skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-managed a long term (1 year lease) rental property remotely for 4 years, family worked in short-term rentals so I have some experience of that market too.

Main problem was peace of mind, knowing that tenants were there & not causing issues. Had a friend in the local area drive by every so often to make sure the place was in good condition. Let one do their own gardening, they let the place get run down so in the end mandated lawn/pool service for the tenants. The gardener was good at alerting us to issues.

Tenant changeover was hard and usually necessitated a flight down for a week or two to show the property (to a pre-arranged appointment list) and ensure move-in/move-out went smoothly.

Co-ordination was difficult sometimes (tenant reports an issue, get vendors out to triple-bid repairs, arrange for tenant to be there to let in vendors both during bidding and doing the work). Ongoing maintenance issues (the pool constantly leaked) were difficult to evaluate properly & had to trust our contractors.

Considered a property management firm but at 10% of the gross rent (and fees to find/place new tenants) on a property we were not cashflowing on we chose to manage it ourselves and it worked out alright. Short term I'd definitely want a local agent, too much to go wrong.
As those tools become more widely used and more easy to use, you'll be able to lower the mean bug bounty reward payment as well.
Waaay back in 2011, when I was getting started with electronics, I combined a Raspberry Pi 2 with a battery pack and a head mounted display for an iPod Video to make a HUD. It was horribly hacky, but I did manage to get it to show the time and my Google Calendar events with a Python GUI program and Internet over Bluetooth to my phone.

Some pictures: https://github.com/Hylian/PiHUD
> there are actual selection pressures against this.

Selection pressure is a feedback system, and in order for it to function there must be enough time for the feedback to catch up. If it can't, we get extinction instead of adaptation.

A great example against this are diseases: on the one hand, the more viral a disease is, the better it competes against other diseases. On the other, being too viral is bad for the health of the host, or even lethal, which is a selection pressure against it. However, if the disease can spread from host to host independent of their health, like diseases that spread through mosquitos or water, the selection pressure against lethal virality is gone, untill all possible hosts within range die. That is why safe drinking water has the unexpected side effect of making the diseases themselves less lethal[0]. And like safe drinking water, I do not think we should make this a responsibility of the individual. This is something to be solved at the societal level.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_ewald_asks_can_we_domesticate...
Good epidemiology is a great investment. I wouldn't use the term "throw a lot of money"- we want a few good studies with unambiguous conclusions.
I only know Booking (never used it personally, but my relatives do; well... did, I think they stopped for ethical reasons: the 'middlemen' thing), I've never heard of any of the others and I have no idea about what they provide.
I use this system which I've mentioned before (AGPL):

http://onemodel.org

...because it tracks all my to-dos, and I mark them off when done ("archived") in a few keystrokes. Then there is a simple feature for displaying the ~"journal" for a date range which defaults to starting yesterday at midnight: everything created or archived in that time is shown, so I've basically stopped keeping track in any other way, of what I have done, as I can always look it up.

I used to use org-mode, "inspiration" (an old windows program for collapsible outlines and mind maps), and various text editors, but this is the most efficient and flexible I have found.

It has no mouse or mobile support yet, but it is the best thing I've found for any kind of notetaking (I'm the author). It needs simpler installation and added features but is stable and works really well, really efficient once you get familiar, and everything is on the screen. I hope to add anki-like features in the future. Contributions welcome.

ps: this program is like a textual mind map that is highly efficient to use from the keyboard, uses postgresql, and can handle large amounts of data, having the same thing linked in more than one place, etc etc, so you can organize all possible stuff in aribitrary ways to suit yourself: I tend to use a few hierarchies and some frequent categories go in multiple places, for convenience. I use it to keep lists of gift ideas, todos, calendar, all notes, plans, personal journal, and it just gets the job done with the lowest impedance of anything i have tried or heard of. It has an auto "journal-generation" feature, some finicky import/export features to html or to/from text, searching, somewhat limited file storage, and more.

