skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where the story is coming from. Devil's advocate: I think it would be really cool and great for security if the smart lock manufacturer could notify you if your landlord accessed you unit.

I can see pros and cons for both sides, is all...
This is also standard practice here in Brazil.
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Can I poke on how you transitioned? It was brought to me by a great colleague that I write and train technical and non-technical people well and want to see if its something I can do full time (contrasting my relatively boring ops eng day job.)
Is there any mathematical reason for those logarithms? They just seem to cause problems (i.e. when changing time units, or if the time is exactly 1,...).

I would say it should be like:
W = alpha * r/r_std + (1-alpha) * T_std/T
where alpha defines if the compression or the speed is more important.
Well, IoT never was a customer term, it was an industry term. And just because something keeps working without the internet doesn't mean it cannot benefit from connectivity.
http://dribbble.com

http://codepen.io
Why doesn't RH just rebrand CentOS as RH while keeping RHEL for enterprise customers to increase brand recognition?

People also feel more "official" too.
Rapid oxygen changes fueled an explosion in ancient animal diversity
Thank you. I think I need something like this.
very related blog post: f-string debugging in Python 3.8 [0]

which says that Python 3.8 will allow this kind of output:

>> print(f"{name = }")
name = 'karthikeyan'
>>> print(f"{name.upper() = }")
name.upper() = 'KARTHIKEYAN'

0: https://tirkarthi.github.io/programming/2019/05/08/f-string-...
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> I almost feel I am outside the car and not inside.

I know exactly what you mean.

Driving without the lights of the instrument cluster shining at your from behind the steering wheel is amazing.

Just you and the road.

The handling and acceleration on the Tesla is supreme, a nice night drive on a curvy road is like a dream.
At LWN we try to pay generously, and would love even to bring on somebody full time. But we don't pay per word; we see that as being a lot like paying developers per line of code. Words are consumed to create an article, not created, and we value conciseness. Giving authors an incentive to pad things out just seems silly.
Yeah that's roughly what happened here. Although I knew he was likely in there because he parked his motorbike outside.

He was actually in my 2 year old daughter's bedroom when I opened the door. I heard him leave it and come down the stairs.

Small argument ensued and he sent me an SMS right there on his phone saying that he was coming to do an inspection on date X which was that day. Then said "oh sorry must have been delayed" with a smirk on his face, got back on his motorbike and rode off.
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MongoDB database containing over 275M personal records hacked
Minor point: the lowest per-se BAC level that I'm aware of is 0.08%, not 0.008%.
Has anyone tried Home Assistant to get around things like this? Or are you locked in proprietary technology anyways?
As a Brit, I find the title of this really hard to parse. I was trying to work out if "toxic school supplies" was some sort of brand of jewelry or something.

Why don't American's use an "and" here:

> Amazon must remove toxic school supplies and kids’ jewelry from US marketplace

To me, that's much clearer.
Yeah, Apple has never cancelled a product.
Please don’t do this here.
> Whereas before you didn't have to choose and never got an opportunity to use your willpower to pick an activity of value. What's to say that people weren't made weak and compliant by a lack of opportunity to make their own choices?

Is the lack of choices and opportunity absolutely less preferable than wasting collective human time and energy in the deceptive pursuit of convenience? Also, aren't we converging to a future where we are in less control of important things, like privacy, human rights and environmental health, because we have traded them away to entities who were willing to take these from us in the pretext of convenience?

What if it isn't? What if this is little more than another moral panic?
Aren't we better off treating matters like these with care rather than abandon regardless? I think it's weak to dismiss this as a moral panic simply because an unrelated concept came and proved to be one.

Back then, you knew the bad people simply wanted to take your freedom and use it to empower their choices. Now, they feed off our compliance and mindless consumption with a smile on their face and we seek them out actively. I or you may benefit individually, but atrophy is a real thing, tedium and hardship serves its own purpose. Would you make the case that we do not weaken mankind as a whole, or in the long run?
Getting paid a lot of money to build something that never gets users is draining and not fun. There are tons and tons of people — super naive entrepreneurs — that are willing to pay a lot of money to build the complex castle in the clouds they imagine, and are then surprised when no one switches over to use it. I’ve literally heard people say “no we can’t build an mvp, it only works if everything is there.”
We'll agree to disagree on that. After 22 years of putting up with marmite in the house I still don't like it ;)
Spotify, Netflix and Amazon Prime
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And then there is the copy-paste as means to avoid additional package dependencies.
The way I get it, you are saying that the risk article mentions has already materialized: we have a bunch of general-purpose computers running in a bunch of devices which are artificially limited from performing general computation.

It seems to me the article does not really hit the point with those who are not already on-board with "all software must be free" (in the FSF sense).

