skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home automation is a great source of overly ambitious capstone ideas for ECE students!
When the comparison to a heroin dealer is considered more charitable...
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I'm literally doing this right now. There are multiple bugs with the implementation, poor quality overall, but all my manager sees is the dollar signs. Somehow, they forgot it's already 2x overdue, still not feature complete, and the good developers we have are burning out trying to make up for their slack.

It's a shame really.
I don't understand why I should have any desire for this.
It makes sense. Debugging is often a rocky road and you have to be superman sometimes.
Quantum interference between light sources separated by 150M kilometers
SciHub has it
Merging can be done without killing the existing API. I don't care if they stick "Google Home Assistant Plus+" in front of it as long as the API allows for interfacing with the hardware I purchased.

Instead, Google decided to go the full-Google kill-everything route.
> For vp9, it seems to me there isn't any good excuse for not supporting it.

Exporting video formats is expensive: there's a lot of optimization work to have a high-quality battery-friendly implementation, decode hardware has to be licensed & updated, and they have to do security hardening and support every time they add a new format. If they're already working on AV1, why double the cost to add support for an older format which is almost never used as the only option?
Or the XKCD with the 14 competing standards and, "let's make one good standard," and now you have 15 competing standards.
"And the personal tracking side would still exist, it would just happen before showing the impression, to identify you and calculate whether the 1 cent is worth it for you."

I've encountered this argument before on HN now, and the problem is, you're accounting for all this tracking as being free. It isn't. It's actually very expensive. The tracking has to work in a world where impressions are much more expensive, and consequently, the demand for ads has shrunk along with its total market.

The entire purpose of this tax is put the industry in a new set point where it can't afford all this tracking. It can only afford very high-return things, which we can't really stop anyhow. It can't afford to hoover up every email you've ever written and subject it to high-quality ML learning run by a team of 25 PhDs with hundreds of support staff behind them with effectively unlimited hardware budgets to squeeze an additional 3 lifetime cents from everybody in the world in a world where ads have a cost floor of 1 cent rather than their current .000001 cents (or however many zeros it may have, it's enough).

(Those numbers may seem weird to you, because we are not good at working at large scales of factors of magnitude. But 3 cents over the liftime of seven billion people on Earth is 210 million dollars. This is the fundamental reason why the ad industry is so dangerous; it is not only worth it, but trivially worth it, to spend 100 million dollars to build a system for invading your privacy if it will net them just a few more pennies. We need to strike at that value calculation, not fritter around the edges.)
For lightning I use the Ikea Tradfri brand, but afaik Philips Hue also works. (as do most ZigBee products with various bridges)

The management solution in my home is OpenHab2, but Home Assistant also works fine.

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/
https://www.openhab.org/addons/

There are a few other products I use (for blinds, windows, heat), but you can often simply search the above two lists and read through the documentation whether they need internet (or "cloud") access or whether theyre totally local.
For one, they expose the number of users and other internal details. Even that is a security concern, access or not.
This is the kind of mentality you must shake off if you want to succeed in consulting. $200 is not even a rounding error to most companies, and you expect to get paid less than that for solving their biggest problems?
> There are undoubtedly regulations that are vital, but there are many that cause silly situations that can have bad consequences.

Mandating basic standards to ensure that products sold to children are non toxic seem vital enough. Whether this is the best way of managing that, is a different matter.
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> implying that somehow UK citizens won't have any rights to reside or work in the UK which is not fair.

I'm assuming that one of those is a typo? But if you think EU citizens will be entirely safe and comfortable in the UK after a hypothetical Brexit, you've not been paying attention to the "hostile environment" and the deportation of actual Brits in the Windrush fiasco.
The 'prisoners' part refers to how citizens are captive to their government, and if their government does something they truly do not agree with, they have no recourse and must go along with the law of the land.

With multiple citizenship you at least can emigrate somewhere and, while not as integrated as native citizens, at least will never be ejected as unwanted immigrants.
Right but rather than making a seamless transition between pages they made it a subpage of the parent.

Having built-in page previews is actually a useful feature but without the other useful feature of

"play video" -> "click video to open page" -> "video continues playing while the rest of the real page renders around it" -> "you are now really on the other page with no connection to the previous page"

it seems like the business motivation for this was to embed more content in Google Search while keeping Google branding in the background.
I agree with the reply above mine by Captainredbeard, that bringing back the CCC would help to stymie the crumbling of a large portion of America's failing infrastructure.
> Apple sells Apple Home Hub

Apple doesn't sell a "home hub" product. But their smart speaker (HomePod), TV set top box (Apple TV) and tablets (iPad) can all function as a gateway for HomeKit devices to be securely controlled from outside the LAN without the devices themselves having to be very smart or secure.
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For example, engineers hope that when a user is
navigating a news site, when they reach the bottom
of a story, related links for other stories are
embedded as portals, which the user can click and
seamlessly transition to a new page.

