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Several days ago - there were a bunch of stories about Google opening retail locations around the country. I think the reason they will do this is obvious: they want people to use their products in person.

To me - for Glass to be successful - they will have to allow people to play with them. This is the kind of thing that would sell amazingly in a retail setting. Imagine the line of people lining up just to put one on and see what it looks like.
Bit tongue in cheek... but this sets the clock ticking for Microsoft going 'oh, crap, someone is defining a new computing paradigm. Let's get on that before they're way ahead of us again'. Any bets as to when Microsoft announces Windows for Eyewear?
Getting 500 error on download page, is there any mirror for dmg file ? :)
As with industry, competition most often leads to further innovation and drive to improve a product. ;)
>>glass worship stones

I believe we are in the midst of a new religion being born!
Apple need to improve the description pages within the app store and the analytics that developers are provided with.

On Google Play I have more freedom to optimze my page which makes it easier for users to find what they are looking for as the selection has become tough given how bloated the store is.

From a dev perspective the reporting is unusable, luckily Google Analytics is really great (although its not available on Windows Phone).
I myself have made the personal decision to not use smartphones. I dislike twiddling with phones in general, and would prefer to use my simple flip phone for nothing more than calls or the occasional text message.
There are a few scripts that facilitate the use of python on the command line:

https://gist.github.com/dgulino/4750088 (mine)

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-lik...
I haven't tried Scala but since no one has mentioned it: Clojure is a pleasure to work with if you want a functional language in JVM.

I have no idea which and how many startups use Clojure, besides Datomic :) It would be interesting to know.
Seemly Whatsapp is, and what they are doing is genius, I would pay even more for the service than what they are charging (99 cents year).

At first I did not understood, what it had in special, until I figured that it was the fact that it used your phone contact list, thus taking out the boring task of managing that, and making adding people to your list easy as finding someone phone number.

Yet, I would not use it as my primary messenger (neither Facebook), because of how they are tied to something in particular (phones, Facebook) and thus allow less flexibility in where or how I use them.
How sad. Yahoo is still fixated on "fresh" and "beautiful" design when it's the content that needs to be completely overhauled.

Leave fresh, beautiful and intuitive design to Smashing Magazine. Yahoo needs to make brave changes and Marissa isn't making them.
I don't like infinite scroll, and I don't like automatic reloads.

I haven't been to yahoo in awhile; it looks mostly like I remember it, which i suppose is a branding success. But I don't feel compelled to go, they don't do anything unique. That said, if you want what they and others do, you have to go somewhere to get it, and they seem to be doing a credible job doing it, so it's as good as any other portal.
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In the qualitative research we found all kinds of different splits, but the consistent one was 50/50, with a lot of articles mentioning that the 50/50 was actually worse for the merchant, because Groupon then included processing fees.

At the top level though, we're more focused on the price sensitivity information, so even if we change up the split, we're still talking about a good amount of revenue being left on the table.
Please take off your glasses before entering the restroom.
This does not work for me, unfortunately...

Also, another thing I have noticed, is that I cannot catch the SIGTSTP (Control-Z) signal with the `trap` command. I can catch other standard signals, e.g. SIGINT (Control-C), but not SIGTSTP (along with SIGSTOP and SIGKILL, obviously).
Using VS would be a huge plus. You don't have to buy a bunch of pricey macs, just 1. You don't have to retrain C# coders to use a Mac. You can use ReSharper! You can open two code windows side by side, something monodevelop cannot do (not sure about Xamarin Studio as I am still waiting on the download). VS integration with Team Foundation is much better than git-tf, so if your company is already using Team Foundation you can tack on iOS development/ports with out much trouble. There are a lot of reasons it makes sense.
It's disappointing that Yahoo = Mayer now in the media. I'm sure that plenty of talented people spent a lot of time on this, only to have it sound like Marissa Mayer coded the whole damn thing herself.
Flight times at the airport are a great example. I don't need to know the time of my flight, but I do need to know if it's been delayed or if the gate changes. I don't need to know those things I already know them in some other way.
I think you'll actually find that translating Objective-C snippets into C# to be trivial for the most part.

For third-party ObjC libraries, a lot of the more popular ones are already bound.

Writing your own C# bindings for ObjC isn't that difficult, but there is a learning curve involved. We're working on making improved tools to automate more of it, though. In the meantime, we've got a guy that is writing the bindings for libraries based on popular demand.

A lot of the bindings can be found here: https://github.com/mono/monotouch-bindings
Ten years ago, if you told me that there would be a class of people addicted to personal devices, and a class that resisted it, I would've said "oh man, I'm in the first category, aren't I?" Since I'd fantasize about the Star Trek-future with their PADDs.

