skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I came up with too. But on thinking deeper, it doesn't seem to hold true.

The kind of user who likes to browse will probably browse using a mouse, not a keyboard like us nerds. So the position of the cursor doesn't matter to them.

I hardly ever go to Amazon and not directly search for something (except maybe during Black Friday deals when I just click on the banner). I'd bet Amazon loses money by making me do an extra mouse click into the search box every time.

Unless there's a sizeable proportion of users who go to the homepage and scroll using the keyboard, I don't get it.
Congratulations! Looks even nicer than "3D Logic" by Alex Matveev [1] and has an advantage of being playable on mobile platforms.

[1]: http://www.kongregate.com/games/AlexMatveev/3d-logic
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Minutes are used for call forwarding and outgoing calls, yes. :) Thanks for the question. We're adding it to our FAQ shortly.
Yup, we made the music too. YOu can hear the soundtrack here: https://soundcloud.com/tackmobile/sets/adrift-soundtrack
The Pixel is nothing more than a featureless MacBook with a fixed web browser. If you think that is the future then you're in for a rude shock.

And you seem to be obsessed with the future and less concerned with reality. People don't need to check email, weather, time, ask questions so frequently that they need a fixed device on their head.
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The Coca Cola Company pulled in nearly fifty billion dollars of revenue last year. They can afford to hire some industrial designers.

These kind of corporate hackathons are just scams designed to allow the company to take advantage of hundreds or thousands of hours of skilled labor in exchange for pocket lint. It's ultimately detrimental for everyone trying to make an actual living in the field.

Don't work on spec.

EDIT: You will also have to pay for using the 3D printer! Marvelous.
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The Newton was a hilariously heavy and clunky device that made you look like you were gunning for a position in Starfleet. In that era, nobody had a PDA except Newton people and even notebook computers were cripplingly expensive, so having one made you part of a fairly elite group.

At the time, the Newton was ridiculed for it's less than accurate handwriting recognition. It was a touch-stone for comedy, where shows like Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons would find endless potential.

Google Glass should be so lucky as to have this kind of presence.

If anything, it's destined to be the Nintendo VirtualBoy.
Well done. The game is strangely intuitive. I skipped the trailer and just played. It almost felt like I knew what to do just by looking at the cube.

That's a huge win IMO.
I think 10% will create a rather large barrier to entry for most.
I've tweeted a bunch of times about how stupid I think Google Glass is, and I don't know anybody in real life who will admit to wanting one. But it sure seems to be exciting the people most vocal on the Internet.

I know for a fact this won't see mainstream adoption, that's obvious. But whether Google will sell enough to the excitable people with no fashion sense to make a v2? That's hard to predict.
For crying out loud, his entire article is predicated on the fact that the device costs $1500.

This is true of the developer version only. It is a prerelease at that price. The final version is not going to cost $1500.
Every time I've tried speaking to Siri through my headphones which have a built-in mic, I've always feel like a bit of a nob. I don't live in a crowded city however. Is this becoming more socially acceptable in large cities, or at least so commonplace that people ignore it? I feel like where I live people would probably assume someone walking down the street talking to themselves is schizophrenic.
Thanks for the feedback! You can hear the soundtrack here: https://soundcloud.com/tackmobile/sets/adrift-soundtrack
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#ifihadglass: I would use it to remember my life. I will wear it for a full day once to each different job, and each new house, and to significant events. Reminiscing will be sweeter, and my kids and grandkids can get a sense of who I was and how I lived my life.

Does the author think cellphones would let me do this?
Even if they self-correct, it's how they'll be treated. They just tapped into a massive vein of loathing for vague DMCA notices (particularly on the design trend front), and did it quite effectively. In the case of incendiary actions with ugly consequences, once is enough to brand you.
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I still think he's one of the primary causes of the Desktop Linux failure.

We all would have a standard based on Qt/KDE but his project destroyed that while offering nothing but another license for years.
Thanks for the wildly inappropriate analogy.
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TDD'd code is generally better designed.
One who trolls with copyright is a copyright troll. This is not a difficult concept.
Sunglases are for blocking excesive light, not for displaying distracting informatino all the time.
I'm partially color blind and have made an app for personal use that lets me confirm whether or not a color is what I think it is. I will develop something like that for Google Glass as well whenever I get my hands on it. So, there are definitely use cases out there that aren't covered by the 12 point in that list in the article.
Similarities in design doesn't warrant a DMCA takedown notice, period.
Two questions:

1. What do you about security? How, for example, do you make sure you don't introduce XSS vulnerabilities into your code? To use your words, how does "writing the tests prevent bugs" when we're talking about bugs that create XSS vectors?

