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Siri : trouble in Japan
I believe this is called the "Robert Scoble"-effect. One could liken it to social media spam: I don't want to know Robert Scoble, don't find him notable, yet his name appears everywhere.

Such people know how to insert themselves in the daily conversations and can count on the support of their followers to carry their views far and beyond. Most of the time those views are not much more than a catchy social hook. You Googling his name and reading this reply will likely cement Robert Scoble in your brain for a while longer.

I find it an interesting, albeit at times annoying, phenomenon. Like the Quora drama (in which Scoble was able to permeate into a lot of topics):

http://scobleizer.com/2011/01/30/why-i-was-wrong-about-quora...

http://www.quora.com/Dan-Kaplan/Sorry-Scoble-Quora-is-not-yo...
If it is already much better than using the normal touch interface in many cases, the technology will evolve a lot in some way. There will be more users willing to pay for it, more competitors, and so forth. I really hope for this to happen.

That is the case (at least as far as I'm concerned, as a happy iPhone 4S user. The use cases are still fairly limited, but for those use cases it works very well, much better than the touch interface.
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They are focused on different points. The Galaxy is focused closer than the 4S; the details on the Belkin card reader (in particular, the edge contacts in the slots) are clearer on the Galaxy, and the difference is even more marked on the keyboard letters. The Galaxy also has a higher exposure. On the book paper, the lack of focus combined with overexposure has causing some bleed into the type; but it shows better detail in shadow areas.

Much of a muchness, IMO. The two are very close, and aside from things like color temperature (which I personally would discount and tweak later if desired - though I wonder if the white balance is configurable on either phone), they are all but equal.
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That is so cool. We built solar stills in scouts but this one seems really practical.
She wasn't using Facebook either, a few years ago.
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Yes, but as far as the argument in the paper goes, A's velocity doesn't even matter, all that matters is the time on the satellite clock when the neutrino was emitted from A, the distance between the stations, and the velocity of B relative to the satellite. The difference in latitude would change the exact result somewhat because the neutrino is not travelling exactly along the velocity, but to be fair, I'm pretty sure the author mentioned that this was not an exact calculation, just a suggestion of where to look for an error.
It could be that Siri requires the extra processing power of the A5 chip. If this is true, though, I don't understand why Siri isn't available on the iPad 2. It's silly to not give it to iPad users solely to drive 4S sales.
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This was exactly the model that led me to buy the full subscription to PeepCode after the first screencast -- watched one, was very useful to me, then bought the lot.
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Eating out on the cheap is really often overlooked. I eat out every single day and spend a maximum of $10 - most of the time even organic food. You just have to figure out when restaurants have happy hours, take out discounts, etc. With the right strategy eating out is much cheaper than doing it yourself. Even in a worst case scenario I would prefer much more writing a stupid online marketing article for one of the freelance sites and earn $5 for half an hour of work "work" than doing some cooking instead.
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I have enough image editing experience that I can see this fairly quickly. Also, I've seen a couple of desks, keyboards and books in my days...
Brilliant, I love the idea of sending them the true history of Tiananmen square!
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Try something slightly higher, like 83%. Maybe 5.4 years. You did get pretty close there. You're in the ball park.

Tax laws differ by income. If you make less, taxes go down. The capital gains tax goes away. Dividends become qualified.
> (sea levels etc).

Well, no, because the water that comes out of the sea, one way or the other, will probably go back there.

The main problem with desalination is what to do with all the salt it produces. I mean, you can dump it at sea, but then you're poisoning some patch of sea and hoping the salt will disperse.
I think his point is that you'll still have fun playing the main story, but it'll take far less time away from you, and still leave you with the satisfaction of completion.