If you don't believe you should have the right to modify software running on your paid-for general purpose computer called a TV (and it is a general purpose computer, some even run mostly general purpose operating systems like Android or WebOS on ARM SoCs), the article is trying to warn you that you'll be soon the victim of software on those TVs: like the webcam and microphone issues with Samsung TVs recently.

Only when anyone can explore and run software they wish on their general purpose computers masquerading as specialized devices (that's what the article aims for, imho) will everyone, including your mom, brother or yoga teacher, be safe from the risks hacker community is all too well aware of.

I don't think the article is very clear in what it tries to convey, because general purpose computers will always remain, but public at large is being steered away from them, and that's where the risk is.
Now everyone want to bet on future of future, but they forget the real problem like global warming (it's just one example its so many). Steve jobs have vision which is based on reality and solve the real world problem. Hope someone in tech industry solve the real problem instead problem which is never exists.
Any clue what the holdup is for production of new Silicon Valley episodes? I just read they're not starting production of the new season until summer 2019, and it's already been a year since the last season ended.
Can you offer up a list of items that you were able to configure like this; or a reference point I could use to get started?
Expect to spend about 50% of your time actually “doing work” of consultancy for clients and the other 50% doing things like:
Marketing,
Business development (sales),
Negotiations, kick-off meetings, contracts,
Invoicing and chasing payments.

In fact in the early days, the proportion of your time doing “non-work” work will be significantly higher than 50%.
Libertarians typically don't take time to think, they just spout anti-government rhetoric. If any of them were capable of an actual thought process they'd realize what a massive self-defeating loop the concept of libertarianism is in general.
The behavior displayed that is being punished is consuming alcohol and getting behind the wheel.
My understanding of spousal privilege is that it was originally justified on the idea that a married couple were legally one person. Today it has the same basis as other privileges, such as the privileges covering therapists and pastors: that it would be bad to interfere with confidentiality in certain relationships.
40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, according to research
Binance hacked, over $40M worth of Bitcoin stolen
Can anyone who knows law explain why the 1st amendment doesn't apply here? I understand the 5th doesn't apply, but it seems like the 1st should. Has this ever been decided in court?
Is there a reason to choose Brave over Vivaldi (other than Vivaldi not having a mobile version)?

I've just started using Vivaldi and I am very impressed. It's what Chrome should have evolved into.
Two years as a child could be plenty to develop a local accent. I know people who lived in Germany for less than that time (usually because of US military parents) and return to Germany after decades of not speaking the language at all with near perfect accents. The combination of excellent accent with barely-existent grammar and vocabulary can be quite funny.
Most things in your home don't need to know that much about things outside your home, or could have a well-defined standard API for getting that information from any source. If you could write wrapper scripts for obtaining weather information or traffic information, for instance, then you could have a self-contained system that required no monthly fees unless you opted to pay for high quality information, etc. but still gained all of the benefits of outside information, is high security, and would probably end up working even better. You could have default information endpoints for ease of setup, but why not make it all customizable? A good company with customer needs in view would be fully capable of making such a system.
Moderate tax cuts to spur growth with a modicum of spending restraint will produce a surplus, as we witnessed with Bill Clinton coupled with a Republican congress (when Republicans still had some interest in spending restraint).

The problem, however, is many fold. Bill Clinton largely benefited from a "peace dividend" in that the US was ramping down military spending post-Cold War. We have since reversed course dramatically to support the "War on Terror."

Second, the debt is now so huge, that even if we managed to regularly run a modest surplus it would take many (perhaps hundreds) of years to to reduce the national debt back to manageable levels.

Massive tax hikes would slow the economy, and the chance that any of the tax revenue would actually go to debt reduction is highly dubious based on historic patterns.

So yeah, we need some new solutions, or just wait for the global finance system to collapse for good and pick up the pieces and start fresh (with likely horrific short term consequences for infrastructure, healthcare, etc.)
The simple, one-dimensional world you live in must be lovely.
You raise valid points, but there's a hidden cost: if you decide to use slugs for URLs, or any identifier other than the Primary Key, you need to perform one extra step of mapping. Either one extra round-trip to the DB, or one extra join, or condition on a non-PK field, with, presumably, the extra index, that in turn needs to be maintained.

Not the worst thing to happen, but at any serious scale you take that into account.

OTOH, storage for binary UUID representation is just 16 bytes. You get non-sequential big big ints. Possibly use UUID v1, with sequential (time based) trailing part.
> Author is talking more about office less companies like GitLab, Automattic.

So these are the exact type of companies I am talking about.

