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That's fantastic news.

I was at Bletchley Park last weekend for Over The Air, a mobile development conference/hack day. It's a truly extraordinary place - if you haven't been yet, you have a real treat in store.

They've already done a fantastic job bringing the place to life, and the working reconstructions of both Colossus (the first electronic programmable computer) and Alan Turing's Bombe (the mechanical device that cracked Enigma) are both completely spellbinding. They also do a really good tour.
Stopped reading at the first use of the term "fan boy".
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Commoditize the hardware? Uh, this is Apple we're talking about.

This article was worth a good laugh.
All power to the start-up entrepreneur but on the subject of that TW post - in the UK we have a word for them. It start with a W and rhymes with Bankers.
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Have you seen Mark Thomas "My life in serious organised crime" (DVD and Radio)? I highly recommend it if you know the UK at all.

In it, he talks about "playing" with the law. There was a law in the UK saying all protests within a zone (roughly a mile of parliament) had to be licensed by the police. So he started playing with the law - never breaking it - but playing with it and generally being a right pain in the ass (at times with several thousand friends) to point out how stupid the law was. In the end, the law was removed (altho some people say what it was replaced with was even worse).

His half hour radio show is on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRGZr2m4r7M (Illegally, I assume - your call)

But anyway, if this law passes play with it to demonstrate how shit it is. For starters, go through every public statement Berlusconi's party has ever issued on-line and complain if possible. Then move on to the output of the Berlusconi owned media.

I don't know Italy well, so I don't know if this would work but certainly something to think about.
You can, but maybe not from the web interface. I use s3cmd to upload files, and it sets the content-type just fine.
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I dunno really. The smoking is constant fuel through the day (disgusting, I know, but it's programmed into my brain) while the coffee (with lots of sugar) gives me a kick when I start to feel blah.
This is really great news for all that love Bletchley Park and for all that have yet to see it.
And if you're alive today regardless of where you live, you're probably better off than most humans since the invention of agriculture. So what?

The idea that it's only absolute wealth that should matter completely misses the point. That the typical American or European, et al, literally lives like a king (or better) is beside the point. The economy is not a zero-sum game, sure, but politics certainly is, and unfortunately nothing predicts your political power better than the wealth you've accumulated. So the average person in the first world may live like a king, sure, but he has the influence of a peasant or worse. There is more virtue to an egalitarian society than merely a sense of economic or social justice. They are healthier, more stable, and more democratic.
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JGC will be pleased as punch with this:

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/1000-for-bletchley-park-thanks-t...

Great to see that Bletchley Park will live on, it's one of very few historical sites that have meaning to those that are interested in our digital beginnings.
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Hehe, I knew you'd comment here :)

Good stuff.
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Look at how much Android Voice Actions use the screen as a vital part of the experience, and how Siri commands chain like a conversation. I'd say the latter is more like a revolution than the former.
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Apple is certainly not a jewelry company. I am a huge fan of Apple's design chops and their ability to make the "world's most intuitive technology".

And yet, their products have been so good lately, so sexy, so "magical", that they inspire feelings of religious ecstasy in their users and fans. I don't see how this can be immaterial--it's a huge part of the brand value.

Now I can understand how people might feel this kind of fetishistic ecstasy for something they can fondle in their palms, but I cannot believe people will ever feel this way about an IVR--no matter how smart it is.
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> Sadly, I don't know where that would be at the moment

At the moment that would probably be the US, or Canada, or one of the European powers. Probably not any emerging country. Certainly not Brazil.

I'm Brazilian. Brazil has come a long way in the past 20 years, but corruption is still way worse than the corruption that happens in the US. To sum up, in the US you have a music industry lobby donating money to candidates which then vote in favor of copyright laws. In Brazil we have Colombian drug lords associated with the ruling party.

Just because people in UK and US are protesting in the streets it doesn't mean that things are in any way close to the crap that happens in developing countries. It just means you have different standards.
The fundamental problem is that the extreme concentration of wealth in the US increases the power of industry groups like the recording industry, banking industry, oil, defense, etc. relative to the citizenry, and those groups capture and have their way wth the government.

