 200+ miles every day, and as such, their car will not be empty. It will then simply recharge every night. Also, nobody is saying you can't recharge when you want. It's just that 95% of people won't care when exactly in the day their car recharges the 50 odd miles they drove, and so that will then happen at a useful (for the grid) time.
That does look promising. It's kinda hard to tell how SmartThings all fits together with devices and what level of control consumers actually have, but, the word "open" appears a lot in their copy.
I think this is an inherent problem of the design of hardware-software-cloud combined products. Forget Google for a second; what if this was a startup that simply ran out of money and shut down? They wouldn't have money to run their servers, and the software portion that relies on servers would necessarily fail with the company's loss of funds. What are you going to do, ask the founders and investors to support server costs out of their pockets post-shutdown?

Google isn't any different; they have the right to pull the plug on server-side stuff and make whatever budget cuts they need to make in order to keep their company running and keep their shareholders happy. It might affect customer relations. You might choose not to buy their products again. But they have that right.

They can also choose to continue to keep the service running at a loss in order to keep customer relations happy for future products, and build a good reputation. They would have to weigh the pros and cons of this, given that the number of Nest users is miniscule compared to other Google products. It's their decision.

Keep this in mind when buying any hardware that comes with a cloud-based software component. You also have the choice not to buy such products.

On another note, I have my thermostat controlled by an Arduino and web interface run on a Raspberry Pi. It's not going to be shut down any time soon.
> I still can't believe something like Dropcam is such a huge success. The level of security awareness the general public has is terrifyingly small

I think you are totally misjudging this market. To the average person, a Dropcam is empirically far more secure in practice than many alternatives have proven to be. It's certainly what I'd recommend to a friend.

A few years ago, Foscam Wifi cameras were popular with parents. You could buy one for <$100 and they worked over wifi and had no service you had to buy. But then they were hacked by the thousands[1] with repeated major security issues over multiple years[2]. There were numerous news reports of parents finding strangers yelling obscenities at their babies in the middle of the night using the camera's talk-back function. This happened to multiple people I knew in real life.

This led to numerous articles like this one[3] telling parents to update passwords, disable UPnP, tweak router settings, update firmware, etc, to prevent future hacks. But to a parent who's baby was woken up in the middle of the night by a hacker, they are probably just going to throw the hacked camera in the trash.

By comparison, Dropcam is a totally integrated solution that requires no user-initiated updates, no network configuration and is backed by the reputation of Google. To the average parent that doesn't want to spend their life reading Foscam forums, that's a much more attractive solution and much less likely to get hacked due to not being updated or properly configured and secured.

Dropcam/Nest/Google produces a product that works really well right out of the box with almost zero configuration and is relatively secure. The non-cloud alternatives do not. Until someone offers a solution that "just works" like Dropcam, consumers will keep opting for the cloud-based solution.

Yes, it sucks for electronic freedom. But that's not the main feature that matters to the market.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/13/how-a-cre...
[2] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/bug-exposes-ip-cameras-ba...
[3] http://www.brockthompson.com/blog/3-ways-protect-foscam-hack...
Thanks to Arch Linux, my first instinct when using a new command-line tool is to add the `--help` flag, then run `man <command>`. It helped me stop googling crap all the time.
Assuming a car with a reasonably sized battery (Bolt, Model 3), you rarely are going to arrive "empty" at home. And if thats the case, of course you can charge immediately. But not every car owner has to do it, most are going to wait for the cheaper night rates. So there is a good chance of the grid not collapsing.
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It makes sense if-and-only-if that basic income isn't being doled out by the same organization which also runs the military-industrial or prison-industrial worlds. As an American, I think it's safe to say our federal government can't be trusted to not turn into a tyranny if it's everyone's primary employer.

We would get even more massive corruption almost instantly. For example, some people would lobby to get those tax-revenue intended for the basic income to be redirected to other projects. The people wouldn't fight the loss of a $1/year/person here or there. There would also be reams of special cases to give some people more and some people less. And like today, some people would continue to carve out exceptions so they didn't have to pay those taxes to feed the basic income. That money would be divvied up every way except as a basic income and people would spend all their time fighting over who got it instead of generating the value that backs it.

I don't live in the countries trying this so I can't say if it's safe to give their government that much power, but I know the US government is no where near ready for any more power than they already have.

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What we are trying to do is focus a bit more on building a model that is based on how projects have done in the past. Our model learns from each completed project, and helps create better predictions.

