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So, when those so called journos learn to put some contact information for the covered business - a link, the domain name as text (if links are too hard or impossible within their CMS), or at least a phone number! Now, people have to google "Delicious Nutritious" and hope a domainer isn't owning DeliciousNutritious.com already. Well, in this case, the website is http://www.deenut.com/ and is the first hit.
Couldn't the same argument have been had with mobile phones a couple of decades ago, or even still now? They can be tracked, so not owning a mobile will brand you as suspicious?
Why. What does it matter who is submitting those links. They gotta live and people obviously find them relevant or interesting.
Why bad news? Realy nice video. I dont't need that to enjoy any moment of my life, but may help another people to do so. Why not?
The other side of this argument is that what Google is doing here is closer to what MS did with Kinect -- get visibly attached to a groundbreaking original new product it has confidence it will bring to market.

The Project Natal concept/intro video similarly overpromised when you look at the first wave of Kinect but the product itself is still crazy revolutionary and the intro did build the hype and attached the tech unmistakably to MS.
But all the things shown in the video already are available in a top-of-the-line smartphone. The only difference is that you don't need to pull it out of your pocket. That's just a small improvement if you're into that kind of thing. What I did miss was actually augmenting reality enabling me to do new things, to perceive the world around me in ways I cannot do now.

For example, given my preference in clothing and my body measurements, when shopping in the city I would like to "block out" somehow all those shops than probably don't have anything for me.

Or while cycling, I would like to seen an indication how fast to drive the next section to not have to stop for the next traffic light. I often have to stop for a red light to immediately start up again because the light turns green. I hate that.

Or when I am working in my garden I would like to see some helping lines and measures to dig straight lines, or to cut my trees at the best spots for it to grow out nicely next summer. Or to be able to sow seeds at the optimal distances from each other.

And so on. What kind of augmented reality do you want?
This reminds me of the article gruber wrote late last year about the types of companies that make future concept videos.

http://daringfireball.net/2011/11/companies_that_publish_con...
I am going to neglect the responses 'Bullshit' basically because that means you don't have an answer at the moment.

>>There isn't a single language in the world where the productivity gains are exponential over a long time - there might be some when you are a beginner which gets capped pretty fast.

Sorry to ruin your party. But there are languages where there are exponential gains in productivity with time. Languages like Lisp, Perk, Haskell etc. But I can't convince that to people who can't look beyond 'readability matters' and consider that as the Pinnacle of programming language design.

Coming to regular expressions they are first class citizens in Perl. That is basically what takes them to the next level. Now scripting on Unix has always been so much about Text processing. That is how it has always been. tr, sed, awk and dozen other text processing utilities. And then there is Perl. If you are not getting 'Text processing' thing correct, then you already loose the scripting race with a very huge margin.

Perl added a lot of new semantics to the language too given/when statements, smart matching operators etc. Python broke it for as simple a thing as a print statement. That is the whole point(The language is too brittle to evolve). And I'm sure any new thing in Python is going to go the same way.

And stdlib is no where near CPAN. Although I agree PyPi is doing a good job.

You are right that I must use Perl,And you are also right that Python is an awesome language. There are great frameworks Twisted, Django, NumPy. I've used Twisted extensively. In many Python ways is a great language for web development, for studying algorithms(because its better psuedocode), and due to its frameworks like Twisted - its good for network programming.

But I am sorry to say Python doesn't do well in scripting areas. And it so happens once you start there and go a little deeper you can just go on and on with Perl.
Imagine "Enlarge your member" and "Buy viagra now" popups on these devices :)
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People interpret it as whining, and feel whining is deserving of downvotes.

It's not a community norm I agree with --- I feel that if you want to know what you've done wrong and you're not acting all entitled about it (oh, but some people might interpret your reactions as acting entitled) then someone should tell you.
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that clears things up; thank you for taking the time to write that up. As for the sample size: what a master's is in Europe is pretty consistent (there are some 1 year degrees, though). It takes five years at university to get one, 3 for the bachelor's, 2 for the master's
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Actually, it would be a major improvement not to have to look down at your phone, if only for the health benefits to your neck and eyes (moving target).

