skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EEE was a strategy for destroying standards through proprietary extensions:

> Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.

They didn't shut down services, they'd make previous market leaders irrelevant & alternate implementations difficult to impossible (as they couldn't keep up).

Their attitude here would have been to not buy Nest but ship devices reimplementing the Works-With-Nest protocol, then add convenient / useful new features to the protocol in ways difficult for Nest to implement, and finally manage to lock it down such that Nest simply wouldn't be able to use the extensions while retaining compatibility with WwN devices themselves.

They'd kill Nest, not the WwN ecosystem.
Since much of the banking world is heavy users of WCF, Microsoft has no other option that to implement WCF in. Net 5 unless they want to loose the banking industry. I did come across a post from one of the WCF products managers who said that they are working on a cross platform solution but it will take some (much) time before that has been completed. Cannot find this post, but I consider it safe to say that WCF for .net 5 is coming and that I am stuck util it does as there really is no alternative to using WCF
Sikuli is amazing! I've used it (to great success) for data processing automation and MMO grinding.
Yeah, it's not like they were the predominant threat to the US for ~50 years.

Not everyone on HN is in their twenties.
> Really curious how shutting down every service works as a business model

They don't shut down every service, just ones that aren't performant from a business perspective.

Which, I would think, works pretty well as a business model.
At the moment you need our app when you are at a record store or a flea market with thousands of records and no turntables to preview them.

Instead of jumping from Google to Discogs and YouTube you open our app, snap a pic of the barcode or search by cat number/release name and we give you the full tracklist with audio and video preview

https://youtu.be/kMG5cim3vis

Happy to share some free download codes if you're on iPhone
I heard that’s how PowerShell came in existence. Nobody wanted to improve conhost.
Simplicity Creates Inequity
I’d love to see that concept backing UI/model synchronization in web frameworks.
All I can say is if like me you'd bought Energenie MiHomes, you'd have spent half as much working out that you need to think twice becase there are so many bugs that make them not worth using... I seldom hear success stories from us early adopters with smarthome things.

I also have two Nests. Stringify has now shut down (and was buggy/difficult to use), and IFTTT is now losing access to Nest it seems, so I guess that's a real knockback of at least several years for smarthome.

Even when it was all in theory working, the most simple thing was not actually possible - Nest shows you humidity, so when humidity is over 60%, turn on the dehumidifier (I have one upstairs, one downstairs). Such a simple task coudln't be achieved because of about individual problems, and this to me puts the date of solving it back quite a way.
Cool - getting that fleet wide is what I was talking about.

It still seems like they’re being pretty slow about it.
You can do a lot of things with just HTML and CSS, more than what Gopher allows.

And for what you can't, a banner asking for permission to run Javascript, like we have/had for Java/Flash/ActiveX
This can be a good programme with broadly positive effects for a large subset of students that go through it. It cannot normalise having emotional conversations. Schools can’t even reliably enforce a norm of non-violence or of respect for learning. If school teaches one thing and society and the outside world the outside world wins every time. Children pick up on hypocrisy and adjust very quickly. Some spot pious bullshit immediately, others learn through experience and many, of course, pay no more attention than they absolutely must, in every class.
Sure, that's a fair point.

As I said earlier, the fact that B&H treats its customers well does not imply that it treats employees with the same respect. While it's possible that all of the lawsuits against them lack merit... we're not talking about a few disgruntled employees making frivolous claims. B&H was sued by the federal government twice regarding nearly identical allegations.
JavaFX is fully open source, it doesn't need licensing. It also supports hardware acceleration, embedded usage on Linux, animation framework etc. Also, fits well with kotlin.
Jetpack Compose – A declarative toolkit for building UI
There are "naturals", who are authentic and have a good sense of humor without doing anything for it. Everybody else needs more work/practice to get there. Basically, fake "authenticity" until you are "authentic".
You'll probably find that all ML SaaS EULAs look about the same.
> I heard that’s how PowerShell came in existence. Nobody wanted to improve conhost.

PowerShell still relies on conhost.

Do you mean PowerShell ISE instead of plain PowerShell or do you mean cmd.exe instead of conhost?
I disagree with the parent you replied to but still think there are other solutions that may work better than UBI.

My idea (disclaimer: not an economist, sociologist, etc just some guy on the internet): Free (i.e. public funded) education at all levels, healthcare, mass transit & access to public housing at restricted cost (we already have that in many western countries but means-test who can get into public housing & do not build nearly enough of it).

stuff like unemployment payments can stay but all other benefits are no longer required as they are provided to everyone. And make sure that each 1$ you earn reduces your benefits by less than 1$ (maybe 50 cents) so that you're never disincentivized from taking work.