I am no Kicktraq expert, but I think their graphs boil down to something like rate of funding today * number of remaining days. I think they published a great blog post to this effect a few years ago.
Please don't rant like this on HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio. Instead, express your view civilly and substantively.
There are plenty of examples in this very thread of people doing so. If you don't want to do that, that's fine, but then please don't post here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11420938 and marked it off-topic.
Raptorengineering is planning to release computer that's based on OpenPOWER.

https://raptorengineeringinc.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
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So if API's are copyright-able.

And SPARC T1/T2 are GPL CopyLeft.

Shouldn't Oracle have to open source T3/T4/T5/M7 processors also?

(No I don't have the money required to sue Oracle and keep this suit open for the 2 decades settlement will take).
Pretty much the only reason why these devices are cloud connected in the first place is to allow people to easily control the device from their phone/laptop when away from home (Adding 5mb of webpage/API wouldn't increase the cost of a device that much).

What is needed is a easy to setup, widely supported VPN so people can leave their phones/laptops connected to the home VPN so they can access their smart devices. The VPN should be no harder to setup than Wi-fi as current VPN solutions are too much for non technical people. As a side benefit is it could cut down on the shenanigans mobile carriers can pull with rate limiting specific traffic as people could funnel all traffic through their homes connection.

Getting all of the various manufactures to support the same easy VPN standard would be the hardest bit, as the technical side is assembling already existing pieces into something easy to use.
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Perl has always been really good at enabling cargo-cult parsing -- the vast majority of "parsers" I've seen in Perl 5 have been ad-hoc, buggy, slow, and informally-specified. The nice thing about grammars as a language construct is that you get formal specification for free; this aids in understanding the parser. When it comes to parsing, grammars really are the right way to go, either as a built-in or as a library (Elisp, for example, has a few parsing libraries available in MELPA, and there's always good ol' LPeg for Lua).

When all you have are regeces, there's a tendency to model a parser as a finite automaton where transitions are labeled with regex matches, but given how frequently programmers deal with extracting information from text, I think there's a solid argument for grammars or parser combinators being readily available in a language. Really, any text processing task more sophisticated than grep calls for tools more sophisticated than regular expressions.
It looks like I just got burned on an Indiegogo project myself (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zaptip-the-world-s-first-...) - I was aware of the risks, but the product was "just" a cable, so I considered it low risk. I had previously participated in a couple of other Indiegogo projects worked out wonderfully.

The worst thing about my IndieGogo Zaptip failure is that there are now tons of ZapTip knockoffs already available through Amazon, eBay and other channels, and at lower price than what I paid to fund the Indiegogo project.
I'm not sure which is which in your example- I'm guessing that you mean the person searching GOOG is more likely to buy, but nevertheless I think the only one that applies to entirely is Amazon. The percent of searches in which I am trying to buy something is quite small on Google. Even if I am in the market, I am doing background research on the web. When I'm ready to buy I most often go to Amazon (even if I don't buy from them I still check). On Amazon, when I search I have my wallet out.
But surely, if you're ﻿a criminal, then you'll probably take measures to ensure your face doesn't get scanned/recognized? So this is either a measure to intimidate law-abiding citizens into staying docile, or just a corruption scheme to appropriate the funds from the budget (subcontract the development of this technology to a corporation run by one of your friends).
Proponents of the UBI make the generous assumption that recipients will be as careful with money as they (the proponents) are . Choosing between food & housing credits vs. cash, the former has less room for abuse.

Its like "I would never use my UBI on alcohol"...well you're not "most people"
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Unfortunately, in the US the alternative to government power is corporate power.
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> The people wouldn't fight the loss of a $1/year/person here or there.

I'm not sure. Around here, people fight [EDIT: against] the 1 cent local sales tax add-on that goes to schools (and can only go to schools).
ME is one thing (though given the hoops one must jump through to set it up, I'm inclined to believe most of the vitriol directed at it is the paranoid FUD variety),

..but secure boot? What possible reason could you have for being against a system that prevents bootkits from pwning your machine? You can load your own keys and boot whatever OS you want on all but a tiny subset of appliance-like locked down hardware nobody cares about.

In general, code signing is a Good Thing, so long as the control remains in the hands of the user.
"Oracle's T1 and T2 cores are open-source to study."

If you had to pick a Oracle (Sun?) T2 based system to purchase off of ebay, with the interest in using it as a "more free, more open" system, what would you buy ?

What OS would you run on it ?
Remember, I mentioned the SOC vendors as well. They currently license MIPS and ARM. Many choose MIPS due to cheap license. ARM's license, royalties, and restrictions are ridiculously expensive. SPARC has a cost advantage over it. So, once again, it's neither energy nor costs that are reasons they chose MIPS and ARM over SPARC.

