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Every field has cranks. People, often mentally ill, send pages and pages of crazy theories and writing to professors.

One professor had an idea. Every time a crank wrote to him, he would send them the contact information of the last crank. He said he was too busy to read it right now, but this other person might help him. Instead of getting angry letters back, they wouldn't write back again, or even sent nice letters thanking him for the referral.

That might have helped in this case. This guy might not have time to read these people's works, but surely they can help each other.
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Isn't that like any news site ever? There's a reason why articles in tabloids and on clickbait websites tend to be as inflammatory as possible, because the inevitable flame war in the comments will likely bring the page views (and the links from people attacking it elsewhere will bring the backlinks for SEO purposes).
No shit?! Nest, a real-life object-oriented breakfast food cooker[1] if ever one existed,
is having trouble trying to crack the market for things people NEED like heating? Perish the thought!

I live in the northeast. There is no way that I would trust heating my domicile to any cloud-based, internet-of-things-enabled gadget with as many potential failure modes as Nest has, let alone one with the actual failure modes we've seen. If you really want to make heating "smart", an Arduino, an RTC, maybe a temperature sensor for each room, and a way to enter desired heating schedules at the console or via short range wireless will suffice. But most people get by with their dial thermostats.

[1] http://scienceagainstevolution.info/dwj/toaster.htm
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>I don't get it... Google clearly has more than enough in house talent to get those things right. Why aren't they? Why don't they seem to care?

I think it's because "Google" aren't involved at all. Google has it's own approach to IOT called Brillo/Weave that they're focused on. Nest is doing its own isolated thing.
Yours is a totally reasonable comment, but it seems to be getting a lot of downvotes. I'm seeing the same thing on other articles today; I wonder if there's some sort of brigading going on.
>What I find more sobering is that the real US median income decreased 6.6% from 2000-2012.<

I think your point is very important...

My take is that this can fundamentally be attributed to our (increasingly full) participation in the "global economy"...

For years jobs have been out-sourced "within" countries by a process of competitive bidding...we Americans have done this for years and consider it fair...we refer to it as a level playing field...

Surprise...the global economy dictates that whoever is willing to do a good job cheaply--provide the same benefit at a reduced cost--has a very realistic shot at eventually filling a position...one way or another...

That's what I find sobering...regardless of your country of origin, or your particular skill set there are now many more just like you--equally qualified--who are willing to provide what you provide at a lower salary...

We're part of a "great leveling"...
I've been dabbling in the smart home stuff for a few years. Had a gig where some dudes with some VC money paid us to develop a smart home controller - this was circa 1999-2000 but they ran out of money and the project dried up.

I would love to find some hackers who would love to collaborate and do something here.

Funny story: When I was working on the smart home stuff, it was called BeAtHome and the VCs some how got national attention as an energy smart/saving device. We had an office building that was physically connected to a barber shop next door. We shared the same entrace into the building. During the prototyping phase of some of the hardware, we got permission to put a pressure sensitive mat at the front door which would trigger when someone stepped on it. A web cam was then used to snap a picture and we would email this a test account, etc... We had a lot of fun on the project. The idea was a door mat or doorbell could be used to capture pictures of who is at at the front door.

One of the VC guys had a relationship with a company called Icebox which made these under the cabinet flip down screens where you could watch TV & surf the web. We were trying to connect CCTV and WebCams to their screen.

anyway, times have changed and there are so many new technologies out there that I think Nest and Smartthings (Samsung?) is ripe for some serious competition.
The problem I'm seeing is that what OS X has isn't a unified system, and what Apple promotes isn't want developers want to/can use. So you see time and effort going into tools like this that only last a few years. It results in more fracturing in the end.

In this popular diagram, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Unix_his..., NeXTSTEP was originally forked in 1988, before Linux really had package management put together. Darwin is from 2001.

Is 14 years not enough time to establish a proprietor supported unified package management system?

My expectations may just be set too high.
I believe all of your claimed issues are false:

>pay the same taxes or more

Resident aliens pay the same tax rate, but do not qualify for many of the tax benefit tools (as an eg 401k is effectively useless because it becomes taxable income as soon as the person no longer resides in the US). Additionally one should consider that resident aliens pay significant tax with little hope of ever claiming a benefit, we do not get social security if unemployed (infact we get deportation), medicaid for our senior family members (they have no right to be here) etc.

> is far more likely to buy real estate

This is due to immigration rules. One cannot reasonably buy real estate unless they have some assurance of being able to stay in the time that buying makes sense. That timeline is 5-10 yrs at a minimum. H1Bs and other visas have 3 yr limits on them and can be revoked at any time.

