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And it's been like that for a long time. Last time I did mobile audio programming (2009? 2010?), the Android test devices I had (Galaxy S2?) were operating around 100ms audio latency. Glad to see they've improved!
It's worse than parent makes it sound: the conduct in that case was growing grain without permission, not for sale, but to feed to chickens on the same farm.
A major new high-end MacBook product announcement should have happened at WWDC 2016. It seems that Tim Cook has decided that only software announcements are appropriate at WWDC.

Steve Jobs had a better sense of timing when he introduced the first iPad at WWDC in 2010. Apple missed an opportunity to bring down the house at WWDC 2016. Apple execs need to recognize that Apple developers, the audience at WWDC, badly need and want improvements to the high-end MacBook products.

The old saying at Apple was that "software sells systems". Apple Hardware Engineering is still a world-class organization and is directly responsible for most of Apple's revenue. Why not play up this strength at WWDC?
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It's easier to understand when you visit Somerville.

Somerville is awesome. It leaves you wondering why we can;t have more towns like it.

And this is the answer: because building Somerville today would be illegal.
To avoid Wifi I am using it with a "USB 3.0 3 port Hub & Gigabit Lan adapter" from Digitus which costs about 20$.
Bulk surveillance is going mainstream in the US, and inhumane tech is forthcoming
It was a sacrifice for themselves and their equity. What does the cap table look like? Not laying off employees prevents a morale issue and gives more resources to keep building product. Don’t confuse other employees by trying to say it was a sacrifice for them, that is misleading, it wasn’t, but I’m sure the founders would love to sell it that way: “We’re doing this for you!”
I just posted my opinion on an aspect of the post. (I don't care about down votes; if I could hide my scores I would.)

I don't need to know anything about a companies culture to know what they're saying is patently specious nonsense. You might be impressed by it, who knows. Do you read a company's mission statement when considering a job and say "company a say they're honest and driven by a desire to put both their employees and their customers first, but company b claims integrity and a desire to raise the standard of customer service to a new level.....oh I just can't decide!"?
The Communist marketing brand is that everyone would eventually get an apartment. Once communism is achieved, that is.
Static risk tolerance + altered risk perception.

People are only as careful as they think they need to be, because they're lazy.

This causes your behavior baseline to change as a result of new safety measures, perhaps too far in the wrong direction.

Found this - procedural drift (aviation): http://www.cognitivesystemsdesign.net/Papers/Johnston%20(200...
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I think there is going to be a huge market for used 2005-2010 vehicles without the big brother tracking and obnoxious touch screens everywhere.

Take a few hundred thousand, buy a collection of low mileage pickup trucks and Honda Accords and store them for 10 years. I bet you'd 10x your investment.
Yeah, I understand that folks have to focus on the right customers, and that they can't have salespeople emailing with customers who aren't big enough to justify the time cost. However, given the demographic on Tumblr, it's likely that many of the brands that would have actually given the type of native-seeming experience (as opposed to display ads) that Tumblr was supposedly looking for would be small and midsize startups. Some of these companies would grow into bigger companies that could afford to spend big dollars on Tumblr. And as FB and Google have shown, you don't have to have individual salespeople emailing with every customer. You can set up an automated system where people can purchase advertising, even in small amounts. Again, not saying this was the right move for them, but it looks like the $25k-cutoff move didn't work out so hot either. Hopefully they'll change that someday so that we can advertise with them...

Lastly, I should have said "profitably", not "revenue positive". Thanks for not dinging my accidental misuse.
I'm not disturb by moc. Meta object/programmation is a modern approach of OO.
In the actual apartment isn't so hot either. I've stayed in my wife's childhood home a couple of times, and it's like two concrete shipping-container-sized boxes set side by side, with a tenth story balcony.
Agreed. If a blender that shuts off when jammed is "smart" then anything with a circuit breaker is "smart," too.
Sure, but I think the original commentator was imaging a massive sphere that could emit such powerful and precise gravitational waves, that you could create more black holes as a result. My point was just that any mass capable of achieving that, even hypothetically, would have long since collapses into a black hole.

I take your point however, that you could coordinate in some way separated masses, but at some point you'd probably run into issues with the aforementioned galactic-scale of engineering.
Note that this is only important if your use-case requires your servers to have constant, direct 'phone out' access. If you're using ELBs or similar as your link to the outside world for your use-case, a NAT isn't really necessary for constant access. We use a single micro NAT in each VPC, which is only used for system updates (no, I don't have a package cache yet...) and for when we're manually in the server troubleshooting. If there's an outage, well, there's not much we can do in that case, and the NAT isn't needed for production use. And if we really need that NAT back up, just spin up another one and modify the VPC.

