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I've been a hue user for the past year.

1) Their lights/bridge are by far the most reliable IoT product I've used. A 9/10 where other products (Wink, GE, Lutron) are at best 3/10.

2) While 3rd party bulbs were sort of supported, it wasn't advertised. I've never seen it described as a interoperable Zigbee Light Link device.

3) My attempts at getting a GE bulb working were inconsistent, and even when it did work the brightness range and responsiveness were worse than the hue bulbs. I had constant disconnections where I had to re-add the bulb as well. I imagine many people blamed philips when in fact the problem was with the cheap 15.00 bulb. This is probably the reason for discontinuing unofficial support.

I don't like the fact that there's not a thriving range of interoperable, cheap, and high quality zigbee light link devices out there. I'm happy the Philips is focused on delivering a product that actually works, however. All of my other home automation purchases have ended with many wasted hours and eventual returns.
Cool read, however, I feel the need to point out that 20 years ago, javascript in the server wasn't "too soon", it already existed.

In 1995 Netscape had the Netscape Enterprise Server[0] that ran javascript for server-side scripting. Actually, the two books I used, back in the day, to learn Javascript was the client- and the server-side javascript guides published by Netscape.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Enterprise_Server
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Even the working poor in the US could probably scrape together the kind of sums mentioned in the story - about $4000 inc a flight. Though I guess time off could be an issue. Still there are probably a lot of people with like $10k in the bank that could afford Indian care but not US.
SSRIS: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
This was discussed last time we talked about payments, but Venmo is not ubiquitous. I live in the valley, am on the border between Gen X and Millennial, and I've never used Venmo in my life. Furthermore, until about 2 weeks ago, I had never MET anyone who had used Venmo (or at least talking about using it).

The friend in question is 21.
First independent Swift language evolution proposition accepted
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to let Uber drivers unionize
If you are talking a rural environment then 500 ft isn't the minimum for crop dusters.
Shooting at people in fields is irresponsible, but as the train and one of the houses blew up with terrific explosions I would hesitate to deem them "civilian targets".

Fantastic link.
I'm a dual US/EU (Italy) citizen. This 1000 times. The fact that the US system is more Byzantine than the Italian system is mind-blowing.
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not growing does not equal dying.
In a week long project (some supporting tool, or something similar) it's easy to write 10k lines a week. In a 6 months project, 10-100 lines are more likely, and in an "eternal" software that is already mostly written, 0 is a perfectly fine number.
most important problems, like climate change, energy crisis, poverty or education, are of this type - for which both democratic governments and free markets fail spectacularly.

Countries with democratic governments generally do not have free markets. Don't butcher the term's meaning.

(In fact, there is evidence that markets, free or otherwise, do advance education. Alternative educational institutions like Montessori, Sudbury, Summerhill and democratic schools tend to be private.)

"Poverty" also isn't what it used to be for many in both First and Second World countries, unless you're extremely myopic.
Some of this is good, but the idea that you can determine your likelihood of experiencing a 99th percentile latency on a webpage by the naive probability calculation shown (1 - .99^n where n is the number of objects requested on a page) is silly. That is assuming that latency is completely randomly distributed across all objects and all clients to a page.

This is completely not true. Latency is very dependent on the client requesting and the object being requested. You are going to get clustering, not an even distribution.
I'm better than some, I'm worse than some, neither of those matter because at the end of the day, if I'm getting paid for doing my job then that's what counts. I'm not changing the world, I'm not curing cancer and I'm not solving homelessness and world hunger. But that's okay, I'm getting by as a married father of 4 in a single income house. And my wife and children are all healthy and happy. So at the end of the day that's what counts.
If only there was other bridge hardware that could communicate in a more open manner. Unfortunately, Hue is one of the only companies that even OFFERS an SDK—most other systems are completely closed down.
Please for whatever you hold dear do not say please read and then point to books. Books? seriously, most people know that the peer-review is many times laughable but anyone can publish whatever book they want even if they are respected professionals/scientists/philosophers... You are just downgrading the conversation by orders of magnitude...
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My first thought was that it was good to see that PG had finally updated his website to have a decent design.

