skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone see this actually catching on in the next five years and becoming something more than a gimmick?

I'm as excited about the prospect of viewing the world through a HUD as the next guy, but I can't imagine these glasses looking sleek in the slightest, and they will likely be rather bulky.

But beyond ugliness, it seems to me that someone would rather pull out their smartphone than put on a pair of HUD glasses for any given use case for this product. Augmented reality is "cool" but I've never used an AR app more than two days after I downloaded it.

I think for it to catch on, this technology would have to be baked into glasses that are designed to be worn all the time, not just put on when needed. People aren't going to carry around AR glasses in their back pocket with their phones and wallets. So a place to start might be enhancing the glasses used by people with vision trouble, rather than creating a whole new glasses product.
> light torch.

You've been eaten by a grue.
>I’m pretty much only using it to consume content. I suspect that most people use their iPads similarly:

And with that line it seems clear that this article is not about people like me...
Engine developers aren't always the best game developers. Bugs are bad but you're not going to get much polish from a demo.
Cool article but I'd just like to know why stand-ups have to be in the morning when I'm still getting into the groove of things. Why not end of day, all day you're waking up and building to that brief stand-up and it's either hey I need help or hey look what I/we got done.

For that matter what if people have a good medical reason for not standing, does that mean stand-ups are an implicit form of discrimination against older coders?
Good answer. In case anyone wants more detail, wikipedia is a little vague, but has the basic idea right:

"Overdischarge supersaturates lithium cobalt oxide, leading to the production of lithium oxide...deep discharge may short-circuit the cell, in which case recharging would be unsafe."

and

"Overcharge up to 5.2 Volts leads to the synthesis of cobalt(IV) oxide...if overheated or overcharged, Li-ion batteries may suffer thermal runaway and cell rupture. In extreme cases this can lead to combustion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery

The possibilitiy of thermal runaway or fire from overcharging is actually fairly likely with Li+ ions, since they will react with any non-inert substance.

The short circuit caused by undercharging can affect other cells in the pack, leading to overheating and combustion.
I don't think you are getting rid of RFID, they are too cheap and low-tech to get rid of. I hear Aluminium foil does the trick.
How about also adding vibration? I think adding those two together would be pretty steller.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72010
Well hey, just create a Google Plus account and update your settings...

But really, the privacy implications are significant. I think Google knows this, and will take the necessary steps. At least, I sure hope so.
We're much more accepting of computer and software bugs than vehicle bugs. This, if true, will turn into a PR nightmare for them very fast.
Apple Confirms Plans to Build Data Center Near Facebook's in Oregon
Perception is far more important than reality.

When online sales first took off, credit card theft was a huge concern. Even though nothing would go wrong for the vast majority of people fear was enough to make users and vendors go to great lengths to protect data. Not a perfect analogy but conceptually similar.
Webfinger - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webfinger - was created for e-mail-as-OpenID-login. I don't know why it hasn't taken off though.
At least until Google finds out:

From http://www.google.com/permissions/#tab2

We cannot approve the use of Internet domain names that use the word “Google” or some variation of “Google”. For example, we would not approve a site called googleXYZ.com or gogggles.com.
A minor point: when filling out my political orientation, I noticed that "socialist/fascist" was an option. I really don't want to start a debate, but I think these should be separate. It seems in the US they are often both considered equally dangerous extremes, but in the rest of the world, there is a pretty significant distinction between the two camps.
Greece is broken, and can’t be fixed
Do you think meeting new people in general sucks too?

I think all the people I've managed to convince to meet me have been pleasant to hang out with. It's not so hard.

There are a few scenarios that might seem bad. If you're trying very hard to make an impression, it can make the situation unnatural and you won't feel comfortable either. Another reason might be feeling disappointed if the other person is not attracted to you.

I'm quite talkative and interested in many subjects though. If the other person plays along normally, it's easy to get laid back interaction. It would have been much harder to go on dates when I was 18. And probably the "opponents" have improved a lot too.

I also respect other people's right to not be interested in me. We all have our own lives.

For me the worst part is the early part when you're supposed to get some response out of the women, to get them to meet you in person. The yield is so low that it often feels like it's not worth the effort.

I think I've gotten myself motivated when thinking of it as meeting a random, likely nice and potentially interesting person. And both of you can decide what happens after that. Most likely not much. But even then it's been a quite pleasant experience compared to sitting at home on a computer.

Of all the people I've met through internet dating, I've ended up dating with one, am friends with many and don't keep contact with a few. But all have been positive experiences.

