skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Does your Amazon Echo talk to you without being asked?
Last night around 4am, the Echo in my bedroom decided to tell me that "Electronics Plus in San Rafael is open at 9am". Then it did it again about five minutes later. The bedroom was, of course, silent at 4am.

A humorous but annoying bug. Just wondering if others have experienced this, and how often.

I looked my Alexa query list, and that query was too old to appear (though I'm reasonably sure I've asked her in the past. Coincidentally [I hope..] I asked Google home only a few days ago for that exact information!)
They certainly could. And I would argue that in the USA right now they absolutely should. If not providing a modernized federal ACH system that can handle realtime funds transfers, then at least by absolutely and criminally forbidding charging a fee which scales based upon the amount of money changing hands (a small flat fee would be warranted, the problem is that they charge more just because the numbers are bigger which is nonsensical, we're not talking about them extending credit or doing the liability hot potato that credit card transactions are, this is just pure transferring from one account to another). Ideally the government would establish their own cryptocurrency, but I think that ship has sailed. Society in general has accepted that the standards of cash - anonymity, non-traceability, non-freezability, etc - are simply too dangerous to trust people with.
It wouldn't. But that's not the only alternative. I was responding to the claim that the ability of others "to freely download and mess with Minix" requires a license that lets Intel do what it did. That claim is incorrect.
Isn't it common knowledge that there is a big spike at the top end of the wealth distribution graphs.
Update: I switched to Firefox. Happy.
Velodyne’s VLS-128 offers more resolution, smaller package, lower price
They also seem to run on AWS, so not necessarily a problem.
http://fortune.com/2017/02/09/snap-inc-signs-big-aws-deal/
Sorry for the delay in responding, I didn't notice the reply. I was concerned with it before purchasing because I had heard there was a good amount of RFI produced by USB in general. I have the USB 3 micro B, I feel that a good enclosure could mitigate a lot my concerns (and the article seems to back it up). If you would like any pictures please let me know, I can try to provide them.
>In the U.S., retailers announced more than 3,000 store openings in the first three quarters of this year.

That sounds like an insignificant number -- you can get as many openings, if not way more, in a country with 10-50 million population (but less centralized retail sector, with fewer cross-country chains).
Open letter to Apple
> 4 x 32 GB RAM

Because of their four dual-channel memory controllers, EPYC CPUs support eight-channel RAM. So, for optimum performance, it would need twice that number of modules, right? I don't know the performance differential.
Pathogen is very simple, imho.
Having done this, I can tell you many smart home users do not even know how to change the password on their WiFi router. Installing OpenVPN is a non-starter.
I think the most promising work here is around fork futures. Paul Sztorc (of Bitcoin Hivemind, the original decentralized prediction market, and Drivechains) has a lot to say about how with fork futures, we can let the market tell us how valuable proposals are [0].

We saw this in practice with the numerous S2X futures that were available. They were all predicting that S2X had about 13% chance of winning. This signal can then be used as substantial evidence in meatspace to retract or push forward a proposal.

[0] http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/fork-futures/
>never hits your bank account

That's basically the definition of "not income". If you "pay me" $5 and then "charge me" $5 for the privilege of being in the same room with you, you just moved money from your left hand to your right hand. It was your money the whole time, so I shouldn't owe any taxes on it.

Specifically, the problem here is that, roughly, you would actually pay me $20, then move $40 from your left hand to your right, and then the government would charge me tax on $60. You're actually tripling my income-tax burden while increasing my real pay not a penny.
Optimizing React arrow functions with Babel
>Malls hold no interest for me whatsoever. There's nothing there worthwhile, other than employment. Malls have nothing: no libraries, no Good Cafes, no places to hang out, no parks, no museums, no zoos, limited live music, no outdoors.

Which makes sense, as their main purpose is to be places to shop for clothes, electronics, kitchenware, and so on, not any of those other things.
As for me speed is much more important that any pretty look. I would rather read internet from terminal with monospaced fonts, if it would add speed and do not harm functionality. But there are no browsers that can do it without losing web-sites functionality -- js, a tons of interaction of modern web needs a very complex and slooow tools to render.

Maybe it is just me, but I believe that for other users speed is also matters.
Just today I started my first project that uses Bulma. Thanks.
Not to say it's as robust a strategy as a VPC, but DO does have something called a cloud firewall. It supports the idea of tags that apply to groups of servers.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...
I guess I was colloquially referring to the difference we would see depending on whether the mean, median or mode was used. At least from my (British) point of view these are all called an “average” generally speaking. Hopefully the second and third sentences cleared that up as I specifically describe what I meant in terms of the mean and median.
Key takeaway:

>why would Dale want to slander Naomi?

>I don’t know the background, but prior to Dale’s tweet, Naomi had aggressively dogged Dale and Make about Make’s lack of representation of women.

