skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The voice recognition is verging on instantaneous.

Exactly! Shows you how much it has recognized as you speak. Immediate feedback. More important is the speed of getting back results. Google Now is certainly a little faster in that regard as well.

Reminded me of a 21 questions test with Siri and Google Now (on a Nexus with Android 4.1 I think) side by side as they listened simultaneously. It's interesting to see how both perform in different scenarios. Generally when Google search has the answer Google Now is a little faster. When Google search doesn't have a direct answer Google Now boils down to Google Search results - right there - as opposed to an offer to do a web search. In my experience Siri tends to have an answer more often.

The general theme was:

1. Questions that get answered by Wolfram Alpha were slower on Siri. In one test Wolfram Alpha didn't have an answer and Siri offered a web search where as Google's graph did have an answer.

2. For requests like "Call BestBuy" Siri looked up BestBuy stores and offered you the choice of which one to call where as Google Now said there were no numbers for BestBuy in the phonebook.

3. Sports questions (which I don't quite care about personally, sorry) tend to be answered way better by Siri. I remember a question about which sports personalities was taller and Siri had an direct answer with other stats whereas Google Now was a list of search result links - no ads yet. It was the same thing for another sports trivia question.

4. Siri would sometimes have to wait - almost like a timeout - on a response from Apple. Google Now didn't face such issues.

5. In some case Siri would take a little longer but give back more information - when you talk about restaurants it'll include reviews, price range and distance.

Source: http://youtu.be/z_pclCFpjgw (video)
Wow, this is fantastic. Eddy Cue has a tough road ahead getting Siri even to this level, I think.

Google, please release your maps app for iOS now!
Please don't use a cop out like this. I don't think that writing someone off is very helpful to the discussion, and it's made worse when you don't explain yourself.

To respond to papsosouid:

I'll be very honest, I have little experience with most of the skills that others on HN commonly have (lots of code experience, tinkering with projects, etc) so I can only speak to what I think about BootStrap.

For me, BootStrap is a great tool to make web pages in a way that:

1. I know will work.

2. I know will look acceptable.

It's rather like the Ikea of CSS. It's simple, clear, and accessible for someone with little design sense or experience (like me!).

I feel like that was part of your underlying question: "Why do people use this?"

The other part of your question would be "How is this a framework?"

Looking at Wikipedia[0], a framework is a set of generic functions/tools that can be changed by the user to fit their needs. Based off of that definition, I feel that this very well fits what BootStrap is. It's a set of pre-made tools (CSS classes) that can be easily modified to fit specific cases.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework
Is there a reason you're writing another daemon? Have you seen http://fluentd.org/ which seems to already have packages for many OSes as well as plugins.
Most any article that says we're moving /toward/ some sort of new technology based sex solution is most likely missing many examples of it having happened well before the author even thought of the topic.

http://bedposted.com/
http://ijustmadelove.com

Lesson: Sex is probably smarter and faster than you. (I say this having run a site on sex and technology for near 8 years now. I now accept being constantly comfortably behind the curve.)
To this I say: http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
Under "System Requirements"
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3547...
Because we can measure a difference empirically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Practical_expe...
Respect Paul, very considerate boss
I got this from the ToFu blog link in the article:

reporter: 你幸福吗？ (ni xingfu ma? or "are you happy?")

migrant worker: 不，我姓曾。 (bu, wo xing zeng. or "my name is zeng").

It plays on a pun of two words that are pronounced "xing," with different tones. The idea is that the migrant worker might have purposely misunderstood the question to avoid answering it with a negative that would have made someone angry.
Contractor vs. Employee would be one easy difference. Cleaning is a more specific task. I'm guessing they have a list of "do's and don't" for the 2 people @ $65 rate. If you have someone performing random "on demand" tasks paid after completion, they could easily just be 1099's. Profit could be similar.
DNSSEC doesn't cause DNS amplification attacks. It just makes them much, much worse.

