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Welcome to the Internet of Things - home automation 2.0, with a bit of SV-style greed sprinkled to fuck things up.

I just came back from a "smart home" trade show, talked a bit to the regular companies doing regular home automation. It's expensive, yes - you get industrial-quality products and a solution designed (and priced) for your particular needs. Basically, I'm talking about companies that were doing IoT for the past two decades, long before anyone ever thought of that acronym. I have a few observations:

- Everyone does exactly the same thing. HVAC, alarms, lights, window blinds, access control. There isn't really much more to sensibly automate at home for an ordinary person at this moment. So they try to differentiate by look&feel, UI and the type of installation - e.g. whether it can be laid over an existing building easily, or whether it would require to dig up the entire electrical installation and is therefore best done during construction or big renovation.

- Everything runs local first. As it should. Most solutions are wired, some are wireless - via Zigbee, LoRa, Wi-Fi, or some protocol, but still over a local network. Cloud services are often added to enable remote viewing and management via mobile devices, but this is a bonus, not the core thing in the installation. One company I talked with today ensured me that their pretty mobile apps / tablet control panels have configurable network URL, so you can expose your automation server however you like or not at all - just point the app to an IP in your local network.

- A typical setup is expected to work fully locally and is resilient. In many cases, even if your central server goes down, your "smart" wall switches still work and control the stuff.

- The business model is honest. You submit your needs, get a quote for the installation, and when you decide to go ahead then the company comes, set things up, and it's done. No silly recurrent fees, no bullshit subscriptions. You bought the hardware, it's yours.

So basically, it works as it should. It's not hot and sexy (most of your installation will be hidden in the walls anyway), but it is reliable and it is honest. It's how grownups do business. Contrast that with the startup IoT bullshit.

As some of HNers mentioned already over the last few months, what we need is not Internet of Things, but an Intranet of Things. Exposing all that data to cloud by default is user-hostile and bad engineering. Adding a subscription-based business model on top of that is literally screwing people over. Ownership is like privacy nowadays - too easy to give up for convenience, because the people selling people stuff make money off their mistakes.
Has the conversion to 16bit been fixed? Dithering still wasn't working properly the last time I checked.
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Strangers will walk up and start conversations with me when they see it on my wrist.

The DeLorean Effect.
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Mainly because a stove is rather cumbersome to carry around. But most people carry a (smart)phone around anyway, so why bother with a wrist-chafing watch on top of that?
I feel bad for myself.

I first thought this was a Google Calendar view for some reason.
They aren't writing the article for technologists and color-gamut-philes. If anything, they're writing it for people who fly long-haul and consequently suffer from jet lag when they have actual business to conduct.

Talking about the number of colors the LEDs can produce is far more likely to convey to that audience how this is supposed to work than delving into the kind of details you'd probably have to read the spec sheet on the individual diodes to find.
That C208 they're using via a front company has cargo space in the luggage area for radio and camera equipment and it's much less obvious than putting a radome below the fuselage.

Here's a fun clip of the Iraqis using a 208 to launch a hellfire. https://youtu.be/eSKsrILHxNM?t=57s
Well, don't forget about battery life. If it is doing all that, battery must last at least for a few days, or you'll discover some day that you forgot to charge at night, and now can not get into your home anymore.

I'd love to get something like that too. The problem is that it is mostly impossible to build today... and is completely impossible to build one that sends all your data to the cloud, so the big players that could look into it won't.
I bought the Apple watch to experiment with WatchOS - however, now I find myself promoting / apologising to my friends that also have a keen interest in watches. It's all I wear these days.

If Apple can displace the swiss watch I used to wear from my wrist, they're moving in the right direction in my opinion.

The question is - does anyone really need a watch when they have a phone in their pocket? No.

However, do I feel properly dressed if I go out without a watch? No.
Lessons of Darkness[1] - Werner Herzog did a moving documentary about the Kuwait oil field fire.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness
At a previous company I worked at, we built a relational algebra to do server side data jobs and manipulation on NoSql style data calls. It was surprisingly effective. I proposed it at first figuring "ah it's not SQL, the team won't like it " but it was quickly adopted and proved very valuable for a couple of years. That was despite the lack of flexible enough generics and before even the Java 8 lambdas. The biggest downside was younger devs who didn't have the experience to think in data first approaches (initially at least!). I kinda regretted not making more effort to train them how to utilize relational algebra and all the flexibility it brings, even in Java.

it'll be interesting to see if this project gains traction!
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Great talk. I just ordered the poster.
This is an interesting juxtaposition to the story about a FitBit helping ER doctors diagnose a patients heart condition.
It's strange (or perhaps rather unfortunate) to me as an SRE at Spotify as well. Helios is in many ways similar to Kube, so it was our hope that eventually it would lead us to scheduling multiple service containers per physical machine. We certainly have the service discovery framework to support that model.

