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> This is already the case for mobile networks. Open source basebands are illegal. The best you can do is sequester your proprietary government-aproved co-processor as far as possible from your main processor, but most computers with such network adapters built-in aren't designed this way - they're designed to promiscuously share memory.

I don't think open source basebands are illegal per se. I thought the legal encumbrance was due to the NDAs under which documents related to wireless chipsets are released. Can you explain a bit more?
How common are 15" laptops at your workplace?

I had to fight IT to get one. For some reason they really really wanted me to have something smaller.
This is still the Thread protocol under the hood, right? Are developers prevented from creating another platform based on thread (or openthread) somehow?

Seems like an opportunity to target people who don't want to move to Google. But, in reality, your average person won't really care. They'll just migrate over and not think twice.
Yeah, for debugging it's ok, but we once had to migrate between versions where we couldn't keep graph.db but had to recreate all nodes and relationships. Relying on id's in production anywhere outside of single transaction is too unreliable.
> "My children will now always have the right to study, work, live and love abroad. That can’t be taken away from them. I am incredibly proud I have given that to them. And now that I have the personal, individual right to do the same – a right that no politician can take away from me – I find my horizons widening too."

I share her happiness and enthusiasm, and commend her for acting on her beliefs. But this quote from the very end of the article is what many Brits believed to be the truth, up until Brexit. One important lesson here - nothing is forever. A wave of xenophobia and nationalism is sweeping the world and separatism is back in fashion. Freedom is under threat.
I stopped using for loops and started mapping instead
I find it odd that people would think she ghosted In Cold Blood, considering that Harper Lee published exactly one book (two as of 2019) and Capote published well over a dozen.

Not saying it isn't possible, one would just generally assume that the "ghost" would be the more experienced author.
Return on data (ROD) = ROI for data subjects.
If you're not even getting interviews, take a hard look at your resume. The resumes I get from India (and from H1Bs looking to switch jobs) are very different from those I get from European and American candidates. They're dense, verbose, and describe hiring requirements rather than results.

Also, if you're submitting 50-60 applications at a time, you may be spamming, which only annoys hiring managers. You'll get better results from fewer applications with both resume and cover letter carefully tailored to the company and position.

This is especially important when you're applying remotely from India, because hiring managers get glutted with spammy and irrelevant resumes from there. If yours looks exactly like the resumes of the hundreds of developers who've created scripts to auto-submit to every listing on Indeed with the terms "Python", "Java", or "C#" in them, it won't even get read.
I think it’s ok if you get paid a lot of money. Just don’t get sucked into working for cheap building the castle in the clouds.
What are you talking about. This whole situation is a one great counterexample to your 1).

Making any company a single point of failure is a bad idea. You are basically giving up your freedom of choice for maybe some convenience, but don't confuse it with guarantee of sustained service.
Proactively Reclaiming Idle Memory
Seems kind hypocritical to have this posted on a site that has a little “web” button so rich techies can bypass paywalls.

We have met the enemy and he is us.
Why did you decide to charge on a per-word basis?
In office buildings, devices already talk to each other using a network, so you don't have miles of cables from each switch to light or window-blind. In cars too, with CAN Bus.

Apple sells Apple Home Hub, I wonder if that's their "central control system" so that the Apple Home devices can be a bit dumber, but also it means there's a central firewall and system that can look for updates.

Also if you can install the "cloud-end" on your own device, when the company goes Nest, it means you can at least run an old version to keep your "IoT" gadget running, and it'll be running on the (hopefully) firewalled local hub.
The horrifying thing is that the vast bulk of mobile gaming spend is on Skinner box gambling.

Really, this is not something that we should be encouraging.
Sounds like a victim of vendor lock in. I assume you will bleed hard to get out of it.
The APIs that Home Assistant uses (and can possibly use in the future) are the exact ones they are shutting down here.
This feels like a misunderstanding of SQL. It is not a programming language. It is a data selection language.

And group by does work the same as other languages. However, you can't talk of the group by without the select. So, if you use count, or sum, or max, or ..., Yes it will be a summary. You can use string_agg or friends if you want all values. But... Probably safer to get each as a row.
Personal: Spotify, Netflix

Business: Hotjar, Medium, Statcounter, Beanstalk

Yearly recurring: Fastmail, DevExpress, Add-In-Express, Office 365
> Go with a cloud service using products exclusively made by a single major company, like Google or Amazon.

You mean like Nest? Not a good example.

Better advice is buying something non-cloud based which uses established standards and which works entirely within your LAN.

