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I am an Android phone user, past iPhone user and current iPad user and my experience has been the exact opposite. Google Now always understands me better than Siri.

When Siri fails for me, I sometimes ask my 7 year old to talk the same thing to Siri and she gets better results. My daughter has a more 'American' accent than me so I have concluded that Android is better at hearing through accents than iOS.

(I haven't yet read the original article but wanted to quickly comment since our observations are completely opposite)

EDIT - iOS tablet user = iPad user.
"That could be ideal for the forthcoming iPad, which is rumored to offer Touch ID and Apple Pay"

Can't wait to be in line behind the person fumbling to get our their iPad to pay for a pack of gum. Phone and watch should be smooth though.
Yes, what you describe is not at all at odds with what I described. If it wasn't clear, I was describing only developer interaction with integration testing per a CI system, with nothing to say about deploying to production other than the token "don't break users" in the first sentence.
"With only a bare majority of Americans opposed to U.S. government anti-terrorism surveillance," it's first and foremost a political one [1].

[1] http://www.people-press.org/2013/07/26/few-see-adequate-limi...
But MP4s will play using low power on virtually every touch device today. That is a huge advantage.
> AFAIK, this is changing and a number of lines are planning to go 24/7.

Only 24 hours on Friday and Saturday, actually. And lines often close partially or fully on weekends to allow for maintenance. 24/7 running wouldn't stop that.
heh. quaint comment. america is actually the most liberal (ie less protection from the gov to common people) of the developed countries.

no matter how much your politicians and hollywood tries to sell it as freedom paradise
Or is simply vulnerable to good marketing campaigns.

It's been a while since I used Firestone tires, but I'll bet anyone quite a lot that their product development and quality control have very little to do with their human resources practices in the third world. (Even though I think they sound really good, too.)
That's the problem - in the USA, detective and police are not two different occupations. You can only become a detective by being promoted from the ranks of policemen.

i.e. if the maximum IQ for a beat cop is 110, naturally the maximum IQ for a detective will also be 110.

The police union is mostly responsible for this, because they don't want people coming in from outside and skipping the grind to become detectives.
Resistance or reluctance? In keeping with the article, it would be less about the GMO vs non-GMO debate and more about uncertainty in how we agree on whether something ought to be or if it will cause more problems than it solves. The fear of progress in this case may be rooted in sound reasoning as a reaction to past advances that have wreaked havoc in other areas. The impulse is to treat it as an ideological difference when it actually should be looked at as a breaking down of trust and an inability to discern foolishness from genius.
I drove a taxi for a year back in the 90's. Most drivers do play the waiting game, but that wasn't for me. The company I worked for awarded call-ins to the closest cab available rather than whoever waited the longest, which meant that you could develop a strategy of being at the right place at the right time to optimize your fares. This turned out to be a much more lucrative strategy than the sit-and-wait deals. I rarely drove more than a mile or two without a fare. Competing for fares can be quite challenging and rewarding in the right situation. In the end I didn't quit because of boredom. I quit because taxi drivers were getting killed in their cabs too often.
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I totally agree with this, JSON was designed as a standard.
Good, so I have some constraints:

- This money transfer system works if you have (any) bank account. If you have a bank account that's all it needs (and no sign up)

- It does not depend on any action on the receiving part (so no depositing a cheque or something similar).

- It takes a couple of days tops

- A fee is acceptable, if it's something like $5 at most

- It works for large amounts (for buying a car or a house for example)

- It is trusted. If the money shows in your account that's it (unlike a cheque)

If it has this features, great.
Just installed it on my iPhone 6.

Why can't I allow WeatherSignal to access location services always?

Settings->WeatherSignal->Privacy->Location Services looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/BeOcOLP.png

when it should look like this: http://i.imgur.com/kAOB53B.png

The option "Always" is missing from WeatherSignal settings.
Not always. In the US, more common is a sort of police academy. Actual higher education is not really required.
And in the "ships CDs" camp, we have Adobe and Microsoft, long held as bastions of robust, stable, well-tested software.
This implies we have a police force that is unable to sense or react to nuance in a situation, and who implement a fast but error prone pattern matching algorithm to identify criminality - which is entirely consistent with their behavior.

I suppose this wouldn't be a problem if we had a justice system that, presumably powered by better brains, could quickly throw out the inevitable false positives this quick and dirty algo produces. But the justice system is so slow, so broken, and prone to pro-police bias that it exists primarily to get as much punishment as possible out of those the unintelligent police have tagged as "criminals". That is, the police are the de facto judge, jury, and executioner, and they wield that power with all the delight that you might imagine someone of low intelligence would experience at being given such power.

