skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of Google Glass throws up a few red flags for me...

1) Safety - For some reason thinking about a wireless device strapped in a stationary position on my head brings about heightened concerns of the long term impact of having a electromagnetic field being constantly generated next to my brain... Thinking of horror stories from when cell phones first came out.

2) Safety again - The static position of the glass directly over just one eye makes me think of Steve Martin's downfall in The Jerk. If people are actually wearing these things all the time, I would be concerned with how something that you're constantly having to readjust your focus to see with only one eye may cause a disparity in vision. Of course google could adjust the focus of the glass to be some arbitrary amount of feet out to help with focusing but this seems like it would make for less usable space on that tiny screen and still doesn't address the long term effects of having something statically in the field of vision of only one eye.

Both of these may very well have been exhaustively researched and or studied by Google but I think that with the semi-controversial design of this computer, Google might put an "Is It Safe?" section to their marketing material explaining how they've addressed safety concerns.

Also, in regards to privacy... As some have mentioned the concerns of being video taped while in the presence of wearing Google glass may prompt a lot of businesses/agencies to disallow their use while in their establishment with signs posted on the door. I don't think jewelry stores or banks or other security prone establishments would want people to so easily be able to comprehensively case the joint with almost complete anonymity. Plus fears of an Orwellian future where everybody is watching everybody for some unknown third-party viewer would not be unfounded.

Aside from that, I don't really see the value in Google glass. Perhaps it's just the way they've marketed it.... but it just looks like a cell phone that's been moved to your eye. I really don't need to start seeing POV films of people eating dinner or highlights from a drunken night out. The glass does not seem to offer much more usability than a smartphone and some duct tape for POV filming. Not to mention that I believe Mom may have already patented this idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaHUpWuqNHY (Futurama)
Oh, really? I'd love to see you transfer music to your phone without using iTunes. Or I'd love to see you transfer a file via bluetooth to another phone that's not an iPhone. Or..I'd love to see you install an app that wasn't released on the market without jail-breaking your phone.
(Derail) Why not?

In the US, we've got ten million unemployed and tens of millions underemployed even when we're not in the middle of the Great Recession. With the proper application of economics, we could easily train tens of millions of more healthcare professionals (note: it doesn't matter if the unemployed are qualified; you can train the qualified-but-otherwise-employed and let everyone else shuffle to fill in the gaps. Hermit crab principle.) and end up with a large enough surplus to treat everyone as to their need.

As employment strategies go, it beats paying people to dig holes and then fill them in.
It just means that the Starter Edition (aka the free version) does not allow P/Invoking into C libraries.

You can still use all of Apple's APIs and bindings for third-party Objective-C libraries.
Is that the case? Piracy is still a fairly rampant problem for the music and film industry. Any reduction in piracy seems to be due to convenient and cheap digital music stores presenting a better option than piracy, rather than any progress in actually stamping out piracy.

You could stop piracy almost completely - deep packet monitoring, extensive web filtering, fast and harsh penalties and the complete cooperation of the government probably could cut it to essentially zero. I think most governments (and even rights holders) recognised that taking it to that level wasn't worth the consequences. Maybe 3D printing will be different, but I'd imagine that like with music, there will be very little public appetite for harsh penalties for downloaders, and so they probably won't happen.
Implementing the spec, you pick & choose.

I don't support alternative response_types; I don't support dynamic redirect_uri (at the moment, it's completely static; in future we may offer the list option), and the allowed scope for a given client is set during setup -- you can't then request a scope you aren't authorized for, given your client id.

I'm not breaking the spec -- it offers all of these paths as options. You don't have to implement all of the possibilities the spec covers.

The bad thing about the spec is that some of the possible paths are indeed less secure (it even says so in the spec in places...), so the security of your OAuth2 implementation is purely up to your judgement.

