skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't realise how bad it looks. The premise looks awesome. The demo video... awesome. The way the product looks on someone's face... this isn't the finished product right?

I think Google should look at designer glasses and outsource the design to someone who knows what they are doing.
Just to clarify you are not winning anything free here (still an amazing opportunity though):

"Explorers will each need to pre-order a Glass Explorer Edition for $1500 plus tax and attend a special pick-up experience, in person"
Oh man, I wish I was in the US, I've been raving about glass for a while. I really think it opens up new doors.

One way is combing augmented reality and social networking with Glass. There are a number of cool things that come of this.

One is being able to look at someone also using the Glass app and being presented with their profile, plus options to send messages or view more information. It may even be possible even if they don't have Glass using a combo of geolocation and facial recognition. The most exciting bit is sending a message between two glass users because it'd be pretty much like telepathy.

When the 'internet of thing' comes about, it may even be posdible to control all your various devices without lifting a finger. I could look at my kettle from across the room and flick it on!

There are tonnes of possibilities and I think, especially when it's on a contact lens, it will make what's currently considered magical (telepathy, psychokinesis, etc) a reality, just like the plane removed the magic from human flight.

I think wearable computing opens up many exciting doors and the two thoughts above only scratch the surface of the possibilities I imagine.

In fact, I feel so strongly about ot I'd emigrate to the US just to get my hands on this awesome tech. I need to get onto it ASAP.
This only goes back one year. I would hardly call that a "history" of Reddit.
HTML5 + CSS3 AND Js (SenchaTouch2) and PhoneGap is best... to developing webmobile and webapp for multi-platdorm, coding a single time and runs on all platforms, that it is future! ahahahaha
That's what CtrlP is for.
Its a gamble, but if glass actually becomes a thing its the opportunity to be one of the first developers in the market. That's worth $1500
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I added it today only for Chrome.
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The technology is not limited to one design. Just like mobile phones look different.
No to throw cold water here but Is it really? It seems to be rather trivial integration of currently known and available technologies with bit of miniaturization efforts. Nothing that 5 year old iPhone can't do with albeit more convenience. Space elevators, 100% artificial life form, fusion reactor of the size AA batteries - now that, my friend, would be sci-fi stuff.
I added mouse support for Chrome.
Yes, that was what I menat. Not the only body, but the only directly elected body as an EU-institution.
my original submission

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5244196
Think this in Google's perspective. If developers are begging to take their money, why would they refuse?
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It looks like its designed to work with any type of lens, some of the pics at http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/ show it without any lenses at all. Its kind of like a projector that beams onto whatever lens is used, I think.
This actually lookes awesome.
To bad Europe is left behind for a big launch :( (but i live in Belgium, i'm used to it by now :P)
This is why your startup needs to ditch the pitch
In a quick Google search http://www.google.com/search?q=python&pws=0 (I hope I've killed personalization correctly.) the Python-language gets 9 of the first 10 places, and the Python-snake gets only one place and the news section at the bottom.
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What you see as awesome I see as scaring the @!#@$ out of me. I enjoy being anonymous in crowds. No thanks.
I think this technology could replace mobile phones. I just notice how often i need to grab my mobile phone, just to check some little peace of information I need. When i'm in the car I cannot grab it.

Note that the glasses look ugly, but they are already developing lenses with screens in it. This is basically technology becoming one with your brain.

I want one bad!
Am I the only one who doesn't like iTerm 2 because it feels slow to use? Example: Open up a file in vim, then scroll up and down quickly. The refresh on iTerm 2 is noticeably sluggish compared to Terminal.app.
I'm really excited about these. Between this, driverless cars, and Google Fiber, I'd say it is safe to say Google has taken over Apple in innovation.
I've always wondered: What stops someone from uploading a 10 GB file using Django's upload forms? The file could even be very small when gzipped, it sounds like a reasonable and easy DoS attack.
Every time I see Google Glass I think "Oh, cool" and then I realize that what I want/need in everyday life is de-augmented reality (i.e. just vanilla reality). I've already got devices buzzing etc. to get my attention for "important thing".

