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Hence the proper usage of "question authority": with all due respect[1], investigate the reasoning behind the authority's action and either be enlightened as to the reasons or confirm that the decision makers were, in fact, ignorant/idiots. Alas, the term got misconstrued to validating "ignore those who likely know better, and act confidently in your own impulsive ignorance."

[1] - "all due respect" has also been stripped of proper meaning, relegated to a barely-veiled insult.
I wonder what the split on Nest thermostat sales is between new construction/refurb builder/contractor installations vs. "end user". Whatever it is, I think the smoke detector will be more skewed towards the former.

$129 is a lot for a consumer, especially without all the immediately tangible and potentially cost-saving benefits of the thermostat. But for a developer selling a condo, being able to advertise "Nest fixtures throughout" might be worth $1000.

I love my pair of Nest thermostats, but don't feel motivated to buy this.
According to the site - for the battery-powered version:

"6 AA Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries
Long-life batteries designed for multi-year operation"

and for the wired version:

"3 AA Energizer Ultimate Lithium backup batteries
Long-life backup batteries designed for multi-year operation"

I suppose it depends how much you use its features like lighting-up your hallway, but that's more-than reasonable in my opinion.
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The freedom to not choose between a multitude of operating systems?
No offense, but your advice sounds similar if you are saying to a woman to not to wear shorts or do not go out after 8PM otherwise she deserves to be get raped.
More details emerge about Ross Ulbricht's murder-for-hire plot
Better to use Arial unicode characters like &#x25B2 or &#x25BC ASCII encodings and UTF-8 More logical and you can apply all the text styling like color, shadows, skewing, rotate, jquery prepends etc. Put it inside a div and it can go it wherever you want. And it wouldn't be a hack. Some hacks are awesome.. and others are nice playful things but not to be taken with any kind of serious inquiry.
Dude, I'd fear much more Google controlling the OS market than Apple or Microsoft, even though I am not found of them, far from it.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebooks.ht...
Never mind this.

When will the UK get Chromecast?
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Funny and entertaining music video of a song called 'Weekend Warriors'. Music from Principia.
WhatsApp is over 4 years old with over 300 million (claimed) active users. I would expect them to have addressed security by this point. Especially after their previous blunders, I'd imagine hiring a security expert or having a third party audit their code being on the top of their list. Apparently not.

I think these news and concerns often don't make their way to a bulk of their users, who probably aren't very tech savvy. If they don't see any user defection as a result of these issues being uncovered, then I'm not surprised about their lax stance on security.
And Chrome OS represents freedom now?
Simple event framework for JavaScript
A modestly-sized IPS screen.
Yeah not sure what's holding them up a thermostat in the UK is much simpler as normally it's just heating you turn on or off.
iOS gives you direct hardware access to the device so you can do photo editing, video editing, music production, high resolution high frame rate gaming, and dozens of other device-local tasks. How does a series of glorified web browser Googlebooks compete with that?
The fact that people have this perception makes me sad.
If we have to have corporate oversight to get a decent OS, then I'd rather one I pay (e.g. Apple for iOS) than one I don't (e.g. Google for Android/Chrome OS). I want to be the customer, not the product being sold. Even if that's not what you want, choice is still a good thing: without choice, we have vendor lock-in and stagnation of ideas.

To pick an example, I think the mobile ecosystem would be a lot better right now were WebOS still a viable alternative. Instead HP left it to rot. How much progress did we lose there?
"First, the VMs have have been more performant on the Java side (this might have changed very recently, but this was definitely the case 2-3 years ago)" ... why write it, if this argument isn't valid anymore ? I thought it was a known fact these days, the CLR out-performs the JVM ...
What about casual programming? Still kind of a sore spot for tablets - if I'm wrong, please tell me why! If I could just do simple emacs/bash stuff with perl/python/javascript/html and maybe even C/C++ I'd be a lot happier buying a tablet. Not really sure if you can do this with a chromebook either, though. Can it run a modern linux distro?
> Nobody developed a language to run on top of Java

