skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not news; it's a press release, listing a handful of odd niche products with significant discounts and then alluding to a larger list of unnamed products with non-significant discounts. It should not be on HN.
Interestingly enough, per-passenger the CO2 emissions are almost certainly better for the ship, but sulfur, particulate, and other emissions may be much worse.
Yeah I get that. I googled around a bit and apparently there were concrete figures in the initial draft.

I don't know if the EU has a contactperson to whom you can ask these questions, if they do, you can simply ask them to clarify. If you've done that, you're in the clear because you've put in the effort to comply.

But yeah in this case they should just give you a number.
Kubernetes and containers for enterprise developers
The two things are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, as Nest connections broke last night, Google collected, analyzed, and used more information than ever before in its quest to learn and know everything and keep it all organized.
They aren't even rare numbers, they are entries in a ledger.

There's no technical limitation on how many bitcoin can be produced either, only the network consensus that a limited number will be produced. It's built into the software and unlikely to change, but it isn't fundamental, it's part of the consensus.
They just can't use the app to control it. The physical lock still works, so they just have to use the key.

For a night it turned into a regular lock.
You're replying to a different person. The person who said "straight up bond villain" isn't the person you responded to.
This Mitchell & Webb sketch may serve illustrative and/or informative purposes related to the topic at hand (may contain moving pictures and British accents): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
I don’t believe I said it had to be this particular company.
Why would they depend on the internet to allow you to control a device at your home? NFC? Bluetooth? Wifi? Ignoring the obvious security problems of these devices being internet-connected, it's just a crap design from a usability standpoint. (where "usability" includes "can use it when the internet goes out")
At what point does it turn from "playing the victim" to "being the victim"? I swear, you people will do anything to justify your oppression.

I don't care, as long as it hurts you too then I'm totally okay with it.
Coming from an infosec background and having touched on physical security, just don't use a smart lock:

- Best case, even with a responsible implementation, you're introducing more variables than are necessary into a supposedly secure system. If one of your dependencies fucks up, your lock is exploitable.

- Worst case, you have a typical IoT device, where the "S" stands for "security."

- In _either_ case, you're likely still going to include a physical lock mechanism for keys as a backup -- so you're basically just increasing the attack surface (significantly, I should add) by doing this.

Smart locks are currently high-risk appliances, and I'm fairly confident that most others with a security background will agree with me on that.
I don't really see the appeal of smart locks. It doesn't add any convenience, since you could always just lock the door on your way out.

That being said, I think regular passcode locks without internet connectivity do add a convenience since you don't have to carry a key.
I'm not accusing them of thoughtcrime. However, if this much effort is put into creating a "speculative design" video there have clearly been deep discussions about the topic beforehand. It was not cast away even after these discussions. This is to me an indication that there are internal forces in Google seriously considering going after such applications.

As an aside; this whole throughtcrime stuff is ridiculous. Just because someone has a right to say something does not mean you are not allowed to be disgusted by them or think they are bad people because of what they say. Imagine a coworker saying that women deserve to be raped. You would not think of him as a good person after that, even though he has every right to make that statement.
Tips for Designing Accessibility in Voice User Interfaces
> This is nonsense. I really don't see what's so difficult to understand. Personal information is information to which the person can be identified.

Does that include email addresses and IP addresses? If so, that means things like using email addresses to log in for comments or logging IP addresses for traffic analysis causes all sorts of GDPR to kick in. As the OP points out, this means that things like the EU's own websites are in violation of the GDPR.
I don't want to end up being tortured and killed by "my" government that is in reality "yours" anyway. Thank you.
That's how it usually goes with a side channel used to discuss another communications channel.

E.g., "Can you believe this trash got on the front page!" everyone proceeds to downvote or "hey my show hn is up!" everyone upvotes.
As does the official website faq
> then went on define net neutrality as the exact opposite

This guy and my former Arizona senator must have gone to the same school. During the campaign, we listened to a PBS feature of this future senator and family from their kitchen, a happy working middle class setting, discussing their views. He was strongly against bailouts he said, and within 4 months after getting elected he voted just the opposite. The public seldom hears these in our media.
I did the same, and I couldn't be happier with it.

Home assistant is open source, written in Python, has a web based UI, and integrates with everything under the sun and is VERY welcoming to new components from outside people.

I've contributed 2 so far, and I hope to have another that adds in daily electricity monitoring from my local power company ready soon.

Hass is quite possibly the best run open source project I've ever been involved in.
This is rather paranoid: remember that enforcement is done by national authorities like the ICO not europe-wide ones. It's not as radically different from the previous data protection principles as people seem to think, and how much enforcement of those was actually seen?

