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I find it terribly confusing. It does not explain what instances are, do I need an instance to access some of the services?

I just want to access some services via API from my own servers. I think the documentation is not that good, there should be curl examples at least. For instance, for the STT or TTS include some curl examples.

Does the STT have speaker identification or does it output text in one stream?

I tried to access:
https://gateway-s.watsonplatform.net:8443/speech-to-text-bet...

I used my bluemix l/p. It did not work. Are there other api credentials that are needed?
None of those languages have a secure sandbox and writing one is incredibly difficult, even for a language designed to run in such an environment (Java). Native Client might be interesting here to build sandboxes for other languages.
What's the security model to protect the money from predators?
> we don't know how to make the economy work optimally

What's optimally? Seems that many people passionately disagree on this point and may help explain our difficulty in determining what should be done.

Additionally, economics is a young discipline that's more about trying to figure out unreproducible complex human behavior than something that can be replicated in a lab.
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No disrespect, but India has horrible infrastructure, horrible treatment of women (rape, disregards from police on harassment cases), and other horrible things.
Actually, while building the site we noticed a quite different feeling. As it's much easier to change subscriptions (usually they are not longer than a month), it's much easier to rotate through different providers with often widely different and interesting content. A lot of the newer and more odd contenders I didn't know before building JustWatch. I personally discovered Mubi with a sexy business model of just 30 hand picked movies, which is just 5 bucks a month and it's cool people see there are actually some good choices other than Netflix out there. Really curious to see how the market will react.
The timing belt is supposed to be replaced with service at 120k.
At Georgia Tech, the labs associated with Physics I and II have a large programming portion. They had us use VPython [1], which is a strange package which includes a version of python and a graphics library. It worked pretty well, and I got a good kick out of it. They had us model gravitation of planets (using discrete time steps). In Physics II one of the assignments was to create vector field displaying a magnetic field, and then animate a magnet around the field in a circle.

I think the programming might have been a little too complex for some, as some people took physics first or second semester before having a programming class, and it became difficult for the TA's to help people with their code as they taught how to accomplish things, not accomplish it in a clean manner.

Overall though, I think it added a good bit of value to the course.

[1] : http://vpython.org/
> if you take my hammer, I can't use it

So with that hammer you build products that you might sell and I might want to buy with my money that I got from selling my idea. But if you 'take' my idea I will have to get a new hammer just the same. There are infinitely many hammers as there are infinitely many ideas, but getting new one takes nontrivial amount of effort for both cases. The fact that one is tangible is in my opinion an arbitrary property for the purpose of this discussion.
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Data is from a 2010 XKCD blog post survey:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/03/01/color-name-survey/
(Actual survey no longer appears to be live)

The interactive data viz is here:
http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/color/men-women-co...
Oh, so you read the article? First paragraph...
Where can I find the blog?
I don't understand why Apple charges for things like this. You'd think it adds up to very little cost for them but adds such value that they would sell more than enough additional Macs and Phones.

I mean... wouldn't their ideal lock-in scenario be if everyone was free to store gigs upon gigs of photos for free so they pretty much HAD stay in the Apple system or suffer the inconvenience of downloading it all and putting it somewhere else?
that seems very expensive if you weren't getting paid for the off-work days. I've never heard of a car repair costing me the equivalent of 2 weeks off work. I take it you also enjoyed some of those days so it wasn't completely sunk into working on timing issues, that's not what I would do.
I can't shake the feeling we're going to see another black swan in '15 or '16. Maybe the epicenter will be Greece this time instead of Bear Stearns.

http://i.imgur.com/UyM0j2M.jpg

I'm curious to see what the Fed will do if we have a correction while interest rates are at zero. I suppose 0% + QE will become standard policy rather than a response to a crisis.
Here is an architecture that fits what the article is talking about:

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| In-browser EmberJS app |------
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HTML (1) |
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| Same EmberJS app, running on| |
| server, generating HTML | |
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JSON (2) JSON (3)
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|JSON API server written in, eg. Go|
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You don't write any more javascript than you already would have for the client app, and you can write your API server however you want.
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That is an interesting point of view. Thanks!
In most cases these are separate apps. "Just build it twice!" is necessary in some cases, but is far from idea.

Progressive enhancement is hard, at least for complex interfaces that need to maintain state. Hard enough that many sites, if they support disabling JS at all, do so by writing an entirely new frontend with a simplified feature set.

Ember + Fastboot provides many of the advantages of progressive enhancement, but is far more productive in many cases.
You are correct. I though Bolt == Lockitron Bolt. I did not realize they are two different companies. I will delete the original comment since it is inaccurate.
Piracy is the reason you can't stream a movie the day it comes out. Movie theaters are the best DRM available.
it's just self-signed.

