skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three problems. First selling to Google automatically put Nest into the "Are they going to sell my home data" category. Denials to the contrary that's Google's business model for everything so naturally people assume it's going to happen.

Second rush to market for their smoke detector Protect caused a debacle when it was discovered it was far too easy to silence a real alarm so they were all recalled, etc.

Third Nest has no relationship or respect in the home HVAC industry. Pretty much every HVAC tech and owner I've spoken to has a strong dislike for Nest. And while installing the Nest isn't that hard eventually everyone is going to have HVAC issues that need professional repair and people will get an earful about their Nest. This gets around quickly.

Of course now there's more competition also by traditional HVAC companies like Honeywell. Although I had a Nest in my previous house when I purchased a smart thermostat for my son for his house warming I purchased a Honeywell just for the reasons above.
You had the kernel of a sensible point a while ago, but now you're just digging in. Acting as if most teenage pregnancies occur because the woman involved doesn't understand how babies are made is asinine unless you've unearthed some population I don't know about; and claiming that frictions standing in the way of perfectly convenient birth control absolves a person from all consequences is both asinine and actively insulting to the agency of human beings everywhere.

Things could be better, of course, and that's worth talking about, but your argument has turned into a caricature.
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I use rsnapshot from cron to external USB drive encrypted with luks. I swap the drive with similar one weekly and store it offsite.
In the statute, actually they specifically list reasons that make your presence a trespass.

https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title76/Chapter6/76-6-S206.html?v=...

Entering property for just any reason doesn't count as trespass... you need to have some sort of malicious intent, and stay despite being reasonably warned (including by signs or a fence) that your presence is not welcome.
Is Extended Random a Malicious NSA Plot? (2015)
Competition and Crowd-Out for Brand Keywords in Sponsored Search [pdf]
I'd like to know more about those 5%, could you give more details?
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Like most attempts to define intelligence, this one falls short. I hope we can agree that brute force doesn't count, since it's nearly a orthogonal trait. But physical strength contributes to an organism's "ability" to "respond to information".
Ask HN: Database of Vegetable Harvest Times?
I'm working on a project on gardening, and I'm looking for a clean API or data source of vegetables and planting & harvest times.

Something like this(http://www.gardentowerproject.com/news/gardening-ideas-recommendations/veggie-scheduling-when-to-start-seeds-plant-harvest), but with data that's usable (or easily changeable) by excel in formulas.

In an ideal world, I'd like to have it include indoor planting times & germination times. It would be great to have a chart like this(http://www.ufseeds.com/Zone-6-Planting-Calendar.html) but with actual date ranges instead of a gradient.

And I'm aware that this data change per zone and has a margin of error. I'm looking specifically for Zone 7, but if this was organized by Zone that would be great. If not, I can still work with the data.

Does anyone know where I can find such a chart?
A consistently excellent place to view photos of this sort, though not exclusively about war, etc, is the Atlantic "In Focus" page:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/

I visit them once a week and go through the photos. Quite amazing.
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Related is The Million Dollar Engineering Problem [1] from Segment, which showed up on HN a few months ago. They shaved $300K from their annual AWS spend by identifying and dealing with hot shards on DynamoDB.

[1] https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem/
Quite popular for airplane autopilots too (both manned an unmanned).
Ooh, I'd never thought of that. I suppose it's possible, but then I'd be at the mercy of the Evernote platform. Would their device limit affect me?

That's a really interesting idea though. Maybe I could make it cloud backend agnostic..
This. Especially when I realize that there is a thing the explanation for which was given to me by someone way before either of us had access to the internet and before Google existed (I am getting old I guess). Like whether eating onions helps stave off a cold. Or how a distributed in a car works. Or whether Nissans are actually reliable or not. Or if you need higher than minimum recommended octane rating in your car. Or why most of Europe uses 240V in their outlets. Or what actually happened in Chernobyl.
That's the intuition, but I wonder if there isn't a spike in near-term repurchase behavior that the algorithms are correctly exploiting?

Ex: I bought a vacuum, but I'm unhappy with it. I bought a pool or oil filter, but it was the wrong one. I bought an X, but it was defective. I bought an 8-ct of paper towels because I run a cleaning service or property management company and use a lot of paper towels. I bought a pair of jeans and they're the wrong size or I bought a pair of jeans and they're exactly the right size and now I want to order 3 more pair so I can have the ones I like.

