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What? The USPS is unique in it's relation to the US government and is not similar to a regular industry being regulated by the federal government.

I much rather have the government regulating my ISP which (in theory) I have a say in then my local monopoly Internet service provider calling all the shots.
I'd prefer to see a product that was less clunky that the old thermostats but not Nest where you totally have to buy into their ecosystem.
But the Nest isn't competing with a dial thermostat, it's competing with a $20 programmable thermostat which will save you the same amount of money for 1/10th the cost.
What hardware (specifically) is your dad enamored with? Just the generally durable build quality (aluminum frame, etc)? the big trackpad? Chiclet keys?

I've had luck with some Asus models that are clearly aping Apple's design style. They aren't quite up to the level of a MBP in terms of build quality but they can cost half as much for similar specs.

I picked one up this summer with an i7, 16GB RAM, nVidia GTX 760M, and a 1920x1080 display. Strong points are the aluminum frame, Apple-like multitouch trackpad, backlit chiclet keyboard, and fairly high specs for a $1k laptop.

Weaknesses compared to a MBP are that the bottom of the laptop is not aluminum (but does offer easy access to RAM slots and battery), the display is inferior to Apple's in terms of viewing angles, and the aluminum top is fairly thin so you can see it dimple slightly if you push on it with a decent amount of force.

For my uses, I was fine with sacrificing a slight amount of durability and viewing angle to get that level of components for under a grand but your dad may or may not find it worth the sacrifice. They had updated the model last time I was at Microcenter but still keep that $900-1000 price range, just an updated CPU and GPU as far as I can tell.

edit: this is the sort of thing I'm talking about - http://www.microcenter.com/product/438186/N551JK-MH71_156_La...

Also, I forgot to mention, the other "con" is it comes with a HDD instead of a SSD. For the things I do on this laptop, it was a sacrifice I was willing to make and I believe I can add one later if I so choose. Your results may vary and the list of things I considered small "cons" might be things your dad really doesn't want to do without and may be willing to pay another $1500 for in a MBP.
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Even flux is a lot easier/faster than angular, of course doesn't came with everything angular comes, but is a nice step.
>Support for 1.3(x) is not going to drop suddenly.
>You're not going to be re-learning everything for 2.0, you'll just have to modify you're thinking a bit.

This is completely understandable and eases my mind, thanks.
CSS 2 predates the rule.

The initial drafts of CSS 2.1 on the other hand, were published in 2002, yet it was 2011 by the time it became a full reccomendation despite having been in use for a long period by that stage. CSS3 colors (i.e. rgba() etc.) also became a full recommendation on the same day.

> Two months earlier, in March of 1998, CSS 2 had become a W3C Proposed Recommendation (PR) which meant that it was considered "done" and was simply awaiting a procedural W3C member review and vote. For all practical purposes, nothing else was going to get fixed in CSS 2. There wasn't a Candidate Recommendation (CR) phase back then, as evidence by the fact that no-one (including my Tasman team as part of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 for the Macintosh) was able to implement CSS 2 as specified. The problems in CSS 2 were far more severe than mere errata - we had to develop a full revision to fix it.

http://tantek.com/2011/160/b1/css-2-1-css3-w3c-open-web-stan...
What are you talking about? The reality is ISPs are not competitive in the US and are monopolies. That won't change overnight either so we need Net Neutrality (ISPs would still be private???) regulation even if temporary right now.
> If we can take one lesson away from this experience, it is that default passwords do not provide protection from the threats that exist in the modern world.

No shit.... Also this article covers what not to make your password which I think is misleading... This isn't about a hacker guessing easy passwords it's about people setting up these devices and not changed the DEFAULT user/password which is easy to find (or guess: user/user, admin/admin, root/root, user/root, etc).
Being classified as a public utility does not necessarily mean it will become a government entity. As you identify, there is very little if any separation between American corporations and our government, which are quite clearly engaged in rather fascist heavy-petting.

All we really need is competition, we don't even really need the ISPs to be classified as public utilities. What needs to happen, by whatever means necessary is for the delivery and content to be firewalled and enforcement of regulations that prevent the infrastructure from discriminating against content. Infrastructure (i.e., spectrum, wires, etc.) should not be able to discriminate between sources of content and should solely be competing against one another and be forced to break up once they reach a certain size and market share.
>I know this will get me downvoted but I can't understand the fascination with Serial. Overall I found it quite a boring listen. Too many side paths that amount to not much at all, feel like it could have done with a harsh edit.

