skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have thought it'd pair with your phone, with the phone doing all the hard work. The glasses really just being a display and recorder.
On their Google+ they have some additional photo's of people wearing the device and thb ... it could really be a lot worse.

https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts/N95x6MCS...
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I don't see why you think that, while it may all be opinion with little hard facts, I would hardly describe it as idiotic.

This article may be pro-samsung in a way in which most pro-apple articles are anti-samsung, but it would be unfair for us to faun over one of them but exclude the other one, it just leads to fanboyism - if we are going to have biased articles, we may as well be unbiased about the directions of the bias. (that was a mouth full!)
This article is really not worth reading - it has no content which is worth the time reading. Only the information that "Samsung is innovating at a faster pace than Apple can" without any evidence of this statement.
I'm sorry to say, even low wage workers WANT the "mindless consumption" extras.

The doorman at my apartment here in Uruguay (who makes about U$ 1.000 / month) has just spent about a month's wages on some high-tech cell phone with Android (I think it's a Galaxy Note 2). He has a wife and child to feed.

The number of people living in hovels (they're called "cantegril" here in Uruguay and "villa miseria" in Argentina and "favela" in Brazil) that have LCD TVs is staggering.

There's a subculture that values Nike shoes and steals to get them.
Here are some images from "Fashion Week", when they had it looking as good as possible. https://www.google.com/search?q=google+glass+fashion+week
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I had to use Google to find the article that Time was talking about:

http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/lydia-depillis

Why not just directly link to the New Republic article?

EDIT: I didn't notice that I could click on the two words "good piece". They are not underlined and I couldn't see that it was a different color (I'm color blind).
That would indeed be the most obvious way to go, it would also make the device more powerful down the road since the computing is done on a smartphone which only get faster and faster by the year.
I believe the unit and frame are separate. As mentioned there are a few examples of the units being on standard glasses with lenses.
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So... He drove around in circles for five whole minutes as part of conspiracy to run down the battery? Five extra minutes of driving has a material impact on the range car? It is not more likely that he was simply lost?

I think you're looking at the wrong thing in the video you linked to. Those bright, well-lit things are gas pumps! The superchargers are the hard-to-see things the driver pulls up to at the end. I'm pretty sure I would have driven past them and I'm absolutely certain I'd have driven more than half a mile if I were intentionally trying to run down the battery.
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Also, the last line to check for 'one-liners' won't get them all:

$ grep -r "if __name__ == '__main__'" /path/to/lib

Should be:

$ grep -r "if __name__ == ['\"]__main__['\"]" /path/to/lib
It's a status symbol, and an awesome toy. I don't think anyone is looking at this as a sound economic decision :)
No, the display is only in the upper right corner of your vision. Not suited for overlaying reality.
I've heard both the Firefox and Ubuntu mobile OSs described as developer phones (I believe this was on Click (BBC)).

It made a bit of sense. If you're the type to immediately root your android phone and start running custom builds, then these OSs may give you even more room to run.
This is why you shouldn't rely on third-party auth. Everyone using their own auth may be more trouble for the user, but SSO through a private third-party that the largest portion of users already use, is just asking for it. Don't get me wrong, SSO is not bad. But, the bigger the subject, the more resources will try to hack it. This can make the subject stronger and more secure over the long-term, potentially, but in the meantime, you have to live with being hacked much more frequently. Why not learn from others' mistakes rather than be their victim, when it comes to security?
There's a link now (click on "good piece"). But yes the post should just link to that one for sure.
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Those are the use cases ? Are they serious ? Not a single one of those occurs routinely enough to warrant you wearing glasses all the time.

I don't understand why they aren't positioning this for more serious markets e.g. education, training, factories, stock taking, hospitals, administration etc. Could have been far more interesting and allowed some far more interesting tie ins with their existing products.
For this (as I share his opinion), read the article from my collegue Sergi Mansilla about the promise of Firefox OS: http://sergimansilla.com/blog/promise-of-ffos/
It does seem to rely heavily on picking at low hanging fruit. Flight times are important if you are in an airport, but its hardly life changing. My hunch is that it will be made by a hundred thousand small niche uses rather than a single billion dollar idea. This could be completely transcendent, and maybe needs to be to cut through the sensible aversion to this kind of tech.
"They wouldn't move to a new city where there is nothing, no schools, no fire department. I think that's close to the real world."

