skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The changes in AirPlay 2 will be a little more than that. To make it work more like Sonos, it requires that the receiving device buffer a lot more of the audio to make it resilient from wi-fi instability, and it probably requires some changes to that devices are synced up at all times. And I sure hope they're doing something with latency.

As I understand it, Sonos can do some of these things because their audio is transmitted over a proprietary wireless connection, so it's not competing with Internet traffic. I use AirPlay today over ordinary home wi-fi, and it's awfully unreliable — stutters all the time, sometimes doesn't play, long pause before audio will start, etc. — and larger buffers would certainly help here.
Probably not. States set what insurance can allow. If your state blocks small groups from getting insurance, then you’re out in the cold. http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2011/05/02/group-health-...
See the fine print too. They have tiered service. I don't know why they are advertising their super plan on the front page as if its their whole offering...

"If you have Bolt's fraud indemnification, Bolt will fully cover the costs of and manage fraud-related chargebacks. But, you will still be responsible for Merchant-related chargebacks (damaged goods, goods not received, unhappy customers, etc.)"

"If you do not have Bolt's fraud indemnification, we will contact you via Email to inform you of the chargeback. Your merchant account will be charged that full order amount plus a $20 processing fee. Then, we will request the appropriate information to help you fight the chargeback with the card network. If you win the dispute, you will receive the full order amount credited back."

https://docs.bolt.com/docs/risk-fraud-and-order-review
DeepLeague: deep learning for esports analytics and large dataset
I was being constructive, yet the immediate response was "I am not a moderator (but implied .. if I was, you'd be banned)" like its IRC
If you check out Home Assistant's climate control category, you can look for devices with IoT class "local polling" and "local push".

There are a number of options there.

Scroll to the bottom of this page for the listing:

https://home-assistant.io/components/climate/
For what it's worth, I think Hayek's vision of competitive money is often misrepresented by crypto folks. I wrote about it here: https://paulbutler.org/archives/stop-dragging-hayek-into-bit...
I hope the price goes close to 0 so I can buy it all up.
TVAddons launches new GitHub Browser to deliver Kodi addons
Technologically enhanced humans
Yes of course. But if your goal is to make a robot bike there are better algorithms than this one.
If someone is laughing in your face everywhere you go (especially with unemployment at an all-time low right now) then you probably need to recalibrate your expectations. However I'd venture a guess that most people aren't actually asking for higher rates. Most people do a terrible job negotiating for compensation (and by terrible I mean they don't even try).

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
What does it mean when a company pivots to blockchain? Does their business change fundamentally? Maybe I don't understand blockchain well enough but it seems more like an implementation detail to, not a fundamental change.
I honestly hope the utopian dream is smashed in the cryptocurrency community. It's not the kind of "utopia" I want to be a part of. I like the technical ideas behind cryptocurrency, but the terrible political views are off-putting.
> what is accepted is what is accepted

Is it accepted? I would agree only when it appears in the NYT or The Economist with its 'new' meaning.

It's a subset of lazy people in tech who are abusing 'crypto' at this point in time, not Valley Girls. There's an inflection point here to interdict the abuse, before it gains mass-usage.
Punish how?
I did enjoy how about halfway down the author bemoaned the fact that the C language does not have line numbers. (-:
15 exclamation points. She must be right.
It’s not sticky though. And there’s no way to force it on every search on safari for instance
Yep, I've been there. Like I said:

> You as a contractor just have to factor those additional costs in to your decision-making process when evaluating compensation packages.
Thanks for that. The docs are considerably more reassuring than the rest of the site.
Get a Sonos?
What possible penalty could one city impose on another?
The ACA required most health plans to provide free preventive health services.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...
The problem I've always had with real numbers is that the vast majority (i.e. uncountably many) of them are not computable, and only countably many of them are computable.