2. Don't you think you're paying a penalty by defining and implementing your system's semantics through the pinhole-sized view of one failing test at a time? That is, why wouldn't you be better off defining the semantics in whatever-sized units make the most sense, not necessarily one spec's worth at a time, and then deriving your tests and implementation from the semantics accordingly?
It's also very cheap today as well to hand-roll this stuff.

However, I - and many of my peers in CS-land - don't have the EE knowledge to correctly put together a analog circuit. Particularly as so many of the components for interesting stuff have different voltages... understanding how to link this stuff is really hard!

However, an Arduino abstracts that away. The 'hard' stuff has been done, for the cost of being inefficient and expensive.

I spent about 6 hours with a circuit simulator in the last few weeks trying to design a simple LED based circuit relating to a some 555 timers. Totally failed. I simply got exposed to my own ignorance even more! I got the corresponding Arduino thingie working in about an hour.
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I am the co-founder of carddrop and I have been working on it as my side project nights and weekends for the past few months. Now, I am having an opportunity to work remotely for my day job and I was thinking of moving to San Francisco so that I may as well be able to focus on carddrop in full swing and also network better. Is it worth it? If so, what steps would you recommend to someone in my shoes? What should I expect?
So it's ok to eat sufficiently mentally-retarded humans?
Show me a weekend hackathon with half as big a prize pot.
People seem to miss this point a lot when saying something about its current pricing.
Glass for sports?
Saw a digital one in San Diego recently. It had a touch screen and allowed you to make your own flavors of lots of brands of soda.

Vanilla coke, orange coke, vanilla sprite, peach Fanta, etc.

The sodas it produced were predictably terrible.
Since it is obvious he does not – and you give the impression of possessing some kind of explanation – why not directly explain your view of it to him instead of asking snarky questions that you already know the answer to? It is a much more meaningful way to advance the discussion.
Congratulations to LayerVault on their biggest day of traffic ever. Whether this brew-ha-ha was intentional or not, a lot more people are now aware of them than before today.

I like browsing their Designer News links on a daily basis, but I would think twice about signing up for a service run by people with questionable character and morals, which is the feeling I am coming away with after reading through this thread.

This whole thing could have been handled a lot better and with far more professionalism.
Of course. He's the guy with the agenda to destroy Linux.

With this post he says: 'mission accomplished' to his Microsoft masters.
Every use case you mentioned was consumer oriented. I think where this product will excel is in manufacturing and logistics. Any function where you have to receive data then perform an action (or if you prefer: look at a screen then perform an action) will be much more efficient. Imagine if you could make factory workers even just 5% more efficient. That's $15 a day (assuming 3 shifts). The thing would pay for itself in less than a year. That's a conservative estimate, just a thought. I might be wrong, I haven't worked in manufacturing in 6 years.
Sure, you can always deal with individual cases as they come up. You can't ignore that there are differences between the performance and fit of different employees. So hire and fire the best you can.

The key is what happens after that. You'll still have a rough bell curve of how people perform. You can keep chopping off the bottom of that bell curve, but the problem is that that practice is in itself demotivational. It's bad for culture, it's bad for your company. Basically it's negative reinforcement for all your employees, and the response to negative reinforcement is—to put it lightly—not optimal.

Your bell curve will be sucked backward by the firing black hole and people will start acting out of fear and individual motivations, which include: 1) not being fired, 2) keeping their job at all costs, and 3) looking better than everyone else. Rarely does the fear response motivate people to actually work harder. Instead it leads to a culture of in-fighting, blame, and ladder-climbing games. And in no part of this story are the overall goals of your company recognized, let alone respected or achieved.

This is why you don't concern yourself with the slackers. If they really are slacking and not getting anything done, you may fire them—no one is stopping you. But this is not your focus. Your focus should be on moving the entire bell curve up by 20%, motivating people to perform beyond their basic abilities, and empowering them to work. These are fluffy phrases, but they are also true. You start from the top down, make sure everyone understands the overall goals of the company, make sure they are well educated about the means and purpose of their work, and that they are enabled to work as well as they can. This is the essence of W. Edwards Deming's philosophy, and yes, it does work this way.

Because, more often than not, your "slacker" is not simply a bad person who can't work. Very few of those exist in reality. He is probably a person who has not learned the right things, encountered the right motivations, or understood the true purpose of his work, or he has confounding factors preventing him from reaching his true abilities (see Maslow's basic needs theory). Most people want their work to be meaningful, because people fundamentally want their lives to be meaningful.

This is what I'm saying: it's far more effective to improve the system surrounding your employees than to simply treat your employees as unaffected robots whose performance is static. Again, I'm not saying you can't fire people when they don't work: I'm just saying that it would be dumb to only focus on that strategy as though there were no other variables, and in fact, the system variables are the important ones when you actually look at it.

