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its such a simple next step (at least, basic video
chat integration is really simple with webrtc)

Said like someone who's barely used videoconferencing software!

Having tried systems with built in video chat, Skype, Hangouts, Facetime, Radvision and Scopia I can tell you they all suck - and none of them give you the diagnostic information to tell /why/ they're broken.

In the past year I've seen echos that come and go, sound problems that are present in group calls but not individual calls, pages that work in Chrome but not Firefox, temporarily losing video or audio with no helpful diagnostic information, dropped calls with no helpful diagnostic information, people being unable to join group calls with no helpful diagnostic information, browser plugin problems with no helpful diagnostic information, problems reconnecting dropped connections with no helpful diagnostic information, users being unable to hot-plug their camera while a call is in progress, mobile apps only finding the rear-facing camera, users having to log out on android so the call will ring on their computer, nonexistent or out-of-date Linux clients, nonexistent Windows clients, and crap video quality even when users are on high-bandwidth connections that can easily stream 4k netflix.

I wish it was simple to make a decent video conferencing system, then someone might have done it.
> there are very few drug addicts

This is a dubious claim. How do you actually identify the number of people who are addicted? Even if there are fewer people addicted to the very few currently illegal drugs, are there fewer people addicted altogether?
Here (in the Netherlands) I see more and more kitchens with built-in instant hot water dispensers (like a Quooker[1]) instead. It's been a long time since I've seen anyone use a 'dumb' kettle.

[1]: http://www.quooker.co.uk/enuk
I love how all these world leaders always come out for drug legalization after they are out of power. Great timing.
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58% of the population or of the voters in that poll?
Which likely means they'll start favoring their apps which will be the end of many people using slack. I don't want to see that.
The problem with the BBC's idea of balanced is that it gives equal time to nonsense like anti-vaccers.
The Royal Navy famously now has far more admirals than it does ships. Something like 40 admirals and 260 captains for just 19 ships...
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This comment could so easily be PHP about instead of LaTeX, your pain is shared.
I would be okay with a dim orange LED. I already sleep with several idle LEDs on so one more won't hurt.
The people who aren't dependent and don't qualify for government provided dope. And there could be a lot of such people: imagine how much less risky a heroin habit sounds when you know that as as an addict you can get free clean drugs reliably, and that it will always be in front of a drug expert.

And it is less risky. I'd support a system that gives I'd more junkies of the junkies aren't destroying their health, aren't stealing, have jobs.

But of you're only allowing heroin use for dependent users in a clinic, you won't destroy the black market. There are still people developing new heroin addictions in Switzerland. And not only new users will use the black market to get heroin. Anyone who wants to use it in their own home, anyone who wants to keep their use secret will have no other choice.
> my gas stove would not have a pilot light

A gas water heater usually has an always on pilot light to avoid leaking unburned gas in case the main valve is stuck-open (or not fully closed). It's a failsafe, not a bug. (Which is why many heating systems refuse to turn back on automatically if they detect the pilot light goes off)

> Commercial buildings have had computers driving heating and cooling systems for a couple of decades

And they're expensive as fuck, and even today companies manage to mess up their setup (Berlin Airport cough).
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That wasn't because it couldn't "call home", that was because an update caused a bug on the nest to lock up.

It might not be any "better" of an excuse, but it's not the same thing as "not being able to call home"
This seems only be a problem for software developers though. Every other profession out there builds their workflows around proprietary expensive tools and it works out all fine.

But we software developers are a special kind. We expect people to work for free (as in no money) to create tools for us we then can use to earn money.
My favorite conspiracy theory regarding drug legalization is, "the rich" will want to legalize drugs to get rid of "the poor" on the theory that people who've been put out of work by machines are an unnecessary burden, and that widespread use of drugs among such people is a good way to reduce their numbers.

(I don't quite "believe" this theory in the sense of imagining a bunch of rich people sitting in a room, conspiring about this and cackling evilly. I "believe" in this more in the sense of, I think drugs are very bad for you on average and they certainly are the #1 cause of untimely death among the people I've personally known, and I think that the kind of people making policy decisions will not be that upset if large numbers of poorer people are very adversely affected by legalization, any more than they are upset by the adverse effects of draconian prohibition measures.)
For anyone who's curious about an example implementation of transfer patterns: https://github.com/eamsen/transit-planner

Transfer patterns also behave robustly given real-time updates on the network, which we have shown here: http://stromboli.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/student-projects...

