skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you scroll down a bit, you'll see that sure enough this involved a switched-mode power supply, /probably some very cheap no-name/ [nope, missed that they included pictures of it]. Even though they're supposed to be at least minimally regulated under Title 47 part 15(B), in practice they're often a plague upon RF and as the article states sometimes the FCC has trouble mustering the energy for small spot trouble. While I feel more generous towards the FCC then some of the commentary I've seen on this, in that I don't think they've been remotely allocated the resources they should have to deal with this kind of small hotspot popping up since historically it was less an emergency matter, it's an issue (and a bit more surprising when it's a request from law enforcement, even if local).

I think it's a good reminder though that while modern wireless links represent a lot of fantastic engineering and are very valuable they can also be pretty fragile, and it's important to have a physical (be it digital or mechanical) fallback for critical tasks like authentication (in this case to access or startup a vehicle). There are situations where being surprisingly unable to operate ones vehicle (or access a building or whatever) could be quite serious, and the IoT ecosystem needs to give surprise interference some consideration as well. These sorts of incidents should also make society think about failure modes when it comes to interference, be it accidental or intentional. Law enforcement in particular should consider it from two sides, both in terms of emergency planning for if there was a major case (during an emergency or not), and as a strong note of caution vs some of the noises that have been made about LEOs themselves purposefully doing jamming during "periods of unrest" or the like. In an age of ever proliferating wireless devices, beware unintended consequences.

[Edit]: Thanks to Animats below for pointing out that it's UL approved Ventex, it's not in the article text but a photo is included at the bottom. So I guess that underlines SMPS quality control issues can be tough even with more attention paid, and shouldn't be taken for granted in planning even with part control. Though this also seems like it should make it something the FCC should give more attention in terms of confirming that this was a lemon and not an indicator of some more widespread problem. It should be easier for them to do that with a US-based operation.
why just the opposite sex? actually, i believe all the gendered parts of your point could simply be removed.
Yep, when I get a call claiming to be a phone number that's not likely scammy (e.g. a state that no close friend or family member lives in or is visiting), I hesitate to just ignore it a lot of the time. Certainly if it's a possibly relevant area code, I'll tend to pick up.

This isn't because I can't resist picking up the phone. But checking for voicemail after the fact takes even more time and cycles. And I don't want to end up playing telephone tag if someone actually does need to reach me.
Don't forget the "This is your captain speaking..." one with the blasted foghorn.
Blanket blocking of third party cookies and frames isn't necessarily a complete solution, but it breaks most of these and very little of value.
Don't forget Salt Lake City. Tons of jobs, low cost of living, and a great outdoor community.
Yeah, there are some problems, but nothing too critical for me. Examples:

1) Disqus-like commenting systems (I don't use them)

2) Diigo bookmarklet (whitelisted)

3) Youtube liking/favoriting at the time when they tried to marry it with Google+ (fixed now)

And I think that's it, can't recall anything else.
Model selection uncertainty: “Quiet scandal of statistics”
Decades late, but some momentum now http://www.carbontax.org/where-carbon-is-taxed/ and an important initiative http://yeson732.org/ in Washington State (U.S.) this November.
Because counter-bidding does not exist on eBay.

eBay uses a second-price auction system. Each bidder is allowed only a single bid, which reflects the absolute maximum that they are willing to pay. The highest bidder wins the auction, but only pays as much as the second highest bid. The value of the actual highest bid is kept secret, so the "current bid" displayed on the site is actually the second highest. If you try to win an auction by outbidding the "current bid" by 1 cent at the last second, you will succeed only in becoming the second highest bidder and pushing the price that the actual highest bidder has to pay up by 1 cent.
> Is that true? Will my email client stop notifying me of new email?

There are mechanisms to get high-priority notifications, and methods to do background work that are batched on increasingly long intervals to save battery life (both the batching and the increasing intervals serve that purpose), so that shouldn't be an issue. Notifications that need to be immediate have a path, and ones that don't should still happen, just not immediately.
It appears the author cannot accept that her alcoholism (or "ethanol dependency" as she likely called it) could be solely her fault. She's trying to lay some of the blame for her personal inability to consume alcohol safely and in moderation at the feet of society - society made her do it.

That's the thing about being a special snowflake, you have to be unique and perfect or you're just another wet lump.
Google built GSA at a time when there were limited options for search, and when most tech companies had to manage their own hardware, and when it was magical to have any kind of search at all. It made sense at the time.

But now, the problem itself has changed. Companies host on the cloud, there are many options for search (even hosted/managed solutions), and customers' expectations are very high for good search results. All of this boils down to the biggest issue that most companies face re: search - the business logic of providing fast/good search results (rather than maintaining a search engine itself). Also, companies increasingly view search engines as a first class information retrieval system (a good compliment to a source-of-truth database), which can empower internal analytics to make business decisions.

