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At the risk of complaining about a free service, the most frustrating/humorous part is their voice to text translation service. While about the only thing that comes out accurate is the number the call came from, the rest of the conversation translates to phrases that are worse than any drunk dial line. Again, good for a laugh but not dependable enough to build a solid business model on if you’re trying for a large piece of the cell market.
I downloaded it and I can't find it....or figure out how to use it. How about posting some instructions for those of us who are technologically challenged!
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2) I assume you're from the US - you're really freaked out by roundabouts :) It's just a type of intersection like any another, in Europe or the Middle East no one cares and they're everywhere.

Left-turns on classic intersections (without separate light for turning) are the most dangerous, passing a roundabout is safe. Even if there's a collision on a roundabout, there are no fatalities due to the relatively slow speed and no significant difference of speed between vehicles, while a left-turn collision can be deadly or at least most of them are very destructive.
I know you can port them to Twilio :) (I work at Twilio)
As a recent PT convert, I am really starting to get into the workflow their app allows. It is certainly much better than basecamp or lighthouse.

That being said, they put a heavy penalty on having clients on board as part of the process. I have three projects, five part-time coders, five clients, and 1 virtual assistant to keep it all running. I have to pay $100/month to keep going?

I don't need Jira or Zendesk, so why should I pay $50/month? I could probably setup two $7 accounts and one $18 account and be fine - but then I have to deal with the pain of logging in and out just to do work?

I would happily pay $25-$30 a month, but $100 seems off the mark to me.
Ja, I don't like when some people refer to other people saying he "smells", that's gross. And in this case, it's also plainly false: Russians don't smell more than, say, redheads.
Give me an implementation of Harmony as described in http://brendaneich.com/2011/01/harmony-of-my-dreams/ in Narcissus, and I would certainly play around with this extension.
See that billboard directly behind it with "San Francisco Chronicle" along the top? That's for the auto show in November... 2010.

It couldn't have been very expensive if they're still advertising an event that ended two months ago...
Thanks for the summary with your level of competence (already a good one ;)).
Cperciva is right, but I think you're mistaken when you say "many problems harder than NP are NP complete", NP complete problems are both NP and NP hard. NP hard is a class of problems such that every problem in NP can be reduced to any problem in NP hard. Meaning if P=NP then every problem in NP(including the NP complete problems) can be solved in polynomial time; all it takes is one algorithm that solves an NP complete problem in polynomial time (note that this does not show that P=NP hard, a much stronger claim).
Wildfire was absolutely spectacular, and I think better than GV. Too bad they didn't adapt. I believe someone has ported similar features to Asterisk.

Bell Atlantic (Verizon now) years ago had something very similar with ContactLine. You had 99 preprogrammed 'call plans'. 1-9 would forward through with various options, 10-19 would forward with screening, in the 30s you could check in and it would forward the call to the location where you were, with a greeting to call the person. 60-69 call plans would page you, allow you to get to a phone, and it would bridge the call. I believe produced by Octel, later purchased by AT&T, spun off into Avaya. Back in the late 80s, made the mobile phone incredibly powerful - back when phones had 3 watts, not the .6 watts we have today. :)

Vonage has Simulring which has some of the features that Google Voice has.

However, to the phone companies, any solution here is a cost center, not a profit center (except ContactLine which was $19.95/month). It is difficult to get them to spend even more money providing a service that a fraction of their users would use.
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Filo's BSD hack to buffer the entire HTTP request and then pass it on has the same effect as using nginx here.

It doesn't help with keepalive though, but that's probably not needed.
What's wrong with just "HTML"?

I'm not sure what you mean by "<canvas> and friends" or what you meant by "HTML5" before.
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I could have sworn there was a discussion on HN about this more or less recently (maybe within the last month or two). I can't remember if it was a link that was submitted or an Ask HN, but it was really interesting. I can't find what I'm looking for, does anyone know what I'm referring to?

I did some searching though and I found these past discussions which may be of interest to you:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1265465

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500393

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=436663

More:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
There's a ton of specs lacking editors. If you have anyone who can take over, let me know. We've been looking.

...and by "open" I mean anyone can join, contribute, and have a significant impact on the spec. The spec's development has been based on rational debate and research. If someone has a different vision, though, they are welcome to create a new spec, just like we did with the WHATWG when we disagreed with the W3C's vision.
Another mediocre, proprietary platform to get locked into?
In long term, H.264 patent will expire.
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I think that would be excellent point to make to them, if you haven't already.
Great! I wish they'd been charging for it earlier; it would have been easier to use on some client projects...
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There are good reasons to use the Google version.