Meanwhile, DNSSEC itself provides minimal value (all online commerce on the Internet happens without DNSSEC today, and to a useful first approximation, none of today's online fraud depends on spoofing DNS).
Meltdown, a description of life at MIT
Google doesn't teach your kids the narrative structure against which they measure their own lives.
Not a Bubble... At All (Instagram vs. Lucasfilm)
Great to see another lua based service. I'm running http://geolua.com/ which also uses Python (and even gunicorn) for the web interface and lua (in a custom libevent based server) for running user provided lua code. I sandboxed lua using chroot, a custom allocator function, runtime limits using signals and an "outer" lua environment which interfaces with the python code. The inner environment should be safe. I guess :-)

How do you handle 'a = " "; while true do a = a .. a end'? Do you spawn individual processes with process limits? Which version of lua are you using? Why not luajit2?
Great course, I watched a few videos as reference.
I was already using IFTTT when I found Zapier, but was immediately impressed that the latter seemed serious about tackling the more business-oriented apps. There are several services to help me integrate the usual suspects of Twitter, Evernote, etc. Less common, however, are pre-built connectors for, say, Zoho CRM.
Oh, now they're lying? Care to back that one up? That's a steep accusation that you should probably reconsider attaching to your name.

They wrote a tool to find things to parallelize. They parallelize them, the code gets faster. I realize that it isn't the faster you would prefer, but they picked an accessible target that everybody could understand. It isn't as cool if they say "we made Excel render graphs 15% faster" or "we made MP3 transcoding 15% faster". They just made a code base faster using their tool, that's all.

If they had made a video editor faster and you'd worked on video editors all your life, I'm sure you'd be here shitting on the achievement as well. They're not a game development shop. They picked a game to screw around with. They made it quicker. It just happens to be your pet area, so you absolutely cannot stand that someone figured out how to do something in your little world that you wouldn't think of.

I'm impressed you've upgraded to outright calling them liars now rather than just admit, maybe, you might be wrong.
Between this, the unlocked/contact free prices for the Nexus 4 and google maps? I'm typically an iOS guy and I'm right with you. If only they had put LTE in the Nexus 4!
I seriously doubt that Apple wants to be in the content biz any more than they already are with their first party apps. I'd guess Steve was fairly cognizant of the fact that the decline of Sony was directly related to their media acquisitions in the late 80's. When the media people get seats at the big table you develop an institutional hostility to the sorts of disruptive devices that Apple wants to build and Sony used to. Instead you get things like Ultraviolet, rootkits and the George Hotz fiasco.
A FAQ/Resource of the knowledge that gets submitted via our blogs, our code, our recommendations, our solutions. While many submissions are news, a lot is also problem solving and solution sharing.

Think about it - the people contributing here have some of the most valuable grey matter in the world. They are coming up with tomorrow's technology. Obviously not all of them want to share that, but many share their knowledge and experiences in hindsight.

The solutions that HNers implement today filter down into the common practices employed by the masses tomorrow.
He's getting upvoted because it had to be said... finally.
Would you be comfortable if Murdoch managed to get his hands on this cultural keiretsu?
And for a user-centric analysis of experience on ijml (versus the fevered rant of the original post), check out this alt.chi paper: http://altchi.org/login.php?action=showsubmission&id=117...;
Probably the wrong choice of words. He did help bring in a lot of creative people, however. I'm just wondering if this will follow the same line of thinking - there's quite a lot of talented people who work for the Lucas properties.
Peggy hill is angry!
Does SQL Server still install with sa enabled and a blank password? Does it even allow blank passwords?
It would be a stupid solution if DNSSEC had some vital role to play in Internet security. But it clearly doesn't, as evidenced by the fact that virtually all high-volume commercial transactions conducted in the industrialized world in 2012 hit the Internet, and none of it is protected by DNSSEC.

