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The judge violated human right of Internet access. Regardless, they should be disbarred and mistrial called until a replacement judge with technical competence to preside can be found.

You'll understand that this right is inalienable if you can't pay your bills online, transfer money, etc. In fact, in article, he can't even communicate with his team overseas.

The order only serves to punish and discourage honest people from society due to the unenforceable nature of it.

Despicable judge.
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This reminds me of the first hacker suits, they were so scared of them, they thought they could launch an atomic bomb over the phone.
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the male to female ratio on Circl.es just swung wildly towards the males since launching on HN (it had been primarily female). hacker girls - you have very good odds right now!
> But the thing is, dating sucks.

Wait, what? No, dating in person is awesome. New people, endless possibilities, women laughing at jokes, stories and anecdotes your actual friends already heard 50 times, that slight rush with every approach, the new persona every time you're a little bored with your life... it's like travelling but less expensive and only takes an evening at a time.

Online dating sucks because it turns all that delicate social interaction into comparing of compatibility lists while those lists go out the window two minutes into a conversation in real life. Dating sites completely lack the ability to transmit behaviour, mannerisms, social reflexes, looks (photos barely count), all those characteristics of a person that actually matter, and instead basically allow anyone to publish their dating resume.
I've been waiting for this for a long time. I wear glasses currently and have always felt that some kind of overlay could provide tremendous value.

From simple reminders, augmenting my environment with meta data, or giving access to real time updates about almost anything the possibilities are almost endless.

Batteries are going to truly be the limiting factor IMO. Forget plastics, the future is batteries. I assume version 1 of the product will require some kind of external battery pack, I'd think it was certainly worth it if the tech is what it should be.
Unfortunately, yes. The dual-purposing of the name can still be overcome because r/seduction isn't that big, but it is an uphill battle. I would have shied away from it if it were my product because of the association.
"Instead of trying to use the Internet to solve a problem that is better solved in real-life (i.e. meet people and talk), why not create a whole fiction world where you can be anything you want. Basically, it's a game where you put the profile picture you'd like to have, and the 'about me' you'd like to be. So, you talk with lots of strangers and avoid the awkard thingy while still having fun and meeting people."

This might work for an online game, but not for dating. I've used many of major online dating sites over the years and one of the things that bothers me the most is people mis-representing themselves.

It usually leads to awkward situations and hurt feelings. This is why I try to get a phone number and meet in person as soon as possible.

Your game would have this built-in and only make the situation worse (as far as dating goes).
I'll love to test this out as soon as possible. Getting my Android phone to try it out. ;)
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> Other examples that all suck for this reason: Apple IDs. Windows Live ID. Jabber.

Erm, to clarify, Jabber isn't an authentication system. It's a decentralized IM network, structured similarly to email. A user is identified by their username on a given host, just like email. It (sensibly, in my opinion) re-uses the same format for that, user@host (I don't think user!host would be quite as intuitive...).

This does not mean a Jabber ID is an email address. It can be, but they are two distinct properties of any given identifier. So saying it 'sucks' because of the format of its identifiers happens to look like an email address, and some services choose to enable both email and IM on the same ID, is stretching it a bit.
I love the bashing of this idea in the comments. Everyone saying that they wouldn't want to use a website like this.

What they don't realize is that the simple choice of which service they use can act as a filter. For instance: I wouldn't want to date you privacy freaks and you wouldn't want to date me. Already filtered down the sea of singles by just signing up.
A lot of people still think the same way...
Thanks. Big win for user security on the Internet.
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Wow, thanks, I totally missed that.
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The identifier doesn't have to be a real email, much less your main address - it's just an identifier and a provider.
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They're a centralised company, not a de-centralised group of people all over the world like The Pirate Bay among others.
Man, you've been around here for two years longer than I have. You know that there's no value added by blatant sarcasm. If you're actually afraid that Google will use your captured images to serve you unwanted ads (and, btw, revolutionize computer vision in the process), then say exactly that. Crackin' wise about snackwells isn't getting anyone anywhere.
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It needs to be 3D to pitch text. Hold a piece of text 3 inches away from your eyeball and try reading it. Then imagine how painful it would be to have that there 8 hours a day.
Not in my experience...
What I found most interesting was that the judge said they found no financial means for him to be a flight risk, just empty bank accounts.
I had the benefit of working with rpwilcox in one of the trenches where I know I learned a lot. Very interested to read about his other experiences and learn more.
> If that is really the target market, then why bother creating the gameplay aspects?