On top of being an excellent researcher, Hannah Bast is one of the best professors I've had pleasure of studying under and working with, so I'm happy to see her getting credit for this.
I'm looking to Heap but I'm thinking of using it via Segment which is a wrapper for a bunch of services. Like Zapier for customer data collection.
Says the inventor of the language used to write most of the complicated unstable software he was probably rethinking of.
>Are Amazon and Netflix "studios"?

They pretty much are in today's sense of "studio." The days of MGM having a bunch of actors under contract and cranking out movies on their backlots and sound stages is pretty much ancient history. Studios are mostly the moneymen for independent production companies--which is the case whether the studio's name is Fox or Netflix.
I lived in Asia last year, and the whole bathroom was tiled and waterproof, with a small drain in the floor next to the bathtub (where water usually drops after you get out). There was also one in the kitchen, I assume they were intended for draining excess water after mopping.

As well as that the bathroom had a bidet sprayer [0], so that's what I used for cleaning the floor and tub - it which was pretty much the same as using pressure washer. After I was done I just left it to dry which took an hour or so.

[0] http://brondell.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x...
Japan and HK both have significant organized crime that controls the flow of drugs into the country and drives the price way up. In Japan's case the Yakuza has effectively banned certain drugs they consider "too dangerous".

Source: I had Japanese roommates in college who turned out to be potheads. They raved about the super-cheap marijuana they could get in the US, which was 1/5 to 1/10th the price as was available in Japan.
> What about the fact that drugs are incompatible with the lifestyle we want our society to have? Isn't it better instead of legalizing them to find the root cause which is forcing these people to seek escapism from reality in psychoactive substances?

Should we be fighting all forms of escapism? Movies, books, comics, computer games? Daydreaming?

If not, why are "drugs" different?

Does this apply to all psychoactive substances? Tobacco? Alcohol? Chocolate? Nutmeg?

> I don't want to live in a society of drug addicts, I want to live among people of sound mind, body and spirit, who conduct themselves honestly and honourable among their peers.

Wouldn't we all? I do not think that eradicating drug use will bring about this this utopia, though.
Am I right in thinking televisions need to be 'smart' in order to run an OS, televisions need to run an OS to run apps therefore we need 'smart' TVs in order to rid ourselves of these 'set top' boxes?
That's why i'd like to see a separate network for IOT.

Think z-wave and friends. Then have an interchangeable controller which can be firewalled to all hell if you want and can run locally if you want as well.
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I don't know if food mixes with cats. Worms, toxoplasmosis, things like that.
Additionally, most MBAs I've researched a while back seem to be geared towards the ultra extroverted crowd. Harvard is the prototypical example.

At the end of the day my cynical side says they are reasonably expensive (if you're at a good one and the people you meet are interesting) and overly long networking events.

I guess they are geared towards people who want to work in corporations after all (and are usually sponsored by a company) but I can't help but think that taking the money and spending the time ramen-noodling some idea will teach you more valuable lessons.
For the networking you could also wander around SV kungfu master style and talk to random people in coffee shops for a couple of units of time.

It's basically all about the certification (more or less) which is what I'd say is a fundamental issue about education in general. You can self-learn a lot of things but not self-certify.
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See also (if you're happy working in Python):
https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/
I agree but once the drug user is addicted it is too late. Addiction as a result of a treatment is a different matter. But the responsibility is for a user to chose to consume recreational drugs in the knowledge of the large risk of addiction and long term effects on the brain. These risks are widely known, and there is almost not a single movie that doesn't depict drug users as junkies. People should be free to take their chance nevertheless but I don't see them as victims.
Facebook and Google knows what you want to buy, who you talk to and what you search for.
I would disagree with you on the first point more; Rust is actually perfect for event loop based semantics (we use this in Servo, it's very clean). Ownership fits perfectly with message passing.

You should avoid sharing state when you're using a message passing-based system. The cross-thread communication is handled by the messaging, sharing the messages itself just muddles things further. So the borrow checker disallowing that isn't a bad thing.

> the necessary dependencies (websocket libraries, etc.)

I agree; though the websocket library Servo uses is pretty good (still, not battle-tested, so it's a very valid point).

> it might also not be something that allows to move as much forward in speed as you want for a prototype

Again, with the prototyping thing, sure, it's harder to prototype in Rust, but that's not the whole story -- you spend less time writing tests and debugging.

(Also, I'm not sure how much harder it is; I've never had trouble with doing it and before Rust I was mostly programming in Python/JS)

> Yes - I'm sure the Rust commmunity will disagree with me on the last point

Which sort of indicates that it's probably inaccurate? :)

A lot of the perceived problems with Rust (e.g. fighting the borrow checker) go away after a month or two of actively using the language.
Considering how peak usage for electricity in the UK is the time every house in the country "puts the kettle on" while watching soap operas, I wouldn't personally champion them as very energy-efficient -- especially since a lot of that boiled water is invariably wasted rather than turned into tea.