> But from their salary calculator, it seems GitLab pays much below Indian market salaries

I am not sure about this, but from whatever information I have been able to gather/ask people remote companies tend to pay much better than what Indian companies pay.
WASI is a system interface for WebAssembly modules, it is not an implementation. Therefore, these are quite different.

However, they could have decided to use WASI as the interface for their wasm runtime, but it looks like they didn't
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Honestly? That would be awesome. I already have security cameras set up like that (although not wireless) - just home devices that do things for me and report back to a central server in my home. That server can connect to the internet (when I want it to), grab new firmware for the cameras, then disconnect and send out the firmware.

That's pretty much all I want from home automation as well. I see the value in being able to say "Alexa, turn down the lights" and having AWS do the voice recognition - but given that I can't trust services to stay more than a few years, I'm not going to invest in it.
From a recent tenancy agreement I've seen:

g) Permit the Landlord or the Landlord's agents on reasonable notice and at reasonable hours to enter the premises to view the state and condition thereof and if necessary to carry out repairs, alterations or other works.

s) Not to change or install any locks on any doors or windows of the premises or to make duplicate keys thereto and to return all such keys to the Landlord or the Landlord's agents at the end of the tenancy.

v) To permit the Landlord or the Landlord's agents during the last two months of the tenancy to enter the premises at reasonable hours during the day time together with any prospective tenants or purchasers to view the premises.
Reconsider. I'd say these are two safe options:

1) Go with a cloud service using products exclusively made by a single major company, like Google or Amazon. This is simpler to setup and maintain but more expensive.

2) Go with an open source solution, like Home Assistant. Cheaper option with more control but requires a lot of time to learn, setup and maintain.

Both options should be considered safe at this point.

Edit: added emphasis on "made by" since many were missing that nuance. Buying a single brand of HA from a single company should be considered safe.

I'm not talking about buying compatible devices made by other manufacturers, this API issue shows is that isn't safe.
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Everybody hates subscriptions, but subscriptions are convenient for businesses that need to continuously maintain their software. SaaS companies use subscriptions and explain it by saying they have servers to run. Desktop software that tries the same gets lambasted, even though the big cost is continuous development and not servers. Nobody wants to use unmaintained desktop software. How do you charge for a desktop application in 2019?
A rope ladder hanging from the moon. (Not quite "raising", and ignoring a bunch of other details.)
Malware attack against accounting software giant Wolters Kluwer
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Or end up like people investing in “smart homes” in the 90s.

Remember when built in intercom systems in the home were considered advanced?

http://mentalfloss.com/article/510559/what-smart-home-techno...
Except Marzipan is about UIKit on the Mac so it will definitely be easier to port an iPad app to the Mac that it would be to port a Mac Appkit app to the iPad.
It depends. There's no one-size-fits-everything approach for this stuff. :)
Nothing is gained by being an asshole to an asshole. All you've done is provided him with documentable proof for how terrible and vindictive he thinks you are. It doesn't matter if every other claim he's made about you was a lie.
> intentionally easy to forget how much you are spending

Which is why a lot of mtx are using some kind of "prenium" currency that's bought with real money, usually in increments different from the prices in the item shop (so that you always have some left-over); then there's the limited revolving selection, to use FOMO (currently used by Fortnite, for example)
> Do you think that companies who send newsletter do it without any traces of analytics?

I don't doubt it.

> Everyone does it, that's the current state of the industry.

That's not an excuse

> To refuse work from anyone who does analytics would mean to leave the web industry.

Analytics as a whole is not the issue. Doing shit like abusing CSS in order to track when someone opens an email and what they do in that email is evil. That violates the user's trust and expectations. I don't doubt that any time I spend on somebodies website will be tracked and analyzed by them. But they have no right to track and analyze me on my own properties, like while reading my own email.

"Everybody is doing it" is not an excuse for evil behaviour. Be better than others, don't contribute to this race to the bottom.

59k a year is a very healthy salary. I know real Engineers doing things like verifying building and bridges who make less than that. Honestly to think that $59k a year in Canada is too little money to afford a moral compass shows how much of a bubble you are already in.
That is correct. The idea being that people should be able to sell authentic product even if purchased elsewhere.
It never works like this
Apps and 3G literally came the following model year. Flash never mattered for anybody on mobile.
> As an elderly Uber driver once commented to me... "What do we gain by connecting a smart watch to an internet-enabled coffee maker so I can avoid getting up to press a switch in the morning? Stay in bed and scroll Twitter?"

What do we gain by using a machine to quickly and easily create coffee? Why don't we start from the individual beans, grind them, fetch water from a manual well outside, and use our wooden stoves to heat water to a boil for our cup of joe? Convenience.
> I'm sure you know that labor-saving machinery in the home have benefited everyone regardless of gender

While this is true in a pedantic sense, prior to the 20th century this work was overwhelmingly done by women; not easy to "save" a labour of men that wasn't being done by them in the first place but instead being outsourced with a strong element of social and household coercion...