If the company goes down, at least you can interact with the devices using the standards they were built on (Zigbee, z-wave, etc).
Marzipan is not something that is public facing. It is an API for software developers. It will get a name at WWDC in a few weeks and then it will have about as much public awareness at UIKit.
The process you are describing may be very rewarding if you have the time for it.
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I think it’s reasonable to assume that a sales rep is more familiar with the contract than is the buyer. The buyer typically executes one contract while the rep executes many. To assert that cancelling the contract would affect the cities municipal credit rating, is to affirmatively imply to the buyer that you, the rep know more than they do about the contract.

You are right, I don’t know the state of mind if the rep — they could have been trained to lie, but then the problem remains. Either an agent if the company lied, or the company trained its agents to lie.

That does leave the possibility of gross incompetence, that the rep was untrained, did not understand the contract and innocently told the customer something that sounded plausible. Sure.
It is an internal code name.
FYI for Americans, it is generally illegal to change your locks and not provide the owner (or agent aka landlord) with a copy.

It's their property, not yours, and depending on state/lease they have the right to have the locks drilled/replaced at YOUR expense because you are not allowed to lock an owner out of their property.

There are only a few US states which have laws permitting tenants from changing locks and not notifying the owner or giving them a copy (CA, NJ are two). Other states permit tenant to change locks (or don't have explicit rules) but require the tenant to give a copy to the owner (like say NY).

The reason why this is tricky is because in the case of an emergency if the owner of the property needs to make emergency repairs, but cannot because you have locked them out, depending on the law and the lease in question, you could be liable for all of the damage to the property since you barred the owner from making repairs. That could be a 5 or 6 digit lawsuit pretty quickly depending on the property, the emergency and if it's multi or single family. (Think burst pipe in a multi-family flooding other tenants.... very expensive very fast)
I was considering doing one of those but there's quite a lot of paperwork and it looks quite likely us Brits will keep our EU citizenships.
Or Google products
Nice questions!

I use DeckSet since a lot of years, I find it easy to use and I love the result. I don’t care about multi platform because I’m doing my presentation on a Mac. I don’t care paying fair prices to software.

The only downside I found was the lack of customization offered.

I’ll look into the GitHub list, especially to the 2 others macOS apps
> but the Marzipan apps I have used so far (News and Stocks) are incredibly slow and don't adhere to platform conventions at all

I agree. We do not have much to judge off of yet, so I'm holding out hope these are not final examples. Apple knew people would find out what was being worked on so went ahead and gave a small early preview. What we see at this years WWDC will be telling.
If this was just a case of a random patient and their GP, I'd agree with you. But this was a double lung transplant, at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, one of the world's best children's hospitals.

After 9 months of decline: "It was at this point that the patient’s mother brought up the idea of phage therapy. Spencer didn’t know much about it, but there was a hospital microbiologist, Dr. James Soothill, who’d worked on the viruses and agreed to help."

So they had a microbiologist on staff who knew about phage therapy. They had a patient with a life threatening antibiotic resistant infection. It took them 9 months to connect the two, and it only happened because the patient's mother suggested it?

Sorry, but that is just completely messed up.
Plenty of the CA root certificates in my browser's trust store have 30 year validity periods. The "keys should have short expiry periods" rule doesn't appear to apply to CAs.

Admittedly, CAs are held to higher standards than most certificate users in terms of keeping keys in hardware security modules and suchlike. So perhaps it's not 100% unjustified that they get longer validity periods.
The number of users who notice the user ID is a small fraction of your total users. The number of users who would notice the ID didn't grow much over the week is a small fraction of that fraction.
Not the author, but for Java IntelliJ has nice call navigation with tabs "dataflow to here" and "dataflow from here".
Does that mess with websites using muted video as a gif replacement?
I don't think one would migrate if Pg's strength is on 'alter table' which isn't what people do on a daily basis

Might want to mention the downside of using MySQL as well. (Am also interested to know as a daily MySQL user.)
I think you need to read my post again, I'm not talking about real ethics or so-called Christian ethics. I'm talking about doing what's in your selfish best interest. Put simply, don't do things that can be used against you by your enemy.
Nobody here can answer your question. Though if you're asking for random anecdotes, I was able to choose.

Smaller is great if you have external monitors. Larger is great if it doesn't weigh more than 3 pounds.
"Intranet of Things" is probably reasonably accurate, and hey, we get to keep the same acronym!
Why would honest people want to spend time implementing ways to lie to their users? Because that's what we're talking about here.

(And I know I'm asking a rhetorical question.)
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It probably felt good though!
It's most likely built into all standard landlord agreements. I can't imagine a landlord not wanting to have keys a unit they rent out.

In most US states, landlords are required to give 24 hour notice prior to entering a unit (unless it's a maintenance emergency like a broken water pipe).
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I Co-Founded Facebook. It’s Time to Break It Up
One man’s horror is another man’s only way to get anything done.

