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> in git, for example, why can’t i switch branches with uncommitted changes? it makes no sense why i can’t do that, but yet, there it is.

You can, if the changes don't conflict with the branch you're changing to.
wow, what a 100,000ft view of that timeline. He definitely had rich rich perspective on things. Thanks for sharing.
He takes the risk, he personally has to feed people if he exceeds the budget. So of course he keeps what is left if he spends less. That's the law. It's a terrible law and a horrid system, but accuse the shitty lawmakers not the guy who follows it.
One thing I feel nearly certain is that had Steve Jobs been alive, Apple would have never under any circumstances released a flagship phone and a flagship laptop simultaneously that, out of the box, had no way of connecting to each other. I still can't believe that happened.
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Not to mention Williamson shit-talking the Siri team to this reporter:

"Williamson denies the accusations that he slowed Siri development down and instead cast blame on Siri's creators.

'It was slow, when it worked at all,' Williamson said. 'The software was riddled with serious bugs. Those problems lie entirely with the original Siri team, certainly not me.'"
Same here. Read it, and thought: "Glad I don't work for Apple."
It was actually a Wall Street Journal building before it was torn down to build the building Theranos moved into.

Theranos was previously in 1601 California Ave (the old Facebook building), which was previously HP/Agilent.
Dark matter also has a measurable gravitational lensing effect, as I understand it.
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This is true, I mean I should be in bed right now, I'll be up in 5 hours. But what am I doing? Watching Jessica Jones and writing this message, I'm definitely going to regret it in the morning!
Probably spawned by the famous memo... https://apievangelist.com/2012/01/12/the-secret-to-amazons-s...
Obligatory question is why? What usefullness or functionality made that much of a difference to him?
The title seems poorly worded to me. I read it as "Why Siri underlies Google Assistant and Alexa," as if Siri were the backing technology. Should say something more like "Why Siri is lagging behind Google Assistant and Alexa."
It's because if you start getting people to think critically about economics they will start to wonder why they are spending 40 hours a week working and getting no royalties(hint hint engineers).
Somewhat off-topic, but are there products that do this for home accounting? Like it hooks into my bank account(s), grabs all the transactions, categorizes them, and lets me run reports on them? I have a hodge-podge setup going right now with ledger/plaid.com/custom web UI, but missing things like notifications and budgeting.

I've looked around a bit but not found anything that lets me just set it up once and leave it (and learns from categorization data).
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Traditionally IRC channels used for open source projects do have searchable, publically accessible logs. It's an easy thing to do when dealing with an open ecoystem like IRC. Want to know what the #docker channel on Freenode was talking about on August 3rd of last year?

https://botbot.me/freenode/docker/2017-08-03/?msg=89344351&p...

As for Github, their are absolutely concerns relating to their role in the open source ecosystem, and many people advocate for Gitlab and other solutions as a result. However, the concerns with Github are much more theoretical; the actual experience is quite good, whereas with Slack it's pretty mediocre. Plus, it's a lot easier to migrate a project away from github; because it's built on git you keep all your commit history, etc., and your issues and wiki are easily exportable. If I want to move my open source project from github to a self-hosted gitlab, it's the work of an afternoon.

None of that's true on slack.
I do, and telemetry definitely has a place in my mind to help achieve that. I'm sure you will call me scum or something worse, but I sincerely hope that you can see that maybe it's not as black and white as you see it.
Parent seems to be assuming, rather, that earthquakes take time to reach "full force". I weakly suspect that's not the case, but it's a different question than "before it happens".
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> "It was slow, when it worked at all," Williamson said. "The software was riddled with serious bugs. Those problems lie entirely with the original Siri team, certainly not me."

Wow. It those were his original words, I don't doubt a bit that this guy should be responsible for Siri being left behind.
[Apple engineer, not directly working on the watch]

* Clock functionality (duh!)

* Calendar - what's my next appointment.

* Check the weather before I step outside.

* Walking directions on maps - keep phone in pocket, get guided by discrete tap on my wrist.

* Fitness tracking (though, as you mention, there are other options)

* Notifications (the power of the watch is that you DON'T have to take your phone out of your pocket).

* Apple Pay (that's a big one for me. Much more convenient on watch than on phone).

* Automatically unlocks my macs when I sit down to use them.

A handful of these are third party apps. I use Trails to track my walks. The lyft widget seems kind of useful. Wunderground is better than Apple's built in weather app.
Interestingly they may be on their last leg.

Since Sweden first introduced them more and more nations seem to be switching to Sterling engines for submerged operations.

While clearly they can't match nuclear powered sub, they seem capable of staying down for far longer than the old diesel-electrics.
> Is a voice assistant the killer app for anyone?