As you say, it's not strictly needed. It really depends on your use case. If your use-case suffers for the NAT being down, then you need HA on it. If it can wait, then no. With the new managed NAT in AWS, you may as well go with that if you need HA - it's cheapest is roughly twice the price of a micro anyway, and it's one less bit of clutter in your instance list.
We should get to work right away building an archive. Gotta do it now, before the shutdown hits! We can call it "Bumblr," and it will memorialize all the worthwhile commentary that was ever made on Tumblr. (This should be a megabyte or two of text that we can upload to mega.com.) On the other hand, the Tumblr archive for porn will be called "Fumblr" and it will be hosted in Brazil.
Climate change is already harming wealthy people in the UK who bought nice houses on flood plains or near the Thames.

It's no longer possible to buy insurance in some areas - the insurance companies are ahead of the game on modelling climate change impacts - and many people are trying to move away from those areas, with varying degrees of success.

Parts of the country are literally becoming uninhabitable.

I had to drive through a flash flood today, and it made me wonder just how much worse the weather can get. At some point in the next few decades we'll probably start having tropical hurricanes - which will be immense fun in a country that's completely unprepared for them.

Also, London is a climate disaster waiting to happen. The Thames Barrier protects London from tidal flood water, but it won't do anything at all to prevent the kind of storms that hit France and Germany last week.
Same, the 2-column layout shows twice as much info and separates your personal repo's with the repo's you're a major contributor to - hope they provide an option where we can out-out of this change, showing most popular personal repo's and repo's you contribute to was just fine the way it was.
> "Carmakers, please find a way to separate the 'infotainment' part of the car's computer from the embedded computer that's actually required for the car to run"

They have, sorta (but it's still rather limited in functionality):

https://www.android.com/auto/

Android Auto and I believe Apple Car Play both run totally from your phone/tablet, with the car just being a view screen. Thus, you get updates when your phone updates.
I've submitted maybe 75 FOIA requests without a journalist exemption of any kind in the past two years and haven't had to pay a cent. Submit some damn FOIA requests!
I figure every success is icing on the cake until they drop prices on the assumption they will always recover the rocket

RUD, Well, a wave hit it.
Hmm smart stuff. Make it so an oven can detect when something catches fire and shut itself off or lower temp. Particularly a toaster oven. Those things are dangerous, but they are so darn useful. When useful, popular and unsafe collide, theres your 'smart' problem to solve. Internet connected, meh. I mean it was cool when I saw my cousins BBQ thermometer notify his phone that the food was done. That was nifty but an alarm that would detect when popcorn burns in microwave means I'm safer from accidents or just arbitrary device variables in operation. Think of the sawstop table saw.
5 feet of it was :)

The city made it clear that they didn't give a hoot about it. So she would have to litigate.

Fortunately, the market is insane and they sold the place sight unseen to some Chinese dude for a significant profit.
How well did your quantitative hedge fund performed in 2008?
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"It can be installed on any Android userdebug build or rooted production build."

"Installing on Samsung Galaxy devices is not recommended"

So, not for apps on devices today.
Interesting, ... that would basically mean that all flights from San Francisco to outside of the Americas should be business class.
how about Australia? Canada? Europe?
Trigger was my name idea for a phone app that did this "IFTTT" thing (as it is apparently called). Well, now I don't have to write that app.
I think to prevent an attack like this? http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24048343
You should consider that c++ lambdas does not offer the same level of connection that signal/slot does (direct,queue,blocking,unique) ...
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TL;DR: it's because home equity is used as a savings account, and it's the primary or sometimes only means whereby most members of the middle class can accumulate significant savings.

Therefore any land use changes that might negatively impact home values threaten peoples' savings, and alternately any land use changes that positive impact home values can be profitable to existing homeowners.

It's a very simple, deeply perverse incentive structure. It's in the best interests of those who own homes to lock people out of homeownership.
> It seems like it's theoretically possible for residents and visitors in a given city to enjoy its current building stock while simultaneously desiring different standards for new construction.

Is it? Can you explain why this would be so? Or even better, provide any evidence that this is true in any of the locations people have been discussing (Montreal, Somerville, Manhattan, Portland, etc.?)

Let's drill down and focus in particular on laws about multi-family dwellings. What logic would make them good when they already exist, but bad if you wanted to build more, and even bad if you wanted rebuild them after a natural disaster?
I think the parent's point is that if you assume a UBI at just above the poverty line, many people will be automated out of jobs that pay more than that right now. So they'll be forced to a lower standard of living, and because there won't be jobs available for them, they will be stuck there.

