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I'd like to get a feeling of the IT community's reaction to AppSQL's approach, as the SQLRad.com interpreter technology is being built as we speak.

The next step is launching the free AppSQL Designer tool after which will come the SQLRad.com PaaS itself. AppSQL 4.0 will include native SQL support for CSS and HTML5.
Being a private person i just shudder when hearing concepts about face recognition or auto tweets in this context.

^ "Have an alternate reality game with digital objects people can place/write on. Only Glass users can see the teddy bear in the corner, and only google glass users can see the giant graffiti wall where people sign their name."

I am sorry since for some this will not be considered as being a constructive contribution to the discussion, but there is an Anime out there about exactly(!) that.
It's called Dennou Coil. Very good series.
[Sorry, i just had to mention it! Forgive me.]
Thanks for your time and input Robin, greatly appreciated.

Re: Call to action, I've made a minor tweak so the slide you mentioned is now front and centre. It can be improved, and will be - super valuable suggestion.

We can definitely do something differently around your "read 1000 words a day" thoughts. The emails are generally 3-4 photos and 150 words, which can be clicked through to the long article by the fraction of readers specifically interested in that location (or bored that day). That fact isn't clear from the site, and may be putting people off.

Your snobbery point is well made. I don't feel we're targeting people who want to go everywhere - more people who are entertained by varied travel stories, even if the story merely confirms that they never want to do that themselves.

Lastly - if we end up changing the whole business model from daily to weekly, I'm voting for Daily engagement is something I give to my wife, not a travel blog. to be the new company tagline. Thanks again.
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These are wearable computers, not glasses with visual powers that are not yet feasible to implement, period (I'm guessing there would be a few technical issues with head-mounted-x-ray machines).
iPhoto is an interesting one: the layout is done programatically, but the xibs are used to load the images. For example, the brush panel is all animated and arranged in code, but xibs are used to hold the brush PNG images since it reduces the code burden (of manually creating the UIImageViews, etc etc).
For those who can't imagine what the glass make an impact on our life, I recommend to watch Dennō Coil; my favorite anime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Coil
Title of that article should have been "Generate product sale in any social wesite or app" because everything on that article can be used in any site that involves liking and posting.
I totally agree with your point here
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Is it possible to stream from the glasses?

If so then a criminal would be deincentivised to murder a witness wearing the glasses - as everything they have seen is already online.

Of course it would take a few years of people getting shot by criminals who don't understand the technology before we get to that stage...
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Re-watching the promo video, I'm surprised at how basic it seems. For example, when the user had picked up the book about ukeleles, I was expecting a bunch of comparable price listings to pop-up, or at least the book's ISBD info.

And face recognition is an obvious use, but I think people would've freaked out if the promo showed how you could look at people and ascertain their identity.
As a result, you're now asked if you want the app you installed to be able to access your address book. Do you somehow feel that exe's on windows are more transparent?
I agree completely, have lots of experience in complex hosting.

With all software having it's limits (assuming hw is relative) has a starting and ending point of when you need to start tweaking it, and in what direction. I was hoping to read more about that.
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I think everyone who signs the petition knows that the Obama administration won't fire her like this.

This is mostly to send a message to her and other prosecutors, and to get the Obama administration to examine the problem and give a response.
More often than not I'm not that upset either way between malice and stupidity.

The issue I have is, mostly and particularly on important topics, with their arguments themselves.

Because with big topics, you can excuse errors with stupidity (or malice as you will) but truly can't excuse the rhetoric and central message they try to convey.

On big topics and high profile news you would suspect the message is not the journalist's independent bias but is instead the management's or dare I say administration's, not just some slipped piece of news that hasn't gone through central editing and review.
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>What (now) 100k votes gets you is a guaranteed response from a White House spokesperson.

And it might even be customized for your exact case, rather than "form letter gun control response #27".
Lets not forget he broke the law wether you or I think that what he did was for the benefit for good of the people or not. Laws are laws and what do I tell my children it's ok to break the law if your an activist. Making a saint out of basically a criminal because he believed in Internet freedom is insane. Who did this guy think he was Robin Hood. I think healthcare should be free should I steal money and give it to those without insurance. No, I can tell you this no person in government has the right to do anything but uphold the law. If the laws aren't right that is another conversation. Thousands of people are in jail for pot and I think it should be legal, but I'm not going to kill myself to try to get the law changed that's just stupid.
I believe this will be used first in datacenters, if not already being tested.