> assuredly un-employ some American

You have little to no proof of this. I would argue the cost of bringing an H1B into the country (>= $10k) should make the existing American employee quite attractive.

I hope you can see that the deck is actually stacked in the local American's favor, and that a protectionist policy just drives jobs out of the country where they cannot be taxed at all.
What is targeting software? How are they responsible for assassinations and disappearing people? What is this big brother tech?
I think if she had disciplined the VC she'd have her money right now. Or at least this wouldn't be in the way. One fundamental responsibility of leadership is disciplining misbehavior. In this case the VC provided a ridiculous over the top sexist commentary somewhere between illegal and merely unethical, and instead of standing up for what is right and/or threatening discipline as best she can, she blogs about a private conversation. Not good at all. Is that how all ethical problems or discipline problems will be handled? VCs may as well pile up their money and burn it to save time.

The other side also earns a demerit. Come on, you stress test a female applicant by going for the girl angle, could you possibly be a little less creative? Previous people have probably noticed the whole "girl" thing, her being a female and all that. You could at least try, look into her childhood or education or management style or past employment or almost anything else to stress her would have been more creative. Still if a dud torpedo blows her out of the water, it wasn't really a dud, was it?

And an IM conversation isn't as under pressure as face to face, none the less I'd give her some credit for not doing as well as carefully reasoned "monday morning quarterbacking".
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> "Being an asshole != "telling it like it is" though most people confuse the two."

This reminds me of an old quote.

"People who are brutally honest generally enjoy the brutality more than the honesty."
Wait, what problem is this solving?
TL;DR - Micromanaging executive is over his head, and compensates by bulling subordinates for his own shortcomings.
It's pretty common. Now that you know what it means, you'll grow to like it.
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Actually I do, isn't that how it is most frequently done? Fact is that even though it works and you can set it up yourself, it is not a good solution to decentralizing a code base. You might have a private machine to which everybody ssh'es and pushes and pulls from, but only a few do that because they don't want to be/have the ops people who run that box. And that is including but not limited to issues and a sane UI for collaborations. That's very well the problem that github/bitbucket/gitlab and the like solve.

So you are telling me that there is no problem and people should just use a private SSH connection to a box they own?
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Sure - but the signal can only be heard from within your in-group's discussion. So they'll generally flock together taking potshots at the outgroup from afar. There are of course cases of drive-bys, but that's harder to organize and rarer.
While not universally correct, this is true more often than it should be.

My personal opinion is that the answer lies in the more primitive parts of the brain. Investors, acquirers, and customers are all human beings, and as human beings they all respond to primate social dominance cues. Investors fund, acquirers acquire, employees perform for, and customers buy from aggressive dominant alpha males because... well... that's what the alpha wants you to do and your brain stem is telling you to obey them. They are pushing ancient buttons that way pre-date the neocortex.

Again, not universal, but there's a part two:

Some investors invest in these types not because they themselves are taken in, but because they know on average others will be. Could a more quiet, reserved, polite personality -- even a more intelligent one -- have managed to sell a simple cloud-connected thermostat for $3.2 billion dollars? Maybe, but statistically probably not.

This will remain true until we find a way to remove legacy code.
I suspect it's at least partly to do with the subject matter. If the community is united around a common interest, they can (sometimes) put aside their differences elsewhere to talk about that one thing in a moderately civil way.

If it's a free for all about anything and everything, then well, it's like herding cats and a vicious flame war is likely to ensue at some point.
One hears that espoused quite frequently.

Assuming there is "a big shortage in 'high quality' engineers" can anyone provide links to any AWS, Google, Apple, Facebook, SpaceX, position postings which typifies this big shortage? e.g. Postings which are an exemplar, of requiring 'high quality engineers' but remain open for weeks or months due to the massive STEM shortage? Based on the I-squared Act's proposed increase to a 1/4 million (250,000) H1-Bs there should be 10s and 10s of 10,000s such postings.

This massive STEM shortage debate has been happening for years. The referenced article links studies, presents supporting data (aka actual statistics) and provides direct anecdotal evidence (he is involved in the production of STEM resources). Bluntly I have seen many similar fact based articles and studies on the "there is no STEM shortage" side and can't recall a single peer reviewed study on the massive shortage side. Links welcome.
I'll add 'string theorist', 'paleobotanist', 'exoplanetologist', 'dendrochronologist', and 'parapsychologist'.

When politicians (or most people, for that matter) talk about needing more people in STEM, they don't usually mean to increase funding for these fields. Rather, "STEM" is short-hand for "the sorts of people who solve problems that are useful for industry, business, and health."
Unfortunately I don't think I'm well read enough to give a proper answer.