I don't know much about science, but there must be a reason the cheapest way to warm the average house is gas-powered boilers.
Yes, my router does have this. Which we use to have a simpler wifi password just to give to guests. It can only access the Internet and nothing on the LAN.
I didn't downvote, but others may have downvoted because you didn't give any sources, and you don't expand on your statement. Yes, there are fewer drug users in Singapore and Japan, but they are historically and culturally extremely different to the USA.

I'm not convinced on Indonesia[1] and Hong Kong[2]; I've visited both myself several times, and drugs were easily available.

[1] http://jakartaglobe.beritasatu.com/news/bnn-says-33-die-of-d...
[2] http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1826366/...
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No, that was outside of the decade in question. So it's not being ignored so much as excluded by definition.

Of course, the time when Iraq did that shortly before the decade in question, he had just spent nearly a decade involved in another invasion of a neighboring country -- with the full support of the US, which even rushed to publicly support Iraq when international pressure arose over their use of chemical weapons. So, its not exactly a mystery where he got the idea he could just invade neighboring countries with no consequences.
Japan has low crime rates because there is no visible underclass like blacks in America or immigrants in Europe.

There are drugs that are partly or fully banned in other countries that are freely prescribed here (rohypnol, for example).

Mushrooms weren't banned at all until recently.

An ex's brother was prosecuted for weed but let off after paying a fine. Another guy I knew who sold was let off in exchange for his cellphone contacts.
> The data on it may prove useful in preventing future attacks.

The data on it may also not prove useful in preventing future attacks. Especially as it was a person's business (not primary) phone.

The other issue here is that this will only grant safety insofar as terrorists don't do math or encryption themselves - and that could be through an app that they write or a foreign made android phone where they lock the bootloader with their own code signature.
That article is obviously fake, yet too unfunny to be a joke. Ouch.
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As with many article about proponents of power from nuclear fission it totally misses the cost rise due to future accidents. If past is any indication, those will inevitably happen increasing the operation cost for all plants. We literally export the cost of dealing with the mess into the future to get cheaper prices now.
There's no question that his behavior was "problematic." What is not at all clear in that scenario is whether or not it was unlawful for him to continue to communicate with her. "So much" literally means there is an acceptable amount of communications. Blocking on Facebook is a completely passive action which does not directly communicate anything. Sure you can deduce that she didn't want to hear from him again, but she should have sent an unhedged message to cease and desist further contact, THEN block him.
"Could this more easily be explained by an aggressive disease or plague that wiped out anyone it contacted"

This sounds so familiar! "The previous local populations just vanished and we, the current inhabitants, had nothing to do with it, cross my heart!"

The dramatic change should have been very beneficial to the hunter-gatherers. They survived so long in tundra but they somehow couldn't cope with the abundance of plants and plant eating venison brought along? Come on! It's more likely that the previous harsh conditions weren't that inviting for the better hunters of N type super-haplogroup living somewhere else, and as soon as that changed so did the hunting lands' owners!
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Just because he had a tab with ThePirateBay open doesn't mean he downloaded a pirated copy of the software.

He really should install an ad blocker though, to get rid of those "Mac Keeper" and "Attention" tabs.
ohh wow, thanks for sharing! this is gold!
> when NoSQL databases have been available for years is outrageous!

I work for a shared hoster, we host a ton of WordPress sites.

The problem here is that in shared hosting world MySQL is ubiquitous, along with PHP. It's all you need to get your WordPress blog up and running. Adding a dependency on a NoSQL datastore breaks that simplicity. Also which NoSQL database do you target because not all of them are suitable for running in these types of environments.

Also wp_options is, as the table name suggests, mostly just option settings which are looked up by a known key "option_name" then the json-like blob is read from the "option_value" field and parsed. There's very little or no searching done for values inside that blob so you're adding NoSQL complexity just to store key/value pairs. MySQL is a well known, well understood thing and "just works" for apps like WordPress.
You're right. I was thinking exclusively of the case where you have an array whose elements themselves are indices into the same array.
Sorry, I am that guy.

Linux support means source, deb and rpm!