That means that almost every real number, all but a vanishingly small subset, cannot be represented by any means whatsoever. No formulas, no algorithms, nothing. On top of which, they're surprisingly complicated to construct. There's several different ways of doing it, and they're all complicated.

At some point you've got to ask yourself, "are they really even there?" (Of course, those who already have non-Platonic leanings will find that question amusing.) I start to think that maybe we'd be better served by dropping all the non-computable numbers and start doing almost everything in the field of computables.
And "figure out" includes "imprison until you tell us" unfortunately.
How are you independent if you have to band together with other people to get the same benefits other groups have?

You cant rely on a group and be independent at the same time!
> If DDG was so good, people wouldn't need to use !g for tail queries so much.

When I resort to !g Google usually returns nothing interesting either and the most promising links are usually marked as visited, since I already clicked them from DDG.
Not sure about IP thermostats, but if you're willing to get a USB stick to interface with the network, a thermostat that speaks Z-Wave might be your best bet. This one seems highly rated on Amazon[0], but there are lots to choose from.

From there I'd recommend using something like Home Assistant[1] - it's an open source project that provides a UI for a ton of different smart home gear. I use it at home to control some smart lights and automate things based on whether I'm home or not. (There's also OpenHAB, but in my experience configuring that is much more involved.)

[0] https://www.amazon.com/GoControl-Thermostat-Z-Wave-Battery-P...
[1] https://home-assistant.io/
Contract work should be fine. I frankly blame the American government for tying healthcare to not just employment status but particular employer so tightly for so long. It is frankly ridiculous and disgraceful that our political leaders are not held to account for this.

The early Tea Party was supposed to be organized around a theme of "stop the nonsense and denial!" with respect to these kinds of problems, but it was quickly corrupted by the ignorant and by the people who were hoping to find ignorance. Rather than turning energy and community action into positive change, they were derided and stymied.

So now we have Trump who is basically nonsense and denial personified.

Not that Obamacare did anything to get us off the employer healthcare crutch. In that respect, things seem to have just gotten worse.

And I'm a person that doesn't think everything needs to be political! It's just hard to get around the fact that American is grossly misgoverned here. But the American voter can't bring itself to vote on real issues instead of rooting for its political team. This gives me little hope that we'll ever get the 2/3 to 3/4 consensus we'll need to practically fix this (1).

(1) Even if we don't need that many people agreeing to pass legislation, I think things like reforming entire sectors of the economy and employer/employee relationships requires very broad support to be both fair and lasting. Having 51% of voters pee in the cornflakes of the other 49% doesn't get us anywhere. Hopefully that's clear given American politics since 2006 or so.

EDIT: To tie this back to contract work, contract work is great and provides needed dynamism and small-business know-how to the economy. But it's very risky. One needs an independent source of income (other investments, working professional spouse) or a big pile of capital so you can weather ups and downs, take health sabbaticals if needed, hire temp help sporadically, etc.
Ok I'll bite. How can collecting this data, in any way, help alleviate homelessness or addiction?
going to go with Burp's devs on this one
http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/05/web-storage-lesser-evil-...
The other thing to think about is flexibility in not being in an employer backed 401k. When I was in one the best average return was 4%. Independently I can get 15% through etfs that track the S&P. I can also get 30-50% playing in riskier tens like oil or commodities. While some argue against that, at least I now have the agency to decide.
> Apple's only real advantage now is privacy

Apple's main real advantage is lots of the high-disposable-income market is heavily invested in their ecosystem. The big ecosystems are real competitors, but the individual offerings within them are rarely direct competitors because the utility of the individual offerings depends on degree of pre-existing investment in the ecosystem.
Apple's Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy
>perhaps the consumer shouldn’t be meddling in a space that is still being developed where there are big risk factors at this point in time.

The issue isn't consumers meddling in blockchain currency. It's about consumers being dragged into blockchain speculation without their knowledge.

