skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> trying to vendor-lock you

Isn't that the point of this? We've got AWS IoT, Artik, Xively, Google Cloud IoT.. I've looked at a few and they basically all do the same thing in a slightly different, incompatible way. If we get something that enough people agree is "the standard" then maybe you can define a single device schema and connect to any of those services interchangeably.

> I don't see much incentive for IoT vendors to accept standard protocols

But we see already this is not the case. Cloud providers give MySQL/ Postgres compatible storage, Docker deployments... Consider that customers are already faced with "do I want to tie my product to this cloud backend" when it could be "oh good Artik supports the ""IoT standard"" let's go." There's still tons of incentive to stick with one platform.

> Now W3C wants to tie IoT into the web. ... JavaScript is not a language suited for this task

Not sure what you mean about JavaScript, they use JSON to represent the schema, and WebSockets as the transport but presumably you could use a websocket library written in any language.

Personally I did hope to see MQTT bindings and/or weight thrown behind CoAP but maybe those will come along later.
You'll probably live a longer, happier life, and do more good for others in the world, if you have compassion for yourself.
Airbnb’s Battle to Stay Private
Thanks!

I don't think in the short term we will work on virtual desktop / browser like features, but some people have played with them in WebVR (https://jonathanzwhite.github.io/screenvr/). Focusing on true immersive content at the moment.

Maybe something like Oculus Dash would fulfill those needs?
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Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16319505
Nothing wrong with them having advanced equipment to bring out when necessary. Listening to some people you'd think that the police are cruising around in tanks.

When the police have to go up against criminals wielding AK's and high powered rifles I want them to be as equipped as possible to defend themselves. The problem is not with the police but rather the widespread availability of guns in our society. It's easy to heft blame on the police, but also intellectually disingenuous because they act and react to the conditions of the society they are tasked to protect. Those conditions are where blame must be placed.

As an aside, if a malicious government ever wanted to exert control over the populace then they would have a very easy time doing so with the military regardless of how well equipped the police were. In fact, distributed police forces beholden to local municipalities would likely be a line of defense against a centralized aggressive military.

"Police militarization" is really nothing to be concerned about. Unless you're a criminal.

Edit: Not being sarcastic.
I would like to give a shout out to MSR. Their products (including water filters) are astoundingly well designed. They are in my top 10 favorite tool design groups in the world (among Beretta, Chris Reeve, and Trijicon).

MSR especially has a tremendous focus on user maintainability and repairability. All of their products are designed to be easy to strip down to base components and reassemble - critical for life-preserving hardware.

I keep their TrailShot filter in my bag whenever I go hiking. I also have one of those pen-style filters and never use it; the TrailShot is vastly more practical.
Yeah, in the hopes of this not being a candidate 'Great Filter' event I hope the scientists are dipping each ice form into a small cup of water before continuing on to the next stage.
Clearly, people have been reading
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature
which also covers the causes of the recent debris flows
near Montecito, California.
Why don't SpaceX use parachutes for booster descent?
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And yet they still have to request that a judge be allowed to see the NSL
No, I understand, but the granularity of the LUT exacerbates the routing problem, because in a CGRA you can route multiple wires at once.
> Hard to believe actions like that were taking place in the U.S.

This is nothing new. These things get exposed quite frequently, and surely happen far more often.

The reason you haven't heard about it is that just doesn't get widely reported when it happens.
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A great initiative.

It's funny though, how hard they are trying to shed their image as a misogynistic organization. Probably in the right direction hopefully.
Ditto on the gravity bag, we have a 5 liter that filters to micron level, so mechanically removes viruses.

Still, I always bring unexpired tablets, their weight is essentially zero. I was taught to dissolve them, invert the water bottle, and unscrew the lid enough to let the solution flush out the water from the threads, as even that could be enough to get you. Not sure how this can work with a steripen.
The letters Twilio has posted say, "In accordance with 18 U.S.C. § 2709(c)(2), you ... are prohibited from disclosing this letter or disclosing that the FBI has sought or obtained access to information, other than to those to whom disclosure is necessary to comply with the letter or to an attorney to obtain legal advice or legal assistance with respect to this letter."

I think the other letters I've seen posted online say something similar, and 18 USC 2709 itself says much the same thing. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2709
Nah, the two feeds were identical including a portion of the other booster’s rocket plume in the top left. The two pads are different colours, both feeds showed the rocket landing on the lighter pad.

