skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crimecam made me laugh, hehe. The uses are potentially endless:

5) Procrastination monitor: Someone is actively monitoring you, making sure that you do what you're supposed to do. Actually, this would be even creepier if it were your corporate control-freak boss who ordained it.

6) Voyeurist's refuge: Pay someone with social skills far more developed than yours, have him go out and pick up a woman while you sit back in our couch and watch the spectacle unfold. Not sure how many would consent to a partner wearing glasses while having sex, though.

Actually, the more I think about this the creepier the potential scenarios seem to be. And let's not get started on how unfortunate it would be if your pair got struck with a case of malware. But the techie inside me still thinks it's way cool.
Depends on the scale.
One might say they are already cool because of the price tag and scarcity. Remember that $1000 jewel iPhone app?
It doesn't have a massive screen though, which is a huge power draw in current phones.
"And who the hell does Scala? (Actually, Twitter does!)"

Foursquare also uses Scala, as does LinkedIn. Here's a page of organizations using it:

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1658
Hmm, they look almost photoshopped.

And if the "screen" was at the height of your eyebrows it would be completely unusable!
People talk numbers because money/supplies are finite. We can't spend 200 million trying to save one person, as that will simply create a lack of resources for every other person who needs care...
It would be very cool (and useful) if they put that in some kind of version conrol (git, svn, etc).
> Money is a measurement of value, like popularity is a measurement of skill.

Extremely good analogy. Thanks.

A lot of people equate money with value directly. Only half true...
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Wake up, America China is attacking
It's cleaned up, but looks like its missing something. I waited for a while after the page loaded expecting more style/design. I would think they could come up with something a little more exciting.
Yet another inflammatory "China is hacking us" article from CNN. How vulnerable are we really (I trust this forum much more than some CNN reporter on this question)
you're disqualified.
Look at his profile; he's the creator of the original submission.
I never said when they'd give them away. Just that it's a possibility due to the incredible context-aware advertising potential they have. Someone is thinking about it, I guarantee it.
Maybe I'm not seeing (no pun intended) it, but I don't want something distracting to me and others sitting on my face. I get lifecasting will be a cool thing but I'd rather have a discreet cam on my shirt collar or elsewhere on my person.
I think outside the tech world people will find the attack ads useful information. It will create distrust for Google among casual email users and will be succesful for them. Their target audience is not HN viewers. I also had to mentally reevaluate my relationship with Google.
Microsoft looks like a nefarious cry baby.

Google looks like a creepy privacy invader.

Its fun to support the winning team :)
but you would have a large hunk of glass sitting in front of your face anyway.
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No. Keep Reddit on Reddit. No need for "Le Reddit Army" here.
2: Right next to your brain, the safest place for a radio transmitter to be!
Why does this happen in Chrome?
http://i.imgur.com/Elxme3f.png

I clicked a link on the HN homepage, then Businessweek seemed to have redirected to itself 6 times. Now I can't use my back button to come back here unless I hit back 6 times very fast, or hold down back and select HN. Lots of websites do this.

Disabling Adblockplus on Chrome fixes the issue, but I don't want to see ads or disable the blocker all the time.
What this indicates is that you are not the campaign's target because you already have a strong opinion about each company - one which may have been formed before Google as we know it existed.

Outside the tech bubble, that's an extreme position. Most people just use Google and Office. They buy iPhones that run Android because they're free with the contract, etc.

Microsoft is pandering to a different group - those concerned about Google constructing dossiers upon individuals. Outside the tech bubble this is also an extreme position.

The difference between your extreme position and that which Microsoft is targeting is that yours is dying - who gives a crap about Netscape, etc? On the other hand, concern over corporate data mining is somewhat likely to grow. It even has the catchy name of "creepiness" and a monkey-boy video.
A rather interesting podcast/video is Adam savage talking about recasting (http://www.tested.com/art/movies/451613-still-untitled-adam-...).

Recasting and the legal issues around 3D printing is close to, or is exactly the same thing. Thus listening to someone who has copying stuff from movies as a hobby, work professional with people who produce movies, and who's income is depended on creating stuff on the screen, its a very interesting podcast to listen to.
Java might be the best programming language since Sliced.bread and the Wheel# but if its VM and plugins are constantly having exploits found in them, it's a Serious Fucking Problem.

The portable document format might be a good way to exchange documents, but the most popular viewer is a huge (commonly exploited) attack surface.