Best business advice of the last few hundred years:

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What happens when they look the same as sunglasses or normal glasses? Fashion sense won't be as much of an issue.
And yet nobody objects when Facebook runs a hackathon like this? Or is the food industry magically held to different standards than the tech industry?
You have a very poor understanding of DMCA if you think that. There is no way that law can apply here.
Keep your modafinil use sparse and don't drink on it.
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* Google maps for the interiors of buildings.

* Recording. Glasses make it difficult to tell if someone is recording, making the act socially acceptable in many places it would otherwise not be.
The cost comes from the continuous washing and waves of nucleotide additions (reagent costs). Illumina's technology suffers the same difficulty. The promise of PacBio's technology is that it does not require this continuous washing and staggering of nucleotide additions (unfortunately PacBio was not able to translate its technology to high-throughput high-accuracy or manufacture properly its version of "chips" [SMRT cells] for Single Molecule Real-time Sequencing). I'm afraid the cost will not come down significantly for iontorrent or illumina without a fundamental improvement in reagent utilization techniques or reduction in reagent costs.
One thing I'd love to see baked in is the "fireshot" plugin. Basically a way to take a screenshot and annotate it. Very useful when mocking up with the client / working through support requests etc.
Ok, maybe "crap" is a bit of exaggeration. The point was that you really wouldn't need to really struggle to make a great game, as people would download it just because they saw good (fake) reviews. As long as it doesn't really suck, there won't be negative reviews to counter this.

Anyway, I wonder how long will it take before this tactic becomes too widespread so that only huge players will have enough cash to game the system like this.
Why link to the mythbusters when you could point to the guy who actually did it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7601...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tazelaar

http://www.cracked.com/article_19635_6-absurd-movie-scenes-t...
Yeah, now you can feasibly pretend to be engaged while reading Twitter.
Would not support a company that peddles carbonated sugary junk. It's to blame for the obesity. Period.
Bootstrap 3 will actually be dropping submenu support:

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/02/07/bootstrap-2-3-releas...

( Bootstrap 3 update > "Dropping submenu support." )
(dev @ cropup)

Thanks for the feedback. Really appreciate it :D - It's now sequential! (yay~) We also modified it slightly to (hopefully) make the idea "you can sell _anything_ on _anything_" clearer. Any thoughts?
Forget sequencing - DNA synthesis and designing of new genetic programs/apps (new creatures) using synthetic biology and software like Genome Compiler (genomecompiler.com) is the interesting future.
I unconsciously talk to myself even without a phone in sight, so I'm used to looking like a nob in that sense. :)

But in this case, I was clearly talking into a phone even though I wasn't always holding it at my ear. And I think in most large American cities (certainly New York, at the very least) ignoring strange people on the street is about as natural as breathing.
Come make a better one then :p
Those are excellent questions. I obviously hope Glass has a barometer but I highly doubt it will, since it is likely going to use phones to handle GPS and similar operations. So assuming it doesn't have one:

> Would you ask people to take pics of the sky?

Yeah, maybe. I'll add more to that below.

> What does Glass add that currently isn't possible WRT gathering data?

Since we don't know the hardware specs in very much detail, the only functionality that we know for sure that will be helpful is the camera. The key difference between this camera and a phone camera is that this one is on the user's head. Asking users to take sky photos is likely much less intrusive through Glass than through a phone. But asking them to do this isn't really our style:

The original Glass demo video showed the wearer just looking at the sky in order to have weather information delivered [1]. I was imagining something like this for pressureNET. If I could hook into that same operation, I'd be able to automatically take a photo of the sky whenever the user intentionally looks up.

Imagine millions of people every day looking at the sky. So. Much. Data.

And of course, this is only using the camera that we know is there. We'll have to learn more about how Glass actually works and what developers will be allowed to access in terms of background functionality.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
I'm guessing that demo is getting a lot of plays right now and they should capitalize on the hype that's being built.

Relying on the App Store is a good strategy for development firms that cannot build their own hype. So far, I'm guessing these guys are doing an okay job.

But I have zero data on any of this, hopefully they do and are acting appropriately.
The killer app segment for Google Glass is augmented reality - which is quite awkward on cell phones but natural on devices like Glass. It's also an application segment that hasn't received much mainstream attention. Check out some of the stuff companies like Metaio have been doing: http://www.metaio.com/

(I'm not affiliated with Metaio, nor am I currently developing any augmented reality applications)
Seeing a blinking cursor and a potentially-highlighted search box (not for me on Chrome at least) might distract a portion of those users.

edit: Mouse movement = tracking content with eyes? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5333496
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Initial ad spend to get in top rankings of an app store with a game is about 75k. A generally considered successful tactic is to do that spend, get in the top, then grow organically from there if you can.

