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When I'm rushing out of the house and would prefer to multitask tying my shoes and checking my phone, my new Google Home makes two things incredibly easy: weather and train times. That along with a good speaker connected to Spotify has been super worth it. Bonus points for connecting to Chromecast.

I'm an iPhone / Mac person and the Chromecast / Home combo has made me consider what a life in the Google ecosystem would look like. Not yet ready to switch but it's priming me. Then I remember how terrible an Android is for my current setups. If they solve that issue for me, they have me.
Usually, workplace insurance (something like life/continuance insurance).

Some employers provides vehicles, which also has insurance associated with it.
I got a google home solely because it came w/ a hue package and tried to show it to my family. The Home couldn't hear me over itself (music) across the kitchen...

My alexa can hear what I'm saying down the corridor with the shower on and much louder.

It was embarassing
> Travis ci or Amazon pipelines where it is all declarative not imperitive [...] a Turing complete parse of tons of custom groovy scripts

Even worse than Apache Groovy being an imperative DSL (compared to Travis ci and Amazon pipelines being all declarative) is that the most declarative portions of Groovy (i.e. its collections API) are disabled when used in the Jenkins pipelines.
Those aren't images of the tools that Tim used. And I totally agree that the tools used by Tim aren't found in middens or descriptions or drawings. Occam's Razor does apply, but, it leaves me wondering why The Music Lesson is so great. Or why the Girl with a Pearl Earring is 1:1.
During the election? Yeah. Before the election? No.

https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinto...

Before the election she was a Senator, a Secretary of State, a First Lady and about 20 times the Most Admired Woman in America. Her unpopularity was manufactured. It says more about the electorate than the woman.
Alternatively, maybe they do make a significant difference in those people's lives. I mean, seriously--who do you think you are to be the arbiter of that for them?
Must be a small window of people. I’m over 50 and have no problem wanting to use voice.

I started with computers as a teenager before the Mac was released. Growing up watching the original Star Trek in reruns, I thought we’d all be talking to computers by now.
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>> Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency.

not really. it's a "...peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution..." according to Satoshi himself.
I actually find ghome to be better for smart home use. The app is a little more intuitive with organization and it is a lot better with recognizing the names of your stuff. Alexa would have trouble recognizing arbitrary names while ghome almost always gets it right.

I started with Echo but ended up replacing it with Google Home because I like it so much more.
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I love the section he wrote on Microsoft. He is clearly a master of the backhanded compliment:

> However, I can already tell that this experience broadened my horizons. Two examples I got out of the experience are a better understanding of how sales worked and I have a better idea of the range of processes that exist across different teams.

> To the first point, the company produced some decent products backed by a world class sales team. Watching the sales team work was a revelation. The sales people would regularly go in and create sales even when the product wasn’t the best thing for customers. I’d always known that sales was at least as important as engineering, but seeing this in action was different from knowing in the abstract.

> To the second point, I once wrote a blog post on build uptime where I looked at uptime data that seemed surprisingly bad to me and said

> at every place I’ve worked, two 9s of reliability (99% uptime) on the build would be considered bad. That would mean that the build is failing for over three and a half days a year, or seven hours per month. Even three 9s (99.9% uptime) is about forty-five minutes of downtime a month. That’s kinda ok if there isn’t a hard system in place to prevent people from checking in bad code, but it’s quite bad for a place that’s serious about having working builds.

> A number of people responded with comments like “lololol that guy has been pretty lucky in the team’s he’s worked on”. I didn’t think much of those comments until this job. At my first team on this company, we couldn’t build on most days for most of the time I was there! My second team was better, but I would regularly get broken builds when I fetched and merged from origin/master. I had no idea that companies that considered themselves serious about development could have practices like this and it’s good to have this new information.
What fraud are you referring to?
Damn, that's well thought out. Are you working on a near-future sf book? ;-)
Thanks for the detail, and for your own experience.

The interrogation interests me. It sounds you don't feel it was useful? I had heard about this kind of interrogation over mundane stories, and understood it as a way of "testing" individuals' stories (especially under duress). But that would depend on it being repeated/prodded thoroughly, which it seems isn't the case.
This is the worst forum of all to ask a question like this. HN is full of people who think they are smarter than everyone else, and a vocal group here has been saying “bitcoin is a scam” since bitcoin was $1 and missed out on the rise. So now they are actively rooting for it and all cryptos to fail, and ignore the benefits of the blockchain. Additionally a lot of YC-type people benefit by the current VC system and funding via ICO’s or similar mechanisms is anethema to what they have constructed.