The argument for things like Glass is that they will make the merging of reality and technology seamless which could have great advantages. I fear, however, that it just means I'll have a thing right in front of my face asking for my attention.

The $1B idea with Google Glass is not the technology of putting it in front of your eyes etc., it's figuring out the software that filters down what's shown to the stuff you actually want/need. I don't think we've done that successfully in other domains yet.
I think it's more likely they want to filter for people that are serious about it.
I wonder if the glue is too hot to draw on human skin. Could make unique jewellery, very tight fitting (if ephemeral, I don't think they would last too long). Maybe for some special events, like weddings and other ceremonies?
A way of addressing this would be to have a karma threshold before someone can do an AMA.
Brightpod is a small and simple work media tool worth looking at
> I think it's funny how you start about ethics and then immediately follow by talking about money.

Why would that be funny? A lot of ethics is about not destroying someone else's value. Value is measured in money.
"In "real world" exploit we would use 100-200 most popular Facebook applications and just gather all the available tokens. It would be awesome."

Highly entertaining (and illuminating) article.
IT'S A HUD FOR REAL LIFE!

WHAT ARE YOU NOT GETTING HERE?
I actually like that term and think it would have worked well for them.
for everyone downvoting: It's a joke.
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The 10-year prelude to each was similar also. The U.S. blockaded trade with Japan from about 1930 so Japan had almost run out of oil by 1941. The U.S. and allies ran a no-fly-zone over Iraq from 1991 onwards.
I just had to fix a hacked website, turns out it was severely overdue for a Wordpress update (which fixed it). My admin explanations did explain how to update it, but I was still called on to do it. I'd hope a cofounder would update Wordpress before calling me.
Your next project - Elasto Mania in the browser!
"Analysis of the 2001 Census data revealed lower levels of education and income and poorer housing conditions for the Inuit-inhabited areas compared with Canada as a whole. Any or all of these, in addition to lifestyle risk factors and environmental conditions, could be at least partly responsible for the lower life expectancy in those areas.

In the three five-year periods studied, from 1989 through 2003, the infant mortality rate was approximately four times higher in the Inuit-inhabited areas, compared with all of Canada."

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/080123/dq080123d-en...
This is a real bummer, I have to wear glasses and can't wear lenses. Is there any information if there will be support for custom glasses being attached?
So... you are entering a competition to win the privilage of spending $1,500. People will sign up for this? Wowser.
When I saw the icon I hoped it is a synthesizer because of the sawtooth wave. Too bad.
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Where are the images of people wearing it ? Can't seem to see any.. which is sort of telling in itself really.

Edit: ah nevermind, on the how do i get page. still, not a very highlighted part of the product.
I think it looks better with glasses:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQr6-v...

Here is sunglasses on Brin from opposite profile:
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvbW54...
Where's Patent Exhaustion for Self-Replicating Patented Seeds?
That wasn't cold at all.

In case you happen to be on Earth, can I borrow your iTransmogrifier for a weekend?
If you crash when the yeti is chasing you, the yeti disappears.
A 3D collaborative notes app

3D meaning sublists, a depth of at least three. Collaborative is vague, if the app is free then relying on a shared Dropbox folder could work. I think a good notes app should have offline access, a queue of changes for next time you are online and most of all a changelog. Closest I've found so far are Workflowy and Cotton.
Can't wait for the next bunch of vomit inducing videos... or am I the only one who can't deal with all the head bobbing?

As for the HUD itself - I love the idea. But the problem is, while I love the idea, I'm not sure it wouldn't be super distracting in real life. Yes it works for fighter pilots and whatnot, but, to take the sample video as a benchmark, when I'm about to catch my girlfriend hurling towards me at high speed from a trapeze (which, like you I assume, I do on a regular basis), I'm not sure she'd be happy with me being distracted by some shit popping up in my view...
I see these things as a natural progression. The Internet is so important that we are becoming connected tighter with each revolultion.

