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I hope they do exactly the opposite. Weve got these behemoths literally pecking at one another over * THE SAME PRODUCT * ... why? They've got massive research expenses... and this is how they invest their money. facepalm
I know that circle thing is supposed to look like an eye, but I instantly see it as... something else. Slightly unfortunate.
Interestingly, there is a Windows Phone App that does all of these things....

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/plexivoice/9c09f...

Microsoft definitely has an advantage over third party apps. They make it nearly impossible to edit a calendar item, and their web API's won't give you a contacts phone number.
Since the last time I had to pick a maps platform service(last year), it looks like MapBox now offers SSL maps in it's free/cheap payment tiers. It was a dealbreaker for me at the time, so with that out of the way, I'd definitely go back.
Why should I use this, as opposed to something like mpd and ncmpcpp?
Publicity stunt?
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I'm a heavily accented non-American, non-British (though I can claim English is my native language since it's been my language of instruction since Kindergarten).

Google's voice recognition system, and of late, Siri both work fine for me. Sync, iPhone 'voice control', etc. are next to useless. In certain cases, I've tried to adapt. For example, my immediate family, rather than have their names or what I call them in my other native language, I've named them using common English words. So I can just say "Call Dad", and the speech recognition system works.

When I say that OEMs and auto-makers should work on improving voice recognition systems, I mean the entire processing system: sound acquisition, signal conditioning, and machine-learning based speech recognition.
the example is poor, butI think you're missing the core point here -- slow tests. I don't think this really improves readability or organization much -- but my real world experience with a giant slow rails test suite gives me 100% confidence that patterns like this are the only way to not have a completely intractable giant test suite.
True, the tests do demonstrate what can be accomplished, but that kind of gets back to my point: Any example complex enough to unambiguously warrant the use of a command pattern is going to involve non-trivial effort to learn the context. Asking that effort of someone reading a blog post is a bit much.

Unfortunately, it's easy to dismiss simple examples as not being worth the complexity and demand real examples which can be dismissed because they cannot be easily understood.
Are they interchangeable in casual conversation?
My wife has an iPhone and I've got a Nexus 5. Siri is hands down better as a voice interface because of its interactivity. Google Nows search and email integration is useful if you depend a lot on the rest of the Google ecosystem. So far for me, it just seems to know where I am. It notified me that an Amazon package was delivered. Which is nicd, I guess.
From what I remember, those describe themselves as ‘the business guy’ or ‘the marketing guy’ but give advice, mainly about the attitude to have to fellow ‘non-technical co-founders’, assuming often openly that they do have a needed skill-set, that happens not to be code.
Linux doesn't have a tradition of downloading and installing random software, though, so there would be a bigger behavioral hurdle to get users to install the malware.
Pretty sure an NDA can't prevent an individual from testifying truthfully in a court in the US no matter what the NDA says. So essentially the Police just lied.
I apologise if there was something inappropriate about the post—I thought that the commentary might be interesting. So that I can avoid future downvotes, what was wrong with this comment?
OVH has Swift/OpenStack storage service (hubiC) that makes Glacier look insanely expensive if we're talking about at least about 1TiB+ of backups. Can't tell anything about their reliability, though.
I can't say I know all the in's and out's of these two tools but I don't think they have build in auto-taggers and a library management like beets does.
Don't forget to install your perfectly-secure favorite text editor [1], of course!

The vast majority of 'attacks' on Windows are based on exploiting user trust: phishing, malicious binaries, and so on. Suggesting Linux as a fix to that is nonsensical, unless you expect every software under the sun to be both included and properly verified (reality: it's not).

[1] http://www.sublimetext.com/ -> http://c758482.r82.cf2.rackcdn.com/sublime_text_3_build_3059...
> Giving the idea of “separate but equal” another try and seeing if it plays in our favor this time?

