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Sure ... I don't think this will be useful for everyone. I've wanted a product like this ever since I went for a 2 week vacation in the middle of winter with the heaters on. I actually had a thermostat at that time but it was too stupid-complicated. The ability to control the heating/cooling system wirelessly, and a UI that doesn't suck are the main selling features for me.

Regarding learning, I don't know if it will work or not. I am also skeptical of their claims. In fact, my worry is that the learning system can't be disabled, and it will start to do stupid things! Then again, it might work ... we'll find out soon :)
This. It's a generational thing. It's short for "this guy's got it, this guy has articulated what we are all/I am thinking". or sometimes "this is the point that must be addressed".

I don't even use "This.", but your suggestion to write "I completely concur with the spirit of.." had me falling asleep before I'd even got to the end of the sentence.

Consider this: lots of people are using the word, why not adjust to them, rather than have them adjust to you?
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Sorry, I can't edit now. My bad. Not a native speaker :(
If someone can edit it would be great.
depends entirely on how much they expect costs to drop. For instance, I would be very happy to provide you a 10 year warranty on 2tb of storage. Sure, it's going to fail and I'm going to have to replace it, but if I can get you to pay a price that would seem fair to replace the thing once or twice at today's prices, most likely when your device does fail, I'll be able to replace it with much cheaper parts.

(Of course, this ignores the format differences; if sata goes out of style, it could actually cost me more to source a sata part. Of course, judging from how long PATA lasted in a largely backwards compatible format, I /probably/ wouldn't have to worry about that too much in the next 10 years, but it'd be a source of worry. I'd be much more comfortable promising you 2tb of storage of some type with some minimum performance level, and not specifying interface, or selling you network-accessible storage for the next ten years.)
> I think there's definitely some value in taking time off to figure out where you're going (and where you want to be.)

Do you really have to take time off to do that? Does college take up so many hours a week that it simply leaves zero time for you to "figure out where you're going"?

Seriously?
I hate to say it, but this isn't a good sign. iTunes is one of the worst abominations of user interface, design, and intuitiveness I've ever used.
If you're asking about Trello - then I see one big difference - Trello has way simpler interface - to the point I could send my boss and colleagues invites and they immediately knew how to use it - whereas even my most geeky friends had problems figuring out how to use Wave (I did too.).
From what's on the website it looks like they're trying to learn largely from user feedback of the "I wanted it cooler/hotter" variety. Agree that this will be a problem in case #2, without good occupancy sensing, because the prediction problem is inherently impossible to do well with only time-of-day-and-week if there isn't much regularity.

I would guess the real target audience is people who fall into #1 but never get around to programming their thermostat, and maybe don't even have an accurate self-assessment of their home/away or sleep/wake patterns. In particularly warm or cold climates this might also include people who make wrong guesses about latency, e.g. how early before they return the heater needs to kick on for it to be comfortable by the time they get home. I could see it being useful in that case: there's a regular enough pattern to infer a reliable heating/cooling schedule, but the person doesn't want to, or isn't able to manually program that pattern.
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> It seems to be a clear breach of data protection laws.

If the customer consents to the collection and use of the data it is within the current European law. All they would need to do is get consent when signing up for, or renewing a card.
60 pages of errors in C/C++ code.
27. Hardware/software hybrids. Most hackers find hardware
projects alarming. You have to deal with messy, expensive
physical stuff. ...
There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in hardware; you can
often do dramatically new things by making comparatively
small tweaks to existing stuff.

While Nest doesn't fall in the young startup category, Next is still a great example of what you can do with hardware and software, where "the software plays a very visible role." The design speaks for itself, but the magic is in the software---meaning whatever tricks they pulled from AI, machine learning, control theory or other fields.

Of course, "small tweaks" might not be the best way to describe it from the hackers POV, but it makes sense if you're using this device.
Or possibly faster than a dict lookup: An array or a list of strings where the index number is the ordinal number of the character. So `array[ord('(')] == '&#(;'`.
There isn't a technology problem with tv. There is a business problem. The infrastructure for creating content costs more than users want to pay. Bad UIs are a symptom, not the disease.
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Dear people trying to sell me stuff:

Please don't put a ream of text on your landing page that I have to read in order to learn about your product. I'm a visual person, and the web has not been a text-only medium for quite some time now. Something like a video, relevant pictures, and big bold text will do just fine thanks.

