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Cortana is in reference to the AI of popular game Halo so its less awkward to those who know the reference. Had Cortana come before Siri, saying Siri would now have sounded silly. Most uncommon names sounds silly in the beginning but it blends in as time passes.

Also from what I have read, you don't need to start a sentence with Cortana to get its attention.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/122148/flash-in-browsers-doe...
It's very tough, because it's easy to say after the fact if anyone has been harmed. There's also the concept of turning into a police state, which is bad, while you can argue away an individual wiretap.

My 2 cents... Beating suspects is 100% bad. So is blackmailing. They destroy trust in the system.

Wiretapping is touchier. If it reduces the amount of false convictions, is it worth giving up some aggregate civil liberty?

No black and white answer.
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I think that's entirely irrelevant to the difference between 2007 and 2010. I don't imagine any single plan would fix every issue the US faces, but I think an appropriately sized basic income (as I've said elsewhere, I expect $2000/mo is way too much) would help address a few of them.
Some of this is verging on arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Trying to draw lines within the framework if section 101, despite the general inadequacy of that framework. The flaw of section 101 continues to be that the law is decoupled from the economic rationale for patent. To whit: patents exist to protect expensive capital investment in research from free riding, but judges are not allowed to consider the scope of that capital investment in determining patentability. The law continues to adhere to that outdated notion that innovation can happen in a "flash of insight."
There's been a lot of DDOS's over the past week or so. Amongst others, here's just a quick sampling

http://www.aweber.com/blog/email-marketing/from-our-ceo-abou...
http://status.mailchimp.com/messages
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/namecheap-ddos/
http://mashable.com/2014/02/26/bitly-ddos-attack/
What does that have anything to do with anything I said? I'm talking about how to make an economy work in a post scarcity world where labor isn't necessary; that has literally nothing to do with families.

Creating more pro-family laws does nothing to help with post scarcity. We have not had this problem in the past, so looking to the past for solutions does nothing, there are no past solutions to a world that doesn't need labor. This is not an issue that in any way relates to families or the undermining of families.

Honestly, it's like you just make random responses that don't address anything said to you.
No one is saying that the police should use inferior techniques. Framing your position in such a manner reduces it to a straw man.

What is being stated is that some techniques are so powerful that they require oversight. This is nothing new. This goes back to the origins of our system of law. The oversight is provided by requiring police to obtain a warrant.
I hope Microsoft decides to target Google Now instead of Siri. Google Now provides so much more depth than a voice interface; Siri offers so little in comparison. Siri works well as a voice activated personal assistant (that I rarely see people use).

Based on search history, emails, and location Google Now provides information before you need to search for it. It happens to have a voice activated interface available. I'd really like to see Microsoft do more than creating a voice activated app for setting alarms and searching yelp with Cortana. The screenshot looks promising and the author probably made the Siri connection himself so I feel hopeful.
Fears of patient data leak prompt inquiry into mapping website
Thanks, I appreciate the correction. I thought it used the rocket during combat, I didn't realise it was just to get altitude.
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It's very interesting that his Chief Strategy guy is a political pollster. It could be very interesting - having a data heavy user of technology, that doesn't copy the skillset of Gates or Nadella. On the other hand, it is a bit odd to not have a technologist or strategist or technology strategist in the position. Perhaps it's a bet on the importance of government? Very bold!
300 million Americans x $2,000 per month x 12 Months = 7.2 Trillion annual printing of new money. Total M2 Money Supply is currently 10.5 Trillion and the entire US GDP is only 15.6 Trillion. So adding approx 70% to the money supply every year or adding 50% of GDP as new cash to the economy every year will only result in 2% more inflation??? If you believe that, I've got a dot com to sell you...
Basic Income addresses all of these points, better.
As a user of several of the packages available on Alcatraz, and Alcatraz itself, I strongly disagree with eridius.

If you do have issues with a particular package it is pretty simple to remove any/all of them. The only time I have had issues is when I've tried to run betas of Xvim on unreleased versions of Xcode.

Seriously, if you're interested at all in the packages made available through Alcatraz give it a shot.
I was just using the given number.

If this scheme were implemented, I'm guessing the number would be picked by economists at the Fed who target a particular money supply. And then that number would be criticized by people who think that the Fed is choosing to stiff the poor. For that reason, I think it would be a huge mistake to tie together monetary policy and income redistribution. :)
To get meaningful replies, you need to ask a clearer question.
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So in a case like this assuming the defendant is able to suppress any information used against him with respect to his location. Does it even matter for his case? The police now know who he is and assuming DNA evidence, rape test kit evidence, etc. come back and implicate him won't he still be found guilty? Or is all of that suppressed because the police wouldn't have found him otherwise without violating the 4th amendment?

