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A point brought up in the replies to their forum post warrants repeating: They claim that they were concerned about the quality of their brand being eroded by third-party bulbs that didn't reproduce the same quality experience that first-party/certified bulbs did.

They had the solution available to them from day one. Since they can clearly identify third-party bulbs, they could have simply presented a warning along the lines of "We've detected you're using bulbs that are not certified by Philips. For best results, we recommend using only certified bulbs (link to purchase here) and cannot guarantee a quality experience with the bulbs you've purchased. Click "OK" to continue."
>You can bypasss this by calling them - they only ask for 1 thing to authenticate you.

The domain for my personal site is shared with my family. My father registered the domain and all of the details in the account use his information. I had just created an AWS account and wanted to move the site's DNS to Route53.

I was able to call into the domain registrar and get exactly zero of the details correct, but they pointed the domain to Route53. It was hilarious how bad it was. I used my social, my name, my address, etc., none of which matched the info on file.

Even if I had used my father's info, it (except the social) would have been wrong because we lived overseas on a military base. When your system says Japan and someone from the US is calling, that should set off all sorts of alarm bells.
Additionally, if you contact their customer support via the form they used to provide they ask for your password, which is them presented back to you in plain text when they reply.

Quoting from a reply I had: "As there's no account password quoted on the form you’ve filled in I'm unable to go in to any account specifics."

"accountPassword: I'm not giving you my password"
I see Google using Slack for things like the Dart and Kubernetes projects. I understand the ease of use aspect (Slack is quite nice) - but one thing that concerns me is that the discussion that happens is no longer (easily) searchable.

Mailing list archives are handy when you are looking for a solution to a problem. With Slack, a lot of that knowledge disappears.
There's a little more in the wiki entry for Mezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo_%28desktop_environment%2...

Looks like it challenges elements of the desktop metaphor. The white paper (from 2005) on the ideas behind Mezzo explains a bit more: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/voyager/docs/MezzoGreypaper.pdf
I'm sure/hope it was tongue in cheek, but I did find that pretty amusing.

My brother is 18 and he would probably be 'one of the last' to use a scroll-wheel iPod.
Well, the GPU at least would quickly become useless without driver updates. Every time a new AAA title is released, Nvidia and AMD scramble to work around game bugs inside their drivers because the developers don't care.
Personally, I absolutely love the design of the Soviet space vehicles.

Perhaps it's a result of the chronic underfunding of the program, but the utilitarian look for the LK3 lander is amazing.
Onion articles: the OP links to a adaptnetwork.com article, which references an upworthy.com article; both conclude by directing people to sign petitions at wilderness.org.au, to generate signatures against British Petroleum, which plans to drill four wells in the pristine waters of the Great Australian Bight.

I'm sympathetic, but the articles, while full of interesting whale facts and media, seem to link to a Nature article from 2007...is there news here, other than generating support for the campaign (?)
AND YET, human brains are an implementation of such an algorithm. By all reasoning, we shouldn't be conscious.

Yet here I am, I am the one who is seeing what my eyes see and I am distinct from you. Science still has no idea how that happens, as far as I know.

So how knows, maybe all computer programs are in fact conscious in some way.
I don't think I've heard many podcasts with actual radio-style ad breaks, but there are plenty with sponsors (e.g. TWiT, DevChat.tv, Spec.fm, Jupiter Broadcasting -- except for Tech Talk Today and Unfilter which are Patreon-supported).

Luckily with the podcasts I'm subscribed to most of the sponsors tend to be relevant to the actual shows. The only irrelevant sponsor I recall is Ting (a Canada-based US mobile provider I think).
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My goal wasn't to invalidate. It was to say that the grandparent must not trust any large, publicly traded company. Which is exactly your final sentence.

However, I would say that a company (big or small) that actually changes their strategic marketing decision based on a user complaints _is_ rare. And this shows that Phillips has some good mechanisms in place to respond. To me, they come out a bit ahead at the end of this.
Listening to podcasts was "hard" until you could download over cellular and didn't have to sync up at your computer. So I do think there was friction at the time of the iPod. That's been one of the big changes--plus a greater range of good content.
If you're on an iPhone, Marco Arment's Overcast app has a brilliant Smart Speed function that effectively shortens silences in podcast conversations - combined with an adjustment to the base speed, I find that it approximates speed-reading quite effectively.