The chronically unemployed in socialist Western Europe will remain at a situation more or less the same as they are in now but will have lower bureaucratic overhead & be less disincentivized from searching even part time work.

It's the working poor to lower/middle class that just about keep their head above the water that will be in a much better position.

And for the well off it will be more or less the same as now only they'll pay some more taxes (but also benefit from the services above, like free education).
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You cannot choose one thing, but then still expect to not have the drawback of that choice.

Except you can, and these guys are doing exactly that. They're not doing anything criminal. They're not doing anything immoral. They're not doing anything wrong. They're living entirely within the bounds of what society has decided is acceptable. They're living exactly how society allows them to live.

You may believe that welfare is a bad thing, and that society would be better if we just let people who don't have jobs starve to death or something, but society has decided as a collective group that we don't want that. Consequently we allow people to choose not to work. We pay their bills. That's how society works - the majority decides what is or isn't acceptable and enables that behaviour.

My belief if that society is richer by a long way if people can live life on their own terms. I would much rather people lived life on welfare playing video games all day than force those people to work jobs they hate. Sometimes you're just not in the right headspace to work. I took a couple of years off once and lived on my own money because I just didn't want a job any more. If I need welfare to do that again in the future then I will be very glad of it, and I will happily use it without any guilt that I'm not contributing.

And if the majority of people would not work..

Then the system would break down. But please note that hasn't happened. Most people choose to work, because living on welfare kind of sucks. Most people want more than that life affords them. The "what if!" argument doesn't work here because if it was going to happen it would already have happened, and it hasn't.
I was around for a lot of that. It was utter BS. Right up until when the Soviet Union fell apart the US gov and all its spook agencies were constantly screaming warnings of a Soviet breakout that would surely wipe us out. I was working at a defense contractor during that time so was pretty close to it.
> As a blogger, there was no incentive for me to write about it

It is my somewhat limited observation that professional closure devs work more and talk less (including blogging). Perhaps this is one factor in the low visibility of the language.
The AVR instruction set is reasonably nice for hand-coding (and has a more modern feel to it than the 'HC11, which may be relevant if you're using it as a teaching example). I haven't used PICs since the PIC14 days; it was a painfully minimalist ISA like the 6502; the newer PICs are better, I gather.

The ARM set isn't unpleasant but it's definitely a modern set designed as a compiler target rather than for hand coding, and most ARM chips are large enough there's no real reason not to use a compiler for almost all the code.
1800 is big number. When you piss off these many people, they talk, they let their friends know, they tweet. It's a world of instant information that spreads like wild fire. You are easily talking about turning away 18000 or even million users depending on who picks up their frustration. You are one journalist away from disaster. So if you got to piss off these many people, you better have real good reason and be able to explain it convincingly. You show empathy. You have path for switch. You give enough of notice. I see none of that in Google's blog post. Absolutely none. They have hired people who simply don't care or perhaps are so dumb that they don't even know the damage they are doing. Next time when Google guy show up at interview, make sure to ask him/her big decisions he/she made about product shutdowns and how they executed on them.
The SF budget is roughly $11B but about half of that is already allocated to services that benefit the region - SFO international airport, water infrastructure, transportation. Fun fact, SF city/county doesn't pay for schooling in the city. That's paid for by the state.

https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_2017...
> I've never once been automatically unsubscribed from anything.

To be fair, this is the kind of thing where, if it had happened, it’s possible you wouldn’t have ever noticed.
> Surely someone who just graduated college and has 100k negative net worth is far better off than a starving person in a desert, distended belly and all.

And a big part of that is just the way we do the accounting. If you put the degree on the balance sheet as an asset it would change everything.
Oh... messing with the ontology. I like it.
Send it to the Internet Archive.
Worth noting that there is a very significant tax on larger inheritances here, but in the end it is a drop in the ocean.

Passing wealth down obviously drives inequality but i cannot see a sane proposal to mitigate the impact. The more difficult you make it the more likely it is that only the very wealthy are able to pass on wealth. It is also obviously very unpopular with parents to suggest they cannot provide for their children.

Are there good ideas around?
If you're sending JavaScript down the line with every request, you're doing it wrong and should give up your career.
You might not realise this, but their trust fund does offer a service. Any investment always has another end. You have a person that has too many resources, and you have a person with too few. They are both making a deal where one rents out the resources. So although these kids do not "work", their money is working for them, offering other people rented resoures. That's how that works. Else there would be no return on that investment.
This is very different than taxes.

