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> toothbrush

Incentive for dentists to recommend their internet enabled toothbrush so they can suggest specific brushing plans and monitor how well the person has been adhering to their regular brushing. There might also be some software on the dentist side for managing all of this.

I have one of these toothbrushes, that's roughly pulled from the features section of the manual. (I have it because I can track how well I keep to brushing my teeth over time, well worth the ounce of prevention.)

> thermostat

The local power company has a program where they supply a smart thermostat that they can regulate during peak use. With certain caveats of course, I think you can opt out of the automatic regulation several times a month.

> fridge

Haven't seen a practical use for this yet.
You mean "long term affordability" country.
Couldn't agree more. Acreage is unbelievable therapeutic compared with the city.

Source: Grew up on 4 acres of woodlands. Now live in SF. Would like to move back to a more rural setting after 3 years of hunting for parking spots and spending all my time/money getting away from the city when possible.
FreeBSD support has now been added. There was no particular reason for leaving FreeBSD off the list, we just haven't been using that system so far.
I think that Gassee does not fully appreciate the impact of the independence of U.S. law enforcement and judiciary.

Now that it's a court case, it might not be possible for it to be "delicately guided into a marsh of hearings and commissions". Its fate as a court case will be determined by judges, who generally have no interest in careful political management.

If the Justice Department loses, they can choose not to appeal, sure. But that decision will have to come from within Justice. As far as I know, it is illegal for the president to interfere with a criminal investigation.

If Apple loses, they will appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court.

Ultimately the only thing that can short circuit the process now, is Congress.

Maybe that's why the FBI did what they did. As things stood until this case, the default was that companies did not have to help. Congress would have to pass a law to force them to. But if the FBI wins this case, the opposite will be true: Congress would have to pass a law to limit the forced helping.

Betting on Congress is never a good idea, especially these days. So whoever is happiest to ask Congress to the least, often wins. The FBI is betting that there is a chance to flip the script.
But interestingly the Chinese competition from Xiaomi has a hybrid model - it can be set up to record everything onto a micro-sd card, which it does whether or not it's connected to their servers. If it is, you can can then view a live stream on your phone (and get notifications for motion, etc), or shuttle back through the recorded video on the card in the camera. I am actually happier to be spied on by Xiaomi, I doubt they would share anything with various TLAs in the US somehow... (mine is watching my front yard, too, not especially sensitive).
right, that's great. So, if I don't want to own a small farm and don't like sports, I should live in SF vs Ohio? Since most people don't want to own small farms, this explains at least some of the cost of living difference :)
I remember convincing my teacher to let me use haxe instead of flash for a multimedia course. It went pretty well (Got an A) and it allowed me to use vim (with the vaxe plugin)

Heres the game: https://github.com/Superpat/haxefighting-game
Yeah, Twitter's got tons of potential. It did a lot to realize that potential back during the Arab Spring, when it was used as the primary communications platform among activists. Twitter was proud of that, being such a huge part of social and political progress.

But that's not the Twitter of today. Now I more often read about how they've censored this or that. A trending hashtag that they disagree with will be removed from the trend list. Political activists that Twitter disagrees with will see their accounts de-verified or even outright banned.

They used to champion freedom of speech, now they are one of the internet's most prolific censors. To me, that is the Twitter Contradiction.
> (e.g. working at known, established tech giants and/or startups), knowing people or being knowledgeable + luck?

Passing an interview gauntlet will usually suffice. Be really good at sophomore level data structures/algorithms class materials.
Mainly because no one is willing to fund it. (Don't look at me, I haven't funded any of it either!)
Lego Earth, Moon and Sun Orrery
Sometime ago, i tried react and found a property named like "do_not_modify_or_you_will_be_fired" (i dont remember in which object).

I understand encapsulation is necessary, but i wonder how feels working with someone who writes code with a shotgun next to him / her.
No, it looks like some kind of s-expression version of the Swift AST. It could have been in XML format or something else. Lists seem to be popular for it - somehow.

Not everything which uses a notation similar to s-expressions has anything to do Lisp.
Yeah, the only job I've found where that's not true is something like 'head researcher' or other similar thing (like "data scientist").
Crowdcube crashed: too many people wanted to invest in app-only bank Mondo
Two of Google's Most Famous Dogs Really Don't Get Along
That hasn't been my experience. I've organized events in Chicago purely from Twitter.
If you're building a website for a bank, it is definitely IT work. Nobody sees you as anything but a cost center.
I am very much torn between this on multiple levels. On the most superficial level, I do not want development to become "blue collar" because I am a developer and don't want to think of myself as blue collar. With my personal bias out of the way:

Do you think it's possible for development to be the new manufacturing? I have been saying that it is for years now - but I don't know if I truly believe it or not. There is a large academic distinction between coding and manufacturing. Solid middle class manufacturing jobs were mostly mindless monkey work. Screw this on, put that in the hole it fits in, etc. The more I work on this internal Java ERP/CRM sites the more I think it is monkey work too, but when I take a step back I realize that I have been programming since I was 10 (16 years), I have a bachelors degree in computer science, I have several years of working experience and after work I go home and code. The work generally seems like turn key work to me, but I'm not sure if that is true. Basically I'm saying that I don't necessarily believe the masses are smart enough to be developers even for shitty intranet applications
It's a good introduction to the preprocessor, but I would dispute that it's advanced tricks.
The content is definitely interesting, but also very standard practice.

