skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not at all equivalent to an AP, Cloudkey and SG, but they DO have a consumer product: https://amplifi.com/

Unfortunately details are sparse on their incredibly annoying, scroll-hijacking marketing site. But it seems to be a simple enough, plug-and-play mesh network setup, and the industrial design is quite nice. I think Ubnt just doesn't have the marketing machine needed to really push it in the consumer space.
I guess you'd need a lawyer to get sorted but I don't think it'd be a legal problem.

If someone is willing to implement this, keep in mind that in China, having a website ain't the end-all-be-all solution. A better way would be to integrate with kik / line messenger (apart from the website).

Morally speaking, I'd not want this on my shoulders just because, at one point, I'd get hit with the realization that I'm ruining someone's life (with or without cause) - that someone who has done absolutely nothing to me (personally). Overtime, I don't think I could live with that (as this topic in recent news got me thinking [0]).

[0] https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-code-im-still-ashamed-of...
If you declare a variable as `const`, you have to initialize it during declaration. So you have to place the declaration exactly where the value expression becomes available.
You do realize that you met those people who did get that random windfall because they were working, not because they just took the money and ran, right?

Sure you might have met 20 of them. How many haven't you met because you're busy working instead of being where those folks hang out while they're not working?
I'll just quote Wikipedia:

"The title refers to the distance traveled while under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is over six times the diameter, and nearly twice the circumference of the Earth.[2] The greatest depth mentioned in the book is four leagues. The book uses metric leagues, which are four kilometres each"

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_...)
When was the Mac Pro line cancelled? I can't find any reference to this.
Yiwu? The location in the article is Dafen. The OP must have confused this city for another one mentioned in an earlier HN post.

nevertheless, fascinating article. I saw these guys on reddit a while back and the way they described the city I guessed they'd have little problem with the production capacity - only quality control and delivery.
Yeah, but a lot of people actually didn't have assemblers at the time.
Why should it "have to"? (Honest question, I'm certainly not advocating keeping old styles for the heck of it.)
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But the weakness that causes people to take control of the Wild West isn't counterfeiting, it's just the inevitable end result of the chaos. The issue isn't fraud, it's that even people accumulating money honestly turns harmful over time; you acquire money because you're good at business, you use that money to buy out competitors, you pass that money on to your children as is your right, your children use it to consolidate more power... power is often a positive feedback loop, and no matter how solid the system of exchanges, it loops back to feudalism without regulation.
I particularly focus on the followers of Leo Strauss for the backroom ideology these people use to justify these kinds of moves.
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You're probably right, but if so, Apple is taking a short-sighted view.

We're moving on from product and platform wars to ecosystem wars, and the core feature of Apple's ecosystem is all Apple software and hardware working together (preferably to the exclusion of non-Apple products, but not always). Having control of everything gives you the best chance of making everything just work.

Dropping products (X-Serve, monitors, routers etc) and neglecting products (Mac Pro, Mac mini etc) makes the whole ecosystem weaker.

For comparison, the main rival ecosystems are Google and Microsoft. Google's is based on doing everything online and creating a complete Google stack. Microsoft's is based on supporting everything cross-platform (Windows, iOS, Android, MacOS and increasingly Linux) both online and offline.
Thanks, I was wrong. That's even worse than I thought.
Can one move their account to a new instance if, for example, they start on Mastdon, like what they see, and then decide to set up their own instance?
Right now I think there is a pretty hard reaction to openness and trust. Hopefully we can work through it and make things a little better :)
I guess one could say that creationists, flat-earthers, and Scientologists have a certain kind of "courage", then.
How does Tim Cook not see that the ease of use of their entire ecosystem (from routers, monitors to software utilities) is what justified spending twice as much on a mac or an iPhone as a competitor's product? Thinning that ecosystem makes their hardware premiums much harder to justify.
That's the bean-counter mindset that ruins companies. (See the auto industry.)

Apple had an integrated vision for computing. Wireless routers were never going to be more than a round off error on their balance sheet, but they did it anyway because they wanted it done right.

With apple giving up on monitors, it's been a sad year: the bean counters are clearly in control.
HN has always had a point hierarchy. IIRC, you need 1000 Karma to downvote a comment. It might be 500, but I'm pretty sure it was 1k.
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Its significantly easier in academia to teach courses about hardware that is ubiquitous.
FYI - When you check a site, there is a little blue pop up in the bottom right corner. It is hidden by the green "Online" chat bar.
Less than 30% of Americans have more than $1000 in savings

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/10/...