edit: pps: lots of info at the web site, FAQs etc. The latest code is in github in the "wip" branch, where I am working (very slowly) on an infrastructure for sharing/linking info between instances.
Yep. Mt Gox = MTG: Online Exchange
> how they're "just middlemen"

As are Uber/AirBnb and internet advertising giants Google and Facebook.
ActionScript is still loved by the Starling community. I don't really think i'll miss the swf format, though
Plenty of brokers exist, I'm personally familiar with Exodus Intelligence and Zerodium
I am not a security expert; I'm sharing my experience, not attempting to answer the question.

Back before I used a good password manager setup, I used a mental algorithm of [base password] + per-site modifications. These were saved in Firefox and I'd sometimes forget them when I wasn't on my normal device. If I needed to get on to a service (eg, email) whose password I'd forgotten, I'd reset it, then reset again, back to what it was, when I got back to a place it was saved.

At some point, gmail prohibited this, and I had to update all my passwords whenever I needed to reset. The result was the same as forced password rotation: I just started using more memorable (less secure) passwords.

That said, there's definitely measures Google could take to mitigate this effect. For example, drawing from the article, there could be tiered access control, where one tier (eg, 2fa but no pw) lets me get some limited access without changing the password. Then there would be no legitimate reason for returning to an old password, so such a policy is not harmful.
What exactly do you mean that the value of BTC comes from trust? The only ones I put "trust" in are the owners of giant mining farms that have the possibility to cross the 50% hashing threshold and break Bitcoin. I also understand that this is not in their best interest.

The value in Bitcoin doesn't come from trust in people, it comes from trust in crypto.
Intel – Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology
Not rich ones like Shatner.
Chances are that Flash contains licensed third-party IP and thus Adobe couldn't unilaterally open source it even if they wanted to.
Did you have to use the USB bluetooth adapter with a Pi 3? I know the 3 has bluetooth but I don't know enough about it to know if I can just connect my phone to it to play music. I want to do something very similar to what you've done so I'm excited to see that somebody else succeeded.
I've been super excited about Chrome headless but haven't had a chance to dig into using it yet. The api here looks amazing for getting started without getting lost in the weeds. It'd be fairly trivial to hook this up to a Slackbot and to get on-demand screenshots of various pages on my websites, etc.
That doesn't necessarily solve the problem which is in focus here. The QUIC version which is available in browsers (ok, Chrome only) is not only the QUIC stream layer, but also the QUIC HTTP adaption layer. From javascript side you just interact with HTTP and use QUIC under the hood. However with HTTP you also get all HTTP semantics (headers, reliability, ordering inside of request/response streams, etc.). What is requested is an additional protocol and API which avoids all the overhead and just allows to send and receive messages with best effort - because games and other realtime applications may prefer to build their own reliability mechanism on top.

The only way to use HTTP/QUIC for packetlike communication might be to send each packet inside a seperate HTTP request. But I guess that will have a super high overhead (lifecycle of a whole stream must be managed for a packet which actually has no lifecycle) and will most likely also not deliever the expected results (afaik HTTP on top of QUIC still has head-of-line blocking for request/stream establishment. Request headers must be received in order).

New javascript APIs which are utilizing QUIC could work. However one would need to explore if QUIC is actually helpful for target applications, since it provides a stream semantic, whereas UDP is purely packet based. QUIC might also introduce similar issues like WebRTC to the server side: It's a complex protocol spanning multiple layers (everything from flow-control to encrytion). Therefore it will be hard to integrate into environments where no QUIC library is available. But that's only a feeling, since I haven't yet reviewed the QUIC specification in detail.
There was this thing called "Hostile Subdomain Takeover" where a company would point a subdomain to a particular SaaS product (Say Zendesk), sometime later, they would cancel their subscription but not change the A record.

