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> The point is that Linux UIs are perpetually half-baked.

I think this is touching on a good point, I would much enjoy seeing one desktop environment being kept stable in terms of UI and slowly polished to perfection, instead of continuously starting from scratch and inevitably coming up with something half-baked. And this is not specific to Linux, just look at the Windows 8 mess.

Apple comes closest, at least they keep the rough lines constant, but they have the bad habit of needlessly replacing parts of the UI and losing features along the way.
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Wouldn't the simpler system be if you fail a unit twice You've got to find the money yourself to pay for that unit.

Just hook the college results system up to the load provider and let their system keep track of it that way.

This is more or less how the government funding works in Australia, but saying that the costs of higher education are a lot lower.
Google shows what it’s like to use Project Glass
I'm from Israel. Willing to pay for just an opportunity of time slice with Glass.

Have so many ideas about augmented reality that it truly feels like a set back to learn its US only.
Microsoft Brings Big Data Experts Together in Silicon Valley
Shame only in the US. I want to get these into our UK warehouse.
Because we have too many problems to solve.
Just keep reddit away from Hacker News. Reddit is a horrible place right now and there is no reason to copy it.
> If Border had been told the data was on he would have probably approached note taking in a completely different manner.

He's a freaking journalist. He should always approach note taking in the most careful, rigorous manner, regardless of whether he thinks his subject will be able to second-guess his conclusions.
This is one of the examples in the article.
> Is there any possibility of the video game industry market shifting toward C# in forseeable future?

No chance at all.

It offers nothing that C/C++ doesn't already. It has no game libraries written for it at all. It is largely unsupported on non-Windows platforms (e.g. Android, Linux, Mac, etc).

Best case scenario: The XBox 720 allows "apps" to be written in C# and sold to end-users. So C# becomes the de-facto indie game language of the XBox 720 (as in mini-games, not full AAA titles).
Or making the background as close to white and hide the ad disclaimers as possible?

The background actually becomes white at even slight vertical angles on cheap laptop LCDs; it seems to have been selected just for that purpose.
"The deadline for applications is February 27th."
I've just made some corrections to the post. I was going off memory when I originally wrote it. After re-reading the relevant passage from the book again I've corrected the number of terabytes that Google needed to transmit - it was more like 9 TB. And they transmitted the whole lot over two nights in one month, not three nights. Sorry for the confusion.

It was on page 187-188 of Steven Levy's book "In the Plex" and the two people he's quoting are Urs Hölzle and Jim Reese, who were both involved in Google's infrastructure.
My view was that the unrealism of these assertions have been established in this and previous threads. Now they've also been established in replies below. Also, when he was driving around in circles--in a tiny lot--with a clearly marked charger--he was at 0 range, consistent with someone trying to drain the battery.

There's also the matter of him being wrong about speed and cruise control and temperature settings and range. There's also the matter of Broder being wrong in his broad thesis (testing the supercharger network) since he refused to charge when he needed to.

I should have edited support for these things things in, but had to catch a plane, and now other people have already done it in this thread. But I thought true, and discussed, and re-discussed, statements would not be judged so harshly by the mob. My mistake.

We call these sorts of things lies when they're said on Fox News--but defend distortions when the NYT does them against such an important cause and such an admirable company?
Wonder if "US only" means you just have to be there for the in-person pickup. Because I am totally willing to do that ...

That said, I wonder how difficult it would be to modify Glass so it mounts on my regular glasses.

Either way, I applied. I won't be picked, but at least I tried :)
'What's the Word' is a poor trade mark in that it is very descriptive and not particularly distinctive. If the game had a really distinctive trade mark around it, the maker would be better placed to request a takedown of the other apps if they copied the name.

I'd need a side-by-side comparison to judge copyright infringement better.
Just remember the people in the past warned us about the future!
Yeah, we tried this organically growth thing but at some point, you have to go out there and interact with your potential users one on one. From my experience, the whole social networking marketing on fb, twitter, etc simply doesn't work anymore. Just because everybody with a new product will do exactly that. In the end, the users are just sunk under massive piles of branding attempts.
I am amazed at how much news this has garnered... I personally know the people involved in this project through the larger Boston Burner community, was surprised to hear that it was from one of our own.
Google Glass. Beta Testing.
Fear Mongering, Lobbying, Money, Wayne LaPierre and the NRA
NRA’s mission is not to protect Americans, but rather to increase their coffers through fear mongering, and intense lobbying, in order to protect their corporate partnerships, merchandizing revenues, and membership fees
"Explorers will each need to pre-order a Glass Explorer Edition for $1500 plus tax and attend a special pick-up experience, in person, in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles." Interesting. Now we gladly apply for the chance to pay a company $1500 plus tax for a product.
I've always hoped that the Hitchhikers (Zaphod Beeblebrox) method for initiating an interaction with computers (saying "OK [computer]") would catch on.
I'm hardly an expert in Brazilian law, but in e.g. the Scandinavian countries, the company must register itself if it is paying more than one such contractor, i.e. paperwork. I'm sure there are other compliance issues judging from how adamant virtually every U.S. employer is that their candidates have U.S. work permits.
Epic in 2013 = AOL in 1999
Google Glass: what you need to know
If you're going to move from one hosted blogging service to another, at least make sure you set up a custom domain this time, lest the new service also goes belly up with no 301 redirects.
>See, this is why we have so many problems on the web

