skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is we've entered an age where, because of devices' entanglement with the cloud, the manufacturer's interest in the object isn't exhausted at the moment of sale. This is a big change in the way things have traditionally been done, and in the long term it could have major consequences.

This isn't the first time something like this has happened - but usually manufacturers are pretty reticent about it, and try to avoid looking capricious in their actions. When Amazon removed books from customers' Kindles they got a bunch of flack for it, even though there was some sort of reason involving the copy not having been licensed properly, or something.

If I brought a normal washing machine and it leaked a lot, I could post a factual review on line without fear of retribution. If I brought an internet-enabled washing machine and it leaked a lot, should I expect that posting a factual review online would get my washing machine remotely disabled? This would not be good for getting trustworthy reviews.

And if a device can be remotely disabled because of a negative review, can it also be disabled because, say, I'm a Yankees supporter and the guy taking my support call thinks Yankees suck? What if the support guy thought it would be funny to see me hopping on one foot while holding a shoe on my head - can he disable my device until I send him a video of that?
Leicester? Why?
>I have a very strong impression that what defines how much money or income anyone has is almost completely defined by their limiting beliefs.

This one really struck me. Repeatedly this point comes up in all the new age money related philosophies, and I'm kind of starting to agree with it. Nice write up.
Gift cards are a convoluted system that not everyone is aware of. This is simpler.
At least in Germany, you are not entitled to enforce this by disabling the purchase. That could backfire badly.
From the Amazon product page Q&A:

What happens if the company goes out of business? Does the app require a server to be active in order to use the App?

The app requires a server component as does any consumer friendly product with mobile access. There is a plan to add the support for server-less mode, though it will require users to configure domain name service and firewall. The main server component is maintained by the Particle and pre-paid for the life of the device. Additionally, unlike many products bricked by the companies going out if business, Garadget is an open source system so it welcomes third-party solutions.

[https://www.amazon.com/forum/-/Tx1SJ70QRGDYZAY/ref=ask_dp_dp...]
Amazon has already bricked a Kindle (and the full user account) because it had "a pirate PDF", according to their automations.

Just, don't but from Amazon. Even Alibaba is better.
I think many people here only read the headline and immediately start aiding the destruction of what seems to be a single person's business. I have experienced myself how painful it can be to stay polite towards a*hole customers, so as said in some comment: It's totally fine to quit a customer who acts like that and refund him.
This is standard state of affairs in the UK, I see some agencies in US started to take notice.

Basically if you want to rent a property here, an agency will demand that you pay their fee first(last time I paid over 500 pounds just in agency fees), so they can run a full background check on you - so you have to submit proof of your employment, proof of income, history of addresses for past 3 years, bank account details, copy of my passport to prove the right to rent in the UK, and then it's sent off to some agency somewhere which does the check.

And basically it comes back as yes/no, depending on your credit score, income, blah blah blah. If it comes back as no, you lose all the money you paid in those "fees".

It's a scam of gigantic proportions, but UK plays along because people here love "order" and being invigilated by some random rental agency seems to scratch that itch.
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Then super PACs are what again?
What device? The cloud-enabled device he sold himself? What I understand is that he's blocking that user from using the cloud.
You can't really break someone's shit and tell them you'll give them a refund once they ship it back to you.

Or at least you shouldn't be able to without being liable to be sued.
Hadoop is not the same as Mapreduce (anymore). For instance, folks in my organization run both Spark and Mapreduce on top of Hadoop/Yarn.
Oh really? This is exactly what Mass Effect 3 did with the cover buster mechanic, throwing in some randomness. Combated the bottlenecks by map design and giving AI grenades, gave cover buster and charging enemies distinctive appearance. Made for good gameplay.
Make it a VR game and the only way to truly win... is to take off the headset.
MS suspended their account, ignore them, and let them access other users' data
We should probably start having regulations around IOT servcies. The issue here isn't that the customer or the service rep was abusive. The real issue is that the company can disable the cloud service that is essential for their product to work based on their perception of the customer.

