skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People intentionally and knowingly reading the ingredients / turning on DNT is the correct method.

I'm struggling to find a valid food-ingredient-analogy but it would be very different from your scenario. It would have to involve Microsoft auto-scanning the ingredients without the user ever turning this feature on. Then Microsoft would have to do something with the results that hurts/disparages certain food producers. And then the food producers would stop listing ingredients in a form that Microsoft can OCR, not lie about them.
If you can afford to buy 96 of these Lights then I think you can get the project across the funding line single-handedly :)
Backed, and have been helping with a little testing. It's a mighty cool device; I don't think we've scratched the surface of the possibilities yet.

Back it.
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Can't wait to get mine. I think this is one of the coolest things going these days.
The Side Menu seems to be a pattern borrowed from Android, which is now being used in a lot of iOS apps, e.g. Facebook and Path.
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Basically, there is no maps in Apple Maps for India. Google has got it pretty good this part of the world!
This is a draft for an upcoming book, and comments/feedback would be much appreciated!

BTW, for environments where WebWorker-Threads is not an option (e.g. Node.js 0.6), https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/commit/0f41d20324833885... provides a backward-compatible fallback.
We've backed for 2 battery powered ones, and plan on doing that, as well as an alarm clock that will integrate with our lifx backing.

that way the bathroom light can start at 20% when I touch the light when i get up and fade up over a few minutes to 100% while I hate the world a little less during that time in the morning when I get up.

I'm not a morning person.
Downloaded the just released Google Currents 2.0 app yesterday, and I really like that side menu. So much better than a physical menu button or even a software menu button on the app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and....
No native Google Apps for the Windows 8 family "until people start using them"
I agree. I just got my iPhone 5, and it had a male voice for Siri. Changed that immediately.

The world is beautiful again.
One of my fellow Australians posted. Here's my review of Google Maps, using his post as a basis for my post ;)

My findings:
For searching. Google Maps has a much better autocomplete all round. Faster, more readable and elegant. Once you have selected an entry then Apple Maps jumps straight there. Google Maps does a handy move animation showing me the relative location, although it slows things down a litte. I LOVE this feature.
For panning. Apple Maps is equivalent to Google Maps. Apple Maps has a fade in transition for loaded tiles which is a nice touch.
For POIs. Apple Maps is showing me a few POIs - often in the wrong place. Google Maps is showing me all key POIs in exactly the right place. Google Maps is the first mapping product to get my home address correct (TomTom, Navigon, Garmin, Apple).

For UI. Google Maps has a nicer UI. Apple Maps requires you to click on a small button which goes to a separate screen with more options. I really like the sidebar that Google implemented.

Overall. Google Maps has much better street data and nicer UI. Apple Maps had a smooth UI, showed POIs in the wrong spot here in Australia.

I think the competition is great. Looking forward to seeing if Apple can lift their socks on the next incarnation of Maps - they have a LONG way to go.
I need to buy 6 for my brother who has imagined an amazing scenario for his music room. Then I can begin to think about how many I want, and where I shall use them.
I'm curious to see where they take this. Amazon, Google, and Apple already will host your music and have stores to sell new music from; Dropbox has neither. What could they possibly do that would be more than just a "me too!"?
Pricing is as much about emotion as it is about logical evaluations of value. You need to be sensitive about pricing situations where the customer will pay, but only begrudgingly, and so leaves the transaction feeling that they never want to come back and certainly would never recommend you to anyone else.
While I agree with many of your thoughts on distribution losing its value, as someone in book publishing, I would argue that aggregation, though not in the exact same sense in which you use it, has always been and continues to be the special, important, and valuable product that publishers provide.

A lot of your insights make a tremendous amount of sense from the writer's/journalist's perspective, as in, 'what can I get out of my publisher, since I can distribute my content so easily... only their marketing team is valuable to me now, and they're not tremendously good at their jobs anyway.'

I think a good objection to raise to that way of looking at the situation is that we should really be considering the value of publishers from the consumer's perspective.