Most companies don't need/want Googly algorithms/hardware to power their search. I'm guessing here, but I bet that recent versions of Solr and Elasticsearch put the last nails in GSA's coffin.
...so you're tying your hands by referencing any function from a macro.

I thusly conclude that Clojure's macro system, while hygenic, is inferior to most of the scheme macro systems, which would do The Right Thing in this case, without you having to append every function with a hash. Except for er, of course, where rename is explicit.
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So, I disagree with your conclusion even when restricted to the realm of reasonable classification - I don't think that everyday communications from state actors, acting on the public behalf, are reasonably considered classified, and neither does the FOIA.

But, for my part, I will go even further. I think that:

> Governments, like any other private entity are allowed to keep confidential information.

Is just wrong. I don't think that, in this day and age, it's a good idea for governments to keep anything secret. At all. And I'm pretty absolutist about that. And I think that's a reasonable information-age policy. And I think that governments will begin to adopt it or look silly for refusing to do so.

> It's really sad to see so manny people think that 'individual privacy is paramount' but then can't grasp that other actors, including state actors, don't have reasonable rights to privacy.

This is exactly my belief. I cannot grasp - or rather have grasped and cast away in disgust - the idea that "state actors [have] reasonable rights to privacy." They don't.
Open MCT – Open-Source Mission Control Software
"You've got to work at it," Bryant said. "This is what you're supposed to do. I mean, if you're not comfortable with something and you feel like you can tweak some things, you've got to work on them. It doesn't matter when you work on them. You've just got to get it done. You've got to work it out."
I wish you guys were around a few years ago :-) It is a bit absurd how hard it was to even get a prepaid (!) phone plan when I arrived. A very welcome change.
That's a bit hard to believe - the "1 IP rule" applied that way is absurd ... I feel for you
Actually, if the prices are pre-agreed, it's a sweet deal. If I have a big box serving my users, being able to enable additional on premises capacity in minutes is nice.

Last time I did it, Dell took several weeks to deliver the new machine.
It is worth noting that "the cloud" is synonymous with "someone else's computer"
For my part (and I know you already know this from our many past discussions on the matter), I simply don't think there's anything sacred about government secrets in the first place, so I have no qualms with someone liberating them.

When they reveal evidence of war crimes (or even just everyday corruption and slop), then I think the disclosure is all the more to be celebrated.
Why not use Apple's servers to deliver a ping, and then the app checks with your own server what the content of the message should be?

That way, you get realtime event notifications without the privacy risk of exposing content to Apple's servers.
Self-Flying Security Drones
There are tons of cheap electronics (including but not limited to switching power supplies) that are not properly EMI shielded or even not shielded at all. It would be great to have a portable device that can detect and locate the EMI/RFIs. (Perhaps there are already some on kickstarter?)
Desirable language features
For me, they key pieces are: 1) frameworks. when traditional search paths don't find executables and dyn libs the way you expect, it isn't unix-alike. 1a) when the execution environment has changed enough that the build needs to be modified beyond a few simple config variables, it isn't Unix-alike. 2) unconventional init system. although BSD is moving to something similar to launchd, so I think that idea is evolving toward mainstream. 3) unconventional cron, see launchd/BSD.

So dll dependencies are crazy-making, and Nix is attacking that. traditional init is getting creaky, launchd and systemd are attacking that.

With respect to systemd, I love how it has motivated people to try to come up with something better than both traditional init and systemd.
Oh, for God's sake, no wonder I kept getting owned so hard in Maridia! I mean, I'm probably a better Metroid player for it, but I guess I should play through it one time the way it's intended to be run, just so I have a better sense of how hard it's actually supposed to be.

Thanks for the heads-up!
> Governments, like any other private entity

The entire essence of the concept of a Republic (vs. e.g., a Monarchy) is that government is literally a public matter (Latin: res publica) not a private entity or someone's private property.
I thought at least Tiger Woods was also a billionaire?
Nice if it were that easy. But for business accounts you want to delete one (or more) licenses. Look at the form 2/3 of the way down and ask if this makes sense.

https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201886...
Uber is more than a year old, and investors speculating on $1 million medallions should have factored in the risk of losing that gamble...
It's more like, if I'm going to have roommates anyway, I want it to be my girlfriend. And I do enjoy living with her, it's just that I also miss being alone.

She'd probably spend a lot of time at my place, or vice-versa, anyway so it definitely makes sense to live together. It's also one of those things that are nearly impossible to back down from without harming the relationship once you reach this stage.
I agree with you that the lazy/poisonous methods are far too common, and was exaggerating to some extent. In this case the chain of tech may be too sullied for a good message to be well-received.

