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Speaking as someone that had a corporate job before, I think that 'working for somebody else's startup' is also a really great idea, especially if you don't immediately know what kind of company you want to build.

You still get a paycheck, but at the same time have a chance to gain a lot of important skills, meet a lot of important people in the community, and understand what life in a startup is like.
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The connection errors happen when there is limited websocket support due to browser or network. We are working on a migration to sockjs so we can have some flexible fallbacks just in case. If you dismiss the error the main search should still work, you just sadly wont get any stats. Probably best to wait till your on a direct connection for now.
Sure, but for someone who follows what universities and groups like SRI have been doing in the past ten years, it doesn't take a genius to see the connection.

Apple got there first. Good for them, and they fully deserve the advantage on having a functional version while others are still working on the beta. But let's not now extrapolate that and claim nobody would have got there if it wasn't for Apple.
Actually, we are trading a browser from a company with a desktop monopoly and an internet monopoly for an environment in which said monopoly has ~40%, another monopoly has ~30%, an independent player has ~20%, and a bunch of smaller players (including Mobile) share the rest. And both the ~30 and ~20 are platform independent, largely FOSS systems.

This certainly seems like an improvement to me.
I agree. The proposed options seem too weird to be accepted easily. If you just started using one in your writing, people would think it was a typo.

I don't think there's a downside to just using "they".
I also don't understand the reluctance to use it. It's as versatile as "some" in logic/mathematics. And its already common usage: "If a person walks into a bar, and they order a drink..." - sounds fine to me. Maybe there are cases where it sounds strange?
This is great news: It means IE8 won't be the next IE6. Of course there are a lot of users still restricted to Windows XP, but their market share is dropping fairly quickly. Of course there will always be large corporate environments where updates are much slower, but I would say these are under 10%, perhaps?
For the past year and a half the problem has been their message, leadership and being too afraid of letting go of the Windows brand. Both W7 and WP7 are terrific products and they have as many great engineers as any other company.

Instead of properly promoting their products they have creepy commercials and concepts of products that don't exist.
This is one hell of a bloody awesome news. I say the best ever for everyone on the Internet.
The thing about Change is that you need to keep voting for it in 2010, 2012, 2014 etc. You can't change all of Congress in one presidential election.
Since Chrome doesn't have real AdBlocker, it is logical that stat counter will show its number accurate, while Firefox share will be underestimated due to a large amount of users blocking StatCounter and similar tracking services.
For those who aren't aware, and it wasn't stated clearly in the article, Majel is for Majel Barret-Roddenberry, who among other Star Trek roles was the voice of the computer throughout the series [1]

That's what the article means by the Star Trek link.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett
This may indicate the Google has found 100% autonomous operation is not practical yet and so they spent time working on how to easily transition in/out of that mode. I could see a situation where you have a toll-both type area before entering highways that would trigger your vehicle's autonomous mode and another one to switch back to manual as you exit.
> when Apple innovates

When was that?
33% of computers that browse the Internet use windows xp?
I don't know much about America, but if you could afford a car by doing as simple a thing you mentioned than my friend you are in heaven. You have no clue how bad this part of the world is.

Just come to Mumbai or any urban metro in India and see for yourself how people travel. Majority of them are herded like sheep in busy trains and buses.

That is why I said, it might be just a cultural thing. Here too, we need to pay for water and sewers.

But I understand that your barrier for entry when it comes to measuring poverty is very different than ours. By your definition 95% of whole India may fall into poverty.
I don't think people are eager to make business decisions like that in the last few days before Christmas.

Obviously retail should be booming this time of year but for for B2B, people will always say "we'll consider it in the new year"
Out of curiosity have you tried Siri, and if so does it do any better? I've often wondered how well it worked on non-Midwestern-UnitedStates accents.
I agree that hellbanning on HN is completely out of control.

I've seen people (that otherwise posted useful contributions, before and after) hellbanned for making a rather tasteless joke. The joke was sufficiently tasteless that I can totally see a moderator suspending or even banning that user. But not hellbanning. Not that it's strictly worse or anything, it's just so utterly useless and childish.

