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Note that one of the original developers of the virtual assistant software Wildfire went on to work on Android, and is now at Google. Remember that Wildfire was available in the 1990s, about 20 years ago, and to the best of my knowledge is still the best experience available in the in-call constant presence virtual assistant use case (a company called Virtuosity still sells it), though both Google and Apple blow it out of the water for more general use cases.

I don't think mobile-device-based offline voice interaction is going to be sufficiently fluid for the mass market for awhile yet, but Google certainly has the server and network effects infrastructure to make advanced, mass market voice recognition work and keep improving the experience, and use that collected data to drive algorithmic and corpus improvements in the offline module. If Apple styles itself as a leading consumer tech brand, then it will be interesting to see how they counter Google.

And counter they must: at the moment, voice interaction is one-on-one, but with enough algorithms and corpus, independent agency will become possible. It will be very limited at first. Something along the lines of directing the virtual assistant to call your vet's office for an appointment that works with not just your timetable, but your anticipated errand locations traversal (that is, solving a limited-case Traveling Salesman problem on the fly).
I'm still awaiting a startup to gamify the political process and getting involved with civic duty. Sadly only then would we see people give a shit about politics.
Oculus Rift owner here. I would absolutely love to watch my next hockey game from behind the glass at center ice via my Oculus Rift. This will be technologically feasible in the next 2-3 years and I think it will make for an incredibly compelling experience. But I imagine that sports leagues may not be in a rush to virtualize their stadium seating and cannibalize their ticket/food/beverage sales. But they could always price this in to the cost in which case I'd be more than happy to pay that premium!

When it comes to movies I don't believe it will have the same effect. Movie directors want to frame a scene and direct your eye and the Oculus Rift provides the exact opposite. I think there will be new movie experiences for the rift but I don't believe they will change the existing art.
Similarly, I found a page a few days ago about fixing the rMBP trackpad in Windows 8, and now that I have Windows 8, I just can't find it again! Really wish I'd bookmarked it.
I don't see the Oculus performing better in either industry; if anything I think it would be the amazing bridge between the two. Like someone else has said, I doubt games or movies will vanish, just like books never really vanished. If anything this will expand into its own new industry.

One idea I'd always had is make a game that plays out like a 'scene'. Let it be something non-mundane, but also not 'epic'. I typically use acting as a bodyguard that is protecting their client. The scene occurs and depending on player's actions, client lives/dies or any number of consequences (give it a Hitman feel with 'multiple' solutions). 'Slice of Life' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life) plays and realism were the style in the 1800s, it could be possible to see this style emerge again through immersion.

The other idea is turn Oculus development more commercial-grade, training simulations because the real life material cost is too high. Instead of a cadaver, simulate the body for autopsy. It might even help ease some mind's transitioning to a real body.

I think the article used the Oculus to really talk about immersion technology as a whole. I'm still not fully convinced the Oculus isn't the Virtual Boy of this generation; however, I do know we are getting better at immersing tech and whether Oculus succeeds or flops, it will still open great doors for other things.
Convention over configuration achieved with opaque magic can actually harm the dev process more than it helps.
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A lot of the locks are powered by AA batteries.

I'd rather have a keypad than the cascading inconvenience of having to swap those batteries more often.
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> Ukraine has a culture, a history, a language. That culture, history, and language is UKRAINIAN. Not Russian.

> After the fall of the USSR, Ukraine started clawing back its own heritage and of course, there is friction. You're witnessing that friction.

<irony>So Russians don't want Ukrainians to speak the Ukrainian language and to have their own culture, now? That's really evil. I didn't know that.</irony>
The Android Open Source Project refers to the components released by Google as open source. This is the framework for the most part, plus a few Java apps. The drivers are part of the per-device "BSP" layer, and not part of AOSP. They're sometimes delivered as source (certainly the kernel components are), but often not (the userspace HAL libraries are almost never source-visible).

This bug looks to be between the kernel driver and sensor HAL to me. It might be fixable in code we can see, but none of that is part of "AOSP".
Cool - pretty elegant solution to a common problem. Interestingly, the solution was "enabled" by recently available technology packages, like stripe (and flask).
Don't give up, it can still happen. A lot of the bits and pieces exist to do that already, we just need to keep raising awareness, and maybe get a well-heeled individual or company (or two, or three) to throw some support behind the whole thing.
I'm not sure why you think this'll be a problem. You wouldn't record audio with a single microphone, you'd use multiple microphones and use algorithms to blend between them.
Go quentin!
Sums it up nicely for me:

"I use kill -9 in much the same way that I throw kitchen implements in the dishwasher: if a kitchen implement is ruined by the dishwasher then I don't want it."
It means I get to fly in space. Whether a 30 million, 30 billion, or 30 trillion dollars were to be invested into real life space research, there's about a 0% chance that it will let me fly in space.

