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>>but really does everyone wants Google to track your path everywhere you go, everything single stuff you're watching?

I feel like the speedy proliferation of smartphones into the fabric of everyday life has answered your question with a resounding, "No one cares". The benefits of what essentially amounts to ESP (text, email, telephony) and fact-based omniscience (access to the internet, real time directions, weather, etc.) far outweigh any privacy concerns in the vast majority of people's minds. I have my reservations and concerns of course, but the mental empowerment is just too much to pass up.
You may be right, no one wants their tech demo to be someone standing in line to cash checks.
Usually the problem is simply having a device be tightly coupled to your stylus (i.e. lose stylus and it's a near worthless piece of plastics or touching is rather clunky), so you need to take care of two things - phone and stylus.
But the thing is - I don't care about Broder. We wouldn't be seeing these posts if it were just about Broder. This story is about Tesla's car!

I'd say it's undisputably true that Broder comes across as lacking professionalism. So sure, his review embellished the truth. But what exactly were you expecting?

The whole review set up is designed to be personal. It's not a scientific experiment with hundreds of trials, decent statistics, reproducible environments; it's not about the truth; it's about communicating with human beings: how does it feel to actually drive the car? It's an anecdote - and that includes all the good things (empathy, personal interest, real-life) and the bad things (non-reproducible, not your life, colored by that drivers opinion). Tesla knew this - but people make choices not just for purely rational reasons, so the human connection is one they wanted. They agreed to this test knowing full well that the range involved was going to be tricky at those temperatures, especially for a driver that doesn't have a clue about electrical cars. They also knew that the point of a review is to see what a car can do; so it's not unexpected for the reviewer to push the car a little further that you'd normally risk it.

And at the end of the day - I don't know Broder, I don't care about Broder - I don't really care about Tesla. I care about the future development of electric cars. And whatever Broder did or didn't do, the car didn't fare particularly well, and in a situation a normal car (and certainly a diesel) would have been able to do without any refill at all. Sure, you could have avoided the complete breakdown by not finishing the trip on schedule, but that's not a great alternative.

From my point of view it was never about Broder, it was about Tesla's car being put through a somewhat unfair test - but even taking into account the test's flaws, the car just doesn't come out looking good. Put it this way - I wouldn't have wanted to be Broder.
> "zero knowledge" policies for e-mail

I don't believe this is entirely possible. If Google were to encrypt all incoming email with your public key (so that only you could decrypt them) at the entry point (SMTP), it would still be possible to law enforcement/government to force Google to copy the incoming emails prior to the encryption step.

Even if all incoming emails were encrypted prior to hitting Google's servers, the headers would still be visible (plus things like automated emails will probably never be encrypted).
Y U no responsive design?
Hi Miguel

Congratulations on the release.

But I think you replied to the wrong thread.
You wouldn't download and 3D-print a car.
It's an interview with BusinessWeek. There is such a thing as playing to your audience. She's a techie, we know she is, BusinessWeek's average reader doesn't know or care.
You mean like the government, every single day of your life?

I agree, far from trivial and benign.
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Gotta find something to prop up the "defense" spending, now that the War on Terror is pretty obviously winding down. China, cyberattacks, how convenient!
The poster deleted the comment I was replying to.
24 different models is different from the 20 different products mentioned above. I don't consider a White 16GB WiFi iPad 4 to be an entirely different product from a Black 16GB Wifi iPad 4.

The 4-product lineup Marco is talking about was the old Apple Matrix of Consumer/Pro and Desktop/Mobile comprising the iBook, PowerBook, iMac, and PowerMac.
I'm not a genius Ruby hacker by any stretch but if EventMachine is like any other "async IO framework" in other scripting languages then it is built on libev or libevent... so Ruby isn't really handling the connections, it's handling the callbacks. Pedantic, but important to note.
No, what happened was the parent deleted his comment.

Don't know why - it was a decent question with a decent answer.
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In what way does printing a bust of Yoda involve fair use at all?
Would love to see the updated test once Ruby 2.0 is out in a few days time.
I must be missing something. I haven't been to yahoo.com in a long time, but this looks very similar to what I remember, just slightly updated for last year's style.

http://i.imgur.com/Z0EH12W.jpg
Interesting point.

