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Will your IoT lamp stop working if the vendor goes out of business? That's what "Requires 3rd party service to function" means.

It's not contradictory with, "Updates itself regularly".

You've got me thinking about this though... If I were selling an IoT device today I would likely just outsource the majority of the self-update problem by using an open source Linux distribution as the basis of my product and merely configure it to perform automatic updates.

The product's software could be updated via a separate software repository (e.g. like a PPA). That way it would get automatically updated at a regular interval along with the OS (assuming I put out regular updates).

This would actually be an ideal setup for consumers too because if I went out of business or my software stopped getting updates the consumer could just replace the software performing the IoT functions or merely remove it and at least be left with a functional embedded computer to hack around with.

Obviously most consumers wouldn't do that but it'd be nice to give them that option.
I doubt it is the adblockers. The adblocker arms race is won by those who own the browser since the browser is the last place you can enforce DRM and the incumbants (Google, Apple, and Mozilla to a lesser extent) have the capacity to stage a power play that enforce trusted computing policies for ad-laden web applications. Ad blockers will lose their in-browser hooks and will need to instrument the browser from outside its process space using computer vision and memory exploits to detect and remove ads in the future. This cat and mouse game will relegate ad blockers to the <10% market share thus staving off a lost market for ad revenue and reducing any dependence on native advertising or product tie ins.
Yeah.. but it's not a MacBook.
Yeah, it seems like the strategy from the VC perspective it to eventually get the team acquihired by Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or Facebook.
A small point, but they look to at least consider other non-AWS providers (e.g. Azure) per their note here: https://serverless.com/framework/docs/guide/installing-serve...
...Now if only we unwashed, non-kickstarter-using masses could actually buy a chip+pocketchip. I'd pay good money for it, but with orders this backed up, I'm not putting money in for a ticket to a waiting list that may never end.
Sorry, that's bullshit. Automatic updates are one of the worst ideas about IoT devices, because the updates almost always remove functionality. Manufacturers have been known to remove key functionality, or just straight out brick recently sold devices when they have liability concerns or their business plan changes and they don't want people using the old devices anymore.

- http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/4/11362928/google-nest-revolv-shutdown-smart-home-products

- https://nest.com/support/article/Nest-Protect-Safety
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There are a lot of resources out there for contracts-- which you should definitely be using-- andFreelancer's Union also has some good tax and contract guides-- https://www.freelancersunion.org/resources/ (They're free to join.)

The main thing to remember is that if the total value is over $600 and you're reporting the income, the company will likely ask for a W-9 from you and issue a 1099 at the end of the year. Then, you will be charged the 15% self-employment tax on top of federal and state taxes. A lot of beginning freelancers don't figure this into their rates, and they end up with a much bigger tax bill at the end of the year than anticipated.

I would recommend charging hourly, $50-75/hr is likely reasonable in your area, but providing the business an estimate of the range of hours-- say 10-15, or 20-25, etc so at least they know ballpark in the beginning what to expect. If you check in with them midway and say "hey this is ending up to be a lot more complicated, just so you know it will take more hours" then they'll appreciate it and be more likely to pay you quicker with no quibbles or "surprises."
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Because they must not allow publishers to try guessing which methods might be able to escape the scrunity of G. If they can recognize 99.997% of fraudulent clicks and fail at 0.003%, you can be sure that those 0.003 will soon balloon to 10% if publishers are allowed to experiment unchecked.

But yes, it is a powerplay. They can afford this, so they do.
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Oh I agree this is not malice. Sounds like some battery supplier to Samsung screwed up. No excuses from Samsung QA but presumably the battery supplier really screwed up their QA or manufacturing processes.

Even with the news that the Note 7 is effectively dead....I dont think this will be more than a blip on Samsung's history and some uncomfortable quarterly financial reports. I am certain they are not 'finished' in the sense that consumers will stop purchasing Samsung phones. Time will tell.
The article frequently mentions the agility of these hypersonics. Doesn't 'flies super fast' usually require 'flies in a straight line'? Do we have suitable materials for control surfaces that can withstand the drag/heat/pressure of an evasive, quick turn at Mach 5?
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The English regional press is brilliant for this sort of thing.

'Sudden appearance of white line in Evesham explained' [0]

'Evesham football club Chairman's says they would have been hit financial [sic] if stolen tractors were not recovered' [1]

'Man stole coffee and spanners from Poundland' [2]

'Former Pershore asparamancer makes her global predictions for 2016' [asparamancy: divination by throwing asparagus in the air] [3]

[0] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14128452.Sudden_appeara...

