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>His goal is to take something we never think about and make it more than just sexy– he wants to make it a “beloved” object in the home.

Call me cynical, but it doesn't sound like innovation, it sounds like hype. I have a programmable thermostat, and it turns off and on based on a temperature schedule. I mess with it four times a year: twice to change the time zone and once to turn it to "Air Conditioning" and once to turn it to "Heat." Now, do I think you can do something clever with it? Sure. How about an interface on my phone or tablet to replace the wimpy LCD screen, the fiddly plastic buttons, and the page of directions. Oh, and if the new thermostat was "smart" and saved me (potentially lots of) money? Even better.

But "beloved"? Not a chance.

Also, is there room to the thing to add "automatic lighting" and appliance control (dishwasher, washer/dryer)? Mmmaybe. But frankly, that could be done by wifi/bluetooth on the appliance and an app as well.
In this case it might be justified. The guy is trying to convince you to buy their design, really. How would they entice you into buying a thermostat with words? It would be really difficult.
I haven't written any python in a while, but a 15% speedup from inlining a function call? Really? This reinforces my preference for statically typed languages.
What's the difference to other systems like this?
For example OS QA [1] seems to be quite popular/established?

Experiences, anyone?

1: http://www.osqa.net/
But don't content costs scale on a linear trajectory? Cable companies pay $x/subscriber for a channel - each additional customer doesn't add to some cost multiplier and profit goes up with revenue and cost of content.

Is Netflix so at the whims of content providers that their model is so much different? It seems like a completely broken business if they can't find scalable ways to make their content providers money.
Seems like Samsung would be better of paying a couple of geeks to go to work and watch Star Trek and similar SciFi movies instead of paying a bunch of money to patent lawyers ;)
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At the risk of exposing my ignorance, I thought

>Other “common wisdom”, like using locals instead of globals, yields relatively little gain.

this advice was typically more related to avoiding collisions with variable names, rather than performance?
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If your code crashes every browser, your code is shit. Yes the browsers could do better, but you shouldn't write shit code that crashes them.
Actually Quorum looks much more verbose than Perl. That may be the main distinctive feature helping absolute newcomers to grasp the code. In that vein, Java probably would fare way better than most terser languages, too. This would be something to test for (on a significant number of guinea pigs preferably).
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It's initially meaningless - in terms of converting visitors to consumers of your offerings. But surely like a loss-leader it can still be seen as part of a funnel to conversions to active users/consumers.
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This has been known for a long time though hasn't it.
You can also use the python json.tool

$ echo '{"json":"obj"}' | python -mjson.tool
{
"json": "obj"
}

http://docs.python.org/library/json.html
Compare this to the WiFi thermostat that I previously thought was cool:

http://www.radiothermostat.com/filtrete/

In addition to being a touch screen it has hard buttons labeled: PROG, MENU, MODE, FAN, and SAVE ENERGY

It is a total disaster. When I went away for vacation this summer I wanted to turn off the daily program and hold at a max of 85. Instead I put it into winter hold mode and it maintained a chilly 62 for the entire week I was away. The WiFi link failed the first day I was away for some reason and the iPhone app happily reported the last temperature it had received as current so I had no hint there was any trouble.
Just use a thermostat on your tap.
You mean West coast of India, right? And it's 6am GMT+9 ?
How can one build a clone of something that doesn't yet exist?
this is very interesting to me; I thought that the ultimate in this would be to give you control over billing, so I don't do pull billing at all- I send you a bill and you pay it or you don't. (alternately, we can setup a paypal recurring payment for you, but you also can cancel that without telling me.)

But, all I hear about this model from my customers is complaints. It's a pain in the ass for them to pay every month, or they hate paypal, can't they just give me a credit card, etc...