If you go for finishing side-quests, you may not feel satisfied until you've finished them all. That can take considerably longer and be considerably less worth-while than the main game. (e.g. saving princess and defeating nemesis vs. collect all 500 random blue hidden items. Both fun, one takes far less time, and is more "worthwhile".)
If you can, look at reactive responses, rather than proactively blocking everything (and thus impacting site performance for all potential customers). So something in drupal or mod_security which watches inbound traffic and if a pattern emerges, then respond until the traffic dissipates.

Another thing might be to require a login for the portions of your site where you want to protect the content, or which are dynamic and for whatever reasons caching isn't helping mitigate the load. Again, determined adversaries will just add the login to their scripts and carry on, but you can now block by the authentication rather than by IP address.
I think it is valuable because it is funny.
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Thank you Tunisia for hacking me. I now understand "Occupy Wallstreet"
For example: house cats are believed to be descended from a desert cat. They have adaptations that make sense for a desert environment, such as dry poop, concentrated urine and very efficient kidneys. A house cat could survive on brackish to salty water for quite a while. You and I could not.
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This a dreadful comparison. There is nothing to show depth of field; there's no comparison between performance in low-light and harsh-light conditions; no comparison between flashes. All-in-all, pretty useless.
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It's most valuable feature is the novelness of it - it is likely being used by over a million people right now. I assume that Apple is tracking result click-throughs to guess when Siri is providing (or actually, not providing) the right answer to your query. This should mean it'll become exponentially better over time.
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What tools (languages, databases etc.) do you use for web development?
Not games but anything. I'd love to read a "write nginx" or "write lua" :)
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Does Mark Pilgrim have any rights on "Dive into..."? For example Dive into Python, Dive into HTML5.
The PM keeps lists of stuff, goes to meetings, and ask people when they'll be done. A good PM is a combination of a guy that wears a bow tie and pocket protector, and a mob enforcer - meticulous, but feared.

The BSA comes in after the senior management has decided what to do, tries to figure out what they agreed on and writes it all down. Then he figures out what actual work needs to be done by talking with the actual system users and the IT staff and writes that all down. Finally, he works all that information into some sort of document.

The best analyst I ever hired was an English major who could read anything and summarize it concisely without actually knowing anything about the subject. Some basic familiarity with subject area knowledge is useful but not really required if you can read and think. In fact knowledge may be a hindrance if it causes you to become invested in one solution over another. You are not the business owner or the system designer - you are there to document the requirements.

The resulting document is used as the basis of an agreement between the business (who is paying for the work) and the IT department (who will be responsible for getting the work done), and will be used later to assess blame.

The BSA may or may not be involved with writing the technical spec with the IT staff and developers. Developers are however, usually quite willing to off-load this task to someone who can write in English.

As the IT staff deliver components the BSA may also be involved in writing the acceptance tests and working with the QA team to run the tests and present results.

You probably will not need to write any code but you will need to be a user of everything. Every application on every system, every database and file system, every messaging system, and every script on every network. You will also need keep track of the business owners, actual system users, operations support team and developers involved. It is very important that you know how to get developer level access to all this and keep track of all the who/what/where through all of the changes.

Note: If you are not given the authority to fire anyone you work with (and even then); nothing anyone tells you is true unless you can verify it yourself - so database, scripting and coding skills are very useful.
So where's the paradox?
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Does he also have the same light/lamp/bulb?

Without making sure parameters & the software used were the same, such a casual comparison doesn't seems too useful to me.
That's pretty much my intuition too. The iPhone is still the best device, but the smartphone market is commoditizing rapidly. Android units aren't very far behind at all and are improving rapidly. And Apple is losing market share to Android, not the reverse.

Apple is milking their success right now, because developers have iPhones and they want to support their favorite hardware. But every story like this drives off a handful of developers. And every week the simple economies look more and more favorable to the competing platform.