So while some people might have their standard of living brought up, many (possible many more than would be brought up) will be forced down with the inability to pull themselves back up because of lack of jobs.
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I'd sell 11 for 10 dollars a pop and get nothing done on 1 a day. 110 a day isn't bad spending money. The reality is though it would almost definitely be ridiculously hard to get away with selling government weed. Fuck if I know what I would do with that much.
> The most prevalent domestic 'smart' devices (dishwashers? washing machines? automatic transmissions? electric refrigeration?) were once-new concepts in the last 100 years, but have become almost invisible today. They don't shout "smart," and that's OK, but they all integrate a bit of control logic that helps the user do something easier/better/cheaper/faster than was possible before.

If these devices are "smart," any mechanical device is smart. None of them are (necessarily) programmed with control logic. "Smart," as far as I can tell, refers to objects that monitor how they are used and adjust their behavior in the future. I understand that the marketing for some products define smart down to "the power button is in an app on your phone."
Link to app? Who/what are you guys? How do you get content if nobody pays? Is it legal?
That's an odd statement. I don't think I'd be disheartened to learn I'm in the top 2% of salaries. That sounds like one of those good problems to have.

It also doesn't make sense - there is plenty of room to move up even if you're in the top 1% of salaries. The curve doesn't abruptly end at the top, there is a long tail of increasing salaries at the 1%, 0.5%, 0.1%, etc marks.
The laws reflect what those with the money to influence decision makers want in property allocation - maximum long term value through line item qualifications of a properties worth, rather than how useful that property actually is.

But it comes full circle, because at the end of the day these properties must have a foundational estimate of value based on what everyone thinks of them. As long as most people agree an acre yard 3 car garage and wall around your land to hide the neighbors is optimal, at least a block away from any highly trafficked street, that is what you get.
Our propensity to decouple suffering from causality is disconcerting. Complete elimination of suffering equals complete integration of all interests. Sounds fairly inefficient to me.
You can deduct business expenses for illegal activities, except for specific categories (for example, bribing public officials is not a valid deduction).

So you might actually be able to deduct that, if you could justify returning the property as a business expense.
"C++ coder ... often have poor interface skills, anyway" ... troll inside
I want a smart combination conventional/convection/microwave oven that will ensure that the food's internal temperature has reached desired amount. Remote management of temperature would be a plus. It should know when it needs to auto-clean itself, it should be child-proof and it should turn itself off it left idle for too long.

I want a combination washer + dryer where I don't have to transload the clothes into a different drum. Dirty clothes go in, clean, dry clothes come out wrinkle-free.

I want a device which debones chicken thighs.

Some of these fit our current definition of 'smart', but some of them are just devices which don't yet exist in the form I want them to take. Right now, our drive to make things 'smart' is a cheap upsell, because it takes categories of appliances that already exist in our homes and tries to add features whose utility isn't always clear.

I want to see a re-imagining of how our homes (and restaurants) need to be outfitted instead.
The limit was quite small. There was a relationship between the number of distinct primes you allowed to appear and the number of registers the Turing machine it modeled had, but I don't remember the details. I don't recall the choice of composites being very important. There was a pretty natural limit that was apparent to me at the time but I've long since lost my Fractran intuition.
hhmmmmm would all these incidents happen in the first place if buying guns would not be that easy?
Not quite what I was thinking of, so I'll make up a scenario and numbers.

Take any technology that automates a task. Say it has a 0.00005% failure rate which results in death of a random passerby at the time it occurs. Then take any human being in charge of that same task. Say the risk is 0.05% human error which results in death of a random passerby at the time it occurs.

There are people who will argue that the 0.05% is acceptable and will vehemently disagree with and prevent any attempt to switch to the 0.00005% failure rate because the machine killing someone is unacceptable while a human killing 1,000-fold more people is somehow acceptable. Even if human laziness of an assisted (not completely automated) version of the same task had a 0.005% risk it would still be unacceptable when compared with the 100% human-error rate.

Morally, I can't wrap my head around the reasoning. More deaths seems to be acceptable as long as some person can be "at fault". The moment the death is "blameless" it cannot be allowed.

In other words: 10,000 "someone can be blamed" deaths is better than 10 "who is to blame?" deaths.
StartAPI is the API, StartSSL offers a client - similar to LetsEncrypt which was the point of this submission. My point was that it billed itself as distro neutral - but failed.
Video games could use something like that. Especially for collisions. Games often struggle to do them correctly and completely absurd results are not rare.
"...the e-Go runs on unleaded fuel and gets about 65 miles to the gallon..."

I believe this is based on Imperial gallon and not US gallon.

I US gallon = 0.83 Imperial gallon. But still quiet efficient
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It's funny, I got the Chicago mayor's office phone records after a year of fighting for them. When my follow-up request asked for all calls to a particular hourly hotel in 2014, based on the results of my initial win, they claimed that I had all records for that phone number already. The department that gave me the initial records also had their access revoked a week or after the judge wrapped everything up. So, possible deletion of public records and additional layers of obfuscation..

