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He talks about wanting to charge for the API. If the javascript on your public website directly calls your (otherwise paid) API, how can you avoid exposing the credentials it uses which are unmetered?
You can use voice searches with google.com right now. The fact that (I'm guessing) few people use it is probably a function of the fact that people aren't socialized to talk to their web browsers (while they are socialized to talk to their phones). So for the near term, I'd imagine that the Siri interface would make more sense for mobile than for the wider web.
Thanks for the suggestion, I like how succinct it is.

monitors.txt's purpose isn't to replace testing new features during development. Monitors.txt replaces the process of logging on to a 3rd party's app to configure the monitoring for the new feature.
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I am reminded of a quote by Mark Twain:

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"
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Why is a database that fails so easily and most of the time even loses data so popular? Is it really all just a huge marketing budget?
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When discussing code in English, there's a huge difference between:

result = object.doSomething(someString.toUpper(), someInt);

and:

with the instance named object, call the doSomething method
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Oil production is relatively inelastic in the short term, in the sense that it takes years to scout new fields and make the necessary investments in infrastructure. But then, so is demand, and future demand is relatively predictable. Even hypothesizing that oil companies didn't predict ten years ago that demand for petroleum would be at its present level today, and didn't plan for enough capacity, we would expect that by now they've realized their mistake, and that prices should go back down as additional capacity comes online.

That's not why.
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So how many of you like the cucumber/gherkin format over anything else mentioned? Would be helpful to know to gauge interest.
I tend to be more interested in the discussion here but frequently read at least part of the article to better follow the discussion. If I want to reply, I often feel obligated to read at least part of the article. Some of my favorite links, that I try to keep track of, appear in the body of the discussion.

FWIW: I'm a demographic outlier in quite a lot of ways. So I would tend to assume that my methodology/preferences are as well. It will be interesting to see if other remarks fit with that assumption.
As someone that's done 'the band thing' and been involved with plenty of others who have and are doing 'the band thing' - if I was doing it now, as a smaller artist I would absolutely go to town with distribution by whatever means necessary. I'd get onto spotify, itunes, amazon, whatever. Hell, I'd probably even give the record away for free. For a smaller (indie/indie label) band, getting people through the door was always the biggest problem. Get them through the door, get the fanbase, you can sell them whatever you like.

When I had the numbers, I'd deal with the money. Long and short, I'd rather have 10 thousand people listen to my record and talk/blog/tweet about me / come to shows, than 100 people buy it and 10 people come to my show.
Most of the manufacturing jobs are already gone -- even as manufacturing production rises -

That seems to be the trend, long-term. But you can't say 'most', not yet.

There are still many manufacturing jobs available in the US. My employer has an open reqs out for our six manufacturing sites in the States. We're not the only ones in our industry.

Why does this myth persist? It might be that these jobs are no longer in traditional manufacturing areas. A decaded ago we had two sites in traditional blue-collar areas: one in Mass, one in Washington. We closed them down and relocated the work to existing sites in Idaho and Wisconsin, expanded there.

Because the labor and other costs in the old sites were higher than the drive-past states.

So ... a guy in Mass sees a shuttered factory. A guy in Wisconsin sees new construction. Perhaps the guy in Mass needs to move to where the jobs are. We're hiring.
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I love that open source mentality (sharing and collaborating for the love of the work, community, and result) is reaching higher ed. I can't wait for it to reach lower ed! If kids start seeing this model at a young age...
That's a beloved quote among homeschoolers. :-)
I'm happy to accept the low blows, being a non-native English speaker/writer anything that will help me to improve is more than welcome.

Of course it would be nice if such comments were accompanied by suggested fixes and/or constructive criticism of the content. But you can't have everything ;)
I almost always at least scan the article for context at least. Even when the HN thread veers, which is often.
No I have not considered using a solarium tanning bed, nor a bright "sunlight" lamp. Various studies have associated solarium tanning with increased skin cancer risk and bright lamps with damage in the eye cells that sense light. Then there is the bright-light-in-your-ears hoax (funded by ex-nokia execs and powered by questionable "scientific" evidence).