I think that this is a key point about that conference, and TED Woman. That and the implied paramount of sexism idea that if they let men talk, there are going to be chauvinist pig, because that’s indistinguishable from having a penis.
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What do you mean by "interchangeability"? Do they not want Cortana do all the things Siri does?
And its main opponent, Bf109 was based on sport/racing Bf108 :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_108
Suggestions for non-suicidal things that can be done in- and outside Russia to stop this nonsense?
If almost all binaries are treated by Windows as suspicious (in general: if there's a whitelist), then a request for an administrator password will be unconsciously and automatically given.
> US law is pretty clear on the fact that Mt. Gox is a money transmitter

US law is pretty clear on the fact that Mt. Gox is a money transmitter because Gox did, in fact, transmit money (that is, it had USD denominated accounts for users and distributed funds to other people from those accounts to other people at the direction of the account holder.)

> (you don't have to actually transmit money to be one, just things equivalent to money).

That might be true, but its irrelevant, as Gox (and any other exchange that exchanges a commodity for money, whether or not the commodity itself is also money) actually transmitted money, not merely "things equivalent to money".
So essentially, phones should just turn themselves off when moving? I find it highly unlikely that such a law would get any traction (implementation seems rather difficult - by the time it's fully deployed, we'd have been better off putting efforts into self-driving cars). Companies have no chance of implementing this optionally: Why would I buy a car/phone I can't use as a passenger? Deaf passengers would be doubly upset, as the presumably-allowed voice-control features wouldn't be accessible to them.
I tend to use scrapy when doing python scraping but its a massive setup, this will be good for smaller projects.
the real economy has a lot of idle resources

But many of those resources are idle because they were misallocated--for example, they were allocated to building more and more McMansions because of the housing bubble, rather than, for example, on fixing roads and bridges and other deteriorating infrastructure. Or they were allocated to building 18 million cars and light trucks a year in North America, when the market now demands only 11 million.

To some extent "helicopter money" as described in the article might help; perhaps if everyone got a $2000 check the demand for vehicles would go up to, say, 14 million a year. But would it go all the way back up to 18 million a year? I doubt it; a significant piece of that demand was people assuming that they needed a new car every 2-3 years; now many of them have had their cars for 5 or 6 years and are realizing that hey, they can save money by not buying a new car as often, without any real reduction in quality of life. That lost demand won't come back.

Nor should it. If the economy was set up to make stuff that people don't really need, that's a waste of resources that could be better allocated elsewhere. That's why I'm skeptical of the "aggregate demand" idea; it basically implies that all that's needed is for people to buy more stuff, without any analysis of the actual comparative value of the stuff.
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What happens with DRM in the real world?
Apple has reached out to plug-in developers and implemented a compatibility UUID system for plugins. What exactly are you worried might happen?
That's not good! :)
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It looks just like a normal touchscreen phone. This level of 'secret' seems hardly worth making threats to kids on twitter over. Not if you have ambitions to appear more grown-up than kids on twitter, anyway.
I would like a "more like this" feature and maybe some voting buttons. The quality is pretty variable, although there are some gems in there. Not sure how you prevent voting from being gamed.
Non-rhetorical question: Why do people continue to do this? The number of unique names still available for a programming language is basically infinite, yet we get stuck with Go and R and C#.

Google is pretty smart about categorizing searches for languages like Ruby and Java (both common words), but with R especially it's often quite difficult to get relevant results.
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I just purchased a Toyota Yaris. The official figures for the 1.3L engine give 5.7L/100km for manual and 6.3L/100km for the automatic.

Now in a high-end car with a sequential gearbox this is different, but for a small town car when you'll be doing a lot of starts and stops you'll see the losses on the hydraulic coupling.
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"That's the entire premise behind our justice system--that it's better to allow criminals to get away with crimes than to punish innocent people."