Eh. The real world has a lot of examples of people doing exactly that.
It seems to be legal in Europe, too (I'm not a lawyer).

Sadly, procurement departments at big corporations play the big discount game (their bonuses are tied to the discount they get): don't get surprised if they try to diqualify you if you don't give a discount.
I'd love something like this for java...
It's aimed at developers at the moment ... early access to this technology could give you a small piece of the giant cake that is about to come. Might be worth much more than $1,500.
Using what you paid for is not unethical. Selling what you can't provide is, so if the colo can't keep up it's not Google's fault.
I'm having a spot of trouble following items through the "shuffle".

Perhaps one could divide the horizontal space such that each story gets it own invisible vertical band. A translucent coloured dot exists where the band intersects the story's present position. The dot traces a light line behind it from left to right. When the story falls off the page its band is collapsed. You know how long a story stays on the page so running out of space isn't a problem.

More simply, one could leave a single-period trail, with one terminus where the story was and the other where it is, persisting for only a moment after each shuffle.
and your comment completes the cycle?

but seriously, it's all very silly. I see it all as good fun, like cheering for your team at the footy - of course the other team sucks!
I doubt it's robust and stable enough to use in a hospital yet.
I read somewhere (but can't find it now) that they're teaming up with sunglass and glasses companies to integrate it into their products, and that this is just the "base" model direct from Google, aimed more at geeks/early adopters.
Simcity Libertarian edition - I'd love that.

No, really, I would.
Aww, shame. Some of the graphics on their site seemed to suggest it was more central.
I noticed that later. I amended my comment. Thanks.
Why Datomic?
The main thing that Google Glass makes me think of is the movie "Final Cut" starring Robin Williams : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it's a duck.

s/duck/ad/g
I found funny how much people are bashing the stylus.

I don't get it.

I bought 4 weeks ago (and last week it got destroyed in a flood :( ) a resistive-screen 7 inch tablet, and I loved it.

At first, I got annoyed, because light touches did not worked, until I remembered that I could use plastic stylus with it, also my nails, other random objects, and so on.

Then I started to use it primarily instead of my Xperia Play, even having way worse hardware, because it was so much easy to use, with the stylus I can visit non-mobile webpage and click small links without issues, also I can draw, and so several other things, much easier.

But hey, I always hated touchscreens (I own a Xperia Play because at least to play games it has buttons, and I needed a smartphone, because after 5 years developing for them, not owning one was silly at least), so, don't mind me.
must be a US resident... well thanks google, dont you think that foreigners may also be interested, you are a multi-national organisation that operates on a global scale providing a service to users in almost every country, yet only americans can test your product. It almost guarantees that your test base will be predominantly white, male, educated and middle class anyway.
> 1. CPU and really the whole shebang. where is it?

Atmel has micro-controllers that include the whole "shebang" the size of your pinkies fingernail!

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

micro-SIM card!

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

Low power means small batteries!
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Anyone who wants better multi-windowing than a Galaxy Note 10.1 can jailbreak their iPad and use Quasar.

Some will object that's a user hack. Well, it's also a user hack that lets the Note 10.1 use more than the 20 apps designed for it to also multi-window.
"...Mixing up the PLA with the MSS is like mixing up the DOD with the CIA."

DoD & the "Intelligence Community" have been working together a lot more closely than you think, especially since 11-Sep-2001.

http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2012/11/11795254
tl;dr OP throws 3 libs together, wrote a few scripts, made a few measurements. Look, it can handle 1 million connections.

I like what he has done but don't know why it made HN frontpage. I'm guessing it's because it has Ruby, 1 million, and concurrent in the title.

Not bashing the author, it's good work in its own right. I'm trying to understand how stuff like this makes frontpage HN. Where's the value of this article? That Ruby can handle 1 mil connections? Am I missing something (even if it's obvious?)

I think someone mentioned better real world test cases. I agree that would be a place to start. Perhaps he could send more meaningful data to clients. Maybe market data for some stocks or something. '\0' is not very useful after all!
"What these government-haters"

Hi. libertarian here. I don't hate government. Government is probably a necessary evil.

I hate obnoxious, inefficient, bug-ridden, corrupt, expensive, government. I hate government that says one thing to get elected and then promptly does another. I hate government that ostensibly is an extension of the will of the people and then acts against their expressed wishes.