For a smart speaker, yes.
I doubt very much he would have lost his job today for any of his behavior.

Look at what the U.S. President has and continues to do, and he still has his job, and a much more important and public one too.

Politics aside, Jobs' turnaround of Apple into the most valuable company in the world (for awhile, recently) would have ensured he remained at the helm for as long as he wanted.
Thanks! You’re a consistently great commenter. The HN of my fantasies has people politely discussing their ideas...
If anyone is interested, the original Amazon letter to the shareholders (reproduced with every succeeding letter) is worth a read [1]. In some ways it pretty much explains all of Amazon.

[1] http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/97/97664/repo...
How many gunshot murders are there per year in the NL? How many emergency surgeons are there?
I assume that 10% figure is either retail or "consumer goods" and doesn't account for things like travel. I imagine something like the inverse for travel. Probably similar for other spaces where shipping isn't involved.
She got to live a few years as a billionaire. She could easily get a normal, non-executive job like 99% of Americans after this.

I think most people would take a lifetime of "humiliation" if they got to live an unreasonably extravagant life for a while then return to an upper middle class lifestyle, occasionally having news articles written about them until it all fades away completely after 5-10 years. A sentence of "humiliation" would only make scams like Theranos a more appealing idea to many people. And frankly, if someone could go so deep with a scam like Theranos, I don't think they/Holmes have much of a sense of shame to begin with. They'll justify their fraud to the very end.
>Tyson is intellectually underwhelming

Only to intellectuals.

He may not have been a great researcher, but his ability to explain to the common person (impromptu) is a lot better than Hawking's. Other than Sagan, I cannot think of anyone that good. Their styles are different, but both are/were great.
I use google voice a ton. For dictating messages while in the car, and for setting reminders and calendar notifications while walking. Probbably adds up to around an hour of speaking a week.
After all these years I still remember Amiga original chipset register 0xdff180 is the first palette entry. Or that exec library pointer is at 0x4. And hundreds of other details.

It was amazing to set a copper list that completely defines the display, microsecond by microsecond, scanline by scanline. To setup blitter to decode a raw disk sector on the background. To learn blitter 4-channel minterm [0] logic combinators.

Having fun with Deluxe Paint color cycling. Trying to make some kind of music in Protracker and Octamed and listening all those amazing music modules made by other people. Writing text documents CygnusEd. Having fun with AsmOne assembler IDE.

Playing Shadow of the Beast, Marble Madness, Xenon 2 Megablast, Turrican 2, Civilization, Settlers, Lemmings, Another World, Stunt Car Racer, North and South and all those other amazing games. That inspired to imitate and to learn more.

Watching amazing demos like Phenomena Enigma, Kefrens Desert Dream, Sanity Arte, Spaceballs 9 fingers. Wondering how seemingly impossible effects were achieved.

It was a great machine and taught me a lot. I'd be a different person without Amiga.

[0]: http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Graphics_Minterms
Regarding [1], the move to Mesos was not a rewrite. Some core components had to be improved, but [2] was primarily an infrastructure upgrade that happened to make Siri considerably faster by ditching hypervisors. It was a massive feat that was accomplished by relatively few engineers.

There were always many components under review for reengineering; keep in mind that Siri was released before WebSockets was a thing, let alone RFC.

The snowball effect of Siri's failures originated from iOS Program Management pushing us to expand into as many other languages as soon as possible from the beginning, thus diverting resources from implementing or polishing original "Siri, Inc." features and various "nice to have" improvements to en-US usage.

Source: I worked on Siri from the moment it was acquired, and no longer work at Apple. Richard Williamson's recent comments are pathetic.
Fair enough, unless you can deduct your cost against your winning. I don't know whether you can.
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I want to like Siri but I spend so much time correcting what it has misunderstood, it's nearly not worth using it.

The Google alternative is, from what I understand, something that just works.
Kinda.

I recall reading about one suggestion for using high altitude "kites", and i could have sworn i have also seen one where the sails would be more similar to what you find on a Junk.

