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why don't tesla use charts comparing searches for "internal combustion engine car" vs "electric car".

no one searches for the term "desktop ide" because the only people that call them that are people in the cloud ide marketing game. the terms are junk. the axises are junk. the chart is junk.
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HTC has been letting customers down since the days they failed to bring Android 2.3 to the Desire.

They lost me there.
Am I the only one that doesn't get chills up their spine whenever Google breaks into some new market? I see very little possible misuse of temperature preference (of all things...) and very great possible gains.

The more intimately a service knows you, the more personalized and relevant data it can bring.

And another thing, I am really sick and tired of tempering or being told to temper my enthusiasm for some new technology or some novel use of existing technology just because it might be misused. Just about every technology that's wide-reaching enough has abuse potential. That is not an excuse for ludditism! Deal with the abuse instead of hamstringing the tech.
>While the Nest Thermostat doesn't require a Wi-Fi connection, additional features like remote control and automatic software updates are only available when the Nest Thermostat connects to the Internet
>...Implying that the idea of trying Bin Ladin was ludicrous on
> it's face. I disagree.

I'm with you. In fact it's a really a terrible shame that the original attack in 2001 was not treated as the work of gangsters, which it was, rather than an act of war, which it clearly was not. Once the latter path had been seized upon, war was waged back against....what? A movement?

The use of war vocabulary simply legitimized bin Laden in the eyes of many terrible people. He definitely surfed the US's response effectively.
Keep in mind, if you're going to an expensive city like Vancouver, the savings in rent will probably be more than offset by decrease in salary.
It's not the tech, it's the install/customer base.
Touché! I can totally see the parallel you're making between 1. the political-marketing talking points that spokeslizards for the military-industrial complex regularly insert (for free!) into "news" articles and 2. intimate conversations over phone, text, email, etc. among family and friends.

Wait, no I can't. Those two speech acts are in no way alike. Only the former is even claiming to be "anonymous"; as for the latter, when my brother calls me, I know it's him even though the conversation is (or should be) private. In the sentence you quote, I wasn't talking about privacy. I was referring specifically to the value that society gets from journalists' reporting of anonymous speech. When the anonymous speaker has a unique point of view that is rarely heard, anonymity is quite valuable. When instead, as is usually the case, the anonymity is that of a well-heeled lobbyist for a wealthy industry, who has his arms run up 27 other reporters' asses in addition to this one's, anonymity only serves corrupt purposes. This article is an example of that.
"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink."

Vivian Stanshall. At four in the afternoon.
Some points that I find interesting:

[1] StackOverflow has VERY FEW tests. He says that StackOverflow doesn't use many unit tests because of their active community and heavy usage of static code.

[2] Most StackOverflow employees work remotely. This is very different than a lot of companies that are now trying to force employees back into an office.

[3] Heavy usage of Static classes and methods. His main argument is that this gives them better performance than a more standard OO approach.

[4] Caching even simple pages in order to avoid performance issues caused by garbage collection.

[5] They don't worry about making a "Square Wheel". If their developers can write something more lightweight than an already developed alternative, they do! This is very different from the normal mindset of " don't reinvent the wheel ".

[6] Always using multiple monitors. I love this. I feel like my productivity is nearly halved when I am working on one tiny screen.

Overall, I was surprised at how few of the "norms" that they follow. Either way, seems like it could be a pretty cool place to work.
I have that issue, it's my favorite!
Google offers you 3 billi, you take it. That's what I always say.
It could be difficult to find a qualified person with a CS degree willing to work for teacher's pay in and around Palo Alto. There are probably some pretty high opportunity costs.
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Unlike.. say, Snapchat?
Google has a long history of paying to acquire talent. I assume this isn't any different. Nest made an extremely popular in-home device; Google wants to buy that mojo.
WOW. This was a no-brainer Apple acquisition. For god's sake the man in charge was who spearheaded the iPod. It's the least they could have done with their $100b war chest.
Ugh, our industry needs more owners, not less.
What about the ability to know when someone is in your home and when someone is not?

If Google records that data (say, to be able to provide you with a handy chart of your energy use and some ways to improve it), the potential I am more worried about is the fact that the data exists makes it possible to subpoena.
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053239
Agree. sometimes it feels there is no escaping google's watch
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The only ads on Tivo that I can remember is a single line item on the home screen, and this was almost always for some VOD service.

There was also the thumb integration (you could thumbs-up some ads from either live tv or your recordings, which would pull up a new page with info about whatever was being advertised, occasionally a video), but this is about as unintrusive as it gets (a small icon on the top right whenever a compatible ad is played).

