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When I read dystopic cyberpunk novels as a child, I did not expect them to become reality so soon. Also, why do all AI have to tell you about mount everest all the time?
According to dnstats.net 23 out of 33 markets are still up.

If you are interested in the perspectives of those affected by this I would suggest visiting here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2lhin9/onym...
your recollection of events is very different from mine - The iPhone was available months before the iPod touch. Apple started with an expensive device and removed functionality to make the entry level device. They did the same with the iPod - they started with the expensive version and then made the mini, the nano and the shuffle as entry level versions years later.
in all seriousness perhaps iranian hosts would be a viable route
I wrote Hooked along with Ryan Hoover (founder of Product Hunt) to help companies build better products. It's been wonderful seeing how companies have benefited from using the Hook model to create healthy habits.

The book was just named one of the best business books of 2014 by Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-business-books-2...

There's a video of a talk I gave at The Next Web conference on the book here: http://www.hookmodel.com/#book

Happy to hang out and take any questions until about 11 am PT.
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baseless? did you miss out on how the NSA has been recording everything you've said and making deals with companies for gathering your information?
Alexa also appears to have become self-mobile in the video.

Also at 1:10 it looks like Dad had a bet with the neighbor about the height of Mt. Everest.

I'm pretty sure at 3:33 his watch has the time set incorrectly. Maybe Echo could tell him how to do that?
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That's a great product - neat packaging of a technology that's mature enough for this use. That was a horribly awkward video as well.
Not sure what in the announcement you are referring to. The only thing it says about Docker is that it has brought move visibility to OS-virtualization.

But, Joyent is infact working on docker support for SmartOS. They have revived an old Solaris feature called LX-branded zones that allows running linux binaries directly in SmartOS. Bryan Cantrill gave a talk on it at SurgeConf this year:

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs
slides: http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx
> You can't be certain that there's no way to activate it remotely without you knowing.

Ditto with every electronic device with a microphone: Smartphones, tablets, laptops, home phones, bluetooth in your car, Microsoft's Kinect, baby monitors, etc.

And while we're on an NSA paranoia trip, let's also remember that if you bounce a laser off of one of your windows it will allow them to pick up sound from within, plus signal leakage via the electrical grid, and of course unless you're in a faraday cage tons of EM leakage from everything you use.
Youtube is a safe-harbor under the DMCA because they facilitate this transaction. Here is the workflow:

1) You put something online.

2) They come and submit a DMCA takedown.

Little or no verification is required at this point, because the penalties for filing a false DMCA takedown are very limited and the penalties for not responding appropriately to a DMCA takedown are huge (eg. youtube can lose their safe-harbor status and become directly liable for your infringement.) The appropriate response to a DMCA takedown for a safe-harbor is in almost every case to take it down.

3) (Two?) weeks pass. You file an appeal or "counter-notice." YouTube can accept your appeal if it contains the necessary information, with no court oversight, at the end of the two weeks. They put your content back up, they forward your information to the DMCA claimant, and they are thus absolved of any direct liability and retain their safe-harbor status.

4) If the entity from (2) believes that you are indeed infringing, they now have your information and can file in a court of law, or as it was shown here, firebomb your house.

This is actually the way the process of DMCA law is written in my understanding.
semi interesting. Now if this becomes part of a home ecosystem then it could significantly increase its value. Such as if i can talk to it and then my amazon drone goes and gets me some food, or even gets amazon fresh to bring me groceries.
Ah! Good to know, thank you!
The parent comment was clearly aware of the versioning feature, and appears to be more surprised by the keypress-level granularity of the versioning that may not have been apparent in the official UI.
Perfect cover to run away with everyones funds :)
A while back ago I would have agreed with you (also having spent a lot of time on Slashdot), but the quality of posts these days on the front pages keep from returning on a regular basis. Yes, I know that with Reddit you need to unsubscribe from the defaults and things like that and there are quality sub-reddits out there. But from my perspective, the front page used to contain enough good content that one could causally scan through and find something interesting without the haggle of signing up, maintaining subscriptions, searching for relevant content and things like that.

At the end of the day, I'm just there to browse and not jump through a bunch of hoops just to filter out junk that only appeals to the under 18 crowd.
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I have. I've also recruited elsewhere. The unemployment rate you cite makes engineers much more comfortable with uncertain companies, which is a tremendous stumbling block when trying to hire outside the Valley. It dramatically reduces the risk of joining a startup.
Interesting article. I wonder if the multiple, older, models are just a way to clear excess inventory or if Apple really believes this allows them to complete on cost as well. For instance the price difference is still excessive when comparing the 5C against mid-range Android phones at which point if you are buying Apple you may as well go for the top-range iPhone anyway.
Code Complete has 960 pages, not in the short book category
You people completely ignore the mode of operation and start making idiotic claims about "well NSA!"