That said, the more interest there is in space in concept, the more popular it might be to fund actual space flight research in reality.
I use this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag... It's not automatic, but I guess it wouldn't be hard.
That is a very good point! If you are building some SoC and the CPU is just some small part of it, "system reset" can in fact be a very vague notion. I hadn't really been thinking that way and in that context the ARM position does make sense. As another person pointed out offline there is the watchdog timer, if you wanted you could set it and halt. Then it would kick you with a reset.
Haskell: favor composition over configuration over convention.
Yes, if instead of coding trivial web apps we all became doctors, the world would be a better place, right?

Creativity and talent aren't fungible resources that you can just decide to apply to whatever is most noble. If you put a top level EVE player in charge of Occupy Wall Street instead, do you really think he'd have the passion and interest to do as good of a job as he does in EVE?

People are good at what they like doing, and there's no reason to be bothered over the fact that they aren't passionate about what you think they should be doing.
The solution is to use a multi-camera array (not just stereo) to capture as much of the light field as possible and then re-synthesize stereoscopic video from the user's viewpoint by grabbing pixels located along the appropriate rays. Then you can have free head movement within the volume of space from which you captured data. Doing this for video is obviously more challenging than for a static scene, but here are the research papers from 15 years ago at Microsoft Research on doing this entire pipeline for static scenes (both PDFs).

VIRTUAL REALITY USING THE CONCENTRIC MOSAIC: CONSTRUCTION, RENDERING AND DATA COMPRESSION. Shum, Ng, Chan, 2000.
http://charlesneedham.com/pubs/68824/virtual_reality_concent...

Rendering with Concentric Mosaics. Shum, He. 1999.
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/68819/rendering_concentri...
Total guess based on their names: Location probably refers to retrieving the location of the device using an API.

Monitoring Location likely means continuously getting notification about device location as you are moving around.
When I say "stereo" I'm not talking about audio. I'm talking about stereoscopic "3D" video.
Revolution always carries consequences. Inciting it over every 'unjust' law isn't necessarily worthwhile... It's not right to use Ukraine as a proxy battle without consisting the consequences for the Ukrainian people...
I write a lot of ember.

It can, occasionally, be frustrating (for example run loop craziness), but in my opinion it's no more frustrating than working with any other stateful front end framework (WPF, backbone etc...).
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I too am highly skeptical. I could see laying down the fiber in overlapping layers, then pressing it and heating it to see the epoxy but not sure how you could do that in this sort of 3D printing environment.
Well, the site should have option that you could redirect your earnings to charity...
It is if you automate it.
keep it up! it's def a pain point with the currency
This is the link you're looking for:

http://markforged.com/

Product site, video, tech specs, pre-order, etc.
If the fee is to pay for better checking, then it's a fake $25 payment that results in a denial. And in this case square is still accepting them to make payments but not receive them, so there should be no problem with the $25 bouncing. In the general case perhaps they could demand cash for the verification fee.
No. Triangulation requires near-simultaneous signal strength readings from multiple towers at the time the position is to be computed.

The cell tower cache you refer to does not contain that kind of data, so the data file des not provide a detailed history of the phones location. This has been shown by the people who investigated the file.

An extremely coarse location, to the resolution of cell towers can be obtained from the file, but as we know, that is available to the phone network anyway.

The parent comment talks about geolocation data at regular X minute intervals. This file does not provide that. Nor does it provide any information that the NSA can't get via the cell network about any phone. Indeed the network likely can provide triangulation.

The link you referenced is nothing but innuendo intended to implicate 'Apple' somehow.
Scala dev here who sometimes needs to do some JS (though haven't worked with ember). I feel your pain! Static typing and functional programming certainly make ones life easier once a project becomes bigger.

Anyway, for future reference, you may want to learn how to use the JS debugger (both Chrome and Firefox are quite good). You could have set a break/watchpoint on the variable 'foo'. Once it has changed, you can inspect the stack and would have found that the set('bar', ...) method was involved. Should be much quicker than printf-debugging...
creditboards.com is the one I had in mind when I wrote that particular bit. I also liked the Motley Fool Credit Cards and Consumer Debts board back in the day. Sentiment on that board is that people should pay their debts, which is closer to my personal feeling than creditboards' prevailing sentiment that getting advantage on a debt collector or creditor is always justified and praiseworthy.
Take a look at the video down on this page [1]. They used multiple cameras to capture a very wide angle (in this case 360 degrees) so you can navigate the scene after the fact. Matching up something like this with the oculus rift would be very interesting.