>Dale could have recognized and addressed this core issue of a lack of diversity. Instead, Dale elected to endorse unsubstantiated claims and destroy a young female Maker’s reputation and career.

Are there other sources that corroborate Dale’s supposed sadism?
1. When everyone was a farmer, the difference between the best possible farmer and the worst farmer just wasn't that great. Maybe you're 2x faster at picking corn, or 3x better at hunting deer. But a few guys literally built a communication tool (WhatsApp) to be used by billions of people. So maybe in the old world you could pick 2x as much corn, but in today's world you can build 1 billion times the communication tools as someone else.

2. The whole idea of inequality, while potentially useful, kind of assumes a fixed pie. The question is phrased as, "What percent of the total income pie did the 1% take" and not "How much pie did the top 1% of people produce to make the overall pie bigger?". I don't think either mentality is totally correct, but both are vitally important to understand (and the second belief is non-obvious to many). Did Steve Jobs producing the iPhone (and becoming a billionaire) take any of the poor people's money, or did it increase the overall output of the country? Steve jobs making the iPhone certainly made the country more unequal, but it also made the economy bigger and the country better off.

3. Does anyone care about equality, or do people care about poverty? Would a world where 1% of people had 100 yachts but 99% of people each had 1 yacht bother you? Would you rather live in a poor equal country or a rich unequal country?
Electricity Map – Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
You're misunderstanding; it's not about the fashion telling us anything about their technical ability. That thing about Einstein is a complete non-sequitur. Here's a comment in this thread by deeg that outlines one of the issues with the fashion:

> Our industry is (rightfully) going through a lot of self-examination on how we treat women as sex objects and here is a technically savvy woman projecting herself (among other things) as...a sex object. While it is certainly her right to do so it seems that a bit of push-back is expected (and potentially warranted).

> That said, being called "fake" may be wrong. I have no knowledge one way or the other.
My experience with Hetzner was mixed. Great pricing, pretty quick to recover from problems, but the problems were frequent. They're not great about maintaining good availability. I would definitely consider using them again for any project where availability isn't a serious concern, but never anything customer-facing.
Why? Toxic emissions aren’t a given, they’re just cheaper than neutralizing or containing them.
Android Security Bulletin–November 2017 – Google addresses critical flaws
No. The definition of insurance is that it's only making you whole again after a loss. If my house burns down and the insurance company gives me $200K to rebuild it and replace the contents, was that income?

Likewise, the health insurance money is making me whole after an analogous loss to my health.
> I'm just gonna go ahead and say this is, in fact, a questionable thing to do. Especially in a community with a name like "Maker" that purports to be about technical ability.

Are you even remotely aware of your own biases here that I'm trying to highlight?

So communities that purports technical subjects should enforce strict Puritan dress code for women to fit your own world views?

> You're not wrong, but it's a touchy subject and the word "slutshaming" polarizes people pretty effectively in the current year.

In your comment you invalidate 'slutshaming' completely, do you think it might have impact on what you are writing?
But the relevant metric here is how many people have nothing. If everyone had nothing you solved the inequality but you're still poor.

Inequality is just a bad metric. I'd rather be a poor in America than equal in Venezuela.
project page: https://mhogomchungu.github.io/zuluCrypt/

>> why did you start it

I bought an external hard drive and i wanted to encrypt it just because i could,i already knew about TrueCrypt but it felt like a window's solution and i wanted a native linux GUI application.

>> how did people find it.

"Organic" google searches played a part in people finding out about it but i post and talk about it in various forums i see the project discussed. I google the name of the project around once a week and i answer any questions/bug people report in various online forums.

>> did you post it somewhere to get traction

I occasionally post in various linux forums and reddit on new releases.
Keep your powder dry, Coloradians. COMCAST is like some non-giving up cable guy who simply won't let citizens determine their own fate when there is oodles of money to be made from them instead. Prepare for them to come back through the rear door, bribing the legislature and congress to enact laws that restrict the practice just approved.
Whenever this happens - and it happens a lot - Comcast & Co just goes up a level to the state legislature and has them outlaw municipal broadband:

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/08/28/15404/how-big-tel...

Can't they just do the same thing in Colorado?
Nice to know, thank you. As an OpenBSD user, I've thought about going the OpenSMTPD route for a while now, but I've been debating whether to do that or Mail In A Box.

Have you used MIAB at all?
BFG is from Doom, not Quake, as the BFG9000.
The demo notebook has a TensorFlow example, which is a machine learning library.

However, it’s not a full ML example, which is what the OP wants. (but since the VM has only 2 vCPU, training a model with TensorFlow may not be pragmatic)
This is why I end up on University St all the time and almost never go to Stanford Shopping Center even though it's a bit closer, pleasant and I like a few of the restaurants/cafes.