However given Spotify's business position our priority has yet to shift from providing engineers compute capacity as fast as possible to optimising our usage of said compute capacity. It's all now somewhat of a moot point as we move away from our own hardware into Google's cloud.
POO would likely be a subset of WAMI analysis.
Mods: This is one of those cases where the website title is not very informative. I suggest changing it to the first sentence of the site, "Arduboy, the game system the size of a credit card".
Having battled with burn-out myself twice I noticed there were some general principles at work for me:

(1) The cause must be addressed for recovery to start.

(2) Getting out of the hole takes as long as sliding into it.

(3) The key thing was to find the joy of programming again, and to just have fun in general. Hobby projects helped.
Seriously? Something like a life alert wrist band would be far more effective for that, and cheaper. Plus I'm pretty sure wearing a multi-hundred dollar watch in a politically unstable region is a very good way to put your children in more danger, not less.
Not only is it jewelry essentially, but it's jewelry with a relatively short shelf life.
Assuming you're going to live to 90
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I wonder what would happen if someone was occasionally using the handle
I had a conversation along these lines with my friend the other day. Our conclusion was that it seems like a neat thing to have but so far there isn't anything that makes people say 'I MUST have this!'

I thought maps/navigation were the killer app for smartphones - for many other things you could use a laptop instead, but being able to use your phone to navigate was just so damn useful that you'd be a fool not to buy one if you could afford it. Neither Google Glass nor the Apple Watch seem to have hit on a magic thing that they do so much better than a phone, so far.
My work offered a deep discount on one, and I thought, even if it was free, I don't need it. Here is the famous Apple Watch, talked about so much, and I didn't even wanted as a free thing.
> Interestingly, most of the scrutiny of these early entrants into consumer IoT come from software developers themselves, who are already well aware that "all software is shit." (In the tongue-in-cheek sense of course)

That's one angle. Another one is that people who have enough understanding of how "smart devices" exactly work can see that cloud-dependence is ridiculous engineering, if you look at the product as something designed to provide value to users. The question becomes, whether or not it bothers you that the companies building this stuff are actually user-hostile. Personally, it does bother me - that's why I steer clear of them and warn people about this.
Then show me the USB interface code in firefox. As far as I know, it doesn't exist.
What the author fails to understand is that IoT is not a consumer thing, it's an industrial thing. And silicon valley has (mostly) missed the boat. They're behind the curve.

There are already 100's of millions, if not billions, of IoT devices in the field, monitoring and controlling electrical, transport, logistical, agricultural, manufacturing and other infrastructure. There are hundreds of companies that are highly active in this space and doing quite well. Some are new, some are old. They operate at every layer from device manufacturing, to data collection, to analysis and more.

The consumer stuff, like Nest, or colored light bulbs are just fads, IMO. The only area where I think IoT may have some viability in the consumer space is healthcare. I do not mean things like jogging bracelets or the other "wellness" silliness that gets sold directly to consumers. I mean devices that monitor actual health metrics (blood sugar, heart rate, etc). There are large trials being done by health insurance companies right now to determine if active and constant monitoring will help reduce costs and improve outcomes among high risk populations.

Anyway, if you want to keep on top of IoT, ignore the SV hooplah and read industrial-focused rags instead.
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> Thus, Apple may say they want to sell a bajillion watches, but what they really need to do is sell enough watches and have enough credibility that if smart watches disrupt smart phones, Apple already has a seat at the table.

And that is the difference between Apple-with-Jobs and Apple-without-Jobs. Apple with Jobs didn't worry about "if smart watches disrupt..."; Apple with Jobs built products that DID disrupt.
OpenSSL was open sourced. That worked out real well.

It's not being open sourced that leads to secure, well-behaved software.

It's being well-behaved, secure software. Which, among other properties, means following the principles of least privilege and least capability. See the OpenBSD project for more on that philosophy.
Personally, I really don't care about the disappearance of coral reefs specifically. I know that may seem heartless, and indifferent, but the emotion for them just isn't there. There is no rational argument that appeals to me, either, other than scientific study/research.

The entire discussion around coral reefs has been going on since I was young and can remember(at least 20-odd years). It was always emotional (think of the children level guilt-tripping, almost), and was always "assumed" and dictated. There was never any convincing, discussing; it was just the way it is and we as young children were to accept it.

