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I'm currently using tor and also signed up with it
I've used both satellite and cellular options. I highly recommend cellular unless you have a specific reason why satellite would be better.

Both will make you pay a lot for additional bandwidth, though. I don't think anyone has "truly unlimited" anymore.
This will likely mean he gets to keep his invested shares.
I have two dropcams and the intercom has always worked great for me on both of them.
There's a walmart near me that has been testing this. And it is essentially a drive thru. You place an order online (its for groceries, so yes you can order perishables), and have the option to either drive to the store park in a designated parking spot and push a button, an associate brings out your order, OR, they'll deliver it to your home.
Evernote Hello was pretty nice for this but it got discontinued.
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Reminder that Opera has a free built-in VPN

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I like the Full Stack Javascript weekly newsletter.
24 y.o college grad software engineer at "Big Tech" company in the valley.

Started at 107.5k with promotion and raise to 120k
Good talk is valuable on own. The community and democracy need decent spokesmen.
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Yep, definitely looks like a face-saving maneuver.

<Tony> "Hey Lar I can at least call you every now and then still, right?"
<Larry> "uh ok".

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Does anyone know of a good alternative to Nest products? I've never liked their marketing and this blog post doesn't do much to alleviate that feeling (even though he's on the way out, the tone remains).
Just get some smooth tread tires that will be better for pavement travel.

2.2 miles takes about 40 minutes to walk.

On a bike and mostly flat terrain, 10-15 minutes max.

Unless the commute is a steeply graded 2.2 mile slope the motor seems overkill and providing little if any benefit to travel time or enjoyment. Wouldn't you rather get to work with a little endorphin rush?

Maybe ride the route first after work or on a weekend to show yourself you can do it. But after a commute or two you will quickly see it's nothing and likely want to ride even further.
You know, back when I riffed on the great poem "Ozymandias" in the context of Zuckerberg and Facebook[1] I thought maybe, just maybe I was over-reaching on the whole ego-drive thing with Zuckerberg, but after reading this, not so much.

[1] https://medium.com/@6StringMerc/zuckermandias-d1fa241c4d56#....
Hmm I've had plenty of issues with my dropcams but the intercom has always seemed to work. I really, really wish they weren't stationary though. They're so incredibly expensive (far higher than similar products) and they can't even move which is very frustrating. In my opinion anyway.
Even after reading this I'm still confused on what plaid is bringing to the table. Why not do it all through stripe? If someone has the tech skills to integrate to stripe, it seems a short step to add ACH.
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Especially considering that their product is not at the forefront of smart thermostats. The learning capability is harmful if you have kids or live in colder climates. Nest works poorly with home automation solutions as well. Dropcam was a good product that didn't change since they were bought out. I am looking into other thermostats and I can't wait to switch.

It seems to me that Google caught a ride on the Nest hype train.
> If you disagree with "a professional knows their value," what are you arguing? That "a professional doesn't know their value?"

A professional might know their value abstractly or concretely to some companies, but in general value is relative to the company's needs, funding, and priorities. The recruiter has too many data points that you don't have to argue that going in with a fixed number is wise.
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Try again: 3. a couple of migrants from Romania and Poland with no starting wealth, living in a flat that we couldn't even afford to pay for (but my cofounder on the previous business, which bombed, basically let me stay in his flat on the promise that I'd pay when I had the cash) back when we started GrantTree. Add onto that that my parents fled Romania in 1980 with nothing and I was stateless until about age 12.

There are many, many people starting from far worse conditions, though, I'm not complaining. I had a stable childhood, a good education and I have great friends and parents and an amazing wife and cofounder. That's worth way more than any trust fund or inflated property.
Location: Swindon, United Kingdom

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes - UK, Europe

Technologies: Python, R, SAS, Fortran

Résumé/CV: https://bitbucket.org/joe202/my_cv

Email: j.g.metcalfe (at) gmail (dot) com

I currently work in Financial Risk and previously worked in Electronic Devices & Materials but am willing to consider most application areas.
1) no: https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/73523010215444889...

2) waiting to comment until after your org has made an official statement is, if anything, erring on the side of being professional

3) Attempting to downplay rape accusations with an account that's 58 minutes old is not a good look.
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> you all are starting to use the downvote button like a bunch of redditors

This breaks the HN guidelines in a bunch of ways. Please (re)-read them and edit this kind of thing out of, not into, your comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11828253 and marked it off-topic.
> If you don't believe that some races are inferior then there are no reasons for things like affirmative action.

"affirmative action" is short for "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin".

