skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like there aren't enough independent, non-commercial articles to use as references. This is somewhat common for many newish technical projects. Add some academic papers, some usage numbers, some summary blog posts that aren't related to the project. Wiki editors are very suspicious of people from companies editing articles related to their work.
>That said (and you touched on this) the average consumer is not prepared to deal with any of that, maybe that will change but as of today it's not easy or even possible with most consumer-grade hardware.

Right, at one point it looked like something like UniFi could show the way there, but Ubiquiti unfortunately has turned into a development dumpster fire and really lost its way, and I don't know of anyone else attempting something similar. The principle remains though that it's another path forward, there are already powerful tools for network control and management, and there are accessible open standards there. Putting a better UX on that is worth considering alongside other solutions is all.

>As for Z-wave/Zigbee, I could be missing a potential security hole but personally I am less concerned with my Z-devices being hacked and more concerned with IP-devices being hacked and being able to talk to other IP-based devices on my network.
For example, it would suck to have someone be able to hack my door or lights but it wouldn't be the end of the world AND it requires physical access/proximity.

A lot depends on where you live. A few years ago for example there were a bunch of articles and demonstrations coming from research into and discovery of vulnerabilities in the ZigBee protocol itself. Because the whole point of it is meshing, if you're in an urban or even suburban environment with sufficient density, then a neighbor being hacked could then hack their neighbors etc in a chain reaction. And of course people had fun immediately putting SDRs on drones and doing a fresh new take on good 'ol war dialing, flying around owning anything they came across. Random example article:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507126/iot-drone-hack

Picked verge vs NYT since I don't think they're paywalled? Lots more though a quick DDG away covering the same thing at the time.

With meshing though, you do have to be somewhat careful about the concept of "proximity" and so on if there are protocol layer problems, which is less of a concern on WiFi for better and for worse. Your home might be locked down, but are you sure your neighbor or neighbor's neighbor and so on and so forth down the chain all have no entry point? I 100% grant it's more of a long term scalability consideration right now for many people, but hey, we're talking about a future protocol here!

Gonna be another exciting decade I guess :)
Shouldn’t the Supreme Court weigh in on some of this stuff? IMO this is a constitutional issue of the highest magnitude.
Blind bags: how toy makers are making a fortune with child gambling
I failed (ran out of time) in one of the problems during Challenge 1 during manual play. The physics seem a little wonky to me. It's easy to miss running at a ball, the floor is slippery and takes a long time to reorient and build up speed.

Guess I am not an animal.
Car2Go/ShareNow had a unit in a shared office space across the hall from ours (in Vancouver.) They moved out at the beginning of December, sold all their office furniture to other tenants in the building rather than taking it with them somewhere else. Seems pretty permanent to me.
I found these tweets to be very informative: https://twitter.com/okhanSTR/status/1207059687041982464

He's a lawyer who moonlights as a writer for SactownRoyalty, a Sacramento Kings fan blog that is basically being shut down by SBNation.

One interesting point he makes is that it's unsurprising that the Vox Union hasn't said anything about these hundreds of people losing work in favor of a dozen or so full time workers. It's not in their best interest to let people do part-time as a hobby what they do for their careers full-time.
By the same logic, typing out the filename should make the same permissions change, no?
It is highly questionable whether such an agreement would be enforceable in Germany.
No, that's the thing. It's not turning 300 contractor positions into 300 better jobs. It's turning 300 contractor positions into a very small number of better jobs (not all of which will actually go to those contractors), leaving a lot more people unemployed.
Capitalism is fundamentally based on private ownership. The rest falls out of it.

If I own and control something, and you own and control something else, trade is a natural byproduct.

If I own and control something, then of course I can reap benefits from it in the future. Building a completely isolated cabin in the woods that I have no intention of any other human even seeing is capitalist insofar as I assume property rights over it. I am investing time and effort now to build a large, durable structure that I may reap the interest for the remainder of my life, that interest being the durability in storms and the saved effort of rebuilding semi-permanent shelter on a recurring basis.

This is exactly profit brought in by one's assets and labors. I may choose to invest the saved time in other activities, such as tool-building to make the rest of my life easier.

Of course, no man is an island. The concept of capitalism means little in the absence of other humans, though as we see above it can still have some small meaning.

If I exist in some loose society where I interact with others and they may see and interact with my cabin, it matters much more if I assume property rights over it. Even if I do not ever allow another human to interact with the cabin, I reap the same benefits of my investment discussed above.

Note, I've not brought up the idea of money yet. Money is absolutely not required for us to be able to describe something as capitalistic. This is a common misunderstanding, as "capital" today often refers to cash and cash-valued assets.

