skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this piqued my interest as this is something I’ve wanted to do ever since my local electric company started to roll out smart meters.

I took a look at my electric company’s web site to see what kind of meters they use and it turns out that they have already seen this need. They will enable the ZigBee module in the meters and set it up to talk to a home energy monitoring device (which you have to buy separately)[0]. The fact that this is officially sanctioned is pretty cool!

Once of the devices, the Rainforest Eagle, even has API documentation[1] so that you can build this type of thing, but with real-time data. The best part, from my point of view, is that they expose an API via their Cloud service AND have a local API on the device itself. It’s possible, though I have no way to know this without buying one, that you may even be able to use it completely independent of their Cloud service. So far the only limitation I’ve found while reading the docs is that you seem to need the Cloud service to configure the Push API, but I didn’t notice that limitation with the Pull API.

[0] https://www.epcor.com/learn/meters/advanced-meters/Pages/hom...

[1] https://rainforestautomation.com/support/developer/
> You joke

Sad as it is, the suggestion was serious, and one of the things I considered if I ever had to live in the US.

> Of course, the vest is probably visible and would be perceived as a threat.

There are concealable vests (for undercover officers) which are significantly less noticeable than the classic "tactical" vest. I don't know how easy it is to access them without being an undercover LEO though, they need to be measured and fitted to your body specs.
An AI that looks like a cooperation will likely do so for a very brief time before it can leverage computational resources far greater than than the equivalent of a group of cooperating humans plus simulation tools made from silicone. It is not an interesting comparison because it does not challenge the arguments that human potential is strongly limited by the size of the cortex and by the slowness of neurons and therefore of linguistic information transmission.
Very much looking forward to this idea coming into fruition. The post doesn’t give much information though. I‘d so wished, that a service like Robinhood and this too were available in Europe.
"Tenured shareholder voting power, meaning that a shareholder’s votes would be proportionately weighted by the length of time the shares have been held"

I wonder if we're going to see the rise of holding companies just to get around this rule. "Our holding company owns shares in XYZ, and will never sell those shares ever. Instead of buying/selling XYZ directly, you can instead buy/sell shares in our holding company. We will confer voting power in XYZ, proportional to how many shares of our holding company you own, regardless of how long you've held them."

I suppose one way to prevent this loophole is to grant voting power only to individuals, and not entities, but that would screw over index-funds, mutual-funds, foundations, non-profit-endowments etc etc.
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In 2005, I used to be in a Battlefield 2 online community with game servers, SMF Forums, and ventrilo for VOIP. I used to play pretty regularly, but when not playing we would all talk and learn from each other. There were maybe 30 people at most from age 15 to 50 years old.

The way we sustained the servers was everyone pitching in to pay maybe $5 to $15 per month.

Moderation and Adminstratuon was volunteer based and people who donated had priority.

We eventually became some of the most popular BF2 servers and it made for interesting social interaction when the admins had to come together to make a decision if someone was cheating or just really good.

I’m sure communities like that still exist but I haven’t played many online games since then. Those were the days :)
For ceteris paribus you need data on all variables for all observations. The more variety the better, too.
Adrian Colyer's review on WebAssembly was very helpful.
> when it's clear there is an immediate and present danger.

And that makes sense. There are certainly situations where it's neccessary to subdue everyone in the room and ask questions later.

The problem is here

> when it's clear

The whole subgenre of "SWATing" works, because SWAT teams are being deployed based on dramatic, but unsubstantiated information, on the suspicion of a dangerous situation.

This does not help protect officers saftey. It endangers them, and it makes police officers into the tools of criminals.

That can't be a good system.
Looks great -- what's best way to add new sites?
In a certain sense, having a 9 to 5 is an even more extreme version of 'one thing' in that you have one big client that accounts for 100% of your revenue. Of course, there are also efficiencies in having one 'client' that are beneficial to both employee and employer.

Edit: see 'Theory of the Firm'.
Ah so this is yet more locking out the ordinary Joe from this sort of investment and another way to screw over employee share holders.
uhhh you don't want to electrify a 20lbs alum road bike.

when electrifying you value robustness over light weight. The energy from the motor more than makes up for the few extra lbs it has to haul.
I use google voice call announce for anyone not in my contact list
Because it's so difficult to measure the quality. The ad networks benefit greatly from not allowing an accurate measure of quality.
>For what it's worth, the hatred being published about Israel does not go the other way around. I, and many others, do respect and have no hate for Palestinians.

The article does disagree with that view.

>As Al Jazeera reported last year, “Inflammatory speech posted in the Hebrew language . . . has attracted much less attention from the Israeli authorities and Facebook. One study found that ‘122,000 users directly called for violence with words like ‘murder’, ‘kill’, or ‘burn.’ Arabs were the No 1 recipients of hateful comments. Yet there appears to be little effort by Facebook to censor any of that.”