It would also be much more practical. I would love to have my existing glasses enhanced with a screen powered by my phone.
I'd say it comes pretty close to "crappiest page design" considering the size of NBC. Here are some of the problems:

- Two search boxes which look completely different but (possibly?) do the same thing
- Text sizing is all over the place
- Inconsistent capitalisation ("category. tags" and "Read. Posts", "jay leno" and "Jay Leno")
- Inconsistent punctuation (does the section heading "Most. Recent Posts" make any sense at all?)
- Only some of the story descriptions work (in some cases the text is wrapped inside CDATA sections and all that is displayed is an ellipsis in place of the description)
- Corny background gradient cuts off before the end of the page
- Tags are completely abused (they have "Jimmy Fallon", "jimmyfallon", "Late Night" and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon")
- The "Most. Recent Posts" section has exactly the same content as the body of the page

Any self-respecting corporation should be able to do better than that.
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But all the things available in a top-of-the-line smartphone were already available in a laptop. The only difference is that you don't need to pull it out of your backpack. It's just a small improvement if you're into that kind of thing.

I could go on, but my point here is that improvements are incremental. Having a desktop has been more convenient than a terminal remoting into a mainframe. A laptop is that much more convenient over a desktop, and likewise with a smartphone.
Actually, something can only be in the Public Domain if it it's not covered by copyright, or if its copyright has expired; saying "I put this in the public domain" might have no effect whatsoever.

I don't know of any countries that don't recognise public domain (that is, implement eternal copyright).
for a guy that spends most of it's day working on a laptop, I really don't see the need for yet another screen. This google thing just seems an excuse to become a road kill. Multitasking all the time just seems to be incredible tiring.
(from someone that recently ditched his smartphone for is old regular phone)
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Setting up a landing page and doing a few basic things to draw attention to it should take you a day or less. You can either spend that time right away and have 500 people that care when you launch, or you can spend that time when you finish your MVP and launch and have no one that cares.

It's time you have to spend anyway, do it early, let it sit there and attract interest.

One thing you can't do when you finish your MVP is go back 3 months and have a landing page that attracted interest.
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You could release it under a copyright licence that is de facto the same as the public domain. It's "copyrighted to you", but anyone can do anything on it.
I understand this boils down to security vs convenience but one of the main reasons I like google talk is that I can search through my old messages and I believe encrypting it before sending it to google, "disables" that functionality.
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I meant expensive server-side. I would even like to run something like this in production.
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Doesn't happen on my Android.
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Well I'd say the same thing about Notch's 0x10c -- that there are many games on the Internet, why is this one newsworthy? -- but I think in both cases it comes down to the reputation of the person providing it. In the one case it is a promising idea from someone who has the resources to make great ideas happen; in the other it is a pile of utter crap from someone who had the resources to do much, much better.
I hope they will do something about people who already wear glasses for various reasons. May be project images on to existing glasses ?
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It doesn't add anything.

Imagine your comment was at the top. The linked article doesn't say how to get the effect. Your comment doesn't say how to get the effect. So it would all be a bit mystifying.

Imagine your comment was in the middle of the page. There would be other comments below yours that would be more worthy of people's time to read than yours. So your comment should appear below those comments. Thus it should attract a few downvotes.

Upvoting the link would be more appropriate than posting a generic compliment.

If you had said "This is an excellent idea and I will steal it because (a) it will make it easier for people to link to and quote me (b) it will make it easier for me to link to my earlier articles (c) ..." then that would be different: you would be providing reasons, and that might provoke further useful discussion. It might not attract upvotes, but unless you were just repeating what someone else had said it shouldn't attract downvotes.