I used to be violently anti spreadsheet but have come around to being amazed what people can do with a very limited subset of tools. So instead of looking down upon them (not saying that you are) I admire what non technical people that just want to automate something can do.

Also I think spreadsheets are better than half of the code I’ve ever written as it is easier to extend without having to delve into the guts of some impossible to understand language.
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.
Ask HN: What happened during your acquisition?
Business acquisitions happen regularly, but a lot of the experience is only had by a very small number of people and I would like to shed light on those experiences for the many people who have yet to be part of an acquisition.

What was it like in the days leading up to the acquisition? During? After?

What was going with you and your team personally at that time? How did this affect the process?

How did negotiations happen? Who did what in hammering out the details? Who could have done more/less?

How did the acquisition come to be in the first place? What was going on in the industry at that time? Did you plan this or was it out of the blue?

Finally, what are some of the more surprising aspects of the process that you learned along the way? What would you do differently if you had to do it all over again? What advice do you have for someone who wants to sell their business?
> We're moving to a state where only the rich can afford good information and everyone else is in the dark.

Please explain this dramatic conclusion more.
I think libertarians simply understand incentives and human psychology. As long as a position confers wealth and power, over time it will tend to attract and get filled by the most cynical people who are willing to sacrifice the most ethics to achieve that wealth and power.

What helps no one is to perpetually increase the power of government, making the target ever more enviable to the absolute worst kinds of people. This is an inescapable truth of power.
And Kotlin nowadays looks very much like Python, but it's same Java, just with syntactic sugar.
Charge a lot more that you think you’re worth.

Nobody does this at first, and they end up with a bunch of cheap clients because they simply wanted to fill their pipeline, myself included.

The number I use and have seen others argue as well is take whatever your hourly rate was at a full time job and triple it for consulting (e.g, ~$70 hr salary = ~$200 hr consulting rate).
How does smearing marmite make the unfair gain worthless? It might make you feel smug for a few hours, but if your enemy is vindictive, it could be used against you.

The best move is to avoid playing the game.
On the flip side, it would be nice for suppliers to know their products are not toxic in the first place, rather than to just catch it after the harm is done.

This will act as a deterrent to catch those knowingly selling toxic products. But if lab testing isn't in the reach of suppliers, then how can they know if it's toxic free?

That said, I think a safety net is valuable, whether Amazon or government. It would be nice to see innovation to bring the cost of testing down so it's accessible to everyone.
Which home automation platform you eventually ended up with on NUC? I recently bought NUC to do the same and I cannot decide between Home Assistant, openHAB so I am running them both and playing a bit with Hue lights/Belkin switch. I have not tried Domoticz - I know it's very lightweight but not too feature heavy. Eventually I want to replace Alexa, using Snips.
Are We in a Constitutional Crisis?
It's considered undesirable for anyone that hates traffic. So the OPs statement is actually incorrect. It's not:

More lanes = same traffic

It's:

More lanes = MORE traffic

It's called induced demand.

https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/
A while ago I saw someone posting a book about Calculus in HN forum that was written decades ago, probably 40s or 50s. I liked it and could not find it back. Does anyone have link to it?
Apple has cancelled plenty of things, it's just much better at erasing history and pretending those things never existed than the other companies.
Hahaha..
Triple? Really?
Within a country, it's preferable to address the crime, not the flow of the money, but what do you do if a foreign government is complicit in the crime? Shouldn't governments do their best to turn away dirty money?
Why didn't they explain the need for peanut butter? Food supplies for the crew?
Just created a pull-request; I added links to some articles and sections hosted on Paul's Online Notes page (http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu). This site helped me quite a lot during my studies, and I'm sure the same holds for a lot of other students and professionals :)
That third one is pretty common in many countries. In New Zealand one of my letting agreements allowed them to show the unit a month prior to moving out.
you're wrong. you can only ignore your conscience for so long if you have a particular set of morals/principles and fighting the urge to push back on decisions is exhausting because it creeps into every other decision you end up making on a project.
I don’t think many large technology sector corporations employ physical violence. We do have organized crime, and private defense contractors like Halliburton, obviously, but in the context of companies that manufacture or influence manufacturing or distribution of computing components, if you want to say they do more physical violence than the government, I’d say that warrants a citation and evidence as an odd/irregular claim.
I'll add don't get emotionally invested in the project or client. You'll end up working for free helping to "just get us over the finish line".
Not all the people who voted leave are xenophobe/nationalist/racist, but all the xenophobes/nationalists/racists voted to leave.
I don't think it's very likely. Rather, it's more likely that UK citizens will have a fair degree of privilege with respect to mobility etc on the Continent vis-a-vis arbitrary foreigners.