Then I realized it wasn't PG's site.
The term was coined by Philip Wadler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem

The older versions of Bigloo used to contain an ML compiler built on top of Scheme (they dropped it later for some reason), so the concept is not new.
I've never thought about the fact that 'serialize' as a verb is opposite and antitetical to 'parallelize'.
This is why I've been using the Madsonic fork. It gets around everything you mention.
How many employees believe in Yahoo's mission? What even is their mission?
The latest iPad Pro IIRC has some sort of post-2 chip (I just don't remember if it's 3 or 3.1), it's just not being used yet. The connector itself has 16 total pins available, and the plug has 8. Since the Type C connector is 18 pins with 2 being orientation detection and 4 being ground, it's still possible to have the Lightning connector itself support 3.1 by actually using both sides at the same time instead of just one at a time; although those extra 2 pins would be handy.

So in terms of the connector itself, they're still pretty comparable, it's just that Apple for whatever reason didn't want to add support for it.

Edit: Cleared up some things that were actually untrue after researching it a bit more.
I think you need to make a distinction between "a business around content marketing" and having content marketing be one of the many marketing channels for gaining users.

Even if you entirely set aside the hope that you'll eventually gain some organic search traffic, content marketing in the business and startup space still typically has a return 10x of what paid does since it tends to be so much more self selecting, shared on social, etc.
This was the very problem that got me to switch to Madsonic and I haven't looked back since!
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Yes, you're very important and don't have time to read long articles. If you don't want to read long-form writing, then don't do so but don't complain about it being available to people who like it. I rather like the New Yorker.
Or just wait for Google to release Weave and Brillo. Those are both open platforms for communicating with IoT devices. Which is the exact opposite strategy as Apple's, who is SO CLOSED DOWN you actually need to buy a physical chip from Apple and incorporate it into your hardware for your hardware to be controlled by Siri.
Good to see you on the other side of this. Any surgery is risky and if your troubles are gone that's fantastic news. Are you still in touch with the people there for check-ups or is it done for good?
Pump Up the Pi, migrating to larger sd card
I listen to a lot less music now, but I am not sure of the reason. My listening technology certainly changed a lot, but I also went through a serious bout of depression around that time. I would try listening to music, but it just made more anxious and unhappy, regardless of the style or content. Since that time I really haven't listened to music like I used to. This all, of course, coincided with me growing up, leaving college, leaving grad school, and getting a job. So it's tough for me to really say if my decline in music listening comes from any of those factors.
We are ALSO building an internet of shitty things.
When someone on HN relates their personal experiences with a serious illness, there is no list of mitigating phrases you can apply that makes second-guessing or criticism of their handling of that illness civil. Please don't do that.

HN provides plenty of other venues for airing your feelings about medications; some of them are subthreads of this very story. Here, though, was just about the worst place you could have done that.
It is entirely possible to write a highly configurable interface with sane defaults. Indeed, the proposal in this article goes a long way in that direction.
I suppose it doesn't have to be a proper application; I've seen people manage to-do items in Windows Notepad and it seemed to work for them, God knows how. I tend to think in terms of task list management tools because I've gone to the trouble of setting up a CalDAV server and integrating all my computers and devices with it, but the general point could (and, as you point out, really should) be less "you need to go find an app" and more "try thinking about to-do lists in any terms other than email, because anything else will probably be less painful".
No, I don't think he deserved to be fired, but his actions did precipitate his getting fired.
> It's a total dick move on Philips's part to "update" incompatibility into existing products that people already own

Last year, Shimano (the bikes-and-fishing people) released a firmware update for their electronic shifting system which prevents 2012 (10-speed) parts from working with 2014 (11-speed) gear mechanisms. Literally, if you upgraded your bike from 10 speeds to 11, it worked when the hardware was released, but not after you installed the (irreversible) firmware update. This is with everything coming from a single brand!

You can read a little about that here: http://fitwerx.com/converting-shimano-ultegra-6770-di2-to-11...
I'm not sure what you mean. If the current risk of autism in a child is 1 in 20, then it means that if the mother takes anti-depressants, the risk then becomes 1.87 in 20.
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I'm really struggling to understand how you're not following my meaning here. I will take just one point, because it's probably adequate to cover the entire disconnect.