Your problem is that browsers are a very restrictive sandbox (so you can't extend stuff yourself, you have to wait for the browser vendors to implement it) and the standards process is glacially slow. People seem to want to use the web as a platform for general purpose software. The current standards are not good enough. So inevitably people look to browser specific features because they want to make stuff that actually works now rather than waiting possibly years for features to be standardised and implemented in every browser. It seems very unrealistic to expect people to cripple their software just to stay 'standards compliant'. History seems to indicate that people will use the available tools to solve their problems. A few purists will shout from the sidelines while everybody else gets on with doing real work.

To put it another way: targeting one browser gives you a competitive advantage because that is where cutting edge and interesting features are, and that isn't going to change any time soon unless there is a big change to the standards process. Hence "Made for Chrome", "Best viewed on Chrome" and soon "Made for FirefoxOS".
Amazon used ‘neo-Nazi’ guards to control workers in German factory scandal
Memory Leaks with XMLHttpRequest Objects
I like the 'bottom' part, which clearly explains the product. I find the used (stock) images at the top distractive (too much detail to ignore, too much blur to discern, also they don't tell me much, do you really need them anyway?). Plus there's a lot of information on top of the image fader, some of which a bit harder to read.

If it's just me, please ignore this, I might not be your average visitor (although I am your audience having just started a 2-person company).
Step #2 migrate to OpenVMS ;)
WTF. Libertarianism is like some grumpy religion, people are always trying to bring it up even when it doesn't fit.

And it's so wrong about how the real world works. If a community doesn't have a school the first thing that normally happens is they form a government and elect a school board to figure how to build and fund it. Same with a fire department, even with volunteers there are a lot of expenses that need to be paid by the town. Even the sports team is normally brought to a town via the work of politicians.

What these government-haters don't understand is that government IS the community. It's how a community comes together to get things done.
You're paying $1500 to beta test a product. What's not clear is whether you get the final product when ready.
Facebook Hacked In 'Sophisticated Attack,' Company Reveals
I'm sure you could eBay it off for a lot more.
Seeking Google to at least include Canada :(
Beyond the Buzz, Where Are MOOCs Really Going?
They did not redact Steve Jobs's social security number, so it is indeed very arbitrary.
Google Cautions On HTML5 Block-Level Links Usage
Secret Lives of Wild Animals Captured by 1 Million Camera-Trap Images
It is obvious that you haven't used KDE for many years. What is funny though, is that Ubuntu did the same thing (throw GNOME, bring Unity), yet you are perfectly ok with this.
Game Closure launches free mobile HTML5 dev kit
What kind of control critical infrastructure did they target? And no, a chemical plant is no control critical infrastructure. ;)
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Looks like you could replace your frames with this.
As a rule of thumb you are right, but in the particular case of s, S I think it's OK. They are pretty darn redundant.
Same-Day Delivery Darling Shutl Takes on Amazon’s Ground Game
It's not a product yet. It's a development device and it has a lot of interest. Having to pay $1500 for it will mean that the people who apply will be serious about building things for it.

It's like applying and paying for a development kit to a games console, etc.
We Are Made in NY
and as usual "handling" means nothing.

New headline: Ruby responds to TCP stack.
Awesome. Go home ruby newbs. Your a bunch of fucking idiots
Drafting a Social Media Handbook Policy for Developers
the ' and live in the U.S. to apply'

always kills it for me :(
This was a particularly dumb thing to do, but to be fair to Amazon, it was hardly intentional or part of the company policy.

Luckily there was very little "evil" done or intended, at least compared to similar work places in Germany, and the wages involved are often higher than comparison wages.

Even though in Germany we discriminate heavily against Neonazis to an extent that would make some democracies cry, we can't really ban them from any work.

Nevertheless, Amazon is already feeling the heat, both commercially and in the public discussion.

It's a reminder that labor sub-contractors should not be chosen due to price only.
Curious - what's the point of retaining the selection after indenting?
ESR is known for harassing girls? Never heard of that but sounds like a fun story..

I actually remember reading ESRs writings as a teenager and actually being slightly afraid of ending up like him.
Sadly, as someone already wearing glasses, it's not an option for me.
Facebook Hacked Via Java Vulnerability, Claims No User Data Compromised
I once used this type of a list to go through job postings and list the most in-demand skills companies are looking for. On a larger scale that for example would be a good resource.
You're paying $1500 to beta test a product

You say that as if this is a USB dongle. This is sci-fi stuff. Who cares if it's beta?
Yes this happens. But the point is that Rails and its community like to stay on the edge, if something deprecates you fix and it's done... the thought of framework developers trying too hard to be compatible with everyone's apps, people backporting language features to an older version so they don't have to switch and a popular framework dragging the evolution of a language is much more worrisome to a lot of developers

I'm not entitled to talk about Django but that's my perception...

