skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you missed a cogent argument:

"If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone."
Certainly! First of all, the most important thing for having a visible six-pack is low bodyfat, around 8-9%. Having a strong, defined core is also important, so doing ab exercises such as hanging leg raises and ab wheel rollouts is a good idea. Avoid crunches though because those don't do anything.

Read up on hypertrophy as this is how your muscles get bigger. German volume training, vince gironda's 8x8, chad waterbury high frequency training are good plans to look into (all of chad waterbury's workout plans are "cutting edge" imho). I've recently been doing very high number of reps with very low intensity and not going to muscle failure so that I can target the same muscle groups several times a week. Such a workout plan focuses more on muscles getting larger rather than stronger.

Also, if you're looking to cut down on bodyfat in order to see your abs, I would actually use bcaas instead of the whey simply because the goat milk whey likely has calories that your body will use for fuel (ignore that sentence if it doesn't have calories), whereas bcaa's take a different metabolic pathway and go right to your muscles. The point of exercising on an empty stomach is that you're working out with a depleted glycogen supply, which your body will always use up before touching fat storage. If you take in calories before working out then your body will burn through those first before reaching into the fat storage.

After you've finished working out - hopefully your workout was done quickly so you should be very sweaty and have burned a ton of fat calories - wait for a couple hours (at least 2-3) before eating anything. During this time I generally drink almost a gallon of water containing a bunch of bcaas. Your body will continue to burn a shit-ton more fat and will still be primed for building muscle once you spike it with carbs and protein. Be careful to avoid fat though!

Good luck on attaining your fitness goals ;)
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It is unlikely to Google will build factories to make the Glass, either. It might be a Google-branded product (like ChromeBook Pixel), or something they'll license to other manufacturers (like Android), or a hybrid of these (Nexus). Time will tell.
One of my fears about telling kids to defend themselves with force is what if the bully has a gang of friends? An older brother? Access to a weapon? How likely is it that a bully, finally beaten by the victim, escalates further?
Smart kids willing to learn - how do they know?
How do we pick out these smart kids and make sure they get education? Even if they're not from good backgrounds? How do we get these smart kids out of their crappy homes and make sure somebody teaches them something, anything, unless it's mandatory?

YOU may have been perfect, motivated, willing to learn, and may have been given the opportunity to learn even if it wasn't mandatory. Many others would not, many parents wouldn't bother.
He actually name-checks Nexus as an example of a failed product. Meanwhile the Android community is generally in love with the Nexus 4, I know two non-techies who love their Nexus 4s (Nexuses 4?), and I myself think my Nexus 7 is a joy to use.

Granted, there were those problems getting the initial batch of 4s out to the public, but that's hardly grounds to say a company is incapable of making customers happy, surely.
I actually thought alpha, the name chosen for the app you see on app.net website, an alpha release of app.net, a Twitter clone. And I thought app.net was a bad name for a Twitter clone, until I realize they are trying to build an app platform.
"... Google has never ​had a successful product that people pay for ..."

plonk

I hope the crowd here is old enough to remember what this means in newsgroups/irc ;-)
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Foxconn makes the iPad, iPhone and iPod. So they are not entirely Apple products..?
Ah, that comes very handy! Thanks.

Would it be possible to show the full link when hovering over a truncated link ("lin...")?
They don't have an internet connection, though.
> certainly all their hardware has been a complete failure in the marketplace; from Nexus all the way through likely the biggest failure to date, Google TV.

"Reception of the Nexus 4 has been very positive overall. Reviewers were consistently impressed with the Nexus 4's affordable price and impressive specifications."

...

"On the day of release, the entire Nexus 4 stock on the Play Store sold out in under 30 minutes."

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_4

To me it seems that in fact Google does make stuff that people actually pay for.

Also Google glass is a prototype, the author is basically speculating about it's future without any insight, he has no way of knowing what will happen to Google Glass, unless he has a time machine or a crystal ball, sure the current Glass is not trendy but the next version may become a lot nicer and less geeky.
Is it not a bit ironic to be linking to x264 developers to support the thesis that a new H.264 encoder can be twice as effective in compressing H.264 than the competition?

