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> - Ecobee, Honeywell, Nest integration with Cortana.

While they're working on Cortana, hopefully they fixed the bug where the search/command/Cortana entry box hangs if the internet is down.

The following sequence of events happens predictably every few days:

- Wifi router crashes or for some reasons goes down.

- All my PuTTY sessions freeze.

- I Obviously can't browse, so I might as well open a command prompt to ping the wifi router to see when it's back.

- I click in the Cortana box so I can type "cmd".

- Search box doesn't respond, doesn't show a cursor, doesn't expand with Cortana window, and doesn't respond to any input, mouse or keyboard.

- "Oh yeah. Cortana completely falls on its face without internet access."

Gets me every goddamn time.
I’ve got mixed opinions about this.

On one hand, I want this “direct selling” (more like direct scamming) industry to die in a fire.

On the other hand, if the above happened, there will no longer be a way for financial “natural selection” to weed out the idiots. A single Google search is all it takes to figure out that these “business opportunities” are not profitable what-do-ever, so if despite that you still go ahead and put down $7k on their product, I’d say you deserve your fate.
How is HN used in the application process?
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Just because the OS _can_ mark any page as executable doesn't mean that it does. Typically, unless there is a very specific need for an executable allocation, the executable flag is intentionally turned off.
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QR coordinate data should be pretty easy, right?
Or "if question mark, assume clickbait".
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Very few banks have that option, and the ones that do are bordering on user hostile, and the temporary cards don't have usable/tolerable features for this.

A wire costs $50-100 (or more for international) per transaction, no matter what the amount.

A bank transfer (ACH) can take several weeks or more depending on how much both banks trust each other and the type of account you have. Here's a fun read: https://engineering.gusto.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-pers...
I had a starter for several years that was descended from the one kept by Dick Proenekke [1]. He lived alone in a cabin that he built himself--by hand--deep in the Alaskan bush. He made sourdough pancakes daily and his original starter came from a friend of his back in town. Someone related to this person sells the starter (on a wooden spoon) that you can buy [2] and use to create your own descendant.

There's a fascinating PBS documentary on him that you can watch on YouTube, if you're interested: [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

[2] http://richardproenneke.com/heirloom_sourdough_starter_spoon

[3] https://youtu.be/iYJKd0rkKss
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I think the De Havilland Comet is actually a poster child for exactly how badly things can turn out rather than a good counter-example. The original mistake was apparently quite small - square windows instead of round. By the time they finally fixed this and shipped a solid and reliable product it was too late. Hundreds of people had died, Boeing and Douglas had entered the market with better planes and ate their lunch. The company died as well. You could make a case with only a little exaggeration that this mistake killed the British aerospace industry and setup the US for decades of dominance advanced technology industries.
No, you can compile iOS apps from the command line.
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Really interesting, thanks for the links. I would be curious to see how that starter behaves differently then mine.

I really need a good microscope to analyse the different doughs in detail.
That is an absolutely incredible combination of food and history. How did you like the results?
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> (Surprised this has taken so long; the speech recognition libraries have been in .NET since 2014.)

Dictation already was available on Windows 10, although not so streamlined.

In Windows, there are various forms of on-screen keyboards and some of them have this microphone button somewhere right above the top row of the keyboard flushed to the left. When activated, it starts listening you and dictating whatever you say. So, it's not brand new, more like an improvement to the UI, and also to the AI (as far as I know, recognition has also been improved).

Same goes for the Focus Assist, it was available under the same icon, different nane, "Quiet Hours". I keep it always-on on my PCs for several months now, and use it intermittently on my phone. It also got improvements, but allowing some people to bypass is not one of them.

The rest are new. I'm not saying that they are dishonest, they probably just do not mention it over and over everywhere.
What the actual fuck? I didn't realise that the UK was so stupid. Is due process dead here?
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Thanks. I usually do the baking, my fiancee does the pictures :D. I love to bake and a/b test the different doughs.
Jordan, Jesse, Go! also immediately came to my mind when I saw these new logos. Based on the visual similarities, it seems the designer was probably inspired by the JJGO logo. This also reminded me that there was already an existing language named "Go!" when golang was released. Maybe they should add the exclamation point now to go for the full JJGO look.
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In the very early days of Google, searching for $@ or $* or some other shell-sensitive character combos produced strange results.

