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You're justifying code that doesn't work on the grounds that it was quick to write. (Facetious comment: if the website doesn't have to work, I can write the whole thing in under a minute. Someone wrote a HN clone on these lines a few weeks back, but I don't know how long it took them.)

Given that the HN code was written by an increasingly busy man in his spare time, his use of an unreliable but quick-to-write implementation technique may be an acceptable trade-off. But it doesn't make the design any less crazy.
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Matt, I tried that recently with one of my own sites, and after a few days I got a warning in my Google Webmaster Tools dashboard that the bot could not access my /search URL because it was blocked in my robots.txt, and I should take action to correct it. So I then unlocked my /search URL, which is in violation of the above guideline, but made the error in Google Webmaster Tools go away.

These conflicting messages from Google are very confusing!
I think this is great father son time. I wish I could get my little one interested in programming. I can't hold his concentration long enough. He is very interested in video games but I think 99% of that revolves around mario and I don't think anything short of a 3d mario would keep him interested!

I will not critique the game, I think it's flaws and all are a great result of some good bonding time
I'm wondering about that too. It seems Nuance (the platform Siri is built on) supports lots of accents, though I'm not sure how this works on the iPhone. Maybe it uses your regional settings to choose an accent profile?

http://community.nuance.com/blogs/dragon/archive/2009/03/05/...
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Just a thought. What if English had Python-like syntax? What if there were no periods? Sure, we would need to write sentences one per line, but this might be more readable, one could argue. What if instead of commas or semicolons we used indentation?

Just a thought

What if English had Python-like syntax?

What if there were no periods?

Sure

...we would need to write sentences one per line

...but this might be more readable

...one could argue

What if instead of commas or semicolons we used indentation?

I'm sure someone will take this idea a lot further. I just thought I would try to start some discussion on the merits of removing elements of syntax. This is following from my recent comment on the Dart programming language topic here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3092558 .
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I take your points, and in my group we've worked hard in the last year to improve our transparency and our appeals process, e.g. see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/reconside... from a few weeks ago. Likewise, AdWords now has phone support for all AdWords advertisers.

I can't speak for the AdSense (for Domains) team other than to say that when they shut down an account, they think that they have good reason for it. And unfortunately, that's typically a situation where they can't give many details--if the team sees abuse, providing information about how the abuse was flagged would help spammers quite a bit.

I know that Google can seem abrupt sometimes, and I dislike that, but part of the issue is also scale. See https://plus.google.com/117377434815709898403/posts/1hRWj489... that notes that if each Google user had a single 10 minute issue every three years, that would need 20,000+ support people to handle that load. Or consider that there's 200M domain names, and all those webmasters want to talk to Google and ask questions.

Even this link is discouraging: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/hacked/8... It mentions that several thousand people get their Gmail account hijacked every day. Trying to support all the people who want to interact with Google in a scalable way is a really hard problem.
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I just left/sold my own company that I started over 3 years ago. Then people asked why? I said "opportunity cost". I just couldn't explain it in any other way.

Wasn't happy with my response so I got obsessed in psychology for a couple of days this month. So why?

"Someone with extraverted intuition as their leading function is very dependent on his/her feelings of interest and disinterest. Interest and boredom seem to be the driving forces in such a person's life — more so than for any other types. Other types also find things 'interesting' and 'boring,' however, they are able to derive satisfaction and enjoyment from things that aren't necessarily interesting and novel, as opposed to extraverted intuition types."

"What makes something interesting? A new situation, a new set of people, a new way of looking at old things, or novel or unusual information. There has to be some special quality in the information, situation, or people that creates an open-ended, high-potential situation that engages and energizes the mind. Extraverted intuition types would rather choose an unknown situation that might have high potential than a known situation that is known to have low or medium potential."
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cool, but I'd like it more minimal, can you post also the PSD project?

Update: I've found the source here https://bitbucket.org/tednaleid/vim-shortcut-wallpaper/src
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Not having as many resources, even in terms of money & connections, doesn't put you at a disadvantage. There are so many other factors. It's easy to make excuses for why not, don't let those negative thoughts impact you, they aren't real.
One of the videos had somebody with a non-US accent -- British, maybe? Can't seem to find it now, though.
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Still, there is no reason whatsoever to refuse materialism due to a mushroom experience, that is why I called it mysticism. The fact that your brain state alters because you consumed a tiny amount of a certain chemical should be proof of materialism.

The statement that "everything is connected" is meaningless without defining what you mean by "connected". In some quantum-physics way your brain atoms are connected to the atoms on the Jupiter, which is fascinating to think about, but without any real consequence. This fact doesn't change when you are high on shrooms.
Stick to what you're doing for money. Hack away on the side for fun and knowledge. Joining another firm/company can be quite weird for you. And lonely. I doubt there will be other kids there.

