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My strategy so far on lending club has just been to diversify widely, and it has worked out pretty well so far. Plus it has the added benefit of being easy to implement. It would be interesting to see if someone could make a loan recommendation application from this kind of data.

I'm not sure what data is exactly available but it would be especially interesting to see default rates across the different major loan categories: major purchase, debt consolidation, wedding expenses and small business loans.

very cool!
Annoyingly, Siri does not have maps support in Canada, so I can't test your example, but the answer in general is 'yes'. If you say, "Set a reminder", Siri will ask what you want it to be, and then will ask you what time it ought to be at. If she mishears your time, you can say, "No, at 9:00 AM", and she'll change the time.

It is impressive technology, but right now, my #1 thing I want Siri to do is understand me all of the time. I find the speech recognition is not as good as I had hoped, and I am frequently repeating myself and trying to enunciate more.
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You really have done it. I like google, have a google phone, began using it in '99 or 2000, and still I find myself upset with your inability to field a phonecall to resolve an issue. Here's my threat, and it's a weak threat - I will stop using google, get rid of my phone, chrome and gmail accounts, and switch to bing or some apple alternative.

If.

If you don't have phone service by 2012.

If you don't allow me to explain problems to you over google voice (like the one I'm having now with google docs).

If you don't realize that the billions you make mean nothing if you can't do what you claim is inherent to your business: Not be evil.

Having no customer service AT ALL of the human variety, is no customer service at all. Emails and forum posts, hell no. Not customer service. Solve my problem, or I'm going to solve yours by switching services and then building an alternative to your company that is more user friendly.

Do your job, or you will never make another cent off me. Get a group of humans that I can call with my GOOGLE related problems. Or continue being beat-out by less technically worthy competitors.

As the wheel turns, what is low, is brought high, and what is high is brought low again.
Relevent, though I don't know what side I come down on: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/26/65239...

Sometimes pathological problems result in pathological solutions and I'm not going to step up and try to identify which spawned which. Goodness knows the happy UNIX story of happy text files configuring your happy isolated services has all kinds of horrific exceptions that don't appear in the happy part of the story, like Sendmail or .emacs.
If there's enough people who want it and are willing to pay for it, why can't they make a profit off it?
Was thinking the same exact thing. I don't know how Siri's internals work, but this could be tricky for Apple though. The accuracy of speech recognition can decrease with a larger set of keywords Siri has to check against.
The graphics aren't really "updated", they're just the graphics from the original Mac version. Which kicked ass, as a Mac user back then I remember looking at the back of the box and laughing at the chunky DOS/Apple II screenshots.
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With this specific example, it doesn't seem like that's the case. The best it can do is give you a list of restaurants based on your speech input, and then ask you to select one with your finger.
That was a terribly written article.
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I'm not on there even though I have a direct link to my twitter account. If I was left out on purpose then that's fine, just letting you know in case it's a bug though.
Books are great - and certainly more cost effective for someone like Amazon to go straight to the content creators.

I would like to see them do the same with music and video, but that costs a bit more to produce. There are a number of middlemen out there that need stronger competition from alternate sales channels. Big NY publishers are just a subset of incumbents holding on to a dying business model that need a good shot of disruption.
You state it if it was obvious but I think it is not. There are probably more efficient ways to control machines than voiced human language.
@FD3SA our goal is to help people qualitatively and quantitatively understand the culture in companies, so that they can address problems, cultivate their character, and attract the types of people that find it (the character) compelling.

We don't think there's such a thing as an objectively "right" culture or value system, but there are definitely some that are subjectively _wrong_ for any given individual.
I am really glad the community worries about these things.

We had a great discussion[1] about it a few months ago when Ronnie launched the database[1] of all comments/posts of hacker news, as a subproduct of the unnofficial API[3] he created.