And despite all of that, we as a society have spoken the other way around and gone ahead and potentially ruined the delicate environment required for these creatures. It's who a majority of us are. Perhaps not who we should be, or who we'd like to be, but this is largely of our doing and our inability to convince those in power and the rest of society to protect the things we value.
My stove tells me the time and thus I don't need an additional clock on the wall in the kitchen.
> is that we don't actually have any proof that security exists

again you speak from a practical perspective, right?

because i was under the assumption onetime pad is provably secure
A few years back, I got a free iPod HiFi from work. It spent a year gathering dust in my bedroom. Then I spent $30 on one of these, and it suddenly stopped sucking:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bluetooth-receiver-for-Apple-1121-so...

I understand why Apple marketing thought it would be cool to wedge your phone in the thing at a 90 degree angle... unfortunately for Apple, normal people look at that, and just think "no."
Back when I used audacity, I recall there being an RIAA preset in the EQ plugin designed for reversing the EQ on records. I never wound up using it though because LPs still require significant preamp before your average sound card can get a good recording, and any phono preamp I had of course had the RIAA circuitry in it already.
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Based on this description, why did you spend that much money for an apple watch? Pebble time gives to everything you just said, but saves you 100 bucks and you have to charge it once a week.
Well, to be honest, a lot of things we can't live without now (like having clean and hot water in the tap) were "first-world" problems only few decades ago. The progress of civilization is measured in the amount of things we don't have to care about anymore.
Completely agree with you. I used to wakeboard a lot and tore my ACL coming out of an invert. After 9 months of physical therapy I went back to wakeboarding, but not long after decided it simply was not worth it. Falls really hurt, and bad ones can take months to recover from while stopping me from enjoying every other sporting thing I liked to do.

If I'm not getting paid to do something, at some point the life impact risk is not worth it.
Seriously, the cabin climate changes on Dreamliners make 10-hour flights feel more like 6-hour flights to me, in terms of how useless I am at remembering my name and why I'm visiting upon reaching the immigration counter in the destination country.
It's splash and water resistant (not proof) so the sweat isn't an issue. They have a support page detailing the water resistance that might be useful for you: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205000
That web UI doesn't seem to work in Chrome, but it did work in Firefox.
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If you have any sort of edge case when it comes to getting insurance, it's still has issues.
I think the idea is that people are more likely to think for a second if they see that a police station is the supposed epicenter for a hotbed of criminal activity instead of just some random house.
Ask HN: Paying for content using micropayments at the ISP level?
I'm envisioning a scheme where consumers pay for the content (news, movies etc) they consume directly at the utility (ISP) level. No throttling of connections is involved.

Say your favorite provider strikes a deal with a dozen of good publications. You then have a choice to either keep your old 50$/month internet subscription or pay 60$/month for a 10$ micropayment credit, all payments handled by the ISP. So you can then browse the NYT, say, until your credit runs out or whatever terms are in effect. I'd pay for such service, it seems it would be much less of a hassle than handle 10 different subscriptions.

The major publications could still rely on advertisement revenue to serve the non-paying consumers, without having to throttle the connections.

Of course the devil is in the details, but does such a scheme even make sense?

Edit: Note that some ISPs are also cable providers and sort of already do this with cable TV. You pay a monthly fee to get access to certain channels.
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I get the feeling the creator wasn't trying to plot quality of life as data point here...
The rotating bezel on my Gear S2 classic makes interaction easy and intuitive. The fact that it actually looks like a watch, and the screen stays on at all times, make it something I can actually wear and not be embarrassed about.

I've never understood why someone would buy a "watch" that doesn't display the time at all times. Isn't that the main point of a watch? Getting notifications and responding to texts are secondary features. A watch that doesn't tell the time is a paperweight strapped to your wrist.

http://i.imgur.com/ZZnx5Ld.jpg
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How much safer would not having truck drivers have to be to be worth it?
Cut it off where you like.
Manual DNS is a PITA, but there are a lot of providers that make it scriptable with an API. For example, I use LogicBoxes.

The greatest public DNS feature since sliced bread is Joyent's new CNS. Tag instances and they are available instantly through a CNAME. It's like the public equivalent of running Hashicorp's Consul. Freaking fantastic and makes me really glad I've stuck with the JPC for my infrastructure.
My Facebook feed has become the equivalent of Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: THIS IS A MUST SEE.

Any personal status updates are lost in the sea of garbage and the "Share now" button is almost certainly to blame. Many older members my family who use Facebook do mistake "liking" a post for sharing it, and often share anything anything they see.
The web interface does have inbuilt docs. Code introspection and tab completion are coming as part of the new interface (in progress) see https://github.com/mathics/IMathics
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I think a lot of these reverse ip solutions return the center point of the zip code they have linked the ip to. For an estimation of location for marketing type purposes I think that works well. But when people assume that these databases really map to a physical address, this fails miserably as the article describes.
Eno was dead wrong about that. Outside of a marginal Kickstarter project - probably for a Japanese fanbase - I don't think anyone is going to pay money for a high-jitter 12-bit resolution retro CD player.

