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If they own the land what business is it of yours? Unless it’s spritzing benezene into the air, it really isn’t any of your concern.
> Ads on tv do not show new things. They push brand. brand is mother, brand is father.

This is a platitude.

> you can't deny (well you can but you shouldn't) that the vast majority of ads are all brand.

Maybe it is--it's just meaningless to my point. Even if 99% of ads are all entrenched megacorps reminding people they exist, that other 1% could be Netflix disrupting Comcast, or Uber/Lyft disrupting taxis, or whatever else. Those disruptors who were previously unknown benefit much more from their advertising than Coke reminding people to not stop buying Coke.

> Without the Big Advertising people would drift off-brand. maybe boredom, maybe trying what their friend uses, maybe (surely not) be affected by price and quality.

Imagine how much more effective that off-brand would be if it could tell consumers about its lower price or higher quality, rather than having to just hope they found out somehow... versus a known competitor and brand.
another web-based JS-heavy solution... thanks, but no thanks...
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For some reason, I'm scared that I'll be owned if I feed this to a parser.
I don't know if Apple is going to go anywhere with Homekit as it sounds (third hand reports) like it's more expensive to get products HomeKit ready over just using other protocols, or paying a license to Z-Wave or Zigbee.

That being said, some combination of BT/LE/Mesh + WiFi and/or some other networking protocol would probably win very quickly if it wasn't encumbered with large licensing costs.
Why isn't ETH crashing right now?
No, IT department says "You guys are sensible, you can install whatever you like. But we'll keep you on Win10 LTSB, where MS promises to do less spying and break stuff less often." But Win10 LTSB doesn't have the MS App Store, so any app store exclusive software (mainly MS stuff) cannot be installed.
I take issue with your hypothetical "inevitable reply". All responsible gun owners will tell you that the first rule of gun ownership is that you always handle the firearm as if it is loaded. That includes how you store the firearm. There is absolutely no sensible way to argue the gun must be stored in an unsafe location in order to keep the owner safe.

The technology absolutely has the potential to save lives. Well, an even stronger statement is true -- this technology will save lives. That's not the objection though -- it's will the technology cost lives?!
>You realize that's not in the slightest bit true, don't you?

What isn't true?

>For example: Under contract law, there are certain rights that _you are legally not permitted to give away_. You can't actually sell yourself into slavery.

A court will void contractual provisions like this, based on a comprehensive body of case law that establishes what constitutes consent. This is a universe away from what you're defending here, which is a federal agency prosecuting individuals because they entered into some investment transaction without 'permission' from said regulatory agency.
Alas.. that it is.

I much prefer lower level programming, preferably programming the hardware I designed. I know the hardware limitations, side effects, and overall the how-to behind the hardware that allows the software to do its thing. Most software engineers I know have no want to understand the underlying mechanics (they're certainly capable of it - they just don't care).

I'm currently trapped in a "devops full stack" with much of the tooling as NIH. My routine day is a mix of keeping the trains rolling on time, and getting horrid stuff like " my $database_root_password = <password> " out of SVN...

I keep applying to positions in my wider local area (Midwest). But so far, only headhunters that want to waste my time with endless "pre-interviews". Tomorrow, it's back to tickets, high-ho!
Thanks, looks like some Clinton supporters are downvoting us :)
That's what the AppDaemon project is about - https://home-assistant.io/docs/ecosystem/appdaemon/ - it let's you do the automation rules inside code instead of inside yaml. You'll still need/want yaml for basic device connections and grouping, but doing complex automations can be done easier in AppDaemon.
"It's a crime of computer / network intrusion. Not a crime of property law (you can't own a record in a database as property, and therefor I can not steal your property)."

This is quite wrong; it's still considered a crime of stealing from the bank. The law does not care if you used a computer to do it instead of using dynamite to break into the safe, nor should it.

"Another way to put this is that you are using the contract in a manner how it was defined by the author."

No. If you are using an undisclosed exploit, then that is not true in the least. If you are using something that is not equally known to both parties, and equally disclosed, then it is fraud. No amount of, "you should have known better" or "you should have done your research" will help you. Take the recent case of the hack involving Etherium. It exploited something in the "smart contracts" which very few people knew existed, and, judging by the actions of the team in charge, clearly was not meant to be there. But beyond that, if the contract were to be disputed in court, one thing that would become very clear is that no rational person would be expected to believe that was the intention of both signing parties. And thus, it would be decided that the contract was fraudulent.

"If everything is decentralized and open to anyone, whose computer network are you intruding/disturbing?"

