skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be large (after deploying the reflecting facets) and lightweight and in a low orbit. It will remove itself just fine faster than you manage to crowdfund a rocket.
Stripe Atlas like service for Europe
Never mind that in order to use a voice service, it requires you to speak at a rate slower than many can type, all while demanding that the people in the room hush up so it won't get confused. Repeat if there was a mistake.
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> He didn't set out to build the empire that he did -- he really wanted independence for one person (and it just turned out that what we built was so good that lots of people wanted it)

Regardless of his original motives, he must really be proud that a huge bunch of people would agree that in the MS DOS world and the world thereafter, he was a big hero who produced terrific utilities and terrific books...stuff that many people learning about computers were utterly fascinated by and could in turn use that knowledge to create their own cool stuff. Where would people have been with a creaky OS but without UnErase, Speed Disk, Disk Doctor, Disk Editor, Ghost and many others? :)

If you're in touch with him, do convey the wishes and regards from a whole community of hackers. :)
I won (hardly, after I had 3 pawns against a knight during mid game) and I don't think I'd reach 1600 elo if I were to play in tournaments. My elo is about 1620 on chesstempo, where I solve tactics quite often (daily, during the last 8 weeks or so)
Yeah, it's pretty clear the suit has no idea what they're talking about. I don't know if SFC operates in Australia, but probably they could get some attention from the US division of BMW.

Speaking of which, the SFC is currently running a fundraiser. If GPL enforcement is important to you, please consider signing up for a recurring donation. http://sfconservancy.org/
I'm not so sure about that. Check this out. One of the toughest fights in one of the toughest games performed with only voice commands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2a2dLdZ0M

Now, granted, this is a specific use case, but, you know... "explore the space" and all that. (more cowbell!)
They probably don't function as well (at all) with covers on.
No, when you launch the app you have to put in your Alexa ID. You need at least an Amazon Fire TV to get the ID.
instant nausea...
At your level, it sounds like you're past getting an MBA. You may find value in an Executive MBA, which are usually done part time and have an average age of ~40, later, but it would depend on a lot of factors.
>The problem is that voice interfaces break down pretty quickly once you try to do anything complicated

I've done a fair bit of interface engineering for the web. Between that and using so much software over the course of my life, I'd say that this applies to GUIs just as much as voice interfaces.
He might have killed the people who reported to him, who in turn did everything to make that project happen, future cost and risk be damned.
The best selling luxury manufacturer in the US is BMW. They're followed by Lexus and Mercedes-Benz, but those two aren't far behind either. Toyota took a similar approach to how AMG cars are created when they made the Lexus LFA. They only built 500 models of the LFA, but those were all custom ordered and buyers had a huge array of options to choose from: http://www.lexus.com/lexus-share/v2/img/models/LFA/explore/L...
The short answer is "NO": https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threa...

Before it supports those features Alexa is more of a toy, I played with it for a few minutes then never used it again.
Can I ask: assuming that Smalltalk and Seaside are the bee's knees, who are your customers? Who do you sell Seaside solutions to?

I'm not a Smalltalk developer; I ask this as someone who finds himself missing Objective-C's dynamism when programming C# or Java, so I'm sympathetic to the advantages of Smalltalk. But customers know .NET and Java. That's not a hard sell.
The bandwidth to transfer that volume of data is available for the cost of shipping the drive to wherever it needs to be. Higher transfer rates, e.g. overnight shipping, cost a bit more than lower rates, e.g. USPS Priority Mail's three days. But the difference between rates for transferring the atoms is rounding error relative to the cost of a wire that can transfer the bits. Sneakernet is still relevant at the bleeding edge.
> Excellent 3 to 4 % abv ales are a hallmark of English brewing

Oi! Brewdog is very much Scottish!
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All those extra complications are really about extra profits for the manufacturer, there is no way they will give them up.
The division isn't clear, but the impression I had was more "software" vs "not software."
Developing webapps in Seaside is a lot of fun. The ability that Smalltalk gives to you in terms of having a live coding environment, coupled with being able to debug and modify Seaside code in the browser while in development mode, is really powerful. When I first started learning how to program, learning Pharo and Seaside was of tremendous help in understanding how things work. After having used components to build webapps in Seaside, I was simultaneously amused and saddened when I saw it hailed as the next big thing years after Seaside had already done it (disclaimer: I've probably now opened myself up to someone telling me that it was done before Seaside did it!)