I don't think that these miracle cures for darkness have an overall positive effect. One study may show that they help with the symptoms of limited sunlight exposure but other studies show that they cause harm as well. These cures seem to attack the problem by fixing one aspect of the problem, usually by bombing you with photons in the visible light spectrum. I don't believe there is a replacement for full-spectrum sunlight.

I don't know if it's related, but my domestic cats live largely in a light cycle dominated by my daily business, which is not related to time of year changes in any way. Yet they shed their fur every fall and every spring. I think the amount and period of daily sunlight through the small windows of my appartment is the key factor inducing these changes in the animals (and even more so with my indoor plants).

I prefer getting my daily intake of photons the good old nuclear fusion way.
I like the idea, but not the URL. How about moving it to "/.well-known/monitors.txt" in conformance with RFC 5785?
I'm pro eduction

You've got to spell check posts on this subject.
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No you're right, they are not ready right now, but they seem to be heading toward that collision somewhere down the road.

I was thinking mic would be necessary too but they would certainly have to have a fallback for machine's that lack that capability (aka, a text input box box). Apple could even do their spin on it and have the question spoken back to you after you enter it so Siri can 'hear' it (Apple has to spin it unique in some fashion similar to how Bing has a background picture distinguishing itself).
If I ran a monitoring service I would honestly never bother implementing it. Parsing natural language can be really, really difficult. I realize this is just pseudo natural language as it has a very restricted subset of terms, however, monitoring is a complex field and to fully support most features it'll eventually become really complex and really error prone.
Study "Theoretical Physics" if you are inclined to. Everybody will be happy if you acknowledge:

1. It isn't relevant to most of the jobs.

2. You aren't entitled to a job.

3. etc...

This condescending arrogance is a simple example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Most academic disciplines have little application in the workplace. Education has a deeper purpose than you think. The mechanism by which educated people get ahead in society is far more complex and subtle than the "learn useful work skills => better at work => more promotions" caricature.
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The displacement of a Nimitz-class carrier is around 100,000 tons; if it's entirely made of steel, that comes out to around 11,000 cubic meters, or a 22m cube.

So, it seems like we would be a bit short of the amount of metal needed to make one of them if we wanted it made entirely of gold. But the right order of magnitude.

Of course, smaller ships are of far lower displacements, so we could make several of them.
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Thanks for this, looks like a step in the right direction, do you know what successful applications there have been to this RFC?

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785
OS/2 was still a severely compromised design. It was 'better' but it still crashed a lot and would have required a transition to a modern OS.

The IBM requirement was even more onerous because IBM had linked OS/2 with PS/2 Microchannel hardware. IBM had this locked up with patents and could have used it to to control the entire PC industry had it caught on. So everyone else in the 'open' PC world had an interest in seeing OS/2-PS/2 fail.

(IBM was the last major vendor to offer PC-based server hardware because they were trying to protect their midrange machines. I think if OS/2 had taken over, they would have prevented the entire x86 server market from getting off the ground until much later than it did.)
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This is exactly the mentality you get from communities like Slashdot, drilling into its readers year after year the idea that Microsoft is a scary bogeyman that has never done anything good.

Microsoft made many awesome products. Windows 95 transformed desktop PCs. They absolutely not only made computers affordable but accessible. That you personally don't like Microsoft or its products doesn't somehow cancel out the facts of history, nor does it mean you have some insight into the mentality behind every PC user in the world that allows you to determine that they merely tolerate Microsoft because they feel they have no alternative.

The bizarre, creepy personal hatred of Bill Gates is indicative of a lack of perspective and a tribal attachment to computer platforms that is completely absurd.
"For the vast majority of titles, Amazon has reached agreement with publishers to include titles for a fixed fee." So no matter how popular (or unpopular) the publisher's titles are, they get one flat fee for participation in the library.

