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> Most of your life is not fun

> Your loved ones don't want every piece of your daily minutiae, really, they don't

I'm not sure what to say to this. Try to have more fun? :)

> Technology will get better

I'm counting on it! But Glass is not the final attempt to do this -- it's one of the first attempts. Within ten years, absent political dystopia, there will be no way to tell if the person you're having a conversation with is lifelogging.

> You never forget the best times, the rest is unimportant

Empirically untrue, sadly. From reminiscing with friends, it's clear that both they and I have forgotten some of the best times, since I remember some of the best times and have forgotten others, and vice versa. I can remember that I had quite a bit of fun during the late eighties, but the vast majority of the detail is gone. When I've written down decade-old memories and looked at them a decade after that, it really, really often happens that I'm disturbed at how differently I remembered that event when I was halfway closer to it than now. Human memory is so sketchy and malleable that it's just barely useful at all. :(
> There is nothing inherently different about App.net that would protect your privacy or guarantee you ownership

The concept here is that by making their money from the users directly they align the users' interests with their own.

> it will ring hollow once (if) they get big

I suppose it's possible that they could decide they're not making enough money and convert to an ad revenue model. The problem is that there is already an ad supported service which is quite similar and free, so if they did that they would essentially lose all their users instantly. They'd also be violating their own core beliefs. I think they're a lot more likely to shut down the service from lack of users than they are to "sell out" in this fashion. I mean, there's nothing stopping Microsoft from shutting down the Windows division and focusing on Office for Mac, except that it would completely undermine their brand, and they make significant money from the Windows side. It's the same situation here: switching to an ad model undermines their brand and loses them their paying customers.

Besides that, Marco's goal is to achieve profitability with a small userbase. I don't doubt that it's possible to do that, and it undermines the "they'll screw you over when they get big" concept because they are not, like most startups, trying to reach ridiculous scale before figuring out how to make money, which seems to leave the ad model as the only possible option.
You sound like a crazy person, Jacques. Take a deep breath. Rayiner isn't trying to con you. He is who he says he is. You could verify that easily if you wanted to.
Tech media being positive on Glass is because they are techies. That is a valid point. But it is not what the author says.

"They are competing to see who can do the most over-the-top, overwhelmingly positive review, in hopes of making people at Google happy"
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Does this bother you? I think they are just trying to eliminate management overhead by using peer evaluation to set the company's direction by consensus. This could maybe be chaotic, but I see it as a trade-off. A traditional structure is chaotic in its own way. Like, who gets promoted to upper management? The most deserving people, or lucky people?

Arbitrary decisions from an executive may or may not be better than popularity contests. I guess it depends on the executives and the culture.
There's no question in my mind Glass is a gimmick which will never see mainstream adoption.

As I Tweeted a couple of days ago, it's the Bluetooth headset times a billion. Something that might be legitimately useful to a small percentage of the population, but wearing it in public makes you look like a tool.
Star Trek touchscreens have the same problem.
That's more of a factor for the sentencing phase of a trial (a "mitigating" factor to be considered when adjudging a proper sentence).

What you propose is vigilante justice (though without the violence we normally ascribe to it) and though I too am often sympathetic to that, the legal system is not (and we as a society have chosen that on purpose).
As an aside, does anyone know of a way to install this alongside IE9 on a testing machine? I should have started testing in IE10 months ago, but I'm loath to set up a separate VM for every IE version.
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I've also noticed that even small amounts of alcohol at night can have a serious effect on quality of sleep, even just a couple of beers - nowhere near enough to cause a hangover, so you wouldn't necessarily notice the effect it's having until you cut it out completely.
I'm pretty sure it's filler text used during the design that made it into production.
I read the "Each" to refer to the prior sentence. Which is <example list of objectionable and non-objectionable government roles> which I interpret to mean, all government roles. While you may read it differently - I don't believe my reading is inaccurate or unfair.
school rankings should include "bullying" score.
> Do you similarly hate people who use cellphones or talk with friends on the bus?

Yes, I do hate them, and I thought the common perception was that everyone hates people that talk on the phone when using public transport.
It's a good thing for Children who want to learn, but who's parents want to send them to the mines instead.
Though to be fair, you can't expect a competitor to gush about how great it is.
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The line "If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone." applies to both Glass and smart watches equally.