Perhaps it's not a very good description, but isn't that just a link? That sounds a lot like a link to me?

So this example really doesn't make it clear to me why we need this new element?
Violating Bell's inequality with remotely connected superconducting qubits
Simply doing XOR on two integers doesn’t really provide meaningful obfuscation if one of the inputs are constant as I assume they would be in this case.

For example:

for i in range(25):
167535774 ^ i

167535774
167535775
167535772
167535773
167535770
167535771
167535768
167535769
167535766
167535767
167535764
167535765
167535762
167535763
167535760
167535761
167535758
167535759
167535756
167535757
167535754
167535755
167535752
167535753
167535750

for i in range(250000,250025):
167535774 ^ i

167752718
167752719
167752716
167752717
167752714
167752715
167752712
167752713
167752710
167752711
167752708
167752709
167752706
167752707
167752704
167752705
167752766
167752767
167752764
167752765
167752762
167752763
167752760
167752761
167752758
Can someone explain to me the innovation here, besides some page-transition eye-candy?

> Furthermore, portals can also overwrite the main URL address bar, meaning they are useful as a navigation system

Isn't this already possible with iframes and target="_top" / target="_parent"? You can also use the <base>-Tag inside the iframe.

> The advantage over using Portals over classic links is that the content inside portals can be pre-loaded while the user scrolls through a page, and be ready to expand into a new page without having the user wait for it to load.

What? What about the vast majority of links that appear in-line, in text (think Wikipedia). What about the increased bandwidth usage for pre-loaded pages I don't intend to visit? What about the obvious tracking issues? What about the further increased difficulty for users to even tell which page they are actually on, if the transition to another page is now smooth and not clear-cut?

This article makes it seem like <portal> magically removes all the security concerns people had for decades with iframes, which imho is not the case at all.
the beginnings of a killer app for me can be seen in all those keep plants from dying apps, but they are still too unwieldy for me to consider them as something I'd actually want.
> Who is going to stop them?

We are, 10s of millions of users (if not 100s).
> Big companies like Intel should be able to afford to pay technical writers whose native language is English.

Do they actually need native English speakers? I'd assume they'd just need people proficient in English :)
Roku BrightScript is a powerful bytecode-interpreted scripting language
Another option: Use HomeAssistant for the user friendly interface (fancy buttons, value display, you-name-it), and use NodeRED for the logic. The HomeAssistant nodes are quite decent, it‘s how I‘ve set things up at home.
german has very similar sounds to english though. The sounds of English and German are similar, as are stress and intonation patterns.Also, accent is not just sounds its also culture. germany and us have similar cultures.

What exactly is neutral accent, I don't know what that even means.
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As to what PaulHoule alluded to, the type of software drastically changes the pricing model.

Business software tends to fall back on a licencing or updates/support pricing model but the scale of the price is proportional to the scale of the business problem your software is designed to solve. Alternatively there are models which depend on mostly-free but with 'Pro' features turned on for subscribers.
Still happens, the Panama papers?
First result on google and if you include planes I am sure there are many more:

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html
I feel that you're being quite reductive here, but I suppose this may very well be the sum total of your beliefs on the subject. I will take the comment at face value. Anyway, you'll notice that I used the word "somewhat" to qualify "worthy of the office"; I didn't just toss that word in because it sounded cool in my head.

Relevant, from Wikipedia:

> On January 26, 2017, in her first column for The Guardian since the commutation, Manning lamented that President Obama's political opponents consistently refused to compromise, resulting in "very few permanent accomplishments" during his time in office. As The Guardian summarized it, she saw Obama's legacy as "a warning against not being bold enough." In response, President Donald Trump tweeted that Manning was an "ungrateful traitor" and should "never have been released."
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> We changed the locks originally because we caught him in the place doing an inspection unannounced. All our clothes had been gone through and the computer turned on. Funny sounding inspection.

