skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question that comes immediately to my mind: I'm wearing glasses (short-sighted), so an augmented pair seems like an easy step, can I wear GGlass on top of my prescription glasses ?
I don't know the specifics of iOS 4, or why you chose that. But will simply respond regarding what Apple has, shall we say, emulated.

How about setting up the device without having to tether it to a "real" computer? Android came out, day one, as a self-contained, empowered computer. iOS came out as a device that was expected to have an umbilical to a computer.

How about multitasking? Apple's flavor of multitasking (the freeze-drying of processes, etc) was a virtual mirror of Android's.

I would say notification center, but the notification center in iOS is absolutely atrocious (it is almost entirely a spam vehicle for games to post solicitations). It is years behind Android there.

The widely heralded iCloud offers functionality (device backup, etc) in Android years earlier. Voice commands...in Android years earlier. Apple is brilliant at marketing every difference, but they most certainly were behind.

My iPad (3rd generation) is a glorious web appliance (Safari on iOS remains by far the best mobile browser), however iOS itself feels incredibly stale in comparison to my GS III or my wife's Nexus 4.
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You just stated why TV needs re-innovation. It's the device itself and also how TV networks operate. Both can be brought to modern day.

There's a huge number of people who watch moving images in their living rooms. Now, and in 500 years from now. Why not make a better product for that market? (That's basically how Jobs explained iPod)
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Hi there,

We're looking to incorporate our startup and build our product. We need to hire a whole host of technical staff, including CTO/Architect, Devs (LAMP stack, iOS, Android, and web front end), designers, and marketing staff.

We're currently torn between 3 locations, and weighing up the pros and cons of incorporation (talent availability & costs, effective tax rate, access to major markets, cost of living, ease of regulations and doing business etc). If you have any experience in any of the following, please let me know your experiences and any tips or advice:

1. London (UK) - quickly growing tech community around Silicon Roundabout seems interesting, but far from US market and a little bit of a bubble right now,

2. Toronto (Canada) - cheap talent,with a growing tech community and facilities (MaRS etc) but concerns about whether the talent we require is available, cost of living cheap and relatively close to main market (New York)

3. San Francisco (USA) - The obvious choice on paper, but seems like a bubble with inflated staff costs and still far from east coast market.

Note: We have access to investment, so closeness to VC/PE firms is NOT an issue.

Thanks,

Tom
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This is akin to saying "And you don't see any problems with the fact you require a screwdriver to loosen a screw". The stylus is a tool which improves on your fingers in a number of ways (principally in diameter and greasiness). Your phrasing your comment like using a stylus is a mortal sin. What, in your opinion, are the problems with requiring a "short stick" to get anything done on a mobile device?
Wow ... I knew the English language was capable of such a construction but I never thought I'd read "expect better reporting and questioning from El Reg"[The Register]

The Register (and The Inquirer after it) ported the classic British tabloid format to tech reporting, all I'd expect from El Reg is sarcasm, climate change denial and exclamation marks.
I'm using it right now to serve up HTML files which I'm testing my (python) screen scraper on.

It means I can develop offline.
They're charging $1500 to be in this "exclusive beta", seems unlikely they'll be free at release.
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lists the (somewhat filtered) terms of the last 1000 hacker news posts as a tag cloud. Allows parameter for showing terms appearing at least 1-10 times...
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Obvious troll is unbelievably obvious. Go ahead and give me something that Samsung innovated, in a vacuum, without looking at other products and without help from Google.
My first attempt at "shipping" anything. Just a little plugin that checks your news feeds while you're in Sublime!

Currently does not support ST3 :(
When was the last time you saw an iPhone?
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There is something telling in the volume of bashing. When the Galaxy Note came out it was bashed by the Apple-sphere with incredible intensity. That should have been a good hint that it would do well : very well.

Larger phones have been bashed with ferocity. Until the iPhone 5, of course, when (I suppose), it was done "right".

Smaller tablets were bashed with ferocity. Until the iPad Mini, of course, when it was done "right".

We've seen the same thing over and over again. It can never be that Apple is behind or isn't moving quickly enough -- it has to be spun that they're ahead by moving so slowly.
For what it's worth, Google Now works pretty well in French, so I'm confident they'll manage to do something usable after some time. Of course it won't be their first priority...
I am really excited, but really does everyone wants Google to track your path everywhere you go, everything single stuff you're watching? :-/ I am assuming the glasses themselves have nearly no cpu capabilities, thus it must be mandatory to export any computation wirelessly toward Google servers, right?
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Threads like these make me long for word filters.