If I had to draw a pie chart explaining the rationale behind deploying DNSSEC, a 1/3 slice of that pie would be labeled "IETF's misguided effort to replace the broken TLS CA PKI with yet another PKI controlled largely by the same giant businesses", and the remaining 2/3 slice would be labeled "Self-perpetuating fallacy that DNS must be SEC'd the way IP was (unsuccessfully) SEC'd", or, less charitably, "Windmill tilting exercise on the part of standards bodies".
Betable is the Future of Sports Betting
LucasArts hasn't existed in any real capacity for the last five years or so anyway, they've just been a licensing house. At least under Disney there is the possibility of finding some talent (unlikely, but possible).
Too bad Google isn't doing that much advertising of this for its own Android phones. Because Samsung sure as hell won't do it. They'd rather advertise their own bad replica of Siri.
But it _could_ issue reminders, set appointments, and send messages if channeled through google's servers couldn't it? I'm sure there are many iOS users like myself who point the default apps at Google's calendars and mail. If the app calls back to google and says "put x on calendar for authenticated user y" then it would show up in the iOS apps.
AS/400 aka "i" is JITed; 360 aka "z" is directly executed.
There are some interesting ways iOS uses fabric patterns, it's quite clever. But I don't think that making things look like their old-school equivalents really helps people, rather hinders.
I haven't used Rudix, but I've had great success using Brew; I switch between 5.1 and 5.2 easily using the process I explain at http://thejacklawson.com/2012/09/switching-package-versions-....

Brew also has Luajit, which I use 99% of the time; it's the environment I run in production because it's so much faster.
What Apple employees really think of Tim
I took the Web Development course at Udacity too. It was probably more work than some were expecting (especially for a 2xx-level course), but Steve's knowledge and enthusiasm made for a great, challenging course.
This is really beautiful, and just what I need right now at my company. Well done, and thank you!
From jQuery to JavaScript and back again
Nice UX and some good sample content. I'd put in a warning, though, since when I clicked through to one of the models it hung Firefox. Probably a WebGL issue of some kind, but since I've got a high-end machine I wouldn't have expected that. People could click through to one of your 3D views not realizing that it might tank their browser and lose unsaved content in other tabs.
"Help me noonespecial. You're my only hope."
The author doth project their personal insecurities too much. If people want to form a social network around sex (and hell, there's already heaps, adult friend finder and clones, sex forums etc etc) then I think it's fantastic that the internet allows such varied forms of sexual expression and discourse.
Hmm. That's more progressive trance than House IMO. I may dig around and see if I can find some gems :)

Good luck with the site!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/why-fa...
Geolua looks cool. Thanks for sharing it.

It sounds like we're doing some similar things. Custom allocators are definitely the way to go to limit memory usage. We also use process-level isolation to limit the amount of execution time.

We're Lua 5.1 and not luajit2 for now for vague technical integration reasons that we may very well revisit as this takes off.
I would not care, because Fox News is already much more influential than Disney is, and would not become that much more so simply by dint of owning some cartoon characters.
Nice one. Sounds like you guys have thought hard about the right balance between expressivity and allowing these structures to become excessively hard to reason about or traverse.

Incidentally I found the use of topological manifold terminology (atlas of coordinate charts, homeomorphisms, ...) in the slides quite intriguing, are there topological connections here or is that more just an analogy?
Your description is wildly incomplete. What you've just described is merely ordinary probability theory.

To see the effects of QM, build a device to flip a quantum-mechanical coin. If it comes up heads, put the marbles into the two boxes. If it comes up tails, put the marble into the two boxes in a slightly (but unmeasureably) different way. I.e., whichever procedure you chose, P(white in right)=0.5.

However, when you actually mix in the coin flip, the white marble always in the right box.

This cannot happen in ordinary probability theory, since:

P(white in right) = P(white in right|heads)P(heads) + P(white in right|tails)P(tails) = 0.25+0.25

Quantum mechanics isn't weird because it has many worlds. Ordinary probability theory does too. Quantum mechanics is weird because those worlds interfere with each other.
(a) Neither does Disney, (b) Google controls the Internet, which is scarier.
It's not simple on iOS since iOS simply does not allow it.
Can you explain how MWI is local? In the period of time before the observer is 'entangled' into the same system as the observed particles, the different possibilities can interfere with each other. If this can happen even if the entangled particles are separated by a lot of space, surely that is the same as nonlocality.

