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> ...look for alternatives.

What kind of serious alternatives are there to Amazon? There is Monoprice and Newegg for electronics and accessories. I just heard about Jet on Planet Money which sounded interesting. Anyone have any general shopping sites they like?
I agree. I still enjoyed the book though.
Oracle flashback (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Flashback) pretty much does this.
I have the original fire stick. It's fine, nothing great. I prefer stand-alone devices -- using a computer with a chromecast == me doing tech support for the kids all the time. It has ended up being our default netflix client due to the nice not-IR remote.
I'm not clear from the post, is this used only to gate features in servers or is this used to gate features in the mobile clients as well? If it's used in the mobile clients, how is that done (in particular, checking looks to be synchronous, but would obviously need to be async to work)
At Instagram we have split dev and prod enviroments; gates are shared between dev-servers, but split from production.

For testing, we have context managers that let you do "with temporary_gate('gate_name', value)", so there's not much boilerplate in overriding/testing your code within a gate constraint.
Does it lower the value? Or do newer appliances increase the value? I sold a house last year that included a Nest thermostat and some z-wave outlets (that could also be controlled manually) - the buyer (in her 20's) said that these added to the appeal. Will generic z-wave devices go out of date any more quickly than other appliances?
Yes, that is exactly what I did. It still took forever to find the right Google keywords to find what I needed, and figure out the right command line invocations. And I would need to re-learn it all over if I ever upgraded SDL. By comparison, downloading the pre-packaged binaries from LibSDL.org takes all of 10 seconds...

You should also look at otool as well while you're at it. They're useful commands, just difficult to discover unless you already know what you're looking for.
Sooo.... categorize IoT devices, develop different communications standards for each category of device, and have each device support at least one standard for its category. Then develop border gateways for each layer.

Different MANETs either already exist or are being developed; this doesn't seem like a problem, it's just a young industry. Like the early days before/during 802.11b when there were incompatible proprietary wireless networks and protocols. Eventually one or two standards will emerge and the industry will pick them up.

I think the most exciting thing about IoT is we have an opportunity to lay the groundwork for new hybrid networks built on IoT-connected devices. My imagination conjures up an L2 switch built into every device with the ability to segment network traffic among different nodes.

Imagine long city blocks littered with IoT devices, all passing a lunch order from an app on your IoT smartphone to the IoT point-of-sale system at your favorite cafe, without a managed network. This is different than P2P because you could support different types of network communication simultaneously.
Yeah I've bought bad batteries from Amazon (they were recharged AAs being sold as new), of course from a third-part seller.

Amazon doesn't care; thousands of people complain, and they keep letting it happen.

Amazon Subprime.
Has this feature now been removed: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/4740080/amazon-instant-vid...
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Although it's a pleasant read, it doesn't take into account opportunity cost. Everything I do every day requires me not to do something else. There are valuable jobs that aren't urgent that never get done until I automate my way out of my current role. Russell always did treat economics as a zero sum game, when in reality it's quite expansive.

There are also jobs that need doing today and are physically possible to do, but nobody is doing them because we haven't invented them or realized they are possible yet. The Romans could have employed scientists to photograph the surface of Pluto. Physics haven't fundamentally changed since then. Only our understanding of what is possible has changed. A thousand years from now, people will marvel at all the jobs we in the early 21st century could have been doing to advance the quality of life for people around the world (and indeed all life on Earth), had we only known those things were possible.
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Content security policy is a defensive technology which makes the answer to your last question "no." Attackers still need to have their script appear to execute from a whitelisted domain, which is only possible if the system you propose is enacted. IE - have your own random webpage which loads a script with hash X, then redirect to an XSS hole which appears to load that script on a client's site that also comes from a whitelisted domain. Since it is cached from the first site, it will be loaded as if it was hosted on the second site and thus bypass CSP.
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That makes sense. I'd guess the main reason people use Bitbucket over Github is "free private repos," with "we already use other Atlassian products" a close second.
Amazon pulled the kindle app's ability to purchase books, because to continue to do so they would have had to pay Apple the standard 30% cut. Amazon did not want to pay that. So they chose to instead to remove the ability for customers to purchase books inside the app.
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I disagree with this. If Amazon want to avoid customer confusion, then make the products show a 'Amazon Prime Video Compatibility' notice on the product page.