Edit: Made my first question more specific
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I believe that it also would improve the efficiency of the economy, relative to current alternative programs. The only downside is potential inflation.
Actually, that's a great example of how to use those well for PR. When's that photo from, something like 2005? Before?

Early on, Google did a great job of creating a young, hip, fun image. They wanted people to like them. Miracles and wonders, all from these slightly goofy Californian eggheads!

But that's not the kind of image you want to create for a financial trading platform on which you want people to deposit lots of money and feel safe. You could go brilliant and edgy or respectable and serious. But goofy? Nope. I can't imagine he had a PR person there for the interview. Just another sign that he wasn't qualified to run a billion-dollar business.
Monopoly profits don't get redistributed back into the consumer surplus all by themselves. Somebody's got to do it.
....as of 2010 the Tallahassee Police Department had used stingrays a staggering 200 times without ever disclosing their use to a judge to get a warrant.

This is the heart of the problem with law enforcement surveillance at all levels (local, state, federal). In the U.S. we've always had independent judicial oversight for police entering and searching your home. There's absolutely no reason why a similar invasion (if not more severe), which can track your movements and conversations, should be held to a lesser standard.

Time and again law enforcement has sided with what's expedient. They should be erring on the side of caution when it comes to the fundamental rights of the citizens they've sworn to protect.
The purchase link is incredibly well hidden. Anyone find it?
The next version will be called Durandal...
>The Verge reports that

So, The Verge's article was submitted to HN too and got 4 points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335717
Unintentional humor when they say

> will "take the form of a circular animated icon instead of a female character." Aw, shucks!

> Here's a look at the program, courtesy of the aforementioned outlet.

Because I have noscript, what's "there" is nothing but firefox's circular animated progress ring.
I was just mad at how fat those kids started eating the gelatin while being chased by velociraptor everywhere.

Every aspect of that movie is NULL. Except for Jeff Goldblum
does this work when two phones are in the background?
I hope it doesn't suck.
Entropy and fission in software development
Ask your supervisor if (s)he supports you doing an industry project for a month, (s)he might even get you a position with collaborators.

I worked with a huge crop science company for four weeks and got some valuable insights (mostly, I had to justify every little step, and the local boss was a huge fan of micromanagement: meetings, meetings a few a day. But they did have a lot of money and were willing to throw it at possibly not profitable projects; and people did proper 9-5, not 9-5678910 like academia)
Many of the third-party pods for these kinds of machines aren't exactly downmarket, they just have less of a markup than the official ones.
Hrm, the ability to do this is actually rather intriguing.

I wonder how feasible it would be to have a service that provides proof-of-burn for real-world money? Effectively, allow people to pay the company money, company then provides burner with a receipt referencing this proof-of-burn. The burner can then provide that receipt to the party that wishes the burn, and the party can verify with this service that the money was indeed burnt (and this verification then marks the burn as having been "used", so to speak). The company could do something like take a small fee from the burnt money (to actually pay for the service), and donate the rest to charity (and maybe even provide the donation receipt to the burner, so they can treat it as a charitable gift for tax purposes).

The big obstacle here is how to ensure that the money is irrevocably burnt, but that's a solvable problem (check or wire transfer, perhaps, or even waiting long enough after a credit card payment to prevent chargeback, although I think that's a rather long time).

The downside here is that you need a middleman to run the whole operation, and irrevocably paying them takes a bit of effort and time.

The upside is the money isn't actually destroyed, it's instead given to charity.
I wrote up a little guide on this a while back -- http://lttam.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/beets-and-an-unwaverin...
xkcd: Now
You work under the assumption that there will be no gains in goods and services or intelligence or value. But that's the exact same gamble that Ycombinator and other investors take. They inject capital to give a fledgling company a chance. Some make it and some don't. But in the end there has been new value and services added. Similarly, if a drug addict can kill an addiction. Or if a new mother can spend time raising her family, rather than a gang raising it. Or a young person can afford college without having to get crushed with student debt. Or a man can get a new suit of clothes and a laptop to get a better job. Then these things all go a long way to creating new value that wasn't there before. People think of value as cash money. But it's not. Money as has been said is just a proxy for value. But it's not the only one.
Wages are public in Norway too, aren't they?
Wiretapping without adequate oversight eventually destroys civil governance as it is just as effective a tool for social manipulation as it is for criminal evidence gathering.
I keep looking at interactors and thinking "I'd make this a command object and then hide it in the model" - so I'd be doing something like (inside the 'member' class)