All that means is that you are transferring trust to the owner of the site, rather than a CA, to properly deal with his own secure key, and that browsers hate it; but who cares about that part.

I trust the GnuPG set of tools, and I have so for quite sometime. On the opposite side of things I have witnessed a ton of CA hacks in recent years...
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I wonder if his software would be more well known if it were more useable? I've tried using it on a few occasions over the past 10-20 years and have had a very hard time doing so.
This looks really nice! I'd love to see it include the mpaa rating and be able to filter by it.
I would go into debt to work for khan academy. they're doing something hard and worth while and doing it well
Officials at Anthem detected the theft of the trove of customer information as it was being sent from its computers on Jan. 29, according to one of the people, which they said is still in its early stages.

As others have pointed out, running a whois on the anthemfacts webpage returns a registration date of 12/13/2014 [1] which is most likely when the breach occurred. Not January 29th.

[1]: http://whois.domaintools.com/anthemfacts.com
This is my understanding. Chairman Wheeler stated: "These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization[...]"
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Thanks so much! Let me think. Cloudfront, heavy NGINX caching, precompiling JS assets, using Go as a backend language, doing as few requests as humanly possible and lots of hard work. No silver bullets unfortunately, but some smaller nice tricks like using Thumbor as a Cloudfront custom origin. We'll definitely share some stuff on our engineering blog soon!
Agreed. I ditched iPhoto and switched to Unbound (http://unboundformac.com/) a while back for this reason.
60k miles in 2 years is twice the avg of a work commuter in the U.S. Not that much in that theres plenty of life but it was driven a lot though and you're a lot closer to the recommended repairs
For the nth time, 'the industry' is not monolithic. There isn't some collective bargaining agreement tying up the rights of all the films you want to watch but which are held hostage by mustachio-twirling villains. Every film offered for commercial sale is a separate financial asset of a company, typically the sole asset of the company that owns it, which then licenses it to a distributor within individual countries. Publication and distribution are largely separate economic entities, due to a combination of legal history (studios forbidden to own exhibition chains in the US), regional market knowledge, and language barriers (no studio has the capability to produce subtitles/dub tracks in every potential market). All the legal paperwork for a small independent film is very substantial, and would fill most of a typical bookshelf. I shudder to think what the legal paperwork for a blockbuster looks like, it's probably enough to fill several bookcases.

Of course it would be nice if one single service/platform was able to deliver any movie imaginable to some objective standard of quality. But it's not going to happen absent some sort of compulsory licensing scheme, which would run into huge legal/constitutional obstacles in many jurisdictions. Imagine you're the publisher of the film and SuperFilmPlatform.com can start start streaming it without your permission and without you having any say in what you get paid - you'd want to bomb their offices and/or exit the market. How would you ensure fair compensation in an environment that allowed compulsory licensing? Through government price controls? That's basically communism for artists/publishers, capitalism for the distributors. As you're no doubt aware, communism and free artistic expression have a poor record of compatibility.
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Getting rid of cosmic ray neutrons is a ridiculously hard problem that they are going to deal with mostly by looking at how the neutron detection rate varies as they change the distance between the detector and the reactor core.

The most pernicious source for experiments like this are "fireball neutrons" that are generated from a high-energy muon producing an event that blows up a nucleus in the surrounding rock (via an intermediate pion shower IIRC). This gives you a source of neutrons with energies well up into the 100's of MeV, which will merrily pass through metres of shielding, and a few of them are bound to thermalize in the detector, although most will pass right through.

They've obviously run the numbers on all this (these are very well-known problems for detector design) and decided they can discriminate against backgrounds of this type sufficiently well to make the experiment worthwhile, which all else being equal it certainly is: the possibility of putting brane-world theories to the test is simply too delightful to pass up.
We actually use Lob.com for our printing. Their API is very easy to use, and the print quality is fantastic.
Happy to hear you're growing the SF office -- will be excellent to have more Docker hackers around!
Are you going to add coverage for television/episodic content?
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Actually, no, they were building their own boxes.
Thanks for the (attempted) support! It seems like there are quite a few people that have the same problem with Facebook. I'm going to add a non-social login as soon as I can.
Timing belts are 100-120k mile maintenance parts depending on the vehicle. Expect bent valves if you don't replace them at the recommended interval. My car is on it's third.
well, I think right now the US is in the middle of a short term debt cycle, where assets are going to return around 3% and things seem somewhat quiet...it reminds me of the late 90s, just before the dotcom boom...a quiet few years, however, things never stay this way...we have seen an inflation of the stock market, but most American's aren't feeling that...credit growth has been somewhat tepid, and what I think is going to happen is we are going to get into something similiar to another "dotcom" boom, with a ton of IPOs, money flooding into our stock market from all over the world as investor chase returns, the stock market will probably go higher in 2015, and people will eventually feel really good about the economy, and they will push up credit levels. We're not seeing any growth in wages, so eventually the credit levels will get too steep and defaults will occur, and the cycle will turn down.