I can almost guarantee that nearly all of the 30% of Americans WITH savings have health insurance with an out of pocket max.

I can almost guarantee that many of the people without insurance are in the no savings group.

So perhaps I am missing something, but I am not seeing a huge group of Americans that have their wealth in danger by the current healthcare system.
It isn't possible to write exhaustive tests - there are an infinite number of possible program states.

Well, finite bound by the width of your pointer type, which doesn't help much.
I gave up Soylent a couple weeks ago because of how many carbohydrates it has (33g per bottle). I would drink a bottle and the hunger would subside, but two hours later the appetite was much stronger. Since preparing my own meals, choosing low-carb, I'm hungry less and can go 4-5 hours between meals. Have never felt better.
A Qi charger stand, three routers (matchbox sized) I tinker with, keyboard, monitor, mouse, laptop, USB hub.
Almost all spacecraft had external viewers that displayed on internal screens to keep the hull strong and continuous.
Now we have airplane companies thinking they invented the concept and were first (Airbus)
Maybe it's the margins. But I prefer cash in the bank. Revenue dollars up, net income up. If you add up all the "mini product lines" together that will move the needle. They can't continue to have blockbuster products and too risk to rely on that. Samsung can burn their phones and be OK since they have other product lines.
Tried pandoc before but I had trouble with missing dependencies (on Windows). When I tried it on Linux the output didn't look great.

Ideally, would love something that mimicked GitHub Flavored Markdown in output.
>I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community.

Translated into English -- he didn't kill anyone.

>At the point at which Mr. Snowden wants to present himself before the legal authorities and make his arguments or have his lawyers make his arguments...

Translated into English -- he didn't hop on a plane to Gitmo.

Note to self -- if ever in the position to leak information on a massive secret government surveillance program, make sure the data has a couple of juicy tidbits about the president, to hold in reserve.
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What books/essays would you recommend to start with?
I know of an ancient book that has been saying this all along.
Doesn't really make me wonder. I haven't really seen anything about python's new async stuff that indicates it's on par with node's (reply here if you found anything, I've been looking for this information!). And if python is caught up with node, it would be at very high risk of performing the same and having another random performance gotcha. Golang is one of the natural choices to replace a nodejs application for performance reasons. It's low-level, faster, uses less memory.
The note from the IRS about Bitcoin I read on CoinBase's site said it's similar to a security. So until you trade it out (sell it) you don't realize a gain. When you do your gains are considered similar to capital gains / capital losses (if you held for more than 1 year). Otherwise considered income.
I see this sentiment a lot, and I feel like you fundamentally misunderstand what is actually happening at universities. Discounting athletics, which in some places are revenue neutral and can be counted as marketing/local cultural artifact depending on who you talk to, the "wise passionate teachers" you praise so aren't there to teach idiot undergrads. Instead, they're hired to do research with the teaching as essentially a subset of that in most cases. Pure research, especially in a political climate that's increasingly anti-intellectual and anti science, is expensive and that cost gets offloaded to incoming students since the hard requirement for a college degree for many professional jobs creates inelastic demand.

The "phony administrative positions", lawns, and student facilties you dismiss as pork are the school's way of competing for the piles of grant money replacement known as undergrads.

Then further more, prices are already in the ball park of your supposed ideal. An instate student can go to a school like Georgia Tech (ranked 5 or so in engineering nationally depending on the year) for 12k before scholarships, essentially free if they don't piss away their grades. Private top tier schools cost more, but tend to offer more scholarships and grants so that's harder to compare between institutions. It's not that schools are expensive, it's that students are choosing to not go to the inexpensive schools, usually to get out of their state, or to be in an institution that specializes in their major, or go someplace with better student institutions.

US research is what makes our schools the top in the world, and the actual education gained from an undergrad degree isn't the drive for most people. It's the networking, the exposure, and the certification, none of which can be duplicated in a dinky classroom with a whiteboard and an underpaid teacher. Just look at American High Schools if you want to see how that turns out.
And HN too.
I've recently made a Zapier 'zap' that sends me a daily digest of @newsyc100 by e-mail.
I realised that that account was the biggest reason I was still scrolling through my Twitter feed all the time.
Ever since I've only checked Twitter once every few days, when I explicitly wanted to.

In the case of Facebook I found that just removing it from my bookmarks bar helped loads. Prevents me from just clicking on it half-dazed and starting to scroll.
If your point is that it has a bank's level of scrutiny, then no it clearly does not stand. I mean isn't that the point of the government request? A bank's level of scrutiny would mean the government could reasonably guess if you are holding out on taxes which is clearly not the case here. Does the IRS regularly subpoena Chase and BofA's customer records. No, because there is no need. Thanks to the CTRs, they can crunch the numbers and figure out if the amount you paid on your taxes is suspiciously low.