Obama had the most effective grassroots funding in US history, but even then it only made up ~half his campaign donations. The other half came from industry groups and wealthy individuals. But the latter not only fund campaigns, but hire high-powered lobbyists who were usually prior Congressional staff members, and also provide well-paid revolving door jobs, directorships, etc. for politicians when they leave office. Politicians are funded, courted, bribed, and basically controlled from their political life's cradle to grave. The entire system is almost completely captured.

Unfortunately there are no wealthy special interests who particularly oppose ACTA, just segments of the populace, which don't have the financial clout to buy access to Congress or the President. Hence things like ACTA is the result, even with a president like Obama.
Yes, I am pleased as punch. Especially since when the Alan Turing petition was successful I bent the ear of the then Prime Minister about funding Bletchley Park. Not long after a small amount of lottery funding was announced that enabled them to make the bid for this larger amount. I don't know whether that was really because of me, but it doesn't matter. This news is great.

Here's the email I sent to Downing St. summarizing the situation on September 11, 2009:

Kirsty,

As you can imagine I have an Inbox filled with
media requests and congratulatory notes from
around the world. A common theme in these
mails is a desire to see a memorial of some
kind to Alan Turing.

Three suggestions (in order of popularity):

1. Find some way to fund Bletchley Park and the
National Museum of Computing.
2. Use the Fourth Plinth for a Turing statue
3. Name the marathon at the 2012 Olympics after
Turing (he was a very good marathon runner and
it's his centenary in 2012).

All of these are good suggestions. If the government
did #1 you would have my full backing.

John.

It is bloody marvellous that they have got the money to improve the site. I triply love Bletchley Park because of: (a) The codebreakers part (b) The National Museum of Computing and (c) it is now the home of the National Radio Centre (for all the UK hams out there) and I studied to be a radio amateur there with MKARS.
Accepted :) feel very grateful again
I do wonder how the "balance" is between new people and those who've attended 1 or more times before, as well as people from other countries.
I also wonder if there might be a time to choose a larger venue to accommodate more people, or the current limit is a good way to maintain the character of the school.
And tablets… and portable music players… and small and light laptops… and…

The sentence you quote does look outright ridiculous when said about Apple.
Or tablets? When Apple announced the iPad, the punditocracy swore it would fail since tablets have never sold well and basically nobody cared.

Of worse the iPad was wildly successful. These guys don't get it.
I just read that the Bletchley Park Trust needs to raise a further £1.7m on their own in order to 'unlock' the £4.6m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.[1]

Time to get that bank card out of my wallet.

[1] http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/contact/donation/sup...
> I know they wanted to present an argument of "oh, all these bad things happen that keep people poor", but I really saw a bunch of small decisions that, when made poorly, accumulate into having no money.

I think the latter is much closer to reality, at least for people who are on their way to poverty. Or maybe a mix of both. There are problems that are equally probable to rich and poor, but the former can sometimes just throw money at them until they're gone, and the latter have to deal with them the hard way.
thank you for this doc. I am in the same situation as the poster, and will use this information. :)
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I'm skeptical that it works as well as advertised. We'll see when this puppy gets released.
I seldom hear poor people whine. Pride is usually one of the few things you have left. And don't equate the poor with lazyness and addiction. If you grew up poor you should know better. I do hear people with money complain about car payments, regulation, taxes etc. all the time.

I guess your comment is well-ment in a can-do attitude kind of way, but lacks pragmatism and basic understanding of psychology. It's easy to take away the things that enable you to do something and then blame the individual. In my experience most of the time things considered better actually are and what doesn't kill you messes with your head.
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I expect Steam games to go on sale often and don't buy until they drop below my $25 threshold. Since their sales (revenues) are increasing, that means I'm not as cheap as I thought...

However, the problem with playing with your pricing is the same reason why airlines don't massively discount unfilled seats.

