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"connecting cable is nearly identical (what's the probability of that)"

Are you talking technically? As in the connectors and functionality are the same? If so doesn't that seem like a reasonable move considering third-party companies are building peripherals for that connector? If you mean it's the same shape, then yes, it's a small rectangle.
OK, then let me ask a different question: why don't you start a bank?
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Here's the sign I was talking about:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64168757@N02/5987403529/in/set-...

"<picture of bicycle> stop for peds". Isn't that what the stop sign means?

And here's the other one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chicagobikes/5828955426/in/set-...
Nice, now I learnt to no longer buy 'private' stuff with the cards. I'll warn other people with this article.

They FUD'd themselves unnecessarily.
If they use the same procedure the result will be completely useless.
There is no requirement to use batteries to back up a grid connected solar house, any of the current generation options work fine.

The question raised was could solar PV supply a majority of residential electric load if it was basically unavailable at night.

In ten years, when the OP expects solar PV to be cheaper than all other forms of generation, how much power will really be needed at night?

I can easily imagine a house with very little night time consumption. Natural gas furnace, gas stove, gas water heater and dryer; nothing exotic. Refrigeration electric load can be shifted to the daytime by simply setting the controller to over-chill the freezer during the day.

That leaves computing devices, lighting, and entertainment for the night time electric load.
Yes, please, more of these kinds of innovative products!

Edit: Ah, created by an ex-Apple guy behind iPod and iPhone. No wonder it looks so damn slick.

TC link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/24/ipod-godfather-tony-fadell-...
"Honestly, the 4 adoptions seemed much easier to me than the biological process which I've also seen many times."

I can't even begin to understand how that would be possible.

My friend who has adopted from overseas spent several years and thousands of dollars (something like $45,000 if I recall correctly) making it happen.

I had sex a couple of months ago and now I'm 8 1/2 weeks pregnant.

Let's just say I know which route I found easier.
The whole experiment is based on learning from other code samples (see http://www.cs.siue.edu/~astefik/papers/StefikPlateau2011.pdf). That's what they measured -- how easy is for the beginner to learn from the code samples.

If you don't explain the logic behind the special characters, of course it's easier to learn what the code is about from the notation which has less special characters and less semantic behind the special characters, like their better faring language:

action z(integer a, integer b,
integer c) returns number
number d = 0.0
number e = 0.0
integer i = a
repeat b - a times
if i mod c = 0 then

I'd say the students were talented if they managed to make reasonable results in any language, from my perspective, their "better" language is still way too hard for absolute beginners.
from the zip-code prompt on the intitial configuration screen, it doesn't look like they're targeting the non-american market (at least not yet)
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Really?

We register for notifications from the GC using a magic threshold number that could mean anything.

Then we quickly notify the rest of the webs a GC is pending on our "message bus". They let us know they are safe from GC at the moment. If they are not you are in a pickle.

Then we notify HAProxy that we are about to run a GC and ask it to tell us when it is done draining the current requests and taking our web offline.

Once notified we perform the GC manually

Then we notify HAProxy that we are done with the GC so it can add us back to the pool.

What could possibly go wrong?
it sounds like a pretty awesome idea, but lithium ion battery powered, with wi-fi and bright LCD? i'd rather not have to remember to change the batteries in my thermostat every couple of days.
> Do you really believe the correct solution for these problems is to essentially make every financial startup a DBA of HUGE_BANK_X?

AFAIK Bancorp is not particularly huge by contemporary standards. But I see only three alternatives to being an agent of a bank:

1. Be a money transferor

2. Be a bank yourself

3. Get the law changed

None of these is very easy to do. Being an agent of a bank could be the path of least resistance.
Very cool. I wonder if they will one day interface with your local weather as well (or if it already does).

The entire product is non-obvious, but when they've gone this far, seems they'd take the extra step to see if it is going to be 75 outside, and you like it at 70, and it is currently 68, to not turn on the heater, but use the air-conditioner to keep things cool.
I wish I could be terribly naive too... =) Aus sounds amazing!
https://bitbucket.org/gr3dman/lishp

In Haskell. Has partial application, but is otherwise terrible.
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>how the "moving pieces fit together" matters more than how much anybody cares.