I'd also like to add that as punishment for insulting the Sears marketing team, I got a piece of spam from them 20 minutes after my comment.
GitLab has an API, and a it's possible to create merge requests through it. I scripted 'turn a commit into merge request' as a Gradle command at the company where I work. So, it's doable.

Someone else in this thread also linked to command line tools, I haven't looked at them, but those might promising.
As someone who has bad social anxiety, I find that forcing myself to be social seems to have a much more negative effect on my health than being lonely.
> It is worth noting that "the cloud" is synonymous with "someone else's computer"

Well, no, its not, otherwise "private cloud" would be incoherent.
Buffett isn't exactly buying index funds for BRK
By getting your data with days after the fact, and looking at the patterns with all the data graphed.

Or, in other words, the way those market analysis courses and gurus teach people to read the market. The patterns are very reliable if you ignore causality.
Love and rent are always in the same sentence. I have a very pragmatic view of longterm relationships in that they are 50% love, 50% practical matters and benefits that come from joining lives. For both parties. Especially for any potential 3rd parties.

It's like getting a business partner for your personal life.
> the app works like ever has worked in the main screen

If the app always works like it ever has worked in the main screen, why do they say:

> If your app does not declare a fixed orientation, you should launch your app on a device running Android 7.0 or higher and attempt to put the app in split-screen mode. Verify that the user experience is acceptable when the app is forcibly resized.
The Settlers series is very awesome too (aside from that mess of a facebook "game"), and each game in the series has a very different feel to it.

One thing to note, though, is that they're generally much more focused around city planning and resource management than warfare. They're also have a far slower pace than, say, Starcraft does.
The Problem with Time and Timezones
Raspberry pi + RTL-SDR + screen + battery?
Hacking the Job Search Process
You're getting more than two years of updates. There's another year of security updates, plus at least two years (probably more given historical trends) of system-level app updates ( Google Play Services, Chrome, WebView, Play Store, ...) that only come via OS updates on iOS. Not to mention Google providing compatibility libraries so that third-party apps are significantly less likely to leave you behind.
Beautiful, too. Probably heartbreaking, if the trailer's any guide. Sold. Thanks for the rec.
Protect jobs from IOT and AI
So the neon light switching power supply's label with serial number and manufacturer were pictured.[1] And it was UL certified but with no FCC label. Will the manufacturer get a fine if someone files a complain? I am curious.

[1]: http://www.arrl.org/images/view/News/Evanston%20RFI-2.jpg
You might be pleasantly surprised with the migration process of issues -- I had some inlined images and checklists in Github that got seamlessly migrated to Gitlab. I was pretty happy with how well it worked.

This is just in terms of ripping off the band-aid. I'm not sure of any mirroring, but I don't think that would be worth the hassle.
Calling yourself a scrappy programmer and denouncing social standing improves your social standing with other programmers.

Surprise, we're social animals, we care deeply and intrinsically about this crap. Best to embrace it and understand it for what it is. That way at least you're in control.

There are a lot of pragmatic benefits that come from having good social standing. Everything from an emotional support structure when things go wrong, to ease of accessing resources when you need them. For example: if you alienate everyone around you and destroy your social standing, then nobody will help you when your startup blows up and you're about to get kicked out on the street. You'll need a couch to crash on for a few days, but nobody to ask for it.
You visited the website and you're mad that they choose to show you content?
Yeah... because Honeywell produced a product that everyone was talking about with their friends and family? Nope. They've been sitting in a dominant market position for decades without any real innovation. Innovator came along and produced a great product; Honeywell went into full patent troll mode.
Not for the faint of heart :) Is there a off the shelf product ?
Huh neat I actually didn't know that.
Agreed - I've recently had a bunch of Amazon transactional emails get spam-filtered by Google, and I've never marked them as such.
With HIPAA, employers really can't ask too many questions, and with the ability to "work from home" you can hide easily. Eventually they catch on, but it takes awhile. I've worked with a network "engineer" who pulled in six figures, while doing basically nothing.
Skylar: Maybe we could go out for coffee sometime?

Will: Great, or maybe we could get together and just eat a bunch of caramels.

Skylar: What?

Will: When you think about it, it's just as arbitrary as drinking coffee.

Just say "sorry, not a big coffee guy, can we go to X/take a walk in the park/eat a bunch of caramels instead?". The coffee is just a conversational placeholder, there is no spoon. As long as you immediately propose an alternative, you're fine.
I assume the idea would be to condense the steam as distilled water, and feed the brine back into the brackish water source. Probably the engineering challenges would be getting the salt water into the evaporator, collecting and condensing the vapor, and removing the "used" brine from the evaporator, and making these components operate continuously.

From the article it sounded like this was an idea that was being considered.
As someone who has designed and built switching power supplies, the article brought back funny memories.