Hopefully we will get a corrected version for the official movie!
Non radiation hardened electronics will likely die.
I was thinking about a HomeKit-style solution where only the bridge connects to the internet and everything else is local comms only.
I'm kind of glad they had something fail. That means maybe they learned something new to improve the next shot.
...according to a study conducted by the police department in question.

I contested a ticket I received from an aggressive traffic cop in Portland for texting in a stand-still bumper to bumper traffic jam. He was on a motorcycle and saw me as he rode by on the sidewalk!!! This guy had incredible nerve. In court, I insisted we view the footage from his body camera, which could only be done if I first refuse his plea offer, a significant issue IMO. I took the risk. The way he spoke to me was so militant and I thought it would be good to have the room give it a listen and see the traffic jam. The footage turns off as he is walking up to my car!!! Then he told me “either the battery died or the tape ran out”. Tape!!! This was 2015. The ticket was dropped, but I don’t think many people I know would have had this persistence, especially risking the plea denial. Beyond being annoyed, I was also intrigued with the abuse of power in such a trivial case.
Maybe a better question is how to prepare in advance. You can design your systems to avoid retaining user data. Or you can do business from a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize NSLs. Or perhaps from an unknown jurisdiction.
How do they communicate when placed Infront of a computer? I see the appeal of snap with the younger crowd but the fact that it lives in a phone seems like a major con, sure it's easily fixed by allowing browser access. As someone who grew up on MSN & ICQ I couldn't imagine having to stop what I'm doing to pick up my phone every time I want to message someone.
And they still have beavers in those streams, and those beaver still shit in the woods. Your point is taken, but really, there never was this magical time in the past when unfiltered water was a good thing.

... I bet every regular outdoor campers' head popped reading this article, just like mine. I can't conceive of anything stupider than drinking unfiltered stream water, anywhere (unless you were sure it was springhead, and even then, no).
Or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT
Not every decision on how you wish to act is life or death.
For GUIs in particular the problem is far from solved in the sense you've mentioned.

If you write your program in C/C++ we're good, though now you're using a clunkly language.

If you're using Java you have some decent GUI options, but it's a bit ugly. Still alright.

In almost any other languages you're in deep trouble. The prototypical example: building out interfaces in Python.

You have some GUI bindings to the cross platform libs, but many have really old and outdated docs. Or licensing issues. Or installation issues. It's super hard to ship a GUI for your Python app compared to anything else with the language

Ultimately almost all other languages are used for server software. Packaging and GUIs are super low on the list of priorities.

The only exception to this is JavaScript! JavaScript is so much about front-end stuff that legitimate effort is put into getting stuff working well and painlessly. Sure React didn't invent FRP, but the communities gone further with the concepts than any other community. Bar none.

So many people refuse to admit it, but the JavaScript community is the state of the art in GUI development. The biggest crutch bring the weak native support of course.
It's funny how normally reasonable people forget that what manages to reach our awareness are very rare and shocking events that are not at all representative of the vast majority of day to day activity, whether police related or otherwise.

You are allowing yourself to be misguided if you focus on what gets put on the front page of CNN.
Can someone help me understand what this is?
Well, there's cholera, a disease often transmitted by contaminated water, that often killed 10,000-100,000 people at a time in pandemics 100ish years ago. It is still a huge problem in the developing world (eg 65K deaths last year -- http://www.who.int/gho/epidemic_diseases/cholera/deaths_text...). In the United States, the number of cases per year are typically in the teens, with no deaths typically. (https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/health/cholera-fast-facts/ind...)

Typhoid fever is another really nasty disease, often contaminated water transmitted, that still kills hundreds of thousands of people per year (http://www.who.int/immunization/diseases/typhoid/en/). But in countries with clean water and good sanitation the infection rate is very little. As an exmaple: the US over time: https://www.wikidoc.org/images/3/30/Typhoid_stats.gif

I can't say how much this shortened the average lifespan overall, but these are some pretty significant diseases which are largely transmitted by contaminated water (or food), and which are largely eliminated by water and sanitation treatment systems. I'm sure there's some others, these are just the first two that came to mind.

