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On a tangent... I remotely logged into my computer at the dorms once and opened up the webcam and microsoft speech assistant thing. I started talking to my roommate based on how he responded, and played some rage against the machine really loud. He thought the computer was possessed (he wasn't that bright overall). Anyways, when I saw him pick up the web cam and slam it into the desk I figured I better start running back the half mile to the dorms before he destroyed the whole thing. I wish I would have recorded it.
That's so simple and old school !!

cat /dev/audio > record.au

Here you will get Sun .au, which is mulaw IIRC.

/dev/dsp is different.

EDIT - after a quick google search, here are some details on the encoding difference :
OSS has three kind of device files for audio programming. The only difference between these device files is the default sample encoding used after opening the device. /dev/dsp uses 8 bit unsigned encoding while /dev/dspW uses 16 bit signed little endian (Intel) encoding and /dev/audio uses logarithmic mu-Law encoding. There are no other differences between the devices. All of them work in 8 kHz mono mode after opening them.

http://www.opensound.com/pguide/audio.html
I agree that his argument is flimsy at best, but why do you only associate Coke and Pepsi products with brands?

What about rock bands, video games, movies, radio stations, operating systems, charity groups, regional festivals, political parties, etc., etc.?

I think most people are emotionally invested in at least a few of these kinds of non-person entities and it's not unreasonable to think that they would like to follow them on G+.
That is true, but the teeth in a Japanese crosscut saw are very delicate and fiddly and there's lots of room to screw them up if you don't care about the product. And yet (with some exceptions) they actually seem to come sharp from the factory, something that is still a novelty in Western tools. They're not all good--I have a modern pruning saw that is particularly crudely made--but they're startlingly high quality in an era that has seen near total collapse of, say, chisel manufacturing[1]. I suspect the tendency toward impulse hardening the teeth made it vitally important that the teeth actually be ready to use, because it would take a diamond file and some real patience to sharpen them after hardening, but I really don't know.

[1] A chisel is a bar of metal with a wedge at the tip and a handle. You'd think it would be pretty hard to screw up, but you underestimate the ingenuity of idiots. From using the wrong steel, to forging it wrong, to hardening it wrong, to grinding it wrong, to putting the handle on crooked, any and sometimes all of these have been spotted in the wild. I would no more use a department store chisel for woodworking than I would use a screwdriver as a drill.
I followed along the examples by piping into the command line ALSA player 'aplay', which is I think included in all ALSA installs.
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Hello! Considering you're new here, you should know that HN's ranking algorithm is pretty biased against submission with text. You would have a better chance at arriving on the front page with a single link, e.g. to you blog.

(And not being a Coffeescript dev, I can't comment on your autocompiler. :) )
It only seems odd because from the outside it's a big, faceless, scary bureaucracy. The Valley and that ecosystem seems that way to most folks outside it, too. There's serious cash to be had from USG and arguably fewer strings than you get on most term sheets.

Once you get past the scary outside, you realize it's normal people on the inside. Submit a proposal and you'll find they're delighted to help you. And they'll give you funding.
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An API for creating and sending physical things feels just plain awesome, even though on a fundamental level ecommerce APIs do the same thing. Nice work.
So does that mean I have to resubmit with a link? Thanks! =)
I haven't yet read the paper but Joel of Joel on software fame, had discussed it once. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
Goes to show that it's not necessary to build a hugely publicized, larger than life, startup to be an entrepreneur and add value.
Seems like these days people don't think it's that cool to build a business that's big enough to replace your day job, but in the end that may be the most important step your startup can take. Once your business sustains itself, it frees up your time to build and make it big.
Good read Clint; it's great to get that kind of insight into the reality of the early stages of a startup.
Frankly, this is one of the things that really turned me off to Adeo Ressi, in his talks, presentations and classes he constantly drops F-bombs -- I assume to make him seem more hip/cool/grounded/whatever -- but it comes across as arrogant. However when I expressed this previously people disagreed... whatever. I dont think it makes you look cool.

I wish I could take a pill and have that word expunged from my own vocabulary though... I say it far too much in my private moments!
Awesome article overall, I'm thankful for the founders taking the time to answer this. I only wish the Like.fm guys had been a bit more concise:

There are things you do that lets them know you really are committed, all-in, focused, and determined to succeed. Do those things

What are those things?

They did ask something that I wasn’t expecting, but I forgot what it was. Might have been why Last.fm users would switch over.

What was the answer?

