skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you have any convex polygon as an ordered, circular list of points proceeding clockwise, then you can easily loop around the points checking your cross product values making sure they are all greater than 0 to determine if the point is in the polygon. You'll have to tessalate concave polygons into a list of convex polygons, but that's eaaaaaasy ;)
One thing he didn't mention which I think fits in the same category is "how does it feel to look into a tiny screen above one eye?". In the demo videos it's shown as this all encompassing, easy to see, no squint required HUD. Is it really like that?

If its a good experience, I can see voice control, lack of apps, price, etc, all being overcome.

If it's a sucky experience, I think it's doomed
Making a mistake is not the same thing as trolling. Trolling is being willfully wrong, usually to gain some benefit (eliciting a pleasurable response, financial gain).

Showing that they were incorrect does not show they are a troll.
Kurzweil is pointing at the brain and saying "pattern recognition" the way someone might point at a car and say "combustion". He's asserting this is the core mechanism that makes it go. McGinn instead expects him explain all aspects of thought, including solving the mind-body problem. They are just on completely different pages. Kurzweil is off building a spaceship, McGinn is criticizing the cocktail napkin where he drew the plans.
The website looks great! When I opened it, for some reason, I instinctively looked for a short video explaining what the website does and how it works. Maybe that could be something you might want to consider?
Also, I had to check the comments here in order to find a demo product page - I would recommend you add a demo product page link on the front page, so people can see how it looks like in practice.
This is toxic advice and putting it out there makes the ecosystem worse. Giving it anonymously but backing it by appealing to your authority as an IGF judge, etc is bullshit.

(And that's true regardless of whether it's effective -- it clearly is, though I think mostly in the short term).

Edit: Since I'm being fairly negative here, I want to add that VonGuard's comments on gameplay and adding unique elements seem well-informed and well-intentioned.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Since they already pay their workers a lot more than minimum wage, the increase would mainly be a hit to their primary competitor that relies on low wages: Walmart/Sam's Club.
20 years ago, a skeptic might have said, "People don't make phone calls often enough to need to carry around phones with them."

The technology can affect usage patterns as well as the reverse.
I'm reminded of a recent Apple patent: the iWatch.

Both a watch and a screen on my glasses provide me with the convenience of an interface with my phone that is always visible.

I like the iWatch for most use-cases better: changing a track while walking, seeing if I should answer my phone while at dinner, reading an SMS at a party.

Google Glasses really excels in other use cases: directions while driving and GoPro video making. Other than that, I'm afraid it falls flat for the reasons listed in the article.

If I had to bet on a winner between iWatch and Glass, I'd choose iWatch. For Google to win out, they need to focus on situations in which augmented reality is most useful, sending text messages isn't it.
"Forget reading, we have the ability to write"
Love these guys. First time I've seen a new approach to the same old social media marketing crap in years. Good stuff, Austin!
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If he gives his real name then he is basically publically admitting to astroturfing via fake reviews.

I'm assuming this is against the TOS of pretty much any app store and could get whatever apps he is associated with pulled.
Cool! This is a pretty crowded space but your site looks great. My one criticism is that the pricing is pretty hidden. That's the first thing I look for before signing up for something like this. It's especially important in this case because the service is supposed to help users make money, so they will really want to know how much they can make. Don't be ashamed that you take a cut for providing an awesome service!
This is really great.

One question. I understand that the set of items in these documents is carefully chosen based on many years of experience and thousands of data points. A lawyer could probably take a look at this and understand it in 10 minutes.

But for a non lawyer, it seems like too much too soon. I have to figure most companies will need very few of these provisions.

Is there a way to structure this type of document so that the most important thing(s) only could be included, perhaps on one page?

And then structure it in such a way that every few months, or few years, you add a "plugin" for your particular company needs?

My problem with these types of documents is that for 2 guys in a garage they seem to be overkill, and it would be nicer if there were a simpler option that starts with a tiny core that you can then add on as you go.
I mean selling stuff that isn't changing the world is fine. As long as it's not for the worse.

Coca cola is worse than say pot.
It rots your teeth and your insides. There is no value in it. Yet they sell it and people buy it. It's dangerous.
http://dribbble.com/search?q=ios+mail+app
That's exactly my point. You've chosen to be in a business where blogging doesn't hurt you -- and in fact, it helps you.

As for giving non-software its due, that's a different discussion altogether. I was commenting on a post that talked about receiving $20 in the mail for shareware, on a thread that talked about the situation being tougher than in "box software's heyday."
Google Glass has a processor. Processors give out heat. Google Glass will lead to sweaty eyebrows -- eww. How do you solve the heat issue when Google Glass is transmitting/querying images? Transistor sizing dissipates more and more heat.
I hope you realize that the main audience of layervault and designer news is designers. Their site (which I've seen many times before) looks fine on my screen. And I would be willing to wager a bet that the majority of their core audience would have decent/pretty good screens.

