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FWIW the "third party integration support" is the biggest problem with smart home products today. Wink, Iris, Hue, SmartThings are all plagued by numbers of low quality integrations and as a result it's up to those companies to handle support for other peoples crappy products, API's or Apps. (edit: to drive the point home, search for "philips hue" or "lifx" in the app store)

It's awful and frankly its why my company -- Twist -- is not offering any third party integration support.

Until the industry can focus on quality over number of integrations and interoperability, the only customers buying these products will be DIY'ers and professional installers.
The reverse seems to be true now with the closed gear commanding outsized prices I see no particular reason why this should be reversed.

Factually I think we should forbid selling devices we are forbidden to touch and avoid the whole issue.
1-800-555-1212 operators replaced by Tellme.
A bad actor could in the future simply engineer the cars around the driver's test, and not the real world. In the future, it won't just be Google / Apple / Tesla making cars.
I thought NFLX was up today due to the Fed raise. Glad to know it was the socks.
Same here - the strongest argument for me are the performance benefits. I really like working in Rails but Ruby's general performance and memory handling tends to be a issue - when you run into problems it's hard to find the root.

Looking forward to diving into Phoenix and Elixir.
When I took driving lessons in the US, the instructor had a brake on the passenger side but no other controls.
The human who drives a self driving car now should know what he's doing. These cars are prototypes now and whoever takes them to the road should be responsible.
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Keep an eye on emerging market bonds and high-yield bonds. The latter was already looking a little shaky prior to today.
So now they're legally allowed to do what they've already been doing without oversight anyways, which they were legally never allowed to do in the first place and still aren't legally allowed to do due to Constitutional restraints.

I don't like to sound defeatist, but honestly what does this change?
Unicorns can't exist in ZIRP. (Zero Interest Rate Policy)
Putting resources behind dropwizard would have been a better approach. Dropwizard needs some love on the admin/ops UI sides.
Once our entire agricultural system (here in the UK) was dependent on manual farm labourers, now we grow 60% of the calories we consume with 1.6% of the workforce.

> It's a nice dream, but the idea of AI and robots doing dishes, picking strawberries, washing cars, cooking meals will never happen.

If something can be automated at a lower cost than paying wages it eventually will be, automation is coming (arguably has been here since the industrial revolution) and it's not stopped yet.
Markets predicting and 'pricing-in' Fed actions is not evidence that this rate hike is meaningless.

But if you want to feel pessimistic about the hike, here's the corresponding Zerohedge 'article': http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-16/fed-hikes-rates-unl...
Rising interest rates also mean that house prices should drop (or deaccelerate), right? If you figure a buyer has a fixed budget, the more they are paying in interest the less they can pay in principal. Not saying 0.25% will have much effect, but in principle don't they have that relationship?
You forgot amazingly fast.
Thanks. Here's a sane version of that link, I think:

http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20151214/CPRT-114-HPRT-R...
Ask HN: Why does S3 still not support append?
Is there some technical reason why it's simply infeasible? Is there some fundamental architectural decision laid down years ago that prevents "append" operations?

If the Google version of S3 supports append, why not?
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/363#issuecommen...
Sports writers, finance writers:
http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/19/ai-journalist-writes-sp...
love the design, shall be recommending it to my gliding club.

RASP is the gold standard of guessing in which direction you're going to land out today, but my god it is ugly.

yes please, high level winds also!
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Yev from Backblaze -> B2 can be a bit cheaper because our service works a bit differently from S3. For example, uploading files doesn't require expensive load balancers in our data center. Instead, we require the dev to make 2 API calls to upload a file, instead of 1 in S3. The downside - our API isn't S3 compatible. However, the upside is pretty compelling - we pass the savings on and give you considerably cheaper storage.

Folks from the Beta have said that using our APIs they were able to integrate their apps to B2 from S3 relatively quickly. That said we're still early, so it may be that we develop some more compatible APIs in the future.
> Go is missing a few needed features that are preventing more wide spread adoption

For me it's that Go is purely an imperative language and is not ashamed of it. That's fine, it's a good imperative language, but I don't like them, so I won't use it. I don't care how great goroutines are (or are not, I really don't know), I'm not using a non-functional language again in my career.
I guess that's why so much of the software you use every day is written in Haskell and OCaml.
While I agree that it defeats many of the purposes (including Uber-style services), remember that this legislation is in response to current state of self-driving cars. Once they get better, legislation can become more lax.
This already happens today with cruise control - and yes, the driver will have to be paying attention while driving, at least in this version of the rules.
You're misreading that too. The 'how' mentioned is indicating the measured changes in the brain as opposed to the way in which they came about. "How did the brain change?" "Measured surface area was reduced by 20% in the low-income sample."

