skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Timr is right in that a very high probability foreseeable event doesn't really count as a opportunity cost. I made clear to what specific point my original response was.

I expanded on my original analogy because Timr left me with the impression that he thought it wasn't an opportunity cost because it was a law (and that made it OK). Being a law isn't important. The predictability, when buying the property, is. My analogy also shows that even if the event is predictable, or as he would say, "the rules of the game", it doesn't mean it's just in any ways.

Here's a different analogy.

If you buy a farm land that gets flooded every single year on the last day of June (for the past 200 years, like clockwork), you can't really say you lost money when the next flood happens; you should already have factored this event in overall expenses... tho it still sucks that your land gets flooded.
At least it wasn't FreeBSD AMIRITE?!!!!!?!??!
Each code sample here has an ES5 ("plain javascript") version that you can get to with the buttons on the top:

https://angular.io/docs/js/latest/guide/setup.html
Isn't Finland supposed to have a pretty bustling tech scene?
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Social Darwinism is literally the most popular belief system in the US (and many other countries) aside from some Christian morality. It is popular among rich, poor, and in between.

Most are thinking to themselves "even though I don't have as many advantages I will still be able to make it some day because deep down I a, special". So that belief system helps rationalize self-worth.
I think it's mostly the immutability. That can be quite frustrating sometimes.
Berlins famous RAW Area as an interactive, 520 Megapixel Photo
She did and they said it was too late to return it.
Or perhaps G∞gle...
Not only the logo, they have changed the size of search box: http://searchengineland.com/google-adds-more-height-to-their...
FWIW, the Lux Geo can run on on 24VAC, AA batteries, or micro-USB. I don't know how long the batteries last though.

There are lots of reasons why most fancy thermostats need a lot of power. For example, a fancy screen is hungry, WiFi is an expensive protocol (e.g. as compared to ZWave), etc.. Compare the Lux screen to the Nest, and you'll see at least one reason why they think they can get away with batteries.

Another option, patented by Honeywell I think, is called "power stealing." Here's an interesting article on the subject: https://www.ecobee.com/2014/01/the-problem-with-power-steali....
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Self-Healing Material Could Instantly Repair Damaged Spacecraft
Both grouping and padding are possible with Java's value types. The only thing you don't have full guaranteed (i.e. on multiple JVMs) control over is ordering and alignment.
For most people there is no risk available for them to take.
Stealthy?

Seriously?
I've been running mine for a few months without the C wire, but I've definitely had the occasional bit of odd behaviour from it (eg, dead battery), that I believe will be resolved when I get around to running it some 18/5.
In my (recent) experience, Honeywell owns the HVAC contractor market, which is where these decisions are being made on installation, repair, and maintenance.

Limited sample size but between three furnace + air quotes proposed in August 2015, all three contractors recommended the Honeywell and all three contractors dismissed the Nest as a gimmick with lackluster functionality compared to the Honeywell.
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Totally agree. It's fair to realise that there are consequences to deviation from standards, but (like many people) I don't consider the fact that IETF makes something a standard to be a binding requirment on me to do something on my boxes.

For one thing, the standard was built for an extremely different internet than the one we have today.
The only way to stop this madness is to go on strike against it, as you did.

I work very hard to never mention online that I've had anything to do with SharePoint or ColdFusion because it will bring recruiters with a job that will kill you.
Google is putting a much greater emphasis on design, and their recent products show.

What recent products are you thinking of?
As someone who uses python, what are some reasons for me to switch to Go?
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It would be great if Google open sourced product sans. It looks like a cool san serif font.
Yes, I said "optical" spacing. Not real spacing.

The link you provide is interesting. However, any technical explanation doesn't solve the optical illusion that the last three letters appear to be closer together than the first three letters.
paywalled...
Yes, there are individual settings to turn off the 'Sense' features like the learning-schedule, auto-away.

If you literally mean using it as an on/off switch... I don't think you can do that without just cranking the temp between min and max. There is a function to run the furnace fan for X minutes, but you can't directly tell it to run the heating and AC for a period of time.
How NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Puts the User First
First one to guess what effect this will have on $GOOGL? I mean, after all Google does things for a profit...
Yeah, actually, if you're going to be a third party selling user generated content directly (and paying those users) over the internet, what are your responsibilities as the distributor? Can you really just say "Ask your accountant, not our problem..."? Seems like that's the best one can do as a startup though. Incorporate elsewhere?
edit:

I agree ... but this is just the price for showing up at this level of the game. It is of course a major effort for those professionals who executed on it, and is beyond my capabilities - but it's not strategic level stuff - just like stealth fighters are not strategic level stuff anymore.

