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possible, I'm much less sure about my use of passed versus past here then the use of which instead of that in the title. That said, I had thought 'get' did not indicate motion across the sentence here 'passed' did, so passed is correct. But I could totally believe I'm doing it wrong.
It is the blessing, and the curse, of culture that generations have suffered to find a balanced set of behaviors and rules. Change them at your peril! Its kind of like a system of natural selection - societies must be conservative to survive long-term. Rules change over generations, variations are few since the survival of the collective depends on (some of )them.

However, the world and the society we live in is changing so quickly (technology, cultural mixing, global warming, you name it) that the new norm for changing the rules is not generations but years or months. Using Facebook? Change your settings today or lose your entire life history to strangers! and so on.
Good answer +1, I was sort of thinking about this but I didnt have the knowledge.
I'm typing on a 11" Samsung Chromebook right now and love it, though I never would have expected to be reporting that a year ago. At $140 for a refurbished model, I can take it on trips and not worry about theft.

The biggest trade-off is that I have to keep some of my number-crunching on a server that I ssh into, which does limit working from trains/planes/busses/etc.

My biggest gripe is that the method I'm using to run a proper linux environment (Crouton) creates a startup situation that risks blowing away my hard drive image if anyone but me opens the laptop and follows the "Press the Spacebar to exit Developer Mode" (or whatever it says) message.

I really hope Google realizes they've got a community of programmers using Chromebooks as trip-friendly development machines and creates proper support for dual booting (or chrooting) into linux.
Interesting. It's sad, then, that Nest does not emphasise that fact.
My personal phone is updated from the GM release, but all the other phones I checked were downloaded straight from the release.
The more interesting thing here is how it interfaces with the thermostat and makes both better as a result. Turning off the furnace when the carbon monoxide alarm is triggered is worth it by itself. For those of us living in snowy climates with children, this is a big deal on its own.

In addition, the improved awareness of when you're home, extra safety lighting, etc are all interesting as well. I don't see this as a smoke detector a step towards a smarter, safer, more energy efficient house. Perhaps the discussion should be about what else it is, not necessarily that takes on the main role of a extra fancy smoke/CO detector.
This armchair pyschoanalysis is rubbish. Where does your apparent intent to paint the guy in the worst light possible come from?

And no, there has been no report of any drug seizure to accompany the arrest of Ulbricht.
Depressing when it turns to 0 seconds. Ok now I'm about to die! If not, I will send a bug report!
Why would you want an Intel chip in here? Would you rather get worse performance with half of the battery life? The only reason I can imagine is for installing linux and having the endless number of x86 precompiled applications. Even if that is the case, Ubuntu's ARM repositories have grown tremendously and ARM support is getting significantly better every kernel release. Plus, anything that isn't precompiled, you can always build yourself.
> Looks very similar to the old plastic MacBook.

Not a bad thing, IMO.
The problem is that services like Lavabit want to do something that is technically not possible: give you access to your encrypted mail from any computer i.e. the convenience of webmail. If I can just download a key and keep it on my computer, why would I not just generate the key on my computer by e.g. using PGP or S/MIME?
I also use the exciting technologies of email and telephone, and talk to people. On top of that, I use Facebook to keep in touch with the remaining 90% of people I have weaker ties to, but once every half a year or sth. want to do some stuff together.

One big value of Facebook is that it's a push system, not pull (and we know that push > pull). I can stay current with the life of hundreds of people I know without having to think much about it or check it manually. It scales better than e-mail/phone and allows different new ways to interact with people. And there's no reason not to use e-mail and phone along with using Facebook.
The "wave to cancel the alarm" function bothers me.

What if there's a fire and there's movement in the room, for example because the cat jumps in front of the sensor or something falls over?
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The wifi repeater feature would be cool but I think it'd probably be a battery drain on the non-wired versions.
:)

"Thoughts and prayers" would have been even more biting.
Is this a joke?

