skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Your assumption is that it won't hurt them in the long run."

The entire notion of "the long run" has implicit in it various "ceteris paribus" assumptions that are very frequently false.

In particular, the "long run" makes little sense in the context of rapidly changing business and technology fields, and even less sense when it comes to mercurial public opinion.

On the other hand, the one thing that consistently has a good long-run outcome is to make money now, since, "in the long run", not only can accumulated capital stick around, but it will usually even appreciate.
They said during the key note that they are lighter than many sunglasses. Many of the team were wearing them when taking orders as well. So they are trying to show off they are natural and easy to wear.

Brin also said they do a lot more than share and view video feeds, but it is tough to show. I imagine they at least replace your mobile phone and headset, at the minimum. Consumers gave up cameras for their new smarter phones, and this can be positioned as just an even smarter phone doing more.
This is actually more likely in a big company. Money means little to big companies; unless they screw up in a very serious way, the money available for individual trinkets like desk chairs is almost unlimited. In a small company, an extra Aeron can put you in the red.

Also, if money belongs to a faceless entity and does not directly effect the individuals that hold the purse strings, people tend to be much more loose with the cash. This is a big reason why B2B is almost always a much better course than B2C. In a small company, there's still a founder who considers overall income vital to his sustenance, and as such is much stingier than a big corp.
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Get an ASUS transformer. They have a perfect track record with OS updates so far.
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I think there is a great message here. Most entrepreneurs I speak to believe that they must quit and start a company as soon as possible (early thirties?) or else they will never be able to start one.

I think this is a fallacy. My dad became an entrepreneur in his early forties and many other much later. It is not really a matter of age anymore in modern societies. It is about how sharp you keep yourself as you age.

Probably if you are a startup kind of person (as opposed to sustaining a company kind of person), you would be starting companies even in your nineties. It is never too late. It is just how old you feel.
This was on HN a month or so ago, and has a lot more detail about many of the same points:

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/profitable-ecommerce-ebook/

One of the points raised: you're going to get interested in whatever the niche is, if you plan on competing effectively. So choose wisely because you'll be immersed in it.
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I get that they were going for excitement but for someone who wasn't watching it live I can't help like feeling: what a waste of bright minds. And I do think this comes down to the demo.

As others have mentioned there must be better uses but to me it seems like sensationalism that boils down to this if you weren't there: I can livestream something from (essentially) a helmet cam to a platform that not many people actually use.

I know I'm being cynical but I struggle to come up to a practical use where the technology does not already exist (thinking surgery, military, etc.) so my only assumption is they can compete on price or I'm just missing something and getting old.
I work in the Auto industry, and yep, the amount of code in a typical car is enormous.

Just do a simple, back of a envelope style calculation. A typical car has about 25 electronic modules, ranging from simple seat beat controllers and complex controllers like engine management units and instrument clusters. Assuming that each modules have about 250K line of code, that would take it up to 6.25M line of code. That goes up if we start to consider high end cars like BMWs and Mercs.

Let's not forget about the development infrastructure around the code development, that is another story..
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Although I'm all for energy independence and the benefits of cheap energy I'm hesitant to think fracking's long term affects are worth it. This documentary does a decent job of depicting some bi-products of fracking.

http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/
That is because you were just seeing the output of Google Glass's camera, not seeing what gets shown on the Glass's display. It may already be showing the Maps overlay for all you know.
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250k is more than the entire department cost.

If data entry was that expensive then they'd have outsourced it to Poland pretty quickly. Or have invested in one of the many document scanning and OCR companies.

I've worked in The Netherlands for 6 years now (5 as consultant in this area), and am pretty sure that this story is bullshit. I've seen nothing like it.
Not very surprising laptops are more reliable than desktops. Desktops use more power, run at faster frequencies, tend to heat more than laptops, and are not built for duration. The point of desktop being that you can replace the parts easily when one fails or when you need an upgrade.
So you are only safe, as the speed of HDD writing sequentially to the disk (it could be even directly to the volume, not even running from fs)?
When I got my transformer it was competing directly against the ipad. Flash, a video app I trusted to play everything, and (being honest, and going against my normal tendencies) that beautiful copper look are reasons I would have paid an ipad price for it, and it was actually substantially cheaper.
This really sounds like the kind of thing that is perfectly doable outside the SQLite 3 core.
A great bike if you always wear shorts, don't ride in the rain, never need to transport anything but yourself, and you don't get thirsty while riding.

