skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't envision this being a problem at all. First, its easy enough to have a checkbox that says "I saw it, here's the feed you want." (In all likelihood, if anybody committed a crime in downtown Manhattan where hundreds of people were around, the cops wouldn't have any need to ask the public for data anyway.)

If nobody saw it (or doesn't know what they were looking at, as would usually be the case if they saw a getaway car), I still don't think there will be a firehose of data. The feed will already be geotagged and time stamped, making it easy to sift through by hand. Plus, much of this can be automated, even with the relatively rudimentary recognition software we have now.
If it's not ready to be read, why was it posted?
I downvoted you, because your entire comment is predicated on the fallacy of generalization from fictional evidence, and what I'll call "argument by pithiness".
I think it's a little more specific than "people don't perform well under stress." A software development job may well entail stressful situations—for example, "The founder got interviewed on Oprah and the servers are melting!" But that kind of stress is different from a interview stress. There are definitely folks that will step up to the challenge of melting servers, but go to pieces under the social stress of an interview.

Now, maybe getting into the biological mechanism by which they go to pieces is too specific, and trotsky could have communicated more effectively by eliding it. But it's an important point, and I don't think it reduces to just "people don't perform well under stress."
D'oh! I copied a "$500 million" as "$5 billion". That's the power of 10 error. Also, I used 1970 dollars since the source I gave said "started in 1965", "took 5 years", "cost $90 million." There's why you have the $650 instead of my $500.

Last time I looked, aquifer recharge was not a simple topic. If the ground has already settled then there isn't as much storage space. I also think you have to pump in from many different places, so there's still the distribution network. You can't fill it up in North Dakota and think of being able to fill up Nebraska as well.

My main point was to show that "Fresh water no longer becomes an issue because arbitrary amounts of sea water can be converted into fresh water." is not a true statement. Even with free power it's still expensive to bring that fresh water to Nebraska.

As I recall, Texas isn't as good a place as California. In "Cadillac Desert", the author, Marc Reisner, points out how the lack of rain in summer means that farmers in California can give exactly as much water as is needed to induce the crops to grow better. ("Better" in a production sense, of course.)

While in Texas, the intermittent rains and occasional downpours would not make that possible. I don't think that an irrigated Texas would have the same productivity as the Central Valley. But I don't know it that means 5% less or 50% less.

Otherwise, yes, I agree that Texas is the best place to take advantage of cheap desalinated water in the US.
It is all about knowing your target demographic. I'm doubting your wife's company targets young adult males interested in video games and technology.
That's why I think the default should always be "babysitter mode". Unless you give a specific set of commands, the GPU does what it does and the display does its thing.

Regarding people who turn on "expert mode" even when they don't know what they're doing, that doesn't seem to be a good reason for not having it. The Mark Twain quote about censorship being like "telling a grown man he can't have a steak because a baby can't chew it" comes to mind.
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This looks cool - but what is the advantage of using this over something like Plex? With Plex - I'm hosting the files myself... so I don't have to upload something until I want to watch it remotely. I realize that could also be a negative (if my server goes down while I'm traveling - bummer). But surely with my own server, I can have much more storage, and my files are instantly available once they're on the computer. Also - Plex is free.
Google did not build glass to make 200 million dollars selling it; they built it to make another 10 billion on Ad sales. Said that, its not hard to imagine that Google will be extremely defensive in giving anyone, including FB extensive access to their Ad plate. If anything, this will be an extension into G+ and, if necessary Google will prevent this walled-garden in court.

Thinking "how much company would pay for that" does not get me excited either. It been proven over and over again (through different social networks) that just because my friends likes something, it doesnt mean I will like it either. It neither means I will be more reluctant to try it out. "Like" on its surface does not prove me much information, and most FB users know it by now. Example: if someone "likes" chick-fil-a, what does it means? Does it mean they prefer chicken over beef? Does it mean they love the company? Or simply they are an employee of said company and want to look good in case their employer peeks on their wall? Or maybe that they support c-f-a's Christian roots of not hiring gays? Or perhaps because they hate humanity at all and they love that c-f-a puts aluminium and MSG into their food? "Like" alone does not mean "yes go eat here and spend your money its worth it".
> Or is there more to it than a simple derailing tactic?

I see what you did here.
It'll be through limiting your library -- free users will get a certain amount of space and streaming bandwidth for free, paid tiers get more as you scale up the price ladder (Dropbox style).