Both are wearable screens augmenting your phone, though the Glass has additional features, like voice commands and a camera
Let's all use webkit  (The IE10 benchmarks say not so fast)
I was helping out my wife the other day to use some work-related internal site via VPN. I had just finished putting a clean Win7+IE9 install on her PC only to find out that this large-ish enterprisey portal only works in IE8. Everyone always touts these reasons as why old versions stick around forever, but when you see one in practice you realize how crippling it can be for both sides because nobody necessarily even owns the site (e.g., built by outside consultants) and the end users have no real say to get it fixed. If there is no in-house technical owner, the chance of it being updated anytime soon simply because a new browser version is available is next to nil. I feel, in situations like this, it is probably not until the department/whatever head personally encounters the issue on a new computer that a top-down mandate comes to fix the situation.
Ah, interesting. At least reading the public Pepper docs, it seems like there is a hook where the browser requests audio from the plugin/NaCl app/whatever. Is that how Flash gets its audio data into the host's audio subsystem?
Amazingly well done. Clear, great animations, and does a great job of showing you exactly what is going on. I wish all learning material/tutorials were this well produced.
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"If you have a phone in your pocket, why wear this? And it doesn’t seem to replace the need to carry a phone." is not a valid argument against google glass is what he is implying. The same can be said about pebble.
> Let someone modify whatever the hell they want. If they screw it up, that's on them.

If changing a common component or library breaks my code, they may be at fault, but it's still my feature that breaks. The open-closed principle is about sandboxing modifications to the scenarios that need those modifications. It's not about babysitting.

Without it, when you make a change you need to consider every consumer or risk breaking their case. Or, you get these nightmarish components that have "modes" (if I'm included in this context, act like this, if I'm included in that context, act differently).
Why carry a phone when you are wearing Google Glasses? ;)
One sentence in one Huffington Post article. An endless stream of wild extrapolations by publications trying to gin up rageviews.
Wasn't a not-insignificant part of the prosecution established to be him breaking and entering into a secured room and then proceeding to force access to a network port ?

The same goes for the manifesto he wrote. It's not like "A" was "riding ponies", "A" in your text is using violence to force access to documents, because he believed them to be public domain, and then republishing them. As the prosecution claims, that document was not used to establish criminal intent, nor to prove that he committed a crime, but was merely used to establish motive. Needless to say, the criminal part came from the breaking and entering and hacking someone else's computer system.
I don't know what is more ridiculous: the article or the fact that it is on the first page.
Well? What about Loom?
To be frank, he got the mechanism, the scope and the barrel from a store. What he actually built was the scaffolding, which is still nice but more like assembling or repairing an AK than building one.
Exactly. This is version 1 of a entirely new product. Of course it will evolve and iterate. Imagine if they can reduce it to a contact lens or build it into completely normal looking (Warby Parker) glasses.
Let them put up a long, complex video -- an action movie, for example -- using H.264, and their own method, for side-by-side comparison, both with regard to quality and file size. Let them offer something better than hand-waving press releases.

I say this because claims like this tend to be very source-dependent. Change the source, change the claim.
True words and good example. It took courage to step up and walk out of the group.

I'm trying to communicate to her she is definitely not powerless. I used the example of a cat: Not very big or as powerful as a dog, but you still wouldn't pick it up and mess with it. She doesn't have to be as strong as the bullies, as long as they know she won't tolerate any (physical) abuse.
I grew up in West Virginia. I also was pretty involved in the computer operation at my high school. The "head" of IT was a math teacher they suckered into doing all the work.

Anyhow. I remember when they decided they needed a domain server. What they eventually came back with was a two year old model HP tower server that ran over $4k. It was insane. They could have gotten something new for much much less, but all the explanation I could get was that they had a contract and had to buy the items listed in that contract.

There is a culture of corruption and it is prevalent in not only the public, but also the private sector.

