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Funny how someone mentioned this earlier today on HN and then someone manages to repost it as another entry.

But I guess the video is somewhat well known and any voice recognition from Apple will draw it's comparison.

Same video posted a year earlier with many more views http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8

What's interesting to me is how slow the UI obviously is - I guess they were trying to make it "realistic" for the time and therefore more believable than instantaneous (or it was a limitation of the software they used to create it). Reminds me of the "Lost in Space" movie where the UI from the future seemed too fast to them.
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Encyclopedia content has to be neutral. But as a whole Wikipedia is not "neutral". We're pretty strongly in favour of free licenses (Creative Commons etc.), open source, access to free knowledge and against censorship. Hence why we don't like crappy laws like this.

As Mike Godwin (of Godwin's Law fame) said:

"I'd also like to +1 the thought that the very existence of Wikipedia is not itself NPOV -- it reflects a philosophical and political position, and one that just about all of us here agree with."

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-Octob...
Because you're used to have the choice of installing 'for me' or 'for all users' for aeons now on a Windows system.

Because even my tiny deployments are better and safer if I can make sure that FF is updated for every user of my machines, instead of hoping that they'll get an update next time they browse Facebook.

Because it's wasteful to install the very same software to different places. Yes, storage is cheap on modern hardware. No, not everyone uses FF on modern hardware.

Profiles belong to the user. The application belongs - in a Windows world, in a Linux world - to the system / administrator.

Love the mozilla guys for keeping the expectations intact. Re: "Program Files": Maybe ProgramData would be a decent place to drop updates. Program Files is supposed to be readonly, ProgramData is afaik the place designated for system-wide application data.
Hey Rob!

The person who squatted 'cmdrtaco' on HN claims to be saving it for you, and they put contact details in the profile.

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco

BTW, you must be new here ;)
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Edit: I read the [bill][1] and there's nothing of the sort mentioned. I'd call hoax too.

[1] http://www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/government/2010/0160/lat...
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Sure, you can set custom headers as long as they are prefaced with x-amz-meta...Other than that, you're limited to just a handful of headers. This is a big deal for fonts because the Access-Control-Allow-Origin must be set appropriately to be able to use custom fonts from a different origin (i.e. host&port) and S3 will pretty much always be on a different origin than the rest of your website.

You can read more on the AWS forum post about the issue: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=34281

Edit: For those interested the complete list of allowed headers is here: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/index....
Was surprised to see that lots of high profile companies have in fact fired their founders. Steve Jobs was fired by Apple in 1985, Sandy Lerner was fired by Cisco in 1996, and Diane Greene was fired from VMware in 2008.
This line just throws me off and don't wanna make me go at it.

import "fmt"

Why would anyone designing language in this decade would allow cryptic names like this in their "Hello World" code? Besides I still can't see single compelling reason to throw away all my tools and libraries in exchange of this thing. Do people create language just for the hack of it?
What is a 'user program'?

If you're on a Linux machine the vast majority of people are going to use a package manager to install their software. It ends up in /usr not /home.

I don't get your argument. Sure, you ~can~ install to ~/bin (and I'd guess you could change the FF install path to something outside of UAC protection/virtual folder redirection, maybe even now), but the majority doesn't. Not on Windows, not on Linux. Or are you going to tell me that the gazillion Ubuntu users install FF to ~/bin? How are they updating their packages?

Right.. With a process that runs as root.
I've already got this implemented by using duplicity for backing up to S3. All my data is securely stored using GnuPG and encrypted on upload.
You can set custom headers as long as they are prefaced with x-amz-meta...Other than that, you're limited to just a handful of headers. See my reply to thamer for more info.
For the majority of people, the hurdle is getting exercise regardless of time of day. I think once you get past that, everything else comes down to personal preference and priorities.
Check your assumptions. The field could be updated at any time to any value by another connection.

And who's to say we started at zero.
I think that there's selection bias at work. I have an android phone, but test software for a company that only has an app for iphone (owner is iphone fan). As a result, I have to frequently borrow other people's iphones to test things with the app - and I find that the amount of missed swipes, jitteriness and responsiveness is very similar between the iphone and my 'lowly' motorola defy. If I have a lot of crap running on the defy, it performs worse, but in normal use, I don't find the touchscreen responsiveness much different between these phones.

To be honest though, I'm running CM7 and not the stock image. Still, I see iphone/pad users miss swipes all the time or have to try repinching a few times, but for some reason it registers less on a shiny device.
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Things that make me feel like I'm taking crazy pills: how surprised people are that there's a future beyond screen interfaces.

Aren't things posted to Hacker News supposed to be by people who understand the utility of disruption? And the value of leading/controlling it?
The article makes no mention of the fact that the Siri app was free. What possible obligation does Apple have to continue to provide a service to "customers", when these users have not bought any product or service, and Apple itself didn't even own the app when the service began.

Lots of people seem to think that we have a right to continued access to free web apps/services just because once something is given it can't be taken away; this obviously isn't true. This particular case is just Apple being a business and isn't even particularly egregious.
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perhaps try the camera out in a story before forking over the cash first :)
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> First, knowing your 101 Data structures is correlated to your Computer Science general knowledge.