I never did push it to the point of security exploitation.
Probably. Also remember that if posters space is specific or niche, clients usually look for other software to help them. The emails from the competitors are not a smoking gun proof. There is no way to prove or disprove it and only the investor knows what's up
Oh. Did get me thinking about Six, though ;)
Don't talk to the sales rep.

1. Talk to the technical rep. Ask a few technical questions, ask for a budgetary quote. And then ask for some samples.

2. If you are moving any volume at all you'll have a distributors inside sales rep assigned to your company. Those women can move the world for you.
Good point. Sometimes (often?) though the schedule is taken very seriously as a prediction of the future. The business case for the product is made because it will be ready for the holiday season, or such and such important trade show or whatever. Key people schedule vacations, transfers etc. and are unavailable to help finish the product once reality emerges from optimism.
You forgot [1].
NDA is a mood killer. And it would have done nothing in this scenario. Not sure if OP required a NDA but most VC wouldn't progress after asking for NDA
I’ve read that reality is around 88 million pixles. This gives you around 33m pixels per eye. Getting close, although I think you also need some fantastic frame rates and contrast ratios, the obviously some pretty powerful computers rendering all of this. It seems like we have to make 4-6 major technology steps to get where we want to be, each taking 2-3 years.
Experienced remote engineer here with a good deal of experience in k8s, Python, Linux, application architecture and design, the works. Applied to Zapier Infrastructure Engineer position a little over a year ago, if memory serves. Twice, actually; one time my application was closed out almost immediately. Waited several months and the same gig had been reposted and/or reactivated, so I applied again. This time I got a message once a week for about six weeks that said they were reviewing my application, and then I got a message that said they weren't interested. My only contact was an internal recruiter, and I never spoke to or received any information from anyone technical.

It was a disappointment because I expected better from a YC company's process. Of course, I can't really blame Zapier for passing, as I'm sure there are a great deal of applicants and, since I never talked to anyone, I can't know whether we'd be a good match, technically or culturally. For example, many remote companies, especially those that are primarily staffed with offshore employees, are just trying to pinch pennies and paper over it by talking about the hipness and uniqueness of their remote workforce.

Zapier is a custom Q&A intake application [or, at least the applications I filled out were], so it's irksome to write real answers to those Qs and get nothing back. I'd much rather write an HN post where I can wear my rightly-deserved downvotes and critiques with pride -- then I at least get something for the effort! ;)

So, note well, potential applicants: "would love to talk" seems to mean "would love to have you languish in our HR system after you've taken the time to fill out our bespoke long-form questionnaire". Like I said above, usually it's hard to fault companies too heavily for this, but when the CTO is making a personal appeal on HN, I feel like a counterpoint is warranted.

Hiring in general seems to go very slowly these days. I don't know if everyone is flooded with fake resumes from "bootcamp grads" or what now, but 5 years ago or so, you could normally expect to hear back within a few days if someone was interested. It's a different ball game now. In the last couple weeks I've gotten two replies to applications I sent in around Christmas time -- one "an invitation to interview" from a well-known company (which I ignored), and one a message from another company that they'd closed out my application in their HR platform.

Disclaimer: my experience from memory. Intervals and dates may be fuzzy. Not going to dig up the correspondence.
The starter was great but it's just sourdough starter. My palette is not refined enough to taste the difference between various sourdough cultures. Use the instructions in OP's link and it will probably be just as good. I think it's neat to have a starter from a place that's special to you. You could make one in your hometown, or in a favorite vacation spot, a place famous for its sourdough (like San Francisco), etc.
I really cannot understand why you are saying this.
I normally prefer Safari to Chrome as a developer tool.
It has however some performance problems sometimes.
It's not boring
Nice article, thanks. Losing your starter can be painful as it takes at least a week to build a new one. So it's good to have a backup; build a bit extra then freeze it. Should you lose your starter, you can defrost the backup and carry on right away. Especially handy if you go on holiday or can't bake for a few weeks.
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I see you're being downvoted but this whole topic indeed is just that, bikeshedding.
I don't think Apple would release a VR headset until they could call the resolution "retina". I don't know what that translates to in terms of pixel resolution but with the screen only a few centimetres away from the eyes, it would need to be pretty high.
All academic fields have presuppositions that practitioners are required to start with. Your own example suggests historians would need to accept empirical evidence (it gets more complicated from there: what evidence, gathered by or attested to by whom?) -- that's a starting point. Philosophy can't make much headway without first pulling in some dependencies like Western Logic.

