skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well considering the fact that it's pretty far away from any windows, and my condo is on the 3rd floor, couldn't they just break the glass window? Or shove the door down? Or more likely use a bump key or even easier fuck with the garage door RF "encryption" which IIRC is laughably weak.

But that aside, it's setup so that my home automation system will only listen to the voice actions if there is someone home. But that was more to prevent IFTTT bugs from opening when I'm not home.

If someone wants to go through all that trouble to break into my house, let them. I have insurance and security cameras. I'm not going to build my house like a vault to prevent someone from stealing my TV any more than I'm going to walk-around in a bullet proof vest to prevent someone from shooting me.

Edit: Sorry if this comes across a little shitty sounding. I get asked this just about every single time I bring this up. I have this response pretty loaded...
Actually, that was the second proposed site. The original proposal would have put it right next to Soldier Field, where it would form a wall blocking the lake. So you can see why the Friends of the Parks didn't want it there.
Medium lays off 50 employees, shuts down New York and D.C. offices
Sche-ma: An XML Story
So no, no lithium shortage in the foreseeable future.

In addition, as of now cobalt and nickel are actually more valuable: https://waste-management-world.com/a/1-the-lithium-battery-r....

There are efforts underway to make lithium recycling effective at commercial scale, but the current chemistry of it and the current (low) cost of lithium metal means that not much is happening in this domain at the moment. Still, I would expect commercial lithium metal recycling long before before we are even remotely close to exhausting lithium stocks.
2016 Edges 1998 as Warmest Year on Record
Pretty much all WiFi transceivers are indeed power-intensive, but it is actually receiving that often takes more juice.

ESP8266 consumes ~70mA with both CPU and WiFi running but idle, and 15mA with CPU idling and WiFi powered down [1]. That's 55mA or (@3.3v) ~180mW for _idle_ (i.e. receiving) WiFi circuitry. Again - that's WiFi only, with exactly zero RF power transmitted.

Now transmit. EU restricts amount of RF power radiated by a WiFi station/AP to 100mW. In US and few other places you can go slightly higher, but then other challenges arise, so for practical purpose most WiFi chipsets top out at 100 mW (a.k.a. 20dBm). Assuming RF power amplifier has efficiency of 32% [2], transmit duty cycle of 50% (that's transmitting half of the time and receiving for another half - pretty intense traffic here), we get:

(100/32%)*50% = just 156mW consumed towards "blasting out" some RF.

Clearly, receiving WiFi takes more. And there is a good reason for that. Most modern designs implement Rx as: Low-noise amplifier with some bandpass filtering -> Zero-IF mixer -> quadrature ADC -> DSP. It's the latter that does FFT, I/Q constellation tracking, demodulation, forward error correction, etc. essentially in software. And that takes a lot of power.

[1] http://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?t=133

[2] http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/75003C.pdf
How Python Was Shaped by Leaky Internals
6500 people need to live somewhere. They need to eat. They need haircuts. They need medical services. And all those other people need the same services too.

I could keep going but you get the idea. Jobs create more jobs which create more jobs.
Good point. That might be the most effective strategy for most people, but it doesn't work on me.
OpenStreetMap: no paid engineers, half a dozen volunteers, unmetered (though not unlimited) public API, one of only four global geodata providers.
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Coming from Ruby, Elixir feels like a powerful, beautiful language with a surprisingly radical but ultimately simple approach to concurrency thanks to Erlang/BEAM, and Phoenix is like Rails 2006, as far as the framework to sell Elixir's advantages to the masses. It's very powerful and scaling "just works". All Elixir needs now is a viable ElixirScript that can compile down to JS/WASM, and along with Nerves it's ready for world domination. ;)
As a former SF resident who could never afford to live there now, in no small part due to the onerous constraints the city puts on housing development, and who generally believes that you should be able to build anything you want with minimal red tape as long as it falls within reasonable zoning restrictions, I don't think the opposition to the Lucas Museum is a good example of NIMBYism.

