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I think Supercell is more the Taylor Swift of the App Store.

Maybe if they threatened to turn off IAP on Clash of Clans until Apple made the developer split more fair, then we'd get a response? But then again, this could be apples and oranges.
Is there a reason you trust this device less than the computer with a microphone that you carry around in your pocket all day?
Agreed, appealing to people's conscience to buy the more expensive, but more environmentally friendly option doesn't work at scale, because only the upper-middle class can make that choice consistently. Most people cannot afford it, and won't make the choice.

But once the most environmentally friendly choice is the cheapest choice, then, as if by magic, everyone will switch.

Car pollution too high? Make electric cars cheaper to buy and own,and everyone will switch.

Coal power plant pollution too high? Make solar power plants cheaper, and everyone will switch.

Meat industry pollutes too much/uses too much water/is unethical? Make synthetic meat cheaper, and everyone will switch.
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Doctors and Lawyers are already protected by the licensing requirements, why would they fear immigrants?
I'm curious to see what kind of space Win10 takes up. I believe one of their focuses was stripping it down to take up less space for applications such as tablet, netbooks, et.c
> The box says Echo, but you will never interact with it as such. Can you imagine Steve Jobs saying: "here's our big feature for iOS 5, it's called Siri, but you'll interact with it by calling it Yoko"?

Um, you say Siri instead of "iPhone" so I think they're doing exactly the same thing as Apple.
Well I know people had trouble with SSD wear early on, but lately SSDs have performed better than expected.

The book "Normal Accidents", however, talks about how people will often consume a safety margin in the name of lower cost, higher speed, better performance, whatever, and there may well be some short-lived SSDs that hit the market over the next 20 years as a result.
> You call it Alexa, not Echo. The box says Echo, but you will never interact with it as such. Can you imagine Steve Jobs saying: "here's our big feature for iOS 5, it's called Siri, but you'll interact with it by calling it Yoko"?

I think you're looking at this the wrong way.

The product is the iphone, the human-interaction agent is Siri

The product is the echo, the human-interaction agent is Alexa
The likely reason for all this is Apple not wanting to be accused of engaging in anti-competitive behavior. It’s illegal to use your market power and financial position to sell products below cost and thwart real competition in the market. This is why they offered higher royalties later and no royalties for 3 months. It was designed so artists would get the same amount in the end but unfortunately have to wait 3 months to start getting in.

Apple’s reverse in direction is interesting. Perhaps they feel the risk is not as high as they were expecting. Apple gets sued every day of the week, but something like this could be very costly. Perhaps they know the financial benefit outweighs the risk.

Claiming Apple doesn’t care about artists is absolutely ridiculous. Except for a few high-profile critics, artists view iTunes as saving the music business and allowing even small-time artists to make a living without needing to sign with a label (other than with one of the labels that specialize in this sort of thing and for which artists don’t need to qualify).
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I'm in the EU so stupid EU laws apply to me and it is irritating, just forget it EU, no one gives a shit about cookies. ( I obviously talk for everyone in the EU)
Good! I signed up for the beta on a whim and got one just in time for Christmas, so that was a family present to all of us. At first, we spent a lot of time yelling random orders and questions at it, and that was fun. But after a while, it just faded into the background of our living room and became something that Just Works, like the TV and DVR. How much time do you spend consciously thinking about your TV versus taking it for granted? That's how Alexa is for us now.

Our most used apps:

- Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes. (Our new standard kitchen timer)

- Alexa, play [...]. (Lots of music in Amazon Prime.)

- Alexa, turn the lights on. (Interfaces with the Hue lighting system to brighten the living room.)

I could live without it, but I could survive without a lot of the tech that makes everyday life a little easier. I'm glad I don't have to, though.
It is very unusual for 18-year-olds to accurately plan for what they will when they are 33.

Most people don't plan their lives out like you are suggesting. They take opportunities as they come, and build their life as it comes along. He attended Yale, liked America, stayed, worked and built a life for 15 years. I find this reasonable, and consider it unrealistic to expect him to, at any point during that time, to just abandon his current life because he might not be able to stay.
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Off the top of my head...

1. App trial periods

2. Paid app upgrades

3. App Store search results that are actually relevant

4. Ability to respond to negative reviews

5. Mac App Store sand boxing that doesn't suck

Of course, there are many more issues but the primary problem is that Apple has addressed exactly zero of these issues and the App Store itself is virtually unchanged after 5+ years.
If I were teaching right now, I would gladly accept iPython. It is what I now use for reports containing similar content, doing R&D in industry.
> You call it Alexa, not Echo. The box says Echo, but you will never interact with it as such. Can you imagine Steve Jobs saying: "here's our big feature for iOS 5, it's called Siri, but you'll interact with it by calling it Yoko"?

