skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your site is a marketplace. What users need is trust in other users, not trust in your source code. What happens if someone loses your pricey lens? Or sells it on ebay and disappears? Those are the main issues.

Furthermore, you aren't in the open source business. What happens if someone offers you a patch, and it is not in the direction you want to go? What happens if someone is not satisfied with your service and forks the code base? Now you have even more problems.
I have a really hard time believing glass can deliver this quite yet.

I would've agreed, except that I've been extremely impressed with what Google Now is already doing on my phone. Still in its infancy, it's often creepy how relevant the context it brings is to what I'm doing.
The original vision by Eben Moglen was to use "increasingly cheap ARM, $50-$100 devices that plug into the wall and are not much bigger than an AC adapter." Almost certainly referring to the Sheevaplug. But the reference platform for Freedombox is now a $160+ device with built-in wifi to replace my existing router. If we were going to go that direction I wish it would have used a cheap wifi router with OpenWRT as you have mentioned.
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I've never ever heard of Anonymous swatting so please feel free to post a link??
Agreed. I can't even think of a male-targeting pejorative term that carries anything like the emotional weight of certain words that a disinterested man could wield against a woman when rejecting her advances. That says a lot about the actual differences in power between the sexes.
Why can't the people in your second example use the tactic in your first example?
Microsoft not hearing of Gorilla Arm - ironic. Wired grovelling - pass the sickbag.
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I have no idea what to do about 2 v 3 now. The grandparent is a genuine question, and my perspective is as a casual sometime Python user rather than a serious Python user. I am personally frustrated by the problem every time I'm tempted to get serious about Python. I'd love to know whether the key Python people acknowledge the problem in the way I've framed it and whether they have resolved to avoid something similar happening again in the future once this issue (finally) works itself out one way or another.
Bitcoin fluctuates wildly in value.
Bitcoin takes quite a while for a transaction to happen, and there are waits and fees involved in exchanging money from USD and back to USD.
Bitcoin doesn't allow chargebacks, an important consumer protection mechanism, therefore helping to perpetuate fraud.

No one wants to buy anything with bitcon, and no one wants to go through the trouble of selling anything with bitcoin.
That's true and this helps big corps but this is one case in politics where I really don't care. Software patents are universally bogus and have no business being enforced. Anything that reduces anyone's ability to sue is good in my opinion. To combat the LLC with zero assets issue, which is a good point, I'd like to see a system whereby they establish standards to pierce the corporate veil and go after personal assets, which they tend to argue in cases where the LLC/corp is essentially just a front.
"Here is some feedback" isn't sugar coated sissy politically correct worded observation. It's just a bit more polite.
If anybody wants to get a good idea where something like glass could go, read the Phaethon series starting with "The Golden Age". It's a bit of a tough read, but the author spent some serious time considering the implications of a civilization built around always wearing these kind of devices at all times.

Glass acts like a layer on top of the real world, consider then that as the technology improves and the number of people using it increases, you can get rid of things like street signs as the glass will simply show you the pertinent signage for wherever you are looking, going shopping and the device will recognize the product you are looking at and tell you if it's a good deal, people can "project" their idealized image of what they want you to see to your glass, simply looking at somebody will pull up relevant information you need to know like their name and occupation and so on and so forth.

Now project this forward and add more similar layers on top of this. Imagine you can select from several layers according to your philosophy or needs. A Libertarian layer might allow one business to buy the virtual signage of another business and broadcast their brand instead. Or a Maslow Hierarchy layer may strip all branding from your view and simply distill down what they're selling to its bear essentials "food" "clothes" "shoes".

You could select filters in your layers to simply block out things that you don't want to see. "New Derelicte-Block omits undesirables from your world!"

Why build fancy metamaterials when all you have to do is hack the local View Layer broadcast frequency and hide yourself from everybody around.

Why hack it when you can simply unjack completely and rely on everybody's standard install of Derelicte-Block v3.2 to keep you suppressed from their notice?
I managed to code a pretty bad bug that went out and stopped a key module working on a piece of software.

Funny thing is, it got through a code review my own personal testing and QA testing.

Once the problem came to light it was a very obvious quick fix though.
There's a really awesome documentary about early Macs that has a whole section dedicated to the guys who built the beep. IRC it was called "Cult of Mac" or something. I will google it when I get off the shit can. TMI? Too bad.
Actually, it doesn't require any permission whatsoever so long as you are in a public area. If the owner of private property says you can't film there, then you can't, but simply being the subject of public filming doesn't give you the right to object.

Like it or not, those are the rules.
As a project last year I wrote a locally-focused dating site with a friend. It has a similar premise to "Check Him Out", mentioned in the article, but we didn't use a shopper/product metaphor, opting instead to be straightforward in emphasizing discreetness for women and ease of use (laziness, effectively) for men.

