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A "shower head" start up? Atomized water? From YC?

Digging into the multiple reviews / press articles I think I figured out why investors love this and we should be compelled.

This is not a "shower head".

This is something new that has the same end-game of getting you clean like a shower head, but much more efficiently:

“It’s like walking into a humid environment that gets you super drenched,” Winter [Nebia's CEO] said, insisting that the mist is powerful enough to handle elaborate shampoo and conditioner rituals. (1)

and

“So I’m standing under it, and one of the things I realize is that it’s really hard to explain,” says Parisi-Amon [Nebia's CTO] “You tell people it’s fundamentally different and they’re like, ‘Whatever, it’s a shower.’” (2)

It's fascinating to see the press then try to get their head around it too:

NYT - "In my testing of a prototype, the multinozzle shower head produced a misty spray (the word nebbia in Italian means mist) that immersed me in water, unlike traditional shower heads that shoot pressurized streams of water. It made my hair feel flat and uncooperative, though my skin felt soft and relaxed." (3)

Buzzfeed - "Instead, at first, I felt nothing — as if there weren’t enough water to get wet, let alone shower. It felt like stepping under the nozzle that mists vegetables at the grocery store, and the mist kept recirculating — like a sauna with whatever makes saunas work on overdrive. While I didn’t think it would, the mist eventually got the job done. I still got wet. The soap still foamed, and it still came off. I felt clean. . . BuzzFeed News can confirm that this is definitely a shower."

I'd love to try one before committing to $400 (consumer price) and a plumbing project.

And I think they've covered that with the brilliant strategy of pulling in Equinox Gyms and the implication that Goog/Apple will have these installed on campus.

Cool!

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(1) http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/S-F-startup-clai...

(2) http://www.wired.com/2015/08/nebia/

(3) http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/nebia-a-shower-head...

(4) http://www.buzzfeed.com/brendanklinkenberg/i-tried-silicon-v...
> In your hypothetical example it would mean yes, they don't in that society

So you mean "rights" in descriptive sense, you're talking about the de facto rights. This obviously excludes rights that are legally violated, but which are still there (from ethical point of view).

If someone asks why people should have a certain right (as nthcolumn did), they clearly mean rights in the latter sense of the word. Otherwise it's not an answer because it's circular logic: why would society grant you these rights? Because society grants you these rights. Well, like every tautology it's true ("technically", as you put it), only it's of no use :)
I would say that was my experience with donations too.

I had a site or side-project (featured on Techcrunch, Lifehacker, etc) but only made $40 in donations in it's entire lifetime. It was a small winamp/itunes/kmplayer plugin so I didn't expect a lot of donations but with nearly 500K installs that is a very very small number.

P.S. I never pestered my users for donation though. Never even optimized the donate button or anything like what I do with my business sites since that I made for fun purposes only on a weekend.
For this election, you're right. It's possible that Lessig is actually trying to posture for a 2020 run that will have a real chance of winning.

I highly doubt that Lessig will get the percentage of the vote required for public funding, though. I don't see this campaign as anything other than laying groundwork for future campaigns.
"Fed Up", a documentary currently on Netflix, changed the way I look at food, especially sugar. I now avoid it at all costs.
Thank you. I was indeed making the wrong argument. Your argument is much better, and takes the ethical high ground.
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I don't disagree with anything you write in detail, in fact I think we agree that due to a massive mismatch in supply and demand, until about 99% of existing journalism is culled, nobody is going to make any money in journalism.

Maybe a good analogy is the village blacksmith is hurt and angry that he hung up advertisements on his shop wall, but nobody looks at them, and they're all going to be really sorry when there's nowhere left to put new horseshoes on because posting the spam was the only thing keeping the lights on in his shop. Meanwhile the general population drives by his shop in their cars not looking at his ads, and doesn't really care about horseshoes anyway beyond a general knowledge that everyone knows that everyone knows that horseshoes are really important culturally and a vital part of life in and of themselves, although individually no one actually likes it and no one is willing to pay for it.

And my point is something like if you "need" something horseshoe shaped for crafty project or whatever, now a days you download a .scad from thingiverse, run it thru openscad, run the .stl thru curaengine to get a .gcode, then feed the .gcode to octopi on your printer and pick up your shoe in a couple hours at a cost of about fifty cents of filament. I mean, sure, building a village size blacksmith shop to get my horseshoe would be difficult and expensive, but its unnecessary and practically no one wants horseshoes, so I'm not seeing much of a problem.
Disagree. Tesla gave its patents away (short answer. long answer is they'll license them to you for no cost if you play nicely). You can still patent things in the US, as well as enforce your trademarks.
I agree and i would add that betting on a framework is a huge risk, relying on a library is far less dangerous. In the comparison there are some of both so the example are a bit misleading.
For example to my knowledge knockout is far from stagnating, it does 1 thing only and it does it well, you can easy replace it incrementally in any application.
With some quick back-of-the-napkin math, I get just under 4 years of daily showers to break even (with their $400 retail price, assuming a generous $0.02/gal ($15/CCF), which is the highest residential marginal seasonal rate where I am).