I'm not trying to play devil's advocate here. This is actually what I prefer, and I think they did a good job.
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Lately a lot of people think they can earn a lot of money without working hard. I'm not sure why people think this way.
Maybe TV told them you can get whatever you want whenever you want.
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Fonts are way too small for the over-40 crowd -- and if it is a product for the Intranet, that's an important demographic.
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Yes and no. It's not just about the time but about being in an environment that is conducive to those birds-eye-view thoughts, and stepping out of the environment you're currently in to gain perspective.
it is now MIT licenced.

yeah, I think there are plenty of reasonable uses for bash, like before any thing else is installed... aka, devops.
As long as you have their first name, I don't see why this can't be automated. It doesn't seem time well spent and there is more chance for error doing it manually.

I agree with getting in touch, I just don't agree with spending your time each day doing it.
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Usually two wires, often AC mains voltage Live and Load but some newer systems use low voltage. My own house has a thermostat that wirelessly communicates with a receiver near the gas combination boiler (water heating for hot water and radiators). The receiver simply closes an electrical contact to signal heating demand.
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No need for the hostility.

My point was that continuing on along a path (staying in school) might not be the best action, and oftentimes it's hard to step back and get a sense of things when you're fulltime in school. Not to mention the debt you'll acquire and time you'll waste going down a wrong path.
As I read it, Nolan was in another plane, presumably he would have landed normally (on the assumption his engine didn't also cut out).
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Font looks rubbish here on chrome as well :-(. t looks like L
It is, if they can truly intelligently control the modes.

In much of the US, we are in that time of year where it can be cold in the morning and hot in the afternoon. A common thermostat on full auto mode will be running the heat in the morning and the A/C in the afternoon. Most people opt to set their thermostat for one mode or the other, usually forgoing the A/C in the afternoon, knowing that it will soon cool back down naturally.

Full HVAC control is one of those things that is really hard to get right with just a mostly passive device like this.
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On the idea that it's your code, and not your browser, in my samples with Canvas, i've noticed memory is very easy to start "leaking"

One thing I found on StackOverflow (I cannot find the article again, I apologize... I should've bookmarked it) was that if you're drawing lines and not using the "beginPath" call, you'll get a memory leak. No idea why this would be.

I realized I had exactly that problem in my sample canvas app, and making the change actually reduced my memory overhead. In Opera and Chrome, anyways. Firefox still had wild memory fluctuations, but that didn't surprise me.

Moral of the story: There are probably several things you could tweak to reduce your memory usage, as it does seem that a lot of canvas code out there is memory-abusive.
Not TV, The Social Network (seriously, how many of you had friends asking you about their "billion dollar" startup idea after seeing the movie?)
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I agree with you. Students have more disposable time than any other segment of the population except the unemployed/out of school. If a person in school cannot build and sell something while still in school, then dropping out isn't likely to help.

Getting an MVP build and finding those first critical customers (if they even exist) should be perfectly feasible while still going to class.
I could easily read all the text on that demo page, even when looking at my monitor head-on.

Turns out, the 'secret' text is coloured to blend in with a white background, but the page doesn't actually enforce a white background; my light-grey background doesn't provide enough contrast to read a novel, but it brings out the 'secret' text nicely.
And if you want to be super-super picky, int[256] on 32-bit or long[256] on 64-bit would be even faster.

(Although I'm not sure if lookup would be faster at all than a few comparisons, considering caches and everything, but this is not my domain.)
"As computers have grown more powerful, the new languages being developed have been moving steadily towards the Lisp programming model. A popular recipe for new programming languages in the past 20 years has been to take the C model of computing and add to it, piecemeal, parts from the Lisp model[.]"

Hey! That's what I think, too!

Around 2007 when I'd had quite a bit of exposure to both Python and then Ruby I'd started to think the same thing. Although I didn't have the foresight to say it in a public essay I would tell my friends "In five years Javascript will start to become a popular general (i.e. non-web only) programming language and Lisp in 20."