[1] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14793275.Chairman__39_s...

[2] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14790600.Man_stole_coff...

[3] http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/14196327.Former_Pershor...
For sure the current Note 7's are defective and failing in extraordinary numbers. I'm saying that even if Samsung were able to fix the flaw to get the failure rate down to normal levels or even better than average, future Note 7 failures will still garner more press coverage because of the high initial failure rate. The Note 7 brand is damaged beyond repair.

I do expect to see a Note 8 next year.
Milled cut out in the middle of the mainboard seems like an annoying additional cost. Headers that raise the module off the board would be acceptable, except when vertical space is a constraint.
Chromebooks are obviously best at being web browsers. You can start adding extensions and using remote servers for other tasks etc. but, in my experience, if you're trying to use it as a regular laptop a regular laptop is probably better.

That said, given reasonable connectivity, Chromebooks are pretty much ideal for a lot of things. They're cheap, easy to keep up-to-date, and generally great for most things a student would want to do. Thin clients have been talked up for schools forever and Chromebooks are, in many respects, the first take on that to succeed broadly. IMO, they make a huge amount of sense for many students.

Personally, as I increasingly use online apps like Google Docs I increasingly find myself travelling with a Chromebook vs. a regular laptop.
Of course they do - this is like Android phones "destroying" the iPhone when it comes to sales volume. For a very large percent of students the Chromebook will work just fine - no need to drop a grand on an entry level Macbook.
This is for developers building apps locally, you create your own dockerised container for prod.

Express is basically free, its the real production versions that cost.
I've got 8 gigs of ram, I'd like to see it try: the problem isn't memory usage, it's weak, inconsistent abstractions.
Can't say for Google, but we did. It is only fair.

It is in interest of Google that the advertising market works for everyone involved (with a notable exception of fraudsters, of course).
"Cutting the congestion window in half on a packet loss and ramping it back up one packet at a time was something I came up with around 1984"

We can call you the Saw Tooth Guy, or the Additive Increase Multiplicative Decrease Guy. We'll let you pick.
This is a bit misleading... the reason Chromebook sales have gone up is because many middle / high schools are starting to provide free Chromebooks to all students.
Does the T-Mobile plan include international data like their regular cellphone plans? If so, how well does it work abroad?
Apparently you haven't been on the London Underground at rush hour. The escalator halls aren't long enough for an orderly queue to form on one side when a tube offloads its passengers.
There's a special web licence for website, which doesn't use CALS.

If you building some internal business app, then you need CALS.
I don't like the idea of executing "real" code in a database. An DB's parser shouldn't allow a query make network connections/IO access.
That would only explain an inability to make coffee, not an inability to make tea.

2.3.2 418 I'm a teapot

Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error
code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and
stout.
Oops, typo, I meant escalators. I like the way that in London there is an elevator at every station and mostly stairs.
Compared to milk which contain actual estrogen...
The limits you specified are all (currently) just small technical constraints, they'll be better in time.

Short of a direct neural interlink, natural communication is the way to go. There's no other realistic option, you can't type to your AI if you're walking in the street or driving your car etc and people finish each others sentences all the time (auto completion)

What kind of interface would you have?
I'm intrigued by this—how long did it take to get used to? Breakfast?
I'd suggest reading this line-by-line explanation of the MIT license: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-b...

Once you understand why everything that's in a license is there, it's hard to imagine making it much shorter.

The Apache license does a good job of separating out the full text and a smaller boilerplate to put on each file, so that may be a good option.
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> If by "social" you mean bad decisions on settling a naming dispute, yes it was a social issue.

No, I mean someone retroactively removing a package others were using out of spite.
Not everyone is that fit: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s800x800/e35/1...

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I just went the other way and replaced my Chromebook with a MBP - the Chromebook is perfect for the vast majority of computer based tasks and a good percentage of what I do outside of work can be accomplished on it.

Mainly just the lack of local development support for self learning and side projects was why I dropped it, but it's still my goto machine for holidays and throwing onto the sofa.
It's not so much a question of evidence as basic math.

Imagine a society with 100 people. A working adult can create 50 widgets per year, and there's 15 kids and 5 retirees. The economy produce 80 * 50 = 4000 widgets per year, which gives a per capita income of 40 widgets. You can have whatever tax, welfare, or income redistribution policies you like, but there's only 4000 widgets to go around.

Great. Now let's say 5 new kids are born, the 15 existing kids become adults, 30 adults retire, and the 5 existing retirees die. Bonus: we got 3% better at making widgets, so a working adult makes 51.5 widgets. We now have 100 people, 5 kids, 30 retirees, and 65 working adults. Total widget production = 65 * 51.5 = 3,347.5 widgets per year, or a per capita income of ~33.5 widgets. Again, policies can change the distribution, but not the total number.

