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WinRT is that "small tweak" combination of Direct2D and "WinAPI". It's turtles all the way down, WinRT is the modern COM and modern WinAPI, the WinAPI is now WinRT. The documentation site I pointed to defaults to C# (.NET) but is the exact same site supporting C++ and there is a dropdown in the sidebar to switch between views.

The C++/WinRT library I linked to started outside of Microsoft (as "moderncpp"), was acquired, and is still open source. Microsoft isn't requiring their own development tools to build WinRT (there's also open source React Native
off the top of my head), it's just that so far not a lot of non-Microsoft developments tools have targeted/needed to target WinRT to date.

They aren't requiring you to use their libraries, they are requiring you to use their modern API (WinRT).
Like our cell phones, or cars, or electrical grid? Silly, that's called 'civilization'.
Unfortunately a lot of people don't realise how useful until they actually try them. For example getting home and having the lights turn on that you'll need automatically.

Before we had to navigate our way to the other side of a open plan room in the dark to find a light switch, now the motion sensor triggers the Hue bulb.

Plus we have a dimmer without needing an electrician to install one, and can set other colors of light for the mood or to improve the atmosphere of a movie.

You can get started with Philip's Hue for $50 (on Black Friday) and at that price point it is well worth it for a lot of benefits/circumstances.
A seemingly common safety is to wire the custom thermostat in parallel with a simple commercial one so that the commercial one kicks in if the temperature gets too low.
That sounds, from your description, more like a sink hole than a freeze-thaw induced crack? Hard to tell without seeing it.
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The person cited in the article was not a staid farmer. He adopted no till, and other at the time, avant guard farming techniques, so i think that mischaracterizes at least him.
Please make sure you take your coins off of Coinbase (or any other exchange) as soon as you can. Here's a talk by the venerable Andreas Antonopoulos on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt-zXEsJ61U
You need to have way more of a buffer held in cash and probably a significant lifestyle cut. Paycheck-to-paycheck sucks but is workable if you're a W-2, but absolutely insane if you're self employed.

Like, money you earn today should get earmarked to expenses you need to pay six months from now. The discount for self-employed dollars should be keeping six months of expenses in cash rather than invested in the market - if that's $30k and you lose out on 4% gains, that's only $1.2k per year.
I’m aware of resurfacing projects, but I’m not aware of total replacement projects.
Am I crazy, or did Firefox or some other browser do this around a decade ago? Maybe Opera or Avant Browser, back before money deals were made?
Representing a physical product as a unique cryptographic hash that the consumer can independently verify is generally a lot harder than attaching a photo. From a comment below:
> Leanne Kemp, an Australian who in 2015 founded a company called Everledger, has now encrypted the distinguishing features of 1.8 million diamonds and their provenance on a blockchain.
> More than 40 features are logged to create a fingerprint for each diamond, logging it from mine to ring.

For this to provide proof of authenticity, I need to be able to visit a jeweler not employed by Everledger, and have them be able to use a rubric to classify my diamond along these 40 features in a way that uniquely describes it in a way no other diamond could be described. I then need to be able to visit a second and a third jeweler and obtain the exact same classification along these 40 features.

When visiting Everledger's site, I can't get any information on the classification process beyond that sentence. The supposed core of the product doesn't even have a white paper.

Diamonds are comparatively easy to classify, as they are supposedly unique in many ways, and don't physically degrade over time. When it comes to tins of milk, I can't think of a secure proof of authenticity process that doesn't involve the consumer verifying the composition of the product with a gas chromatography machine.
Automation means you actually have to run out to get more.

A backup bottle means you never are out - if you remember any time during the 2-month period it takes to use up a bottle. Or have an automated system.
Pure FUD. Millions of people have their salary in the open in the US, from CEO's to government employees. If you wish to pay for your privacy go ahead, but price transparency can only help the workers.
It's a clever idea, but without a 1:1 connection between an object and a network, it seems too dumb to be useful.

How is my WiFi network supposed to know that the interference in the signal came from my detergent bottle - not my neighbor's, and not from some other random object passing by? Do I have to do some sort of pairing every time I buy a new detergent brand to teach my network about it?
Why is that a valid criticism? Doesn't that just boil down to "people who want to do x and have money can end up in a better spot than people who inherited x and have less money?"
I think both, but is it really saving money if you personally are unable to buy food after a bad season?
> Why. Why why why do all IoT-related articles always use awful consumer goods examples like this.

because consumer goods manufacturers have the big bucks to throw at research like this
This seems as good of place as any to ask novice-level questions about PostgreSQL. I teach students SQLite and one of the most massive pain points in transitioning to PgSQL is how the latter, in the `WHERE` clause, fails to recognize aliases in the `SELECT` clause, e.g.

