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Neutral is not usually present at the switch, which makes it hard to power things.

There is a lighting ring main through the lights, and each switch is a spur that gets "live" and "to lightbulb". Whereas it looks like other countries run power to the switches, and then to the light.

Edit for diagrams: http://www.howtowirealightswitch.com/2-way-switch-with-power... ("UK") versus http://www.howtowirealightswitch.com/2-way-switch-with-power... (neutral at switch, suitable for powering other electronics)
I'm not on a horse. Their website is extremely glossy and it's version 2 apparently; fair enough if you say it's not a consumer device.

I feel like the looking ridiculous factor is a perfectly reasonable fear to have and a big reason why I wouldn't buy it. Downvote away but it's a reasonable stance to take IMO and this clearly suffers from it more than VR.
Really I think the title should be: "If you can't get in to a prestigious business school you're probably better off saving your money"

The quality of MBA programs vary drastically. An MBA from Phoenix (an online university) costs quite a lot and you will not be recruited into high paying positions. An MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management also costs quite a lot, but you will be heavily recruited by big companies and offered nice salaries. The difference starts in the quality of their admissions. Phoenix University lets in anyone who can pay. MIT only lets in the top folks (who can also pay or can figure out a way for someone else to pay for them). Because MIT starts out with higher quality people they run a more rigorous program and the top businesses recognize that MIT graduates are worth more than graduates from diploma mills. There are other great business schools other than MIT, I'm just using them as an example. This phenomenon is also seen in the financial world, a finance degree from an Ivy league school is literally worth tens of thousands of dollars more than a public university because that is all the big financial firms want to hire.

This might be confusing to people in the software world where you rise based on merit, but in the business world a degree is not just a piece of paper but a pedigree; and your pedigree matters a lot.
The Philips Hue bulbs are great. I used them for years without problems. You don't need to do anything with your switches since each bulb can connect to wifi. Would be expensive for a large house.

I think the important thing is bulb brightness along with temperature at night. The long term health costs may actually outweigh the cost of bulbs - maybe in another 5 or 10 years there with be some scientific data on that.
Not necessarily. We don't know what the index of refraction is on the prism on the album cover, nor even if the whole prism has a constant refraction index, or even if it's solid.
But yes, the artist probably didn't depict it based on science.
This is how I have it set up. I have a separate network for IoT, with a home-built webpage to reach all of the devices using their API. No Net access for them. It works pretty well for me, but I'm guessing your average-joe doesn't want to write a webpage for every new gadget he gets.

It's ridiculous that I've had to do this
1) your space is "boring" and a start-up is high risk; you will naturally have to evaluate a larger number of applicants before finding the right one. From my experience when I worked in banking (USA, c2005) we had a hard time finding devs; in adult-content (c2009) applicants were plentiful; now I'm back in regulatory compliance and devs are "hard" to find; my associates in the-next-hot-lo-mo-so app have more candidates

2) You may be able to find one good dev-hire as a core builder; and continue to run with consultants going forward. Many times I've been able to engage a dev-consultant part-time and continue to increase the engagement - transitioning into full-time (or close to it).
> By contrast, there has been a near tripling of American deaths from heroin overdoses between 2010 and 2013, even though the law and its severe punishments remain unchanged.

But why heroin usage has raised?

I have read an (very convincing) argument that heroin usage is increasing due to the marijuana legalization. And no, it's not the typical "marijuana is a door the heavier drugs" thing, is merely supply and demand effect on the streets. Street dealers don't really sell weed as they used to now that better and legal weed exist, so they went on heroin. Heroin got a lot cheaper and widely available due to it (Unfortunately, I lost the article link).

I'm not arguing in favor or against legalization (I'm in favor all the way), my complain is how one folded the debate is. Numbers are great and they are definitely needed, but they may trick you into thinking that everything has a simple cause and effect when reality is much more complicated.

One striking example how lazy is legislation is the case of safer chemicals such as LSD or MDMA versus designer drugs such as 25i (nbomb). In some places such designer drugs are even legal (bath salts anyone?) due to how slow or careless the legislation is. As for LSD it's a long time in prison. The dealers are coerced to sell more dangerous substances.
You can lift weights for wrists. Though that's a bit like saying "lift weights for elbows".

The actual muscles are in the forearms. https://musclewiki.org/Forearms
For once it might be my turn to tell something interesting that not everyone here knew before:

There is a simple solution to that, using only standard switches and the standard power wire, -in fact I think this is a standard thing for fresh electricians-to-be to learn first year in school here.