What makes you think that is an Amazon stipulation? Maybe publishers wanted the flat fee.
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For some reason I didn't even consider that you could control it via normal text input, but you're obviously right as that's what Siri will eventually use after the voice-recognition software is used. This totally widens the possible market then, you're right.

I think the main bottleneck at the moment though (and why Siri was limited to the iPhone 4S even though the 4 and 3GS run it perfectly) is due to server load. They simply don't have the infrastructure to handle all the requests.
Excellent.

We run an architecture somewhat similar to that described in the article, and a lot of the issues you raised we either dealt with up-front, or realized we needed to deal with them very soon after rolling it out.

Regarding extra latency and sql select result marshaling, we cache extensively and invalidate through message queues. The few exceptions include data that are involved in transactional contexts, like actual order placement and fulfillment.

We have effectively solved debugging/logging by generating and chaining request identifiers, which turns out to not be as computationally expensive as one would think.

YAGNI is, of course, the elephant in the room. Some aspects of the architecture have turned out to be quite beneficial, but the traffic scalability afforded by shared-nothing, API-driven architectures is not something we have had the luxury of really exercising as much as we'd like :)
>No, everybody would not be on the same hour.

Yes they would. That's the whole point, which you still seem to miss completely. With a global coordinated time, you will no longer have to care whether someone is in New York, Tokyo, Berlin or Moscow (or has, for example, an irregular sleep schedule). The only information you need is "when is this person available", and that time will not change no matter where you are.

>It's not like 2/3 of the worlds population is going to start sleeping through a significant portion of daylight hours to make global coordination easier.

Where did I say that people would need to adjust their sleep schedule? I've said that "the sun rises at 6, peaks at 12 and sets at 19 hours" is completely arbitrary. We could just as well say that sunrise is at 0, noon at 6 and evening at 11. Or any other numbers, really. It doesn't matter.

>Time is an abstraction of sun position to make coordination easier.

It's not an abstraction over sun position, it's an abstraction over the availability of a person. The sun position is merely the means which we used to anchor that abstraction. This made sense in a period where the world of most people extended from between the next three towns to maybe their neighboring countries at the utter maximum. In a globalized world with near-instantaneous communication, this anchoring no longer makes sense, so we should choose another (still arbitrary) anchoring, but one that's the same for every single person on this planet.

Pretty much every argument I've ever heard against this is a status quo bias or an appeal to tradition, and your post is sadly no exception.
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Are you aware that Vitamin D supplements don't actually give you proper levels of activated Vitamin D? It turns out there is a balance of too much UV and too little UV. If you go to a tanning bed for a few minutes a couple times a week, you aren't doing damage, but are activating Vitamin D. It isn't even enough to have a tan.

I know it is tricky, but there are situations where there is no such thing as 0 risk, you have to optimize for minimal. Making 0 risk of one thing frequently increases risk for others. In this case, improper active vitamin D levels increase risk for lots of ailments, far more than a few minutes of UV exposure does for skin cancer.
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I think there is some point in this .We deploy the same webapplication to multiple servers. In some cases different versions of the app should be monitored in different ways. With monitors.txt I could include the information on the web app and the monitoring tool would automatically pick it up.
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It's pretty easy to fix using ImageMagick which is what most apps are using to resize images. At the command line it's the -strip option and in rmagick it's the strip! method. This does remove all meta data but for thumbnails like this it's probably desirable.
For the last couple of years I've been developing projects as an api layer coupled with a dumb 100% javascript front end. The api layer always returns json data, and the front end requests and consumes it. 3 projects down the line and this is so far been great success. The back end server is now free to do what it really needs to be doing - get data to the front end.
You can write different front ends (mobile, voice etc.). They all request and consume the same data. And, you earn an api you can open to the public
And if anyone knows of good software engineering career options a little closer to the equator, drop me a line :)

There is no visible contact info in your profile. (Not that I know of any jobs for you. Just sayin' -- assuming you are at all serious.)
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How common of a practice is it in the Ruby community to run the trunk version? Is it mainly just developers, or is it pretty widely used in production/development environments?
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I used this on a production project:

https://github.com/raganwald/rewrite_rails

Of course, one of its design goals was that we be able to walk away from it, so it compiled to plain Ruby files much as Coffeescript compiles to Javascript.
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It's Cringely:

After Jobs died, Sen went looking for the interview because he thought it would be interesting to watch. He dropped Cringely a line telling him of his find and suggested that perhaps Cringely could put it on his technology blog I Cringely as a "gift to the world."