So if I forget to lock my door, then my house should be free game for everyone?
In weighing whether we should legislate whether the technology must be used and whether we fine or imprison people who refuse to use the technology, even forgetting for a moment about the ~300 million guns already in the US, it's a prudent question to ask... will this technology potentially cost me my life? Clearly the answer for the current state-of-the-art in "smart" guns is YES, this is currently dangerous and error prone technology which IMO should not be legal to sell in a gun because it makes it overall more dangerous not less.

But assuming we want to let companies sell these prototypes and let people buy them assuming they do so fully informed of the risk, and let the courts decide in the end if companies are liable when the "smarts" malfunction...

To the point about legislating whether guns must implement this technology, I think this is a constitutional question, and so I think the bar is much higher than questions like seat belts, airbags, speed limits, etc.

We have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We have the right to bear arms. And I think that means we have the right to own firearms which are free from DRM, if we so personally choose.

Your laptop can be infected with malware and potentially further spread malware or participate in DDoS attacks. Malware and DDoS as a whole cause great economic damage and potentially loss of life. However, if we let government whitelist all apps and require all computing devices to implement hardware trust zones to verify apps are signed and trusted by the government, this technology could prevent certain malware attacks. Is it Ok for government to pass legislation requiring this? We have the right to free speech and so I think it's a similar constitutional issue and I think the answer must be consistent with the firearm question, and the answer must be NO.

Just because a technology will absolutely save money and save lives, does not mean that technology can be mandated when it would impinge on constitutionally guaranteed rights. Under strict scrutiny a legislative remedy must be compelling, narrowly tailored to its purpose, and the least restrictive means possible to achieve the desired policy outcome.

DRMing all guns, like DRMing all computing devices, doesn't pass the test in my opionion.
When DAO originally made the HN Front page I made this comment [1] calling DAO snake oil and suggested people could lawfully operate their own "DAO" as an Investment Club LLC, specifically Investment Clubs can be exempt from securities laws [2] subject to the restrictions I outlined in my prior comment such as a limit of "100 tokens" (i.e. 100 members to make future investments).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11707497

[2] https://www.sec.gov/reportspubs/investor-publications/invest...
And don't overestimate the S-curve, which looks the same when you're in the first half of it.
I feel like Atmel and Broadcom will see more of an uptick in sales as makers finish college and get jobs doing actual engineering. If you've been building things using Atmel chips in your spare time they'll be familiar, you'll probably reach for them first when designing something for a job, and one product using a chip can lead to millions sold. Even if only a small handful of engineers converted to using their stuff instead of PIC/STM/TI/etc due to the Maker movement it's still potentially a huge payout. And considering that they didn't even pay to create Arduino it's even better!
I have this problem with an aggregator I created (sfhacks.com) which used to list hackathons in the San Francisco Bay area. It has jobs that scrape various sources for potential hackathons, and I used to go through and pick the relevant ones and fill in some boxes. It got very few visitors though, and eventually (I'm not proud of this) I basically stopped going through the drudgery of keeping it up to date. I think fully automating it somehow would lead to too much junk and too many duplicated entries.
From watching the videos on their homepage, it looks to me like the nanobox CLI is a bunch of wrappers around Docker.

The cloud product sounds like a custom Docker container orchestrator. Worker nodes run on your cloud provider but management is tied to a control panel on their website. They recommend using nanobox over a PaaS in their video, but I fail to see how this is anything other than a PaaS.
Should just be a patch for GNU Mailman.
Yeah, I didn't think they were literally using Roman numerals to describe their user base; I thought they were using the "10M == 10,000, 10MM == 10,000,000" notation that is (for some reason) popular with financial-type people[1].

But anyway, I was wrong; I poked around on the site and they indicate they really do have millions of users. So: wow, nice work!

[1]: https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stan...
Ha. I have a Facebook friend (actually the wife of a friend) who clearly spends hours dolling herself up for her Facebook profile photo, which she updates every few weeks. Full makeup, hair mussed just so, just the right angle and smile. Instead of thinking, "man, Candy's looking great!", I'm thinking, "it's kind of pathetic that she thinks anyone cares enough about her profile photo that she would spend that much time on it."
Is there any Linux dist, even a minimal one, that out-boots windows? TIL.