> EU anti-trust policy - deeply political and immediately controversial

[citation needed]; it's not as if American industrial policy is apolitical and uncontroversial, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/26/bombardier-...
Brew is broken by design - it installs programs in /usr/local without requiring root permissions. You cannot in fact run it as root, it won’t let you.

I’ll wait for the home brew maintainers to tell me I’m wrong and that their approach is perfectly fine, despite being at odds with the standards set by every commercial and open source operating system on the planet.
A Closer Look at the GCC 8 Compiler Performance on Intel Skylake – Phoronix
Great Leaders Make Great Founders
If by likely you mean according to a discredited theory proposed by one person and based on some really bad historical understanding.
I had similar experience with domain.com

Their support team is from India, and they took a week to solve the issue.

I am looking for good domain service provider to transfer all of my domains 30+

Any recommendations? We use Digitalocean as the hosting service provider
Federal Watchdog Launches Investigation of Age Bias at IBM
Naturally, and I would welcome this kind of analysis. Just not from a company that would benefit immensely financially speaking from eventually building such an application.
That is not an official website - if you read the footer you'll see the following text:

"Disclaimer: This is not an offical EU Commission or Government resource. This is a education portal and the information contained within this portal does in no way constitute legal advice. Any person who intends to rely upon or use the information contained herein in any way is solely responsible for independently verifying the information and obtaining independent expert advice if required."
>One thing I like to do is to imagine my current surroundings are in a foreign country, and for some reason it makes things more interesting and less mundane.

This is brilliant! Just tried it on my pizza run and it definitely works for me too. Been in the same place for 8 years and it's starting to get grating despite all the rich culture (one of the oldest living cities in Europe)

Gotta love the internet for the tiny little things said by random anons that can improve your life.
747 was developed in the 60s when it was clear that ICBMs were the future of long-range bombing. I doubt they were thinking of military applications with this. The only long-range bomber missions envisioned by that time were super-sonic deep penetration designs (e.g., see XB-70 bomber), and even those were abandoned in the face of improving anti-aircraft missile tech (see: when the Soviet Union shot down a U-2).
And SAP, with 22 billion Euros in revenue
MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing
Sometimes monitoring fails too.
Perhaps the functionality of from-anywhere control led them to make internet the only available connectivity. If you assume the service and connection will be always available, why put multiple receivers on the device? Seems the problem here was in the assumption.
Hmm, that is certainly possible. Hopefully instead it can just be folks who are looking for a different type of interaction that a flat forum provides over something like this site.

Worth a shot at least.
I've used Namecheap for many years and have found them very reliable and their customer service responsive.
> you could smelt it into a bar at a high initial energy cost, but after that, transferring it is free.

How is it free after the initial smelting to transfer?

Moving physical gold around is very expensive.
I'm just imagining the case where someone has gotten very used to using the smart lock in a way where they lock it remotely. I guess that could be blamed on the user, but it's definitely not going to encourage them to buy any more Nest products.
Huh. I call myself 'digital god'. I think our egos are in different places in life right now.
It's market optimization. 99% of any new product's potential initial userbase does not have accessibility issues. Especially startups need to focus on getting the highest return on investment initially, before proceeding to smaller groups of potential customers. This is also why most new products are launched in the US first - huge market, no borders - instead of Europe where people have to deal with a few dozen languages and local laws.
Google Analytics is not a security tool. You can’t even see what an specific IP has been doing.
Could they create a way to host a service at your home for direct connect from the app so connectivity doesn’t rely on a cloud service? Sure. Most consumers don’t care though. I certainly don’t care. This is the first major Nest outage I can remember. It would take continued intermittent outages for me to re-evaluate my Nest devices at my homes.

Either a cloud app is going to go out, or my home internet is going to go out. I don’t expect 100% uptime because I’m realistic, and expecting non-cloud infra devices with no time commitment is a pipe dream.
Well, what's disappointing from a vision standpoint is that we are not making much progress understanding vision. Instead we are making progress in solving machine vision.

I think your professor isn't looking for results so much as a good explanation for the vision problem, a "unified theory" of vision that you could, in principle, code up from theory alone.
Minting of new coins is an exponential decay (hence the mining metaphor, gold becomes rarer to find as mining continues). There's also transaction fees which are based on supply/demand for blockchain operations.
True. Maybe AI destroys humanity via constant trolling.
SmartDevices are inherently fragile due orders of magnitude more points of failure. Instead of "Smart" functionality being optional it (due commercial interest) becomes core control circuitry on which the functionality depends.