Grandma puts her retirement savings into some big, safe company. The suddenly the company goes from being an electric utility to being a blockchain speculator and goes bankrupt, wiping out her savings without her even having a chance to get out.
The "Adobe Photoshop for voice" is quite amazing: https://youtu.be/I3l4XLZ59iw (you can skip the first ~third to get to the demo)
DDG is usually good enough but I do find myself dropping back to Google for some searches (easy enough with !g).

It does make clear how tailored Google searches are to the user. For example, when I search for programming terms that have non-programming meanings (library names etc) I get a much more diverse list. Google pretty much exclusively only shows me programming-related results. With DDG I need to add my location to the search rather than relying on Google knowing my exact address.

I do find DDG location search very annoying as clicking on a map result always tries to open it in the Maps application, which I don't want.
It works in at least version 5.2 of the Z shell, where Control-O is bound to accept-line-and-down-history.
Does this mean that Apple will never improve its products based on user-generated feedback?
Try launching a new browser on the iStore. You're free to compete, as long as you don't compete against Apple.

Microsoft was fined 561 million Euros for doing the same.
I wound up buying a cheap AmazonBasics Bluetooth device to transmit music to my receiver. It works well enough. I suppose I could get on with Sonos, but I don't want to replace my current working system with all-new hardware.
Only if you're using a list, not a dict. I just tried it in the REPL:

>>> foo = {}
>>> foo[3] = 72
>>> foo[64] = 80
>>> foo
{3: 72, 64: 80}
I don't think HN should disagree with me. In fact I think everyone on HN should repeat what I said to everyone they know . Don't take contract work, unless you're absolutely desperate. The reason I was being so defensive though was because I know there are a lot of freelancers on HN. I'm not trying to bash their lifestyles or work choices, just pointing out that taking this kind of work (whether as a software engineer or as a janitor) sets a precedent that encourages employers to further view their employees as red numbers on a spreadsheet to be marginalized and reduced. But thank you for the comment, I get somewhat heated when this topic comes up because it seems like such an obviously bad deal for so many people.
I think he just isn't a very good communicator (nor cares to be one). He was recently a guest at the excellent podcast Econtalk and you really needed to know his ideas from other sources to properly understand what he was talking about.

I don't think is arrogance or anything, it is just a skill that he doesn't have naturally and also doesn't care enough to practice and improve.

I think his ideas are strong enough to find an audience even without this skill. Contrasting him with a Malcolm Gladwell who, imo, reaches a large audience much more from his communication skills than from the power of this ideas, I think I prefer Taleb's style.
Introducing Vaulty
Never underestimate the power of hype.

Apple has had the MSMs attention for so long it is silly. I have seen articles about Apple products in places that normally could not care less to cover consumer electronics or computers.

Basic thing is that Apple has long been the go to computer for doing media production, and thus the people writing for MSM is more likely to notice Apple news than other tech news because it affects them directly. And thanks to the typical fan myopia, if it affects them it affects the world...
I feel like you could say the exact same thing about democracy
I like that milestone, roughly 10x of current market cap.

I believe Elon will succeed in lining everything up optimally for Tesla to succeed and outcompete others (even if they all copy his ecosystem design/plans - he's still ahead with mindshare and strategy and arguably execution).

I look forward to having a Tesla or two that I share with friends and family, a house with Tesla solar roof tiles, Tesla Powerwalls, etc.
I avoid anything with proprietary protocols, mostly out of principle, but also as I occasionally write a Python script to control these things. I wrote a script to use a €30 Chromecast Audio as an alarm clock, for example. It uses the DLNA standard.

It's connected to my existing nice hifi and speakers. I have a choice of clunky 3rd party apps, and some not-so-clunky.

It's possible the HomePod's clever design is as good as they claim, but I'd guess the same money spent on normal hifi speakers will give better sound.
If you're not satisfied with 256kbps AAC then may I suggest https://www.ponomusic.com/ ?
Why the sentiment is right, their products always offered a very perceivable leap in some areas. But what "important thing" does the HomePod better? It feels like a late me-too for people who are locked in the ecosystem (i.e. Apple Music).
Most of the "gig economy" is not contracts like a freelancer negotiates. It's tons of tiny jobs at non-negotiable rates like Uber or Fiverr pay their "contractors".