SELECT UPPER(name) AS bigname
FROM people
WHERE bigname = 'JOE';

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38040631/postgresql-does...

Apparently this is the SQL standard, which PgSQL seems to do a better job of following than SQLite, but I'm at a loss to understand why this computation is particularly problematic for PgSQL (or any variant) to adopt? Unlike other SQL standard rules that PgSQL follows that SQLite/MySQL doesn't (such as forbidding the selection of column names that aren't being GROUPed by in a GROUP BY clause), this strictness seems to be all inconvenience.
Stealing momentum and userbase are not theft, but rather meant to convey a loss for the open source project despite being the ones who got the ball rolling. It was expressly permitted by the BSD license, so I'm not saying the Apple did anything wrong, but rather pointing out a opinion about a strategic misstep by the BSD license.

for context https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/41109/
This is a great idea tbh, most people actually know far more classical music than they think they do - but they couldn't tell you the name of a piece or its composer for the life of them.
OK, I see your point with mortgage interest interested being deductible.
We do the same with K-Cups, very useful, and something you quickly take for granted.

I have noticed that we pay more over the longer term however as we miss sales/discounts/etc that you'd get by ordering in singles. Don't love that.
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Those were around before IoT was even a word, POS registers and gas stations haven’t changed much since the 90s. Traffic lights ditto, many haven’t been upgraded since the 80s.

If that is what you mean by IoT as just a rebranding of things that have been around for a long time?
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We all like to tell ourselves that we are impactful and in the top 1%, but most of us could not land a job for $300k total comp. It would also be a mistake to pay us that much. Negative growth of your runway chart is a quick way to get into the fatal pinch.

Those Buffer salaries are quite reasonable for engineers. If you're not looking at them hungrily, then may I suggest you're probably not the customer here? And by "customer" I mean "competent engineer who never bothered to put together a portfolio or play the interview treadmill cycle game and is therefore making ~$100k total comp."

Those people exist. And contrary to what the vocal monitory says, they don't kill your company if you hire them. Matasano proved that.
His point is valid, it does sound like oil snake marketing.
Maybe they have been faced with the prospect of moving to a city and working in an office.
That's in the article about why farmers are killing each other.

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/14/532879755/a-pesticide-a-pigwe...
Farmers that are killing themselves grow commodity products. The people who are leaving corporate jobs to become farmers are wanting to farm specialty products like organic products or high end products like mushrooms, flowers, wine, or specialty cheeses. The problem is that the farmers who grow commodity crops live in areas that are not suited to growing specialty crops (the middle of the country) so they can't switch. Specialty crops are mostly grown on the west coast and the east coast where there is better soil and in some cases more water think Central Valley, Willamette Valley, Hudson River Valley. https://modernfarmer.com/2013/08/cashing-in-specialty-crops-...
For some farms.

I have relatives that are dairy farmers in Ontario and they seem to be doing ok. There's some kind of collective in place that establishes production quotas and you have to pay for the right to produce. Maybe more commodity products could benefit from this type of planning.
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What does it have to do with the openness of the formula/salary data if another company pays more?

> there's no subjectivity in this formula

Yes, there isn't. Because subjectivity in favour of someone, is to the detriment of another employee (because the budget is limited). It just usually happens to be the case that the employers somehow "magically forget" to communicate this to the employees. So you are basically kept in the dark in two different respects:
1st regarding how your skills compare to others
2nd regarding how your salary compares to others

Basically this is just a spineless, sneaky tactic that employers like to use. Because the less information you have, the lower the chances that you can make a well informed decision about your job change.
Using create by email gives me (in chrome network console) "account already exists" and trying to log with that account sends a call which is never answered. Perhaps it's the HN hug messing your website up...
> Doesn't that just boil down to "people who want to do x and have money can end up in a better spot than people who inherited x and have less money?"

Is that not a valid criticism?
Let me be clear: from one perspective, I get paid a ridiculous amount of money for what I do. I push buttons and think for a living. I spend a few hours per day doing it, I really enjoy it, and I can do it anywhere in the world from my laptop.

It's crazy that someone is willing to pay me $100k / year, and I'm super grateful for that. Really.

However, that doesn't mean that $100k / year (or whatever the minimum I'd be excited about) is the market rate. If ten other companies would pay me $300k, then I should go work there, right?