I know many wealthy cryptos and they don’t have time for the noise here. Bitcoin could fall to $1000 and they are still rich, they don’t care about bubble talk.
> "Yet whenever people call out Anderson Cooper caught in front of a green screen..."

When was Anderson Cooper caught in front of a green screen?
The biggest bubble is the Big Bang of course. That bubble will eventually collapse and it will be the end of everything (really!).
I know for now that crypto currencies are really only worth something as long as they are used as “currencies”. I don’t believe bitcoin is currently being used as currency to buy/sell stuff, rather it’s used increasingly as an investment, which I don’t believe any currency should be especially when it’s this unstable.
Some people have more air in their heads then others :D
That’s my point :)
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That is the creepiest thing ive ever read on HN. I am 25 so maybe I am just getting jaded but that seems incredibly intrusive.
Makes sense, but give me the Google Home. The Chromecast pairing is insane, a better speaker in the mini, and frankly, I'll invite Google to own my life before Amazon.
Who could imagine that people would install telescreens voluntarily, and pay for the privilege?
I think there's some belief that the current issues Bitcoin has in transaction rate/cost can be addressed in a software update.
Or if you get your ham license you have a limit of 1500W PEP[1], just plug your callsign into the router ID and away you go. However that means you're also subject to no encryption or business related traffic.

[1] http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/allocations.html
Yep, and they steadfastly refuse to do so. Its myopic. Photo editing requires photo management to do efficiently.

Even the built in filesystem access is poor.

Nothing on Linux is acceptable though, so they're not alone, it's just sad that something so promising is so hobbled.
There are systems of power that will never fall that make this egalitarian idea irrelevant (and dangerous)
IMHO, most of the recent purchases of Bitcoin are mostly because of FOMO. That's the only explanation I can gather for something that increases in value so rapidly without any underlying change in the fundamentals.
Quite a similar phenomenon happened during the dot com bubble too. Because of FOMO, people blindly invested in stocks that proved to be worthless later.

So the only similarity I see is irrational investment fueled by FOMO.
When people talk about banning "profiling" that's what they mean.
Yes, it bothered me. I only skimmed the article looking for how it got its name, but the article never answers the question. How frustrating...
If you were allowed in a calculus based physics course (some schools offer non-calc versions for non-science/engineering students) without ever being asked if you had taken calculus, there was an issue here other then you not having taken calculus. Calculus is not part of the standard curriculum at many US high schools. I attended one of the top 10 engineering schools in the US, and it was not that unusual for students to need to take calc before taking their first physics course. This kind of basic prerequisite verification is something any major university should be doing.
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This particular example of yagi for wifi - what's the logic to customize it for my router ?

In short, I'm looking for logic to repeat this for my router's dipole antenna and possibly with custom wires (not #14 or paperclips of unknown thickness mentioned there)
Why has El Al security seized your backpack? I can see why they'd want to search a backpack, but can't for the life of me understand why they'd seize it. I know airlines can sometimes check-in your carry-on items when they run out of cabin space. Is this what happened to you?
It is a joke :)
> I feel like people don't realize the corruption is pretty equal between both candidates/parties

So what? Even if one accepts the unimaginative premise that all politicians are equally corrupt, there are very clear differences in the policies they enact, so it is a rational decision to make discerning choices between them; the implied suggestion that it's all a wash is very obviously incorrect.
Yeah, those scanners where you hold your hands up were a big boondoggle.
I'm sure they are getting their playbook from their Chinese friends. Even Japan is getting more heavy handed than they were, and in Asia, they are the most liberal of all governments in comparison.

Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, all heavy handed as regards the Internet. Russia, China, most of the former Balkan states, Turkey... Brazil, even.
You're presenting a bit of an extreme, pedantic example, but I think you're right in a more general sense. There are plenty of things that I wouldn't recommend to others simply because they're niche or are just in a category of things that wouldn't come up in normal conversation (perhaps they're just mundane every-day things). I might be 100% satisfied with something, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go telling everyone (or even anyone) about it.
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the key is the u.s. is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy (only in certain elections).

the strategy is to support representatives whose opinions you trust and speak persuasively to people to bring them on your side. To do this effectively, you must listen to them and understand their concerns.

there is no quick-fix. you must perform this work at a slow and steady pace your entire life, never feeling confident others can handle it (that their angry facebook memes will stop a demagogue).
Google might be ahead in some conversational things, but functionality wise, Alexa is way better.

Probably has something to do with being on the market first, but developing a skill is a much better experience than it is with Google (imo). I think that's a big reason why.