method confirm_grouper () {
MyApp::Action::ConfirmGrouper->new(leader => $self)
->run
}

and then the controller would simply do -

my $result = $member->confirm_grouper;
Software patents in general aren't game here. This is about how courts should draw the line between applications of principles, which are patentable, and the physical principles themselves, which are not. This has particular relevance to software patents, because it is in this area that there is the greatest charge that people are trying to patent general principles.
Printing? If you think CUPS is bad I take it you never had to get lpd and some crappy HP inkjet to work. What does CUPS not do for you? Last time I looked it even does avahi by default. Sure having a million foomatic filters installed is a waste of space but I have never come across a printer that was not covered by the base set of filters.
I'm actually sorry to hear that. What topics were you contacting them about, if you don't mind my asking? I wrote about private issues, copyright and digital rights issues, and various local council issues (fences and paths). I got a good response every time.

It would be cool to compile a list of responsive and unresponsive MPs…
Kind of like Apple's app store...
There is also an extensive ongoing thread about Beets in the what.cd (music torrent tracker) forum, where the creator posted about it: https://what.cd/forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=97720

edit: available only to members, unfortunately
How about designing gutters so that they are easier to get to and clean?
If use BitTorrent Sync, does that mean all your data is sitting unencrypted at the remote location? I guess that would be one reason.
ah; nice.

A long time ago I was working on something similar: http://daurnimator.github.io/lomp2/

Got pushed to the side due to study; then work :(
Yeah, I don't get why more people don't get trig - it's always come very naturally to me, but I have to work to recognize that's not the case for everyone, particularly when confronted with experiences from my past like working on homework with math majors and finding them confused when I applied a trig identity to the problem...
Hah, I've got to remember that expression!
Why don't you download the offline dictionary then? (Settings, Language and Input, Voice Search, Offline speech recognition)
It depends on what you have to trade for that extra money. If you have to give up 40 hours a week of doing what you like in exchange for 40 hours of performing tedious work for an extra $1k a month then that's probably a deal most people wouldn't take.
Are you sure the interest is not because the application is already published in China? From the reports I've read there are many popular app store applications in China that include pirated apps.

You could start with http://developer.baidu.com/mobile (although Google translate indicates the submission process involves going through Butt shelves). You might want to contract with a local developer.

Also see http://www.gizchina.com/2012/08/14/20-ways-to-get-free-andro...
Is the Blackphone the ultimate mobile for privacy?
The opposing argument is "we don't want to lose our ability to crush new innovations and keep lawyers rich".
Then they just wouldn't get any.
They just wrapped the view_context with a method_missing proxy (another form of a Decorator) that the controller instance gives you. You can accomplish the same very easily using dependency injection in your controller action:

MassivelyUpVotedPostPresenter.new(@post, self.view_context)

Or just inject the whole controller instance and you have your router helpers too!

MassivelyUpVotedPostPresenter.new(@post, self)
I guess this is the last early release this kid gets.
Categorize Linux Commands and check which one you know?
I do have it. Still gives me errors like "can't connect to Google Now" when I do stuff like send a text message using voice.
Only after 2012 as far as I can tell. I don't know if that finally makes the system sane but it certainly wasn't previously.
How about building some toilets for the 750 million human beings (they happen to be Indian citizens) who don't have access to basic sanitation when they wake up each morning?

Fucking idiots... probe the sun my fat brown arse.
A bit of a side-note, but calling something an "equivalent" in this kind of circumstance is a bit of a misnomer, I think. "Competitor", sure. But "equivalent" implies some sort of interchangeability to me.
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> schadenfreude

Epicaricacy. because you're speaking english.
The straightforward resolution is that the government shouldn't enter into agreements that create the conflict.

(I guess the more complicated answer is that there are lots of legal cases determining how to balance the two sides in such conflicts)
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Did you bother reading it? Did you get to this part:

To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.
Adding to zaidf, more examples: http://www.quora.com/Non-Technical-Co-Founders/How-do-I-prov...
Looks like they are trying to market privacy as a core differentiator. It is supposed to work both online and offline while putting you in control of what personal information Cortana access has access to [1].

I am not a big fan of moving everything to the cloud. What is point of having faster than ever smartphone and then being at the mercy of the cloud to open even a trivial apps.