Well, that's the premise behind many aspects of our justice system. No justice system at all accomplishes it better than any justice system at all, without other considerations, so it's clearly not the entire premise behind the whole of our justice system.
Any day now. The SEC has been dragging its feet implementing the JOBS act. Congress mandated that they implement equity based crowd funding provisions months ago but they haven't done so.
Most popular by what metric?
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This was my favorite of the "famous ship cats" section. Anyone who has ever owned both a cat and a laser pointer will immediately recognize this as highly probable.
Then it's not too late to change the name to something that people will actually be able to find information about. Be glad you read all this feedback today and not the day of your release.
Beets is fantastic, really automates a ton of really annoying work. The author is pretty responsive with issues, and there's a growing community of contributors.

Feel free to crib off of my config file: https://github.com/fortes/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/beets...
Stranger In A Strange Land.

Edgier than Star Trek but has that same feel of charming naivite; think 400 pages of Lt. Commander Data on a love potion.
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I don't see the point in encrypting configuration data (IPs, firewall rules etc.) from the beginning.
Although, keeping password in plain text is a stupid idea, but we have hashing for that, encrypting or obfuscating passwords is pointless.
They're entirely different. mpd is an audio daemon that plays audio. Beets is a tool for organizing/tagging your audio files. There's a plugin for Beets called 'bpd' that acts like an mpd server on top of your beets audio library
Likely due to extreme wealth/access inequality. In countries where the population is split between the extremely poor and the very rich the averages are going to be skewed higher.
Thanks for the info there. 1/3 replacement leaves a ghost town.
I use my own script.

It tars a directory, naming the output with a hash of the original directory name. Then it encrypts it with gpg and breaks it into small parts (100M) so I can pace any needed Glacier restores so as not to break the bank. Then it runs par2 on each part, to make it more likely that I can recover from any file corruption. Then it uploads each part and the par2 files to an S3 bucket which is set (via the S3 admin web dashboard UI) to automatically transition the files to Glacier.

The shortcoming is it's not a whole-system backup. Also it doesn't do differential backups, though that's not a problem for me because I organize things such that old stuff doesn't change often if ever. It's dirt cheap, one-command simple, and feels pretty reliable... though I must admit I haven't tested a restore!
There are many standardized and reviewed encryption methods out there that are much more complex and secured than a simple XOR. I think the point he was trying to make is that this technique doesn't even deserved to be called an encryption in the first place. I have a feeling linksys devs just wanted something to hide the passwords from the plain view (eg, if somebody peaks at your config file over your shoulder they won't be able to tell what your root password is) and ended up using a wrong name for the feature.
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Hi wehadfun, that is a valid question. There are a few reasons we facilitate loans instead of gifts:

1. Loans once repaid can be lent out repeatedly, thereby helping many more people.

2. Repaying a loan at a reasonable interest rate puts lender and entrepreneur on a more equal footing, and is therefore more dignified for both.

3. Loans encourage a proactive and independent mentality on the part of the entrepreneur, rewarding success rather than neediness.
Its amazing how small people are that they aren't able to admit they don't know something. Its quite common though.
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> Had Cortana come before Siri, saying Siri would now
> have sounded silly.

Well, "Siri" was already a name. Before Halo, "Cortana" wasn't.
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Of course, "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" if you like it down and dirty, a tale of a "Computerman" working for the man but secretly using his machine to subvert the powers that be up until the final showdown.
What would happen if software were no longer patentable? Finance may offer us a guide. Financial innovations are not patentable [1]. This has two effects:

(1) Good ideas drawing on common knowledge and resources catch on fast. This compresses the time between invention and commoditisation. Those who rapidly implement ideas, whether their own or others', are rewarded. Scale and agility gain currency. Downside: the blind copying of competitors' ideas.

(2) Good ideas drawing on scarce knowledge or resources are protected fiercely. This comes in the form of secrecy - think hedge funds. It also comes as increased pay for producers. In the late 1970s Salomon Brothers helped invent the mortgage-backed security, giving them a de facto Wall Street monopoly. This made everyone involved on the mortgage desk incredibly valuable. Salomon did not pay them accordingly and so lost its storied monopoly.