I'm all about usability but I'm also lenient when the audience isn't as wide as what Amazon or eBay have to cater to.

I think it's a little unnerving that you'd put 'top notch.' None of those examples are break it for me as a designer and a potential customer. Overall the style and feel of the site is significantly memorable and it's a site that I've come back to time and time again.
They are ubiquitous in snowsport environments - every time I go skiing I see a dozen of the things. I've thought about getting one myself, to use as the equivalent of a Russian dashcam for my motorcycle commute. It doesn't feel the same as the Google Glass would, though, where the person just wears it all the time. That seems creepy.
Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/spdy-indic...
Basing an API off a new company is scary. Especially for the Enterprise & Custom levels. Do you offer some sort of source code guarantee?
Notification for all GMO ingredients.
I disagree completely. The prices act as a (slight) marketing tool giving a nod to their primary customer base, and adding .99 prices would feel like pandering. It's clean and simple, as a potential customer I appreciate that.

I really commend Keen for throwing consulting into the mix - Consulting prices are typically a black box to the customer that sales teams use as bargaining chips. This sort of openness is quite welcome as far as I'm concerned.
I doubt they sought any. Presumably any half decent lawyer would tell them that there's absolutely no breach of copyright.
Businesses do go to war regularly against nations. Its pretty much how the mineral, precious stone and oil industries work.

Afghanistan looks like a useless chunk of dirt until you dig some holes.

If Microsoft did it, I'd probably laugh a bit at the irony simply because its how the EU operate.
> The way you priced things is cute, but shows that these are numbers that you made up.

It really does. The events and calls are nice round numbers, so it's not like the worked though to match the silly price points.

A bigger problem I thought though was the type of work.. it's an analytics company that couldn't factor their costs + target margin and arrive at a reasonable, marketable price, without resorting to gimmicks.. doesn't fill me with confidence.
What hackathon? You can run your own business in FB APIs, not just hand them over to FB.
> Windows explorer allows you to drag a file from any folder on your system to any other folder in single window.

Uh, so does Finder. What are you talking about?
Except it

* Gives participants resume boosters
* Gives people direction on what to build in their spare time
* Gives a common goal for those that feel like it
* Offers college students some money (because it's probably not a well-employed
industrial designer that's going to win, because they aren't the ones
participating)
* Gets new ideas on the table, because cross-discipline innovation is where some
of the most novel innovation can be found
* Gets community feedback in the form of tangible products
* Can be used to scout new talent
Of course, anything that you buy is a product in some sense. Services are also products. The maid you hire to clean your house is also a product. Healthcare is a product. And yes, education is also a product.

But this is a different topic than the one we were discussing.

The original article was about receiving $20 in the mail for shareware, "his first product." 37signals makes most of its money from a software product -- not a training product.

The thread I'm responding to began when someone complained that you cannot charge money anymore for products and services, because so much open source software is available and services (which I take to be software-as-a-service) is free. It's not someone complaining that books or videos don't sell anymore, because so much information is online for free.

Training is a profitable niche. But we can't all make 80% of our money training each other on how to do things.
I was just thinking that consumers of B2B products aren't as easily influenced with pricing gimmicks.
I'm obviously kinda biased as I'm running this on the Hacker Dojo's side, but how else would you run a hardware hackathon? Or are hackathons only for software? Are you in a position to make a company out of your alternative soda fountain, or is the offer to buy an idea really a kindness?

They have offered classes, support from their engineering teams, equipment to break, and a lot of other things I've never seen anybody else do before.
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vim Fugitive does this as well. `:GBrowse` will open the current file on GitHub, with an optional line range.
Also not very unobtrusive... "Don't mind me, I'm definitely paying attention to you, while rubbing my temple furiously"
Not particularly a new finding. Heck we've had posts where people had the turks post pictures and details of themselves too, and many times turks have to create a profile on site x as part of their job...
Depending on the state, it could be illegal to record a conversation without the explicit consent of the person being recorded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#All-p...
Yes, I completely agree that changing workflow is very difficult and a huge impediment to change.

I think many startups (including one of my own) fail because they underestimate the difficulty of changing people's workflow.
For me, it's a question of appropriateness, not accuracy. 19 times out of 20 I want to input text simply because I don't want to speak out commands around other people. Speaking those commands is not only socially awkward (which, maybe can change) but confusing to those around you (which really can't change). Even when the social awkwardness is slightly masked by doing it through hands-free/headphone-mic/phone-to-head, I still often don't want to broadcast to everyone around me what I want to text to a friend.