You can see it at http://www.ladieschoicevictoria.com/

It's been very interesting so far. We've had a strong positive response from two groups of women: young women who have had bad experiences with more open dating sites, and older women who, speaking generally, aren't totally comfortable with online dating and prefer the privacy of having a profile only visible to people you select. We've got a similar ratio to "Check Him Out", about 60% women, and about 1600 users overall.

We haven't made any effort to monetize yet, but it seems clear that the relative success we have had (including being covered in a local paper) is thanks to both the privacy features and the local aspects.

I don't think we've solved the problem, but I do say that the experiment suggests to me that some combination of safe and local is the essential ingredient that the author is looking for.
But those are both ways to keep your two different notations for structure in sync. If you only have one structure, you don't have that problem in the first place.
Yeah, it could be that, or it could just be the Xybernaut Poma:

http://www.complex.com/tech/2011/04/the-50-worst-fails-in-te...
Thanks for posting this, it's great to see the source alongside the instructions. Makes me feel a lot better about running random commands that install a whole new OS on my Choromebook, and I've been looking to chroot for a while.
Equal rights usually means equality under law. For example there not being any laws (such as you might find in strongly muslim countries) which apply to women but not to men.
I'll never forget when my boss was showing the girl scouts (literally) our very expensive UPS room. He explained how even if the power goes off we'll switch to batteries then switch over to generator power. See watch, he says - then flicked the switch. Fooomm... our entire office goes dark.

This took down news information for a good chunk of Wellington finance for about half a day. (Fortunately Wellington, NZ is a tiny corner of the finance world).

Hilarious! But I admit I was super glad it was the boss playing chaos monkey, not me.
This is a very little known aspect of college accessibility in the United States. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which uses its resources to provide scholarships for some high-ability young people from low-income families, has studied the issue and discovered that high-achieving high school students from lower-income families are somewhat less likely to attend college, substantially less likely to attend selective colleges, and much less likely to graduate from college than students of similar ability from higher-income families. Family resources matter a lot for boosting students into higher education and sustaining them there.

This issue has also been studied by the National Association for Gifted Children.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2012/10/report_low_inc...

The association's report Unlocking Emergent Talent: Supporting High Achievement of Low-Income, High-Ability Students

http://www.nagc.org/uploadedFiles/Conventions_and_Seminars/N...

provides more details on the economic barriers to higher education faced by able students from lower-income families.
I started Python (again) today
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Some of my favorite fictional technology is subvocal speech recognition. (For examples, see the motes in A Deepness in the Sky, and Jane's interface with Ender in the Speaker for the Dead series.)
Thank you for actually answering the question I asked!
Crouton is brilliant. It makes Chrome OS a truly viable proposition for developers.
Methods are type specialized functions, just syntactic sugar for calling functions with a context (provided by an instance of the required type) that you defined elsewhere.

class Foo(object):
def __init__(self, bar):
self.bar = bar
def something(self, arg):
return [self.bar, arg]

I can do this:

assert(Foo('spam').something('eggs') == Foo.something(Foo('spam'), 'eggs')

But I could also do this:

assert(Foo('spam').something(Foo('ham'), 'eggs') == ['ham', 'eggs'])
The hidden histories inside our most-used words
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I've been using ag for the past year or so, and it's great. One pain point remains the lack of Windows support, so I'm back to double-slow cygwin grep when on Windows.
Not that they are having them for that reason currently, but it's not implausible they would start were the total human population of earth to drop below, say, 100k.
It doesn't really project itself over your field of view. It's a smallish window in the corner of your vision.
The way forward is going to be via the Google-led Web Audio spec, as well as the complementary MIDI device spec - it's not "there" yet, though, since these specs are still non-finalized. But I'm working on building up the playback capabilities as a side project. I made a "true" Soundfont2 + SMF playback engine for Flash/Haxe, which is open-source(zlib) and somewhat usable in real-world: http://spacecreeps.com/apps/triad-synth/index.html

Now I'm working on the next generation of it, since I was still learning my way around audio with that one and made a mess of the architecture. I'm starting off with a Web Audio-for-Haxe project( early stages, you can watch it here https://github.com/triplefox/hxAudio ) - I'll be building off of that to add the synthesis and MIDI parts, so that you have pretty much everything needed for the playback parts of an audio app; recording isn't on my radar yet - especially since the specs are very early still. It will be possible to compile out the lib to pure JS, so you won't necessarily have to be using Haxe if that's not your workflow.
You don't understand (the Western notion of) privacy one lick. I recommend avoiding all public places until you figure it out and get comfortable with it.
Mozilla (Firefox) is against innovation
I just need to write down my anger against Mozilla.

Beside loosing against Chrome and Speed, i just wrote an Add-On and they currently need 2 month (it's already outdated btw) to review it in their Add-On Collection.