That one second to vote something down is not a serious barrier to downvoting. (Neither is the one second to vote something up a serious barrier to upvoting.)
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interesting that a lot of people don't get why this is bad news.

it is all about expectations, this is still about a product that google wants to make money of. this video now tickles the fancy of nerds all around. read the comments and you see things like 'all it needs is a direct to brain interface' or 'i will buy all iterations of it'. the problem being that google will not be able to deliver on this concept video, not for the first iterations at least. just look at how long it took for the iphone to reach its current state, with apps, etc.

the iphone launch is the perfect counter-example to concept videos. do not build expectations by releasing concept videos, do not build up false expectations full stop. release and proclaim this. is. it. then see how you build upon that. even apple stumbles, siri being a case in point of reality not matching the aspirations.

nothing worse than releasing a great product that just sucks in comparison to the grand concept videos that didn't have to take into account things like battery life, difficult background/lighting situations, safety rules, etc.

concept videos take up energy you should spend on the actual product, the one people will actually need to pay money for.
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Notch's 0x10c is newsworthy because he's creating an MMO with an emulated programmable 16bit CPU. How many games do you know that do that?

Now think about how many crappy websites there are.

Terrible comparison.
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I wonder if Google will end up going the same route as Philips.

I'm from the home-town of Philips, the company that became big selling light-bulbs but then expanded into a myriad of great technical innovations.

We were always joking however about how they were able to make the greatest products, but were never able to sell them.

There are so many examples of absolutely great products/innovations which were eventually canned or, if they weren't IP protected, were successfully released to market several years later by a competitor.

I really hope Google doesn't fall into this trap, because the even the greatest still need to be sold...
We have to competing Ways.

The top down Apple Way and the exploratory Android Way (they have other competing qualities besides). I'm pretty happy to see this going on and happy that both are having success. I'd also be happy to see MS join in with another Way.

Anyway, rather than follow a lead I would like to see other manufacturers explore different paths. If Asus do well enough, other manufacturers will follow anyway. For now Id like to see manufacturers work on making Android laptops/netbooks that can replace Windows/Mac for some people or some cases. It seems to me that the making it "a table too" would be more natural than making it "a netbook too."
I don't get it.. so anyone with the priv.ly extension installed can view the content? Priv.ly is also open source?

So.. if say 10% of Facebook users started using Priv.ly.. wouldn't Facebook just put their own implementation directly into their site? This would give Facebook access to your content as well as make your content available in the Facebook mobile app's.

Sure, it abstracts away your content but if it can be viewed anonymously it doesn't protect it or prevent twitter etc from reading it.
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Wish I could see it. Anyone know if this is going to be broadcast?
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Perhaps some of these ideas will be implemented by 3rd party developers in the Android market when it's opened up. Look at Angry Birds, Flipboard, The Elements etc etc on the iOS marketplace - apps like these greatly enhance the desirability of the platform
What annoys me is that I just found Java to be enabled in Firefox again, when I was pretty sure that I had disabled it before. I suspect that yesterdays update reinstalled it into Firefox. (I could be wrong, though - but I definitely remember starting Safari just for the sake of trying Minecraft, because it was the only one of my Browsers with Java enabled).
On the other hand it's good to check if really there are any people who would pay for that, before you start building it and spending real resources. This video is just an MVP to check the market and get some press coverage. So, in my opinion it's very good news - Google started to work in more methodological way on new products.
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If everybody in the World started using PGP to encrypt all email tomorrow, we'd still have massive privacy problems that need addressing.

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I just tried your tutorial. It was a smooth ride. Everything worked great: creating the initial app, adding a screen and pushing updates.
Thanks. Some good ideas. In terms of gathering feedback online - is survey monkey completely ineffective? Maybe a simple yes/no via twitter? However this lacks the detail. Has anyone had success with online surveys. What incentive did you use?
From a pure Speech Recognition POV, I will believe Google Goggles is possible when they somehow solved the major problems in Speech Recognition. SR tech has been around forever, but only in the last few years have companies been able to process it on the server side and then zap it over a wireless connection to get somewhat OK processing times.