When I first started using the Internet, it was using an unreliable 56k on a large desktop. I had to visit one spot in my house to connect.

After this, I got my first laptop. This was great because now I can connect any where in my house. By that time, I had broadband do always on, faster and way more reliable.

Fast forward again and I got my first smart phone. Now I can connect pretty much anywhere (given a decent signal) just by pulling my phone out of my pocket.

Google Glass means I won't have to pull it out of my pocket anymore. Now my life will be constantly enhanced at every moment by great hackers, just like it has been enhanced in increasing amounts since I first touched the Internet.
"JRuby would for sure consume much more than 15GB of RAM"

I wouldn't say this with such certainty, at least without any empirical evidence. I'll try a JRuby BM when I get home...
You can use the window pinning (not sure of the right word) to quickly move a window to take half the screen by dragging it to either side. Then you can do the same with the the other window. Once done dragging to the top will fullscreen it again.
Cue an increase in personal injuries. I really hope people are not going to drive with these :-(
I have no idea of the rendering power available in these things, but a kick-ass alternate reality game with things only glass-wearers can see would be a good start.

Can it overlay reality with giant scary monsters?
Someone else asked recently.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5248693
The Varnish Experience: Writing Software for Modern computers
Poul-Henning Kamp @ Multicore World 2013 (NZ) describes his experience with Varnish Software.
This article isn't as much about one-liners as it is about the usefulness of the if __name__ == '__main__' idiom. It's great when a module can be consumed as a library and as a command-line script at the same time.

Unfortunately, Python isn't really that good for writing one-liners, especially those that process input. At one point I was sufficiently unhappy about this, that I tried doing something about it:

https://github.com/gvalkov/python-oneliner
I wonder, when this becomes mainstream, what is going to start happening on the roads? It is already quite dangerous with some drivers texting/talking on their phones while driving. So now they will have yet another thing to look at (other than the road they're on)...

Not saying glass is a bad thing, I think it's really great. Just wonder how (or if) this is going to affect the road safety.
That was my first thought too. It surely would make a difference as in one case a busy road moving to another via a left turn can simply filter in and in the other it has to wait for the opposite flow of traffic to clear.

Is there a widely available traffic profiling tool like Sim City without the extraneous "fun" parts?? I assume there's some sort of gui based analysis prog that city planners use?
Quickly scanning the site and grepping the coffeescript source I didn't see any ajax support built in. That would make a nice option (if not the default).
Yes, in fact lot of casual bloggers are not aware of this. Loosing out on SEO which you have build over the years is pain.
I cycled competitively in my teens, and got a few ok results in my speciality (hill climb) at a national level, but not good enough to want to take it any further. Some of the friends I trained with went pro.

I trained 400 - 500 miles per week, riding anywhere from 10 to 140 miles per session. I'm 40 now and still cycle but just for pleasure and getting around now, slower than I was before but riding centuries is still no problem.

In short, I know exactly what the knock feels like.

I expect you are carb loading either the day before or in the morning before your rides, and that could easily give you enough stored glycogen to see you through a 2 hour ride.

I however was cycling to burn off fat that I'd built up during a few months of strength training, so the last thing I'm going to do is gorge on pasta the night before.
Obvious idea: Peril Sensitive Glasses [1] that go opaque at the first sign of danger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhikers_G...

(Edit: HN is stripping apostrophe in link - should be Hitchhiker's_Guide)
The purpose of this data transfer was internal - transferring search index data between west and east coast - and they had a supplier contract just for this purpose.
Where "enhanced" == abusive apps that rely on dopamine hits and fear of missing out to spur traction?
Considering the bugs in Windows 8, and how Microsoft is already preparing a service pack for this year (Blue version), does that make Surface Pro a $1,000 product, too?