The point is call your viewer, VM, or pluging something other then the name of the language so when it is found to be totally lacking security it doesn't reflect back on the language. Really the point should be to write your software correctly.
Good design takes iteration. I always find new design launches are underwhelming and have many flaws, but they always get fixed up nicely.
I'm getting redirected to Yahoo's mobile site for some reason. Chrome 24 on Ubuntu 12.04.
Anything one cannot find the order to one assigns as random or nonsensical? If someone doesn't have the understanding to see higher order patterns, how is calling it random a useful way to understand the higher order pattern?
Good to see Scala's popularity. I mentioned only Twitter because I admire them :)

-Ashwin
Seems awesome. I wonder how they made it possible to have an iOS simulator in their Visual Studio plug-in. Apparently it will be possible to develop native iOS / Android apps written in C# from Visual Studio and I'm guessing from Windows.

I have much respect for Miguel and the other guys at Xamarin. They work on some great stuff, I think C# has a great future for mobile development because of all the work these guys have done.
Wow. We're going to need more bandwidth. The carriers need to fix their business model or the get the hell out of the way.
From someone using OpenDNS, I copy-paste:

Phishing Site Blocked
Phishing is a fraudulent attempt to get you to provide
personal information under false pretenses.
Novus Partners also does Scala. We've even got a few Python guys coding in Scala. It's just a language with the JVM ecosystem to back it up. Python has it's own ecosystem and for numerics, access to LAPACK and UBLAS is pretty awesome, I must admit. That said, both can exist fairly comfortably in a company and can be used for different purposes.

I like Python for prototyping, algorithm validation, and just to hack on. I like Scala for damned near everything else. (Also, Adam is going to be open sourcing what is essentially a Scala clone of Pandas but statically typed and with comparable performance.)
"Overall it was important to me that the page be dynamic, that it feel very fresh, and that it be very intuitive, and that it really tries to embody beautiful design"

Is that really supposed to mean anything? It sounds like buzzword soup. It should kind of go without saying that she wants the site to be fresh, intuitive, and beautiful. I don't think anyone wants a stale, frustrating and ugly website. That said, news feeds, AJAX, and oAuth don't necessarily make the site all 3 of those things.

I'm really rooting for Mayer but I couldn't let that quote go.
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I've only looked at the mobile site on my iPhone, but it looks great. One of my complaints about Yahoo's homepage has always been their gossipy headline news stories in big pictures on the front page. I'm sure that got them lots of clicks with most people, but for me it just made me despise going to Yahoo's website. It looks like they've replaced that with actual news so far.
She's the face of a large corporation, is that really unexpected? I figure anyone in her position would throw around marketing lingo - seems like it's part of the job.
The Victorians figured that out when there were just horses...
Luddite: "You just don't go and reshuffle the rights that have been in existence 40 years, just in the name of technology," Kabessa says.
Since you live in the UK[1], I would guess CCTV would be everywhere. However, not every country is covered with CCTV (yet). That will probably change in the future though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television#Uses
His "point-by-point critique" looks to me like yet another Apple fanboy loudly yelling about how any functionality Apple hardware doesn't have is both un-innovative and useless and how no-one could possibly need it. Particularly this part: "Split screen apps? I think that split screen apps wouldn’t work well on a phone, where you don’t want your focus to be diverted. But lets assume that you want such a feature–do you call that innovation?" (Some common tasks you might want to do on a smartphone require interacting with more than one app - but no, obviously it's completely useless!)

Most of Apple's "innovations" in iOS weren't terribly innovative by that standard either, from what I recall.
What is to stop a malicious person standing next to you saying

"Ok Glass... rm -rf /" ?
I'm just curious, why are you using Watt as a unit here? Is that like, half the TDP of your CPU or something?
We've been having these every month for the past year and a half. We're also having a JS meetup (node.js, marionette.js...) this Saturday: http://shanghaios.org
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Well because they still want to use gmail aside from the things that they find annoying.
Was so excited until I read "and live in the U.S. to apply"
I wonder how difficult it would be to lose the metal band and have it secured by only the ear. It would look much better in my opinion.
I know that. I'm being a little harsh and I am kidding a bit too. I usually don't go out of my way to say anything about these sorts of things because of exactly what you said but this one just struck me so hard I could not let it go.
Good lord. Even if they used true randomness to generate their fake MAC, you'd still expect a collision after doing this only about 16 million times. What were they thinking?
Ratchet does look nice, but has several deployment dependencies and architectural constraints. Hopefully with nginx now adding the features to be a WebSocket proxy you could get HAProxy out of the way (unless you wanted it).
This was done a few years ago. I'd love to hear what people have to say about Scala now that code bases have grown. Anyone working with a couple hundred thousand lines of Scala?

For instance, I know compilation performance was always frustrating for developers. What's it like for teams of people dealing with a large code base?
Yeah, Glass will work with prescription glasses.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/04/13/google-wants-project...
This is great work.