I agree that they're terrible jobs that one should take only if truly desperate for work or perhaps to supplement another income. But talking about whether people taking them are cut out to negotiate contracts totally misses the point.
What on earth does power have to do with audio quality?
There are plenty of local services for you to exchange cash for BTC. Yes, very big exchange rate, but you can find these easily enough.
Why the IRS Fears Bitcoin
I believe he’s grouping all of those people in with his second description
Taleb is a deeply intuitive, sharp individual - this is his weakness.

Like all the smart kids in school who rushed through math problems and wrote out the final answer rather than all the work to get there, he often skips key steps in his chain of reasoning. Since he skips them, he doesn't notice when those key steps are demonstrably wrong.

I feel he's gotten worse in this respect over time.
Yuk. Thanks for all the hard work and keep at it!
The HomePod is also capable of being used as a HomeKit hub, so I think Apple is actually trying to push the home assistant angle some more now that there is three options to get into HomeKit proper (beyond simple in-home toggling of devices and reading sensors) depending on what products you want to buy (Apple TV, leave-at-home iPad and now HomePod).

Personally I'm really hoping to see them expand Siri over the coming year(s), especially given how...dumb...she is right now - expanding what can be done with SiriKit and allowing additional Siri functionality to be installed directly on the HomeKit would make my mind up on buying one easy (I'll still probably get one for a nice speaker to play music with, though).
In effect Jobs (or maybe the unnamed middle manager to managed to convince him it was a good idea) managed to make the fruit logo a status symbol, in large part thanks to allowing the iPod and iTunes to work on Windows...
Very reasonable objection. So the engineers should be called "moral morons" or "ethical morons" because they are willing to follow instructions that stick Intel customers with terrible security problems, to help Intel shore up their share price.

Maybe Linus is being deliberately ambiguous about the type of moron he means.

Is this better?
This has always struck me as the most compelling argument for electric vehicles, and I've always been disappointed by people who can't see it.
I guess it must be different in the US vs the UK. Contracting in the UK (at least in the IT world) is very popular and quite lucrative. (I guess not having to worry about health insurance helps somewhat, though)

I've been permanent, and I've been contract, I really hope I get to finish the rest of my career as a contractor.
Computes Alpha released with sample genetics machine learning application
Revival of medieval city-state wars!
You consider "paranoid dorks" and "people who own Bitcoin" to be the same set? Even then, would you consider something like "you fatasses need to shut up and leave us normal people alone" fine?
He'll learn if that's a role he's meant to evolve into.
The national and state emergency alert systems have a cellphone program. You should get cellphone alerts in an emergency (I get them for flooding, AMBER alerts, etc.).
Electronic Baby Toys Assoc. With Decreased Language Quality&Quantity in Infants
We recently rolled all clients to the full offering. A couple legacy clients don't have the 100% fraud coverage, thus keeping it in the terms. But if you sign up with Bolt from this point forward, it bakes in the 100% fraud indemnification. Will probably even take that out of the terms soon.
I would be vastly more interested in hearing her explain what blockchain really is so I can decide for myself if her outrage is appropriate than hearing about how she has to hide her internet activity from her boyfriend and how she is "in trouble" for not coming to bed like she said she would. Her personal comments on those things make her sound like a lunatic with a lot of personal problems, including both zero self control and a dysfunctional private life. This does not inspire confidence in me that I should just listen to her wisdom and do as she tells me to do.
I tend to agree that this is a dumb idea... but think about this. There are a few clusters on the east coast, the clusters could work together to push amazon to one of the other cities in exchange for deals that help the others out.