This sounds like the perfect way to induce anxiety and hopelessness, ultimately resulting in depression.

This is a terrible idea.
It's $233.89 according to that Amazon link, the $385 is crossed out.

Edit: The price has dramatically changed since both of us viewed the page. My comment is no longer valid. The current 7:50AM PST 10/8/13 price is $279.99.
I'd suppose you have the $1000+ chromebook, not the sub $300 ;-)
Orwell's main target seemed to be those who "corrupted" what he felt were the originally good ideas/intentions of socialism (Stalin in particular), with the result that people were left worse off (or, at best, no better) afterwards than they had been before socialism.

Whether such "corruption" is inevitable or not... given his other writings, Orwell would have said no, but readers can have their own opinions.
Does '2GB (4x 4Gbit) DDR3 RAM' mean that it can grow to 16gb of ram? Under those conditions I would seriously consider getting it and running crouton.
Not quite what you're asking for, but I made this thing some time back: http://troelskn.github.io/upflow/
CALEA requires that all telephone companies (and now mobile phone and cable companies) provide a means of "tapping" a phone line. To my knowledge, there's nothing similar that says a data service has to provide the ability to retrieve unencrypted data.
I believe they call that "deception", the definition of which is telling people something exists which does not in order to get their buy-in. Had he taken so much as a single dollar in revenue from someone, it will be fraud. It ruins the reputations of legit startups everywhere.
Question: if not partially caused by diet, does that mean weight gained by people with a thyroid problem is all water weight? Because otherwise you'd still need 9 kcal/g of fat gained?

I tried googling, but the results aren't very useful with regard to the exact mechanism how thyroid problems cause weight gain.

Edit: From more reading I now believe that it's still a diet problem, but the thyroid issues seem to make it harder to eat less.
So instead you would buy ten Nest alarms for $130 each?
A little unrelated, but for cold emailing, should I be using my Google business email or another generic email? I do not want to get banned if someone reports it as spam. Would you recommend any webhost which I can use for this safely?
What tweaks do you use in your Macintosh?
Do you have any tips/tweaks/hacks you use in your Mac? Software or hardware alike.
First thing I checked was the CPU/Memory. Definitely waiting till the updated version comes out.

Only benefit I see with this model is that its an IPS display. We'll see what Samsung or Google produces this November.
"If other people knew we didn't have the content, they probably wouldn't sign up any more."

Damn straight I wouldn't. And I sure as hell wouldn't be giving you my credit card details to store on file. I don't care what your PCI compliant third party provider is like, if I give you my credit card details, unless its a refer payment, then you debit it and throw away the card details.

This is totally unethical business practice. It's a bait and switch as far as I'm concerned!
I love to watch this age to be obsessed with time management, waste, gain or whatever anyone comes up with.
Šhow for free, sometimes - too serious.
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I was thinking about this too...
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Tangential curiosity:

Agriculture ... industry ... service ... what's next?
Medical conditions (and often, medications taken to treat certain conditions) only make it more difficult to lose weight. They don't make it impossible.

I really don't like reading lines like "I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland" because it suggests that weight loss is simply impossible for some people. And yet time and time again people with these and other weight-gaining diseases prove this wrong.

99.99% of the time people who struggle to lose weight are simply not following a successful weight loss plan to the letter. I would bet a pretty large sum of money, that if she got help (either online for free, or from a professional trainer/dietitian for not-so-free) and actually followed through with a proven action plan, the weight would come off. If she stuck to the plan, the weight would stay off.

It would probably be more difficult for her than for a healthy person, but to suggest that she has no choice but to be overweight is disingenuous.
The biggest culprit is real estate hyperinflation, which is just as bad or worse in the Bay Area.
Well, he could opensource the audio components, especially the multiplatform/browser bits.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DR0PDNE

£59.99 = 96.47 US Dollar

Sold by Sinclair Intl and Fulfilled by Amazon.