It's possible that most people feel the way you do and those people just sign up and don't say anything... but I dono.
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Dyson seems to be doing quite well at that game in the household appliances business.
Mac + Chrome = crash. Memory usage keeps growing. No idea.
>serves absolutely no purpose, as jgrahamc points out, on a site with the possibility to either simply upvote, or comment in a more meaningful way. //

He must have said this before he stripped comment scores off the site.

The only current way to indicate assent to anyone other than the commenter you're agreeing with is to make a short comment. "Yes" or "this" fits, is easily parsed and easily input. Until comment scores return I hope more people use this technique. It adds information that is not otherwise available.
Or he could stick with what he already feels he knows well. Customers are not obliged to work to analyze new competitors.
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Yes.One of the more exciting things about computer science, a few decades ago, is that it was all brand new. Even the pioneers were contemporaries. These were exciting times to live in, since it made me feel like we were on the edge of a brand new technology.

But now, the pioneers have gotten old. And the excitement is slowly ebbing away.
Mixer taps are great, but you still have the problem that a small amount of movement is required to get the temperature just right.
I sometimes wonder how many hours of YouTube footage like this exist...
What does HN think about this? Should YouTube be moderated and these videos be removed?
I agree with this. If they want you and not a person who can code, they'll work with you on your school schedule. Either part time or remote work or flex hours. At the beginning of every semester, probably about 2 weeks in you sit down and talk about what your schedule will be like. The two weeks allows you to see what sort of course load you have and homework load. I did this and worked the last 3 years of college, 12-20 hours a week depending on courses, but I couldn't work outside of business hours.
I remember seeing a guy design a toaster that had a component from a smoke detector in it which (i'm quoting form memory here) monitored the amount of carbon or something being released (???).

The problem, as I'm sure we're all aware, is that toasters are very slow when you start using them, but if you make three or four rounds of toast one ofter the other, each batch toasts quicker. This smoke detector method solved that problem....

Although I've not seen it on the market, so perhaps it didn't work. But still, a novel idea.
Disagree. Two problems:

1. High utility bills (any solution that saves you money is a solution to a problem)

2. Global warming
Naturally, it's in that context that I made my reply. I don't see how a laptop without any way to output data would even be considered.
How are companies who only make these devices (e.g. Apple) supposed to compete with that?

Apple doesn't only make those devices: see iTunes and the App Store. Besides, one can argue that they do the same in their deal with AT&T (which cuts $100 from the iPad price).

But to answer your question, there is more to compete on than price; in fact, Apple knows that well, considering they've been selling Intel laptops with less bang per buck than other manufacturers, like HP and Dell, and still sells a lot.
This is interesting. I've been involved in home automation for about 15 years now, and HVAC controls are one of the top things to control in most systens.

Occupancy sensing is also extremely difficult to do passively in any kind of reliable scenario, especially when your occupancy sensor is limited to a single location in the house.

I've frequently seen two broad categories around regulating HVAC systems:
1) People keep a fairly regular schedule, and a standard 7-day programmable thermostat works sufficiently.

2) People keep a very non-regular schedule, and a standard programmable thermostat doesn't work, nor is there any inferable pattern to their home/away schedule.

In case #2, it is usually more beneficial to get home/away status from something with a more direct output eg: a burglar alarm system, vehicle presence detectors in the garage (photobeams), status of lights, etc.

I'll be very curious to see what the real-world reactions are to the Nest thermostat. If they can come up with some truly creative solutions it could be a really cool device.
The problem with that grant-based model is that you're making the publisher dependent of that precise source of income (rather than of its own activity), and the publisher will have to gear its fund-raisin activity towards getting more grants and donations rather than getting publications.

I'd say the latter is far more desirable than the former.
That's a bit frustrating.
I love this idea and wish Fadell and Nest the best.

Also, some photorshadowing:

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/8330/galaxytherm.jpg
It could have something to do with power supply. Different countries have different mains voltages. I think it's a lot higher here in the Britain than in the US, which could fry a device like this perhaps.