To the broader point, there are a lot of instances where an engaged conversation produces fresher insights to my mind than a carefully constructed article. In the entertainment world, it's practically pioneered a new brand of confessional comedy. More to this audience's taste, hearing a founder pitch a product and answer some challenging questions on the a16z podcast is far more interesting to me than any profile I've ever read in Tech Crunch/WSJ/whatever.
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Ironically, your comment also contains a typo.
I have had the opposite experience, all but two of the podcasts I listen to have adverts. The ones I listen to are from the bigger podcasting studios (Smodcast, PodcastOne, etc). One of the two is Patreon funded and the other is more a bonus content on top of a much larger network of entertainment.
It's not the same type of difficult; it's extremely painstaking and it's by no mean an easy task, but it's much less conceptually hard than a 3D engine, let alone an AI.
This seems like a use-case that a whole lot of people are excited about since microservices are presently in vogue. What would make me want to choose Apollo over, say, Dropwizard (http://dropwizard.io) if we assume that I'm not a developer at Spotify?
I can't explain why, but there has always been something dreamy and magical about the Soviet space program and its spacecrafts.

I've appreciated the apollo-soyuz exhibit at the Air and Space Museum in DC since I was a kid (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Apollo-s...).

The Venera missions to Venus were also remarkable. This dude's blog about it is a fascinating read: http://mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm
Most of the podcasts from team (https://gimletmedia.com/) behind Serial are good.
I find the advertising inside podcasts also particularly annoying.

Get headphones with forward/back buttons on them. As soon as the ads start it's one or two quick taps on a button by my neck and I'm back to the podcast.
A lot of the tech podcasts I listen to - e.g., Arrested Devops, Talk Python to Me, Software Engineering Daily, Re/Code Decode - have fairly prominent adverts. Sometime read out by the presenter themselves, other times presented as a piece of pre-recorded audio. In the former cases, they'll sometimes do their best to make reference to the content of the podcast in the advertising message.

I'm not too bothered with these, as compared with the type of adverts you'd find on commercial television or radio, they're not that annoying and usually relevant to the podcast subject matter. If they started playing multiple irrelevant adverts back to back, with accompanying audio compression, then I'd be upset about it.
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FWIW most podcast apps have a speed control, in fact Overcast's speed up uses a different algorithm that sounds 100% better to my ears than Apple's at the same multiplier.
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You're obviously the clever one.
I guess our differences there come down to the types of podcast we're looking for then. I lean more towards the comedy side of the podcast universe - as in I'm looking for entertainment rather than knowledge.

Not a bad thing on either side of course, just differing use cases.
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Great to read this here.
Also, don't miss the Erdős–Bacon number list. It sums one's Erdős number with the Keven Bacon number (shortest path to a movie with Keven Bacon). Some examples (Erdos + Bacon):

Mit Math Professor Daniel Kreitman (1 + 2) = 3
Richard Feynman (3 + 3) = 6
NCAA gymnastics champion Kiralee Hayashi (3 + 2) = 5
Natalie Portman (5 + 2) = 7

There's even a Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath number that also includes proximity to the band Black Sabbath.
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> Do you believe that will be the same 10 years from now? 15? It takes a lot of time to change an installed base, but that ship has sailed already.

Try working with a 200 MB document in Google Docs or Onedrive .Do you really think people that have to work 8 hours a day on such documents can afford a web app being slow and unresponsive ? There will always be a place for native apps. Yes the web is getting better, but it certainly didn't deliver its promise when it comes to replacing desktop apps, or PC games or whatever.
And yet, 10 years ago the situation was exactly reversed, with ATi sabotaging early DirectX 9 to run worse on Nvidia cards, and ATi pushing a huge pile of proprietary solutions nobody ended up caring about – like TruForm (ATi brand tessellation) or Close-to-Metal (predecessor to Nvidia's CUDA, only when that proved more successful did ATi switch to pushing OpenCL).

Brand loyalty is useless, because brands don't care about consumers.
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The decision to only support Philips products came most likely from the engineering division themselves. Marketing probably had a shit-fit because losing a marketable feature is a giant regression to your general user.

People in Marketing and Product tend to be way more in-tune with customers and don't make boneheaded decisions like this. Another easy tell: the company was shocked by the reaction of users. That meant the company wasn't aware of user impressions of the decision. That also meant Product/Marketing teams weren't involved in the decision.

When the "what does it cost us to test this compatibility" calculus comes out as more expensive than "what is the cost of the backlash to our company," you realize that Engineering divisions without enough resources are driving this type of decision, 99 times out of 100.
Is there still not a reasonable quality, open-source browser based 'office' app? Open Document is all XML right, so it's not like a browser can't read/write the format because its some binary blob..
Don't hold your breath, i think that emscripten port development is stalling.
For me podcasts fill a similar niche to TV: something I can passively enjoy without having to focus much while doing unrelated things. The two major differences are that I no longer watch TV and I can listen to podcasts wherever I am.