Please explain how belief that some races are inferior is necessary to the belief that affirmative action is necessary. (Affirmative action often includes action directed specifically at addressing ways in which processes which might superficially seem neutral are, in effect, taking race indirectly into account because of circumstances resulting from the material effects of past discrimination and segregation, but that's a disadvantage of circumstance, not inherent inferiority.)
why is this even on hn?
Well they have several products so are there specific alternatives you're looking for? I've heard great things about Honeywell thermostats but honestly haven't pulled the trigger on any yet. The Dropcam is okay but, in my opinion after using them for so long, they're way, way over priced for what little they do. I've never tried the smoke detector though their initial issues kinda scared me off from even trying them.
I'm not even on board with the first one. It's a financial transaction for my services. I'll be nice and polite, but I'm not going to enter into some personal relationship where I can be pressured to tender those services as a favor or for some kind of social capital.
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Stripe does ACH, Plaid does account verification in lieu of microdeposits.
Treble comes from Old French, while triple comes from Latin. They mean exactly the same thing, and both words started as "triplus" in Latin. "Treble" is more commonly used in British English. In American English the word is used only in musical contexts.
> But how likely is it, due to your refusal to name a number, that the company is going to reveal the top of their range?

Well, in the podcast, he mentions that this one action is part of a larger strategy. The goal of it isn't to get the company to reveal the cap, but to defer the question until you've demonstrated high value to them, see where they start, and try to find their cap from there.
Funny you should mention He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, because in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829796

I love watching Mr Bug's thought percolate through the Net. I can only imagine this is what it must have been like for the first proto-Communists as Karl Marx went to town.
First, I'm speaking of the US. I have no experience in India.

I'm certainly not defending all regulation, but unregulated taxis caused all sorts of problems in the past, which is why we regulated them. Background checks, improved guarantees of vehicle safety, minimum competency in English, etc. Why not have both? Break the monopoly, but create realistic and working regulations for all players.
I went from G to FB (which I left shortly afterwards) and I can tell you that FB isn't anywhere near as close to being a cult as G is. Not hearing the word 'googley' 10x a day was alone a substantial improvement.
invested shares or non-vested shares? (I'm assuming you mean the latter, and in that case you are right -- that will make a huge difference)
One inability I am thinking about lately is disallowing primitive types on public members. Take C#, but properties and methods would only allow returning and taking class/struct types.

This way you enforce strict use of objects, enforcing expressivity. No more `double meters` but `Meter meters`.
This is the proof that the 1% have been running the show for 800 years
Check out the documentary Secrets of the Viking Sword. Goes into great depth concerning the materials and methods used in creating the Ulfberht blades. Don't remember meteorites being mentioned though. Maybe they simply didn't mention it in this documentary.
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Please just quote the tweet;

Today is my first day as a PhD
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That makes no sense to me. What does being underpaid teach you?
As I understand it it's not even purely race mixing that's a problem but race replacing. I wish every white nationalist would get their DNA sampled so they can see how pure they really are, even just among white people! But anyway broadly-white-peoples are breeding below replacement rates while broadly-(Africans|Mexicans|Arab|Turkish) ethnic groups are not. As a refugee/immigrant to Germany laid it out at some protest, Germany will become a majority-Muslim ethnically-Arab country within some number of decades just from sheer population growth of one group over the other, and what will remain will not be Germany even if it still calls itself such. A white nationalist then is just a person who doesn't want this to happen to their white country. Of course there are the more insane white nationalists who see Jews everywhere and so on, but nationalism is a spectrum you know? Japan for instance remains pretty xenophobic but they can maintain that without also being outright hostile towards Chinese, so the hostility towards Chinese has been going down.

If this was 1916 instead of 2016 I think the basic white nationalists would have a stronger case. This isn't a CURRENT_YEAR remark, but just a remark that timescales involving even 40+ years are ridiculously difficult to predict right now because technology overwhelms classic human nature, so when the impact of these things won't be felt for that far off in the classic human history case of technology remaining the same it's not very fruitful to dwell on it in the current reality of technology changing rapidly. That isn't to say they don't have any case at all but a lot of it is too little too late. They want to move to be more like Japan when they should really be satisfied with something more like Singapore. Not importing millions of foreigners permanently would also not be a bad idea but again, a bit too little too late.
It's oddly informal, like saying "Queen E" when you mean Elizabeth II.

But I guess Tut won't mind.
in that same paragraph the author says 15% quarter over quarter growth is slower but it is in fact 75% annualized growth.
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The system runs on abstractions, which it inherently takes for granted as air-tight. Looking from inside the system, the abstraction of "identity" can never appear imperfect. So the observed behavior is described in terms of its internally-seen effects - an identity has been coopted by a bad actor, ergo it must have been stolen.