If I reverse the "filter" idea and think about the women that have had the most influence on me, I'd say it'd be pretty hard to separate them from a general mass of good people. So the filtering has probably a really low probability roof.

In keeping with the reverse problem theme, one could of course try the Bayesian approach. You take people who you know match and examine what makes it so you get a probable model. And then apply that model to unknown people. There are probably some general models (people like this are attracted to people like that) but also person specific models (this person is attracted to people like this).
The account of the Tesla discharging while plugged in to a 100-foot extension cord strikes me as suspect. It's anecdotal at best. Have a look at the Tesla Roadster "Charging" page:

http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric/charging

Using 120V @ 15A, you get a charge rate of +5 miles (of range) per hour. Obviously not the optimal solution, but not a net negative either. Adding a 100 foot extension cord isn't going to diminish the available current enough to result in a net negative, so either the owner had additional electrical issues, or simply failed to plug it in and is making up excuses.
I tried this feature when I was on support with them... Chrome crashed every time I tried to run it.
How did he pay his bills, etc., when he was in jail?

I think you might be overlooking that he's merely out on bail. That means he is still charged with the crimes he was arrested for. The court has decided that he is not a flight risk and so they are going to let him stay out until his trial rather than housing him in jail, but it is quite common for courts to place restrictions on the person as a condition of offering them bail.
I think it was more the fact that Tesla didn't tell their customers they had GPS tracking equipment fitted to their vehicles.

If a service manager could access the location information I'd imagine quite a few other staff at Tesla could too ...
I've bricked a number of MacBook Pro batteries this way but (A) Scale is obviously different - only $100, and (B) Genius Bar came to the rescue - even though it really was my fault, they covered it under warranty.
"I don't see a reason to discourage sarcasm out-of-hand, or any other form of humor."

I would argue that +1 Funny is uniquely responsible for the decline of comments at /. throughout the years. While I agree that high quality content can rescue a humorous post, the previous commenters are right to be critical of humor for humors sake.
Flickr is one of the very very few services on the Internet I've ever taken my wallet out to pay for when asked (there are simply too many free alternatives)...and I've heard the same from other people.

All the recent rumblings at Yahoo have made me very nervous and it was obvious that the Flickr site was starting to get a little old looking. Some of the backend photo management stuff, while brilliant for 3 or 4 years ago, has been superseded by better, newer approaches -- and certain things were never good enough (geotagging photos in some areas was really hurt by the aging map interface and low quality imagery). And the photo views were getting far too small on today's modern displays.

So I welcome this change, even if I feel nitpicky about some of the particulars. It means that Yahoo is stating their intentions to keep Flickr going -- I suspect this is in no small part to the paying customers.

Now I only hope two things:

1) This isn't a one off, that they continue to work the design so that it doesn't die right out the gate, and long standing problems don't get left around.

2) They update the flickr uploading app. The ancient app is positively ancient, and a buggy mess, but it's still better than the web interface. There's not a whole lot that needs fixing, but it does need to get fixed.
How is this different from https://join.me/ ? I've been using join.me with my clients and they love the simplicity.
I wasn't able to login with my reddit creds, sounds like a cool service tho
I would never claim that sarcasm is always unwanted, but it's probably used an order of magnitude or two more frequently than is useful.

The problem is part of a larger one, people seem to be generally more interested in pithy, memorable one liners than in starting a discussion -- the easiest way to do this is to say something vitriolically sarcastic. People who agree with you will up-vote you, and you'll get some measure of affirmation from that.

The issue with that approach is that Hacker News should be a place where discussion flourishes. If the parent had said something to the effect of "This presents a troublesome, albeit interesting, avenue for further data aggregation, which could be used to target ads or sold to third parties," it would have likely kicked off an interesting discussion (both about the feasibility of such data aggregation (computer vision, mobile aggregation, etc.) and the societal costs of allowing such aggregation).

Instead, he went for the funny one-hitter, which framed the debate in such a way (by suggesting that it was inevitable and going to be used for evil) that anyone with even a slightly differing opinion is prevented from saying anything.

I don't mean to single out mechanical_fish specifically, many people here are guilty of this, but it essentially makes Hacker News more of an announcement/sharing forum (like twitter) than a discussion forum, which was one of the things that attracted me (and I'm sure many others) to it in the first place.

So I guess my larger point is that we should be more mindful of this stuff. It's more important to frame a relevant discussion than it is to "be right," and we should embrace that by posing interesting questions and answering them deliberately (being careful to stick to facts and being careful with the speculation, which easily morphs into FUD).
Which games would these be? I'd love to try some good ones...