Have you noticed comments like this? Have you ever seen them deleted or Israeli accounts suspended for hateful language?
I’d say that if programmer efficiency is a concern, then Rails is a fantastic solution.

If one is more concerned with server speed, then maybe Elixir/Phoenix could be a better solution.
A heavyweight IDE is really only necessary because of the unwieldiness of Java patterns for naming and code layout. Autocompletion and navigation leads to code that is only manageable with those features in a vicious cycle.
Actually I think it's worse, because it's just a variation on classism, but applied to the internet. Some people are being left behind to fend for themselves, the technology is in fact not egalitarian, it does not treat everyone equally (or neutrally if you will). And that is simply turning the internet into more of the "finders keepers losers weepers" we already have.
Dead? Really?

TLDR - author disapproves of Docker's management & monetization strategy. However, offers no evidence for a "dying" docker. ClickBait.
Or how the SEC allowed it
What is the appropriate response in this kind of situation?
> Problem is that they typically lack the proper training and the discipline required, and act too hastily.

What you are asking them to be is super human, indeed even better than a computer could in the same situation. No amount of "proper training" or "discipline" can prepare you to make perfect decisions based on imperfect data (your sensory perception, plus all the data that isn't present such as must be read from the mind of the suspect). Oh and add to this the stress that if you screw up, one of the following is likely:

1. You get killed

2. You wrongly kill and end up in prison

A different approach is needed. I'm not sure what that is, but asking/requiring certain humans to be super human is a sure way to fail.
Full record of dead Debian founder Ian Murdock's last tweets including replies
> try always addressing your friends by putting "hey" in front of their name and see how it goes

My friends are better at contextually disregarding comments and don't send any utterance that seems to invoke them to a remote server, so don't need a form of address designed to avoid false positives.
That's like saying people shouldn't buy stocks because penny stocks are very high risk.

The real answer is the same with all investments: do your due diligence to know and understand what you are buying/investing in.
The article title should probably differentiate between the state of Docker as a company, and Docker as a software product.

That said, with all major cloud providers now offering Kubernetes cluster management with a free Kubernetes host, and the economy-of-scale offered by those cloud providers driving the costs of cloud computing down, I'm not sure how Docker Swarm can compete.
Inflation is not the only way to calculate the relative 'cost' of Greenland. I think a more accurate perspective would be calculate the offer in terms (a percentage) of GDP.

American GDP in 1946 was $228M [1] (in 1940 it was $100M). The USA essentially offered half of their GDP for Greenland.

American GDP in 2016 was $18,625M.

So in relative terms, the Americans offered roughly $9Trillion.

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/us-gdp-by-year-3305543
> Should cops have to wait until they are actually being gunned down before they can use force to protect themselves?

If the only information you are operating off is an unconfirmed civilian report, I don't think that's entirely unreasonable. At the very least, they should be 100% certain that the suspect has a weapon - the police should act at a far higher standard than "feared the male pulled a weapon from his waistband".

IMO, the police should be there for the protection of society as a whole, but _sometimes_ (far from all of the time) act as if they are just protecting themselves over and above that/at all costs.
Some permutation of "pair programming" helps with "mission critical" software execution risks. We call this "the bus test" in DC no-nonsense engineering. Project execution must survive anyone getting "hit by a bus."

It does not have to be pair-teams. It can be 3-teams that review each other's code. Crafting shared libraries also helps focus multiple developers around code, docs, calling semantics and help surface implicit performance expectations or penalties early.

I have been the hero developer cranking 10K lines of C per month. But divide and conquer where software development MATTERS isn't very wise. Methods make sense when dozens of jobs, thousands of lives or millions of dollars are at stake every week and month of a project.

We used to call virtuous redundancy "belt and suspenders."
Police gunfights are typically at much closer range than the military’s. Soldiers have more armor and are often already in fortified positions when fired upon. The situations aren’t exactly comparable.

Granted, combat troops probably have superior training to police.
Let's split the difference and put both parties in prison.
Why would they stop using algorithmic news feeds when those bring in way more clicks and ad revenue than RSS style feeds? I just don't see it changing ever now that sites can tailor their pages for each viewer to maximize their profits and keep people on their site.
Seriously. At the least, re-title to "Docker, Inc." because the technology is FAR from dead.
Sounds like a sophisticated money laundering scheme - dump money in click farms and fake app purchasing, in exchange for climbing the charts and getting innocent/naive people to purchase at a faster rate. As you climb the charts your app gets more visibility and thus more eye from the innocent/naive purchasing population
Of course not. You can't cover those up, or downplay them.