Not everyone needs to work indeed. But again it has 2 sides that are equal: you can only consume what you produce. This works on a large scale, but also on a small scale. Communism has shown that if you take away the small scale, and people are able to consume no matter how much they produce, that production goes down. Which is pretty logical if you think about it.
Bruteforce Database – Password Dictionaries
If you're using macOS, There's delicious library [0] and librarian pro [1] I'm aware of. There might be other alternatives too.

[0]: https://www.delicious-monster.com/

[1]: https://www.koingosw.com/products/librarianpro/
I so hoped the article was about how somehow, someone stumbled upon a null field generator and that it worked.
If Oracle was really intent on poisoning Java then they would've stopped investing in it and fired all of the core engineers.

But they didn't. And have in fact continued to invest in the ecosystem e.g. GraalVM, OpenJDK.
In the Japanese high school where I taught English they had a class (once a week) for how to integrate into society. It taught everything from how to enter a stranger's house, how to greet people, how to bow, etc, all the way up to what is your life going to be like when you graduate (low level school, where more than 50% were going straight into jobs from high school). I begged them to let me sit in on it, but they said no :-( (Unfortunately unseemly for a teacher to be seen as not knowing this stuff already...). I really wish that schools put a higher emphasis on this kind of stuff rather than the 5Rs (err... how many Rs are there again...? :-) )

I bet there is a market for: My life is a mess - I can't seem to do anything right - Can you teach me the basics of getting along in society - Education. Well... I suppose the self-help market is a good indication of that, but I mean taking perhaps a more structured approach.
I might be misreading your post, but there's nothing stopping you from using a gcc+make+$EDITOR workflow with the Kinetis or MSP430 chips either. I've done both, it's not even painful. (Admittedly I haven't worked with MSP430s in about a decade, maybe the situation has changed, but it seems unlikely.)
Sounds like the perfect time to transition to a "`Works with Nest` to `Works with Google Assistant` Conversion Consultant"
> So far, the exchange had reported several details regarding the breach, including the theft of up to 7,000 BTC ($40 million) that were withdrawn in a single transaction.

I am confused by this statement. Was the money withdrawn to a bank account or withdrawn to another address from the Binance wallet?
Calibre might work for you. It's generally geared toward e-books, but also lets you add an "empty book" and then attach metadata to it.

https://calibre-ebook.com
"America's Army" has that.
What about recent games like:

- Heavy Rain

- Beyond 2 Souls

- Detroit: Become Human

- Witcher 3

- Horizon Zero Dawn

- Mass Effect Series

And then there are classic adventure type games from http://www.WadjetEyeGames.com

Those don't include any micro transaction and you pay once upfront.
> They choose to use websites and software, whose developers in turn choose to send usage data to third parties.

Even that incredibly low bar isn't cleared. When you visit a random web site you get tracked by google/facebook before you can be aware that this site is sending your information to them, clicking a link does not imply trust or consent.
If you're still here and reading - It would be great to have a full text search interface through the email support requests.
...great, Kotlin for Android, Dart for Flutter, on the ML side they're starting to adopt Swift, for networking infra code Go.

What the heck is with this "tower of babel"?!

Are other people not bothered by the overlapping features of all these languages? At this point I thin most would prefer a slightly-frankensteinian monster-language that you'd get by taking either Kotlin or Swift and bolting all the other features on top of it.

There should be an estimate about the cost of all this useless diversity that we're all invisibly paying. Some tech/languages have really unique features, and have a reason/right to exist, eg. Rust. But most would've been better as extra features bolted on top another language.

Basically all programming in the world could be done with 3 languages: a secure system language (Rust?), a dynamic but optionally typed dynamic one (Typescript?), a full-spectrum metal-to-abstraction language with flexible compiler/infra for things like heterogeneous (CPU+GPU+TPU+whatever) code generation (C++? D? Swift? Julia? maybe also Rust?).

Plus the hidden cost of security issues created by people coding in languages they are not experts in because they need to always switch...
I’m not convinced that Flutter needs to beat native to survive- it just needs to be better than React Native, Xamarin, and PWAs.
> Are you also against trust funds? Same thing, really.

Not the same thing. For a trust fund, the parents voluntarily decided to give part of their wealth to their children. For a UBI, I would be forced to give part of my wealth to people who choose not to work.

You could argue about whether it should still be done, but those two cases are not equivalent.
I realize this is Google's moment of "Plays for Sure".
Books end, though.

