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Your argument is that because Dr. Mann is an academic he wouldn't sue Google? On the contrary for someone who has put as much of his life into augmented reality, to see Google Glass hit the press where essentially this giant $250B company is going to change the world with his ideas? Especially where he is the sole inventor and assignee?

I don't know about you but that movie has played out so many times as to be cliche. Generally the professor's college is the one doing the suing as they get assignment rights to research but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

I'll be the first to admit I'm awfully cynical about patents these days, and I sure as hell know that if some patent litigator saw Mann's patent he would ask Dr. Mann if he was being compensated by Google. If not that same litigator would probably have a moment of giddyness as he offers to get him that compensation. Could be a big payday, and money is a powerful motivator.

I'll take it all back if Mann says that Google has already licensed the patent. Otherwise my bet is on the legal sharks.
Nokia was stagnating before Elop, not sinking.
Ok, you have me confused. I half want to raise the BS flag...

Could you explain something here? How can a block cipher that has 128 bits of output be attacked 8 bits at a time (where 1 bit change in the input will change on average 64 bits of the output in a non-predictable manner)? Sure, you can try every 8 bit permutation, but without knowing the form of the original text how can you know if you have a valid character? And how is that different from extracting "raw data" out of pure randomness (where the fallacy is obvious, you're extracting data that was never there)?

I'm genuinely interested, so if an email will do it, could you please follow up: ircmaxell [at] php [dot] net...

Thanks!
My thoughts exactly, though my sentiment is that Steve Mann deserves some thought from Glass engineers.

I've been following his work for some years (decades) now, and while he is an "interesting" person, he has made many leaps in both design and tech involved, as well as testing.
Oh you bunch of drama lama's - I deleted it though I'll repeat his email address:

CEO's email address jim.skinner@us.mcd.com

But seriously his home address along with the other mcdonals executives are a 5 year olds googling efforts away. I reveled nothing new that was not liberly plastered all over the internet.

Maybe if they handled complaints better then people would not have to write to them directly and or sue them directly, food for thought.
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That sounds like a fairly standard security overreaction to cameras, so yes?
Regardless of whether MacDonald's is the salvation of the human race or the reincarnation of Nazi-ism... I think it's pretty obvious that this wasn't some plot from corporate to beat up guys weiring eyeglasses that are medically integrated with their body.

It's the unordered work of some violent thugs, though their motive remains to be seen (or even if they're actual employees or something else).
Three other ideas:

What about French laws related to health (are they like NYC and trying to enforce health policy through food ingredient restrictions?) Could that be something they would not want getting out by accident?

What about French labor or immigration law? Could there be some violation that they didn't want documentary evidence of?

McDonald's as a corporation protects the intellectual property of their operations with great effort (but usually in the court of law--as when a manager might try to start their own burger place using the official playbook). Not sure what competitive advantage he could get from a few minutes in the store, though.

But all of these really hinge on the employees thinking that the wearer a) wasn't a government official or inspector (confrontation would just bring more heat and/or b) that the wearer was of lower or weaker status. Mall cop enforcing a poorly understood "no pictures of the mall" policy over-zealously seems like the most likely case--maybe rooted in anti-terrorism paranoia.

(Or else maybe the guy made the mistake of ordering a Royale with Cheese and these employees were not Tarantino fans...)
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I deleted it. happy now?
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Why are we discussing this on HN?

If you were assaulted, file a police report. If your private property was damaged, hire a lawyer or file a small claims lawsuit.
It's not preventing him from expressing his views. It's preventing him from using specific sequences of words, images, and/or music that have been used by other people before. He can still express the thoughts behind those in his own words if he wishes to do so.

If I want, I can write my own novel about cloning dinosaurs. I cannot simply reprint Jurassic Park without permission.
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Precisely. You could also put a kilo of cocaine into a cane or walker. Yet, assaulting every older/disabled person using such would be downright criminal.
1280x1024? Do you have any data for that? 1366x768 would strike me as the much more likely resolution. The "normal" users I know are split into two groups - those with newish cheap 15" laptops, which are all 1366x768, or those with ancient desktops at 1024x768, or worse, 800x600 because they stumbled on the resolution setting and used it as a way to make things bigger.
> What I don't understand why clearly things have been manually blacked out (or whited out in this case). Why not show their face?

Perhaps because it is Europe?

I recall reading news articles a few months ago about a case in Europe where a man robbed a bank, and the police had surveillance photos of his face and wanted them shown on the news on TV, and the TV station blurred the photos because their interpretation of privacy laws was that since the suspect was merely accused, not convicted, it would violate his privacy to show his face.
So far as I am aware, turning illicit money into legitimate money at 30 cents on the dollar would be an excellent deal.