It takes both to take any meaningful, equitable, decisive action. Analysis without motivation leads us to scholarly indifference.

Your point is taken when it comes to empathy without logic.
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Hopefully many of you already got your copies. Which is the most interesting thing you found in it?
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This is genius. If they can prove that the thermostat actually results in significant energy savings, there is potential to take advantage of utility sponsored rebates for the device in certain states.

Also, there is the potential to hook this up to the smart grid, allowing utilities to remotely adjust thermostat settings based on the supply/demand balance on the grid. (Utilities would pay for this capability, further offsetting the costs of the device).
I am really not following your criticism of Dapper? Without Dapper we would both need more servers AND have significantly higher latency.

There is no magic here, it is merely understanding the limitations of the .NET GC and adapting to it. XNA and trading platforms also are aware of these issues and have to follow similar patterns.
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>And it's type system and object model are better than CL anyway.

I couldn't disagree with this more. I don't see what is so different about their type system but SBCL is doing more and more type inference for you.

As far as object model, generic functions are a superset of message passive. One good way to gauge the power of different languages is to look at the kinds of language-deficiency patterns you have to use. What drew me to Smalltalk was that it needed so few compared to, e.g. Java. What made me leave Smalltalk for Lisp was double-dispatch patterns. Double-dispatch patterns (e.g. Visitor) simply aren't needed in a language with generic functions.

>And 30 years later, listeners still rule!

With this, do you mean the REPL or something else?
This page should give you the gist: http://www.nest.com/living-with-nest/ just scroll down.
Nice blog post (though more transit-vs-bikes oriented)discussing this here :

http://www.humantransit.org/2011/10/lamentation-bicycles-vs-...

Arguments don't differ very much from what follows your comment...
?? Where has the 'edit' link gone? I wanted to edit some typos here...
They're wired into the mains.
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Curious about how many other cool projects / companies can come out of that line of thought:

"Here's a plain everyday thing that everyone wants to ignore, let's make it a cherished item"
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Does it matter, so long as you're writing standards compliant code?

Look how much damage was caused by people trying to support the awful IE6 for years (still doing it too!)? (By damage I mean extra time, buginess, and bandwidth for extra CSS and javascript kludges).

Why is it not viable to just say "The code is standards complaint, so any problems are at your end; use a better browser"?
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Adjust room temperature, Siri! It's a little cold in here.
I don't understand, why do we need a thermostat in house? Isn't the normal environmental temperature outside just good. Why artificially change it?
Just the cloud? It seems a prediction of the Internet.
> He was shocked there wasn’t a single attractive thermostat on the market so he decided to build his own.

This. I wish I had the balls to do the same!
Thanks, I'll check out the talk.

I saw that Einstein quote the other day. I probably don't understand enough to explain things that simply.
hmm.. time to borrow friend's HTC for 'grabbing' this offer.
Seems like a solution in search of a problem.
No, for that you just need PostureMinder:

http://pcbackpain.com/how-postureminder-works/
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Well, probably most of us don't see their utility bills as a problem per se but wouldn't mind 50% reduction. And Nest claims to deliver that. Certainly that claim is to be taken with a grain of salt but I don't think that it's a bad idea.

EDIT: No they don't actually claim that, my bad.
non-US perspective:

In the Netherlands we have the "Burea of Credit Registration" which registers most debts, storing:

- amount
- start date
- expected end date
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- type of credit
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So basically their EULA says: "You can use but you can't judge."

How's that even enforceable?
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I can not quite understand the result of the list I compiled! Do poor countries give birth to more entrepreneurs, while rich ones have lazy minds? Or it's not related?
And the way of thinking isn't constant. It changes over time. A 15 year old you, a 25 year old you and a 50 year old you are all different people. A 500 year old you will most probably be a different person.

