JoshuaRedmond

This seems like a good idea, but I hope it doesn't stop the recent tradition of yarn-bombing[0] the postboxes[1][2]. The ones near me are really creative, change with seasons & national holidays, and just add a bit of British whimsy to day-to-day life.

(Looks like there's already some articles on this angle [3]!)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_box_topper

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-63833983

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9q5jwv18o

Zigbee2mqtt has a huge number of supported devices (here's their official list [0]), which can also be expanded if the existing mappings don't work.

It took me a minute to find, but the full MQTT structure is detailed here [1], and then individual devices detail what they expose on their page (e.g. this [2] is a random Sonoff temperature sensor). This means that the topic "zigbee2mqtt/sonoff-temp-example" will just have a simple JSON message with '{"humidity":46.93,"temperature":21.73, ...}'.

Hope this helps!

[0] https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/

[1] https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/usage/mqtt_topics_and_messa...

[2] https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/SNZB-02.html

Have you considered Zigbee2mqtt[0]? You'd be running an extra program, but the docs are really good, it's pretty lightweight, and MQTT is incredibly easy to talk to from python or basically anything else. It's compatible with HomeAssistant (which is how I use it), but can be used standalone without having to run HA at all. It also means you don't have to handle the weird idiosyncrasies between different manufacturers.

[0] https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/

Spore was especially interesting if you used the in game friend list. I had a great time experiencing worlds full of various creatures - a lot of which were from my artistically talented friend playing around with the creation tools. His experience was unfortunately ruined because the game decided that each evolution of my creature was distinct and deserved to be shown to him separately - it was like his whole galaxy was overrun with my (admittedly unimaginative) "wobba-pods" with just different variations of hats and facial hair...

It seems to me that their view of bias is limited to a per-article approach. This could make it succeptible to broader narrative bias across stories - if, for example, the news sources are selectively only reporting on muggings when perpetrated by one race/nationality/immigration status/gender over another then it'll still give a false impression of attacks by those people, as it'll be completely blind to the lesser-reported cases.

It might need _some_ filtering of text - whatever your views of the n word, I don't think anyone could call it a mood...

Which fiasco are you thinking of? Or could you be confusing Magic Leap[0] (the Augmented Reality headset) and Leap Motion[1] (the 3D motion controller) (admittedly I swap the names around all the time!)

[0] https://www.magicleap.com/en-us/

[1] https://www.ultraleap.com/product/leap-motion-controller/

It definitely can be - I had a demo of Ultrahaptics' (now ultraleap) ultrasonic tactile system[0] 3 years back and you could definitely "touch" objects that weren't there. They only had the development kit out at the time - I now want to check out their new module to see how it's progressed!

[0] https://www.ultraleap.com/product/stratos-inspire/

On your first point about PEDs, I think you've missed that there's an element of safety they offer that prevents non-accidents (often referred to as a "person under the train" or other euphemisms). These definitely happen on the DLR [0] , along with many other lines. Among other obvious repurcussions of these incidents, these often result in a line closure of at least a full commuting slot.

[0] - multiple incidents on this FOI request from 2012, and I'm sure there will be more recent data available https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/persons_under_trains

They actually did[0], although admittedly it's quite a long way down the thread.

[0] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1251483589914423296?s=19

I would guess that the money laundering potential is why it isn't around now - most stores don't let you buy a gift card with another gift card for the same reason (I've implemented this restriction in an e-comm site before). I might be wrong, but that's a potentially big legal hurdle.

It won't help you quite yet, but Google and Amazon resolved their issues around this in April[0] and their press release says you'll be able to watch Prime Video on your Chromecast later in the year.

[0] https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

This[0] is from the organisation that got the files unsealed, and includes the "whale" reference at the beginning of the chat mentioned. Not sure it proves that 5-year-old were referred to in this way, but it does sound very casual in it's usage.

[0] https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-...

Worth reading the linked page [0] about one of the diver's custom reassembled rebeather, which means they have two systems to reduce the need for backup tanks of air, but still be able to fit in the caves. Really incredible, particularly as they work as volunteers.