You're not wrong, but this might have been intentional. I've heard complaints from people with Xbox Ones where the Xbox will suddenly decide to turn on because the owner was having a conversation with a friend and mentioned the word "Xbox." By calling the product Echo, you can have a conversation about the Echo without triggering the activation word. You're almost never going to say "Alexa" without intending to turn on the Echo.
It's also not entirely true. There is energy emitted by the earth as well.
By that logic, you cannot have a welfare state without mandatory sterilization of the poor. Most will recoil in horror at this, and yet, the harm done by closed border is far greater (people are literally dying while eating dirt because they were born in the wrong country).

But that's beside the point since I was specifically addressing highly skilled immigration.
No, we see that because those people want to be rich, but not actually have to work. Seriously, the barrier to entry is stupid low, and yet they're not clammoring to implement their own idea. Why?
http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de/img/ct_toc.jpg

Using 2 different sans-serif fonts in the same document (here: Helvetica and the TeX humanist) is usually frowned upon by typographers. One reason is that differences in size, style, color, etc. should always be noticable. Two sans-serif fonts will always look superficially similar; the eye has to get used to different letter forms when it expects the font to stay the same.

Beyond that, I think the template is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
How do we get power at night? Batteries?
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Why is Java one the of really awful ones? I know Java is not the best language, it's not my favorite language, but I wouldn't say its really awful.
I think you just described every cordova/phonegap/ionic app out there. Which is not to say it isn't bad :).
I agree. I'm an Italian national and I studied at a U.S. university. Reform is badly needed. I just don't think people should be entitled to stay in a country just because they have pursued a degree there.
Dunno, paying for objects that respond when you call their name (and, like the Echo, make a lot of sound, and are mostly useless) is a pretty longstanding practice. The old type is more emotionally fulfilling, but higher maintenance.
So was it not released before?
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Company blog post claims 480 times more permutations[1] are harder to crack then 4 digit passcodes.

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I know someone who went down this route; an honors ivy league graduate who chose a smaller, more exciting firm rather than a large stagnant one.

The lawyer didn't raise any concerns based on historical precedence, but immigration had decided to apply their rules with increased strictness: her firm was not large enough and she would have to leave within 3 months, and could not re-apply for 6.

Good use of $20k.
Just out of curiosity, if I want to change the track, Do I need to shout hard the wake word when a song is already playing at full volume?

My first test if I get the device is to change the wake word to "baby" and play Justin Bieber's number.
I have access to the SDK but I haven't built anything with it, and I remember having an NDA. So I don't know how much I can say about it's functionality.

I'm excited about it, but it's more cautious optimism because it's kind of limited, but I don't remember if it's too limited to have the kind of stuff another commenter pointed out like "When does McDonald's close?"

And Google Now does have an API.. they're just super protective of it right now. It will definitely be more interesting once it starts to open up ;)
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"So here's the offer: For a flat monthly fee, you get our whole team of high-end designers on retainer, ready to work for you anytime, 5 days a week. We'll take care of all of your small design tasks: logo, landing page design (design only, no coding), book covers, business cards, banners, flyers, small text, color, or layout changes, etc..."

This sounds great in theory, but a flat rate is not a good idea in the long-term..especially with design. People are picky and you might just end up making very little money in the end/hour.
Very excited about this, future is looking extreamly interesting for TinyMCE!
Now goes the other way for me. It's like a little puppy that has read my entire internet history. Now when I do anything google's got 3 redundant reminders that are always a few minutes late. From most recent flight:

- Hey you've got a flight (2 days before)

- Hey you've got a flight (11 hours before)

- Hey you've got a flight (4 hours before, eg 3am, thanks)

- Hey your flight is now leaving 3 minutes later (1 hour before flight)

- Hey your flight has changed gates (initial gate assignment, already at gate)

- Hey your flight has changed gates (actual gate assignment, already at gate)

- Hey your flight is now boarding (on board door closed already)

- Hey your flight leaves in 15 minutes (20 minutes after flight was in air)

oh and:

- Hey amazon shipped you a package (package has arrived and amazon told me about it within 10 minutes)

- Hey that baseball game you wanted to watch later, here's the score!