There are people who resist change and disapprove of all viewpoints other their own, but I doubt it's an age thing. I see a lot of young people opposing gay marriages for instance.
Do they actually claim that? Their page claims that 50% of household energy usage is governed by the thermostat, but they are very careful to avoid any specific claims about how much Nest would reduce this usage.
Takes shit from no one?
Ive is an extraordinarily well compensated industrial designer creating the most coveted products in the world and apparently there is no one in Apple who can boss him around. I doubt he has much need or desire to become CEO.
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I watched the video and was impressed by how well designed it is. If it operates as demoed it could save a great deal of electricity.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if, like the iPod, it didn't come with a manual because it's so easy to use.
Assuming the learning algorithm is perfect and always gives the desired temperature, then a saving of 50% means that your desired temperature pattern is 50% cheaper than the temperature pattern you would program with a regular thermostat. That could be true, or it could even be more expensive.

Also, it might be annoying to have a thermostat trying to second guess what temperature you want through a "learning" algorithm, rather than the deterministic temperature you have programmed or adjusted manually.
> for instance, a weight-loss ad to a person who just swiped their card at a fast-food chain

This isn't always accurate. I know people with anorexia who buy diet products at the UK store "Boots", and who use their loyalty cards when they do so. Boots then sends them information about weight-loss plans; slimming medication; and so on. One can imagine similar happening with alcoholics.

And I'd be interested to see how legal this is in Europe. It seems to be a clear breach of data protection laws.
While I fully support standards compliancy, if I told a client to inform the customers "use a better browser" I'd be out of a job.

(That said, we've not supported IE6 for ages and I don't get why this guy is still bothering either?)
With all these great minds from our field passing away, I'm beginning to think we should pause for a moment and think what we could do to thank all those legendary computing figures still with us? Knuth, Kernighan and Woz come to mind, certainly there are a lot more.
Sadly, there is no KhanAcademy for BayesNet. I learned a lot about Bayesian network, using those three source above:

1. book "Bayesian AI": http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/bai/book/about.php

2. 3hour advanced videotutorial:
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3. finally Google scholar:
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ps: Nice article: "Bayesian Networks without tears" by Eugene Charniak:
http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/91...
I've played music for years and read sheet music well, but the first time I saw Singstar it was a huge wtf moment.
You laugh, but TOTO is a hugely successful corporation that's spent millions on toilet R&D. If this bathroom doesn't fall into "object of day to day use made into a cherished item" I don't know what does: http://www.totousa.com/Neorest/NeorestSuite.aspx
Smart move for both Dropbox and HTC. Everybody wins, and the users get the most out of this.

Hopefully we're going to see more deals like this, but PLEASE manufacturers, don't make these apps un-uninstalable (like google did with Twitter.. I don't use twitter)
http://www.nest.com/living-with-nest/index.html

$173 in savings in 12 months on an average annual energy bill of $2200.

12.7% in savings over 12 months.
PLT Racket has implemented languages with different semantics within Racket - http://docs.racket-lang.org/

See the other languages section.
Got any specifics on that? I'm curious.

Banks were first founded in the 17th/18th century, FWIW.
The connector is PDMI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI

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See also: everything critics of the iPad said the week after it was launched
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This guy has always been one to pull facts out of his arse. As a mutual friend put it, "He seems to have found a way of skipping the evidence-gathering stage of enquiry and leaping straight to the conclusions." It's total BS but the chances of changing his mind are zero.

Incidentally, he's not a complete idiot and I've known him for a long time; we've been friends since school. But he does have a massive blind-spot about this kind of thing because, basically, he's in love with his car.
HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3152924

:)
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Showing "a weight-loss ad to a person who just swiped their card at a fast-food chain" seems like an odd example. I guess it might work, but it strikes me as counterintuitive.
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What kind of rebate do you have? According to my calculations one needs very little subsidies to make installing solar panels attractive financially, even when discounting for opportunity cost (of course if you take a yield of 7% on your money then it's different, but who has made 7% on small amounts (10-20k) over the last few years and is willing to use that yield as an assumption for the next 2 decades?)
The "normal environmental temperature outside" hasn't been good enough since the first caveman started a fire in his cave for warmth.
The most interesting critique of the design patent I've seen is that it doesn't actually look like an iPad. It's thicker and has no button, and a different bezel.