I find it fascinating that your criticism of Serial is essentially a criticism of reality. Perhaps this indicates there should be a Law and Order: SVU type podcast.
Some level of programmability is probably worthwhile although you can get a lot of the same effect by manually turning the thermostat up and down which I do a lot anyway. And if I didn't have a programmable thermostat I might well spring for the extra dollars on the Nest if only for the cool factor. As it is I have a programmable thermostat that mostly works just fine. A lot of people are likely in that situation. I've thought of getting a Nest but there's some finite probability I'd run into installation problems and it is unlikely to save me much if any money.

Edit: I should mention it would be for heat only. I don't have AC.
I was hoping to read some examples and alternatives as well.. Presenting a problem without examples to back it up or a solution is just ranting. That's fine, but its just less productive.
The inner product in the context of tensors is a rank-contraction operation[0]. The IP you know and love contracts over the covariant and contravariant indicies of two rank-1 tensors (vectors). You need a metric to do this so you can raise one of the contravariant indicies to be covariant. If your metric is the normal one (all 1's) then you just add the product of all coefficients. Though if you have the Minkowski metric (like in special relativty) then you negate the time coordinate (or all the space coordinates) and add. Here the matrix might be regarded as a rank 1,1 tensor (one covariant, one contravariant index) that you contract with the vector.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_contraction
I love new gadgets but I need to be convinced that home automation gadgets are a lot more reliable than all the other tech I have before I go all in. I do not want to be surrounded by tech problems, I want to have some escape from that. I can have tech problems with almost all of my entertainment (except board games), with almost all of my productivity, and even when I exercise. I don't want tech problems just trying to stay warm and safe in my house any more often than I have to. I have a Nest protect that I took down when it spent a day going off incorrectly and I'm not sure I'll put it back up again.
Paraphrasing Jared Diamond, the biggest problem we face is thinking that we can fix just one problem and be OK.
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yeah, that's my experience too. I think it can be summed up with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652677
You can set this up as an unprivileged user in any directory you have access to. Just use inotifywait to configure your own inotify triggers first.
I would agree with you if there was real competition; if I had 5 or 10 or 15 choices in who I got broadband from at reasonable, consumer prices I'd be 100% against any kind of regulation.

Personally I'd rather see the federal government overrule states which have made laws against municipal ownership of the last mile. And to start handing out small seed grants to get more places to install fiber everywhere and lease it to whatever company cares to re-sell it.

For example I live in Houston where there utility company only owns the power distribution infrastructure. There are 100 (or so) companies that sell power at retail after buying it wholesale. http://www.powertochoose.org/

I consider that to be excellent competition. Getting to choose between two power companies, however, I would not consider competition.
I've seriously considered setting up an old-fashioned automatic timer to control the power going to our DSL modem so that our Internet service is only available for an hour or so out of every day.

My worry, though, is that I'd be unplugging the modem from the timer and hooking it directly into the wall whenever I work from home, and that'd be a slippery slope to just having it hooked up all the time again.
good article, i especially liked the "its anus faces the heavens" bit. i must admit that i was wondering.
Thanks for the clarification everyone.
Still focusing on just the tools? Why is no one talking about the people? I feel that the biggest factor in whether I'll like a job or not is whether or not I enjoy the people. Is there anyone there I can learn from? Anyone I find entertaining/interesting? Will I fit into the dynamic?

We all feel great when we are in the presence of a group of people that feels like the perfect mix of personalities. Where each person plays off the others in a way that feels awesome.

When I am interviewing for a new tech job, I always want to meet the team before deciding if I want to join up. Rarely do I get the chance.

It sounds cheesy, but I feel like recruiting should be more inline with matching people and personalities than matching tools and technologies.
The article didn't mention the biggest reason people aren't buying Nest, and the reason I didn't buy one: cost. The Nest thermostat runs around $200 - $250, while a basic thermostat can be had for around $20. It's the same for the Nest smoke detector: $99 versus less than $10 for a basic one. As one experienced in the real estate market, I can say that home builders usually go with the cheapest solution. And, I don't think consumers are going to rush out and spend 10x as much for something they already have, or are replacing, no matter how good it is.
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“Semantic is tag agnostic, meaning you can use any html tags with UI elements.”
This is actually a really bad comparison.

Not just for the reasons other people mention (it require open walls, etc), but because you miss another serious issue:

Fiberglass insulation is, by and large, installed very badly.

Leaving even small gaps between the stud and batt (as most installers do), or compressing it too much (as most installers do) loses not an incremental amount, but instead almost 50% of the insulation value.

This is why open cell spray foam, even at the same r-value, does so much of a better job - it's less prone to installation error.