Don't think we had reached a conclusion though...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881543

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881262 (long thread, more than one page)

[3] http://api.ihackernews.com
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Whatever, I spent so many years with Gentoo/Arch + Openbox/DWM that I'm just happy to install Ubuntu, copy over my dot files and have 98% of everything working within 30 min of downloading the distro.
Conversely, I've never drunk coffee, or red bull, or genki drinks or any of that stuff, only drink tea on social occasions, and gave up soft drinks a decade ago. I eat right and am active. And yet I often find myself feeling groggy in the afternoon. But if I manage to get in a 15 minute nap, I'm energized for the rest of the day. This effect is backed by numerous medical studies.
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Yes, she understands context and can carry conversations in many situations, including the maps one that you described.
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Apple tends to have Musicians playing at the iTunes events which seems fair enough: it's showing some the product on offer.
He could have summed up the entire thing with

"I was lucky"
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He's providing feedback, even if in an indelicate way, and sharing useful information to other users, such as the binary blob configuration file.

But overall things work quite well.

It's an opinion. Clearly the author begs to differ.
I think publishers will still have a lot of strength in niche areas/specialization, areas in which Amazon can't effectively scale. That is, unless it starts recruiting editorial staff or begins partnering with smaller publishers in those areas.
I doubt they'll be much competition for libreoffice. Given Apache's repertoire I wouldn't be surprised if they went the cloud/web route and tried to compete with google docs or office 365.
Is there any chance that Siri will be in the next version of OS X?
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Are there any resources out there to help me put together a financial model for a mobile app? Looking for metrics e.g. avg downloads per ad $ spent, assumptions for ramp up in year 1 etc.
Tons of people are hiring, and anyone that said "you only know computers, so don't tell me how to do my job" is not "a nice lady".

However, your CEO is correct in that you are absolutely, incredibly naive.

You are being taken advantage of, and are being naive by staying. You are also being naive by thinking that your lack of a university degree is an impediment. Gates, Jobs, Zuck were all dropouts.
There have always been two levels of middle men in the book business. The publishers and the sellers. This eliminates one big middle man.
I knew something changed, but I can't figure out what. This made me realized. Nice indeed for tab hoarders like me.
Samir, I read through your site and the sample video and it looks quite impressive. Put a good-looking front-end to it and I don't know how anyone would differentiate it from Siri, except for some differences in what API 'verbs' the system is capable (Siri knows how to manage my calendar, but Iris knows how to get content from YouTube, for example). Iris even knows how to concisely get some info that Siri doesn't perform well with; for example, it gives a concise summary in response to a question about who a particular soccer player is, whereas Siri would probably just punt me to the web or at best pull up a long WolframAlpha response.

Anyone know why Siri seems only as capable (and in some respects less so) than this 4 week project done by a junior in college? Or (besides the UI work) is there something majorly different?

My understanding is that the speech recognition isn't special with Siri, Apple just licensed tech from Nuance, known for their Dragon Dictation product line.
Traditional publishing is the scurviest thing you'll ever meet in a lifetime. Basically, in traditional publishing you do:

The writing. The editing. The marketing.

...and they pick up 98 percent of the profits, if any. With self-publishing (not just amazon) typically over 50 percent off the bottom goes to the author. This is an absolute necessary change to the industry. It will result in 2 or 3 fewer JK Rowlings, but 100s of thousands fewer outrages.
Use a pseudonym. I have four of them. Setup names, profiles etc. for all of them on all the usual sites.

I have used all four of them at some point on HN.

Funny story: one of my pseudonyms got a job offer on Quora last week. Not the first time it has happen.
You're not being paid a salary... but you don't have equity?

Get out now. It's a deathtrap.
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Thanks very much for linking to the original story. The author, David Kravets, did a bang-up job on it. (I edited it). And while I'm glad Mike Masnik of Techdirt reblogged it, I wish the OP had followed the link to the originating story, which has primary documents.
Thank you for your frankness Yuri, I'll take this into consideration.
That sums it up.
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There are a ton of jobs that will respect what you can bring to the company. You should be properly compensated for the value you bring, and handsomely if the company is pre-revenue (more risky = more equity). Email your resume (or link to a portfolio site) to dieselzthrowaway@gmail.com - I know of a company that may be interested.
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sudo apt-get install xfce4

It looks quite a lot like GNOME 2, and is rather more lightweight. I finally switched once 11.10 made it clear that it wasn't going to let me use a working version of GNOME anymore.
If it's incapable of being built, the patent examiner is supposed to reject it under section 101 for failing to be useful.
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After using rvm, I'd suggest using rbenv (https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv) instead.

It doesn't try to do as much, so a little less magic. The biggest thing I like is that it doesn't try to do anything with gems, which is good - I've been trying to use bundler for everything.
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I visited your site and it "looks" like a link farm.