I played 10 levels of this game on the web site, though, and it never even encouraged me to brag to anyone else about how quick I solved a puzzle, and had no replay value, e.g. I can't solve a puzzle better or worse really. The game has nothing to get each user to draw in more users, so it would be a waste to do the ad spend at all...
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Reading through the comments, I do see a few mentions of the DMCA, but there's plenty of "they don't own turquoise!" type comments as well.

If you're upset they used the DMCA (a legal tool made specifically for this type of situation), I guess that's fair, if slightly myopic.
Ion torrent appears to be the same platform as 454, but with detection via chemical means (ISFETs) rather than optical transduction. One of the big drawbacks of the 454 technology that doesn't get talked about a lot is that the immulsion PCR/microbeads require a lot of preparation before the actual sequencing run. On the 454, I believe the sequencing time was ~8hrs, but the preparation time (at least at the facility where I was involved) typically took more than 8 hrs. In terms of actual sequencing time, it's the best system. But as you said, read length is a major issue with all of the current "nextgen" systems that should be resolved with nanopore sequencing.
Yeah. We (Hacker Dojo) worked with them extensively on these terms, and we're really pleased how flexible and understanding they have been. It has been very impressive to see such a large company listen.
> I'm not sure "temporary entitlement" was developed to allow this kind of thing. Sounds like an abuse of it.

The entitlement is called 'com.apple.security.temporary-excaption.audio-unit-host'.
"Having your full genome sequenced would mean that we would know every single nucleotide from you"

Unless he's a genetic mosaic, also known as the "reality is hard to squeeze into our all too simplistic data model" problem.
People definitely talk on headphones and headsets like they are schizophrenic in san francisco, but I've never caught anyone giving voice commands that way.
To jump a level: you should be documenting the "why" of your business decisions as well! I've been on projects that have long TODO lists that are divorced from the reasoning behind those lists, and then market changes but the roadmap doesn't - because we've forgotten why we're doing what we're doing.
Moderation is good. Wouldn't recommend drinking candy though.
Is anybody else experiencing any other great ways of increasing their conversion rate of free to paid users?
Sweet delicious wonderful poison mmmm... I love Coke and other pops. I try to limit my intake though. I drink a lot of Yerba Mate tea too, and that supposedly has links to cancer (what doesn't these days). So I'm not going to worry too much about the health risks of pop.

10k is a pathetic prize though. Come on, I bet Coke spends more than that on dining out for their corporate leaders.
> The way you priced things is cute, but shows that these are numbers that you made up

What it sounds like you're driving toward is better documenting the rationale behind the cost. To my untrained eye, the costs scaled with usage in a fairly familiar pattern.

What would you do to better illustrate the logic behind a pricing structure?

> The standard pricing model [1] works. Stick to it.
[1] - Use .99, .97, or .95 instead of whole numbers. Use odd numbers. Example: 127.99 or 129.99 for your lowest plan.

When I see "x.99" prices I always think "annoying gimmick" and typically associate it with low cost consumer goods.

Is there any evidence this type of pricing is appropriate for B2B products?
They're really common in the mountains when snowboarding, etc. I suspect if I saw one in a populated place, that'd be a very different story.
Hummm. Does Amazon know about this? Are they likely to revoke access to anyone availing of this service?
Are those hackathons sponsored by one of the largest corporations in the world, one that is asking you to revolutionize a product for pennies on the dollar?

It is essentially a corporate takeover of the hackathon without understanding of it at all. Most sponsored hackathons are, "Hey write for our API, here is food and $2K and some t-shirts."

Coca-cola is just hitching on the whole notion of the hackathon, hoping someone is willing to work for cheap on something that can probably bring them a billion if it all works out.

Edit: I should probably note that its their event and they have the right to set the prizes, but man, $10K is low for something that can earn Coca-cola a lot of money.
Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?
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Josef Müller-Brockmann (from the 60s):
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2716/4415331726_e98dd8f7c1.jpg

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2790/4414564409_974b828fbc.jpg
I'm willing to bet you don't so much "get over it" as you adjust to it.

Do people want to adjust every aspect of their lives to deal with people recording them on video at all times?
I was looking for this, I knew I had played it before.

This one has much better controls on the web app, as well.
Interesting, how much does a successful app usually have to spend on fake reviews to have a shot?

The way you are describing it basically makes it sound like a hidden listing cost to be on the app store.

Eventually though people are simply going to stop believing reviews at which point Apple/Google will have to start taking some action against this.
Do you have a source about Hill Climb Racing having spyware? I've seen my friends play it and was unaware of any spyware problems reported with it. Google isn't showing anything using relevant search queries; I'd love to read a source!