In terms of technology, what's not ready yet on voice control is a way to magically read into the user's gait. That is, I often find myself pausing to think when I type, but when I do that as I'm speaking a sentence, it's often interpreted as me being done with the voice input. Similarly, if I'm speaking out a chain of directions "text Ronald McDonald that I'll be at McDonald's in 10 minutes" there's often confusion between which portion of the voice input belongs to which command. This only gets worse as the commands get more complicated.

Bottom line: I don't necessarily agree with the author that voice input "really sucks" due to input accuracy, but I do think that any experience that relies solely on voice input for interactions (especially when it's designed to be used primarily in public spaces) will really suck.
Also worth noting is the (linked) tongue-in-cheek http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/04/01/cipher-of-advanced-encr...
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How absurd, would you blame Ford for deaths that result from street racing?

Overindulgence, like unsafe vehicle operation, is on the user.
>$10k for a weekend's worth of work seems rather excessive.
Can you provide a code or rather just set a cookie so that when I go back to play I can start on the level I was at. Fun :D
Check out the digispark: http://digistump.com/#digispark

Also take a look at the parallax propeller: http://www.parallax.com/propeller/

Both are cheap (sub $10 per chip), tiny, and easy to use.
23andme is babyish relative to what's coming. Even exome sequencing does not provide the whole story. There are so many conditionals, so many sequences important in regulation, so much of the "dark" genome that actually codes for RNA. Sure, some SNPs are highly predictive, but there are compensatory mutations and regulatory gene circuits. Everything works together and must be weighed together. Even with whole genome we still need epigenetics and we need time-lapse data and sampled location specific (cell and organ system) genomic data to really produce clinically relevant predictions.
I'm not sure how they "misued" the DMCA. The law has specific mechanisms for notifying a hosted service of material which violates your copyright. If LV believes the work violates their copyright, they're well within their rights to request it be taken down.

You might like the draconian nature of the laws mechanisms but it's not a "misuse". It's just "I don't like it when people use it."
I think you're referring to a CocaCola Freestyle, which was made with technology from Dean Kamen [1].

I'm actually like the Freestyle as you can get a Diet Coke with just a little bit of cherry in it (which is delicious).

1 - http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2009/id20091...
And if you have a better soda fountain and don't want to sell it you can sell your product directly to bars and restaurants to compete with Coca-Cola, or sell it to Pepsi?
Thanks for explaining! That sounds like a great idea. From what I read, Glass does have Wifi & GPS, but no cell connectivity.
Millions of pics of the sky sounds like a great challenge to process. OTOH, even without processing it would be cool: Show me a recent pic of the sky in location X. Privacy might be an issue tho.
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They want a wage of $10.10 per hour? I bet a Costco employee starts around $10.20 per hour.
I don't think you understand the DMCA. It is NOT a legal tool for this type of situation.

The DMCA ("Digitam Millenium COPYRIGHT Act") provides the take-down mechanism as a means to take down copyright infringing content, and in exchange gives the hosts of that content a safe-harbor[1].

So when people say "they don't own turquoise", those people are correct. LayerVault does not and can not hold a copyright on turquoise, or on their style of icon, and thus does not have the right to issue a copyright DMCA take-down notice for content made in the same style as their own.

[1] If a host follows the DMCA take-down process, in theory they're safe from being sued for unwittingly and unintentionally hosting copyrighted content. in practice, those suites tend to happen anyway, with the claim that the infringement was knowing -- see also youtube, megavideo).
Well, I don't know EmberJS but for the handlebars code you showed, seems like the controller is somewhat more like a ViewModel (MVVM pattern), maybe learning KnockoutJS first would help a bit?
It's a huge prize by hackathon standards... how much would you think is reasonable for a team of 2-3 for a weekend of work?
It also depends which SPDY features you want to take advantage of. SPDY has content push support, for example, so if you're serving a page and know which assets it will require, you can serve those without waiting for the client to receive your initial response and request them. So far as I know, the nginx SPDY proxy doesn't try to do any of this (and it probably doesn't make sense for it to do so).
For me personally, "128, 256, 768, 2048" pattern looks like a product of nerdiness to the prejudice of real value. And, since real value is likely to be less that nerdic numbers, I instantly feel cheated by looking onto these rates.
> When I see "x.99" prices I always think "annoying gimmick" and typically associate it with low cost consumer goods.

It doesn't have to be .99 cents, but there is a reason people do this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119111051.ht...
I noticed my tolerance to adderall going up. I did a 4 day juice fast and now I'm a lightweight again.
You've probably seen/read interviews with people where the person doing the interviewing has a list of questions already prepared and just goes through them one by one, occasionally asking a question that was just answered as part of a previous question or failing to dive deeper into an answer that is so fascinating that it's a shame not to explore it more. I find those kinds of interviews frustrating since the interviewer is putting no thought into it.