'The future of publishing' discussions are driven not only by some weird desire for the status quo (which can be found in any industry) but, in my experience, also by the huge fear that we will be living in a world in which there are no gatekeepers. The stodgy traditional industry chugs on because it serves as a quality stamp. I don't mean to just cite anecdotal experience but it's pretty clear to me that the majority of self-published 'journalism' is simply not up to the level of say, The Economist, and I know that the Amazon self-published scene is full of both unreadable, horribly formatted, typo-heavy books and straight up nutjobs, which doesn't happen too often in the big six. Another way of saying this, if I haven't gotten the point across, is that publishers DO find journalists and manage logistics for journalists. They also give them a soapbox that has a big stamp on it that reads, 'trust us, she's a great writer. All this stuff is true.' So yes, I do fear a world in which anyone can become a 'journalist.'
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There are other similar projects, however the advantage of the Light is that it can exist as a client AND stand-alone server, controlling other lights - including other 'Internet-of-Things'
GMaps doesn't totally annihilate Apple maps. I think that's his point.

I'm not the grand-parent poster, and no Apple fanboy ... but I am inclined to agree with his sentiment.
It can certainly do that; but it can do a lot more.
my point is if we had to agree to this disclaimer, there was nothing wrong with apple maps then
Yeah, sure, say that to Facebook & Twitter founders (to name the most known). People can sometimes have sufficient genius to handle creating then founding if the product is valuable.
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That sounds remarkably like "The Second Renaissance" from the The Animatrix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix#The_Second_Renais...
An awesome project! The possibilities are pretty amazing. For me it has the potential to be and do so much.
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My subscription just expired and I can't decide what to do... Last year I gave them one more chance. I guess they have shipped something, although I use Android...
I assume you don't think Google is ethical. Is that correct? What does ethical mean to you?
The real issue on the employment front is that we humans imagined job automation backwards from how it's really happening.

We assumed that jobs would be automated from "menial" to "advanced". First would go lots of farm labor, then manual servants, then eventually factory workers, and by the time it reached educated, white-collar middle-class folks, the world would hit post-scarcity and we'd all become artists and writers and scientists.

Instead, it has ended up proceeding: farm labor, a minority of manual servants, some but not all factory workers, and finally most white-collar middle class jobs. The white-collar middle-class jobs were the brain jobs, were always based on the manipulation of data, and therefore turned out more amenable to encoding in software than almost anything else.

So the future is looking more and more like this: a sizable but weakly employed class of menial factory/physical laborers for the physical things too customized to automate, a smaller "middle class" to actually run specialized machinery (machinery whose operation requires knowledge of what it does rather than knowledge of "how to use Windows XP"), a small elite of upper-middle class innovators with hyper-advanced knowledge and hyper-competitive lifestyles (Hacker News, this is your future), and the capitalist class itself.

What replaces the standard-issue job for common people? Nothing. In its place, we have a mass of unemployed people where the old class of mid-skilled blue and white collar workers used to be. Any time a piece of work would require employing massive numbers of manual workers, it becomes amenable to specialized, programmatic automation. Unemployment will become a fact of life as common as we currently consider, say, not owning land.
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To twist Woody Allen a bit - I'd rather achieve immortality by not dying rather than having a machine running a copy of me that thinks it is the real me.
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I'll go for qualified agreement to some extent :)

You're right in saying that, for example, exactly once delivery is a symptom of a business requirement. I do agree, but even something like message de-duplication has issues with scaling in a genuinely distributed system. Admittedly, whether you choose to look at that as part of messaging (a term which I admit to possibly over-broadening sometimes, as I tend to look on it as more of an approach than a technology) is open to debate, but I do get where you're coming from much better now.

On the second point, I wouldn't describe my scenario as a distributed transaction - there's also very possibly no single server on which to do a classic database transaction - as soon as you do there's a scalability barrier. Anyway - it's more a difference of scenarios I think, and I'd agree that in the ones you've described the solutions sit outside of a messaging layer/domain.