In this case it wasn't even the NSA I was thinking about, rather Amazon themselves.

"Hey, I'm heading to the grocery store, do you need anything?"

"Yeah, get some milk?"

<user requires milk approximately every 4 days, enter "send Amazon Fresh promo e-mail" event for 3.5 days from now>

Nothing will be transmitted to the cloud unless it is the word "Alexa" or sounds similar enough to the term.

You don't know that. This is not going to be a piece of open source software you can evaluate. It's Amazon's literal black box to do with what they wish.
Boulder has a population of around 100,000 (about 30,000 are students at the University of Colorado.)

In some ways it feels like a (distant) suburb of Denver; there are people who commute from one to the other, though it's about a 40 mile drive. But in other ways it's very isolated. It's politically comparable to Berkley or Austin. It's racially a strong white majority with few hispanics (Denver is over 1/3 hispanic).

As another commenter mentioned, Boulder has intentionally created open space around itself. There's a city ordinance limiting water service to under a certain elevation in order to reduce the attractiveness of building up on the mountainsides. The city owns a huge amount of open space around its borders and allows only very limited, controlled development.
Yes, most hobby grade planes and almost every multi-rotor out there now comes with an IMU on board for stabilization. Many of the more expensive multi-rotors will also come with a GPS and auto-pilot which will enable loitering (i.e. stay in this place in 3D space unless I tell you to move) and RTL (return to launchpoint).
I use the crap out of the "OK Google" functionality of my phone, I send voice text messages more than typed by an order of 3 to 1. I am very excited for this.
This is assurance to the public that the law will be faithfully executed. They are assuring the public that the FBI is capable of investigating crimes even on the internet.
Wow. New technology can be used for good or evil? This can be (and usually is!) the top comment on any interesting HN post.
On HN how is it that posts with 7 points make it the front page but others do not?
Yes, exactly; with 2.1 out, I expect future versions to start moving towards a usable "libgpg".
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You shouldn't parade your ignorance.
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Very cool! Love the meteorhacks blog, loving Kadira, and at first glance this looks like it will be really helpful as well. IMO Arunoda and people like him are big reasons why the Meteor community seems to get a lot of positive attention.
This is a great idea. I love Google now, but the only time I'll use it at home. Any other place and I feel like way too much of a tool.

It remains to be seen, however, if Amazon really has caught up to Google in one single step.
Every new reddit user is subscribed to all of the default subreddits and has to manually unsubscribe to get any of them off their front page.
I'm a novice, not an expert. I have a great interest in cars and engines in general, and I've pursued them to some degree, but I'm not an engineer. I have no where close to the level of expertise that the Duke engineers do.

> I thought you'd be right on board with speculating about where this went wrong. Sorry to have misjudged.

You've misread me. There's no thing wrong with asking questions. For example, take the question:

"Why can't we rotate the disc instead of the cylinders?"

Versus your statement

"The idea of valve-less cylinders via rotating ports can be done either way - rotating cylinders or rotating shaft - so reverse them."

You state this as if it's obvious, and it is obvious. It's also obvious (to someone with domain knowledge) that it's not a simple matter. I took us part way down the rabbit hole, and I'm always happy to do that, but it really gets under my skin when questions are states as presumptuous declarations such as, "so reverse them." Not to mention this one:

"Just wondering who got it wrong the first day and went down this path."

This presumes that the Duke solution is the wrong one, and your solution is the right one, but you aren't even familiar enough with ported engine designs to know the basic drawbacks. Again, I'm not an expert, but I know enough to know that I can't make these kinds of presumptions. You don't, and my suggestion is that you should recognize and start with questions rather than insulting someone else's work.

I know this comes across as a scolding, but I genuinely don't mean to be harsh. I just felt like I should say something because of the way your writing came across.
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I think that's exactly why they all have trigger words, "Ok Google", "Xbox", "Alexa". Makes it at least a little less likely.
What kind of overhead does the GC incur, and how does it affect processes like a database where low latency is desired?

The eventual goal (golang v1.5 IIRC) is to have 40ms out of every 50ms available for actual processing. This is the kind of 'soft real time' that should provide good responsiveness for most clients most of the time.
Thank you! Not yet, but we're working on that.
Ask HN: What do you use for scheduling individual meetings?
Specifically, I am waiting to hear about interviews for an internship to finish my PhD. Sites are all over the nation, and each interview lasts one day. Most sites have announced a few potential interview dates, which will be first-come first-served at the time of interview offers. I would like to be able to determine quickly which interview date is best for a given site. I would especially love to be able to see all potential dates in a given month, ideally colored by site, so I can easily try out different scheduling scenarios to prevent unnecessary travel (i.e. keep NE together, keep SoCal together, etc.). Does this service exist?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Are you sure it was the "height of her ambition"? Sounds like she was primarily focused on practising her English and didn't mind too much about the work.
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You might want to take a look at AnkiDrive and track their progress on their API and such. That would be a very fun platform to start working with limited AI that would be readily visible in the real world.
Cool idea but very buggy
Can anyone point to recommended hardware for this software? Solaris-family OS's do not have the same level of hardware support that the more popular operating systems enjoy.