Either they've done something magical and can outcompress x264 to that degree (i.e. in the ballpark of HEVC, yet without breaking compatability), or they're comparing against a terrible H.264 encoder and they've just wrapped x264 in a proprietary shell of BS (and/or they're liars?).
We have been running a SaaS product for SMBs for about 4 years now. If you bootstrapping and running on very low revenue like we do, the only option is to keep your costs even lower. We usually have enough money in the bank to pay salaries for next month and a half. The longer we stay in the game, the better our product gets. The better our product gets, the more traction we get via word-of-mouth. Not exactly what PG would call "growth", but enough to keep us in the game. (Our adwords spending is around $500 a month.)

The other way, I have heard that works is hiring sales people. But for that you need to raise at least some amount. And price your product a bit higher too.
I have no idea, that would be a study for a psychologist.

I just know that people tend to stop bothering you if you show them you aren't a pushover. You don't have to beat them into the dirt, you just have to hit back.
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Please do not mistake kind and considerate for powerless. One of my favorite stories is of a woman who decided to walk out on a class about "empowerment" rather than learn to yell at people. One of the other students said "God, what a bitch" as she quietly left rather than take her turn dutifully berating people.
Trend? This is decades old. In Somalia in the 90s they were called "technicals". And the Chadian-Libyan conflict in the 80s has been dubbed the "Toyota War".
I haven't seen mortar rounds made, but I would guess their noses are forged or formed then turned to final dimensions.†

By whatever process they are made in the large military industrial complexes, these pictures show how they are made when you can't invest in custom machines, tooling, and material. You are seeing what happens when you have a bunch of bar stock in inventory and a lathe.

It's the "I need a message queueing system and all I have is PHP" version of a mortar.

␄

† Alibaba will hook you up with Wotech Industrial to sell you forged mortar shell blanks for just such an operation: http://www.alibaba.com/suppliers/forged-mortar-shell-supplie...

Medico is a pressing company and mentions on their web page that they've made over 7 million mortar shells of various types. http://www.medicomfg.com/products.php (In the second picture of the last row, the part held in fingers, that pattern you are seeing is pressed in before the metal is formed into a cup. It provides the fragmentation pattern to get the part to break into a nice even spread of the maximum number pieces that still carry lethal energy into human flesh. Probably a 25mm OCWS round. You could set them for a distance and have them airburst just after they went in a window or over a wall. Looks like the program was canceled. Maybe precision and 4 rounds per second didn't need to intersect.)

1916 video of a press forming large mortar noses: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675048466_manufacturing-...
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"My opinion is fact!"
Overall, LG did a good job designing and manufacturing the Nexus 4.
Soviet-style would indicate social control through the designation of locally delegated secret police (political officers).

The mode of operation here is less secret and more open, more akin to totalitarianism, with a Federal twist.
"Like for example the complete and total utter impossibility to respect the equals() and hashcode() contracts in the face of inheritance."

But is that a problem with Java or is it a problem with ANY OO language?
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Here's an idea- start holding adults to the exact same standards we hold kids, and then watch how fast policies change:

Co-worker makes racist remarks towards you: "sticks and stones" speech

Co-worker sexually harasses you: "sticks and stones" speech

Co-worker physically assaults you: "sticks and stones" speech, with added punishment if the victim defends himself

And in each case, tell the adult victim how they should be more empathetic to the bully's lot in life.
Products that make their users look like dorks seldom succeed.
The main problem with voice control is that you don't know who people are talking to when they talk in the air. That's why bluetooth headsets are considered awkward while holding a cellphone to your ear is not. Glass would need a simple social cue, like touching the side of it to enter voice commands.
Give him 2 years, he will get bored and will do another run, I know these "never again" old geezers.
It's undoubtedly bullshit.
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Developers are people, too, and morale is complex, dynamic, and fragile.
So the writer's idea of progress runs: command line → WIMP → touch → 3D. I think at least the first three are in order of effectiveness — descending. I suspect that the fourth, at least by my understanding of this idea, will continue the trend.
Don't worry about the rouge employees it is easy to spot the red ones, it is the rogues that you need to worry about!

But I fundamentally agree, you need to consider that in many cases you are not just subject to your own risks and threats (internal and external) but each of your suppliers (and their suppliers such as Heroku and AWS) and their internal and external risks added to yours.
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Does Toyota have blood on its hands for manufacturing pickup trucks? Are the people put machine guns in the back balanced by the people using identical pickups to deliver aid? What about all the pickups that people use going about their day to day lives? Some of the people using trucks in their daily lives are no doubt able to raise their standard of living by using the truck to carry more material more effectively than they could without.