What we're seeing is that if an aging workforce lowers the overall workforce participation rate, as a society, we get poorer. If productivity increases, as a society we get richer. It's just a question of which change is larger, and in the US (and Europe, and much of Asia) the answer is the aging workforce. The demographics are clear and brutal.

The most critical metric is the ratio of current workers to retirees; that number is climbing and is going to continue without a policy change that somehow reduces the number of retirees, or increases the numbers of workers. Large scale skilled immigration might do the latter, but failing that, we're basically out of ideas.

This article spells it out fairly nicely I think: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-10/innovatio...
It's good to keep in mind how police are incentivized. They are paid to arrest suspects and close cases. Whether or not they nab the wrong person hardly matters to them. So although they generally may not intend to harm you they will gladly do so if it increases the numbers on which they are graded. And if you happen to have some cash on you when you make the mistake of talking to them then there is the bonus opportunity of asset forfeiture.
How is it misleading?

Regardless of the reason, Chromebook sales are up.
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I think this article is looking for a story where there isn't one.

For one, Mac sales slowed this quarter because people are anticipating the new lineup. Why would I buy yesterday's computer for the same price as tomorrow's computer? Just wait until tomorrow and get something better for the same price.

Secondly, the Windows laptop market is full of garbage, especially at the low end. Plastic, overheating, underpowered, bloatware-laden garbage. The market was ripe for a disruption like the Chromebook.

Many colleges and universities have made the jump to Google services for email and storage. It makes sense to a lot of people to use a device that integrates with these services out of the box.

So if the Chromebook is gaining steam, it's not at the expense of Apple, it's at the expense of Windows.
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Just an anecdote, my mom went vegetarian consisting mostly of soy products (tofu and the like) for about a decade during which her the amount of blood she menstruated went sky high in terms of volume. She dropped the whole diet but the menstruation problem still remained until a doctor found she had a tumor in her uterus which meant she had to get a hysterectomy. I'm not sure if the soy estrogens promoted growth in the tumor (thus the excess menstrual blood problem) so I'm very cautious about eating unprocessed/untreated soy products because of that one incident.
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Yes it is ok. All humans discriminate, along any number of dimensions for any number of purposes. The only reason white men are singled out is the myth that they are some all-powerful group of magical humans that wield evil oppression rays over all other groups. But this is empirically not the case as (middle-aged) white males exhibit the highest suicide rates, whites are the largest group in poverty in the US, white males are out-earned in the US by East Asians, Indians, and Jews; and whites have been systematically demographically replaced in the West to where they are less than 50% of people under age 5. It is ok for every other group of people, including the Federal government, to express racial preferences in business/hiring decisions. To specifically call out white males for expressing soft statistical racial preferences in how they do business and who they affiliate with is an invidious form of racist attack.
Replying to "logs all connections" separately...

Who said anything about logs necessitating the need for permanent storage? My router doesn't have a permanent log... It just keeps a buffer of the last N log entries in memory (e.g. `logread`).

Alternatively, I can (and have) configured it to forward its logs to a central server on my home network. Syslog forwarding and collection has been around for a really long time. It may be tricky to meet the "encrypts all network traffic" certification and syslog forwarding at the same time though since encrypted syslog normally involves a PKI.

The whole Certificate Authority concept doesn't play really well with IoT, actually.
I'd want the exact opposite (OS X with the ability to run i3 on it). I'm used to i3 (at home and school) and using the default windows/linux shortcuts (like ctrl + x/c/v) and I'm using a Mac at work and I have issues between going back and forth.
So, loading favicon.ico via a redirect-type parameter:

<img onload="alert('logged in to fb')" onerror="alert('not logged in to fb')" src="https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ffavicon.ico">
Wouldn't it be lovely if they checked that before they did the whole download/install/making the user wait for 15 minutes dance?
The GR8 is an AllWinner R8 with RAM in a single piece of resin. They are targeting product builders, see the section:

> Powered by a chip you can actually buy.
> R8 SoC + 256MB DDR3
> 1 package. 1 price.
> $6 in any quantity.

(that's $6 for their rebadged chip.) TBH this looks like not a bad solution for someone looking to board-down a linux capable product. I wonder if the GR8 needs a power mgt chip or if that's integrated into the SoC as well.