(Of course, there is still a way to avoid a false positive if you have a great deal of money, which is probably why there is no great pressure to reform the system. Otherwise you're spending 3 years on Riker's without a trial.)
I work in the field, so I thought I'd chime in here. Our lab (and others) have published a few papers on using optogenetics to control peripheral nervous system targets, but as some of the other commenters have mentioned, it's very much in the early stages right now, and is likely to be a long way away from human trials.

A few points:

1. There are two relevant ways to make motor neurons light sensitive. As another commenter mentioned, you can create a transgenic line of animals (this is necessarily restricted to mice/rats). That's been done, and it's been shown that you can control muscle movement in such mice [1]. In that work, a rather interesting, and now replicated [2] observation was made, which is that if you use optogenetics to do this (muscle control) you actually induce less fatigue than if you use electrical stimulation to do this. Why this is the case is not yet understood.

2. The other (more relevant) way to do this would be to use viral vectors to transduce the motor neurons you want to control with the light-sensitive ion channels. We published a paper last year showing this was possible in rats [3]. The advantage here is that you can get control over individual muscles without any effect on unwanted muscles, through a subtlety of the injection method used. There are naturally many caveats here, the most important being that human gene therapy is still in its infancy, and is typically used only for very life-threatening disorders. It's also important to note that in both these cases, you still needed a way to deliver light to the relevant nerve. While there's lots of work going on to make light-sensitive ion channels even more light-sensitive, it's likely that preliminary optogenetic control of muscle will still require implants.

3. One of the applications talked about in the link here goes the other way - it's focused on delivering touch information back to the brain. There's less published here with optogenetics than there is in motor control. We've published a paper using viral methods to control sensation earlier this year (in mice) [4], but the type of sensation we were trying to control was pain, not simple touch.

That said, I know that many groups are trying to develop ways to specifically make touch-transducing neurons light sensitive - I'd be surprised if we didn't see quite a few papers on this over the next year or two.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v16/n10/abs/nm.2228.html
[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6179/94.short
[3] http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
[4] http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v32/n3/full/nbt.2834.html
It likely would work. Facebook heavily hinted at strong social integration with the OR. I likely see Facebook doing this or at least they gave me that impression in their stock holders call.

It makes a lot of sense. I certainly would use it. The big "draw" for me. Would be watching movies with my friends, in a full theater settings, despite continents of separation.
From https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...

"Devices with barometers include:
Galaxy S3, S4, S5
Galaxy Nexus
Galaxy Note, 2, 3
Nexus 4, 5, 10
Xoom
RAZR MAXX HD
Xiaomi MI-2, MI-3
Droid Ultra
Moto X
HTC One (M8)
..and others!"
I had a similar experience, wherein a National Guard recruiter actually talked me out of joining the army for that reason.

I also flirted with the Navy nuke program as I was finishing up my EE degree, but decided to abort the process mid-stream. At my first job after graduating my cubemate was a former Navy electrican, stationed on a carrier. What he told me about the nukes made me happy I chose to abort.
Sure thing! The course allows for community discussion so also be answering questions there.
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The software industry has a tradition of inserting a "Disclaimer of Warranty" and a "Limitation of Liability" into all licenses. Do those hold up in court? I don't know.

It is bizarre. Imagine if car companies did that.

Example 1: The GNU GPL, sections 15-17, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Example 2: Microsoft Services Agreement, sections 11 & 12: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-service...
You missed a reason (my main reason): for cost while maintaining adequate quality.
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How does it follow that companies will turn to building a new network due to concerns about the NSA in the US? This takes for granted that the privacy concerns outweigh the economic ones. Foreign countries have just as much to lose as the US if internet-based commerce across borders is stopped.

I worry more about the internet breaking up due to foreign governments' desire to censor and isolate their internal networks, not because they are worried about the NSA.
Another "advantage" of the inverse cutoff is that it reduces the racial disparity in test-based hiring.
True, no hard evidence either way. But real hard evidence is rather hard to come by.

I'm more worried about the people who shy away from online conversations when anonymity is stripped away. Anonymity is my _only_ protection from harassing trolls like Weev.

If I didn't feel secure in my thoughts, I wouldn't be able to talk frankly to you, and I'd leave.

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Is it ok to up-vote because I want to increase the visibility of the outage? :/ I remember when 4hr+ API downtime on heroku would make it to the front page in no time. I'm sure their team is having a heck of a morning, and wish them the best. Hopefully some lessons are learned that make this issue avoidable in the future. If they say it's high load on an API database, you'd think they'd be well-equipped to scale that up or at least have a backup waiting... but hard to speculate from the outside.
WebM is a format nobody asked for and nobody wants.