But where does it stop. Do they start banning gaming devices, tablets, etc? Will music players be next, and e-readers?

It feels like this is Amazon's way to get those vendors to take note and consider and integration, or calling their bluff because they failed in their corporate negotiations to make that work.

Having said that though, I do feel it's unfortunate that to run the Amazon App store on my Android phone I have to leave the phone in an insecure state because Android only officially supports the Google Play Store. It feels like both are battling with each other and doing it in a very public way by harming the consumer experience.
The interesting thing is how small all these issues are. The Rust ecosystem has really matured a lot if it can now be used to write serious software like games with only minor issues such as these. That's a pretty remarkable feat for the Rust team to have accomplished.
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Until they don't. As a group, hedge funds far underperform index funds.
This is more about Roku vs Google & Apple than Amazon vs Google & Apple. Roku has been the market leader by far up until 2015.

One problem is that Amazon is now inviting consumers to open a direct relationship with Google or Apple. If a user makes a purchase of an Apple TV or Chromecast directly, Google or Apple now know exactly who they are.

Generally speaking, making it hard or cutting off sales channels for specific products can work to divert sales. Big retailers do it. However, if it is a product the consumer really, really wants they are going to jump through the loopholes to get it. I imagine Apple TV will eventually fall under that category.

Alternatives? Let Apple TV and Chromecast continue to be sold but place large warning messages and suggest buying a Roku or Amazon whatever device instead.
This is primarily a server-gating feature. For the mobile clients, they periodically sync their experiment flags state using a call to the backend (eg at app start), which is handled using a related, but separate, system to Gate Logic.
Absolutely, and if they really try to open up a front against Google, that might be a stupid move, as they risk an "accidental" visibility penalty in their Google SERPs. Usually, Google doesn't play this low, but Amazon has much more at stake.

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I would argue that FogCreek's early success was the result of Joel's blog. Around that time he had said most of what he had to say and posting frequency declined. I haven't looked at his site more than a couple times in the past 10 years. So I think it did matter tremendously and momentum declined after that factor was removed
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Sure, the entire goal of a hash construction is to carve out a constant time in a limited context. But the general problem is lower-bounded by (log n), and nothing can change that. The hash appears O(1) because it incorporates large fixed constants, and the working set size never "outruns" that head start.

It's not surprising that the complexity of the general problem could leak through, since various best-case optimizations (eg caching) can erase the head start that was supposed to hide the growth.
I'm one of those souls, and really like both the Kindle Fire and Fire TV I have. This move has really soured them to me though - Amazon have a great product in Prime Video and their Fire lineup, a product which doesn't need these sort of shady tactics.
Google is a monopoly or near monopoly in search. Amazon is not a monopoly or near monopoly in general ecommerce (excluding ebooks.) Seeing as amazon is not a (near) monopoly in general ecommerce, I can't be bothered to care. If you don't like amazon's policies, patronize walmart, target, newegg, apple.com directly, or a dozen other competitors. I personally think amazon is wildly overestimating their ability to extract concessions from apple.
I really wish you were right but I think few people care about this and the problem is just that the internet of things has no use case.
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Will amazon support the head plugin? Can we enable our own plugins?
Not at all. There is nothing other than their own stubbornness that prevents Amazon from supporting streaming on the Chromecast. Google doesn't charge for it streaming, there is no "marketplace" from which to take 30%, etc.

They are open APIs that HBO, ESPN, Netflix and hundreds of other companies have integrated with...and Amazon hasn't.
I use it for my email, and have set it up with yubikey + password, given that you need both it's not like you can brute-force the login anyways
That video is hilarious! I wish we had more awesome videos like this for new technologies!
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There is a EU directive on that since december 2008 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320...)

It basically limits standby or 'power off' power consumption to 0,50 W.

