skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> MS...simply don't really need your data

Surely, you haven't heard of Windows 10's horrendous surveillance?

Data collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298

Ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13835733

Phone home: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053352
Microsoft: embrace extend extinguish

Google: Hold my Kombucha!
How does this impact you personally?
Don't we want companies to outsource the solution to legislation? I'd rather have Congress than Google be in charge of deciding how much privacy everyone deserves.
I haven't been involved in the home automation industry for a while, but if there were any integrations that used this API from DIY or commercial platforms like Homeseer, Control4, Crestron, AMX, or dozens of others, those will no longer work.

There are lots of mostly invisible companies selling high-end automation that don't need to advertise so you'll never have heard of them. It's not just hobbyists that build this stuff.
It's been years since I've even thought about tweaking sampling rates for mice.
Yes it's lip service but this whole narrative about online/digital privacy was seize on by traditional media to bash tech companies while driving traffic to their properties. It also gives some academics and "experts" an outlet to promote their books.

You have the right to choose not be watched while you're going to the bathroom but the whole online privacy "controversy" is a means by which foreign countries and other interested parties try to justify stifling US tech companies it's also more nonsense for the self appointed "elites" to philosophise over and pretend to know what's best for society, regular people don't care about it nor should they.
Why exactly? How does this decision impact you personally?
Video with the referenced South Park clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4
Should lawmakers resist? There's no lack of housing and infrastructure projects worth spending on, state-wide.
Tempur-Pedic+Memorial+Day+Sale
>>It's just not clear what should be bought and when they should be sold.

Maybe this will be an incentive for shareholder voting to come back into vogue.
> If most of the apps a user uses follow the guidelines of Android/iOS, and they are primarily a user of one platform, and your app doesn't follow either, it seems obvious that they won't be able to use their built-up knowledge of how apps work in general to navigate your app.

I just checked my 8 most commonly used apps, exclusing Chrome / Gmail, FWIW I am using Android.

1. Spotify - Doesn't follow any sort of UI standards. Also randomly decides to go into drive mode.

2. Clock - Built in, follows guidelines. About 50% of the time I hit the "trash" icon when I want to reset a countdown timer.

3. Development tool, not counting this

4. Libby, awesome app to checkout books local libraries. They have some seriously cool (but not always discoverable!) UI elements that custom solve problems that have. Their audio scrubber and speed changer for audio books are really cool.

5. Tabata timer - Doesn't follow any guidelines, really really needs a "stop" button instead of relying on back button to stop a workout.

6. Audible - Custom purpose driven UI, similar to Libby but different enough it can be a bit troublesome going back and forth.

7 and 8. Games, always have a custom UI, no problem using them.

tl;dr normal doesn't exist.
$44M (7000 BTC) stolen from Binance
“Alexa, tell Google to turn up the heat”
Can you buy single items on AliBaba? I've been buying from AliExpress a lot because of the convenience, I didn't know you could do the same on the main site?
Blogger/Blogspot. Yes, it’s super-basic and frozen, but it’s also rock-solid. I’ve tried self-hosting and self-coding several things through the years, and almost all of that has been lost one way or the other... whereas good ol’ B still happily shows my posts from 2002, with zero effort on my part to keep it secure or up to date, and gets preferential seo treatment from Google.
I don’t want to work at a place where my projects will get shut down.
Its kind of amazing to me that we haven't heard more, or maybe aren't seeing more, research into drugs or therapy which could reduce the amount of sleep people need. We'd be talking about the greatest boon to global productivity in the history of mankind, likely singularly more impactful than any other technology we've ever developed. The company which develops it could sell it for literally any price and they'd have people scrambling for it.

Not suggesting its easy, or possible, but its just surprising to me that I don't hear anyone talking about it. Modafinil might be the closest I've seen but its obviously not for long-term use. Google/Alphabet is pouring hundreds of millions into Calico to fight aging, but fighting Sleep feels like a much easier target that could have much more impactful consequences (extending life from 80 to 100 isn't nearly as interesting as giving a ~30 year old even 10% more time with their younger body and mind).

And once its solved we'll inevitably flip into a dystopian society where the poor either can't afford the drug and thus become poorer, or are the only ones taking it because they now have to work 22 hours a day, but Hey, we'll worry about that when we get there.
Integrations. Loss of IFTTT would be enough. No doubt Alexa will follow.
Because having an open API fosters a community of applications that is free marketing and free development for your product.

Nest products are expensive, those 1800 users may equate to a few hundred thousand in revenue for Google, who may instead buy a competitor for their next purchase.
I'm going to try!
Ah that makes me sad, I grew up in the south with hippie parents and they all used lady normally. I wonder if that is a Southern thing they adopted or what?
Problem with this is that city centres don't want the traffic and will look to cap ride hailing and shift people to public and active transportation options.
As someone who uses Home Assistant to keep some level of control over my data, this sucks.
Vote me down all you want, but it's a valid business question.
Anyone know if Alexa is their biggest Nest API client?