Clojure? Scala?
I'm not referring to the original strip. It was what happened afterwards.
> One thing that has always kept oppressive governments in check was their incompetence

That doesn't make them any less scary. They are too dangerous to your democracy and freedom.
I think I didn't make myself clear in my previous comment (which I've edited btw). It's not about THIS article or THAT article or anything. It's just that I've found when you (not you you, but the general you) focus on edge cases you lose sight of the bigger picture. Sure it may help you win an internet argument by appealing to emotion ("Terrorists will come again", or "She's not lazy, she has a real problem"). I don't disagree with those points but sometimes those are just too small in the probability field that we need to ignore them.

For instance, each iteration of the Rabin Miller test reduces the probability that a number is composite by 10^-4. So sure, you might argue "Well, you never know if the 16384-bit number is prime or not merely on running the rabin miller test 10 times because there's still a 1 in 10^-40 chance it's not prime so you method is invalid." I find this kinds of arguments infuriating.
> Sadly, this news arrives just weeks too late for us.

What happened?
Unless you are impersonating the endpoint or the traffic is destined for outside the Tor network, your solution would only allow you to infer that computer X on an ISP's network communicated with XXXXXXXXXX.onion.

Useful but not quite reading "the transmission both ways unencrypted"
I have a ThinkPad Tablet 2 that charges over microUSB and it's very slow. 6 hours from the USB vs 2 hours from the charger on the docking station.
As I understand it customers were informed about the change in plans before they had to hand over their money, so it's definitely not as bad as you put it.

The roadmap was actually changed because of those customers, so presumably the end result should align better with what they really were looking for.

I would've done an opt-in though.
I guess the committee thought the theory was a more important achievement than the prove.
Seems like having a built in motion-detector could be a good entry into home security as well.
Google isn't a shining beacon of hope, but I do delight in seeing hurt put on closed ecosystems.

The Apple app store is a flat-out threat to human freedom. I do not want to live in a world where the only software available is the software approved by Apple and the governments that have jurisdiction over it.

edit: Note that I take no warmth in it being Google. Yes, they are closed. The good news is that HP just offered up "Not Intel" and "Not Microsoft" preloaded in a laptop form factor. The hardware companies are retreating to neutral corners and leaving the OS vendors to duke it out on their own. This is good for free software and good for the web.
Even the reaction wasn't about "yay, rape" - it was about PA butting heads with the internet feminist community. And the internet feminist community are, to put it bluntly, massive jackasses. They're right more often than not, but that doesn't mean they aren't huge dicks. It's a funny feeling to so thoroughly loathe people that I broadly agree with.

http://i.imgur.com/wfDC4gi.jpg

So Mike Krahulik picking a fight with them? The whole "Dickwolves" thing? I don't really blame him for it. The problem is that Krahulik didn't really pay attention to the collateral damage he was doing. While his actions were intending to mock the social-justice-warrior blogosphere (which, quite frankly, deserves mockery) some of his fans were using it to celebrate rape (not cool). In the end, he was far more stubborn than he should've been, and he did a lot of damage to his own reputation and crossed the line a fair bit. It was never about rape for him, it was about picking a fight. The problem is that he's a bit immature (like, quite frankly, most folks are) and didn't think about the larger context of his actions.
Reminder: by living The Google Lifestyle of Google Docs, Google Mail, Google Search History, Google Bookmarks, Google Social Network, Google Driving History, Google Location Tracking, Google Thought Interface, you allow all that to be nicely indexed for quick handoff to third parties (improperly motivated employees, NSLs, etc) without your consent.

I'm pretty sure if you say "google" and "freedom" in front of RMS you'll get your head chopped off.
"Cannot get passed the title" would mean that you are unable to have the title passed to you. Which, I suppose, you can't. But that's nonsense and surely not what you meant.
I suspect that only applies to people who are at risk, from the same website:

"We only target our visits at people and places where we know there is a higher risk of fire. This includes high risk individuals such as older people, especially those living alone, those with mobility, vision and hearing impairment, mental health services users and those liable to intoxication through alcohol/drug use. A combination of these factors will significantly increase the risk from fire."
By law my house requires 3 (that I can remember) smoke alarms. $390 to use Nest Protects instead is far too far above the price of convenience, even $130 is about $100 more than I think a good smoke detector should cost.