Someone could then go and register a new Zendesk account (If the service doesn't require proof of ownership of domain), and say that they want to use the same subdomain. Now they have a Zendesk account with the URL of http://help.somedomain.com as an example. And they can phish people quite easily.

Anyway, the reason I bring it up is because for a while, I saw people spamming the shit out of bug bounties with this stuff. Because it's super simple to do.

So I'm not sure what is more lucrative for an average joe, actually learning proper techniques or trying to piggy back on some low hanging fruit that may be easy to automate.
I still use my early-2004 15" Thinkpad T42p, fully up-to-date on the newest OS (Debian Sid) release. It is showing its age - mostly when browsing JS-encumbered sites - but still gets the job done. I have never had to worry about my T42p simply failing to work due to OS compatibility issues.

Of course this machine was expensive when new, just like Apple-branded hardware is expensive. Sometimes all that money buys you something worthwhile like your 7 year old MBP or my 13 year old T42p. Other times it is just a lot of money down the drain like I expect the recent touch-strip-addled MBP series or any machine which has consumables glued in-place to keep pesky users from getting a few more years out of their investments.
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I'd argue that "exploration" is a failure to identify intent for most applications. This is probably the hardest UI/UX problem.

Would you rather select a series of instantaneous actions select the "Do" button and within 5 seconds it will complete whatever you want, magically?

It obviously depends on how long it takes you to select the actions, but I think it's an interesting thought experiment.
Is it easy to land a $2mil loan for an investment property? Even if I come up with 400k down seems like banks would require me to earn a lot per year to qualify. I'd be curious to know more about how to qualify for such a large loan.
Yikes. How about a petition to burn it with fire? Petition to erase all mention of flash from history books?
It's worth noting that both the React and Redux teams generally discourage the use of decorators. Quoting the Create-React-App README:

> Create React App doesn’t support decorator syntax at the moment because:

> - It is an experimental proposal and is subject to change.

> - The current specification version is not officially supported by Babel.

> - If the specification changes, we won’t be able to write a codemod because we don’t use them internally at Facebook.

> Create React App will add decorator support when the specification advances to a stable stage.

In addition, use of the React-Redux `connect` method as a decorator can lead to unexpected behavior, such as `defaultProps` applying to the generated wrapper component instead of the underlying "plain" component. I'm not sure how the `kea` decorator handles that sort of thing.
Project Snowflake: Non-blocking safe manual memory management in .NET
Might as well put a Wikipedia link here about the fission product isotopes and their half lives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission_product#Radioa...
Ten of thousands of games are created every year.
Sure. I'm reading this device
https://www.google.de/#q=PX8559+mouse
with code similar to that one:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4855823/get-mouse-deltas...

Measure, how many delta ticks a revolution gives you and adjust the delta to trigger the next station to feel natural when turning the dial. I bent a simple bracket from some scrap sheet metal to hold the mouse in place just above the dial. The black and white threads of the cord wrapped around the dial helps the optical sensor, so try to position the optics above that.

Similar project: https://2dom.github.io/the-radio/ I did not bother to remove parts of the mechanics to make the dial endless, however. Dialling through so many stations that you need that is tedious anyways, so I felt I don't need it.

Oh and by the way, I made the Raspi's filesystem read-only so I could shwitch it of safely with the radio. See i.e. https://hallard.me/raspberry-pi-read-only/
I just meant it's easier to use a purpose built thing like FreeNAS vs. FreeBSD 11.1 which just came out. FreeNAS will be on 11.1 soon enough; unless there's a feature in FreeBSD 11.1 you absolutely need right now, most people will be better off using FreeNAS for now.
The city is in charge of handing out parking permits. When you apply for a permit they check their list of "car free" buildings. If you're in a car free building your application is denied. Aside from filing an extra form with the city, the developer saves tens of thousands of dollars per space: https://sf.curbed.com/2016/6/8/11890176/it-costs-38000-to-cr...
Or https://github.com/mozilla/shumway which doesn't require any native code
It probably still would not be enabled by default.
The nature of the work is such that:

1. If you have to ask this question, you are quite far from being able to do it any time soon (and that's assuming you can find the vulnerabilities!),

2. You will predominantly sell your vulnerabilities, preferably weaponized as complete exploits, to firms that specialize in "vulnerability research" and "exploitation development" with close ties to government agencies.