Downplaying crimes means less serious crimes on the books, which makes the department commander look better, and improves re-election chances for mayors.

In NYC, due to the 1990's and the vivid memories some of us have of what safety was like then, crime is an extremely make-or-break factor in electoral races.

Unfortunately, these memories are fading and people's understanding of crime reporting statistics aren't improving, either.

Yes, it's official that NYC reclassified many crimes in the last 24 months. Whether or not this was good is subject to debate; but undoubtedly it leads to a 'lower crime rate.'

That's the legal, official piece of the puzzle. The unoffocial one comes to play when you try to convince the cops not to downplay a crime you report. No one carries statistics on officers downgrading crimes when they file reports.

This became really obvious when sex crime victims started getting press attention and reporting anecdote after anecdote of victim-blaming, indifference and worse.
Thank you for The Morning Paper
I was expecting something else from that title...

I do agree with the sentiment that docker, the company, probably won't be around forever. I'm hopeful that the docker binary stays, however. It's not really useful in a business setting, but quite nice to experiment a little on developer machines.
How often was Bitcoin called a Ponzi scheme? When it was at 50, at 100 or at 1,000? Always.

If I look at my stock portfolio there are so many strange stocks and funds I once invested in. They feel much more like Ponzi schemes or pump and dump, especially the riskier funds.

If I look at my angel tickets into early stage ventures (done with FIAT) even worse.

And if I look at the countless ICOs based on Ethereum, this is the real pump and dump Ponzi Disney Land.

But Bitcoin? Seriously? I highly doubt that Bitcoin's founder or its early adopters intended Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme.
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Me too as I am not the best at short term memory etc I once ended up on a train to Wembley when I was supposed to be in Wimbeldon :-)
What I can't understand is why do people demonize Ponzi Schemes so much while lotteries and bookies of all kinds are legally available on every corner. I know quite a number of people who have consciously taken the risk of investing in an open (so I can't logically agree it being scam/fraud/etc although legal authorities can insist it is) Ponzi Scheme and have quit it with rather serious profit some time later. And I don't know anybody who has ever won more than a couple of bucks in a lottery. In my opinion a Ponzi Scheme (unless the potential investors are actually told a false claim that it is not a Ponzi Scheme but a low-risk high-profit enterprise) is not a scam but a game, similar to fishing, and even much more nice to people than classic chance games played in casinos. Why not just teach people basics of risk management, warn them 3 times and let them play if they want to?
They have pretty much exaggerated their capability. I implore any curious HN reader to check out Scott Aaronson's review of their work & how he debunks it.
the investors who don't know what they're doing will overlook it and miss out. The skilled investor will always have an open mind and always be willing to at least review interesting projects even if it is cryptocurrency or token based project.
Could not disagree more. We have and echo since it came out late 2014 and now several Google homes. The Google home is just a lot more funtional. The obvious answering questions and has mapping built in but it is also foundational. The GH supports natural language for most things where the Echo requires rigid language or basically commands you have to memorize to use.

My wife clicks a photo on her iphone and without touching an additional button walks into our family room later and will ask for fine details in photos and the TV turns itself in, input sets and the photo in 4k appears.

We also have a 4k Chromecast and this is just not possible with the Echo.

But the cool part setting it up was just buy, plug in and log in and that is it. Wife already used Google photos on her iPhone.

We started with the Echo but now have switched to Google Homes and unless going to do a lot of shopping on Amazon can not see any reason to get an Echo over the Google home any longer.
> "well, he shouldn't have had a knife in his hand"

Right. German cops, for example, are trained to shoot people in the leg in that scenario. It happens quite frequently and successfully.

American cops seem like they're all on a hair trigger to kill at the slightest hint of danger, rather than as a last resort when they're truly threatened.
Build a post racial world by acknowledging that racial barriers exist independently of your thoughts, seek to weaken them and repair ongoing harm. The most powerful group playing pretend isn’t going to fix a damned thing. Trying to pretend that everything is better now... please explain how you see this working?

Edit: Or just downvote and move on, that says something too.
I'm all for e-bikes. I've been DIYing e-bikes for myself for over a decade. But I also see the argument for needing a license. With additional speed and distance, kids can outpace their understanding of traffic flow, shooting themselves through intersections without understanding how drivers will/will not see them. Here in Utah, where parents tend to let kids ride dirt bikes on roads, or ATVs on roads, there are a few fatalities EVERY summer, from kids who didn't understand what actions put them in danger and which did not.