But no one has yet to solve the two problems plaguing SR: First, putting a whole SR engine on a machine let alone on a pair of embedded chips on a piece of eyewear for instant SR. Even with miniaturization and speed/power improvements I just don't see it happening mainly because chip makers have decided to just add more cores. I may be wrong but it seems difficult to parallelize this with a large corpus.

Obviously the solution is to go the other way and have super fast guaranteed wireless connection at all times. This will still produce lag but probably acceptable levels for most people.

The second problem is one that most people encounter with SR which is when the bloody thing doesn't translate what you said. Either because of an accent or because you're saying something unique or difficult to parse. I tried asking directions to a Mexican place in OC and the results were: Q Cortes, cute protcullis, cute Portos, Q Portales. Can you figure out what I was trying to say? That is the inherent difficulty of the "last mile" problems that SR has and I haven't read or heard anything about anyone solving this anytime soon. SR tech will always be just "good enough" where they can show it off at a meeting/conference but never good enough to be like Star Trek (which unfortunately has set a incredibly huge bar for people's expectations).

Even though the Nokia video is less ambitious they seem to have decided to not include any talking in their future tech videos which seems like a smart idea to me.
That's probably some of it. I could be wrong but I think the ratios have gone up more than that. Anyway, I don't think the "techies don't click ads" effect is really as strong as a lot of people assume.

My guess is that (a) Google has optimized the ads for more clicks (b) advertisers have gotten beter at attracting clicks & (c) People are more aware of when to click on ads. If you're looking for a babysitter, you are more likely to have one booked ten minutes from now if you click an ad than an organic result. People have, consciously or unconsciously become aware of that and they click the ads when they want that kind of content.
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Apple can test new phones and new phone prototypes pretty easily. Hardware can be hidden in new cases, software can just not be shown to other people.

Google tested self-driving cars for quite a while; it was only when the NYTimes was about to write a story about it anyway that they publicly released information.

I would assume these glasses are going to be pretty difficult to hide from the general public when the team is out testing them. If I were them I'd rather release information they want to the public instead of a random blogger getting a photo and kicking up a firestorm of interest.
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Man, what a debbie downer. This article coming from a guy who tweeted, "It's April 1st. THE SINGLE LEAST FUNNY DAY ON THE INTERNET."

Maybe it's just because I've seen the actual effort and the basic research being done by those tinkerers at Google, that it seems real to me. I know a phd student who has spent the past 1.5 years without his professor because he was away at Google working on this (Babak).

This writer just seems like he is stirring the pot though. Unless he has supreme insight into Google's go-to-market plans, or even basic research for that matter, I don't get why he feels entitled to shoot down another person's vision. While others daydream, semi-journo's abound whose only existence is pointless contrariety.
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On the other hand, the latest mantra of the startup world is to build MVPs and iterate quickly.

What is wrong with getting the conversation started? Is it wrong to write science fiction novels, for example? I for one enjoy reading science fiction.

The one thing that bothers me about the video is that it seems rather unoriginal. The thing you'll do with these glasses is check in at your coffee dealer?
I guess it might have been better to not use the pay-per-brush model and just offer a single upgrade price to get everything. Still, you get to try it for free.
Not strange, just depressing that employees are just fungible resources who don't really require a clear explanation for the current situation; and how this layoff is any different to the previous 5 rounds in the last 4 years.

Surely the key thing about these types of emails is to rebuild trust/solidarity in retained employees or bolster confidence that this isn't just another numbers and spreadsheet game, and that this time they have a clear vision, a strategy and a viable tactical plan on how to deliver that.
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Perhaps not, the Raspberry Pi has an old cpu on which armhf distros (like ubuntu) don't work.

I think this is about armhf primary support in fedora.
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Exactly. The startup method of MVPs is not universally true for all creators and visionaries. It's just more true for readers on HN because we tend to have limited resources. Compared to say, Google.
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Well our company is really interested in retention and trying to encourage users who download the app to keep the app on their phone and to open the app more regularly. I have been reading a lot about retention and there doesn't seem to be a definitive formula, what would you guys use?