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> Voice recognition that only runs client-side and lacks all the advantages a centralised service can provide?

By the way, my impression from talking to someone in the know was that Google has been developing client-side voice recognition that is only a about couple of years behind their cloud voice recognition in quality. (The client-side service still requires the huge amounts of voice data to be used to train the software, but it can run offline on a cell phone processor.) Right now being two years behind in quality is quite noticeable, but that will change soon once quality plateaus near perfect, and client-side voice recognition will make sense again.

Just rumors though.
I was taken aback to see my post on front page HN to be fair! Considering it was just a brief opinion post haha
This would make a lot of sense. If Microsoft acquired Unity3d and updated C# language support to a recent version it would mean there would virtually no reason to use anything but C# for application and game development.
Yeah, same reaction.

There's nothing new in these observations. The ringfencing between OpenReach and the rest of BT has been present for quite a while. It has kept the lawyers and legislators happy and done pretty much nothing for the customer. As far as I can tell this new review from ofcom is essentially a confirmation of the status quo: Yeah, let's leave things as they are but keep our options open.

Even the CEO of BTGroup pretty much said the same: We have most of these guards in place already, we're happy to work with OfCom.

Translation: Thanks bros!
> BBC's Chris Foxx asked Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth whether the firm would be playing catch-up with HP which announced a hybrid handset running Windows 10 at the Barcelona tech show.

"Playing catch-up" because... they were announced at the same show?
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I agree that defense in depth is a good idea, but one key factor to consider is cost. Having a basic firewall makes sense, if for no reason other than “documenting” your public services in one place, but many places are either lulled into a sense of complacency or spend inordinate amounts of time managing tons of rules trying to segregate internal hosts, update for every new network app, etc.

It's that latter group which really needs to hear the truth that they should invest in endpoint security instead unless they have a high security threat and enough resources to do both.
This is great! Thanks, this has inspired me!
Well it's also not the title of the article (maybe it was before?) so it's a fair criticism. I clicked expecting a description of the experience, or aftermath, or something.

I was however pleasantly surprised to find something I did want to read, even if it wasn't what I had intended to read.
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> Just creating a filesystem on an 8TB disk takes hours.

Am I being dense here, but why would you create a filesystem on the hard drive? The hard drive should only store file contents.

There's all kinds of seeking and syncing and random access needed for the filesystem. Seeks from file contents can't be avoided, but ones due to the filesystem can be.

If there's no metadata-on-ssd + data-on-disk filesystem for Linux, there should be.
To me, the statistic that 316,545 people have been shot to death in the US in the last decade is staggering. I'm sure that includes things like police shootings as well, but that's still an enormous number. In the UK, the figure for the same period appears to be about 3600 (going by a few parliament reports over that decade - haven't added them all up but it averages 300 a year or so and I'm being pessimistic).

64M in the UK, 320M in the US, 316,545/5 = 63,309. 63,309/3600 = 17.6. So - you're 17.6 times more likely to be shot in the US than in the UK, where firearms are banned for most purposes, and gun deaths actually seem to have risen proportionally over the last few years - perhaps as police are more frequently armed in supposed response to the supposed ongoing terror threat, criminals more frequently feel the need to be armed in response...

I haven't considered things like knife crime etc., but the US approach to gun ownership is anachronistic at the very best, and is out of step with what is viewed as civilised elsewhere in the world. I suppose there's a sort of duality of mind in the US, where people wish it were still frontier times, a brave young nation, the wild west, where you need to personally defend your self and property, but also want to live in a modern civilised society where the function of gun ownership and law enforcement is carried out by, well, law enforcement, and can't quite resolve their dichotomy. Would US law enforcement be as hostile and trigger happy as it is if they weren't so worried about getting shot, as seems to be their principle justification for "shoot first" tactics?

Sorry, this has ended up a bit of a ramble, but I can't understand how it can be viewed as sane to allow gun ownership as it stands to go on. It's a pandemic.
Yeah those environmental and consumer protection laws are a joke (just to name 2 minor things).
Welcome to the New World Order, you didn't think it was gong to be a democratic order. Did you?

These sweeping treaties (they are not agreements) lay the foundation of world government. yiu can be certain that nothing good will come from politicians secretly meeting to talk about a plan that no one is sharing. These treaties provide for unprecedented power to corporations to determine the goods and services to be traded. They are stripping away the boarders and soon the beast will be revealed.

The word of the decade is transparency, you assumed it was the government being transparent when in fact it is you and me that are transparent to the governments and corporations.
This is awesome. People are obviously going to give you a hard time about security and your implementation of the important parts of the software, but that's the advantage of open source!