Overall, as someone who's preparing to go through this in a week, I'm extremely grateful for the article.
there are lots of bonus structures that mitigate this risk. some things you can do:

1. clawback clauses. when investments underperform, you take back bonus money. this goes well with:

2. long term vesting. you don't collect the entire bonus up front. you get it spread out over an extended period of time (say, 10 years), contingent on continued success / your bank still existing.

in fact, many banks and hedge funds already implement these ideas. of course, if you're writing a newspaper article, you can get a lot more pageviews by papering over this fact and saying the most populist thing you can think of.
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Eh, that's true, but at the same time, tiny is relative. For perspective: The low-end cost of commercial GPS tracking devices is about $50 (as determined by searching Amazon). Assuming the FBI can get a bulk deal on a tracker around that price point, it could track every single Muslim in America for less than its annual construction budget.
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Earth Class Mail? I don't know if they have an API - they do have web access and web-based mail reading, though.
Wouldn't Taleb's proposal itself simply be a government regulation/policy change?

In other words, wouldn't it be just as easy to defeat as simply "going back in time"?
I <3 the magic ink paper. (It's been on HN several times.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059496
>> I'm sorry to be so glib, but if the answer isn't as simple as "end bonuses", it also isn't as simple as "just let the banks fail".

But there is a "simple" difference between philosophies of how to address corruption in financial markets.

>> And if tens of thousands of people lose their jobs because the corporate credit markets freeze and otherwise-profitable companies can't fund their day-to-day operations

There is no way to avoid the day of reckoning.

Don't pretend that any crises that were avoided in 2008 won't be that much larger when they eventually materialize.
Increasingly, wedding guests are asked to contribute to a fund instead of a gift, as couples are living together before marriage now and don't need 5 toasters but want to save for a first home deposit, travel plans etc, whatever the couple wants to do with their new life together. Keeping money in escrow for a couple of months could be highly lucrative and a spin-off into the honeymoon referral market.
XMPP MUC is not fun, nor fun to scale. IRC has netsplits, but it does work reliably for tons of people all day every day.
I see your point but you don't need to shut down the whole network. I can see the govt using powers like these very broadly. A few people say something potentially criminal and they shutdown the whole network.
"be IRC" == be a standard/traditional IRC server. Why would anyone launch that? I think you are missing the point.
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Neat. Maybe I'll write a script to scrape my Google calendar and automatically send birthday cards. Can see companies using this to send a personal note to their best customers.
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The problem here is that to be sure I think you'd have to know both networking and internal network layouts of the cell providers.

In other words, there are missing pieces that make all explanations difficult to confirm or not.
Thanks! We'll keep you updated.

Will do, we've already pivoted from our original idea and are ready to do so as we find out what creates the best experience for our users.
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Is table 1 really just doing a search-and-replace of 'clinical' for 'software engineering'??
I would counter those sentiments with the ZuneHD experience. Most people haven't used one, but touch isn't vision focused. With the Zune in my pocket, I can unlock, skip a track, stop, play, change the volume (on the screen, not a rocker on the side). I can also try to shuffle/unshuffle, but that isn't as easy.

I was actually amazed that Apple completely missed the ability to use touch when you weren't looking at the device.
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You have to take an honest look at the world before you can optimize. A lot of our problems (in the US) come from trying to pretend we don't have social hierarchies, or problems with race, or whatever.
What would that be exactly? Could I apply the same thing to this comment?
Given that the DoD would probably still run the infrastructure.... no way I would accept that....
>>PCRE's quality is essentially orthogonal to these issues.

That seems like... conscious misrepresentation.

If it was just compatibility, I'd learn the new syntax.

The problem is quality. Specifically, I found two relatively simple regexps that doesn't work. Already.

I guess I should try to avoid the PCRE lib for serious work, which is hard. :-(

Edit: I could have been just unlucky, but...

(I'm not going to start trading insults, if that is what you want.)
I would submit that part of the problem is that nobody really has a clue how to use your hands. Are we going to have a thingy for every subtask that we want to do? Are our computer workstations going to resemble carpenter workbenches? Probably not, if for no other reason that lack of cost effectiveness. We've got something like the Wiimote as pretty much the epitome of hand-based interaction, but it's not very precise for anything that isn't a game.

I don't mean this as a criticism of the post, I mean it as a stab at an explanation. It is a good point and I've been complaining about the primitive point and grunt interfaces[1] we've had for a while, but it's not even remotely clear where to go from here without (touchscreens are only an incremental point & grunt improvement over mice, you get a couple more gestures at the c another huge leap in processing power and hardware, at the minimum encompassing some sort of 3D glasses overlay for augmented reality or something.

