skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used an iOS device since I switched to the Galaxy Nexus about 5 months ago. How does this compare to Google Now on android 4.1?

In general I've been very pleased with voice search on Google Now -- just reading the blog post I wasn't too amazed by the examples they gave for iOS because it sounds identical to what Google Now provides. I assumed that Google would release these features for android before iOS, but am am surprised by the overwhelmingly positive comments others here have to say here. Can anyone do a comparison and shed some light?

I do have to say that Google Now is sometimes rather slow -- the voice recognition is very fast (type as you talk realtime) but web search can sometimes take 10+ seconds to load even when already connected to wifi. Other times, it just works.
Here is a whole gamified dating concept video http://designtaxi.com/news/353161/The-Future-Of-Dating/

Such extrapolations rarely come to pass. Yes there might be new crazy services and some people will use them. But will a significant proportion of the population use them often? Will it change the world? Did foursquare? Did Twitter?

No. Some things just stay in their bubbles. There will be new crazed trends that come along and everyone will forget check ins, social networks, gamification and do them.

Reality shows used to be the new thing. So are there run a startup reality shows today? Bitcoins are a new currency. Will people start their own currencies and governments in 15 years? Instead of startups you start governments! Then 3D printers can make military drones and these governments fight each other!

Fortunately most trends just don't get very far. There is a constant stream of new trends to divert people's attention.
Every two to three years as a long term strategy? All they need to do is get on the super hero kick movie model.
1. Publish Trilogy
2. Reboot
3. Repeat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindr
Jar Jar Binks and Donald Duck. How fitting.
Really? I'm not being sarcastic at all. Please share.

EDIT: Despite Fox News, the Fox network broadcasts left-leaning shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad, which regularly mock Fox News. 20th Century Fox distributes a lot of films without any discernable agenda[1], even backing films like Avatar, or the Wall Street sequel. I'm convinced that News Corporation is entirely mercenary in its agenda and only started Fox News because right-wing cable news was a wide open opportunity in the late 1990's.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_20th_Century_Fox_films
Interesting that Lucas made a big deal of the importance of "controlling his own destiny" by owning the studio himself, but apparently no longer thinks that's such a big deal. Seems to me that he's changed his tune since the sequel trilogy weren't a great critical hit.
Do agree about apriori biased jury but since most of the people voting for extension are unaffected/unbiased that margin spoke loudest. Plus I control my own destiny more than some arbitrary date divinely hurled from the California clouds.

Kind of a debate class thing. I prefer to argue to the Aramaic death about things I don't care about.
Yeah, I was going to say, I know of at least one web site with lots of people on it where people do most of this. There is no explicit rating of people though, but there is certainly implicit: you see how many "likes" they get, how many followers, comments, etc. You know who's "good" at your kink and who's new, etc.

In this particular site, it's actually pretty well done. I think that they accomplish a great "this is a useful service for a portion of the population that areinterested in whips and chains" without crossing into "oh wow, this is totally creepy".

That said... I think that the author's overall point re: the desecration of meaningful things by turning them into cheap online experiences is totally valid. I am also depressed by the direction the world is going, and continually contemplating what I can do about it.
Meh. This is a touch over-the-top.

You know what Facebook is to me nowadays? It's another flavor of Gmail. Sometimes I send and receive messages there. It's plumbing. Sometimes I turn the spigot on for some updates, then turn it off and go about my day.

I think pro-social and anti-social pundits are both wrong about the upside and downside of social. Social is neither the next giant leap forward, nor is it the downfall of humanity. It's kinda like Gmail.
I thought this was going to be 'leading indicators of enraged users'... which would be a pretty interesting thing to get analytics on to identify user pain.

Erratic mouse movements, page refreshes, etc ;)
There are a lot of factors in overhead but 20 - 40% would be right assuming all the common expenses for this kind of business. I also assume they employ their cleaners and aren't all contractors.

Sure they have some cash but this is a service business with the biggest money to be made in recurring customers. Providing a deep discount upfront and then having to adjust later to make a profit seems short sighted.
Could you explain why your example isn't just a hidden variable explanation, which as we know from measurements of Bell's Inequality ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem ), cannot result in a theory compatible with both locality and the predictions of quantum mechanics.
Ask HN: language recommendations for a compact, portable daemon?
I'm planning to build a daemon that uploads monitoring data to an online service. Customers will install the daemon on the computers they wish to monitor. I'm looking for advice on the best language / platform to use. Criteria (in roughly descending importance):

* Minimal setup hassle for our users, across all commonly used Unix (especially Linux) variants. This argues for a language for which most users will have the runtime already installed, or failing that, trivial to install from their package manager.