Embarrassment is a weird thing in politics.
One way to look at the problem is that something thought to handle externalities creates a bigger externality itself.

If zoning laws could be priced somehow so that when they become a cost they had to change or reduce it might help.

Zoning laws in places without expensive real estate like, say, much of the US midwest probably makes things better for people. In SF or in this example in MA and other really popular places they make things worse.

Perhaps some economist has tried to calculate the price of NIMBY, zoning law externalities. Anyone know of someone who has tried?
Any comments about android service support ?
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Oh I could imagine a smart kitchen where all food is tracked by RFID tags or even video. Think about it, putting your groceries into the the cabinets and they check the RFID for item and expiration, same with your fridge. With the fridge being powered it could sport one or two cameras to watch items move in/out of it if they did not sport tracking devices.

Then all that can and voice control, MOM WHERE IS MY TOASTED OATS, has the cabinet light up or signal that it has them or it replies voice that there are none.

all sorts of possibilities but it comes down to imagination and rapidly decreasing costs of the necessary electronics. I don't need a connected kitchen, I need a smart one "Hey dummy, your burning your lunch" to my phone, tablet, or pc, if not in the room. Asking "how do I cook this" and an OLED display on cabinet or appliance shows me.
I was thinking the same thing. Traders already play games with amature's stop-loss orders, etc... This just looks like a tool that unsavy investors will get themselves taken to the cleaners by professional traders.
Open Source BLE Stack for MCUs (Apache Mynewt)
A quick FYI for Apache Mynewt's 0.9 release...

http://mynewt.apache.org/

http://mynewt.apache.org/download/

Includes world's first open source (controller level) Bluetooth Low Energy stack for MCUs. The first ports were to Nordic Semiconductor's nRF52 and nRF51. Specific to the OS with BLE (4.2), the open source approach has obvious benefits to developers: access to source code; better debugging through setting breakpoints, avoiding stack smashes, no stolen interrupts, etc.; direct access to peripherals for granular power control; better, precise configurability of concurrent connections and flexibility across central and peripheral roles. The project aims to also have timely Bluetooth 5 support.

The OS is composable via a modern, Go-like build and package management tool. Components include secure boot loader, flash file system and TLV storage mechanisms, rich logging infrastructure, circular buffering schemes, and BLE! Scripting languages such as Javascript and Python are currently being worked.

The community welcomes your participation and feedback!
Zzz, no warranty, guarantees of availability, or industrial ratings / casing? Why should I buy this over some generic board from China?
Also if 'smart'-grid technology gets implemented it can time it's cooling cycles to when energy is cheaper. Saving money that way.
I agree. How can joe average compete with the resources of hedge funds which are doing the same thing at a much lower latency using more sophisticated mathematical methods, at a higher volume (so lower relative fees).

I am sure the idea is well intentioned but really it is just suckering people out of money in a similar way to forex robots etc.
About once a week, give or take a week here and there.

So maybe 35 times a year?

I have a standing policy to answer everyone who reaches out to me through HN because I enjoy talking with people and making new connections.
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I follow @internetofshit on Twitter, who provides a running list and commentary on items of this nature.
7-8 is a typical minimum for Google. 1 non-technical with the recruiter to check for fit, 1-2 technical phone interviews, 5 on-site. So 'only' 1-2 extra if the hiring committee can't decide.
> I want a device which debones chicken thighs.

Probably already exists, but not the scale you'd like.

Edit: I found it, and it's amazing. It can be had for a mere 45 million yen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjFWrv_IAw
Weaker lungs is a small price to pay for not being blind and/or insane
Yes, but they were a couple million and most, and consuming orders of magnitude fewer resources than we are.
I was pleasantly surprised when slackbot responded to my 'thank you' comment once. It's funny how small touches like this can improve the user experience.
Lived there 2 years, it's neither sparse nor suburban. It's the densest city in MA.
Does this mean we can finally have an app that'd invert the input from the microphone and play it back on the loudspeaker effectively performing surrounding ambient noise cancellation?
I don't think it's cynical at all, I think a lot of how people view their job has to do with their evolution as an employee. If you fall in love with the mission, like the people you work with, it's easy to conflate family and work. You spend 8+ hours a day with these folks and the people you work with most likely care about you as much as you care about them.

The reality is that it's still business and decisions are made with the numbers in mind, especially when things get rough.
The moment where I scared myself
It was about 5 hours after the API became available - I remember opening the PR ;-)
It's disappointing that you don't want to actually make the world a better place

Self-righteous much?

This is embarrassing.
Update: they're now saying that it ran out of propellant before touchdown. Same basic result, but different cause.
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