There are stories of people in the drug trade in Mexico having rooms in their houses full of cash that they cannot otherwise dispose of.
But this McDonald's is located at 140, Avenue Champs Élysées! It is arguably the one at the most prestigious location in the whole France. This is just one block away from the Arc de Triomphe, on Paris's most famous avenue. I have eaten there myself: http://goo.gl/maps/ofMu

I highly doubt it is a front for a shady business. It would be like claiming the Apple store next to Central Park, New York City, is a front...
Yahoo has some good niche products that are doing relatively well compared to the rest of the company (fantasy sports is one, Flickr is another). To survive they probably need to do more of those and figure out how to specialize and monetize the products that aren't stagnating.
Folks losing their jobs don't hire the CEOs. :/
If you accept that you will be switching at some point in the future, the sooner you start migrating to an open optionlike LibreOffice, the better. It feels good to know that nobody is going to pull the rug from under your feet.

(that said, I don't love LibreOffice and I don't know of any truly solid presentation solutions that are open, cheap, multiplatform and reasonably future-proof. I'm a coder so I've ended up in HTML5 + Sublime Text for my slides, but tooling for this option is rather limited)
As a student of compilers myself, it's my understanding that producing bytecode is as easy as--if not vastly easier than--producing code in another language, and that this is particularly true when the target language is high-level. The only exception to this I can envision is when the source language maps easily and completely to every single target language, in which case the source language must be the least common denominator, and the compiler may be a glorified awk script.

Significantly, a major feature of the JVM and CLR bytecodes is that targeting them makes it extremely easy to permit interoperation with other code native to the same VM. I'm not sure generating source would be any improvement on this whatsoever. I also question the value of being able to debug generated code; assuming that HaXe is indeed more than a glorified awk script, the process might be compared to using an assembly debugger on C++-generated code. Not entirely useless, certainly, but neither is it precisely desirable.
I saw the video. It seems a very silly thing to do -- ever since I first saw that video I've been trying to understand Crockford's angle, and I just cannot. However, feronull seems in favour of it, so I'd like to know why.

Forking a project isn't a healthy thing to do, unless there's something seriously wrong with the existing community (e.g. XFree86). As far as I can tell:

* The nodejs community is healthy and vibrant.

* There are no systemic problems with contribution.

* Isaac Schultner has his head on straight, has reasonable priorities, and is a pleasant character.

* Much, if not most, of node's development is happening outside Joyent anyway.

* Nothing is stopping Yahoo from contributing to the existing project.

Even if all of the above were false, why does Crockford think the remnants of Yahoo's engineering can do better? Joyent is filled with Sun's top talent, and the engineering division is run by an enlightened alpha engineer.

I cannot help but think this is a case of sour grapes by Crockford, because there just doesn't seem to be a good reason for his stance.

Edit: as an aside, his idea of rewriting everything in node is a bit ridiculous too. I've been a part of several projects to rewrite code, for smaller things than all of Yahoo's online assets, and it sure took longer than one year to do a good job even with excellent engineers. This is a long-term project, not something you do to fix the immediate bleeding. This, and forking node, are very strange things to focus on right now given Yahoo's difficulties.
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Absolutely, the guy is a frickin' genius!

All I know is we have three things:

1) A patent for the 'eyetrap' issued in 2003 with another 8 years or so to run.

2) A huge company with > $100B in the bank who has made a big publicity play betting on their technology that, on the surface clearly infringes.

3) No statements either from either party that a license is in place. In fact the Google Glass page should say "this device is covered by patents ..." but it doesn't.

If in fact no license exists, I see a table in the square with between 100M$ and a 1B$ sitting on it with nobody watching. I would not be surprised in the least that someone decided to try and take it off the table.

Time will tell.
Please can you direct me to an open source HTML5 (or not) alternative to Flash for video that supports advertisements and DRM? Flash can't (and will not) die until such a thing exists. It isn't time for flash to die until there's something to replace it.
Not good is it, quick google yeilds this site:

http://www.contact-the-ceo.com/mcdonalds.html

Which highlights how he can be contacted though has no email address, but that is: jim.skinner@us.mcd.com
You had me until "somewhat write-only." Sounds like you are poisoning your code-base with square functional pegs in round C++ holes...
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I'll take the other side of that bet. Yahoo has nothing Google needs, and won't within 3 years, even with Mayer reforming it.

There's also a cost to acquisition beyond just the monetary - organizational and cultural namely. Not worth it for Google.
All you need to do is look at how the tech press/community is ALREADY talking about this. See the quote from Andreessen[1] that I already talked about or, alternatively, another TechCrunch article that just got published:

What a time for Marissa Mayer to take control at Yahoo. She'll need all the smarts she can lay her hands on to revive an ailing Yahoo.[2]

It's already being set up so that the expectation is "she'll probably fail, because ANYONE will fail" but if she succeeds she's a miracle worker or "a Steve Jobs character".