"Is this guy recording me?"
This is a fluff piece aimed entirely at nontechnical readers. "Beautiful", "intuitive", "dynamic", "personalizable", and so on are exactly the words this audience wants to hear. They wouldn't understand anything more jargon-y and don't care how the site was built, they just want to know how they're going to feel while using it.
I wouldn't want 'zero' lenses either, they obstruct your vision by getting dirty and having light reflexes etc and also are an additional risk to your eyes in case of accidents.
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She's not going to rattle off jargon from the technical requirements document. If she did, the Business Week audience would respond with, "What's that supposed to mean? It just a bunch of acronyms and industry jargon."

This is a marketing and PR piece.
There is also Mobility (http://www.mobility-online.de/en/informations/generalinforma...). It was designed by a university and auto manufacturer so they put a bit more thought into their traffic algorithms. I feel it is a bit eurocentric because there are a lot of things they do in Europe which we do not do here as far as traffic management goes, but it is an interesting simulation/game to fool around with. Since the German federal government also played some role in its development, you will see more of a bureaucratic approach to the game.
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"I don't think regular people really realize the extent to which all Google products are merely vectors to build personal profiles of you to sell advertising."

That, and, the apps are very useful to many. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend it's some kind of sham.
Which page are you seeing this on? When I go to Yahoo!, I'm seeing something completely different.

http://i.imgur.com/OyOvL67.png

Edit -- Going to the Australian site as linked below gives me the search box at the top, and as I scroll down it rolls out a search box stuck to the top of the page. Looks like you might be seeing a rendering glitch where both are visible at the same time when they shouldn't be.
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There are plenty of people who dislike responsive designs for good reasons. It is not the fault of responsive designs itself but the fault of many mobile browsers like Mobile Safari and Chrome for iOS. Here is what I mean:

Responsive websites usually don't let you zoom in by panning. Everything is fixed. If you want the text to be larger you are out of luck on the browsers mentioned above. On iOS you cannot make the font size bigger in Mobile Safari. You can only turn on zooming in the accessibility settings which has its drawbacks as well. I like to zoom in to the relevant parts of a website myself - manually.

If most mobile browsers were capable of letting the user pick a different font size then I would be all for it.
We'd be interested in throwing one next month when we're in town.
Thanks for the comment.

I was more thinking about how things worked from say 1500 to 1800 in the US. During that time, a lot of the things that originate with government in simcity would have been done independently. i.e. religious schools would be started by local enclaves (sometimes with organizational help of government, which they controlled due to being dominant in that area, but not originated from it). In the US at least, land use was pretty free for most of that time, no zoning. Look at the institutions within a gold rush town, for example - although there was a government, they couldn't control much, the people came first and built lots of infrastructure before there ever was a sheriff or mayor. Rollicking, fast-developing cities from that era weren't restrained by zoning laws, and they developed in interesting (not always good) ways. It is interesting to realize that most of the current buildings in the US major cities would actually be illegal under the current law for new buildings.

Rather than from libertarianism, my ideas for this came from a couple books about city planning I've read recently, "The Power Broker", and "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". Neither one is really libertarian, but rather look at how government power can be used or misused in cities. The latter one particularly is not at all libertarian, and is a strong advocate of government intervention into neighborhood design - but, lays out a smarter way it should be done, based on the author's understanding of the way cities work.

Simcity seems to be designed by someone influenced by the ideas criticized in "death and life" - i.e. very strong zoning laws, top-down control and predetermination for how things will work in every neighborhood, high value placed on "open space" without consideration of usage patterns etc.
The article's basis of the comparison for building an entire business seems to be very shallow.

Surely other considerations are more important, such as,

- encapsulation/domain partitioning

- messaging

- libraries and library maturity

- native code interoperability (likely critical for this application)

- concurrency

- performance

- JVM platform

- etc.

Maybe, as a result of this type of analysis, Python-like language is more suitable in some domains and a JVM language in others.

