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>which can't ever go down.

The thermostats don't cease to function if they can't contact nest's website. I agree that it's important, but it's no more critical than any other day-to-day website.
I think it is about the smart grid; the electric grid is supposed to adjust production of electricity to actual demand;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup

Here you really need a good analytics engine that combines measurements of quadrillion sensors; (actually my gripe is that all these sensors and the networking that connects them also needs some electricity, so where are the savings?)

I guess google is a big public company that has to produce constant growth figures for the stock market, they see the limits that can be squeezed out of adds, so they are looking for different markets; in corporate speak you would say 'leveraging core competences into the utilities market'

You can see this diversification in other areas: once upon a time a lot of people thought that Android is about creating demand for adds, nowadays Motorola is actually supposed to sell phones.
I would say that Medium killed them. The problem with svbtle is that there was absolutely zero hope for a long time to get in. If they made it exclusive but there was some way to work your way in, I think they would have done fine but it's too late now.
I wrote a bash script (and somewhat later, a Javascript version) where you press a key and when you release it the timer starts, effectively getting you to sleep just 15 (or whatever) minutes. Also prevented taking more than a set amount of minutes between falling asleep and sleeping. It works pretty well, as long as you sleep close enough to a real keyboard (for Bash) or an iOS device (haven't tested the JS solution in other than Mobile Safari)
Or perhaps more commonly to build a complete picture of you, including your movements, contacts and social network spanning decades, which will be sold on a grey market, so that companies can more easily exploit your fears and foibles to sell you things you don't need, and target your dreams for monetisation.

Even if no-one needs to discredit you, an entire history of you will always have value, and companies like Google, Apple and Facebook will have unique access to it.
for 99.99% of the population a simple thermostat works just fine. And nearly all of them don't even understand that the temperature setting doesn't actually change the temperature of the air, but rather the duration it remains on. NEST is pretty, but way over engineered for the task. Consumers just don't need it. I'm all for technology and am an early adopter and of course have heard of NEST, seen them etc. Like you say, it's hard to imagine some one here not having done so, but my guess is the commenter has seen them, but just didn't take it in because "home automation" has a long legacy of being utter crap. When you get past the pretty design, there's nothing really to the thing. It's just a massively over engineered pretty consumer device that very few people need. I'm pretty sure Apple didn't buy them because they could just as simply designed their own. I fail to see why the thermostat can't (if Apple were to design it) not have a UI at all but rather just be a little plugin thing, maybe "Thermoport Express" and you use your iPhone to make changes from anywhere, don't even need to get up and look at the device. Any hardware solution quickly looks old. The iPhone (to Apple) is the UI for everything.
I guess in future I'll need a google+ account to adjust the temperature in my house ... :)
Are they capable of shifting from device centric thinking?

Sadly, no. I doubt even Jobs would have made that shift were he still alive, but I'm certain Tim Cook won't.
Compliance rules for Microsoft Playready: http://www.microsoft.com/playready/licensing/compliance/

The encryption part of DRM systems is effectively the same as client-side SSL certificates with a secret SSL certificate. How well it's kept secret is defined in the compliance documents. This secret, plus a secure decoding and output path, are the engineering core of DRM systems.

Studios require "industry standard DRM" for movies and TV shows, with lesser requirements for SD. This effectively means "DRM backed by some entity with lots of money that we can sue if things go wrong". Studios approve each individual device that you serve to, usually with compliance targets at some particular future date for various existing loopholes.

Flash (Adobe Access) is somewhat different, and has an obfuscated method for generating the equivalent of a client cert, thus on laptops it's only rated for SD by most (all?) studios. Apparently studios don't care too much about people copying SD content.

Studios would theoretically approve watermarking DRM systems, but there are two major barriers: having a large (ahem, suable) company offering it, and some way to serve individualized media through a CDN. Neither seem likely. So nobody loses too much sleep about whether studios would actually approve watermarking.
You may want to notice that one of them gets to use a quarter or so of the income generated by the other side's work, and among other things they use it to build a police and a military that can then be used to force the people on the other side to do pretty much anything. You may want to consider that this asymmetry in power possibly should be balanced somwhere.

