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I don't know whether the technology is there, but I could see AR glasses being paired with a (RFID? Bluetooth?) ring you wear as a pointing device. The demo uses speech but I haven't found the Google voice search very impressive so I have my doubts.

Put it on your finger (or if a cheap and small RFID chip, glue it onto your fingernail, or even paint each of your fingernails with invisible slightly radioactive nail polish), pair it with your glasses and you can use your finger(s) as a pointing device in the AR overlay.

Depending on input resolution, the movements could be subtle -- you don't have to raise your hands as if conducting an orchestra although that would be fun to see. Wiggle your fingers to control your headset.

Or how about keyboard trousers. Invisible areas on the outside of your trousers that you can tap as a small 10-key keyboard.
And many economists consider this one of the primary threats to continued economic growth.

Entrenched interests, keeping challengers down.
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I feel like a total idiot right now, checking algebra wikis and shit to make sure I am not insane, but isn't that inequality wrong? Wouldn't the listed formula's value need to be less than the radius SQUARED? Or:
w * sqrt(2) / 2 < r?
I find it difficult to believe this article. I can't imagine users caring that much since their experience isn't changing at all.
You will never stop this behavior. A person is free to like or dislike anyone. But it doesn't stop countries from Canada taking away the freedoms of the people from the Westboro Baptist church by denying them access to the country simply for having a belief they don't agree with.

Many people seem to think this is okay because they don't agree with them either. This seems to be the trend latest trend: Instead of ignoring things you don't like, people try to use the government or other forces to forcibly silence the opposition.

"or their own beliefs of what is right and wrong feel so hated? "

I see the same kind of hatred for conservatives, republicans, and anyone against the legalization of drugs here on HN and on sites like Reddit.

For some reason, nobody mentions it nor do they care. It's because of this that I know that most people don't care about true freedom. They only care about their own beliefs.
"A group of us from Google[x]"

So this is the first official acknowledgement of Google X, no?
Someone could write an out-of-game emulator[1] which people could use to test software.

[1] I have no idea what the correct terminology is here.
This is the same thing I thought. This ad brought immediately to mind the book "Feed" by MT Anderson.
With a lot less experience to you I can relate to the NIH syndrome, but I don't think it's just the specs, it's the resulting implementations. Just go look at the .Net one that everyone recommends you use:

https://github.com/AArnott/dotnetopenid/tree/master/src

Over-engineered specs seemingly result in over-engineered code. Not that I really get why they made the client and the provider one big project in the first place.

Having mucked around with OAuth on a couple of .Net projects it's just a nightmare to use. If something goes wrong and you try and dive into that code, woe betide you. It's like a rabbit warren. Just to figure out you aren't properly encoding the &s or something.

Having used the v3 calendar API recently it's interesting to see Google now just release essentially very simple libraries that just deal with the integration for you. It's like even they've given up trying to get people to use OAuth, where the google groups were littered with 'can't get auth working' and so just hand-wave over it.

Personally I think it's at the SOAP stage that data exchange formats went through, sounds simple but somehow is extremely complex. I'm hoping that the JSON equivalent will come out soon.
I wasn't aware that "life loggers" actually exist. What sort of hardware are they wearing? Do they behave differently?
With a couple of simple macros, the code could be fraction of its size and much more readable. Code with that property is atrocious in my mind. For example these "argument reading" bits are repeated over and over again:

ram[PC++0xfff]&0xff

((ram[PC++0xfff]&0xff)|((ram[PC++0xfff]&0xff)<<8))

Of course Notch said it has been generated, so he probably had a neat definition that barfed this garbage out. But it's strange that so many commentators here are defending the output as a reasonable coding style for a VM!
No, but it's a good example of a startup that had a solid foundation, good management team, and ramped up into a successful IPO without a 9-figure G round. A lot of other startups have sprung from that event.

It's a shame that a lot of people have forgotten that and mention Groupon and GrubHub like they're the one-and-only models for a startup scene in this city.
Speaking from experience (DIY foundry mishap involving brass), even small amounts of airborne zinc fumes are sufficient to knock a healthy adult flat on their ass for four days with superflu style symptoms.
It's not odd because it worked the other way around - USSR sent ships onto the Black Sea to protect themselves from the ones approaching through Bosphor. Defence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_t...
But remember: a car that can drive for you perfectly well when the weather is fine but that requires you to take the wheel under adverse conditions is still an awesome product as long as the limitations are clear, consistent, and understood by purchasers.
I believe that if the product is good then it doesn't matter if you keep it under wrap or give a peek to people. Google believes in iterative model and they are keeping that. If they pull it off and sell it in 300-500 $ I can imagine seeing a lot of people wearing these and updating their facebook timelines and twitter :), so now we all know why they call Android, and Android
I'm guessing someone is already working on a real-world version of it in an FPGA. Just for fun.
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Obviously. I was just curious if you did a lot of kernel x86 code in your day job.
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How is this actually any different than today? There's nothing stopping me from popping up my phone to take a picture or video in a public space. There's also nothing stopping me from wearing a pinhole camera all the time. If these became common, then obviously there would be more cameras on at all times, but the fundamentals wouldn't be any different.