This user had no idea that anything had happened, and he just kept posting for weeks. All that wasted time! And I'm fairly sure that if a moderator would have just told him "hey we'd rather not have people make jokes about dead children here" the guy would have replied "right, my bad that was out of line, won't happen again" cause the rest of his comments didn't seem very inflammatory or anything.

Instead the guy gets no message at all and keeps on posting invisibly. A regular ban would have at least sent some message.

... and then there's these things I've heard about people getting temporary hellbans? So people can come back all butthurt after realizing they've been tricked into invisibly wasting their time? That's the dumbest kind of moderation I've ever heard about, really. A hellban should be forever, or not at all. There is no such thing as a "hell suspension".
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The author claims using "they" is common, but grammatically incorrect - then recommends some arbitrary (and currently unknown and incorrect) set of replacement words to be adopted and thus become correct by weight of numbers.

Why not just continue using "they" until it is widely accepted enough to be correct? Frankly, I don't think we're too far off that. The supposedly erroneous example he quoted read fine to me.
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That raises an interesting question. Does voice recognition need to be tailored to the type of lossy encoding used? Since perceptual encoders are designed to capture what the human ear thinks it hears, rather than what the sound wave actually looks like, does an algorithm trained on one perceptual encoder apply well to material encoded with another?
The article points out that MS will still provide blocking tools for companies. Corporations are the major source of IE6 browsers and I'm not sure this will have any impact on them. The best we can hope for is that high consumer adoption rates will force many more sites to drop IE6 support which might spur companies to finally test and upgrade.
You. You may want to consider that if there's two replies to your post, and both are "your post is entirely irrelevant", then perhaps your post genuinely is entirely irrelevant. Protip: read the whole thread from the top.
4,8,9 all need to be higher and not in that order (I'd say 9 should come first).

Having paying customers is one of the first things that makes a new business real.
The article still works in the US: http://torrentfreak.com/french-presidents-residence-busted-f...

To verify the results: http://www.youhavedownloaded.com/?q=62.160.71.75

If you want I can post screenshots of both
Siri is hot right now, capitalizing on that buzz will allow more phones to go out the door which will give Google more information to target ads with.
I was talking to a group of friends about this and he thought it was weird too.

Is that confusing? That's about how it sounds to me when anyone uses a plural pronoun in place of a singular one. I know it's common usage but it's not a particularly good solution.
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The idea that Republicans are "compromising" by passing a tax cut really says it all here.
IE8 is the max for XP so until XP goes away it will be the new IE6, which is at 1% in the US. So, yes IE8 will have another decade.
Ironic that you think that a technology patent is the antithesis of oppression.
So we're trading a browser from a company with a desktop monopoly for one with a web search monopoly. I'm trying to get excited here.

Despite your sentiment, this is still moving the web forward. We all benefit from browsers built by vendors that have a genuine passion for the web. I'd argue that most believe Chrome is built from such passion more so than IE.

Since you brought up Firefox - I've always been on their side, up until I started living w/pain due to their decision to drop support for WebSQLDatabase. I'm now rooting for Chrome!
Yes. Treating 'they' as singular also has precedent in English with the replacement of 'thou' with 'you' as second person singular. Perhaps future Southerners will use 'they-all' as third person plural.
The great majority of IE6 installations today are in China [1], and I presume that is a region where _personal_ installs of IE6 still are quite prevalent. Of course, these people could have updated if they wanted, and this change won't affect IE6, so it's still a great challenge to get people to modernize.

[1] http://www.ie6countdown.com/
Cool reason but bad branding. How do I pronounce it? Mah-gel? May-jill? Then again, I guess they succeeded in making "Google" a household name ...
I find it hilarious that people naturally assume the U.S. is not an oppressive government. Why don't you ask the black population of your country whether they feel oppressed?
Since Chrome quietly updates, how do you think they'll handle updates that have significant UI changes? I guess you can have new versions have some features opt-in? That's what they've done with the GMail transition.
It's a good article, however I've always thought lvalue meant "left-value" (i.e. a value that can appear as the left part of an assignment) but this article says it stands for "locator value". Who's right? And then what does rvalue stand for if not "right-value"? Register value? I find no definite answer on Google.
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I agree that giving people a "get-out" clause allows for more honest answers. It pays off because you don't waste your time chasing the 'maybe' that turn out to be a 'no'.

