skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't widgets, controls, etc. do just that? As you mention they are just parts and to create complex applications you still have to consider business logic, data access, third party API integration(if needed), interaction logic, navigation logic, etc. You are looking at this strictly from a web designer's point of view, which is understandable since you are one, however creating applications is much more complex and we've automated the parts of web development that could be automated. Sure you can come up with more widgets and controls but the framework is already defined.
In the recent web attack instances, it's not just known plaintext, it's using compression to discover unknown plaintext by repeatedly guessing across multiple requests and watching for the request size to change. So an attacker would need the ability to alter your filesystem and make backup requests, repeatedly, for that attack to matter to Tarsnap.
I don't think you can talk to it though, you can just click an alert button and see your cards.

Separately there is the hot word plugin (I think that's what it's called) that lets you say 'ok Google' when on the US Google homepage.
I don't agree, because my argument applies only when: the battle is already won. Same-sex marriage is normal. I'm talking about how we should behave after the battle is won.
Although I think that the article is interesting, I'm missing some details, like more engineering stuff, rather than high level details.
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The beginning where he talks to Cortana, it totally reminded me of the movie Her. [1] It seemed fascinatingly real. Although that bit might have been pre-recorded, I think we will eventually get there, where a computer's voice and its interaction would seem indistinguishable from a human's.

[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp [~1:12:50]
dream job.
After all, we must conserve resources as limited as release numbers...
Any idea how many controllers the system will support?
I just bought the G-Box MX2 and it can do almost everything you request; play Netflix, local media, pandora, etc. However, Prime is not available on it since that is Amazon exclusive.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CH643A8/ref=oh_details_o...
Is it missing YouTube? Also, if it easy to buy newly released movies like you can with iTunes on the Apple TV?
"Imagine a peer to peer kind of money network. Every member is a bank himself."

This sounds a lot like the original vision behind Ripple.
If you use aptitude instead of apt* you get most of the features rolled into one command, and it also provides a curses based interface if you prefer that to the command line but are in a situation where a full GUI is not available to you can use an X based tool. I'm not sure about Ubuntu but it has been standard issue in Debian for some time.
Xero is great! - single username (email) lets me access multiple businesses. It's not perfect but 1,000 times better than Quickbooks or writing/maintaining your own. There is a $9.95/mo simple account
Sigh. Another device?

Apparently it's some law of nature that every giant tech company must have a set-top box, in addition to: an email service, an app store, a phone, a tablet, a cloud storage service, a music store, a book store, a cloud computing service... and a dozen other me-too products.

Next up is Amazon Maps and Amazon Docs.
San Diego is in Silicon Valley in the same sense that Paris is in Hamburg.
In Halo 3, wasn't it revealed that Cortana was built from DNA from chief scientist whats-her-name?
They just did a demo of exactly what you requested for sending a new tweet.

Conversational style instead of pre-defined phrases and it just sent a tweet instead of opening the twitter app.
Yep! Mirall is the client (full disclosure, I'm a pseudo-team member working with this client's development) and the server software would also be needed.

Check out http://owncloud.org/ for the full info on getting it set up! :)
Watch the presentation:

http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp

It starts around 1:12:00
Those traits are no more boolean than cost.
I feel like that last part is an assumption. That's like saying people who want more out of their phones only want to do e-mail.

I have been aching for a large library of easy and casual games I can share with my wife forever. She doesn't care about the AAA games and I'm willing to give those up if it means we can play together.

Also, the standards for games these days is really low. I see children playing total crap all the time. Gone are the days you beg your mom to spend $60 buying you one game where upon you had to spend the next 6 months playing it before you would get another one. Parents will buy a game on their phone and hand it to their kid like its the pacifier of the 21st century.
I agree it does not if you do.

It would be if Mozilla Corp (an employer) fired him or told him he must resign, hence the part "pressuring people to force him to resign". You can demand and complain all you want, but until management responds to that opinion with a loss of employment, no it is not abuse, and I would agree. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
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This. Its just like rich people gaming college admissions or yacht racing. Its basically an arms race. Money buys weapons. And when you put a limit on weapons, money buys training. And once you level that playing field, money buys freedom from other things.
dpkg -S /some/file # tells you what package provides that file
dpkg -L some-package # lists all the files provided by a package
apt-get search <regex> # lists all package names matching <regex>
If we help a teacher launch a great idea then I will consider this competition to be a resounding success. I am sure some people will try and 'game' the voting, but this is part of the reason the final winner will be picked by experts. We toyed with picking the winner ourselves, but this is against the spirit of what we are trying to accomplish.
HFT practitioners can't create volume unless they actually trade. If they actually trade, then they are taking risk, participating in the market, and providing (or removing) liquidity.