Back to your original question, NTC (among others) worked with AllWinner I believe to mainline some of the R8 code and reduce (or possibly eliminate?) binary blobs.
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Being peers is often set as an axiom or a prerequisite when thinking about the theory of business transactions. However often in the reality it isn't the case. This is why you need antitrust laws, consumer protection laws, regulation, unions, etc.

The problem here is that there is a hole in the system. Not being paid or being paid late is very common for smaller contractors in several industries.
That doesn't make it laudable, or even defensible.
Hey, I used to live in those red (Parliament adjacent) buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

They were overly spacious (i.e. 20 foot ceilings) and ridiculously impractical. If Brutalism is back, we should show it the door again.
Escalators in some London stations are sufficiently congested every day for people to be queuing to get onto either side.
The SR-71 did it fine slightly above Mach 4. If you call taking a few states to make a turn evasive.
Renamed it. Does it make any difference?
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The article you cite for the PLAN system states that it completed it's 7th test flight. This is not operational.

For instance the F-35 only recently became "operationally capable" - but it has been flying since 2006.
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Are these products much better than say the morning star farm soy paddies? Because for me it's not so much texture as it is over all taste that affects what I eat. And most soy based products seem to taste so bland at least the ones we make here in the States.
I agree. Where do they draw the line at dwarf planet and asteroid and/or comet? The thing is so far away. Are they able to confirm it's not just a chunk of ice, and therefore comet in a nearly circular (for a comet) orbit?
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Clever and artful, with a little nostalgia thrown in.

1993 was the year I started my undergrad and would not see a "web browser" until the following year. It's nice to re-capture a little of the spirit of what computing was like back then.

Tip: Be sure to click on the virus and after what happens happens, fling the icons around. Moments of mindless fun.
With the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria I wonder if this projection of exponential growth and then plateau will happen sooner.
I've been running bananian with the 4.4 kernel on my bpi-R1 (A20 SoC) and everything seems to be working fine. Although I don't use it for anything graphical (it's a networking/storage/server device.) Can't say how much it's relying on binary blobs though.
> One possible reason is that pre-baked primes can be designed to avoid certain pitfalls (e.g. primes close to powers of 2, which the article implies can be solved using the much faster algorithm) or otherwise to be resistant against certain cryptographic attacks.

Why can't those primes be calculated on the fly? Checking a number for being within a certain distance of a power of two is well within the programming capability of a freshman CS student.

> I don't know enough about DH to know if that's really the case here or if it's merely done to avoid having to compute fresh large primes, but I'm going to guess there's a good reason for it.

Given the incentives involved, I see strong reason to believe this is not the case.
I agree with you. I was just using the NIST as an example because they've been in the news recently; they just released some new security standards that are actually quite good! Presumably we'd use an independent organization who's whole job is to come up with best practices for the security of IoT devices.

Semi-related aside: Microsoft Active Directory violates the NIST's new password hashing guidelines because it doesn't use a random salt when storing password hashes.
It's getting to the point that their OC more than makes up for it.

The big studios are just asking for more piracy at this point.
This was a story a few days ago: http://sociable.co/technology/cia-siren-servers-social-upris...

If you have data like payroll and bank account info (so, state-level hacking), it'd be interesting to see how economic pressures turn to uprisings. CIA/NSA probably has access to logs of all the world's telecom companies, I wonder if they can see trends of how e.g. riots grow organically (many mobile phones registering at particular antenna = huge crowd = riot (or a concert, or a football game...)), and to see who the instigators are.
...we're missing IPSEC_NAT_T.

Brought to you from a custom compiled FreeBSD 11-p1 host :(
No idea. I'm not familiar with the CHIP Pro, just quickly read the datasheet. The SOC contains Mali400 GPU, so in theory it should capable for video output, but I can't find any mentioning whether the video capability is enabled in hardware/software level in CHIP Pro (i.e pins wired & Linux driver).

Raspberry Pi has similar problem: although it uses a SOC designed for mobile applications, there are no open source solutions to connect generic smartphone displays to DSI port, and HDMI is very bulky/over-engineered solution for transferring video signal over few centimeters. (Blame Broadcom, not the Foundation.)
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What you're describing is a pyramid scheme. Get more and more new people in to pay for those already there. If immigration falls or stop rising you suddenly have a problem.

A more robust, sustainable solution is to improve productivity via other means (including automation).
Netflix is clearly making heavy investments in what we've tended to call "Television" programming. It's often deep dramas that are very engrossing, much more so than TV offered a decade or two ago. Netflix likely sees higher returns here.

Movies are quickly becoming the "short story" of the cinematic world, IMO (though those countless sequels and prequels are an exception). When done well they have a strict beginning, middle and end.