That may be a criminal act in your jurisdiction. My local laws allow the landlord access, but the landlord needs to provide 48h notice of the inspection (with a list of specific exceptions for emergency work, mostly around plumbing and electrical work) and cannot bar the tenant from being present during the inspection.
If you need to get in a house you own in an emergency that could cost 100's of thousands of dollars why wouldn't you just break a window, or call a locksmith? I don't think the tenant would be responsible for these damages unless the incident was caused by their negligence.
Why was the company expected to survive being bought by another company? only in dreams.
I don't think Google can be wholly blamed for that dominance. It's only natural that they would want to invent their own web rendering engine and with it they can pretty much choose what they do.

What's less natural is that so many other browsers/frameworks chose to be based upon it (like every Electron app in the world, Opera, Silk, Microsoft Edge real soon now™). Apart from Safari or Firefox, there aren't really many alternatives anymore.
Technically, I can still access the devices from the internet, but simply through the open source software that manages all the IoT shit.
It's not really fair to call it "studies" in quotations. It's better described as software micro-updates which can be progressively deployed in case the change has a regression. They do little more than enable/disable features already shipped in the binary you're running.

In my own browser, if I go to about:studies, I have two Studies running. One is the hotfix for the add-on signing issue. The other is:

prefflip-push-performance-1491171 • Active
This study sets dom.push.alwaysConnect to false.

If you equate that to a camera hidden in your TV, you might want to consider giving up whatever drugs you're on.
Correct, this is definitely very draining. My solution was to add a marketing wing to my consultancy. That marketing wing is hyper focused on launch and growth strategy. A high percentage of my clients purchase this "upsell" and the projects go much better post launch. Win/Win. More successful projects = better case studies + more tech work on those successful projects + more marketing work, etc etc etc. It becomes a virtuous cycle.

If you don't feel up to adding this offering, partner with another agency who already does it.
Wood is an excellent material for construction. And yes, construction code does require fire prevention, which is typically achieved using non-flammable drywall. You're at much more risk in a fire from the contents of your house burning (like wooden furniture) than the house itself. Wood is also stronger than masonry against earthquakes and some other threats.

Also, the structure itself is a depreciating asset. It's the land that gains value over time. This is true in Europe as well.
There were some problems during the transition between 0.6 and 1.0 but that was kinda expected. After 1.0 it's been pretty breezy.

Good IDE support (juno). Julia is fast. Numpy is actually c, julia is just julia.

You have an amazing interop that just works. With python, matlab, c,c++,etc etc.

https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl

Package manager just works.

The language is a lot more powerful. Diffeq is around 1000 lines of code which is nuts.
I think they had a shot.

It seems to me that they had managed to effectively own the top end segment of the home thermostat market in term of branding and product recognition. I don't see why that wouldn't have enabled a profitable, sustainable company.

The thing is that these days people start this kind of company with their exit in mind from day one.
How does this work during a power outage?
I'm a very happy Safari user but evangelism is only going to get you so far. There need to be better alternatives.
I think the sibling comment demonstrates that it is was long term benefit.
There's a really strong in-built faith people have that if you buy something, it's essentially non-harmful, and functions at least marginally for its intended purpose. This is actually part of US law (US Commercial Code Art. 2) (which is where we get that BSD license final clause from) - if this warranty isn't explicitly disclaimed, I think most people would assume the products they're receiving are genuine, of at least passable quality, and not actively toxic. Amazon isn't enforcing any of these on its sellers, thereby taking advantage of a huge amount of trust in the system - either the trust is going to be lost, at great detriment to goods markets as a whole, or someone needs to step in to enforce these statutes, since Amazon is unwilling to do it themselves.
I just went through the Canadian immigration process. It's been a few months but I recall reading about visas.

IIRC, the "Investor Visa" was about $400k CAD to be invested in Canada or something.
Are you suggesting that we reel in the moon to geosynchronous orbit? Ignoring our obviously insufficient mastery of the art of ropemaking etc, that's a quite entertaining thought experiment. Tidal forces while moving the moon closer would knead our whole geology into utter chaos once, then later tectonics could stabilise much more than possible with the moon in its current orbit. The weather would also be quite funny, with those daily, hours-long eclipses hitting the same regions over and over again, causing dramatic gradients in energy influx.
The number I use is that before tax money per month as a consultant must be at least double what my before tax money is as an employee.
> as they see fit

They're doing this in the open through the W3C WICG process [1]. They're not doing this as they see fit.

> for their own purposes.

Open standards are available for anyone to use and benefit from. That they may have had a use case in mind when defining the spec does not invalidate it; rather, it reinforces it and shows its value.

1: https://wicg.github.io/portals/
This is entirely standard in the commercial writing world.
> charged, working smartphone

> Not just that, you also have to install a proprietary piece of software onto the phone from a third party and accept their TOS.

