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Not true at all.

"So you basically need to buy windows and visual studio to work with Azure"

Comes with BizSpark (http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/5/4/15454442-CF17-4... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5246500)

"if you are not into windows centered development, Azure is not that interesting ."

You can use their website to set everything up. I did it from my iMac. As a simple test:

http://niggler.azurewebsites.net/ <-- this is using their Heroku-like offering. You push to a git endpoint.

http://niggler.cloudapp.net:1337/ <-- this is using a ubuntu VM running in their AWS-like offering.

Both are running the nodejs script:

var http = require('http');
var port = process.env.PORT || 1337;
http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
res.end('Stop niggling!\n');
}).listen(port);
Here's my stab at designing an online dating app.

People input basic information. Age, sex, location. How far you're willing to travel for a date, how many dates a month you want to go on. That's it. You pay $20 a month for the service and the software pairs you with someone else for a date randomly. No suffering through poorly-written and dishonest profiles and pics. If you don't like the person you're paired with, oh well, you'll have another date next week.

The idea is we are our own worst enemy when it comes to finding mates and to let nature take its course as much as possible.
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It's the first time it's being jacked into something like Google. The iPod wasn't as revolutionary as iPod + iTunes. The union of the heads up display with Google's software is similar to how the Apple II, while not the first microcomputer, is the first one that mattered.
i always thought of the physical structure of celery and how it splits and is stringy - reminds my of piping tasks through a distributed task queue. i like the rabbit connection too though!
Combined with the Myo, if the Myo performs as advertised... would be fantastic.
Nope. Linkedin has recently been proving that APIs are progressively closing some doors.
How could the judicial system incorporate rules to pierce the corporate veil in such situations and therefore expose the shell company creator(s)? Would something like this help? And what are the cons?
It is impossible to love more than I love this right now.
Homerun 0.2.1 for KDE Plasma desktop released
First, consider the numbers: 20K ships * 5 times a second * (1 query + 1 transaction) = 100K queries + 100K transactions per second (each query returns about 5 neighboring ships). And the point isn't sheer speed, but scalability. The point isn't running the simulation as fast as possible, but demonstrating the database's capabilities.
Ask HN: Can you build a business on the Mega API?
In this article - http://stupidiswinning.tumblr.com/post/41019465324/mega-will-only-succeed-if-developers-take-the-fall

the author states that:

"Be warned: there are only three types of businesses you can build on Mega’s API:

* ones that nobody cares about

* ones that become features

* ones that will destroy your life"

I think there's a lot of truth to this. Is there a legitimate business you can build on the Mega API? Why would you use Mega over Dropbox/Google Drive/Box?
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There's also the issue that how well you come off on an online dating site is going to be very skewed by 1) How good you are at written english and 2) How good your pictures are.
Am I missing something obvious? Where's the link to PayPal in the article? Is that up next in the series?
I got lost in the "4. Of course we were wrong, here’s why" section somehow. Not sure what happened, either with the incident or my understanding...
As I mentioned in another reply: How could the judicial system incorporate rules to pierce the corporate veil in such situations and therefore expose the shell company creator(s)? Would something like this help? And what are the cons?
I don't necessarily disagree with you but:

> only a fool would issue a line of credit in a currency that has built-in deflation.

Is backwards. Deflation is bad for borrowers, not creditors. This should be self evident; in periods of deflation, one unit of currency can buy more tomorrow than it can today. As a borrower, you are paying a second interest rate.

Further, deflation and inflation are only damaging when they occur unpredictably. Predictable amounts of either can easily be built into the interest rate of the transaction.
"When a little startup already has better pricing than a well established billion dollar company, that's something to take note of."

By selling at a loss. We are not talking about a startup that outprices Amazon by actually doing something technically superior to cut costs, we are talking about a startup that is trying to use a loss leader strategy. Nothing to see here, it's a well known tactic.

"Most Bitcoin Processors give confirmation fairly quickly. The customer doesn't have to wait 10 minutes."

Last I checked, it was 10-30 minutes. More importantly, isn't using a payment processor defeating the whole point here? What advantage does Amazon get from using a BTC payment processor over Visa? Were we trying to avoid convincing Visa to become a Bitcoin processor?

"Taxes shouldn't be too big of an issue. They just get reported like accepting any other foreign currency."

Bitcoin is not a foreign currency. In all likelihood, Amazon would have to report taxes on BTC transactions as if they were barter transactions, which basically means reporting the dollar value of the goods being sold. That means that either Amazon has to adjust the prices of goods on a day-by-day basis to account for Bitcoin prices, or take the risk that they will wind up losing money as Bitcoin fluctuates (and without a futures market on Bitcoin, there are few ways to mitigate that risk, except the immediately convert the BTC they receive back into dollars -- so again, why bother with the extra complication?).