There are many wonderful and horrible things that can be done with macros, and some people get very creative, sometimes to a fault.
It's always a special feeling to see macros taking as argument other macros, all of that spreads through a deep hierarchy over several files!
Personally, I've always thought the midwestern US actually has a nice set of four pleasantly distinct seasons (Fall being my favorite). I actually like the snow too, though when it starts to get so cold that it doesn't snow anymore (last year comes to mind), then it does stop being very fun.
In the earlier days of DNA analysis, they routinely overstated the certainty of matches. They were testing too few loci for the kind of results they were claiming.

Matches that were called something like one in 8 billion were sometimes more like one in 2 million. In a city the size of New York, that's far less certain of match than they stated.
If we don't complain when designers do these awful things, what will motivate them to stop?
I don't care much about "fairness" and complaining, I'm more interested (and concerned) about incentives. If people see there's no way for them to succeed, they won't even try. They'll check out of the society and stop being productive ("herbivore men" (Japan) or "the beautiful ones" (mouse experiment)). The problem is systematic, of course, but if disproportionately affects the young, which in average have much less capital and thus rely much more on their (present and future) work income.
>Most of us are going to expect nothing short of perfection from these machines to really trust them.

Now, expecting perfection, and especially giving up 'better than what we have' in exchange for perfection is a bad thing, but but I do think it's completely reasonable to expect the self-driving cars to be way better than an average human, even better than the best humans, just because we lose so many people to auto accidents every year.

I think it's completely reasonable to want to reduce the risks associated with transport, and I think the only politically possible way to do this is with self-driving vehicles, because I don't think it's politically possible to remove the worst half of drivers from the road without offering them similar levels of mobility.
Vanilla JS was so horrible when JQuery came out that pretty much everyone loved it, except for a few folks who had been early adopters of Prototype/Mootools/YUI/Ext and were decrying how JQuery didn't have their favorite pet utility function.

I think the JS fatigue we're seeing is because web development is now largely a mature industry. React is roughly the 4th generation of Javascript technologies (1st = DHTML/Layers, 2nd = JQuery/Prototype/Mootools/YUI/Ext/Dojo, 3rd = Angular/Ember/Backbone, 4th = React/Polymer). At this point, there are millions of JS developers, they have seen multiple generations go by, and they just want some stability. The folks who always want to be on the bleeding edge are off doing IoT and VR startups.

IMHO, React is a nice piece of software, but it's a nice piece of software entering a market where existing solutions are already pretty good and much of the action is moving elsewhere. They have to hype it up, because people won't give up their JQuery/Angular/VanillaJS otherwise. It's a very different situation than when JQuery was introduced and web development was recovering from the .com bust and years of stagnation in browser innovation.
The Svbtle Promise
So your desires to use and own devices designed to maim and kill people is what keeps you from wanting to have a technology company in one of the intellectual hubs of the country?
I haven't found them guilty of gish gallop, but some of their articles are very biased and one-sided. They seem to be a reliable source on most issues of philosophy, science, and "woo", but anything political, societal, or remotely controversial usually isn't given a balanced view.
Mixpanel: Data Loss Incident Post-Mortem
Agree, an apartment I used to rent in LA has appreciated by 50% in 4 years. The housing crisis isn't as full-blown as in SF, but it's quickly getting there.
We're at an impasse, as I disagree the effort is negligible. (I think that it could be an enormous time-sink arguing over the relative scores of articles, as well as coming up and changing the criteria used to come up with those scores.) But neither of us have any data, so we can't make any progress down that line of discussion.

To your last question, the argument I don't see much discussion around is that editor time and effort is a limited resource; deleting articles is a way to manage that resource. So any solution that addresses this argument must not incur a large amount of editor time and effort.
The article is interesting. As an entrepreneur myself, I see a lot of companies that don't a) have an original idea b) are not trying to really disrupt any current technology or industry and c) Are spending a lot of money on what I deem "worthless" expenditures.

What IS interesting are these:

mingled at an industry networking event at the W Hotel in San Francisco in August 2014. The event — the Start-Up and Tech Mixer — is held every few months and typically draws hundreds of attendees.