Your argument really essentially calls for a monarchy. The deal in a democracy by definition is that the population at large is in charge: Everyone pays for public infrastructure, and everyone gets a say in how exactly the money is spent. If those people who are hired by the public for executing their wishes are allowed to work in secret, the democratic process can not work, as without any feedback as to whether your actuator is doing what it has been ordered to do, a control loop can not function. That is why people in particularly powerful official positions should not get any privacy with regards to their jobs. Their sex lives and medical records (etc.) still should be their private matter as everyone else's, obviously, and noone in the "privacy movement" says otherwise.
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One difference is that with embed you can still support most existing platforms by implementing NSAPI.
They have an nice, recognizable brand name for home automation, anyway: 'nest'
>The movie also mentioned (in fairness, only in passing) that some people who hit on their AIs were shot down.

It only mentioned that the AI's didn't fall in love with all of the users. It didn't mention anything about being shot down.
> I am older than most Hacker News participants, and have lived in more than one place, and perhaps that's why 700 friends, not all of whom are active on Facebook, doesn't seem completely excessive.

People younger than me routinely have hundreds or thousands of facebook friends (I have 28, and could easily curate it down). To me it's an introversion / extraversion phenomenon, not an age or mobility one.
Isn't it a little early for April Fools' jokes?
A lot fewer tears would have been shed.
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Not so sure it's this simple. The market is pretty large. Not everything needs to be so black and white.
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When your needs stretch beyond that, try 'jq'. http://stedolan.github.io/jq/

For pretty-printing without modification,

cat myjson | jq '.'
The downside is the privacy with respect to people nearby. It's much harder to compose an email in private on public transport when you have to dictate it.
This same comment, except replace "Svbtle" with "Facebook" back when they opened up registrations for college students outside the Ivy League. It's not too far off from the much ballyhooed Slashdot quote on the first ipod.

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
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Is it just me, or is this website downloading a 5 MB font before displaying any text?
Do you actually use Siri or Maps? Because I find your complaints about them absurd, I use both of these services every day and they work marvelously.
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I don't think you lose your library. From what I was told, your account is put into a no-purchase mode where you can play your games but can't purchase any new ones.
for what it's worth, i stopped actually using them because they both suck terribly even before you compare them to their Google alternatives.

maps has notoriously bad data.
Yes, investors want their money back, but they are forbidden from doing so in an IPO, and they cannot exit for at least six months after. If, six months after the IPO, they sold all of their stock, they would most likely seriously hit the price of the stock and cause a depression in the valuation and screw the company.

My post was primarily about company exit strategies, not founder exits, so I'm surprised that one paragraph stood out so much to you.

Most IPOS see only about 10% of the company sold, and essentially all (literally all?) of that is newly issued stock; basically none is existing shareholders selling stock.

If a successful IPO goes well afterward, then often existing shareholders will have a secondary sale about six months later (after the lock-up expires).

So no, in fact, an IPO is an exit for exactly no one. Major shareholders are locked up and can't sell for at least six months, and for great companies (e.g., Google), they'll often hold even longer.

I thought I made that point in my article, but apparently not.
Or for Python3:
python -m http.server .

Or Ruby:
ruby -run -e httpd .
I went to the Epicodus programming bootcamp and got a junior dev level job after without much struggle, but most companies I talked to just wanted to see my github. Make a cool side project. I started writing two books and was contributing to an open source project as well as working freelance making simple static pages/CMS sites to get more stuff in my portfolio. If you want to know some people to talk to, email me. It's in my profile.
Apple's MO has always been to do a few things, and do them well. Perhaps home automation is not on their radar. Google, on the other hand, is used to running a million different unrelated projects, so they are better setup for something like this.
Selling the company is the best form of failure, but it is rarely the plan the board entered with, and my point is that it certainly shouldn't be.

Even great exits like Nest's today; I expect Tony Fadell didn't plan to sell, but Google made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

So the point isn't that you should never ever sell (and I pointedly don't promise that for Puppet Labs); the point is that your strategy shouldn't be to sell. It's an escape hatch, not a goal.
> Foreign companies can not adapt to needs from local users. That is the key. The market is the king to decide the fates of Internet companies and products in China generally. Others are important but not critical.