Thanks!
Obviously, many people would like to know why this is being done, if not for matters of convenience, for curiosity.
I can think of two markets that this may do well in: motorcyclists and runners.

Motorcycle HUDs have existed for quite some time now, but more competition especially from someone as big as Google will inject some much needed innovation.

I can also see this being popular with running enthusiasts. During my races I wear a paper band around my wrist with my ideal times for each mile, and then have my GPS watch set to show instantaneous pace. A race involves constantly looking between watch, paper printout and your surroundings. If I had a HUD, I might even enjoy the race a bit :) (that was slightly sarcastic)
In all honesty probably wear a pair of those glasses - If we are all wearing e-glasses, facial recognition may not be so plausible.
"So how is he going to pay online-only bills?"

"Can he read about politics as part of his duty as a voter?"

Paying bills online and reading about politics are not human rights either. There are alternatives available for any task he's expected to do as a member of society.

"Since I know he's technically proficient, he's probably using the Internet as we speak."

That's a really bad argument, and I think you know it. He very well may be online as we speak, his neighbors probably have an unsecured network, but why is that a good reason to intentionally give the man internet access? He's shown time and time again that he uses the internet to commit criminal acts, there is no reason for him to have that access.

This is not a human rights violation.
He means it is being compared to CPU cache (from the article), so there is tens of orders of magnitude difference. From this summary on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/433105/exactly-how-fast-a...

CPU registers (8-32 registers) – immediate access (0-1 clock cycles)
L1 CPU caches (32 KiB to 128 KiB) – fast access (3 clock cycles)
L2 CPU caches (128 KiB to 12 MiB) – slightly slower access (10 clock cycles)
Main physical memory (RAM) (256 MiB to 4 GiB) – slow access (100 clock cycles)
Disk (file system) (1 GiB to 1 TiB) – very slow (10,000,000 clock cycles)
Remote Memory (such as other computers or the Internet) (Practically unlimited) – speed varies
Could you explain why? When I last looked, a crucial component wasn't specced, meaning you had to rely on Mozilla for part of the handshake. Have things change?
Most startups running unix use Java on the server-side anyway. Unless you are prepared to learn about tuning JVMs and learning its idiosyncracies, you could choose to pay the MS tax and use the CLR.

The other option is to go with a dynamic language like Ruby and follow along the same path as Twitter did, where they slowly replaced Ruby components with JVM ones.
Microsoft Office for iPad: Separating fact from fiction
I advocate for a necklace battery pack. It would also serve to hold your earbuds.
Not available for Firefox 10.0.2 :(
Opt out?

They're just giving you more choice, not less ala apple
I'm much more in favor of hundreds of millions of govt money going towards 50-100MPG+ electric/gas hybrids than all electric at this point.

Limited range, hard to "refuel", and now the very real possibility of bricking. I think we are still a long long ways away from practical all electrics.
Why can't you plug the car in, and switch on tow mode?
Even a laptop with a dead battery works fine when plugged in. I'd venture to say that a tow truck's alternator should be enough to disengage the wheels. Sorry, but this is just crappy engineering.
I still think that mail servers could really use a disruption. It is still way too complex just to get something simple set up.

I haven't surveyed the field extensively but this has been my experience with the common recommendations. If anyone knows of a server that already exists and would make it trivial to set up basic SMTP/IMAP/POP3 with authentication let me know.

Ideally the only configuration info I would need would be something like this:

allow_imap = True

allow_pop3 = True

allow_smtp = True

accept_mail_for = ['this_domain.com', 'another_domain.com']

#users

users = ['jeff@this_domain.com', 'molly@another_domain.com']

#forwards

forwards = {'jeff@this_domain.com': 'cookiecaper@some_domain.com'}

and then, a program like mail_server_passwd would ask me for my username and let me set a password, and that would be that. It shouldn't be any difficult to bootstrap a mail server, and right now setting something that has POP3, IMAP, and SMTP up can take hours for experienced admins unless they know the mail server(s) very well ahead of time.
This is what you're looking for: http://quintanasoft.com/dumbster/
What's your chat backend running on? Care to share your tech stack?
Internet access is a fundamental right since it's quickly becoming a necessity. It is also quite common for the courts to disregard asinine restrictions. If he used electricity to infringe on copyright, are they going to turn off his electricity too? Or is the Internet too young?

Did we forget that Library Internet access issue thread already? There are crucial needs being served by the Internet just like water, electricity, security, etc.
I don’t believe in UX Design.
http://datascience101.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/what-is-a-dat...
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That seems like something that should really fail open, for exactly those kind of situations.
Megaupload's Dotcom to Be Released on Bail
He probably has a pile of cash stored somewhere
I was surprised this wasn't mentioned in the article because this is, to me, the biggest issue with dating sites: too many guys, too many messages to women.