Or perhaps not. I'm just speculating.
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Yes I'm not saying arXiv has no costs, I'm saying mechanical_fish pretty much described arXiv. As you pointed out, arXiv still does not run on unicorn farts and rainbow tears (although a budget of $420k is a tad lower than PLoS's 2010 budget of $12m)
I would also like to know how it compares to Shapado: http://shapado.com
It adds information that is not otherwise available.

'This', 'Yes' or something similar works for showing what an 'upvote' would show on an other system.
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In terms of science, absolutely not. But impact, yes. Facebook changes everything. From now on, most people will be a part of an online social network. It's as important to human communication as the telephone was. Know how we use letters from the Civil War era to understand what that society was like? Imagine what will be possible in that regard in 100, 200 or 500 years.
OSQA is based on Django, which makes it somewhat harder to deploy. I know because we package it as a BitNami stack http://bitnami.org/stack/osqa and also use it for our Q/A site http://answers.bitnami.org Without actually having tested Coordino yet, I believe the fact that it is based on PHP should make it easier to adopt and extend. It will be interesting to see if it gets traction, there are plenty of StackOverflow clones that have been abandoned over time. An important factor in choosing OSQA was the fact that even though it was open source, it was backed by a company. A Q/A site, like forum software, is not something that you can move away from easily once you have content in it.
About a month ago I installed OSQA and 'shapado' -- http://shapado.com/ QSQA appeared much more rounded compared with shapado, and behaved much more like StackOverflow. Only problem I have had with QSQA is that changing the theme / template could be easier.

Oh, and by default the admin page of QSQA had a strange almost intelligible layout. However this is a mode that can be turned off... Once you find the option.

QSQA also has a neat 'community bootstrap' mode that lowers the required reputation for many actions, linking URL's down votes, etc.

All in all very happy with QSQA.
>Agreed with the parent //

You're being ironic right? He said not to write indicating mere assent. You should _only_ have upvoted him.
We still have upvotes.
Also, when I do watch the video, at least give me a hint of how your product works and what it does. Don't bullshit me with things like "XXX never stops learning" or "XXX saves energy" during the whole video.
But they are hidden from users (except for when a post is greyed out).
> Yes, I am bitter that my old MBP is not user upgradeable. I understand that the newer ones are, though.

As far as I know, there has never been a non-user-serviceable unibody MBP. Pre-unibody MBP (using the old Powerbook design) essentially weren't as you had to take apart half the machine to get at its guts, but all unibody MBPs are as simple to service as 10 screws holding the bottom plate (you may need to get a non-philips scredriver for some series in some countries).

My 2010 MBP even described the operation to change RAM and HDD/SSD in the booklet shipped with the machine.
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I have no problem with this. I'm all for advertisements being either more entertaining and funny, or more for things that I actually want. It's better than being blasted with stuff that I have no need for, even if they put in pictures of half naked women in it.
This is way too cool. Wonder if the device can actually detect the number of people in the room and adjust the temperature for that room accordingly. Not sure how this will work in age old central heating systems which contain one thermostat for a 10,000 sq ft building.
"where some Australian Mining companies - already on the stock exchange" ... "to get listed on the stock exchange"?

I heard that it was the small dotcoms that were looking to get on the stock exchange would buy enough shares in the inexpensive mining companies and then as majority shareholders have the mining company buy out the dotcom (or at least merge with it)... or something like that.

I'm guessing it's the same thing that you heard, but the way you worded it confused me. Or my coffee hasn't kicked in. Either way.
Would that make Leibniz part of the zeroth generation?

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I don't care for the 'learning' aspect, although I'm sure it's great.

My boiler has 19 buttons and 3 dials, I just don't have the time to understand it. This I understand.
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Considering Ive seems to have as much of a way with words as design sense, I would like to see him on stage more at Apple keynotes. Out of all who spoke, Ive was the most interesting. He's the only one who has that aura similar to what Jobs had.
> I've never seen an SSD drive, I'm wondering if the conector is the same as Serial ATA?

