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Ask HN: Best options for wearable computing? How can I type and walk?
Typically I have gotten sufficient exercise by bicycling to work. Unfortunately last month I had a self inflicted bike accident - broke my jaw and lost couple of teeth. Since then I have been occasionally walking home - but it takes me a good 60 minutes as it is about 5.5 miles / 8 km uphill. What I would like to do is somehow type or be productive while I am walking both ways - 120 minutes on quiet back streets for most of the way.

There is significant proof that
staring at screens all day without moving is killing us

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who-stare-at-screens/?hp

Here are the 3 options I have looked at

1) A full setup like this guy at vassar

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top

- Vuzix Glasses http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/product_presentation.html

- chorded keyboard/twiddler
http://handykey.com/

- Expensive - $2000

- Vuzix is low res (800 x 600)

- Have to learn new keying method

2) Picking up a viliv N5 and typing directly on the device with my thumbs
http://www.dynamism.com/notebooks/viliv-n5.shtml

- 1024 x 600 screen

- No PixelQ screen

- $650

- Not sure if I will be able to type

3) Sticking with my Nokia n900 with bluetooth headset (or Blackberry)

- Cheap

- Not all software is available but could in theory access via VNC anything I need

- Have to stop occasionally to use but screen works in daylight

Any suggestions?

BTW I need to be billable during time I am walking.
What a bunch of vapid bullshit.
If you mean that a teacher's salary shouldn't be a simple function of test scores, then sure. If you mean standardized testing shouldn't be used to evaluate children, or that evaluations of students - even relative ones - shouldn't be used in evaluations of teachers, then can you please explain what you have in mind as the alternative?
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I find this amusing because in 2002 I downloaded Oracle JDeveloper IDE to try it out and it replaced files in my JRE directory with their own version that caused my JBoss to break. They have a lot of experience breaking Java.

On the other hand, this is really an Eclipse bug.
If you object to standardized tests, what do you propose we use? Non-standard tests? The opinions of assorted cronies?
How could they not notice Eclipse doesn't work anymore before releasing the update? Are they forced to use Netbeans?
Oops, my mistake. The actual numbers are 49% and 49.4%.

Those are the numbers of applicants, not the numbers of students actually finishing their education, where women used to have a larger dropout percentage. But that doesn't matter: even if the same amount of men and women start and finish law school, that doesn't mean the women aren't being discriminated against. It may mean they are just working harder to overcome the disadvantages. That works in school, but it doesn't work in the workplace, as research shows, when it once again turns out that women in the exact same position as men earn less than their male counterparts.

If women (or any other group) are held to a higher standard than men, then
they should overperform men.

They probably do. However, it doesn't show, because their performance isn't rewarded equally. They may work harder work or have better brains, but they will not be rewarded accordingly, so there is no way to show, by position or salary, that they are better.

I'd like to see a study that measures performance

I feel that's rather like saying you'd like to a study that actually measures how a lack of oxygen causes death, instead of accepting that all kinds of laboratory experiments show that various part of the body can't do without oxygen. Men have discriminated women for centuries and it's impossible that we suddenly stopped doing that during the past century, as many experiments show. The only things that have disappeared are the egregious cases, where it is easy for anyone to point out there is discrimination. Now we can only show it through statistics.

I have the distinct feeling that I'm misunderstanding the point you are trying to make, because we seem to agree on many points. Must be some fundamental assumption about what we are discussing, but I can't put my finger on it :/.
Yeah, the title made it look like Oracle did something sneaky and caused a problem. The problem was someone writing code that was very, very far away from "write once, run anywhere".
Leaving NYC for somewhere that isn't one of the world's biggest urban pressure cookers is actually pretty useful for re-adjusting your perspective. My blood pressure drops about 10 points every time I'm on vacation. Don't forget that this place is ranked dead last on the "happiest places in america" chart. Even when I think I'm happy here, my physical stress indicators tell me otherwise...
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This has been precisely my experience. In one case, the hiring manager had indicated interest but HR had not moved to set up the initial on-site interview. After I spoke with her in a phone call, she called them and, violà, interview.

I think it's just fine to follow up. Amongst other things, it shows your interest in working there and with them. You don't want to seem annoying, though. Maybe things have changed, but I'd say a call once a week is about right. And be respectful of their time. Treat it as a status check, and a chance for each of you to briefly clarify any remaining questions. Professional and concise, unless the person on the other end opens it up to be longer and/or more informal. You may leave the impression of someone who does not forget, who follows up, but who does not waste his/her fellow employees' time.