The nice thing about good specs is that you benefit from the presumably-better judgement of the folks designing the spec....
There are probably > 100 topics in the past two years with a similar title/vein. You'd likely enjoy reading through those - lots of good suggestions in the previous threads.
After reading Moonwalking with Einstein I started to exercise my memory skills and now I just use my brain.
Impressive! Well done.
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Me, I am having them all stored in my mind. But I made it a little bit easier for me. I do have 3 standard-passwords, that I change twice to thrice a year. Each one of them is used on multiple accounts - but, everyone is appended by something specific for every usecase.

For example: d453ER#T p0NY_jondoe@MoogleGail could be a password for one GMail-Account with the alias jondoe, while for Facebook, the passwd might be d453ER#T p0NY_jondoe@Fratzenbuch (Fratzenbuch is German denigration for facebook) for the FB-Account with the GMail-Adress from above.

I hope this did help you...
Egor,

what you will do after you discover and disclose all vulnerabilities [or at least the major ones]?
Can't work because "it" would have to predict the future...

When does it shift you to another parallel universe? At the moment your consciousness would get lost? At the moment your body gets wounded but your mind still experiences it? At the moment a bullet starts flying towards you?

What about dying from getting old, if "it" has to keep your mind alive, does it mean everyone eventually ends up experiencing a world where they get 10000+ years old while the rest doesn't?
TPB has had a "physibles" category for more than a year now :-)

https://thepiratebay.se/blog/203
You're paying $1500 to beta test a product

Let's be honest -- most if not all of the people who pay into the program do so for blog/column material. That it is somewhat exclusive is a big feature in that case.
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A few more considerations will be posted in Part 2 of the post.

I appreciate your pointers - as the business grows and takes shape, a fresh evaluation will be required where some of the considerations you mention will be taken into account.
You can actually use the Starter Edition to publish a small application. Wow! This will increase the adoption of Xamarin ...
3D printers cannot knit a sweater. 3D printers cannot carve wood. That may change some day, and we can cross that bridge when we come to it.

What I see 3D printers doing is replacing foreign labor for the production of cheap parts. "Made in China" will be as old-fashioned as sending a letter via postal mail. Toys will be printed at home, that obscure nut that your car maker insisted on using will be printed in your garage, etc. Your home decorations will be printed, and you'll be able to replace them at will.

Despite the availability of cheap goods made by low-paid child laborers in developing nations, people still pay top dollar for crafts. I doubt that will change because of 3D printers.
Maybe they could link to a phone/tablet or a pebble style watch, alternatively I remember seeing Microsoft have done some cool by projecting a touch interface onto skin. Perhaps the user could do gestures which are picked up by the front camera but it may make everyone look like they're being attacked by invisible bees all the time.

Google Glasses remind me a bit of the time I tried to work out how Tony Stark actually controls all of the functions of his Iron Man armour, and what sort of (realistic) system might come close to what's shown in the movies. I didn't get very far.

To me, Glasses are an awesome concept that begins to fall apart as soon as I think about them - I think they'll either need to pull a major and completely surprising leap forward in how we interact with tech, or at some stage we'll need a keyboard to use them effectively.
There still has to be a barrier to entry, or everybody and their mother would apply, and just leave the glasses sitting around on the table when they got bored with them. The price tag will weed out all but those serious about developing for glass and few peeps with disposable incomes.
Why don't you ask Apple? They buy a huge amount of stuff from Samsung.

Does the retina screen count as innovation? If so who is the innovator: Apple for realizing that it should be used in phones, tablets and computers, or Samsung for designing and making it and working on the fundamental process innovations required?

Answer: both.

Both companies are obviously hugely innovative. Arguing which is more innovative is just fanboi dick waving.
That cuts out a sizable demographic from "exploring" it.
If you do enough queries, you should spend the time to use RCFile for Hive, in which case redshift wont come out _that_ much faster. The point is the 17 hours is not negligible.
By using his own logic, you can dig into his own comments and find out easily that Taligent is a well-known anything pro-Apple troll here, so you're safe to ignore him.
I'm sorry, the CEO's position is ludicrous.