If I wanted to reduce my water usage, I'd just take shorter showers and alternate days when I've not yet become smelly. These cost $0 and yield immediate savings.
For at least some potential customers, saving water would feel virtuous, above and beyond any savings on their water bills. And/or the State of California may be negotiating with them to place an order for millions of units...
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People who support ad-blockers and support net neutrality don't seem to see the hypocrisy in their stance. If all net traffic should be treated equal then shouldn't advertising net traffic be treated with the same equality as content net traffic and not blocked by some software running somewhere on that network (even if it is running at your end of the network).
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Hah! The guys at SFSU somehow forgot that. They just implemented a Peoplesoft last year, now a part of Oracle since forever, so no excuses for how badly it works.
The Nazis would be a good example of a group that rampaged in pursuit of their ideal of "justice"--they believed that a group of rich people (Jews) were the source of all misery, however removed from reality that might be--then rampaged, not just in a figurative sense, but also a very literal one (e.g. kristallnacht).

I quite explicitly said that this was both an undesirable thing and something to put a stop to.
My choice of words is shaped by the wishes of the trans woman closest to me in life. I will respect your personal decisions about the words you use, but my use of words must be subordinate to my respect for the people I hold dearest to me, and I will advocate for a world where they do not need to put up with words that inspire fear being used blithely by people indifferent or hostile towards them.
Unsual is the only market to invest in if you want disruption, or innovation.

10 years ago: "New VC firm funds unsual startups in an unsual program, at an unsual equity."

I do not think there are two people who thought Dropbox, Reddit or Airbnb would be what they are today.
XML namespaces aren't just keys in a JSON hash, unless you're planning on naming all your keys like so:

{"http://joepie91.com/XMPP/rtf_content content": "..."}

you're not correctly copying XML namespaces in your JSON. And that's not sufficient to correctly copy their capabilities, just a simple first-cut metric that shows you if you're not modeling it correctly in your head.

Further, you have to understand that the key thing about the XML namespaces is primarily social, not technical: The use of the URI in the namespace (which is otherwise just an advisory string with no meaning) is also a licence to stick things in the value that you fully expect no-one else to understand, in a way that you know is guaranteed not to cause a conflict (in the absense of hostile intent). The guaranteed lack of conflict gives you that license. If you intend to match that with JSON keys, you must either copy the XML namespace's approach or something very similar, or run the risk of stomping on each other's keys, which socially creates pressure back towards some sort of licensing mechanism/standards body where people must agree on things before they can be used. (XML namespaces are also important because URIs of domains you own are also one of the few relatively unique keys that you can get without permission from a central (XMPP) authority. It's not the only option, but it's worth observing that "just pick something!" still has problems.)

On the one hand, people have been complaining about XMPP for years and years... on the other hand, I'd point out that given that it is also surviving, one must ask the question "why?" And I'd submit that this may be a significant part of the reason why. If you want sane and correct extension on an IM protocol, XMPP is in fact the best choice.
thanks! Really appreciate it!
> What if someone just wants to pay for your dinner?

As an opportunity to talk to me about an issue? There'd be far better channels for that.

> Or figures out what sports game you're going to, and pays to rent out the entire row of seats next to you. Or pays to do the same for your staff - who advise you?

Then I'd be very interested in how they managed to break my security and privacy, particularly to figure out what seat; that just seems more creepy than anything else. And it seems more like something you'd do to a candidate you don't want to see elected, considering the PR image it would project.

(Also, do you mean "rent out and leave empty" or "rent out to fill with people who want to bug me/them"? Either one seems obnoxious; the first is wasteful and creates an awkward situation, and the second seems decidedly creepy.)

If you want to talk about strange things people with money can do to campaigns, there's the whole "third-party campaign ad" thing to talk about. Whether you're doing it to support a candidate or to attack one.
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Seems like Prosody has the same behavior. Ran into just this morning.
I'd wanted to put this on imgur instead of my micro instance, but I'm guessing imgur is backed by S3 because their upload was broken :)
The archived Washington Post article is still here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130624110018/http:/www.gpsnavi...
I like the idea but I'm not sure about the axes. When would I want a film that:

* isn't enjoyable

* is unoriginal

* I wouldn't want to watch it more than once

* has poor characters

* no story

Splits between serious / silly, or sad/happy might make more sense.
There is a such thing as "English, the lingua franca" no matter how much one tries to will it away.