If I'm being totally honest though I don't think there is much advantage to any of the cities to give Amazon incentives to picking them. I also think that Amazon has already decided.
I would gladly take 1000 vacuum tubes over 100 trillion random number generators.
Most of the problems are around docker not cleaning up after itself. Eventually, the discs get full and then we have to manually clean things up. Another problem is that for whatever reason CI cannot checkout the git repo so the build fails. Not sure why - we have not investigated yet. There is also an issue with setting up the variables. Sometimes it 500s on save. I will try to get someone to plug those in as actual defects in your backlog.

Btw, when I say funky, I don't mean bad. I mean mild annoyance.
Just want to add the opinion to the comments section that I think it's completely ridiculous that Amazon gets incentives from cities to go there, as if they need the money. This is monopolistic behavior to the detriment of cities, citizens, and smaller firms.
A Tutorial on Statically Unpacking the FinSpy VM (by Rolf Rolles)
Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Sketching a New System
Also, power plants are much more efficient in burning whatever fossil fuel you want, compared to internal combustion engines.
Sure that's an option, but they could also do it the old fashioned way and have you buy something off them ;) At least if you get caught up buying something you shouldn't with cash they don't also get your transaction history.
> However when I access it on Firefox + umatrix with all js disabled, it doesn't.

Be sure you have the setting "Spoof <noscript> tags" enabled if you want noscript tags to be rendered when 1st-party scripts are blocked. It's a per-site setting, but you can enable it globally in the "Settings" pane in the dashboard.
I have a Sonos Player 1 in my room, and I play Spotify on it (Spotify can dectects it). The setup is a headache but the music quality is quite good but it keeps disconnecting even though I have really Wifi connection (I wish the device supports Bluetooth as an alternative). I still recommend it to my friends but I always warn them about the unstable connection.

> HomePod can also be used as a speakerphone with iPhone for crisp and clear audio quality.

I hope this means I can play anything from my iPhone like car because that’s a dealbreaker if I can’t Spotify or podcasts.

That being said, I hope there is a way to test HomePod live at Apple store. I don’t want to spend a couple hundred dollars for something turns out to be bad. My Sonos was a gift from my company so I didn’t have to worry about it (fwiw... not realky important, but I work for a music company, my boss owns two, and he said it was :) so I guess I should believe him right?)
Things have changed and seem to be measured. Change too much and your existing customer base won't like it
There is a distinct difference between some pump and dump strategy and a central bank printing a ton of currency. One has a temporary effect on supply and demand for the instrument in question, the other has a permanent effect.
Crave. There's one in Highlands Ranch, one in Castle Rock, one at 16th Street Mall.
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I am so happy, that there is companies like you guys have.

Freedom of search without censorship like google.

You guys Rock!
I think the notion of banking won't go away, but today's concept of a bank will: no more physical locations, ATMs, wire-transfers that cost $30, etc. Maybe opening an account will be as easy as getting an email address (at least for the user anyways).
No, Backbone is a collection of things and closer to a framework rather than a library, like React.

Backbone has Models, Collections, a Router, History, Sync, View and Utilities.

In contrast, React is only the view part.

So, it would be closer to say that React is just the View part of Backbone, you need to bring in the rest yourself.
If one machine goes down (updates, hacked, hardware failure) i still need to have a second one that can handle the incoming requests
Found the U-M alumni.
Former member of Freelancer's Union here, though the only service I ever used was the health insurance. A decade ago it was pretty solid, and certainly better and cheaper than you could get on the individual markets. AFAICT these days it's about on par with the open ACA markets.

What is it you want to know, though?
I'm legitimately interested in cryptocurrency; I think it's a really cool idea. So what I'm hoping for is that everything goes as horribly wrong as possible, the price tanks, everyone's dreams are smashed, and all the bullshit takes disappear.

At that point, the people who are interested in building something worthwhile will be the only ones who remain, and we can work in peace.
You're really going to double down on this argument?
... but... it's not... so...