skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely clear on the difference between the regular Echo and the Echo Dot. It appears you have to have an original Echo in order to purchase a Dot. Is this simply an extension that proxies all of the requests back to the original Echo?
"Hacker News... we glorify 'startups'."

Do "we"?

As I write this, you've got nothing but agreement below you. No angry screeds about how important startups are.

We have an endless stream of mockery about unicorns. You know about the Zenefits, Uber, and Airbnb's issues precisely because you heard about them on HN; hardly the case that they've been hidden.

HN may value entrepreneurs and consider startups at least a valid life style choice, but if you really look, I think the gestalt merely thinks that it glorifies startups... if you look at what is actually being expressed, it's quite harsh on the excesses of the startup world.

It seems to be TechCrunch and such that cheerlead moreso than HN, which is usually being cynical, crotchety, and contrarian about "startups".
Considering the work they do in the places they operate, I'm kind of amazed they manage to kill only 90 people a year. While it certainly is a tragedy, the politicians kind of make it sound like the companies are being purely and unnecessarily penny-pinchy to not have the cranes taken down when things get rough, yet in the same article the author points out that is sometimes a multi day/week process. That doesn't affect just the construction company, it's also a ton of lost productivity for the workers involved, and disassembling the crane during said conditions could be dangerous itself.

I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin when Big Blue fell, I remember the news coverage vividly and we took a drive down to Milwaukee that weekend to see it. Crazy stuff to think a machine that huge could fail (as a kid anyway).
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I am afraid that the amount of vapor would not let us to see too much. But I totally agree, somebody please set up some cameras.
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This robot almost does this, you take its hands and 'show' it what is should do.
Only for US customers...

"Requirements

* A U.S. Amazon account

* A U.S. shipping address (50 United States and the District of Columbia only)

* An annual Amazon Prime membership or 30-day Amazon Prime free trial

* A payment method issued by a U.S. bank with a U.S. billing address in your 1-Click settings

* A device with access to the Alexa Voice Service (such as Amazon Echo)"
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I can't find it
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The joke of this piece of content marketing is SalesForce, as a CRM, specifically does NOT gracefully handle reoccurring revenue in its product.

So, if you want to run a SaaS business w/ SFDC, be prepared to jump through constant hoops for auto-renewing / re-occur "closed won" opportunities.
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Surely no marketing bullshit is part of their marketing bullshit.
Just ordered a Dot -- what is the Tap? They added that to the page, too, but no info. Is it just the next gen Echo?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/3/11148776/amazon-echo-tap-sp...

Ahh -- the Tap is a portable device with wifi speaker.

(Probably wouldn't call an audio monitoring box the "tap"
dude, it sounds like there is nothing that would help the dangerous dam. Nobody thinks that just words are going to help, but learning more about a dams in general (such as the hoover) does illuminate the the issue even if it doesn't help.
There is something delightfully ballsy about making this only available to users of Alexa Voice shopping:

"Echo Dot is available in limited quantities and exclusively for Prime members through Alexa Voice Shopping. To order your Echo Dot, use your Amazon Echo or Amazon Fire TV and just ask: "Alexa, order an Echo dot"

Also, this makes me sad. I'd kind of like to try this out, but I have no Alexa voice service currently (I don't think)
> One day, all DAWs will be in a browser tab.

https://www.audiotool.com/
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Every now and then we are struck by a sudden realisation or idea - a moment of clarity, if you will - which is exhilerating, but at the same time easy to forget, because we do not choose the time they happen (at least I usually don't).

My question is two-fold: Where do you save your ideas and when/how do you revisit them?

I've been using standard iOS Notes app, but I'm interested in hearing how other people do it.

I'm referring to ideas that can be put in a single sentence or two.
Why don't Amazon have an Alexa iOS/Android app?
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Was it the Vostok? (it's spherical at least, not sure of the wood) :

http://i.imgur.com/XBcLxta.jpg
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There are some clever brains here on HN and plenty of people who have grown their sites this way... So, what advice would you give me for generating buzz to my site: http://betalyst.com

