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This is actually a good point.

Hm. The concept video was released a year and a half before release. Microsoft obviously had to announce it, so third party devs could support it. But if you watch the video so much stuff is bullshit! ^^ Also it gave the competition a chance to react to it (Playstation Move? I don't own either and don't know which wave-your-hand-stuff is working better or has better games.)

Natal Project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAFbWE_5GvA

Comparison by CNet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeJkPN2smB8

It certainly built hype (but also derision. I remember many wouldn't take it serious and as hyperbole). I think Kinect would have been successful in a more truthful presentation. Like if Microsoft had done an Apple-like reveal and only shown the real product two months before release.
Google makes those videos for a long time now and usually they actually make it happen. I think just because you know some situations where it didn't work, it is not correct to assume that it is always a bad idea. Very likely we have a lot of high tech stuff today because of this kind of videos. It's just a way of presenting your idea in a quite understandable and exciting way. There are of course other things like Powerpoint slides, blog posts and so on, but in in the end what you do just depends on your budget and your available skillset.
I like the design and t he message.
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> "if you see something, just keep looking at it, and an agent (robot?) will be automatically dispatched".

Woah! Matrix takes this one step forward where the agent takes your body! Interesting idea.
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> Employees also saved £9,000 on the day, primarily through the reduction in commuting costs.

Yeah... most people have a season ticket, so that's not correct.
Is the job market so flooded that highly skilled labor is now offered for free? These kind of jobs skills are worth 70k, easy. Most kids are better off quitting college and working in the market, for pay, than finishing their degrees. Clever, though, to pay nothing for highly skilled labor under the guise of 'opportunity'. I think I'm going to adopt this strategy for hiring.
My guess: It's because O2 hasn't bothered to provide an work environment conducive to work.
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Serious question - how do you see us getting to there from where we are now?
Absolutely.

When you can build your own ships in this game with a changing interior i am sold. We are talking about the creator of Minecraft here, maybe he is the one who really get's this freedom stuff.
Well … our heroine does not only not speak, she does really nothing. She wakes up only to crawl out of the bed and lie down on the couch. And then she relaxes in the garden. While she is stalked by a guy. And only replying with smilies! (I guess she is just not that into him. Or Nokia didn't foresee in 2009 stuff like Siri.)
It looks nice to me too, if I press ctrl-+ twice. Maybe it is just that the font doesn't scale well enough for high resolutions.
But it is nothing like in the video.
OK I don't know much about this topic but shouldn't this be mitigated by EU laws ie. incorporate in some other EU country, open a local subsidiary, then sell equity/report profits (assuming there is a no double tax law) in parent company ? AFAIK some countries have very simple procedures to start a company, IIRC UK is was really popular around here because in my country you don't get access to things like Android/iOS store, can't withdraw from PayPal, etc. so it's simpler to operate as a UK business and the taxes are lower.
In the general public's eyes Macs are computers, so yes they are PCs. In the Appleland, "PC" is synonomous with "Microsoft Windows", and hence Apple Macs aren't PCs.

I had a long time Apple user ask me if I had a Mac or PC. I was using Ubuntu Linux at the time, so I said PC :P
I've worked at home for the past 5 years and I find that it's a bit of a mixed bag: While I'm able to have epic work sessions at home lasting far longer than a typical work day (I usually work one or two all-nighters throughout the week), I'd have to say I work more consistently in an office setting.

With that said, offices come in so many shapes, sizes, and varieties. Some are absolutely hell, while others look like adult theme parks!
The interesting part is that I still haven't seen one traditional "virus"

Originally, when it was just us geeks using computers, 'virus', 'malware', 'trojan', etc. where different terms for different things.

Now a days, 'virus' is used by the general public & media to refer to any sort of bad programme that should be removed.
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I highly highly doubt we'll see a day when there are significant exploits for Joe Soap Mac User from a bug in bash or gcc. Those are not software that Joe Soap is likely to have install (e.g. gcc), or will be hard for a website to run.
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I've spent a lot of time adding UI features to my new (mostly CRUD) webapp that I know I'm going to either tweak or totally override via javascript/ajax. I feel an obligation to get the app working with no javascript/jquery, even though I know that the group of people using the site with javascript turned off are going to very small.

Is this the "right" way to be doing this? Should I just be using javascript based UI elements and ajax from the start? Is there a standard practice with regards to this issue?
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As much as it sounds like a great idea, I think it would spoil the rose-tinted spectacles effect of memory. You'd be faced with the reality things might not have been as great as you thought.
People like working from home. They don't have to commute, they can sit a watch telly, they can go into the garden. Lovely.