We aren't talking about any old plot of land here. This is land that is held in trust for the public. It certainly didn't help that the proposed design for the museum was steeped in the kind of faux nostalgia one would expect of Lucas. The first time I saw the design I thought I was looking at a new Westfield mall development in San Jose.

In HS I ran cross country and we would sometimes meet up at that location for our Presidio runs. You can count me among those that would rather have a discount sports store at that location rather than a permanent monument to an out of touch billionaire's ego.
Renewing Medium's Focus
Looks like it's the same "facial pattern" repeated in different sizes - did they find a pattern that triggers a specific algorithm?
I'd be willing to pay good money for an 11" Asus Flip (with or without the flip capability) with great screen resolution, backlit keys, and other high-end features. Increasingly it's my go to travel machine even though I can't run a few applications I like to.
> All I can suggest is that you look up how dynamic arrays are typically implemented in C. The technique I describe is almost universally followed.

I think this gets at the crux of people's problem with the idea that you can just work around the problem of manually allocating memory. It's a bolt-on to the language, and the behavior is dependent on the implementation chosen, and it makes the behavior fundamentally different than "native" C arrays, to the point that it might cause problems.

> This is also what happens with std::vector in C++ - std::vector doesn't manage the memory of the elements themselves, just its internal backing array.

Yes, but there's also usage directions for std::vector that specifically state and make very clear what iterators/pointers are invalidated on what actions. Encountering someone's home-rolled array routines may or may not allow you to easily make the same deductions. Are the routines for dynamic arrays, or are they for doing system cleanup at the same time, or have they been combined? Are there comments noting the reason for what's being done, and that certain operations may invalidate pointers, or are you left to intuit that yourself?

These are the problems with having a non-core (and not even a popular implementation to fall back on) way to extend the language. C++ is a step up in that it at least standardizes a bunch of core types so you can learn those and carry your knowledge of how they work around to different projects in the language. C's lack of this means that every project may implement something like this - or not - in their own way, with subtle usage differences.

The main benefit you would get from Rust in a situation like this (ignoring that it would likely either be built in or readily available through a crate), is that on encountering some home-rolled system, you can look for where it uses unsafe to find any problematic behavior you need to be aware of, because otherwise you are fairly protected. Worst case, the whole home-rolled chunk of code is riddled with unsafe blocks, and you know it's definitely something you need to hunker down with to figure out what's going on (assuming you need to use it).

Rust's unsafe is effectively an enforced comment around dangerous code. Put that way, I'm not sure many C programmers would really object.
> Sunil Tagare

> Thought leader in the global telecommunications industry

I honestly can't tell either.
That is not a bet. Choosing the wrong tool and blaming one's failure on "chance", on "losing a bet", is a classic case of denial. A smarter thing to say is "I made a mistake", and learn from it rather than denying it.
Used Siri since 2011 and use to love it. Then this summer I used Google Now and just recently bought a Google Home. Google wins hands down and makes using Siri frustrating!

For me Google Now and Alexa are the next huge leaps in computing ... like the iPhone was. I wish Google would create an app store much like Apple's where users try an app out and buy it for a buck if they like it.

I have my google now hooked up to turn my TV, lights and thermostat on. It understands my commands 97% of the time vs. Siri's 85%.
Resuming: I would buy one.

The price is not that bad (comparing with Mac world) assuming that it's well built (looks metal?), has an high screen resolution and access to android ecosystem. I would just need a way to run VScode or Sublime.
LinkedIn's behavior is driven by profit. They want advertising money and are willing to sacrifice their users for that, just like Google, Facebook and more recently Microsoft, which happens to own LinkedIn.