I think this is a function of the economics that rule the game industry today. (Yes, even at BioWare.)

The problem is that what used to be a distinct genre of game, the first-person shooter, became so economically successful that now it has become the default template for every type of game. Stories that in the past would have been told in the format of an adventure game, or an RPG, or a strategy game, are now forced into the format of an FPS, for the simple reason that today AAA titles are FPSes, full stop.

This leads to all sorts of weird mutant games, such as the Mass Effect titles, where the things the designers want to do jar roughly against the format. You spend most of your time in Mass Effect games running around gathering power-ups and shooting stuff. (Pedantry alert: it's from a third-person perspective rather than first-person, but the core run-cover-shoot mechanics are the usual FPS staples.) Periodically this tedious routine will be interrupted by a brief non-shooting interlude, which happens to be where all the interesting stuff in the game happens. But after a few minutes of that the game pulls you right back to the running and gunning. You can practically hear the game grunting at you through clenched teeth: "This is a AAA title, dammit! You better believe you're going to be running and gunning!"

If adventure games were still an economically viable genre, you could imagine Mass Effect making a hell of an adventure game. Rip out all that running and gunning and just focus on telling the story, since that's clearly where the designers' hearts are anyway. But they can't do that, because between publishers, retailers and gamers, the marketplace won't allow it. If you want to make a game with a AAA budget in the 2010s, it has to be a shooter, or at least be close enough that you can argue the point.

So you get a bunch of games that try to weld the mechanics of the FPS onto stories that would fit other formats much, much better. (I'm looking at you, BioShock.)
Where do I begin? First off, the recipient has to have a skype client and account, which is never a given. Second, Skype screen-sharing is TERRIBLE. I've never had a session where the feed hasn't gotten behind by many seconds, sometimes minutes. Third, skype screen sharing only works on a desktop.
Just on youtube's copy checking, I got a FB message from a friend who stumbled on a vid that uses one of my songs, it has 280k + views and advertises a motorcycle shop. No mention of the song or my band. Normally we license stuff through jamendo pro (all our music is cc). Anyone know how youtube polices this kind of thing? It's obviously a commercial usage but we got ne'er a penny nor even an attribution.
The claim is based on personal experience.

With Mixpanel I'd expect even better results since their data is append-only by nature. I.e. think about deduplication when backing up a large append-only log file on a daily basis.

Tarsnap has weaknesses but cost of storage for Mixpanel type of workload is not one of them.
While I generally agree with you, there are some applications out there that get distributed multi-node environments "right" without using Erlang. It's just much harder to do because those problems are (for the most part) solved BY Erlang for the programmer.

If something says it is parallel this, or concurrent that, that is when I filter it - thus far Erlang's concurrency model has been unmatched (in my limited experience) by any other language I've used for efficacy and simplicity.
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Clear would have taken at most 1 week (if that) to code up.

It's basically demo-ware.
I don't know what Ubuntu's numbers are doing, but you need to consider the rate of growth as well.

Take the following hypothetical situation:

* Say, every month, a small percentage of the userbase stop
using Ubuntu (and switch to Mint or OS X, for example).
* Say the rate of growth is shrinking.

You've already hit the inflection point: if that trend continues, your userbase will start shrinking, you'll wonder why everyone's leaving all of a sudden, and you're suddenly in a position of trying to pull the project out of a nosedive you didn't realise you were in.
Google is pretty ballsy.

After their Safari tracking system fiasco they announce this: the ultimate form of tracking. It shouldn't come as a surprise that Google would make this considering the rest of their products.

I love Google and their products, but I feel this takes it over the line. At what point will Google be satisfied with the amount of information they're able to collect? Maybe the world will become some strange Utopia where products like these glasses are acceptable and Google made the right call, but Google should take a step back and realize they're making technology for humans, not robots.

If this trend continues I bet we'll see Google Children roaming our street. Ok, that's pretty hyperbolic but you get my point.
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I checked out circl.es, nice clean look, but 1st impressions, in 2 seconds, is that it is a travel site. Because all I see is buildings and maps. No faces :(
If you are building a dating site, at the very least, you need a few faces, and "last login" "2 minutes ago" "yesterday" etc....
Is this article implying the glasses will work like a HUD, with the image displayed on a transparent surface that you can also see through? Or is it an opaque screen off to the side? Or it couldn't possibly be an opaque screen over your eyes that redisplays what you would have seen behind it?
Anyone can create a Scroogle replacement without a whole lot of effort. Scroogle died IMO because of their own technical and political shortcomings, not because of anything Google did.