Giardia by comparison is more of a "nuisance", but with treatment methods so cheap (I mean, iodine tablets are on the order .15 a tablet or so) I really don't see a reason to take the risk of that or other stomach-upsetting bugs getting in you.
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FreeBSD decided to just remove the Pale Moon branding.
NFS payback gameplay in broken English by Chicken Gamer – Max settings
Do they send another ship to fix the drone ship?
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I have a 4th generation iPad from early 2013 that I use all the time. Ironically, it wasn't until about 2 years ago when my wife got me a bluetooth keyboard case for it that I really started to get some use out of it.

It definitely isn't as snappy as it used to be, and the battery reports that it has lost 20% of its original capacity, but I use it all the time.

I primarily use it in meetings to take notes with OneNote, I also use it to SSH/RDP/VNC into other computers to write some code and such. I also have some means to work on code using a git app and Textastic. Yes, there are such apps available for iOS.

GarageBand and iMovie get some usage when I'm feeling "artistic" though I will admit they are starting to get too sluggish (GarageBand especially).

As far as games go, I mostly stick to the knockoff bargain-brand versions of big-budget games by Gameloft; Order and Chaos 2 (Guild Wars 2), Modern Combat (Call of Duty), Gangstar (GTA), Minecraft Pocket Edition, and retro game collections (Atari, Activision, Vectrex). I have a number of Bluetooth controllers that are compatible with those retro game collections that helps. I used to have my iPad jail broken and would play tons of emulators on it as well.

The main thing that's nice about something like an iPad with a keyboard is that with a bit of work it can completely take the place of your laptop and do it better. When I go away for a long weekend, I inevitably have to ask myself if I want to take my laptop or my iPad. It always boils down to how much I think I'm going to have to work, and usually it's the iPad I take. It does 90% of the day-to-day things I need to do, still has a relatively great battery life, and it's the size of a notebook even with the keyboard-case. And if things come down to it, I can still access my work computer or my webserver at home and do the whatever else I need to do (albeit in a less than ideal manner, but I've never had to say "sorry, I can't look into this right now cause I only have my iPad").

I will admit, it's the addition of a physical keyboard that really does it for me on the iPad. But keyboard or not, even within the Orwellian App Store I can be extremely productive with my 5 year old iPad.

And yes, I wrote all this on my iPad.
The interesting thing I read from reddit was that 30% of Airbnb’s cash flow last year came from an internal hedge fund holding currencies, equities, fixed income. This hedge fund was set up by their ex-CFO, so it's an interesting model for generating income. They take money from guests immediately, but do not pay out to hosts until the guests check in, this delay can be up to many months in advance. This gives them time to invest those assets how they see fit.

The danger here is that 30% of their cash flow is the result of an incredible bull market, so what happens to Airbnb when we hit a recession?
The Problem with “The Seven Keys” – ICANN
I don't drink unfiltered water, but I am a little skeptical of all the stories about unfiltered water making people sick: What percentage of them actually got sick from improper personal hygiene? How many tainted water cases are actually self-inflicted E. coli cases?
It's a matter of applying a bit of common sense. Don't drink the water where there are cattle, or downstream of a beaver dam. Take your water from higher elevations, where the UV light will quickly kill most pathogens (just like a SteriPen!).

Also, giardiasis is not that bad. Get some metronidazol and you'll feel better in no time.
We hiked the Long Trail last year and people were hacking those sawyer minis into their camelback-like hydration systems, pretty neat.

We brought a sawyer 5L gravity bag that filters out viruses, and drank some flavorful water outta that thing.
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It's ridiculous that we're at this point where using a handful of software applications means keeping up to date with the social life and financial situation of the developer, reading changelogs, etc.

And you only can spare both the time and cognitive load to do this for at most a dozen or two applications, if you really care. The rest, you just have to trust that enough other people are watching carefully.

But the average person isn't going to keep up with even one application. They only bought their computer so they could browse the web and check emails, not so they could learn the details of how it works.

Likewise, most of us don't buy a car in order to spend a lot of time learning about exactly how a combustion engine works. We don't have the time.

Granted, this board is laden with engineers who will make the time to understand how their tools work, but we simply cannot expect this kind of effort from most people.

So, like we have to trust lower-level components to be scrutinized elsewhere, and trust we will be alerted in case of critical issues, the general population must trust the "nerds" to get things right and keep them safe.

This means that typically, the best attack surfaces will be small, widely-distributed, low-level software stacks whose developers can easily be compromised. Not just software either, but hardware.