In my opinion, for the requirements quoted, with a deep and performant mathematical framework involved, I cannot envisage how Scala/JVM could win any "war" for the core of the business.
I am not talking on behalf of Samsung, I'm simply talking against Apple. I own HTC Android phones, they've had a multitude of features well-before Apple debuted their 'magically life-changing revolutionary' iOS 6.

As for Samsung, without Google's help, I think there is a reason why they're #1 on the international display market. Do you know how many companies use Samsung's displays? Even my Sony Vaio and my Sony bravia use their displays under the hood. The display segment is where one simply cannot sustain without innovating. Samsung's leadership in displays are evidence that they can innovate alone, which is the answer to the question you've asked me. I bet the display with which you're reading HN now, uses Samsung's technology in some form or the other - That's the depth of their remarkable engineering and innovation. Can you say the same for Apple? They're just re-packagers. Someone else manufactures something for them and then they just add their logo and increase the prices by 4x, which you purchase and don't want to feel bad for, by labeling rational arguments as trolls on a public forum.

Instead of blatantly labeling me as a troll, I'd love to see you provide evidence in support of Apple's 'innovation'. Don't talk about profits, just pure innovation. You'd be surprised how little you have to talk in favor of (Apple), when it comes to innovation.
We do releases fairly frequently with bug fixes for all of our products. What is meant by hot-fixes is custom builds of a specific version of a product w/ a bug fix.

For Xamarin Studio (the product I work on), I often provide bug reporters with the latest internal build with my patch for their bug no matter what subscription they have (at least for the bigger issues). It's not quite the same thing, but I suspect that'd be good enough for most people until the next official point-release.
I know, lots of extra issues besides the one they already have when they distribute the technology in the US. It still sucks to be excluded.
Yeah, they're on a motion sensor, and usually flash, which is pretty hard to ignore. We've been using them for years to spot whitetails in the woods.
Ask HN: Where are you storing your passwords?
Linux passwords, database passwords, third-party system passwords, mail passwords... At some point they have to be written down somewhere, and the possibility of a plain text file leaking online gives me the creeps. Manual encryptation means that at some point (while editing) it exists unencrypted on disk, and a leak could happen (a backup copy of your text editor, for example).

I am not talking about browser plugins that can help only with web-based interfaces. The mix-up of interfaces means that at some point you have to write them down, securely. How are you guys doing it?
Voice-based input also has massive potential for trolling. I'm not keen on the idea of having a stranger walking next to me text my family through my glasses.

I'm thinking that once the promo videos are over and forgotten, the majority of the user input will be through a touch device linked by bluetooth. It just makes more sense to me from a practical standpoint.
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I'm waiting till they come out with a monocle version so I can wear it with my top hat :)

http://www.medquarterly.co.uk/mq88V1/images/stories/futurama...

It actually doesn't look as bad with the sunglasses/shades clip in. No more so than the bluetooth Oakley sunglasses at least.
Oh heaven forbid! A new technology that would let people manufacture goods in their home might push the copyright industries further into obsolescence! We must need a new set of laws to stop this monstrosity, before it is too late and the balance of power shifts yet again!

Businesses need to wake up: new technologies mean changes to the market. Governments need to stop trying to stave off the death of old businesses, and just let those businesses die. Greater harm is done to society when we try to stop the progress of technology than when we let obsolete businesses kick the bucket.
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I have been working with the beta and am extremely pleased. I think people will get very excited over the VS integration for iOS but I think the component store is going to be one of the big winners here.

The MonoDevelop rewrite (Xamarin Studio) also has a clean, fresh and fast feel to it. I cannot say that X is empirically faster or better but the experience does feel better overall.

I think they are heading in the right direction here and the holy grail for breaking strongly into the enterprise may be the ability to build for iOS without the need for a Mac. It is not there yet but you can see the direction they are going and how that will likely come to pass at some point.
Man, isn't it weird that a company might be out-innovating another company? Man, isn't it weird that another OS might do things in a different way? Man, isn't it weird that a cnn contributor might have said things that will split a room and have various spheres of the tech world proclaiming "No YOUR phone is a dick"?