That's one way to shut out Amazon.
Awesome!!!
Looking for something like this. Will definitely check this out.
I wonder if they will apply the same terms of service as with their Cloud Machine Learning offerings (Auto ML, Cloud Vision, etc).

A snippet from https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms#12-google-cloud...:

Customer will not, and will not allow third parties to: (i) use these Services
to create, train, or improve (directly or indirectly) a similar or competing
product or service or (ii) integrate these Services with any applications for
any embedded devices such as cars, TVs, appliances, or speakers without Google's
prior written permission. These Services can only be integrated with
applications for the following personal computing devices: smartphones, tablets,
laptops, and desktops. In addition to any other available remedies, Google may
immediately suspend or terminate Customer's use of these Services based on any
suspected violation of these terms, and violation of these terms is deemed
violation of Google's Intellectual Property Rights. Customer will provide Google
with any assistance Google requests to reasonably confirm compliance with these
terms (including interviews with Customer employees and inspection of Customer
source code, model training data, and engineering documentation). These terms
will survive termination or expiration of the Agreement.
First they came for Google Wave, and I did not speak out—Because I never really understood what Wave was to begin with.

Then they came for Google+, and I did not speak out—Because almost all the people I want life updates from are on Facebook.

Then they came for Google Reader, and I did not speak out—Because I never actually heard of Reader until years after it was eliminated. Maybe Reader was actually first?

Then they came for Works with Nest, and I smugly said, "I told you so"—Because I always thought it was a bad idea to expose my thermostat to the internet.

Finally, they game for GMail—and I couldn't contact anyone who might speak out for me.
Just using the GPU isn't enough. On iOS and macOS you have a compositor that has exclusive access to the display that native widgets will use. If you do all the rendering yourself on the GPU, you'll incur an extra hidden full window blit on the compositor side, which is definitely noticeable, especially in power efficiency.
GPS died on my G4 play after a year. Loved the phone otherwise.
I would recommend Ecobee but their status page has looked like a Christmas tree lately. Hours long outages, every day, for days in a row.
EcoBee is what I bought when the writing was on the wall with Nest. Works with HomeKit, so EcoBee could go under tomorrow and Apple stuff can still talk to it. Or if an open solution is more to your liking, works with Home Assistant, too, though it goes through the API to work.
Developer hours going towards enriching the ecosystem at no cost to Google are gold. They’ve now alienated this dev, and produced yet another cautionary tale for anyone thinking about relying on Google.
I look at it differently. When someone compiles a game to webassembly it's seen as an accomplishment, right?

It doesn't mean you would normally write web apps this way, particularly if you're targeting consumers internationally and need web pages to load fast.

But being able to make a desktop or mobile app work in a browser should be useful, particularly for businesses. Sometimes you're not targeting the whole world and can assume users are office workers who have a reasonably fast desktop-class computer and a decent network connection. (Or if they're away from the office, they've already installed the mobile app.)

Some markets are more sensitive to download size than others and you need to understand your users to know what you can get away with.
I've always wondered if some far future civilisation grappling with the heat death of the universe will judge me harshly for mixing hot and cold water together just to make warm water.
Relatedly https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/opinion/tax-facebook-goog... https://paulromer.net/faqs-on-targeted-ads/
India. Next billion users.

Size matters a lot.
I wrote that "there are some areas where high speed rail makes sense in the US" and I think that answers your question of "why the coasts don't sport high-speed rail". Specifically I cited the lower 48 density, not the US as a whole (including Alaska would be irrelevant), and I broke out California and the Northeast to show that they are more favorable to rail. I also mentioned that the Amtrak lines in Southern California and the Northeast make sense. Parts of the coasts do support high speed rail and as the video mentions, the coastal areas (California, Northeast, Florida, and even densely populated areas of Texas if you count the Gulf Coast) are building it albeit slower than many people would like.
They want that to happen if it means they can accelerate profits plus interest on the loans faster than new fine minus $5 billion.