I now think think the big Lisp (or Scheme) event will happen even sooner--say in 5 to 7 years. (Meaning you will see the kinds of articles you see around Node today on HN about Lisp.)
Thank you. Excellent article that needs to be read by everyone who's considering dropping out for "a startup".

Let's ignore the complexities and focus on crude market value. A smart person with no college degree can probably earn $25,000 per year at 18. We're assuming a middle to upper-middle class background-- no special family connections-- and a reasonable work ethic. With a CS, math, or science degree from a good college, that jumps to about $80,000 at 22. That's a 34% annual growth rate in one's earning potential! (I'm ignoring the career prospects of Communications majors; a startup is much harder than getting 3.0+ in a CS program.) Typical income growth in the work world is 5-7% for average people and 10-20% (with ups and downs) for very ambitious people. I've been running at 17%/year since I left school, but that's likely to slow down as I trade off income acceleration for more interesting work and autonomy. My point is: being able to grow your earning potential at 34%/year, and probably have fun and learn a lot, while surrounded by intelligent people, over 4 years... is not something to walk away from.

Yes, everyone hates college sometimes. The lowest of the lows truly suck. Sleep deprivation. Drunk people. Final exam stress. Realizing that some idiots get in no matter how elite a college you attend. On the whole, though, if you struggle with college the problem is probably with you-- or more specifically, your level of maturity, and college is a great place to improve that.

Mark Zuckerberg could grow (in wealth and earning potential) much faster than 34%/year. College was slowing him down. Same with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc. Most of us are not in that league-- not yet, anyway.

That's just discussing market value. Here's another factor. Forget about the startup dream and focus on the reality (for the middle 90%) of the work world. College is more fun, interesting, and educational than the first 5 years of the work world for most people. Don't throw that opportunity away lightly.
I think this quote said it best. I was told this when I started programming... "Don't blame the JVM immediately, there is a very high probability this is just a bug you made, probably some race condition. After all possibilities are exhausted then blame the JVM, you are not even close to that." And there you go. Modify to suit your needs. If every browser crashes, I bet you either has a major bug or found a flaw in a core mathematical component each browser relies on, in either case that flaw must be worked around. So in both cases its on your shoulders.
"Don't do it. Why? Because if that's your character you need every bit of structure that your school or university is providing you. Before you can even think of starting your own business you will have to learn self-discipline."

OR you can drop out and get a lousy, physical job - get the same structure you get from school, gain better appreciation for mental skills and abilities that university teaches you, and add to your bankroll (albeit, slowly) instead of your debt load.

This, instead of coasting through school with lousy character and no discipline and getting less out of it then if you appreciate it more.
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Writing, writing, writing. Writing well in English is a skill that few people have, especially when you count all English speakers in the world. Take as many writing classes as you can stuff into your major. My technical writing course was the most useful class I have ever taken.
Change them?
Here in Brazil the 15" base model costs $ 3,784.00. The same model in the US costs $ 1,799.00.

Taxes are ridiculous around here.
Thanks for the pointer to Trello. What an amazing yet simple tool! I immediately have a ton of uses for it. Thanks to the google account integration I had a new board in literally 10 seconds. Wow...
I heard back from the PLoS people. (Aside: they are WAY more helpful to random inquiries than any of the for-profit publishers). The best information on this can be found in their tax returns, which are available at http://www.plos.org/about/what-is-plos/progress-updates/
> Python has full dynamic scoping, which means that inside a function you can refer to any variables set in outer scopes.

You are describing lexical scope, not dynamic scope.
Why is grid parity the floor? Won't pv suppliers still have to compete with each other?
These two sentences made me think it was just a male/female thing, though you'd hope they'd taken that into consideration:

"They were asked how many cans of non-diet fizzy drink they'd consumed over the past week before being put into high or low consumption categories, depending on their answers.

The teens were then asked if they had been violent towards a peer, sibling or partner over the previous year and if they'd carried a gun or knife."
I was thinking about pointing out that tutorial.

Until I went through it, I'd mostly just played with Haskell for Project Euler and other small problems. That tutorial really helped get the feel for larger projects in the language.