The EU isn't afraid to fine companies heavily, so chances are most equipment follows this rule. If not, I guess a few companies are sweating now that people start to question compliance of devices.

I also guess this directive has had implications all over the world, just like the ban of lead soldering in the EU did. once you have spent the money to design a low power solution, economies of scale do not make it worthwhile to keep an second design around for use outside of the EU.

I think 0,5W still is too much, though. With 20 plugged in devices (sounds like a lot, but count them in your house: coffee machine, water cooker, blender, audio system, televisions, computer, monitor for computer, external hard disk, printer, etc.), that still is a quarter of a kWh a day.

Certainly, home automation systems should aim to go way lower per power outlet.
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I thought there was already an AWS Elasticsearch product? Am I remembering something different or is this coming out of beta or something to that effect?
Considering that the primary purpose of the Prime video app on the PS3 seems to be to make you think you can stream something, then tell you you have to buy it right before you start watching, I'd say this is likely correct.

The "free" prime streaming seems to just be a marketing tool for getting you into their video-buying app. I'd be surprised if they have much interest in streaming anywhere where they can't push paid videos without having someone else take a cut.
I heard next they are trying out a mandatory Web Application Firewall on AWS that will shield their customers from exposing potentially malicious websites offering non-Amazon streaming devices...
Possibly this could be gotten around with by having the good site serve its own idea of what the hash should be. This would be much smaller than the actual resource.
> The U.S. government is directly responsible for these and all drug war deaths.

Directly? That's a reach. Many factors lead to a situation like this, and US policy may have contributed, but don't diminish the part played by the people actually murdering and ordering the murdering.
And their forcing you to install an app store shim that asks for ALL/ALL application rights is why they got booted to my "snoopy vendors only" Android profile: the one with zero human contact information. For those of us willing to put the time into it I'd love a cleaner way to containerize apps and firewall off personal information.
given that all vcs play the same game they also align themselves in a power law distribution (from the market pov)

in other words - they all play the same game - of making the best one look best
Would you be willing to elaborate? I'd be curious to hear a specific example of a result due to Erdős that no longer matters in binary, and also a specific impossible problem that's explained by Wolfram (with some detail so I can follow along, of course).
Seems very expensive compared to just running ES on instances yourself. Using i2.xlarges (as we do for our ES cluster) it's $1.194/hour for managed ES and just $0.853/hour for spot i2 instances. If you're will to reserve for a year, it's only $0.3555/hour.

Given how easy ES is to operate, I don't know why anybody would pay for a less flexible, more expensive hosted version.
I’ve just spent several months researching this topic, and doing lots of informal experiments on myself and other people. In other words, I have tried it for myself. :-) If you’re somewhere in the SF Bay Area and want to discuss in more detail, I’d be happy to give a mini-lecture about the subject, or about human color vision more generally.

At the typical brightness of streetlamps outdoors in most cities, humans are using photopic rather than scotopic vision (that is, using the “medium” and “long” cone photoreceptors), which is fairly sensitive to anything between about 500–650 nm. For photopic vision, the bright blue spike of a white LED provides almost no useful contribution to brightness perception.

Under starlight or moonlight and no artificial lights, you would be correct, but that’s not the condition we’re discussing. If outdoor lamps cast no more total light in aggregate than the moon, then bluer wavelengths would be fine. In practice they are several orders of magnitude brighter than the moon, which means they saturate the rods and mostly wipe out scotopic vision.

The cause of the nearsightedness epidemic (e.g. in East Asia) is children not going outside in the sun during the day. The details of the lamps they use at night (indoors or outdoors) are irrelevant to that.

I became interested in this topic because the streetlamps on my street were replaced by white LEDs at ~4000K CCT, and they are truly awful. They cause extreme amounts of peripheral-vision glare, and they make the previously charming street feel like a prison yard or sad industrial warehouse. The previous high-pressure sodium lamps are so so soooo much better.
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This.

I'd gladly pay for a Prime product that was $10/mo cheaper and didn't include streaming. I never use Prime Video Streaming (precisely because Amazon won't enable streaming to Chromecast).
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Does the opposite kind of user exist? Has anyone ever met a fanatical JIRA lover?