Nest's marketing seems to target a wider range of people than that which I think would be interested in their products. I've worked in an Apple reseller, I've seen how much disposable income most people have, and Nest are massively over-targeting their products. These are for the guy who used to buy 2 iPods, in case one broke.
Are you similarly empathic towards smokers?
It's there just on the see more models page.
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-11-6-Inch-Chromebook-11-11...

The price is listed as $385 which is far from the google stated $279
Adii isn't forcing anyone to pay and as he stated in his essay, he personally reached out to customers to inform them the video content was ready YET. Adii isn't doing a bait-and-switch without intention of delivering a quality product. He left his successful startup, WooThemes, to build a platform to help entrepreneurs. Before criticizing his approach coming from the outside (with less context), I'd prefer to hear directly from his customers.
This seems totally related to startups and technology in a concrete way... I can't imagine where else on the internet I would be able to see a story like this... We should try to upvote more "human interest" stories like this to block out the noise of boring stuff like Pythonscript people try to get on the FP sometimes ... <3HN!!!
HealthCare.gov was only designed for 50,000 simultaneous users
Great!

It's because the private certificate was forcibly supplied to the government. No longer secure => revoke it.
I asked them about this, and its not a mistake. It depends on the province.
The Nest is a photoelectric smoke sensor. The Kidde is an ionization sensor.

"Kidde strongly recommends that both ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms be installed to help insure maximum detection of the various types of fires that can occur within the home."

More info:
http://consumerist.com/2010/08/25/fire-chief-most-smoke-alar...
No cocaine seizure was reported, but the Maryland indictment show federal agents delivering 1 kilogram of coke to someone, presumably the alleged "victim" in the assassination plot also referenced there. I guess the feds have plenty of that high-grade stuff just laying around...
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This is why "throw technology at the problem" isn't always the solution. Poorly-implemented technology was at the core, but it happened because of a flawed and entirely political process. It's a problem as old as civilization, and no one seems too eager to look for a solution.

Free ideas:

A system to crunch laws, rulings, and policies and put them into an easily-searched public database, with some sort of paid option for lawyers, politicians, and other professionals who need more funcionality.

A github for laws (The bulk of laws are the different versions bundled into one -- the "3000 page bill" that is the ACA is really only a couple inches of paper once you pare it down to the final release)

Nail those two and you enable solutions for just about everything else. It won't initially be much help to politicians who are stuck with garbage software that came from a goofball bidding process, but it makes it possible for the people they represent to really understand what's going on, so they have the tools to make change happen.
Send anonymous ephemeral texts to people around you
I think the low end chromebooks are very diff from the high end.
the one linked here is basically a netbook that doesn't run windows but chromeos instead (ie you can only use chrome stuff). 4GB of ram and 16GB of ssd, low rez, slow cpu, it's pretty crappy ;-)

The high end has good specs - even thus it runs chrome os, at least, it'd make sense to convert it to windows or linux if chrome os was too limited. It's also a lot faster.
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We have this exact brand in our apartment. They (like almost all ionization-based smoke detectors) go off at the drop of a hat. And they're ear-splittingly loud. The kill switch is hard to press, and needs to be pressed every few minutes if you're, say, burning incense. And one day, when the battery gets low, they'll start chirping in the middle of the night, leading to a game of "Which one is it?!" as they somehow manage to make noise frequently enough to prevent sleep but infrequently enough to thwart identification of the dying one.