(My previous and clearly downvote-magnet post that is a little more detailed):

An updated, simple look and feel is not a matter for congratulations. Look at stealth airplanes. If you don't have a stealth warplane, the modern SAMs can take you out no problem, with stealth the odds are much more in your favour. Stealth tech is the table stakes, the price any superpower or superpower-to-be must pay just to show up.

If Google had not done this, or had done it badly, then we would worry. Behind the scenes many many professionals worked hard to make sure it went well - as expected.

This is something I personally would never achieve - I could not steer a multi-national rebranding. But Google has to - it's the price just for staying in the game.

So kudos to those involved, it took years of your experience and effort. But for Google, it's just what needed to be done to keep up. And if we should not be distracted, internally they really must not be distracted.
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Linux turns 25 next year. Is anyone working on a consumer desktop yet?

Did I say something wrong? 25 years, a thousand distros that add up to 1% of the desktop, is a bit disappointing.
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IF someone provides the service with the VAT support i think it could actually work quite well for a lot of small vendors.
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Report them to the Google Play store. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
They actually do. Back when I had a Nest, I got $100 from ComEd for signing up for, and then $40 for keeping signed up all summer, for a program where they could go in and tweak my thermostat up a few degrees during peak load to prevent brownouts.
I understand why Google needed to update their identity, but it feels like this logo has gone through endless committee after committee.

It doesn't actually convey any brand to me, just a very safe interpretation of Material Design. That seems short-sighted to me, since an identity typically lasts much longer than a design language.
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Over a year ago, Nest was selling 100K thermostats a month:

http://www.businessinsider.com/nest-revenue-2014-1
> Contrast that to just loading up a page on a browser.

well don't you need to write the app at first place ? there is a difference between loading an app and developing it.
Alliance for Open Media: New Open Standard for Ultra High Definition
> To have rights for homosexuals we had to have rights for racists.

Yes, we have decided that there rights that apply to everyone. I don't know why that's relevant.

We've long established that there are not universal rights in all things. We, for example, prohibit certain types of religious practices, even with the right to one's own religion.

There is of course a tension, but I don't see why this discussion of rights is relevant for this case. In the US case, the issues are the civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in the workplace, on the basis of race, religion, and several other protected classes. These have long been adjudicated as being constitutionally valid. If someone speaks up in public against sexual discrimination in the workplace, that person's employer cannot (legally) use that as a firing offense, and cannot let that statement influence job related decisions.

We do not extend the same right to other sorts of discrimination, so there isn't a quid pro quo set of rights, which is what it appears that you have suggested.

And we recognize that culture and laws change, so we don't "tie a moral compass" to something and leave it there. Otherwise we would still have slavery.
From Haxl paper:

"We present an Applicative abstraction that allows implicit concurrency to be extracted from computations written with a combination of Monad and Applicative."

The more your code is Applicative the more concurrency you can extract. It's a matter of good abstractions rather than the language. I'm sure Rust can handle Applicative and Monad just fine.
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>different takes on flat design

Yes, they all use a different color scheme.
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Bitcoin zero-ville
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Wow, talk about an article that is completely devoid of value. That stands out as soon as you see "cult of the entrepreneur" in the first sentence.

OK, now we know that most entrepreneurs come from "families with money" (according to their definitions anyway). Great, so what do I do with that particular bit of information? I'm most definitely not from a family of means, so do I just quit now? Have I been deluding myself? If so, so what, it's my right to spend my time and money however I want anyway.

It's not like I can go back and change my parents.

If you're not from a family of means, do things differently. For example: work a day job making a reasonable salary and work on the startup on the side, supporting yourself with your salary until you have a product built. Not every entrepreneurial scenario involves gambling with homelessness.

Whatever. I smell bullshit with this article anyway. This is just propaganda from the sect of people who hate individualism, hate capitalism, and will take any opportunity to bash the idea that anyone can advance in life through hard work, grit, determination and moxie.
As others have mentioned, there can be issues with running without a C wire. Their "power stealing" technique did not seem to be effective for keeping my first-generation Nest from running out of battery. (Although there may be some variables in my situation that contribute to the problem.) I blogged about it here: http://cafbit.com/entry/nest_learning_thermostat
Perpetual Ed [video]
Feedly launched a Shared Collections feature
Customizing Navigation Bars on iOS
>The only difference I see here is that Google will

This is a cargo cult mentality. You're expecting a company to get it right. Simply because they will.

>Android has some good clues about what a process is responsible for.

This is actually already a thing on servers. Or will maintained servers. You set core affinity of running process to the same core that handles the interupts for that task to preserve better cache locality when it comes to handling system calls.

People keep telling me Phones/Desktops/Servers are fundamentally different, but it always seems like they're trying to solve the same problems.