Aviation is a curious industry. English is commonly spoke between flight crews and ground stations world wide (with few but notable exceptions). Circumstances where the English meaning of a word wasn't well understood by the flight crew or the wrong words were spoken have, on occasion, lead to disaster--Avianca Flight 52 [1] comes to mind, among others.

I simply cannot agree that mutual intelligibility is bad simply on the merit that it somehow creates a "sense of cultural inferiority."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_52
Thanks so much. Means the world. I quite don’t fancy the “fail fast” Silicon Valley model. Everything meaningful and beautiful takes time and sacrifice and lots of course correction. We also got acquired by Cookpad along the way [1]

We moved on from the Github or food to a Food blogging platform. Our users were using the platform to start writing and once they reach maturity we saw a migration to wordpress and other platforms. We knew we could fix that problem.

Also, by that time we realized we could do a much better job monetizing these blogs and making it into a livelihood by economics-of-scale.

[1] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/japan...
Unfortunately, there are a few parts of RPi that are closed, like the GPU, if I recall correctly, but I do agree with you that it sort of goes against the philosophy of tinkering that openness brings.
No, this will not work as a regular desktop Windows. It's more of an embedded Windows install.
Yikes, that needs a safety shield.
The obvious counter-argument is that home prices would have risen even faster without the construction boom.
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The idea is that push notifications are handled by a single platform vendor, and you thus only have one TCP connection to maintain for all applications together, instead of a separate connection for each application.

It's a form of batching.
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I don't buy it because people are more addicted to content than ever. There is a huge demand for high quality content it's just a matter of figuring the business model to meet that demand. But once it's figured out there will be more journalists than ever. I can't imagine an info-starved internet future.
See, I like how far off track this discussion has gotten from the author's complaint. Let's needle one little aspect of the guy's message, that he didn't even bring up, so we can decide he's wrong overall. Right?

There are many reasons for one to go the route of suicide, and in many cases no degree of counseling would help. But, for counseling to help it needs to address the root causes of the problem for that person, which may be unique to that person. Almost all of the programs the author is complaining about will not address that in any way. Especially the programs that don't even involve much stress to begin with.

As for suicide rates, I'm curious as to how far off the statistics you are referring to are from the national average. Personally, right now, I'm more concerned over the suicide rates of soldiers.
I believe that is how campaigns were financed originally more or less [1] and then it was reformed because it was causing problems. Let us not repeat history.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_in_the...
Because the right in the USA needs voter exclusion and balkanization(via the false issue of voter fraud aimed at poor populations) in order to win elections.

I like your comment overall, but there's no evidence I'm aware of that this is true. Massachusetts didn't elect a Republican governor in 2014 because otherwise Democratic voters there are balkanized or intimidated. Don't like that specific example? Choose another.

Besides, gerrymandering doesn't help the GOP that much. If anything, it's the opposite[1]. If the Democrats want the composition of the House to reflect their national vote totals, they'd need to draw some pretty nonsensical districts to "dilute" their highly concentrated urban votes into suburban areas where they could help swing more seats. This appears to be one reason why Lessig is arguing for larger, multi-member Congressional districts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/upshot/why-democrats-cant-...
I'm not saying they can't serve it up. I'm saying I don't want to see it. I don't have control over the pipes as a last-mile provider, and if I did, I would let ad traffic through without being throttled. By that logic, running a firewall that blocks incoming ssh login requests from Asia should be a cognitive dissonance for us. I promise you it isn't.
The worst part about this is that I've heard they wouldn't have been captured if they didn't get greedy and increase the size of their trades and continue to reuse the same trading accounts.

Allegedly they were hacking into news services and reading news before it was publicly released, which means their investing time frame was measured in hours and minutes.

This makes it much easier for the SEC to find this type of behavior as these types of trades, especially in the options markets stand out, when done at large sizes.

The SEC takes alot of grief, some well earned, but you should assume that when a stock moves, they'll run an automated scan of every trade that profited from that in the days/hours leading up to that move and over time they'll cross reference those trades to watch for accounts that continue to do this over time when they have reason to suspect illegal activity.