* Good basic libraries for filesystem and network access, including HTTP+SSL.

* Stable -- can expect to run for months at a time without hiccups or memory leaks.

* Reasonable performance -- e.g. able to read 1MB/sec of data from disk, lightly massage it, compress it, and push it to the network, with a fraction of a CPU core.

* Reasonable memory overhead. (Preferably able to run a 5000-line program, using libraries such as HTTP and SSL, and working with ~1MB of objects, in ~10MB of RAM.)

* Portable to Windows and OS/X without undue difficulty.

Anyone with experience deploying a background daemon across multiple OS configurations? Two obvious candidates seem to be Python and Java. Java would be more convenient for us, but I wonder if Python might be better for ease of installation, and perhaps memory overhead.
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The relation cost-benefit seems pretty good. You are going to spend 500 USD per day to charge 150 USD per hour. Also, the quality of the instructors is something worth it.
How about "Disney's Indiana Jones"
the way i see it, jar jar binks and the associated atrocities marked a sharp drop in the quality of the series anyway. there's nothing worse disney can really do to it, and they might just do something better.
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(Sorry, can't reply to the real comment, too nested.)

@aaronblohowiak, just because we reserve the right to shut something down doesn't mean that we will.

We'll learn from real use what people actually do. We have our own ideas about what we expect the use cases to be, but we may be completely surprised by the popular uses. If our pricing model doesn't make sense for what people want to do with Webscript, we'll certainly adjust. Thanks for the feedback.
Awesome, Episode 7. Think I might watch 5 and 6 again soon.
Between Google Now, local voice recognition and Google's recent attempts to extract more factual data out of search results, they've created and are expanding some amazing stuff.

With the data that Google has, I can ask it math questions, ask it questions about release dates of movies or video games. And now I can query that data through Google Now (or will be able to as they pipe through from that dataset to exposing it through Google Now).

Funny, even with some of the features just in 4.2, Now became as much or more of an assistant than Siri. I still can't get over it will scan my email for packages and give me notifications about it. That to me is the epitome of why I love what Google does. They are good at data.
After Sandy
This is true unless you can't pay, in which case you will still be treated and the taxpayer will foot the bill under EMTALA.

Note that this only works for emergency room care. Emergency rooms don't provide cancer treatment or dental surgery or lots of other things we consider to be medical problems. And even for problems that the ER will treat, they will only get you stable: so, if you have a heart attack, they'll stabilize you, but they won't put in stents or do any of the followup care that a good cardiologist would do in the weeks after your heart attack.
This Google Talk from last year provides an argument and interpretation of this that's fairly understandable with a programmer's mindset:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc&sns=em
DNSSEC does not cause DNS amplification attacks. It just makes them worse. If we want to stop DNS amplification attacks, "not doing DNSSEC" isn't the fix. Closing down open redirectors is. If we turned off DNSSEC tomorrow, we'd still see these attacks.
If this is true I'm definitely jumping on the bandwagon. I can afford 8$ for the first year to test the market. I have a lot of ideas I wish to mesh into Windows Phone applications. :)

Now, the market lets people from my country, Bolivia, create applications but do I still need a credit card to pay? Can I use a direct wire transfer or moneygram?
All of what you say is wise, but the engineer doesn't work for the studio and isn't on Doom 3's release timeline. He made the game's frame rate 15% faster of his own volition simply because he could. So it's wrapped in a sales pitch, oh well.

"I see something I can improve, but I had better not improve it; were I to work at id, my time would probably be more valuably spent on other things."

I wish you'd just back off and laud the improvement rather than fitting it into your model of game development and continuing to double down on a snarky, dismissive comment that basically shits on somebody else's work. I certainly appreciate that you've worked in professional game development, but come on, someone did something cool. I'm sorry that it isn't cool enough for you or doesn't use the measurements you prefer.

Attitudes like yours hurt our industry as a whole.
"This isn't called webscript.io. It's called "webscript". It's beyond pretentious."

I have to say I think that's in the eye of the beholder. What's wrong with a simple name for site, even if it has a generic meaning already?

"There's little in it that shows that the team has the level of skills needed to write a platform."

What would you want to see on the site that would show this better? Why does using Bootstrap matter, or was that an unrelated observation?
I wonder what your thoughts are on the GPL. Browsewrap? Check. This or any later version? Check.
As much as the idea of Ep. 7 pains me, I wouldn't mind seeing Brad Bird direct it. He took another classic franchise that I had grown to hate (Mission: Impossible), and made it fun again. He also has close ties to Disney/Pixar.
My guess is that this has something to do with the horrendous updates to and broken pieces of the App Store. The iOS version got quicker but it's still like searching half-blind. There still lots of little broken services in the Mac OS X version. Try going to company's profile and try to sort their apps by popularity. As excited as I am about iTunes 11, I'll be happy about the delay if that can make things better.
Usual disclaimers: I am not a scientist and my knowledge of quantum mechanics is very minimal.