There is no content on your homepage, it's 100% links.

I also visited your top level pages (clicked on Baseball,Football etc) and they are 90% links.

You need to move some actual content to those pages. They should at the very least having have content similar to the third level pages (like http://goo.gl/3RFqI).

You seem to have new articles on a regular basis, having fresh real content (not just links) on your 1st and 2nd level pages can only help, especially if your external inbound links are pointing to those pages.

My $0.02
I've been following through the online version of Michael Hartl's RoR book: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

It's proven to be a GREAT way to learn the basics from the ground up while building an actual app at the same time.
Programming languages are simply syntactic representations of predefined concepts. For the most part, if you can understand the concept the programming language isn't hard to pick up. Hell, I taught myself Python when I was 9 years old -- it wasn't the syntax of the programming language that was hard or the reason why I wasn't instantly a good developer. I needed (and still need) the real world experience of understanding the complexities of real software in order to develop real software. Anyone who understands these complexities and is only hampered by knowing the syntax of a programming language is underselling themselves -- with only a little more hard work they should be able to easily begin a development career.
True. It's most accurate to think of functions as values which are of the type (a -> b) "mappings".

But really it's all confusion deriving from the fact that functions in Haskell mean something completely different from other languages.
Be upfront with your current CEO. Tell her that you've received an offer that pays good money, and you'd be working with people you already know and get along with very well, so you would be a great fit in that team.
Try not to burn bridges though.

Oh, and if you're going with the job offer you got (and you should), don't offer to "help out" for the current job a few hours a week. They'll still have expectations from you to work more than you can.
This is wrong. Raspberry Pi is a completely different domain than Arduino. There isn't a great price difference between the cheapest (<$1) microcontrollers and powerful SoCs like the Raspberry Pi's Broadcom part, which only cost $20 or so (either when buying in huge quantities or by pulling strings as Broadcom employees). In small quantities, that doesn't leave a lot of room to make a profit. However, the Arduino (and other products based on 8-bit micros) are and will always be lower power, lower cost, and lower complexity than the Raspberry Pi parts.

They're lower power because you can only flip so many bits with your battery, and running Linux at 800 MHz instead of an RTOS at 8 MHz is going to drain your little watch battery fast.

They're lower cost because each square millimeter of silicon costs money. Economies of scale can only take you so far.

They're lower complexity because you can write an assembly program in a few dozen bytes for the Arduino. On the Raspberry Pi, you'll need lots of libraries and there will be layers upon layers upon layers of abstraction. With increased power comes increased complexity.

Hacking on a phone has a huge barrier to entry and huge complexity levels. No one at Apple, Nokia, Samsung, or any other phone manufacturer can hold the whole code base in their mind at one time. Most Arduino sketches are two functions with just a couple hundred lines of code leveraging one layer of simple and understandable libraries. Furthermore, if you want to mass-produce your Arduino design, you can do it with home-printed PCBs and a Digikey or Sparkfun order. The chips used in the Raspberry Pi aren't available anywhere at any price in small quantities, and using them requires X-ray inspection equipment and professional 4+ layer boards.

Raspberry Pi aims to be the cheapest PC available. Arduino aims to be the easiest hardware platform to start on. Raspberry Pi is not a competitor to Arduino.
So, let's say we have a turbine system that can be repeatedly deflated, moved, inflated and re-anchored.

The next question is, can that process be done semi-autonomously? The big question would seem to be battery or power transmission technology.

Gotta love the futuristic image of turbinebots roaming the Wyoming hills, looking for local maxima on the energy ranch.
> (e.g: double-click to unmaximize)

Just a minor note, I just upgraded to 11.10 today. This seems to work correctly now.
Interesting, thanks for the info.. that said, you can still obviously read xml files into memory and hold them there if speed is the issue, I think its still easier to edit XML files rather than however its done with a BLOB (I've only used blobs myself when programming a Java app and persisting Java objects to a DB so maybe I don't have the full picture), anyways if they did that with XML they just need to expose mechanism to reload XML files after changes are made (to avoid needing to do a reboot, like Windows)
ah, that's clever.
I think the author misses a lot of what the original article was saying. for example,

> When you look at the pure dollars and cents, if the could was going to knock out the Sysadmin profession, it would have done it already.