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252945

[2]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/yahoos-neglected-global-lab...
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She should start with a new logo.
If there were to be a legal dispute, surely actual patents and research papers would be the documentation you crave, and not an after-the-fact, sole author web page on a very loosely related topic?
I was discussing the same topic with my coworkers when we heard the news. Yahoo's YUI could be the company's starting point at developing strong products and boosting Yahoo's relevance as a brand. It's a great library.
Native apps, maybe, since you'd probably have to include both versions in your download. But surely its a bandwidth saving for web apps? You just let the browser download the right size image. Now your low res users get low res icons, while high res users get high res icons. Less bandwidth than just sending everyone the high res icons, or both sets.
My pinky hurts after using this for sublime for a few minutes, and I'm getting emacs flashbacks!
Zero-mod-p was an IPSEC fault, as was subgroup negotiation (but you mentioned NIST groups earlier).

Lots of people have done their own implementations of DH (DH is trivial to implement; it's just a couple lines of Ruby); how many of them do you think caught these flaws?

I have no idea what the utility of the public key is in the system you just described. Public key crypto adds susceptibility to attack; it doesn't ever really spare you from it. Here, you're vulnerable both to attacks on your HMAC verification and to implementation flaws in your more number-theoretic (and way more dangerous) public key code.
I am sad as if someone from my own family had died.

Since I first read it 10 years ago, I kept calling the 7 habits my "bible" (I am not religious). Every sentence of the book teaches you something new. Each time you read the book, you learn something you.

This book had such a big impact on my personality that I can't recommend it enough.

I even developed a Time Management tool based on his habit 3 First Things First: http://weekplan.net

Stephen, I wish I had attended one of your seminars. I regret I haven't.
I don't see how you are drawing this cynical conclusion. I didn't read much self-promotion at all in the article. It doesn't even explain what the device corrects with his vision. The focus of this story was his experience. I know I'd sure as hell want to tell the world about such abusive behavior if I didn't get a response from the police, embassy, or McDonalds. You could start a fight, trying to snatch somebody's glasses off like the first perpetrator did.
Well, my experience is in mathematica. Which has operations research functions built right in. Point being, there are systems where this is already a solve problem, where you can get your answer in a minute or two.

So you'd simply do Minimize[function, {variables/constraints}] and then get on with your day.
From http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/directors.cfm. Looks like they don't have many slouches. Heavy on financial services and broadcast. Perhaps light on internet entrepreneurs. Largely independent. A couple big shareholders.

Alfred Amoroso - Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.

John Hayes - Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, American Express Company

Sue James - Retired Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

David Kenny - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Weather Channel Companies

Peter Liguori - Former Chief Operating Officer, Discovery Communications, Inc. Former Chairman and President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company

Daniel Loeb - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Third Point LLC

Thomas McInerney - Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, IAC/InterActiveCorp

Brad Smith - President and Chief Executive Officer, Intuit Inc.

Maynard Webb - Founder, Webb Investment Network, Chairman of the Board, LiveOps, Inc.

Harry Wilson - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MAEVA Group, LLC

Michael Wolf - Chief Executive Officer and President, Activate Strategy, Inc.
It would be better for the conversation if you edit to clarify your point rather than delete...
I wish you the best of luck!
It will (eventually) if it's not included in browsers/OS by default. It'll essentially be relegated to RealPlayer's market if that's its only differentiating factor, and advertisers won't put out content for a plugin that can't reach audiences.

It'll be a long time yet though, that's certainly true.
If I sound smart about any of this stuff, alarm bells should be going off in your head, because in terms of testing and breaking crypto, I am a piker.

I think you get my point now. Maybe rethink the crypto stuff in your pledge.
A mix of google docs and libre office sounds appropriate. They can interopt on a lot of data formats, so you can keep your powerpoints available anywhere via google docs (and do rapid fire editing with the web interface) and download and edit them locally. Google drive streamlines that all even more, and it would take a lot of tables to fill up the free gigabytes Google gives.
I disagreed with nearly everything I ever heard Marissa say related to design, especially her over reliance on A/B testing to inform design. I think she is one of the main reasons Google products tend to feel like they are designed by engineers.
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You're right. Brainfart.
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>and it also will be legal to shoot the bad guys (with weapons, not video) if they did some bad thing AND you film it.

You can already do this in nearly any jurisdiction in the US as long as you're justified in using deadly force. It might make it easier to prove you were justified, but it wouldn't be anything new.