Now, I am not trying to make a claim that capitalism is necessary for trade, simply that capitalism is sufficient for trade. Similarly capitalism is not necessary for the idea of investing for the long term, merely sufficient.

We could, of course, talk through a thought experiment where humans in a socialistic society build a cabin or cabins and this community accrues benefits as we've discussed.
You're commenting on a site with a premise of near-masturbatory perception of an industry primarily located in California as the only relevant part of our economy.
Imprisoned? Not just a fine for the company and settlement requiring them to promise to follow the law gong forward, without admitting wrongdoing? Inconceivable!
How many lines of code can an organization effectively maintain?
ACA plans can be subsidized, but as I understand it, if your employer offers a qualifying plan, then you are not eligible for the subsidy if you buy one from the marketplace instead.
> Ugh he didn’t break in, he had access

Snowden convinced colleagues to give him their passwords: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/snowden...

A Google query for "Snowden stole passwords" returns a lot of results.
Employers have significant tax advantages when offering health insurance that individuals do not have access to.
The job market does a lot of competing on quality already.
LA and SF are both dominated by workers who can’t afford the products/services offered by the businesses they work at. Not high-end businesses, just regular places.
>> What if you're wrong?

> This is the right question and there is an easy answer: If all climate models are wrong, it still makes sense to reduce emissions, waste, garbage, cruelty to animals etc. Worst case would be that we "wasted" money on stuff that makes no difference to the climate.

See, this behavior is exactly what I find so fascinating. My comments were clearly not about the trustworthiness of climate models, but rather the conversation around climate models, and the potential impacts of misunderstanding people's underlying reasoning/motives for "not supporting" the climate change initiative.

I posted a link to a specific video that does a good job of explaining this type of behavior, with respect to the last election, following that up with questions that were clearly ("Can you see any possible parallels between the seemingly illogical behavior...") about the video itself, and the applicability of the ideas contained within, to the climate change debate.

And here you are, responding as if you didn't read a single thing I wrote, as if you are working from some completely different text, with distinctly different content.

What is causing this behavior? How does no one notice this? It's like a textbook perfect example of the elephant in the room.

> But did you answer the question from the other side? What if you're wrong and there IS man-made climate change? Well, then we simply can't afford to burn more fossil fuels etc.

I've answered this many times. I am not not opposed to, or in denial of (in any noteworthy way at least), the climate change science.

My concerns and interests are regarding:

a) the nature of the debate

b) the effectiveness of the current approach

c) the lack of willingness of people to discuss the topic in any form other than complete, blind wholesale acceptance - no criticism allowed, even if offered in the spirit of improvement

> Yeah, human psychology.

Yeah, "no biggie". Totally inconsequential.

> But how do you solve this if one part of humans think that the only thing that's left is a "giant middle finger to the system"?

As always, I recommend exploiting the massive computational power of the human brain, while being acutely aware of its sibling: the human ego.

A good place to start would be putting a little effort into determining whether "one part of humans think that the only thing that's left is a "giant middle finger to the system"" is an accurate (from a pragmatic policy perspective) representation of what is actually happening, and what the possible consequences if it assumed to be accurate, but is actually not.
Thank you. "We own everything you do" is absolutely not standard practice, even in the US, and we shouldn't do Google's work for them by pretending it is. The linked Twitter thread says Google "tries to appropriate" everything you do, which is a very different claim.

I've seen "we own everything" asserted exactly once, in a laughably bad "Whartonite seeks code monkey" contract. Meanwhile, "you own unrelated work done on your own time, without company resources" is not at all unique to Google; it's been in every other IP ownership clause I've ever read. Many of them don't even require "a process by which you can get permission". They might require disclosure, or encourage you to talk to Legal if there's an appearance of overlap, but if you write thermostat software at work you can go make Flappy Bird at home without asking anyone for permission.

What's actually common, and what Google does, is claiming ownership of anything touching not only resources but the company's business. In the narrowest cases this is completely understandable: Mongo/10gen doesn't want employees to notice a Mongo pain point at work, then instead of mentioning it go home and build a product they know will have eager customers. And a bit more broadly, companies don't want their staff punching the clock, then going home and building a competitor with the experience they gained at work. But of course, companies have no real incentive to stop at what's reasonable: they'd like to own what you make, or capture all of your creative energy, so they commonly say "you can't make anything in our same industry". Amazon is infamous for attempting to claim "a connection with a cofounder" as a company resource and so claim anything made by ex-Amazon teams. (Which is only infamous because "we own everything" isn't common - if it were then Amazon's policy would look lenient.)