Nobody ever killed my commitment and free time to develop cool browser extension like Mozilla :(
Sad to see you drowning.
Women have the flexibility of being shy or proactive. Do men? Not really. Men are the ones pressured to be self-confident, extroverted, and to take risks. Thus, it doesn't seem equal because men have far less choice.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not contradicting that, nor am I advocating not learning from history. I just think that stuff like that:

"The Deep Insights of Alan Kay"
"Alan is the most important person alive in Computer Science""

is over the top.
Not quite sure what you mean. I think the GP is talking about people who meet in real life after connecting through an online dating site.

In such a case there are obvious risks that one takes when meeting someone who is a) a stranger b) very likely significantly physically stronger c) already expressed some level of sexual interest.
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I'm not sold on Google Glass yet. But if you don't see the difference between [1] and [2] ... I don't know what to say

1. http://cdnl.complex.com/mp/620/400/80/0/bb/1/ffffff/bed82b8e...
2. http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/06/27/20120627_Google_...

(it looks like the guy wearing the Poma is having trouble even keeping a straight face).
Trucks. http://allthingsd.com/20130109/steve-jobs-was-right-tablets-...
This influence/importance can also be seen in the existence of GeoDjango, which is shipped with Django itself[0], where Ruby seems to have the old GeoRuby[1], the rather recent (and with unsure following) RGeo[2] or doing raw PostGIS.

Also in OpenGEO, looking at their projects, aside from PostGIS it's either Python (and JS) or Java (and JS)

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/

[1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/georuby/

[2] http://dazuma.github.com/rgeo/
That's my take, too--it would be infinitely more useful in a work environment.

I can imagine how having a HUD could be useful while programming, even though I have two screens in front of me already.

I can also imagine how it would make certain elements of interacting with people working remotely--like seeing what someone's doing, whether it's programming in a terminal or sketching on a pad--so much easier.

That said, it'd definitely stay in an office drawer after-hours.
Configurable keys are a must here. Your keymap breaks my muscle memory from 20 years ago
Definitely interesting, but I am waiting to see actual usage and how accurate it really is
Instacart needs to team up with USPS. I am sure USPS wouldn't mind delivering groceries instead of junk mails.
> Google Glass is [...] the initial realization of a concept that, before now, didn't exist in the world at all.

I don't understand. Heads up displays have existed in various forms for years. We've had versions that cover one eye, or that use lasers onto the retina.
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You mean it makes ChromeBooks a truly viable proposition for developers. :)
In South Africa we have a government-run telco monopoly. We also have some of the shittiest, most expensive internet in the world.

At least with private enterprise you can choose the least bad option.
Anything I've ever read that Alan Kay has written, either inspires me greatly, or depresses me deeply. His POV is worth 80 IQ quote is something I live by. It applies to _every_ aspect of life. Then you listen to him talk about computer science, computing in general, and what the future might hold, and you end up wondering why we're using languages today that are essentially prettied up versions of languages 40 and 50 years old (sweeping generalisation!)
Until the value of Bitcoin is more stable and technology illiterate people start to use it, there is no way that something like this can replace PayPal.
I don't think that's how recording laws work.

Regardless, my impression from the latest Verge piece on Glass is that there is an external light when recording.
Commercially the MIT derived Lisp Machine was first sold in 1981. With mouse. You could not use it without mouse.

At that time Xerox was also using their own Lisp Machines internally - Alan Kay knew those. Those were later also sold as a product.
Speaking of the rabid fans dropping money on sticks... Why haven't the Skullgirls guys set up a custom stick? ArcSystemWorks / Aksys Games sold 200 Sanwa BlazBlue Sticks at $200 each.

Custom Sticks are generally offered to the fighting game community. If they had the signatures of the dev team on them, they'd be able to sell them for a pretty penny for fundraising. It'd be a great "reward" for indiegogo. (especially since the $1000 and $500 tiers are "sold out", they probably should offer something on the high end... like a signed custom stick with commissioned artwork)
Great app!

We faced the same problem a year ago finding insurance for our startup. One major pain point was that everyone just made us sign up and connected to a insurance agent who sent us a bunch of official looking PDF docs. I had to sit and do my research to understand the plans. During that process I landed on this NYTimes article http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/health/28patient.html?_r=0

None of the agents sent me a High deductible plan. Then when I asked them, the "researched" and sent me back more PDFs with high deductible plan, which we eventually enrolled.

There are so many options in this space - so I would like you to "educate" me before asking me to give you my contact details.
Depends where you live. Some countries have stricter privacy protection laws than others.
It's neither fraud nor a loop hole. Suppose you are a patent troll and you set up a business to extract value from a particular patent. You start out with $100k and buy a patent for $50k. You use the other $50k to sue someone and lose. You now owe them, say $30k. (I made up the numbers, but they don't really matter - the point is that liabilities are greater than assets at the end).