Years ago, we built a conditional offer engine and the humans operating it kept complaining that it was "broken" because it was suggesting non-sensical combinations. In split-run, those non-sensical combinations were clear winners, even if the humans couldn't get comfortable with them.
My article on costs in the ethereum network cover this idea.
https://hackernoon.com/ether-purchase-power-df40a38c5a2f?sou...
You should take a look at Google Cloud Database which is a better option and has per-operation pricing instead of per-node pricing.
This is what Golem aims to do... and it's built on ethereum.
Also, anti banking activists don't use services like coinbase.
> reach out to them to see if there is any scope to work together

Hey, you don't have any contact info in your profile, but if you'd like to get in touch I'd be keen to have a chat, my email is eli@ux-app.com
I try to do some numbers the best I can.

Assuming cost of $1.25 per MWh (same as in California) this costs roughly $150 million. You would need 260 of these to cover all Australian households for $39 billion.

This is dayscale storage and emergency supply to stabilize electricity grid. It provides emergency supply for 30,000 homes and grid stabilization. Lithium energy competes in this category with Flywheel energy storage systems. 129 MWh's battery used alone could supply the daily electricity for something like 7000 household daily electricity usage. If it supplies only 1/4 of the electricity then 30,000 homes is realistic.

If Tesla learns how to reuse lithium with reasonable cost, this can scale. Currently Tesla recycles lithium into bricks used in construction.

The price would be $4900 per per household.

sources:

1. http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricity...

2. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/all-the-details-on-teslas...

EDIT: I used average household energy usage and number of homes but used Australian population. The cost and number of units required was 3X too high. 1̶2̶0̶
BTW http://clickrouter.com redirects to https://clickrouter.com. And this has a warning from chrome "This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources".
https://xkcd.com/214/

An interesting side note: if you repeatedly click the first link at the beginning of any wikipedia article (except links in parenthesis) you will always end up at Philosophy.
If you want to become a professional and not just a dabbler I would recommend reading some of the following books I have in my bookshelf:

[0] RHCSA & RHCE Training and Exam Preparation Guide by Asghar Ghori. This book will help insure you know your stuff as your system engineer/administrator wise.

[1] A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editor and Shell Programming Third Edition. This book will cover the majority of what you would need and want to know when connecting to a remote linux system over ssh.

If you want to get under the hood and become an expert, the following books should help get you started:

[2] Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

[3] The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

[4] Linux Kernel Development 3rd Edition

To get a nice general overview and get up and going quickly:

[5] How Linux works: What every superuser should know

[6] The Linux Command Line

[7] Python Crash Course

[8] Automate the boring stuff with Python. This is a great book to help you think about how to automate most of the repetitive things you will end up doing on a regular basis.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/RHCSA-RHCE-Red-Enterprise-Linux/dp/14...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Commands-Editors-Prog...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Ha...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/How-Linux-Works-Superuser-Should/dp/1...

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Command-Line-Complete-Introduct...

[7] https://www.amazon.com/Python-Crash-Course-Hands-Project-Bas...

[8] https://www.amazon.com/Automate-Boring-Stuff-Python-Programm...
a rabbit hole?
An establishment backed control job.
Home - I back up the data areas. Dump the databases then run Back In Time which covers the home folder and my web folder. From that I can get from 0 to fully running in a few hours if necessary. And with Back In Time I have a usable portable copy of my stuff to take along when I need to.

At work we do regular TAR backups to external drives and SSH-rsync data to our sister office via VPN nightly. Backups are good for system restore then rsync back from remote to get to most recent.
> Our contract also allows for verification, "If the Employer suspects abuse, the Employer may require a written medical certificate for any sick leave absence."

That sounds pretty standard in any contract here in Denmark, and we have some very strong unions which have created good conditions for employees. I personally think it's fair for the employer to ask for a doctor's note if he/she thinks an employee is skipping work just for the hell of it. Though said unions have made it so that the employer has to pay for the doctor's note, when they request it, so it happens rarely.
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Hacker News, imgur, slickdeals.

Also, mu.
- Crashplan on NAS

- 6 month archival image of NAS to external HDD, rotated every 2 years

- 3 month differential rsync to nearline storage, kept for 5 years
I love it when people make 80 year old predictions with a straight face.

Reminds me of "peak oil" when everybody was predicting us running out of oil. Today somehow that doesn't seem to concern us anymore. Some are even more concerned about over-abundance of oil (Saudi Arabia for one).
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I should take it upon myself to get familiarized with all of these.
Gib job.
Probably because it was seen as having a nerd/hacker appeal.
Wikipedia is probably the most dangerous procrastination tool on the net. There's not limit there, the rabbit hole just goes deeper and deeper.
I think part of it is the distance - we've moved stuff through pipes before, but not the distance involved here. Leaky connections add up after a while.