Nothing about that sounds right.
You did read that we never took anybody's money, right?
I still think it's a bit dodgy. If I used GitHub's form of Markdown for a similar project, I wouldn't think it acceptable to call it "MarkHub" and give it a logo of a Septocat in a black circle.
Learning to code is the best way to understand coders. Plus you'll be able to build your own stuff to boot! Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Awesome little machine but this brings up questions for me:

1. Do consumers want what is essentially a modern netbook? Didn't this market die once the iPad and tablets took hold?

It would seem from recent consumer buying trends that most prefer a touch screen/tablet form factor at this price point/screen size.

2. How does this compare to an Android tablet (Nexus 10) with a high quality keyboard? Or even some of the "transformer" products with keyboards/additional ports already available?

It seems you pay quite a premium for touch, I wonder if this machine will help sway people back into this form factor without touch/tablet mode.
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> I lay in bed, sleepless as usual, watching the smoke alarm blink. It blinked and blinked and I realized I had no idea what that meant.

Whereas this new device glows green, or sometimes yellow. Or other colours. What does that mean? I'll have to check the manual anyway, or wait for the 'human voice' to explain.

The beauty of smoke detectors is that they are a minimal set of electronics required to perform the task. This minimises chances of failure, since the circuitry is sufficiently simple that it can be understood. Perhaps it can even be formally proven? Not sure if that has been done for any end-user device.

Once you start building an ARM computer, OS, wifi, SMS etc into such a device the complexity and failure conditions balloon.

Edit: this device _might_ have an isolated, decoupled sensor unit but it still has to interact with the more complex upper-level functions in order to signal an alarm.
It's steep but then again, just the option of being notified about a fire when you're not at home makes me consider doing just that. When I'm away, I sometimes get a bad feeling and I check the surveillance cams remotely, but that's neither practical nor helpful. On the other hand, I probably wouldn't be so paranoid if there had never been a fire.
The sounds are great by themselves, but I had the most fun layering different generators by opening several tabs. I played around with the EQ and made something sounding very close to Biosphere with 4 parallel tabs. It really felt like the tracks were synchronized to fit into each other. Great work!
Would it not be possible to manipulate the way back by modifying the exit node to a real TOR relay for the xxxxxx.onion?
Ethically, you must be honest and upfront with your customers. If your experiment involves misleading the, in any way, then ditch the experiment.

I sure as hell wouldn't want to be the unknowing recipient of his "experiment".
If I could recommend just one, it would be 1Password.
"Diet doesn't help much in this case."

Aaaaaand all your credibility just went out the window.
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Thanks for confirming. I'm a little boggled why HP would roll out an identical product an entire year after the fact, unless HP is just that messed up internally.
Having recently bought a newly built house, I'd say that it's more likely that they'd offer the option of Nest fixtures throughout for the low, low price of only $1,000 extra.
That's why there are two systems, one for all the fancy stuff and the other handles the regular smoke detector stuff.
So, I invest/lend 100. The SME fails. Who is persecuting them? I don't want to chase each failed SME to get the money back.

I mean, you still need middle men. Nobody has willing, knowledge or time to rate, follow and persecute a bunch of SME's.

I would love laws and tools to lend to companies I know well although. Like companies of friends or friends of friends. But that is impossible now. Another big topic is discounting invoices, somebody here? Interesting topic with real hassle.
I think the most interesting feature is the one at the end. How it talks to your thermostat and can shut off your heater/furnace if it detects CO, which is often the source.
I would still have liked to see the same graph at 2GB and 6GB.

When I roam from Canada to the US, the incumbents charge something like $1 / 4 KB (yes, KB, not MB) of data for anyone on a post-paid plan, and deny data roaming to pre-paid users. I keep a T-mobile SIM around just for when I visit, even though I only use it for a few months every year.