It's claimed that WebM is patent free, but this is impossible. There's just too many patents in the video space, any one of which could surface and tank this format.

Remember GIF itself was, for a while, subject to patent problems.

At least with H264 companies like Cisco are releasing implementations with indemnity from that (http://www.openh264.org/) which I think is better than coming up with some wonky new format.
Oh how nice. It shows your password if it's more than 30 characters long and rejects it.

What is this, 1999?
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Hah.. Implementation issue. That's a good one. It's just like an SUV not being landmine proof is an implementation issue. Just because somewhere a landmine proof humvee exists doesnt mean its attainable or practical for an ordinary user.
I worked for Efront back in the 90's. You covered them on your site pretty well. I am trying to forget that memory.
What Schmidt actually said, from the article:

> "The simplest outcome is we're going to end up breaking the Internet," said Google's Schmidt. Foreign governments, he said, are "eventually going to say, we want our own Internet in our country because we want it to work our way, and we don't want the NSA and these other people in it."
the link is down for me (it says page not found), here is the cached version from google http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aimgur...
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Two questions:
(1) Anyone use Varnish in front of Rails? Is it better to just set up some memcached and/or redis and let the app handle it?
(2) To deal with session-specific stuff, how common is it to render some common plain html views, then fill in the particulars with JS/Ajax? If you need to support no-JS (heaven forbid) do people use iframes?
Then that deserves an honest answer!

I'm using a device called a TrackerPro[0] which tracks a small reflective dot on my glasses, this translates my head movements into cursor movements. To initiate a left mouse click I use a [buddy button[1] under my right index finger, this means that using just my head and right index finger I can control the mouse just like anybody else.

To input any kind of text into the computer I use DragonDictate for Mac[2], this has the dual function of enabling me to do speech to text really well but also to trigger little shell scripts and AppleScript's I've written.

So, if I say "Xylophone Google" Dragon will recognise that as a command and jump to the Google homepage. That's just a really simple example of what you can do, but as you might imagine it's one I use a lot each day. :-)

[0]:http://www.ablenetinc.com/Assistive-Technology/Computer-Acce...
[1]:http://www.ablenetinc.com/Assistive-Technology/Switches/Budd...
[2]:http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-...
While we're playing word games...

"The fact that you got caught spying on everyone is making it harder for us to convince the world to hand over their personal data to us!"
alarm for 5 minutes
Maybe I'm missing the obvious... but how exactly do I share anything? After connecting, all I see is a list of the articles I have in Pocket.
If the reporting is accurate, then he really got screwed. Your money is taken despite your never being convicted of anything, and then the IRS taxes you for that money that was taken. What a joke.
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This is the same site that gives the above, incorrect, test. I would trust it about as far as I could throw it, and I assume it's bolted to the rack.
`join(',')` is complex? Also why is this even an issue? Use a JSON library.
Nope. It will.
That statement is predicated on the assumption that one race is smarter than another, which is unlikely to be true.
I understand that, I'm just curious as to the mechanism that they are using.
Better acceleration will. Sure, the local trains won't benefit as much; but in NYC, at least, there are express subway trains.

Also, consider that the "small" benefit for the local train is applied to millions of people a day. That'll add up to lifetimes.
Did you ever know any manager, never mind a higher-up manager, that did even 3 of those things ?

Management is about money and favours, and about those things alone, and that's why work sucks. The only way to get ahead is with threats and horsetrading.
When JSON was first used, it was evaluated with eval. Certain issues might cause JSON not to evaluate properly (the only article I could find arguing that it's not Javascript involve Unicode issues that are rarely encountered), but it doesn't invalidate my point.
Yes, i was reffering to our automatic time tracking aimed at heavy multitaskers vs the simple stopwatch (which we also have and is very useful in most situations).
Hoe kun je snel je auto verkopen?
"It happened before I was born" is a pretty good denial of involvement.
IMO this is one of the major problems with HN these days. Any mildly controversial or unpopular viewpoint get downvoted, even if factually correct.

I think that you should be forced to leave a comment if you downvote, explaining why you downvoted and giving the OP a chance to respond.
Fast-forward 8 or so years to today, where crimes involving mobile devices or computers are the norm. Police departments are recruiting tech-savvy young adults out of high school, then sending them to training on digital forensics and the like. Everything goes well for a couple years until they hit the agency's pay ceiling and move to the private sector. There are plenty of opportunities for smart people in law enforcement today that don't equate to boredom - compensation has more to do with it IMO.
> This age of Nation-States, and their private agents, attacking other countries companies through the internet reminds me of the age of piracy in which nations employed privateers acting under a letter of marque to harass and destroy enemy commercial shipping interests. How does any nation think this is an acceptable non-warlike behavior to do allies and friendly nations?