However...
"Repeated experiments have verified that this works even when the measurements are performed more quickly than light could travel between the sites of measurement"

What interests me at this stage is not 'why' entanglement works, but rather how it can be used. The article indicates that repeated experiments have verified it appears to be a real process, where actions on one particle can influence another particle (seemingly) no matter how far away, so why can't we use it for communication? To use a simple example, if I encode data as movement in the 'sender' particle, and the movement can be monitored in the 'receiver' particle, then you can have a system for sending messages.

Seems to me the need to control the internal state of the particles to communicate may be unnecessary. Perhaps to explore further, can anyone here the types of measurable phenomena that have been seen to be mirrored in entangled particles (the ones you know of, anyway)? Would particle spin be one example? Thanks!
For those fretting the future, it will be hard for Disney to fuck up the franchise more than Lucas did with The Phantom Menace.

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episo...
What you are describing is a "hidden variable theory", but it has been shown (See "Bell's Theorem") such a theory cannot be true. QM is stranger than that.
Like with "Disney's The Avengers"?
I think it's possible that it's actually just some people wanting to control other people (and setting their sights on weaker people to improve chances of success), and given the biological differences between men and women that leave women with significantly less muscle mass and mass in general, for any given male choosing to act in this way, women are on average easier targets.
We all have pandoc, and <3, and we can all choose between RST and Markdown, and we all know RST is a better spec (as in, there is one), but we keep on coming back to MD.

I suspect the reason is that MD does conform to the end-to-end principle. Having a spec is, itself, putting too much intelligence in the pipes. Not having a spec leaves all the intelligence into the ends: The person who's writing (which is very bad at following rules and specs) and the parser program (which can be as elaborate as needed).

That is why no spec (and Gruber's attitude) is a feature.
Unless I've missed something, you don't need Windows 8 at all. Could you point us to that requirement?
Upvoted for comic genius. I appreciate you stcredzero.
Unfortunately smaller Peer 1 companies like mine were told that power was going to be shut and we therefore brought down our servers.

We're still down. I'm happy for FogCreek, and I'm generally happy with Peer 1, but I wish they would have been honest with everyone in this situation.
Ask HN: How do you know you've built good enough MVP?
I'm working on my first web application and wondering when to stop working on features and release the application for testing to get user feedback. I'd love to hear ideas/comments on this topic from fellow hackers.
> 1. Get off my lawn

Hey that's my line. I've been coding for 32 years.
It would actually be good to be able to get leading indicators of enraged users too!
Fun, thanks for posting.

If this puts anyone in the mood to receive some Bob Ross affirmations, I really enjoyed PBS's Bob Ross remix made earlier this year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA
This article is clearly trying to sell licenses for a commercial product based on unsupported, possibly deceptive claims. I don't laud that. If the goal here is to prove the value of this analysis software, they should be proving it in terms of the value it will produce for an actual company developing software - if they're proving value for a game studio, it should probably be in the context I provided above. For other kinds of developers, maybe they have infinite time and their constrained resource is engineer knowledge - in that case this software could be valuable. But you don't demonstrate that using video games.

Hacker News isn't about selling things to managers who make purchasing decisions by lying to them, last time I checked.
Disney Buys Lucasfilm For $4.05B, Star Wars VII in 2015
This seems like a stupid solution. Did they fix the FTP bounce attack by disabling all PORT commands forever? No. They disabled PORT being used for any host except the originator. Similarly, they could compromise here by only enabling DNSSEC for authorized clients, and keep the rest of the DNS records open for the world the way they work now.

This of course does nothing to fix the pink elephant of protocols that rely on a source address in a UDP packet to shovel off data without any limits. DNSSEC is just one single feature that can be abused; i'm sure there are many more available in other protocols, and more yet to be invented.
> [...] which is a fancy way of saying that there's a hidden variable.

I'd say it's a less fancy (and more specific) way of saying "hidden variable." I read the parent as saying, "I don't understand why there can't be a hidden variable" which is quite a different thing than saying "this can work without a hidden variable: [thing involving hidden variable]".
Any chance we can add 'Django' to the front of the title please? 'REST framework 2 released' is a little misleading. The article is titled 'Django REST framework 2' any, so it would be more consistent anyway.
Wasn't the lore of Lucas having the entire series 'practically written/envisioned' debunked after people saw how the 'new' trilogy turned out? (ex. metachlorian)
How about a reboot of episodes 1-3?
Fine with me. I am generally sick of franchises anyways. It is about time we started making new franchises.
News Corp, owned by Rupert Murdoch. Koch Industries, owned by Koch brothers. I could go on...
Then those people wont mind if they're denied treatment after irresponsibly allowing themselves to be hit by a drunk driver.
I agree - the simplicity of the service is great. Can immediately see what it does.