A: Google is likely far more reliable than your dinky little outfit, so odds are very very high it'll be up and absurdly reliable.

B: If you use the Google version, it's probably already in your user's cache saving you nearly an 80k download for a common library and making the first hit to your site potentially much faster.
Rtm was not born 22 years ago!
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Then you're getting a lot of value out of it already. $50/month for that many people working on that many projects is peanuts!
Oh, it's no risk. I openly complain about Google Voice and it has never been anything except 100% free-as-in-beer. I wish I paid for Google Voice so I could demand that they refund me. You see, I got on board when it was still called GrandCentral, and there seemed to be every intention to create a Real Product with Real Support that people would pay Real Money for. Then Google bought it, and I figured, "Great! Now it'll be a Real Product just like Google search or Gmail, but free, or at least affordable!" Instead I got this bupkus. Bah, humbug! etc.

The transcriptions are fabulous, by the way--I think a great business model would be piping them into a web service for use instead of Markov chains in spam e-mail. Once it translated an entire message from my Dad as an ominous string of "Ha ha ha ha ha"s.
Does anybody here also notice a lag during Google voice calls?

Sometimes the lag is up to half a second or one second, and it can really make conversations difficult because you start interrupting the other person (even though you don't realize it and think you started talking when there was a lull in the conversation).
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Thanks,

I did send them an email. Hopefully they will listen, Github did and I think their pricing plans are better for it. I've already upgraded once on github as my needs grew.
A combination of things, one of which is GPS. Don't want to say anything more though ;)
the restrictions on the sale of an item depend on the type of item that is being sold and any residual rights that you may retain over that item. as far as i can tell there is no way to analogize between racially restrictive covenants in real estate contracts and the rights to assert certain ip rights over a product that is already sold on its way to downstream consumers.

when you come across a problem that involves this type of intellectual property issue, ask yourself which type(s) of intellectual property are in question (copyrights, patent, trademark etc).

Then, try to figure out what rights an owner of that type of intellectual property has over the item.

Also, you'll have to think about which country's laws apply also because copyright owners' rights are very different in diff countries, ie France vs. the US.

That's a rough type of analysis that you can do to get a feel for the issue.
Yes. My excuse is that I'm not American.
Firefox (at least) will still send referrer info when you navigate to a https: site from encrypted Google. You can change this in about:config by changing network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer to false.

Source: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferr...
For what it's worth, it flows the other way too. If computer drivers are safer under some circumstances, lawsuits will be filed about how the computer wasn't driving the car.

My father works in the car industry. When I was young (though I heard about this later so the memory is fresher than that), he was called as an industry witness in a lawsuit in which his company was being sued for not putting antilock brakes on this particular car, "resulting" (for some value thereof) in a fatal accident. At the time of the accident, antilock brakes were actually an option on the car... an $X,000 option in mid-1980s money. The idea of putting antilock brakes on all the cars was an economic absurdity.

The car company lost.

I know the cynical answer is to say computer will face major legal barriers but I'm not sure it's that simple. One can look at the lawsuit-happy USA and readily see a world in which licensing restrictions are actually significantly tightened and it becomes illegal to drive a car under most circumstances using the exact same logic. Conclusion? Beats me.
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And I've seen demonstrations of sensor platforms that can detect deer far more readily than humans. ISTR that at least at one point you could buy cars with IR HUDs, though I don't recall reading anything about that in a while; I don't know if that's because they don't really work or because they're just boringly common by now on cars I can't afford.

Also, assuming a very good computer driver, a computer driver will have a much better sense of when they are in trouble. They might refuse to drive fast in a low-visibility situation. I see a world in which computers "want" to drive 55 in areas currently labelled 25 (though of course they will honor the speed limit) and in some cases will insist on driving 25 through areas labelled 55 that turn out to be something like forest too dense to see through that may be harboring deer or something, or other situations in which a human would blithely speed through but the computer is "scared". Arguably correctly.

And per my other message, when the computers are tweaked to ignore that and then hit a deer, lawsuits.

It's gonna be interesting times.
Just ask New York how that's working out for them. (hint: they seem happy, money-wise)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=4...

I can't imagine it makes the online shoppers happy, though.
Heh, no. The header really is "HTTP_REFERER", and is somewhat notorious for the misspelling.
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Interesting. Could you describe the procedure? I started at porting from Google to another (Callcentric) and didn't know how to provide the billing documentation they asked for. What do you ask people to provide?
It's actually spelled HTTP_REFERER in the PHP $_SERVER superglobal :)

edit: oops, I see someone beat me to it!
> Well it's not a backdoor.