As you say, Google is doing the same thing, it's just that they do everything and they're just limiting ownership to the employee's scope of business. Maybe you work on Gmail, but Google owns Nest, so they can claim your smart home project. It's not a standard level of restriction, it's aggressive and probably unenforceable.
Can't forget the migration to APFS. For me that was reason alone to upgrade from Sierra.
America Has ‘Squandered’ the Recovery
Yeah, I think chromebooks are halfway there -- but like chromebooks still have CPU's and an OS. I guess I was thinking that the network connection could be, for instance, to a windows 10 client VM, so you could run games and other things you couldn't do in a chromebook.
rogue, and most of its descendants, are really just a computer-implementation of DnD/ADnD -- particularly focusing on the combat mechanics.

This is also where most of the core mechanics come from -- dungeoneering, permadeath, the lack of interest in keeping your character alive & the lack of interest in things like backstory and what-not, the general weapon mechanics (eg [+1, +2] for accuracy, damage bonus) and combat rules, etc.

In this context, anything but fantasy would be surprising
There is a huge problem with legislating in this country. Studies have shown that on the state level a large portion of laws passed are identical to model legislation proposed by think tanks and advocacy groups.

The 2017 tax bill was massive in regards to page length but had no debate and was passed without enough time for legislators to seriously read it and provide amendments. The same issue is happening with USMCA.

Journalists are pissed on Twitter and for good reason, but I hope the lesson here is that shotgun legislation is not the way to write bills. It's trendy to complain about how long it takes to get bills passed but this is the result of going too far in the other direction.
I'm not sure it does. Lime had their LimePods car share program which used Fiat 500s and they shut down their program as well, although they wouldn't comment on the economics or the program (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/lime-shutters-limepod-raising-...).

In Seattle, over the past few years, we've had car2go, ReachNow, and Lime all attempt the on demand car sharing and all three have eventually shut their programs down. Only ZipCar has managed to stick around, but their pricing model is a bit different and requires a monthly subscription.

Based on that, my gut says that this no subscription, hop in, hop out car sharing just doesn't make money no matter what car is being used (although I'd be curious to see it tried again with fully electric cars).
As opposed to unemployed people who get those things easily?
Your call home idea is good. This open source self-hosted product does the same:

https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/subscriptions#how-user-ac...
Yeah, but given the historical contex it's understandable if not expected. It's the great crisis (probably including it's preludium) untill 2nd WW situation clarified.
Thank you for the data. Which nation had a better model for health insurance that point in history?
I wouldn't say building a business has nothing to do with the product.

The issue is when the focus is _only_ on the product and no effort is done on business development, market research, marketing...

Garbage is an harder sell than outstanding especially with limited resources. However, if "outstanding" means "I think they'll throw money at it, I just have to wait", you've got a problem.
This was done as a do-gooder bill and not something that actually took into account the wellbeing of freelance journalists.

Suppose I'm a journalist that specializes in recreational fishing for a particular region. Not only am I a journalist of what happens locally by keeping my ear to the ground, but I'm also an SME of both the types of fishing being done and also of the areas to fish and the conditions in which they bite.

How easy do you think it would be for a person like that to get a full-time paying gig somewhere with benefits? Probably very hard. But a person like that can make a decent living for himself by writing for fishing magazines, sports magazines, outdoor journals, newspapers, etc.

Not only does it limit opportunities for a writer like this, but it also diminishes the overall quality of all publications in an area. Because now he can't be that expert on one topic, he probably has to straddle a half-dozen fences in order to justify his continued employment.

I think that this is a unique situation among vocations and it's a shame that the politicians didn't listen to the people actually being affected.
Where does she say she supported the bill?
> Public servants normally can be fired by elected officials.

No, they can't. There are extensive laws, rules, and regulations that prevent elected officials from firing government employees arbitrarily.

> Elected officials can be "fired" by the people, albeit only once every 4 years.

Every 2 years for the House of Representatives, every 6 years for Senators. But that almost never happens; the US Congress has incumbent re-election rates well above 90 percent. US Presidents are limited to two terms, so every so often we are forced to choose a new one.
The "sane UI" in this case is one that has already existed for years, and it's the user intent of dropping a file into an application to give it access.
Anyone using Cliqz? How is it?
> I just find the black and whites puzzling.

Yeah, they are largely a historical artifact from before the days of equal-temperament tuning. A few things they have going for them:

* They give you a visual reference point for an absolute pitch. It's easy to find any specific note by looking for it relative to the unique pattern of black keys. C is always to the left of the pair of blacks. Other instruments require different techniques to keep track of where you are since otherwise all note positions look the same. (For example, guitars have fretboard markers and players have to be careful to count frets correctly.)

* Having two rows of notes, even if not evenly distributed, lets a hand span a greater range of pitches. If all of the black keys were inline with the whites, it would be harder to span an octave without making the keys smaller which increases the risk of mistakes.