This person probably just wants to work on interesting things (for them) and get paid well, just like the thousands of employees at the other companies I mentioned. Fighting for ethical software doesn't pay. Nor does it make one particularly popular.
The #1 thing that jumps out at me is a high res screen, which is the reason I returned my flip. I liked most everything about the flip, but doing tablet things on it like reading or watching movies was unpleasant considering I've been using high res screens for some time now.
Nah it was just a fun project to introduce myself to the platform. I'm surprised they did that to you though. I wonder if that policy will change in the future considering there's tons of apps that target kids in their app store.
Consist the number of people making "great money" but having little or no actual wealth (that only sounds contradictory initially).

The ones who become wealthy through salary typically do that by converting a lot of "excess" salary into equity in something, the earlier the better.
It's mainstream for new projects. Which is what was expected and aimed for.
I could see that being a concern for a commercial product. but why is it a concern for an open source one?
Wow - Google actually knows about Slack. That's surprising, most Googler's I know still use Hangouts to communicate at work and have never heard of Slack lol.
Your reasoning is correct but
the bonus score (komi) is given to white, which is second to move and is behind in the race at building territory (the thing that gets scored).
Of course, you have to grow. You have to move into new areas. That is what everyone does, that is how the world works.
IIUC, it's not about accessing python libs from go. It's for accessing go libs from your python program and transpiling that python code to go source and compile it with go tool chains.

Eg: python code (from blog post)

from __go__.net.http import ListenAndServe, RedirectHandler

handler = RedirectHandler('http://github.com/google/grumpy', 303)
ListenAndServe('127.0.0.1:8080', handler)
There's attitude enough on all sides here, that's pretty clear to me as a disinterested outsider.
Means it can't run .Exes so it's safe! Just like OSX.
It actually sends the opposite signal: news sites, books, etc...aren't taken seriously until they are banned. The communist party hasn't heard of the Streisand Effect yet.

If Wen Jiaobao's family didn't accumulate so much wealth, why would they have blocked nytimes in the first place? It must be true, they never even tried refuting the facts presented in theat seminal article.
There are many alternatives, try SpiderOak if you want encryption, or SyncDocs if you just want to encrypt your free Google Drive storage.
discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13321322
Three rust articles on the front page? Not complaining, it definitely seems like the popularity has really jumped up in the last three months.
It's actually ridiculously nice, especially with the new async/await constructs.
Another problem with Alexa as an OS here is Alexa, Siri, and OK Google will never work for some classes of disability. Myself I'm Deaf/Mute, so I can't talk to any of these things, or hear their responses, so they are 100% completely useless to me. There is a good reason text interfaces are so ubiquitous, they can easily be changed into Assistive Devices (like say spoken word for the blind).
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/33816/the-man...

I can't find the source just now though I do remember reading about apple prebuying all perfect chips of certain classes therefore making then unavailable to the competition. Given their purchasing power I don't find this wholly inconceivable.
Facebook censors historian to protect users from Roman god’s sculpted genitalia
IME using inheritence to reduce code is always a mistake, composability is much better.
Because you've had to support Chromebook problems instead?
It's a given that those with Chromebooks will not have Mac or Windows problems.

But beyond that, I'd agree that giving children or parents a Chromebook will cut down on tech support requests.
Clarifications on “Beating the compression performance of xz”
Try OverGrive. It changed my (Linux) life. It's as good as the official OS X client.
How to establish dialogue with early adopters
How do you all first curate/find a group of adopters and then establish a dialogue with them? Let's say the business is a network-based (e.g. LinkedIn) website service.
I've had a bunch of signups but people aren't responding to my requests for feedback and I'm having difficulty moving towards product/market fit as a result.
Ah, neat. Thanks for the analysis! I always assumed it was the transmit that ate the power, simply because you need `x` amount of energy to broadcast the signal out. But I can absolutely see how it's the circuitry associated with getting a signal back into digital that could be costly instead

TIL :)
They are all blocked. Even WSJ, which was mostly pro China, or Bloomberg, which is seriously pro China. Economist fell last year, there aren't many news sources left....maybe CNN and Fox News that don't do much serious reporting (ironic I started reading nytimes in china in 2002 because CNN was blocked).