Even when I'm bored, there's not that much I can do with my smart phone.
Or you could date girls who appreciate spending quality, unplugged time with you? You're only 20, you'll get there.
Its not a sham. But its not the most above board business model either. It takes advantage of the fact that most people don't know how much privacy they're giving up nor do they have a way to properly valuate that in any case. It takes advantage of consumer ignorance, in the same way as say credit cards where ordinary people are bad at estimating how much they really pay over in interest for the benefit of getting stuff sooner. Or subsidized cell phones. Taking advantage of peoples short sightedness is a great business model from a profitability standpoint. People think your product is cheaper than it really is.
I will let one of the Xamarin guys speak to this in detail but having built a couple apps for customers with Monotouch I can tell you that you can pull in some native objective c libs for things like richer UI. There is a method for creating a binding to a native objc libs and using it from C#. I use ATMHud, TestFlight and Flurry in one of my apps - all of which are built from bindings to the native objc libraries.

The other thing I will say is that while there are 1:1 API mappings they have also went out of their way to make some common and rigorous tasks simpler. TableViewSource is one that comes to mind, simplifies the UITableView scenarios.
I held out for a really long time on 10.6 but upgraded a few months ago after buying a new machine and it was a lot less painful than I'd imagined - worth a go, though, as always with OS X, a fresh install may ultimately be less painful than upgrading, even if it's time consuming.
Disabling user scaling (zooming) is a choice made by the website itself and not by the browser. So even though it is a bad usability-wise, it cannot be regarded as a problem with responsive web design.
Depends on the printer. Not all use plastic.
Soem use a lasr to cut the modell from a solid block.
You can 3D print a complete chess set out of steel this way :).
This is far to expensive for home use, but I gues you could use it to create fake car parts, and sell them for half the price.
Here's a use case: House shopping

You are driving through an older neighborhood close to commuter rail station looking for a house for you and your spouse. Driving past the station "posts" the schedule for the next three trains and bus. You can "see" the Zillow and the tax values of the houses you are looking are in real time. You glance at the elementary school on the corner and the rating comes up. Glance at another house and you see it is a rental where the police have been called 7 times in the past 6 months. Two doors down lives a sex offender. The trees in the are are a type that your wife is allergic to. The fire hydrant on the corner was last maintained in November. The street was repaved in 2007 when new water lines were installed. Animal control last patrolled on Tuesday. The deli down the street is expensive, but has good reviews.

And during this whole process, all you did was look out, while driving, not glance at your phone or car console.
Surely a fairly core issue is the type of customer who buys from Groupon.

If Groupon deals are primarily purchased by a fairly small core of regulars (in my very limited experience a few people I know use groupon a lot, most never do), then increasing the price one day might just put them off buying tomorrows item. Every person has a finite amount of disposable income.
I'm seeing the exact same thing as his screenshot.
Maybe. I've been using a Tom-Tom lately and what I've notice is that it sort of turns you into a mindless drone. At least that is how I felt. I can certainly see a thing like Google Glass adversely affecting people by making them too dependent on it. How exactly? I'm not sure.
Does FB have the problem, or does American culture? The FB organization sets policies that seem to prohibit this type of thing. The people tasked with enforcing the rules, however, are another story. They are fully in bed with the patriarchy, dismissing hate speech as an attempt to be humorous, and ignoring the very real possibility that their lack of action will lead to violence against women.

Women shouldn't need to object to sexist, boy's club antics like this; men should be aggressive against their peers who think this way. For me, implying you have no respect for women gets you culled from the herd pretty quick, and I wish more people would follow suit.
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Oh boy, then you must feel real pity for the guys at Apple.
Hi, I'm the author of Dropzone. iOS has a bug (as already mentioned by other users) resizing images in canvas. There are workarounds, and I already started implementation (https://github.com/enyo/dropzone/commits/ios-squas). Unfortunately ios-imagefile-megapixel doesn't meet my coding standards so I didn't want to just take the code of their implementation. I will release my fix soon.
Two thoughts:

1) Google is obviously terrified that being seen wearing Glasses will brand you as terribly nerdy. (Compare the 'gargoyle' stigma in /Snow Crash/.) So to control the early perceptions they're doing a heavily-publicised early release to some carefully-selected mobile-phone-company-commercial beautiful people. The ideal candidate will be taking photos for /National Geographic/ while cave-diving for her Rhodes Scholarship. She will also be rather attractive, and not a wearer of prescription glasses. (Compare http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/05/08/the-sophie-choice . Courting Steven Levy seems to have turned out pretty poorly for Google, eh?)