* The non-uniform layout means that each diatonic key has a different physical layout. This is a negative when it comes to transposing, but it can be a positive when it comes to composing. Picking a different key with its unique layout might get your hands to try different chord voicings or progressions you wouldn't think of otherwise. It increases the spatial variet of the instrument at the expense of less consistency.
Now the fun part. Pick any 30 year period, and you will beat inflation with stocks. Even if you get in at a peak, 30 years later, you will be well ahead.
ironic title is ironic
messenger works fine for me with firefox 20.2 on iOS 13.2.3
Might have better luck posting on an Apple user forum. Hope you find them!
No. The action of pasting or dropping the file is what gives access.
Old MacDonald had a carpark? The urban farms growing in unlikely places
Disclaimer: I work for Cliqz.

Good to hear that Mozilla changed their mind, when we proposed an open API for extensions to access the search area it was turned down

Ref:
-https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361327

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361327#c28
No matter where you live you can usually diversify to global stocks.
> Just want to point out this approach won't work for Florida (and I'm not implying you said it would). The land in south Florida is porous limestone, and the water will just pass under any dykes you build.

Not a problem. Just drive a sheet pile curtain along the retaining wall to force the flow net through a long enough path that the resistance alone reduces the flow volume. This sort of stuff is covered in civil engineering degrees at graduate or even undergraduate level. Google for sheet pile flow net to get the idea.

And by the way, while you claim that Florida is limestone, the Netherlands is just a big old alluvial plain comprised of loose sand.
One of the largest county government insurances in CA reimburses $28,000 for an endoscopy at an outpatient center. Which should cost around $2000 in a hospital. And in reality, could cost $500.

Not sure why the AHA didn’t fix things like this.
Is KNX affordable? I did some searching to see how to control Philips Hue lights via KNX, and found something called an "ise Smart Connect KNX HUE" for this. I found a few sites online selling this, all in Europe.

Most would not show me a price without me first creating an account and logging in, but I did find one German site that would show me a price, which after converting Euros to USD, came out to a little over $300. I also found a UK site that would show a price. That, after Pounds to USD conversion, was over $500.

I did a little searching to try to find out how lights are handled in KNX without bridging out to some completely different system like Hue. All I was able to find was lighting fixtures with KNX control built in. I didn't see bulbs with it built in.

Does this mean that if someone without any home automation decides that they want a couple of smart lights, to do it purely with KNX that have to replace some light fixtures?

That's not how most people in the US add some smart lights. Most here do it by buying bulbs that screw into fixtures meant for regular bulbs, and implement the smart stuff in the bulb itself. There is no need to replace fixtures (which you may not be allowed to do if you are renting).
Are you asking me?

Obviously we all experience what we call consciousness, noticing ourselves noticing, and we all imagine we have free will, which really only means we don't know what we will do tomorrow.

But neither of those have anything to do with physics, except to the degree that the stuff we are made out of runs according to physics.

So, anybody supposing that either concept has anything to do with quantum physics is barking up something that is not even a tree.
This is wrong though, Apache Arrow is an open source spec, the fact that they happen to work at a company working on it seems secondary.
Of course, those are clearly all Irish companies.
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squish78 is asking about the late 40's to early 50's when businesses started offering health insurance as a benefit.
>> Since marijuana is schedule 1 it's termed as having a) no medical benefit

Eye. Roll. I always thought this was the most absolutely bullshit, patently false thing I'd seen in law for time.

The medical benefits of THC have been well-established for decades. The sheer idea that there were ever arrests related to this plant is a disgusting mark on how shitty humanity can be, and how unwilling it is to acknowledge when it is wrong.
I'm guessing s is shillings and l is pounds.
Remember it's a choice by Vox Media to do handle it in this way. It's not some event of nature that just happens.

No matter how "necessary" it actually was, organized labor has never accepted the idea that many precarious jobs are better than a few decent jobs. It just leads to a race to the bottom.
The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game
No. It's a functional cookie. You don't need permission for functional cookies.
I thought that this is always the case. At METU when you register to the university they give you password by hand (printed inside of a letter). In case your account is compromised they block your account and you have to go to the computer center so that they give you a new password. There is no "I forgot my password" button. It is like this for at least from early 2000s. Probably from 1990s.
Can HN create a draft that would be accepted? :)
Totally agree you don't need jQuery. My criteria for inclusion was "does it make our development even slightly faster, on balance."

The answer was yes in this case. Perhaps that's just the familiarity of it, but at the end of the day, faster is faster.

I'd say my new philosophy is: let our competitors optimize for purity or trendiness or even render time while we optimize for development speed.