As for lines of credit, the point is this: issuing a loan in a deflationary currency is a massively bad idea. Deflation makes loans harder to repay over time, and at an accelerating rate. Amazon would have to keep adjusting their interest rate on BTC lines of credit to stave off the possibility of a disaster, which would only make the credit more difficult to utilize. This is widely understood by economists, and it is among the more important reasons that governments work hard to prevent their currencies from deflating.
Not entirely true. The tactfulness of response given is really a function of how much of an asshole someone is, rather than their gender.

Both men and women get rejected in polite, and awful ways. It's just life.
Right. That's the whole point: shards are a solution that imposes constraints on the application, meaning it's not really a solution.

Also, SpaceBase guarantees no deadlocks.
1. Chargebacks are only necessary because of the pull nature of the US banking system. I haven't even heard about chargeback until I came to US from Europe. Bitcoin is push, no chargebacks are necessary because nobody can take your money.

2. For smaller sums of money (e.g. coffee) you can pretty much assume the transaction to be confirmed once you see it on the network. To be really, really sure the transaction is confirmed and money is yours, you have to wait about an hour.

3. Indeed, Bitcoin fluctuates, you need to peg it to your expenses which is usually your local currency. That doesn't mean you must convert it to that currency. You can incorporate this into your payment button. But yes, this is a downside.
Blog author here. This is the first time someone other than me has submitted something I've written to Hacker News, which is a nice surprise.

I have a couple more posts lined up. Feel free to post questions/comments and I'll address them here and incorporate them to future writeups.
It seems like last year's demos emphasized the eye gestures while this year they're gone. It must have not worked out somehow.
IMO, Access is closer to a spreadsheet than a Database and fills that need fairly well. (By that I mean how the UI is setup and what it focuses on.) IMO there is a huge opertunity for a similar interface and a much better back end. Something like sharepoint + access.
This also might fall along the lines of "you usually don't want to do this, because anyone else who works on the codebase afterwards will hate you for it."

Monkey-patching also makes it harder to easily determine which names come from which source files, which is one of the strengths of Python code: Python's import system or explicitly using "self" make Python much superior to other languages.
Because they're required to by law, as telephone conversations are not considered public.

Walking down the street, on the other hand--
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you just did what they deserve
Google glasses is not just about the heads up technology. I think equally important is the content they will be pushing in front of your eyes.

In order for this to be useful, you need to be providing very personalized information. And Google is in perfect position to provide this. They get under your skin via Google Searc, GMail and Google Calendar and can the supplement this with information mined from web.
The difference between the two is just marketing and time. Glass's success crucially depends on convincing normal people that they won't look like dorks wearing it. It doesn't matter if it's a million times better than Xybernaut, if you can't get normal people to feel normal wearing it, it won't succeed. A million times better isn't good enough if it's still worse than not wearing it.

Technologists have always thought the problem with wearable computing was that the technology wasn't good enough. Nowadays, I think the real problem with wearable computing is fashion.
By coincidence, I got a random email from a Groupon recruiter 2 weeks ago to let me know they are having a recruiting event in Australia next month. I politely declined. :)
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Out of curiosity, what happens when you walk into an "undesirable"?
I can't imagine Google Glass will be exactly cheap either.

Also, just like Segway has been facing regulatory issues [1], Glass deployment might be hampered by safety and privacy issues, at least initially and in some markets.

Not too far-fetched of a comparison really.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_PT#Restrictions_on_use
It's interesting that in HN comments, most people are very excited for the arrival of glass. They think of it as something that will enhance their lifestyle, their productivity, etc.

If you read comments about glass in other forums such as at the bottom of NYTimes articles or other more general public media, most comments seem to be just the opposite: fear and paranoia about the arrival of glass in terms of privacy, or "naturalists" who abhor the thought of technology being a ubiquitous layer in front of real world experiences.

This makes me think it will be awhile before glass will be universally accepted. Just like certain restaurants and cafes are declaring themselves as cell phone free zones, will they also make you take off your glasses before being seated?
You're saying that we shouldn't have different laws based on gender so that there is no oppression or disadvantage to one group. But what if by being the same for both genders (or ability, age, etc), the law, or lack of law, is opressive or disadvanteous to some group?
Though you bring up an interesting point, we are still very far from being able to do much of what you described. Being able to erase people entirely from video in real time is something I haven't seen done, nor do I think it would be feasible in the near future. Additionally, from what I see Google Glass is off in the corner of your vision and translucent so you would be able to see through anything it shows you.
The inevitability of miniaturization notwithstanding, it's slightly challenging to imagine a less obtrusive version of something whose defining property is that it sits on your face.