(Smoke detectors' low battery alerts always go off at night because battery output sags when the temperature goes down.)
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Well, if it's the same cert that had its private key provided to the government, that would make sense.
what really happened is that the court then ordered him to turn over the key on a CD, or continue to face the $5k / day fine. so he eventually did turn over the key on a CD
IMHO the slider should move, both to provide visual feedback and to make the effect less subtle.
That's the basis for "conservatism": recognize that many processes, rules, barriers, morals, norms, etc. have been hard-won and hard-learned at great cost (money, lives, time), that we may not remember/understand quite why they're in place but they're there for good reason nonetheless, and abandoning/destroying them out of ignorance may doom generations to suffer until they re-discover why those were enacted in the first place.

That's also why rebuilding systems from scratch (the old "just rip it all out and do it again") usually doesn't work: there is a great deal of wisdom, however poorly implemented or documented, buried within that system. Starting over abandons those minute but critical bits, and must be re-discovered the hard way.
I wonder what Braintree and Recurly think about it? (I'm pretty sure that "5% angry customers" would have been enough for Paypal to trigger its "hang on to all the money for 180'days" thing. Probably righty so…
Nature vs nurture is hard to separate, especially when genes and culture tend to be 'handed down' to the same individuals.

However I'm curious that they chose to use the very-powerfully-determined-by-genes features of Alzheimers and BodyMassIndex as their control. Surely there are other genetic traits that are not 'disorders' which could have been referenced? Breakdowns in physical function would naturally have larger measurable effects than, say, alcohol metabolism rates or whatever.
> It's hard to find good music in the Bay Area, especially live blues.

Surely you've missed finding out about JJ's…or you live on the opposite side of the bay from them.

Long, long ago, in a valley far, far away, people would drive from Berkeley to Sunnyvale (or the opposite trip) to meet their friends for dinner. (Midweek, even!) Traffic wasn't nearly as bad then.
Woah, this is the kind of developing book I'd like:
6 hrs battery life
IPS viewing display (without 1080p!)
Mirousb universal charging cable
11 inch portability, weighing only 2lbs.

I have the acer c7 chromebook, and am really fustrated I can't simply trade it in for this chromebook. It really is one of the most appealing deals.

HN has also recently been talking about crouton, which I found very usable.

The biggest issues I see in this is 2.0 usb and that non-celeron processor.

For anybody considering developing on a chromebook, this looks like one of the most efficient chromebooks for you. A shame it doens't have a celeron though...

(Side note. I await installation for that IPS onto the acer. I may not be able to turn in the acer c7 for the hp, but if I can get ahold of that 11 inch IPS, I'm game for that :)
From a safety only perspective:

1) This doesn't detect carbon monoxide
2) One of the 1-star reviews states that Ionization alarms are old technology and unsafe compared to newer piezoelectric alarms.
Why is this not a dual-band wifi repeater (and maybe even bluetooth audio device, as well)?

I was really hoping that all the stuff on the ceiling would take advantage of the prime physical position there once it all became smarter. As it stands, I love what Nest is doing but I'm pretty underwhelmed by this. The motion sensor integration with the thermostat is a good start.
Markdown needs nested ordered lists. I would like to convert legal documents to markdown, but I can't. For example:

1. Item one

2. Item two

a. Subitem a

b. Subitem b
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/671/
I picked one up for household use when I moved my home office to a secluded corner of the basement. Both me and my wife love the samsung chromebook. It was cheap and it just works for 99% of everything we need to do on a computer. I still have my desktop in my office that I work on and we use if we need to do some publishing work ( Inkscape, Gimp, ... ), but I have been extremely happy with my purchase.
Poorly worded title considering the context (or punny?). I can't be the only one who thought hyperlink, can I?
I just bought ten ordinary smoke alarms.
Check today's Amazon announcement, they are shipping to UK.
Is anyone else thinking that their systems should include a self-destruct button? (for LavaBit I'd imagine a process that e-mailed each user the SSL key used to encrypt their mailbox, then deleted the key from the system. A user could still decrypt their mailbox by downloading it and using the key).
I was right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6514775

Poorly-implemented technology was at the core, but it happened because of a flawed and entirely political process.
Indeed it is.