RPM is the Redhat and SUSE which are major commercial players in Linux. My library was Redhat only in the college I worked at (I actually got to make that switch happen)and still is. Now I work with OpenSUSE at my company.
Awesome, I stopped participating in .Net scene ~2010, all this great news out of Microsoft (CoreCLR, Ximarin buy, F#, gold sponsor OpenBSD, VS code, first class Git support, Typescript) has been enticing me back for a long time, now JetBrains essentially bring Resharper like IDE to Linux, things are looking great..
Sure. Or, alternatively, you can buy a big reliable dumb TV and upgrade the set top boxes (TiVo, Roku, AppleTV, Android-whatever) cheaply every couple of years.
"Uber for electrical switches..."

As the bottom of the page says as I write this, "Applications are open for YC Summer 2016"....
We in the USA can't get as much power out of a wall, so boiling water with an electric kettle takes twice as long as in the UK/europe (same amp breakers, with half the volts (115 vs 230), means half the watts.
Amen. He could well be seeding his own indie tracks.
same for me, but I hate smoking. if things would be legal, I would much MUCH prefer different, non harmful way to consume it (food, of vaporizing some pure extract in e-cigarette style). usual vaporizers are only somewhere in the middle, plus more inconvenient.

I don't care so much about pricing, amsterdam levels would be OK for me. I consume so little that I would be OK even with higher pricing. But I could actually choose what type of effect, strength etc. I want, rather than random, mostly weak & expensive street stuff, bought from shady characters in dark alleys.

Unless society will be handling death/for life penalties for pure consumation here, I am not stopping consuming of a plant that used to grow all round us, was heavily subsidized when US colonies got independence etc. It just doesn't make sense, this is one of the cases of laws that are plain wrong (in case of this plant and all possible products from it). If there is such an immoral law, it actually feels good breaking it (but still preferring clean, legal, market-driven scenario).
A computer can process text, it cannot read and it cannot write because it cant think. There is no automating taste.

Publishers' function will be close to exactly the same, just built on top of a digital infrastructure and organization.

Netflix and Amazon are studios when they do the same work as a studio.
I've never seen a thesaurus that agrees with you.
My parents always used a kettle on the stove to heat the water to make ice tea. Bring it to a boil and then pour into a pitcher with two big tea bags. Sometimes as a kid I would do that using the microwave instead of the stove, but to the same effect.
Couldn't agree with your points more.

Found this one particularly salient: 5. A lot of big names are in this game pro-actively, in case it actually turns out to be of some value. This is why you see big companies that should know better demoing embarrassing things (like LG's drunken robot). They need to be sure they have a foot in the door in case this actually takes off, but aren't willing to invest the funds needed to provide a serious, integrated system.

Many big companies are hedging their bets and playing catch up, which is downright dangerous when you're selling devices that scale up the threat vector for life-critical devices such as refrigerators, security cameras, door locks, thermostats, and cars.

I think Apple has the best shot at winning the connected home game due to their ownership of the iPhone ecosystem (used as a remote for the smarthome), tight product control, and their new marketing story of we are security - and they actually do implement the most rigorous key management and cryptography standards in the industry. I'm looking forward to their next hardware reveal - I think a Siri-integrated router (ala Amazon Echo) would complement their portfolio really well at the moment.
I used Transferwise to send money from my personal NL account to my personal US account and it was pretty straight forward.
Agree it isn't proof, but still seems fishy. I agree with the article though that he should take the chance to plug Tidal and should be playing his music through the service he is using, no?
> What about the fact that drugs are incompatible with the lifestyle we want our society to have?

Says who? Billions of people consume alcohol and tobacco every week - these are drugs too!

I fail to see how unwinding with some weed/hash at the end of a day or at the weekend is a bad thing, or how it's any different to alcohol.
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I've dug into this in more detail in some past political events, and I've always found that the people making the strongest "there should be more for me" demands had incomes above the median. I never had much sympathy for them, and I do call them on it when I see them.

I can't really do it here, unless people in this thread would care to share what they earn.
Look at the map GP posted. That residential block is sided by the Apple complex, a block of large industrial buildings, a Home Depot and an expressway.
Can't "keep the black men as much as possible in prison" probably also play a "minor" role? War on drugs hits the poor and black communities the most. That is by design - the crack cocaine 100 times as powder cocaine being good example.
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My apartment has the worst of both worlds: switches that can't be controlled by WiFi, but are wireless [1].

The switch has no state, so sometimes I press the wrong side of it. Sometimes the light doesn't respond — particularly if I want to switch more than one light on or off. One day the batteries in the switch will run out.

I assume the only advantage is the reduction in wiring needed.

[1] http://www.lk.dk/losninger/fa-graveret-dine-tangenter/
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