However, the housing market in London is all over the place, and there isn't a bank that has a direct interest in helping people on to the housing ladder in London. I think if you had a London centric bank that understood the housing situation and it's customers needs well, you'd capture a great sample of the capital.
Luckily, I made no (financial) bet. :)
Well, my professors were all able to associate my name with my face by midterms. A good portion of the teaching assistants were also able to identify me on sight. Though some of them knew me by "Log" rather than my proper name.

Strangely enough, the Chemistry Department was better at recognizing me than my own Comp Sci Department. Perhaps it was because my major stood out on the class ranking printouts. In one course, the profs gave out a new CRC Manual as a prize to the top scorer in the class, and they were lucky Sujata Bhatia beat me, because it might have been embarrassing to the department otherwise. Maybe lucky isn't the right word--the lady had mad skills with a molecule.

I suppose it would have been theoretically possible for me to have been impersonating another student the entire time I was at university, but so long as I answered to the same name during lectures and labs as I wrote on the test, and that name was paid up on tuition according to the bursar, that was pretty much all the verification that was needed.
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And to think, there's an alternate 'verse where the above comment was s/w\//with/, you'd still not know...
There is a big shortage of cheap engineers.

Google and Apple have also been convicted of colluding not to poach each other's "high quality" engineers, lest it drive the price up.
Is there really a voice like that in the nest fire alarm ?! It really looks like a bad joke, reminds me of playing Portal. This is exactly what a fire alarm in Portal would look like !
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They already have a FaceBook search engine. I noticed when I start typing a friend's name in the search bar, my friend matches appear below pages that I haven't liked/discussions or if I search an artist I liked, other results appear above it in the quick search drop down. I haven't noticed sponsored search results but I'm sure they're working on it.

Example of a search query URL. Verified pages appear to get more weight.
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=president
At least Alan's subject of obsession (Shakespeare) was long dead. If he had been alive, perhaps the dynamic here would have been more like Eminem's 'Stan'
Seriously? Some guy brags about how he wasted a whole day arguing with some rude dude, who randomly emailed him, because he didn't want to read his essays as he was too busy? I guess I'm much more disgusted by Jeff, than by that Alan. I mean, even if I would do something like that, there's no way I would be so proud of myself to make a blogpost about it.

I'm honestly surprised 40 people in 2 hours found it worthy of HN frontpage.
I'm not particularly worried about it. Sometimes there are some stray downvotes that just end up hitting one of my comments. I have plenty of karma to spare anyway.

Thanks for the kind words, though!
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That's fair, in the US the first amendment grants everyone that right.

I suppose that could've been better worded as:

If you go ask someone to give you their money, you are in no position to complain about how they do their due diligence.
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What if, instead of trying to determine an objective ranking for content based on [up/down]votes, we used a correlational voting thing?

Things upvoted by people who vote similar things to oneself are ranked higher for oneself, and things downvoted by people who vote more similarly to oneself are ranked lower for oneself.

This might be computationally expensive, but approximations to it would be cheaper I think, and still give some good results.
I've always wondered whether you could just have a community that banned outrage. Literally: express outrage, get banned. "Signal boost" someone else's outrage, get banned. It's not welcome within the community.

Would this even make sense? Or would this shove so hard against human nature that people would never be able to abide it?

(Of course, sometimes you'd be outraged at the community—or its management—and that'd be sort of an insidious policy in that case. I think it could still work if there was a "side" area—like MetaFilter's MetaTalk—that allowed outrage, but with the strong rule of not linking to the side area from the regular area, so people wouldn't just be having the same viral arguments by link-proxy.)
Not sure if this is what GP was getting at, but H1Bs by some estimates make significantly less than non-H1Bs and thus would pay less income tax
Then get different higher ups. Sane management goes a long way.
Spoiler: No Perl6 here :-), this is about genetics of the endangered and terrestrial Kakapo parrot. A very interesting project.
Or record or livestream the abuse using Google Glass and point the media to it like Business Insider.
This was down voted but I think it adds to the discussion.

Even in the "utopia" of SV (as some people seem to see it) boss can say something a mile over the line to Google executives and come out fine, but if an employee so much as puts a toe over.. it's almost like behind the hype we have the same bureaucracies and cultures as everyone else...
I recently started designing and making jewelry. I'm particularly fascinated by Iolite. [Iolite]("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordierite") is commonly referred to as "water sapphire" or "viking's compass". This is because it changes in tone depending on it's angle to the sun. Historically it would have been useful because the effect works regardless of cloud cover and even when the sun is below the horizon. I'm not sure if the nickname is a historic remainder or attached during modernity (the jewelry industry is both ancient and opaque) but the effect is real, and could potentially be of concrete utility during navigation.
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ParseHub is especially good at dealing with dynamic websites and multidimensional data (arbitrary relationships instead of just rows and columns).