My biggest problems are that there's too many of them and it's easy to miss the one or two really interesting episodes in a sea of monthly/weekly content. Even more so if you listen to them at 2x speed and rarely have the time to stop and actively pay attention.

It's more of a form of pleasant background noise with the occasional glimpse of really interesting information. Like overhearing a conversation between colleagues.
Audible sponsors- or has sponsored- a LOT of podcasts. They're second only to Squarespace in that regard.
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Actually this is just applying for a free copy, and you must be an existing ios/android/steam/wii developer with at least one already-published title, and they are manually processing the applications. Nice initiative but not as nice as it could be.

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If he is trembling, then he has Parkinson's, if he walks left side first, then he's a KGB guy. Otherwise, he must be one of THEM.
Out of curiosity, can you list me a few of these low quality podcasts? I started getting into them heavily about 10 months ago and I'd label the ones I subscribe to as very high quality. I don't personally equate "unscripted content" with automatically low quality, though. Some high quality podcasts I love right now: Joe Rogan Experience, Here's The Thing (Alec Baldwin), Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.
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How does that explain consciousness, qualia et cetera?
Unfortunately that is something regular non-dev user doesn't care about much. And such users make most of the customers.

I can only hope that Vulkan will change the game a little bit, so shader hacking won't affect perceived performance that much.
In this thread: a lot of people who haven't used Slack attacking it...
It applies to most languages.

In practice you can't rely on the compiler, because you don't know what the compiler is doing.

You certainly can't assume it's going to make the smartest possible decision for all of your code. There's no standardisation for optimisations, and they're often a context-dependent trade-off anyway.

The only way to write fast code is to learn the quirks of the tool chain and profile production binaries to find the bottlenecks.
Pray tell how does a LED Lamp can burn your house down

Oh wait it can't (if it can because your wiring is crap and the protection devices are not working you have much bigger problems)
Nobody did, I just phoned my GP and asked him if he could, but he said that's a question I'd have to put to the specialist. My reasoning was that I want to assess whether I already have arterial damage or not, as that will have a significant bearing on how I asses my risk of not taking statins.

Regarding your earlier question, my LDL was 7.8 mmol/l and total serum cholesterol was 10.3 mmol/L (I make that and 301 and 398 in US money)
>Getting a project of a given size done on schedule means nothing?

rofl, you are assimilating LOC and actually accomplishing a task on schedule and you talk about strawman ? give me a break.
You're welcome! Thank you for the appreciation! So glad I wrote it out and posted--always a risk of getting shouted at by negative nellies when it comes to HN. :)
Several (at least 3) Uber drivers in Seattle have told me they must commit to a certain duration of time and a number of rides, and the combination yields a schedule during certain times of the week.

Might not be true in every town.
>The CaaS (Confession as a Service) space is certainly heating up.

This reminds me of a song by Momus which is about a "Catholic app", a smartphone app made by the Catholic Church to listen to prayers and confessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7jg3OZc1g
When I see glaring typos in NYT articles, I infer the author typed them on his phone in the bathroom, like I did that post.
Not the person you are asking, but I can answer yes to that at the same price point, and we are talking about cheap fast food either. $25+ for a meal is not cheap.
But you can. People treat the full "personal numbers" as a secret and if you can recite one, nobody will think you're anyone different. It's not meant to be this way, but in my experience it is.
I think it's really gross to consider anyone an investment, a piece of 'human capital'. I read a book recently by Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos. It's about how modern ideology tries to redefine human beings in this way: You are capital which appreciates in value and gives you return on investment. All other definitions of what a human being is ought to be subordinate to this definition: Human as political creature is less important than human as economic investment. Human as member of society is less important than human competing in the free market. I found Brown's observations disturbing yet plausible, but I never expected to see these pernicious ideas flagrantly advocated in a mainstream newspaper.

It feels like the void is trying to suck my soul out of my body when I try to think this way.
Along with his many other abuses of liberty, Lincoln monitored telegraph lines during the war, and jailed without trial many who criticized the war effort or argued in favor of the right of secession.
There are exceptions like Serial, but that's what they are: exceptions.

Sure, taken as a whole, most podcasts are terrible, and quality podcasts are rare exceptions. But then again quality books are also, on the whole, a rare exception when you include every self published manuscript floating around somewhere on the internet.

The absolute number of decent podcasts out there have increased massively over the past year or two, and there are easily a dozen podcasts that can match serial in quality and production values and more are coming online all the time.
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I was thinking the same thing. If you have an "entertainment workflow" then you are doing entertainment wrong.
I really enjoy podcasts at work, and they excel when I am doing boring repetitive work. I do however wish that there would be a better place for Podcast discovery than ITunes.
Something that's in the middle between a bug and a missing feature (imho) is that Slack's failure to support Github-style markdown.