IXquick and DuckDuckGo are already viable replacements, but there's plenty of room for improvement. First it should be a better distributed service, not just 6 servers. Second it should be located outside of the USA or any other country without sufficient regulatory protections from predatory corporations such as Google, Yahoo and SOPA supporting organizations. Perhaps PirateBay, the EFF, or another consumer-oriented entity might be interested in sponsoring such an anonymizing service?
That wasn't really sarcasm. It was exaggeration, perhaps. But even then, perhaps it wasn't even that (given enough time).
This is one of the many problems inherent in allowing geriatric people to create and enforce modern tech policy.
So how are you making money with HTML5 games? I've made a fair bit of "beer" money with Flash games, but I haven't yet found a MochiAds for HTML5 yet. In-game purchases? Selling access to a less busy server?
I'm slightly offended that you combined Socialist with Fascist in the political views section.
"Mitnick served five years in prison — four and a half years pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement — because, according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone".[12] He was released on January 21, 2000. During his supervised release, which ended on January 21, 2003, he was initially forbidden to use any communications technology other than a landline telephone. Mitnick fought this decision in court, eventually winning a ruling in his favor, allowing him to access the Internet."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
There's a solution to that problem - peer to peer - as in file-sharing. Create software that sits on each persons computer. This is freely downloadable. Users input as much information as they want into it, and it reaches out and grabs other users' data like file-sharing, and filters it to any sort of criteria.

This solves the chicken and egg problem.

People can make money on this by offering hosting services. It can be a hassle for the average user to run and update the software on their computer so many might opt to pay for a cloud service.

This model can also be used for business discovery. Google and ebay can only do so much, you might want complex querying and reporting.

edit: The software solution can be as simple as publishing rdf data. The Protege ontology editor (open source) is already available. Users could simply start publishing their data profile right away, and conventions would form around what you should be putting in it. Protege also has querying facilities built in already. This was actually the semantic web vision.
First off, you need women on your dating site. That's it. Just like bars, you don't need to target guys, they will just go where the women also are.

I'm not a girl, but the top reasons that I hear about from girls in regards to online dating. 1) there's still a stigma about online dating that some girls won't get over. 2) too many "creeps" who message them. 3) they fear they are getting "played" or are getting a message from someone who just spams the same message. 4) they get way too many messages to sort through.

In fact most girls try to set up filters, "Don't message me if you can't spell or if you don't know the difference between, 'your' and 'you're'". Honestly though I find it hard to believe that girls are that concerned with spelling.

I, as a guy, have to deal with having to prove to girls that I'm not creepy, or spamming message, and on top of that have to message them something to catch their attention. Personally, it's even worse for me when the girl has nothing at all in her profile for me to ask them about.

So what I suggest is, automatically filter out "hey whats up gurl" messages for women. Conversely also filter out any messages that are more than 2 paragraphs in length. Show women pictures and have them rate the pictures by whether or not they would date said person then algorithmically find people on the site that look similar to pictures she favored.

I'm trying to think of some more, but basically make it easier for girls to filter out people they would never date. And somehow make it easier for the guy to know that the girl has some interest in him, besides weird, "winks" and icebreakers.
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this is actually pretty tough. facebook has really tightened things up with regards to privacy and it's api - certainly a good thing for users but you'll notice you rarely see apps all over people's walls like a few years back - it is much harder to do and always requires onerous permissions.
It's really sad to read this and see what Google used to be, and to compare that to what it has become (although it's possibly still that way if you're in Mountain View and Staff SWE or higher.)
My other comment about peer-to-peer solves the chicken and egg problem.
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Dating does suck, absolutely.

But fundamentally it's a numbers game -- the more people you meet, the more likely that you'll find someone that you're compatible with on enough levels. To that end I think that online dating can be really helpful: it makes it much easier to find many other people that you know are also (presumably and hopefully) single.

So, dating sites don't necessarily make dating suck less, they just make it more likely that, with enough effort, you'll be able to stop dating.
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I think you can solve this by using http://n0rp.chemlab.org/vlogger/ You can define one log which has the virtual host as the first field and split the logs after it.
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That would be amazing, and really useful at tech conferences.