A grammatically similar statement might be "How bananas are changed when you cut them in half," followed by a treatment of the measured effects of different kinds of knife.

Sure, it's somewhat confusing, but the article makes it clear.
Every language has it, but because JavaScript is evolving so rapidly the problem is amplified. We've seen more change in the last couple of years than some more mature languages have seen in the last decade - js isn't finished, and I don't think it ever should be.

On the plus side, it keeps us employed as long as we are prepared to keep learning the new stuff, or earn a spectacular exit.
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Citation? I suspect most people are somewhat conscientious drivers who operate their vehicles predictably most of the time. But this is just anecdotal from my own driving experience.
I agree, dev team could have shown some creativity in naming the project. As Knuth says, naming matters a lot.
What interests me is how inconsistent it is.

For example, I can go a whole afternoon some days without it auto-pausing, while others as you said, you can go two episodes and it will pause on you.

I suspect Netflix tracks window focus via JavaScript at minimal, and maybe other metrics too to try and guesstimate user idle-ness.

Interestingly when I am in a full screen game (and Netflix on another screen) it "never" pauses. It only pauses when I am not doing anything on the machine and just watching (i.e. I effectively get punished for paying too much attention).
How is durability compared to S3 and Google? Any guarantees on availability?

How about speed, both on upload and download? It looks like this is geared for less frequent access than other services.
Some of the cost-efficiencies are achieved by architecting the software somewhat differently. The most important one is that the user requests and upload URL and then posts to that, which saves us from needing big, expensive load balancers.

At the same time, we're working with partners who will abstract our B2 API to make it akin to the S3 API.

Gleb from Backblaze
They better get into deep learning territory quicker!
I can totally agree - I've been on their Slack channel and it's nothing but friendly and welcoming. It's kind of like the MINASWAN (Matz is Nice And So We Are Nice) idea in Ruby, but since the Elixir community is even smaller, it's even more important.
I agree with most of your advice but I couldn't survive without an alarm clock. I've spent the last few years waking up between 4:25 and 4:45 but can't get up before 7 without an alarm.
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Good rebels versus Bad Rebels at work here http://steveblank.com/2015/08/25/why-corporate-entrepreneurs...
I cant understand how James Altutcher has A list guests and horrible audio quality, so annoying.
Been hanging here in Firefox now for about 5-10 minutes its a receipt for my insurance (no private info) about 2 pages in length.

Either way, super cool idea. My Dad will be stoked about this as he's been OCR'ing his way into oblivion for the past few years.
In my experience insurance will never make you whole.

Stress + time spent managing the debacle @ my bill rate + lost income during repairs + items insurance fails to cover, etc...

We've really only had one group trash a house and it was really just a big mess with no real physical damage. Took about $800 of extra cleaning and was handled by the deposit.
Worth noting that the mainstream macroeconomic wisdom has been completely disconnected from what we've observed in reality the past 10 years or so -- having rates this low for this long is supposed to spur demand and create inflation, according to mainstream macro, right?
Reminds me a bit of the 10th man idea from World War Z. Basically, if all 9 members of a council unanimously agreed on something, it was the 10th man's duty to act as if that thing was a certainty and prepare for it.

This all really plays into argumentative theory [0], which is the basic idea that human reason developed as an argumentative tool. Its main function isn't "true" or "logical" ideas, but rather persuasion and defense thereof. One major conclusion is that reason often works to reinforce existent ideals against external challenge, regardless of the merit of those ideas.

[0] http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2011...
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Sounds like the hardest part would be making sure it isn't a fire hazard. That being said I don't like my feet being warm while I sleep, so this project misses for me by being a sock. So close.
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webcam + motion detection would be a way to do this without additional hardware.
Some do, but they still have difficulties to incorporate those "incubation divisions" ideas and benefit from the innovation.
Featuring auto pause and nail fungus.
This is part of Netflix's "makeit" projects[0]. People can submit ideas for DIY projects that incorporate Netflix in someway, and they pick ones they like. So I believe this would fall under community engagement.

[0] http://makeit.netflix.com
Not denying this. Probably the lawyers ensured there exists no culpability on the buyer, for UC's past sins.