I think that builds up more trust and pushes more towards a yes than any other technique.
'They' is perfectly acceptable, and has been for hundreds of years.

From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they :

The use of they, their, them, and themselves as pronouns of indefinite gender and indefinite number is well established in speech and writing, even in literary and formal contexts. This gives you the option of using the plural pronouns where you think they sound best, and of using the singular pronouns (as he, she, he or she, and their inflected forms) where you think they sound best.
Tell that to the human beings that just happened to be born native and want cars and ipods too. Freedom and autonomy can't be traded for goods and services.
Finally. They should have done this a really long time ago.
great news but a little bit too late in my opinion.
So this pretty much polls Twitter, Digg, Picasa, Youtube and Flickr for the search term you enter, then updates in real time?

I like the interface a lot, and it certainly seems well architected (in that I've had it open in three tabs simultaneously and not noticed any lag whatsoever).

However, to use an idea from the Intercom.io blog[1], what job would I hire this app to perform?

[1] http://blog.intercom.io/when-personas-fail-you/
It's best not to assume people have no clue, even if it seems like they don't. Because I do have a clue. Many of them. I am laden with clues. I don't know the transportation situation in most poor places here, but I doubt it's good if people are choosing a car over a bus or train. I know the poorest places in this suburban town are a mile or more from the grocery store across dangerous roads, and the nearest mass transit option is 20 miles away.
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Someone on welfare in the US probably has a nicer house than most people in Bandra or Koregoan Park. Sad but true.

I always think about this. That life in India and countries alike is so difficult, merely meeting the ends meet and getting yourself food, clothing and shelter requires you fight daily battles.

I mean with farmers committing suicide, crores of people below poverty line. Hunger and Malnutrition in one part of country. Children starving to death. And middle class earning barely enough to survive. We still consider ourselves fortunate if we can get the basic stuff right.

Now here some one is giving you $600 for doing nothing in a wonderful residence, food, clothing and shelter with a car to drive. And all the time in the world to spare.

And people are complaining?

I agree there is some corruption and scam going on in here, but really if you can buy a car you are anything but poor.
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Furthermore, apparently "future versions of IE will provide an option in the product for consumers to opt out of automatic upgrading".

Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-...
I'm sure Google can come up with interesting ways to advertise through Majel. They'll probably use the unique voice data to profile users and target ads even more effectively.
Works for me, in Paris with Orange (French ISP).
There is something about the hacker news community, people here are a little less 'cordial' sometimes. It probably has something to do with the way people who are technological have to deal with regular people (when it comes to technology) and then how they feel they can deal with people who are peers.

This is good when it allows honest feedback about an idea and products, but can also come across as coarse sometimes.
The "YouHaveDownloaded" webiste had, until a few days ago, a list of downloaded files for impossible addresses like 0.0.0.0 and 192.168.0.1.

Isn't this addresses easy to spoof? I thought they were only suited for scaring friends, not basing investigative articles.
Although they seem a contradiction my argument is that they took on a development life cycle that was far above their means.

I would have loved Firefox to come out on top as for me they changed the web when they introduced tabs but they have been slow on innovation since. I feel Chrome gave them a kick and they responded, companies shouldn't operate like that, innovation should continue regardless.

I say I wouldn't care to look because I have moved on, Chrome goes above and beyond what I want from a browser, speed and stability. If Chrome starts to go in the direction of how Firefox went I would have no issue in trying another browser. I don't have time for allegiance to a browser, I just need it to work.
This was my understanding as well. My mind abstracted "right-value" to "anything that can be assigned." If you look at the relations of lvalue and rvalue to the assignment operator (=), you can see that it's a consistent definition too.

It also follows the same rules in that 'rvalues are defined by exclusion.'
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yeah definitely -- Google Voice Search and all the work they put into building up the database/quality of voice recognition has been in place for years. I've tested voice search with many of the Siri-like statements and commands and they all work. The only thing is the device doesnt' talk back, seems like that means they're way past 50% complete on this 'feature'.
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I was referring to what the article said was its source : http://www.nikopik.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi

I mean... Do we have to trust YouHaveDownloaded.com ? Evidence seems scarce...
I agree with you, but in practice I've seen that even if a company wants to go distributed, they lack the knowledge on how to make the model actually work for them.