Really, the Apple ][ analogy is very good. That platform too ultimately killed itself not for technical reasons, but because Apple refused to give up its margins in the face of the C64 and PC markets and assumed that its stocked developer mindshare would save it. It didn't.
Personally I use the best products available to me at any given time. Today they are Apples products, but I'm well aware that tomorrow they may not be. And this could have been the case irrespective of Jobs passing.
Graham Bell died. Edison died. But innovation never died.
As Tim OReilly said, there will continue to be revolutions, and revolutionaries.
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I disagree.
I play tf2 quite a bit, and have been playing since before the free to play update. I actually started playing more often since the free to play update, because my friends who didn't want to spend $20 on the game can now play.

Other than the (rather common) offers of trade from people wanting my earbuds [1], I'm finding that I'm coming across players who are as skilled or more skilled than I am. I'm actually learning how to better play the game.

My enjoyment of the game has increased since TF2 went free to play.

[1] http://www.teamfortress.com/macupdate/earbuds/
My response to offers of trade for my earbuds is to ask for $600 in return, which is about the cost of a new mac mini.
This guy has some other really great articles if you search around his blog a bit. Here's few I have bookmarked.

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http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/04/20/collision-detecti...

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Zero content whatsoever.
For things like names, has anyone tried using the "Phonetic First/Last Name" field in their address book? I suspect it's there for reasons like this.
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You could purify and sell the salt as table salt, etc.
The amount people pay in taxes do vary, which is why this "approximately 80%" savings for "approximately 5 years" system is probably only going to work for people who don't pay much if anything in taxes (ie. people with a pretty low income).

Depending on your income, your tax rate, any unforeseen expenses, and your desired standard of living, you might need to work considerably longer.
I noticed the new address book has entries for phonetic first/last names (use the Add Field). I assume those are used by Siri (just like the Related People fields) and would solve your name problem.
Ask HN: Why Google Voice doesnt give out listed vanity numbers?
hi everyone,
I wanted to ask if anyone could explain why Google Voice does not let me take vanity numbers even if they appear in search results.
The ones I tried to get are as following and Google Voice says "We had an error. Please try later"

(424) 999 8809

(424) 222 9399

(424) 244 0045

(707) 515 0555

(707) 400 0707

(707) 200 1214

(313) 444 5444
Or really, for cgit/gitweb/gitorious. There's really no lack of acceptable web front ends for git hosting. Github is prettier and better than those solutions, and I use it. But it's really just incrementally better; simple command line access is 80% of what you need. If this is better than what's available, I'm all for it. But I'm not sure I'd call it particularly innovative.
Putting aside the whole issue of delegating trust via certificates, the simpler answer is that encryption is hard, and thereby expensive. For many purposes, both service provider and client continue to consider it an unnecessary expense.

Only recently, with the spread of wireless networks, has the threat of en masse MITM and eavesdropping attacks become realistic. For a long time, it took serious knowledge to pull these things off on a wired LAN or within the walls of an ISP.

You could say the same about phone calls--why isn't the POTS network encrypted?--but that's because it's well constrained within wires run by trusted people and such cost is not justifiable; but with the advent of cell phones, protocols like GSM had encryption built into them, since telcos couldn't ignore that data sent over the air is readily captured and manipulated.
The claimed paradox is that more and more people are using 'content consuming' devices yet, at the same time, there is an explosion in the amount of content produced.
This was a pretty good read, and I agree with much of what was written. However I can't help but think a macro piece of the puzzle has been left out: status.

WHY do people pay money for virtual goods? WHY do people assault friends with requests they know are annoying? WHY do people play games that aren't fun? The answer is status. From the outside looking in, we might think people spending real money within these games are crazy. But from the inside, there is a different game with different rules. And the players of theses game have accepted these rules. It may seem ridiculous to outsiders, but within the game there are sometimes millions of other players who create a culture of who and what is "good" or "bad". So just like in real life, "average" people are concerned with nothing more than accumulating crap and generating envy; being "good" at the game.