Working with monodevelop was a pain in MacOS.

Downloading it now, but from the sales page alone they got me.

Good work!
Looks like only the american site was updated so far. The swedish page still looks like something from the late 90s. Even with the newer look i have a hard time seeing myself actually using it though. I'm not really impressed to be honest, mostly because its long, long, long overdue.
My friends have used game cameras for a number of years now. They give video to the game wardens to document the number of wild hogs and their travel patterns on their property in the river bottom. The number of hogs around here is mind boggling, they are encroaching farther and farther into large cities.
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Really? The top two stories on the news carousel for me are:

1. "Nonstop shouting" at Pistorius home

2. Bruce Lee's mystery fight (which was interesting, but not exactly big world news)

Interestingly, I got the results above when logged into my Yahoo account, which I only use for Flickr and nothing else.

When I visited Yahoo from a blank browser, the Bruce Lee story didn't show up. I wonder if Yahoo guessed that I was Asian and thought that I would like Bruce Lee (well, I guess they were right on that one...)

* The most egregious part of this Yahoo carousel headline was that the story was about how the investigating officer in the Pistorius bail hearing did terribly during cross-examination. He had to admit, among other things, that the "witness" lived 600 meters away from the Pistorius home...which is quite a contradiction to the headline. Whatever merits Yahoo.com's facelift has, this incredibly bad editorial judgment left a terrible first impression with me.
Can think of this helping productivity when assembling things/reading manuals.

Imagine how much quicker assembling IKEA furniture would become, no more downing tools and picking up the manual, the manual would update with you real time!

Also with tutorials on learning and making things like circuits, knitting, cooking etc. They should have highlighted use cases like this.
I can't understand why they have two headers and search boxes, right on top of each other.

http://i.imgur.com/muXk97p.png

ED: The Australian redirect is to a completely different website than the American one. That's confusing.
Others:

- Code tutorials

- Remote business consultants advising you on handling various business problems

- College students (or anyone with specific domain knowledge really) could dial into a web based market for advice/mentoring, and charge by the minute. A really cool way to leverage your domain knowledge and get paid in your free time. It could be reputation based, tracked on how useful your advice was for people in the past.

The whole remote help/advice area could be HUUUGE.

Look at what businesses currently spend on consultants now.

Imagine anyone can get a consultant/advisor/mentor/subject matter expert, for any topic (DIY, personal life- e.g. dealing with depression, health issues- remote doctor in India, virtual assistant in your ear, fitness trainer, business coach), at at a fraction of the cost of what these guys charge today.

You could get mentored for any topic under the sun - would you like an expert violin prodigy teach your child to play the violin from Eastern Europe really cheap? What about a Russian chess master teaching you the game? Or a hangout with a poker celebrity telling you how to improve your mastery of poker? Dancing? Painting? Legal advice? Speaking with a native French speaker to learn the language? Chatting with Peter Norvig about AI?

The possibilities are endless. Getting expert advice used to be constrained by location, but if Google Glass becomes widespread, not anymore.
That's assuming Hive doesn't have it's own special format that could be converted to to improve performance, right?
Sometimes it's for legal reasons. For example: In Germany, the website / blog owner is liable for any kind of content that is shared through comment systems. You have to continuosly monitor your blog for any comments that might contain illegal material.
It's okay, don't be sorry.

I assume you're talking about things which give you a social edge. Unfortunately you will just have to deal with it as reality slowly attunes itself with science fiction.
The "cry it out" method (or CIO as it's annoying referred to on the baby forums -- acronyms central) does not actually advocate leaving the child for long stretches of time. It is a common misconception based on people not actually reading about the method, or the person who originally advocated it (Ferber).

For us, we had to do it at around 4 months or we would have been in serious trouble. 4 months of averaging 2-3 hours of uninterrupted sleep per week was wreaking havoc on our lives, and no one (including baby) was happy. The only way she would ever sleep is in our bed next to mum, and this was not sustainable, and terrified us every single night.

We read all of the no-cry sleep methods, and ferber. We realized that we were essentially doing all of the no-cry methods already (swaddle, side sleep, white noise, pick-up and soothe immediately, co-sleep, cradle at the side of the bed) and we tried each one for weeks.

None of it worked. At all.

For the Ferber method, you only leave the child for a few minutes at a time and gradually increase it. In our case, she was never left alone for longer than 10 minutes (we couldn't do any longer) and we did it over weeks and as gradually as we could. Now she sleeps in 4+ hours segments regularly which, to us, has been a god send.