I would like to see an update to this discussion, 'Hardware Recommendation -- What Do Joyent and Others Run In Production?'¹ from Feb'2013:

The ditches on either side of the road through the land of hardware are steep and home to manifold ferocious beasts. Stray from this golden path at your peril.

¹ http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/2013/02/sort/ti...
The privacy aspect of this makes me shudder...Now the NSA and GCHQ openly have an always on mic in your home*

*As opposed to the secret one which they can turn on in your pocket if they want
You say that, but I think young people are concerned with privacy: see snapchat, etc
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But the US is not one of those countries, and this dataset is US specific.
Possibly, but it does rather blow a hole in the argument that only people with limited experience in JS would treat `new` as a footgun.
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> Incorrect. The device is always listening, waiting for you to say "Alexa" so that it can start acting upon your commands.

You say "incorrect" then re-phase exactly what I said in a different way but retain exactly the same meaning.

The detection of the key word is on-chip. That's all that matters. Until the chip signals that it was spoken nothing is transmitted.

> So no, this isn't "pathetic baseless fear mongering".

Sure it is. If you know that on-chip keyword detection is a "thing" (which you do by your own admission) then you know also that claiming that everything you say in a room is sent to the cloud is entirely "pathetic baseless fear mongering."

You fully admit you know that that isn't the case here, but yet continue on like it /could/ be the case. Pathetic.
Just to nitpick, accounts != people. Reddit in particular seems to attract throw away accounts and a large number of posts seem to start with "Throwaway". But otherwise, yes!
Hmm, true, it's mentioned in first paragraph, but I couldn't find it in the rest of the article's body when I came back to it. Well, this is rather bad then...
They could have located the servers, but not the administrators because they don't do stupid stuff like connect to their servers directly. Perhaps they're just waiting for the admins to make a mistake. Taking down the servers without arresting anyone just isn't the same.
I agree. I wouldn't have one in my home, but for most of the non-tech savvy population, all you need to do is stick something on the box that says "100% secure" or something similar and their nerves are calmed.

This is obviously not apparent in the HN/tech worlds, but the unfortunate perception I get is that no one really cares about their online privacy (unless it comes to their finances). When I talk to my non-techy friends, most say the cliches like, "I'm not doing anything wrong, so have nothing to hide". Therefore the reason governments can get away with forcing tech companies to give up data, is because the people don't really care, or believe the bullshit in the media about stopping terrorists, and tolerate it.
These were my exact thoughts when the ipad was originally announced.
Heh, yes. I live in Boulder. I am not quite sure where others get the 40 miles to Denver number. To South Denver, sure, but it's about 23 miles to Downtown.

I don't consider (nor do any of my friends) consider Boulder to be a suburb of Denver. If anything it serves as "the city" to places like Lyons, Longmont, Lafayette and Louisville.

Of relevancy to this article, Longmont approved municipal fiber a year ago.
You have enumerated a list of the worst services available to today's consumer. In none of those areas has there been any significant improvement in service level, cost, efficiency, or technology for many years (, though you could argue 'smart meters' will be a small step forward for electricity). Governments regularly use all of these utilities as revenue-raising 'businesses', which they consistently strip of any capital that could be used for infrastructure improvements.

In addition, some of the services have consistently proven unreliable, as they are run for the benefit of certain special interest groups at the expense of everyone else. Water is subsidized for farmers and golf courses, and this often causes everyone else to suffer droughts. Roads are often subsidized for truckers, which causes everyone else to pay higher gas taxes than they should, and suffer damaged road surfaces. Police departments are poorly regulated, and the policemen protect each other, resulting in the consistent and horrific violation of the rights of many people on a regular basis. Fire departments are run for the firemen, as can be seen from the fact that the number of paid firemen has been consistently increasing over the last 50 years, despite the increase of fire resistance of buildings, and the decrease of blazes.

All of these utilities also have some of the worst customer service available. On could argue that it is possible to get roads fixed through the city council, but this is the only one of the utilities mentioned which gives the consumer a modicum of recourse.