People want to work with people who like and are interested in working with them / on their projects.
Just wow. Using the Java VM non-transparently and hanging a bunch of stuff on properties and mere conventions seems really slick until it all starts breaking.
This is really an Eclipse f-up than anything.

A better title for this story would have been: Eclipse bug exposed when Oracle rebranded Java
I'm going to add in another point: If they do come, be prepared to have support protocols in place.
I agree, but that's the nature of a disruptive innovation. Just like the transistor radio had bad sound, but it let people listen to music cheaply and portably, it took off.

McDonald's and McMansions make a lot of money.
Not true. Sometimes something is so entrenched in society that unless you smash into it head-on nothing will happen, and you might even be seen as something stupid.

I agree with the fact that this is not "disruptive", when I opened the post I expected to get something that can help you cater you wedding for a fraction of the price or something, or a mechanism for to shop and rate wedding planners, something.

Now a REAL wedding disruptor would be a tool that auto-generates video/photos of you and your family at a wedding so you can send those out and skip whole wedding nonsense, and go drinking with all your combined friends for the evening.
This reminds me of the time when websites improperly checked for the browser version, breaking down at each release of Mozilla...
You could use the code-formatting feature to write a list that would be reproduced verbatim:

Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
This is a great example of why software maintenance is so hard. People will use features of your software in unexpected ways. Even trivial changes to your software that should be inconsequential are almost always entirely far too consequential.
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Well, it could be worse. They could be forced to use Eclipse.
I don't dispute that congress is a bunch of crooks.

I dispute the term "everyone else" - most people who criticize teachers for being overpaid and underworked (which is uncommon) also criticize pork barrel spending.
Well, that's sort of like saying we should use lines of code as a metric, because what else to we have to go on. The opinions of assorted developers?

There needs to be some attempt at normalization between teachers and school districts, of course. But there's room for qualitative measures instead of quantitative ones. Especially when the tests seem (unintentionally) designed to punish teachers for teaching poor/minority/ESL students.
Trial and Error with AdWords and S.E.O.
LinkedIn has a much more sophisticated, educated, wealthier and more focussed user base. They also have a strong and consistent revenue stream that is diversified.
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They probably don't use Windows. Many developers, given the choice, prefer not to. And Oracle's Java developers mostly came from Sun. Which had its own operating system that they probably used extensively internally.
The job needs to be made better in non-comp ways. I don't think the comp is enough, but the other frustrations are far worse. Many people in the private sector (who would be good teachers) could live with the less pay (in exchange for other benefits), but not the bull.
Ralph Johnson's senior project class at UIUC was one of the more useful (and most practical) that I took while I was there (in the late 90's). He also had an amusingly denigrating take on his contributions to the "Design Patterns"
book.
Ask HN: Requirements Management Tools?
I'm looking for suggestions on tools for storing requirements, tracking workflow/status, permitting discussion and voting, allowing requirements to be connected to issues and documents, and all the other fun stuff one might need from a requirements management tool. This is in an enterprise environment where requirement changes may have impact on many teams and need to be tracked through implementation and completion.
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For people living in the 3rd world it is appalling how crazy and unrealistic is the world view of people that never saw someone with schistosomiasis, malaria, sleeping disease, tuberculosis, ...

Even for developed countries, what about the side effects of overweight and obesity? According to the World Health Organization the 2 most common causes of death are heart attacks (ischemic, in particular with 12% of deaths) and brain circulatory diseases (e.g: stroke). Overweight/obesity is an important factor for both.
I avoid talking to people because most businesses don't have my priorities. I want to buy something because I need it, and they want to convince me that I want product features I won't use or to spend more money than I thought I did. Everyone says they want to "make the customer happy," but it seems like the only companies that actually make me happy are in the tech industry and the restaurant industry. Everyone else just spends their time bugging me.

When I was younger, I was influenced by salesmen saying, "Oh, look how awesome the frobulator is!" So I'd be excited about the frobulator, and then I'd get home and realize that I don't actually need one. Or I might also be too engaged in conversation to investigate problems in the product like I should have. But too late, I already bought it. I find this happens less as I age, but the instances are more subtle and more money is at stake
Rock on man :) If that makes you happy, rock on.

My motivation for posting my wall of text is that I just don't think his problem is external. Maybe external changes will prompt some introspective changes, maybe it won't, I just genuinely don't believe that latching on to meaning given to you by others (job, house, debt reduction) has inherent value when it comes to getting over an existentialist funk.