Since the fuel is already paid for, why not discount those seats and make money? It's because people will expect the price to always be discounted near the end, ultimately leading to lower revenue.
I guess they should ship handsets without bluetooth or headphone sockets as well in order to make the iPhone more "visible". Or maybe the rumours are true that the people at Apple are actually at work building the phone they'd like to use themselves?
This is slightly off topic, but does anyone else find the AWS dashboard impenetrable? You have to hunt for each of the services you need to add, configuration is very well hidden and I can never find my S3 keys. I had to bookmark the link from the email because otherwise I kept going around in circles. I haven't used EC2 yet just because I'm intimidated by the complexity of that management interface...

Is it just me?
If it actually works like that, then yes it will be pretty amazing. But right now, it's just an ad. I think the Android demo was at least a bit more honest in showing the slight awkwardness of the interface. Of course, Apple wouldn't let facts get in the way of marketing. You remember the one where soldiers on the front line have time to demo Facetime?

Edit: Remember, they haven't even got predictive text right yet.
I'm in.

Coming all the way from Newcastle in the UK.

My first start up school. Extremely excited.
Let's not forget that speech recognition has been baked into Android for at least 2 years.
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It is excellent, and the money is well-deserved.

I wonder whether any of this money will trickle down to the National Museum of Computing (http://tnmoc.org/) at Bletchley Park? That museum is the main thing that gets me returning to Bletchley on a regular basis, but they seem to be constantly struggling for cash in their ongoing battle to keep half a century's worth of computers in working order. On a selfish level, I'm just as interested in preserving that aspect of Bletchley's (and Turing's) heritage.
Off topic linguistic nitpick, but does it ever irk anyone else that America refers to these people as 'Czar'? I assume the term is meant to imply absolute power to cut through red tape, prosecute a particular policy objective (drug war, etc.), and just get shit done which all Americans appreciate, but still, couldn't the 'land of the free' come up with a better term for our public servants than that used for deposed Russian authoritarian despots?
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It now throws a real "global name 'abc' is not defined" exception. This is getting pretty meta!
I'm sure it's not a trivial task, but I think the experience would be much better by treating Siri like a real person.

The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is just how awkward it still is in real life. Honestly, how many of you say "REPLY (monotone voice). Blah blah blah" in any conversation let alone in public.

It'd be much cooler if they allowed you to call Siri by a name.

"You have a text from Bob. It reads: are we still on for today?"

"Hey Siri, tell him we're still on. Thanks."

Alright, it's way too late.
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It is fantastic news. It's only recently that the UK government apologized for Turing's post-war mistreatment, which tragically led to his suicide at the age of 42.

I only recently learned of Turings seminal work on mathematical biology; he demonstrated that much of the complexity found in nature is the result of simple algorithms. His concepts we learn about today in fields such as fractals and Chaos theory.

It's possible that Alan Turing might have one become one the all time great scientist had he survived to live out his career.

Bletchley Park is very high on my to do list next time I'm in the UK - along with IWM Duxford [1].

[1] http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/
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Mark didn't want them there, obviously, and neither did anyone except rubbernecking thrill-chasers.

Or people interested on the subject of mark pirlgrim's work going 401, or the subject of info suicide. There seems to be some kind of censorship goin on, and whether or not there's a legitimate reason for it, HN readers deserve an explanation.
#3 isn't even necessary -- you're telling someone to go learn calculus when all they really need is basic algebra, at most.

2-3 hours spent on layman's summaries of the practicalities of modern CPU architectures (special attention to cache coherence, what fun), user vs. kernel space and switching between them, select() and its cousins, and TCP would do most of the people involved in these debates a world of good.
Not defending anyone's actions here one way or another, but, being a sort-of-internet-celebrity and suddenly removing everything associated with yourself without a comment or explanation is bound to attract some attention.
I've only one thought: WTF?
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Not true; From Windows 7, Windows supports both per-machine and per-user "installation contexts" with separate "Program Files" directories:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd765197%28v=VS.85%2...

(see "ProgramFilesFolder" section)
You can from the web interface too. You just have to right click to get to properties, then there is a tab for setting headers.
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As I understand it the encryption adds both latency and more points of failure to S3 (keys stored on separate servers). How is adding both of that negligent?