In short, if you are going to argue that ISPs should be a utility, please describe how it will be different from the existing ones, not how it will be the same.
> Ditto with every electronic device with a microphone: Smartphones, tablets, laptops, home phones, bluetooth in your car, Microsoft's Kinect, baby monitors, etc

While there's a lot of truth to this, that is no reason to go even further down that road. If it's wrong for laptops to be used to eavesdrop then it's insanity to install a seven-microphone listening station in your lounge.

"paranoia trip" is a rather condescending and dismissive way to refer to matters of documented fact, e.g. http://news.yahoo.com/yikes-nsa-turn-iphone-camera-mic-witho....
I've noticed that most of these walls have an endstate of penises.

No matter how interesting or artful it was, there is always a human drive to defile and debase. Or we start out there because that's all we can do when faced with an empty wall. It's an interesting experiment though.
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I used to have it (French accent) on Google voice search, until mid-2013. Nowadays the same service works really well for me, so they definitely improved something.
It's much easier to listen for a single word than to do the rest of the voice-recognition tasks. It would be a huge waste to upload all of the audio all the time, so usually these systems do the one-word thing on the device. They have a rolling buffer of a few seconds so that when it detects that hotword, it can send that to the cloud. It helps with noise removal. But not everything.
It is always listening just like your dog is always listening. If you are not talking to it and you are not saying its name you are being (mostly) ignored.

Most of the time, it is not paying attention - the chip that is processing the sound is looking for the ONE word that will activate it. That passive audio processing is happening locally on a chip that is dedicated to the task. Once activated - the expensive processing happens and the sound gets processed, converted to text, sent to the cloud.
Other boards will undoubtedly get support over time.

Every single board requires a different setup, often times dtb, special boot loaders or u-boot, special kernels, etc. Give it time.

Wandboard will be exciting once they support that.

http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/details
https://www.qualcomm.com/videos/snapdragon-voice-activation
Living in the Morridor, very barely, willingness to adapt their faiths dietary rules to other traditions to is very strongly correlated with willing to work on a diverse team without preaching.

Willingness to "Do coffee", even if they order a soda or hot cocoa, is a great test of this. Similarly how adverse are they to a meetup at a brewpub or somewhere similar.
This was a really nice article but I was anticipating more (an implementation example) at the end of it, hope you'll add more to it later!
what is the biggest change you see in people's mindsets after reading hooked or attending one of your workshops? By people I mean founders or other product people
With a tiny little tweak to the firmware, it could be always-on. With the seven far-field microphones it would be a very nice audio surveillance device indeed. No thanks.
Hi Nir, since I read the first self-published version I've been seeing applications of the 'Hooked' pattern everywhere - from Meetup groups to college dating to rideshare apps.

Did you see this as a universal pattern, or did you develop it from a specific case and then find that it applied very broadly?
Well, until Amazon starts understanding Bulgarian (the language we speak at home), I'll be fine. Just imagine an Amazon Prime members' freebie next year: unlimited recording of everything you've ever said at home for free and accessible on the web or via our companion app.
The question is "what" is listening. For it to be responsive it's probably hardware-on-device that's doing the keyword processing. It would be simple to check though - look at network traffic.
This is true for any case in isolation, but for all consumers in aggregate there is no other way to do things that ensures an increase in everyone's wealth.

Any kind of flattened pricing structure will always harm some consumers for the benefit of others in a sufficiently large market. If I'm willing to pay £12 for X, you're willing to pay £8, and the producer is asking for a flat £10 because people like me find price discrimination morally abhorrent, then: I get the utility from having X plus a bit more from the £2 kickback; the producer isn't fulfilling his goal of profit maximisation and has incurred an opportunity cost of my £2 + your £8 = £10; and you get nothing. I'm the only winner, and the £2's worth of economic value I've gained by enforcing an unfair pricing structure is less than the sum of the value I've deprived you and the producer of - my behaviour is tantamount to stealing a small slice of yours and the producers combined utility and burning the rest.

The only way around this is to find a way to set price equal to true valuation on an individual basis. Of course, if you allow your model to not be Pareto efficient ("there is no change that could be made to benefit someone without harming someone else") then there are much more efficient ways to steal wealth than flat pricing.
This device is probably not meant to sell, but to be an experiment and research project. I'd guess they're more interested in what questions people are asking rather than what content people are consuming.

Amazon's prime interest is probably in getting their foot in the door to the virtual assistant space. They can't do it in the phone market yet, because they lack the market share of Google, Apple, and MS. So they try the living room instead.
They could even be on the server—knowing where it is doesn't help prosecute those who run it.
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God damnit, why is the wake word "Alexa"? my girlfriends name is alexa.
Do you mean like 'Ok Google'? on a typical Android device? Ok, that only works on the Launcher but I'm also familiar with tech on Qualcomm devices which does the voice keyword recognition in hardware. So this isn't anything new.