Which business leader, in this day and age, hasn't tried to google their own company's brand name to see what comes up?

Oh...what are these pages upon pages of stuff about Python (programming language) which shows up when I type Python, Python Hosting, or Python UK...

Nope..never heard of Python (PSF), nope...not me...nope...
It seems like some of its main attractions will require an internet connection. WiFi is not everywhere and my wireless network is really slow.
Interesting they use a Star Wars example. There was a major copyright case on my side of the pond - in the UK - in 2011 about whether a Star Wars stormtrooper helmet was a sculpture, covered by copyright, or just a movie prop (so covered only be industrial design rights, which unlike copyright only last 10-15 years).

It was held not to be a sculpture. So if you're in the UK, you can 3D-print stormtrooper armour without worrying about being sued by Lucasfilm.

The court didn't give a concise definition of 'sculpture' - they listed some relevant factors, but mostly left it to the common sense of the trial judge. Quote: "it is inappropriate to stray too far from what would normally be regarded as sculpture. ... Not every three dimensional representation of a concept qualifies".

http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/decided-cases/docs/UKSC_2010_...

(Emphasis: this is under UK law, not US. I think the opposite result was reached in the US, but don't quote me on that. IANAL).
I don't own a Mac, but have an Ipad. If I jalbreak my Ipad, would I then be able to deploy applications built with xamarin studio or visual studio for testing?
Since it's attached to your head, it may be possible for them to match vibrations with speech input and verify that you're the one who said it. Would help in noisy environments, as well.
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Why is this a thing?

The CAD files that serve as the input to the 3D printers are closer to deserving patent or trade secret protection than copyright. Copyright protects "creative, intellectual, or artistic forms", not inventions or tangible things. (Don't get me started on "design patents").

We're definitely in new territory here, but 3D printers dont change anything other than the speed/ease by which a "thing" can be created. Before the Internet, there was tape-dubbing and the Xerox machine. Are there fewer songs or shows now? Fewer Books? Why are 3D printers any different?

A little primer on intellectual property law for the laymen would be instructive here.
Our new Business edition, at $999, now includes iOS support for Visual Studio developers.

I guess you will be able to use a device from Windows, or something like that. Otherwise it won't make sense to provide iOS support for VS.

Correction - you will need a Mac for the final build of the product. VS will connect through network to this Mac ... Not sure if it makes more sense to just use VS as a glorified C# editor. I suppose if you are a hard core VS user it will be easier to do your development from VS.
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Is there a similar recipe/app to send files to Google Drive?
This is a dream for retailers. "Augmenting" the in-store shopping experience has been a non-starter. Want to get product reviews and more info about this item? Well, why don't you pull out your phone, turn on the barcode app and scan the barcode. Now, you could ostensibly look at a item and get relevant additional information on-screen.
You don't need to jailbreak your iPad, but you'll still need a Mac.

Visual Studio basically just talks to MonoTouch on a Mac to do the final build steps, to run the Simulator, etc.
Why not? Serious question. Maybe not today, but one of the new 3D printers includes arms to assemble the parts produced. I wouldn't be ready today to trust my safety to extruded plastic doo-dads, but I don't wee why I wouldn't eventually use a car 3D printed out of the proper materials.
This is great and looks very interesting. First question - what happened to the Windows Phone 8 support? Won't we be able to develop Windows Phone applications using Xamarin?

It says on http://xamarin.com/Windows that Xamarin does support all three platforms, but I don't see anything about the Xamarin studio there.
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Is Tim Cook the next Steve Ballmer?
This just seems like you patting yourself on the back for 'realizing the Don't Be Evil was BS.' A lot of people on this forum would see this as a clever hack regardless of who did it. The fact that you bring up the whole "Don't Be Evil" bit and then immediately reference yourself is telling.
"Xinu Is Not Unix" - also gives more information than "The Xinu Page". Hence, I used it. If you don't feel OS-ey then you may skip the link!
Seems like the mistake, here, might've been hiring Mark Penn. He also "scroogled" Hillary Clinton's campaign back in '08.
> Turn-by-turn directions alone for pedestrians, cyclists and motor bikes

Would the glasses fit if someone was wearing a motorbike helmet?
Voice recognition has always been patchy or non-existent for languages other than English, and it's a deal breaker for something that relies _primarily_ on voice for input. That's the point I believe he was making.