"He didn't see any commercial value in it," Cringely said. "I have three kids I have to put through college, so I thought maybe we could sell it."

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In production, I've never seen anyone running the trunk version. In development, fairly rare as well in my experience.
Discoverability is an issue, definitely. Lisp is largely stuck in the C++ world of "multiple implementations, libraries are your problem" rather than the more modern GEM/CPAN/etc paradigm. Racket has a lot of libraries, though, and Quicklisp does the same for Common Lisp.
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I don't hate Bill Gates though I'm no fan of MS of the 1990s, and I thought that the PC industry was a lot more interesting before Windows took off.
I am though really uncomfortable with the fact that his massive funds are totally warping the debate on education reform, not because there's any evidence that his ideas are worthwhile but because he's willing to pay to implement them. There's really not a lack of education research indicating what could be useful, but Gates and everyone else is fixated on his own little theories of what should work.
Some do, some don't. In most cases it will end up being converted to sRGB, so you're better off doing that conversion yourself.
>> It isn't relevant to most of the jobs.

You learn math, programming, statistics, a lot of more math, physics.

You can get a job in a multitude of fields. Finance, programming, game development (advanced physics engine), etc. etc. Math is the foundation for all technologies, if you have a degree in Theoretical Physics you can pick a lot of other technical fields much easier than say, an English major. A lot of engineering knowledge comes directly from physics.

I think his point is that if you want to work on a technical field (programming, server admin, etc.) why are you getting a liberal arts degree? Which is a fair point in my opinion.

The reverse is also true, if you want to do creative writing, media,English teacher, etc. why would you get a "Theoretical Physics" degree.
The Teaching Company philosophy lectures were significantly better than what I got at a state university, but were a very small fraction of the price.
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"Arora noted that before buying an iPhone 4S with Siri, he was required to search for an Indian restaurant through Google's website."

Sometimes I wish I could downvote articles on HN...
Even if all iPhone users start to use only Siri instead of Google, will Google really be in trouble? IOs have around 25% of the smartphone market. Is this number relevant compared to all users of Google in the world? (this is actually a question.)
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I'm sure he was an asshole and also that he is genuinely trying (and succeeding) to help people.

Mel Gibson has issues with antisemitism, racism, sexism, violence and is also one hell of an actor and a pretty good philanthropist as well.

Life isn't a comic book. People don't neatly fit into the category of hero or villain.
I am a self confessed Apple fanboy, but I have no desire at all to pay to watch this in a theater. Hideous visual quality aside(remember it is restored from a VHS) it seems all but certain there's nothing in this I didn't already learn in the book. I might Netflix it if and when it's available but I'm not going to spend money for this.
Of course I explicitly stated that tanning is not the point. I explicitly suggested less exposure than that point. To my knowledge there have been no studies on the effects of limited exposure like this that suggest they cause cancer any more than normal (not burning/tanning level) exposure to the sun.

Nor is it a miracle cure, from my understanding it isn't even a cure, just a symptom reducer, because you know, proper levels of vitamin D that are actually activated are not achievable via supplement. It actually takes UV to do that.
Interesting idea. Would be ideal if Apache Software Foundation joined to your project with certificates for palette of their products.
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Actually i see Siri as more of an interface revolution than a search play, although in a mobile OS search would be a key feature of an operating system. What gets me excited is the idea of Apple creating an API so that functionality can be added to third party apps. I do game stuff and the idea that you might be able to talk to a character is very powerful. But also if you think about other apps there are so many possibilities.
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we usually go to irc. i havent really been flamed or seen any 'elitism' but there's probably some of that in every community.
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