Maybe in five years we'll all be wearing smart-monocles. Who knows?
Well yes, but 95% of those people are buying those small cameras for a specific task (surveillance) and you still have to attach it to a device to make it work but the majority of people will buy Glass because it's cool and innovative thus "stalking" becomes an available option, "just in case" you want to do it.Temptation wins...
i'm not really sure the last sentence of yours is correct, and is kind of misogynistic.

the price of admission to be 'considered' by an attractive man is to grab drinks and sleep with him.

the price of admission to be 'considered' by a slightly less attractive but still-qualified man is to go out with him and let him buy you dinner.

women won't even talk to men they don't find attractive, either physically or mentally. it would be like talking to a beggar, or a person who doesn't speak the same language.

very simple really.
LastPass has a great mobile apps with "copy notifications" if you're fortunate to be on Android. It makes it much faster than it would be typing a password anyway.
Let me guess - you're a white male, aren't you?

Being a minority is a long cry from being an advantage. I agree with you that I'd prefer it to be a non issue, but we're definitely not there yet.

Oh, and I'd expect that overall, the distribution of eye color in the tech world would be overall roughly equivalent to to the normal population, yes. And if there were people running around, actively complaining how green eyes give you an unfair advantage while green-eyed people are under-represented, and yet other people telling us how green-eyed people are stupid, couldn't possibly do tech, are a threat to the American Way Of Life(tm), and should in general not be so uppity, then yes, we should look at that.
If by "better" you mean "blew up my browser's RAM usage to 2GB AND maxed out an entire core" then that's consistent with my flash experience (on 64-bit Linux, which I realise is not exactly a first-class citizen)
For the aver person a small camera is a smartphone, which needs to be obviously held up when filming. Google Glass would be omnipresent so you wouldn't notice when a camera is turned on.
dunno about python, but good debugging support is a huge plus for IDE.
Use 1Password. Life-changing.
I'm reaching here, but: Nintendo's Virtual Boy.
Except for the HUD, which is the entire point of Glass.
Because the law says they have to. In some settings, privacy and wiretapping laws will apply to using Glass. In some other settings, they won't. Different US states have different laws governing the use of audio and video recording hardware in private versus public settings.

Glass is going to force new discussion about one-party versus two-party consent to recordings. It's a conversation that needs to happen.
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As far as I can tell from my reading, the strangeness stems from the fact that:

> Arrays in PHP are ordered hashtables (i.e. the hash buckets are part of a doubly linked list)

And that iteration is done using a "internal array pointer":

> This pointer is part of the HashTable structure and is basically just a pointer to the current hashtable Bucket. The internal array pointer is safe against modification, i.e. if the current Bucket is removed, then the internal array pointer will be updated to point to the next bucket.

Which together require some complex copying rules to allow for some simple things like iterating over the same array in nested loops.

I'm not very familiar with the implementation details of many other languages with these constructs, but in python a `for` loop (which operates similarly to the described `foreach` loop in php) simply operates over an iterator, which have a well defined implementation [1]. I don't know about the implementation any deeper than that, however.

I'm curious how other languages implementation of foreach type constructs stack up and how the choice of implementation for the standard list/array datatype affects the interface.

[1] http://excess.org/article/2013/02/itergen1/#iterators
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I'm in a techstars-affiliated accelerator in Adelaide (Australia) and part of our perks include $60k in Azure credits, which is an absolute godsend for cash-poor startups like ours. There's no way we could afford to do what we're doing on AWS.
Some US states have audio recording laws that can still apply even "walking down the street". Look at some of the cases of individuals attempting to record police who were charged under wiretapping laws.
Dude I'm a Silverlight developer, and I'm still able to leverage my XAML/C# skills to build Windows 8/Phone apps. I'm quite happy with that.
Cool, I just realized I'm doing something very similar for my job.
"No one wants to buy anything with bitcon, and no one wants to go through the trouble of selling anything with bitcoin."

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

- There are at the very least 5k+ merchants selling products & services for bitcoins - a small fraction of them is listed on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade - and this is increasing every day

- BitPay alone signed up 1500 businesses accepting Bitcoin: http://finance.sfgate.com/hearst.sfgate/news/read/23400142/w...

You are not a Bitcoin user and have no idea how successful it is, that is fine, but do not spread lies. Obviously you have no idea how quickly the number of buyers and sellers using Bitcoin is rising...
My $.02 -

I handle quite a bit of PPC of clients using google adwords. There has been quite a bit of buzz about what policies to include to be compliant and I just extrapolated that if it's a requirement for Google when it comes to advertising it's not a bad thing to have on your site for other purposes.

http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/adwords-gets-serious-abo...