Edit: I am a daily user of KeePassX and get really tired of the UI after a while so I will definitely be trying this out ASAP!
Hey there! Thank your for your feedback!

Are you seeing errors on your website or peekin.io? There are a lot of console error on peekin.io that are due to the html being sandboxed and there is no way around that.

Otherwise I can take a look :)

--

As for the product itself: I'm not sure—are you saying you'd use it to watch your user "proactively" or when they ask for support?

Thank you!
One thing I remember brightly about my childhood was that every time there was an ETA terrorist attack, the teletext was the only known place to get "rolling" updates about the details: With radio and TV you are up to the broadcaster to get more details, and usually only the last update. While with the teletext you could get both the overall information and the last updates all in a single place.
Nowadays when something like this happens people turn to Twitter, either from a known source (newspaper) or from eye witnesses.
Would it be possible to connect this to WebDav (i.e. Own cloud)?
In the Euro-area, for the important economic decisions, there is not democratic control by design.

I recommend this lecture by Varoufakis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCA68U3P_Z8) where he explains his experience.

In fact, I think that the situation is worse in Europe that in the States. The members of the Euro have very limited capacity of action because they have lost control of monetary policy to "higher" authorities.

TTIP will have a similar effect, democratic governments constrained by rules sets in treaties almost impossible to change.

My personal opinion is that this is the real goal of TTIP.
You'd have to find an MP with that same ability.
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ah yes, the CDN that propmpts about 200 captchas per day on my end because I use a vpn... I was not aware this company was used so extensively until they started doing those annoying redirects.
What about DB (sql) access ? The 90% user case for any webservice today is :

- parse request (ok)

- issue a serie of DB requests <-- GO PAIN POINT

- serialize result into either HTML (ok) or Json <-- PAIN POINT

I'd say 2 pain points out of 3 is pretty bad IMHO.

I would recommend go only for very specialized and technical web services, such as a websocket server. But really not for the average web developer task.
Android SDK made available over HTTP, hashes not served securely
We all took the time to crap on linux mint for its crappy software distribution policies, but what happens when one of the biggest software shops in the world does it?

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Other
"Almost" is a pretty subjective term. I tell people that I was two trains behind one which was bombed on 7/7 in London, and they go "you almost died!", and I just sort of raise an eyebrow, and explain that no, I went to the pub for the day, and was at no point anywhere near dead.

Anyway, it's sort of beside the point of the article, but a fair point.
Given that their 21st Century Network was built upon IPv4 with a complete ignorance of IPv6, you'd have to think a split and replacement with someone more competent would be a vital part of growing the UK's technical economy.
Dibs on the whiteboard!
Thanks for the heads up on Avere. Use case for us was for file parsing as part of a batch data pipeline. The latency we saw on alternatives was killer compared to directly mounted EBS. That would be my fear with an S3 option as well, especially when it presents like NFS.
It's gross but it's the [sub]urban development model which seems to be the norm rather than the exception in most of North America.

At least in SV the weather is nice and the roads are good and the landscaping in the parking lots is pretty. The office park suburbs of northeastern cities are a desolate and disgusting place.
I think Stallman's concerns regarding the subject were / are perfectly valid.
There is a big difference between paying a "living wage" to government workers, and paying them far above the market salary for people with similar credentials.
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> I don't know of any other forums to discuss this stuff, other than philosophy seminars that I'm not invited to

You may like https://www.reddit.com/r/debateanatheist or http://www.reddit.com/r/debatereligion.
Whoops. Looks like I totally misread that OP. Yeah... aliases is what I was thinking about as well.

Although, separate email adresses in conjunction with a catch-all are better. After all, with an alias, you can just cut the recipient's address off just before the + which isn't that big a hurdle to spammers...
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On a lot of the green street cabinets is effectively a massive advert for BT by Openreach (big white sticker, covering most of the cabinet). The green cabinets are supposed to be discreet, I wonder if the banner pasted on the side is included in any of their planning applications?
I suppose if you make a good enough salary, you can at least drive an electric/hybrid that isn't so bad on the old GHG scale, but the car centric nature of the Bay Area in general (outside of Oakland/Berkeley and SF) makes living here that much harder if you have to sink a ton of money into car maintenance and gas.
In America, it's important that everyone have a gun in case the government starts doing things that the people disagree with. This way, the people can rise up and dismantle the tyranny.

Just like those fellows in Oregon, fighting the important fight of not wanting to pay to use government land for ranching.

Or all the people rising up against the rapidly growing police state the US government is building. I'm sure they'll rise any day now.