[1] http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Article/Crazy-m...
The process is the same for converting doge to USD (which I should make clear in the guide, thanks).

There are a few exchanges with plans to offer direct exchange from Doge to USD in the coming weeks, which I will also be making a guide for when it's released.

You could alternatively sell your Doge for USD through a service like eBay and add a nice markup for convenience (doge is selling for 2x the value in some bids), although you chance dealing with scammers.

edit* thanks for the props, specifically in comic sans :)
I'm a computer engineer and I have so many mixed feelings about this. I know is not logical... I just don't feel that in a long term is something is actually going to help as humans...
Are there health risks associated with extruding carbon fibers? I was under the impression that working with carbon fiber can be potentially harmful to your health.
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I think that this is more of an 80 20 kind of question. At this level the argument isn't "hey this is as good as carbon fiber" but "hey this is better than regular 3d printing filament"
You'll generally not find out that a credit card was used for a stolen payment until weeks after the payment goes through. At that point, it's too late for Square.
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What impression did they give you during the interviews? In retrospect, do you think that was their whole goal, to get acquihired by Google?
Aren't hotel room locks already easily cracked?

IIRC the post you're probably thinking about was the fact the reprogramming port for hotel use allowed an attacker to do gain control. This is an implementation problem with the hardware attached to the door, regardless of key technology.

Even with poorly-protected service access interfaces and magstripe keys the incidence of malicious attack doesn't provide economic incentive for hotels to do better. Bluetooth based locks may provide incentive to swap out all the existing poor security locks in a building, but there isn't anything preventing the computer security of the new locks from being even worse.
I use the debugger all the time. One problem is that when you're using Ember a lot of the call stack is cluttered with Ember internal calls, which obscures things. But even after I isolated the problem down to that line, the debugger still didn't help me fix the problem.
I agree with you. My comment was from the point of view of a Russian who was posting anti-protestor comments. They would see Ukraine as one of the former Soviet republics trying to westernize itself, not as a country trying to return to autonomy.

And to be fair, there is some truth in framing the debate as Russia vs. Europe/US (as opposed to Russia vs. Ukraine). Despite the fact that signing a trade agreement with the EU is hardly "joining the west," Ukraine will go bankrupt if they're not bailed out or supported by either the West or Russia. Selecting one or the other implies alliance and political (if not economic) debt.
Nick Szabo is probably also a pseudonym. There is not reference to him on the net made by reliable known person. I couldn't find anything about Nick Szabo apart from what he posted himself. Also, no pictures or connection to his George Washington University.
The complaints you hear about Indian developers are for the $500/month developers.

The developers you can hire in India for $1,000 to $2,000 are competent and comparable with $120k to $150k US developers. These developers work with the modern frameworks and write beautiful code.

Companies like Amazon, Google, Yahoo and successful Indian startups pay upwards of $2,000/mo to great developers.

We have a small team in India and we pay $500 to $1,000 for off-site SEOs and $1,500 to $2,500 to developers.
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I thought about that the other day (development in general) but I couldn't think of any actual use cases. I always want to keep my head straight when I'm coding, but maybe you can use head movements as commands? Eg, tilting your head down slightly scrolls down, up, etc.
SIGHUP is also used to tell some certain daemons to re-read their configuration files without quitting.
The allure of carbon fiber in industry has to do with the properties of the material that can be produced. Home made carbon fiber won't be all that great of a material compared to what people see out in the world (on race cars, planes, etc...). Production lines for producing commercial carbon fiber is super expensive ($100 million+). Zoltek has a basic rundown of the process [0].

[0] http://www.zoltek.com/carbonfiber/how-is-it-made/
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I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say. Do you mean that it's easier to do something bad because we are surrounded by bad things happening? Or that it's easier to get rotten thoughts because we know so much about things that happened, are happening, or that were justified in ancient times?
So with JWT you package up all of your claims into JSON, protect that with HMAC (and encryption?) and give that to the client.

With opaque bearer tokens you effectively have the same claims but these are stored on the server (e.g. in a database) and keyed by the opaque token value. The claims never leave the server.

Is that roughly correct?
This is what happens when housing data isn't open and accessible
As everyone else, we believe that the world sees the world the way we see it.
Adjusted for the split, the offer price for Redhat was $7.
You might also have the fun time of actually getting arrested.
http://business.time.com/2014/01/27/bitinstant-ceo-charlie-s...
Maybe.