It seems like the biggest difference is that if a ton of people were wearing these all the time, police couldn't tell everyone to turn them off. If they looked like normal glasses, they wouldn't even know.
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As a tax lawyer, I can say with complete certainty that healthcare costs will trump taxes as the #1 lifetime expense for almost everyone (except the Buffets and Gates). #2 will be costs associated with childraising. Taxes are a distant #3, and for people with sufficient debt (mortage and/or student loan), may actually fall to #4.

Also, while the rest of your advice is sound, it is unncessary to organize an LLC or incorporate a S-Corporation for side projects. In either case, you will face additional taxes (nominally called "fees") for the privilege, along with additional tax filing burdens. You can already deduct business-related expenses as an individual. Indeed, both LLCs and S-Corps are treated as "pass-through" entities, so you would already be doing that for your LLC/S-Corp expenses.

The primary reason to form an LLC/S-Corp for a side project or for consulting is for liability protections (i.e., lawsuits, debt, etc.). Unfortunately, for single-member LLCs or sole-owner S-Corps, creditors will generally require the owner to contractually waive such protections.

The secondary reason, and the reason you're probably thinking of: you can sell the LLC/S-Corp, recognizing capital gains (lower tax rate) or even avoid taxes altogether (via certain norecognition transactions). In contrast, it is extremely difficult to sell an unincorporated/unorganized business, and you will essentially always recognize the gain in such a sale.
If that's your problem, forget about career advice: Go see someone who can help. Talk to a professional. If you can't find one of those, call a free hotline or talk to someone you trust. As long as you don't die, you've got your whole life ahead of you to get this stuff right. There's no hurry. Do what you need to do to get through.

Then once you get better from this, then you can do all the stuff I said. Take it one step at a time — that's the only way not to get overwhelmed.
Thanks for the validation. I don't know if it is the blog-spam that infests all of these types of forums, or if it that people really think a for-profit corporation owes them free stuff in perpetuity. PR people, though, call me "cynical" ;)
Considering the relative growth curves of RIM and Android since 2007, I think switching from "Linux/Java Blackberry clone" to "Linux/Java iPhone clone" was a solid decision.
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"Don't look into concentrated sunbeam with remaning eye."

SCNR
I'm a bit confused; on what basis can you possibly make this assumption?
What about the times he found cheating by the winners of photographic contests? Those were hardly obvious choices. And falsely accusing someone would have really hurt his reputation. Of course, investigation proved that he was right. He analyzes something every few weeks it seems like (I've read the blog for years now), so yeah, there's a long history for you to look at. The outcome is only "never in doubt" if you're using hindsight bias. Besides, even when he already knows an image is fake, he figures out what is fake and how it was faked. One example would be showing which of those lottery numbers was real: the whole row was fake... except for the last number. Something which helped explain why the 2nd and 3rd photograph were the way that they were.

He's quite up front about the fact that some tests give inconclusive results. I believe that he has discussed the limitations of the tests. But even a test that gives an inconclusive result half the time can be useful if it shows you which areas of the image need attention the rest of the time. That data is indeed useful. He has talked about it. And you could just politely email him if you wanted to know more.

And yes, it probably is hard to separate the success due to technique and skills. But it's hard to believe that he would be good at picking out fake images without understanding why he was good at picking them out.
This is a very interesting interpretation of that video. It has such a dystopian flavor. Yes, it solves problems for you, but at the expense of a full thought process.
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> If you can't figure out the business model generating the reported millions...

How, exactly, would I figure out that Groupon was lying/mistaken in their financials?
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Quite so! I'm very excited to head on down to my Google dealership and pick one--

Oh.

There's a huge difference between a research project and a shipping product. I'm most excited for this development as well, but I'll be withholding my acclaim until they actually deliver it. So far, all of this stuff is an elaborate Montessori school science project.
I think you're a bit prejudiced against "magic numbers". If a number is used only once in the entire program, why bother giving it an enum? Just write a comment explaining what it is. That's what I did with the Go implementation.
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I have a theory, newly formed. And this seems the best place to share it, because this motley collection of minds generally knows their stuff and won't hesitate to tell me I'm wrong. :)

That would be correct.