The model for any Facebook game is easy: Provide a platform where people are able to quantitatively measure their value versus other people. Provide a clear means to increase that value. Sell them the means, and do it for $1 at a time. For most people, that's easier than putting a new BMW in the driveway for your neighbors to oggle.
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Is it me or is a social network just for sound obviously a bad idea?
Great. Now what are we supposed to use to search code? I can't think of any alternatives.
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Just saying: This could be actually a project in itself. A weekend project-match site.
> I would rather have someone make sure (for free) that the app that I download isn't buggy, or crash-y, or other stuff.

Hello, apt-get and yum.

Curated software doesn't have to lead to locked-down systems you can only use at the sufferance of the curators. For example, look at the processes behind Linux distros.

The people who put Linux distros together have been doing this for nigh on twenty years now, with the big caveat that you don't need to 'jailbreak' a Linux machine to install your own software under /usr/local or on your home directory. Even Slackware has packages; the main thing it lacks is dependency-tracking package management.

And, yes, there are filtering processes and even bug-fixing processes in place; Debian, for example, has a lot of people who more-or-less 'own' certain packages to the extent they get the source distributions from the original developers, test them, and modify them to fix bugs and bring them in line with the Debian World Order. All or practically all Debian-derived distros leverage this, Ubuntu foremost among them.
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Definitely not an Android issue here, as I know for a fact Samsung uses its own camera app and capture framework. Not sure about the underlying hardware. If it's a v4l2 driver you might have a case against the kernel infrastructure.
>"They're nonsense in that they are without ryhme or reason, but you should be following the community standard (curlies for one liners, do/end for everything else)."

That's my reasoning too. At first, I thought it was more readable (read: familiar) to use curly braces, but now I stick with do...end for blocks >1 line. Sometimes it's helpful for breaking up complex nested map() blocks as well.
These all seem like good ideas in their own way. I say "it's great that we have all these useful ways of doing similar things!". Choose whatever best fits your application. I really like that this type of stuff is catching on over Rails.
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I've been programming C/C++ for 15+ years. I would have to say if you know nothing about C/C++ programming, then your biggest hurdles will be:

1) learning how to program in Objective C
2) learning how to use Xcode (probably one of the worst IDEs I've ever used)
3) learning how to use the specific parts of the iPhone like iteracting with the camera, etc.

There will be a lot of issues to deal with, such as accessing the camera, storing the photo, uploading it to the web site, etc, that are non-trivial. Without a knowledge of C/C++, it might take you on the order of months, not days.

I picked up "Beginning iPhone 4 Development" and was new to both iPhone develoment and MacOS. It took me about 2 weeks to get a working app that just posted text to a Google App Engine backend, although a lot of progress was made over 1 weekend of straight coding and playing around. My biggest frustration was learning how to use Xcode, but I basically just followed the book and it ended up being a pretty good tutorial.

I don't want to be a hater, but $50 for a video tutorial that promises to teach you iPhone development in under 1 hr sounds unlikely. There are A LOT of details that need to be addressed, and I feel like the "Beginning iPhone 4 Development" book is pretty damn good as an introduction, so that's probably money better spent.
I did try it, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I might need to test it out more, though.
Running Orkut and Google Plus doesn't really make sense unless Orkut still has a large South American userbase that would be hard to transfer over (not sure if that is the case still).
Yeah, the "GITHUB FORK YOU" thing made me laugh too. Thanks for another viable option for a Ruby DSL! I might use it if I wanted to mess around with HTTP response headers -- looks like it'd be good for that.
That's usually up to the phone or camera manufacturer to tune, almost nobody uses the built-in compensation except for prototypes.
Given that there is a commercial market for sea salt, dumping it back in the sea would seem counter productive...
It is applicable in every part of life actually. Sometimes you notice that you are only spinning but not moving. Recognizing it is the key.
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> When we drink too much fresh water, excessive water passes into our cells to try to regulate the concentration (which can become futile)... If they absorb too much water, the cells will swell and burst, which can lead to a quick death

I've been scared of this since I was a kid, and nobody ever told me how much water was too much.