As a filmmaker, I'm extremely interested by the Rift, not least because it appears to partially offset the "uncanny valley", at least from early tests. Old games with dodgy character models (Half-Life 2) are much more immersive and compelling in a VR setting.

However, the challenge of telling a story without the ability to frame action, cut, or generally use any of the filmmaker's toolkit that has been in place since the popularisation of the medium in the early 1900s is going to be a hell of a challenge.

What we're actually looking at here is less like filmmaking, and more like theater in the round. It'll be interesting to see how it can be made to work - but I'm under no illusion that it'll be an easy transition.
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Facebook had this permission a long while ago and apparently removed it at some point. People complained about the same thing then, too.

Ref: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-might-be-reading-you... from Feb. 2012
> It was heaven for Russians, because a nation that has been historically at the bottom of the ladder, got to play in the big leagues. Who cares if your standard of living sucks? It always sucked.

For anyone interested what Ukrainian nationalists have to do with this, this is an example of their thinking.
You're right, I guess "always" is an overstatement. A light field 360 degree video camera would do the job, but the technology is a long way off, much farther than good VR and probably farther than good augmented reality too. The amount of data you'd need to capture and store for such a video would be staggering.
Ah, I didn't know it needed root, I guess I root everything so I never noticed. Too bad.
I wouldn't underestimate the effort of buying new Altcoins, especially with dollars. If you already own bitcoin it is easier, but buying new altcoins requires that you go through potentially untrustworthy channels on smaller exchanges as new exchanges generally won't have them available.
So it's essentially a pyramid scheme...
Ask HN: Developing for Windows Phone 8
I'm currently developing for Android only and I'm thinking about starting WP8 as well but I have a few questions and doubts.

The reason I'm hesitant is because Microsoft announced the release of Windows 9 next year and I'm not sure about their plans for the current WP8. I don't want to waste time on something that has the potential of becoming obsolete.

Do you think it's worth learning?

How are the docs and API compared to Android? Is there something like SO for WP8?

How are the dev tools?

What's a good testing device?

I'm doing this as a hobby only and don't want to make it full time. I'm won't (and probably never will) do iOS, right now the reason being cost.
Public opinion is that w3schools is a joke (see www.w3fools.com) and I can't imagine anyone taking a certification from them seriously. Keep in my they are in no way affiliated with the w3c. A better use of your time would be creating sites on your own and developing a portfolio of work you've done.
Nail in the head.

All they want now is displaying more results = more ad revenue.
Microsoft Office 365 / Sharepoint – Corrupting documents
We've just trialled Sharepoint online via Office 365 in our organisation.<p>It appears documents edited via their 'Online Web Apps' can suffer severe corruption. Microsoft are completely unhelpful.<p>http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/154/p/219614/673304.aspx
Yes, freedom to spread your ideas sure does suck.
" but at some point I decided that the widget was no longer needed, so I commented out the widget's markup"

SOURCE CONTROL, DO YOU SPEAK IT?

In all seriousness, this is a major peeve of mine - the time that you're most confident that code can be deleted is when you're removing the pieces that depend on it. If the deletion really turns out to be wrong, you should be able to restore the code from source control. If you can't, stop using broken source control.

Leaving leftover dreck in your source files "just in case" is like stashing your leftover sandwich crumbs in your pocket at lunch. Clean up your mess!
Interesting coverage on themittani site http://themittani.com/news/b-r5rb-biggest-battle-all-eve

Eve irritates me because I really enjoyed World of Warcraft. I would have much rather Blizzard had stayed on target rather than make many of the changes they did. The advantage of a place like Eve is that space is really really big, and in a planet based environment it sometimes is hard to be that big.

But the cool thing about Eve is how much amazing depth has evolved in that game and how "easily" you can just jump in and be part of something huge.
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Those outsourcing firms usually pay between $300 to $1,000 to developers. They usually hire bad programmers who do not understand fundamentals and write spaghetti code from an ancient era.

This salary isn't attractive to good programmers any more.
I was thinking about 3D printed supercars, (or cars for that matter) because why not. I have a friend that works for Buell that informed me the industry has been 3D printing porototypes for a while now. Rapid prototyping has been something driving this field. He sent me this link:

https://localmotors.com/press/releases/vehicle-design-innova...

I've also been giving some thought in starting the worlds first 3D printed furniture store.
I'm honestly very interested by Dogecoin, the community enthusiasm and positivity seems to be it's wildcard. But I find the lexicon "so wow! to the moon!" et. al. just terribly grating. It honestly impacts my willingness to dive into the space.