Has this changed in the newer revs? I'm honestly curious.
Violently agree.
Coming Soon: Google+ Integration w/ Your Nest Thermostat
Like everyone did before the iPhone came into scene, switch mobile when it is time to renew the contract or switch operator.

OEMs and network operators are just playing the same music they used to play with their proprietary mobile OSs.

Apple managed to work around that, but I doubt any other will be able to.
Someone at google is thinking of ways to use Google Plus to fuck up Nest.
They have paying customers. It matters.
I doubt Google would shut down a $3,200,000,000.00 acquisition.
So.. if you tend to keep your house on the cool side, expect to see more banner ads for slippers, sweaters and housecoats.
Beginning with mountain lion, apple ships the handy console program caffeinate so you won't need Caffeine anymore
Was there anything similar (as an amount of cash in the deal) in the last 10 years? Probably Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's phone division? Is there a list somewhere, that would be interesting to see.
So you've never TA'ed a calculus class where you ask the religion major to compute the integral of exp(x) and she says she has no idea, but she'll do well on the exam thanks to Jesus. I have.
Sure, because it was expected that certain features would take a exponentially longer time to develop because many features were not created back then and the market was not as competitive.

If I'm asked to make an image gallery for a GUI you can bet 99% of people will go for an existing solution out of a matter of productivity, and the reality is that even if I was interested in making a gallery of my own or acquiring a deep understanding of how to make a proper piece of code that solves that problem, it is extremely unlikely I could come up with something better in the span of time I've been allocated to solve it.

Similarly, there's not reason to deal with memory management errors unless you cannot avoid it at all costs. None.

This sounds like vinyl DJs complaining that kids nowadays have DJ software that does beat detection and automatic loops n' shit. Sure, but the production value of your average mix has gone up tremendously now that you don't have to spend 30% of your time beat matching and instead you can now add samples and synths.

For the record, I can program in Assembly and I can DJ with vinyl, but it's been years since I've had a necessity to recur to either. At least the vinyl has some aesthetic, subjective vintage value.
How large is the installed base? It appears to be small for smart thermostats and even smaller for Nest.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/02/2877211/smart-th...
I'm pretty sure they do, in development. But even if they don't, it's a growing huge market.
I don't really understand concepts of low level languages, but I've had a perception that if I'd wrote a program in Go using the standard libary and compiled it with go build it would run on all imaginable platforms. Now, as far as I've understood your comment suggests that I'm wrong.

Lets suppose that some corporation would download the binaries of my project and use it on an embedded system, would it run?
The "bad guys" (I assume we're talking about government types) can park outside your house or just lean on the electric/gas company for that info already. Or considering how some people broadcast their location with Twitter/Foursquare/Facebook/Etc, just watch that.
Please, please Google... don't spam me about starting a Google+ account when I'm just trying to turn the temp down a few degrees. I beg you.
This appears to work in iTerm2 as well. Neat!
Should be pretty easy to keep a large amount of the functionality online, the one thing that definitely wouldn't work is remote access through nest.com. Just controlling the HVAC system doesn't _require_ any web access, easy test to see what the impact of a hard shutdown by Google is to just disconnect your wireless router from the Internet.
Very surprised Apple didn't purchase this. Headed by Tony Fadell, brilliant design, I thought it would fit and be a nice diversification for them. However it will be very interesting to see what Google does with this. If I put away the cynic in me for a moment: the more data Google has on me the better their services are for me. I could imagine the Nest thermostat integrating with Google Now and the location data Google has on me for example to better now my comings and going.
Nest has customers who have paid it, it does not have paying customers. There is no ongoing fee despite every device Nest sells being connected to its servers 24/7/365. It takes no more than ~3 seconds for any changes you make on their web/mobile apps to reach the thermostat, so it has to be at least checking in with a server constantly.
No heat for you if you don't upload a profile pic. That will drive up engagement I bet.
And the realistic potential to be in every home around the world.
At the risk of being the guy who doesn't get the joke, I suggest a better failure mode for your life. Unless you're 34 at the moment, you probably have enough time to reconsider so I hope you do.

I believe it's an inferior mode of operation, besides. Having the "at least I can do X if this fails" option lowers cognitive load caused by worrying about the consequences of failure. I don't remember where I saw this, but I believe you are actually harming your chances by setting too harsh an alternative. Then again, you may be different.
yeah, the last thing I need is my Nest thermostat and my Nest smoke alarm sending data about my house to Google / NSA
Good story. The insightful bit, perhaps not unlike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_%28countermeasure%29 :

The most troubling lesson she learned from Mullen, Gomez says, is how readily misleading information can migrate from a posting on an Internet forum to official status. “In a second, what’s false becomes true,” she observes. “All it takes is for one person to put it on the record.”