Another story is when I was in a diner years later and heard my old social studies teacher asking for a bribe from someone to get a job in the coal mines. I felt pretty bad because I believe he got his money and thus his power from years before when I told him to buy Google and others stock.
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Following a brief description of my project with AirPair, I was able to choose Peter Lyons (stackoverflow.com/users/266795/peter-lyons), a developer with great credentials and expertise that matched my goals. He was able to quickly translate the requirements from my existing Ruby project into a more streamlined iteration in Node.js. He patiently explained some arcane aspects of Node and cemented the abstract tutorials I had done to real-world examples. Peter followed up the sessions with outlines and code examples--I didn't expect that and really appreciate it now that I'm writing new code. Perhaps the most valuable result is that I now know that my project's overall re-design has been vetted by a professional.

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You don't need AirPair if you are extremely well-connected and have lots of industry-leading professional friends who all owe you favors. For the rest of us, there's AirPair. I would highly recommend AirPair to anyone who needs to "rent" expertise, and I am definitely going to use it in the future.

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It's true Google has yet to sell a hardware consumer product that is wildly successful, but that's also why this is exciting: unlike with nexus tablets or phones, the possibily of becoming the "iPhone" of a new product category exists here, thus from this point of view it might well be the most important thing Google does in the next few years and they (probably) know it, hence they'll (probably) invest more time and resources than they've ever done with a consumer product before. (I'm not saying it will actually become an "iPhone", just that it's strictly speaking possible)
Is there an easy way to run IE9 and IE10 without IEtester?

IEtester has started to crash on me lately.
A link to a 32 bit version is possible ?
> I don't want to forget things. Ever. Again.

Not strictly technology-related, but certainly human related, you might want to read Albert Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past". You might develop a new perspective on "remembering things" and memory after reading the book, a perspective not limited to technology or fancy gadgets but instead one that touches on our very essence as human beings.
Why only America? Okay, they're by far the best in media, marketing and communication, but still...
Weird, I must be imagining the 16+ hours of battery life I've been getting nearly daily for the past 3 and a half months.

I know different people have different usage patterns, but the Nexus 4 battery is far from "horrendous", especially when compared to other flagship devices.
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Ask HN: how to raise £600 by the end of the week freelancing?
Hi all! I'm in a bit of a pickle right now as a client has again delayed payment for work that occupied my last few months and my rent is due by Friday! I've tried vworker/freelancer.com but either the projects are too onerous for the pittance offered - or the work is too long term to help. Rather than the usual suspects for offshore dev shops, I'm hoping there's something I'm not aware of.

Do you know of anywhere a UK based developer can find quick projects to get this money together? I'm a very experienced PHP developer and I can design too.

Thanks!
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> Reduce poverty, end racist laws and law enforcement, and make it possible for individuals and communities to have self determination rather than being undermined by private and public institutions.

Welcome to the twenty-fourth century. My name is Jean-Luc Picard and I'm captain of the starship ``Enterprise''...
The Nexus branding is much more visible than the Asus one. It's over 2x as large and centered directly in your line of sight as you're holding the tablet. You can't seriously think that people would look at the branding and think that it places more importance on the manufacturer than it does the nexus brand name.
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From beamrvideo.com, Clip1_mini.mov contains:

videomini ver. 90.15 options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=umh subme=8 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.41 aq=1:1.00

And Clip2_mini.mov contains:

videomini ver. 89.15 options: cabac=1 ref=3 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=umh subme=8 psy=0 mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc=crf mbtree=0 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00

For comparaison, here's what a clip encoded with x264 contains:
x264 - core 125 r2200 999b753 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft 2003-2012 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=1 deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x1:0x111 me=hex subme=5 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=0 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=0 8x8dct=0 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=0 threads=6 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=0 weightp=2 keyint=240 keyint_min=23 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=2pass mbtree=1 bitrate=373 ratetol=1.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=10 qpmax=51 qpstep=4 cplxblur=20.0 qblur=0.5 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00

So their encoder is based on x264 (without credit). The settings are slightly different between the clips, so maybe they have some magic thing to detect which settings to use. In any case, it'd be interesting to reencode the original clip using plain x264, once using the same options they used and once using some sane x264 preset.
That's just a new HTML5 demo out of a page full of demos and benchmarks.

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

I am not sure if the cute penguin one was intentionally made as a tongue-in-cheek friendly jab at Linux.
we are successful in SMB in our space with a SaaS product line.