Also, you know, it's rather flammable, which always adds some potential excitement.
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I am a huge fan of jvns. I wish I can be her when I grow up.

Does anyone know of someone doing the same style of introspection tools, for tracing and profiling and networking, like the body of her work, not just this post, but for Windows?

I know a few scattered posts here and there, usually PFEs at Microsoft Blogs scattered, but the landscape of dedicated bloggers seems lacking to a novice like me.
So, totally worth it ($120 billion) for a 0.01% reduction in global ghg emissions.
Aeon: https://aeon.co

Stunning art, beautiful and thoughtful essays, ideas and videos.
This is all solid advice, but there's something that still bothers me about URLs:

From one side I hear that hypertext should be the engine of application state. This implies that the URL router should control just about everything, and that you should be able to click a link in an email and jump directly to any state of your application. From the other side I hear that web apps can be just as capable as desktop apps, and it's only a matter of time before we'll be using PhotoshopJS in a browser.

What isn't said is that Photoshop has no concept of an "address bar", and it probably will never have one. As with so many things, the best practices for a blog or message board might be completely different from the best practices for a creative application. Could you design a URL format to represent the state of a Photoshop editing session? Would you even want to?

Something's gotta give.
That is very attractive pricing. It looks like you don't even need to preallocate capacity, just read and write as you please.
French has a governing body (l'Académie française) but, at least in some parts of the world, spoken french is very different from what is prescribed by the Académie. Plus the accents are so diverse, here in Québec we are 7 million people (and not all of them french speakers) and we have as much difference in the way we speak depending on the region as you have in the U.S. for example. Funny thing, when we visit France, the french sometimes answer us in english, because our accent is so thick that they think french is not our native language.
I think there's a legit concern around sharing everything, since so much of police work involves being a first responder to some really tragic things - I'd be pretty upset if the video of a loved one dying in a car crash popped up on YouTube. But storing everything for some limited period of time seems very reasonable.
“What’s a good retention rate?” – the pitfalls of benchmarking
NoSQL should stay as a quick and dirty solution for storing key-values. When you start to schematize it and use it as a "DB," you are going down the wrong path. That is because NoSQL is a glorified cache, not a DB. It is essentially using the memory on a large number of nodes to buffer bursty throughput, and using background processes to collate the data later onto disk. There is almost no case where an explicit distributed caching or queuing solution backed by a traditional DB isn't strictly better.
AlphaGo was not primarily trained to mimic humans, but to win games. This included playing many games against itself and semi-random tree searches for better strategies. If it was only mimicking humans it probably would have lost to the world's best.
How do we make it more obvious to non technical people the difference between a DV cert and other certs, in a way they will completely understand?

I understand what the browsers do today and I don't believe this help protect people. It should be very clear what type of transport security is in use, along with a score and what type of identity has been verified and what that means. I honestly don't know the answer to this, but I do know the existing methods in browsers just doesn't give a clear picture to non technical people.
VC discovered the "makers" hype, and things turned "weird"...
Dunno about book but this is a good article

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/05/life-and-death-at...
The history of oil and its influence in more-or-less singlehandedly creating the modern world (with a helping hand from coal) is pretty phenomenal.

Daniel Yergin's book The Prize, and the BBC/PBS series of the same name, are absolutely epic. What's clear from both is how rapidly essentially modern concepts emerged: By 1865, six years after Colonel Drake's well was dug, railroad tank cars of welded iron looking much like today's DOT-111 cars existed. Similarly, oil pipelines.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOr8q_slscQNSXOzbaEUUZf...

http://www.worldcat.org/title/prize-the-epic-quest-for-oil-m...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT-111_tank_car

The Internet Archive has numerous contemporary accounts, many reading not like 1990s "get rich quick on the Internet" books, on the particulars of the 1860s Pennsylvania oil boom. For example:

https://archive.org/details/oilregions00wrigrich

https://archive.org/stream/apracticaltreat01unkngoog#page/n1...

The travellogues are particularly poignant.
I'm very passionate about the collection management aspect but haven't found one that does it right... Tech has changed quite a bit and graph databases (which IMO are key to this) are much more accessible now.

I agree with your assessment of the potential and hope to work on this idea. If you are interested in focusing on the collector, let me know.
> That’s the equivalent of writing type annotations for programming functions. And the goal is avoiding bugs instead of logical contradictions.

mh, given Curry–Howard correspondence, aren't those the same? so the goal is indeed not having logical contradictions?
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Maybe, just _maybe_ that would have been a viable pressure point to favour non-DRM content* if we were all running Firefox.