Even those of us who have stayed up all night to finish a huge book aren't going to come back and do the same again tomorrow. Or pay for cosmetic DLC.
Should be 300$ and 400$
50% inheritance tax. not just large ones, all inheritance with no loopholes.
I was recently given a pixel 3 XL, I tried so hard to get on with it but the fingerprint sensor on the back ruined it for me (and google pay on london buses is embarrassingly slow).

having the sensor on the back means you cant quickly access your phone when its sat on your desk without picking it up. its such a small thing but it made a big difference. Plus unlocking it out and about was all sorts of precarious finger gymnastics.
Fireflies inspired energy-efficient lights
In case you are not looking for a one-stop-framework, there are small libraries that do bits and pieces of the stack, and besides thosakwe's angel framework, there is also aqueduct (https://aqueduct.io/), which is also a full-fledged framework.
I just spend maybe half a day a month updating everything to the latest and testing. There are the occasional gotchas, but it's not so bad... When you leave a codebase to rot for a few years, it doesn't surprise me that it's more painful.
> Because wealth is built over generations.

By why should this be allowed? By what right does there exist more than a life estate in any property? Fee simple ownership is administratively simpler which clearly has short term benefits, but absent some corrective mechanism to mitigate generational wealth fee simple ownership is thanatocracy; rule by the dead.

> The western world is sometimes too focused on individuals, but make no mistake, wealth is build over generations. And I don't see the issue with that.

The inherent consequence of significant wealth (for a small minority) being built over generations is the inherited disadvantages of poverty for a larger number. Generational wealth and equality of opportunity are mutually incompatible.
You can actually use Kotlin on iOS, look at the jetbrains samples for Kotlin/Native. You still need to use the iOS frameworks of course but all the genuinely OS independent code can be shared.
Augmented Reality Will Influence the User Experience
But, why compress at all then? It won't do anything.

I'm not sure this is a good enough reason to never compress anything.
A horribly simplistic explanation, rather than a factory roof to me it looked like a diffraction grating, but try getting that past the science censors.
> Prop 13, voted in by the residents themselves 40 years ago, is a giant sandbag on the state's finances.

Yes, prop 13 is a stupid piece of legislation. But it isn’t an insurmountable obstacle to good governance. Prop 13 made it impossible to have a reasonable property tax system, so California (and its subdivisions) should not rely on property taxes. Problem solved.
Exploring Python Using GDB (2012)
the actual equivalent would be: is it ok for the government to provide free roof & food for kids in case their parents don't? I would say yes & generally (at least in wealthy countries) it is already the case with welfare services.
I'm going to have to disagree with this. My school when I grew up utterly failed at this. Your school may have too. I was shocked when I worked in a school that didn't fail on this front. I'm not sure it would work in a standard North American school because the main problem is that parents don't respect the teachers/education system. Teachers have to accommodate every single bizarre idea that parents have about how to raise children. But if you have a private school that isn't afraid to tell parents to go elsewhere if they don't like the education, I think it can be done. In fact, I've seen it done. The Japanese school where I taught lectured parents for failing their children more than they lectured the students for screwing up. It was incredible.
Which is going to be hard. Xamarin these days is really nice to work with.
Correct. If you had bought Windows Phone, it still works today. It's unbelievable that they have kept the whole thing running for may be 10,000 people out there.
OK that's fair enough, but it's not saying anything about what optimal strategies might actually be, just examining their potential complexity in an extreme edge case scenario.
We'll probably find out eventually that the whole cosmic accelleration thing is a side effect of the use of FTL drives by advanced civilisations.

edit - with pan-galactic tickets getting a little bit more expensive every visit.
Speech to text flash card game for teaching math
It's classic 4 dog defense.

My dog couldn't have bit you, I don't even have a dog. Okay well I do have a dog but it never bit anyone. Okay it had bitten other people but it didn't bite you. Okay it did bite you but you must have provoked it.
Out of curiosity, what does Eastern Europe produce that Spain needs or buys?
Happy Calibre user here. works like a charm.
> This is a protocol from the 80's, I'm sure it doesn't require anything we'd consider a fast connection today,

But it does require long lasting stable connections, which is what you want to avoid on a mobile that tries to connect for only a few second at a time and the go back to low-power mode.
> You can't do anything in it that fills like the web

Why "can't"? In this example they were making a game not a web, and they wanted it to feel like a game. The texts you see there are ultimately a plain old HTML p tag with selection and mouse interaction overridden, but I'd be surprised if you can't change those behaviours.