They resort to using the exact same process with more conference calls and emails. That clearly doesn't work as you miss many subtle communication queues.
Should be 15+ as this morning, my Ubuntu's update manager got chrome 16 for me (and many others, Linux, Mac and Win users).
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Can I ask a question, what phone do you have?
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Haha that shameless plug almost sounded natural. In all seriousness though, I get what you're saying and I actually have used LazyMeter! I think I even sent you guys an email on what I thought about it (I promise I didn't say anything mean). I stopped using it. It's a great idea but it only works if you work it. I haven't checked it out lately but back then the lack of a mobile app was a real barrier to usage. Without one you limit people to only checking up on themselves when they're at work or basically stationary. That's just not enough. But I hate to criticize so much without letting you know it's a cool app and I think it's really cool how you built it in AWS
You're ignoring pretty much all the situations that would stop me from wanting to use it: The vast majority of the time I use my phone for something other than conversations is spent in the presence of colleagues, family or commuting in situations where I would not be interacting with them, but where talking to my phone would potentially disturb them. Voice actions is not an alternative - I never use them for exactly this reason. The alternative is my phones touch interface.

If I "had to" interact with my phone in the middle of a conversation, it might be different, but that's a fringe case I very rarely encounter.
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Are you seriously begrudging us for our country being able to afford a higher minimum standard? My family was briefly on SSI decades ago, but my parents worked hard to get to a point where we didn't need it to survive. No one wants to have to rely on the social safety net, but I'm glad it's there. And I really hope that some day your country will be able to provide basic protections against destitution to its poor.
One thing I've noticed is another niche that doesn't quite fit into the "corporation blocking updates" bucket. VMs. I've used a few services at work that run on auto-started VM images and IE8 is installed on those images. It isn't that someone is blocking updates necessarily, it is just that it takes a human to actually go and update the main VM image and update the browser on it. This seems to make it persist longer than it should because VMs are either updated on some long time horizon or there is not a push to proactively change it if the current situation "just works".
The word lvalue was originally coined to mean "something that can be on the left side of an assignment."

Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, 2nd ed., p 47.
I think you'd have to compare the various fees and fine print as well. The US has a great credit card environment for people who don't actually ever need credit.

It becomes considerably less great for people who use those cards as anything other than a lower-risk debit card.
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$100 million in revenue... did they calculate that using Groupon accounting? meaning the retail price counts as revenue, even though it's sold at 50-70% off? And if they're selling stuff for other companies, then isn't the commission just the revenue, nothing more? I can't help but wonder if these numbers they quote are just greatly exaggerated.. I mean, they barely have a million members right now, and they can't all be buying stuff everyday.
> The problem is that many governments, also in Europe, still see the USA as a shining example which to follow.

I've read this same argument all over the place here on HackerNews. I don't see it. And yet a lot of HNers seem to be pretty confident about this idea. What substantiates this?

Edit: to be sure, my question is concerned with policy making, not with nationalism or anti-nationalism toward any particular nation.
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Siri has pretty much no interface. The AI/data part of the problem is much, much harder.
Where did I say "dim witted attempts to respond to poorly thought out strawmen" or "your post is entirely irrelevant"? Either you're confusing me with someone else or you don't understand the concept of quotes.
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I know the poorest places in this suburban town are a mile or more from the grocery store across dangerous roads, and the nearest mass transit option is 20 miles away.

That doesn't even begin to describe poor according to my definitions of poor.

But I agree, we have different yard sticks to measuring what exactly poor is.
> Apple has Siri, 3 month's later: "Introducing Siri for Android! I mean Majel!"

I think it's more like: Google has been researching conversational voice control for several years; Apple releases Siri; Google says "Oh dear they've beaten us to it, we'd better rush a release now even though we have only implemented 30% of what we planned."
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So do you generally stay away from dominant companies who are the ones innovating?