If the cost of data is the same for 500 MB as it is for 6 GB (most prepaid plans I could find last time I visited were either 100MB with huge overage costs or 2GB+) then the relative expensiveness of the US goes down as the amount of data used increases.

I'm not saying that wireless data in the US isn't expensive -- it is. Besides, financial ITMPs are one of the most effective ways of regulating data use when bandwidth is finite.
Nice job! Being able to share custom presets would be cool.
What big data problems do you have? Help me and I'll share the results on HN
the problem is people seeing and sharing this, thereby giving it some sort of authority. It's possible and still a dumb idea. Yet another thing front end coders have to encounter and fix after somebody else applies these kinds of embarrassing hacks.
My alarms are connected to the house power -- no batteries. That seems like the best way. Perhaps battery for power failures.
When was the last time you saw a "necessity" on the front page of HN?
The micro usb is slimport enabled, which should in theory be able to give you HDMI, VGA, DVI and DisplayPort via a dongle.

In a similar vein I'd guess you can get ethernet and SD card adaptors via the full size USB.
That's what I thought, read all the way to the end and didn't even find out what the actual threat was. Ridiculous.
>The fact that you brag about it so boastfully is atrocious to be honest.

I didn't find his post to be bragging 'boastfully' at all. It reads chiefly informative and at times positively surprised. He found a technique that seems to work pretty well and he informs us about it.

I think your opinion is too harsh. Imagine yourself to be the customer of this website. You come across something you like so much you're willing to pay for it and you make the commitment to actually do so. Sure the revelation that the product does not exist yet is disappointing, but he also didn't take your money yet, and his website already convinced you that the product is going to be what you're looking for.
> $129 is a lot for a consumer

Is it, really? I mean couples routinely blow that on 1-2 dinners out without any thought at all, at least in the demographic they're targeting. You're paying something like a 2x purchase cost for a much smarter, well-connected device – that seems well within the range that upscale consumers will pay for almost any sort of better made appliance or furnishing.
Agreed, you can do web development on nearly any modern laptop. There are more important things to focus on, besides horse power.

1. Solid state drive. One of the few upgrades you'll notice day to day.

2. Portability, and screen size. After a handful of laptops, I've settled with a Samsung Series 9, 13.3", 2.8lbs. I'm constantly on the road, so it works perfect. If I'm home, I just HDMI the display to my 24" monitor and keep working.

3. Display. The Samsung I'm running uses PLS, similar to IPS, so it doesn't matter if you view it head on, or any angle, the colors and lightness remain accurate. This is incredibly important for any type of design work, and on my prior TN laptops, I'd be bending my screen forwards and back, trying to dial in subtle differences in color.
Private ownership of means of production, or "capital assets" in that article (it's just terminology). Neither private ownership of goods nor the existence of markets are specific to capitalism.
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I bought a Nest thermostat last year and in general have been pretty happy with it. We have 2 HVAC units in our house (upstairs/downstairs), but I've only only bought one for the downstairs primarily b/c of the up front cost. This problem seems to be exacerbated with a smoke alarm where most (or at least a lot of?) people will require multiple smoke alarms. My two-story house should have 3 or 4 detectors to cover all the living/sleeping areas, but even just one detector is enough of an investment to think twice before plunking down $130 per unit vs several of the $7.50 Kidde linked by jeanjq (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6514777). With the thermostat there's at least potential cost savings over time, but that doesn't exist with a smoke detector. Granted, the benefit of potentially saving your life in the event of a fire is priceless, but I think that convincing folks of the value here is going to be harder than with the thermostat.

Also, sensors in any smoke detector "expire" after some length of time (8-10 yrs - http://www.usfa.fema.gov/citizens/home_fire_prev/alarms/), so this is a semi-recurring cost. Also discussed in that article is the type of detection technology. This is using a photo-electric sensor vs a more traditional ionization sensor. Both have their benefits/tradeoffs, the ideal scenario seems to be to include both (slow smoldering fires vs hot and fast). (I've been researching these a bit lately for our house, would happily defer to an actual expert in the field though).