But, Dow, and now DuPont morally owe a lot, to the Bhopal Gas Disaster victims.
Yes, this is precisely how central banking creates bubbles.
TL;DR: IP blocks, that used to be british where sold and are now are saudi arabian. (IP4s are getting rare)

title is plain wrong
China Touts Its Great Firewall in Push for Internet Control
Fed => Wall St. Bankers => Private Eguity/Venture Capital => Silicon Valley => Start-ups (disruption in labor market & layoffs) => leaner corporations and more profits $$$ => Wall St. Bankers => PE/VC ad infinitum

You get the picture by now where's the Fed's loyalty lies in this reverse Robin Hood wealth redistribution scheme. Isn't capitalism wonderful?
Isn't investing in bonds putting money to work in the economy? And how does the government really stimulate demand? Nobody demanded an IPhone before it existed. Good products stimulate demand.
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> The article takes the tone that this will drastically limit the technology, but honestly at this point a restriction like this seems completely reasonable.

This does seem like what the first step to getting self driving cars on the road would look like.
Correct. Home prices should come down a bit as interest rates move up.
I wonder what did people expect.

Uber managed to sidestep the regulations, but can't live off injected money forever.

The race to the bottom has just begun.
The question that raises for me is: Do the outliers make it OK to cause harm to those who aren't so "far out" in their choice of name?

In other words, because you don't like the name "Lil Miss Hot Mess" (I assume because it is not as serious as "Joe" or "Torgo", as names go), is it OK to call anyone by whatever name you prefer, and refuse to acknowledge them as anything else? Whether I think "Lil Miss Hot Mess" is a ridiculous name or not doesn't alter the reality that facebook daily "disappears" people's accounts whose names aren't up to their standards. This change in policy gives people a week to protest that disappearance, but it doesn't change facebook's level of control. They still decide who you can be online (at least on facebook).

The thing is that I don't know where to draw that line on what is "too ridiculous", and I don't think anyone else really does, either. So, given that names are arbitrary (even when enforcing a "real names" policy, there are people who have ridiculous names), and given that enforcing a real names policy harms countless people, and given that not enforcing real names has very little negative result except to facebook's bottom line (and even that is negligible), I just don't see it as defensible.

The argument that it prevents abuse and bullying is shown to be a lie by the fact that this policy has been used, since facebook's inception, to bully people, and facebook has for all that time remained complicit, and even an active participant, in that bullying. You can't claim to want to prevent bullying if you're the one holding the victim down while someone else punches them.
Not sure I understand your question. Are you saying the fed is wrong here and raising rates into the teeth of a likely recession?

If that's your question, good luck finding someone who knows the answer, but I will note that when the energy sector goes downhill because energy is cheap, that helps, not hurts, a lot of the rest of the economy--energy is an input.
I don't think I'd go that far. It mostly overlapped with the other Product Hunt thread, so some people probably flagged it as a quasi-duplicate.
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Agreed. Judging from the price action in emerging market currencies, which have been particularly sensitive to the Fed lately, it seems the statement was interpreted as being slightly more on the dovish end of expectations.
As a general rule of thumb, legislation never becomes more lax.
One way this might affect ordinary people is the choice between investing or paying down a mortgage. The day you get the mortgage, it probably feels like a good risk-adjusted return to pay it down. "Risk-free 5% return!"[0] But if you have a low 30-year rate and interest rates rise enough, there might be low-risk investments that pay better than extra mortgage payments.

This is one doubt I've always had about Dave Ramsey-esque advice to aggressively pay down your mortgage: In every analysis I see the rate on investment is static, but we know that's not true, and for a long time it's seemed inevitable for rates to go up eventually.

[0] Not strictly risk-free if you wind up needing the cash or your house tanks in value, but that's the pitch.
NYT built this machine to explain what happens when the Fed raises rates
I'm sure the same benefit could be gained through a leg band. For me, I tend to move around in my sleep, so I wonder if it would work.
Politicians spending your money for you is better than you deciding how to spend it.
Actually it most likely will lag years or more likely decades behind the capability of the cars because the people that stand to profit from such rules limiting the usefulness of self driving cars.
Integration is the biggest blocker I see to having the smart homes we fantasized about 60 years ago. Right now, it's a big mess, and another company doing lock-in isn't likely to fix it. I'd love to see more companies commit to implementing and improving the standards so everything can play together.
Unless you want the political fodder to say the other party is also willing to shut the government down. If you don't care about shutting everything down you can put horrible things in a must pass bill.
Sometimes rules need to be broken. I don't want to live in a society where it's impossible to break any rules, and neither do you.