Additionally, we have a completely free collection of movies/TV shows aggregated from Sidereel, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, NBC, etc. At the very least, you can use this as your one stop to browse all the movies/TV shows you can stream through other services (for free, or if you have their subscription), receive recommendations, track with friends, etc.
and 3) it's displayed 4th in the itunes store when you search for mail, and is the first generic mail app displayed in the results. Look at these results:

1) Gmail
2) mail.com
3) Yahoo mail
4) mailbox
5) Windows Live Hotmail
6) Voice Changer Plus
7) Emoji and Unicode Icons
8) Dragon Dictation
9) Ink Cards Personalized
10) A+ Emotion Icons
...
Continues with more completely-unrelated-to-mail results.

If I was searching for a mail client, then mailbox would be it apparently.
Looks like deuterium is ~$3000/kg, as heavy water is ~$600/kg [1]. Less expensive than I thought, but still far more expensive than hydrogen at <$0.01/kg when purchased from my local public utility.

It's unfair to compare with hydrogen though - this study [2] suggests that fusion and wind power are roughly comparable in cost.

[1] http://reactorscanada.com/2008/05/21/is-there-enough-heavy-w...

[2] http://www.energyresearch.nl/energieopties/kernfusie/achterg...
Heck, why not let users create a whitelist of trusted businesses? Best of both worlds.
One advantage of node that wasn't mentioned is the ability to share server side and client side code. Avoiding discrepancies in the same form validation written in two different languages can often be more important than performance gains in server applications.
> using the camera to take pictures or videos that are stored or shared could enable a small lamp on the frame of the glasses

> you can see a light in the prism when the device is recording

This appears to already be true of Glass, although recognition of what that light means won't be widespread until the devices are.
I upvoted him for exhibiting what I call "argument by imagination".
I'm curious as to whether or not this kind of thing will spring up more and more in other apps.
this http://blog.j15r.com/blog/2011/12/15/Box2D_as_a_Measure_of_R... is a bit old, but it suggests that NaCL is pretty close to native (only 20-30% slower) and jre is 2-3 times slower.
I used the term consequences deliberately. The merchant may have losses, but they have no leverage. The option to not take credit cards is not available to most sellers of goods. On a large scale the cost of fraud simply becomes a cost of business that factors into the price the consumer pays. This is why many merchants offer a cash discount. To argue that the cash discount is just to cover credit card processing fees misses the point.
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The big hole here, is that security in this day and age involves preventing phishing attacks. The only way that you can protect users from their own stupidity is to lock them down.

Google Chrome and other walled gardens may win, because they come locked down by default. Corollary: Open Source may remain a thing for geeks only because of this.
FB and Google do not get along, let's leave it with that and with these pet projects Google is sucking out all the PR air.

These glasses solve absolutely no problem for most people, you can glance at directions on your smartphone and walk for 200 yards. Rinse, repeat. This is an ad companies' dream and could be used in specialized fields but that's about it.
I see, thanks for that.

So does that also mean you have to store every file? or more like iTunes Match where if the file exists on the server, everyone gets served the master, instead of storing duplicates from millions of users.

You don't really have to answer that. it's not an end-user concern.
Are you trying to make some roundabout assertion that people do always work in precise patterns? If so, come out and say it. Otherwise carry on with what might be an interesting aside.
It took me a second to get what this was, but after I logged in with FB I definitely found some pages I needed to unlike. Great idea.
That's my thought: Zuckerberg would likely support any development that increased the amount of personal data users were willing to submit to a service. Reducing the friction of doing so is secondary, and in these ways the interests of FB and Google are aligned.
I agree. I like the neo-classicist, Victorian, and Beaux-Arts styles of architecture. Apart from the aesthetics, the buildings of that time were (overall) certainly thought out well. As Steve Jobs said: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

However, I know of contemporary architecture that accomplishes that as well. For example, take a gander at Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Building of Bangladesh [1] or Ton Albers' Gas Union building in Groningen, The Netherlands [2]

[1] http://www.archdaily.com/83071/ad-classics-national-assembly...

[2] http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=gasunie
Very well, but imagine Glass at its potential. And now compare that with the images in such films (fictional as they may be) where people are shown just loafing around all day and night, doing nothing but interacting with their headset because everything (minus nourishment) can be attained via their headset.
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And even if the video isn't stored in the cloud, it's a safe bet your location data will be.

Then the government can send you a summons if you were in the location at the time of the crime, requiring you turn over your video data. And if you don't, then you're breaking a law.
IIRC, trapping the neutrons in water or some similar compound is how the power is extracted from a D-T reaction. However, my ignorance exceeds my curiosity.
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Hi! I made http://weightgrapher.com/

Essentially, all the websites I've used between FitBit, LoseIT and MyFitnessPal have really poor graphing.

When I joined weight loss groups and forums I found most people are afraid of getting on the scale just because of how discouraging daily fluctuations can be.