On my SSD, my Win10 cold boots faster than my Dell U2410 screen displays anything if powered at the same time (couple of secs)
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Also, there is a lot of inertia in the home automation space. Hue is all Zigbee, and is one of the biggest off the shelf IoT platforms right now. The door lock space is mostly z-wave. Friends that I have that have a mix of these things are more and more putting their energy into z-wave as it's far more reliable than wifi, having the advantages of the mesh network, and living in a non crowded spectrum.
enterprise chat products are expensive and don't fit at uber scale
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It's a decentralized and autonomous application. How could an autonomous application on the blockchain be an LLC?
It is really unusual to find "parsing algorithm" and "direct isometries" in the same paper, so it's a bit of a genre-spanning publication. As the arxiv tags say, the key fields could be described as "algebraic geometry" and "rings and algebras". Things like SE2 refer to familiar groups (with useful geometric interpretations) that mathematicians encounter frequently, so group theory is a prerequisite also. Apart from the geometry, most of this is probably covered by "abstract algebra" for which there are good resources online, including lectures on YouTube.
Because decentralized organizations like the DAO are only one of a multitude of different things you can implement with Ethereum.
Could we apply if we have started doing some work on our idea already? Or should it be a brand new project?
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Type deduction isn't a terrible hardship, and should make the code look dynamic.

A simple debugging output can attach the types visibly.

So... My question is why these statically typed JSs add such verbose syntax?

Even C++ has had auto to avoid irritating boilerplate.
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the point isn't about anyone's "rights" about having money spent on them/spending their money.

The point is that everyone is worse off in a situation like this, both customer and (legitimate) business.

It is a type of market failure, everyone loses.
Oh - updates. Right.

Completely agree that having a major version bump as an automatic is insane.

That's why they should just skip the version numbering and just make it a subscription. Then they can sunset hardware 5-6 years old continuously like iOS, but let people choose to stay on the of version indefinitely.
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The patent is on a perforating machine, which could be regarded as a predecessor of the punch card machine (the punch card is referred to as the "perforated card" in the patent)...

A copy of the patent document could be found here...

https://www.google.com/patents/US998631
Now that we're down to the last few sites running flash it really drives home what an annoyance they are. I don't run flash on my main browser (I work in security), so I have to keep Chrome handy to log into VMWare, and because even the login page is Flash there's little password manager support.

Then once I'm logged in the non-native styling and controls really drive me up the wall.
> 'MY LIFE IS BETTER THAN YOURS'. At that moment I realized what Facebook is about

I don't do the facebook thing myself, but close friends do, and they use it as a social organiser, not an arena for braggadocio. Want to get rid of a table? Facebook. Shitty day and want to invite friends to the pub? Facebook. Cat memes? Facebook.

I'm not fond of facebook, but let's face it; you can't blame the hammer if you make a shitty chair with it.
Theoretically, the OpenGL, WebGL, Vulkan, Metal, and Unity implementations can all have comparable quality with enough dev work. From a quick glance through the README, it doesn't seem like the OpenGL implementation is relying on any cutting-edge features of the specification, so everything can be ported to WebGL as well. If anything, the Vulkan and Metal versions have higher "potential" when compared to older APIs like OpenGL because if you optimize with the lower level primitives, you'll have more cycles for complex rendering techniques. Also, I'd argue that Vulkan can be used by individual developers because there are already a bunch of games that have Vulkan support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_Vulkan_supp...

Actually, if continue under this world with unlimited developer resources, the Cycles version should look the most realistic. It's markedly different than any of the other renderers included in this list because it's an offline path tracer whereas Unity and friends are for real-time rendering. We rely on a lot of hacks (Phong shading, FXAA, normal mapping) to produce an interactive 3D scene at 30+ FPS, but once you remove the real-time constraint, we can apply a lot of very fancy algorithms to more realistically render your scene. Cycles might take minutes or even hours to render a single frame, but it spends this time on a whole host of involved computation (physically-based BSDFs, Monte Carlo integration, Metropolis light transport, etc) that more accurately model how light interacts with materials.
Looks cool, but how do I know that this list of best practices is the definitive list of best practices, given how many lists claim that title?
Why should landowners talk to the Guardian? It isn’t like that would ever turn out well.
That's interesting (and it looks like it work pretty well). However, i'm not sure who's going to pay for it. What's your target ?
I like how the error message is an animated gif itself ^^

Is it just me, or you can just use the service for free by using the exemple urls ? like https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/...
Ordinary folk think it takes a signature for a check or credit card receipt to be valid. As far as they're concerned it's the same as a private key. It might sound ridiculous to you but it's closest from their perspective.
> The Howey Test defines an investment contract more narrowly than you imply

I mean, maybe?