The article is in fact loaded and a little misrepresentative, implying that somehow UK citizens won't have any rights to reside or work in the UK which is not fair.

I'm not a citizen of any European country and I've lived and worked in Europe without a whole lot of trouble.

Obviously, there's nuance to these issues, always lost in the fog of 'word wars'.
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"He was actually in my 2 year old daughter's bedroom"

I think I would have phoned the police at that point!
What about a broken waterpipe? That's the most common emergency where a landlord or maintenance staff needs access to prevent building damage.
(as recently discussed on HN) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19854381
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That is very expensive. In NYC I paid less than $700 to have a high-quality lock drilled out and replaced with a new high-quality lock after hours when I locked myself out. The technician broke two drill bits removing the old lock and it took an hour.

When I replaced my locks at a previous apartment I paid $40 for the new lock and installed it with a single screwdriver in 15 minutes. Multiply that by 2 if you have a house with two exterior doors. Multiply again by 2 if you want nicer locks.
Doesn't have to be. That landlord move was so popular here in Toronto, that they outlawed it.

For example, $75k in fines:

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/02/24/landlord-fined-7...
This literally happens all the time. Build it, nobody shows up. Naive entrepreneurs often think people will simply flock to their SaaS app. "All we need to do is build it!" Forgetting about the other parts, like marketing, sales, support, documentation. Building it really isn't even half of the equation. The other parts are just as hard, often harder...
If you prioritise the short term over the long term, then yes.
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I can't think of a single compelling use-case for home automation systems. I'm trying to understand what other people see in it. I have to wonder if it's driven by the amount of interest a person has in "tinkering" with technology.
My rental contract (AU) has those three clauses parent poster presents, verbatim. It's sickening. I actually have a mind to go and find out from a lawyer if they're enforceable.

I'm not Australian, but my sense is that tenants are viewed by the law as something between children and moral degenerates.

EDIT: and landlords are permitted to (and do) "inspect the property for damage" on a six monthly basis. At which point they tell you the day before they'll be poking around in your home. I don't know why we stand for it, frankly.
Interesting, apparently WebAssembly is a relatively small spec to implement; someone at our local Rust usergroup has also shown off a WASM runtime that runs on microcontrollers.
Apple PIs accompanying police in their official capacity to investigative sites during their stolen iPhone 4 investigation comes to mind.

Also Blackwater, and the breakup of Occupy, which was a public/private partnership between law enforcement and the banks.
"This is way too much in a tight loop. I want my structure to fit in the cache and I want to have as little tests as possible."

If that is a hard requirement, then the answer is just that Go isn't a suitable language. AIUI the current generics proposal in Go, it won't fix that problem for you either.

Where I disagree with the programming community at large is how often that's actually a hard requirement. A lot of programmers grossly overestimate their performance requirements on the microscale [1], and so concerns about "premature optimization" remain alive and well decades later. However, there are undeniably still a non-trivial number of cases where that really is a hard requirement, in which case the answer is, don't use Go.

(Preferably, figure that out before you start. As a fairly heavy Go user, I actually kinda cringe when reading one of the several "We sped up Go by 10x on our particular big thing and got to barely-acceptable performance" articles, rather than consider it something to be celebrated. I mean, cool that you sped it up that much and all, but honestly the correct answer was to notice in the design phase that you were doing something you probably shouldn't have done in Go, modulo concerns about easy prototyping and such.)

[1]: I qualify with "microscale" because I also think a lot of programmers underestimate the performance requirements on the macro scale. But that's actually a very different issue. There's a lot of very sluggish and slow code out there in the wild that is architecturally wrong; at every individual step the code is reasonably optimized and fast, the problem is having the wrong steps.
> Net 30 or better terms. Cashflow on Net 60 or Net 90 is brutal.

Even better... get paid in advance with a retainer, if you can swing it.
there isn't much US government managed health care that is worth a damn, just ask veterans or Indians on reservations. when people outside the country keep lamenting the US doesn't have government provided healthcare they need to realize the examples we have are both horrible and many doubt that they have the capacity to not inflict the same shoddy care on the current system.

Most jails and prison care is the same because it is all government managed. while the private jails, which are a very small minority, have problems they are held to higher standard that government does not apply to itself.

the prison/jail system is just a money machine for the sheriff and police unions of the country and therefor actively supported by the politicians they support/control. California had to be compelled by the Federal Courts just to reduce overcrowding and provide better health care
Thanks Google, I'm moving away from your services and software development stacks (bye Angular.)

The only way Google will change their ways is by losing eyeballs, one set at a time.
Maybe Apostol's Calculus, or Spivak's Calculus. Both 1967 though