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It's a fair question, but our quality guidelines have been quite consistent for the last decade or so. Our team takes action without regard to whether a website is an advertiser, partner, or competitor. The long-term loyalty/trust of our users is worth much more than any sort of short-term revenue that a sneaky deal would provide. And Google's culture is such that anyone inside or outside of the company can claim that a particular practice isn't in line with "Don't be evil" and kick off a fair amount of self-scrutiny.

Ultimately though if you don't trust Google, we don't lock your data in, so you can use a different search engine or service just by entering it in the address bar. That's the ultimate check on Google: if we start to act too abusive or "evil" we know that people can desert us. So it's in our enlightened self-interest to try to act in our users' long-term interests.
I think it is included with arc (the language).
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> This game sucks.

tedjdziuba stated his/her opinion. It doesn't make it worse one because it isn't the appraisal of the game, like seen in most of the comments. Different tastes here and that's all. And that's fine too. De gustibus non est disputandum.

> Maybe you can't understand because your father never loved you enough to do the same?

Yet you go ad hominem, and what makes it really worse, regarding his/her family. Despicable behavior.
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True, I guess the modern language used in text messages could cause problems, however with the lengh of signitures and message history indentation that I get in a lot of emails, I could see them being an issue.
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The challenge is specifying which subsets of queries should be directed to the service. Foursquare won't be able to handle appointment requests, but it does handle restaurant requests. How does the Foursquare part of Siri specify this?

Perhaps you're suggesting that all services answer all queries, and then there's some sort of ranking on the results from each service to decide which one responds. Foursquare would give a low score answer to appointment queries, so the calendar app would get preference. This would be the best suggestion I've heard, but requires processing every request against every agent, which may be OK for Apple, but only some independent developers would be able to provide their own hardware. They may have to provide software to run on Apple servers...
As Gruber says, it sounds much more like the old Apple than the new Apple (see Happy Mac, Dogcow etc).
Yup - totally agree kim. plus it seems like the startup culture in Melbourne alone on the rise
Even though Siri seems to be amazing I wonder whether people will use it much in practice. Voice is intrusive in the environment and annoying to people who aren't part of the conversation. Sitting next to someone conversing on the phone in a public space can be irritating but imagine how jarring it will be if the person next to you barks commands out loud at random intervals.

Him: "Remind me to pick up my dry cleaning."

You: "Huh? You talking to me? No..."

Later: "After picking up my dry cleaning, I want you to book me a flight to Tucson"

You: "I'm finding another seat..."
Something people should be more aware of regarding Kiva...

Ignore the pictures of the people you are purportedly lending to, their projects, and even their country. That is pure marketing.

If you read the small-print http://www.kiva.org/about/how/even-more you will see that you aren't lending to these people at all, but actually making zero-interest, low-risk, short-term loans to micro-finance institutions. (That said, I do have a couple of hundred dollars in Kiva myself.)
xbitlabs points to the problems with the cache/memory subsystems:
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> If you explicitly request a certain service often enough, then Siri should start to default to it.

In other words, just use the code they've already got working in OSX's Spotlight "Top Hit" feature. (Which, oddly, doesn't exist in iOS Spotlight—maybe it requires a larger cache or something.)
Meaningful boolean context? I understand that the original author is a Perl programmer which probably means he has wildly different views of the world, but seriously?

"Meaningful boolean context"s have given us things like the abundant "if (!!foo)" in JavaScript. And then he goes on to criticize absence of auto-conversions, which are the other plague of dynamic programming languages (see "===" & friends).

I don't see how anyone could actually want that kind of litter in his programming language.
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Gruber addressed this in a footnote:

"You might wonder, Hey, don’t you feel like a jerk walking around the city talking to your phone? But here’s the thing: Siri, by default, kicks in when you hold the iPhone up to your ear, so you can talk to it and it looks like you’re on a phone call."
Apple's computer-speech stuff has been humorous since the 1980s. Not surprising to see Siri follow in that tradition.
Exactly. It is a mistake to think that Jobs had not thought carefully about the clothes he wore - it's just that his approach to clothing was the same as his approach to technology - he seems to have believed that there was an optimal set of clothes for him, and that any deviation would simply mean that he wasn't wearing the best clothes for his purposes. Much like the discussions raging over the fact that the iPhone screen size hasn't varied at all - one size has been deemed optimal, and deviations from that size mean that the product must by definition be suboptimal.
The fundamental problem with wave wasn't that it used one technology instead of another or had one feature instead of another or anything so mundane. The problem with wave was that it solved all of the easy problems with communication. Granted, it seems to have done a good job of that, and that alone created something different that maybe was worthwhile in an abstract sense but wasn't worth switching to and wasn't worth adopting in addition to everything else.

The problems we face with communication today are not ones of distribution, speed, or longevity. Currently there are some very popular forms of communication which have fundamental issues with one or many of those aspects, but ultimately those are problems which are amenable to very direct and relatively inexpensive solutions.