An investment of money, managed by somebody else, with the expectation of profits. I feel like that covers most things we would typically consider to be investments. Aside from something like, "I bought this piece of art... as an investment." Maybe I'm just missing some obvious examples?
That's basically Haxe, if/when it adds a WebAssembly target. It already supports regular JS.

www.haxe.org
Get a hobby, start a side project. Your job should be to fund your lifestyle, hobbies and side project.
>> "It can be very hard to hire good embedded developers (I know, we are trying)"

...

>> "Yes, the pay isn't as good for some reason"

Don't these seem related to anyone?

I'm not an expert on business or anything, but maybe the reason companies are having trouble finding people to work embedded jobs is they aren't willing to pay them enough?

>> "Perhaps embedded developers as a group are poor negotiators."

I don't know of a better negotiation tactic than just going to do something else you can also do that pays better (a lot of people I know with deep embedded skills are doing higher level mobile app work these days for exactly this reason) because the industry has some weird preconceived notion of what you are worth...? "Fuck you, pay me".
This is being painted as somewhat of a negative thing but in many places this is part of good urban planning. It's private property (generally with large buildings) where as part of the agreement to build a giant building one also needs to build and maintain some public space. Yes it's technically still private property. Would people rather these landowners just put up a fence and a keep out sign?
Who's the parent company? I know some stakeholders who would be very interested in hearing about this.
It might be worth investigating Kubernetes network policies [0] and the CIS benchmark [1] for a similar solution.

0 - https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/netw...

1 - https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/kubernetes/
I highly doubt it will matter. I was at the dentist's office about 6 months ago, and as I'd had a few dental procedures done over a spread-out timeline, I'd made friends with the dental assistants.

We were talking about the news (which was on in the background) and I cautioned the lady at the desk to not put too much stock in it, and to wait around for updates before drawing any conclusions. She asked why, and I explained that the 24 hour news cycle often drops facts -- a couple of segues later, and I made the point that everybody thinks America is more dangerous than ever, largely because of the constant fear-mongering in the news, but crime statistics actually show falling crime rates over the past few decades.

She didn't believe me, so I asked her to Google it on the computer in front of her, which resulted in a search result something like this[1], but before she started giving too much credence to it, she Googled a few more times until she found an article about Baltimore crime rates going up, even though we weren't in Baltimore, and neither of us lived in Baltimore, and she'd previously admitted to not having been in Baltimore in more than a decade -- none of that mattered, because her confirmation bias was slaked.

[1] - http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_pol...
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I think of this as attitude as "Rich white trash"... The thing about being rich is that you can afford to isolate yourself for a long time, wrapped up in a community of similarly isolated people. Those attitudes grow and fester without being challenged by different opinions. That isolation creates ideologically-driven people who just don't see how hurtful thier ideas truly are.
His/her comment is totally relevant, I didnt know facebook was that sneaky to actually save that.
I've played both sports, can verify this is 100% correct. Couple other notes.

Football is a game of inches. There is huge incentive to slam someone as hard as you can to stop their forward progress and ultimately deny the first down. There's incentive for the ball carrier fight for the inches and "fall forward" (which makes your head more vulnerable). In rugby you don't care about fighting for the inches and hell, your teammates will shove you down once they're set up to ruck over you. Fighting for inches in rugby is a quick way to start a maul and nobody wants a maul.

Furthermore, football is played with greater momentum (mass * velocity). Those breaks between plays equates to six seconds of full blown sprinting followed by forty seconds of rest. In rugby you're running about constantly so you simply don't have the energy most of the time for those massive hits. As for the mass side of the equation, football players are on average bigger than ruggers.

People think rugby is so hardcore for playing without pads (and it still is) but the hardest hits I ever took were in football (and I played defense, for goodness sakes). This is the consensus between everyone I've met that's played both. You can play multiple rugby games in a weekend (happens all the time at fests) but more than one football game a week is unsustainable.
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Ironically smoking used to be quite the conduit for such quiet contemplative moments. All the more so in its social pariah death throes, with smokers forced out of the office or home, conjuring five minutes quiet from the chaos, in contrast with social media's soaking up of every moment of quiet opportunity with its endless distraction.
Is it still ok to use ICOs as as glorified Patreon or Kickstarter without worrying you'll run afoul of the securities laws? As long as no one is expecting profits from the tokens they buy from you.

Where it gets strange is if your tokens are picked up by an exchange. What happens if someone buys your tokens with the expectation that they can sell them to someone else? Then the price of your tokens might rise, and they've made a profit. Does that count as expectation of profit?