That is just the nature of the beast....things go up and then they come right back down. Its bound to happen sooner or later, and I think maybe in 2016-2017.

But I'm most likely 100% wrong...most economic forecasts are...what do you think?
I always find it funny how news articles are able to take the most basic (but interesting) type of work in physics and turn into the craziest headlines.

I don't really fancy their usage of "universe" though, since it's normally defined to be all that exists.
How about if companies holding sensitive data were required to subject themselves to pen test attacks by properly incentivized third parties? Even if an attack were not successful the deliverables would quickly tell an experienced hand whether the attempt had been sufficiently rigorous. And that would allow for a good audit mechanism.
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This has arguably already started happening: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/made-in-... or http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-inso...
I wasn't suggesting that what I've chosen to do is the way to go or that it is accessible to most people. I want to know how the tech-savvy audience of HN feels about this issue.
probably https://engineering.justwatch.com as soon as we're done celebrating and TV shows are in :)
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Cost of living varies widely. Having no dependents and living in an inexpensive place is great. Obviously, it's better for us to fund people who use the funds as efficiently as possible, but we can't demand that everyone's life circumstances be identical.
> It's common practice in the game industry to license/pay for access to the source code. Whether you end up changing it or not is up to you, but at least you have a choice. This might not be true for Microsoft's "public" source code. I don't know. It looks like we're talking about two very different domains.

Yeah, that's a very different case. It's indeed moderately common for proprietary software frameworks/engines to include source, so that their paying customers can modify and redistribute, but cannot redistribute in source form (modified or otherwise). That's not any more obnoxious than any other kind of proprietary software distribution, and I wouldn't call it "look but don't touch", though it certainly isn't open source or free software.

The case I'm talking about is software with publically available source, but under a restrictive license that doesn't satisfy the OSI or FSF or DFSG definitions. For instance, many random projects on github that don't bother applying a license, or rar (the archive format implementation), or tarsnap, or the extremely obnoxious JSON license.
you wouldnt happen to be a pen tester, would you?
The way I look at it is composing benchmarks to estimate the upper bound on the number of pages that can be served per second.

So for GITHUBALL for instance:

* BenchmarkHttpRouter_GithubAll at 66732 ns/op serves at most 15k pages/second/server, versus say

* BenchmarkGoji_GithubAll at 752515 ns/op serves at most 1.3k pages/second/server

Or for GPLUSALL

* BenchmarkHttpRouter_GPlusAll at 3258 ns/op serves at most 310k pages/second/server, versus

* BenchmarkGoji_GPlusAll at 15260 ns/op serves at most 66k pages/second/server
Actually you can pretty much guarantee optimal maintenance, because all cars are on a schedule and regulated by the corporate office. Everything else is spot on. You'd be surprised about the % of used cars starting in a rental fleet, even if they aren't sold by those companies directly.
For the curious, I just got this reply from HN staff:

"That account triggered a spam filter when it posted from a banned site. I've unbanned that site, unbanned your account, and restored all your comments, so the problem is fixed now.

The site was banned because the first few submissions from it looked a lot like spam. Later submissions were legit, though, so this was a mistake at our end. I'm sorry about that.

Thanks for letting us know about the problem, and please write if there's anything else we can help with."
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Very true, you might not consider me your average user.
1.25 million USD is really not a lot of money at all... especially given all of the projects the FSF supports under the GNU umbrella.

If they had zero expenses other than staffers, at a very modest 65,000 USD a year that would not even cover 20 people.

The EFF, FSF are the only real "good guys" out there fighting for your techie rights every day... They could really use your donations and support (even if you don't agree 100% with all of their message).
Are you talking about job offers or are you saying that companies cut checks to open source devs at the behest of requests for some money? Who does this?

If you're talking about job offers, you can get jobs without spending off time doing open source. I look over at my co-workers who probably make similar salary as me and they don't do much open source.
Definitely. Working on it as we speak.
Thanks a lot.

For our use case we for sure need HTML diffs and probably some sort of API. Support for postback URLs would be useful as well.