I aimed to fix this problem by bringing exponentially damped averages into the weight graphing, and educating on using your trending weight to see how you're doing instead of the up-and-down of raw numbers.

Thoughts? Feedback?
Although the automatic machines have more or less normalized the quality compared to the situation with the manual machines, there's no ability for a skilled operator to produce a superior coffee. It also eliminated options the machine can't do, like extra-long or caffè crema.

This is probably why Starbucks has become the default main-stream brand and has opened up an enormous market for upscale/boutique shops that cater to those who want better coffee. Nobody will miss the "brown water" coffee shops that Starbucks displaced.
You nailed it -- we're useful for people that want to access their library from anywhere (at work, on vacation halfway around the world, etc.) on any device (phone, someone else's laptop, etc.) without having to lug around their DVD collection or an external hard drive. Having a server at home is also limiting because a) it uses your upload bandwidth, which clogs up your home internet connection, and b) your upload bandwidth probably isn't fast enough for instant streaming (the average is around ~1.6mbps these days), so buffering/seeking will slow you down.

The best way is to compare it to Dropbox -- Dropbox : USB :: Streem : Plex
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I used to work in the supply chain industry, and this kind of thing has existed in warehouses for decades under the name "engineered labor standards". The armband aspect is just the latest incarnation of it.

One of our customers had come up with an interesting incentive program: you were given "eight hours" of work and could go home whenever it was done. Many of the time-saving tricks that the employees came up with would have been frowned on by OSHA.
Just a random idea: A mode where notifications are batched up until the user is standing relatively still.
Why...? If he's wrong, surely you can rebut him, and if he's right, then how does being part of a long story change that?
Are those limits established yet? There isn't any place on the page that would indicate any limits or even the existence of paid tiers. This stuff should be visible before requiring a user to signup.
Well, the repo I'm thinking about using this on is private, so I have no pride and no shame.

Wait, I guess this doesn't support private repos.
Yes maybe we are :)

Here's a diagram showing the energy flow they expect, if things work out: http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_l...

Overall energy balance of focus fusion reactors would be somewhat marginal, nothing like the 100x to 1000x that Sandia's talking about for MagLIF.

In this diagram they mention "garage-size." The "onion" is photoelectric, not photovoltaic.
That's the pressure applied to a standard coffee basket, presumably, so 500KG over the surface area of that.
A fantastic alternative is Plex (no affiliation). You can host your media on your own computer and watch it anywhere. Plex handles all the network nonsense (no ports to forward, etc...). Depending on the filetype and what your device can play, plex will either transcode on the fly seamlessly or just stream the exact original file.

Downside is you have to have a computer that is always on, connected, and potentially unusable for other purposes when transcoding. In my case it's a Acer Revo HTPC connected to the living room TV.
Search for "Nick Bergus" and "55-gallon drum of lubricant" to see why you don't want to end up in a sponsored ad.
Fresh air is absolutely the vital glue for a happy life. Teaching our kids to just go for a walk each day is probably worth two MBAs in life success and happiness
Edit: I think Glass actually solves a huge problem with mobile for FB/Google/MySpace/etc: displaying ads.

Who's problem is that? I have never heard a user complaining that only 2 ads fit on the small screen. Have you?
I've been waiting for two weeks, and I've finally broken 50,000. I don't know if I even want to use this app anymore.

Their rationale makes sense - it is better to make people wait than everyone have a crappy experience, but given how easy infrastructure is to come by these days and how quickly one can provision it, I'm worried they're taking too long and people will forget or uninstall the app. That said, when it finally lets me in, this could change my life and I may not even know it. But at this rate, I definitely won't.
Personally, I don't think Clojure should exist as a production language, bluntly. I think it should have been a skin on ABCL. But that is water long under the bridge.

But I would describe Clojure as "not Lispy" because its behavior seem to fall into the compilation idea more than the interpretive idea. I would execute `lein run` and a failure would drop me out into the Linux shell. An equivalent command in CL would throw a condition and drop me into an interactive mode to patch it up. I fully acknowledge that my tool use may not have been ideal, of course. But my Clojure was giving me a compile-run-test cycle as opposed to the the interactive editor/repl cycle of CL. Errors in the source would cause exceptions and crashing in the compile phase; errors in the runtime would cause a crash.

I want to hone in on the second point you made, in terms of new ideas. New ideas are good (c.f., Kernel). New ideas should be aggressively pursued. I draw the line when someone has a slightly varied idea and wants to fork out something & get a community going just for that slight variance. That's just annoying and forks effort. If the new idea is really radical and can't be reconciled with extant tools, of course it deserves to be a new thing. Lisps are an insanely awesome tool for exploring semantics and I hope they keep getting created and churned on for decades to come. I just hope that the ideas which are reconcilable to production systems are reconciled so that we don't fragment further.
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Instead of starting from scratch perhaps implement utility in an existing editor that is in demand but not yet available for a fee.