>The only two meaningful categories of currency are "large" and "small". Large currency is cash, coins. It can be manipulated with the hand, verified by the eye. "Small currency" is expressed as microscopic state, and requires complex tools to observe, verify, etc. Both bitcoin and mintchip are microscopic currency. Computers function, then, first and foremost, as a kind of microscope.

What are you even saying? I saw where you were going and then you took a swerve left at the last second. How does storing state in a microscopic state turn a computer into a microscope? I assure you that no computer hardware works by looking at stored state with a lens and using computer vision algorithms to determine the state of the device.

>My theory is that small currency is only as secure as the microscope used. And 'microscopes' expressed on computers are themselves expressed 'in the small', requiring other microscopes to verify, which can in turn be subverted. It's subvertable microscopes all the way down.

A pet peeve of mine is calling such guesses "theories" at this point the proper term is "hypothesis". At any rate this is what cryptography is for. No amount of "subversion" is going to break checksums and hashes. (In a way that wouldn't set off serious red flags to users.) (Though turning them into a usable monetary system is left as an exercise for the reader.)

>What is the solution then? You need a cheap, 'trusted' microscope/small wallet from a single source. It needs to be cheap so that it can be replaced frequently (lost or stolen). It needs to be from a single source because if trust is ever broken you need to get it from a different trusted source.

It needs to not be from a single source you mean? If not then that sentence makes no sense. As it turns out; hardware bugs are actually harder to find than software ones. It would be better to use general hardware if only because you'd be less likely to find an intentional Trojan horse for bit-coin or similar in it.

>Also, it would be smart to limit the amount on a single device to being less than or equal to the cost of physically defeating the device.

So about the cost of a 5$ walmart screwdriver? A 50$ Blowtorch? It would end up being too low and you know it. It'd be better to just do an arbitrary limit like 500$ and call it done.

>Mind you, the MintChip "microscope" is incomplete: it requires a host system to do user interaction. Which, in my view, will always be the primary weakness of any small currency. All you need to do is write a dummy program to fool a user into believing they received the money, and you've won. And that's trivially easy.

Man in the middle attacks were something that certificates were supposed to solve; but didn't.

It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Sure, using more RAM to make things faster is a fine thing. But I think you give developers too much credit: many apps use lots of RAM for no other reason than lack of care.

Which of course can also be to the benefit of consumers: better a RAM-hogging release today than a memory-efficient release next month (if ever).
I think that was intentional.
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[Loose] change is good, this is better. Apparently, pennies weren't good enough for the Royal Canadian Mint either. Incidentally, after the crash of 2008, Joseph Stiglitz wrote that "change ... has no inherent value."
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Is there any indication that there won't be Apps available for these glasses? I don't think so.

At any rate, the counter argument is that opening it up to 3rd party developers means letting people shit up your field of vision with ads, which might not be so cool.
As far as I can understand the virtual ships have programmable hardware
Entertaining article. Now I want to buy a Land Rover so I can have the same kinds of adventures exploring old submarine bases!
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I think that's a valid point especially for certain tasks, but it finally hit me what's slightly jarring about the glasses in the scenario the video portrayed.

It creates a very clear seperation between you and the person you're facing, a complete loss of intimacy and focus which right now is the last refuge for non distracted human contact. It's analgous (roughly) to having someone talking to you while looking at their iPhone the whole time. In the personal (ubiquitous) scenario, I can see how glasses like these can be a violent intrusion in our relationships.
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This will, of course, set both A and O to 0.
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The article makes perfect sense when you consider their target demographic. It's a very 'hipster-esque' app, targeting users in and around that demographic. There was a very popular YouTube video out of the UK that made fun of the whole demographic including the folks who go out and have 'new age fun with a vintage feel' on London fields (though the video references it as 'Polaroid app on my iPhone'). And the one thing we know about hipsters and those who want to be, they HATE it when what they like becomes 'mainstream'. Now, that's not to say that all Instagram users are hipsters. But, every single iPhone user whining about it Instagram being released for Android certainly is.
> I'm saying most people won't want to wear pixels on their face.

You could have said the same about any number of technologies that are now ubiquitous (and many people did say those same things).

"Who wants an iPhone? Crappy virtual keyboard and the only apps are from Apple."