Sure, it's a worthwhile cause. I wish them luck because Congress and the Courts have consistently torn down financial privacy over the last 30-40 years.
Last time I checked, the better colleges around taught some combo of C, Python, Java, and LISP.

Sometimes a few business classes with .net, but it seems very rare overall.

The professors have a lot of influence in the future..
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This starts to sound increasingly like Balmer Microsoft. Optimize profits, kill creativity.
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I've been working remotely for 7 years now. Do you ever miss contact with other people? Fun in the office, interesting conversations, etc.
> But it need not: all that great education requires are wise, passionate teachers and a bit of infrastructure: a whiteboard, a few books, and a laptop computer (with a couple of outliers).

It's funny that a lot of the outliers are the degrees that can actually help you with financial stability later. Universities love humanity courses, exactly for the reasons you point out. It's easy to shoehorn a couple more undergrads into a literature or philosophy class, all you need to do is buy a few more chairs, and the books sort of buy themselves, and you're paying the TAs starvation wages anyways, what's a few more students between friends.

Whereas in a material science lab, you need a rockwell brinell hardness tester. For a computer science lab, you need some heavy iron if you're going to be doing heavy algorithms (might have changed lately, it's been going on 20 years for me). For electrical engineering, you need the CAD workstations with licenses for VHDL programs and the hardware to reprogram FPGAs.

So that's kind of interesting
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Wait... You don't cook meals for your children but give them Soylent?

You talk about doing things with your kids. Sitting down with kids and eating a meal is an important family bonding time.

You analogies made no sense. The clothes and cars are get washed and fixed the same way. Soylent is NOT the same as eating real food.
It was 1995, and everybody was excited about this new technology called BGP. I was a young sysadmin on his first job at a NOC.

...

Ten minutes later, most of Fairfax County is stuck in a routing loop, and we're getting angry phone calls from NOCs in California, the UK, and I think even Hyderabad. While I didn't actually take down the Internet, it gave me a lot of appreciation for how vulnerable its glue is to human error.
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https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/

Check a checkbox, and your static stuff gets CDNed.

Seems a lot better than letting another service control you, perhaps put up CAPATCHAs, perhaps mess up your networking, etc.
> The irony is the Airport Extreme performs better than the equivalent Ubi AP.

Consumer-grade routers usually are faster. What they are not is more reliable, or easy to use/manage.
How regularly and how long do they provide security updates?

(No attack, just wondering...)
The bean counter mentality ruins product companies again and again (see autos) and yet even a company as powerfully idea-driven as Apple falls victim to it.

I was skeptical of the predictions of apples implosion once Steve was gone. How important can one guys contribution be?

Oops.
Mitchell and Webb do a nice comedy bit on identity theft, making the same distinction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
Its length : the longer, the better. Nothings beats an exponential ! Ideally, one should use a pass phrase (a full sentence) instead of a password (a single word, no matter how complicated it is).
Thanks for the suggestion but I use Windows and Linux at the moment.
Also, it acts as a declaration of intent and makes the data dependencies in a function more explicit.

If I declare a variable in the middle of a function, I am declaring intent that this variable shouldn't be used in the first half of the function – maybe the data it is supposed to hold cannot be available at that point.
Or related: If I cannot build a project by just cloning the repo at any arbitrary location, then why the hell not?

If you have not experienced this before, try cloning a repo that uses Go-1.6-style vendoring anywhere outside the GOPATH.
I like cooking, but I don't cook often. Because I hate the fact that, with our limited body, we _have_ to eat. One day I may spend two hours having fun at the kitchen, and the following I'm eating instant food. I want to cook (and eat) when I want, not when I have to. And I feel this sentiment is taking me away from the kitchen.[0].

Alternatively, I also prefer to cook only for me. I can take the time I want. Retry as many times as I want. And don't have to take into account the other persons tastes.

[0] And I know this is a juvenile sentiment. I have learned to deal with it but it's just too damn annoying.
More like having electricity in your main office. You don't necessarily need to own your own power source and battery bank if the reliability of the public grid is good enough for your business.

But if the public grid is only 98% reliable, and you need power 99.9% of the year, you do need a hot backup system.

Google isn't providing the service that is down for many customers x% of the time, but a service that can fail catastrophically and permanently for x% of customers.