Under those circumstances how many people are going to come back and say 'actually I was less productive, I don't think you should let me work from home again.'
Interesting, yes like social news aggregation it's quite possible to end creating reality-bubbles. I still feel like bumping into interesting people by trial-and-error is less than optimal, but I am generally introverted so my number of trials may be below average.

But beyond filtering of people, there's many other social-augmentation things you could do - I'd quite like a face-recognition remind me of their name thing. Or people to annotate people with notes so I can say last time I bumped into them we were talking about X.
Important note: this experiment lasted for one day. People are known to respond positively to change, regardless of what the change was.
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Well, some will drive and a lot will get a coffee or breakfast to drink and eat on the train, and save money too on the cost of lunch which can be made more cheaply at home. Frankly, I'm surprised that it was only £9k...that's only £3/person, i.e. a coffee from Starbucks. I would have expected them to save much more.
Redis can store binary data -- and YouPorn's Redis cluster apparently handles 300K queries per second. Those queries obviously aren't all page views (the site only peaks at 4000 PVs per second).

Why can't you store video in a database? YouPorn says that Redis is its primary data store.
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I also am extremely skeptical.
I think if I watched everything there would certainly be things that make me think "wow, was I that much of a dick?", and hopefully other things that I'd be proud of and had forgotten.

But really I want the ability to better re-visit a fairly small number of specific memories, ones that I'm pretty confident I remember the emotions and what happened well, just wish I could see them better.
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I've seen pages where the Text Ads have the same Style as the overall page. The only thing that sets the Ad apart is a small grey text 'Ads' or the like.

I've may have seen far more of such pages. But obviously i can't tell since they're near-impossible to spot the Ads.

The trend is keeping things "by the book" from search engines point of view, And manipulate humans in subtle ways
by confusing contents and ads.
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This is not the future I want. I already got into the habit of not researching things myself but rather finding a quick answer on Google. Now they take this approach into the real life. You need to go somewhere? Google will carefully plan a route for you. Their eventual goal is to route us throughout our entire lifes. No, thanks.
The big example usually given is France. Under French law there are several "moral rights" like anthologizing. Here's the best way I can express this: when _why left the Ruby community and deleted his online presence, several people created collections of all of the open-source software which _why had written, without _why's permission. That sort of collection is illegal under French law; an English translation of the relevant statute says, "The author alone shall have the right to make a collection of his articles and speeches and to publish them or to authorize their publication in such form." That right is not transferable, you can't get rid of it, etc.

There is a related nasty moral right in France about withdrawing your copyrighted works -- "Notwithstanding assignment of his right of exploitation, the author shall enjoy a right to reconsider or of withdrawal, even after publication of his work, with respect to the assignee." If I am reading the other terms on this page right, that might not apply to software in particular, but it could probably apply to Creative Commons licensed writing, e.g. Wikipedia.

Both of those quotes are from http://195.83.177.9/code/liste.phtml?lang=uk&c=36&r=... .

Even worse, French law does not permit a "mostly complete" copyright contract, as I understand the legal history -- so the French courts have actually said things like, "this contract tries to give away your moral rights, that's legally impossible, so the whole license is legal nonsense, so there never was a license, so it is totally proprietary."
I hate wasting time on sites like ebay, but inevitably get sucked into them every now and then. I'd gladly pay you ten bucks a month to surface stuff I might want, even if I had to do some initial setup work.

For example if you see an X61 with the SXGA+ screen on a buy now price, I want to know (rare as rocking horse poo). Or Lego with at least 30% off is always good for my boy or birthday presents.

You'd need to err on the side of caution, because I'd rather miss stuff than be spammed, but thankfully that makes your job easier!
I like the idea of small departments without too many procedural overheads, although a couple of difficulties may be that:

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I like it. Looks slick and as a native iOs dev I'd strongly consider it when I want to work with more complex web views for rapid iteration.

A lot of PhoneGap/Web View apps are second rate on the UI front, so if you can help developers improve that experience without a lot of work I'd say you're onto a winner.

I also think you're on the right track with your A/B testing plans - doing this from scratch can be a huge chunk of work!
Just removed Firefox for Ubuntu from my system. I've been using Firefox for 8 years under both Windows and Linux, and stuck with it despite all the bugs, but this is outrageous. I won't miss it. Chrome is far better.
I'd have to second this - it used to really frustrate me but now I keep using Google Voice because their transcriptions make for some great comedy. They are always painfully off but constant entertainment.
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So right..HN is not for 'bashing' anyone..It was created to be a venue for interesting and thought-provoking discussions.