(What's amazing about the engineering? A low-end internally-geared hub? Internal cable-routing? Internally geared hubs have been around for more than 100 years. Time trial bikes have used internal cable routing for ages.)
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Exactly, there is always the exception to the rule but if you want your kids to stick to a schedule (which is a good thing to teach them as youngsters) you'd better have a good schedule yourself and guard it like a drill sergeant. I for one make sure my kids (2yo and 4yo) are in bed at 8pm each weekday and have to wake them up at 7am each morning and it works beautifully. Maybe they are a little grumpy when they get up but after a nice warm cup of milk and their morning sandwich they are as happy as can be and ready to run off to school.

It's indeed just routine, routine, routine, ...
Ask HN:  Any hackers from Amsterdam wanna meet up for a beer?
Will be visiting Amsterdam from San Francisco in August. Wondering if any local hackers would like to meet up for a beer.
New Zealand is probably one of the most unlikely nations to harbour WMDs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand%27s_nuclear-free_zo...)
While I agree with you (and singingfish, it's high time to switch to a sane unit system :) ), there was a long discussion some time ago on HN with many people defending MPG. I found it surprising, but it would seem that some people can (or believe they can) reason in hyperbolic scales without making mistakes.

Can't find the recent discussion, but an even older one is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779744
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I'm still waiting for the kind of interfaces used in Ironman 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KPhqy7ZwHU
I am still looking for a Perl IDE which offers autocomplete - or at least the option to jump to where the currently selected method is defined. Something like the Groovy/Grails-support in IntelliJ - but of course, Groovy is somewhat easier to autocomplete because of the underlying Java class system.
> Human grandmasters don’t work that way. They do not necessarily “see” the game several moves out. Indeed, they can’t — as Kasparov points out, chess is so complex that “a player looking eight moves ahead [faces] as many possible games as there are stars in the galaxy.”... “As for how many moves ahead a grandmaster sees,” as Kasparov concludes, the real answer is: “Just one, the best one.”
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> The report is written by Leonardo Maugeri, a top oil company executive

This is the point where your skeptical Spidey senses should start to tingle.
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This is really nice, it's very similiar to http://csshat.com/ though?
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Their engineering team produced a much smaller version and their competitors had products very similar to the mini. So there was a very good reason to release the superior product -- why hold back?

What was great about the mini -> nano transition is that they did actually kill the mini. Too many companies would have hedged their bets and kept it around, which I think would have been a mistake.
More like a police force looking to impress the FBI bent over backwards. What a bunch of provincial clowns. I'm sad to be a New Zealander when stuff like this happens (see the police raids on so called 'terrorists' and the recent court shambles for more of the same).
Well, they are streaming what they are looking at...
Aye I know, but back then there weren't that many other providers. I wasn't too interested in who my provider was and I was too young to remember the yahoo days, it was my first email account and I used it solely for MSN (and a game I loved) for years. I wonder how many of us there are inflating those numbers?
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Anyone else also get user-agent related errors on that site with Chrome? For those that did, anyone know why it's happening?
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It could be due to the retina display. iPhone4 has double the resolution of 3GS. Drawing 960x640 pixels vs 480x320 in canvas is going to have some noticeable impact.
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Nice article, even better comments. But am I the only one who thinks explaining stuff by "it's because your brain tells you that..." doesn't really solve anything, simply relocates the mystery?
IOS App's mission is to provide secure communications that Leave NoTrace.
Git simpler? I really don't see how. SVN is focused on having one branch, canonical copy on the server, and you have two big buttons to pull down the newest updates to your copy and also to put your own updates into the master.
Please don't confuse me with facts, I already have an opinion!

(I assume the OP refers to the Iraq war which was justified with WMD that never were found)
I think you’re misunderstanding me, because I mostly agree with you.

> There's nothing magic or even very special about the methods and models you are talking about outside their domain of use.

Learning about how cones & brains interpret light into the colors we perceive is definitely “special” compared to models designed around some particular physical medium like ink or dye or CRT displays, and the domain of use is “any time you want humans to look at colors”.

> [RGB/CMYK] is not more keyed to human physiology, in fact I'd argue that it is less intuitive and useful.

Sure. Which is why what I advocate teaching is the physiology and models aimed at approximating it (something with dimensions like the Munsell system or CIECAM02, etc.) ... which is absolutely more “intuitive” than RGB or CMYK or some paint mixing model, in the sense that it tracks perceived color attributes directly.
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Ask HN: Is there a name for the concept of "value changes upon read"?
I'm trying to think of a name to use to describe a value which will reliably change upon being read. Not the nature of the change, but naming this concept of change-upon-read.