[1]: The mouse is point & grunt. You get one point of focus and 1 - 5 buttons (including the mousewheel as up, down, and click). For as excited as some people have been about touchscreens, they're only a marginal improvement if they're even that; you still have only a couple kinds of "clicks", and you lose a lot on the precision of your pointing. Interfaces have papered that over by being designed for your even-more-amorphous-than-usual grunting, but when you look for it you realize that touchscreens are a huge step back on precision. They'll probably have a place in our lives for a long time but they are hardly the final answer to all problems, and trying to remove the touchscreen and read vague gestures directly has even bigger precision problems.
I understand the difference. Just wanted to know whether to spend time evaluating it or not. :)
It's really not that complicated. It's just proper alignment of risk.
This is absurd. Regulating private companies' compensation? Instead, the government should either make sure companies don't get "too big to fail", or make it very clear that banks don't have the Geithner Put option.

Simple and unobtrusive.
I don't think Google expected to just magically kill Facebook.

Most (95%) of my friends don't use G+, they use Facebook. Whenever I mention Google+ they just say "ugh not another social network. I spend too much time on Facebook as it is".
The majority of people in my circles are other tech industry people, because we find this kind of stuff interesting, but the average person needs a pretty compelling reason abandon Facebook. And I say abandon because they don't want to use both. I'm currently using both for different things because I want to be "part of it", but the average person on the street isn't interested.
There's nothing on Google+ at the moment that's very compelling for normal people who are perfectly happy with Facebook, and "pages" aren't the answer.

But Google probably knows all that.

I seriously doubt there's ever going to be something that instantly causes everyone to abandon Facebook. But if Google can slowly build G+ into a better option by trying things and listening to feedback, then it's possible.
I remember everyone saying they'd never abandon Myspace for Facebook.

So I'm gonna go with not dead.
The fundamental problem with this argument is that it's an adversarial problem space.

I.e. we could say "let corrupt institutions fail", but there's another powerful team that doesn't want them to fail, and can thwart our efforts. If we don't take that into account when designing the solution, we're doomed to fail.

> It's still the correct solution.

Well, no, that's what we're debating.
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There are places where you can be pulled over for no reason, by default, because everyone is being pulled over.

This is the case in Canada, and I don't know anyone who has a problem with it. The police can't pull everyone over and demand that everyone provides a breath sample for alcohol analysis -- but people accept that if you've got 10 police officers stopping cars, it's a heck of a lot safer to stop everybody than to have them jumping into and out of traffic picking out individual cars.
The irony of writing long blog posts and HN comments about "unnecessary cursing" in a presentation (thereby linking to and discussing the presentation 10x more) is almost too much for me to bear.
It's the ol' designer with a 27" cinema display problem.
I think strict regulation is the way to go. Banking in a modern economy is really a utility like gas, electric, and water.

Another solution that is more long term oriented and market based: create rival capital-formation pools outside of Wall and Broad, say in the Midwest, South, and West Coast. That way if one pool blows up, we can let them fail and it won't take out the whole economy. It also removes single points of failure from the system. I think the crowdsourcing bill floating in Congress is a great start as it decentralizes capital-raising.
Check this older thread out, along with comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300711 -- maybe some synergy?
Perhaps because this argument has croppped up, like clockwork, with every release since FF5. It's boring, predictable, and doesn't add anything to the discussion.
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Swearing says more about your abilities as a speaker then it does your content... that's the problem.

Oh, god, can we please stop repeating this fucking shite.

If you don't care enough to flex the language at your disposal, why should I give a fuck about what you have to say?

If your ability to perform rational thought is so bad that it thinks that sentence us logically sound, then you probably aren't going to be able to comprehend or use what I have to say.
Ok, I can see that, but I've seen folks who have tried and failed to make the audience think, that they themselves (the presenter) thought, of themselves (the presenter) as just another voice in the crowd.

In general if one is presenting and choosing to change one's vocabulary and speech habits in order to be less off putting to the audience, one risks coming off as insincere and condescending. Just like prose in the third person singular sounds presumptuous :-)
Ok, but who has the power to enforce this mythical free market against the powerful people who benefit from the current system?