It seems really risky to purchase IOT products right now.
Let's say you, yes you, don't have a bank account or credit card. Now, how do you buy something from amazon?
AoE seems pretty active though. Last expansion was like 2014 and I know people still play it.
If you care about performance in your debug build, GCC has a special option for that: -Og

Changelog: "A new general optimization level, -Og, has been introduced. It addresses the need for fast compilation and a superior debugging experience while providing a reasonable level of run-time performance. Overall experience for development should be better than the default optimization level -O0. "
I'm not sure why you would think that... a lot of us are self-taught. Feel free to apply!
I'm fairly sure an H1B'er isn't going to seek extra USCIS attention unless things are bad.
From the end of the article: "This article originally appeared on Medium."

https://hackernoon.com/multi-millionaire-at-27-what-i-learne...
Poor impulse control on both sides. If you are incapable of distancing yourself from not so mean or angry comments like that you should not be let handle customer support.
Okay, we get it. Four square is making a living selling location data. The question is, how are they gathering it? My understanding is the majority of Google Maps installations have full access to location data, and so does Facebook and snapchat. All apps that have a wider install base than four square.

So what are their competitive advantage? What extra info does their users give and why do they give it?
You probably can't go to their house and pour water in their electronics and tell them they'll get a full refund if they ship it back to you.
Ahh but the parent poster is part of the community that doesn't believe that the Barkley community is fair, so you cannot come in and define that community because you clearly don't know enough about it to really be talking about how it should be operated.

You can defend the race without telling someone else that he has no right to his own opinion.
Sorry confusion on my part, the guy mentions his iphone app not working and the dev answer that the device is banned. My bad.

Anyways, device is not disabled as in bricked, it's blacklisted on the server side of thing.
Depends how much one enjoys using an outdated dialect of the language and libraries, after Java 6, Android only gets support for Java 7 and 8 features cherry picked by the Android team, not 100% of them.

One reason why they backtracked on Jake and Jill was that they weren't being able to make all the annotation tooling and bytecode manipulation libraries work on the new toolchain.
You+can+now+manage+tasks+on+mobile+devices+with+Windows+10+Flow+Beta
>minimum level of decorum

Free speech doesn't mean much? Entire nations were founded on the basis of individual rights to bitch about things they don't like, without incurring oppressive retaliation.

Really, this is imperialism versus the free market. Either you harden up and listen to the people whose participation influences your survival directly (i.e. customers), or you go out of business.

In this case, the latter condition appears appropriate.
Dubai is really not safe for unmarried couples. It's a total non-starter, even for a holiday.
More immediately, the actual check is a test for one of the flag files that I mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13473273 : /run/systemd/first-boot . This file is initially created/unlinked to correspond with the result of the check that you mention, but is also modified later on.

A prior bug report discussing the "misleading" doco in this very area was https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5562 , which was closed as "not a bug".
Does 1 review make or break a company? I've been seeing a lot of "5 star vs 1 star" issues recently. One of them was on an Uber article where the customers were not getting 5 start for not tipping for example and this impacted their ability to get rides (or so I think based on what I read).

A lot of other smaller companies selling stuff online only and even Indi games seems to be very sensitive about reviews. Is the difference between overall 4 star vs 5 star so impactful?

Maybe there is a deeper problem somewhere in here. Or maybe this is a reasonable backfire for a bad customer support.
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Is it feasible to add pseudorandom Gaussian noise to their aim that is multiplied by distance÷√difficulty in each axis?
I love how the author bears resemblance to Russ Hanneman from Silicon Valley—even warning the reader of the perils involved in buying exotic sports cars.
but they made it a blob because that gives them more power

They made it a blob because they need the data to generate revenue. Googles services are free, if you let them have your data. I'm 100% certain that a paid alternative would not survive because people does not want to pay a reasonable fee for the services, when they can have it for free if they let Google save some, to the User, harmless data - they even get personalized content in return.
> it was always a country to keep offshore companies/accounts, so every rich developer in ex-USSR already been there and knew the place, but since 2014 it started to make sense to move physically as well

I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that since 3 years ago Cyprus (among others) 'sells' EU permanent residency permits to rich foreigners. You can imagin that an EU permanent residency permit, allowing you to live and work in all of the EU is worth more than gold for rich people in Putin's Russia, KGB Belarus and war-thorn Ukraine.