AWS and Google seem likely candidates to test this out.
You'd need investment returns of at least 1% above inflation to pay for the cheapest hosting "forever". Is that feasible?
Ha ... I knew an intern at a research lab who I thought might be pulling this stunt. He was always goofing off and on the phone. Yet he produced a prodigious amount of code. Heh heh.
Fact: you'll care less about this stuff once you have a lot of money.
> Property value over each home (available from county assessor)

As someone looking for a home, in sometimes unfamiliar neighborhoods... this is a great idea! Zillow has something similar in their iphone app, but this would make it a lot more convenient.
>Linux on the desktop in 2013 is fairly 'popular' and if it were that simple to infiltrate popular repos with spyware it would have been done years ago.

What on earth are you talking about? Linux on the desktop is just above line noise. If hackers don't bother targeting Mac's ~10% desktop share, why would they bother targeting Linux' ~1%?
Dave Winer has discussed the issue of preserving websites for a long time. He calls this "Future Safe Archives".

http://scripting.com/stories/2007/03/29/fourIdeasForTheFutur...
http://scripting.com/stories/2007/12/10/futuresafeArchives.h...
http://scripting.com/stories/2009/10/10/onceAgainFuturesafeA...
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/01/10/nytOnFuturesafeArchi...

Even just a week or so before Aaron's death.

http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/january/makingWebArchives...

I am sure that I have read him write about this many other times, maybe going back over a decade.
I've been trying to make infinite scroll better, by including History API support: https://github.com/outdooricon/infinite-scroll-with-history
How did you come to know them? what websites to you recommend to hire thru such coders?
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Ah, I hadn't signed up for the e-mail I'm afraid so I hadn't seen the daily e-mail is just a section of the blog entry. That makes more sense and does enable the sort of filtering I was thinking of.

Best of luck, glad the input was helpful – I should get on with some real work now :)
What you just described is basically why the patent system sucks - if your idea is so obvious that other people will think of it, it's not worthy of one. Your motive for getting the patent is to block other people from doing something obvious.

Not a personal attack, just a passing comment.
By x-ray view, I figured he meant it would download the schematic of the engine and display that overlaid on what you're seeing.
The first thing I do when I go to your site is look to see if there is a city guide for a place I've been to, but none are available and I am just prompted to sign up for a newsletter, which is clearly not what I want. The daily destinations seems like a very generic travel blog. I think there is opportunity in interactive city guide, and I'd gladly pay for one if it was somehow and everyway tailored to me. Wallpaper city guides are pretty good [1], but they are kind of one dimensional.

[1] http://uk.phaidon.com/travel/
The petitions are ignored precisely because it takes so little effort to do. I'd also imagine that lots of people say 'oh, I signed that petition, I don't need to do anything else'.
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True. I'm not really suggesting the site is a bad idea, but I think people should bear in mind it's essentially just a Q&A.
Alto "mail"
Isn't 'for' supposed to reference the 'id' of an input? All these examples reference 'name'.
Interestingly in this scheme, it's not just one way as you made it sound. As soon as the petition reaches a certain threshold it warrants an official answer from the governing body stating their approach on the matter. This way both petitioners and non-petitioners have a glimpse into the decisions that might be taken or not taken on the matter, and decide what to do when election time comes.
As a contractor in the UK who works with these clauses, the key seems to be that the substitution clause has the proviso that the substitute subcontractor (or consultancy provider employee) is acceptable to all parties, so there would have to be a proposal-review process at the very least.
> got tired of having to respond to things like building the Death Star.

Their loss, really.

I'm half joking - putting more money into space research might net us interesting things like cheaper energy (solar panels with no atmosphere or clouds to obscure them) and materials (asteroid mining). A major space station would certainly help with that.
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I think you would be OK carrying a battery on your belt.

We all like to be a bit like Batman aren't we?
PDF's don't even work well on my Kindle, let alone my phone. Half of the PDF's I have for research are taller than my screen at a readable size, but inexplicably two-column. PDF is not the ultimate solution to portable documents.
If you read through Dave Winer's past writings on this subject, you will find that there is currently no good way to implement this such a plan.
I'm not sure your rhetoric would stick much here on HN.
I think this is trolling but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

The laws he may have broken are not necessarily the ones he has been charged with, this is partly why it has been called persecution overreach.

Breaking immoral laws is our moral obligation, there is no other way around it.

Would you expect anything less if I were to enact a law that made your children sexual slave ?

Would you expect anything less if someone were to take public funded research and locked it up behind huge and crazy paywall without any competition ? Huge costs for things that are in the public domain, from a copyright prospective, but that JSTOR tried to keep that as a profit center.