But I'm not grumpy about it.
Interesting, the petition mentioned in the article had 6k signatures when the author released it.

Now it has 24000

I guess the author of the article ended helping microsoft crazy petition by linking directly to it from his article... Kinda counterproductive perhaps.
So, if I had spent the time used to create a HN account on reading the article another time, I wouldn't have to feel this stupid...
I'm not sure how I would stop myself from rage smashing my Glass the first time an ad popped up at an inappropriate/dangerous time. Glass could be really cool, and it could be really, really stupid too.

There will be apps. Will there be free/ad supported apps? I hope not.
http://econogirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/braces.jpg

The metal line is reminiscent of a head brace, while the projector makes you look like cyborg escaped from a Halloween party. They will need a stunning amount of marketing and advertising for this to become socially acceptable.

I guess it could be a little bit worse, I can see they were trying to go for sleek...

I think the greater problem was that the actual uses they showed were so uninspiring. They should get more creative. The utilities arise from where (a) where we have difficulty giving meaning to something in our visual horizon, or (b) we wish to use a handicap (this normally requires hands and is better if hidden.)

Imagine going to a band's gig and you don't need to worry about only knowing the verses to some of the songs because you can see the lyrics? Hopefully the microphone could tell you if you're singing off-key...

Imagine busking with the lyrics, chords and notes for the song appearing in front of you as you play. No need to memorise everything.

Imagine walking up to an acquaintance and seeing their name next to their face; or walking into a pub and a bubble appearing when you see somebody telling you that they are the family member or friend of a close friend.

Or speaking to somebody and the software recognising their emotional cues for you. Pupils dilating, nostrils flaring, a fake smile, self-comforting, etc. Maybe you say something and a bar alerts you immediately to signs you have said the wrong thing; or a change in the tone of their voice signifying seriousness or interest.

It's hard to care about the time or temperature. And car's already have GPS...
Why are people signing a petition against Gmail? Just stop using it. Use something else.

Gmail will even make it easy for you:

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
The article says there were 6900 signatures when the author wrote it.
Just remember who the author is here:

http://www.businessinsider.com/commenter?id=4cc19fa8cadcbb92...
You might want to re-think the part about the fantastic command-line experience. You can't auto-complete command arguments, even if you get it working for some commands, it won't work with all of them (i.e. 3rd party tools). Of course, you can try to remember the single-letter shortcuts, but they are often illogical because the letter is already taken by some other option.
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Microsoft's strategy seem to muddy Google's water, make users question them.

Before passing judgment we'd need to know:

1. What % of people know that Google scans your email for ads

2. How many of them are upset about it and how upset.

What tech blogger say doesn't matter as much, their readers are already in one camp or another.

The Scroogled campaign with shopping was more effective. Judging by comments, many Google users didn't know that everything was an ad, not the "most relevant and unbiased result"
I remember in college, someone left his/hers C assignment source code in the lab (laptops were a luxury in that time).

The code was really awful, and that part hurt my eyes:

/* commented out code. <--- Yep. That was the actual comment.

and here was the code
seriously
*/

At least (s)he knew what a block comment was.
"Those are the use cases ?"

Those and making pornos. I see a whole Glass getting its very own tag.
>> 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

Playing catchup with what? Please enlighten me, what innovative great features have other platforms introduced since -let's say- iOS 4, that Apple has been forced to 'catch up' with in iOS 5 and 6?

The only thing I can think of is Apple Maps, which desperately needs to catch up with Google Maps. But considering you can still use Google Maps on iOS I don't really think we can write off iOS because Apple Maps is weak.
Further proof that HTML mail is a terrible idea...

(Edit: It is also conceivable that a client could put another prominent border around HTML mail, to mitigate the issue somewhat.)
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Why must I live in the US to apply for each and every hardware beta...
It would probably look nicer with actual lenses, even if the lenses are just clear glass for people who don't need corrective lenses. I imagine it'd also help if the design was symmetrical, rather than having a bulge on one side that reminds everybody else they're constantly being recorded.