in a lot of business cases, it has. my employer uses google apps, we have no sysadmin for email/phones/etc. my school just migrated all of their undergrad email accounts to google apps. I work with a big company that outsourced all their email/blackberry etc stuff to google apps.

there are some businesses that have the special-case needs that the author describes. but there are a whole lot that don't. yeah, it would be nice having some local IT guys around to kick when email knocks out, but is it $500k/yr nice when I can outsource that for $50k/yr?

the pie isn't gone. but it is shrinking, imo. that cute t-shirt that says "I can replace you with a very small shell script"? yeah well... is it as funny when it's happening to you? ;)
GPL can be considered too free, forcing to to release your source code when you don't want to. This may not be desirable for some people, especially some companies, so they prefer non-GPL software.

A real application of this is using a GPL piece of software in a much larger project (like a library). This would mean you would have to release the entire project as GPL, even if you don't want to release other parts as GPL. This is where things like LGPL and dual-licensing can come in, allowing you the 'freedom' to release your code with the license you want.
ob. disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, if you want legal advice you should contact a labor attorney in San Francisco.

Line up a paying gig, get it confirmed in writing (heck, start if you can since you're working on this "part time") and then resign. Do not get into it with the CEO over appropriateness of treating an employee or the product. Really, truly, do not do this. Do not give the CEO any room to argue with you, or to make a case against you.

Just resign: you found a paying gig. You don't owe them any more explanation than that.

Document everything. Do not sign any termination agreements, you're not an employee and I assume you didn't sign a contract. If you signed an NDA then verbally agree to abide by the NDA for a fixed period of time (make sure you have a printed copy of the NDA stashed away somewhere).

Now, if you did sign a contract or employment agreement, then honestly the first thing you should do tomorrow is find a labor attorney and get some legal advice. This will cost money. This will cost less money than either the pain of continuing at this organization, or the potential litigation.
For the Linux boxes I keep around, E16 is still, after over a decade, my preferred graphical shell. In fact, I don't think I've touched the config since around 2001.

That said, I don't get all the bashing on GNOME and Unity; yeah, there are rough spots (and obligatory "power users" who think GUI means a window that shows one checkbox for each command-line option), but they're trying to do good and I applaud them for the attempt.
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Sure, but I think that in this case the difference between your view of an operations engineer and a developer are fairly minimal in terms of skill. They're both development roles.

When I was interning at Google I noticed that these roles were differentiated as SRE and SWE. I didn't notice a lot of competency difference, just different application areas of the same competence. I think many SREs and SWEs could probably switch roles successfully.
This had to happen sooner or later. I can't help but feel sad at how some content owners have been sticking to old school technology for decades without trying out new opportunities.

Publishers will soon be replaced with such 'distributors' soon. Today its books, tomorrow someone will come along and do this to the music industry.
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My edition is copyright 1993. In Chapter 21.3, they cite Capers Jones 1977 "Program Quality and Programmer Productivity". (Couldn't find a handy link online, appears to be http://www.amazon.com/Program-quality-programmer-productivit...)

They report the following table

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0-2k 0-25
2k-16k 0-40
16k-64k 0.5-50
64k-512k 2-70
512k or more 4-100

So yes, the error density increases with LoC.
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I just look at it from an engineering perspective, having worked for some companies where the code base was just "hacked" together, in an unmaintainable way and I just sometimes think it would be better for the tech community as a whole if everyone and their mother didn't try to start a company with little experience ( a few years down the line, sure go start one, no problems with that), sure they may have some minor success but it just exacerbates bad development practices and these young companies usually hire more unexperienced developers and the effect just snowballs. I am talking from my own experiencing working with "post-startup" companies that were a few years old to where I am just glad I have continued learning on my own (reading online, reading books, etc) as anti-patterns and bad practices that can occur without experienced dev's on a team can really cause problems.

In the interest of full disclosure, before I got really into software development / programming, I too had a lot of ideas, wanted to start my own companies (even tried to do so with some small ecommerce stores, etc) but overall I'm glad I didn't succeed with that because it forced me to learn development and realize just how hard and involved making a scalable web app really is and if I ever go on to make a real serious attempt at creating a new company (not for a few years at least) I think I would be in a better position to make a real contribution and make something that is technically sound and viable.