Note even if the app is in the App Store, it isn't necessary that it will work. Nytimes app needs a connection to nytimes.com get news. So the app is useless without a VPN, and you can also get the app if you set your region to the USA (I have both Chinese store and USA apps on my idevices, some apps like didi and xiami aren't on the USA store).
I thought "artisanal, shade-grown code" was such a delightful phrase. I took it to mean not bad, but rather too costly for practical/mass use. Like some people can afford to buy $6 lattes, and those are likely very tasty lattes, but Folgers is going to move more beans.
The context of this thread is AlphaGo. Why would we bother discussing what bad human players do when the topic is clearly about play at the highest levels?
Please note here that the designers of the legislation intended for domestic propaganda protections to receive a new executive interpretation - that they argued current interpretation of domestic propaganda is taken "too literally".
Full specs for anyone who's interested: http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/12-14/xe513c...

Still only 32GB eMMC, this is not excusable anymore; there is no 4G modem in this, only wifi, a portable device without storage is pointless can barely fit 2 1080 movies on it....
A Web Service Written in Pure Bash
Yup. Useless OS powers one of the best-selling notebooks on Amazon. It also used in a lot of schools.

I gave it to my mom and she loves it versus a complicated Windows machine she used to have.

But yeah, you don't use it so it's useless.
https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/
If it's not a chrome app, it won't run on a chromebook. The browser sandbox is incredibly tight.
> A single developer can download 50 deps across his codebase, and update them to later versions 2-3 times a year.

As if individual developers are the reason behind the bulk of the downloads. I wonder how many downloads Travis alone counts for?

Your hate of Python 3 in every discussion about it is frankly baffling.
I think this hits the nail on the head with startups. Overinflated growth and expectations. If you make a platform and expect limitless growth then a lot of doors close. If medium was good enough with 15 employees, why make a good thing bad? Why is 15 people having a highly profitable sustained business seen as a bad thing today? If that is the limit, then keep that company slowly growing to 30 people over time if it becomes necessary.

But then again if you race to investor money and immediately have to make $1 billion to appease investors, it suddenly makes sense.
In older news - entire Google Play store removed from Android phones in China. Google cooperates by preventing its play store app being sideloaded and disallowing app downloads from its website to a computer or phone without the play store app.
Can you get root access on these? Use a HOSTS file etc?
> I'm sure you come off as a lot nicer, but I suspect you're doing subtle things constantly that you might not even be aware of, or that you write off as normal and therefore perfectly fine.

Maybe, but I doubt it. I'm sure I'm not the world's nicest person or anything, but unless everyone is lying to me: I have a fun personality and people prefer to be around me than not.

If your ethics and morals don't allow you to let the other player feel bad, how do you even play games? Usually the point of games is to win, or to at least out-achieve others. How do you spare their feelings while you shoot someone in the face in an FPS?
Slack has replaced hangouts as the primary chat for my friends and I. Hipchat replaced hangouts at work as the primary chat.
I believe the intent of Assange's statement that a 14-year-old could have made this hack, as well as Trump's tweeting of the statement, was to emphasize the non-sophistication of the attack (commonplace phishing), contrary to the idea we've been hearing from officials about how only a state actor could pull off such a thing.
So ChromeOS can now run android apps.

It's a step away from the purity of design of the original vision, without the usefulness of actually just coming out and admitting the things run Linux (and, say, letting us run linux apps on them without jumping through hoops). And it doesn't solve the performance problems (Chrome is amazingly heavyweight. My modest school-issued machine will sometimes crash if I've got a moderate number of tabs open, due to what I think is OOM). But it will give us a handful of useful apps. And at the end of the day, it lets me play Quake (and maybe Doom) on a chromebook, as well as anything I can convince RetroArch to work with. So I'm happy.
This is another good article about developing discipline and doing hard things:

"At some point, to be healthy, you do need to suck it up and eat some broccoli! And for many days in a row. Or, more to the point: The “failure point” with any new system; any method of improvement; any proposed solution to a life problem or an organization problem, is when the homeostatic regulation kicks in, when we realize some part of it will be hard, new, or unnatural."
https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/10/eat-the-broccoli/
But, really, what site cannot be boiled down to practically CRUD? That does not help us understand what you believe is a complex site.