Of course, I also imagine the Glass design team tested those options, and decided to go with the current iteration for a reason.
Ah. Probably. I am so used to getting all my original content from HN :P Sorry!
Competitors have built upon the foundation Apple laid in mobile and are now leapfrogging it with bunch of useful features you can't find on iPhones and iPads.
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i just stopped reading afterwards.
Speaking for myself, the "scroogled" campaign certainly worsened my perception of Microsoft. Or, to be more precise, it renewed my distrust for them. A distrust that I had developed when they were really dominant and blatantly abused that position, but which had be waning in recent years.
This seems like an exciting idea, but they're going to have to find a way to make the camera more discrete. People won't be comfortable always thinking they're on camera.

I think these things will need to use cell phone technology to work? I wouldn't be comfortable having a cell phone up against my head like that all day, even if this is paranoia.
Notification Center.
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Apple has been quiet.

Mini-fying devices doesn't quite cut it as innovation. Although Apple is doing it exceptionally well.

But just because they aren't releasing anything monthly, and in 10 different form factors, does not mean they aren't developing stuff to be released when they think it is ready.

Most companies pump stuff out and let the consumer decide. Rather than building one perfect phone, they release 20 and call it innovation.

Apple never works that way.
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Thank you very much for your thoughtful suggestion! I'm definitely looking for ideas on how to make the animation easier to follow.
The unstated nugget is that Samsung's cost of experimentation is lower than Apple's, which is doubly slammed by being the market leader and possessing a culture of perfection. This is letting it be the water between Apple's mass appeal cracks. Whether this is a beachhead or a place to chill until the sun comes up is uncertain.
I'm guessing all that is coming when developers start writing for Glass.
The problem with C# and Java, among a number of things, is that you can't implement some LOD algorithms without adding considerable GC overhead. Example: https://graphics.llnl.gov/ROAM/roam.pdf

Modern video games will use all extensions available, this can't be done directly in C# nor Java, you need some native code to do that. Example: http://glew.sourceforge.net/

Also, you want to make you game portable, if you write a physics engine in C++ you could run it the it is on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and most consoles, try that with C# or Java.

Th use of state-of-art algorithms and extensions provided by gfx card manufacturers add zillion-folds of performance gains. The difference is not on frame rates but complete impossibility of doing some more advanced effects without those extensions. If you are building something like minecraft, you should be just fine on C#, Java and maybe JavaScript. The trend now seems to be less focused on graphics and more on the fun itself.

People also use C/C++ because everybody does and you probably learned game development using GLUT or something like that.

:D

(edited last paragraph for clarity)
"Microsoft's strategy seem to muddy Google's water, make users question them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

"nobody ever got fired for buying IBM equipment"
Glasses from ad company. Good luck with that, I'll skip.
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Inter-app communication.

But this article was shit. If you like a stylus fine. But that is not innovation. I have 50 Treo styluses to sell you.
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Most of these should be tools of last resort, the technological equivalent knowing how to start a fire without matches. The performance of SimpleHTTPServer is abysmal, particularly if you want to serve a few files over 100MB or thousands of little files.

Even toy webservers blow the Python versions away. If I need a quick one-off server to share files over the LAN, webfs [1] is first on the draw. 90% of my uses don't even need fiddling with the command options. Though webfs is fairly limited, SSL is the most complicated thing it can do.

For slightly more advanced one-off webservers, thttpd [2] is wonderful. It's got many of the features of heavy duty webservers (plus great throttling controls) but every option is tune-able from the command line.

And as an aside, my own jshon [3] is usually nicer and faster than mjson.tool, at least until you hit a fairly high level of complexity.

[1] http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html

[2] http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

[3] http://kmkeen.com/jshon/

edit: Thanks dschep.
It is interesting to see these classic articles getting to the HN front page. If nothing else, it's a measure of HN new comers.
Hey, it looks like you're on Hacker News. Amazon thinks you'll love this book. Do you want me to open this in a new tab in Google Chrome?
I am not going to fall for this Publicity stunt.

Even if they are serious. I am not letting a device distort my reality the i see with my own eyes. thank you very much
Just my three cents - but I'd hate 'zero' lenses on Glass. My eyesight is just fine, and I find glasses to be huge hassle and generally annoying, having pieces of glass that just sit there without a reason would be very annoying.
no not at all, based on the fact that more sellers = more choice = better prices for consumers
Apple has 4 models of MacBooks and 4 models of iPods.
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If you are serious, I'd love to take that bet on a Siri controlled TV in 2013.
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> It's a cool tech, but its social implications are far from being trivial and benign.

Is there any cool tech that doesn't have difficult social implications?
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"You can't stop the signal"
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