There are a lot of things that would be nice to see in existing programs that a bounty type system would possibly work well to encourage.
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> We will be able to deal with this, though, using appropriate laws.

Ah, yes, in the same way that we've dealt with music piracy through law.

More seriously, people are going to have to get over the feeling that recording an event with human memory is obviously acceptable while recording an event with higher-fidelity devices is obviously not. Especially given that recordings can be faked, there is no dividing line between these. If you don't want people to remember something, don't let them know in the first place. Trying to regulate people's memory, whether internal or external, seems like a terrible idea.
Could it be to try to "claim" multiple ranges? With the idea being that if someone finds prior art that covers one of the larger ranges, Starbucks gets to "keep" the smaller ranges?

And if so, does anyone know where we can get a good deal on pitchforks?
looks interesting. any plans to open source it?
I had one of these for a while. I used them any time I bought from an online merchant I wasn't completely confident of. It let me put a specific purchase limit on each number, so I knew I couldn't be overcharged.

Then one day one of those slimy Brooklyn camera stores overcharged me by $10, even though I specifically put in a limit equal to the purchase price. I called the bank and asked what happened, and they said that they always add a pad on top of the limit because people often forget about shipping charges, etc.

Sigh.
Yeah, there are a couple immutable collections out there! I hope to get using them soonish.
I find this mentality so, so strange to see, especially coming from what I assume are fellow engineers/programmers.

We're at a time where almost literally every single book every written is with me in my pocket everywhere that I go, as well as every piece of music ever recorded, and every film ever made.

I have the world's largest library, bigger than anything that the Greeks or Egyptians could have even dreamed, and I carry it with me, every day, in my pocket; most of the people I know do too! We're all constant patrons to humanity's most complete and largest collection of art and information.

And now this library is being made even more available to me. I can immediately call up the sum of human history just by glancing in my peripheral...

...and this scares you? You don't like it?

Is this fear?

Certainly there will be assholes. One of the saddest things I saw last year was people at burning man constantly hiding behind a gopro or other camera, and I called them out on it constantly "be here with me! Don't hide behind that lens!" etc.

But these people have existed forever. There has always been cameras.

And for distractions there has almost always been books.

The glass isn't "new" in that sense, it's just better.
Since I havent implemented anything I cant make any claims, what I can answer is things that I miss in the current landscape:

a) Fast startup times

b) Effective utilization of multiple monitors out of the box

c) Embedded prompt for dynamic languages

d) Minimal lag in the UI

e) Fast regex search over multiple files

f) Multi file mode - I want to be able to have multiple files mapped to the same buffer and have the ability to quicky seek to files

g) Outline mode that is code aware

h) Integrated lint mode

i) < 10 meg download size

All of the above in the same editor. Currently sublime comes the closest, I have also happily used emacs in the past but sublime feels snappier than emacs currently.
I guess if emacs could be as snappy and pretty as sublime what it would scratch all my needs, because modulo some polish it has most of the other features.
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What sorting of pricing/space requirements are you planning on offering? I run a boxee server with several NAS devices on my home network and it works great - but it would be nice to watch something at my girlfriend's place without loading it up on a USB drive and carting it over.
What's even worse is as this quantified personal data is leaked to profit making ventures, there will be more and more pressure to assume "productive habits" or strategies that work well for most people. And then popular wisdom will say that these are the only or right ways to live and if you're not using the methods that work for most people in some situations, you're just stupid.

Then something shitty and unpredictable happens and popular wisdom will say "well, that wouldn't have happened if you were logging all your calls in Google Calendar and tying it to your passion index."
I can and I will but right now I'm on an airplane
You say it's obviously untrue, so what are the obvious consequences of credit card fraud?

I believe that anything you suggest worth addressing costs more than the fraud itself. The only way to eliminate fraud is to show that doing so increases transaction volume. Since there has yet to be a proposed solution that does that, people focus instead on trying to "save money" lost to fraud, which doesn't work because there are no consequences to credit card fraud. (this is not a circular argument, though I see how it might read that way)
What I really want is for police officers on duty to be required to have it on and recording all their interactions with citizens.
You may have used the word deliberately but you used it wholly incorrectly, which is the source of all the confused replies. Not being able to avoid consequences is not the same as there being no consequences.
Oh, Gitminder does let you beemind private repos, as long as the github account you oauth with has access to it.