I can't quite shake the idea that what you're really testing is if the applicant has been to the same kind of school as yourself.

> There are jobs that merely require churning out bland CRUD application code, and it does not make much of a difference if you know this stuff

I've seen some really interesting (and performance-constrained) code done in .Net that didn't use pointers or linked lists in any way. It's not either "bland crud" or pointers, that's a false dichotomy.

Of course, concepts like parse trees, A-B pruning or Hungarian method of optimization are things that are worth having a hold on. But "how often you expect to use the skill" of linked lists with pointers in many modern languages, Java and C# included, is effectively never.

No idea where the crap java code for a sorted list came from, hope you're not trying to put those words in my mouth!

In the .Net world, good companies do try to look out for "broader" developers who are aware of useful open-source software toolkits, and want to practice things like Dependency Injection, TDD, Continuous Integration etc. They generally make better coders.
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Perhaps you are a woman who got knocked up and had parents that wouldn't approve of an abortion?

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What a load of bollocks.

And I think they misspelt his surname.
Excel, compare standard deviation + means in a slightly hand-wavey way. The mean is around the same for each interestingly, however the standard deviation varies in such a way as to imply which belongs to which.

I am quite rusty on this stuff I must say!
The author did a variant of the _Why: took down his online presence, deleted the online accounts he could and changed the configuration of his sites to return "410 Gone" on requests.
Couldn't the same be said of AWS's offering too?
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Weird, just looking at the raw numbers I would have expected A to be the weights and B to be the temperature averages because A has a bigger range.

I guess one would correlate each row to the A and B one and look which correlate the most?
There's no downvoting, though. Hence, moderators sometimes remove articles that are popular but don't belong here. Just because something is popular among HN readers doesn't mean it needs to be on HN, and the mods balance out the natural Way Of The Universe in that case.

I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this, but am just stating how things work here. There is no reason to expect that you aren't being censored; ultimately this site is for advertising YC, not for being an impartial news filter.
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So Mark deletes this from the Internet, and a bunch of other people put it back up? For people that were concerned enough about him to send the police to his house a few hours ago, it seems weird that they are now saying "fuck the author's wishes" and putting it back online.

I guess if there isn't enough Internet Drama, we have to make our own? Can we go back to whining about node.js? At least I found that mildly funny...
I can't speak for your peers, but for me, deadlines and emergencies have probably taken a lot of the fun out of it. It's one thing when you're trying to debug some driver issue on your own system and you're doing it as a hobby so whether it gets done today or next month is no big deal, versus, say, crossing yourself and muttering a prayer and rolling out an update following weeks of testing, only to have it conflict with something you didn't anticipate and the entire network goes down in flames while your phone melts.

Or, for a slightly less doomsday scenario, just a relatively simple problem affecting one person, but they're still trusting you to figure it out, and they're expecting you to do it sooner than later.

There's a point at which the fun really starts to go out of that. I've always been a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I've always worked well under pressure, but nowadays my favorite thing is quiet time in the sunshine digging about in the garden. (Oh god, that makes me sound old.)

Maybe this will never happen to you. I hope not! But I've been thinking a lot about what Chuck said, and about my frustrations with technology, and I think that maybe this has a lot to do with it.
Yes and thanks, that is a handy new word for me.
It's a mix really, some of it works beautifully, some of it leaves me thinking "I like this but... why haven't they tweaked x" and some really is just horrible.
Cute, but with something like a legal defense or a ballot initiative, where a warchest of a given size could swing an outcome, hitting the fundraising goal could be incentive enough to kick in.

Here's the classic college example: in California it costs 1-2 million dollars to pay for the signature-gathering to get an initiative on the ballot. Would 100k college students pay $20 to get, say, 'hot issue' on the ballot? You only pay $20 if the full amount is collected. For 100 million you might have a 'sure thing' campaign, could you get 1 million people effected by 'hot issue' to pay $100?

How much does it cost to get a patent invalidated, assuming a patent reeking of frivolousness should thereby have grounds for invalidation?
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Might be attractive for people celebrating anniversaries or having kids. Sort of a cosmic snapshot of that particular time and place.
I would plot some histograms and do it by eye.
Standard dev seamed to be enough. I sorted and graphed the data to to be sure.
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I'm not very educated in all this legal stuff, so i have few questions regarded license of this book.
First: does license CC-BY-3.0 allow me to download this book for free, make any changes to format or content of the book, including downloading to my Kindle? Amazon sells O'reilly version for kindle for 15.49$, and i can't find 'mobi' version at any legal sources, so is it ok if i make one myself? And if i will, is it ok to share it with everyone?

Secondly, as i understand, there is no problems with translating the book to any language and then sharing it for free with everyone?
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I'm gonna have to agree with this.

I grew up in a poor town in Ukraine. Up until the age of 9 or so, I was on a steady diet of potato soup. No videogames meant my only source of entertainment was reading or drawing. New cloth? Forget about it, haha. A candy bar (mmm Bounty) was something to buy on a holiday. Walk to the school and get ostracized/bullied by kids who somehow resemble wild animals.