To each their own. No one method is foolproof as all babies are different and I've learned through this that I no longer trust "experts" or anecdotal evidence. I will use it as a guideline, but adjust based on my own observations. I don't think any other approach works.
Electrical generation and distribution is a tough business. Places where you have generation capacity aren't necessarily accessible via the transmission network. So if NYC isn't using power, you can't just send it to Cleveland. Sometimes, you have a certain amount of "fixed" generation capacity that you must use, or must commit to taking offline for days before restarting. 80% of your power may come from a few big, centralized, cheap power plants (nukes, big hydro, coal) and a bunch of geographically dispersed, small, more expensive plants that you spin up to meet peak demands. (natural gas, small hydro)

Utilities sign contracts with big industrial users who have steady-state energy demands to ensure that they have a place to send lots of power to. They also have contracts that when peak demand is reached, the industrial customers shut down lines in exchange for discounts. (I worked at a place that financed a DR datacenter largely by committing to failing over 50% of our energy workload to another region during a peak demand emergency.)

I'm not doing the topic justice, but there's alot of behind the scenes stuff there -- I'm sure it wasn't just a contract dispute.
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Yeah, we're all doing it already. At this point it's more about managing what I do online then it is about avoiding using the services.

Google Glass will be massively popular with the active crowd (kind of how the GoCam got its big break) - I would personally use it in place of recording videos with my phone! I would not wear it all the time though, that's ridiculous.
Except for handsfree picture taking, I'm not sure what this device does that Pebble watch does not. I'm much more comfortable wearing a watch on my hand than mounting a camera on my face.

Also, whenever I do take pictures I really wanna take, I subconsciously take care of picture composition by moving my phone around a bit. In Glass, I'll be moving my face around?
But they didn't, did they? And why was that, exactly? I don't necessarily have a problem with styli, I just think they're a niche tool without much universal appeal, and for a good reason.

It is not dissimilar at all to a mouse, or a pen, or a screwdriver, or any of those things. It's just that those are older tools compared to the touch interfaces we currently have and use to great effect, without styli. And that is awesome. That is a great thing, a beautiful simplification, and it works, and that's amazing.

You're of course welcome to use them if you prefer, but what Apple did (hey, you started it) was create a device which was simple enough and useful enough without a short stick to make that short stick as antiquated as a mouse or a pen.

They made the short stick obsolete, because it adds unneeded additional complexity. I resent your assertion that people believe this is a better method just because Apple made it that way; as though all logic and truth comes from the Great Jobs in the sky and is as He said it, amen. Quite simply, screw that. It's better because it's a simpler basic design, that's all.

The irony is that people are buying those little rubber iPhone/iPad styli like hotcakes these days. I really wish I were the person who came up with that, because the royalties must be rolling in. And damn they're good for Draw Something; you should see my girlfriend's mom's drawings, they're incredible. I admit that styli are excellent for those specialized purposes.

But for the basic use of a touch-sensitive device? As an integral part of the UI experience? No thanks. Keep it simple, stupid.
Hello,

We fix the bugs, and the fixes ship on their own release cadence, when they happen to catch the next QA train.

But enterprise customers typically develop/QA against a version, and are not willing to upgrade to v.Next that contains the fix and a dozen other fixes. They want the exact version they have been using, with only the one fix applied.

Makes sense?
I might as well answer seeing as I found this out yesterday. Go to the profile options then the keys tab. Then there is an option for left/right option key acting as normal meta or +esc. While meta sounds correct for this, esc+ was recommended and works.
As an indie developer who recently bought the full priced package so that he could start testing on real devices: argh. As a developer that knows C# and wants to make iOS apps: awesome.

I haven't had a chance to download it and try it out yet, but Xamarin Studio looks amazing. I've long thought that MonoDevelop has a very solid core but little polish- it looks like Studio adds that polish.
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•Phishing threat: This is a phishing website that impersonates a trusted website to trick you into revealing personal or financial information.
From http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/getting_started/installat...

"No iOS simulator on Windows. The iOS Simulator runs on Mac OS X, so it’s necessary to switch to the Mac’s screen when testing on the simulator."
Not everyone uses jQuery; I don't. This should be titled 'jQuery library...'
Don't substitute the issue.

There are no CCTVs at workplace, at the parties and in the subway carriages. And no CCTVs are sharing out to the public. And, no, they are not "omnipresent".
The only reason they are targeting Google with a smear-campaign is that they want to be making the money Google is making by doing the exact same thing themselves.

outlook privacy:
http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.mspx

"We use the information we collect to provide the services you request. Our services may include the display of personalized content and advertising."

"We use your information to inform you of other products or services offered by Microsoft and its affiliates, and to send you relevant survey invitations related to Microsoft services."