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I sometimes think the best way for people to learn about loops is not to tell them they exist at first.
Give them lots of repetitive assignments, (print the numbers 1 through 50, or all the powers of 2 until 65536) until they're so frustrated they start demanding a solution.
It's the Echo using your own speaker (it has a tiny one still). The "ordering through your existing FireTV/Echo" is just a stupid marketing ploy. As far as we know right not it does not talk to other Echo's on your network (no proxying/grid/mesh/etc).
From what I've seen of Rocket Internet, they're mostly copy/pasting businesses, without much innovation. When I hear about startups in Africa, there's a lot of innovative things being done, simply because the needs in Africa are wholly different. So with is AIG, separate from Rocket Internet, in terms of leadership and management style? Do AIG companies actually do innovative things, or just a lot of copy paste, like the rest of Rocket Internet?
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Will this be linked together with my echo? One thing I do quite often since my echo is in my kitchen is use it to set a timer. I'd like to be able to go to my office upstairs, and ask it how much time is left. Today, i don't think that's possible even with a second echo.
Yeah, it looks like it's intended to kinda be an expansion to your existing system. So in a larger house where you can't talk to your Echo from everywhere, you could put a bunch of Echo Dots in different rooms. It looks like it's probably missing the audio quality speakers, I'd guess?
Classic hub/spoke model

Echo = hub, too expensive and large to buy 10 for every room in the house, used for receiving, processing, routing info from spokes and cloud

Echo dot = spoke, microphone and AI functionality at a lower price point, distributes connectivity network throughout the entire house so that you don't have to walk from your kitchen to your living room to order new paper towels from Amazon
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- It if a football (soccer) betting tips/advice/stats website.
Yeah, srsly, who's sitting there thinking, "you know what I want from social media? _More advertising_. I'm not seeing enough advertising on the Internet. Can I have some spam in my twitter feed, please?"
That still has nothing to do with the obligations of the US who were in charge of Iraq since 2003.

Salgernon posted the link documenting how much the US engaged (hint: minimally, compared to what was needed to fix the issue):

http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2007/10/god-really-doesnt-l...
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I'm American. This makes sense, if anyone was going to order awhat seems like a range extender, for a device that just brings you stuff you were too lazy to type, it would be Americans.

Googleglass problem. The interface is me yelling publicly. So not super sure that is going to be adopted well.
This is fun. Does anyone know of any other good free browser-based DAWs like this one?
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I would have thought so, but this https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/... suggest maybe otherwise.
My problem with Alexa is, I don't want to invest in a new ecosystem. I'm fine with Amazon being the hub that connects all of my services, but I don't want to use Amazon To-Do List, Amazon Prime Radio, Amazon Traffic, Amazon Sports, Amazon Calendar, Amazon Weather.

That being said, they announce partnerships with more and more services every month. Things are looking up.
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The transition from primarily visual UX towards an auditorial UX is really powerful.

Looking at screens to get key information distracts me from my surroundings and seems archaic.

My wife is a sound designer who has opened my eyes to the importance of sounds both in film and in the world. It's not that I was unaware of sounds, but I didn't realize how important they are to centering me in this world and the made up worlds of films and games. Try watching a scary movie with the sound turned off, it turns into a comedy.

I think its unexplored territory that has huge potential to impact the way we interact with the real world, even more so then Glass or Hololens.

When I listen to music as I walk down the street I change, my mood, my posture and the way I look at the world. The music augments the reality around me in a way that visual UX never can because it's a lens between my eyes and the world.
Good support is expensive and not terribly amenable to scripting, unless you want to do it badly (or not at all). It's certainly possible to differentiate by providing great support, it's just convenient (and very profitable in the short term) to not bother. Great support is hard!

I think the public have got far too accepting of little or no support. Yes it's easy to switch, but most people don't unless it's a commodity service - you have to risk the unknown, maybe migrate years of data with little certainty that support in the new home will be better. Sales support tends to be great (and unscripted from more aware staff).

There's a magic size, let us imagine it at 100 people where nearly all human endeavours become crap. Try getting support out of your electric utility, car maker, government, phone service, national charity, hard drive maker etc. Personally I think it's connected with the size where they will still hurt at, or at least talk about, your loss.

It's certainly possible to get far beyond this size and still give great support - look at Amazon and Apple. Amazon got far beyond that size before starting to become a bit rubbish. Essentially until they started ruining the brand trying to move into food, tablets, 3rd party merchants and everything. Apple have the advantage of their restricted OSX hardware, iOS app store and so on that they have a fairly known quantity to provide support for. I think the key to be in this category is what you think your brand stands for.

I think in many, particularly social spaces, it's easy to forget we're not the customer. eg, you can actually get responsive support out of Google adwords or if you buy a Nexus from them (not always great support, but they answer promptly enough). So we're never getting support for search, G+, Facebook or Twitter. I'm sure there;s scope to do it much better, even for the free services.