Maybe my confusion is that I'm not sure a which point the universe splits. Suppose I entangle two particles, then separate them by a large amount, my universe hasn't split yet, because before I make the measurement, I haven't become entangled with the state of the particles, but when I do, surely the spreading entanglement of myself with the possibilities centers at both entangled particles (i.e. it is nonlocal)?
It sounds to me like an utterly manufactured incident. Getting an email attachment bit of malware is not the hallmark of state-sponsored hack attacks. The people who are saying that it is are liars, plain and simple. It is not a mistake, it is an intentional lie. This is pretty clear when you consider that they immediately jump to blame Iran, who has done an astonishing amount of 'attacking' for not having any casualties or injuries or damages of any form, real or imagined, if you listen to the Israeli government. Like 'terrorism' in the West, 'Iran' is the magic word to get increased funding in Israel.

Viruses like this spread in corporations and government organizations every day in the US, Israel, and every other country on the planet. Today, it was convenient for them to pretend like it was a big deal in Israel because they want more money. So, they lie to a public that, on the majority, knows nothing about technical matters and is scared by them, and they claim that some ridiculous weak sauce malware was almost the end of the universe.

It's just pricking the amygdala of an ignorant public in order to urge the herd in a desired direction, and nothing else. The bottom line with cyber-security is that governments are the last organizations that should be involved in trying to research it. It is a matter of complexity, exact precision, and delicacy. You can NOT compromise on ONE single aspect of it. If you do, for any reason whatsoever, then you've destroyed all the other work done on security. Political organizations cannot stomach the exactness, the tolerance for failure necessary, to get real work done. They weren't designed for it, and they can't just magically get it done by accident. That won't stop them from telling everyone the boogieman is stuffing hacker 'wares' in all their holes and that if they just shovel enough gold into the magic pockets of the tax collector that everything will be alright, of course.
I tried creating my account because I read that it was possible to pay using PayPal, but on the final checkout screen under payment options I can only see Credit Cards listed. Is it because I am from Bolivia? Can anybody in the US or Europe double check for me?

Thanks!
I was getting into the video, but the responses by the anonymous users playing w/ the iphone is annoying. "Show me pictures of whales", shows some whales, "COOL!!!"
I agree. I don't think that it's bad to choose a simple name.

In this particular case, I feel that it's generic enough that it can be confusing/not super memorable. For those practical reasons I think this could use a better name, but I'm not going to write-off a project just because it's name is odd.
That's really our biggest difference (which I forgot to mention). While we do support some more consumery apps our main goal is to help businesses operate more efficiently and less painfully. When we think about new features, new apps, new services it's almost entirely with a business user in mind.
If you look at how Intel and others have constructed their PCIe cards which have flash on them you will see that the controller presents a "memory" type interface to the PCIe bus as it would in the case of connecting it to the physical memory bus.

I'm pretty sure this is not correct; you still have to use DMA. Doing MMIO to flash may make a core unhappy (or at least extremely bored) when it blocks for ~20us.
Google Rolls Out Alert System Early
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Rivo Case - The world’s slimmest iPhone charging case
The relevant point is that Sony was not a distribution platform/network, and Apple is. And ESPN is mission critical for all cable platforms, so Dis ~by proxy, if not outright.
The most interesting question to me is - what happens when one of the entangled particles get annihilated. If the other one does too, instantly, then we can use that to communicate faster than light.
A new availability metric for cloud architectures
Bohmian mechanics [1] is a deterministic interpretation of QM that's empirically equivalent to traditional quantum theory. However, it requires non-locality (instantaneous action across vast distances).