2) Glasses looks very promising, but isn't it a bit of a stretch to call what it does Augmented Reality? AR more or less implies a HUD, or some other means of superimposing CGI on what you see of the real world. But the http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/ video seems to suggest that instead Glasses takes a "picture-in-picture" approach, and the screen's transparency seems to serve mainly to make it feel less oppressive, and to minimise the amount it obstructs your vision when the whole screen is not in use. Goggles http://www.google.ie/mobile/goggles/ is more of a true AR system. (I'm not suggesting this is a bad decision: in light of the current problems with head-tracking http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/raster-scan-displays-m... and precise geolocation it seems like a good one.)
Great work, this is really cool. A couple of thoughts, idly:

- 'Xamarin Studio' just a new coat of paint on monodevelop, but it has some nice things in this version; new ui, the autocomplete especially is vastly improved.

- Seems a bit laggy on my mac mini for some reason, which is a bit disappointing, but works fine on my imac. Both mountain lion, so who knows?

- Still no PCL's for macs. :( sigh (yes, you still need to have a separate project for each platform, which includes all the same files).
Aren't buzzwords like this just as alienating as tech jargon? I know everyone does it, but why does she have to speak in marketing/design jargon, and not plain English?
This is as long as Yahoo CEO's last. If this is all what she has to show for it, I'm guessing the search for the next has already begun.

Riding the Google roller coaster can alter the hard realities for anyone. The heat is only felt where the rubber hits the road though.
Hi guys,

We launched our site around a week ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206662) and got some excellent feedback. We've done our best to work through that and take on board all the points you have made to us.

We wondered first, if we are heading in the right direction? And second, if you had any more feedback, tips, advice for us.

Thanks
As an existing Professional customer you are automatically upgraded to Business edition and can renew at you existing renewal price (which is $249 for you).

Hope that helps :-)
Yes that's the bug in question. There isn't really a fix for it, but a very very ugly workaround. Look at ios-imagefile-megapixel to see how they fixed it if you want. Or you can wait a few days for my implementation will be better documented.
What, exactly, is dishonest about it?
>>6) Voyeurist's refuge: Pay someone with social skills far more developed than yours, have him go out and pick up a woman while you sit back in our couch and watch the spectacle unfold. Not sure how many would consent to a partner wearing glasses while having sex, though.

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Well, it could be in CSV, yes, but

- I was saving the comments, too, so right now, a torrent element has comment elements as sub-elements; in CSV would probably need to be two tables/files instead of one, which would get a little more complicated

- I didn't want to think so much about escaping newlines (that are in the comments and infos) and the delimiters, right now I was only escaping < to &lt; and > to &gt;.

- It was easier to check whether the script is working correctly or not (probably the top reason :) ).

- I thought parsing XML would be easier than parsing some other format, since there are tools already available for that.

But well, if somebody will really want CSV version he can easily transfer that from XML...

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Did you look at Employee Fiduciary:

http://www.employeefiduciary.com/

I haven't looked into it in a while, but if I'd been able to talk my employer into adding/changing vendors this is the vendor I would have chosen. It would be interesting to read your thoughts.
I'm in the progress of developing hooks for removing (and programmatically adding) files. So this feature will be available soon. (https://github.com/enyo/dropzone/issues/36)
You mean other than the fact that SSDs didn't exist back when Google worried about $250k?
Some of us wear glasses all the time anyway.

Finally, our previous disadvantage will now become our social advantage!!
This feeling, i've had it before. Google comes out with a new product, with a limited release... and I WANT IT REALLY BAD. Of course, after I get it, it's nowhere near as cool as what my head thought it was going to be.
No discussion of run-time characteristics? I realize for a some start-ups this is not the most important metric, but these guys sound like they might be compute bound. And faster language can mean cheaper/less hardware.

Scala vs Python: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

Also since he mentioned Haskell at first, Haskell vs Scala: is also interesting: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

Haskell vs Python is just for lolz: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...
I wish I were unfamiliar with it....

I think it is bad practice at least then, if not explicitly bad code, because it's needlessly overcomplicated. Why use the end tag when you're not switching contexts between php and html? After this line there's just another open tag and more code... it's a pointless way of writing php that makes it aggravating to read and edit.
It's not as bad as you think. I saw someone walking around with it the other day and at first I thought they just had designer glasses on. Someone had to point out that they were wearing Google Glass for me to even notice.
As much as the store page confused me, so you can't use the product after the end of your subscription (that is, the license is NOT perpetual)? I mean, would you be able to compile or release anything after the expiration of your current subscription?
I hear what you're saying, and I appreciate that you put the time in to write that out, but honestly I'm hearing this kind of argument from so many quarters ("we never look up!" "we all talk, but we never converse!" etc etc) recently that it's starting to get obnoxious.

Conversation is not dead. People have been moaning about how we're all becoming socially isolated since the publication of the first novel. The art of socialising has been declared dying ever since the first VHS was available to buy and watch at home.