Lastly, I think specifically in the startup space when you're aiming for 20% growth a month, or even a quarter is going to make it far more difficult to do well. Especially if your offering is evolving as fast - even your staff will struggle to stay aware. So it becomes about great user stories, and outreach (PR) and devcons. Good for growth, but chances are individual customers get lost in the gaps. I think the tendency to shoot for an IPO or buyout is unhealthy here - individual experience matters less if you don't need to care about ongoing trading profit whilst getting big fast. That said there's plenty of services I don't think would have happened, or be great without being big. Small Spotify doesn't get music licences, small Uber doesn't have availability when you need it, etc.

EDIT: Didn't realise I'd written that much!
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Isn't that what geostationary orbit is? Unless I'm missing something here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Build environment usually is about CLI. Without daemons, abstracting from distcc and similar tools.

X11 for Cairo is optional. As is OpenGL or Win32 GDI. But yes, POSIX as it is, is a very limited API and for practical purposes, you need other APIs.

Yes, I have past experience with DX-UG/Tru64 and Solaris. At the time when Alpha AXP was a current chip, it was a little wonder to get to compile the same source code with different compilers, as they had different ideas about what a valid C code is. For Solaris, the easiest way to build anything was to get gcc instead of sun studio compiler. I think that Sun's GNU packages were built using gcc too.

Nowadays, I don't know about all other unices, because I'm using only Linux and OSX too. From the commonly used OSes, the most annoying to build something on is Windows.
Not at all. A piece of matter has a unique identity. You can arrange other matter to resemble it, but you can't copy it, strictly speaking.

In contrast, information can be copied and move to new media fairly simply.

If Grandpa's pocket watch were destroyed, you could buy another pocket watch of the same model and vintage, but it really wouldn't be Grandpa's pocket watch. This is one source of friction when estates are settled. In contrast, you could copy all the digital photos of Grandpa and hand them out on USB sticks like party favors.
That's what "owning the methods of production" gets you.
I was just reflecting on how much life is easier when you have a mild winter (this year, NYC). Aside from temps, the past 12 months here have been incredibly sunny. The summer and fall were perfect. Thank you El Niño.
Left-to-right for me; vertical is confusing because I like to put address 0 at the top and address MAX at the bottom, but then the stack "grows down" and I get confused.
I understood that "their own brand" was rebranded/repackaged commodity product. Their 'own pasta' is the same as Aldis but with "Trader Joe's Own" printed on the label. Think about it: they're not a food manufacturer. They can't actually make anything.
Depends on what field the ideas are concerned with but my short answer would be: personal journal, evernote, or Google Docs (now switched that to Quip)
How much was it? I can't find pricing info anywhere.
>It appears you have to have an original Echo in order to purchase a Dot.

Where do you get that? As far as I can tell, this looks like an Echo with minimal speakers.

[Edit: Ah. It's only available through voice shopping on either an Echo or Fire TV--though that would seem to be a marketing gimmick as opposed to a technical restriction]
Looks like a portable speaker with Alexa? http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-PW3840KL-Tap/dp/B00VXS8E8S
Well yes, the absence of something can be considered something in its own right. There's probably a more eloquent way to put that but it escapes me at the moment.
I teach myself to program in basic when I was 10 without the assistance of any adult an made my own "for loops" because I only knew "GOTO", "IF" and variables. You can do a lot of shit with only "GOTO" and "IF", I made a Black Jack game. :)
By far the most useful program I wrote as a kid was one that factored polynomials. It ran on the calculator I was allowed on tests.
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"to get the amount of energy stored in a single AA battery, we would have to lift 100 kg (220 lb) 10 m (33 ft) to match it. To match the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline, we would have to lift 13 tons of water (3500 gallons) one kilometer high (3,280 feet). It is clear that the energy density of gravitational storage is severely disadvantaged."

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...
Are they really or do we only notice the ones that stick out?
I think it's more like Stockholm syndrome. Our compilers are berating us 100 times a day that we're making grammatical mistakes in the language we're using, and we begin to love them for it. It's no wonder we tend to demand a higher standard from the authors we read.
I can't wait for the thing/word that comes after social media. Please whatever it is, someone usher that era in.
I am interested to see some of the suggestions here.. I currently just leave things rattling around in my head...

I always tell myself I should document them on a Trello board then I can add notes to each idea when I think of things.