I wrote:
> Gravitational force is both much weaker and (for that of large bodies) diffused over a much greater area than electromagnetic force (of very small bodies).

I mean:

- *the* gravitational force is much weaker than
*the* electromagnetic force

- large bodies (earth sized) have more *gross*
gravitational force than refrigerator magnets
have *gross* EM force.

- the gravitational force of an earth sized body
extends, in the realm of practicality, much
farther than the EM force of a refrigerator
magnet. In fact both extend into infinity, but
that's only interesting in the theoretical sense.

Are any of those statements incorrect? If so, you're right and my intuition and everything else is wrong. If not, then I think we're talking past each other, and I apologize for the confusion.
This is probably the most popular posts on LinkedIn instead of "Top voices" per se. Tech blog posts are that that I value, like Ben Horowitz and Sam Altman's are not even on there.
Did Sun encourage others to copy the design though (genuinely asking)?

My understanding, which may be incorrect, is that Sun intended for their JVM to be the reference version, and they envisioned a lot of companies creating their own competing (but compatible) JVMs.

I don't recall any hints or suggestions "copying" the Java API would be a problem. I believe Sun planned on making money by charging for Java implementations to be tested against the TCK in order to earn the Java label.
iPhones can't even send files to other iPhones or Mac or anything over Bluetooth. In fact iPhone doesn't even HAVE files.

It's 2015 and still the only way to share files from your iPhone is to plug it in.
its naive to think that a bullet proof tax code can be written, at least based on history. at some point people need to be accountable for their actions, and not given a pass just because they can avoid breaking the law. its fine if you disagree about where that point is.
In an extremely pedantic sense yes I suppose they could, but in practice this is so far on the fringes of things as to be a non-issue.

If you want to get really nitpicky about it you could restrict it to only cases where HSTS headers(of which Google + Chrome really took the lead with) are present.
Yeah, and all those people probably aren't participating in online discussions about it. I'm pretty happy with most aspects of <random>, but I don't seek out arguments. I just use it.
This is blindingly obvious when someone points it out to you, but not so obvious when you are actually working on multi-threaded code that has shared data. Whenever you have performance issues, the issue more likely than not is shared data protected by locks that causes all threads to serialize once in a while and minimizing this leads to performance improvement.
See, now this was my first thought - if I were googling for back pain relief, I would be way more willing to click saveyourself.com than I would be to click painscience.com. One of those is clearly a help page, one of them seems a lot more like a collection of research - and I honestly would really rather help than research, on this topic.
My grandfather -- who lived in the Bay Area when the Golden Gate Bridge opened -- would recount the early days of the bridge when, on a windy day, the span would bounce and twist so much that you could (in his words) "lose sight of the car in front of you." I can only imagine how harrowing that windstorm must have been on December 1, 1951 that "threatened the integrity of the Bridge"...
Also the person in charge of lighting on a film set.
It seems a little disingenuous to recommend a product that hasn't even shipped yet. You have no idea if they work, or if they'll even be built.
Appreciate the reference. Will look into it in the future. The Wikipedia summary made sense but the recompile part doesnt bother me as much as others. My preferrence is to make compiles fast as possible with good incremental compilation and caching. Ive even pushed for trying to FPGA-accelerate compiler passes if possible.
There would be more people employed, if not for "labor rights movements".

Look at the Longshoremen. They basically closed off ports in the U.S. to any workers but their chosen elite few. How is that in line with "labor rights"?

What about theatrical unions? I have been in theater, and the guys running the lights and curtains charged a fortune by the hour. They made it prohibitive for small nonprofit theatrical companies of which I was a member to put on shows in the big city. They wouldn't even raise the curtain a second time to standing ovation. Bastards.

What about the drivers' unions in New York City? My grandfather had to close down his shoe jobber business back in the Sixties because of them and their onerous rules. It basically killed him.

Sorry but I have no sympathy for unions or union organizing. For all their songs and high flying rhetoric, they have caused untold damage to our economy and our society.
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1.5% inherent * 187% from pills = 2.8% risk of autism.