Comparing that to the stylised imperfections of a human performer is unconvincing.

I do think there's an interesting effect where as soon as a first-to-market technology becomes good enough to avoid being hopelessly terrible, its characteristic flaws set standard expectations for a medium. Hence retro anything - guitars, synthesizers, cars, recording equipment, tapes, vinyl, paperback books, computers...

How likely is it that the early designers were so awesome they hit a technological bullseye with these things - apparently almost every single time anyone developed a new technology?

I can't quite believe that's how it works.

Personally I have no love at all for the sound of vinyl, even on stratospherically expensive hardware.
Would it be great if you could select ranges of blocks and assign a color to each range according to how you felt those days, i.e. green: good, yellow: not that good, red: not good.

I did something like this in past, with colors, and contrarily to the expectations it actually cheered me up to see all those green blocks making up a huge chunk of life.

Also, it reminded me of http://moriclock.com
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That's weird, it's working for me in Chrome. What particularly wasn't working for you?
and ugly.

that's what the top commenter fail to realize. nobody needs expensive watches, but the communicate that you have disposable income and maybe good taste. an apple watch communicates you're a nerd. which may be quaint in some parts of San Francisco.
We always are surprised how quickly a week goes by.

I think the point of the web site is to let people know that there aren't that many weeks in one's life time.

nothing more... nothing less...
Maybe. Or quality of life might mean something different to people as they age.
I have a Pebble Time, which works fine for me.

I only really use it for 'glance' like interactions, when I get notifications and calls, it's nice to be able to review them or dismiss them without having to dig my phone out of my pocket, and obviously it tells the time.

Battery life is fine as well, 3-4 days between each charge.
Funny aside. The decorative clock on my shelf does not work, but I can see 5 digital clocks from where I'm sitting right now. Would anyone think to look at real clock for the time anymore?
I'd be ready to bet the same article will be written in a year about Microsoft's (and others) laptop-tablet convertibles.
i feel really sorry for these people. the idea that law enforcement and service providers are using ip based location for anything serious is absolutely incredible.

the location from ip address is a fallback for when you don't have anything better, and it is a fallback you take with the caveat of "could be completely wrong".

this was my opinion of it when i first discovered the concept over 10 years ago.

the victims should bring legal action imo and law enforcement should get its shit together and act competently at the very most basic of levels.

ip based geolocation is and never was reliable. the idea that you can get a search warrant based off of it is laughable and indicates gross incompetence, not just in one place, but at every stage that such a thing is knowingly used.

using things you don't understand to draw concrete conclusions is stupid. literally. its the very definition of the word 'misguided'.
You are describing life, what's it? what's the point? It's a good thing you drew a smiley face :)
Whatever you decide will probably be wrong.

So I'd try and set your sales guy up for success, get him off to a positive start, and be generous with commission. Agree targets that should be achievable.

If he's amazing, you'll want to agree something attractive to both of you. Possibly involving equity. If he can't sell your stuff, then you'll probably want to try someone else. So you'll need the ability to "undo.
Addition appeared in imperative languages first. Does that mean addition is imperative?

It's great that functional languages were first to catch onto these ideas, but that doesn't mean that anything else that uses them becomes functional. The interface isn't even functional, since in code like

foo = iter((1, 2, 3))
{x for x in foo}

`foo` is mutated. No "true" functional language would accept that ;).
>Shopping in Bellevue is better than Seattle

More convenient for basics, yes, but more varied and fancy?

>As for culture the popular parts of Seattle are as homogenous as Portland, and Bellevue at least has a sizable immigrant population from Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.
But yes, Bellevue is not the most happening place in the world.

Yeah that. By culturally I meant places to visit and things to do (concerts, book readings, stage plays, parties, gatherings, etc), not just having neighbors of different origins one will usually seldom interact with.
However tenuous the connection may be, this makes me thing of the central 'point' of the book Trying Not To Try. The author argues that societies oscillate between favoring conservative and 'liberal' values over time, and that neither extreme is ideal.

In a way, perhaps capitalism can be seen as the 'liberal' side, where there is an explosion of development and innovation at the expense of stability, social cohesion and safety.

Maybe our biggest long-term challenge is figuring out a way to maintain a balance and keep either 'side' from winning or at least stabilizing the oscillation a bit.
Completely agree. I love having the next upcoming meeting, have both personal and work calendars synced. As a web dev with some sys admin duties (small agency) the uptime complication offered by the Vigial app, and the additional use of the Happy Apps uptime is a really convenient way to be alerted of downtime or events without having my phone out all the time.