"Cell phones will never catch on. Anyone can call you at any time? How obnoxious. And you pay even when you didn't call? Ridiculous."

"No one will pay for TV with ads."

"No one will pay more for TV without ads."

Etc...

Times change, and the "I'd never buy this" statements become suppressed memories once everyone else owns it and you feel left out. What matters is how much benefit the product delivers. People will get over their hangups if the value is high enough.

I'm not saying that this will be an awesome product (or that it will ever even come to market). But if it is, people will buy it, and they will use it.
The discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3796378

(Those country code blogspot domains cause terrible URL aliasing. I know it's for a reason, but still.)
I need to give a shout out to the nodejitsu team who made the Forever package. It's what enabled this whole thing to work.

https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever
They killed my fantastic google reader experience, and forced the "social" aspect of it into G+. This might seem shallow on my side, but I am still livid about this. They completely ruined the reader experience for me.
They tried to mesh too much social into one product. Too many generalities, not enough specialization. Even with their "circles". Now I don't even use reader, when it used to be my crack fix.

Also, I added the Hacker News circle on G+, and all of the sudden I have 1704395784390582430 contacts in gchat. mother eff.

Also, I had a perfectly one off custom color scheme in gmail, and I couldn't transfer it over to the new style. now I'm just bickering. I'm really only legitimately pissed about reader.....
To whatever extent business schools are replaced by something like YC, it'll be to the same extent that large businesses are replaced by smaller and more granular businesses generating massively more revenue per employee. That was more or less what I was hinting at with the battleship/dive bomber analogy. It's not that YC is taking the place of business school, or that the types of people who went to and thrived in business school will be attracted to YC. It's that creative people like hackers and designers will learn just enough business to handle it themselves and the types of people who get MBA's will have to learn to work for a living.
Agree with most of the above, but as regards an open platform, don't forget that the iPhone didn't initially have an app store at all.

I think it might take a while of having people walking around with an initial, closed version for the truly novel and exciting obvious to really become obvious.
Back-compat can have many meanings - but my understanding is that every major release does break some back-compat in some way - otherwise it would not be a major release. And if you think that binary compatibility is not be fair - then how about pseudo-hashes?

This is not to say that I don't agree that Perl has perhaps the best back-compat of all the languages that still evolve - but these absolute statements have this slightly sect feeling.
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And the sarcastic remark adds no value, it merely antagonizes the other poster without really explaining what's a wrong with the post, and sets a more combative tone that is not really seen as desirable here. Tone alone can make the difference between a productive discussion and a non-productive debate and HN seems to do a relatively good job at keeping a tone that leads more toward discussions and less toward debate.
Clever. I'm going to play around with this now.
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It'll be only a matter of time before it's rooted and running AdBlock. :)
.. making the term "selling eyeballs" just a _little_ bit more accurate.
That is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Apart from this, you sound perfectly healthy and you'll be fine.

Get some help right away though as you should never underestimate the power of professionals to help you with this.
An iPod, even when brand new, solved a problem people knew they had: it was a portable music player. That market dates back through the Sony Walkman to the transistor radio.

Unless something significant develops between now and release, I expect the average person's reaction will be to wonder why in the world they would need one. What problem would it solve for them?

That's not to say that that question can't be answered, but I do think it's fair to say that it hasn't been answered, at least not yet.
If I give 1B to my friends company for a service, and he gives me 1B for a service I provide, do we both have 1B in revenue?
As someone who struggles for rent and basic medical care, it really grinds my gears listening to someone's victim mentality.

I struggle right now because of my poor decisions. I am improving my lot in life through consistently good choices. Sure, life happens, but ultimately, I am in control of my own destiny.
Who said anything about searching text?
I think the only online subscriptions I ever signed up for were for games. Specifically I paid for WoW and WeeWar for a while (in fact both not longer than 3 months).

Perhaps a really good magazine could convince me, too, but it would have to be very special interest (machine learning or games).

Edit: I forgot, I also pay 15€/month for a server. Also Ultima Online, back in the day...
The bulk of information that resides in social networks is "conversational". Publicly accessible human knowledge about places (such as historic facts, meetups, etc) still resides, for the most part, in the open Web.

Connect to the open Web (with a powerful summarization technology) would be a killer on this platform. Otherwise we would we reinventing the wheel.
My prediction for Apple is that they'll do glasses, but will be much less ambitious and will do it's job well. Specifically I think they'll drop the camera and AR stuff. Just have a heads up display for IMs and track names so you can read messages and find music while walking. Cheaper and easier to polish, and builds on what people already do.