Also, the lock has to be charged at all times... is that the landlord's responsibility?
I suppose that’s why instead of showing examples you are making broad sweeping claims?
Following a nearby lightning strike that destroyed our broadband router, I was pleasantly surprised to find that our Hive controllers still worked and scheduled water and heating correctly. Did also make me find the physical buttons for turning stuff on/off as well - though that didn't turn out to be necessary.
Double your rate for each new client until you can't go higher and get work. Then back off in reasonable increments until you have just enough work to be happy.

I work in biotech. Companies don't blink at anything. $3,000 / day? Yup. No problem.

Money doesn't mean anything to a company where the entry price is 15 years of infrastructure build and raw materials that run in the millions if not billions. If it does, you have a braindead manager, so move on.
I think it's largely a user experience thing. Because the "portal" has already been loaded and rendered, you don't need to add the delay of loading the new page at the point of navigation.
Agreed. Print statements are too vanilla; you need to lay down some moose tracks so you can retrace your steps once in a blue moon
For typical residential locks there's no specific expertise required, just two screws.
I would seriously reconsider this position. Containerization adds a significant amount of overhead to tasks that your team is probably already comfortable with. It's not a clean, simple tool or abstraction as this article demonstrates. I've seen teams get eaten by docker hype and it's not pretty.
Not yet, but we are looking into it. I'm hoping to get some funding for this, since it's a no-research software dev project though, which would be great for a just-out-of-undergrad student looking to transition to software dev, hence need money to pay such a student.
A similar thing can happen to Actors Harry H Corbett for example The Son in Steptoe and son
I've got a few smart switches that adjust the lights at a specific time in the evening. It really helps my children transition into the evening routine. It also helps me not lose track of time so I can keep that evening routine.
Don't ever underbid. It's never worth the additional overhead and the client demands are inversely proportional to how much they're paying relative to the job's value.
I'm not a lawyer but in many states these liability claims go through a system which determines the % of liability for each party.

A tenant illegally locking their landlord out and causing delay of several hours for a time-sensitive emergency would almost assuredly get a lot more % liability blame than a tenant who properly gave their landlord a copy of the key and who was able to give access to the plumber immediately.

Hopefully they have enough renters insurance to cover the claim and their insurance company will handle the court side of things when other tenants sue!
Fwiw, Amazon emailed many people in error. I spoke to someone who lost around 400k when Amazon emailed all their customers that they were fake even though he had the testing documentation and had provided it to Amazon.
The landlord stole £600 off this guy... but the Marmite thing is too much somehow?
> "I know this is hard to belive for some people but you don't need to be a xenophobe/nastionalist to have voted for "leave". The insults really don't help anyone."

You are absolutely right and I wasn't trying to equate the two. To be clear - I will not label leave voters as xenophobes or nationalists, and I don't dispute the legitimacy of voting "leave". My concrete point was: having a German passport is not necessarily a guarantee of all the freedoms she's seeking for herself and her children.
> many JavaScript programmers spend too much time writing original software

As a full time JavaScript developer for the past 11 years I completely disagree. JavaScript developers tend to be absolutely mortified to write any amount of original code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invented_here

It is so bad that I just keep my open source contributions to myself and was even berated by a peer once for not using an specific code editor that featured use of my software.
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In addition, in the README they reference it like "ic(x)", which sounds like "I see x", and goes very well with the output that sounds like "I see x equals 5"
Namely, cour competition that tries to figure out what to do about you or whether to even care, yes.
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Yes, I'm stuck on second as well.

But I got some progress:
1. Image leads to subdomain: http://dev.missilesys.com/
2. It generates p12 certificate for login to admin-panel. You should enter username/password, submit the form and click download. (It there is no download button just try something like this: refresh the page, change method from POST to GET, enter credentials and press Submit, after that press submit again it'll appear)
3. Add certificate to KeyChain (on macOS) and go to missilesys.com.
4. You're got into admin-panel, but you have no permissions to shutdown it. You need to be an administrator.
5. You should get .p12 certificate for administrator, but you can't because "User alreay exists!". This's place where I'm stuck.

It would be great if you have an idea how to handle with it :)
About $200. The one shown is an antique from the analog age: http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/422

Various 20MHz secondhand scopes are available on ebay and suitable for beginners. Delivery is usually expensive as they are heavy, the CRT ones even more so. If you want more bandwidth the cost goes up exponentially.

You can get ones that are cheaper and use a PC interface, but they have other limitations and lack a certain authenticity.