Edit: I have this setup at home in my staircase so I don't have to walk up (or down) to turn on/off he lights.
similar app I really love http://zenphoton.com
> 1. Global scope only.

So are functions, by that rationale. If you want to control scope of variables, pass in macro parameters.

> 2. Unexpected results rather than error messages

When have min() or max() produced unexpected results rather than error messages? They're macros, you know.

> Every compiler I've used, including GCC, won't warn about if an int is compared to unsigned.

-Wconversion

> 5. can't take the address

You can't take the address of a struct definition or a typedef, either. Macros are not replacements for functions; they're code generators.

> 6. worst, substituted value need not even be legal in the context the #define is created because it is evaluated at each point it is referenced allowing to another evil problem of being able to reference objects that are not declared yet.

I don't even... You do know that, following the preprocessing phase, the compiler actually checks the generated code for legality, right? And since when is forward referencing evil?
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Living a balanced life is simple: 5 creative Australians tell us how they do it
Having some loose set of code repos up that claim to "run your apps" is no excuse for not having a sustainable and publicly scrutinized revenue model for the project. Without a model in place, savvy users (like those here on HN) will realize that your model may change later (because the VCs require you to exit for example) and that will affect how we get along holistically with your product later.
The Super Surrogates of JavaScript
A dishwasher is home automation, which is why I listed it. But it's not a "smart home" and it only automates part of the process. Most of us have a variety of dedicated appliances in our house. Washers and dryers certainly count as well. But that's sort of my point. We automated a lot of the obvious pain points around the house a long time ago. Most of this new stuff doesn't really incrementally help.

>>Robot lawnmowers exist

They're expensive and limited. You generally need to setup a wire for the boundary. I looked into them a bit. They might make sense for a small fenced in yard but they certainly didn't make any sense in my case.
Many also offer needlessly poor relocation packages -- mostly because engineers are foolishly willing to accept them.

A flat payment of even $8000 is not reasonable for someone to move across the country, even if they are moving alone and seeking small, affordable apartments.

A minimum relocation package should include having the company handle the arrangements for a full-service moving company who will pack your things in boxes and unpack them in the new place, flight and hotel for 1 or 2 visits to the new city for housing search, cover all up-front costs with renting a new place (fees, deposit, first month rent), and still leave you with a few thousand dollars on top of that for incidental expenses, unplanned costs after you've moved in, etc. And if they need you to relocate from an area with accessible public transit to an area where a car is required, then a sign-on bonus that covers most or all of the cost of a reasonable quality car should also be standard.

This is not luxury stuff, this is just the basic human cost of moving across the country. If you take the risk of a new job in SF and move all the way there and it doesn't work out, well you don't get a refund on your moving expenses and you don't get compensation for any personal time you took (e.g. if you moved yourself with a UHaul).

And what if you injure your back while carrying furniture down the stairs? Will your new company cover the medical bills? What if the moving company you hired damages your stuff or loses it? Will the new company reimburse you?

This is why it's so necessary that the company assumes the risk of these things. The company is funded and/or profitable (or else shouldn't be considering hiring someone who requires relocation). They can afford to bear the relocation costs and the risks. A lone individual may or may not be able to, and can't risk their livelihood on their ability to handle the relocation risks.

But it's all too common that a start-up offers $2500 to a recent college grad who has been eating ramen for the last week. It sounds great, and they don't know enough about career status and so forth to realize that if you admit you are willing to physically haul your own stuff around, it already paints you as a low-status subordinate. These folks unblinkingly accept precarious and unreasonable relocation scenarios, and then the company can hide behind a claim of "well, no one else complained about our relocation assistance" when negotiating.
Intel’s Android smartphone prototype is also a Linux desktop PC
> looks or feels anything like a native Windows application

But compared to what? A ribbon app like MSWord? Photoshop? VS2015? VS200X? They're all radically different and they're all creation-centered apps, so if you tell me Qt Creator doesn't feel native... it feels more native than any of those I cited, all massive commercial successes?

It's like you said... it looks native when you stick to forms and buttons. And honestly, yeah that's fine, because any app that doesn't stick to forms and buttons will want to customize itself far more.
I think we are paying around 1.6 times more for the consultants right now. I understand that many of them have pretty sweet deals, but at the same time there is a lot of perks being employed over here too, especially if you have kids.