For example do those other services come with storage? I can't tell.

For parse, it looks like you need to install a command line application. Not useful if your desktop is Windoz.

I doubt anyone is going to be building huge applications on webscript.io (yet!) but for simple little things (aka weekend projects) it should work great.
Introduction to Monetary Policy
Upcoming tools for Windows Phone Devs
This is awesome.

Note for non-Americans: The app only speaks results back if your selected voice search app is 'English (US)'.
Actually, a Galaxy Quest style tribute/parody of Star Wars featuring Buzz Lightyear might be worthwhile.
I think this Collegehumor sketch is relevant: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6415974/foursquare-for-sex
It's an unwinnable argument, but I just wanted to vehemently disagree with you anyway (and I usually do disagree with you).

Good day to you sir.
"That doesn't mean every other term of a browse-wrap TOS would necessarily fail in court."

Not to mention the fact that what happened in this court on this issue would not necessarily happen in every court viewing the same facts. Or whether in some cases a company makes a conscious decision to do what they know might fail in order not to add friction to the process. Clean up the mess afterwords, get the extra business now. "Polute the river and if we get get caught and fined, pay the fine!"

Separately, what I would like that I haven't seen in this thread are some thoughts on how a company like Zappos could have made this type of a mistake if it is so obvious.
Indeed. I really wish there was a way to use this instead of Siri with the standard home button shortcut. Pretty much all it's missing is a way to do basic phone interaction (call X, text Y, remind me tomorrow) which should be pretty simple considering they apparently have real time voice recognition.
I don't really know much about the movie business, but my understanding is that new companies are incorporated for each individual movie project. The investors (of cash, franchise IP, or time) receive shares in that movie's corporation. Presumably the profits are then paid out as dividends, or the company is dissolved, and assets are distributed. That would explain why George Lucas never suffered any dilution on Lucasfilm, which presumably is just a shell whose main purpose is ownership of the various franchises and holding shares in the various sub-companies.
Pretty much all of them seem fairly consistently "pro establishment". Sure you'll see a lot of inconsistency in left vs right wing politics coming out of most companies in this class, but the underlying message is pretty damn uniform.
Joss Whedon has been known to take home from the Disney offices large sacks with big green dollar signs printed upon them.
You could make the same arguments that adding browser
bookmarks or more apps would clutter your home screen. I'm not suggesting that all contacts be added to the home screen, just a few that I call every day.
Non-physicst here. What do you think of Caroline Thompson's work, like:

"Chaotic Ball" model,local realism and the Bell test loopholes

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150

...I've always wondered if much of the Einstein-was-wrong business is really a category error. I personally liked:

Clearing up Mysteries - The Original Goal
http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/cmystery.pdf

" ...we must keep in mind that Einstein's thinking is always on the ontological level; the purpose of the EPR argument was to show that the QM state vector cannot be a representation of the "real physical situation" of a system. Bohr had never claimed that it was, although his strange way of expressing himself often led others to think that he was claiming this.

From his reply to EPR, we find that Bohr's position was like this:

"You may decide, of your own free will, which experiment to do. If you do experiment E1 you will get result R1. If you do E2 you will get R2. Since it is fundamentally impossible to do both on the same system, and the present theory correctly predicts the results of either, how can you say that the theory is incomplete? What more can one ask of a theory?"

While it is easy to understand and agree with this on the epistemological level, the answer that I and many others would give is that we expect a physical theory to do more than merely predict experimental results in the manner of an empirical equation; we want to come down to Einstein's ontological level and understand what is happening when an atom emits light, when a spin enters a Stern-Gerlach magnet, etc. The Copenhagen theory, having no answer to any question of the form: "What is really happening when - - - ?", forbids us to ask such questions and tries to persuade us that it is philosophically naive to want to know what is happening. But I do want to know, and I do not think this is naive; and so for me QM is not a physical theory at all, only an empty mathematical shell in which a future theory may, perhaps, be built."
I document my puppet configurations in Leo (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html) taking full advantage of Leo's ability to represent directed acyclic graphs natively.

There are lots of things I'd like to improve in Leo that involve chucking its current code base (e.g.: back end storage is XML and thus version control hostile; front end is not a web browser; acyclic should get dropped from "rooted, ordered, acyclic graph"), but until that bit of brilliance dawns over the world, I'll continue to use Leo.