> I just think that exposure to convenience without experiencing the lack of it keeps you ignorant of its true value

Largely this is what the "privilege" discussion is about.
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In my apartment building all of the external access doors are held closed by electromagnetic "locks" that require a key fob to open, unless we lose power, in which case there's no battery backup and they're all unlocked.
https://dev.missilesys.com/
I did quite a bit of experimentation with home automation systems (HomeSeer, Home Assistant, Domoticz and so on) and decided that the best (at least for me) and the most control giving solution is NodeRED - https://github.com/node-red/node-red.
You can create pretty complex flows with many already available nodes but if you want something custom - it's trivial either to add JS functions or to create your own node from scratch. Currently running it in a Docker container on an Intel NUC :)

The only downside is that it's not user friendly for non-tech people as you would still have to know few things such as what is HTTP server and how do devices talk to each other. It's not as easy as plugging in Google Home and just talking to it. But on the other hand, I only use my google home to:
1. Set timer when I am cooking
2. Send webhooks to my NodeRED to control things.

I don't have Nest currently, although I did use it several years ago, can't say it's very smart :)
My humble opinion here:

1- the "cut out the insurance middleman" is just huge and don't tell me what your site is about

2- "EZ dental membership software for managing your new/existing in-house dental plan" - Got a bit confused as to what EZ dental is, as I thought this should be actually OK Dental. Also still don't know what is it that you are selling

3- "Sign Up for free" - for what? what is it that you are selling? who are you?

4- Now I see the screenshots with the stats and below it some useful information and understand more what you are offering.

I suggest you hire a professional designer to re-design your landing page as it is so confusing, size of fonts is just too big in places, I had to spend way too much time to even understand the niche you are targeting.

If you are targeting dentists, then go where they are online/offline. I would find a forum/webpage where there are a lot of dentists and buy an ad there. Alternatively just visit them and see if they are interested.
Poor child. A deranged parent
I think DIY is the best route.
Considering change is inevitable, I guess the safest route is to start and lead that change yourself.

In the end we are all humans even companies like Apple are run by humans.
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Whose to say that two otherwise safe materials used in manufacturing are safe when combined? Whose to say that this material which is safe when used as intended is also safe when subjected to elevated temperatures during a manufacturing operation? It doesn't seem like you can just accumulate stacks of paperwork to determine that an end product is sufficiently safe for use.
Article 116 Grundgesetz, paragraph 2:

"Former German citizens who between 30 January 1933 and 8 May 1945 were deprived of their citizenship on political, racial or religious grounds, and their descendants, shall on application have their citizenship restored. They shall be deemed never to have been deprived of their citizenship if they have established their domicile in Germany after 8 May 1945 and have not expressed a contrary intention."

So, if you were denaturalized, you aren't automatically a German citizen again, because that would obviously be insulting to those who were persecuted, fled Germany, and never wanted to have anything to do with Germany ever again.

If you apply for citizenship, it will be granted. If you live in Germany again, the reasoning above doesn't hold anymore, and you are spared the formality of a full application for citizenship.
But isn't that the same thing in effect? There will be two vendors, one of whom is trusted to provide non-toxic options, and one of whom is lesser known and $20 cheaper.

This happens today. A friend of mine is particularly sensitive to slightly-bad milk, so they buy a more expensive, known, organic brand of milk at the store instead of the store brand / local farmer's brand, because they have problems with store brand milk often enough.
Here are a few things I would recommend:

- Never do a fixed bid. Not even when the job looks small or you are desperate for work. Any time a fixed bid goes wrong, not only do you lose money and time, but it's unbelievably demoralizing.

- Hire people. If you do it all by yourself, you'll end up doing all the jobs. Fun for about 1 month and then exhausting.

- Be honest. This is the one thing I feel like I got right. When I didn't know how hard something was, I would just tell the prospect or customer that while simultaneously telling them how we were going to figure it out. This approach always got me customers that I could work with and who were patient with me when I was consulting.

- Net 30 or better terms. Cashflow on Net 60 or Net 90 is brutal.
I wonder if it got caught on a mountain or something equally robust it could stop the moon's orbit. I wonder what, aside from the tides, this would affect.
As a descendant of Danube Swabians who re-immigrated to their original village after 6 generations in Serbia, I can only say: Willkommen zurück!

However:

> We are no longer prisoners of a country whose politicians do not and will not, likely for a generation or more, reflect me in any shape or form.

Given her family's experience with Germany, I find it heartbreakingly naive that she obviously thinks that this will not be the case here, not now and not in 25 or 50 or 75 years.