The free "Dynamic Web Development with Seaside" book guides you through creating an ajax webapp, but the last time I checked the chapters on persistence were kind of weak. That being said, for toy webapps it's sufficient to just save the state of the Seaside image, with a singleton as your "database".
I'm not really seeing much similarity beyond 'both are roughly box-shaped and have a lot of vertical stuff going on in the front'.
A basic quarter wave VHF antenna is about a foot and a half long (assuming this is the type of antenna used). A foot and a half long piece of wire can't be hanging off of a capsule coming through the atmosphere without burning off, as others have stated. It would need to be protected for re-entry.

When it comes time to use it after the capsule lands, it can't be enclosed within a metal capsule which would undoubtedly act as a Faraday shield preventing the RF from getting outside. So the protection has to come off.
> The real benefit of the echo over other homemade voice command devices like jasper(github.com/jasperproject) is the more proprietary far-field speaker array.

Um, and the insane underlying voice API?
What GPL licensed software are they actually infringing upon? The linked post[1] says they found mentions of systemd, but does the firmware actually contain a linux kernel? I don't see anything that looks like a kernel in the file listing.

Also if the firmware is properly signed delivering it over http shouldn't matter, right?

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/02/bmw-are-sending-their-softw...
This is some really shameless product placement by the Tech Review, who are normally quite good about tech journalism. Slack? Really?
I hope this idea literally never gets off the ground. If one person/company gets approval to go ahead, there will be no end to the people/companies seeking approval, and there goes ground-based astronomy.
Source paper: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/262648/Room2Room_CSCW2016...
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I think that argument may have used to make sense in the 90ies when open source was new and was trying to establish itself, mostly with a dream of "Linux on every desktop".

Now it has found its market and the ecosystem as a whole really couldn't give a damn if BMW is kind enough to use OSS or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture#Critici...
Esta noticia me hace recordar el producto de google el Nexus Q...
How are these 2 "new" products different from the normal echo?
I don't imagine it will be like that forever. It's just a clever way to limit demand until they can ramp up manufacturing, or work out the bugs, or whatever their motivation is for keeping it in a limited release for now.
Valve has developed and supports the OpenVR platform[1], which is designed to allow different hardware on the backend. Rift/Facebook seems to be primarily pushing a closed platform with exclusives. Playstation VR is obviously Playstation-only. Make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr
then submit that, and not some blog that doesn't add content.

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This only scratches the surface of the topic. Here's a fine article that talks about implementing a crash handler for JNI that goes into some of the more complex issues of multiple stacks, signal handling, stack unwinding, and calling across languages:

http://blog.httrack.com/blog/2013/08/23/catching-posix-signa...

Aside: it's interesting how complex things which I learned in my younger years have become. From understanding how a car operates and being able to perform maintenance on it (compare rebuilding a carburetor or adjusting the timing to fuel injection and computer controlled distributorless electronic ignition, etc), to this topic, computer architecture. I'm glad I first learned these things when they were simpler. I think they might seem daunting to start learning about today. Though I guess like anything else, you start at the surface and keep digging till you're satisfied you understand the topic well enough. It's just that if you like to get to the bottom of those rabbit holes, they're all so much deeper now. Shrug.

p.s. I really enjoy reading the author's posts. They are often about something I'm familiar with, but it's neat to read someone writing about learning these things through fresh eyes. I also sometimes realize I don't know something as well as I thought. So thank you for sharing.
Here is a guide made by Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft:
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gadda001/goodtheorist/index....

Or, to learn basic physics in a structured and rigorous way, you could take this course (but it's quite expensive): http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/s217
Don't forget aware, but paralyzed.
I still have a couple of X10 lights controlled wirelessly in my house. When I moved in, many of the lights in the house weren't wired to switches but just had pull chains. Over time, most of the house has been rewired and switches added but I still have a couple of lights that haven't been connected to switches and I still use X10 for them.
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Or, on the other hand, it allows us to more fully control our sensory reality, thus beginning to make "reality" as a concept more fluid.
It's not atmospheric pressure:

"Here we report an experiment of a siphon operating at sea level at a height of 15 m, well above 10 m. Prior degassing of the water prevented cavitation. This experiment provides conclusive evidence that siphons operate through gravity and molecular cohesion."

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep16790
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I don't think I'd use the phrase "master craftsman" unless my paycheck came from their marketing dept.

Being able to do a high quality, consistent job assembling engine after engine is not a huge feat, it just takes a lot of attention to detail. Being able to spec out and effectively execute a particular engine build is on a whole different level and the latter is what I'd be more inclined to call a "craftsman"

The former doesn't need to care (but they likely do since anyone with that job probably does automotive stuff as a hobby) about things like how camshaft specs, rod length, piston velocity, intake design and about a million other variables interact with each other to affect performance of the whole system. The latter needs to be intimately familiar with them while also being able to do the job of the former.