This is a horrible time to buy this... Assuming Samsung's new Series 3 ARM Chromebook (Rumored Exynos 5420... "Eight core" CPU+Mali T628) keeps the same price this year ($250), then HP's model is left in the dust. No one should be buying a new Nexus 4, 10, or Chromebook until mid november if they want to have a cutting edge device.
That comment isn't anti-Kickstarter. It's saying: since KS exists, why aren't we also allowed to do this better thing?
I was in the US last month and went into a best buy to test out the latest Samsung Chromebook (using a similir ARM-based chip that the HP Chromebook 11 does) and I was surprised to find out that Flash worked incredibly well on it! I own one of the first intel-based chromebooks (also from Samsung, I don't remember the exact model name) and Flash is choppy, but on the new ARM-based chromebooks, it's great! And also, Netflix announced a couple months ago that they were planning on releasing an ARM-compatible chrome extension for Chromebooks. I don't know if it has been released or not yet, as it isn't compatible with my chromebook I think.
> making things hostile for those who spoke out against this sort of behaviour.

Maybe that kind of knee-jerk reaction deserves a little hostility? I mean, I get that PA crossed the line and got carried away, but I can't really be offended by somebody mocking the social justice blogosphere. Because, quite frankly, they're jerks. They're generally right, but they're jerks.
Photoelectric.
Combination of marketing fluff and early feedback. It's by no means scientific. Just anecdotal "yeah, I'd pick the middle plan," or "the mid-level price seems right." Something I plan to update as I get more data, but felt like a good starting point (also the plan I have myself on).

What kind of work are you doing?
This is a home expenditure. It's not for a temporary product like the ipod. Lots of people have entirely different budgets for permanent objects in their home. Upgrading that beige blemish of a smoke detector purely for looks will be worth $130 to many.
I imagine they need time to build up the necessary experience to support the product well. Nest's support, the one time I had to call them, was outrageously good. Within about 10 minutes the engineer had figured out exactly what was wrong with my wiring setup, and, more or less blind, walked me through the discovery and installation of a common wire.
ChromeOS is pretty much closed. You don't have a say on what goes in, you don't have a say on what they're going to do with it, you don't have a say if they want to fully close most of it.
In fact, you can only see the parts they let you see (in ChromiumOS), and that is the only difference with Apple or Microsoft (albeit arguyably, Apple also open sources it's kernel)
I was mistaken too. I didn't realize the person was referring to the OP/author of the article.
I wonder much success an overweight, typically bearded engineer would have with the same cold emails? Surely the appeal of meeting an attractive brunette must have helped?

Yes I'm cynical, but good looks have been found to have a significant influence on success at interviews.
There are a lot of people out there who don't particularly want a case, but feel that they need it in order to protect the phone.
Would be interesting to give one of these a go as my daily driver, getting sick of lugging around a heavy 2011 Macbook Pro!

I wonder what the options are like out of the box for development, or if this will work http://afaqdar.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/5-different-chromebook...
My thoughts are with you and your family.
I expect they have a quota, a friend at work got them installed and they don't meet that criteria. He said they got 10 year ones, that cost about £15 a pop.
My city requires a smoke alarm both outside and inside each bedroom. For my 5 bedroom house, that's over $1000. But the fact that I've had to wake up 3 times in 3 years in the middle of the night to disconnect all 5 "exterior" alarms to clear the "carbon monoxide" (low battery) noise makes it kind of worth it...
My prediction for Nest's next product: a home security system.

If your home is already equipped with Nest thermostats and smoke alarms, all their motion sensors are commandeered by the central unit. No new wiring necessary.

Edit: Come to think of it, there's probably no need for a central unit, either.
Obligatory quote (and a simple TL:DR): paying peanuts would only get you monkeys.
They exist. I use one that counts down to anniversaries, birthdays, and project milestones. It's not good enough to merit mentioning, but if you search the app store for 'countdown', you'll find several.
Which one of Google's services is not a closed system?
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