- Hey you once looked at a SF Giants article... Here's their score and when they play now and for EVER

- Hey

- Hey

- Hey
And it has the practical value of informing you than someone maintaining the site has at least looked at it within the last year or so.
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"You call it Alexa, not Echo. The box says Echo, but you will never interact with it as such."

Wait, what ?

Never mind the name mismatch - I agree that is odd.

But ... this is quick convenience device for rapid reaction to spoken commands ... and the command is three syllables ?

I understand the need to avoid false positives - waking up and responding to common speech patterns that get used throughout the day that are not directed to the device, but surely you can come up with a two-syllable command that won't generate those.

I have no intention of ever using a device like this in my home, but if I did, 50% more syllables for every interaction would drive me nuts.
I agree it's terrible, but I use it very rarely so it doesn't really impact the product experience that much.
The Germans have done a lot of work on straight vegetable oil running current model COTS diesel engines.

Imagine hydroponic greenhouses in some wasteland growing canola, for example.

This is a little different than waste vegetable oil aka biodiesel mostly made from old fryer oil and needing lots of processing and filtration, but roughly the same concept.

Obviously all the oil underground came from plants initially, you can skip a lot of trouble and harvest your sunflower seeds and rapeseed seeds right on the surface and skip all that "bury it for a few million years then tunnel down and dig it up"
If you have to assume the results of two future elections to make your argument, its not really grounded in fact so much as speculation.
Yes. Also we probably use less power at night.
>"Welcome home, want me to turn on the news?"

How do you do this?
I've found generic disposables (two blade, throw the whole thing away, handle and all) work pretty well, as long as I replace them regularly. I also use a nice shave oil, which seems to help.
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Pretty informative presentation, but the last slides are misleading.

It makes sense that the frequency of the word representing a certain technology in different books throughout time is modeled by a normal distribution. However, because the reason why they were included in a text creates such a huge bias/mental trap, such frequency shouldn't be a relevant indicator to measure the "sex appeal" of an industry.
Are there any countries where the immigration system is not "broken" in this way?

I have seen some in the past with "entrepreneur" or "retirement" visas: you are allowed to stay in the country if you promise to spend a lot of money, but that doesn't seem optimal for this kind of case. I've also heard of places desperately seeking workers, but that also doesn't seem to fit the current American situation.
I work at ShaleApps http://shaleapps.com/ a Oil and Gas focused start up in West Virginia. Investment in the industry is plummeting because of low oil prices. The price of oil is around $60 a barrel right now, but the oil sands in North Dakota and Canada are only profitable at >$100. Coal is getting killed in the US for regulator reasons, but I don't see why other countries would make the massive investment to switch to natural gas. I think coal will like be seen as the "bridge fuel" by later generations.
I would be very wary of Geo Engineering approaches. Our models of the global climate are really not complete enough to risk setting of some weird feedback loop by trying to undo the damage we already did. The safest bet is stopping carbon dioxide emissions as soon as possible to avoid catastrophic warming.

I don't believe that the market will do that quickly enough on its own, as the costs of climate change are not accounted in the profits of burning fossil fuels. We really shouldn't burn enough coal to make extracting the rest more expensive than renewable energy.
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When Blackberry and Nokia were leading things, smartphones were far less popular, and the market for smartphone software far less so. Thus, if you wanted something to run on your smartphone, you paid for it. But nowadays, people aren't willing to pay money for smartphone software. So they have decided to pay in another way.
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> I'm just imagining what a device like the Echo would be if backed by Google Now. It would be ten times more powerful, easily.

Maybe, but competition is good. Google isn't the only company capable of R&D, and if Amazon turns this into something amazing then you can bet that Google will work to make their stuff even better. This is a Good Thing for all of us, and as an Apple user I hope it inspires them to get into the game.
I'm ashamed to see this FUD still being passed around and starting to hit news sites.
> I still don't understand what "threaded" means in this context

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code#Indirect_threadi...

> The only downside I can see is that you'd significantly increase the size of the code

This is why adding the jumptbl_base on 64-bit platforms. Pointers are still 32-bit, just with an added offset (and a tiny overhead).

> doesn't have much to do with the "computed gotos" extension

You cannot implement indirect threaded code without a computed goto. You can implement a direct threaded code, of course (generating jump or call instructions directly), but this is a totally different thing.
I like that Echo NEVER ever talks without being talked to. I don't know how you could integrate Google Now without it being pretty annoying.
"The few criminologists who have thus far investigated the phenomenon estimate that the overall rate for convicted felons as a whole is between 2 percent and 8 percent."