They are the one stealing from the public and akin to companies like the MAFIAA at that.

If you think healthcare should be socialized then go and tell your politician and fight back with the groups that share your convictions.

In my mind he broke very little laws and this is a crazy overreaction from the persecution.

Damn you may well be a troll with your trolling attitude and 11 minutes old account (mine is only a few days old).
Of course leadership always bears responsibility to some degree, but remember the MIT you think of when there is great research going on (the professors, researching students, etc.) is also generally the MIT that is supportive of hacker culture, OCW, open access to the buildings, etc.
Just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding you, you're saying that having a display in front of your eyes would distract you from other things, for example the road?

Surely in cases where this is important you can simply turn off the display? A piece of glass or plastic isn't going to interrupt anyone's vision, as we can see by everyone who wears glasses when driving.

Furthermore, I don't agree that any loss of optical clarity is "way" more dangerous than perfect vision, nor that something being displayed on the glasses need be perceptible at all.

For example, if a glasses wearing driver were to swap out their moderately rimmed glasses for fancy clear-framed glasses, their safety would be inpercievably improved. At times, it is easy to not notice dust on your glasses.

Now, there is certainly potential for far more obstruction to be had, and the case for changing focus is surely one to be considered, however the claim that it is necessarily "way safer" to not have anything present close to your eye that is not completely transparent is incorrect. As a simple counterexample, the glasses could change tint or brightness according to driving conditions, improving the vision of the driver. Drivers already do this by putting sunglasses on, these glasses could do it automatically.
The given example is more clarification than fallacy. He's against bad things and for good things? What could be clearer? :)
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Is Rails really all you're learning? From your post, it sounds like you're also learning Ruby, which is a very different language from the ones you list: the syntax and common idioms differ, of course, but in some ways the paradigm also differs. Django wouldn't be any easier, because and the things I said about Ruby apply to Python as well.

End result: in your particular case, "learning the framework" and "learning to program" amount to basically the same thing. What makes it harder this time, as opposed to the first time you learned to program, is that last time you had no preconceived notions. Now you do -that's inevitable- but only some of those notions will apply in this new way of programming. This would be just as true if you went in the other direction; you haven't learned things in the "wrong" order or anything like that. A "wrong" order probably doesn't even exist.

The good news is that you're not alone. This happens to everyone when they first hit something wildly different from the way they first learned to program. As you do more of them, it gets easier, but the first big wall is always a shock. Good luck getting over the wall.
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>PDF's don't even work well on my Kindle, let alone my phone.

Then your Kindle is not a full featured reading device. The Kindle's opted to imitate a black and white textual book (the e-paper thing), when future ebooks can are will be much more than that.
He should not only be fired, a criminal investigation needs to happen. He let random strangers work on 'critical infrastructure' using his credentials. Yes, it worked out. Yes, the consulting company had well intentions. But what if it didn't? For all we know there is a logic bomb ready to blow some electrical substation. It's about the violation of trust. Is this something a non citizen is even allowed to work on?

It would have been a great idea if he just presented himself has a consulting agency using foreign contractors, but what he ended up doing was immoral and most likely illegal.
I had a look on the first page and had no idea what I get as a customer other than an email a day about a place.

I looked further and it looks like youre monetising by hooking people up with travel guides?

Be really clear about what your value proposition is for your customer, why would they sign up now?
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Renting is the only sane choice in Vancouver right now as most Van RE is extremely overvalued. Median household income in Vancouver is ~$67K, which indicates RE prices are definitely out of whack. Calgary would not be my choice for "cheapest case", I'd place Windsor Ontario (EST) in that slot, although I wouldn't want to live there :P. For a low-cost large city Ottawa Ontario (EST) is quite attractive.

Corporate taxes are lower in Canada, but there are other mandatory payroll costs like CPP (9.9% of the first eligible $50k earned split 50/50 between employer/employee) and EI (employer pays 1.4x whatever the employee pays at 1.88% of the first eligible $50K earned).
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Yeah, I don't disagree that he probably was innocent. My point is simply that this isn't the Hacker News hacker, but the talking head hacker.
Got a nice chuckle picturing them wearing hex numbers.
Well, you can't just tick all the boxes...
VS2010 and C::B both don't seem to allow that ordering. So not a solution for me, but certainly could be other IDE's support that.
While I have not done this personally, I dont know that I see a problem with this, other than fed ex'ing his VPN token to China to allow them to log in. It definitely seems short sighted, and if he allowed them to view sensitive corporate data that is also a problem, but the task of offloading some work doesnt really seem wrong to me.
Thanks Draggner. If it's city guides you want, we can suggest everything from Lonely Planet Encounter Guides ($5-$10 each) to the newly launched WikiVoyage - and really, they're great! We have no intention with competing with them.