Now, I think waiting for kids to be 16 and get a license is overkill. But I would support a drivers ed program for kids to teach them how to be safe on e-vehicles, and requiring that course to be completed before kids can ride at 25-30mph in traffic.
The technology is not "docker" but containerisation.
Felt is a legitimate, reputable bicycle manufacturer, though. It is much higher quality than a department store bike.
This website has been around for a while (it's the seventh time it's posted here) so it's possible spammers have blacklisted the domain by now.
Lots of people hate the way China does things (including me) but they have a long history of "harmoniously" controlling large populations and probably have learned a thing or two.

So my guess is the future consists of more "harmonizing" globally. Which I don't like, largely because it's opportunity for corruption, but the cost of that might ultimately be less than the cost of the current free for all.

In some ways I feel like we are living in the twilight of a form of savage freedom. Which I personally relish because it's what I'm used to.

I imagine for some the transition will be similar to what happened to Aboriginal peoples throughout history.

"You mean I have to wear pants and show up at 8AM for school every day? Are you crazy? That's horrid! Why would anyone do that? I certainly won't be!".

"Yes, but then you'll have all the food you can eat and will never be cold!".

"Eh, I don't know. I'd rather do what I want and go hungry sometimes. No deal!"

"Ok, now you are causing problems for others who want to have all the food _they_ can eat. Look here, now see this gun?"
That same government is perfectly capable of throwing you into a deep dark hole until you comply with their demands or die of old age. I understand you have a particular ideological viewpoint, but that shouldn’t prevent you from understanding how the world actually works. There is no end run to your dream of how society should be, and pretending that there is simply divorces you from that reality.

To be clear I’m not saying that things can’t change, but I am saying the change has to take place in reality and not your imagination.
>...this is probably how most religions got to exist and propagate

FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: SHOCKING! Learn this one secret trick a carpenter used to resurrect from the dead!
In principle, training to your voice should only be necessary to get access to personal content and settings, but it probably also improves wakeword recognition (and the training trains with both wakewords.)
If this is a potential consequence of online gaming, then I don't want any of my children gaming online.

We all know that the police response to this issue is going to be inadequate. What I'm curious about is the gaming industry and community's response.
They can run it any way they want, yes. And we can expose their motives for doing it one way and not the other, and treat them accordingly.
It all smells like invented folklore like the YouTube ninjers.
I didn't, I did feel guilty about it, well until the mechanic said it was in great condition. I mean maybe when I first bought it I did a few I don't remember...but I seriously can't recall specifics about more that four times—two of which were when my mom was visiting an saw I was like 20k past the window decal from the last oil change.
lol, clickbait alert
> Great that they moved the problem to a place with even fewer protections for workers.

Are you saying such workers are better off without these jobs?
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My bigger complaint is Amazon banning anyone in their marketplace from selling the Chromecast or the Google home.

But now that Amazon purchased Twitch they removed the Twitch app from the Roku. Use to be a fan of Amazon but this is ridiculous behavior in their part.
The way things are going if a SWAT team rolled up to my house ( I know this is going to sound silly). I'd call 911 and have them on speaker phone coaching me through it.

Most people are not trained to handled these situations properly and they will be nervous and start slipping up which a not well trained or inexperienced officer may wrongly interpret as suspicious/dangerous.

If I am truly innocent then perhaps I am the one that needs the hostage negotiator from the threat on the other side of the door.
I would tend to agree with the US ambassador that they might want to do an ability test rather than filter on perceived disability. I think that would be fairer, and given this is not a kiddie ride at an amusement park, I imagine they would be able to have a system to test some minimums.

That said, they are a sovereign country and it is just tourism and thus they can make their own arbitrary rules. There are many other peaks to climb.
That's not fair -- we don't know what kind of training the officer had, or what his attitude is.

Maybe it's just really hard to train for this situation?
If Docker's future is an acquisition, who will it be? I have not thought deeply about this, but like the author, I have also heard scuttlebutt.

From the "good for us" perspective, the community would not miss the company's leadership on Linux Container standardization nearly as much as the aggregation service that is DockerHub. But from the "good for the acquiring company" perspective, who would care? A GitHub or a RedHat has the mission and user base where it might make sense, but both companies already have plenty of their own infrastructure tooling. I'm also not sure either company would bid very hard against an Oracle or Google.

The most strategic acquirer sounds to my ear like Microsoft. Their recent Linux compatibility investments prove they might actually Extend instead of Extinguish. We've gotten some time to get used to Microsoft not being The Enemy anymore. Heck, you could even say I'd be a little enthusiastic if this news dropped.
The story isn't even about Israel and Palestinians per se. It's about how, when you institute censorship (whether public or private) supposedly for the sake of public good, in practice it tends to be used by groups in power to target groups who aren't - i.e. by majorities against minorities, or, as is the case in Israel, by the occupying force against political dissent among occupied populace.