But I must say..this was interesting! I didn't know corporate companies could sink so 'low'...
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I think the main reason people may be more productive working at home is less interruptions. It's too easy to ask something that was not really needed if your coworker is 5 meters away from you... And even when some interaction is needed if people are not physically in the same place they'll use the email that does not need to interrupt the receiver.
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I noticed this a lot with the regional languages. For example searchig for a simple word 'bhabhi' (this means brother's wife) returns a whole lot of erotic stories instead of the meaning of it or its usage etc. Looks like Google does not downrank regional porn/erotica sites.
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> Google makes those videos for a long time now and usually they actually make it happen.

Do you have have links to any of them handy? It would be interesting to compare the concept video to the real product.
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Ask HN: Can we safely rely on HTTP HEAD to check remote filesizes?
I'm currently implementing a system that will download external resources and poll them regularly for updates, to redistribute further to mobile devices.

The external URL's can be coming from anywhere, as long as it's a valid HTTP url.

The HTTP 1.1 spec says that HEAD is the proper method to check stuff like this, but i'm not sure on what percentage of servers actally implements this properly. Does anybody have any stats on this? Experiences? Do you support it yourself?
Definitely cool, in my opinion. Nothing better than having your 4 year old reveal some new discovery that brings a lot of mirth to the scene .. ;)
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It's not about the noise in general. It's about the sonic boom. For example, Concorde's sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOyeuDKAlg
I have some sympathy for the article writer. S/he was perhaps a bit hyperbolic.

I'd suggest just taking business cards to the parties; meet people, swap cards, get a few details, and then leave when it gets too much. That's really the only use you'll get from them. But at least you've made the introduction and a follow-up email a few days later will get some results.

Excessive drinking is a problem. In the UK we have a concept of "Units of alcohol" to try to help people understand how much alcohol they drink. Men should have no more than 3 or 4 units per day. (women no more than 2 or 3. (Current advice is none at all while pregnant, but that's based on a precautionary principle because the safe limit isn't known, rather than known harm at 1 unit per week.)) They also recommend some drink free days each week, and strongly suggest that units cannot be "saved up" to use later in the week. (EG: Drink free monday through thursday then fockin' blindo friday and saturday.) One unit of alcohol used to be a pub measure of spirits, or half a pint of beer, or a small glass of wine. Because alcohol strength has increased beer and wine are often more than one unit in a pub measure.

One unit is 125 ml of wine at 8% Alcohol by Volume. Most wine is sold in 150 ml or 175 ml (for a small glass) and 250 ml for a large glass. Most wine is at least 10% ABV, but 12% is not uncommon.

This nice chart shows 250 ml at 12%ABV is 3 units. One large glass a day is skirting the safe drinking limits.

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Units_of_alcohol_char...)

It's easy to see that people drinking a couple of glasses of wine in the evenings after work do not see themselves as having a problem with alcohol. Add in extra social time drinking and some people get very high levels of alcohol.

It really is a problem in the UK.

This article mentions someone drinking a remarkable amount:

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-15997695)

But these articles mention much more reasonable drinking is also a problem:

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16869618)

(Very annoyingly they say things like "triples the risk of mouth cancer" which is meaningless to most people.)

And this article recommends some time to recover after heavy drinking:

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15415713)

This article has some suggestions about binge drinking in the UK. We have weird pubs - vertical drinking environments - where seating is limited, music is noisy, food isn't served. All these things increase the amount that people drink. While it's technically illegal to serve someone who is drunk I've never ever seen anyone refused alcohol, and I have seen many people barely able to ask for the drink being served.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16466646)
1987. Right when Apple was starting to fall apart under Sculley. I think you just proved his point.
As soon as the spec popped up, I've been into implementing DCPU-16 in Python on my own too, and I quickly encountered the same issue. Currently, my Cell-equivalent class (which I called Pointer) defines __call__, so I can do a() to read and a(data) to set.

It arguably sucks less, but I'm looking for something better and currently trying various solutions involving __getitem__, closures, function attributes, decorators and a sprinkle of metaprogramming to keep things nicely separated and much less C-ish.

I've already defined opcodes this way (decorator+func) which makes it very descriptive and almost reduces the opcode dispatcher to a one-liner.
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