If the suggestion is that you'd need video to prove you were justified, that's a huge can of worms. You'd effectively be forcing people to choose between filming 24x7 and dealing with the potential privacy and self-incrimination issues there or being stripped of their right to self-defense.
I don't see how a DIY drone is any different from using an off the shelf RC plane and a wireless camera. The car one though, I have serious concerns about. There's an urban legend about cell phone viruses infecting cars via bluetooth, and while I don't know of any real cases of remote car hacking, it's not a happy thought.

One would hope that self-driving cars will have their driving system disconnected from any networks, but I don't know if that's even practical.
Immersion is the right path. But wouldn't be better to spend each of the next 12 years in a different country (feasible if you're a top programmer) rather than swapping every month?

Again, if you're a prodigy it can work.

Or is this all a parallel to learning technical languages?
To put it into better perspective, put the resolutions into google:

(1920 * 1080) / (2880 * 1800) = 0.4

Your 1080p 15" display contains just 40% of the pixels of a single Retina 15" display. They even showed this in the demo. They edited a 1080p video in Final Cut at full resolution and there was plenty of room left for UI elements.

Apple is definitely the first to put a display of this density into a consumer product, or maybe any product.
Open source and DRM are fundamentally incompatible—if neutering the DRM is a mere recompile away, what good is it to the sorts of organizations that require DRM?
I'm not cut out to be a misfit. And that's okay.
Is Simple what we really need?
Plus if you're not automatically controlling portions, a bottle of liquor can have a very wide range of plausible drinks-sold-per-bottle. Probably by a factor of two or so.
I haven't used office 2013 yet, but the idea that Office's day-to-day features haven't improved much since '97 is really strange to me. Office 2007, for instance brought a huge [1] number of features, which I use all the time. Better style settings, much better equation editor, automatic referencing and massive, massive usability improvements (especially Excel 2007) are all things that I use in almost every single document I create.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_2007#New_features
Isn't it more plausible that this is a key McDonald's location that has some kind of "experimental" menu that they use to test out new product ideas? so taking pictures of the layout or menu could potentially leak trade secrets.

The mafia idea seems quite far fetched, if only because you'd think McDonald's would do a fair bit of work to ensure none of their franchisees are using their brand as a front for organized crime.
Isn't it fun building web apps nowadays?

The internet is unfortunately not kind to beginners. My sympathies.

I'd love to see this in action, though.
And of cause that Scotland likes to emphasize its independence, as probably best illustrated by Scotland's current push to leave the United Kingdom.
True, but the crux of the matter is that no doctor would prescribe such a device.
Grubwithus.com looks enticing, but when I looked for more information on how it works, I'm encouraged to sign up. This is a disappointing trend; I am interested to learn more, but to do so I must commit -- so unfortunately I'm a bounce.

Edit: Reading through more of these comments, I'm not alone.
Shut this link down asap pls. On Safari, it completely takes over my browser (I was on a different tab when the page loaded and took over). Had to restart in order to get my browser back.

This is VERY annoying.
No, the problem is not to use a namespace. The problem is I want to organize related functions as a group. Namespace is just one way to do it. There are other ways. Package, class, namespace, or module serve the same function in term of organizing functions.

What are the bunch of baggage and implication to use class as a way to organize functions?

I don't see the difference in usage you mentioned with Python module. Putting a bunch of "top-level" methods in a module is the same as putting a bunch of static methods in a class.
I don't really get much out of friendships. There, I said it. The desire, let alone the need, to initiate and maintain such social rituals is simply not there. The whole concept of connecting for connectedness sake without a tangible goal to go after has always been foreign to me. Thankfully, growing older makes it easier to hide one's lack of social bonds, needs and desires.
There's more to flash than video. The company I work for uses flash extensively for interactive multi-touch kiosks. Like those big maps in shopping malls.

As a Rails developer I was very opinionated when I came here. But seeing the incredible performance they get using flash while running stunningly complex animations and interactions, I quickly changed my mind. While I still think there's no place for flash as a replacement for websites it's still incredibly powerful for rich interactive multimedia - especially off the web.
What does strike me as odd is that it seems pretty likely that a McDonald's at tourist central would have to have a lot of pictures taken of it and in it and around it. It seems like that wouldn't even come close to being unusual.

Granted, not usually by someone with the camera literally attached to his head.
My mistake, I should have said closed source.
Interesting article, but ye gods that font is nasty. I had to cut + paste it into gedit to be able to read it.
Won't there always be a dominant plugin? If it's not Flash, isn't there some other optional-yet-ubiquitous installable that gives certain sites an edge over the lowest common denominator of browser tech?
Their products are usable and uncluttered. I have reservations about the new unified look (too much padding in horizontal stripes one can't scroll, trying to displace browser chrome), but I've been very happy with the previous, “designed by engineers” Google aesthetic.
When you read this page you will see why promoting envato is not such a good idea: http://support.envato.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/V...

And some people complain about apple's 30%