- it is a highly regulated industry

- we can prove compliance and prove ongoing compliance efforts

- we can prove better uptime and security then in-house, on premise solutions

we do not dabble in other verticals, all our customer facing personnel is fluent in this industries language.

funnily enough, true success in SMB only happened after success with top20 companies. SMB sales cycles tend to be a lot longer, as budgets are way more constrained. once you have some of the big guys though, SMB starts trusting you.

SMB in US is still easy though, we are now tackling EU and this is really hard. if it's not SAP or some homegrown shit-solution built by the IT chief's nephew, it is deeply suspect.
agree to disagree.

I started to extract and quote the parts of the article saying the problem is Google's implementation but it was close to being the entire article.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you've never so much as been in court, let alone charged with something serious and facing jail time.
What the hell? You could just Google it to read it in its entirety. Do you really need to argue about what Mashable says Techdirt says the Huffington Post says an anonymous staffer says Carmen Ortiz says her AUSA says Aaron Swartz says?

Short answer: no, you're wrong about the "manifesto".
Loved seeing them bring in celebrities outside of the tech world to share their experiences/passions for code.

Chris Bosh was a complete surprise to me but made me like him even more.
What exactly was bad about his behavior? Most engineers I know cheered that the scummy newsies who are always trying to twist things into a story to get attention got shown for what they are. He's seen as kind of a brilliant techie that managed to win over the system of fake articles starting another wave of fake articles ad infinitum through dint of technology and foresight. Although in reality it is more like experience since Top Gear pulled the same thing on him so he just knew to expect it.
Actually, I'm starting to fall out with frequent automatic updates.

The most recent version of chrome on Mac OS X has broken me watching videos on itv.com. Manual downgrading is really painful, so I've just switched to Firefox for a while. But if this was a website important to my business, I would be livid.
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If only IE10 runs on linux, I would give it a try.
Unfortunately some of us have terrible memories, and are really important events, such first memories with our children are fading only a few years later.

Having technology that captures this automatically for me is huge! I'd love to have it recording all the time, and to spend a little time each day highlighting the fun bits.

Time with my kids is precious to me, its fun, its good, and I'm sure that both me and them will want to remember them. Having a crap memory sucks, having a piece of technology to do it for me is worth every penny.
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A notable case study in subverting the law to change its effect is actually Richard M. Stallman. His GNU campaign was (and is) built on strong IP rights, which is how he managed to bootstrap a strong Free and open source software ecosystem that could survive being in competition with well-funded closed-source companies.

RMS was careful the whole time to comply with the law as written since he understood that you can't force change to the legal code by simply imposing it on other people like some kind of 'benevolent dictator'.

His quest is not at all finished by I'd like to think we'll at least solve the issue of software patents in my lifetime thanks to his hard work and the work of hundreds of others (including like-minded legislators!).

Say what you want about aaronsw but the fact is that he jumped the shark when he broke into a computer network (repeatedly) in order to advance his aims, however benevolent they are.
I think you're right, they've already changed it
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I've only ever heard how the boss-less, collaborative environment over at Valve is good.

But I simply can't trust anything until I start hearing about the negative aspects too, which nobody ever seems to report.

I mean, not everything can be all roses over there. I'm tremendously interested in the way their workplace actually runs, but you can't really learn any lessons or apply it anywhere else without having a fuller picture of what really goes on, warts and all. I mean, no system is perfect, or even close to it.
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I don't think people appreciate how intractable a problem bullying is. For instance, bullying is qualitatively indistinguishable from teasing, which is regarded by most as part of normal, healthy socialisation. Hence low-level bullying goes unperceived. OTOH intense bullying is an embarrassment to the school statistics and hence frequently denied or covered up.

We live in a society where people still put a tremendous amount of effort into being normal and liked, and as a corollary we tend to persecute those who don't do this. Bullies are our unappointed henchmen.
You tried that once... but changing your sleep schedule is not something that happens literally overnight.

For awhile I was going to bed at 10:30pm and waking at 4:30-5am. It took several weeks before I could train my body to sleep until 6-6:30am. As a result I feel more alert in the evenings.
IE dev tools allows you to switch the browser renderer to any version you want that is higher than 6.