The real problems we face are ones of organization, discovery, workflow, meaningful semantics, and overwhelmingly managing information overload. I don't believe that Wave significantly addressed any of those issues. But only by addressing those issues can you create the sort of value for users that will drive significant adoption of your tools.
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>I find this really interesting because we often see a psychopath represented as a remorseless beast void of any human emotions yet, looking from this perspective, it almost paints psychopathy as a dibilating disorder.

That is true. I only met one person who seemed to act sociopathic (as well as admitting lacking the capacity to feel empathy) and she seemed to be shut off from society. It's rather sad. Falling in love with her was a rather bad idea too :)
All of the above. He trained as an electrical engineer first.
I have been there before, but instead of focusing on what to do about him, just focus on getting out your product finished to your standards. Make sure it is what you want it to be and then place it as the competitor. You also have the benefit of watching where his product fails so you can make yours all the stronger. In the end, its your vision and only you can truely make it what it is suppose to be, and if it is good then you will do well and he will fall.
Support for all Google users would obviously be painful.

I think it would be fair if there was some personal support for people who either spend a lot of money on Adwords (I think there already is?) or make a lot of money on Adsense. These people probably have the highest levels of stress due to "insta-evaporation probability", and no doubt the amount of support people would be several magnitudes less if you used a threshold like that.
It's not his CV it's a biography of the stuff you don't put in a CV.

(his CV is on the site.

http://worrydream.com/#!/cv/bret_victor_resume.pdf

He's a Hardware Designer + Programmer + UI Designer + Scientist + Electronics Engineer.

Oh, and he designed the original UI for the iPad)
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Without and with some optimization i get this results.

g++ -o hello hello.cpp

objdump --disassemble hello | wc -l

289

With some optimization

g++ -o hello hello.cpp -O3 -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fmessage-length=0 -funroll-all-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-loops=2 -falign-jumps=2 -falign-functions=2 ;

objdump --disassemble hello | wc -l

256
Siri has been out since 2010 on the app store. Is there any reason (other than Apple's push with building it into the operating system) that users will take more notice of it now than they have in the last (nearly) two years?
I agree with you, but I don't think the so-called 'mystic' interpretation of the experience is that different from the materialistic one.

Consider Ptolemaic astronomy versus Copernican and later. Copernican astronomy is more accurate sure, and simpler in its construction, and just a better theory. However Ptolemaic astronomy was around for over a thousand years before it and worked quite well, despite being 'wrong' in just about every sense, far moreso than the model of Copernicus. Likewise while I consider 'mystic' interpretations of an experience on mushrooms to be rubbish, I have to admit that most of what they would take from it is not too dissimilar from myself.

If functioning GPS or transistors that worked depended on how most people modeled their experience on mushrooms, I'd probably be more inclined to persuade people toward a more sensible approach, but since for the time being it remains a deeply personal thing, and since it is a rather poor predictor of how they approach the rest of their life, I don't think it really matters.

And to be honest, I initially approached the experience from a mystic or even religious angle (despite being an atheist) but eventually discarded it as unworkable.
>the most well-off parents //

You make good points but you appear to be equating financial poverty with intellectual poverty. Whilst there are probably pretty well defined links and very strong correlations they are not coterminous factors.

>If we're trying to actually educate a population then we should ditch the long holidays and the homework. //

Yes educating populations is a different consideration. What I'd ask first is for what purpose you're educating the population? Don't presuppose a direction behind that question please, I'm absolutely not saying that people shouldn't be educated (possibly even against their will) but one needs to start the whole system with an ideal IMO to which to work - why?
Building it into the operating system is good enough reason.
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What really struck home for me was Steve's line, "I hate... plussing" because I actually think his entries like this one are a great niche for Google Plus -- it's basically a built-in blogging platform/RSS reader. Facebook and Twitter are pretty bad platforms for posting 5 paragraphs (or 25 paragraphs, in Steve's case) worth of thoughts, but Google Plus works pretty well. It has all the sharing/social goodness of those platforms without the overhead of having to create your own blog and tell people about it.

So I thought about a web application that would basically provide a wrapper to post blog-esque entries on Google Plus, and sure enough I looked up the API, and like Steve, you pretty much just get the Stalker Method[0]. Not a POST method to be found.

Then it made me recall an earlier life where I worked on an SEM optimization platform, and the most common thing we heard from our Google Rep was, "oh, um, yeah, doing that is not available in our API."

Short of a directive from Larry and Sergey and the willingness to follow through for the 3-5 years it took Amazon to reap dividends, is there anything Google can do?

[0] https://developers.google.com/+/api/
I'd really love to sit and talk with you about this but I don't feel it will be productive in this medium, thanks for your comments
Only in the bubble of language fashion that is Hacker News, could the failure of Google Wave be attributed to their language choice.

Billions of successful projects run on Java.
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"I'm afraid that at one point, nginx will do a MySQL and become open-core."