"XXX is an evil company!"

"Not as bad as XXX, who are much worse!!"

"No way, XXX are worse!!! You're just an XXX fanboy!!!!"
"what is going to start happening on the roads?"

Generally the more crooked the police department, the more violently they react to being filmed in action. Where I live they're fairly lawful so they kinda laugh and/or cooperate (pose for the camera, would your kids like some free baseball cards, etc). On the other hand, there are less civilized places on the coasts where you'll get pretty well beaten and jailed and your camera destroyed if you film corrupt cops, even if by some miracle they're not breaking the law at that moment.

Aside from corruption, this is going to be a pretty big issue for "drive by recording", both sides of every little drunk driving traffic stop and minor fender bender (oh and worse situations too) will probably want your recording data, even if its just a few seconds outta the corner of your eye. Even if its a complete waste of time, if its a high enough crime you'll have the criminal system going bonkers with you in the middle. I could see this affecting road safety in a self censorship manner. Oh no a crash, better not look that way or I'll get dragged into court as a witness for the zillionth time, whoops just crashed into the ambulance that pulled out while I was intentionally not watching the accident.
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I think it looks better with glasses

In a high-contrast 200px image.
Terrible article. The issue at hand is the Browser plugin, and not the programming language itself.
it will segfault.
that's why EventMachine using epoll on linuxes and kqueue on bsd
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What does your link prove? They seem to be a technology columnist.

It is bizarre how people are either desperately telling people that they needn't look at this article -- for it shall pervert their minds -- or are attacking the author. I haven't even read the article but it must be good if it yields this sort of knee-jerk response.
nginx-push-stream handles the websocket connections itself and exposes a pubsub channel, so that your backend app doesn't have to worry about holding connections open. Whereas I believe the new websocket functionality allows you to proxy to websocket-enabled backend apps.
Or fixcast? Have a mechanic walk you through fixing your car, a plumber walk you through fixing your sink.
Microsoft was doing the same thing or very similar to what they were accusing Google of in every single negative campaign they've done against Google (Scroogle was like the 4th or 5th that I count).
I played World of Warcraft for a bit, and there was a HUD overlay onto the screen. After a while, you kind of get used to it.

Exactly. These things are not for people who want to experience real life.
One thing I use it for often is serving HTML so I get the correct origin in browsers. Some development servers are also based on it.

Yes, it's terrible. But not useless.
I don't think they're going to give them away, I think they've got two options they'll pursue: 1) they'll do what they've done with the Nexus tablets and phones and sell them for as close to cost price as they can to get them out there, or 2) they're going to take advantage of the fact they'll be pretty much either first to market, or most desired and charge a reasonable markup on it.

Option 1 makes sense, Google's core business is monetizing your eyeballs. It's almost literal in this sense. Glass is going to have some form of advertising and Google has always wanted more data points and more ways to show adverts to you. They make a lot of money on it.

Option 2 is a bit out there for Google, and represents a business strategy shift. What if they can also become a respected hardware-software manufacturer? They've got as much brand awareness as Apple, they're building a reputation for devices as well. Glass could be phenomenally popular, so we're talking a whole new market share that could explode. That could make Google a serious amount of money if they were sticking a 30% markup on (lets be honest, they could do an Apple and go higher on it as well). It'd help them diversify so they've got advertising as a core, and a potentially large revenue stream from the hardware on top. Money in the bank helps pay for the next Moon shot.
It's already SimCity Online in everything but name, and many gamers who traditionally enjoyed the franchise are exceedingly sceptical about the changes. Might as well call a spade a spade.
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Regulatory hurdles schmurdles. If we could get the iPad and iPhone years before they were officially available here, we'll find a way to get Glass too :P
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I would love to see someone do this with the Holland Tunnel traffic on both sides.
Not in my head, no. Not being a native English speaker may contribute to that.
> What do people actually use SimpleHTTPServer for?

Smaller files than you need to move around when using a 1 off http server.
yeah baby video chat is now plain vanilla for iOS developers
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Some feedback would be great!
Because its the only use case that will make sense at the beginning. These videos look interesting but they are staged, no matter how casual de look is.

As of this moment, Google Glass is just a glorified wireless webcam. It might turn into something more than that in the future, no doubt, and I'm hopeful like you are that it will, but for the first generations what you are going to see is a lot of people using them in extreme sports to film POV activities and sharing them on Youtube. Nothing more.