Volume in the market refers to shares traded, not quotes. The fact that I'm willing to buy 100 shares AAPL at 12:01:00.000 (enter an order) and not willing to do so at 12:01:00.001 (cancel an order) has no influence on market volumes - because a trade never took place.

Now, if you're talking about the limit order books changing extremely rapidly, according to different participants understanding of their positions and intentions, then that's true. That's because the order book represents the intersection of supply and demand at a given instant.
Well, with an N of 1, this is overwhelmingly how my wife and I use credit cards. Better consumer protection and less hassle than either cash or a debit card. Feel a little bit bad about making everyone else pay for that, but not bad enough to overwhelm those concerns.
Japanese PSA on Public Smartphone Use
As a long-time Roku user I curse ours almost every day. Performance is slower than every other device we own (except the Chromecast). They constantly "reset" themselves while trying to navigate through the Netflix and Amazon listings. Videos will just sporadically stop playing or run into constant buffering issues. There are no parental controls. They didn't support DLNA until a few months ago.
That could be interpreted as being rather spooky. But it could also be a joke based on word of mouth information.

And was it a wise idea to pass on that investment? Seems not...
> Design is a universal language. It transcends borders, races, and spoken languages. It is constantly changing and adapting to new ideas, new platforms, and new environments. It’s inherently more human than programming - most of us can tell good design from bad, while a only a tiny percentage can identify good code. Design is the interface between the problems we face, and the solutions we create to overcome them.

Oh jeezus...I consider myself more a humanist than a tech evangelist, but this makes me throw up in my mouth. Design is vital, don't get me wrong, but the problems and tensions we have with design often come from abstract/vague specs and opinions...Placing value on "code" doesn't necessarily mean "Programmers-first"...but in order for a sane eco-system with relatively stable specs, programmers and engineers cannot take a back seat to the design process.
I chose this particular example because it is a rather uncontroversial human rights issue here in Europe, whereas the Americans are still undecided.

Here in Europe it is seen as imperative that the state should never be allowed to intentful kill one of its citizens.
I was thinking more about OpenDocument, EPub, PNG. Things we take for granted today. It seems that once efforts transferred to the web companies simply have no desire to cooperate on their protocols. Even though cloud syncing is simple enough that dozens of companies have reinvented it, the companies don't feel any obligation (as I personally feel they have) to open up these protocols.
They demoed this at //build/ last year...and then it never actually happened. I have no idea why. I assume it's coming, but have no idea when, at this point.
I had a much harder time finding info about the mechanism I reported than I would have thought. I think perhaps I was wrong and I appreciate the prompt to research further.

Even at low levels, anything droning I _theorize_ (for the moment) must _habituate_ the listener (e.g. cricket song). I thought I understood that physiologically, such droning caused the tiny hairs of the inner ear to either die or become less sensitive. The brain filters "noise" I understood. Again, I cannot seem to find evidence of this at low sound pressure levels(~volumes), so my reasoning may be a byproduct of some pseudoscience.

I understand that tinnitus suffers sometimes use white noise to habituate themselves to the ringing they perceive, and that this reportedly improves their symptoms. However, this conclusion seems incomplete to me. I think there is habituation happening, but I suspect it's: (1) a desensitization to nearly all frequencies (white noise = broad spectrum) and (2) frequency masking. (1) would be sacrificing the ability to perceive across the spectrum in order to minimize the effects of "the ringing" which is only sometimes physically present. (2) (masking) fools the brain/ear into not hearing something that "really" (psycho-acoustically, in this context) is there. Enough of my theorizing though.

Most of what I find suggests that "noise" by definition is loud and only sometimes unwanted. I take issue with both over-simplifications. lol.

I first learned about the concept while studying to become an Audio Mastering Engineer. I gave up before making it to that level, though.

The concept of "central gain" is pretty interesting as a topic of research in this field.

Here are some links:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18274918

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/03/health/noise-machines-study/ (contradicts me)

To be honest, I'm happy to learn there is little evidence of droning causing damage at low SPLs; I used to sit on a data center room floor with a direct line of sight to hundreds of computer racks. :-)

Edit: Another link: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/6/2356.full.pdf
The remote is shared, though. It sits on the table. If my smartphone is the remote then no-one can use it when I'm not at home. So instead you have to set up every smartphone as a remote. And what about children? Do you want them to use your smartphone?