Fed is a corporation source, there are plenty. It's common knowledge, " the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that: "The Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act], but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations." "

Loans to the banks: "By the end of 2008, Goldman had snarfed up $34 billion in federal loans – and it was paying an interest rate of as low as just 0.01 percent for the huge cash infusion. "

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/secrets-...
Maybe something like this? https://somnomed.com/en/dentists/somnodent/
that site is a bit disingenuous -- it doesn't distinguish between projects that were merely upgraded/renamed/deprecated for good reason

for example, "secure google search" was "killed" but all this means is that instead of having to type "secure.google.com" to use encryption, google made HTTPS the default...

there are lots of legitimate examples so such exaggerations seem unneccessary
They absolutely do have to scale with revenue. Maybe a small fine, enough to cover API revenues, will deter them from that the very specific behaviour around API data they got fined for however it won't make them think twice about taking a chance on the next unrelated opportunity to be nefarious. A large fine will.
>the whole online privacy "controversy" is a means by which foreign countries and other interested parties are using to try and justify stifling US tech companies

Do you have a source? Would like to read up on this.
In that case, the knowledge base dashboard has several statistics (https://imgur.com/5Z60SWl). Help desk reports are not present at the moment but is something that will be added definitively.
How to Land on the Moon
TI distributes a pre-compiled version of GCC [0] for the MSP430 along with a command line MSP-flasher [1] utility for flashing code to the device. It all works really well on Linux. I haven't had to touch any of their windows tools. It can be slightly confusing getting started because there are 101 different ways to develop and compilers you could use so you have to wade though examples that may not be applicable to your chosen development environment. Once you get past that it isn't hard. I really like the tutorial series on simplyembeded [2] they to a great job of covering the MSP430 basics.

[0] http://software-dl.ti.com/msp430/msp430_public_sw/mcu/msp430...
[1] http://www.ti.com/tool/MSP430-FLASHER
[2] http://www.simplyembedded.org/tutorials/
At the very least, the fact that the upcoming Nest Hub Max supports Thread is a (small) step in the right direction.
Neat. Thanks for sharing that.
Wow that is great, thank you for adding that in!
Taxing founders and employees even more (on top of CA's very high income tax and capital gains) seems like a ridiculous proposal when corporate net taxes are low or zero in many cases.
You've probably noticed that the cynicism is reinforced by a concerted campaign of eg. op-eds, but if you want hard evidence, here's the front page piece I was talking about:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-sidewalk-tor...

A lot of favours must have been called in for them to get the Globe to prostitute themselves like that. I've been reading the Globe since I was old enough to read and I've never seen them do anything as dishonest as that.

Everything company is after profit and will behave accordingly. If there are issues with long-term commitment of Google, or any other concerns, then it must be addressed in the contract.

The city must absolutely drive a hard bargain, but if we start the whole thing with inuendo, dishonest media campaigns, calls to misplaced patriotism, then they must be interested in some sort of sweet heart deal without competition.
You must not have really needed such a feature. /s
He's not going to be the only one with a few thousand users.
If I'm a technologist or developer, I would be less enthusiastic about suggesting or implementing other Google technologies due to the poor form they continue to show in developer relations.

Google is poisoning their brand to the people who control the spend and make technology decisions. While Ballmer's "Developers, developers, developers" delivery on stage was painful, he was right, and Nadella at Microsoft gets it.

I would not recommend any Google products, including Google Cloud, to anyone.
I am excited by the Quasar framework, getting ready to launch their version 1.0. The vision is to simplify the Vue stack and automates and simplifies the onerous elements of webpack, linters, tree shaking, etc. It uses Material for UI and lets you push the same code to IOS/Android (via Cordova), desktop (via Electron), PWA and SSR.

What sold me on the framework is the focus on good documentation and sensible defaults. I could use more example code, but for its youth the framework is very exciting and has really made picking up Vue much more straightforward.
thank you, that is helpful!! With the whisper networks, is that something where people throw out what is it like to work here? Or even so far as under specific managers? Curious what type of requests come across that.
Pasting the same thing over and over in different threads regardless of context isn't exactly arguing in good faith or inviting nuanced discussion, so I wouldn't go that route myself...
Your prediction without proof is about as bankable as a prediction without proof of P == NP or P != NP.

Just because something is intuitive doesn’t make it true.
Investors know it's not profitable and operating at loss, yet they keep investing.

Otherwise known as "There's one born every minute."

Uber (and Lyft, et al.) are in competition with traditional taxis. There's a good reason taxis are more expensive, which is that taxis have to break even, at the bare minimum. If Uber charged what the service costs, there would be no difference in costs to the consumer between using a taxi or calling a Uber. It's the dumb investors which are making up that difference. They won't be dumb forever.
By the time they get around to killing Gmail all of HN/technorati will have grown to fully hate it anyways. :P /s
No but Microsoft used to be untouchable too. They've come back a bit under Nadella who seems to understand why people use his product. I never thought I'd see the day where I trusted MS more than Google but wow has Google just become a scummy, unreliable company since Alphabet.
I'd wager that how often one needed to clean the mouse varied by how often one washed their hands.