I won't go so far as to call all technology inherently neutral (machine guns and nerve gas being just two examples I'd be pressed to find much neutrality in), but cell phones, like pickup trucks are about as neutral as you're likely to find. Globally, for every person using their Galaxy S3 to target missiles, there are probably a comparable number using a similar phone to coordinate medical or material relief efforts and tens or hundreds of people just using their phones as they go about their lives, many of whom benefit materially from the ability to contact other people or look up information online at their convenience.

And if you aren't convinced of the neutrality of pickups and cell phones, what about the companies that made:
1) the pot the guy is stirring explosives in?
2) the lathe they're turning missiles on?
3) the ladder that got incorporated into the slingshot?
4) the glass beverage bottles that have become Molotov cocktails?
5) the steel pipe and sheet steel that show up in weapons in half the pictures?
Do they/we all have a moral obligation on the carnage brought about by these things?
Please refrain from ad hominem...
It's worse than that. They fear that other people will want to get one. As with the hysterical reaction to the Galaxy Note (people desperately falling over themselves to tell everyone that it is a compensation for penis size), this is someone who decided to be anti-Google, and from that their every "judgment" is predictable.
This is so damn true! My grades suffered in high school because of occasional bullying. This caused frequent feeling of uncertainty if I was to run into people who I would rather avoid. I remember sleeping when I got home from school because the emotional toll was exhausting. However, the only thing that kept me going was knowing that I would reinvent myself after I got out of high school.

The 'locked in' part is a huge factor. High school was a prison to me. Once I had a choice, my life id an absolute turn around. One other thing to add is that pride added to the problem. To tell my parents I was being bullied was impossible. So, this makes you isolated with your own mental anguish.
You may want to ask the 70,000 people who put money into the Pebble smartwatch Kickstarter... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...

Here are the arguments Tog makes for an "iWatch": http://asktog.com/atc/apple-iwatch/
There's also some issues with conservation of mass.

Poor Peter would at least be thirsty after all that web shooting, if not wildly hungry.
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There's too many assumptions and subjectivity in this article to even warrant a good discussion. What if voice wasn't the only way to control glass, e.g., gestures? What if the Glass that we see now isn't the same design as the one that goes public? And about people wearing Glass who probably aren't listening--can't the same be said for people who own a smartphone?

If you don't like it, don't buy it. This article is ridiculous.
Not sure if the HN community will appreciate this as much, but this is awesome! I just signed up. Not sure if you already did, but be sure to post this to Reddit (obviously). I'm sure it would get much more traction there. Nice work! :)
If you could auto suggest to the user as they typed the function name or property that would be super useful. Some times I can't remember if a PHP function has an underscore in it or not.
Don't agree with those either, but when given the choice to object, I'll object.

Just like I will when some stranger is pointing a mobile phone at me.

Just because it's Glass, assuming I even notice it, I won't clam up and simply think "oh well, because it's ubiquitous and cool, I'll ignore it".
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What encoder did they compare it with?
There's no need to answer FUD with FUD: Firefox's UI does not become unresponsive with increasing number of tabs. Certainly not with just 50 anyhow; I do that all the time and never notice a slowdown. The tab-closing animation is less smooth than chrome's however. And while it's certainly true chrome uses more memory per tab, I can't imagine running into that problem very easily even on somewhat outdated hardware. A 4GB system should be able to do 50 tabs normally, and how much more do you need?
Telerik is a .NET company. So the most interesting platform ranking is a little biased.

But I think cache-manifest support is growing just as reading device sensors in Javascript. So HTML5 cross-platform development is indeed becoming important.
The Verge had an article in its forums that it promoted to the front page that discussed the privacy implications. The article concluded that many places are likely to ban them from their property.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/23/4022040/google-glass-and-t...
cultural homogeneity, actually, can be extremely dangerous.
How disgusting. Very easy for you to equate the sad situation in Syria with America's gun control gun-obsessed society issue, from the comfort and safety of your home.
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"People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s."

And, I can count the number of people I knew with those early, bulky cell phones on my fingers and toes. It wasn't until the smaller, cheaper cell phones of the 90s that everybody had one.

Will Google Glass lead to something useful? Perhaps. But, will it be a game-changer today? I doubt it.

And he's correct about speech interfaces. So far, all of the readily available consumer versions are horrible.
Yep, the 3G hardware (especially the battery) is still to big to fit such devices, which is probably why Glass also will just tether to your smartphone.

But "spy cameras" with internet connection certainly exist already: http://www.3gspycams.com/3g-spy-cameras
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>The difference here is that there is a high barrier of entry.