In both instances the operations would be largely computer controlled, and reserved for the open seas.
OK, I don't really understand this. What exactly is this cosmic dawn signal that's distinct from all the other things on 21cm?
It typically kills the browser. Sure, it gets you the same result as rebooting if you only have a browser open, but it’s much faster =)
I would love to see a list of CONCRETE examples of cryptocoins that are doing good, productive things TODAY.
How is that relevant? A bias in a distribution does nothing to prohibit the existence of outliers.
Symbolic mourning of Stephen Hawking I believe.
Question: Why the galactic synchrotron and not, say, the solar synchrotron? I'm assuming the latter exists but is negligible for some reason? Why is that?
That was one of the ones I read recently. I think another one was about dealing with the Bali bombing victims, hundreds of people with life-changing deep burns flooding into a system designed to handle 1-2 patients at a time
I consider all ads to be at least somewhat deceitful. Because they are, almost by definition, biased. They're a form of propaganda. And that's not exaggeration. Look at the history, if you will.
"Perfect is the enemy of good"?
Yeah, Siri doesn’t hear as well. It can’t pause music by me asking it. It also has some annoying bugs:

http://h4labs.org/siri-next-monday-isnt-christmas/

Another one is when Siri tries to update an existing reminder when I say “create reminder”

I have Apple Music and I’ll often use my little Echo Dot when I want to play a song just because I can simply talk to Alexa from across the room and it will hear me.
> It's always been nebulous talk of "potential" without any concrete uses beyond scams and criminal activity.

I suppose it might count as criminal activity, but as far as I know, it's the only way to donate to Sci Hub.

http://sci-hub.tw/#donate
There's an excellent book called How to lie with statistics. It goes into detail about the various ways you can package the same data to support whatever point you want to make. Having read that book more than once, I like to try to dig into the guts of the data, if possible, to see if it really says what people claim it says, which is very often not the case.

The piece you link to lists the lowest IQ as Simon Pirela with an IQ of 57. I found the following two pieces about Pirela:

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-3rd-circuit/1874807.html

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-05-02/news/040502046...

He was apparently involved in four murders, but I am failing to find good details. From what I am reading of the one case where I can find a few details, you could conclude he was pressured into helping commit murder by other people and this occurred in part due to his low IQ. They commuted the death sentence due to his disability. So even the law doesn't hold him fully responsible.

The research you cite lists people as serial killers who killed at least two people. I don't think this is really what most people have in mind when talking about serial killers. Other research defines it differently, only including people who have killed at least three people.

Saying that someone typically has a high IQ doesn't mean they always have a high IQ. If you drop the very low figure of Simon Pirela's 57 IQ from the data, I imagine that would substantially change the means, medians, etc. cited.

My best understanding is that serial killers are typically bright. And the link you have provided is not really compelling evidence to the contrary.

I have spent part of my afternoon looking at this information because a. I did take Intro to Psych a long time ago, so perhaps what I know is outdated and b. I have a sincere interest in knowing what the truth is. That matters far more to me than winning internet arguments. I'm not here to argue with anyone anyway. That's not what motivates me.

But I'm really not finding your source compelling. So my mind has not been changed. I see no reason to believe the stated conclusion of this piece is better information than what I have previously been told. In fact, it looks pretty sketchy to me.
So far unmentioned in this discussion is the only reason I use Android voice assistant: Android Auto. When I'm driving my car I obviously can't type on my phone, so I use my voice for everything: changing the navigation destination, calling for music to be played, dialing the phone and sending text messages, amusing children by asking it stupid questions, etc.

I carry an iPhone on my person but I use Android in my car. I don't ever find myself using Siri, but I use Google Assistant a lot. I tried using CarPlay a few times but the voice recognition just wasn't there. I distinctly remember trying to get it to navigate to a restaurant called Da Nang Quan and it just was stumped. Google can recognize these kinds of things. I've also noticed it has no problem recognizing the spoken commands of my young children which generally speaking Siri can't figure out at all.
Funny, but CC PINs can actually be longer than 4 digits now.
> But you’re basically arguing “it’s okay to lie to consumers about something that’s immaterial.”

If it's a significant factor in a buying decision, it's not immaterial. If it's not material, it's probably not worth lying about.
I had to do (crude) forensics on an Amiga belonging to a suicide victim at university (I was in the computer center, the uni and police asked us to look for a suicide note)

The mod/demo programs were amazing. I was totally outside the mod scene, but I could see why people were attracted to it.
All of those Siri can do maybe half the time. In my experience, it's a completely unreliable service. Sort of embarrassing when your voice assistant can't perform the most basic possible task on an iPhone: locking the screen.
Sorry, there's not enough revenue or developers to support 5-10 year old hardware. As a consumer you should have realized by now that when you buy these appliance computers they will only be supported for a few years. But nothing stops you from continuing to use your hardware with the old software.
It's really crazy when you look at just how many murders / deaths we have compared to anyone else.

I decided to check the right-wing conspiracy theory that if you dropped the top four Democratic controlled cities from the US numbers, we'd be in the range of other 1st world democracies. No idea which cities those are supposed to be, but I assume Chicago and NY and LA and St Louis.