I checked out your website. There's still plenty you can learn. Like cross-browser compatibility. The search bar is broken on firefox 7. Increase the quality of your services, charge more, live a good life till you're old enough to fit into a big company!
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In python

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This highlights one of my complaints with the trend toward skeuomorphic designs: if I've never had a physical address book, then why is my iPad trying to imitate one?
The humor in some of the responses is a really nice touch; perhaps something I didn't expect from Apple, who is fairly straight-down-the-line with their dialogs and software.

Saying that, it's actually appreciated, and does a great job at attempting to establish an emotional tie with the user.
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It would be possible. I think Google has a bit of a historical aversion to it because it reminds us of pay-for-inclusion, in which someone would pay for their web page to be crawled/indexed.

Larry Page was especially critical of pay-for-inclusion because it skews your incentives: if you don't crawl the web well, then people pay you to fix your own shortcomings, which in turn encourages you to have more shortcomings.

I think Google also comes from the perspective of self-service AdWords being successful, so the idea of self-service (free) diagnostics really appeals to us. That's why we've put a lot of effort into our free webmaster tools.

I wouldn't be philosophically opposed to a pay-for-support system if it were done well, but it would be a tricky thing to get right. Normally when we consider it, we end up saying things like "Why don't we just try to make it so that people don't need that option?"
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On the half-life of charisma.

I think that it is imperative, that anybody on the inside be banned from "invoking the Steve".

Or else a series of religious leaders will arise, securing the monopoly on interpreting the word of Steve and send everything down the drain.

Another option would be to erase Jobs and his character from the company history.
I'm a commerce graduate from India. When I graduated I realised the only jobs available to me are ones outsourced from developed nations - uninteresting back office jobs. Since I was pretty good with computers - I use linux, can bash script, build websites using html/css and php frameworks, code in python, currently learning C - I decided to get into web development freelancing. Since everybody in India is out to get websites for themselves or their businesses, the potential is good enough to start my own company sometime soon.

To give you a general answer to your question, there's only one reason why people start businesses - circumstance. The circumstance may vary. Maybe you have a great business plan that can make you insanely rich. Maybe nothing else interests you. Maybe a friend asked you to co-found a company.
How to determine which of the several 3rd party API's to use seems pretty straight-forward to me:

Me: Search for Japanese food.

Siri: I found these 5 results on Yelp nearby.

Me: Search for Japanese food on Foursquare.

Siri: I found these 8 results on on Foursquare nearby.

If you explicitly request a certain service often enough, then Siri should start to default to it. That's exactly what a real world personal assistant would do. In fact, Apple doesn't have to be that creative. Just do what a real personal assistant would do in any given situation and you should be good.

Also, I would really like some reviewer mention if the iPhone 4S has less of a rolling-shutter issue as the previous iPhones do.
"With that in mind, is there a system of triggers that can flag issues for manual review or intervention instead of being handled completely automatically?"

I can't speak for the ads folks at all, unfortunately, but on the websearch side we certainly strive to do as much as we can algorithmically, but also to use our manual cycles effectively. The site in question was flagged algorithmically, but also sent to a member of the manual webspam team who concluded that it violated our quality guidelines. When a reconsideration request came in, it went back to a manual person for review again.

To the extent we can figure out ways to do it without compromising our systems, I think both websearch and ads would like to be as transparent as we can.
Shame it can't read emails, but then I guess there is so much crap in an email it just wouldn't read well...
The examples you give don't feel natural to me, they feel too precalculated. Something like wolframalpha seems really awesome when you ask it the right things, but you have to know what to ask. (In fact, one of the pages from the video looks very familiar http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=moon+distance+from+eart... )

For something like Siri, it would impress me most to do mainly one thing well; to understand my context. This is especially difficult if a sentence draws on distinct subject areas. The video seems to give hope for it to be able to do this though.
I don't think we (tech people) appreciate just how magical the public is going to find Siri.

Most people have never used voice recognition beyond shouting "Call Dave Jobs[1] Mobile" in the car. This is going to be perceived as magic, in the same way as the accelerometer in the Wii or the original finger touch interface. Anyone with a 4S is going to be showing this off to their friends, and I can't wait to try it.

There are parallels with people saying 'Touch has been around for years, but people prefer buttons' when the iPhone came out. True - until someone did it right. And now everyone wants touch.

And yes, I know it's been around on Android. But Apple make you WANT to use it. No-one's ever been bursting with excitement to show me their Android voice recognition stuff, and nor have I been wetting myself to try it out.

On the downside for Apple - improvements to the iPhone for the foreseeable future look to be on the software/web server side. They are vulnerable here. Limiting features to new models is going to piss people off, and fighting patent battles on software is much, much harder.