I'll be honest, there is a touch of sarcasm in this comment.
As a Londoner visiting San Jose - I was appalled at how difficult it was to simply cross the street to go from one section of strip malls to the other.

Cars zoom by, there were two sets of lights which took nearly 15 minutes of waiting to navigate and on top of that drivers look at you as if you're some sort of pariah (felt like it at least!).

Very, very different to what I'm used to in London and sad to be honest. The valley is an incredibly beautiful part of the world and it seems urban planners decided to cover it with miles of single story buildings and car parks.
It has been a long long time since I felt any article from HN was worth saving for later. The last one was what netflix does to debug a server. Also been a while since I commented.

The good: I've never seen habits bathed in the light of morals before. For me at least, it has resonated. It's also an interesting exploration of the history, and how it's changed in tone.

The bad: It's a bit lengthy, and some of the more obscure references seemed unnecessary in delivering the message, and only served to quench the thirst of academics.

Still, if its at all a topic of interest or relevance, it's by no means garbage or fictionary; and I certainly derived value from it.
Most aliases require adding explicitly. The primary feature of the catchall address is that it is a blacklist rather than whitelist for aliases.

Gmail style + aliases (which don't require explicit adding) are almost as good, but can be easily and silently stripped and generally notify the receiver that a filtering situation is happening on the other end.
How would that stop the UK government from pushing this? The EUP does not control the UK government or the House of Commons.
This kind of procedure is clearly there to fight democracy. I think the TTIP should not be adopted whatever its content, just because of this non democratic procedure. The people who have initiate this procedure should be investigated. Maybe a law should be adopted to punish these nasty people.
I hope Microsoft focus will be on driving adoption of Xamarin (and therefore C#, .NET, and Visual Studio) rather than generating revenue. Current pricing is prohibitive for small shops and individuals.

EDIT: a new era for Developers, Developers, Developers?
I'm not sure on that 100k middle school teacher number. My mother was a teacher for over 15 years and I doubt anyone except maybe the rare administrator or the superintendent of the whole school system were making 100k. Most teachers are in the 40-60k range. One thing you can do if you have student debt is too work in a low income area for 5 years or so and have your loan forgiven.

College is a little different. In my IT degree teachers were making anywhere from 70k-150k.
In Atlanta, I actually feel like my dev salary puts me in the upper middle class. NYC, LA, or SF, I'd be just getting by. Only other city that compares, I think, is San Diego. Maybe Austin. Love this place.
I can imagine that taking light rail down North First and Tasman would be less pretty if the weather wasn't perpetually sunny (and in recent years, warm during most of the year).
Where are the pain points in DB requests or serialization? I've written several web apps with Go, and lots of ETL, and have yet to feel those as pain points.
Considering how much brouhaha there has been recently in the media (legitimately or not) regarding privacy issues, I doubt anyone expects true privacy when using SaaS products or any old websites these days. There are obviously those people who really care about privacy, however those are a minority and probably aren't worth worrying about in your case.

I think making this work well (assuming underlying tech is solid) is a matter of UX technique. Iterate on a solution that makes the user aware of your support capabilities, then make it easy to summon help. Perhaps it'll be more natural if the user must initiate each support session, i.e. by highlighting a section of their screen and twiddling a control which makes it clear that human help is on the way.
If like to vote this up. I think that all of us (as individuals) would like a 'lite' version of this.

I want my domain to pass all those checks, and have 2FA protecting my account, but I don't care about the multiple permission to transfer since I'm just one person.

I also do care that there isn't some social engineering backdoor, where anyone can call support and answer a few questions about me (that might be ready to find) and reset my password. There are far too many services that are susceptible to such an easy hack.
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If you consider that your comment is against the same company behind translate.google.com, which does have a (wonderful) Portuguese support, you'll probably be able to see how unthoughtful it was.

Heck, Google even have specific doodles for Brazil and even have an office here in my city.

I'm a native Portuguese speaker and I'm not pissed off as you are.
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In the same way we all "almost died" when that asteroid passed inside the orbit of the moon not too long ago, yes.
I've spent years coding C# apps and really like the core language. But .Net app dependencies and deployment are a huge pain, especially if you decide Linux might be a cheaper way to go. However, the biggest problem with .NET is the huge overhead of having to learn some new framework every time you want to try something new. Months and maybe even years of wasted time learning MVC, MVVM, Sliverlight, WCF, Remoting, etc. etc. I cringe every time Microsoft announces some new framework as the next standard for .NET apps.

Also, bringing a developer without .NET experience into a project means 6 months before they can do most anything and a good year to be truly up to speed. The ramp-up time for both C# and Java applications are now about as long as C++.