You have no idea. Your pants.
Tomorrow: Monsanto Sues Amoebas!

More seriously, I could see this turning into a major development in the pharmaceutical industry. If amoebas could be bred to farm beneficial types of bacteria, I can imagine all sorts of products could be produced much faster. This could lead to a seismic shift in that industry!
Open an English dictionary (the Oxford one if you're serious), and come back. Note my fault if tbl didn't know how to speak English corectly backed then.
Does Google Voice number portability apply to:

- pre-paid mobile numbers?

- VOIP carriers?*

- mobile numbers that were previously landline numbers?

- all US-based mobile carriers or just a handful?

* I remember reading that some VOIP carriers are considered mobile carriers.
In your hosts file add:

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
127.0.0.1 other.distracting.site
...etc

Windows, Linux, MacOS all have a hosts file if you don't know where it is google it real quick. Editing a file is pretty annoying for me especially if the file requires admin rights, I think mac has a few distraction apps (google should probably find some) and windows/linux probably do too.

Disciplining yourself with a timer reward system may work well for some people (1 hour working, 10 minutes web browsing set to an egg timer).
Some questions...

- is DDG profitable right now?

- is it going to be profitable if their user base grows by 10x? 1000x?

- do they ever expect a need to be profitable?

- if required to be profitable, do they have or foresee a solid business plan that doesn't involve de facto "tracking"?
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How to be popular

1. Be a hot girl.

2. Dress in skimpy clothing

I think I'm seeing a trend here.
I'm sure there are plenty of patent trolls that have patents that Oracle's violating. Can Google pay one of them to act as their mercenary army, having them counter-sue Oracle?
If you really want some peace from distraction on the net -- disconnect your Ethernet cable.

Anecdote: I went without the net for about a month a few years ago and during that time I picked up Python, starting with zero knowledge of it, with just the copy Diving into Python that so happened to be on my Ubuntu machine. I had nothing better to do and nothing to distract me so I figured what the heck, I'll learn this language. I think it was one of the best things that happened to my programming career because it's now my language of choice.
It gave me better results than google on 3 different searches. Bookmarked.
It's not just PHP - the HTTP 1.0 specification in RFC 1945 spells it like that.
"spying on people" is a really unfair way to describe what happens when you voluntarily share your information with a third party who is in turn subpoenaed.

You should be taking issue with the governments demanding the records rather than expecting these companies to break the law on your behalf.
Why yet-another-unix though? I understand this is purely as a hobby but I wish for (or maybe I will create) an exokernelish os with no libc, instead a virtual machine and no hardware protection, instead everything is managed by the vm with step AOT based on automatic analysis. Linux is actually really hard to use effectively and current work to make it more distributed shows this (checkpoint restart, distributed filesystems, namespaced subsystems - which i doubt will ever fully happen).
What I find really funny is how completely opposite MS has dealt with Jailbreaking of Windows Phone. Down to offering to send geohotz a phone to play with: http://twitter.com/#!/BrandonWatson/status/27508118367772672
Of course it will work. The whole point of reverse-proxy is to buffer slow requests and send them fast over LAN to your back-end servers that cannot handle high concurrency efficiently.

The FreeBSD's accept_filter() used by Rtm does more or less that (you can think of it as of reverse-proxy in the kernel), but it only works for plain HTTP and HEAD/GET methods.
Surely whether or not the RFC's authors know how to spell a word has no bearing on how sensible it is to correct the spelling of "HTTP_REFERER"? I mean, if dools had said "HTTP referer" then you might have had a point, but "HTTP_REFERER" unambiguously refers to the name of the header field.
Let me just tell you from experience that all of that "history" ends up in moldy boxes that head straight for the dump, sometimes via a stop at a self-storage auction, other times the junk wagon during the "big clean" when people are no longer able to live on their own.

My own family's history is digital because I was fortunate enough (and patient enough) to scan important letters, docs and photos just before they took that last long trip(1). I also have most emails, digital pictures, and IM's (thanks so much for storing a history ICQ) all the way back to my digital "birth".

Thanks to the magic of asterisk, I'm even catching all of my phone calls and SMS's these days through my personal PBX system.

The storage space required to do this is trivial. Our whole history back to 1875 including marriage certificates, photos, letters, and more are now stored on 3 continents and in 2 safe-deposit boxes.

For all that the future has taken from us (and there are some good points made) it has granted vastly more. Its given amateur archivists like myself superpowers that didn't exist even 10 years ago.

(1) Fujitsu Scansnap. Beyond awesome.
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Which kind?
I don't remember anyone ever discussing the referrer as being an issue before 3rd party ad networks became so prevalent.