Here's the rub, iOS has gone down a very straightened route. It's a managed, curated, locked down experience. The static icons are because Apple wants the OS out of the way as much as possible because you're not there to stare at that, you're there to fondle whatever app you want. Android has thrown much niceness in for customising, and having windowing, non-static tiles, information widgets and what not because they know that's what some consumers want.

Lets all take a breath. It's all okay. Android is a great OS! So is iOS! They do different things which work better for different people. Look at it this way, having two companies making excellent operating systems, and two companies making excellent hardware can only help to get other companies to similarly up their game.

For what it's worth I wouldn't say Samsung is necessarily out-innovating Apple, but they are putting things together in a very, very nice way. I see as many Samsung Android devices on my commute as I do iPhones and that's not a bad thing, but I can't think of anything that Samsung has done recently that's stood right out as a massive innovation, but I don't pay as much attention as I should.
Are there any in-expensive game cameras that you guys would recommend. Everything seemed really expensive on Amazon.
I voted no. HN doesn't bring the traffic that Reddit does. Let reddit do their thing. It's not like you can't participate in both communities. Like Daniel said above, let reddit be reddit, and hn be hn.
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My dumbest productivity hack yet
It doesn't require logging in.
Are you at a hotel by any chance? Anytime I stay at a hotel and access any Yahoo property it pushes me to the mobile sites.
I use KeePass (http://keepass.info/) to manage all of my passwords.

From their website:

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

I'm always keen to manage my passwords in the best possible way, so I'll be following this discussion closely to see if I should be modifying my tools and practices.
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AMA, HN: Ben Rudgers [Was "AMA, HN [v. 00.00.01a]"]
Ask me anything.

[Edit] Why would anyone want to ask me anything? You probably don't. Hopefully someone more interesting will try it.

[Edit] Then why do it? The purpose of this post was to show that the utility of AMA's on HN can be tested, easily. Even if it is more fun to argue about it.
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What does it mean with "you cannot P/Invoke 3rd-party library"? Does this mean that Xamarin Free edition is limited to the scope of iOS basic SDK and not 3rd-party Obj-C library out there?

Or does this include some of the iOS extended library (if any?) from Apple?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm not quite familiar with iOS ecosystems.
Umm, Google not allowing password-less sudo voice commands?
There is, it is called sleeping early.
Also, say the mechanic is watching what you see on his computer, he could point to parts of his screen with the mouse and it would highlight it in your screen so he can actually point to certain places, etc.
Come on, now, all innovation is iterative. Nobody can claim "true innovation." There will always be someone who did it first but history will remember those who did it best.
Where is the yodel when you click on the exclamation mark ? :)
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How does Google Glass help me fly a plane or do the trapeze? It doesn't of course. But they're showing me that using Google Glass feels like flying a plane or doing the trapeze.

"How it feels" is not how it feels, it's other peoples' experiences. And I feel like it implies that you will have these great experiences if you use Google Glass. How does Google Glass add anything by displaying weather or recording a weird first-person video while playing with your kids or your dog in the park?
Going directly to http://au.yahoo.com/ doesn't show the upper search box.
BUG: it's "python" not "ruby" in "pushed real-world ruby codebases"
Hilarious comments on article about Higgs Boson and the doom of the universe
My bad, English is not my primary language and for whatever reason I was thinking of phones' bluetooth headsets. You're right :) Also, I probably need more coffee.
Take your Eagle designs to the cloud
This topic comes up all the time. You might want to do a search and sift through some of the other popular threads.
I still don't get why everybody is so upset over the aesthetics of these things? Nobody is going to force you to walk around with these on at all times. Like anything else, you'll choose when to put them on and use them. The alternative today is to walk around with your arms up holding your phone in front of you. Is that any better? The long-long term version of this looks like contact-lenses. We're just not there yet - so if you want to play with version one, this is how it'll look when you choose to wear 'em.
Why do you need d3.js for this ?
I would be willing to pay a fair share of money for the identification feature. It doesn't even have to identify strangers, just help my incompetent name-memory center remember the names of people I've met and where I met them. Some people can't remember names; some people can't remember
faces. I can't remember either. :(