In any case, people often do not get the expected value from insulation, due to installation error.

It's like people who spend 15k on a new HVAC system, and then have them install the whole thing using flex duct.
People don't know enough to know what "right" looks like.

By comparison, Nest requires almost no brains to install and use properly.
Google the right phrases, mostly.
I live in an old brick home in St. Louis (1888) and have read that insulation can cause the walls to not "breathe" properly, causing accelerated degradation. I'd love to insulate better, but I'd have to tear our the walls, move everything out of each room (with all the dust), and then I could potentially cause a bigger problem. I do need nicer windows, but those are pretty expensive in relation to a Nest.

It's a case-by-case basis, but I've been thinking about buying a Nest for years... I think I could recoup the cost over my standard programmable thermostat in just one leaky-window winter... And I can install it myself in a couple hours (taking my time).

Combine the previously stated benefits with the fact that I have roommates (replace with active family for some) and it'll adjust to our widely varied schedules - and I can adjust it whenever I think about it... When I wake up freezing because the roommates shut the heat off before a cold front hit; when I get to work and realize I left it set too high, etc.
I can see the IT people missing the statistical approach. Which isn't to denigrate them -- it's just not something that would occur to people whose day-to-day jobs involve not throwing data away.
No, I don't think all code should be open source at all.

Humanity isn't worse off for it if you don't release the source, but you could potentially make humanity better off by releasing it. If you keep it to yourself forever, never to be used or seen again, you reduce the chance of helping someone's project or improving someone's life to 0%.

If you do release it, there's that chance that a few people out there will borrow some of its ideas to help them out, or perhaps they'll actually use the entire codebase so they don't reinvent the wheel. This could save them a lot of time and effort. Or maybe a non-coder will use it because they genuinely want to use the app. And who knows, maybe it'll be a lot more than a few people.

It's just a bit existentially sad to essentially lock all that code produced out of so many man hours in a little sphere that is never opened again.

For a good example of this, look at Isaac Newton's unreleased works.

If you really don't want to appease obnoxious beggars from companies, you can just release it with a license that restricts all, or certain kinds, of commercial use.
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I plan on looking into react and mithril in the coming months
I suspect it was a typo and they meant 150.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
Oh, nostalgic moments...

I owned an Spectrum, Atari St, Amiga, and Apple II. I learned 68K assembler and BASIC on them, to load programs from tape...

...and I hated them and got rid of them as soon as I could. Seriously, I don't understand how people love to use floppy disk or tapes that sounds like the machine is doing coffee or something, takes minutes to load a single program, no 3D, no Internet, requires a TV that emits X rays, small and ugly.

If I want my kids solving something hard, I will give them robots or 3D printers, not trying to force them to live the life that I lived 30 years ago.
Yeah, this reminds me of a similar article from the same source (IIRC) about "issues" with disabling the oom-killer and replacing it with your own. Interesting, probably something that needs to be addressed, but not necessarily a game changer as the article would have you believe.

What really caught my eye is that this affected a newer init system, specifically because it was more dynamic (using inotify), which has been a goal of many init replacements. I'm curious if this affects other init systems, specifically old init or systemd. Or if you could find similar attacks against other init systems.
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That's incredibly entertaining and educational read! One of the best lately.

What is interesting is that "low security" of the flashing process won't hurt their sales - I would expect the opposite to happen. Free publicity exactly where your customers are. Good for you, Coolermaster!
Can you adjust your v1 to be something they can reach allowing at least some weeks to reach your market and iron out glitches?

If that's impossible and you have to wait a year till next season then pull the plug and learn from it.
This is a really nice presentation that introduces a lot of concepts well and also helps a person conceptually understand how functional programming fits in to the larger programming world.

Book mark it and share it.
My answer: I have a cursor I can move to previous lines, copy-paste like I do in a code editor, and generally move around like I would in a code editor. My take is kind of the opposite: I don't believe we don't have these capabilities in other command lines.
The "problem" is that even with the science pointing in a particular direction, if monied interests don't like that direction, they turn it into a political issue with FUD (personal attacks on the scientists rather than the science, stirring up the "science is an affront to God" crowd, etc).
These slides are very difficult to read on a touch device.
Which is why he added the caveat "naturally".
I'd be interested in Nest reliability data as well. I live in an area of the country that gets cold and a thermostat failure could be really expensive if pipes ended up freezing. Frankly just about anything that decreases system reliability is pretty much a no starter for me.
It's not that it's too hard for mortals, but that it provides a level of resistance people are not used to, and don't know how to deal with, and where the easiest solution is to turn it off.