I'm not endorsing the mislabeling, just explaining how it came about. Obviously sanity, sustainability, and individual freedom depend on pushing back against that system's prescriptions and "keeping it real".
Correct! But this is exactly the definition of "fit."

When I was speaking about "worth" before, naturally one must scope their estimation to the market they're trying to sell to. Market worth is only what the market is willing to pay for something.

If you've got a broad, valuable skillset, but a company can only use 10% of it, they can rightfully scope the role and issue an offer or decline to issue an offer.

What isn't okay, though, is taking the scoped offer and then performing in a far wider capacity - that is the very essence of being undervalued and/or underpaid.
Out of academic curiosity, which product(s) is considered to be at the forefront of smart thermostats?
It's pretty dangerous riding a motorcycle. And I just mean the danger from other motorists. Imagine if your motorcycle was silent.

I know people raised the same concerns about electric cars back in the day, but people are far more likely to not "see" a motorcycle.

Maybe mitigate with a strobe light, but I find those very distracting when I drive by a cyclist.
Mostly the thermostats but thanks for the tips on the other products as well!
Plaid provides a better verification and authentication flow.

Users authenticate with bank username and password rather than routing and account number so they don't have to hunt those down, and there are no worries about mistyping (failed ACH payments cost $4).

The bank account is verified straight away, which bypasses the microdeposits flow that takes a couple business days.

I'm working on adding ACH payments to my Stripe Connect app, and I'm planning on adding only the Plaid Link flow because the routing/account number + microdeposits flow just seems like too much of a headache.
> This actually goes back to Steve Job's original vision for the iPhone.

Yet without native apps the iPhone would not have been as successful as it is today.

The web is good enough for dumb CRUD apps though, which are like 90% of corporate apps.
Having these things silently blasting down the sidewalk at 20+ mph is incredibly dangerous.
And all of the above while avoiding security cameras that will capture your license plate, and using a $200 thinkpad you bought for cash. Oh, and you drove to another state, you DID leave your tracking device (LTE smartphone) at home, right?
You might be able to compare salaries like that, but cross comparing equity is much more difficult.
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It looks like I was relying on old information. It was from an article about Anshe Chung, the Second Life millionaire character of Ailin Graef. Other (more recent) articles indicate that in 2007, About 50k accounts were better than break-even profitable on a monthly basis.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3527537&page=1

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

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/408413/making-money-in-se...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...

You can put your music recording on both iTunes and Spotify, or neither. Or BandCamp and SoundCloud and your own CDs. If you don't like the terms of service, you can distribute your stuff by other channels.

When you're producing content in SL, for SL, it's like you're writing sheet music for the Gronxophone, which is a trademarked, patented instrument that only one person on Earth can play. If you don't like the terms, tough.
the unemployment rate dropped because more people left the workforce and became discouraged workers (a la haven't searched for work in the past 4 weeks).
Well TV Set Top Boxes are in the same bucket of "home appliances" for me.
Exactly my point. Don't set the precedent at the bargaining table.
It's an impressive demo with source code available. There's also a large field of research linked to so others can delve deeper.

Seems like a great HN submission.
Zuck should have read Sun Tzu instead of Cato - "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by." I'm not sure how much of the G+ failure can really be attributed to any particular activity of FB as a company.
Some background, for perspective:

http://www.macombdaily.com/article/MD/20101215/NEWS/31215996...
Gov of Canada has a similar initiative with an open source project titled 'Web Experience Toolkit' [0], focusing on usability and cross platform support.

[0] https://wet-boew.github.io/v4.0-ci/index-en.html
Not that I know of, but how often does it occur where it does occur? That is, how long would you have to leave a recording device there to invalidate the infrasound hypothesis?
If you are looking for a thermostat, I have heard good things about the Ecobee3. It can have several remote sensors around house, integrates with Smartthings and maybe just zigbee/zwave in general. I only got the Nest because of a great deal from a family member with an extra one. The downside is that is can be trickier to wire up. If you furnace is older, you may have to run an extra wire.
Tony Fadell Exits Nest, Marwan Fawaz to Step in as CEO
I saw that and tried googling around and the only thing I found was him defending his stance that Assange is not a rapist by default in 2012.

Those are quite serious accusations. I really hope we'll learn more about this.
Is Marwan Fawaz also lebanese-american? Tony Fadell is, and Marwan's LinkedIn looks like he went to a high school in Lebanon. What are the odds!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marwanfawaz
I just wanted something with a prettier display and better programmability than the hidous LCD thing I had. That and being able to change/monitor remotely's enough.