We have some great developers now, all of whom came in on personal connections, but it feels like we hit a stop there.
VCs Bosses Getting Less Cash Back--Causing Slowing in the Startup Funding Market
Nice to create a throwaway so no one connects your misogynistic ranting to your real identity.
All energy into the water. Instead of most into the kettle, table, air etc.
You behaved admirably, after you realised it could end badly you did something about it (perhaps a little extreme, maybe). It sounds that things could've been better with your life, sad to hear.

The guy in the article however, actively tried to ruin her life and showed that her well being meant jack all to him, just what he could get from her.
The drug prohibition is a direct effect of the lift of alcohol prohibition: officials and LE officers needed something to do after there was no more alcohol smuggling to go after, so a new target was invented.

Public opinion does not drive policy in this case, it is driven by policy. The public has been whipped up into a frenzy about drugs for years using various fear tactics, primarily racism to scare them into having a particular opinion which you now cite as "the majority's moral opposition". The moral opposition is trained as part of a concerted and very successful propaganda campaign.
Probably aeration difference?
I just got approved for a HoloLens dev kit (like everyone else and their dog who applied) at $3000. This looks like a very similar product for 1/3rd of the price. I wonder what the differences are.
China has a problem with Ketamine addiction, not helped by whole villages that mass produce the drug. There was a good documentary about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxXvTi3QRwA
Usually, financial companies will use one of the commercial realtime jvms - it's not just some tuning. Javascript being singlethreaded would certainly simplify having a pauseless GC but it's still a nontrivial problem and I'm not sure how much that would benefit the browser use case.
Why did he end up in hell?
So adertisers have an absolute right to execute code on my machine? That seems wrong.
Hire a maid, much smarter than all those devices :-)
> My main reason to go get a MBA would be to grow my network, but there are cheaper, faster, and more effective ways to accomplish that.

What ways are you referring to?
The original is in a museum? I thought I read that it was in orbit somewhere between the orbits of Earth and Mars...
Create value, not products (lessons learnt after 4 years at the Guardian)
Software Maintenance by Skeleton Crew Is an Anti-Pattern
Are you a guy? It might have something to do with the different response.
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What is this part? Isn't it just by assumption? (also, by secret key, I'm guessing you mean 'a', 'b')
and I was naively hoping to find /s at the end of your comment..
I don't know about others, but having a physical book sometimes motivates me to read it more than a digital copy would.
Lots of money in law enforcement, prisons, etc.

Just like getting simple tax code, lots of accountants/lawyers, etc.
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True for most gaming companies. Always a big challenge of figuring out the next big hit. You're always only as good as your previous hit.
>I've experienced it in Amsterdam (albeit in busy-over-the-counter style), glad to hear there is spot like that in US.

It's considerably more advanced in (at least) Colorado. Due to the weird quasi-legal status in the NL, only flower, hash, and simple baked goods are available. The chemical extractions (e.g. glycerine, other solvent) that allow for a wider variety of products such as sodas are more strictly illegal in the NL. The black market supply in the NL hampers the diversity and quality of the actual products, too.

It's really quite a stark difference, and CO is leaps and bounds more advanced in this regard.
The first I can see is that the hololens is self contained (no wires to computer), where this looks like its tethered to a computer

edit: and the FOV looks way bigger on the meta than the hololens
One is backed by one of the largest companies in the world and another is a startup. You'll definitely get your HoloLens, but you may not get your Meta 2 (scheduled in Q3 2016, but you know how that goes).

Competition is great though, hopefully they will push each other.
Widespread XSS Vulnerabilities in Ad Code Affecting Top Tier Publishers
Vance seems to be confusing the right to privacy with the ability to actually enforce it. Apparently, a "right" to privacy is all well and good, as long it can be casually violated and a warrant served later. As soon as the mechanism protecting your privacy has real teeth, then it's a problem.
Making Oxycontin harder to get is why. Also people trying to get clean, then going back to doing their "old" dose.
NASA wants to build a jet so fast you can fly to any city in six hours
The flash is not wiped after 10 attempts. The key is thrown away after 10 attempts, and it's stored in the secure enclave. So flashing the memory to its last state does nothing, it's not even necessary. The actual key to the files is made of Device-ID (can't be read, binds any attack to the device) + random key (can't be read, can be securely thrown away) + file-specific data (so you need a different key per user file) + the users passcode (only component not on the device). It's a very elegant system actually.
How Architecture Changes for the Deaf [video]
Both genders are subjected to the pressure to conform to social expectations, and those pressures by themselves are often harmful and holding us back. But the pressures exerted on men and women are often very different, and it is important to be aware of those differences. Only by being aware of these pressures and understanding the differences, can we really address them and do something about them.

