They could really use someone who gives a damn to focus on their official libraries. They seem to have tried to make them function similar no matter which language you use. Not the smartest move, they end up being sort of convoluted in languages like Python. Which lead to many people starting a client library, but probably moving on from using them and the libs go unmaintained.
I hacked together an Android app specifically for the purpose, so it doesn't really answer the original question about generally available projects. (I haven't got round to releasing the code as it's rather bespoke, but could do if you're interested.)
I FFT incoming sound buffers, and if the 2KHz band is the highest for a suitable number of consecutive frames, then I send the email and stop listening for a few minutes to avoid double notifications.
2KHz is the frequency of my machine's beep. Just triggering on overall noise level alone would notify me each time the machine goes into spin, but using the FFT allows it to be more discerning.
Perhaps someone (with more patience than I for Android/Kotlin development) can tweak it so that is can listen for knocking on a door to trigger some sort of alert (email/txt/broadcast an intent).
Triggering an intent would be very helpful as then it could then be acted upon by Tasker or Automagic4Android.
If you're looking for an off the shelf solution, I turned an old Android phone into a baby monitor for keeping track of crying when I'm on the other side of the house. There's plenty of baby monitoring apps that do anomalous noise detection and raises an alert.
Use it with a team of about 10, for almost a year now. Interface with customers via email, SMS and chat. It is universally liked in our group. The internal discussion on different communication channels is wonderful. The API is well documented and quite permissive as to what you can do. Keyboard shortcuts galore. No direct IMAP connection now, but if you have GApps it works well. UI seems snappy, and I've seen no issue leaving the tab open for weeks straight.
I have been the most impressed with their response to feature suggestions. I raised a few points for improvment using the general help chat in the interface and to my surprise saw my suggestions released as a feature a few weeks later. Granted, they were minor interface items, but the fact someone actually took the time to consider it and slot it in for dev time means something to me, being on the other side of that usually.
That email is so vague that it makes me think the situation is far worse and they're just feeding a "nothing to see here" story just before a holiday weekend in the US. A compromised marketplace would be a great means of sprinkling nefarious code into packages during deployment. I hope my suspicious are proven to not be the case, but only because of all the people locked into Magento relying on some dev shop to keep their business going.
Executed via cron every day at a time before I would make a potential grocery run meant the coupons were already waiting on my account when I went to the store.
I like the plain Spotify artist suggestion based on the one you're viewing, but mix it up a bit by first seeking out bands in a genre in another country then follow the suggestions from there. Example, there will virtually be no paths for people in the US to Russian artists like Mumiy Troll, Leningrad, Monetochka or Mashina Vremeni from artists popular in the US via "Fans also like".
After years of inside experience with SBIR applicants and the various agencies I can say confidently that is largely a sham to funnel money to those who make friendships and scratch the backs of the various agency heads and their underlings. Also, the things I saw regarding how the agencies and their contacts exchange private data were frightening. People talk about the "deep state" of unelected bureaucrats. It doesn't have to be some grand plan to exert great power. These programs are robbing taxpayers to enrich a small clique with self-serving goals, returning little of value. The Idaho company of "solar freaking roadways" fame is an SBIR boondoggle, that should tell you something, and I think they made it to Phase II.
I think you are exaggerating. The goal of SBIRs is to fund high risk research. Solar roadways are high risk; even if it fails completely it's not like a lot of money is wasted, and something valuable is still learned.
Re: "Think of the children". If you consider the two questions after what you quoted to reply to, I think what was intended was to allude to a regulatory capture situation. The article specifically states certain carve-outs being suggested.
From the methodology of the cited Danish study where the data comes from it includes those who left work outright and this represents a wage of 0. That is going to be quite the reduction in wages no matter where you start, to drop to 0. The charts don't seem so dramatic considering that. And the conclusion is no surprise either if you factor that in, of course wages drop when you are not working. No mention of that in the article though, doesn't fit the narrative I guess.
You're only reading at surface level. It's described in the text, but for a quick sense of it look at the graphs on page 39 and the footnote - for earnings the participation is not considered but for hours worked and wages it only considers those in the labour force. You can see that the effect is less pronounced but it's still there. If I read this right women earn 10-15% less after having at least one child. Noticeably the dip in year 1 is much weaker, so in the overall earnings graph this dip might be due to women not working (much) in the first year and then going back to work - but on average with a comparably lower salary.
What you should also consider here is that this article is not looking at wage comparison within one company. It's looking at overall earnings in the population with a very thorough and deep analysis. It's an analysis for policy making, not for grandstanding. And for this whether women continue to work is also relevant - as the authors note this is quite a significant consideration even for labour force planning/statistics. Moreover thinking of e.g. pensions this is a very important point - as women will have lower pensions due to lower lifetime earnings.
Please do look at the whole picture, rather than just try to validate your viewpoint. There are many interesting tidbits here, for example that earnings fall 10% for each following child. The graph on p42 comparing childless women and mothers is also particularly impressive.