:)
Interestingly it looks as though each user for both services is valued about the same: Linked-In: $2b/70m users = $28.57 per user. Facebook: $15b/500m users = $30 per user.
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It's been years since I've looked at the EULA this closely (I know...), but IIRC the EULA specifically cautions against if it does not outright preclude using standard Windows in such a critical, hazardous application. This may be one one the sections that is WRITTEN IN ALL CAPITALS.
It was actually my wife's idea. She was frustrated that things like that weren't available and she had to trot around getting looking at rooms, looking for someone to do the ceremony, getting three quotes from florists, finding a DJs, finding a food provider, getting Invitations, driving to dress places, buying a dress (she got one that was worn once in a fashion show) and negotiating separately with each one of these people on price when she was managing to a total budget.

She didn't want to do it. That's not a princess thing, princesses let other people do the work! Just look at the people that get married in Vegas or Disney World- I just went to a wedding in Vegas last weekend. The couple did all the planning remotely with a full service provider there.

I think you could do it as a technical supplement to a wedding coordinator service too, a web application with a federated model, where people could go on there and price out all of these options from existing providers and have it all coordinated for them.
Well, first off, people who criticize teachers for being overpaid and underworked are just plain wrong. Teachers have a really hard job and it's one of the top 5 most important jobs in our whole society.

Regarding my original point, that nobody stands up for teachers.. I mean look at that stimulus bill. Teacher pay makes up a huge portion and often an outright majority of local budgets. When local budgets are crunched, and it's either lay off teachers or raise taxes, guess which way the local populace usually goes?

Everyone wants something for nothing.
Congratulations.... Since it's still "pre-announce" phase, I'll point out the collision with "Ceph" (http://ceph.newdream.net/), which may or may not be of concern to you and the team.
There's nothing wrong with that. In that context, "a water" is the same as "a glass of water".
I first heard of this from the remarkable gardens of Peter Cooke, which can be seen at their website: http://www.pooktre.com/

And it also reminds me of the fantastic sci-fi novel by Leo Frankowski, Copernick's Rebellion in which the hero genetically engineers trees to provide housing & food for the globe.
This is the way you access the URL bar in the Palm Pré browser (swipe at the top). and navigation is done with floating buttons at the bottom. Much better, IMO.
I wonder how much this must have been already boning people over before who were using OpenJDK (or other JDKs bug for bug compatible with the Sun JDK but without the Sun string).
I prefer machines whenever there's no value-add of the human interaction (e.g. anything to do with booking, reservation, ATM, etc.)

Counter-example is health care (USA). Whenever I try to resolve a question about my insurance I try to get to an operator on the phone asap.
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I was subjected to three different upsells during one visit to Little Caesar's yesterday.

"Would you like to try our ham and pineapple pizza?"

"No, just cheese, thank you."

"Can I interest you in some crazy bread or italian cheese bread?"

"Yes, I'd like some cheese bread, please" (was going to order it anyway)

"Would you like to add an order of crazy bread as well for just $1?"

"No."
really? it's funny, I'm mildly human-avoidant, and I generally avoid the self-checkout unless the lines are significantly shorter because it takes me quite a bit longer to check myself out. First, I've gotta scan everything, and not being a professional, i'm slower than the checkout guy is. Next, the machenes just plain suck. "Unexpected item in bagging area" etc... it takes twice as long, at least, to get through the self checkout than to get the human.

Really, I think 70% of the problem is that the machines, as currently implemented, suck. The other 30% is that scanning barcodes quickly is something of a skill.
Interestingly enough Costco (wholesale consumer goods) removed its self checkout option.

Perhaps since the average transaction there is around $200 with many large sized items (30 rolls of toilet paper).
But that's different. Water is not something that is discretely counted typically, but glasses of water are.

Unless you're the Mad Hatter, you'll be ordering a (whole) glass and enough water to fill it. We collapse the "glass of" into epsilon because it's assumed in polite conversation the waiter won't be pouring the water into your open hands.
I generally don't use cologne. =) But your point still stands, and is an interesting way of looking at it.

I guess it's a case of not knowing if their really is a difference between the expensive stuff and the cheaper stuff.
Wow that is big news. I hope they don't hollow out the company to just get the people and the ideas behind the product. it's great (but has also some caveats).

Their Nosql idea has too great possibilitys.

And of course as stated by Kris they use lots of opensource in their Product.
I'm curious to see the syntax (he says it will be homoiconic) and how that translates into the mechanism for manipulating the AST. This is the raison d'être for lisp's syntax.
I don't mind getting in a social situation per se, as long as it's appropriate. I know this sounds terrible, but when I'm ordering something from a menu, or checking something out at the cashier, chances are I don't know the employee that I'm speaking to, and I'm certainly not their BFF. While I try to be as polite as possible, and appreciate some basic politeness in return, I find that sometimes the lengths that these employees are expected to go in order to act like my friend are awkward and inappropriate.