From a recent paper [2]:

"Bohmian mechanics reproduces all statistical predictions of quantum mechanics, which ensures that entanglement cannot be used for superluminal signaling. However, individual Bohmian particles can experience superluminal inﬂuences."

This paper [3] referenced in the Ars Technica article shows that finite superluminal velocities (c < v < inf) can be exploited to achieve superluminal signalling.

Very interesting result. I assume BM is still consistent with this. The paper does mention BM:

"Bohmian mechanics and the collapse theory of Ghirardi, Rimini, and Weber [...] reproduce all tested quantum predictions, [however] they violate the principle of continuity mentioned above (otherwise they would not be compatible with no-signalling as our results imply)."

The principle of continuity described in the paper:

"In both cases, we expect the chain of events to satisfy a principle of continuity: that is, the idea that the physical carriers of causal influences propagate continuously through space."

"Clearly, one may ask whether infinite speed is a necessary ingredient to account for the correlations observed in Nature or whether a fi nite speed v, recovering a principle of continuity, is sufficient."

Actions can happen instantaneously under BM ("infinite speed"), so BM is still consistent with QM and doesn't allow FTL communication.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory

[2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.2794.pdf

[3] http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys...
> ATI had mobile GPUs but sold them to Qualcomm

Yeah, I think that will turn out to have been really shortsighted. Focus is a good thing when you're as small as AMD, but it doesn't seem like they've done too well in the x86 or high-end graphics markets since then either. Of course, their game of CEO musical chairs suggests that the effect of any particular business decision may be swamped by general mismanagement.

> Nvidia's trickle-down approach of putting really old desktop GPUs in a mobile SoC doesn't seem to be doing very well.

Granted, not having unified shaders and some other niceties has been pretty weak, but I think an even larger factor may be the content problem they face. The dominant mobile GPUs (and most importantly, the mobile GPUs in the market-creating, market-leading iOS devices) use a tile-based, or chunker, architecture where the GPU renders one chunk of the screen at a time. Nvidia GPUs don't; they render the whole screen at once. Nvidia believes their architecture is better; I tend to agree for desktop/console content and in a "pure" technical sense I suppose. The problem is that the vast majority of mobile game content has been optimized to work well on chunker GPUs, so any performance advantage Nvidia might see vanishes, and their power efficiency suffers slightly.

They can overcome this structural disadvantage by (1) adopting a chunker architecture, (2) encouraging developers to make games that work better or look cooler on Tegra [1], or (3) capturing a bunch of market share by building a better overall platform, and making Tegra the default target for developers. They could also just build a GPU that's sufficiently better than PowerVR/Mali/Exynos/Adreno in other respects that the tile-based/non-tile-based divide matters less.

For what it's worth, it's hard to compare mobile SoCs from a pure-technical-goodness standpoint, because their designers have such different market positions. A5X's GPU will smoke Tegra at a lot of things, but a lot of that is because Apple can afford for A5X to be twice as big [2]. Nvidia's customers cannot afford a 150mm^2 chip at their current market position.

[1] http://www.tegrazone.com/support/game-support
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_system_on_chips
Also checkout http://luadist.org

It's like pip but for Lua.
This is pretty much Jaron Lanier's argument in You Are Not a Gadget (reviewed here: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-you-are-no... ). They both have a point; systems which reduce human relations to very simpleminded database formalisms cheapen them.

But they ignore that the human spirit is (or so we should hope) strong enough to survive Facebook if it is strong enough to survive the other insults and depredations it has been subject to throughout history. Facebook may slap a reductive meaning onto the word "friend", but I haven't noticed that truly interfering with real friendship.
These guys are really on the move, and proactively trying to make a name in this market. If you're curious grab a free account and try it out, it's crazy easy to use.
Really? tectonic made all those arguments in one sentence, huh? Or did you just invent that?

Every American sits and stares passively at ABC television for about 6 hours per week, every week. It's totally silly to suggest that that could have any effect on culture though, right?
Star Wars Episode 7 to come in 2015