What I would really like is for a few blocks of University to become pedestrian-only with lots of outdoor seating for its cafes and restaurants. (The same goes for other downtown areas in the South Bay, like Santa Cruz in Menlo Park.) It's amazing how little outdoor seating we have in the Bay Area despite the amazing weather.
Yes, self-hosted fonts is better. If web-designers start to host their fonts, I will have one less reason for not downloading fonts.
Partisan political sniping does not add any value to the conversation.
> Samsung removed that app for no reason that benefited me

I think it was Microsoft who decided to stop supporting Skype for TV, not Samsung [1]. Did you find a replacement? Perhaps a third-party device that could be connected to TV? I am in the marker for a living room Skype system and I can't find anything suitable.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/8/11178976/microsoft-skype-f...
> The user, in the only way that is significant to the license

But for the GPL, the notion of a user almost always includes you and me. Or at least it would, it this particular case.

So how can one compare the licenses on the amount of "freedom" conveyed to "potential users" if they don't want to use the same meaning of the word "user" as the GPL does? And does purposefully, with the end goal of serving said users.

> You can at best call me a user in the sense that I may be using nginx or apache when I access a website.

Not sure about "at best", but I can. And there are licenses (such as AGPL) that limit what one can do with software accessed over a network as well.

> I certainly can't operate the MINIX derivative running on a different CPU than the software I actually do use. I never made a conscious effort to start or stop it, in fact I didn't know about it until the other day.

You never "start or stop" an operating system, you just push a button. You don't interact with it directly either: you communicate with hardware devices and user-facing software.

Most users don't even know what operating system they are running, they just spend their day in their web browser. And they don't know the difference between the two.

And yet, that doesn't matter to the GPL.

> Maybe he's sincerely proud that his software is now so widely deployed?

Sure, but that was a separate statement. And then: "... this bit of news reaffirms my view...".

> It seems beside the points I am making.

I am discussing the Open Letter, and not your opinion in a vacuum.
I think it's pessimistic but reasonable to expect that most people fail to understand the fundamentals behind both stocks and bitcoin.

Given that, I think the best way to read this is as a measure of faith. What is the expected source of future economic growth? Emerging tech, or existing economic structures? Given the state of young people in the US, it's not surprising to see confidence waning in incumbent financial systems.
Sorry I meant wealth and thought that was obvious from talking about wealth inequality as opposed to income inequality.
What developers need to know when working with designers [audio]
It sounds like they're working on it. I like that there are a number of test cases, which will hopefully lead to a little variety in results, and maybe some good ideas regarding which techniques are more effective than others. Like any municipal service, there will be the potential for it to run smoothly and efficiently, and there will be the potential for it to turn into a massive clusterfuck and money pit. Where a particular city's implementation falls on that spectrum will be determined by their own choices.
For some additional context, that's about 5% of the total US labor force (160 million). The current labor force turnover (hirings and firings/quits) is around 5 million per month.
I wasn't really able to figure out who the actual author is. Anybody know?
Timing with Trump visit seems to suggest that it's one of those deals that make it during the negotiations of economic relations - who infuses who with more cash - yet at the same time make the invetsment as strategic as possible
Apple were apparently able to consider both Jersey and the Isle of Man (both British Crown Dependencies) for substantially reducing their tax exposure, so it's presumably questionable, but this is the first I've heard of GAAR. The UK Parliament has the ability to create primary legislation on any matter it wishes in these regions, even if by convention it rarely does, and Jersey and the Isle of Man have had arguably justified reputations as tax havens for a long time in the UK.

One only needs to look at the other leaks in this dump to see the attraction of these locations (Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton stashing his private jet on the Isle of Man to avoid a substantial VAT bill etc).
And Americans will absolutely hate Europeans for their walkable cities.
Maybe you'll do that, but the net effect would still be a greater migration into the city, because people would be able to have all the benefits of urban living and all the benefits of car mobility, without having to cover the high monthly cost of a downtown parking space.

Just leave your car parked out in the suburbs somewhere, program it to move to another parking space at least once every 72 hours so it doesn't get towed, then call it to come in and pick you up whenever you want to use it.
Who gives a shit if he's wearing a speedo all the time? Who gives a shit if someone makes a private joke about dongles at a conference??

> I personally don't see how having social standards on how to interact socially and sexually is a bad thing.

Did you really have a problem with this line from the post you replied to? Because if not, you can see what sort of issue someone might have here.
North Americans are too soft.

I live in Toronto and it's wonderful to have nice streets that you can walk and bike on, even at ±30C.
Seems like the building could be turned into indoor paintball lazertag, rollerblading, offices, without rebuilding from the foundation.
Be serious.

(1) You really think Apple cares about the discussions on one thread of Hacker News ?

(2) Even if they did how would it be an effective use of resources. It may shift a handful of people at most. When instead that time could be spent speaking with journalists or writing press releases that could actually shift a lot of people.