And... they did: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101896
The rest of the site is even more impressive, especially the reactive documents: http://worrydream.com/TenBrighterIdeas/
I disagree with you there general-marty, I think the primary factor determining your success on the web is a decent business plan and marketing strategy. Without that you rely on free traffic from Google. Any company that puts all its eggs in one basket (e.g. Google Organic) is skating on thin ice.
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I am going to throw my hat into the ring for a combination of Javascript and PHP or Ruby. This way he can learn both the front and back-end coding structures and be well on his way to making web-applications. Deciding between PHP and Ruby is a peronal choice really, but I would go with PHP, but thats my own inclination because I work far faster and better in PHP than I do in Ruby. That and I feel Ruby is easier to pick up if you have a background in Java while PHP can be easily learned on the fly.
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I wonder how apple related sites spoil most of the book content before it arrive at my door.
Siri was originally an App, but it took a huge amount of effort to get it to work. I believe the reason the feature is exclusive to the iPhone 4S is due to hardware.

Apple said the processor in the iPhone 4S is the A5. This may be the exact same chip in the iPad 2, or it might be the same class of chip. Apple doesn't detail the internals of their processors, so they can make device specific versions and call them the same thing if they want. Thus, this A5 could have co-processors in it that didn't exist in the one for the iPad 2. Specifically, I remember there begin something about an image co-processor that the camera uses, and it seems logical that there might be some video encoding or at least video feature extraction being done in hardware to enable 1080p video. (a big step up from 720p).

There may well be a feature extraction engine in the A5 to turn the audio recording of your voice into a series of symbols that are much more efficient to send over the wire to the SIRI service.

But, even if there are no co-processors, voice recognition is a very CPU intensive process, and the A5 has another CPU in it, as well as a greatly improved GPU. Either or both may be required for the current version of SIRI (which is more complete than the original) to work.

Thus it literally may be the case that Siri wouldn't run on the iPhone 4.
At the end we were close to 60 engineers

I guess, this is the reason for the failure. Probably 2-7 would be ideal for this kind of experimental projects.
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Neat, you got some validation! What about customer validation? Is investors or people are talking about your competing company? Note down the sources so you can talk to them, especially if they are your ideal market. It means you can find out what they'll pay for and/or market to!

Next step is to go through your logged or memorised history with the cofounder. How do they treat people? What's their style? etc. Look for their strengths and weaknesses.

Now, if you believe that you have a better direction after all this, then you'll know competition much better than most people. eg Microsoft doesn't understand due to the paranoid nature of Google's NDAs for example.

Sorry, but your idea is one direction and pretty useless on its own. There's many ways to evolve your idea though. Investors especially love executors.
Ah I had forgotten about that one, that is a good starter language. Though I would recommend that more if he wanted to write more OS-based applications rather than web-based.
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Yea this is the problem I'm not sure that they've solved. There are loads of regional accents in the UK, and only one setting in the language options called 'British English'
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A very good point. I share a lot of puzzles and tech-notes on my blog. It might appear as a teaching tool to some but for me it is a great learning tool. An idea, a problem or a solution to a problem might exist in our mind in a confused form. But once we have to put it down in words for a larger audience, one has to re-think of the whole idea, problem or solution in a manner that can be expressed to a larger audience. This usually involves re-learning the idea in a simpler way.

In other words, I end up learning a lot in order to maintain a blog. The D-K effect won't bother one if one accepts the fact that a good blog helps you learn as much as it helps your readers learn. It's more about learning together rather than one person trying to teach other.
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This was what it was like at the beginning of mobile phones and then again at the start of bluetooth headsets.

People get used to it pretty quickly (but will always hate it on trains and planes).
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It seems to work fine for BBC english:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/12/iphone-4s-s...
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Like this, no doubt:

Burnistoun 'Voice Recognition Lift' Sketch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFcZIY-t1bc
The problem is how to isolate the Google brand and product from the effects of platformization so that you don't kill the world's best cat while using shock therapy to turn him into a dog.
Hmm.., it looks like they don't support FF3.6, this will have to wait until I get home.
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There is a signal processor in the iPhone 4 A5. Phil Schiller mentioned it briefly in the keynote when talking about the camera (64 mins in).

Schiller referred to it as an "Image Signal Processor" so it may be that it is custom silicone for used only by the camera but it seems more likely that it is a more general DSP and was badged like this for the presentation.

It is probably a version of ARM's NEON technology:

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/neon.php

NEON technology can accelerate multimedia and signal
processing algorithms such as video encode/decode, 2D/3D
graphics, gaming, audio and speech processing, image
processing, telephony, and sound synthesis by at least
3x the performance of ARMv5 and at least 2x the
performance of ARMv6 SIMD

Which directly mentions both image processing and speech processing.

Update: According to wikipedia that's exactly what it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5

The A5 contains a rendition of chip based upon the
dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU with NEON SIMD
accelerator and a dual core PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU.

Their source is the reliable AnandTech:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4216/apple-ipad-2-gpu-performa...

Also, the corresponding A4 page makes no mention of NEON or DSP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4

Interestingly, as this is the iPad A5 being discussed it strengthens the argument for Siri-on-iPad2 (assuming the signal processor is key to Siri working efficiently).
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That's not quite true is it - if that person defaults you lose your money.

It's similar to switching electricity suppliers (stay with me!) - you don't get a new cable straight from the electricity company which carries only "their" electricity, you stick with the same cable and the same electricity but more of your supplier's electricity gets bought.