GitHub does a great job with markdown, especially with programming-language-specific highlighting. And even things like strike-though text and URL's, which aren't specific to software development.

It's one of the few aspects of Slack that has me open to alternative services.
Speculation: "Because the newspaper is a prominent platform in a key electoral state, some wondered whether there could be a political motive behind its purchase. Some in political and media circles suggested that the casino magnate and billionaire political backer Sheldon Adelson could be behind the change in ownership, but representatives for Mr. Adelson did not respond to emails and calls seeking comment on Monday. (Through a spokesman, the Republican donors Charles and David Koch publicly denied to Fortune magazine that they had any role in the purchase.)"
Arlington, Virginia. VA. code § 46.2-1078 is the relevant statute. https://vacode.org/46.2-1078/

I work in DC, so DC and / or Federal law would also be relevant. I believe the distracted driving statutes in DC would also apply to bikes, so headphones would fall under that I believe.

DC, VA, and MD also have contributory negligence. You can read more about that here:

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/24312/what-is-contr...

TL;DR you can receive no damages if you break the law in any tiny way while on a bicycle or on foot. Wearing headphones might be said to have contributed in some way, so you might get nothing.
It reminds me of the DMOZ dramas a few years back.
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And why not? Catholic indulgences were about making God feel good about you. This is more about making you feel good about you, which is already a huge market.
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> In what mesure does a podcast compliment a proper article?

People have been known to enjoy both the Game of Thrones books and the television series.

You could transcribe a Louis C.K. hour long show and read it in 15 minutes, but you would lose a lot.
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Overcast + Twitter connection = You see the podcasts people you follow, subscribe to. Great stuff I've found here!!

HN is a great discovery service, as is Facebook.

Email me if you wanna know the podcast my fiancé and I look forward to most each week! :)
I paid for Overcast by Marco Arment on iOS and it's pretty good at recommendation (uses Twitter). He's since made it free (!) so you should check it out if you run an iDevice.
Even without networking, you can usually break anonymity of electronic voting machines through Van Eck phreaking. This probably wont allow you to alter the votes, though.
We currently don't have the technology to automatically transcribe podcasts into text (good for the SEO on your podcast site) - But even if we did, how would it know that something is an advert as opposed to part of the show? Most of the podcasts I listen to have ads and in many cases the ads aren't just at the start or end, they're either a live read during the podcast or a cutaway somewhere towards the middle.

Maybe you're just not the target market for ad-funded podcasts.
Yeah - my son has a hundred ways to say 没有 that are playful, angry, bossy, funny, etc. It is part of the language, you just use different vocal variations than the classic English ones like 'raise your tone to indicate a question', or 'use harsh dropping tones to indicate anger'
I agree, that it can be a big deal and one must think about ownership and lifetimes whereas in Javascript there is no need to. Especially in code that will exit the surrounding function before the callback is executed, I do not use &, and explicitly specify the captured variables so I can think about what type of capture.

However, C++ is improving in this regard. I think lambda capture initializers with C++14 help in this regard so that unique_ptr can be used. In addition, the memory safety tooling is improving - see Herb Sutter's CppCon 2015 keynote. Finally, C++17 should have co-routines which will make this type of callback code less used and allow one to use "normal" logic without callbacks that will also be non-blocking.
It's been corrected in the article, so maybe someone can fix it here as well
http://radicalpersonalfinance.com/my-plan-for-how-i-would-be...

buried link in the story, seems more interesting than the story itself
> Oh no, highly skilled mostly white males experiencing temporary setbacks,

Here comes the racist right here. people get rejected all the time even when they are white, in fact, most of the people that get rejected for a job are white. I think you do not fool anyone anymore with this kind of narrative. It's tough for everybody, so don't make it about race or gender. Stop complaining and try harder.

And FYI, I'm black.
I run MATLAB on Ubuntu 14.04 every day and have never had any of the issues you're describing. Are you sure there isn't something else going on there?
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That'd certainly make sense — a lot of what we see now are fossils like that, frozen in the amber of legacy systems.

That would be a reasonable precaution in the era before recording devices became cheap, tiny and ubiquitous (or capable of doing signal processing in real-time) – just as changing passwords monthly made more sense in the 1970s when shoulder-surfing was the major threat and lack of remote access throttled guessing rates even more than slow CPUs. (Repeat for plastic ID cards before you could buy a printer at Costco, etc.)
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Thank you for the explanation, the article was long long and boring.
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