To put it in terms more people on HN will understand, the guy assembling the engine is like the user of some backed software stack. Sure they might write some scripts that interact with parts of the stack but they're nowhere near as well versed in how does what it does and why it does things the way it does when compared to the engineer who designed and built the stack.
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Visual task manager to Round
"If you have more than one Echo or Echo Dot, you can set a different wake word for each".

This is something I've been thinking is becoming more problematic as well as an opportunity for real ubiquity. I have 3 separate devices nearby that are Google Now voice activated (the newer devices support this even if the screen is off), and they will sometimes trigger at the same time accidentally.

Since the processing is cloud based, and they know my identity, why don't the devices recognize this fact and cooperate. Instead of just 7 beam forming mics in the Echo, if you have two within hearing distance you could have the benefit of 14 and a unified response. Don't tie the request & response to a particular device, instead think of it as ubiquitous network that moves with you as you walk around the household, you should be able to continue your conversation from one room to the next seamlessly.
Sometimes I think about this. The old cool stuff not only can have a shiny new wrapper but a whole new set of modern technology that can finally turn them into a successful "new" product.
When did I turn from the enthusiastic kid who dreamed of audio-controlled personal assistants like this to a cranky old man who doesn't want anything remotely spy-possible in his house?
Perhaps you're thinking of Vostok? I thought much the same when I saw it in the Science Museum in London (just last weekend). Some kind of heat resistant cork or something?
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ImageHandler.ashx?image={4D8...

I can heartily recommend the Cosmonaughts exhibition if you're at all interested in the birth of the Space Age. It's open till the 12th of March: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/Plan_your_visit/...
For some other clustering algorithms (albeit based on terms and semantics ie document clustering and not necessarily relationships) one might be interested in Carrot2[1]. Carrot is neat because you can change/tune the clustering algorithms on the fly something I think would make this gitmap more interesting.

It would be interesting to see document clustering applied to code (I have not seen it but it seems it might even be more reliable than affinity). That being said ... a lot of memory will be needed since most of the clustering algorithms implementations need to run in memory :)

[1]: http://project.carrot2.org/
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I would love to have something similar as open source software. How can I trust this device if I can't examine the code used for hotword recognition?

Also, it would be great to be able to put the software on different hardware - something with digital audio output for example. The concept of Alexa is amazing, but distributing it as properitary software limits its potential.
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When I first saw the dot I was very excited thinking it was exactly this, but it appears it is just an echo with a lower quality speaker and a simple cable (and bluetooth) you can connect to your own speakers. A bit of a bummer synced timers and playing the same music through a couple of Echos in different rooms would have been a better use case for me, but perhaps I'm the weird one.
Maybe someone will fix the web interface then.
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I think a better question is "why is any grocery store on social media?"

Maybe I'm weird, but I don't want a friend at the grocery, just food. The flyer in the Sunday paper is far better than any of the modern alternatives.
Seems to me like messaging could be it. All those "text us and we do X" startups...
There was an iOS game out about 5-ish years ago where you did essentially this. You had a robot on a small grid/map with a start and end point. The objective was to get the robot from the start to the end. You had a set of icons/commands, each one indicating a different instruction (step forward, turn left, turn right, jump, etc) that you used to navigate the robot. Successfully completing each map unlocked a more challenging map with more steps and obstacles to avoid.

It also gave you a way to combine a set of instructions into what was essentially a function/method so that you could then call the function/method instead of retyping all the steps. My kid was too young at the time but now that he's older I can't find it or it was never updated.

Anyone happen to know of this app, or something similar?
Would be awesome if I could connect and control my Sonos from it.
Yup. Though I have to think that people are also more likely to make a mistake and your custom car might show up with the standard cup holder when you ordered the heated. The robot might be inefficient at doing the variety of tasks required for such customization, but it is certainly better at keeping track of just what ought to be done.
Similar to ScratchJr, you might want to look at Hopscotch, Tynker, and Codea as well.
So it seems, thanks for the hint.
Not just that. Lots of their stuff is the same as national brands. All of the Trader Joe's hard ciders are made by the people who make Woodchuck. I think their Joe's Os and mac and cheese are made by Annie's. So, you're right, but at the same time, I think your typical Trader Joe's shopper would rather have what TJ repackages than what most other stores do. (Also, Aldis and Trader Joes also have the same corporate parent, sort of, so it makes sense that they share suppliers for stuff.)
Did you click the link? The page I submitted contained an additinonal video demonstration which I found far more interesting than the original source PDF.