This type of tracking exists for loads of other types of marketing, too. Promo codes, questionnaires that say "where did you find us?" and things like that.

Above all, there's nothing a website can do maliciously with that information alone. An IP address and the page you came in from, that's all there is. The only thing of concern is a feature being provided by the browser which allows spammer.com to write to a cookie that was created by facebook.com right?

I think that sending around the referrer is a necessary part of the interconnectedness of the web. I've noticed in my referral strings before that other bloggers have linked to articles which I wrote, then I've stopped past that blogger's site to have a read of their stuff.

I've noticed a sharp rise recently in services making use of 3rd party cookies, though: FB connect and OAuth generally, and all of Google's stuff (I use a separate browser to stay logged into gmail and calendar so that I'm not logged in as far as Google is concerned for my normal browsing).

What about having sandboxed browser instances which segment off your various web apps in their own little silos?
Distortion. That's not Google spying on people. The guy use Orkut, a social network website, surely there's his account information there.

The personal data that is handed over is email address of the account. It's probably a privacy violation if it's really that hard to find out someone's email address once you know his social network account, but it's not spying on people.
Obvious difference: I expect not to get my HDD corrupted because I visited an arbitrary website, I understand it might be the case if I download AND run an arbitrary program.
When Palm was up for sale I did wonder why Google didn't value it very highly just to acquire their patent portfolio.
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As a paying customer of Google Apps, I have an incredibly difficult time getting decent customer support for the paid services, so I wouldn't hold my breath. Also, in the past I have submitted tickets for other free service like Analytics and they have gone unanswered each and every time.

Google is great at innovating, but their support story is pathetic. It's the big reason we stopped a 1000-person migration and stuck withbExchange (except for a small group of techies).
I think the downvotes are because you're missing the point so hard that they're assuming you must be trolling.
Set "noprocrast" to yes in your HN profile. maxvisit defines how many minutes you are allowed to stay on HN, minaway the minutes until the site will be available again. Such a great feature, only works on HN though.
You're right. I've got the brain hiccups.
Yeah, it hurts right? You failed, sorry, but it's not my fault (think 50 cents).
While I agree that a lot of the confusion could've been avoided by reading more carefully, part of the problem was the dissemination of information. Facebook did a really poor job of this unfortunately, as all of the information was in multiple locations, and was not at all redundant. For example, the initial rules were in the FAQs, some updates were posted in the main group (Hacker Cup), and then other updates were posted in the Hacker Cup Qualification event page. So if you wanted a complete picture, you needed to check all three. And if the answer wasn't there, you weren't going to get one, as they weren't responding to questions at all as far as I could tell (and for fairly good reason - if you didn't filter out the non-official posts, the page was nigh unreadable).

The bigger problem in my book, however, was the issues with the submission system. I tried both Firefox and Chrome, and couldn't get the "download input" link to function properly (I tried, left clicking, "save as"-ing, opening in a new tab, etc.). Add the 6-minute time limit to this, and it was pretty bad. Six minutes to get the download to work, run your code on it, and then get back to the page, paste your output, and upload. Oh, and good luck eyeballing your output to make sure you pasted it correctly -- the window you paste into wasn't resize-able, and every line wrapped, so it looked like an utter mess.

Don't get me wrong, I sound rather negative in this post, but I love the idea, and look forward to the next attempt at it. I was just somewhat disappointed to see how the process went. And to be honest, I really wish they'd do away with the 6 minute time limit, and add a time limit for how long your code is allowed to take during execution. Though I suppose they have to restrict the languages then. Perhaps a "can you finish the problem within the 3 hour time limit" is sufficient for this competition then. As it is, knowing when to optimize, and when not to takes too long to figure out in the 3 hour time limit, so you end up taking a shot in the dark as to when you should be submitting your code.

Hopefully Facebook learns from these mistakes, and comes back with a competition that is just that much better. Also, if you're interested in the problem solving for this competition, check out the Puzzle Master. It's great fun as well.
It's starts off fairly passive agressive, but then things get a little cranky right here:

"Hey Doug:
Please undo your purchase of the hbase adword. There are plenty of open forums for disseminating your message and on which hbasers can respond should they wish but your purchase of the hbase adword leaves us only one response and thats to outbid you. The only winner in that game will be google."

I really don't understand why some people persist in engaging in language/platform wars; particularly professionals operating at this level.

Who really cares if one product is running on top of a JVM and the other is compiled machine code - isn't the real issue the performance, reliability and features?
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Arabia? Greece? Hehehe.