[0] http://www.therebreathersite.nl/06_Homebuilders/john_volanth...

I hope that they are targeted a bit more locally than they are at the moment - yesterday I had one pop up when I stopped at some traffic lights 20 minutes from home (having been driving for an hour and a half) that suggested I take a 55 minute detour to go to a KFC!

I suppose you could use lenticular screens like those used in some cars to avoid driver distraction[0 - old article but you get the point] or for the 3D effect in the Nintendo 3DS. This might be getting a bit silly though...

[0] https://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2008-12/mercedes-benz-sp...

I use the non-monospace Input Sans for my IDEs and personally absolutely love it. It's not really an issue for me that I'm losing out on vertical alignment, but there really is something to be said for being able to read code more like a sentence with recognizable word shapes.

I believe they meant that the driver gets paid less for each new passenger, but the old passengers are still at the slightly higher rate. A full car still gets the driver more money per mile, but each subsequent passenger is worth less to the driver. Presumably this is to make it so it's worth picking up the first rider, which might be the only rider you get for that journey.

Sounds like a toilet version of a riser chair such as [0], which I could see being really useful for people.

[0] http://stairlift-suppliers.co.uk/mobility-aids/riser-recline... (no association with them whatsoever, just first site I found)

A lot of the valid issues people have with this concept is about the cost of flying a drone half-way across a city to deliver a single item, but I think that's just the way Amazon are pitching it at the moment. I think it's much more likely that they'll have a fleet of self driving vans with a few of these in the back - it pulls up to the end of your road/block/village and lets them loose for a few deliveries before moving onto the next place. Not quite as fast as the 13 minutes they're quoting, but much more feasible and potentially much faster than a bloke in a van.

I've submitted the original source for this article, but use the slightly editorialised title from Engadget's article[0] on the matter as the original's title of "What I've been working on" doesn't make any sense without context. I hope this is OK.

[0] http://www.engadget.com/2016/04/02/will-smith-foo-show-vr-ta...

The link to the video by LinusTechTips for anyone interested[0]. He actually had a heck of a time getting it working fully with all 7 graphics cards, as shutting a VM down wouldn't correctly release the card's resources (apparently an AMD-specific issue, but they denied it[1]), causing him to have to do a full reboot of the whole system every time one VM needed a restart[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI (14:57)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lThX7UovKCc (1:35:15 - really long stream of him disassembling it live, so forgive me for not finding exactly where he said each thing).

That's from Independence Day(1996)[0] for anyone curious.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/quotes?item=qt1534129

That's the cheat code for 1000 food[0] for anyone curious.

[0] http://www.neoseeker.com/aoe2-conquerors/cheats/pc/

Yes, the way duplicates are handled has changed, here[0] is dang's post on it from a few months back. And the mods are actively trying to give good posts another change, as shown by nikbackm's comment. I like the change, but perhaps people flagging should be more aware that not everyone has seen the memo about.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645

I don't think a high traffic spot could ever cause an issue with this, unless each person tried to start your car. I believe this is referring to the immobilizer chip in the key that allows turning the key to start the engine. Incidentally, this is probably the chip that means that if you lose your key, you can't just get a new one cut, you need to get a new chip too.

That was actually my first thought. There was the story last year about replaying the typing of a Google Doc[1], and as it stores the time between keystrokes it struck me that an attacker could feed document you've written into an extension like this but in reverse, thus typing with exactly the same signature as yourself (at least in respect to the gap time).

[1] http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-...

I believe they're referring to [0], where Target's use of buying patterns on a loyalty card led them to send out pregnancy related vouchers to the daughter.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...

Looks like the site is having some weird DNS problems (I'm getting a 'host not found' from the nameserver. Direct link to the video for anyone else having problems getting to it - http://vimeo.com/116182914

Looks like this was an April Fool's post from 2013[0], but it made me smile.

[0] http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/03/jira-jr/