Your claim that Anthropology belongs due to "plenty of material evidence" comes down to a certain amount of evidence (ie, presented conditions) meeting your level of sufficiency; your claim that Theology does not belong likewise comes down to a certain amount of evidence (ie, presented conditions) NOT meeting your level of sufficiency. In other words, if one were to start from the presupposition that God didn't exist, your claim Theology does not belong would be true. Starting from the presupposition that God does exist, your claim would be ludicrous. Theology takes the second presupposition; in the light of the worldview of those who accept that presupposition, it belongs.
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The conceit was rather obvious. I always find it strange when persuasive writing takes the form of fiction.
Ask HN: Why is GitHub favoured over Bitbucket
This question is based on mere perception of where I usually tend to browse source code.

Bitbucket has unlimited private repos. In the case you wish to go public, obviously Github has a larger community, but it's also easy to just uncheck the 'private' box in Bitbucket.

So why has Github been the place to-go for hosting code?
> Although I don't see the hyperbole, let alone innuendo in it at all. Unless you consider the mere use of a metaphor to describe Trump's legal engagements to be some sort of innuendo.

The metaphor you're referring to is more accurately described as hyperbole.

I find it funny how far people will go to intentionally misunderstand one another. We could have a perfectly reasonable conversation on the merits of cold, impersonal, evidence-based discussion and on the roles of metaphor in speech. But instead we have to play this game where you insist on finding some fault in some argument that I never made. Or pretend when you do see faults that they're "mere uses" of colorful language.

So to put this terrible conversation to rest let me make three points:

1. I like NPR and I'm not in any way attacking them. If you're here just to defend your favorite publication -- you can stop.

2. It doesn't matter if the CNN article was a piece of analysis or reporting. It is disseminated to an audience with the intent to be read as news and because it is an official publication from a news source it is (by dictionary definition) news. Since you seem so obsessed by the designation.

3. My original point "'truth' is not sufficient to eliminate bias" has been left uncontested. It is the only thing worth discussing. You have chosen to focus entirely on fictional headlines meant to help you understand the core point. If the headlines confused you -- I'm sorry (in the most meaningless way possible) -- but you need to improve your reading comprehension before you waste someones time with idle criticisms.

I would encourage you to re-read this comment thread. I have tried now on three separate occasions to get you to understand the core point of the conversation.

Maybe you're at the end of this comment thinking to yourself "Well the news industry seems fine right now. I can't find any headlines to support his claims". I would encourage you to consider: blogs, youtube comments, HN threads, casual conversations, and internal dialogue. What I'm saying (truth is not sufficient to eliminate bias) applies to all aspects of human thinking.

I should have never linked that CNN article. I thought an example would help you understand but its clear to me that it only enables people to misunderstand.
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So you're a racing company?
Probably too crude a solution for you, but when I had that problem, I created a 2nd Github account (you can also use a Github organization), and made that account the owner of the 'archived' repos.
So, did the devs programming the username field forget to sanitize text input, or were they just working without a spec? Neither scenario would be particularly surprising.
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Wow.

You quote -- without attribution -- wikipedia, and you get the antecedent wrong.

I'll italicize the exact words you quote after their preceding sentence in the Werner Heisenberg article on wikipedia:

"Godusmit was selected for this task because he had physics knowledge, he spoke German, and he personally knew a number of the german scientists working on the German nuclear energy project. He also knew little of the Manhattan Project, so, if he were captured, he would have little intelligence value to the Germans."

Note that the "he" in the second sentence is Godusmit, not Heisenberg.

Heisenberg was, according to Meitner, straightforwardly a supporter of the Nazi regime. Whether or not he was ideologically committed to the party, Heisenberg was most definitely involved in the war effort -- on the German side! [ https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/07/us/letter-may-solve-nazi-... -- first sentence, "The leader of the Nazi atomic bomb program, Werner Heisenberg, revealed its existence ..." a paragraph later: "Heisenberg never expressed moral qualms about building a bomb for Hitler or hinted that he might be willing to sabotage the project, the documents reveal" with a follow-up here https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/07/world/new-twist-on-physic... ].