As it is, too many people decided they are OK with a google browser. The answer to: "It's cumbersome to use DRM" is to tell your consumers to use Chrome.

* I find this highly questionable. We have an abundance of examples of media companies favouring DRM over user experience. Clearly they think a less smooth experience is a price worth paying.
Ask HN: Are emotions algorithms for survival?
Some scientists argue that emotions are algorithms for survival. Yuval Noah Harari in his Homo Deus writes that emotions are biochemical algorithms that are vital for the survival and reproduction of all mammals. Similarly, Dominik R. Bach and Peter Dayan identify principles according to which these algorithms are implemented in the brain and describe their approach by considering decision making in the face of proximal threat. [doi:10.1038/nrn.2017.35]

But let's say the organism is addicted to a substance or destructive behavior, and its brain's reward center keeps telling it that it feels good to repeat a self-destructive behavior.

Is this an error in the algorithm, since it may pursue the opposite of survival?
Are emotions really algorithms for survival?
Disable all these preferences from firefox!
https://github.com/TheCreeper/PrivacyFox

Add: https://github.com/straytachyon/dnsmasq_ad_block_script

Add2: You can even block select corp:
https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists

Add3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791052
I thought password rotation wasn't considered a best practice: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/changing_pass...
Oil is about 40% of the primary energy used in the USA and primarily for transportation. So fewer cars, trucks, ships, and airplanes would help. One transatlantic flight uses an astounding amount of oil. So take very few of those! And live close to work and close to places you want to be.

On the other hand, electric vehicles can help a huge amount for cars and trucks at least. Then we shift the primary fuel to whatever being used by the utility company. That's mostly natural gas, coal, nuclear, and hydro in the USA, followed by a percent and growing of wind and solar.

Of dispatchable options, nuclear, wind, and solar have tiny carbon footprints. Nuclear has very small physical and fuel footprints and runs 24/7, so that's my current favorite. It's also way safer statistically than almost anyone thinks, having saved 1.8 million lives net by displacing air pollution deaths by 2013. Its fuel is also renewable because uranium dissolved in seawater will replenish through erosion faster than we could ever use it for billions of years.

Wind and solar are kicking ass right now. going global scale requires large footprints of storage, land, magnets, coils, etc. I imagine a future of 50/50 nuclear + various forms of solar harvesting.
Well "cycles" is good enough as a metaphor to convey the idea we are talking about a resource cost.

At least "cycles" and "ETH per cycles" makes it very obvious that you should multiply them to find the fee. On the other hand it's completely unintuitive you should multiply "price" and "cost" to calculate the fee. If gasCost was called gasQuantity, at least it would have been a little more logical (multiplying price with quantity).
of course every time i type '&&' i still say 'and also' in my head
Ha, when I read the post title I knew it would come from a (Brazilian) Portuguese author.

The way I would explain "Gambiarra": it's a quick fix that relies heavily on an ad hoc solution instead of following the generally accepted principles for solving a problem.
Cassandra isn't any better in those regards. For 1, Cassandra just does the concatenation under the hood and 3 happens all the time on Cassandra. The broken thing is using NoSQL as a DB, not Cassandra or DynamoDB.
Dual EC: A Standardized TLS Backdoor (2015) [pdf]
They are armed and they are religious, but they don't seem to be acting as combatants. The article you cite doesn't indicate that FBR members participated in any fighting. Yes, they actively seek out firefights because - rather obviously - that's where their services are likely to be needed. There are arguments for and against being armed in such an environment, but none of that suggests they're an "armed religious group" in the same sense as ISIS or the Badr Brigades. Perhaps you could explain why you think their methods are likely to make things worse, more than is true for any foreign group up to and including Red Cross/Crescent or MSF.
Developers experience the same issue with users. Relying on users to.give feedback, initial requirements.etc.
Nice article. Now I know the origin of the Teamsters. This scenario plays out time and time again as technological replaces workers. I suppose automated trucks will be no different.
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The danger isn't reading it, it's writing in it. It could literally drive you to suicide. It did for me, though of course I survived.
That sounds like a scam that's worth taking Amazon to court over.
This is white belt level Google Fu, try 'African baby portraits'.

Now you get lots of black baby portraits, but few African ones. Presumably because they don't have many 'portrait' studios in Africa. So just search just 'African babies', and you get plenty of Black African baby portraits.
I'd never heard of the Free Burma Rangers before, and these photos helped me learn. I guess that means the author has succeeded in his admirable mission to tell others' stories.
have you tried mega.nz, you get 50GB for free, also the sync client apps are opensource.