P.S. Wired's comments are worth a look.
I previously thought that was the Nexus series, but my Galaxy Nexus isn't getting KitKat either, so even Google's own flagship phone series doesn't even get their own updates. They made some excuse about TI not being able to provide new OMAP drivers since they sold off that business...
or just 10 in base 230,000
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>So we can take take Nebraska and Alaska off the list.

I believe you mean "Alaska and Montana."
There's been a product on the market for several years called "TED" ... something seemed fishy when Google killed the data monitoring service ... http://www.google.com/powermeter/. Still ... you have the power (so to speak) to meter your own appliances. Yes you.

Mine is still in the box :(.
Yeah I came across that a few times but the free service aspect scared me away to be honest. I'd rather pay and be confident it's always working.
The most useful takeaway from that graph is the insight into how many type theory aficionados look at the world.
Same thing went through my mind when I discovered Google acquired Boston Dynamics.
> Really, it's such a pleasure to read some golang after reading this 30 minutes of Rust.

Incidentally, I find reading Go to be much more verbose and even heaver cognitively compared to reading Rust code.
Good, if I do it I'll put it on Definitely Typed and send it your way to.

https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
For those who don't know much about the AP CS course, I found it really awkward when I took it in high school. The exam involved a lot of writing Java...in pencil. Not an experience I ever want to repeat.
There were articles a week ago about them raising $150 million in a new round of funding, with a valuation of $2-3 billion. So this isn't out of nowhere. Also, they raised $80 million a year ago, at a valuation of $800 million. (Incidentally, Google Ventures led that funding round, so at least some of this purchase price is just Google moving money around internally.)

http://gigaom.com/2014/01/02/why-nest-might-need-another-hug...
> I see very little possible misuse of temperature preference (of all things...) and very great possible gains.

That's where the problem lies: the greatest gains should come from features/sensors/products not yet introduced. Of course temperature preference is a very weak data point for privacy, but I can think of a few invasive things a future device could have. I don't know if that's actually possible with a device in that price point, but if a thermostat could know who is in a room, there's a lot of good/evil that could be done with that data.
They monitor for presence. Combine the phone's attempt at geolocation with motion detectors or whatever to make even finer grained geolocation.

So if your phone geolocates to the frozen north, and the thermostat indicates the furnace is working extra hard, expect to see warm vacation destination ads in your desktop web browser at work, or something like that.
Would it really take $3.2b to engineer a product similar to Nest and market it to an even wider audience? I'm happy for Nest guys, but the number is a bit ridiculous.
Please don't include decimals on that kind of number, it's intellectually dishonest.
Are they still using the fishies (Marine Biology Case Study)?
^^^^^^^^ So much of this. What I see happening is integration with Now - the system already knows when I leave work and when I leave home, and how long my commute is probably going to be. Instead of a dumb timer, it can adjust the controls based on that information.
This is already incredibly easy with Android in the fold. They know your WiFi passwords. Of course they know when you're home.
This will give Google access to a very idiosyncratic data set no other major tech company has. It will be interesting to watch how they influence the product line over the coming years, as well as what they do in terms of integration with other google services.
After the whole PRISM/NSA/GCHQ scandal I think there were two roads to take: make your internet life as secure and private as possible (I tried this, it was boring and probably futile) or realise that keeping information private is only going to get more and more difficult. If you come to the latter realisation as I eventually did things like this might excite you. The more info Google has on me the more exciting and useful it's products will be. I'm particularly excited about the future of Google Now.
HN often changes titles when the moderators feel that it's inaccurate or flamebait-y.

In this case, I think it's the entire reason to read the article.
This is the generally accepted advice. Some interviewers will not care what you wear, but many will, consciously or unconsciously.

I would add that this will vary by industry and location as well. If you're in the bay area interviewing for a startup, you can get away with a lot more casual dress than if you're trying to get on the IT team for a financial firm in downtown Chicago.

One approach you can use is to ask the HR person over the phone what the culture is like, or to look at their "about us" webpage. These will provide other useful signals as well.
Sounds like super-higher bubbly valuation to me. They were already valued at 70x their revenues a year ago at $800 million valuation:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/how-much-is-the-thermostat-co...
By coincidence HTC haven't received a penny from me other than my very first Android phone on which they took almost a year to upgrade to 2.3. I wouldn't consider another phone from them until they have a sustained track record of updates.