In my experience there are only people that tolerate JIRA on one side of the spectrum and a bunch of people that hate JIRA on the other side.
The abstract implies it is a semantics for describing the different kinds of deep learning approaches rather than, say, a semantic system to be used by a deep learning system.

Seems quite interesting, though an effort at the later approach would be quite interesting too.
That only applies if you are selling the home when outdated IOT devices.

Just like appliances, where a a modern stainless steel Viking range can increase your home value, so too could a modern controller for IOT devices. But both these things get outdated (at different rates), and lose their luster at which point they are upgraded or left to get older because they may not be the new hotness, but they work.

No major difference here.
Who is Prashant Deva and should I care about their opinion?

Did Fogbugz actually lose? Do they even have the same market (enterprise vs smaller)? Perhaps they just fine operating at a smaller volume.

Isn't the product being "too basic" a sign of focus? Perhaps the author needs/wants more features, but that can't be generalized for all of Fogbugz's audience.

I've heard just as many owners say "I don't want as many features as competitor X".

That all being said, there are some good things in there - perhaps Fogbugz could look into a partner ecosystem. Making your own language is probably a bad long-run choice.

However I get the feeling this is comparing apples to oranges.
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A bit off topic, and I know I'm sounding like a condescending jerk here but I mean it: but why do people love bugs so much that they want to purchase an entire database program to track them? I mean, if you have more than 10 bugs that are highly important to keep track of, it seems to me that you have much larger problem than whether to purchase JIRA or FogBugz.

I mean, either a bug is important to you so prioritize fixing it, or it isn't important to you so you can just ignore it and see if it surfaces again.

Every single team I've seen that used a bug tracker ended up with hundreds of issues, status of 90% of which was unknown, maybe already fixed, maybe not relevant anymore because the entire component got overhauled the other day by Joe. What's the use of this stuff?

I got this from a blog post (by Ron Jeffries I believe, but I forgot), but basically his idea was that the moment you turn something that you don't want to have into a formalized process, people tend to bias towards getting more of it. If you are forced to choose between fixing a bug or forgetting about it, you're urged to fix it fast. If you can just "file the bug and go on with your work", the bug stays.
You definitely can't do this, because you don't actually know the density of what you're measuring. Depending on how the caffeine was prepared, it'll be in crystalline flakes or chunks of varying sizes and configurations. Think of it like snow. You can't tell how much water went into a given volume of snow because you don't know if you're dealing with fluffy snow, wet snow, super fine powder snow, etc.
From what I understand, Newegg has a kinda similar thing (Newegg Premier or something).

Edit: found the link http://www.newegg.com/neweggpremier
Yes sure it works but it's still domain based. The browser is still downloading the same copy of jquery 100s of times during a browsing session.
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There's nothing preventing Amazon from creating a video app for Apple TV, HBO, Showtime and many others have created similar apps for the Apple TV. This is Amazon choosing not to.
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Atlassian make a big point of saying they don't have a sales team[1] so I am not sure where this is coming from?

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing
Having mainly done line of business applications my entire life, I have a slightly different take.

Jira won because it was not opinionated. You can use it however you want.
FogBugz had the philosophy to make bug entry super easy above anything else.
Jira will let a manager define new custom fields and make them all compulsory. It perfectly fits how manager at big companies think.

FogBugz provides Completion Date Probability Distribution chart and Burn Down Chart [2]. Anyone who has worked for big companies knows that these two are USELESS for them. They set a project delivery date and you just have to hit it.

At my current company, we are going for SOC1 compliance. This forces an amazingly complicated issue workflow and they implemented it very easily in Jira. I am looking at FogBugz documentation on workflows [1], and I don't see how we could have implemented the same in FogBugz.

I also feel that Jira has a better ecosystem for plugins and integrations then FogBugz.

[1] http://help.fogcreek.com/7483/statuses-categories-and-workfl...

[2] http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/features/project-management/
Yeah, this sounds more like a and b are different types but somebody messed up overriding equality operators. I wouldn't blame the language for that.