Even if it's not only voice controlled theres no discreet-email-checking use case in social situations. Have you ever tried to talk to a person who is constantly looking away, even if his head still points to you?
I wonder what the impact will be on bespoke craftspersons, such as those who make their living on Etsy? I would think that as the "essential" products in life and home living become trivially cheap to manufacture and get-on-demand, those who can produce high quality one-of-a-kind items -- and who can repair them -- will be in higher demand, in the same way that top developers still command high salaries despite the glut of offshore programmers.
10 years ago, cramming an HDTV in your pocket with Cray 2 supercomputer processing power and 10x T1 wireless bandwidth was laughably absurd.

They're building these "bug" micro-drones now. They're doable, they're being done, just a few years to get amazing capabilities implemented.
As cool as the idea sounds, I'm sceptical of the real life usage scenarios. It would be interesting for the first few days, but after that I think it would be simply annoying. Just think about getting notifications from FB, Twitter and other apps all the time - with mobile phone you can just ignore them and check later when you have time, with Google Glass they would be thrown right in your face. Not to mention ads, which I'm pretty sure will come sooner or later, and I won't even start about the privacy. Also, watching the Google Glass ad[1] I was constantly switching my focus between the display and the actual view - in real life it's a great way to have an accident. And one last thing, from the ad I've got the impression that the main use case is sharing your life with others, which I think is already at ridiculous level (like people sharing what they ate for dinner) - now it'll be even more ridiculous by people showing off they entire day (me walking in shopping center, me riding on a bike, me eating and so on).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1uyQZNg2vE
Yeah, I agree it looks that way ... I thought it was a scammy site at first, but you can find it referenced on other sites (http://www.fltreasury.org/), and even in the local media as legit (ie. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-07-11/news/03071003...). So unless this is a really well orchestrated scam, it's real as far as I can tell.
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Is there any evidence (eg: a direct quote) [1] that Steve Jobs actually "hated Java"?

I'm tired of this kind of sloppy nonsensical, and actually, dishonest attribution of opinions to Steve Jobs. It was bad enough when he was alive.

Jobs clearly talked about how first class support for Java in the Mac was important back when OS X came about. He clearly wanted "write once, run anywhere" to work. I once met one of the people whose job it was at Apple was to make Java look mac like in the UI. Obviously they put a lot of effort into supporting Java.

While Java may not have achieved what they hoped, it's absurd to just assume that "Steve Jobs hated Java" because its convenient for the reporter, and let's be honest, gives the reporter an excuse to put Job's name in the title.

[1] The quote in the title talks about the weight of it, and how it is a drag, but doesn't express any hatred. Dishonest characterizations like this (calling it "hatred") is not just sloppy writing, it shows a lack of integrity. It's why we have uninformed people thinking google is "open" while Apple is "closed" - a lot of reporters saying that who know nothing about the actual situation (which isn't that much different between them.)
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Having lived through the 90s, Google would have to do something incredibly bad, and Microsoft something inconceivably uncharacteristically good, before I'd ever trust Microsoft more than Google (not that I trust either to any great extent).
I actually thought the campaign was kind of effective (though not the phrase scroogled). I don't think regular people really realize the extent to which all Google products are merely vectors to build personal profiles of you to sell advertising.

At some point for me the balance shifted to trusting MS more. I'd rather pay for a locked down version of Office than have Google Docs troll my information.

Not to mention, in this case the switch is easy. Outlook.com is wonderful. Recent incarnations of Gmail are a UX disaster.
It IS innovation. 1024 levels of pressure on a 5.5" 720p screen that lasts 18 hours. That's fantastic and I've not seen that in any device.

Stop calling things "not innovation" just because it doesn't impress you. No one put out a stylus like this, in a device like this, with software like this. The old Palm's don't compare.
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I'd say the computing is done "in the cloud". Low power transmission to your phone, then to the google datacenter.

It seems cool from a technology point, but I'm not sure I want to trust Google (and thereby the US Government) my life. Or am I doing that already by using Google Search and GMail?
Musk comes across as somewhat delusional. Or really dishonest - but I suspect he really sees the world this way.

In no way shape or form did Musk's claim turn out to be true, which indeed is just like the Top Gear thing.

I particularly love how Musk seems to blame the choices of the reviewers - i.e. selective reporting, cherry-picking - for the car's undenied failures. And of course that can be entirely reasonable; if you make the wrong choices things won't work. But then he turns around and does exactly the thing he's accusing the reviewers of: he cherry-picks his data, and selectively interprets it to present it as some kind of conspiracy.