And yet, all those companies do very well in HK, Singapore, Taiwan; aren't they Chinese also? Why is the mainland market so different from other smaller Chinese markets? They also do well in Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal, India...while the Chinese companies...they are just going to be stuck being local.
After all we now know about data being collected about us, against our will, and sooner or later used against our interests, is it smart to have Google also have data about your home?
Not really. I want to get rid of Flash because of security, battery life/performance and because it is not touch friendly.
Tell that to the journalists who have been asking me what my exit strategy is for the last four years, and especially since I hired a CFO. This article started as a literal response to them.
I agree. I think Dustin has a lot left to show.
I really just used it as a cool way to start conversation with people and if they didn't seem like some sort of troll I shot it their way. Someone even did a Prolog one, Clojure too. Makes for good nerd-chats.
I think that the early exploitation of Napster against the music industry made publishers feel like they were losing large amounts of revenue. There was one programming publisher who was trying to make the argument that the lack of availability for an affordable price was the reason why people were downloading illegally.

The counter argument was that his small niche was not indicative of a large industry. What you are mentioning about Amazon is pretty enlightening for me to read. If you think about it, the lock-in you suffer from iTunes is an outdated and anti-consumer stance. It is absolutely unnecessary to force a purchaser to store his digital goods on the cloud.
are you serious?! copyright instead of left on the standards for the "open" web? wtf
I think of it as normal practice for avoiding giving puzzle-related spoilers.
Better start giving it a look again with the trend Google's services are heading in.
This is exactly what I was thinking. They will use their resources to make it cheaper, mass manufacture them, and start selling them to next to nothing just to get the data. More power to 'em.
You're comparing them on uneven terms. Show me one company besides Google that can even stack up to what Apple's done in Maps or with Siri. There's none. That's because both require amazing amount of expertise, money, and data to deploy properly. Apple has correctly done what they had to (break off the data flow from iOS to Google) even where it may have reduced the experience for their customers. That's a long term play.

Funny how Google is continuing to corner the data market via acquisitions like Nest. Almost feels...anti-competitive, no? I wonder how long until we start talking about Google the way we still talk about 1990s Microsoft.

Is it plausible that a new company, starting from scratch in the Maps/Search/Personal Assistant/etc. field could actually compete with Google? Or would they just get crushed under the personalizing power of Google's raw data and computational advantage?
Yep. I seriously thought about talking about that, but it's rare enough that it didn't seem worth it, and it's not a realistic option for us unless our valuation drops considerably. Even then, I would have had to sell many of my shares at the top of the valuation, and then buy them back at the bottom.

So yeah, if you can afford it, this is great, but basically all of my net worth is already in Puppet stock, so not so useful for me. :)
They will be satisfied enough to offer HTML5 video. The point is killing off Flash. It is a lot easier to secure a smallish DRM module in a browser than a gigantic environment like Flash.
Do you? apple maps just led us 18 minutes out of the way just this weekend. It's apparently incapable of leading people to restaurants just off 80 in Auburn, CA. When we gave up and used decent software -- ie google maps -- it got us straight there.
It's one of those things, where you prefer things as they are. The same reason why people prefer organic food over BT or processed food.

Agreed that both probably have an equal chance of harming you, but the reason is more psychological than rational.
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The name of the local university is wrong in Apple Maps. It's using the 30 year old name. I've sent them corrections (via the maps app) a couple of times, over 1.5 years ago. No change.
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We should be cautious of making even more of our food supply dependent on cloning. Then one virus/etc can take out most of the supply. Look at what happened with cloned orange trees.
What a brainfart of a comment. You are missing the point completely.

Facebook isn't a publishing platform. Apple didn't undermine its best feature in existing product by introducing iPod.
What's the average battery life like (and which distro)?
One possibility might be to add hardware support for fine-grained capability security - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/
You do realize that the solution to the problem is to dramatically cut the supply of PhD students, right? While that's wonderfully self-serving for the students that do make the cutoff you would have to implement, it deprives many other people the opportunity to learn how to research and contribute knowledge to the community.