Where is that $30k going to come from? It doesn't exist. If you think that this is a case where you should breach the limited liability provided by incorporating, you're opening a pretty huge can of worms - it's pretty much the basis of our economy.

It's a lot more complex than "you can't do that".
Pretty. But whenever I see something like this on a website, I disable styles. As easy as Ctrl-Alt-Z on my browser.

I do it for blogs that have fancy title css, scripted comments... just about for anything that's unnessesary junk and therefore just a pretty annoyance.
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I don't know why you were downvoted. You simply said that these machines are going to be getting smaller, cleaner, less obtrusive.

And they will.
No one is saying that women don't pay attention to looks. I'm just annoyed at write-ups that make it out like men only judge women by their looks whereas women look for substantial qualities within a man. If anything, women are far more discriminatory on race and physical attributes.
List of non-technical books I plan to read this year.
> being slightly irreverent to someone in such a strong position

You're also telling everyone who happens to agree with Atwood to shut up. And they don't all have the same strong position.

You're not WRITING AN EMAIL TO ATWOOD, you're broadcasting to the world that everyone who agrees with him is wrong. And you're doing it disrespectfully.

> (hence why I didn't mention that aspect of Atwood's post at all).

Don't you think, given the topic, that you should have specifically mentioned that category of people, and shown empathy? Perhaps starting with Atwood, and generalizing from there?

Fuck it - you don't care what I think, and you're casual about telling people to shut up, so my efforts are completely pointless.
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The concept isn't just the technology. This is the first time such technology has ever been considered for a consumer application.
I don't believe it's available yet as they recently closed the beta testing period.
The biggest problem with Google Glass is privacy.Anyone can record you without you knowing it. And it's not just walking down the street. There are so many bad scenarios. Usually we embrace new tech here but this device would bring privacy to a whole new level. Not to mention that Google is starting to be too powerful for our own good.
I like it well enough for python, php, javascript, css/html and android/java. Used it once or twice for ruby, but not enough to know how good it was as I have never used ruby otherwise. Intellij is also its own code base, not another fork of eclipse, like most IDEs out there. Intelij also has built in support for git, hg, github/bitbucket, pretty much any SQL dialect including SQLite (as well as SQL syntax checking ERD diagramming, and table editing). Unit testing integration for python, php, javascript, java. Django support (and for templates), Google App Engine (python and java), jQuery support, javadoc support, epydoc/restructured support, phpdoc support, jsdoc support, and some of the popular php frameworks. I could go on, but you can see it pretty much comes with everything one needs (and what one does not need can be disabled from plugins). If it does not come with it, open a feature request and they'll probably add it later.

Other IDEs I have used:

- Aptana (PHP, html/js, css, python). It's really a fork of eclipse with some additional features. If you want a free IDE, it's better than eclipse, but not quite as good as intellij.

- Visual Studio (2005, 2010, 2012). Great if you are doing C# or F# and combine it with Jetbrain's Resharper. Not as fond of it for other languages though. I've heard JS support is also very good now, but my web development is all scripting languages like Python and PHP so it does not help me much.

- NuSphere's PHPed. A good natively compiled IDE for PHP and web, but development kind of lags behind other IDEs and a few bugs that were never fixed when I used it would constantly annoy me. Also, only Windows unless you do WINE (it worked well enough on WINE though).

- Eclipse. Eclipse interface is clunky and honestly, it's slower than Intellij or any of its derivative cousins. Aptana improves on it though. Used Eclipse for a couple of years before finding Aptana and then moving onto Intellij.

It's not just about the IDE though, jetbrains in general is a great company. Despite English not being their first language for many employees, they have awesome customer service and are very up front about their road map and interact with their users directly.

I've used some commercial IDEs in the past, such as NuSphere's PHPed (which was a decent IDE at the time, not sure how it is now). PHPed's developers did not speak English as their primary language either, but they did not have anywhere close to the same level of interaction and support. Jetbrain's bug tracker is open for anyone to report on and they actually fix stuff you report (filed a few reports over the past few years, all were eventually fixed).

Maybe I'm just getting overly excited over what any decent company should be doing in the first place. However, many IDE vendors do not seem to do that overly well. Having confidence in the developers of your IDE is important (at least to me) and that they are listening to their customers/users.
If you value privacy, you don't want me looking at your private stuff. Don't show it to me or ask me to leave.

But if you allow me to look at you, then I can remember what I see. I am allowed to remember everything that I see and hear, every single last detail, forever, and without requesting permission from anyone.

If I have trouble remembering, I may write it down or draw pictures of what I saw and heard, and also store these forever without asking for permission or forgiveness.

Glass is just a widget that helps me do it slightly more accurately.