I always configure a:

Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Copyright symbol
Designated agent and DMCA
Cheapest 13" rMBP has:

- faster CPU (i5 2.5 vs 1.8 GHz)

- double the RAM (8 vs 4 GB)

- bigger HD (as you say)

- wider aspect ratio (Pixel has 100 extra pixels along the bottom in an overall smaller package)

- a bit higher (1.9 vs 1.6 cm)

- a bit heavier (1.62 vs 1.52 kg)

- bigger battery and runtime (74 vs 59Wh, reportedly 7 vs 5 hours)

Overall, a lot to be said for the rMBP. Good to have options.
>Your description hardly sounds clean. In fact, given the complexity of business mergers, sales, taxes, etc., it sounds like it would result in an ever expanding nest of exemptions.

What does it have anything to do with taxes or any of that other stuff? If you have two corporate entities that merge, the merged entity can be considered the original assignee of all of the patents that each of the merging entities was. It's not a complicated rule. But it keeps trolls from setting up "mergers" to falsify their status as an "inventor or original assignee," because it's all or nothing. You couldn't transfer any subset of the selling entity's original patents to anyone else and still call them original patents.

Here, we can make it even more simple. Forget about mergers. You can transfer a patent for which you are the inventor or original assignee to another party and have that party be considered the original assignee if and only if you transfer every such patent you own to that party.

>There's nothing wrong with companies that buy IP and do nothing but licence it; that's how an efficient market in IP is likely to operate.

So say the patent trolls. It reminds me of what the high frequency traders say about liquidity: Even if it could theoretically be true under some set of artificial constraints, in practice the cost of allowing it pretty clearly exceeds the supposed efficiency benefits.

>The problem is with the frivolousness/obviousness of the original patents.

The problem is that software patents anyone is likely to infringe are inherently frivolous/obvious, because the lack of physical constraints causes there to be a million good ways to do any given thing in software, so (putting aside standards-essential patents that constitute their own special brand of unintended consequences), the only way you get a software patent that anyone else will ever infringe is to abstract the so-called invention out so far that it covers all plausible implementations rather than only the specific one that you're supposed to have invented.

The patent system wasn't designed for software. They're not compatible with one another. The proper solution is to eliminate software patents. But if we can't do that today then putting as many sensible limits on the amount of economic damage they can cause in the meantime will have to suffice.
Can't offer any predictions about Google glass, yet I think the Surface analogy just falls flat. It's not about Microsoft's 10k surface it's about failing to get the critical momentum going in the mass market.

There was such a thing called the Tablet PC[1] introduced by Microsoft in 2001, you could get one for below 1500 USD in 2003†.
They were marketed as a niche product if at all. For about a decade they were the only available portable devices that offered decent screen resolutions/pixel densities. The software was partly premature yet mostly usable. Some things just take time to mature to be seen as marketable to the consumer market.

In case if screen resolutions just too much time, its just kind of sad that you always seem to have to wait for Apple to push those technologies into bigger markets (touch interfaces/ high resolution displays) it's good to see that there finally is some competition is this area (Google Pixel, Retina Screens) and operation systems with with resolution flexible UI's are finally the norm.

† got a one back then which is still doing its fanless & meanwhile stylusless work as a trusty small home server.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC
The image shown in this article does a good job of highlighting the usefulness of Glass. It's not just a heads up display. It's the smarts of knowing where you are, what you are doing, what you plan to do in order to provide relevant information in an automatic and unobtrusive way.

"Oh, I see you're at the airport and you have tickets on flight 644. Here's some useful departure info." Instead of finding a departure screen or tap-tap-tapping on your phone - it's just there.

http://img.svbtle.com/dcurtis_24516029389500_raw.jpg
Agreed. It's always amusing to see those photos where there "trying hard" not to look like they're trying hard to look good.
Women do share risk but in a different way -- a woman risks emotional attachment and pregnancy with the guy moving on to another partner
I would go a step further and ask the plaintiff to subsidies the defense and only get reimbursed if they win. In many cases (including one I was involved in) the defendant doesn't have enough cash to hire a proper defense and is forced into settling. This will put all the burden/risk on the plaintiff and therefore limit the abuse against small start-ups that typically don't have access to a lot of cash.
It doesn't replace the OS, but all of the "viable for developer" parts of it come from running inside the Ubuntu chroot, so the fact that ChromeOS still exists is mostly academic in this context.

FWIW, I've owned one of the Samsung ARM Chromebooks since the week it was released and I've been running crouton for a couple of months now and it works really, really, well. I still use the ChromeOS side for very simple browsing (the Aura window manager is nice if all you need is the web) but switch over to the ubuntu/X11 interface often to do development work.