I had high hopes for .NET core. I saw it as a way to start over creating a Go like situation on top of the C# language. But it's still about two years from being production ready and its already gotten complex and bloaty. Just to install the development tools and environment means multiple downloads, dependencies, and install scripts. Download a zipped file, extract to the directory of your choice, and set a few environment variables. That's the way to ensure reducing complexity.
I'm going to completely break the etiquette of the link you provided and go "Well, actually... it's 'borne'".

Other than that, great comment, and thank you for that link.
For context: 4 out 301 spaceflights have resulted in fatalities, or 18 out of 546 people who have been to space. 13 people have died in training, but I have not been able to find the total number of people who have trained as astronauts or cosmonauts. I suppose we would also have to account for health risks due to spaceflight: radiation exposure, accelerated aging, respiratory issues among Apollo astronauts due to lunar dust in their capsules, etc. It's certainly riskier than a desk job, but it still doesn't seem that risky to me.

[1] fatalities in space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...

[2] number of spaceflights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_spaceflights

[3] number of people who have been to space: http://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/stats.php

[4] accelerated astronaut aging: http://lemire.me/blog/2015/12/01/the-mysterious-aging-of-ast...

[5] Apollo respiratory issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_health_effects_from_lu...
They have plans for that in Q2 2016. (https://github.com/antelle/keeweb/wiki/TODO)
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kill-list makes it easy to list running processes by name and allows you to select ones to kill.
Dad is pushing 80. Entire scientific careers have come and gone funded by many billions in public money. My definition of success is fusion powering my toaster. That's the one that was putched all those years ago and when he and then I were kids. Not getting funded or a paper accepted.

Moore's law lives behind a touch screen in my pocket doing useful work...or less useful work such as this comment.
For the sake of dealing with better numbers, about a third of that figure is suicide. And very, very, very few gun deaths are by rifle. Last year ~9k people were shot in the US - ~8450 by handgun, ~300 by shotgun, and many of those killed by rifles were shot by police.

I know this doesn't change the calculus for most people. Just trying to get more realistic figures into the conversation.
Proud to be a part of the team. Great story! Great work!
There is a build in Dropbox support. I think it should be possible to extend it by owncloud or other providers.
To be fair, there was some attempts in the parliament to protect the Greeks (at least, from some members).

It's only that, as everybody knows, the parliament shouldn't be involved in serious issues.

We have grow up people in charge of those things that know exactly what is convenient for us.
This is great. My weekend project this weekend was to move to KeePassX, but it's not very usable. This UI is great!
FTTC is just putting more lipstick on the pig.

In France I am not aware of anyone using FTTC. FTTP is the standard and is now widely deployed in large cities. That comparison alone should hurt the pride of the British people!

http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/
try the post code "SW1A 2AA" (i.e. 10 downing street). Status of the exchange: no plan for optic fiber roll out.

I hope the CEO of BT always keeps on himself a one-way ticket to a country with no extradition treaty with the UK!
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There is a lot of bureaucracy in getting anything done with BT/OpenReach. Most of the contracts have to go through BT first who sub-contract to OpenReach even though they are the same company.

The partnership where OpenReach does everything for the infrastructure and BT adds absolutely no value. The split of the partnership would have been what the consumers wanted.

Th decision falls short of bringing much needed change in the industry. There is still huge number of people who have super-slow internet which is a HUGE shame for ofcom for not having been able to get this problem sorted.

In my area, I get internet speed of 2MBps. I cannot get even basic things done. To put things into perspective, to download 100 photos, it would take 10 minutes.

Ofcom - This is the twenty first century and you are still living under a rock.

Edit - Thanks Xophmeister for spotting the typo
Sometimes I just want to think those treaties' function is to curtail multinationals, so that countries can be able to effectively organize themselves against those corporations who have become hard to regulate in a context of globalization.

So if you want to successfully do it, you have to keep as many people in the dark, since I also believe those big companies have a tremendous influence on politicians. Maybe it's just to let people negotiate in peace, without having to deal with noise you can see on meetings like the G20 or G8, and all the special interests knocking on your door. Maybe this deal is pure international politics, which is going beyond the scope of democracy (the world is not a democracy, last I checked).

We already have separation of church and state, maybe it's time to have separation of business and state? That's why I think it's easy to paint those treaties as A Bad Thing(tm), but I think it's more difficult to grasp the complexity of international politics intertwined with international trade.

Although I could be completely wrong, but I always tend to take things with a bigger grain of salt when it involves activists who can't really give me a clear reason on what X thing is bad.