Yes, modern off-the-shelf SSDs in a normal package use SATA (what else would they use?).

They look exactly like your standard 2.5" drive, except without breathing holes and sometimes thinner with a spacer to reach normal 2.5" height.

To see what SSDs look like, just click around in Anandtech's storage articles category[0], just ignore PCI-E SSDs (they're a bit of a special case)

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/tag/storage
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Sydney is a very multicultural city, a far cry from 'white and English'.

People generally agree that, as a city, Melbourne has better 'city things'; meaning bars, restaurants, theaters etc.

Sydney is regarded as having better geography - eg: dozens of stunning beaches, extensive waterways and very close proximity to national parks.
Some readers complained about the content of the website, I think they are missing the point.

Most people aren't HN minded, they are not really into how Nest learn about your Energy needs. They just want simple and short content that explain in basic words. Nice looking design will give them confidence that this thing works really well.

The Website and the product are very well designed, and this is something that is not quite common in such products. It's really well designed.

This page (http://www.nest.com/living-with-nest/index.html) explain in simple and basic sentences how the device will work out for you. Pretty simple, yet convincing.

Yes, it's missing the hacker part. But I doubt that people are interested in that. I actually wish that more businesses invest in such designs.
I guess in theory fpgeek is right, and his great-grandparent post is in the vein of what I thought of answering. But I guess in practice tedunangst is more right at the moment.

I'll welcome better garbage collection.
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For 2. this is where the iphone/mobile/tablet apps come in I guess.

I was thinking it would be great to have an extra sensor or two that would help detecting the auto away.
> I didn't know that they have optional higher resolution screens. Is this true also for the 13'' model?

Nope, even though they have it on the Air (it's kind-of retarded, the 11" Air has the same resolution as the 13" MBP (roughly, 1366x768 versus 1280x800 so the 11" Air has a slightly higher pixel count), and the 13" Air has the same resolution as the base 15" MBP).

Considering their previous behavior, at one point Apple will make 1680x1050 standard on the 15" and make 1440x900 a BTO option on the 13", but I don't understand why they have not done so already.

They might be waiting to drop the 13" MBP altogether (replacing it with the Air) if they ever redesign MBPs, in which case you'd have the 11" Air in 1366x768, the 13" in 1440x900, the 15" Pro in 1680x1050 and the 17" in 1920x1200
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In Python, it's both - the basic structured-programming advice to avoid global variables is always good, but it's a specific quirk of Python that makes global variables (including built-in functions) slower than local variables.

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> We're moving towards much denser displays—in fact

No, not on laptops. Colleagues had 1920x1200 15" laptops in the early 2000s. Laptop screen densities have been going down, and the 1366x768 resolution is a fucking plague these days.
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A "global" variable is one that is not residing in the local scope. Global here is really non-local, which is a term that changed during the py3k transition. As you see, str and ord are "system" functions, but really are variables containing function objects. The same goes for WHITELIST, which is a variable (conventionally named as a constant) probably defined at the module level. All of those are not local to the function, hence more taxing to call in a loop.

Besides, the general advice is not to avoid collisions (you use both namespaces and locality to resolve that) as the non local stuff here really has a reason to be global, but non local stuff has to survive concurrency. It is the case here as the things called really are constants.
Licence seems pretty clear:

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"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

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I would argue their presence on millions of DVD players and gaming platforms is now a solid competitive advantage. There are only two streaming services on my blu ray player, and netflix is one of them.
"Interesting reaction" by the GoodData CEO which is also Board Member/Advisor of the German Hackfwd incubator:

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Yeah, there are some counter-intuitive things you need to think about with baseboard heat and very cold temperatures in New England. Normally it is just fine and dandy to let your fancy thermostat drop the temps to the high 50s at night except when it is 10 degrees outside - in that case you want to turn up the temperature so you don't freeze your pipes :) Sadly I speak from experience.
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