Also, I found those rare cleaning sessions to be nice cathartic breaks. But they certainly weren't every 15 minutes…
Whatever issues you have with Fortnite probably don't have much to do with her. She left in 2017. Until the tail end of her tenure, Fortnite was a very different game.
You know, projects like this make me want to start blocking *.css files in my HOSTS file and browser setups.
This is not a member; it's a file-scope variable with external linkage.

extern int array[];

goes back to ANSI C89 and earlier.
Flutter sucks because of f nested hell
> If you cut corners on the power supply or thermal management, LEDs will burn out much quicker than older lighting technologies

Really? As an anecdatum, I replaced most of the lights in our house with cheap LED globes a few years ago and so far not a single one has failed. Maybe I'm just lucky. CCFL lamps, however, have been terrible while using 3x the power.
400 usd to aud is about 570Aud, so is this a report to ACCC?

they should atleast be within the 570 range. 650 is a bit of piss take.

also google support in Aus is terrible at best, had a dead nexus 5x , sent back for replacement had to pay for new phone, still fighting for a refund...
Hey!

I will be considering it, you are right. Some people just don't want to bother with the technical stuff that comes with managing servers and/or installing the software. I'll definitively consider a SaaS version.

Thanks!
Well, the good news is that Google is kind of outing itself as a true outlier in that space. They clearly do not care at all about hurting developers that build on their platforms and there is enough daylight between them and other large tech companies on this that you probably don't need to extrapolate from Google to the entire tech world.

Makes me sad to say it as someone who has often defended Google in the past, but I can't on this.
Can someone from the Google team comment on what's going on - https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/kotlin-is-now-googles-pref...

>Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in today’s announcement

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/google-launches-jetpack-co...

>Google today announced the first preview of Jetpack Compose, a new open-source UI toolkit for Kotlin developers who want to use a reactive programming model similar to React Native and Vue.js.

This is massively confusing. Do we invest in Kotlin ...or do we invest in Dart ? Remember I'm talking about developing nations like India - where startups like ours invest in training college graduates . These guys can't afford 10$ courses on udacity and Coursera.

But even if it was not India, having this parallel signalling for Android based startups is very confusing. Atleast Apple was very clear about Swift .

Where will Android be in 2 years : Dart or Kotlin ?
No. There is a lot of reasons to criticize Microsoft but they keep their services/apis alive longer than any other company.
What a ridiculous website. Yes, the company that possibly writes more software than any other in the world has a lot of deprecated/dead software projects. Who would have thought? This would be more effective at making its point if it highlighted projects whose deprecation was particularly ungraceful/disruptive/careless, and explain how.
DNS cookies, by the way, are awesome.
It feels like Google search is already curated. At home I cannot find academic articles which appeared in the search at work, because my girlfriend trained the home's recommendation engine on searches for cute cat pictures and domestic things. In DuckDuckGo, at least I know I will be able to find the same results for the same search terms no matter where I am.
Equifax is in the business of selling data. I will grant you that's a good point. I suppose the issue now boils down to whether 20 years is a long time or not. I don't think it is, but I don't see a conclusive way to argue either side of that. I'm not sure how to continue at this point :)
What exactly qualifies as a user? Are API users individual accounts making transactions? Are they companies that have registered with Google to use the Works with Nest API?

If it's 1800 individual hobbyists I get it, but if we're talking about 1800 small and medium businesses that have to find a different way to support their customer base that's a huge problem.
I get that, and I think it's sad they cut it for that reason, but can we at least express our thoughts in that line? "I will never buy Nest AGAIN!" stuff is like what I'd expect on Reddit or Facebook.

Can't we at least post about what the value is that's being lost?
NYC has already enacted legislation capping new licenses for PHVs
They need to scale with the revenue derived from the offense, if the goal is to deter them from that behavior in the future.
Precisely. It's all about scale
You just moved from "market leader can dictate the standard" to "market leader can dictate what developers will want to target".

But with that premise, having a standard or not doesn't determine the outcome. Market share determines the outcome. The standards are just recommendations, nothing forces Google or anyone else to implement them.
bitbrew: BitBar plugin manager
You can use smart plugs like Sonoff S20[1] and flash your own firmware. They have the widely used ESP8266 inside. I use ESPurna[2] on them, which has many common integrations built-in (Alexa, MQTT, etc) and is very easy to extend further.

[1] https://www.itead.cc/smart-socket.html

[2] https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna
Nobody is debating whether they complied. They didn't. They got a fine. The fine is good. What we're debating is how big the fine should be, and my argument is, the notion that the fine should scale with Facebook's overall revenue, unmoored from the specific offense, is both irrational and dangerous.
But there can be collisions, at least in theory. And as we can see, in practice too.

Not checking for collisions because you trust that an RNG returns unique values is a fallacy and should be avoided. Especially since it's so easy to deal with the problem.
That book is so good that I feel like a shill when I recommend because I recommend it so enthusiastically.
Sunsama (YC W19) Is Hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer (RN/GraphQL/Node)
My anecdatum is that I bought CREE LED replacements about five years ago and I've had to replace more than a few already as they have started failing.
Does Dart support templates like JSX for proper UI abstraction; the programmatic way to define UI trees is annoying as hell.