I've developed a number of skills for some big companies, and I'm fighting Amazon right now about getting my open source one published (https://github.com/m0ngr31/kodi-alexa)
They used water cannons on people in Standing Rock in some seriously cold temperatures just last year.
If you have to pay for the grid to take the electricity you generate, the sensible thing to do is stop generating it, even if your costs are all fixed.
The mic quality is my only complaint with the Google Home (mini). I hope they fix that next model cause it's amazing otherwise.
Similar indeed, although you could sell something for Bitcoin and thus get ahold of it. What you sell in comparison with its value against other currencies influences the value of the Bitcoin. I suspect the creators of Bitcoin expected Bitcoin value to come from people selling for Bitcoin. After all, it would be useless without that.
Out of curiosity, why Goole before Amazon?
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You're gonna get downvoted, but there is truth in your comment. I wouldn't have made money with Bitcoin if I had paid attention to all the negative comments on HN.

I know I know, just because I profited on Bitcoin doesn't rule it out as a Ponzi scheme or whatever HN calls Bitcoin nowadays. I and many others genuinely believe that Bitcoin provides great value through its underlying technology and also has the potential to become something greater.
When you're given a choice of two candidates and neither of them represent your interests, and this happens time after time, I think it's fair to question the efficacy of the tack you're proposing.
But where is the fraud?

Anyone can do their own research and come to conclusions about the future valuation of Bitcoin.
Given how fast this plotter (not the type in the OP) throws paper around I'd say it works, at least in ideal circumstances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGPSAD5L_k
The DDR was going down, once Hungary opened its borders. There was no wall between East bloc countries, and as many East Germans were leaving as could find cars and gas to get out with.
Brilliant, let’s all be physically idle nihilists then.
> it’s one of the most widely adopted open source projects of all time.

Nope. The BSD network stack? The Linux kernel? Apache? React is part of the small, insular world of frontend development, where there are very few that aren't junior engineers.

So, yes.
I like that it integrates well with spotify. I can have it play real american by rick derringer while I'm flexing in front of the mirror without having to break my sweet poses.
That's speculative market value, though. You can't actually go to your local coffee shop with 10k in Bitcoin and buyout the stock. They may treat it like $2. I'm not one of the people crying "scam", but I think most people here recognize how risky it is. If someone wants to take that risk, that's their deal.
But if you try 21.8543 times, the odds invert, to 90% success!

Also, you'll probably learn something from all those trials, improving the odds.

But a bigger problem is measuring "failure"... how long and hard must you work before calling it quits, for it to count as a trial? Throwing up one "MVP" website a day for 22 days probably shouldn't count... Perhaps, 3 months full-time (about the runway YCers get)? And, 3 months off to recover.

So, 11 years, for a 90% shot... assuming you're already imdependemtly wealthy.

Like those robbers planning to get money out of bank in the form of a wage for working there, there's probably an easier way.
I think they're both barely better than useless, but the software for both is only going to improve. Amazon is going to hire the AI people and build up their own knowledgebase in the A9 team over the next few years, and Google is going to make the partnerships to reach third party skills parity over the next few months.

The right way to choose between them is by looking at the hardware, and the reviews I've seen say that the Echo Dot is too quiet. That can't be fixed in software.
well I was saying this article was classist. I don’t see how other grocery models relate to this. The article was classist in the sense that it didn’t even seem to understand the nuances you’re describing. It just reduced Aldi to some 2nd world shopping experience (see my quotes for examples).

Anyway if you’re talking about Mexican groceries that focus on produce and meat we are already talking about apples and oranges with respect to Aldi because people shop at those places not just for price considerations but because that’s what they culturally want. As an immigrant myself I can say that arriving in the US it was bewildering and strange that people bought everything in a paper box that was just add water or microwave. Very alien and unsettling. None of that stuff is, you know, food. I feel like immigrants set up those kinds of stores because they want places to buy /food/.
I can see this more as I'm going less to fitness classes and going more to the gym.

I go to the gym to work out but it also relieves stress as I often enter my flow state and am very meditative. I find its very easy to think once you're working out very hard and entering a routine. I also find thinking about developing new features keeps me semi-distracted from all my physical tiredness and keeps me going.

In many ways, theres a spirtual dependence on the gym for me.
I don't really feel like it's creepy. But I DO believe that we need to come up with a different word other than "invest" for contexts like this.

Because when anyone talks about "investing" in a wifi lawnmower, or any other consumer gadget, I think they're seriously misusing the word...
It's funny, I frequently come across two views on bitcoin: the parallel you presented, and that it's not a currency but a store of wealth or other generic asset (comparable to gold). I must say I find the Ponzi framing more compelling, although I have some hope yet for Lightning/insert hot scaling idea here to improve the viability as a currency at least incrementally.