You're basically beta testing any brand new product. Always.
I also think people will be much more strict when it comes to picking "apps" for a device like Glass, or at least more strict with permissions.

Just from personal experience the more capable something is of interrupting me the more selective I am with privileges.
I think google has another project to help there.
You can use git on BitBucket. As a matter of fact, I use BitBucket for my private projects. The benefit of using GitHub for public projects, on the other hand, is that it provides better visibility : more users, and possibly more contributors. It's the same kind of reason why people use facebook and not google+ (technical differences aside).

I'm not a git expert, but afaik it's easy to setup a project to be visible on both BitBucket and GitHub if need be.
Once again, Porno has reached a new level.
If the PSF's attempt to save someone the costs and time of a filing challengeable trademark application counts as "firing the first shot", I'd hate to see a "pre-emptive strike."
Work for one now and agree. Putting pricing in the open would take eat away at profits. Every deal is negotiated. One customer could pay $100 an for my time. Another might be paying $330.
Ubuntu for phones delayed until 2014, but on Nexus 4 now
I think I saw them say they will be working on that, too. But it might not arrive with the first version of Glass.
Posted on other glass thread:

I think it looks better with glasses:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQr6-v...

Here is sunglasses on Brin from opposite profile:
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvbW54...
Interesting. This opens up a whole new realm of nature documentary film-making based around unobtrusive cameras. I don't see animal behavior differing very much, but a human presence certainly is not something the animals can ignore.

That said, some of the animals in the pictures saw the camera -- not exactly discreet.
I think it could either enhance or diminish road safety. It all comes down to the person using the technology, though.

The sort of person who would use something like Glass to use GPS or a HUD (speedo, tach, clock?) without taking their eyes off of the road will likely be a more safe driver. HUDs have been credited with enhancing aviator safety; this could bring such innovations to the road.

The sort of person who looks for distractions anyway will now be distracted by Glass. I'm not sure if this will constitute new distractions or a new way to consume old ones, though.
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Any suggestions to how you would prefer them look? I'm not sure the concept of Glass would work well with sunglasses for example. At that point you'd need it to be a HUD for one of the lenses, and I think that's really distracting.
http://ihkdesigns.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/idiots-are-everyw...

in short: "I suggest you avoid the article at all costs. It is one of the most idiotic things I have ever read on the Internet, and I have read every single article by Dan Lyons!"
Some blogs I like (most are not updated very frequently, though):

Billy Rios (discovered GIFAR) http://xs-sniper.com/blog/

Michal Zalewski (one of the top security researchers in the world, wrote "The Tangled Web", a must-read) http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com

Neal Poole: https://nealpoole.com/blog/

Nir Goldshlager: http://www.nirgoldshlager.com/

Michael Brooks: https://sitewatch.me/en/Blog

Nils Jünemann: http://www.nilsjuenemann.de/

Stefano di Paola (Minded Security): http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/

Root Labs: http://rdist.root.org/
Why would the Chinese want to shut off the US power grid? The reason why they built nukes to defend against Russia and none to defend against the US is they want to take over the US by immigrating there in large numbers. Australia/NZ and Canada today were just trial runs. There were 1 million ethnic Chinese in the US in 1990; by 2010 there were 3 million. Extrapolating the geometric series, 10 million by 2030, 30 million by 2050, and 100 million by 2070. Their students are coming to rent the houses, get jobs afterwards, then buy the houses. Americans will vote for the government that lets in more rich Asian immigrants, so house prices go up higher. By 2100, the US will be a majority Chinese nation, and the Ming Dynasty's big mistake of closing down Zheng He's 15th century treasure fleet will have been rectified.
I bet that in one year everybody will love the way they look.
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That can happen when the dev environment is too complex / heavy to setup on a local machine.
yeah that would be no big deal. I will check whether one can reference an external sitemap. Maybe one could just point its robots.txt file to Checkerr. I also hope to add sitemap validation feature soon (=is your sitemap up-to-date).