For example, I have this, complete with syntax error:
class Alternator{ bool value; implicit cast(bool) { get { return value = !value; } } }

I know that this phenomenon exists in quantum physics - that the state of a particle will change due to the act of reading the particle's state - but I don't know if there is a term for it, though if there is it would be ideal.

I figure naming it is important, because otherwise i'm left with mystery object with dodgy tacit behaviour, which is not cool for the uninitiated.
>We're still waiting on the proper innovation here.

I disagree. I think there's lots of interesting and cool tech in HTPCs and HTPCs in tiny TV boxes. I just think it's hard to supplant the cable company's box that contains crappy DVR when it is required to watch television anyway. Most people don't want to go through any more layers than they have to.

As far as I know, "innovation" to break that chokehold would result in massive legal battles with uncertain outcomes. One way around it would be to put a Blu-ray drive in Boxee et al and slip the boxes in as Blu-ray players, but then you still can't decode cable signals and use DVR features for TV. Even if the set-top boxes can somehow get approval to decode Blu-ray media, there is no way the media companies would let you e.g. rip your movies onto the box, making them effectively expensive Blu-ray players with worthless, empty hard drives.
I was talking to a friend of mine a bit ago; I was saying that I wanted some sort of wearable computer rig to do facial recognition for me; I thought that was one of the things holding me back as a bizdev guy. I'm bad with both faces and names.

My friend told me that he could remember faces well, but that more often than not it contributed to awkwardness when he could remember the other person's name, but the other person couldn't remember his.
Yes, it needs the legal privilege to decode the cable stream. This is likely not legal under the DMCA; I would guess it constitutes the distribution of a tool intended to circumvent "copy protection", and I would further guess users of such a device could also be held legally liable for actually using a tool to circumvent copy protection.

Besides that, I think that almost all of the set-top boxes blow away the boxes of the carriers on practically every front.
Are there any benchmarks against postgres? One of the noted features is concurrency; postgres scales more linearly than mysql when you add more cores so I'd be curious to see a comparison.
very similar, except the whole free thing.
I disagree. Asymmetry has for a long time been a staple of fashion:

http://famecherry.com/fashionista-now/fashionista-now-the-as...

Google may or may not be able to propel Glass into being a fashion icon - but if they fail I really don't think the device being asymmetrical will have anything to do with it.
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I'm guessing you aren't familiar with the current government. It's sad how weak the defense of New Zealand's position is now. Anything to grease the wheels of big money.

From this, the audio is worth listening to.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/sound/oxford-union-debate
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I'm not sure what the right name for _that_ is, but I have no doubt it'll be used to write heisenbugs...
"beautiful" is a term used by only the most self-important developers.
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Really, a downvote? I could see that if my comment were not germane, but I'm replying directly to parent with relevant info.
I took it to mean that by and large there is no support for nuclear weapons by New Zealanders.
The WakeMate product itself was good and actually worked for most people (myself included). This was a legitimate goodwill measure post, so why are most/some of you taking the opportunity to bash these people?
So you'll only bring on people with a proven track record of having multiple past exits? That severely limits your options... plus why would someone with multiple successful exits want to work with you?
This is so wrong headed I don't even know where to begin. You couldn't even begin to localize templates like this without rewriting them. Good luck modularizing the code as well. Stick with mustache[1]. There are very good reasons to not use something like walrus.js that you don't understand when you are starting your app that will become very much apparent when you are trying to finish it.

[1] I am the creator of mustache.java
Interesting social share button
"sender-based control over who can read messages, where and for how long"

So does this somehow stop me screenshotting the messages? And even if it does, can it stop me taking a photo of the message displayed on the screen with another camera?

I see people promising this every now and then - it just loses them all credibility on my mind...
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And I replied to the comment:
I’m not happy with the ‘bunch of scientists claiming crazy stuff’ bit. I’m especially unhappy about these scientists still teaching classes, or worse, leading sections of hospitals.

If they are correct, let’s research this more. If they are not, let’s have a proper refute and be done with it. If their research and methodology are ‘so flawed as not to be worthy of a proper refute’, why does anyone publish their papers and why aren’t they promptly thrown out of their respective academic organizations?

meh. I guess I should get back to Pythoneering.
Isn't that a textbook MVP?
While partly true, the secondary issue is that your editor is inferior to the current state of the art (on all platforms).