Always interesting to hear, thanks for clarifying!
Also, you can test/certify specific devices for cockpit use on specific planes.
The only whole and complete answer is the end of capitalism as we know it. Not, that is, the end of market economies as we know them, but the end of capitalism in the sense of dividing the population into those who own the means of production and a broad mass who must sell labor to survive. Labor is becoming an unsaleable commodity.
People will pay for robots/AI if it replaces a larger amount of salary paid to humans. This is already happening. The question is whether once all the 'easy' stuff has been automated whether we'll be able to automate the 'hard' stuff that we'd currently call intelligent work; but there will definitely be strong economic incentives for it under normal capitalist system. And if/when AI catches up with human intelligence, there will still be economic incentives to create greater than human intelligence. Killer robots comes from whether the AI designers will be smart enough to create AI powerful enough to be economically advantageous but with 'values' that are close enough to those of the human race.
I sometimes wonder if Facebook actually would offer real, nicely printed yearbooks, how many people would order it - and how much extra revenue/profit that'd mean for them.
There are plenty of rules that require enforcement that are not petty or stupid: requiring seat belts during take off, landing, and turbulence, or enforcing no smoking policies.

I am reminded of the discussion here a while back about Airbnb and hotel regulation: some of New York's regulations governing hotels are stupid and petty...but others come out of a genuine desire for safety (like adequate fire escapes and sprinklers). Same with the FAA: some rules are outdated, and silly: planes should be able to cope with personal electronic devices...but others are to ensure previous disasters don't happen again.

I'm sure some airlines would happily have fewer cabin crew if the FAA would let them: yes, they can sell in-flight items, but that probably doesn't break even on the cost of employing them.
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See, I'd rather be hit in the face with a heavy, hardback book (say, the complete Lord of the Rings) than the edge of an iPad, let alone a laptop. But maybe that's just me.
I see, I thought you wanted to open Google maps from contacts app.
SolarCity seems to be a black swan[1] of photovoltaic energy. Short term we may wonder what is the right price for IPO, but long term it seems that they incredible well identified the root problem vs. cost to solve for solar system.

Reminds me an analogy of passenger airplanes, where we though that most savings will come from more efficient airplanes, while dynamic pricing provide a huge efficiency boost.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
That private business property is flying in public airspace over other entities' private and public property. The federal agency is staffed according to regulations put into legislation by elected individuals.
Yes this is totally my attitude that eventually we need a socialist system. But how do you convince winners in capitalist system that's a good idea (or the future robot owners)?
I really want to have these all thru the house. Control of ambient light it one thing but this is even better. Millions of colours. All controlled from my iDevices.
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This is interesting. I sleep close to or less than six hours a day and I work out everyday (lifting heavy weights and running 5 Mi alternate days).

I do get really deep sleep though. I would really prefer if I could sleep longer but my job shifts prevent that.
I am reading about Rebol the first time now. And I have some problems to understand what exactly it is.

Just a scripting language like Python but with some more stuff included, mainly a cross-platform feature-rich GUI framework? And a very own syntax...

Or more like an embedded programmable VM like Smalltalk?

Also, http://www.red-lang.org was mentioned here (and I also haven't heard about it before). How does that compare?
Well you shouldn't bet your life on the accuracy of these maps but there's great distance between hugely inaccurate maps and maps with millimeter precision.

My guess is if Apple maps were introduced 5 years ago (or even earlier) people wouldn't complain as there wouldn't be any other better alternative that used to be available.
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Hey, I'm going to control them via my Android devices... It's multi platform, which is great :)
I've backed it. I'm getting a couple, I'm thinking at least 3, to put into my local coworking space for people to hack on and come up with stuff I'd never think of.
Surely as more and more people are displaced from the middle class aggregate demand for goods will fall -- the jobless or those working for low wages in warehouses will not have enough money to upgrade their phones, computers, televisions, etc. every couple of years. Wouldn't the fall in demand lead to a corresponding drop in investment in automation? If fewer and fewer people can afford to purchase an iPad does Apple still build automation to produce twice as many per hour? It seems to me that the pace of technological advancement is linked to consumer demand and that hollowing out the middle class will in turn retard the advance of automation.

TLDR: Capitalists deploy capitol in order to make a profit. To do so requires a customer to sell to. If we shrink the middle class enough will there still be enough customers to justify investing capitol in automation?
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> If the Senator wants to put her attention somewhere related to aviation, I would think there are more interesting issues surrounding airport security.