I can excuse an individual reporter for experiencing something in typically human fashion: i.e. colored by preference and ignorance, somewhat muddled and poorly remembered, and certainly not necessarily representative of the experience of others. On the other hand; Musk doesn't have those excuses. He has tons of quantitative data that he can review as often as he likes, in whatever detail he likes. He's presumably an expert on the car and knows of plausible explanations for various observations to be found in that data. He and this team have reviewed such data many times before. And yet, nevertheless, he chooses to cherrypick his observations and read into them what he'd like to see - namely that the failures are entirely the reviewer's fault and in no way the car's. (I mean, that whole driving around in circles thing... or the exact moment the temperature changed...)

Worse, the test occurred in cooperation with Tesla, so they could have predicted at least a few of these issues. Why in the heavens did Musk agree to this review in this form when it was obviously not going to be an easy drive? Didn't they look at the weather forecast and know this was going to be a problem? Isn't it obvious that a reviewer accustomed to convential cars won't be an expert in electrical range-maximization?

I'd love to see electrical cars work. It's a shame that Musk seems to think (self-)deception is the way to convince the world that they're ready for long-haul travel.
"You can't get there, and we'll shoot you if you try" is.
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I'll take one with a wayfarer blue blocker attachment!
Lifecast? I thought it would be managed automatically by a program.
I don't get it; Why do styluses (plural?) get such a bad rep.? It's not like this is a new invention, they've been around for ages, and how is it dissimilar to a mouse for a PC? or a pen used to take notes in a notebook? It's not as though you can't use you finger for short tasks like making a phone call.

I hate to say this as I will either get downvoted to hell or start a fanboi war, but I really do think that if Apple had produced a stylus device for the iphone/ipad, those that are complaining would be saying quite the opposite.
> I think the main use case would be people that want to look like they're paying attention in social situations and can't have their heads buried in their phone but still want to check their email and texts.

That's not going to work if it requires voice commands to operate.
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If it came with a Glass development kit, I would gladly pay a lot more.
I may have skipped over some steps in my thinking.

But yes, a small government with few to little power is what we need.
That is a relatively small niche, they are looking for something much bigger. I personally can't see the use of wearing one, but then again, i still have a feature phone.
The good: You get a full linux distro on a mobile device. This is the best thing that happened to modern mobile devices since ... well ever.
Modern mobile devices being smartphones and tablets.

The bad: Like every other "mobile OS" out there it is strongly biased toward native apps. But in this case it's at least understandable as there is an actual linux distribution under the hood.
Also i have a feeling that they'll probably lack behind in the mobile department for years when compared to Android especially if they can't get some big OEM partners on board as has already been said in some comments.
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eye gestures?
I'm not worried about my privacy because they use the data to track ads. I'm never really worried about them doing that for ads, since there's no significant danger in that. What I'm a LOT more worried about is about the government getting those e-mails so easily (just saying from a normal person's privacy rights vs government abuses). But at least Google is a bit transparent about that data - Microsoft is not.

But my problem with it is that it's keeping Google from offering the ability to encrypt e-mail and have "zero knowledge" policies for e-mail. This is why I think Google will be one of the last (if ever) to adopt such policies or offer such service. But I don't think Microsoft will do it any earlier either. So I really don't see Microsoft's services as "better" in any way, from this point of view.

If I'll ever move my e-mail, it will probably be to a company that does care about stuff like this and lives outside of US, not to Microsoft, which is just another side of the same coin. I want a whole new coin.
Seven years earlier, Steve Jobs, JavaOne Keynote 2000:

"We want to bring Java back to the desktop in a really big way. I am here today to personally tell you we are working hard to make Mac the best Java delivery vehicle on the planet. The biggest thing we are doing is we are going to bundle Java 2 SE into every single copy of Mac OS X that we ship later on this year."
Yes, the creep factor is very high with the facial and emotional recognition. Few people would trust a person with Glass if they knew the person <i>might</i> be using it as a tool to gain a social advantage.
>SimpleHTTPServer

I have stopped using tools like that and even XAMPP. There's always something to mess you up. These days I just boot an instance of Ubuntu 12.04 Server on a virtual machine and life is beautiful. The next move is to setup a spare PC with, add an internal DNS server and route all *.local domains to said local Linux server.
I don't think he hated it. They moved WebObjects to Java for one thing. Client side...he probably wasn't that happy with it because it didn't really "fit" the L&F of OSX.
With enough money, you can.
Unfortunately.
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