I love (and am tempted by) the technology and polish/ease of use that they've done here, but the cost seems to be more significant when compared to the current alternatives.
It's probably not quite what you're looking for, but I've been experimenting recently with using the Prompt app from Panic on my iPad Mini to SSH to a Debian virtual machine on Joyent (I have some spare credit with them I wanted to put to use up). For me, using VIM this way works pretty well, especially when paired with a bluetooth keyboard.
Freedom from choice?
Note that a smoke detector should be on the ceiling, and a carbon monoxide alarm at ~1.5m high on a wall. Putting it on the ceiling as well could very well result in late alarms.

(Source: a friend who nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning)
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people of the (sometimes a little forgotten) other person name-checked in the Higgs Boson: Satyendra Nath Bose.

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

He was an interesting chap!
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The failure mode of that is when the fire is electrical in nature, and causes house power to fail before the alarms notice.
4*4Gbit=16Gbit=2GB. Basically it has one RAM module made up of four 4 Gbit chips. Someone just copy and pasted the technical spec sheet for the RAM module.
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The fact the government wanted the SSL keys is obvious they wanted to get at all his customers, not just the one they were targeting.

Levison offered multiple times to write a specific script for the single user that would do what they wanted and at a minimal cost to the government - and they refused. A pretty clear indication they wanted unfettered access to his client base and his network.

Then you add in the lack of ANY oversight on either Lavabit's or the government's, and you have to praise him for what he did.
"It's occasionally off by a few seconds, what with free will and all."
- H. Farnsworth
What's a cold email? I don't get it.
No, not correct. Suppose I know the message that was encrypted (i.e. a known plaintext attack). Then what I can do is to build a table of the decryption of the ciphertext under all possible keys (i.e. a brute-force attack on one cipher), then encrypt the known plaintext under all possible keys with the other cipher (a second brute-force attack) and see where I get "hits" in the table. Those hits are candidate keys for the composed cipher; if the ciphers are secure then there will be a small number of hits. The total running time is simply the sum of the time required to attack the component ciphers, which only adds one bit of security.
That's precisely it: for developing 32 bit applications.

As it stands, I have many computers that could benefit from me programming a 32 bit application, but only my rpi could benefit (and my cell phone, I suppose) with the ARM builds.

32 bit is also helpful for me because I have some 32-bit IDE (like the naobot from Aldebaran IDE). It is simply easier for me to develop and configure.
"But this electrical "noise" can make the Nest fail"

Ouch! Looks like they didn't have the experts on that area working on it

Switching an inductive load on and off is a pain, and Nest probably didn't want to use "old fashioned" relays (and I agree), but in the end it ends up prone to things like that.
>News outlets keep repeating "11 pages of 4-point type totaling 2560 characters", which just doesn't match up since that number of characters fits on one page in a fairly normal font size. Also, RSA keys just aren't that big, so the 11 pages must have either been many keys or some other data.

You're making assumptions about the encoding...
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You could filter it yourself with a bit of DSP knowledge. I've seen this approach working effectively in Firefox without Web Audio API.

Impulse filters are easy to implement, e.g. an averaging low pass filter (or at least I think so, I'm no DSP expert):

out(t) = 1/sum(a) * (a_1 * in(t) + a_2 * in(t-1) + ... + a_n * in(t-n+1))

Where "a" is a vector of constant coefficents.

You could even use FFT to modulate the bands separately, e.g.:

Sample -> FFT -> Filtering -> FFTi -> Output
If artistic merits were required for the DMCA to have effect, labels would be fucked.
It seems that amazon is shipping chromecasts to UK . Give it a try
I don't have any iOS or Android devices - does it have a built-in web server so I can configure it?
If it still detects smoke after a while, it elevates to "red" and starts making the usual annoying loud noises.
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