It's so easy to make an SPS that is essentially a disaster for all RF spectrum around it. In fact, some of my early SPSs, I could "detect" they were on because the noise coming out of a radio receiver nearby would change when I turned the supply on.

OTOH, it's pretty easy to take measures that ensure the RF is kept under control. Shielding is important, but first make sure your circuit doesn't make excessive amounts of RF to begin with.
This may be slightly unrelated but I'm curious; have curved silicon dies ever been considered? Say like hollow rings or spheres? Would there be any benefits regarding heat or speed etc.?
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You could use uBlock Origin, Ghostery or a combination of tools that specifically block cross-site tracking and widgets.

It can make the web more usable than globally disabling javascript.
A kernel is not an OS.

I'm thinking perhaps some measure of porting effort is the appropriate metric. There is a reason Mac users can't simply point to a bsdports repo.
Don't need everyone to agree, just a majority. You can't get everyone to agree the sun rises in the east.

The government taxes all kinds of things. Why should CO2 be especially difficult? Especially if the taxes raised get put into green energy?
Not necessarily. There is often code that works the same way "by coincidence." The simplest example is two constants that just happen to be assigned the same value. In that case, you shouldn't share common code - it's just going to make changes harder. If you modify one constant, you don't want to modify the other.

Having a mathematical concept in common: is that important, or is it a coincidence? Seems like it depends on the domain and maybe on your point of view.

At the end of the day it's about how hard the code is to maintain. Sharing dependencies makes things better if you want to fix a bug in one place. But every dependency has a cost, too, since it's another thing that can break you if it changes.

Too many dependencies and you get something like the "fragile base class" problem where you can't easily change the code, even to fix a bug, because there are so many downstream usages that depend on it working the way it does today.

So, I would not be quick to depend on a common utility library for simple convenience, unless I know how stable and bug-free it is, and that it doesn't have too many dependencies of its own.
Pros and Cons in Using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
They didn't share your contact information since technically the SPAM came from them (via a technology provider Criteo) so it's still Sears that's owning the communication and responsibility. It's different if let's say you were browsing Sears and then somehow got an ad for the Home Depot.
I totally agree! Also, there is plenty of variance and random luck in the fate of companies. Kodak went down, yes. But many other similar companies survived and thrived. GE once sold personal computers and 3M, magnetic tapes. But they successfully extricated themselves from these businesses when they became difficult to profit off of. While there are certainly deterministic reasons for this, one shouldn't discount the effect of luck. People forget how diversified these companies are. The positions they themselves hold, in terms of markets, are hedged- with short and long bets. Just because they are hedging their bets more by buying Dollar-Shave-Clubs and Jet.coms doesn't mean there's a bubble.

Additionally, on the tech/start-up side too, there were many shorter-lived companies that never lived up to the hype or declined from a position of unrivaled greatness (Cray?).

If there is a fatal error in the OP, it is in the certainty and needless cocksureness of McClure's predictions.

Given the huge sizes of these markets and the value of products and commodities, it is laughable to predict an imminent decline in companies that do pharmas, chemicals, industrials, medical devices, etc. based on metrics cherrypicked to create such a narrative (e.g. shift in highest-revenue companies).
I've had similar success. The biggest benefit has been with memory in my experience, much much less RAM usage although i don't have specific numbers right now.
Spectrum analyzer and appropriate antenna.
RF Explorer is a "budget" option at around $300-400:
http://rfexplorer.com/models/

Professional handheld spectrum analyzers are in the $3k-50k range from the likes of Keysight, Anritsu, etc.
Agreed. The Open Office has too many distractions for "focus work" to be possible.
https://learn.adafruit.com/freq-show-raspberry-pi-rtl-sdr-sc...
here's another special snowflake that does the internet equivalent of 'I want to talk to the manager'

it is their website, so if you don't like their terms, leave.

I do run adblocks etc to avoid drive bys, but if a website relies on delivering me spam&malware I just avoid it

Also why is this guy so upset about retargeting now? it has been a thing for more than a decade, and without it one would just see some generic spam instead of these sorta ineffective reminders. creepy? sure! then again there's one simple trick to make them disappear: don't go on shady websites where you're the product and bring your money elsewhere.
Systemd mount
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket. - Andrew Carnegie
Sorry to throw rocks at your idea, but you apparently haven't experienced an angry kid: I would not hand them a 800$ - 1000$ device while they're throwing a tantrum. ;)
Thanks for bringing back so many fond memories of the Beeb. Does you mother know you're doing this?

Anyone else remember ILTDN and what it stands for?
>the IoT ecosystem needs to give surprise interference some consideration as well.

In the early days of Lockitron we were using the 433MHz bandwidth. We would occasionally experience state wide non-response to our locks despite having full backend network connectivity. Eventually we tracked the problem down to sunspots. Coming from software it was one of the more bizarre things to debug.
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