But I am not sure I wanted to generate sitemaps for the big ones like Amazon :P
No, I cannot say my life has been enhanced by those types of applications.

I'm talking stuff we take for granted like email, the web, word processing. These things have enhanced my life. The web alone opens a whole library of information and I am actually thankful because without it I'd know only a fraction of what I currently know.

Similar revolutions will happen and I fully believe something like Google Glass will be the medium.

Just as a thought, look at everything you use computers for now and think what it'd be like if they wasn't there? Even the most basic tasks should be considered.
I have always wondered where are following hardware hidden in this design:

1. CPU and really the whole shebang. where is it?

2. It probably requires some sort of 3G/4G card and connection? Where the heck does it fit?

3. Batteries! Where are those? Are they solar charged?

I understand people who are saying, it is not that much of a big deal just miniaturization of existing technologies but if all above 3 fit in that glass frame, I am genuinely amazed. If anyone who have used Google glass and can chime-in, that will be awesome.
Maybe for you, but the trend is to become increasingly more connected. People can still choose not to use their phone 16 hours a day, and yet they do it anyway.
I wonder why Google felt the need to put this out just before the Playstation 4 announcement today.
While I can barely tolerate ads and always go for the ad-free version of an app when possible, I would mandate precisely zero ads for such a device to register as worthwhile on my radar.
> Every time I see Google Glass I think...

... do I really want fragments of my life to be recorded by total strangers and then shared with God knows who? I really don't.

It's a cool tech, but its social implications are far from being trivial and benign.
I don't think they care about that. Not like the products overlap much.
I tried some FirefoxOS phones for about 20 minutes @ fosdem.

As a developer the idea of native html is tempting. As a normal user I'm rather unimpressed.

"What can this do, that my Android can't?"
Without the answer to that question, people won't get it.
It also looks like this was just for self-reference; it's not an article as it is a collection of useful tips.

I write a lot of these to remind myself of tool usage.
It reminds me the Gargoyles from Snow Crash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
I'm an Apple-aficionado, so perhaps I'm not completely objective in this matter, but the article didn't convince me that Samsung is really out-innovating Apple. Practically the only thing that's being noted is an option to run apps side-by-side. Personally I don't think it's that big a deal and I'm not sure Apple will ever build an option like that in iOS.

I think Apple's next big innovation is probably not on the mobile platform, but in the living room instead. There have been rumours of an Apple-branded TV for quite some time now and Steve Jobs himself noted in an interview how he was annoyed that television sets were still pretty hard to use. I'm betting Apple will release a television in 2013 with no remote control, using Siri instead. Perhaps a nice iTunes integration as well for on-demand television. Perhaps Siri-controlled iTunes integration. When that happens people will remember why Apple is known to innovate and others are known to follow Apple's lead.

That said, it will be interesting to see what features iOS 7 and the iPhone 6 (5S?) will bring. There's been some changes within Apple. With Jonathan Ive responsible for UI interaction we might expect some big changes. It will be interesting to see what his influence will be.
Don't they pronounce the same in your head? To me they do.
The guts appear to be in the fat side.
The author of that retort redefines "sour grapes". Every quote on that blog is dripping with Apple-is-god and Android-is-horrific.

In short, it's the kind of tripe he claim's the CNN article is, and it's absolutely unsubstantiated fanboy drivel.

The way the author casually condescends the digitized stylus and larger size -- features that drove 15,000,000 sales in under a year -- reminds me of Apple itself, who likely also writes off this entire market segment.

Honestly, when you get this kind of a vulgar response to your article, you know you're hitting on a nerve.

And I agree with the original article: Apple's software has been playing catchup for multiple versions, isn't introducing novel features and is barely keeping up with the competition.

I agree because I recently ditched iOS for Android for this very reason!