The products a bit underdeveloped for me to use currently, but I'll keep an eye on you guys. It's priced pretty competitively.
I guess my question was whether it might be better to use more authentic imagery (whatever that means) and not just images of pristine young white people doing white people things. I'm genuinely curious about the branding here and not trying to be sensational.
Sure, we actually use Lob.com as our printer. They take care of both the printing and shipping, and have been great so far.
I was thinking the same thing, but iCloud accounts can't be shared very easily/well between devices. I spent a bunch of time researching, but ended up shelling out for Dropbox Pro and Carousel on our multiple phones. Then I use selective sync to not fill our laptops with the full-res photos.
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I have to wonder if there would be a change in educational quality if teachers were actually paid and treated like professionals who were educating the next generation of thinkers.

For instance, a starting teacher's salary in Michigan is around $30,000-35,000 a year. I know I personally wouldn't want to work, for that low of a salary, for 60+ hours a week (managing and teaching classes of 25+ students for 8+ hours a day, then having to use time outside of class to plan further lessons, manage paperwork, work on professional development, do all of the other crap required by school administration), for 9 months out of the year with some ad hoc work during the summer "vacation". I especially wouldn't do all of that just for everyone to tell me that I'm doing it wrong (which seems to be the major public opinion currently), and I have a feeling many people who would be great educators are smart enough to realize it isn't worth it for these same reasons.
Yup. Different page, different people, different providers.
I get repeat videos. I've selected netflix and amazon prime.

There's about 20 unique items, then repeats of all of those rows, then fresh content.
People should never be taken advantage of. If Khan Academy has the resources to pay people better than they should.

But, if they don't than I'm 100% with you. It's better to work on something worth doing for less money, then work on something you don't feel passionately about for more.
IBM Model 30. One of the few keyboards that doubles as a melee weapon. :)
Just brilliant. Thanks.
Reddit is down, now what will i do?
I did not know that. I assumed they got them from an OEM, considering they are so cheap and readily available.

Even if they were building their own sheet metal lockers, I still don't think they were a "hardware" company. They had a great service and that's what they were selling.
This is Joyce from Stellar. One of the most interesting parts of this project for me is the fact that airtime (prepaid mobile minutes) will be a method of savings. And in many places in the world, there are many locations and agents where people can pay for mobile minutes (essentially cash in/ cash out). It is ubiquitous. This means Praekelt and their users can piggy back off of existing networks and reach more people at lower cost.
The charge is rape, and it is not particularly unusual for EAWs to be issued for rape charges. See here:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/c...

"Since 2009 alone, the arrest warrant has been used to extradite from the UK 57 suspects for child sex offences, 86 for rape and 105 for murder."
Not sure what your exact question is. If you elaborate, we can try to answer. Thanks.
Another Apple ad on Hacker News? I wish we have a filter for "things that only apply to Apple users."
The market greatly affected by the top end, in many cases more than the low end. This is not a zero sum relationship though.
No more or less than any other used car, aside from going through a hundred owners. It's like comparing an apartment vs. a hotel room. No one I know gets freaked out over a nice hotel room.
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I get disliking FB logins, but when it's a service specifically for uploading Facebook photos, I think you can expect it.
I'm not a dropbox/drive user myself, but it's a nice (clean) UI -- I made heads and tails within seconds, so you hit the target there.

As for pricing model, I think the professional/enterprise is fair, but the $10/mo for Basic seems a bit steep: It would prevent me from using it for FOSS or volunteer purposes, whereas I would be more willing to pay $5/mo for such purposes.
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Can imagine it might be it is used as a proxy/gateway to set of servers that then do data access.
>> Helion hasn't yet built a commercial fusion reactor
I agree with your point, but at the same time it is somewhat amazing that we live in a world where a company can get VC funding to even make an attempt on something as ambitious as fusion.
Where did you even get that figure?
It all looks nice but I think many people are asking: How does this compare to Aperture? Does it deal with Raw? The word Raw is not mentioned on the page but they do talk about multiple formats... Come on Apple! The entire Aperture crowd is in the dark and looking for these details!
What you're missing is the whole part of the article that talks about why many people migrated to that mindset. You are dismissing the problems out of hand, as unimportant and easy to work around, which is frustrating for the many of us who changed our mindsets in search of a better solution to those problems, which client-side-heavy apps absolutely are. But the better solution had trade-offs; it spoke to many real problems with the fully server-side rendered approach, but caused new problems. Now we're starting to find solutions to those new problems without giving up the entire approach. That's a good thing. Your comments don't seem to argue that it's a good thing, but rather that the whole endeavor has been folly, which, for many people, just isn't true!
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It's the closest part of Britain to Northern Ireland. If you want to sneak to NI, you can do it there.