A good interviewer is someone who asks questions, then connects them with previously learned information in order to ask a better, more insightful question that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to ask had they not just learned the info. It's clear that this interviewer isn't just going down a list of things to ask. A really good interview is one where the interviewee walks away having learned something, even though they've only answered questions posed to them.

Asking questions is a lot like this. If you're more like the first interviewer going through a list of disjoint questions (or questions which only probe for further detail) then it's not surprising to me if people get annoyed. If you're like the second interviewer asking insightful, deeper questions where you're connecting the dots in such a way that you're asking questions that matter and they still get annoyed then perhaps it's just them. Of course, if it's totally new territory for you then you may need to go through seemingly disjoint questions in order to establish a baseline of knowledge to be able to ask more intelligent, interesting questions. You may lose people in your attempt to bootstrap your knowledge to that level.

It's also entirely possible that they hate their job but through cognitive dissonance they've learned to cope with it. Your questions may increase the dissonance for the work they do in which case they'd rather avoid thinking about it entirely.
I like Costco, I think we should raise the minimum wage, and I am a reliable Democratic voter, which is one of the reasons I know that Costco is a key corporate supporter of the Democratic party, and that the minimum wage is a Democratic party identity issue.

Agree also with the other comment here that the minimum wage is a structural advantage for Costco against Walmart.
Word I hear in the foodservice industry is that Pepsi is dying for a Freestyle-like device. Coke cornered the important pieces of the technology and shut everyone else out.

Think of a way to get Pepsi, Dr Pepper, and 7-11 back in the game and you'll do a lot better than $10K.
I sang in a choir in grade 5 once. Would you consider me a singer?
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OK, fair enough. I am not giving the cheating advice as an IGF judge. The advice for improving gameplay, and my compliments on the quality were as an IGF judge.

My comments on the app store are strictly from the cynical perspective of seeing what works. It has to be said. If you go in not knowing the table stakes, yer at a disadvantage. This is just like search engine optimization: fluid, ever changing, highly competitive, extremely scummy, but EVERYONE does it.

The alternative from the perspective of say, EA or a GluMobile, is to play completely by the rules, but produce 500 games per year. As a smalltime developer, cheating is immeasurably helpful when competing with the giants that can launch 2 new games every week.

I can't help but feel your desire for me not to talk about it this loud amounts to you plugging your ears and saying "LALALALALALA NOT LISTENING!" This stuff happens every day. Ignoring it means losing to it.
Do people want to adjust every aspect of their lives to deal with people recording them on video at all time

People should because in many ways this is already happening. Go to a social gathering, or a public event, and you are being recorded, probably from multiple vantage points, through the duration.

But let's say that we're talking about a friend -- assuming that they wanted to record you (the simple existence of a camera aside), they are recording their experience that happens to include you. Selfish notions that one has a bubble of exclusion seems quaint and a little odd.

I just don't think it's such a big deal. At all. Do you get paranoid and panicky whenever anyone pulls out a smartphone, with which they could ostensibly be recording you? For that matter their keychain, or countless other products, can actually be video recording devices.
My bet is that Google Glasses wearers will be ostracized because news will quickly spread that wearers could be filming you without your knowledge.

Think of the children.
That and I don't want to wait a month to get my components. When I can wait, ebay it is.
I've not once ever seen a person wearing a GoPro and I consider myself pretty active. And I can't fathom why anybody would be wearing one in an office, cafe, social or non-outdoor environment. And sorry but you wouldn't have a deeply personal or business conversation with someone who had a GoPro strapped to their head, right ?
You're on the right track. From the article:

"Costco pays a starting wage of $11.50 an hour, gives most employees healthcare and other benefits, and has not switched to the model adopted by many big-box retailers of using temporary firms in warehouses to keep costs low."

A higher minimum wage costs Costco nothing and hurts their competitors.
+1.

I've recently started to do this for technology Statements of Work in government. If City A writes a Statement of Work for a Wordpress integration, why should City B have to write the same thing?

https://github.com/adamjacobbecker/RFP-Library
That would probably be a Coke Freestyle machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Freestyle
Yea, great job on the game!! I was past level 7 before I had to pull my self away.

The game is A LOT of fun ;) I definitely see myself and people I know playing it. Best of luck in the app-store. No doubt you all will do GREAT!!!
What is to prevent a user from just selecting the lowest plan, and letting you automatically price them into the cheapest plan each month based on actual use?
Hilarious SF GIFs
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