Power means never having to say you're sorry. If you're not part of the elite, your only realistic options are to become part of the elite, or to change the game (i.e. create a new elite including you and those you care about) in some way not easily anticipated / countered by the current elite.
Two counterpoints:

1) "targets" are a part of tactile interfaces, in touch interfaces we may shed the need for accurate targets (i.e. gestures can be made anywhere on a screen)

2) Confidence that comes from the physical response from tactile systems may just be an anachronism after a decade or two of built up trust in touchscreen systems
I tried that concept years ago with readynote.com
I was before my time I suppose....
I have worked technical support. I have done it in person, and I worked the phones at Microsoft before they shipped all these jobs to India.

I think most users are quite capable of installing an OS. Most users never call tech support. Otherwise MS woudl be broke.
They didn't completely miss it - go to settings, general, accessibility, and you can enable voiceover which reads anything you touch out loud and makes you double click to activate, so you can navigate without sight.

It's terrible if you want a hardware button to skip a track, but it's usable for basically any iOS app with standard UI controls - including web browsing - which a hardware button isn't.

I've never seen a Zune in person - do you just mean it has lots of buttons for all those tasks, or how does the touch interaction work on it without individual hardware buttons?
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The distinct lack of information on the site doesn't instill much confidence
>> the government should either make sure companies don't get "too big to fail"

Exactly. And the best way to do that? Never bail them out.
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"the government should either make sure companies don't get "too big to fail""

That sounds obtrusive. Not that it's wrong, but it is obtrusive.
"Never bail them out."

Even if it destroys the economy for everyone?
It looks like that invite code is no longer working - any chance of still getting an invite?
I think Kinects/distance detectors are still very young technology. Imagine how far it could be pushed with just engineering. A very high resolution detector could identify facial expressions, smiles, grimaces, smirks, a whole gamut of emotional inputs. Push the resolution even higher and you could use iris movements to zoom in and out based on what the user is trying to look at.

Voice control was omitted from the video, I don't really understand that. I still think natural language is potentially the best mode of interaction and other modes would be secondary after that.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but that's a great idea.
It would be fair to say current operating systems.
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Bonuses are incentives. What they are giving bonuses for is wrong. Not the bonus concept itself. Eliminate the bailouts, require a certain percentage liquidity, force assets to be marked to market on a certain interval. Suddenly the bank's finance sheet to it's investors won't be so rosy, investors will demand change, change will happen.
I had exactly the same thoughts really.
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Here's an idea for a country: everybody does legal things, so we don't need police. Crime problem solved!

Does that sound naive to you? Because that, to my ears, is exactly what you are advocating. You're completely ignoring institutional mechanics with a mere handwave of "correctness".
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So, Ipads for navigation displays in a cockpit - great idea. But, would you really like your pilot to trust that an airplane is descending because Siri said it was? Don't think so.
We know that. So ... now what?

Corruption exists. Power exists. When faced with this reality, what do you do to shift towards a reality with less corruption and power imbalance?

Saying to the powerful, and corrupt: "Don't do that -- what you're doing is wrong." is useless. If they had to listen to you they would be de facto not powerful.
Music tech has been wrestling with novel controllers including several like the kind you speak of for a while now: http://www.nime.org. Take a look through some of those conference notes for ideas. This is from 2003: http://nime.org/2003/nime03_program.html
With a single card costing just under $3 USD, this isn't an API I think I'll be playing around with until I've got a really good idea, but I can't wait to actually come up with something good.
Please study a little public choice theory. You're arguing from a perspective of incomplete information, as I see it.

You can't have free markets in the way you advocate in the presence of democracy as we know it. To argue for what you want, you need to describe how we would change our governmental structure to make it work. Perhaps an authoritarian rule by a benevolent AI?
I think this is really cool and most definitely needed, but I think it needs to have more than just cards. Certified Mail is a huge requirement for a lot of businesses and right now there's no great solution for automating that -- at least nothing with any friendliness to developers.
Just out of curiosity, has the data been through a preliminary spam filtering? Or is there any direct way to deduce if a page is spam?
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Love the idea. Wish there were more specs on the physical product. Sample shots, for example.
Not everyone who works at a bank is a "banker" -- going after bonus structure holistically without regard to station/role seems impractical bordering on impossible.

Beyond even that, one might imagine that if US banking regulations get extremely prohibitive, banks will just move offshore. (And still be too big to fail with regard to the US economy)

I think that a little divide-and-conquer is needed to fix some of the smaller sub problems...
I believe Maciej is saying that it's not just an issue with RDF or a technical problem really. He says: "Personally, I think finding an adequate data model for the totality of interpersonal connections is an AI-hard problem. But even if you disagree, it's clear that a plain old graph is not going to cut it."