Let's not pretend Cyprus is an international tech hub for developers and start ups...

http://gulfnews.com/business/property/cyprus-property-opens-...
yes, can't do anything but let it be.
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> and was accessed by pressing the down arrow repeatedly on the character select screen until his "down syndrome" caused him to be selected

Haha. There was so much crazy humor very widespread everywhere before "PC landed" (as a wave) over the last ~decade (by which I mean the herd moved from "let's make the odd joke of any one group at times but not seriously harm anyone in reality" to "anything could be offensive to someone so let's not come up with much to cultivate uber-tolerance for the sake of it"). Even freaking Donald Duck euro-comics from the 70s til mid-90s are quite awash reading them as an adult today (with a broader horizon of reference points).
Tables absolutely have their place... for rendering tabular data!

The idea that tables are "bad" was always semantic FUD, but i like to think we're pretty much over that these days and the fact remains that they're far from ideal for responsive page-level layout and we now have a far more powerful (and meaningful!) toolbox to pick from. The CSS display-table techniques were at best a hack, disguising the presence tables in the markup, but they were still there at an abstract level in all their tabley glory.

The stuff you can do with a handful of lines of flexbox/grid blow a conventional table layout away at the expense of a steeper learning curve. They're honestly worth the effort.
Berlin and Barcelona are way better places than Paris. Unless you're into old cities filled with pretiensious people.
It's not a home security product if it connects to servers and can be disabled remotely.
If you operate a business in the Internet age and delude yourself that customers are required to have decorum, you are in for a rude shock, sooner than later.
I get the sentiment, but why should a hardware company let the user keep the device and their money? Issuing a refund and finding a way to retrieve the device so it can be resold makes much more sense to me. Especially for a small company....

Giving away your product for free to every customer that complains seems like a quick way to go out of business.

If you buy a faulty ipad from apple, they'll certainly give you your money back, but they'll make you return the ipad.
I work with a bunch of people who have tattoos.. and it is totally acceptable.

Really, there is nothing wrong with tattoos in the workplace, though you probably should not get your face covered or markings that are obvious when you work in a public place where they can easily be seen. On the arm? No problem. On the neck? Possibly a problem if it is on your foreneck. On your face? Big problem. Arms? Legs? Body itself which can be covered? I don't think it's an issue.

Read this article for more on Tattoos in the Workplace: http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/tattoos-workplace...
> Cost: We're not there yet, but not paying registration/insurance/repayments/garage space will make this economical in time - at first at least for second car owners
> Liability: Insurance - I think automation will be safer i.e. less accidents
> Utility: I think door to door driving without looking for parking is a pretty good perk
> Pool vs. own: Both of these models will be competitive with each other, so in the end it won't matter

plus there will be additional benefits
Safety: Less drunk drivers on the road, less accidents from fatigue, etc.
Cost: at a minimum, it will bring cab prices down
Efficiency: Less traffic jams as autonomous systems won't slam on the brakes when they see a police car, etc. Smoother flowing traffic, higher legal road speeds if reaction time is shorter

And then there are other non-car transport which will benefit: logicistics, mail, deliveries etc. Minibuses that could pick you up door to door through automated route planning etc.
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You're right. I didn't look carefully enough at the Amazon page.
Yeah I considered that too, but I have not actually made purchases through the VPN. I did not buy any games anymore for quite some years as I stopped gaming as much, thus when I started using the VPN it was only to talk to friends and play the occasional game, all after a long time of not being logged in :-)

And indeed, it's probably about the pricing of games in different regions!
I kinda like that they disabled the device. It's a bit strange, but I'm surprised this discussion isn't more divided.
Google took significantly from GPL licensed code for their own operating system, which is exactly what you said couldn't happen.
> Without more constraints it would do silly things like create a vending machine containing ladders, vending machines in trees, vending machines containing other vending machines and trees, and vending machines that gave you a coin for a coin.

