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This project can stream audio to an Apple TV and includes details about the (now required) pairing protocol: https://github.com/philippe44/RAOP-Player

Possibly relevant tidbit from a recent Guccifer 1.0 interview: He used 'Russian proxy servers because they were “the fastest.”' I imagine they're referring to VPNs. http://www.foxn…

To help solve the nested/recursive query problem, Facebook created dataloader: https://github.com/facebook/dataloader There's graphql integration info on the blog: http://graphql.o…

Home-assistant also has a great homebridge plugin ( https://github.com/home-assistant/homebridge-homeassistant ) to easily bridge devices to HomeKit. I got home-assistant talking t…

But we either elect them or elect the reps that appoint them, and we have (some) recourse to make them explain their reasoning, which they usually offer openly.

Your guide mentions setting window size and taking screenshots, which I thought were not currently working via chromedriver. Do you know if that was fixed or is there something els…

My outgoing message is a close proximity iPhone recording of my 93 dodge dakota's door buzzer. Seems to also solve the VM problem, although the diligent VMers express confusion oft…

Steely Dan even wrote a song about it.

In the case of left-pad, 2538464 of its 2550569 downloads last month are attributed to dependents of the line-numbers package ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/line-numbers ). So it …

I wonder if they're kilns or furnaces rather than non-functional monuments, given the historical record of trade from the region.

Please explain how my wallet's vote would impact their pricing?

They're only exported to the sub shell (bash on last line of cli script). Quitting the sub shell would restore them. Perhaps you were confused by the absence of `service:$` in the …

We wanted to use MDL but had already committed to Stylus and weren't willing to use a prebuilt MDL, so I am maintaining a Stylus port here: https://github.com/xdissent/material-des…

See responses to similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9740777

My best argument so far for the (mostly symbolic) raising of the minimum wage had been that going from ~$7 to ~$10-15 is approximately doubling the purchasing power of individuals …

And with such a damning update/correction (also written 4 years ago), I'm kind of shocked that I keep seeing this thing.

There are in fact plenty of hardcore bands from past and present with non-white/female/lgbt members. Bad Brains, Limpwrist, The Comes... Of course there are some openly anti-female…

But both require a healthy ecosystem of packages to be any good at all. Right now the existence of io is making package authors choose to support one or the other or do the extra w…

I think you nailed it with "when it's possible." What about when it isn't? They're clearly divergent projects, so now you have to keep track of whether every npm package you use su…

I believe it's implied the finance sector knows they're draining the high-skilled worker pool, meaning R&D-heavy businesses won't be able to find the employees they need to succeed…

Here in the states, Comcast cable modems/routers automatically create a "public" wifi hotspot in your home by default, so the infrastructure for a large wifi network exists in many…

Russ Cox commented on a couple of the proposed fixes: > Maybe after the compiler is converted to Go. > I'm not willing to make major changes to escape analysis right now. I intend …

But strangely the author of the Economist post concludes that the market should be left to regulate itself. Even stranger, they immediately lament the fact that it's failed to do s…

Absolutely no offense intended, but doesn't your worldview (and the perceived benefits) stand alone, whether or not a God exists? I guess my question is, how do you rationalize the…

From the note: > Toward the end of the day the power company speeds up/slows down the frequency as needed so the total cycles in a given day is 5,184,000 That's incredible! I had n…