An example(hypothethical) SmartFishtank which dispenses food to fish with pre-programmed schedules and monitors/adjust water temperature. Its connected to internet and can be monitored remotely. Users can even upload new feeding schedules. What happens if its hacked? Fish can be boiled, starved or overfed because SmartFishTank has control over the whole device.

In another corner there is a electronic fish tank with mechanical feeder that is set to one of 3 feeding modes.
The fish tank monitors temperature and acidity, but cannot adjust it and only send a audible alarm or a SMS message. However whatever happens to the electronic components, they cannot harm the fish inside because its purpose is to just receive data.
These ICO's will start in June 2018
That's 300 kWh not kW.
Please somebody convert it to human deaths, for example using data from this paper about death toll of energy generation:
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(07)612...
Is the software that uses PGP broken, or is it PGP itself?
I don't think I follow. From what I've read here, the question is "do you believe in any higher power at all?" which everyone except a committed atheist could answer "yes" truthfully (and even then, an atheist could presumably accept some sort of "life-force" that isn't a god).
I have this problem, I usually write in some fictional characters (or someone one who isn't running or who isn't qualified to run) name in protest. For example, during our last city election, I wrote in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for Aldermen. I also wrote in my mother for the school board.
I guess you couldn't continuously support and update (terrorize?) people's smart stuff otherwise. It's not like open source, where you build it and are responsible when it breaks.
Ironically a heavy push to electrified cars would reduce demand for gasoline, potentially dropping the price of oil and saving money for airlines and reducing ticket prices. The final result would be increased air travel and CO2 emissions from air travel.

Overall still a win for the environment, but not as much of one as people would want.
These appear to me to be obvious satires of two events in history where the timing of a message was important. The first is Custer's request for reinforcements not resulting in help arriving in time. See:
https://www.nps.gov/libi/learn/historyculture/custer-s-last-...

The second appears to be a flip of the story about Columbus leaving Spain for France, only to be called back at the last minute:
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_3...
ICO’s Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation
nah just that its the cheap mainstream model
Universal Decentralized App Store
I don't feel that's actually more politically correct though. Grammatically different, maybe.
True, this has been one of the consistent criticisms of Bitcoin - Satoshi solo mined coins and therefore distribution wasn't fair.

OTOH, consider the alternative. Satoshi gave himself all the money in the system, then divvied it up among his friends.

However, given the availability of multiple multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency economies, another option might be possible. Airdrop to the current holders of some other cryptocurrency. Or maybe a basket of cryptocurrencies. Key owners could then claim their money on the newly-created network. This idea really started to take off in 2018 with Bitcoin hard forks.

The problem is that the network creator will face intense pressure to withhold just a little currency to fund a war chest. Yielding to that pressure creates the very political problems I alluded to earlier (e.g., Ethereum).
I haven't locked myself out of my house since I was about 12, and the dumb lock on my house has had 100% uptime for the 10 years since we've moved in. So I don't totally get the appeal of a "smart" lock.
They'll use legitimate interest as a reason.
> As the OP points out, this means that things like the EU's own websites are in violation of the GDPR.

Actually, it doesn't. There are plenty of valid reasons to collect those things. Collecting them to track your users and to spam them to death are not on that list.
the music/imagery is to lighten it up...imagine if he had shared his thoughts in a 'memo'- it could be, you know, misconstrued...
> But at some point I realized that most of the time you aren’t getting in trouble because you are breaking the rules. You are getting in trouble because you are making the rule makers unhappy.

i had a similar realization in late high-school / early college, but worded a little differently. the rules themselves were never designed to be reasonable; they were designed to solve problems that the rule makers encountered in the past and afford them a "legitimate" means of recourse. no one ever intended to apply them consistently. this is why you can generally break as many rules as you want, so long as you don't actually cause a problem for someone. on the flip side, if you create a problem, they damn sure have an applicable rule on the books.
This isn't a user-gated permission but an Apple-gated one. Apps can't retrieve the nearby SSID list unless they have the "Hotspot Helper" entitlement from Apple. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/n...
If you're that paranoid, it's actually not very hard to audit the code in this case. Unless you go so far as to not trust the whole stack it's running on, but in that case you should stop using your browser entirely. For a sane threat model the confidence in your own audit should be reasonably high.
GitOps: ‘Git Push’ All the Things
yeh but made you click :)
> Yes you read it right, in startups you have to perform multiple roles.

Literally no one doubts this. Dont know why you had to put it so condescendingly.
Looking at the about page of kwat.chat, it says it is based on GNU Social. Can you use Mastodon to follow people on kwat.chat? Does Mastodon use GNU Social or does it support it somehow?
Right Tool for the Job: Why You Shouldn’t Do Stream Processing with MapReduce?
Show HN: Kriptomat – Europe's first localized crypto exchange
IPv6 excuse bingo
Bad design. It should only depend on local net, and then raise an interface to outside world as needed.
You'd think if you could trust anyone with uptime of the most important IOT stuff(locks, thermostat etc) , it would be Google. Yet here we are, smh!