There's no speed limit. Just because someone is willing to pay you way more than you ever dreamed doesn't mean you should shun any more than that. Do your best and go to where you're valued the most.
I think you are confusing sinkholes and potholes. The two aren't really related.
IOTA currently uses a masternode called the coordinator that verifies all transactions. The coordinator is a necessary feature until there's enough transactions to secure the tangle without out (millions per second?)
>Do you have one? Do you use it as a daily workstation?

Nobody does, they are still in the pre-order stage.
Cost of living in the bay area is insane right now. You won't find a single family home under 1 million dollars on the peninsula or the entire south bay with the exception of deep east san jose and east palo alto (but even that is changing rapidly). I would bet that most of the salary adjustment is due to the housing crisis.
Salary transparency leading to lower salaries... I had been led to believe to expect the opposite.
Thank you, this looks quite interesting.
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I was just reading an article about how Justin Trudeau connected with North Korea through Cuba. Maybe North Korea is involved.
You can have a rural life, and not be hurt by the vagaries of farm prices etc.

Me for instance. I live on 80 acres outside Iowa City (a college town). The neighbor does the farming of half the land; he pays rent on the land and suffers the risk all himself.

So best of both worlds for me. I have my orchard, gardens, sheds, tractor (for mowing and plowing) and rural vistas. And work remotely at software for whomever, at about 10X the rate a farmer gets 'paid'.
If you don't need it, what forces you to use any of it. Has the browser stopped accepting .js and .html files? It hasn't. Will we ever go back to where that was all that was needed? I sure hope that will never happen, because there was nothing glorious or great about that time. It's a Freudian slip when someone thinks back and goes "oh how easy it was." It just wasn't. It used to be the most limited, restricted, crippled, tough and volatile environment possible. Nothing meant manual labour as much as the old web. From chasing dependencies by hand, fixing issues across browsers, nothing could be re-used, it was plain horrible.
Seems like the news is still breaking. Nicehash balance is showing zero BTC however.

https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/33dH7xpzrQG8ydZvtj...
so, malware on my phone can fake these signals and order 200 gallons of laundry detergent for me?
So you're saying making Steve Jobs Chinese on Wikipedia is a decent analogy?
There could be a difference between a human-manipulated restaurant which still has some real business and a totally fake restaurant which can be manipulated however you like.

Thinking along the lines of something I read on HN recently, using Benford's Law[1] to catch fraud in accounting data - the essential principle is that fraudsters are constrained by some unmassagable numbers, like the monthy total or some important transactions, so the figures they do change end up altering the overall distribution in some unrealistic way. But if you can generate your own dataset (and make sure it follows Bendford's), that fraud marker disappears.

TripAdvisor might be able to detect when your restaurant is behaving very different to how it's expected to, based on some past or present data - but there's less indication something has gone wrong if you just create a new restaurant out of thin air that behaves totally consistently.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
There are few places where market forces work as well as in farming. Which is surprising considering the distortions imposed by subsidies. Still, I think this is a case where automation will eliminate many if not all of their jobs and the market is doing a good job at signaling that they probably need to change professions. This especially rang true when they mentioned how the price of a wheat bushel appeared to below production costs. It’s really pains me to see these men having to deal with the dark side of creative distruction but I also don’t know what’s the best way to help them reinvent themselves for the future.
The amazing thing is the median age of farmers in the USA is ~56. In the next ten years over half are retire-able. Who is going to take over? Corporations or the current immigrant workers? Its a huge change for most of the country.
Not sure at all how that would work. Can your phone generate arbitrary backscatter waveforms? I don't think it can.
When you are out, just order some more. When we were living in Beijing, they would have it delivered within an hour or two.
It helps you be more mindful and detach from the moment to moment undulations of modern life. This can be good and bad.

I can meditate anywhere. But usually I sit in half-lotus, slowly easing myself into a blank state. I think about radiating outward. Anywhere from 5-25 mins.

Never did a retreat.

The problem with meditation is I think that it can release a latent and light form of schizophrenia. Things that society values, you no longer value as much. It makes it tougher to fit in with "normal" people. The benefit is that you can draw your path more clearly and execute more clearly. I'd like to hear others' opinions as well.
Keep in mind this is Mozilla's presentation of the case, so definitely take with a grain of salt. Yahoo hasn't AFAICT made a public statement about the case, and the heavily redacted initial complaint probably paints the situation differently:

> On December 1, Yahoo Holdings and Oath filed a legal complaint against Mozilla in Santa Clara County court claiming that we improperly terminated our agreement

If I had to guess, Yahoo seems to be arguing that the Verizon deal and restructuring didn't trigger the "change of control provisions", but Mozilla is arguing that the provisions were triggered. Since none of us have access to the original contract, it's impossible to say who is right, but with so much money on the table it's no surprise that the lawyers were brought in.
Allowing applications to intercept and mess with other application's network traffic

Look at your cellular data usage in "system services" .. Apple is already intercepting and sending home a lot of your information without your ability to stop it.
The civil standard is preponderance of evidence. The criminal standard is beyond reasonable doubt. I believe that the civil standard is appropriate for public elections. And for this type of proceeding, hearsay is admissible as evidence.