There was a really funny comment in a thread like this back then that impersonated Rails saying "New Ruby version? let's deprecate everything!"

and Django going "On the weekend we're gonna discuss making Django compatible with the 5 year old Python"

And then someone said "What I like about this comment is that it pisses off both sides of the table"

:p
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Is it me, or a fundamental flaw in it, is that someone who wears normal glasses, can't wear it? It can't act as a stick to a blind man, can it?
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I can't wait for this to be real. So many applications already being planned (in my head).
"Some men have this down well enough that they can make eye contact with a woman they've never met before, smile, say "You're very pretty." and make her smile back"

...

"Cathy: Try this on a stranger in an elevator, if you must, to minimize the fear level."
Thanks for the responses folks - it seems like a combined approach is preferable.

I'll be doing a ShowHN as soon as it is published :)

If anyone wants to make suggestions about other content you'd like to see in the book, please let me know!
true, the tutorial videos would become far more detailed and interactive, than right now.
Google hosts Glass Foundry in SF and NYC, giving developers early access..
voice recognition, will not work :P Nice try though!
Fair enough. Nevertheless, a company like Google could certainly afford to be gracious with developers and let them contribute to the future product's success without making them pay a hefty amount.
Someone was spotted last month wearing a Glass with prescription lenses (I'd looked it up 'cos I'd need that too)

http://www.roadtovr.com/2012/12/30/google-glass-spotted-in-t...
To be fair this was written around the time that Windows 98 was still the version of Windows that most people were familiar with.
PLOS ONE: The Network of Global Corporate Control
Hmm - from the demo pictures it looks like you can snap on a lense behind the display. They use a sunglass lense in their example, but I don't see why it couldn't also be a corrective lense.
isn't the point that you're buying a developer kit?
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Well, of course, you can only have 65535 established connections sending data concurrently at a given point in time. But what I meant is, that is not the bottleneck at all, but the software behind handling all these requests, so tmartiro's comment was either pointless or sarcastic.

Note: This scenario is only valid for two computers talking to each other. As gilgoomesh said, if you have multiple clients you have virtually unlimited valid connection tuples (src addr, dst addr, src prt, dst prt).
To develop apps for which you make more than $1500. Similar to how developers want the latest iPhone/Android device to test their apps on.
Why would you do that?You are a non-technical co-founder.You have other priorities.You just need a basic understanding of how things work but you don't need to dive into the technical realm.

I am a developer but even I have to admit that some or must of us are too cocky these days, thinking we can do everything by ourselves.That is pure crap.Most devs fail to have a huge impact in the industry as entrepreneurs.That's where you guys come in.Don't think you are useless.You need both parts to make it work.

Contrary to the popular belief a non-tech can be a breaker in a company if he is "that type of guy" with an excellent, CLEAR vision.Yet those are rare indeed.
For any given user the probability of the one machine with everyone on it going bang is similar to the probability of the particular server that they were connected to in a horizontally scaled scenario. However the cost of redundancy may be higher if it is a replication of 100% of main system on the other hand a big system may be designed for high uptimes.
Check out the "what it does" page towards the bottom under the headline "evolutionary design" it shows a picture of a lens mounted on a pair I assume you could get a prescription lens if you wore glasses.

http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/
Apple Accused by Greenlight of Breaking Law by Bundling
Linux Mint Contest
what's the name of the program with CPU/memory graphs in the right-upper corner above htop on slides ##13-171?
Cute. That's totally how real hackers write code, too: in an uninterrupted stream from start to finish :)
Power Users vs. Empowered Users
here guys always agree and don't agree never give a good justification of your agreement and desagreement!
Awesome video which looks almost just as awesome even if you take out the glass. But nevertheless, awesome product.
India Bubble : Pet Shopping site DogSpot receives funding from India Quotient
Unreal Engine is writern in C++. So is Unity3d. They just provide an abstraction layer to US and C# respectively....
I normally wear glasses, but would gladly pop in some contacts for this.
Mac hacker attack reminds us why Steve Jobs hated Java
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No. KDE is a platform upon succesfull software is built.
You got the DE obviously, but you get also applications like kdenlive, calligra (and krita), amarok, digikam. The developers of these applications would have a more difficult time if KDE didn't provide them with its robust libraries. Even webkit comes from a KDE library.

Further more the Plasma Active team designed their own tablet and will soon announce it officially.

Ubuntu on the other hand is a Linux based distribution with their own DE.
Related: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/evanescent_python.html
Zend Optimizer+ For PHP?
Sure, some of the creepshots and other things might be other photos. Doesn't mean all aren't though, one must address that.

People being angry about photos is one thing; real life information about people can lead to devastating witch-hunts and intense campaigns of harassment.

Sexualized photos of people taken without their consent is bad. The very fact of taking sexualized photos without consent/knowledge (e.g. upskirt photos) is harassment.

Witch-hunts can be a problem. People violating privacy and harassing people and then avoiding any consequences is a problem too.

So I guess I can see why Reddit bans one, but not the other.

The cynic in me thinks it's because of the general gender of who's affected.
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Loading Only One Field From An Entity or Node
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