Think of it like athletes blood samples being held for years after competition. They won't test all the samples held but they have the data there to look back on if they find a reason to.
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I don't think it works well. It has Erroll Flynn's Robin Hood as very rewatchable (I liked it but it's not that rewatchable). Also Seven Samurai and Monty Python's Holy Grail as having very low rewatchability... as if.
Without any comment on the business practices of Standard Oil, I do think it's interesting that the price of crude actually increased substantially after the antitrust ruling.
Religions that claim to be correct can be disproved by refuting just one of their central claims. It is unnecessary to know everything about all of their other claims.
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Slightly OT but I'm curious: do you like jboss and glassfish? I've used both pretty extensively, and am not a big fan of either one. Could have been user error though, not application error.
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Had to look it up since I'm not on Nightly or a desktop. I assume your talking about this:

https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2015/07/user-study-of-tracking-p...

Do you know when this will make it to the stable release or when it will be on by default?
Yes, but the jobs are already in the city. My guess is that there are plenty of city people who would like the option to work outside. There will be less people stuck in the country because there job is based there.
As a counterpoint: is your JS webapp really going to live, in its current form, for 5 years? Experience has taught me that there have been enough shifts - to mobile, especially - that betting in the long term like this might not be worth it. If you've structured your app well, the front-end JS is separated from the backend APIs, etc. etc. - a rewrite of that is not a rewrite of the entire app. So if React speeds your site up by a factor of whatever, go for it.

In any case, even if it is, surely an older framework is fine? I see Backbone in the "slow or stagnated innovation" part of the chart - it isn't broken. It works fine. Seems confusing to simultaneously complain about the web framework "industry" moving too fast, and individual frameworks moving too slow.
Well, we can agree that the results are good, but the problem against broad use of individually-defined words is that they are individually defined. So okay, you call your friend a whore, and she knows it's a joke because people at large don't understand what polyamory is. Cool. That's fine.

But what about the chucklehead fifteen feet away eating a sandwich, who just heard you reaffirm his belief that it's okay to call women whores, because they're not really people, right, just sex objects?

For you and your friend, that's fine. But this the sandwich eating bastard goes out and --secure in the knowledge that women don't get a say, because nobody around him uses language that suggests they do-- rapes someone, and doesn't think it's a big deal.

And there's that rape culture that people my age are always screaming about. And there's the hate culture that people my age are always screaming about.

We're not screaming about you, who are as annoying to us as we are to you. We're screaming about the people you're teaching by example. The ones who rape women (1 in 4 women have been raped in the US) and men (1 in 6), who murder gay and lesbian and bi and trans* folks (I don't have numbers there, mea culpa) and face no reprisal, because nobody in power takes it seriously.

Seriously. We get twitchy about those words because hearing them might mean that we're about to be killed.
I think the number of people who have used both is quite large. The people who know the ups and downs of both systems just don't post that the other system has bad tools, so they're not in the conversation.
You can rewrite an app instead of maintaining it for years, in which case choosing a non-evolving framework is perfectly fine. Over time, this approach doesn't fit very well into an agile development methodology. Choosing a non-evolving framework almost guarantees that your app will become a "legacy" app one day.
NPR did a great series of pieces on this.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/03/30/149648666/senat...

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...

Here's a quote illustrating how much time fundrasing takes away from their normal job...

Andrea Seabrook
How many fundraisers do you typically go to in a given week, do you think?

Nancy Pelosi
A lot. Yeah. Either on the phone or attending events. But I think they've said
this year I attended almost 400 fundraisers in nearly 40 cities.

Andrea Seabrook
That's 400 for the year 2011. That's more than one a day, every day of the
year, Saturdays and Sundays included.
Thanks for the great review and drawing together all of those sources. Really great comment.

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This sounds like the worst showerhead ever - doesn't really get you wet unless you stand under it for a while. I can only guess how long it takes to rinse off with this after lathering your body. Showering already takes long enough.

This seems like it would be a more-effective sauna device.
These are all beautiful illustrations, but they don't feel iconic to me. Granted, there is a spectrum when it comes to detail, but isn't the purpose of an icon to distill an idea to its visual essence?
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Very cool. Would it be too hard to just take the users cc info, and then not charge them until their balance became a bigger amount?
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Don’t take this literally. We don’t like the ad model much. Its very unobtrusive and compromising to the user experience. The authors spend a lot of time creating content. And they need to make a livelihood to sustain their passion. For that, as a platform we need to help them build such mechanics.

Internally, we debated putting a “refund button” right next to the pay button. We think that would create much more confidence. But hey, this is the first iteration.
Maybe it's time to start a project of your own? (startup?)
I've always lived in California, so that's what I know. Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Fort Bragg, Ferndale are all nice (though the last two might prove too wet). I've never been to the continent of Europe, but I've always imagined the Pyrenees and Northern Italy would be nice.
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Wonder what's causing the perf drop. Would make sense to Intel to push openCL for deep learning too