At this time, the prosecution in the court of public opinion has offered reams of eyewitness testimony (even as unreliable as that category of evidence may be), and the defense has offered "nuh-uh, wazzenme" and a parade of character witnesses--that are strangely reticent to back up their assertions with their specific reasons for believing that it would be out of character for Roy Moore to have pursued and sexually molested children when he was younger. As I am a cynical anarchist atheist, "he votes Republican and regularly attends Christian churches" actually holds negative weight for me.

There is also the other thing, the thing that is undeniable fact, and a matter of public record. He has twice been evicted--dragged kicking and screaming--from public office, for flouting the law. He has twice proven himself to be incapable of upholding the parts of the U.S. constitution that he doesn't like, and it would have only taken once for me to consider him unfit to be a U.S. senator.

And besides all that, he gives me the same vibe as an Alabama politician that I got from Rod Blagojevich as a Chicago politician. It's as though all the bacteria in my intestines are screaming in unison: "That guy is a colossal piece of isht, and we know isht better than anyone! Do not allow him within 100m of your government, your bank accounts, or your children!"
Posting like this is not OK and we'll ban you if you do it again. Could you please read the guidelines and then comment only civilly and substantively? Vacuous, uncivil flamebait is exactly not what we're here for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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"We do not compete by undercutting the competition. That will kill us both."
It's unnecessary, though, and makes the point harder to read. "It works even better" would be a perfectly sufficient description. "It works not as well as but better" is an unnecessary rhetorical flourish.
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It's not only America. Same story in France (as just one example). More interestingly there was a documentary about the 40s in France, and a farmer interviewed said the exact same things as a farmer today about the struggle of surviving in this "field"... nothing's changed.
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This happens any time your only differentiator is price. The small guy is never going to be able to compete with a larger company on only price. Never make your differentiator "we're cheaper"! It's business 101.
We obviously can't all be the 1%, but I think it's probably more the top 10% who could make $300k? Maybe that's optimistic and out of touch, though.

At any rate, my point isn't that this will kill Buffer, but I suspect it'll be a drag on their performance over the long run. Who knows though. And I don't really care; it's not my company.

What I care about is whether I'd go work for them or advise others to do so. And my answer would be no. I think you can make more with a little bit of effort. And even if you can't, I think working for a company that won't yank the rug out from under you with a paycut like this is worth a premium.
Not sure it's less of an issue in tech now. I got into the field when a degree wasn't needed (late 90's), just a pulse. Now it would be hard to get an entry level job without one, at least at my company.
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It's not criticism, it's responding to the question asked.

Q: How do we reconcile on the one hand farmers by trade leaving and wannabe farmers wanting to join a farm life?

A: "people who want to do x and have money can end up in a better spot than people who inherited x and have less money?"
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Is there a way to turn off cellular data for "system services" in iOS?
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But better evaluation gives you asymptotic speedups. You can give Stockfish several times its computation (which is already a lot, I mean, 64 threads, come on) and it doesn't make good use of it since it just runs into the search wall. If you gave Stockfish the equivalent in CPU power (and I'm not sure this is a fair hypothetical since part of the appeal of NNs is that they have such efficient hardware implementations, so it seems unfair to then grant a less efficient algorithm equivalent computing power by fiat), I'm not sure it would be restored to parity or superiority.
They could just check Glassdoor. You should assume average salary for your position is public info.
These people are in their 50-60s. That's not a likely transition. A few might be able to get into sales or traveling trade work.

But most of them are going to have a difficult time finding any sort of work. Agism and the stigma of being a bumpkin/luddite will absolutely work against them.
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The only useful feature of EV certs to me is that they list the company name in the green box in the address bar. That's handy when first visiting a domain used by a company that isn't that company's main domain.
Right, it's the training wheels until enough nodes are added to the tangle. What are they supposed to do instead?
Hypocrisy at is finest. Device neutrality should be a thing.
I don't see anything wrong with the guy's name... And for the rest of it - it's a a reporter who tried to paint the picture with words, so forgive me if I see it differently
This assumes they are able to retire. Given the financial outlooks presented in the article, I think retiring is not in the books for these farmers.