I don't think he was referring to the glasses in specific rather than the state of voice recognition as a whole.
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Read the studies, not the random guy summarizing them as misleadingly as possible to suit his agenda.
I still don't get it, the first half of your post backs up your original stance, whilst the second half agrees with what I said that it's not a necessity (for basic things you can use your finger).

Doesn't the irony you highlight in your post regarding people buying "those little rubber iPhone/iPad styli like hotcakes these days", indicate that people find it easier to use a stylus for certain things? A stylus is certainly a part of the UX, but not an integral part.

Using your finger is not the best option for all scenarios, if that was the case we would have been dipping our finger in the ink pot instead of a quill.
Good point. And can I really trust it to start a video if I'm at the top of a rollercoaster and everyone's screaming and I yell out "OK GLASS START A VIDEO!" ? Probably not. I have to tell Siri things 3-4 times for her to understand me, and I usually give up after the first failure.
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On a related note, it occurred to me that Microsoft is handicapped by their culture of doing big releases and not (publicly?) iterating much in between them. The article makes it sound like Samsung iterates quickly and is very responsive, whereas both Microsoft and Apple have much longer product development cycles.
Looks like they are still rolling out the new version.
I'd love to see wider use of HTML / URLs as a standard format for resumes. So much easier to share and include analytics so you can see who's checking your resume out.

Here's an example of mine that I built with my own product, Edit Room: http://splatcollision.com/resume/

Edit Room is a web design prototyping app that builds HTML and CSS. Supports using Markdown as a content source. Easy to do responsive designs. Link: http://www.edit-room.com/

Another, cleaner design that I just put together:
http://www.edit-room.com/review/yunWYrWs
"When the Galaxy Note came out it was bashed by the Apple-sphere with incredible intensity. That should have been a good hint that it would do well : very well."

Plenty of things are bashed by the Apple-sphere, what ever that is, and those products don't do well. Since you've turned this into some weird Android vs. iOS thing I'd like to point out that very few manufacturers, of handsets/tablets running Android, are doing well.

"Larger phones have been bashed with ferocity. Until the iPhone 5, of course, when (I suppose), it was done "right"."

So what's new here? I still don't like larger phones and probably never will. I'm actually not sure why you wrote this or what conclusion you feel it supports.

"Smaller tablets were bashed with ferocity. Until the iPad Mini, of course, when it was done "right"."

No source cited so I'd just like to point out that the actual tablets were being bashed not the size.

"We've seen the same thing over and over again. It can never be that Apple is behind or isn't moving quickly enough -- it has to be spun that they're ahead by moving so slowly."

It also can never be that Apple is doing just fine. Honestly I'm not even sure what you mean by 'behind.'
Try:

set bind-tty-special-chars Off

in your .inputrc, before you do the bind on C-z.

The readline man page is a little misleading:

bind-tty-special-chars (On)
If set to On, readline attempts to bind the control characters treated
specially by the kernel's terminal driver to their readline equivalents.

Disabling it doesn't actually stop readline from binding those control characters. It just enables you to override those default readline binds. If the variable is set to On (the default), that's not possible.
I use and really like outlook.com but this campaign felt wrong and was incredibly frustrating.
As a piece of web software, I find it pretty dull, but when I think of it as a replacement to a newspaper for my parents, it makes a whole lot of sense.