Point is, it's bullshit. People still hang out (in person, not in "hangouts"). Yeah, people have mobile phones, and sometimes when hanging out as part of a group we check them, but it's not like it kills all conversation dead. A group of three people all looking at their phones is the exception, not the rule - it's not like that's what we plan to do when we arrange to spend time together.

As for your lady friend, like you said, that's her habit to break. But you can't assume everyone who hasn't taken a vow not to use a smartphone is the same - I have a smartphone, so do all my friends, and yet we're all somehow able to communicate to one another in person. When I go out and about in town I don't see crowds of people standing around looking at their phones. I see groups of people socialising and talking - if someone is by themselves then their phone can provide some distraction/semblance of "company".

There's also a tendency for us techy types to get caught in our own little bubble - I get my news from HN Reddit and Twitter, so my view on how people use these services is clouded. It's like when a journalist starts using Twitter and writes about how "everybody is obsessed with tweeting, you can only send short messages, therefore the art of meaningful conversation is dead". They don't realise that the "everybody" they're talking about is only those people in their immediate social circle.

I've kind of gone off subject, but my main point is this: Black Mirror isn't a documentary. It's so easy to project your own worst nightmares onto new technology. It doesn't necessarily make them a reality.
I am in the same boat but starting to recognize that the free train of tooling is a ploy of platform vendors trying to pull us in to working in their area. Microsoft can afford to do this because they extract major value on the back end when we target windows with apps.

A cross platform, non-allied company like Xamarin doesn't benefit from that back door revenue as they make no money from my app.

It is a tough bill to swallow but the problem seems to be our perspective, free wasn't always free. $399 was a young company trying to gain traction with a small team and if we want bigger, faster, stronger then it costs.

Sucks, but after 10+ years of consulting in the Windows space I realize that cross-plat mobile is my next 10 years and in that light, 1K is not that bad.
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Maybe I just need to wake up, drink some coffee, and not be so cranky. But I'm getting really fed up with these linked pieces that are nothing more than a thin veneer over some other publication's / writer's article.
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I was directly involved in one of the "industry" projects mentioned on this page. It's great to see Comer's work still around and kicking. XINU was a pleasure to work with.

Our company's lawyers also loved XINU because of the license. The GPL scared them so much we had to take Linux off the table.
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I don't think that's the case. There always have been boring people and there always will be boring people. It's now easier to connect with others making it easier to find boring people who may not appear that way immediately. Seeing highlights of someone's life on Facebook doesn't mean they're interesting, it's just one instance of their life. Talking with someone in person it's easier to gain insight to who they are and what they really enjoy.

I wouldn't say any of my friends have become boring due to phones and tablets. Sure, they get distracted more easily, but that doesn't mean their personality has changed.
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For several years I've been paying my 20 buck to Linode each month for the 512MB vps I use to have with them. I was actually looking for a server in my own country when I stumbled across LowEndBox.
It's a TOR book. The no-DRM line was added by the publisher itself in the publisher-written Description.
I wonder if the story quality on the front page will change. I went there yesterday and was blown away by the degree of "tabloidism" that I almost took a screenshot of how laughable it was. Using yahoo for searching the web isn't even a thought anymore, I honestly feel bing comes to mind before yahoo. And as for a news source, forget it.
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>>>but didn't crow about it in the description. Maybe I should?

Yes. You should. It's an important selling point.
Yea, there have been some bug fixes since the 3.x versions. You may also be getting lucky, but I hope it's the former and not the latter! ;-)
This kind of comparison reminds me about something similar about Git vs Mercurial:
http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercur...

It looks more like an emotional kind of story than one about practical decisions.
Wow, it's almost unnerving how plausible this video is.
For several years I've been paying my 20 buck to Linode each month for the 512MB vps I use to have with them. I was actually looking for a server in my own country when I stumbled across LowEndBox.

At first I was a little cautious and hesitant to signup with the host I found, (I will remove name for advertising reasons) as they were only charging €5 ($7) for the same specifications, and a lot more bandwidth, as the Linode vps.

I have now been with this host since fall and I have no regrets on switching. The little lowendbox performs like magic. I have also picked up a few other 128mb and 256mb plans from the site and have optimised them to run a few heavy footfall wordpress sites.

The moral of this post is basically: A - We don't really need to have tons of resources. B - Us developers seem to be paying over the top for hosting. C - Don't be put of by price. I would say the service, as well as performance, with this particular host has been better than Linode.

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IANAL, either. But sculpture somehow brings to mind the idea that a "work" had an artistic component as opposed to a functional one.

For instance, it might be infringement to "print" a copy of Michelangelo's David, but not a part of a handle to a door. In the latter, it's not a work of art, so merits no protection vs. design protection that it might get if it was a patentable invention.