I'm sorry but you are quoting an article that doesn't give a proper citation for this at all, so please don't rely on these probably woefully underestimated numbers. I'd be happy to have it pointed out to me if I missed their source though, but for now;

What few criminologists? How do they know there are only a few? Did they do a survey or what papers are they basing this on?

This lack of sourcing undermines the rest of your comment, not to mention you imply that the jury trial standard is "90% or lower" when you don't even specify that what you link is related to tax crimes only...

"Moreover, it's unclear to me that you can do much better than 90-95% accuracy."

Again, you basically smushed these numbers in to fit your narrative, and they are not reliable at all, so your entire argument falls flat.

" What would be your rate of false negatives (i.e. where you let a guilty person go)? And how would society react to that?"

In a society that values the principles of law and the rule of law, it is better to let a guilty man go than an innocent one, given that they should be innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately our society seems less and less inclined to care about the rule of law, so I'm guessing "society" wouldn't give a fuck about a few more guilty people being let free, just like they don't really seem to give a fuck about innocent people being jailed.

Sorry if I'm being to negative, I just really don't understand where you were trying to go with your comment and it's bad statistics. Feel free to elaborate and correct me.
Well, it is never going to be cheaper than existing hydro-electric.

It could well be cheaper than installing new capacity.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but I agree: cookies are enormous (bad) hack, and we knew they were an enormous hack when they were implemented many moons ago. I think it would be far better for HTTP to get a better auth system, and stop using cookies for auth, which would certainly mean it's far more fe. Also locking down session cookies to only get sent back to the host that generated them in the session would be excellent. It's highly unfortunate that this isn't fixed in HTTP/2, but it probably goes to show where the controlling powers interests lie.
> I don't see why other countries would make the massive investment to switch to natural gas.

Quite a few countries have substantial natural gas reserves.
I think it sounds good on paper but in practice… the question is more along the lines of: is it worth depressing the wages of 1M employees in order to try to capture the next Zuckerberg, who creates a company that only employs a few thousand people?
I'm afraid I agree with the alternative sentiment, that is to say that this whole thing is a 'PR hoax'. Kudos to Apple for playing the game and coming out looking like the benevolent and merciful master, humbled by the pleas of his peons.
I think we'll see a companion industry for base-load energy storage following pretty fast. Musk's companies are already in on some of this, but I think it will take more forms than just electro-chemical batteries: for example, kinetic or thermal systems can be scaled up quite large and can provide fairly steady base-load ready power.

If this fails, we'll probably still see energy storage taking off in the consumer space as devices are built to simply assume intermittent power...everything will basically have an UPS that will just carry it through to the next time the power is on. We see this already in many places with low development, mobile phones are the preferred access to the internet, personal home generators are common, people keep banks of car batteries around and charged so they can watch the TV or keep the fridge up and running.

If we knew our current base-load systems were going away in 50 years, humanity could engineer solution to keep modernity around.
But I never refer to the product as Echo. I refer to it as Alexa, because no one who comes to my house knows what an Echo is. So, when I refer to it in conversation, I call it "the A-word" (not kidding)
The interesting thing is why they keep on doing it, and why the developers keep on letting them.
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> This thoughtless behaviour reminds me of the thousands of websites which include a "(c) YYYY" copyright notice in their footers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0cAzQ7PVs&t=6m45s (6:45–8:27)

TL;DW: "It's actually not there for legal reasons, [...] it's there as punctuation."

(No longer necessary for them, still a nice anecdote.)
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Opening borders is not controversial. It's a dumb idea.
But seriously just read the whole page, this is like a
bear hug from a friend I didn't knew I had.

That made me laugh, thanks for that :)
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8 years isn't the long term. Sorry if this wasn't obvious.
>I would rather support a balanced production with nuclear (fusion?) power plants providing the fixed needs of the grid and renewable energies making up the rest.
I agree on the fusion part. The NIF has been strangely silent about their project for the last year or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
It sounds a lot like these 90s videos about the "house of the future". If I want to listen to the news, it's way less of a hassle to pull my phone or touch my watch and press play. Voice interaction is pretty slow and intrusive.

Maybe I have the wrong circle of friends and acquaintances, but I have never ever seen anybody interact with Siri or Google Now by voice other than as a demonstration or a joke in social settings.

I love my Google Now, I love even more that it does not shout things at me when I am in the bus.