The entire last 8 years in USA felt like a walk in the park. No food? Pshh, food stamps, food banks, whatever. Food takes about 5-10% of household's income anyway, compared to like 50% of the income in Ukraine. No housing? Millions of relatives with giant houses, homeless shelters, etc.

It's even easier to lose weight just because of the access to millions of gyms, dance clubs, and healthy food.

What's my point? I don't know :)
Looking at the sheer number of esoteric programming languages (befunge, chef, intercal…), or the huge amount of quasy-Rubys and -Pythons, I'd say yes, people do that. And this doesn't even include DSL's, whether they're integrated in a language or stand-alone…

But I don't think Go qualifies as a sheer 'hack value' language. We're talking about something developed under the auspices of Google here. They're looking for a systems programming language, which really hasn't been the focus of recent years (compared to scripting or VM language implementations). The only real contender here are some functional languagues who've gotten fast enough and have some good compilers, but not everybody wants to go all the way in that direction. Considering that Google does a lot of Java, Python and C++, something more in that family seems wanted, and I think Go qualifies here.

Considering that this is the latest language in the C/Unix family and the pedigree of its designers and implementers (Rob Pike, Russ Cox, Ken Thompson(!)), some idiosyncrasies are too be expected. Unix has always been rather fond of abbreviations (`man creat`), and `fmt` doesn't seem any weirder than `stdio.h` – or `printf`.
This is such an incredible article on so many counts. I stumbled upon Ian Bogost when we were in the throes of the (then acerbic) "gamification" debate, and Foursquare was the undisputed toast of the interwebs. I've been following him since, and have found myself quite intrigued by the Cow Clicker story.

For me, the takeaway from the article isn't so ironic when you look at Game Development as any of the arts. And bear with the cliche, but save the odd exception, an artists' life is almost always a compromise between staying true to one's principles and courting mainstream appeal. Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, "perhaps the biggest rock band most people have never heard of", will certainly attest to this.
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Yeah, I'm not sure I'd walk out -- depends on how bad I wanted it I guess -- but I would point out that I tend to write marginal code first and then go back and make it pretty in a second (or sometimes third) go-round, later. It's like that funny old saying, "I apologize for the length of this letter; I didn't have time to make it shorter."

But, if they're just trying to get an idea of your abilities and critical thinking skills and coding style, it's really not that big of a deal.
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You're right. That would have been a better title.
the hiring manager bitched to me that all of the programmers they hired quit

It's always funny when you hear someone complain that "everyone I've worked with in field X is an asshole" or "All the clients I have are assholes", etc. Pretty soon it's likely that you, not your clients, are the asshole.
That's how evolution works. By duplicating everything and then making it compete.

People tend to find their local maximum. Competition forces projects out of local maximums.
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This just makes me sick.

Brian Camelio, congratulations - you're a scumbag.

There are no two sides to this story.
This is only for a month. Being broke usually lasts a lot longer.

Anyone have any ideas on how to hack this kind of situation?
No, what it needs is at the base of the plinth a small screen and keyboard where you get connected to either a random anonymous person on the Internet or an AI, and you have to work out which one you are speaking to.
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If you don't declare a type, it has to be infered from the argument, which happens at compile time, so there's really no loss in performance. If Go would use some kind of union/variant type in those cases, then yes, that would cost you performance. But something like this is rather common in contemporary statically compiled languages, as nobody wants to uselessly repeat himself (cf. Java's "FrobnicationType frobnicatorVariable = new FrobnicatorType(initialValue)").

It's mostly a matter of style and verbosity, the only thing you have to care about is that you can't use the ":=" outside of functions. And as that will give you compilation errors, you'll notice quickly. No different behavior or runtime faults.
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Now this is interesting...
for the longest time I have heard only rumors.

The price can still be dropped? This might make internet access viable for many people.
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I have mixed feelings about this.

I agree it is good that someone had the good taste to bury the HN stories.

But DiveInto* is good content, and the internet needs more content like it.
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That sounds great, I just emailed.

It looks like you have a free plan anyway, is this different?
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Out of curiousity, why on earth would you need to call your wife every time you left work..?
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Support people don't get asked to write code on a whiteboard, how can you evaluate this scenario when you're not a coder?
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...Until 10/15 after which you'll have to buy a completely new phone to continue using it. They are taking away existing functionality that has been available to users for almost 2 years and relaunching it as the primary 'exclusive' feature on new, more expensive hardware.

It's also still throwing the same error as shown in the TC post for many users, myself included.
I like the cosmic snapshot approach, maybe with the rest of the cosmos left as an exercise for the reader.
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Being concerned about the author's well-being doesn't imply that one ought to 'respect his wishes' with regard to a CC-licensed work that many other people rely upon as a productive resource.

Mark has produced some exceptional reference works and released them under an open license. They certainly ought not be removed from existence on anyone's personal whim, original author or not, no matter how much we sympathize with his situation, whatever that might be.
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