But at the same time, it shows off some of the elegance of lisp. It's simple enough that you can implement it as a beginner tutorial, but the end result is a surprisingly solid language.

One of the beauties of lisp is how much is possible just from some simple building blocks. That tutorial did an excellent job displaying it from the side of a language implementer rather than a language user.

Thanks a ton for it, it was really a pleasure to use.
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Huh, why are your assets all on different files?

Have you tried to put them into sprite sheets?
> Congrats on becoming a Dropbox Guru! We've awarded you 3GB of bonus space for the next 12 months!

https://twitter.com/htc/status/128546238999175168 really should have made that clear.
he was writing before the commit with the licence was pushed.
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> had me falling asleep before I'd even got to the end of the sentence.

Apologies, but I'm not interested in dumbed down conversations, and will continue to employ, and advocate the use of English from beyond a 6th grade level, as it makes for richer, more nuanced discussions.
It looked like it at first, since I block JavaScript by default. Their menu system covered most of the page except for the github logo next to a "download now" link.
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Another approach to take - there are lawyers/groups that specialize in getting these things removed. It will probably cost anywhere from $500-$1000 but they will harass every party involved until someone slips up and the bureaus are forced to remove the claim by law.

Depending on your situation it may be less expensive than what you would pay for a high-rate auto or home loan, etc.

I don't work for or know anyone that specializes in this but had a friend get 4 different claims removed over the course of a year this way.
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Why not setup a system that detects the presence of your Bluetooth phone? Perhaps even look for your phone on the wireless network if a sensitive detector is not sufficient?

It would not be a stretch at that point to have a simple website served from the device that let you see the history and choose some basic night/day setback points.

It takes some time to raise/lower the temperature of the house depending on the outside temperature so learning the rate at which the house warms/cools is required to reach the desired set point at the requested time. Including the local weather forecast as a sensor and being able to see a graph of temps and system demand cycles would be really nice.
I personally wrote thank you cards to our first hundred or so customers. It really goes a long way to show some sort of personalization.
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It's not a matter of decoding-- it's wrong. Watts are a rate of energy usage. It's like saying that my car can drive 60 MPH per day. Doesn't make any sense.

(I do think you're right about the confusion and exploitation of the difference between peak power and average power.)
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That doesn't work. Users can spot an auto-generated email a mile away.

I answer a lot of mail and I make sure that I always refer to something in the original email that is unique to the writer. That goes a long way to getting out of the 'form letter' rut and the response is much better than with emails that contain no 'personal note'.
I think it's a nice trick, and I will definitely apply it myself once we're ready to roll out. I do have one comment though (similar to redguava's).

Emailing the first 1000 users, fine. But doing it personally and manually, why? Aren't you going to end up using exactly the same text for all your users (either that or risk typos that make you look less professional, not more human)? Don't forget the risk of developing CTS while you could be doing much more constructive stuff.

I would say, have it automated but sent a couple of hours after signup, or have them sent in batches at a time where you would normally sit down and do it. I'm thinking that people either assume it's automated or they assume it's manual, one way or the other.
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As an Australian in London, I never get to hear about things like this. It's exciting that Australia has this type of stuff going on, it's taken long enough!
Practical Common Lisp (http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/) by Peter Seibel is an awesome book and free online.
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I'm a bit surprised with the positive comments: don't you find the layout confusing? It's hard to scroll horizontally and vertically with the eyes especially with the diverse fonts, colors, etc. making up each app description.
Making a sentence longer for the sake of it doesn't increase the value of a conversation.
Reading the email in the linked post, I don't see any "personal note" in there. Other than the first name which, as redguava points out, is easily obtainable. It looks personalized, sure. But there's nothing telling me it isn't sent by a cron job.
Your experience is highly atypical in most of the US.

The common setup is a single-stage heat/cool installation with 4 color-coded wires.

It's all low-voltage (24VAC) and the biggest problem most people run into is an older 2-wire setup (single-stage heat only), where the programmable thermostat can't be vampire powered from the circuit and either cuts out when it clicks the relay on to fire the furnace, or simply needs to be a battery-powered unit.

With all the eco-stuff and increased heating costs, installation of programmable thermostats by low-skilled homeowners is actually pretty common.