Trello: https://trello.com/
du-de viggity, somebody else (yread) here posted, but outside of this thread, don't ask why, that Hoover dam also had to be grouted after it was finished:

http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/hoover_dam/Grout%20Curtain%20Fa...

and that that lasted 12 years.

Now imagine that there wasn't peace at that time but that people couldn't even get enough food and medicine, and that at the time this should have been finished some 500,000 kids died, like in Iraq:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

There was an attempt by Iraqis to somehow fix this (building the second dam) but as said, there were worse things happening.

I still believe that learning about everything that happened around the dam is more illuminating than the comparison with the Hoover.
Man... I had my audrey doing this in the '90s. I can't believe I missed the boat and somebody else is making a bajillion dollars. It's time to search through the archives of all the cool stuff we did 20 years ago and put it in a shiny new wrapper.
This sort of reminds me of stack virtual machines vs register based virtual machines.

That is the low level code (assembly/bytecode) of function calls in a programming language is very different depending on whether its stack or register based.
Ah, I didn't notice that it hooks up to existing speakers. I'm curious how many people will use that however. My anecdotal experience is that most of the people that actually own an Echo are fairly tech illiterate and benefit from it being an self contained package, but that may change if the Echo API is extended.
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I think it needs a base Amazon echo to work if I understand correctly.
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What? The price of the Echo Dot ($89.99) is clearly at the top of the article.
Does this not work standalone? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.dee...
I think it's really "this is open beta/supply constraint, this makes sure only people already invested can get it". It's cute but pragmatic

disclaimer: work at Amazon, nowhere near echo
It may also be due to underground structures. Driving a heavy crane over some of the Victorian piping and the Tube (where it's close to the surface) would cause damage, and there may not be a clear route into some parts of London.
Various forms of shaped charges and explosives could be used to open the sluice gates but that would leave them permanently opened.

The main fear here is that if the dam reaches its design head, the water will tunnel underneath and around the dam through the water soluble rocks. The dam can't exceed the design head because of the spillway that is visible to the south east of the dam.

So explosives could well be used to force open the sluice gates.
Plus Amazon Tap, so now you have a lot more choices (or confusion, depending on your PoV)
To play devil's advocate here, any competent military would consider possibilities like this. "War is hell" is said so often these days as to be blasé, but it really is true.
It's not perfect, but it is linked now with Spotify, ESPN and other publishers, Google Calendar...

More importantly, they have done a good job (leagues better than the competing voice services) of opening their service to developers thru Alexa Skills, which has enabled hundreds of added features including things like ordering an Uber.
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I expected this to be one of those joke web sites that just says "YES" any time you load it. I don't entirely get the point of "should I get up?" sometimes saying no.
Maybe a bit more, as an echo user I've never ordered anything from my echo... however once I do, i'll probably do it again. The dot could be a gateway drug :D
I use them in my home. Being able to ask it to set a cooking timer while my hands are full is pretty awesome.

Echo is one of those things where it became magically awesome by being somewhat more accurate than I'd expect. Also, Amazon is updating the service back ends, and it is now extensible.
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The problem is that voice interfaces break down pretty quickly once you try to do anything complicated. The Echo has pretty solid voice recognition--far better than anything else I've ever used--but it's still hard to get it to do anything useful once you get beyond a pretty narrow script. (e.g. what's the weather forecast, play this artist, etc.)
I am just guessing here, but I would expect that there are better ways to solve the issue with the gate that are easier, safer and even cheaper than dynamite.

The article says only one of two gates has problems, but they cannot open only one because of the asymmetry that would introduce. So, to solve the problem with dynamite, it would be necessary to make very good calculations to be sure you make exactly the hole you want, then actually do it with a very high precision (for an explosion).

I do not think opening that gate is as much a technical problem as a problem of initiative and responsibility.
It's not incorrect, the original comment is vague. I think it is more reasonable to assume they are talking about the entirety of the cable rather than just the carrier embedded within it.
> Echo Dot is available in limited quantities and exclusively for Prime members through Alexa Voice Shopping. To order your Echo Dot, use your Amazon Echo or Amazon Fire TV and just ask:

I guess technically you don't have to already have an Echo, but it is only available through voice shopping.
Still too expensive, imo. I've read a lot about "Alexa" and Echo... and beside the privacy issues, in many cases the Echo quickly becomes an expensive speaker (after the kids and everyone else gets tired of asking "Alexa" questions).

$89 is not in my compulsion buy price range. I may be in the minority on that though...