It's much easier to find a firm that can act as a broker between you and the government agency than it is to knock on the right doors to sell it on your own, with no background or prior contact.
Assuming the rental is already occupied and there's a lease in place a part of that income is included when calculating your income for a mortgage.
I've been using serverless-chrome for the past few weeks and this looks like a big improvement in usability!

https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome
While I encourage OP to dive in and don't want to dismiss your points, in my experience life is more about perpetual intermediates: https://blog.codinghorror.com/defending-perpetual-intermedia...

As a result, a language like Perl is very nice and maybe even artistic but in many situations downright "dangerous".
If they have a patentable breakthrough, they would be able to restrict use of their discovery for the duration of their patent.
I was went to an AI talk at MIT CSAIL (the same Vicarious one I mentioned in another thread). Me and a guy got talking on the way out. He figured I seemed pretty clever, so he started asking me what sorts of companies to invest in.

Turned out he was an investor with some VC firm. I did a little mention of the place I worked at the time (which isn't an AI company, but wanted to be when it was young), but didn't have a business card to give him at he time.

I was actually kinda surprised an investor was attending a talk and saying, quite so uncritically, "hmmm, who do the smart people at talks say I should invest with?"
In fact it is quite common. If you look into the c modules you see a pattern where they release the gil before performing some operation and then reacquire it
Not to mention smoking is often a social activity -- the "smoke break."
It is off-topic.

There are threads where it would be relevant, in this case they're just using this thread as a sounding board because the title contains the word Microsoft. Plus we have all read near identical posts and the corresponding discussion hundreds of times already, because they appear in every thread that brings up Microsoft.

It is kind of like Godwin's law, except instead of Hitler it is telemetry and Microsoft. If there is new information or new things to discuss, absolutely let's talk about it, but repeating the same complaint gets old after the nth time.
I built a tool that monitors a solar panel installation:

The Website: http://solarpi.tafkas.net

Github Repository: https://github.com/Tafkas/solarpi

Blog Post: http://blog.tafkas.net/2014/07/03/a-raspberry-pi-photovoltai...

Feedback is very welcome.
Turns out modernity is an extremely unhealthy environment for humans, especially men. Despite the narratives being thrown at you, we live in an incredibly "feminized" society where social stigma/violence/shaming are more powerful for the average person than plain old physical violence.
To be fair, those same Apple machines from 2009 that are compatible with Sierra are also compatible with Windows 10 since they didn't put a gimped Intel atom chip in them.
The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk (2009)
Chromeless is actually built on top serverless-chrome and was developed together with the author of serverless-chrome :)
True, but even a non-functional source dump with lots of the guts ripped out and redacted would be extremely useful for researchers and preservationists.
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds: really creative world-building in a galactic society and an engaging, twisting plotine.

The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor: this is on my shelf long-term as it's quite dense but it's apparently one of the best works on the Spanish revolution.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: unique intersection of themes with American immigration, industrialisation and gender all packed into one. Fitting themes for the politics of today though the book already seems slightly dated when it comes to gender politics.