From a security point of view the encryption adds no value at all: Either I trust Amazon to not look at my data, or I don't trust them. If I don't trust them with my data, surely I also can't trust them with my encryption keys.
The history is important, and I'm really pleased they got some money. They still need a bit more. And really, in the scheme of things, a couple of million is not much for such an important site. I am worried about them being able to get it, especially at the moment.

It's a bit depressing that programming and that kind of thinking is neglected in the curriculum.
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I went recently, it really needs the money. It needs it so bad I wouldn't bother going until they've spent this money. Donate in the meantime.
Apple won't license software to third party interfaces and sacrifice design to expand market share. That's kind of their thing. Their brand. Their image. That's everything.

But as far as software updates go, why am I still not offered a built-in GPS app?! This is a HUGE core functionality gap. Google doesn't want to share and is keeping their GPS for Android, and Apple won't abandon Google maps (understandably). There needs to be a middle ground because AT&T's GPS app sucks compared to Android or a fantasy Apple GPS.
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What tool would *you* use to solve this?
I really hope Siri is not so much about speech recognition but about "intention recognition". If something like "Text my wife that I'll be home at 8" really works without memorizing the exact phrase, then Siri is not just a voice interface, but indeed a personal assistant. I guess that's why Apple kept the name Siri - so the user thinks of "her" as a personality.
That said, I'm very skeptical - has Apple ever added a beta tag to a main features of new hardware?
The problem with having three ways of declaring a variable I think is that you either have to ask yourself each time which is the best way to do it or just have a mental order of which one is the most efficient and take the most efficient one that you can. I would just assume that being explicit about the type is the most efficient way. Is it?
Voice UI lets you keep your phone in your pocket? Buy some jeans, yours must have so many holes in it. The only fashion thing that will come out of this is a 'cool' way to talk to the phone without the speaker to your ear.
Like most truth, its not a binary choice, but a continuum along which individuals fall. (But that doesn't make for a very lively discussion, now does it?)
Asking people to write code on a whiteboard in the pressure of the interview environment doesn't seem very reflective of how they work day to day to me. Perhaps judging them on previous projects or open source work they have contributed to would be a better approach. If someone gave me a pen and a whiteboard and asked me to draw code I think I would likely say thanks but no thanks and walk out of the interview.
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Why in the hell does the bottom rung pay so much tax? That is ridiculous. Even in the UK we have a "lower cap" of tax free earnings, so that people who have bugger all money aren't paying tax.
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Seems you're right... I can't find any parliament discussion on the subject: http://www.openaustralia.org/search/?s=+Anti-Counterfeiting
letting all those articles on the HN frontpage would do the exact opposite to provide him more attention that he is avoiding.

So you're saying those stories were removed because Mark Pilgrim wished they were? Is that how things actually work in HN?
It should have been expected really. I mean 3GS came before 4.

I just feel if Apple had went and put a new casing on the iPhone then none of this negative commentary would be around.

I personally still think the iPhone 4 shell is the best looking phone out there.
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It's not about protecting Wikipedia: it's about protecting the contributors. The vast majority of contributors to Italian Wikipedia are in Italy - much more so than, say, English, where people are all over the globe.
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Sure, and speech recognition has been baked into iOS since at least june of 2010. This isn't merely speech recognition.
Bad title. It should be renamed: Siri is awesome, but not for iPhone.

I tend to agree more with the Forbes article. It opens new opportunities for Apple.
And the site hasn't been "shut down" permanently. It's a temporary protest.
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This is definitely a The Onion hoax.
The whole thing reads completely ridiculous.
I am sorry, but I was out of the loop. What exactly happened to the original site?
The best job application process I've been through was when the employer asked for a small program to be submitted with the CV. The program had to use their infrastructure and existing products, which gave me a quick tour of their processes, the tools they use and the quality of their existing code base. I assume that in turn, my code gave them a clear view of the way my code looks in real life, the tests, the comments, the docs etc. This was followed by a short mostly non-technical interview.

I wish more companies would do this.
I have to say, I really like the idea of using the Fourth Plinth for a statue of Turing - especially if the statue could somehow include some representation of his mathematical works.
> Even if we don't manipulate these data structures directly these days in code

We don't manipulate them indirectly either; .Net or Java lists aren't implemented like that.