Why shouldn't someone be allowed to enroll in a PhD program if they want to conduct research in the field they are interested in?
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Nah, it did, I think in the scene where Theodore and Amy are talking about dating OSes. Amy mentions that a friend of her's asked out an OS and it turned them down.
I don't even understand what the term "Open Web" even means. I don't see how driving video on the web away from flash and onto a standardized system is against the principals of openness, even if DRM is a requirement for content creators.
"produces an astonishing 500 cloned pigs a year" - but why? Is there a market for cloned Pigs!? Is this a research project?
You would only see big investment in HTML5 video if big content sites could use it. Currently most of them want DRM...
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Something similar has happened to me during last 6 months... but 10 years - man, you are in your own category. The biggest issue is that after a while you get used to that time wasting, you simply start living like that.

The only thing that I can advise (and that helped me a bit) is to make a change, ANY change. Even picking something addictive like http://na.leagueoflegends.com and playing it helps if you make a __realistic__ goal (I'll get to XX elo) and then follow up to getting to that point. Satisfaction mostly comes from making the goals you set and probably your biggest problem was that you had no motivation even to set the goals (that's why I suggested something addictive in which it'll be easy to get motivation for goal setting).
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Yes, exactly correct.
Social media is just excreta of human activity on the internet. Why back that up? Lame.
It depends on what you mean, but as a general rule? A very long way. There is far more to military tech than the speculative lab and consumer goods startups that Google has acquired. There is a good reason that the latest fighter jets run software that is ancient by Google's standards: it has to be a 100% rock solid in a deeply hostile environment, it is tightly integrated into other systems, and it builds on many years of practical war fighting experience.

A company like Google would theoretically have the resources and expertise to begin the process of militarizing their acquisitions, but it would be many years before they could come close to the operational capability.
We have basically two options here. DRM for video and audio streams will be introduced by each browser vendor separately, or we have some kind of standard. I would rather see a standards based approach... This is reality. The merits of DRM really have nothing to do with this discussion.
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I've been detecting a subtext of exasperation in some of Gruber's posts about Google vs Apple. Gruber, of course, is not an Apple fan-boy, per se. He's a tech fan-boy. He has displayed plenty of love for Amazon, and though he is very shy of Google's sleazy tactics, he clearly admires certain aspects of Google's enterprise.

But it's almost as if he's beginning to wonder about Apple's cojones.
This might be a stackoverflow question, so what is a static code?
> But you're just pinging the servers

Right. The reasoning is, given that most queries are cache hits (otherwise it's something wrong with the nameserver or environment), lookup times are really negligible if compared to network latency. On our servers cache hits are about 78% of all queries. So, even if 22% of queries are somehow slower (say, latency between ns1.google.com and my DNS is about 47ms, and I guess for OpenDNS it's less than 20ms - so it's, say, 22% of queries are 30ms slower), still it should hold that for a typical user in most cases local ISP nameserver performs better than OpenDNS one.

> they intercept NXDOMAIN

I only wrote about speed, and this is completely another point. Even if they're have faster response times, invalid responses are not worth it, so I'm with you on this. BTW, I remember why I hopped away from OpenDNS - when they introduced premium plans they started to do some NXDOMAIN hijacking and ads injections. Opt-out, but still that annoyed me.

Stability is another issue, too. Guess, OpenDNS should be a clear winner here, too, as they're supposedly having much more redundant nameserver infrastructure than average ISP out there.

> I don't know why using your ISP's nameservers is an assumed thing.

It's not assumed, just a reasonable default. When you set up IP layer, you need NS address(es). You don't need a email or web hosting to participate in basic network connectivity, but you need DNS. Usually, setup is done automatically, using IPCP, DHCP or other sort of configuration protocol, where ISP supplies the client's machine with the necessary information. And obviously, most ISPs provide you with their nameservers, not some third party ones, because in case of failures they can run and fix their own infrastructure, but can only wait for a third party to solve problems on their side and hope it happens soon enough.

In most cases (i.e. unless the ISP is retarded to the extent of filtering out or redirecting DNS packets to another nameservers) you're obviously free to manually override configuration with nameservers of choice. Even encouraged if ISP-provided services are crappy. I've only argued that they should be generally faster, not the other way around.
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This seems like a case of the same idea evolving in parallel from first principles.

I think that "Her" was written and mostly filmed in 2012, while the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" aired in Feb 2013.
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