Those who disagree would probably be happier on some other site.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10737622
Central banking is essentially a price-fixing scheme and doesn't really have much to do with capitalism.
The auto-pausing also happens if you are using Chromecast, so they must have more than one approach.
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Another win for Test Driven Development!
Are you a sentient neural network? If so, ask any of the humans that you can interact with. That's all the citation you will need.
So he'll feel morally okay if he kills or cripples someone by being reckless?
Most of the people I know who watch Netflix at night want it to keep playing after they fall asleep.
The likelihood of getting rich has nothing to do with my right to use my money as I see fit.
Google Cloud Storage does not support append. Their docs: "... you cannot make incremental changes to objects, such as append operations or truncate operations."
> ...move did nothing to assure markets that the Fed is in control, or set credible, measurable goals for future hikes

Markets respectfully disagree, see the uptick across all indices since the announcement.

As you point out, there is only so much Fed can do and they are taking a measured, responsible stance, well within expectations. The fact that Fed's actions are fully aligned with expectations is kind of the point - the last thing they want to do is spook the markets, so messaging and signaling is key.
it would be great if we could have all these bill changes in a git repo with commits from the representatives that added them. open source gov.
Little soon to be doomsaying.

First generation self driving vehicles might have these types of limitations, but second generation? Third generation? Ten generation? It is all about building trust. Truth for the general public, and those who will be held responsible if something goes wrong.

Aircraft still, to this day, have this exact system. Ask any pilot if the system is pointless simply because they have to be paying attention? It still requires less mental energy than actually driving, in particular for longer road trips where the mind wonders.
#ThereIsNoGreatStagnation
> True early stage investors focus on technology, team, demos, prototypes, and so on. Probably team more than anything else.

I don't think that's true anymore, if you want to get the best valuation/terms for your company you can't go into a meeting with a potential seed/early stage investor without showing some kind of traction.

The bar has been set higher for startups, that is why there is this downward movement in the VC food chain to focus on early stage deals, they are seeing companies with traction and revenue, so they want in earlier before it's too late.

Sure you might be able to raise money just based off of technology, team, demos, prototypes, and so on, but as Jason Calacanis puts it, it's just table stakes: http://calacanis.com/2015/11/02/dont-bring-a-knife-to-a-gun-...
Given high demand, yes. But demand hasn't been high.
But then they could be held accountable for their shitty actions, and if there's one thing they don't want, it's that!
I'd hope that is the MINIMUM they would be required to pass.
What do you think is missing in Dropwizard from an admin/ops point of view?
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> This could have wide implications for the startup community.

More like a tempest in a teacup. I wouldn't qualify a meagre 0,25% interest rate increase as huge or potentially having wide implications on the market.
I think it's perfectly reasonable that you use the same name on Facebook and in daily life with your friends (note that is not necessarily the same as your legal name). It seems like that's Facebook's intention, though they have had trouble implementing it in the past.

Things like checking what name most people call you on your birthday seem quite reasonable though.
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Eventually. Today, of the many houses sold, there's going to be .25% more people who can't get the loan they want. They're going to move down market, and buy a slightly cheaper house. The more expensive houses might lower their price, or take it off market or whatever.

It's like a distributed system. There's a bunch of complicated moving parts that all react to each other. There aren't that many knobs and levers to pull on. The fed can't tell home sellers to lower their prices, they can just fiddle with interest rates.
Hah. Still, in 1997, the fact that some people had the capacity to have mp3 files on their computers doesn't mean much since even disorganized file-sharing wasn't all that common and there was little way for almost anyone to real gather substantial collections. 100 tracks is nothing, that's like a small stack of CDs.
But let's be serious here... WHO WEARS SOCKS TO BED?!
This is really cool.

My wife died of a tonic-colonic seizure 11 years ago. Something like this might have saved her.
TL;DR: screw facebook's name policies.

I have an unusual last name that get flagged by FB as fake. Five years ago I sent them proof of my name and they changed it, but then locked my ability to edit the change (they added my middle name, I just wanted first name last name).

Its pretty annoying, and when my parents and other family members started making facebook accounts they often had to do First Name Middle Name because Facebook's name changing policies are arcane and they make it extremely inconvenient to contact them.

My mother, who was flagged by facebook and then reenabled, recently got remarried and wanted to take her husband's last name, but Facebook won't let her make the change.
Honestly I have never noticed! What are your favorite podcasts that have great production values BTW? I'm looking for a great production company.
Performance is a joke <---> Benchmark are useless.

So the only thing that matters is your opinion.
That is quite new, and of questionable legality
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/us/selfies-in-voting-booth...

for exactly the reasons above.
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It's a non starter in many use cases. There's no support for ODBC so you can't connect your spreadsheet to the internal BI servers, conditional formatting is really weak in Google sheets (no data bars, etc.), you can't have spreadsheets that refer to other spreadsheets, docs has awful formatting options, etc.

It's just the same thing as comparing nano to emacs/vim. Sure, they both superficially edit text, but that's where the comparison ends.
I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my perceived political views