Spoiler alert, we're not. Even throwing out all gunshot murders from IL, CA, NY, LA, MO (New Orleans), while keeping the population, still doesn't get us below 2x rate of CAN. You have to toss TX, NJ, MT, OK, to get in the ballpark.
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That's the recommended interval if you're just storing the cheap water that comes in thin bottles from the grocery store. Use a thicker food-grade plastic, glass, or stainless steel container, and the water will stay drinkable indefinitely.
I don't mean political in the same sense that you do. I don't mean back-room deals, but decisions that are based on prioritization of values and resources in society.
I actually have had the opposite experience with hyperfocus — if I get sidetracked into a subject I personally find very interesting but know others don’t, I have a harder time letting go of it. I know what the right thing to do is; my brain just won’t let go of the thing it’s focused on and I get emotionally agitated when I force myself to switch.

For me at least, the core component of my ASD is the complicated link between sensory input and my emotional state. The focus and attention problems are more that I have to really concentrate to understand the meaning of everything going on around me, and that gets exhausting. I get fatigued of being “on”, so my attention lapses.
Honestly my own experience makes me wonder how many of those "users per month" either accidentally invoked it by holding down the button on their phones or had Siri just pop up and start yakking because its hotword detection went wrong.
Biggest differences vs. inDinero are:

1. Our books are stored in QuickBooks Online, and you have access, so you're never locked in. (The "Leave inDinero" migration is a pretty rough one.)

(Strategically this is also important for us because it lets our engineering team focus on building software to assist with the most thorny/painful parts of the process, as opposed to making a QuickBooks clone.)

2. We do accrual by default (inDinero will do it but only at the most premium tiers)

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That's almost patently false, since `git checkout` is pretty much just a tool that takes a commit (or a name that points to a commit, like a branch or tag name) and updates the working tree, index, and the HEAD pointer to match the contents of the commit, with some extra safeguards to make sure uncommitted data isn't lost.

Three examples (that cover 95%+ of use-cases):

$ git checkout some-branch

> Updates the index and working tree to reflect the contents of `some-branch`, and updates the HEAD pointer to indicate we're on the `some-branch` branch.

$ git checkout -b some-branch

> Updates the index and working tree to reflect the contents of `some-branch`, with the "convenience" of creating it first through wrapping `git branch`. This is identical to calling `git branch some-branch; git checkout somebranch`.

$ git checkout <optional-commit> -- path/to/a/file

> Updates the index and working tree to reflect the contents of the named file on the current or named branch/commit/tag/whatever.

TL;DR, `git checkout` has a very clear and well-defined responsibility: update the filesystem and index to reflect the contents of some commit. Various flags and options cause it to perform reasonable variations of this core responsibility (create a branch that doesn't exist first, or update individual files rather than the working tree as a whole). If the commit-name provide is a branch (and you're not checkout out individual files), it also updates the HEAD pointer to point to the named branch, so git "knows what branch you're on".

I would be absolutely astonished if you could write the git internals (or even just knew how they worked) and the idea of a tool to make the filesystem look like the internal contents of the repo wasn't immediately apparent. You might not have realized that that's all that `git checkout` does, but once you understand that, it's extremely straightforward.
not really. All the works postulating dark matter from the flat speed curve that i've seen so far are using basic orbital speed formula (sqrt(M/R)) which is only applicable to either spherically-simmetric masses and/or large (compare to the mass containing radius) distances between the interacting masses. Such simplification is just not valid for disk star orbital speed calculation because 1. disk galaxies are far from being spherically symmetric and 2. distance between a star and the galaxy center is of the same scale as the galaxy's radius. Very detailed Newton based calculation of those orbital speeds taking into account the shape of the galaxy mass distribution produces much flatter curve and, for example, for Milky Way to get a flat curve matching observations i needed to speculate only additional 20%-30% of galaxy mass to be present in the galaxy halo (like gas and dark dwarfs of all kinds which some works suggest there are and even that may be unnecessary - need to find and check some additional observational data for that) instead of additional 900% of dark matter that typical "dark matter" works speculate for.
> - Reminders (remind me to do X when I get home)

One thing it can't do is 'remind me to do X when I leave work'. Can siri?
I have a related anecdote. After being on Android since version 1.5 I’ve recently switched over to an iPhone (8) due to privacy and security concerns. Thats when I begun using the voice assistance for the first time. For me, it was a trust issue - I simply had an easier time trusting Apple’s Siri with my voice. On Android I would disable every non-essential Google feature that I could. I don’t feel like I need to do that on IOS.
Jacque Cousteau tried this on his 2nd boat. They looked like two giant missle silos.

NB i was on board coming around the tip of Manhattan soon after 9/11. US coast guard came up on us pretty quick. They thought they were misled too!
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