Perhaps the most striking turnabout in the Android space is Sony. Outside they have a reputation for being proprietary, crappy software, quick on the legal guns etc. Within the Android space they are exemplary. XDA love them, and Sony keeps stepping up with specs and software releases.

http://www.xda-developers.com/holiday-guide-2012/oem-of-the-...
Nah, the guy probably just looked at his PC, saw the "Intel Inside" sticker and started Googling. It wouldn't have taken him long to find something that looked realistic.
Yeah, motorola products have completely gone down the toilet after that acquisition. They were so great before with fast updates and a wonderful skin of android, and now they're either non-innovative or way too overpriced for the value.
FWIW, I don't think the diagram is claiming that people who are unfamiliar with type theory tend to prefer dynamic typing, rather that people who prefer dynamic typing tend to be unfamiliar with type theory.
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I tend to wear "nice jeans" and a button-up shirt. All wrapped up in clean boots, and a clean leather jacket.

Though I have a memory that my last interview I might have had a plain black fitted t-shirt instead, due to the lack of notice involved.
I did take the AP test even though I hadn't taken the class. The infrastructure was there because we did offer AP English and History.
Temperature preference is surely less interesting to them than when you are home (i.e. actively cooling/warming the house)
Hmmm, that's just a lame excuse! Should take it for granted that was covered by the SLA they have with TI.
Dressing down, ubiquitously known as "being comfortable", says that you don’t care about how you look, as if your appearance were an entirely private matter that has nothing to do with anyone else. It’s the exact opposite: what you wear is part of the visible environment, as relevant as the architecture, the decor, the food on the table, the scents in the air. - Rebecca Mielke
Really? $200 for a predictive thermostat, with a lame excuse to stream energy usage data and proximity data (Nest detects humans) out of your home? Id rather pay $99 to tell health insurance companies how often I exercise, live.

You could get the same benefit from a device for $30 of electronics. It's an overpriced gimmick to justify another selling off of your personal data forever in exchange for nothing but some minor convenience. The price doesn't justify the energy savings or by product manufacturing cost. If Google wants to know how much energy I'm using, they can buy the information from the utilities and subsidize my electric forever. I'm not paying to give it to them.
That's a 12 digit acquisition!
OpenCV ported to Google Chrome NaCl and PNaCl
Mac OS X uses libedit (http://thrysoee.dk/editline/, http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/libedit/libedit-39/), not GNU readline.

But yes, the keybindings work in Cocoa text controls, too, for example in TextEdit, in the Safari URL/search control, etc.
Why is it so expensive to add SSL with a custom domain to Amazon CloudFront? Because Amazon actually needs to acquire hundreds of individual certificates on your behalf and distribute them to its edge servers.
Google's core competency: know everything. Look at anything Google does from that perspective.

Each Nest will feed data (anonymized, of course /cough/) back to Google so they'll know home heating patterns, heck, home usage patterns (it watches activity and proactively & predictively adjusts for when people are/aren't around). Feed vast amounts of that data into the cumulatively large (no adjective does it justice) data mining process and they'll know that much more about [m|b]illions of people & locations.

US$3.2B? In the USA alone that works out to $0.003 per person per day over 10 years (assuming everyone has a Nest device in the long run; optimistic calculation, but sets the ballpark values).
Great. Now I'll have to listen to an ad before my fire alarm goes off.
Hmm, I wonder if this will make a security system (like canary http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/canary-the-first-smart-hom...) more or less likely. I assumed that would be the next product from Nest.
Those servers could be paid for with some simple advertisements keyed to the information reported by the thermostat...
It has no impact on catching terrorists. That's the article claim.

It obviously has some impact somewhere, otherwise nobody would lose time creating it.
I would love to know more about the Databases:

- Are they used for different things on the sites?

- Is data partitioned across tables?

- Are they all SQL Server instances?
Parking outside your house requires that they have enough interest in you to dedicate resources to the task. The electric/gas meter in your house is not literally designed to detect when there is a human home and when there is not.
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It looks like the developer still has a copy hosted on his own site:

http://ionut-botizan.net/window-resizer/
Ah, I misread the intro blurb.
The team has to count for something here. It's not just a few geeks who built an app. It's guys with lots of experience building incredibly successful products. Google doesn't have a lot of experience in hardware design. Nest do.
Like the Moto G?
Wrong question. How much time would it cost Google to build Nest from scratch?
I'm not sure this would be a good fit for Apple, Google is much more pressed on pushing the internet of things and connecting all your home devices. Sure the design is Apple stylish but Apple has a history of keeping a very small product line and a thermostat and smoke detector wouldn't fit that well at the moment. Google on the other hand is just eager to push the boundaries wherever possible in my experience (think Glass and the self driving car, experiments but they are keen to see what sticks)
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