[1]http://www.pcworld.com/article/2099943/microsofts-cortana-di...
Here are a number of asyncio examples, including Guido's web crawler - https://code.google.com/p/tulip/source/browse/examples/
5 Things Microsoft's Cortana Needs To Do To Take On Siri
Keurig’s next generation of coffee machines will have DRM lockdown
Hi iiiears, thanks for giving Zidisha a try and for this feedback. I'm so sorry our website gave you a redirect when you tried to view our terms of service. Would you mind letting me know which browser you are using so that we can try to replicate and fix the bug?

We'll try to make the next steps after creating a new lender account clearer. If you would like to make a loan, you can do this via the "Lend" page.
An exchange would have to work to convince me of that.
Selling something (in this case oil) doesn't really make a difference. You haven't explained how is it different, you just said that it is different. All else being equal, what would change if Alaska just printed the money it now gets from selling oil? Because in current situation there is still some excess money that gets distributed "for free", so let's abstract the source of this money, and see if there is something wrong going on with Alaskan economy because of this "free money" being distributed.
It's not an answer to you directly but more of an observation: The effect for this page is very laggy on a 1-year old MBP, and makes the text barely readable until a certain scrolling point is reached. I do not understand the purpose of using the effect here or in 9/10 cases I see it on sites. It introduces pointless visual candy with usually zero or negative practical benefit. Makes me think of the DHTML days.
Mental illness is much easier to deal with when you don't have severe financial issues along with it.
I think a lot of blog posts use trivial and contrived examples for the point of explaining the concept. There's not a lot of people out there that are good at explaining complicated refactorings. Katrina Owen comes to mind as one of the few that is good at explaining such refactorings.

Perhaps if someone made a post like this with starting code that was more complex it would be a better example, and also harder for you to counter it with a couple gists ;)
My favorite is a way to prove the sum of angles formula for sine and cosine.

cos(x1+x2) + isin(x1+x2) = e^((x1+x2)i)
= e^(i*x1) * e^(i*x2)
= (cos(x1) + isin(x1)) * (cos(x2) + isin(x2))
= cos(x1)cos(x2) - sin(x1)sin(x2)
+ i*(sin(x1)cos(x2) + sin(x2)cos(x1))

Since the imaginary parts have to be equal and the real parts have to be equal:

sin(x1+x2) = sin(x1)cos(x2) + sin(x2)cos(x1)
cos(x1+x2) = cos(x1)cos(x2) - sin(x1)sin(x2)
Beets is awesome. It also supports acoustic fingerprinting, so you can pass it songs without any id3 tags at all and it will try and guess the song is.
I love what.cd but the problem is their tracker has been non stopped ddos'd for the last few weeks that it's almost impossible to download anything.
Yeah, I don't think it is odd for an American in general just in the context of valuing time.

You don't think about the 30-60 minutes in the car because you are sitting there killing yourself faster, but wasting less bodily energy than sleeping.

The time spent making coffee is probably good for your lifespan, but standing around, moving and cleaning things feels bad for us lazy apes..
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
It's not just bugs and slowness. At least in those days, Pascal had the size of an array as part of the type of the array. This meant that you could not have a variable-sized array, because you could not give it a type.

True story: I took over a numerical simulation on a 2D grid that ran slowly, because it implemented the 2D grid as a linked list. If you wanted to refer to the node directly below the current one, and the grid was 60x60, you had to follow 60 links to do it! I looked down on the guy who wrote it as being somehow hung up on linked lists, like it was his favorite data structure from school or something. Only later did I find out that he had no choice - he couldn't allocate a variable-sized array. So we re-wrote it to allocate the biggest array we had memory to hold, and to only use part of it.

But if we were trying to write a portable operating system, or something of that sort, our kludge would not have worked. Allocating the biggest possible size needed is not good behavior for an OS...
I don't understand why the author claims "This is truly atrocious."

It doesn't matter much which algorithm is used, every one that is used for the given purpose and given circumstances can be reversed, it's just a question of invested time. Who needs it would do it, and the following publication would make his results usable to others no matter the algorithm.
Many businesses make a tidy profit despite a large number of users being non-profitable "free riders" (Dropbox would be the canonical example).

Having users be free riders is not the same as having employees be free riders. I doubt Dropbox has any of the latter.

(And don't forget: there's still an incentive to work for those who want better beer and bigger TVs.)

No, there's an incentive for voters to elect politicians who will continue raising the bar for how much beer and what size TV the basic income should buy you.