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Starvation is how celiac disease was root caused. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-celiac-dise...

I wonder if/how they normalized the cellphone population across a 3 year interval. iOS and Android have been expanding tracking protections so that could bias the measurements.

Forced software/hardware downgrade to receive vehicle repair is such tyranny.

Do owners that bought a car with a radar-based safety system have any recourse if they don't consent to the software & hardware disable of the radar system?

This algorithm change has resulted in dramatically lower estimates for my area.

Previously I assumed Redfin's estimates were trustworthy trailing averages. Now I realize they are very opinionated or perhaps even trying to shift buyer/seller expectations in a particular direction. I wonder what the success metrics are for their algorithm?

It looks like the Amtrak Coast Starlight depends on this bridge too.

- Instant Pot

- THE CONTROL °FREAK® temperature controlled stove

These devices make home cooking faster and more predictable. No more burnt pots to to scrub. Much easier to try new recipes and repeat previous successes.

Lowering the effort of home cooking has enabled me to eat healthier and spend less on takeout.

Imagine you worked at Google. Imagine you were tasked with building this website as quickly as possible. You have available internal tools designed to work with Google accounts. These tools have already been tested and validated. They have already gone through some level of security and privacy review. They have already scaled to high QPS production uses.

I'd pay 3-4 figures for an on-site sort of my personal Lego collection.

The author of this post now works at Amazon!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhayden

I wonder if the products were always lacking Aloe Vera, or if this is an example of "quality fade"?

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poorly_Made_in_China)

I use my Hue lights daily, but I haven't opened the official app in years thanks to 3P apps & Philips's own Zigbee switches.

Philips may have fixed the vulnerability in an update, but that's insufficient if these devices don't have high update rates.

I wonder how many years until there are fewer than 15000 vulnerable Hue devices in Paris...

We should hold manufacturers accountable for not aggressively pushing security updates on their users.

But can they do that after pushing everyone to lightning headphones?

Snopes argues this article should be disregarded for lacking rigorous data. http://m.snopes.com/kale-not-safe/

Do these consumer protection laws apply to security updates or cloud/service-dependent features?

I believe the fate of Android Wear style smart watches is highly intertwined with the proliferation and usefulness of 'contextual computing' (Google Now, etc).

Glanceable cards afford great tolerance for false positives. Combining this with advances in activity detection, indoor location tracking, and IoT opens the door for a new generation of personalized software well suited for casual wearable interaction. However it remains to be seen if the economics are there to create this brave new software ecosystem.

Agreed. For example:

Chicago has a much bigger tech sector, including satellite campuses of silicon valley tech giants like Google.

Kansas City seems to have stronger entrepreneurial support, including being home to the Kauffman Foundation and Google Fiber.

I'd argue there is huge value in app controlled 'home environment' devices (light color & brightness, music, air/heat/fan, etc). When the software controls are sufficiently convenient, adjusting the environment becomes an automatic behavior like scratching an itch or shifting in one's seat.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of LampShade.io

Last year I built something similar with Lego Mindstorms and a bluetooth control app.

http://kuxhausen.com/legoitron/

However, I stopped using it as the command strip's velcro would come apart whenever the door was slammed shut.

I do not know how graceful falling back is in web development, but there are some non-graceful holes in what can be accomplished with Android compatibility libraries

The biggest design-impacting issues I've encountered are the absence of expandable or interactive notifications pre 4.1 and limitations in styling/visualizing list selection states pre 3.0

This.

I question the need for custom smart light switch hardware like Goldee when low end Android tablets are significantly cheaper thanks to to the economics of scale.

Many LampShade.io power users take the NFC route. CNET TV's 'The Fix' even used LampShade.io with NFC in an episode. The issue with NFC is it only works when one's Android is unlocked...

I believe good lockscreen widgets will be more convenient that NFC, and my next big update will focus on this.

Automation, scheduled lighting, predictive lighting(not yet implemented, think Nest), etc are all very powerful, but I doubt they will ever be comprehensive enough for all daily home lighting interaction.

The internet-of-things is rapidly getting there.

<shameless self plug> For example, my Android app, LampShade.io, has user-defined lighting 'moods' that work with the Philips Hue.

Currently these are primarily triggered via direct user interaction or through automation apps such as Tasker. I've also built a voice-controlled edition for Google Glass.

The app is still not as brainlessly convenient as a physical switch though. I don't think it can become that convenient without contextual inferring the state of the room/user, which may require more prevalent internet-of-things sensors to accomplish.

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Has Goldee ever shown details on user input yet? I can only find concept photos with it lit us showing status, and vague mentions of gesture detection.