Further (and much more detailed) discussion from 2016 at APS Physics: https://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/201607/heisenberg....
> I’d expect minimum statutory damages for this sort of thing to be north of $10K / day, paid up front, and garnished from ICE’s payroll budget. However, I don’t make the rules.

Heh. It's funny what people think about government sometimes.

This is nothing. Read about what the IRS can legally do to you, without any recourse, or just search for horror stories on the internet, as they actually do those things regularly. Blocking all your bank accounts, then convicting you based on non-payment is normal for them.

That's one of the problems of people in general. If you give people essentially unlimited power (that's what Congress has, in theory), they're not going to be nice about using that power.

That means that government departments that see it as their mission to fix things in society, immigration, mental health, child support, veteran's affairs, ... well, frankly it is pretty well known among lawyers that things like constant human rights violations, outright criminal direct abuse (rape, beatings, ...), absurd imprisonment (e.g. solitary confinement for long periods), they're part of normal operation for a lot of these departments. For instance, did you know the odds of a kid getting raped or sexually assaulted are actually higher in the care of CPA than with abusive parents ? Despite, of course, that the whole point of CPA is to lower these occurrences ? The same goes with metal-health related suicides: they're actually higher when patients are "being treated" in mental health hospitals that without any care (which means, no forced care).

People just seem utterly unable to admit or believe that attempts to fix things are making matters worse, so these things just do not get resolved.
If true, it's the "wheel of reincarnation" all over again.

Back about 35 years ago, perhaps for the 256 kbit DRAM generation, IIRC it was Micron that did something like this. I tried some quick Googling and didn't find anything. But it's really hit and miss how much stuff that precedes the WWW can be turned up by a quick search.

The Micron idea was that they would use a (12,8) Hamming type code. A total of 12 bits including 8 data bits. Which, if you recall the theory behind these codes, meant that you could do Single Error Correction, but not Double Error Detection (that would take a 13th bit). Not doing DED was a "feature", since these chips were pin compatible with standard memory. So you had no easy way to signal an error anyway.

I don't think the product was very successful (if it ever made it into volume production) because of the incredible overhead it would take. Instead of 262144 total memory bits on the die, you needed 50% more, i.e. 393216.

On the plus side, you could make each cell a little bit smaller, and you wouldn't really care about a few individual bad bits (those would be hidden by the ECC). So your yield probably went up. But of course the die was so much bigger, so your yield went way down because of that. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs, tradeoffs!

Overall, if you were Micron I suppose you were just happy if the finished chip met some appropriate AQL standard. What it did on die was just an implementation detail. :)
Wouldn't be suprised if somebody from techcrunch owned those 12 shares just so they can write this clickbaity article
You probably do more on the internet now. Both spending more time, and also using services that have more functionality. The more functionality there is, the more surface area there is for bugs to sneak in.
That's not "coercion", though. That's Python obeying the LSP, because bool is a subclass of int.
> You can go bicycling in the countryside in summer and never get any insects in your mouth.

Still happening to me every time in Germany :(
That's why I usally were glasses (otherwise small flies get in my eyes).
Obviously you're not using LTSB, which is what any sensible Windows 10 user would do.
I'm a big advocate for work life balance, but since when did 40 hours/week became the single universal limit for everybody? Humans are not that standardized.
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Here in Germany many people trade starters across villages. It would be interesting to have a scientific study on the differences. Maybe there is different bacteria/yeast in the different villages?
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Interesting effect of GDPR and DNT (do-not-track) header
I was thinking a bit about those two, it produces an interesting effect, by having it turned on, you are telling the site that you don't want to be tracked. Before GDPR came to effect, industry completely ignored it but the question remains what this means under GDPR. You are clearly stating upfront that you don't want to be tracked to the sites which are required to ask you about handling of your personal data and the purpose of it (which is largely tracking). Showing you the dialogs to get opt in can be easly considered as deliberate annoying users which have already tell you "do not track". This might have interesting implications for pretty much dead DNT and might make comeback in full scale backed up with GDPR legislation. Certanly something to ask EC office of Data Protection Officer.
Wouldn't freezing kill the bacteria and yeast?
Thanks, I didn't know adblock blocked Coinhive.