What's worse is, the employees know it. They don't _want_ to sing when I leave them a tip, or ask me if I have plans this weekend. They're required to, by their managers, who think that the general public gets off on employees who are subservient.
I actually relied a lot more on the Gilroy Gardens' website :)
Ask HN: Review my Custom Rosary Startup
This is definitely not the standard HN high-tech start-up (though we love those), it is very much old school e-commerce. We just launched to the world a few days ago and so far response has been good. We had a few sales already.

A little about us: the mother of a good friend of mine (friend is also an entrepreneur) makes absolutely gorgeous handmade rosaries. While I'm definitely not religious (I'd say I'm agnostic, but who knows? ;-), I couldn't debate her knack for creating these rosaries. Most sites selling rosaries are (not surprisingly) still in the stone age. A quick Google reveals the state of rosary websites after only a few results.

We're definitely aiming for a market segment who understands and is willing to pay for quality (and our prices reflect that). Made in the USA by independent artists, etc.

Marketing is initially PPC (Adwords), though Facebook is probably next. Once keywords are locked in, SEO will ramp up. Also, we plan on going church to church hanging up fliers.

What are your thoughts? We'd be forever indebted to you! If you PM, I'd be happy to send a fancy coupon. Obviously, the rosaries make awesome gifts for special events like weddings and baptisms.

http://beadifulrosaries.com/
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Walk twice as fast and type when you get there. Otherwise you will break the rest of your bones as you type-walk into traffic.
I am noticing a trend lately where private market valuations seem higher than what equivalent public companies get. Of course, it is hard to find a public company equivalent of Facebook or LinkedIn, but I would say Google can be a good proxy for FB or LI.

This is puzzling at first: if private parties thought public markets were undervalued, why won't they directly invest in already public companies?

I believe the answer has to be that private parties believe private companies are relatively undervalued compared to what "they should be" in public markets - in other words, they are not undervalued compared to currently public companies, but they are undervalued compared to some notion of what they ought to be as public companies themselves.

This idea is not surprising - after all every start-up investment, almost by definition, reflects the investor's bet that they found something that is "relatively undervalued compared to its eventual public status."
I'm still pissed at them for pushing out a point update that introduced a new security check that many, many Java applets failed, and that required a JAR rebuild to get rid of the warning dialog.
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Thanks to my isolation, I would do things differently than people subjected to the standard pressures of conformity. I was a free man.

Very inspiring words...
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No, IBM and Object Technology International did.
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It does point to serious issues in their regression test suite. Eclipse has to be in the top 5 Java applications, and they aren't testing that it will even launch on one of their platforms?
We have much better metrics for developers than lines of code - bug fixes/feature requests weighted by importance, P&L, etc. Do you have a better metric for teachers than standardized tests?

Especially when the tests seem (unintentionally) designed to punish teachers for teaching poor/minority/ESL students.

This is utterly false if we reward teachers based on deltas rather than absolute values, that is we compare actual performance to statistically predicted performance and reward/penalize teachers when actual performance exceeds predicted performance.
I'd go with subjective judgment by human observers, which is fallible but I think reasonable enough, and harder to game, when you're looking for large differences. We're not really talking about distinguishing 50th-percentile from 60th-percentile, but trying to pick out "absolutely horrible at teaching" (get rid of them) from "fine at teaching" (keep them) and "amazingly great teacher" (give them raises/bonuses). I think principals might actually have a good estimate of that even today: the worst teachers, at least, are usually something of an open secret. If principals ideally stuck around longer (instead of the current musical-chairs that seems to go on), they'd have even better estimates.

Sort of the same way that companies do it, really. Engineering firms, or good ones anyway, rely more on subjective judgment of management ("so-and-so is a [terrible|great] engineer") than they do on code metrics. I think they'd have some of the same morale problems if they were heavily metrics-based as well: imagine if every year your company ran a script over their VCS+bug-tracker with whatever metrics were currently in place, and fired everyone who scored in the bottom 5%.
I did this without really planning it during my break between high school and college. I really enjoyed it, but it's not really practical if you have a "normal" family life.

It's kind of analogous to a lot of good software ideas, that would be amazing if only everything else were compatible.
I find I tend to use the self-checkout only as a replacement for the express checkout, i.e. I only have a small number of items, that will probably fit in one bag, and that won't require keying in a bunch of product codes. I find in this situation self-checkout is the same or faster than regular. For large numbers of items, however, regular checkout is much better.