First of all, it is actually a major boost in organization and clean design. The options on the left have been reduced to a smaller and easier-to-read list. The center feed is evenly paced and better at snagging your interest while casually scrolling through. The right has been turned into a set of info widgets-- weather, stock quotes, sport scores, some appealing photos and videos if you're just clickin around, coming birthdays if you're hooked up to FB, and horoscopes. If I'm thinking about a modern newspaper, that's about it.

I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetic, but it's familiar to its userbase, and almost entirely uncomplicated. I think Yahoo should call it a win.
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This isn't anything special that Amazon did, since it's just a radio button in the KDP 'edit book' page. I set it to disabled for my book, but didn't crow about it in the description. Maybe I should?
And you don't see any problems with the fact that you now require a short stick to get anything done on your mobile device?

?

I didn't say that.

Mobile device have been and continue to be a bit shit on the "get anything done" front for a bucketful of reasons anyway, so I tend not to care all that much if I carry around a stick in the same jacket pocket as my bluetooth mini-keyboard. Unless you count dicking around on twitter and facebook as getting things done, its a fight to do anything with a mobile interface, I'll take whatever advantage I can get.
You have to go to the us homepage try http://us.yahoo.com/
Odd, it does so for me when I click your link.
I think that niche of travelling which requires your hands is definitely worth it. This is the reason why I don't like using a bike for long journeys.
>Wheat is thought to be only be around 10,000 years old or so.

Which is older than all of the vegetables that exist today, and older than cattle or chicken. "This food has evolved over time" is not support for a claim that the food is unhealthy or dangerous.

>It gets the blame for quite a number of ailments.

No, it doesn't? Alcohol does, but that's neither unique to beer nor does it have anything to do with grain.
You don't have to do anything.
6) See movie Gamer.
"Better to leave it in the social sphere." I don't consider this some idle philosophical stance, either. The technical solutions don't actually solve the problem, since people work around the attempt, and they create additional problems, such as the one at the heart of this thread. I still marvel at how common this combination is: the "solution" doesn't actually solve the problem and creates others that wouldn't otherwise exist.
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Depends on the retailer. This will just accelerate the process of turning brick & mortar stores into Amazon showrooms.
And once it's integrated into your normal glasses tastefully, they just have that pesky social problem of having a voice-control-only gadget in public.
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Brilliant - thanks, hadn't found that info.
The title here seems a bit sensationalist. I was expecting to read a story about how Groupon is bleeding a million per day. Instead, this is an article about how one company's analysis has concluded that they could be making $1,117,808 more per day.

A missed profit is not a loss. It's a missed opportunity, sure, but I don't think calling it a loss is appropriate.
After watching the video, which outlines deploying a PHP application, I'm pretty excited about this.

I'm hoping the Chef integration is done well! It wasn't clear how that fully plays in with their video.
Mine's even worse: http://f.cl.ly/items/3v2U1h1k1v1T3p453J3t/Image%202013.02.21...
I am a bit ambivalent - on one side, as I think about new product ideas that will naturally be multiplaform, something like this is very appealing in theory, but my experience tells me that the lowest-common-denominator approach has almost always failed.

I wonder how folks are thinking about that problem - i.e., if you are starting a new app from scratch - even if you are doing iOS only initially - do you go objective-c or xamarin/c# ?

it's quite hard to make an educated decision.

any thoughts?
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The theory is:

- Sculpture is generally protected by copyright in Berne convention countries.

- Copying includes reproducing a work in any material form. The fact that the process of making a copy involves CAD files isn't relevant: the result is a material reproduction of yoda.

- Speed & ease isn't relevant either - hewing a copy of a copyrighted sculpture one from stone over a decade is just as much an infringement as 3d-printing is. A copy is a copy.

(The difficult legal issue is what exactly a sculpture is. E.g. the UK has a narrower definition than the US, and in the UK yoda may not qualify as a sculpture - see my other comment).

IANAL, just a UK law student
Thanks for the detailed post. Also found it a great read and look forward to more. Followed you on the Twitters to keep an eye out.