A cheap, disposable remote is no bad thing.
Freezing the accounts would be enough to create this sense of urgency, you wouldn't be able to modify or upload new files on the system. You would have to look for an alternative at that point...
Haven't looked at the APIs, but are the APIs going to scale between phone, tablet and 30" 4K monitors? It's relatively easy to make the same app to be adaptable between phone and tablet, or even laptop, but to make it look good on 30" 4K monitor is a completely different UX, if full screen. Or in high resolutions the apps run in windowed mode?
I really like his focus script. However, I think he's treating the symptoms and not the problem. Usually, when I can't focus it just means there's something else that's wrong: 1) I didn't get a good night's sleep, 2) my diet wasn't quite right that day (too much sugar perhaps?) or the previous day, or 3) I've been working too long.

Lack of focus is a signal that something is wrong. In terms of being at home versus at the office, I can have the same lack of focus at the office.
I agree... I really like the Chromecast most of the time. Browsing for content on the phone or tablet is much easier than via a remote sometimes.

But there are other times when I wish there were another option available as well.
Cant wait to jailbreak this and run xbmc on it.
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I bookmark and post the links I like to my website; which allows me to browse through my reading history every now and then to refresh my memory of what I had read.

Adding search really helps.
I think that Twitter might be entwined enough into the OS such that it'd get permissions that other third-party devs wouldn't. I would totally love to be wrong though.
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But bugs happen everywhere, and I don't expect Haste to abstract and fix all possible browser bugs. When <experimental feature X> changes subtly and you get an exception, how do you track it down? How about when the browser just freaks out and inserts a NaN in a place type safety says it can't?
I see your point, but were I making a decision about what platform to use to build a mobile presence, I would focus on what provided the best user experience. Not what gave me the greatest initial coverage.

If you can be successful on iOS or Android first, you'll probably then have the resources available to develop for the other platforms as well.
In any given region, you will likely see a lot of extreme savagery if you go back in time far enough. So, everything and everybody can change, given enough time. You yourself are just demonstrating it, too, by being depressed by the state of things, instead of assuming that's just the way it has to be, right? :)
> Until web apps can run in a first-class embedded Javascript runtime with equal access to the OS's native frameworks

If they have equal access then they are not webapps anymore,just native apps written with web technologies.

A HTML/JS app that doesnt live in the browser is not a web app.

"Web apps" are websites, that take advantage of web apis(ajax,...). Web apis can only be found in browsers.

Devs cant have it both ways,they cant get native feel,performance and portability. Something portable means something trade-offs regarding the native api.

The problem exposed with the op is,do users like web apps? especially on phones,where resources are limited,users impatients and used to the os features and where poor performances are not tolerated.

I believe if one really cares about user experience ,one should write native apps,where the core UI isnt a webview. now if your "app" can be a mobile website,no need for an "app" at first place.
(And for people who don't want to watch: it appears, based on the demo, that it handles conversation flow dramatically better than Siri does, but I'll need to actually play with the real thing to know whether that's just presentation veneer.)
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I'm not sure, but consider that your HN username is something you might submit when applying to YCombinator.

So, it makes sense that they wouldn't let you delete the account; for better or for worse, you might have to explain your posting history to PG during an interview.

Also, consider how annoying it would be to remove all references to a deleted account from threads--not really worth the computational power.
Why not advertise on both? People at HN have already asked some great questions and even offered helpful insights, and we appreciate that.
Here's one: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406668,00.asp

(Scroll down a bit for the numbers)

The boot time is definitely faster. I think removing aeroglass also helped a bit with energy consumption and window rendering speed, although I have to admit I miss it. They also updated a few small things that aren't a big deal but are kind of nice (the file copy dialog is WAY better).
That's pretty typical of a Wired article - it is a 'popular science' magazine, after all.
The Hipmob live feed: watch users walk around your (online) store in real time.
That's a silly answer. The technology behind the syncing is not a competitive advantage. The existence of dozens of these services should tell you that. The way the companies can compete is by building services on top of the cloud syncing, and by providing integrations with other services you use. That stuff makes sense to be proprietary, but the syncing itself doesn't, imo.
Possibly. Some games won't cross over well, or at all. For instance, Fruit Ninja wouldn't work. Angry Birds would. Tap Tap Revenge or whatever wouldn't. Etc.