Wouldn't this useless regulation be a nice conversation starter in the right direction? It will establish a (moral) precedent that it's for politicians OK do get rid of rules that are "for safety" but actually aren't.
I can't wait to get my Light!
It made my Firefox / Windows XP / creaky old laptop freak out, too. Might putting the interactive bit on a separate page to the article be in order, so those of us without the specs to play with the interactive bit can still readily read the article?
Imagine a platform for curating or writing your own intelligent magazine that edits itself autonomously to match the interests of every individual user. Now imagine a publishing network that users social filtering to identify the best articles and publications. Add adaptive web design never achieved before and you get NOOWIT.com (coming soon to change online publishing history).
Job A costs 8+ human hours a day, and Job B costs 8+ human hours a day for something that doesn't really deserve a human at all; simply some humans are so desparate that they need to do it.

The market signal is intentionally changed from "automate A preferably to B" to "it will make financial sense to automate both A and B, do it".
> I think that if you've paid money for a promised product and haven't received it, and go for an extended period of time without honest communication, it's absolutely fair to get the law involved. That's what it's there for.

If I remember correctly some weeks ago Kickstarter changed its terms and rules for running a campaign, in order to stress out that these are not pre-orders but just donations. You might receive something in return for this donation (i.e. the funded project thanks you for believing in him), but there's no way to be sure that you are actually going to get anything.

The problem is what people expected when they pledged money: they thought they were pre-ordering.. nope. They were just donating.
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In this case the "private business property" comprises huge, heavy, metal objects carrying large amounts of highly inflammable fuel that are flying through the sky at high speed over the heads and homes of millions of people.

Regulating this activity seems like a step in the right direction to me.
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+1. Xamarin.Mac just builds more on top of MonoMac. MonoMac has been used to publish apps to the App Store before:

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In what universe does doubling revenue qualify as a 200% increase?
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Here's an idea - link it to your performance monitoring software of choice, and have it colour-coded to show the usage of your cluster nodes in real time. How cool would that be?!
We have slightly improved our automatic generator of regular expressions by examples (mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682545 posted by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ColinWright).

We also described how the system works—very informally and very briefly---and list some of the open questions.

The webapp generates regular expressions automatically, only by means of text extraction examples. An example is a string coupled with the substring to be extracted:
Especially when most of them set really unrealistic dates. Hey, why don't we make a game, and ship it IN TWO MONTHS?

Yeah sure, I'm definitely believing that in two months (just for an example) you are going to address every problem that has arisen.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/28/the-kickstarter-s...
I will never be rich. I don't understand why everyone likes this so much. It's a toy you will play with for a bit then forget you have.
Argh... pretty soon there will be places where one won't even be able to turn on the lights without a smartphone... ><
The pragmatic approach is to use a toolchain which prevents data being executable. Most high level languages without pointers and direct memory access (excluding dynamic languages) perform this feat quite well.

I disclaim the use of hacks like non executable segments here in certain CPU architectures (x86 LDT/GDT controlled access bits) as they are an afterthought.
Here's Doug Crockford mentioning Rebol as an influence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
pretty damn cool. It is the zombo.com of lights.

except it does... what... it is meant to...

ok maybe not zombo.com.
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Thanks for the link. Looking at the Images, I find that the polygonal representation also yields a very cool visual effect.
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eh. it purportedly is going to have touch controls. so it could act as a switch of sorts if you wanted it to.
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It's like no matter where I go on the internet, a little bit of Slashdot is always there to welcome me.
This will make a good sunlight lamp to help people with seasonal sleep disorder.
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I've been playing with it for about an hour - and I think one of the interesting tricks that the Google Maps plays is that, in addition to making aggressive use of cacheing (which the IOS 6 map application does as well) - The Google Maps displays low-resolution version of the map you are moving into, before display the high res. The IOS 6 Maps app tends to display a blank background, so you may be more aware that the entire map hasn't been displayed.

It will be interesting to see if there is any server impact, as millions of people start using this Map Application tomorrow. (In both directions - it may be the case that the Apple Map servers will see a drop in use, and increase in performance)
I want one. Especially since i'm already a backer :)
> No matter how you slice it parsing HTML from a 3rd party site is a major hack

WebKit seems to do just fine. I think you're making excuses.