Keep guessing.
With the iPad Pro and iOS9 multitasking ui, i find it more likely that they would discontinue the iMac models.
> Just because they (hopefully) like what they do, does not mean it is not work or does not have value.

Nothing has value. Value is assigned to something by people who are willing to pay. I wouldn't say that people should work for free; I would say that people shouldn't do something if they don't want to.
I would have thought that a UBI would replace most or all existing entitlement programs. But perhaps people have different ideas?

And you're right, of course, that the poor in the U.S. generally are not literally starving. Though their poor health and high obesity rates are themselves symptoms of their limited access to healthy food, and difficulty maintaining a healthy lifestyle that may be due to other poverty-induced stressors.
Ah. The HDD has 4 GB. This thing was top-of-the-line back in '98 when it was purchased ;)
I'd love to have something like Netflix but with every movie ever. I'd even be willing to pay a reasonable fee per movie to stream them. I have hope that companies with a business model like VidAngel could legally provide that.

VidAngel is a family-friendly video streaming company that filters movies as they stream. While filtering may not be something that you're interested in personally, what I'd like to draw your attention to is their business model. They sell the movie to the viewer for $20, and then the viewer has the option to sell it back for $19 (SD) or $18 (HD) within 24 hours.

I have no idea if this is legal or if they are just under the radar, but so far VidAngel has a wide selection of new releases with a price point that feels reasonable to me personally.
This is not really a practical objection for two reasons: demand increases mineral reserves, and we're unlikely to ever have 1 car per person globally.

Right now there is very little demand for lithium compared to the economically recoverable reserves. But the way mineral discovery works, as demand increases more money and effort is invested in finding new resources. There is absolutely no danger that ever-expanding lithium reserves will ever be exhausted by any reasonable vehicle production numbers. It's not even a given that per-pound prices would have to increase, as shown by the success of enhanced oil recovery having a break-even in the $30/bbl range now.

Lithium is also just about the least expensive part of battery production. The cost of lithium in the market could increase by an order of magnitude and only affect battery cost by perhaps 10-20%.

It's not reasonable to project 1 vehicle per person globally for many reasons. Economics, geography, the built infrastructure, and demographics affect vehicle ownership. The techno-society changes such a massive increase in vehicles would bring are enormous and unlikely to evolve soon. Transport paradigms that work in one area, say the US, aren't likely to work in all others. Using US vehicle numbers as a world-wide projection just isn't reasonable.

A more reasonable thought exercise would be to replace all the vehicles in existence with electrics. At about 1 billion vehicles on the road today, there's plenty of lithium to do so, even at current known reserves.
So considered.

I have no real issue with people who want to put ads on sites. My tolerance ends, however, when they try to moralize to me about how I render hypertext on my own machine. My attention and mental health are worth more to me than the ad impression ever could ever be to the marketer. Occasionally a site will refuse to serve articles unless I turn off my adblocker, and every time I just close the tab with no regrets.
Worst part is that every time I turn on my Samsung TV it notifies me that some feature that I have never used will go offline in ~2 months time. Of course, this notification comes with a few minutes delay, so it pops up just a few minutes into a show. gah
Don't have an opinion on any of this, but how many of the population you calculate are citizens over the age of 18? And what would be saved from the US budget by eliminating various existing programs that would be superfluous by UBI?
> Unfortunately, in the US the alternative to government power is corporate power.

What's the alternative elsewhere? Warlord power?
For passports, I'd guess that there is a different database.

OK, so that makes sense. So at the national level, they only have your Meldeort (place of registration), as it appears on your ID card -- but not (in theory) your residential address.
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I'm not sure about later backers, but as money ran out, they gave priority to Amazon customers because it was priced at $499 on Amazon, not the $199 that backers paid. The logic was that the retail purchases would subsidize the early backers.
> Refueling with an ICE takes no time at all and can be done anywhere.

So right.

It is truly amazing that more people don't realize the disconnect here between current motor fuels and electricity. The average gallon of gasoline contains 33 kWh of energy. You can pump about 15-20 gallons in 5 minutes or so. That's equivalent to around 6 MWh or 21,000 MJ of energy, every hour. Less if you allow for the time between cars. The average household electrical supply in the US is 200A at 240V which can supply a paltry 48 kWh or 172 MJ each hour. And that's if one were able to use the supply at full capacity.

Electric cars require 1/4 to 1/3 of the energy as typical ICE counterparts, but the fuel delivery systems are separated by factor of over 100. We're still well over an order of magnitude apart on the fueling convenience factor. Installing three phase 480V 400A (1.2 MJ per hour) service to homes would help solve this, but would be much more dangerous to work with - even if the charging systems on the EVs could use it.