It's an irrelevant question. They don't have to consider it acceptable--they do it because they can. The only reason nation-states don't engage in piracy anymore is because the major powers' domination of sea power has made it untenable. And the major powers don't do it, in turn, because they have more to gain from trade than from piracy.
The Impact of Mass Surveillance on the Digital Economy (roundtable)
Gif on the right is bigger, slower, and loses a lot of color information. Really surprised to be honest.
The 10th Amendment is largely a fiction today. Instead, the opposite is true: the federal government frequently claims and uses novel powers until a Supreme Court case says it can't. And sometimes those powers get minor modifications to enable their re-use afterwards.

The only fundamental force resisting these types of power grabs is a large body of citizens who both know and exercise their rights, and who look at government with suspicion instead of looking at it as a protector.
as someone thinking about navy nukes, may i ask what was unpalatable about it?
Not just wipe, it will destroy itself. And as other users below stated there is a timeout before self-destruction. Ill bet its configurable too.
Yeah, so it becomes a space/time tradeoff. I think whether which is better depends on the problem you're solving. Many DFAs don't blow up space exponentially, so you'd rather have the DFA in that case. You're right though that for DFAs with an exponential increase in space requirements you are better off just doing the NDA in parallel.
It's an h264 video, they serve it with the .gifv extension but that's just marketing.
High intelligence isn't what's called a "protected class," meaning smart people have not historically been discriminated against. That's the difference.
That isn't even close to being true. SNCOs and WOs need to be pretty clever, and they start off as E-1s. It works for the military, but then they aren't taking the short sighted position of filtering out folks who are "too smart" to be an E-1.
It surprising how little plans for fixing global warming are discussed. Most of the discussion deals with preventing global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, which is of course something we need to do.

But if we agree that there's already too much CO2 in the air, why not figure out ways to remove it or otherwise prevent further damage?
The tech is amazing, can't believe how fast it's progressing but as someone that is missing a hand I'd never use one I don't think. I can see how they are incredibly useful for people that have more difficulties.
Yes, your comment was a paragon of unemotional wisdom. You have no interest here other than cool exercise of rational thought. You aren't upset at all. It's those other people who have let their feelings run away with them. Just keep telling yourself that. Because as we know, feelings like empathy and concern have no place in a discussion about how humans should treat other humans.

Funnily, I agree with you that nerds are behaving badly now that they have power. [1] But I disagree with your conclusion. What happened to Sierra is a great example of nerds misusing their sudden social power. Now we need to start taking responsibility for the broader effects of our works and our previously insular culture.

[1] For others, this is a good analysis: http://petewarden.com/2014/10/05/why-nerd-culture-must-die/
There are white squares on certain Hammersmith & City and Circle and line platforms that line up with where the doors stop, people don't seem to know this though.
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They think it's acceptable because they can get away with it.

We live in a nation of government and laws and it's so ingrained that it's hard to imagine any other way. But the international stage is pure anarchy. There's no authority, no meta-government, and all that guides behavior is precedent, promises, threats, and reactions. Countries will stop attacking each other through the internet the moment they think that they're better off that way, and not before.
And to back up gnaritas comment... JSON: The JavaScript subset that isn't - http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset
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This site is being hammered by every caffeine junkie ever. $15 of free Red Bull? Yes please!
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My point was that more infections would mean less lethal in this case.
looking into this, sorry.
Nope, I know a lot of kids from school who eat that stuff like crazy. Not my hippy mom though haha. But it wasn't at all on the list of 'things other kids have that I wan't but can't get', I still don't like it to this day. It's basically bread with sugar, which is pretty ridiculous considering the bread itself contains plenty of sugar.

I really wish we'd be eating more warm and more green in the morning. Fruits are great, but they're also sugar bombs. So when I see a tiny kid eat a kiwi (sugar bomb), a glass of pure orange juice (two oranges full of sugar-juice), bread (carbohydrate-bomb that gets turned into sugar) with jam (full of sugar, made of fruits) and milk with chocolate cereal (more sugar!) I'd be surprised if that kid couldn't concentrate in class. For one, that's the volume of food I might eat in the morning (at 80kg), but with much less sugar.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-sugar, I eat fruits and jams and bread every day. But some of these breakfasts seem completely unbalanced.

Hope to see more oatmeal like the Icelander kid!

Funny to see kids in Brazil drink coffee. Reminds me of having coffee as a kid (cafe late late late though, more milk than coffee) in Morocco when I was young.