Is this supposed to be some kind of no true Scotsman?
So far we haven't been able to cure aids.
From what I recall, U.S./UK/French/etc. forces liberated at least several camps, so those would have been in Germany (not France or Benelux, and not on the Eastern Front). Also, they compelled local Germans to tour the camps, so there would have been German towns nearby.

On such an important topic, it would be great if you could provide citations beyond Wikipedia (arguably the godfather of 'post-truth' information ...).
Although describing yourself as a " thought leader" seems popular these days, I don't think I've ever come across anybody using that term about themselves accurately.
> T-mobile is currently actively zero-rating music in the Netherlands.

Which was banned in the Netherlands until the recent EU-wide Net Neutrality law, which improved Net Neutrality in 27 EU countries, but made it slightly worse in the Netherlands. (It allows Zero-Rating).
Hmmm. I'm a huge Woody Allen fan, but even so I'd have to say most of Annie Hall's value lies in its cultural impact. It's far from Allen's best work, but it is among his most accessible and most popular, which did factor into its Oscar win.
You've been able to run some Android apps inside chrome for a couple of years now: https://chrome.googleblog.com/2014/09/first-set-of-android-a.... Perhaps this is based on that?
Calling it now.

Medium.com pivots to become marketplace where you can either publish for free on their platform or put your writing in an auction for other publications to buy it.

Journalist/writers/whatever all write in a single location and get published to multiple publications. The new model.

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More likely the gp was making fun of the way people tend to jump into discussions about Chinese free speech, pollution, racism or military aggression against its neighbors with "but America does it too!" comments.
Personally, I have been wondering is the cozy relationship between Trump and Putin signals danger for Snowden. I could totally see Snowden being handed over as a gesture.
Could whatever changes they made to accommodate Android apps, break crouton? dnschneid works at Google, so he could make the necessary updates if given the time, but sometimes I wonder whether crouton will remain a priority...
2400x1600 http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/12-14/xe513c...
Heh, I came to the comments hoping for an answer. Oh well...
Cryogenic fuel is not the same is supercooled; supercooled is closer to freezing than to boiling
They put the whole Android framework in a Linux container that runs on Chrome OS.
If all you need in js/wasm is the functional layer of the language, that could be easy.

If you want to add processes, that could be very hard.

If you also want the supervisors, that's difficult but probably not has much as adding Erlang style processes.
I hear a lot of people claiming this is the "best public site in a large metro area," "highly prized real estate in the entire world."

This is what the museum would replace: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8035885,-122.4592349,3a,75y,...

The view that might be obscured: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8019879,-122.4587395,3a,75y,...
>I see the US as the mecha of frauds

Oh god, I'm imagining a fraud-based Gundam now, thanks.

FYI, you want 'Mecca' in this context. A 'mecha' is typically a reference to giant robots, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha
From when I used Samsung Galaxy S[N]; I cannot even imagine the amount of non-removable crapware this laptop will have.

If you want to fiddle with Android on a laptop, try RemixOS; I used it for a while in a virtual machine when my phone broke and it's awesome.
The new Flip was just announced, it has an Intel CPU (but it's also twice as expensive, sadly):

https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ASUS-Chromebook-Flip-C302CA/
TFA and all the comments their essentially conflate complexity with more typing. Webforms might be easy to drag and drop, but it is much more complex than MVC. That's when things are going right, when things are going wrong Webforms becomes exponentially more complex.

MS developers also rarely know about tools like Gtk and Qt, which is much friendlier for building desktop front ends than drag and drop tools ever were.