[1] Funny typo - I meant to type Dave Jones. Only noticed this on rereading the post.
I found the iPad calendar app completely unusable for this reason. "Oh I'm meant to turn the pages, wait - is it up and down turn or left and right turn. Wait - why doesn't scroll work?"
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I don't think that's fair. GMail and Adwords are production applications and do just fine with Java.

I think it's more the opposite: Do not use Java when you haven't achieved product/market fit yet. Because it will cost you, dearly, in iteration velocity. Go write your initial version in Python or Ruby or Lisp or something that lets you quickly try out new ideas, and once it starts creaking under load, then you rewrite it in Java or C++.
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I think art is probably the wrong analogy, as UI has a lot of science and research behind it, but I see what you mean. I think UI is hard because it's hard to "prove correctness." With software engineering, correctness is enforced at many levels - is the syntax correct, does it compile, do the unit tests pass, do the integration tests pass, does it deploy correctly? All these things can be answered via a yes or no question. UI, on the other hand, is only proved "correct" through repeated use of the program, discussions with users, distillation of that feedback to new UI changes and then more repeated use, discussions, etc. And even then, you're not really sure if you got it right. You just have to use the damn thing and see if it "feels" right. And even then, what "feels" right to one person may not actually be right. Or what feels right today may actually feel wrong after weeks or months of using the software. It's a hard problem.
Loved the ending. "The one and only disappointment I have with the iPhone 4S is that the shutdown spinner animation is still low-res. That’s pretty low on the list of nits to pick."
Wow. The cost of 1 Petabyte of spinny disk storage is $100k.

A friend of mine who raised money in 1999 said that to get their MVP off the ground, it took 20 engineers, and $7M in venture funding. I doubt $100k would have paid for the Oracle licenses back then.
http://www.stuff.tv/video/vidcasts/apple-iphone-4s-siri-demo

Also worth noting that evidently Siri's voice can be changed, as well. That was a safe bet, but I hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere.
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The site was flagged both algorithmically and also escalated to a member of the manual webspam team.

The basic philosophy is to do as much as we can algorithmically, but there will always be a residual of hard cases that computers might not do as well at (e.g. spotting hacked sites and identifying the parts of a site that have been hacked). That's where the manual webspam team really adds a lot of value.

In addition to things like removing sites, the data from the manual webspam team is also used to train the next generations of our algorithms. For example, the hacked site data that our manual team produced not only helped webmasters directly, we also used that data to produce an automatic hacked site detector.

If you're interested, I made a video about the interaction between algorithmic and manual spamfighting here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES01L4xjSXE
The voice synthesis is really nothing new, it has been part of iOS as VoiceOver (Apple's built-in screenreader, an accessibility feature) for a long time. It certainly wouldn't have any problems reading emails and it seems to me that emails tend to be less random than text messages.

Maybe they wanted to keep the interaction short to give it more flow? Siri doesn't really ever seem to read very long stuff to you.
Im glad to know I am not the only one to do this.

All my clothes have slightly different colors and designs so people can't say that Im wearing the same clothes every day, but all of them follow the same style.
Very cool, but I have no idea what he does exactly. Programmer? Designer? Scientist?
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Honestly though, the text in the left column is kinda unreadable.
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The voice seems to depend on the language. You seemingly can't explicitly switch it, you only can switch languages. It just so happens that iOS has both 'English' and 'British English' as languages, with female and male voice synthesis respectivly. (Those languages are already built into the current version of iOS as part of VoiceOver.)

If you are German or French you only ever get one voice.
The humour is classic Jobs. When he introduced the original Macintosh, it began with a speech synthesizer telling a joke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY&feature=relat... forward to 3:20
Nope. Why couldn't you use a generic optimizer to optimize a piece of code?
I have a friend from Scotland who has just ordered a 4s and is really excited about Siri. I'll be interested to see how it gets on with his thick Dundee accent (especially since I can barely understand him half the time!).
Obviously hidden in my statement was the assumption that what he's produced so far is not paradigm-shifting stuff. But go ahead, be snarky.
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As a keen cyclist I'm really looking forward to trying Siri, but after reading the footnote I can now actually see myself using it anytime:

"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."
It's significantly smaller when I do it on my machine with an optimizer.

Interestingly, g++ compiles it to the exact same code if you remove all the crap that isn't the main with the cout printing a literal string.
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Out of curiosity: didn't this issue come up when you were negotiating your series a ?

I was under the assumption that it's typical for a series a term sheet to create an employee options pool pre-investment (to avoid dilution of the VCs), which would therefore require you to have a plan for how much equity you plan to give employees.
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