That women are expected to be polite and accommodating is absolutely sexist, and resisting that pressure can sometimes be just as dangerous as giving in to it.

But that men are expected to not cry and be strong and dominant and all that crap, that is just as harmful. To men, and to society.
If I had FU money I'd set up a rapid double blind testing site to check claims like this.
Does anyone have a good comparison chart of Oculus, Vive, Hololens, and Meta? Looking for SDK and hardware comparisons.
The best argument I know for legalizing drugs is the market argument. As long as demand exist (obvious, or nobody would care), supply will rise to meet it. Law enforcement tactics that see rising drug prices as a sign of success only make the market more profitable.

While many people engage in the popular delusion that people stop an activity when you pass laws banning, it's patently obvious that banning drugs is about as successful de facto as banning abortions. This means the real question isn't about the existence of a market for drugs.

Instead, laws that affect the market for drugs are about who is allowed to be the "supply" side of the equation. Obviously, some type of regulated market would be recommended if we want to have any amount of control over the market. Instead, we pass laws that ban legitimate businesses from entering this market, which is by definition a choice to turn the drug market over to criminals. By definition.

I suggest that choosing to give organized crime and violent gangs the profits from this high-value market. Usually, this is when prohibitionists claim that they can force the market to not exist by giving the supply side even more profit with ever stricter enforcement.
(Replying to vmorgulis):

> Yes. I remenber a recent post claiming it's near impossible to manage it's own mail server anymore because gmail and others mark all new senders as spam. It takes years to be recognized as a legitimate server.

That's just wrong. It's a hassle for sure, but it doesn't take years.
That would be a ring circuit¹). It's also the reason why UK plugs²) tend to be fused.

¹) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_circuit

²) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_Br...
>Any decent self-defense instructor will tell you that the best way to win a fight is to not get into a fight at all. So why do something to encourage violence?

Read the comment I was responding to, supposedly the FBI suggested that getting a restraining order would significantly increase the risk of a murder-suicide. Is the right approach there to avoid the restraining order to not encourage violence? I think not.

>Taking a life is not an easy thing to do, and in the "heat of the moment" some people can be unwilling to do it, even when doing so would save themselves from harm.

I absolutely agree, but what's the alternative here? Not getting a restraining order? Hoping that the cops will get there in time if something happens?

It seems to me that at that point you really wouldn't be left with much of a choice, besides just accepting the harassment and living with it.
I have copies of Adobe CS for Mac and PC. I always install the cracked versions so I don't have to mess with uninstalling (deregistering) when I wipe my systems.
Oasis isn't that bad apart from a few options that are tricky to get (or the fact that, as far as I know, there's no sane way to make it install executables to your ocamlfind directory, which makes it fairly unsuitable for PPX extensions). For the most part, it's about as easy/intuitive as using Cabal.
This advice should be given to everyone considering a MBA. I think the actual biggest flaw from this write-up is that it was written by a dropout (the caption on his picture states that he is a "former student" and not "graduate"). How can you evaluate the worth of an MBA without even completing it? If he had finished his MBA and then saw all the positions he interviewed for being given to graduates from the top schools then he might have realized a different lesson.
Writing isn't alone for this one. Musicians, actors, and artists fall in the same group. These are things a huge number of humans are capable of doing at a very high level. Many perform irregardless of earning potential.

My guess is that the long term earnings for writing will move closer to zero. The best writers working for the best organizations will still be able to make a lot of money.

We have just barely started moving in to a period where online education turns billions of uneducated third world/developing country citizens in to highly educated English speakers.
Also, http://devtoolstips.com/ and https://umaar.com/dev-tips/.
Its an interesting point in the article about the indignity of smart TVs. I was contemplating getting a new TV, but I felt I was getting ripped off. I have a ton of external devices which handle providing Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant, whatever. I don't want to pay a huge premium on a TV because the manufacture thinks this is a novelty to me. As is evidenced in the article, I also don't want my TV to have a complicated OS that can literally crash when I attempt to change the channel.

Fundamentally, I just want my TV to be a display - an amazing display. I don't even want or need it to have those shitty speakers TVs necessarily have - I already have a fantastic sound system. I want as close to 100% of my money going into the quality of the picture, not huge feature lists I have no need for.