I like automating or wiring up my home with connected devices, this outage is making me thing twice.
I had the impression that this capability was a hard requirement for HomeKit support. Go Apple.
It's not about if you liked it or not, it wasn't meant for public consumption.

It's someone's thoughts shared with colleague as part of the intellectual process and that is being demonized.
Manufacturer 'make worthless' users devices after some stolen from a warehouse
Same here, as all above.

Yet here we are on HN on Thursday morning...
How do you feel knowing that you are being watched?
Probably late to this party but at my employer we have a contract with MarkMonitor under which domains are auto-renewed and then we are invoiced for the cost.

The advantage of this is that domain renewals are not broken by payment problems. Payment problems produce a failure state of "domain got renewed, the vendor is harassing us about an invoice"--which is much preferred to "domain did NOT get renewed, our site is down until we update our credit card." It also helps mitigate the "crucial employee departed" problem, since MarkMonitor won't just give up on an unpaid invoice... they will escalate if they don't get paid.

Of course as a matter of practice we always have multiple people with access to the dashboard, but if all those people got kidnapped at once, the domains would still renew.

I recognize that MarkMonitor is more expensive than Namecheap or GoDaddy or whoever, but I also bet that a lot of successful companies that are super reliant on their domains have never called for pricing. I don't work for a mega-corp; we're a nonprofit. And who knows, maybe other registrars may be willing to offer a similar payment structure.

(I'm not affiliated with MM in any way--just a happy customer.)
It's a currency that is backed by crypto and is printed via a kWh backing. Better than gold and government if you ask me.
... or batteries run out. That's happened twice for me with when I'm only using a smart lock occasionally.
I think the jury.io reference should have been to https://jury.online/ ... but only guessing here.
The Midwest Is Getting Drenched, and It’s Causing Big Problems
Absolutely agree with everything except

> On the other hand, it's probably no more inconvenient than locking yourself out...

It looks like local control (i.e., with physical access) wasn't affected, so the only convenience lost was remote access. Not great when you've bought the product specifically for that feature of course, but still much better than locking yourself out.
Seems kinda useful, to group knowledge regarding computers & the internet, and how they impact other industries.
These things could also be achieved with government spending into things like: better unemployment guarantees, grants for entrepreneurs, or low-interest no-nonsense business loans.

How does basic income solve the problem? If the income just covers expenses, where do you get the money on top of your BI to be an entrepreneur?
Unphased. I only have thermostats and smoke detectors.
This is what you learn from failing your startup
Look at Sydney <> Melbourne. One of the busiest routes in the world (second by number of flights) - Qantas itself operates 60 flights a day between the two - flown almost exclusively on B373s and A320s.
To say they see it as a misstep is, I think, simplistic. The article links to a headline that calls it "stunning," for instance.

> The outcry over Duplex’s potential to deceive prompted Google to add the promise that its AI will always self-identify as such

Tech reporters aren't the only ones who have picked up on the potential to deceive. Just read the first HN threads about it. The tech is undoubtedly impressive, but the fact that Google didn't appear to anticipate its social engineering potential is off-putting.
Your thermostat should does not need an internet connection to measure temperature and turn on the furnace. Indeed, an oldschool thermostat with a mercury switch can do that. No mater how awesome your "smart" product is, it needs to not fail it's primary function unless its physically broken.

I'm also looking at Alexa and the stupid plug someone got me for a gift. Sure, I use it "Alex turn on the lamp" but I know that the system is totally unnecessarily dependent on the internet and two distinct companies for that to work. I would never have purchased such nonsense for myself.

People in tech have strange ideas about what it means for something to work acceptably.
Can you verify this is your email?

This seems to be more of a call for spamming someone, and I doubt anyone will be stupid enough to follow your call for action… unless you can authenticate your request and also state “why” anyone would want to send anything to that email address.
Ethereum is still PoW, they released an initial PoS that runs along side the PoW, "verifying" every 100 transactions or so.

The goal is to move entirely to PoS, but things take time.
Why weren't these points raised for gold & diamond mining through out human civilization. Africans have been killed ruthlessly for diamonds and our so called "smart users" of HN can't seem to see eye to eye on these points. Cause they missed out on BTC! and now they hate it.
Our Nestcam has been flickering on and off since about 3:30pm PDT yesterday. I assumed it was something with the wifi, but it looks like it's just upstream server issues. I guess that's a relief?