It does seem like this is ultimately a battle we are going to lose without regulatory legislation in domains that require mass-deployment of software that can potentially breach Constitutional rights. In order to be federally qualified as "privacy-friendly", you have to meet certain guidelines both on a hardware and software level. This would include automatic transmission or collection of certain kinds of data without very express permission.
One reason for confusion about this is that this wasn't as clear statutorily before a 2005 amendment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Patriot_Act#Rea...
California Uber driver allegedly hunted intoxicated women, sexually assaulted 4
"Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438
I would recommend the Classic Plus to entry level commuters, it's got all the right specs, though it's not the first of it's price point with those specs. The hard part when trying to help my non-cyclist friends pick out a bike is convincing them that they want a single speed. So I let them get a bike with a derailleur and next season it's all fucked up and they haven't bothered to fix it.

"I've been meaning to get to it" they say. But they don't get to it. This has happened on 3 separate occasions. Low maintenance is really important for entry level daily commuters.
On average, that's true. however, the most recent Ariane 5 launch did not go as expected. I can only imagine all of the people involved with JWST just got a little more anxious than they wanted to be this close to launch.
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Dang, sorry to hear that. I've seen those projects in the past but the problem I have with those is that they seem to only support web 2D multitasking using browser APIs. Here's hoping you reconsider in the future. Thanks
(Hi Keith!)

The article is from before they got their funding, the system (well, you know what it looked like, but for the rest of HN) looked like this:

https://goo.gl/images/cPJQ89

It was more than 2m tall at the top, but the actual computer bits underneath the MTA "wave" case were smaller than people might think. I want to say it was a cube-shaped machined frame holding the CPUs/Memory/IO bits, maybe 3'x3'? I remember there being a smoke detector, what seemed to be a regular household unit, on the inside of the case...

IIRC, it was liquid-cooled w/ Fluorinert, and the cpus were on some custom GaAs process...I had to swap the control workstation for it at one point, and to make sure that the serial connection to it was still good I watched over Victor H.'s shoulder as he tipped in. While it was at SDSC, the Tera MTA ran a Tera-customized FreeBSD 3.3 OS.

Good times...
While giardiasis is considered potentially zoonotic, human origin is considered to be the overwhelmingly predominant source based on genotyping.

http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/giardiasis.pdf

All bets are off for other protozoans and bacterii.
Meanwhile, in the background, a monitor appears to be showing smoke clearing from the deck of the barge, with no booster present.

https://twitter.com/Darkphibre/status/960990105581240321
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I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not...
I would stick with VHDL and SystemC. Any tools that could actual synthesize your designs are going to handle VHDL and Verilog.

I do prefer VHDL to verilog. My main reason is Verilog does not make a distinction between variables and other objects. Verilog treats almost everything as if it were an assignment type. Furthermore, variables in verilog are shared by default. VHDL shows how it should be done. There is a clear distinction between signals and variables. Additionally, variables are local by default.

My opinion of course. Although VHDL can be bit more wordy. However, that's least of my worries (wordiness) when designing something. I would rather have clear semantics for me and other people on what the heck is going on.

However, Verilog is just as capable.
Police need to deal with every walk of life. I just served on a jury where the police were made to sound like a bunch of idiots by the defense because a person who appeared to be a witness wasn’t interrogated like you were.
Not at all, but I'd be curious to hear why you think I'd have reason to be.
As you can in 2018.
Wouldn't you be able to recover most of the removed titanium, amortizing the majority of that guesstimated materials cost? Processing likely remains expensive, however.
The Electron and browser Slack apps are not /exactly/ the same on Windows. The Electron version of Slack swaps out the normal titlebar for a black bar and a hamburger menu. The point of a native app is to integrate with the native window manager, but Slack overrides the native styling. (Spotify does the same thing.) The browser version, by virtue of running in the web browser, is consistent with the rest of the system UI.
First look at Ionity ‘ultra-fast’ charging network map of planned stations
Being able to quickly export and import build configurations isn’t where the value of having them stored in a human-editable format comes from - your build tooling is part of your project and evolves with it, being able to arbitrarily build any commit regardless of whether your current build pipeline can support it or not is invaluable, as is being able to change the pipeline on a WIP branch while not breaking master.

The Wiki is pretty terrible too, but I’ve never found a wiki that makes me go “wow, this is AWESOME” either - dokuwiki got reasonably close though because it gets the hell out of the way and offers just enough formatting without letting me choke on markup like MediaWiki or the WYSINWYG hell of Confluence.
Perhaps female drivers are more cautious, especially with male riders, and this is perceived as less friendly?