- Who's the company putting these on? Pretty sure they're not free and are addressing the new for SV types to gather under some notion of "networking".

Participants in Cal Hacks 2.0, a 36-hour hackathon in October 2015, building projects inside the football stadium at the University of California, Berkeley.

According to the event organizers, 2,071 participants attended from 143 schools and 10 countries.

- One of my business friends always said to "go big". You want to have a hackathon for a few dozen teams? What about 1,000 teams? This is what these organizers did. Charge a small fee to the organizers, get companies to chip in free stuff and you're off and running.

Around 45 people, many of them technology entrepreneurs, live in 20 Mission. The space is a former single-room-occupancy hotel that had been vacant for several years before being turned into the co-living community.

- Man, talk about real estate opportunities! Take a beat up forgotten building and turn it into a co-living community. Buy the building outright and let the residents pay your mortgage and then make a little on top of that. If you want to, drop some money into it and refurb it. Then in 5-10 years, flip it for big bucks.

What's interesting is the companies they didn't highlight are probably making good money on the goldrush as opposed to the majority of the companies and individuals presented.
I could use a 600k/year salary :)
I came to the bay area five years ago from Ohio where I was working a soul-sucking job. I have two roommates and a SO, and my rent is $800 (my cost) for a two bedroom loft in Potrero hill.

I get the opportunity to work at an amazing startup and have been able to build a specialization in mapping technologies. On the weekends, I can hike or take a day trip or go to Sausalito, Angel Island, or just hang out and get high at Delores Park. Sometimes it feels like life isn't real we are so privileged around here, despite all the negativity.

I've made lifelong friends and connections here who "get me" more any other place I've lived. The gay community here is also especially strong...and weird! ;-P

It makes me sad that people are struggling, but I think the key is to value your experiences and spend the best part of your life less consumed with strict acquisition of wealth, and more with the depth and richness of experience. Of course that's a trade off.

Here's my advice on the bay area:

Don't rent an apartment in SOMA. Don't be consumed with trying to buy a house. Learn to accept living with roommates even though you make 6-figures and your friends back home are buying huge houses on far less. Forget about trying to save a lot of money. Be creative in your living situation if you want to save money. Enjoy your life and all that SF has to offer. I've lived all over the world and there's no place like it.

I guess for most people they are consumed with having kids and feel pressure to own a home and save for retirement. I've been able to save money and keep my living expenses down by having roommates, but I know owning a home here is probably out of my reach and that's OK. If you're unhappy here and really want to live a different lifestyle, and SF isn't able to provide you what you need to be happy, I would say you should move so you can give someone else the chance to be happy and thrive here.
I want to design a system that will be fabricated in China, and sold to customers in Europe. I expect my engineers will work from home a lot of the time. Where should I locate the firm? I know! How about the most expensive fucking are in the USA, so I have to pay the highest possible salaries, which everyone will blow on basic living costs.
By the way, Patrick - that's a really great quote; you could turn it into a super helpful essay/blogpost. I occasionally think of it as I interact with people who are choosing peer groups with poor outcomes.
What do you mean you can't flash an SD card in Windows? Never heard of Win32DiskImager?
It's pretty simple, really. The process first calls fork() to create a child process. The child process then calls exec() to replace itself with another executable. This is the typical way you'd launch a process on any UNIX-like system. For example, it's how the shell will create a process when you issue a command.
> We offer fun, predictive, skill-based competitions with static entry fees and static prizes.

Have you run that by a lawyer?
You might find this helpful: https://github.com/t0x0/random

It seems to convert the ffu format to a dd-able img format. I haven't tried using it, however.
Well, it all comes down to preference. Many people are responding about how they'd never trade the acreage and large house for a small place in a dense city, and that's totally fine. Personally, I'd never trade the density and culture of NYC for something suburban or semi-rural, and that's totally fine too.
When people talk about moving from downtown Manhattan to someplace else that has a much higher cost of housing, you know something is screwy!
I wouldn't give up my childhood living on 7 acres that backed up to hundreds of acres of state land for anything. And the weather in the Tornado Alley of Oklahoma was great, ranging from freezing snowy winters to hot and humid summers, giving my childhood a huge range of enjoyable experiences. I could hike, camp, fish, hunt, sled, ride dirt bikes, build stuff, blow up stuff (with my homemade fireworks), play most sports, all just steps from the back door. Seeing wild turkeys, dogs, coyotes, horses, fluffy bunnies (fierce killers), the monarch migration and too many types of birds to list without having to leave the property was invaluable to my curious mind.

The only other experience I'd consider possibly better for raising a child is in NYC (my current home) where the best art and culture exist a short subway ride away, with regular interactions from seemingly every culture in between.