I spend most of my time at a black/white board. Once I've won the chalkboard battle, I've put it into motion with chalk, whiteboard markers, and just wrote the computer code. I recommend the latter, though that still leaves a few options open.

For now, I'll let conciseness win.
I'm running Safari on it.
Was just explaining this to a SV CEO last week.

Several things are killing Australian non-resource workers at the moment.

1. Dollar strength : used to be you could make software or movies in Australia at a decent discount to doing it in the US for roughly the same quality. Not any more. This is unikely to change anytime soon.

2. Hostile government : the current rhetoric is about 'tax the rich' and 'pay your fair share'. For now, it's mostly aimed at Mining and Banking companies, but the overall tone is very negative when it comes to creating wealth. Whatever your thoughts about this as a political strategy, it's not exactly conducive to attracting capital either domestically or internationally.

3. Extreme housing + other living costs. Just taking a family out for a modest meal can easily push a C-note when you're all done. Adding movies onto that is going to be a buck fifty. Moving cities for another job is pretty much out of the question unless you get a $100k bonus to do so.

The one good thing Australia has going for it is the health insurance side of things. A startup doesn't have to take out health insurance for it's employees - if it does, it doesn't cost the earth. Whatever risks one might take in signing up with a small company, healthcare isn't one of the issues.

Some US places like the Bay Area or Manhattan might have high rent, but other costs are much, much lower.

But the overriding fact is : you're more likely to meet Australian tech entrepreneurs at a USA conference than somewhere in Australia. Conferences and the like are dominated by enterprise employees and talk of starting new things is relatively rare.
If you don't have dependents, start looking at ticket prices now. But choose west coast rather than east, you'll find it a better cultural (and climate) fit.
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CSSHat is a commercial self contained plugin
CSS3PS is a free plugin that relies on a web service for processing
I'm looking for an app that does the opposite, since IE is still around ;-)
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CSSHat (currently) does not support Windows.
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> (you will not find a house in Perth cheaper than $250,000 period and I'm including rundown houses built 50+ years ago)

So in other words, it's exactly like the SF bay area except without the tech scene?
Yeah, I'd pay fifteen hundred for a reasonably small and hi-res monocular display, and wait a year, but they'd have to have a prescription insert that I could send to my optometrist or something; I don't want to have to duct tape something to my existing glasses; I want something that fits well.

The other thing is that I badly want a display. I think wearing a camera all the time is kinda creepy. Most likely I would put duct tape (or something else that made it abundantly clear I wasn't recording) over the recording bit unless I was in a very clearly public situation.
Stupid downvote. I write a fact and someone prefers fallacies
Very weird demo. Felt like the boss pet toy that he wanted to show the world. Interrupting others in a improvised way to show people jumping out of a plane made me feel like the complete opposite of steve job's classy and user-oriented demos...
Definitely wouldn't like to work at google on other projects.
For an interesting visual way to map common chord progressions, also see http://chordmaps.com/mapC.htm for in the key of C. Steve also made a generic one: http://chordmaps.com/genmap.htm.

I have this as a reference on the piano, and it is nice to experiment with several routes to return to the root chord (nicely positioned at the bottom of the page).
my iPhone4 gets ~60fps in Safari, using iOS 5.1.1 (latest).
I was not surprised due to this study that I read recently where You see similar nonlinearities
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2009/09/physical-attractiveness...
I think some big money needs to go into subvocal recognition (if it isn't being heavily invested in already). Devices like these will be a lot more attractive if they can be used without speaking out aloud.
There is an effect, at least from my perspective, regarding size of cities. It really struck me during a vacation in Sydney. From a certain size on big, read huge, cities tend to break down to almost a cluster of "village communities". within these, you start to know each other. compared to munich for example, there were much more smaller stores and coffee shops right in the center of sydney then in some quarters of munich or any other random german city I know.

In between small and huge you get this ackward feeling anonoumity which stresses you, you get shopping malls out of town, something impossible in Manhatten for example since driving hours to do grocery shopping is just inconvinient. And all that is, I think, not natural to us humans. where this limit between big but not big enough lies, i don't know, maybe it depends on culture... but that's something I tend to see all the time i spend time real big cities. But maybe it's just me.
Yes OneNote fails on synchronization. Don't know how it works in the new web offerings by Microsoft.
I noticed that csshat isn't very usable. It generates a lot of code that is hard to edit and further customize.. anyone notice anything different for css3ps?
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