(3) It's a slippery slope to keep calling everyone you disagree with shills or employees of a company. Especially since on an anonymous forum they could never be able to defend themselves.
or even Emacs.
For cross platform I've started looking at Free Pascal with Lazarus. It uses the native GUI so it looks like a MacOS app and also a Windows app. It also has support for Android and iOS. It may get passed over by most because it is based on Pascal but overall, I think it is great (from what I've done with it)
I don't believe Go will ever get generics, beyond go generate, Borland C++ 2.0 for MS-DOS style.
Maybe it's just me, but the right thing for Comcast to do is try to provide a better product. Competition is healthy, legislation is illness.
> miracle switch over to Bitcoin Cash, which has the 8x capacity without the baggage of Segwit.

That fork (BCH) already happened. You were hoping that the vendors who stated "follow the chain w/greatest difficulty" would land on BCH? The merits just aren't there, and that's likely why miners aren't there either.

> But probably most of them are just trying to develop a functional cryptocurrency. This stuff is very hard

IMO people who haven't actually tried to do that actual development have no idea how hard it is and don't put sufficient weight on the concerns expressed by those who do. The segwit 2x proponents weren't developers.
Instagram public media API is not available anymore
To get a json of the feed of an instagram account, you could just GET https://www.instagram.com/<user_id>/media without any token needed, it sounds like this feature have been killed 2 days ago
> but the actual machines with great and they're a fraction of the cost.

The advantage of cloud stuff is if you need an extremely high amount of power for an extremely short amount of time. For example, I needed a hundred CPU cores + TB of RAM for a 15-minute time span, paid less than 100$ - renting this or, god forbid, buying this, would have racked up 10k+ bills for sure, for buying probably over 200k.

Once you have base-line load that can't be served with micro/mini instances, there is no financial alternative to renting, and in some cases buying+colo may come in even cheaper (but requires HW maintenance personnel).

Snapchat, for example, pays 2 billion dollars for 5Y to Google, equivalent to 400M$ a year (per http://www.zdnet.com/article/snapchat-spending-2-billion-ove...) ... I wonder what their CFO (or any board member who approved this) has smoked. No way this huge amount of spend is justified - not even the taxing differences between capex (buying) and opex (cloud/renting) can justify this in any way.

In addition, all cloud providers charge heavily for data egress, which really makes me wonder how on earth a service like Netflix can actually be profitable.
After I posted I had the same thought. But then I realized that durable goods from a store usually come in packaging, so measuring outgoing material isn’t as inaccurate as it sounds as first.

Most of us are really pretty bad at tracking our purchases. We don’t want to look at them because it means admitting we have a problem. But we know the trash is full all the time and don’t think about how that correlated with consumption. Basically I was trying to trick people into an honest conversation about something nobody likes to be honest about.

And at any rate if the quantity is “more than 200” then it just reinforces GGP’s point.
Yeah, I don't expect this JWT scheme to become an adopted standard. It's been streamlined from OIC for the narrow use case of working tightly with a trusted app.

Adding support for inbound federation is on the roadmap. Support for outbound federation using OIC isn't out of the question either, but I don't yet see the motivation.
Don't use lambdas as listeners in Kotlin - Update
It is actually quite common.

Here is a list of hundreds of such open lawsuits:

http://shareholdersfoundation.com/content/new-cases
Unicode text handling.
> Many of these institutions of higher education are entirely or partially funded with taxpayer money.

This is a tell. I should have seen it coming. Another "you didn't build the ROADS!" guilt trip. As if a big part of the rationale behind all government-funded activities (wealth redistribution) was to promote the importance and preservation of the state, not what the citizens couldn't do for themselves. The same goes for the "freedom isn't free" bullshit. A "security" argument could have just as easily been substituted for the "education" argument. Citizens all around the world are paying double for this self-aggrandizing propaganda, some with a mountain of subsidized student loans, others with their lives.

The fundamental goals of government (that I think that most people could get on board with) are to provide law and order, and if it has the resources, promote the general welfare. If the welfare is being promoted and increasing by other means, why do we need the state to continue that role? The pie is growing in the form of a piece of technology that is improving your life, and the private sector doing more, more efficiently. Just because the guy next door struck it rich in some risky investment or startup doesn't mean you were made worse off or will be made worse off. The sooner we can stop flirting with that flawed, quick-fix socialist thinking, the better off we'll all be.
I'm not sure there is a name for the GP's 'fallacy', but I think there should be. The idea is that one person in the whole history of the world had the worst, most painful, most terrible, most suffered, most miserable life that ever happened anywhere and for all time. All other people are just griping and moaning; they could have had it worse, so shut-up.

Like, how mean is that thought process? We need to be helping each other out, not comparing the size of our scars and the length of our therapy sessions. So what if someone hasn't had it was bad as you or some hypothetical person? Be kind.