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/11/19/can-you-pat...
Instead of inspector your normal compiler's machine code, you can create a small special purpose compiler to begin bootstrapping your main compiler from source. Most compilers (including GCC I believe) are specifically designed so that they can be bootstrapped from a relatively small subset of the language. Additionally, you do not need to worry about producing an efficient executable because you will only ever run the resulting program once.

However, there is also the risk that your host OS is compromised, in which case it may simply lie to you and do whatever it wants.
Yes, it's a mind-bender. My thinking used to center on the money, and the inevitable inflation if you debase money by printing more of it for free.

But the evidence of the last six years proves how wrong my thinking was. Dollars are not like shares of stock, that get diluted when you create more of them. When there's a lot of slack in the real economy, when people aren't working, and factories are idle, printing money doesn't cause inflation.

Today, I think about the real economy of workers and trucks and factories instead of money.

If we print $1000 per month per person and give it away for free, it's very possible to get the real economy moving, raise standards of living substantially, and incur very little cost in the real economy of work, goods and services.

For what it's worth, here's a radio show that turned my understanding of money upside down. Skip ahead to the 10th minute for the story on how Brazil created a totally fictitious virtual currency, named it the "real", and ended decades of debilitating inflation.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/t...
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Or you know you could just use linux.
You should really look into PHP then. Lots of like minded people with such organised and neat code.

/s
Ask HN: What would you do with an extra 30K in cash?
Hello HN,

I just inherited an unexpected 30K in cash, What should I do with it?

Background:
I'm currently working a 9-5 as an embedded systems engineer and I am trying to start a software (SaaS) business on the side (with no success so far) so that I can quit my day job. I've published a couple of iOS apps and do a small amount of basic web design contracting on the side.

If you were in my position, what would you do with the 30K of extra cash?

Thanks
Especially for you: http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp...

pay close attention to the part about providing a clear call-to-action. :-)
Yup. I deliberately didn't implement any authentication because I wanted it to operate more like a Doodle -- a link gets generated for a purpose of no particular celebrity and sent to respondents for low-threshold participation. I think I will lock down submissions on the example page to make this clearer.

It's pretty fun for users who are using it for its intended purpose, and not very trollable if you use the default URL randomization.

Also bear in mind I made this in a day. It might be neat to add sentiment analysis / negative word flagging in order to weed out all-troll submissions.
I didn't read it.

My reaction was to the statement which I replied to. I would take that either as a summary of the document or your conclusion on the document.

Is it necessary to only comment after a full reading and understanding of the base document that someone is summarizing?

If someone pulls out a phrase "The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more amazing than drunk driving of an
automobile." (from the same document) I think that stands on its own as worthy of replying back to without seeing what else has been written that might clarify it. I don't think this is cherry picking and pulling things out of context either.
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Interesting thought, but you've completely misunderstood the specifics of corporate personhood. Personal privacy is not reserved for incorporated entities at all.
OData was down some time... Just refreshed and now i know why :)
Do you mean that users should be able to delete pages? I can personally delete them, but you can't.
I find that with the default PulseAudio config, flat volumes make using headphones a pain because the same volume level means very different things on different hardware - so if I'd last used an application on speakers, I'd get deafened if it launched on headphones. I guess spending $$$ on USB-attached headphones would partially solve that problem by stopping apps from automatically switching to the headphones, but for me it'd be a rather expensive and inferior workaround.
I just use ground coffee in the cup-sized filter. My wife and I wake up at different times so this prevents wasted coffee without the pods.
Yeah I agree on basically everything you just said :)
Thanks for the comment

Not sure how to best implement features, so I left them out for now. I think my biggest problem is going to be traffic generation. I am considering making the SPA SEO'able, so that it could possibly start collecting some long tail organic traffic.

This was more of a passion project but if I could find a biz model I'd be super stoked :)