Whereas on Android, people expect the barrier, and developers don't expect to be able to disable it.
Think about NASA. They created dozens of technologies that were then released to the public and have become multi-billion dollar industries, and many of those were not expected to have commercial value.

Of course, that's with a massive budget. Examples of smaller budgets Linux, the World Wide Web, and probably a thousand more obvious things that I'm not thinking of.

It takes these things a long time to get off the ground, but there are tons of companies that are making money off of community projects.
If anyone is interested, there was good Defcon talk about camera "security" a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DjTcANBx0
There's been plenty of designs which are minimalistic, but haven't caught on for a variety of other reasons. See exokernels, for example. They're basically the minimum possible kernel.
Inaction is always easier than action, so which way do you think that people will choose?

If we do spend the time, money, and effort to do things like reduce emissions, will we be worse off than we were? Would it not make more sense to use renewable energy resources, and save up the 'easy' sources of energy (oil, coal, etc) for other applications?
Where do socks go?!?

There's not just one big problem - there's millions (perhaps billions) of one big problems, depending on who's doing the asking and who's doing the answering. Sure, there are a few common problems that could be solved, but you have to figure out a way to ask the questions about the problems in such a way that the solution will be mutually agreeable to the largest number of people.

Energy, food, war, socks. All of these are big problems (OK, not so much with the socks) that won't be solved with one big solution. By the time you're done breaking them down into solvable units, some wierdo will come along and ask "So, what's the biggest problem?"
Actually that is the point :) The virtual DOM is equivalent to how you do write games. Declarative to imperative. React took its cues from how games are written. The renderer in react targets the DOM. React is a renderer.
There are HVAC systems out there that are controlled via a digital bus where the hookup then becomes power and control. However, these are rare in residential installations where analog switched systems are common.
Rust is very much not aimed at web applications. You could say that it's aimed at _implementing web browsers_, and has become a general purpose language anyway.
Wanna play minecraft now. I have a save that is one i continually work on. Nothing super impressive, still dont have the enchanting table surrounded by book shelves. But it's been a fun project slowly growing.
Annoyingly, our email quota ran out, causing this an exception that kills the signup process. Am resolving now. Accounts that were effected will be removed as they are currently in an erroneous state. There is also a chance it was another bug, but this is the first one I have isolated.

Big apology for this, will resolve ASAP.
Does lubridate solve the unintended timezone conversions of POSIXct classes?
I put together a similar talk last summer: http://thedrearlight.com/functional-js-wut unfortunately, don't have the vid either, but the slides might be complementary to the ones linked by the OP.

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It's formatted kinda weird, where both up/down and left/right arrows navigate through the different sections.
> Unlike Google, GM was born in corporate intrigue and the kind of inward-looking backstabbing that hasn't taken hold at Google

This is just completely false. Google has just as much backstabing and infighting at the exec level as an company out there.

Well at least according the Larry Page:

> Finally, Page laid down the law: "If you keep fighting, we'll be very happy to send you to the competition."

> During the speech, one of the executives who was in the room turned to a friend and whispered:

> "Did he just say, 'zero tolerance for fighting? I've been here for years. All we do is fight."

http://www.businessinsider.com/sex-and-politics-at-google-it...
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The Nest thermostat is actually easy to use and the convenience factor far outweighs any perceived complexity. Early adopters didn't buy this because of the unproven (at the time) energy efficiency features, they bought it because of the design, the improved UX/UI and the fact that they could could change the temperature without getting out of bed. The more the mass market is exposed to this tech through interaction with early adopters, the sooner adoption will pick up.

Also replacing legacy devices, especially thermostats and smoke detectors, is not at the forefront of the average consumer's mind. I think cost plays a much bigger role in the adoption of these devices than complexity and usability. Nest products are not cheap but as they continue to build out (or acquire) their ecosystem their value proposition will increase and mass market adoption will start to take off.
I did NOT generalize across 300 million people. That is precisely what I did NOT do. I am not sure if you misread, or you just don't understand what I said.

Your comment is not only wrong, it's rude. I'm disappointed and a bit alarmed.

I'm getting tired of this hateful bashing here on HN. I'm really sorry to see it from the old guard. You've been here a long time, so have I.
That's neither how promises nor the laws around them work. GitHub owes you nothing except what was explicitly spelled out when you signed up.

Half the difficulty of running a business comes from customers with a sense of entitlement not understanding this.
"""pygments.rb had an interesting history of trying to use a Python library in Ruby on a high-traffic web site. They had tried various approaches. The final approach — piping to a long-running Python process — seemed to work well. """

That doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence in this thing.
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