As a currency, I have little hope for bitcoin in its current form. This is an area where it remains possible in my mind for an upstart coin to displace it. Some people seem to care about this; I've looked at a few niche coins that seem to care about this concept and focus on transaction speed, but none have made great progress yet.
It's long been clear that Huxley's vision has won out over Orwell's.
I only started using darktable recently. It’s been great with the exception of speed and the MacOS UI having tiny controls. I have a reasonably powerful MacBook Pro and would have expected it to handle things like changing exposure levels pretty quickly.

But honestly I can’t complain because this thing allows me to make decent photos fantastic.
I am late 20s and hate talking to computers. Especially when they pretend to be friendly or crack jokes (like Siri), it’s creepy
I've always wondered what it would be like to have paint like this as an exterior primer

https://www.lessemf.com/paint.html (Warning: this site gets a little silly)
It might be risky but HN is generally full of nerds that love new technology. When it comes to crypto currency suddenly everyone here is fucking Warren Buffett.

We are literally living in a Neil Stephenson novel and HN as a group is collectively sticking their fingers in their ears. It’s amazing the visceral reaction crypto gets here, the people who don’t like it can’t simply ignore the posts, they write 5000 word screeds and vote with hive mind to stop alternate opinions.
both involve irrational exuberance?
These are weapons designed to maim. And they are particularly insidious because permanent hearing damage and tinnitus are invisible. You can ruin hundreds of lives at once with no messy blood spills. Damaging hearing is a great way to punish "undesirable" people while pretending you're not evil. I can't think of any argument for their use that doesn't also permit use of biological and chemical weapons. It's 100% unethical.
I think stories like the one about Long Island Tea adding blockchain to the name and seeing their stocks soaring. More examples here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/technology/bitcoin-blockc...

During the dot com bubble everyone was doing something similar.
Sorry. You cannot come to a software release and complain that your old laptop handles a modern software, even a brand new version, with shitty performance. Media processing be it images or video isn't made for old laptops.
Your salary range estimates for teachers are low.

Average starting salary is $36k with population average of $56k.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/articles.niche.com/teacher-sala...
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Open in incognito.
mining asteroids in our lifetimes would primarily be useful for harvesting raw materials for constructing things in space, not sending the materials back down to earth.
If you are teaching youngsters, you probably don't want anything more. Show them how to use the tools, and present the higher order concepts as how others have used them. But for young adults and adults, yes we need a map of the bigger picture.
I was excitedly looking for how they manage this, but alas, it looks like not well :(

Is there any tools nowadays that:

(a) Lets the user keep Favorited/marked images in a local storage location

(b) 'ages-out' other files to secondary storage pools (removable disks, cloud storage)

(c) Keeps Low-res thumbnails of all images in the collection?

I keep trying to find something that would help keep tabs on a growing collection of images, with growing file sizes from newer cameras, but it all seems like doing it manually is the only way to go :(
The reason lithium is used for batteries is that it is an excellent anode the lightest metal. Lithium will always be used for batteries that need to be light.
"Sorry. You cannot come to a software release and complain that your old laptop handles a modern software with a shitty performance."

Well, GIMP has new software releases all the time, and works quickly on my old laptop.

You can't blame the fact that Darktable is slow on it being new.
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I somehow confused this with 'Lighttable' and was really confused about why printing was such an important issue.
I don't think that's right, and the example given in the article seems to agree with me. The 7s&8s are indeed counted, indirectly: the score is the percent of all responses (including 7s&8s) that are promoters minus the percent of detractors.

So, using your example, 990/1000=99% of people are passive, 7/1000=0.7% are promoters, and 3/1000=0.3% are detractors, so the NPS score is 0.7-0.3, or 0.4 (not 40). Passives aren't a part of the last calculation, but they affect the percent values for promoters and detractors.
I think the only ones you can safely say are Biblical figures who have already stood the test of time for thousands of years.
Personally I resent the fact that Amazon has done everything in their power as a company to make it so I cannot stream amazon prime to my chromecast.

That alone has tarnished my opinion of the company.
Why? Seriously, the same argument has been used to defend BitTorrent and various other tools that might be used to circumvent laws.
Alexa can control your Fire TV but yes, I agree. I have a Chromecast built into TV and I use Google Home to play music, Plex, YouTube, etc. on it. So nice.
1. Always on and ready to go. Don't have to pull out a phone or other device

2. In my experience, understands me and responds way better and quicker than Siri on my iPhone

3. My wife and I love the Spotify integration and other little useful things like timers, alarms, etc.

Overall, it's the simply ease-of-use that keeps us using the Dot everyday.
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Sure, but you can say that about a lot of totally bogus investment instruments. Every pump-and-dump pink sheet scam has the same property.
And Samsung Voice can't do anything well.
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