Our team would be happy to help you migrate from Kimono. We're bootstrapped and profitable, so we don't have pressure to sell when an offer comes along. We also pledged to release the back-end code under a liberal open source license if we were ever in a position where we could no longer provide service.
>you're subsidizing smarter students by taking in slightly less smart students

And diluting the value of that degree at the same time by graduating not learning anything.
And what happens when no one can afford to buy the stuff produced by companies mostly staffed with robots? Unless some sort of basic income is instated before that point, I guess they just go broke and things kind of even out a little. Robots don't buy things made by robots.
Yet industrial/commercial grade hard wired smoke detectors work just fine. I've worked in industrial facilities where there were thousands of smoke and fire detectors, and a zero false alarm rate. Yet, one day, when a HVAC unit overheated and smoked, all the right stuff happened. The local alarms went off, and the duct dampers slammed shut to contain the smoke. But because there wasn't confirmation from a second detector, or water flow in the sprinklers, the full emergency power off and building evacuation sequence didn't trip. We got to the HVAC unit and pulled its main switch before things escalated.

So why can't Nest meet that standard of performance?
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Well part of the trick is knowing when to sell your shovel company and move on.
Yep. Fuck all those companies.
He spends a lot of time, emailing a lot of people to push his agenda, including stuff like this (from the referenced article)

"Feel free to continue to ignore my work, just be prepared to pay a price for it that you might never have imagined.”

And, he pushes his agenda in newsletters, his website, the twitter feed I referenced, etc.

The context, to me, is meaningful. This isn't a case of outing someone. He outed himself from the start, on purpose.

Reading the article by itself, you might draw conclusions that you wouldn't if you had the full story.
This is a good list of alternatives:

https://www.quora.com/Which-are-some-of-the-best-web-data-sc...
UK residents, British Gas's Hive is a good alternative to Nest here. No attempt to magically learn, really well made hardware and apps.

The only software upgrade since I bought mine was a new "boost" button (turns heating on for 1 or 2 hours), which was the only thing I'd really wanted extra...
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In America? Yes. Globally, absolutely not.
An open source version of AWS lambda, as soon as I get the time I will work on seriously it...
In a medium such as Twitter, there is not enough incentive to make users post quality. Morons can post about whatever irrelevant nonsense they want and gain approval from other morons. From inside a filter bubble, PC policing a celebrity can seem incredibly courageous and clever, when in fact it is the opposite. The potential harms of this are real. Richard Dawkins suffered a stroke last week following such an incident, where a random interloper peppered him with a barrage of criticism, taking her gang of followers with her.
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> The correct way of accessing a variable like that is trough an union.

It's funny you should say that, because people have been taking the exact opposite viewpoint for years: “union do not allow type-punning because it was only clarified in TC3 of C99 that they do. memcpy has always been the correct way to type-pun.”

The bug reporter is referring to the rules described in 6.5:6 and 6.5:7 of C11 (the same rules are included in C99, but interestingly not in C90, meaning that “gcc -std=c90” should go theoretically easy with the type-based optimizations. It doesn't). Here is a link: http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5p6

And an excerpt for your convenience:

If a value is copied into an object having no declared type using memcpy or memmove, or […], then the effective type of the modified object for that access and for subsequent accesses that do not modify the value is the effective type of the object from which the value is copied, if it has one

How do you interpret the above paragraph?
No wonder he's endangered: he attempts to mate with the photographer.
It sounds like your Nest is broken or is not installed properly.

(The installation can be tricky; I put mine in myself and did it wrong at first because the existing wiring was mislabeled)
If you really hate it and just need to turn things on/off and get a view across your environment then take a look at www.parkmycloud.com

Much more pleasing UI and can save you literally thousands....
But if the H1-B worker can actually do the same work, what stops Disney from moving all the development to a more immigrant friendly country? Other countries would even give Disney tax benefits to do so..
I did derivatives and integrals in my highschool calc course, circa 2007
Lo que quería decir por 'rote learning' era las lecciones tradicionales que acentúan aprendiendo las formas de verbos en una secuencia estricta (presento en el semestre primero, imperfecto en el semestre segundo, etc.)

De acuerdo que 'rote memorization' es mas importante para escuchar o hablar sin esfuerza, como automático.

¿Qué es tu lengua segunda que aprendes? ¿Podrías recomendar las materiales que sean buenas por 'rote memorization' o sitios de web para mejorar como nos aprendemos?
How would you define that as being a true assertion? I've often seen it as "I trained my H1-B replacement"
tell that to the 0.01% making far more than ever before