I'm pretty sure you can find all of these in Japan.
> I'd imagine several things could be used as this proxy to varying degrees, everything from income to criminal history

But I think you could also make a compelling argument that many of those things are accurate proxies primarily due to the legacy of more overt discrimination, and it would be difficult to impossible to disentangle that.
Slightly off topic, but where does a layman start learning the fundamentals of DNA and proteins, etc?

It seems to be such a huge body of knowledge and the field seems to be moving so quickly.
For context: prior to Nesticle you needed a very beefy machine (for the time) to emulate NES games at a half-decent frame rate. All of the existing emulators were basically unplayable on my Pentium60.

Nesticle came out of nowhere and was a huge improvement. Totally playable. I think it was the first jitting nes emulator.
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Wouldn't that be cool if it created a competitive market where casinos advertised their house advantage?
Musk did actually blacklist a someone for tweeting something unfavorable towards Musk.

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/02/03/sour-model-x-unveiling-...
For many people I work with, even visiting the US is something they're trying to avoid.
Yes, that is why pretty much All GPU markers have deal cross licensed with each other.

The story from last year was that Apple's price for IMG acquisition weren't high enough, and Apple asked if they could buy ONLY the graphics portion. Which resulted in a NO from IMG.

Compared to ARM, some estimate Apple is paying $10M for the ISA and roughly $0.1 for each Ax SoC. So that is ~30M per year, ( There will be other cost for processor other then Ax, such as the Motion Processor etc )
Compared to paying roughly $80M USD for the Graphics alone, which Apple doesn't even use their design, nor their services ( Software Drivers ) they provide.
So what likely happen was Apple wanted to pay far less,
( $20M? ), but their New CEO wanted them to pay for more.

My guess is that in the end Img will relent and license whatever Apple wanted for a price. If not, I am not sure how Apple will deal with old games that wont work with their new GPU which does support PVRTC.
Go back a bit and you will see that corporations like Microsoft (and many others) are built on stolen ideas. Its a very long list but Lotus123 and Netscape spring to mind for me
What's the right way to design an IoT product to not be dependent on a startup's cloud servers?

- Allow the app/device to point to a different host (running an open source version of the backend)?
- Support LAN connectivity without round-tripping to a third party server?
- Allow the user to load their own firmware onto the device?

I don't know where the line is for these things, it seems to be a balance of convenience, ownership, and security.

What's the ideal way to handle this so it works well even if the backing company disappears?
Ask HN: Cheapest (used) Android Wear 2.0 watch to start dev? (April 2017)
Hey, our small team is planning to start adding support to our application for Android Wear. I'm wondering what some cheap (I am happy to buy used) watches are that hacker folks recommend.

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I don't really see that future where honest lockmakers would routinely pivot to selling access to the highest bidder, but I do see one where potential buyers would be even more likely than today to choose the devil they know (an overpriced incumbent with less innovative products, but who can be absolutely trusted to not trip into suicidal anti-customer vendettas) over the devil they don't (the charming startup that might hide a source of infinite childishness)
> new age money related philosophies

Do you have any links relating to this?
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Receiving "death threats" from some thirteen years old troll is not quite the same as people actually getting kidnapped, tortured and killed by cartels on semi-regular basis.
The section "Most financial advisors know nothing" made me laugh
The only thing "unlimited" about all 4 of those plans are the weasel words.

Verizon: After 22 GB/line/mo, we may prioritize your data behind other Verizon customers during network congestion.

ATT: After 22GB of data usage, AT&T may slow speeds

T-Mobile: On all T-Mobile plans, if congested, top 3% of data users (>30GB/mo.) may notice reduced speeds due to prioritization

Sprint: Data deprioritization during congestion after 23GB/mo.