One thing to keep in mind is mobile is a form factor, but no longer a "platform." In this case, the platform is Android. There are plenty of game types that would cross over well. Even better if you could sync state between platforms for a seamless anywhere experience. Imagine playing FFVII on your phone, and then when you get home pick up a PS2 like controller and continue playing that same game on your HDTV?

I think the biggest hurtle is the fact that consumers already have similar devices, and at $99 its not like the FireTV is a no-brainer. If they timed it right, and people are "rolling over" to the next set of devices?
> Regardless, nobody's votes are being bought. You still control the outcome of the election, nobody is forced to vote for anyone because they saw a campaign ad for them.

Even if that is true, the current system of campaign finance results in large corporations dictating the laws because they fund the campaigns of the legislators.
To be honest. Ubuntu One never worked for me. Dropbox is a much better alternative.

What are other alternatives to Ubuntu One? If they are smart, the partner with dropbox.
If you borrow against money that you're going to have before the next credit card bill is due, you're not paying usurious interest rates and fees. We don't always have the liquidity to pay for what we charge when we charge it but that's not at all the same thing as not being able to afford it (if we didn't have credit cards available, we'd shift our assets to otherwise be more liquid).
I believe this is the only truly novel text editor out there, but it's dated in so many crucial ways.

I'm hopeful that someone with more time and talent than I would adjust it to align more closely with today's UX conventions ('Copy' instead of 'Snarf', scrollbars on the right, syntax highlighting) If these were done, I bet Acme would enjoy a larger fan base.

What I love about Acme is that the UI makes no distinction between terminal and text editor. This allows you to build your own tools in your own languages to make Acme as useful as possible for you. That said, since it offers so little out of the box, you have to spend a lot of time working out what those tools should be first.

Anyone wanting an easy way to try out Acme should download AcmeSAC (Stand Alone Complex) here: https://code.google.com/p/acme-sac/
"Threshold" and names like these bring back vivid memories about Longhorn and Blackcomb.
Is this policy written somewhere? The only trend I've noticed is that I always agree with anyone complaining about a changed submission title. (I don't think you're complaining, are you? The NPR title is pretty cheap IMHO.)
"There are far better solutions for making your XP applications continue to operate on modern systems."

I guess Wine comes up as example for such solution, as it always does in such discussions. Yet, Wine would be qualified as alpha-stage development under ReactOS' marks. In their front-page "alpha stage" means "not feature-complete". It is quite usable in narrow use-cases though, cases for which a Linux-based solution is not an option.
I'll start with my disclaimer that I'm founder of Trovebox and this isn't a sales pitch because we've focused Trovebox for business use.

Great, that's out of the way. Storing and archiving photos & videos is near and dear to my heart [1] and I believe that cloud storage is one piece of answering yes to the question of "will I have my photos in 50 years?". My entire Shuttleworth Fellowship is based on this.

Here's my $.02.

Cost - we haven't yet but have all the pieces to use Amazon Glacier for storage of high resolution originals. That means storing 100 GB will cost you $1 / month. There's additional costs to keep thumbnails in S3 for immediate access -- my estimate is <$3 all inclusive for that 100GB.

Ownership / Portability - a big part of my fellowship is to see how a hosted service (ala Flickr) can provide 100% ownership and portability. The solution is to let users (optionally) bring their own storage. So you can use the Trovebox software connected to your own Glacier and S3 bucket.

Functionality - I think organization, viewing, sharing and archiving should be merged together. Instead of having your sharable photos in one place and your archives in another --- why aren't they combined?

Raw - we support RAW and do conversion to JPEG.

Open Source - Check [2].

Mobile - Check [3] [4] [5] [6].

API - Check [7].

[1] http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/current/jaisen...

[2] https://github.com/photo

[3] https://github.com/photo/mobile-ios

[4] https://github.com/photo/mobile-android

[5] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trovebox/id511845345?mt=8

[6] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trovebox.a...

[7] https://trovebox.com/documentation
Are you implying that money is unlimited?
OK, draft figures posted now.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/tree/master/this%...
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You can adapt any part of the app. I.e. you can simply migrate the app to be universal across devices, but if a specific part does not look good, then you can change the XAML/code behind for that part.
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Startup founders are under intense pressure to hire candidates fast if they manage to impress during their interviews. The job market in tech is hot, and good people get snapped up quickly.
But making an offer without due diligence is like marrying someone because they look good in mauve. It will end in tears.