One could imagine something like Klout running in the background and telling you who's important, who has similar interest to you, etc... The social implications are mind blowing.
We aren't making games comparable to flash/arcade games, they are more similar to games you find on social networks. So, the majority of revenue comes from in-game purchases.
My advice, make the facebook connect a feature, not a requirement. I know this is no simple change, but you would get a lot of buy-in if you sell it as a value add.

"Setup your account! Don't want your friends to see your profile? click here! Want to see more people? Click here!"

So people connected through facebook can see everyone (minus their friends), and people who aren't can only see others who are not. Keep pushing them on facebook connect, when they do a search, tell them how many people they are missing out on! (3 results, 98 results if you click here!)
This title is link bait.

The CIA wants to pay for software on demand instead of using long fixed licenses. This way they won't be quite as locked into a given product and will have a much easier time catching up with the state of the art.

An interesting note is it sounds like the CIA wants to host software internally (understandable) and pay for what they use by telling you how much they used.

There is no revolution here, unless you're in the business of providing software to the CIA. And even then, only your pay structure is changing.
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You bring up an interesting point, in that I stipulated that dating sucks as a fact, and that it never even occurred to me that it wasn't a universally held belief.

Because I can't think of anyone, besides those Seduction knuckleheads, who enjoys dating. Single people I know hate dating. People in relationships I know see the end goal that justifies all the awfulness that is dating, but are happy to move past it. And people I know who were in relationships but are now single again (divorced predominantly)are horrified by the thought of being back there.
interesting. i've read studies on how men are much more likely to make a decision on an online profile based mainly upon the photo, whereas women care more about interests and other content. this is definitely something to consider. I do feel like the public Facebook profile gives women some interesting information - mutual friends, education, and basic interests are all there.

also, this is not principally aimed at heterosexuals - all orientations are welcome and i actually suspect that smaller groups like gay guys may find it more useful since these communities are smaller and filtering out current friends is more valuable.
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I think my biggest gripe with the App Store is that there is no alternative. If I want to develop an app for an iPhone I'm locked in to their system.

If I want to publish a book, I have a variety of options, both in the physical and online realm.
That's not a solution, that just pushed the problem one step up the chain, how do you convince people to download and install that piece of software?
The article implies they are a completely separate Android device. Why not just interface with Android / iOS devices?
Somehow I don't see the logic. She's not a fan of gaming. So she'd like to make games less game-like to make the non-gaming crowd buy games. They're called books, tv shows and movies. And there are plenty of non-gamers consuming them.
Yes! Please please please implement BrowserId. This is the one authentication/login system that actually has a real fighting chance. We've implemented it for our site (next to FB login) and we are really happy with it.
I hope the backup machine is connecting to the live machine and they're sealed off from each other. I've heard of cases where hackers have managed to get into a machine and then access backup machines to completely wipe all copies of a database.
Missing swipe Up to clear done items as well.
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I was thinking as a glasses wearer - that I'd be excluded from the product.

Have you tried to wear 3D glasses over your existing pair?

I wonder how lightweight they'll be, especially if you factor in batteries.
Excellent summary, thanks for posting.
He's still facing extradition. He just gets the be under what amounts to 'house arrest' during the hearings.
Er, versus already carrying around a phone with built-in GPS and camera? Carrying around a networked computer is a new thing? That's why privacy policies exist (and why they should be monitored and enforced).

That is, if you're an internet company. To find out that AT&T is logging your location indefinitely (since 3.5 years ago), you need the FOIA:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/secret-memo-...
It's a bit late in the day for this startup. I just had a turbotax issue, and Intuit of all people had easy screensharing with just a code.
Totally agree on the title, and revolution is a strong term outside of the immediate sphere of affected vendors.. but consider that sphere, and how many businesses operate with giant enterprise licensing agreements.

I think it might be a bigger deal than you think. It's not just pay structure, it's the fact that the sales cycle, and jobs that would be at stake if someone admitted purchasing multi-million dollar bullshit encourages companies to hire great sales teams, sell crap product, and refuse to innovate.

I'd love to see this take hold and infect other agencies that rely on my tax dollars for ridiculous DOORS licenses, etc.
I think the popularity of Jawbone Bluetooth headsets suggests even non-techies will happily adopt wearable computing devices.