Even if you allow that Apple could protect the iPad look, they've done it with a design patent that covers a different design. Then they've prevented the sale of yet a different variation. It appears like they cover a wide range of possible tablet designs with this patent rather than a single unique design.

Some images to illustrate:

http://www.dailytech.com/EDITORIAL+Apples+Patent+Didnt+Look+...
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I don't know about California, but here in Poland it looks like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Poland#Climate

And those are the nice averages. Sometimes (more often than you'd guess) the temperature decides to drop to a nice −20C. In the same place, in the same year, temperature in summer can get to 30C.

I can easily agree that people over regulate temperature — 25C in winter or 20C in summer is probably not that optimal (I just don't do cooling, but offices do). But a lot of people live in areas where the outside temperature is just not an option.
That is correct. Pardon for referring it incorrectly.
Yield from that isn't very big, and far outweighed by the cost of making the whole installation moveable. If you're going to put everything on a moveable frame anyway, it's better to have it servo-controlled so that it's at least adjusted continually.
Ubuntu Unity instead of Windows 7 and ready to scream
Their site lists all the ways that it learns and adapts here http://www.nest.com/inside-and-out/#learns - one of the ways uses the weather
It's funny you mention in. Back then I participated in multiple A/B tests for LAME and other encoders and did several blind tests with all my audio playback equipment. Needless to say, the iRiver was far and away superior to the iPod in practically every metric.

I used to own a pair of Sennheiser HD-280s back then, and the difference was pretty damned clear. The AKG K-540s I own now are basically unlistenable with iPods of the time.
Not the same thing.

In the past, before the Internet, the shopkeeper knew my purchasing history.

The bank didn't know or care what I did with my cash.
Apparently ICS makes all apps uninstallable. I'm sure American carries will find some way to muck it up though.
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That is a false comparison, because you're comparing a 'positive evolution' (yield of PV increases) with a 'negative evolution' (amount of horse manure produced grows). What he's saying is that, even without radical breakthroughs, we will reach grid parity in a few years. Of course there may be a breakthrough in either PV or other tech, that will make it only better.

What he's saying is that we've reached the point where we can generate renewable electricity. Now we only need to triple the output so that we can have our cars drive on it too, and that industry can run on solar power.
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Nah, ICS allows you to disable any application, not uninstall it. It's basically in a state which just uses storage space, which is still a good thing.
But who's to say that manufacturers won't modify ICS and disable 'certain features' ?
My guess is that most of the savings come from the auto-away feature that's apparently backed by some sensors (motion detection?). I don't doubt that auto-away could save energy as most people probably don't either care or remember to adjust their thermostats when leaving home.

I don't think that the auto-adjustment really is that much more annoying than programming a regular dumb thermostat. Of course the end result being annoying depends on the algorithm design more than anything else.
>As scale goes up, per-unit costs come down. This is known as a "learning curve"

Weird. Where I come from that is called economies of scale & learning curves are applicable only to the labour component.
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My company has been using Asana for the last few months and we have been quite happy with the outcome. IT IS really just a glorified task list.
Asana team has put lot of effort into building a snappy user interface that feels almost like working on a native app (shortcuts, etc).
I miss a native iphone app even though the mobile site works ok.
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I don't know anything about their algorithm, but I highly doubt that it 'guesses' the desired temperature. It looks like it simply records the users preferences based on time of day and day of week, and then tries to mimic those preferences. It will be interesting to see if they also provide a web based interface that allows users to have more direct control over the algorithm (for example hard coding certain scheduled times for the thermostat to turn on or off)
Wow, how horrendously awful must GoodData's services be to require language like that in their TOS and actions like this?