You can have your moderate weather fluctuations (I don't consider cold, rain or snow "bad" weather), I'll take a world of life outside my door.
>Children and pet cats/dogs can run around outside and the children can exercise their imagination through unstructured play in a safe environment, especially in a multi-child family, potentially replacing overly-structured and expensive after-school activities for all but the youngest children (with many opportunities to increase their physical fitness through such activity). You or your children can also practice sports, such as baseball.

I lived in a tiny apartment right in the city growing up. And I mean very, very tiny - we shared beds. I did all those things in my city-dwelling childhood. You don't have to own the land to do that stuff. In fact city life lead me to spend plenty of time with the neighborhood kids, which was really great and you don't get that if you are spending all your time on your own property. If I was bored I literally just walked outside and see which of the neighborhood kids were out. I don't believe there was or is anything "unsafe" about public property and you can do sooooooo much more on public property. We did have a very small backyard that was shared with 6 families and we spent plenty of time there. And we got to interact with the other kids who lived in the building and the kid next door who saw us playing. You can also find a surprisingly large amount of nature in the city if you go looking for it. The idea you need to own 4 acres of land to play baseball is just laughable.

I'm fact, seems more like living on 4 acres would be a prison. You couldn't leave without being driven!!!

The problem is kids aren't allowed to go outside anymore by themselves.

Growing up with very little made me such a better person. I'm way off the hedonistic treadmill.
> This applies to everything else governed by a market, why shouldn't it apply to property taxes?

Taxes aren't governed by a market; the same rules don't apply. Arguments against government protectionism in markets don't also apply to protection against the actions of the government itself.

That said, proposition 13 doesn't seem like a good implementation of this. There's no good reason for a sudden increase upon sale; that breaks the ability to buy a home. There should be a hard cap on property taxes that doesn't change on sale.

Why should taxes get to increase without bound or control on existing property? Once you've paid off your home, you should not have an ever-growing expense to keep it.

(You shouldn't have an expense to keep it at all, but that's a separate argument.)
Fully agree, but those things you plug into the TV are most likely connected to the internet, right? The parent said that his TV would never benefit at all from using the internet. I think it does, doesn't matter if the connection is built into the TV or via a gadget plugged into it.
I seriously need to move from Seattle to Boston. I can't stand the drivers here who completely vapor-lock at 4-ways until someone waves them through...

Of course I don't really like 4 ways in SF where you have to fight tooth and nail for your right of way, but some happy medium where everyone just efficiently goes when its their turn would be nice...
You can live a life of wealth and luxury, or you can enjoy the weather.

Note that given the cost difference between living in SV vs Ohio (although I don't live in Ohio) I could spend 12.8 years with my wife at an all inclusive tropical resort. We'd probably get a discount if we lived there full time, so maybe 15-20 years. Not exactly your average retirement home.

Or cash on the barrel no discounts or financial aid at all I could pay list price to send SEVEN kids thru Harvard for four years with a reasonable allowance for expenses and still have money left over. I don't have seven kids, but I guess I could pay cash on the barrel to send a couple thru med school or law school instead, maybe finance a startup or small business for one of them.

Or I could cash buy six rental properties vaguely similar to the house I live in, and retire as a landlord (although from watching my great uncle do this, being a landlord is no retirement!). The rent off six houses, minus realistic expenses, would be a little less than I get paid now, but its interesting to think about.
I don't think this is a millenial problem, this is true of the young adult population in every generation. One trend I've noticed is that those who grow up in suburbs tend to prefer cities in their 20s, and those who grew up in cities tend to prefer urbanized suburbs.
P.S. The articles is beyond stupid. I use to love technology because it was apolitical and was never muddled with things like "race" and "micro aggression". It seems like every tech article I read now has something to say about minorities or under represented youth or woman. Give it a rest already. Anyone can start coding. All you need is notepad.

I do appreciate how the article makes a distinction between computer science and programming. We already have a computer science education in school. Its called math.
React is actually a poor choice for traditional CRUD apps in my opinion. React is at its best when you have a large amount of state to manage.
That's not my experience. My company transfers people to India to be point person with an outsourcing company. After a year they get a huge pay cut "because India is so cheap". I highly doubt any computer company will pay people in Kansas City more than in SF. Other industries or the government might but not high tech.
But why would that other lab care enough to replicate? I suspect this would only exacerbate the "rich getting richer" effect whereby well-known labs/professors would have an easier time getting replicated (and thus published).
Any modern argument based on laws written 250 years ago is going to necessarily be roundabout. If the problem was straightforward, there would probably be established case law addressing it.
> The linked report doesn't say Google is accepting responsibility

That's for insurance reasons. You're never supposed to admit fault at the collision in the US. You let the police decide and that's that. It's like the first thing listed on the guidelines for collisions on your insurance card.
You are arguably internet famous.