Anarchosyndicalism: Theory and Practice by Rudolf Rocker. This is to compliment my interest in the Spanish civil war and the history of unionism/syndicalism.
Why is decentralized and distributed file storage critical for a better web?—https://coincenter.org/entry/why-is-decentralized-and-distri...
Seasoned programmers who have worked on software across several industries are probably pretty good at understanding and translating day to day business tasks into automated code. To do that you almost have to understand a business inside and out. That's their job. If more people were humble, less would get done
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn http://amzn.com/0345536932.
2 weeks into the book and 8-week course of MBSR on my own with it's companion meditation and yoga app, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jkz-series1/id700402554. So far liking the book.
This will probably take years of course. Hopefully the H.264 patents will expire at least not long afterwards.
For sure, lots of considerations to take into account. If you're already running your own CI pipeline though, tests on top of it are trivial (in my experience running a Jenkins CI pipeline for a python monolith). Tweak your test runner, upsize the EC2 instance, and go grab a mojito.
Patent law generally recognizes the option of the state to enforce compulsory licensing, though it's rarely exercised. Eminent domain may also be used to take patents.

The modern approach seems to be to just let people find a way around the patent, or simply ignore and litigate.
I am lucky enough to have enough desk to have a spot for my laptop on the regular desk, which I then remote in to the server if I need to work.

What is interesting in my poor man setup is that my mouse is lower than my keyboard by maybe 25-30 cm, which I have found to be quite comfortable position.
The Great Healthcare Debate: Facts, Insights and Analysis
Picking nits I think you mean adware not malware. I think it's worth making the distinction.
When Waze overrode my music to tell me that a fire engine was coming up behind me I was sold.
Yeah, if I was starting today I might end up with MST as well. The only real benefit of megalith right now would be its size (5k vs 45k). You do get more features for that size though, like integration with the Redux toolset.
For people doing long distance single family detached house rentals, how do you make sure the general maintenance gets done? Things like lawn mowing, gutter cleaning, chimney sweeping, bush trimming, furnace serving, weeding around the foundation (damn Maple trees), snow removal, etc?

This seems like a lot to manage and I wouldn't trust a tenant to do it and some stuff requires tenant coordination. Seems like an annoying logistic problem to solve.
Doesn't even have to be light. Gnome and/or KDE will run happily on any PC - they are monsters for goodness sakes! Totally OP for most distros. A lot of the early linux adoption compatibilty issues (winmodems stole too much of my youth) are gone now. Everything just works. Just wipe Windows.
MST doesn't have the same restrictions as redux in terms of async so you don't need to do it in the same way.

Edit: In MST it would look more like plain js:

class AuthStore() {
....

{
login() {
do_async_thing()
.then(this.postLoginStuff)
.catch(this.handleFailedLogin)
},

logout() {
// do logout stuff
}
}
}
I didn't know Flash devs had a union
I would flag an email with something I have to do or to follow up and when I have nothing to do will sort my emails by flags and will work or follow up on them, the rest I keep in my head...
>Probably not BPA or such, there would be more of a difference between western countries.

Why do you say that? Most western countries use plastic and receipts (thermal paper), which are the main sources.

And BPA isn't the only xenoestrogen. PCBs, dioxins, and many agricultural biocides are too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen#Common_environmen...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/xenoestroge...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM
Lesbo nipple electrocution
'Lone Echo' a step towards more AAA VR games
+1 thanks! that was a good read, and gave me a different perspective (or one I had not thought much about).
I'm hoping enough people flag this story so it's removed from the front page, and we can get back to more important stories.

BTW, don't bother debating this because you'll simply be downvoted for a different opinion. Flag it off the front page and save your karma.

It's time for Flash users to learn the having the web based off of closed source Adobe Flash really does have its downsides. They didn't seem to get it 10 years ago. Now it's going to disappear completely.

So, in the future when someone patiently explains why you shouldn't used closed source as a web standard, maybe we can all say "remember Flash".
UK: Vegan ad criticising 'inhumane' dairy practices escapes ban
Usually you can get more money for exploits on the black market, than from bug-bounties. Governments from all around the world have a lot of money to spend to buy exploits.
Yes, it seems like a server side complexity issue should be a fixable problem without updating the standards.

I suppose you'll still need to deploy a stun/turn server to deal with the NAT issues unless you're happy with IPv6 only, but that's not really something the standard can fix.