Risk of having started a course of antidepressants for absolutely no reason = ~0%

Articles with headlines like these seem manufactured to lead the statistically ignorant into bad decisions. Clickbait science.
Another one is the Citicorp tower in NYC:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...

An updated link to the New Yorker piece mentioned in the article is http://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/cee421/citicorp1.htm

Or if you have a New Yorker subscription http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine-...

I'd actually read the New Yorker article first, then read the more recent reporting.

edit: this is the same story mentioned by jonlucc in sibling comment.
Appreciate the reply.
Yeah, I think that alone is good enough reason for them to do it. The scale of iOS is massive enough that this can be another one of those "things that make people annoyed when their friends don't have an iPhone".
Great - Got it to work. This should be documented on your site.

You also forgot to mention what I need to import in order to have the "On" object.

Maybe you can include something like this template on your getting started page.

import org.rapidoid.http.fast.*;
// wget https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/rapidoid/rapidoid-http-fast/5.0.7/rapidoid-http-fast-5.0.7.jar
public class App
{
public static void main (String[] args)
{
On.get ("/size").json ("msg", msg -> msg.length ());
}
}

Also needed would be a sample pom.xml file. I had a problem with java compiler version being older and unable to complie lambdas.

My sample pom.xml (feel free to use it if you like) is:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.microservices.app</groupId>
<artifactId>rest-app</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>rest-app</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>assemble-all</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.rapidoid</groupId>
<artifactId>rapidoid-web</artifactId>
<version>5.0.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Then I can run the test service using:

java -cp target/rest-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar App
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They do have good quality private care which a lot of people in India cannot afford but most people from developed countries could.
First, the Constitution as a whole is "addressed" to the government, not the people. That is, the Constitution tells the government what it may do. In the case of the IVth, it tells the government search powers are limited to those allowed by the Constitution.

If the Constitution is amended to say "Government officials may levitate" it does not confer the power to make gravity illegal.

Similarly, if encryption can build an uncrackable "safe" for your documents - moreover one that can be made invisible and deniable - government search powers are as limited by mathematics as they are by gravity. The only difference is that government officials don't actually expect to levitate.

That means when the people invent something that thwarts government power, there is nothing in the Constitution that says anything about that. Even less does it say "No, the people can't have that."
When I was streaming with pandora, grooveshark, and spotify I was constantly hearing new songs.

But that's just because before I was content with listening to the same stuff repeatedly, never did look out for more music on my accord.

Stopped doing streaming, but open to getting back into it, found some great music that way.
Tappur does exactly that: http://tappur.co

It's a widget in your notifications bar and your lock screen with buttons for remote control. Also has a smartwatch app. I use it all the time and it's so much faster than the official Hue app.
I was hoping for a mountaineer to speak up. Thank you for this comment. I have zero knowledge of mountaineering other than that I used some mountaineering gear to do roofing work and the whole 'sharp edge' and 'rope jumped pulley' thing as well as the fact that there is no automatic shut-off should a line get caught (they hint in the article that the winches would keep running if a line gets caught) is troubling to me. The problem with such thinking is that it leads you to go 'why don't they' and that's not a very productive path for a lay-person in the field. OHSA presumably has been over this with a microscope and it is strange that none of those issues deserved a mention. Personally - if I were inclined to put my life at stake in a circus - I would have wanted to know exactly how all of this gear that my body is suspended from is working and how it is rated (and if such information would not be shared then I'd leave). It's got to be pretty safe though because with all the cycles it has gone through there have not been more accidents.
Is Google Now on Tap scraping your screen?
Those are (or were, at least) bridged from NSString. There's a bunch of path handling stuff available as well, because Swift String can be converted to and from NSString.
"Fix things?" What are you talking about? yahoo is a profit delivery vehicle. They should have cranked out dividends if they didn't want this.

Plus, the brand is severely damaged, it's become the new aol and while it functions and could potentially make money, it's not going to be a darling again. Not to the people here. Some clever selling off of things could be interesting, yahoo fantasy sports should be played on Facebook, for example. There are other interesting things that could happen, if they don't make it toxic to the buyers but it's almost certain they will try to saddle the tax burden on it with tricky debt transaction or something.