As for future promised features, they're like campaign promises. Nothing to bet big on.
Well, that's worrisome. The hiring rate, along with new unemployment benefit applications and various other stats is the an early indicator for the macro economy.
I do that with slackware running debian and ubuntu guest containers.
Is it?

I've always looked at fit more from company culture, team dynamic, overall team skill level (A players, B players, etc.) vs. something that's directly associated with a certain compensation package.
If you are not paying top of market wages, one or more of the following has to be true:

1. You don't believe top developers are intrinsically 'worth' the amount that FB/Goog/Amzn/ and many other SV companies pay, that it's not a net win for the company to have top talent.

2. You think that you don't need top developers, that really you're just going to be fine recruiting a bunch of B players, and it's some other 'thing' (business? Sales? Marketing? an 'idea'?) that will make you better than competition.

3. You are incapable of harnessing top development talent to produce adequate ROI that would justify top salaries.

Money is not my primary motivator, I love my job. I wouldn't leave just for more money. However, salaries in a certain ballpark are a strong signaler to how much a company values software engineers.

I think it's insulting to see developers significantly underpaid and have you attempt to justify it the way you do. If money is not your primary motivator, wouldn't you be OK taking a bit less salary and having that distributed out to other team members?
Certain kinds of good writing do. Many kinds do not.
Probably true. I'm actually in LA, and we experience this too. Honestly, the best thing you can do in salary negotiation (and in almost any negotiation, probably) is to gather as much data as you can to inform your position.

Similar jobs in similarly-funded companies at similar stages should yield a pretty strong dataset of numbers by which you can construct your own ask. Easier said than done, for sure, but if you can - gather data!
+1 for Honeywell thermostats and security. Only thing that reliably worked in my (very simple) home.
CE. Umayyads were a muslim caliphate, which would have been pretty odd to exist 1300 years before Mohammed.
Please don't post glib comments on divisive subjects. Comments here need to be civil and substantive; yours was neither, and this is a particularly bad choice of thread to further degrade.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826451 and marked it off-topic.
This is clearly a ridiculous suggestion, I wanted to see if I would be upvoted or downvoted.
I wish I had more knowledge of the math behind it. Is it done by solving multiple partial differential equations using finite difference method?
Even worse is when someone's founder mythologization (if that's a word :) reaches the point where they always capitalize the word "founder" and talk about founders (sorry, Founders) as if they were some unique species distinct from all other humans for their vision and bravery.

I'm convinced this comes from a combination of extremely stressed-out people psyching themselves up, plus VCs wanting to psych up the fresh meat. If you're going to give someone a bunch of money on the off chance that they might turn it into more money, it helps if you can convince the people you're giving money to that they are courageous superhuman visionaries creating the future, rather than people who are about to ruin their lives for a few years in exchange for a small chance at a big payout.
Pretend model checking is an exciting new field born from frustrations with actually model checking large amounts of code that accepts somewhat arbitrary inputs and uses (large) loops. After enough neologisms like 'symbolic execution' and 'program synthesis' the distinctions between the various terms-of-art break down for laymen like myself and it all blurs together into some vague guarantee about software behavior.

In Aggelos Giantsios's (CUTER's) case, this means writing your own stuff. Everywhere else, this means writing a TLA+ specification for your favorite component of the term protocol, some implementation environment and "slapping on the TLAPS".

This has the unfortunate property of only model checking a model that the implementer THINKS the program behaves in (many 'model checking' efforts fit into this camp). Those who are truly serious about verification have a Maude<->ACL2 of the resulting assembly or try to check for symbolic constraints with KLEE.

Those who are even MORE serious (usually on philosophical grounds) have a host of approaches I couldn't even tell you about.
"at around 3:50 it even attempts some singing."

Mmmmm... that sounds like overfitting. That's not "attempting some singing", that's "playing back one of the things it trained on". Which really raises questions about the rest of what you hear, too; it seems like what is being produced is probably in some sense the "average" of the training data, rather than something able to generate new samples from it. But it's a very interesting "average" full of interesting information.

Since I wouldn't expect this to produce much else, I'm not being critical about the effort, just pointing it out so others understand what they are hearing. It was an interesting and worthy experiment that I wondered about myself.
The Egyptians called iron the 'metal of heaven', 'ba-en-pet' because it came from meteorites. This was back in the bronze age, they could work it but not make it themselves yet. Meteorite iron is known to be magnetic as well so it's possible this would have seemed 'magical' as well.
I preferred the original title.

"MicroPython continues to rock on with 1.8.1 release "

\m/ :D \m/
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Not really an issue of bleeding-edge technology, but probably whomever owns the most relevant patents. Honeywell? Siemens?