As long as anyone can say that a Google robot permanently cut them off from a service that is important to them, without any meaningful recourse, you simply cannot trust Alphabet with critical pieces of your business, even to the extent that you can trust your local power utility to keep the lights on in your office. There are plenty of businesses that can operate without a backup generator. But nobody can trust Google, PayPal, Amazon, Stripe, L4, Square, et al to be their sole service provider for some function critical to the business.

Those businesses are trying to be Internet utilities, but are neither as trustworthy as nor as reliable as a regular utility. Would you be comfortable buying gas from the gas company if every so often they intentionally burn a customer's house down, then tell any aggrieved survivors to suck it up and get lost?
Old styes have a cost, and old compilers are not used very often.

At some point, even for a compatibility focused project like Linux, that cost must get too big for the benefit it provides.
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Their job postings ask for this:

"Knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, RDS, DynamoDB"
Their fonts are broken in my Firefox 43.0.1.
(I know it's old but still.)
Food tracking is an important part of many services, ranging from fitness/calorie tracking style apps to diabetes management.

However, keeping and maintaining an accurate food database is a big, costly, task that makes adopting new markets harder and obviously adds a substantial maintenance cost for each market.

Projects like this makes more markets accessible, especially small ones as cost per potential user is higher, and lay the foundation for cross-service-collaborations (i.e. log in your fitness app and the data shows up in your diabetes app as well).
I'm not sure that's clear. There are actually two ways to achieve the outcome we want; tweaking the model or changing the inputs.

What I mean, say the model identifies that a certain group has a greater risk due to systemic problems. If you change something about the group, you can change the calculated risk without changing the model. And this may very well be a better way to achieve the outcome you want.

Specifically, by preventing insurance companies from using a more accurate mode, what you're demanding is that the random people who happen to have taken the same insurance packages but are not part of the group should make an extra contribution to fix these systemic problems.

But why them? Shouldn't we all contribute instead, hopefully using a fair system for assessing how much should each pay?

Instead of tweaking the model, you can change the inputs by providing a state-backed guarantee to the underprivileged groups. Isn't it more fair overall?
As many of my friends, I love to eat and I love to cook, but unfortunately, my time, kitchen room and budget is limited.
So I prefer by far for the same time/budget having let's say 3 poor (joylent/queal) meals and 1 excellent meal than 4 passable meals.
Hi, one of the factories pictured and visited is in Yiwu. Contrary to popular belief, not all art factories are in Dafen China, and the reality is it became more of a tourist destination than an actual factory town. This is mostly because of the rising cost of rent as Shenzhen (Dafen is really a district of Shenzhen, not a remote "village") is also a Chinese tech hub headquartered by many startups and companies including Tencent.

Here is a picture of a luxury condominium right at the entrance of Dafen "village". https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1700930/unspecified.jpeg

Many other areas where replica paintings are manufactured include Yiwu, Xiamen, and Beijing.
Can't some programs be proven to be partially or totally correct?
Aren't all article suggesting an alternatives based on another set of priorities?

This is also targeted at people who are choosing fast food over home made food because they want to, not because they have to.

Innovation is great, but if you read the article it talks about many benefits to making food, I'd say the intangible benefits are the greatest, i.e., purpose and accomplishment.
Mr. Orwell? Big fan - may I have your autograph? :)
DCO synths don't have tuning problems, modern VCO synths (like the OB-6) have built-in tuning circuits. Even on the older gear that needs manual tuning (like my SH-101), it doesn't take too long to tune. If a synth is drifting wildly, then it's more likely to be a fault/time for reconditioning.

In terms of signal-to-noise, well yeah they're all noisy, but not terribly if you do your gain staging properly, and gate anything that's excessively noisy.

Actually the noise is part of the character of the imperfection. Look at emulations of classic gear, and they're all digitally putting the noise back in.
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some routers provided by ISPs also broadcast public WIFI networks that any customer of the ISP can use. Not something I'm interested in; the last thing I want is more frequency congestion around my house.
I don't think it's lead based - how would you tell?

It's coming off as sheets - I think there was some thin wallpaper underneath at some point. Either that or water got underneath the paint. I think it's coming off relatively cleanly all things considered.
WolframAlpha can combine nutrition information for a series of items, to generate an aggregate "Nutrition Facts" label. Ex.:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%20slice%20pizza%20%2b...

Years ago I applied for API access with the intent of making an app for diet tracking, but was denied. (And from what I've heard, queries would have been prohibitively expensive.)
newhere420 didn't mention Soylent one way or the other.

If I had to guess - and I do - I'd wager that his family just orders in or goes out for dinner more than others. And as a new parent myself, I can completely understand.