I agree there's an opportunity in the market for an interactive city guide - it was something we discussed, but aren't intending to focus on for now. Why?

Because we believe in email. We'd rather be called an entertaining travel blog than a generic one, of course, and your insight has revealed how we probably aren't being clear enough about our website v our emails. Thanks.

Ultimately we'd rather be known for entertaining emails than a comprehensive travel website. That's the choice we've made - it's not right or wrong, and you may see us in the interactive city guide market one day. Or someone else may seize it - and then we'd all be happier!
Why is it either-or?
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Given how many applicants MIT gets I do not think that 5-10 people would be enough to seriously upset them. Don't forget they can just get a couple more students with perfect SATs if they want. Furthermore, like the author said, it wasn't MIT as a community that went after Aaron, it was the administration.
yes indeed.No where and nobody explains magic behind frameworks.I agree that it is very difficult to learn framework.I think many develops their apps without many things without any understanding.
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What does async & await generate?
The average internal combustion engine is really pretty simple. It is no more complex to a mechanic than the innards of a "powerful" desktop PC are to most computer people.

All the glasses could do is display a layout of a known engine, they can't see inside it to highlight a problem. So, it seems like they would be more of an overall nuisance than anything else in that scenario.
How is it that every single post you make has some inaccuracy?

Right now, Obama is considering executive orders to change gun laws. If he wanted to issue an executive order about the CFAA, or instruct DOJ not to enforce it, or push Congress to do something, he sure could move the needle.

The petition is all about bringing attention to the matter.

EDIT: See? Every comment you make is so clearly wrong (no one outside HN cares, federal prosecutors have no discretion, seeing Ortiz disciplined would be a "fantasy") that it is falsified in realtime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/zoe-lofgren-aarons-...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) took to the
online forum Aaron Swartz helped found on Tuesday night to
propose legislation honoring the late Internet activist.

"I'm Rep. Zoe Lofgren & I'm introducing 'Aaron's Law' to
change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act," Lofgren wrote in
a Reddit post. Swartz, 26, committed suicide on Friday.
Why is it considered a "fallacy"?
The most notable outcome was probably the petition against internet blocks in germany [1] which was signed by more than 130 000 persons and was a crucial milestone in gathering public attention which ultimately brought the law to a fall.

[1] you know, against child porn. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz for a short summary.
And you've listed about 90% of the things I usual end up subclassing because I've hit some limitation.

Also I wasn't talking specifically about UIKit. Foundation is another great framework that I've subclassed many times.

It's not perfect but Apple puts a lot of work into documenting how to subclass their frameworks. Third-party UI frameworks like this are much less forgiving.
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I drive everyday with one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Third-Eye-Round-Helmet-Mirror/dp/B0012...

I have to stop looking forward to use it, for just a small part of a second, because of different focal distance, different angle of my eyes, limits in the brain part that focus the attention, etc.

It actually helps me avoid accidents.

I don't see how Google Glasses would be much different to that mirror. I would love to use them for GPS or other related info. Focal distance in tiny screens is either a solved problem, or one being solved by smart people right now.
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A company I worked for gave me a similar story when I asked about telecommuting...a programmer who used to work on site moved out of state (Oregon) but continued to work remotely. Then his hours got strange, and he couldn't be reached by phone except late at night. Then they noticed logins from India, and that's when they realized he had moved to India instead of Oregon.
So true! It's also true of "real" voting in "elections". They only put up with that crap because it's so easily manipulated by the media. They'll distract us with "new" policies when they have to, but nothing will ever threaten the ever-expanding stream of money that flows through lobbyists to their employees in government and back out to the lobbyists' clients.

The system won't be "fixed" using tools that exist within the system. It must be hacked, but I don't really see how.
Not only is this important in terms of accessibility (reach and cost), but also to consistently provide quality course content.

An online class won't suffer from potential variabilities in quality that may impact traditional ones. In fact, their quality can easily improve based on feedback.
Looks very nice but as per some of the other comments, there is not enough "grab" or focus for me-it seems very generic.
How about adding a forum? Countries/Places/Ideas/Wants/help required/local contacts etc. - If you take a look at Pistonheads.com (cars) - the forums make that site work and visitors returning.