Additionally, I didn't think it was appropriate to directly link to a PDF download. Generally, readers don't expect that.
This is one reason why "skin in the game" (to use Taleb's phrase) and social solidarity (to use mine) is so important in economic matters.

During my libertarian days, I used to mock the folks that suggested tariffs and favoring local companies in infrastructure projects were good ideas. I now regret giving so little thought to their arguments.
I like this idea very much. By making it cheaper and smaller, Echo can easily become the ears of any electronic in the house.
Everything a (smart) phone should be able to do, no?
You're right. Even though I aimed my criticism at a market that is unreasonably trusting of locals, I think the reason this is news is fueled by distrust of the Chinese in specific and foreigners in general.

Dunno why you're so downvoted. Is the HN audience too thick to see your point, or was it using language too close to IRL politics?
That is too bad I guess it is time to cancel my Prime membership.
I like to think it's that the sound of rain is so relaxing that I am just in a state of pure comfort and that's why I don't want to get out of bed.

I also have a folder of rain sounds collected off of archive.org and some other places, for when I want to get deep work like programming done. I feel much better at creative tasks when I'm relaxed by rain sounds.
> A change like this at Toyota would be more interesting to me.

from 2014:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-06/humans-rep...
Left-to-right when I'm reasoning about general address spaces, but top-to-bottom when reasoning about the stack specifically.
I thought of this too. Or, a 301 to: http://www.isitbeeroclock.com/

Because most people would need to get out of bed for beer.
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Me too -- I love my car (06 Audi) but the electronics were designed by a car company in 2000-2004 and thus very far out of date.

The right choice is probably a replacement nav and head unit. I'd rather have an old but nice car with great nav/ ent/etc, than a new car. I don't think I'm that unusual. I'd like to upgrade the electronics every couple years; happy to keep a car for 10-20y. Somehow those should mesh, but don't.
> That alone disqualifies it for me right there

For philosophy reasons? Can people just not accept that systemd is the main solution that the community has accepted and move along?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11174399
Color me cynical, but asking for the kind of regulation we want rarely seems to have any effect.
Poor customer support agent.
That's the thing. It is a use case with voice commands that map to specific actions. In the case of music, I can give Echo the name of a specific artist or maybe a playlist. But it breaks down pretty quickly if I tell it to play "some good 60s rock."
Found out recently pygame works with python 3 now, so that's one hurdle overcome. msi for 3.4 at https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/downloads
Wouldn't this apply to most dams around the world? Designed, constructed by foreigners?
I'd be happy for more full-service ecosystems to choose from. The more that users get fragmented between these ecosystems, the more each ecosystem is incentivized to open up.
This solves a huge pain point I have with my Alexa. That being said, it will still understand any man's voice in my home better than my own. Decisions decisions.
It's you yelling in your home. It's fine, your dog won't judge you.
Short term, as a borrower, low rates are fantastic.

But really, long term, they're the sign of a sick economy. The rate of return of investment across an economy is the interest rate. Think of it like a balance sheet - if the economy is able to expense liabilities at a really low rate, then assets are also expensed at a really low rate.

Stable interest rates are great (across an economy, not individual rates - plus this gets really hard to measure where a banking system isn't the main source of capital, but I digress no more) are great. It allows planning.

Low (real) rates can seem great, but over the long term in a North American/European banking-funding centric economy (i.e. measurable), it indicates low increases on return of capital. And because of the low rates, an economy that is troubled in generating growth. My liability is your asset. If my liability is returning 0.5% real per year, as (real) growth, we're sitting stagnant.

As pointed out by someone else, a low rate also means revenue generating assets have a much higher price. That's because they're returning revenue, not growth.

Low real interest rates are really, really, bad.
great ideas. thanks
> The transition from primarily visual UX towards an auditorial UX is really powerful.

It's also less accessible. I'm sure auditory UI is useful in many cases, but it also seems to be more cumbersome in others. In any case, I hope that pervasive auditory UI doesn't become any sort of standard without an accompanying visual/physical interface.

> Try watching a scary movie with the sound turned off, it turns into a comedy

Allow me to be pedantic and say it is that being fully immersed in the context of the movie that really matters. You could probably achieve a similar suspenseful effect with silence+subtitles, although I'm sure the experience isn't identical. Otherwise, the deaf could never enjoy scary movies, including me.
I think that one thing that can eventually hurt very smart people is that the world is much more chaotic and complex than even they can handle, which can lead to being overwhelmed/depressed/exasperated.

Our ancestors were not so benighted as we have been told: ignorance is, indeed, bliss.