I've seen some of my friends (women) sign up and get messages within an hour. Even with a barely filled profile.
Close to the metal? Well, in your case that might be true, but I see more and more applications on mobile devices that are pretty small wrappers around Webkit views, as this makes portability easier and harnesses the existing skills of the developers.
I think the real issue is how to respond to my wearing a camera that records everything I do and, incidentally, everything that everyone around me does. Even if the data's never sent to a third party, there are still privacy concerns. They're just a lot harder to address, unless "ban lifelogging" strikes you as a reasonable response. (It doesn't me.)
But can they look good? Those oakleys linked to are awful. If they look stupid then I doubt they will work... Until apple steps in and does it right, that is ;)
>Conversely, competitors like JoinMe (which is part of LogMeIn) use a Flash-based viewer, which won’t work on many smartphones (including, famously, any iOS devices)...
Björn Wahlroos, a leading banker in Finland says roughly that Germany's just propping up Greece with Euro countries' help packages so that German banks that loaned careless money to Greece wouldn't fail. Why not just default Greece and those German banks?

It's sad for the citizens EU countries that did not lend to Greece. In just today's announced package, my share as a taxpayer is around 2000 euros.

"The world is currently living through the crisis of the euro. According to banker Wahlroos, banks are at the core of the crisis. “Perhaps the most central unrecognised fact of this crisis is that Germany’s banking system is rotten to the core.”
“For most European banks Greece’s lack of creditworthiness, or its bankruptcy, would not be too harmful – except for the Landesbank, which is owned by the German states, and Commerzbank, which is partly owned by the central federation, which – after being forced to reduce their receivables from Greece – are in a situation in which their capital is not sufficient for engaging in banking activities.”
Wahlroos feels that “Mrs. Merkel made the wrong decision in the spring of 2010”."

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Bj%C3%B6rn+Wahlroos+%E2%80%...
> Paying bills online and reading about politics are not human rights either. There are alternatives available for any task he's expected to do as a member of society.

I'm sorry, but Internet access is the human right. You're putting human right implications in my mouth.

The alternatives available? Jeez, I wonder how he can find out as an Internet user. Hopefully he had heard about yellow pages? Yes, there actually young people who do NOT understand non-Internet alternatives.

> He's shown time and time again that he uses the internet to commit criminal acts, there is no reason for him to have that access.

He used electricity too. So, cut off his electricity too? Remember, he needs electricity to run servers and not necessarily the Internet. Seize all electronics instead? He may have files embedded in the house alarm. Personally, I didn't want to respond because your rationale is asinine!
I dunno, that would mean that a bricked roadster on a hill would possibly roll away.
It's not a bug, it's an inherent technological limitation.
Their content matching system came about in the middle of a billion dollar lawsuit from Viacom. Given that youtube was full of Viacom's assets (such as videos of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report) I find it hard to classify such a lawsuit as 'frivolous'.

Which makes more sense, youtube implementing a content matching system and running it on all of the videos uploaded or Viacom and every other copyright holder making their own systems (or buying into one) that tries to go through every video uploaded to youtube?
The way things are going desktops are getting TOO powerful.
Privacy is Your Own Problem
I'm creating a marketplace for writers to meet artists and editors to self publish their book. Trying to cut the margins of big middlemen companies like lulu etc.
It has a built in escrow system to make transactions safer.
Most of hte code is done. Should be able to launch soon.
Dell's Predicament
Warning! If you do this, anyone might be able to create HTTPS certificates for your domain name!

A lot of certification authorities will allow you to get a certificate for example.com if you can prove that you can reply to an email sent to an email address @example.com. If you configure an MX record pointing to the mailinator MTAs, then anybody can request a cert and ask to validate domain ownership by contacting whatever@example.com, and can subsequently browse the whatever@ mailbox on mailinator to read and reply to the confirmation email.
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Well, there's the producers and the engineers and record studios and studio equipment manufacturers, and they all provide something of value, indirectly, in producing good quality music.
So maybe this planet is more like "Bespin" than Waterworld!
I would agree. The whole document has a few little niggles that make me think it's BS, or at least severely overblown.

Additionally they quote it's happened 5 times... by an un-named service manager.
It's probably around the same in "normal" cars today. If you just have a car in park it won't move until you move it out of park, the catch is in gas powered cars, even if the battery is dead you should be able to put it in neutral to get it towed. In electric cars when the battery is dead, well that's all you have, so you can't get the gear into neutral to make it at least rollable.