An even bigger difference might be that the financial goals Valve has as a community are more clear than the goal of "build a good anarcho-syndicalist commune". In my experience communities that have a goal to pursue that's external to the existence of the community are the ones that last while those that don't tend to descend into high school-like popularity contests and fail because of that.

BTW, is there anything HN would recommend reading on 1960s-1970s communes and, especially, ways in which they failed?
Is there any photos or information out on how Google Glass is going to work for people who already need to wear glasses?
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I saw the exact same thing with Cisco in the NY public school system. They gave my high school something like $50,000 of equipment in a rack to support two machines that submitted grades. We stripped it for parts and put it to better use, it had some really nice switches in it. But it was clearly misspent public money. At least we did put it to use in classrooms, though not as they intended.
I'm curious where you emigrated to, and how it compares to the US ... if you don't mind sharing.
Many accidents happen when people are distracted by their mobile phones. In Germany its not allowed to talk on the phone while operating a car for example.
I can only see this getting worse with something like Glass that basically constantly inteferes with your vision and concentration.
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"Moo town" is a brilliant coinage. Thank you.
>the compression method mimics the human eye and removes elements that would not have been processed by the human eye in the first place.

That's just a marketing hype decsription of how all lossy compression works.
"Stop being raped." "Stop getting mugged." "Stop being stabbed." "Stop being murdered."
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Lobbying to have a talk canceled, sounds like classic bullying to me.
This is true, it's essentially a summary of some of Clean Code by Robert Martin. Principles applicable all over the place.

However to turn things a bit more constructive, let me know what languages you see as less of a mess if you have the time. It doesn't matter whether we agree and I'm not looking for a fight, just your opinion and reasoning. I might well agree.
Facebook still knows you did that. Going there at all associates the link to your FB profile.

You may want to use a VM without FB logged in if you don't want FB to know what you are doing. Maybe even on another net connection... but that's only for the ultra paranoid.
I tried to search for a speedmaster 3510.50 and it cut off everything after the period. Regex issue?
I love how "MBA" is thrown like a cuss word around here. Makes me feel at home. I thought along the same lines by the way. He does have a point that customer experience is a part of making a successful product. After all, customers don't want to make an effort to do something. They paid for it after all. The engineering though is the gateway to everything else and hence the most important part of actually making a product. If you can't do that, you don't even have a product to sell.
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Actually, what I want is everything logged that I could have seen or heard, had I been paying attention.

I want to be trying to remember what someone said to me while I was distracted by a road sign, and be able to pull up audio or video of that moment by reference to the distracting sign ("triangular blue sign") by doing a video search via voice input.

I want to have every moment of every day in my life available via search or just for browsing, so that I don't have the experience, day after day, of thinking, "Wow, I wish I'd captured that moment by taking a pic or a video that I could send to my loved ones".

I want to have my systems constantly tag my ongoing conversations with wikipedia lookups so that I can stop pointless debates and move on. And I want other people to have this, too, so that I don't have to convince them.

I want to have systems that deliver on the promise that smartphones had, but which are thwarted by slow wake-up times, bad connections, difficulty of use while driving, low battery lives, etc.

The fact is that we're currently losing almost our whole lives because our current recording technology, human memory, sucks so much. I don't want to forget things. Ever. Again.
Just the potential medical applications of Google Glass are enough for me to believe the hype. Doctors could use glass to: collect patient data (by photographing injuries, surgeries, symptoms, or lesions); automatically recall patient information (bar codes on patient charts could be scanned by glass and then used to lookup a patients history); automatically scan patients for visual symptoms (such as measuring mole size and looking for melanoma); or display a patients vitals in real time. I concede, however, that they may interfere with the relationship between a patient and a doctor by making it difficult for a patient to make eye contact, or by continually distracting the doctor.

I do agree with the author that Google Glass is a ridiculous consumer product. I wouldn't want to spend time with someone who wore them in a social setting, such as a bar or restaurant.
This all stems from the outsourcing mania of the 80s which was driven by the idea you could save money by firing your internal IT people and outsourcing everything. It's been a boondoggle throughout the western world.
This article is proof to how controlled, biased and disgusting media in America is.
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I remember being bullied every day my freshman year. The bully was on my cross country track team. I wonder what would have happened if I never joined track.
It's worth noting that our main news site, npr.org, is not all served from flat files. This is specific to our news applications team (apps.npr.org) and our client-side projects.
A CSV is as good as RAM, Right?