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Argh... blockquote has semantic meaning - this is quoted text.

Bold is a style. Hence it being phased out in favor of emphasis (em).

Seriously, your entire argument right now looks like: "there are only three semantic things - anchors, images and text". It ignores the notion of headings, lists, partial references, nested references, sections, etc. These all have textually semantic meanings apart from styling.

Are you just trolling, or are you honestly refusing to acknowledge that there are semantic meanings for things other than the three I mentioned?
This is how your longer tweets could appear with this app.
What else could you do with Glass (besides check the time) during a conversation that wouldn't be disruptive?
It is true that list sucks, but as soon as you start to think about a possible SDK, both laymen and professionals can start imagining really neat stuff. In a phone call with a friend we realized after citing a litany of good ideas that really what it came down to was that it would allow for a heads up display of everything. Don't know where to go? It will help. Need to find gluten free foods, activate that app and just hold up the items you're looking at. Cooking and need your hands free? Great! Increment through the recipes steps with simple voice commands.(I know the article mentions voice sucking, but I've actually been quite happy with Google's transcription and for simple commands like 'Next' it will be doubly fine.)
This is great fun. However, I installed it on iOS and found what looks like a bug:

http://imgur.com/toAfNs7
I think that he means do not do things like create a process that everyone must follow, full of red tape, simply because your worst employees cannot perform a task correctly.
i'm guessing because you can't buy the removal of bad reviews.
The question isn't really with use cases, it's about practicality. Having instant access to what you do most of the time with a smartphone is practical. People certainly will appreciate that; it doesn't matter if the use cases are limited in nature.

Of course, the price is too high for what it offers right now, but it's kind of like the Pixel: a vision of the future that can be attained relatively easily for anyone with the dough. It's not going to be an ephemeral flop like the Newton was; I foresee it being a major influence on other devices. The Newton wasn't like this -- PDAs were already being developed at the time. So far, we've seen nothing like Glass. It's a milestone.

So it will take time, and it is a paradox to have two devices that do the same thing connected to each other, but Glass is only going to spur a big change.

The Newton did not.
This is great. Fantastic work.
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The main reason we're doing it is to put our customers at ease while we continue learning, not because we want it to remain a substantive part of our revenue at scale (because the linear opex is unattractive to us as businesspeople)
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I really don't think of this generation of Glass (including the cheaper, better version to come later this year) as a real consumer product. It will be available to consumers, sure, but so were MP3 players in 1997. I personally was pumped about MP3-CD players and still dipped into my cassette collection. I think Glass is ahead of the market, but is more high-profile than, say, a Rio or something was back in the day, simply because Google is hyping it to the moon.

I'm certainly skeptical about how successful Glass will be in the next year or two, but not about the wearable, low-profile device market altogether.
This article would be more enjoyable without the extraneous clip art.
But it's not like the time is permanently shown on the screen (and thank goodness). Most actions have to be triggered by tapping the glasses, then speaking. They're pretty disruptive.
> Most of these are basically simple things you can already do on your phone- checking the weather

Ha! I'm very, very excited about Glass for the weather opportunities, actually. The data collection that Glass will offer with regards to the weather is going to be incredible. With a simple app that pings outside Glass wearers, I'll be able to automatically gather incredible amounts of valuable weather data.

I'm doing this on phones right now, too, of course [1]. But Glass opens up whole new doors that the author of this post is completely missing. Author, if you're reading this: You're making the assumption that nobody will innovate, nobody will build anything new that would provide unique value to the device. You're wrong.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
Haha, or the next Google Wave? Google TV? Google Buzz? Orkut?
There is a touch pad on the side and it could possibly support some gesture based input.
I would guess that the legal teams at major companies are traditionally gun shy about this kind of thing. Let's say Coke buys some IP resulting from this thing for $10k and then it goes on to revolutionize their business model and they make millions and millions from it .

I'm going to guess that whoever got stuck with the $10k is going to come back with lawyers and say they were taken advantage of, that their interests in the IP negotiation weren't properly represented, that a team of tinkers was no match to negotiate with a professional team of IP lawyers, etc... That's not to say that those are valid arguments, but they are arguments plenty of people make after the fact.

It's been my experience that huge companies have a vested interest in the appearance of dealing fairly and matter-of-factly with small third party vendors, especially in terms of IP law. Even if taking advantage of someone in such a manner doesn't become a legal issue, it's a huge PR liability.
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Maybe because product development engineers know what their time and skills are worth, and it's a lot more than $10K?

Don't get me wrong, little contests like this can be great experience for smaller businesses that need development skill and for designers that need the portfolio pages.

But this is Coca-Cola. Then again, considering how much money got sunk into the Freestyle (and they're not out of the woods yet, that machine has problems), maybe a $10K contest is a way to keep the PD pipeline going and keep the accountants happy.
There doesn't seem to be pricing anywhere.
It looks like a simple to use product. Does it cost minutes for call forwarding (when someone calls me?)
I'm talking code that has out-lived several "yeah we'll use this forever" version control systems. If the comment isn't in the code it will get lost.
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Everybody had sunglasses and they're used to wearing them (even indoors)

A quick quiz of the people in my office shows that:

0% were wearing sunglasses inside at the time of asking

~7% said they wear sunglasses inside on a regular basis

~25% said they do not own sunglasses

I don't dispute the other points you make, but on this issue it seems you are a bit bubbled/optimistic.
"Drew inspiration" is not proper justification for a DMCA notice. The fact that they're illegally misusing that law is why I'm walking away from this with a very negative opinion of LayerVault.
Hey, look at the top ten apps on both app stores, then come back here and try not to be cynical about anyone's chanced of succeeding there. I've seen numbers on sales in the app stores. If yer not in the top 25, you might as well not even be in the app store, from a meaningful revenue perspective. There are very few exceptions, as far as I know. One possible one would be any app that's $20. Those probably make money, despite low sales numbers.

It's entirely possible to succeed using only honest, community focused methods. But yer competing with a huge pack of other guys who don't use those methods, and have a significant advantage because of it. This isn't hugs and puppies. This is business.
But you're talking about why people would accept them, not why they'd want them. Right now I don't see any killer application for them, but I'm sure that will change in time.
I don't care for the whole "flatUI" trend, but I REALLY can't stand this kind of blatant abuse of the DMCA (which itself can be argued to be an abuse of common sense).
> If you stand by it, why not attach your real name to it?

Seriously? You don't understand why not?
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For $50, I had 23andme read my genotype for a pretty significant number of already studied genes, but far from my complete genome.

How much of a difference does it make to the end user whether their complete genome is sequenced, compared to 23andme's model?
I think trolling once still makes you a troll. It takes a certain sense of naive entitlement to issue a DMCA take-down notice without understanding the legal requirements or the very specific meaning of doing so.
I have similar leanings.

I may own Glass v1 and develop for it as a hobby, but I doubt I will have it replace any functionality which I currently rely on other devices for.

However, I'm incredibly excited about the technology and what it means for the future of personal / wearable computing.
I suspect that being forced to move your mouse to the search box pushes your eyes to scan the page as you do so, which increases the likelihood you'll find something interesting between your cursor and the search box.
Does anyone have the link to the original article? I can't find it on the JAMIA website, and there is no link on the NYT site either
Here are some power user tips for the awesomebar:
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* xxx - search xxx in your bookmarks.
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% xxx - search xxx in your currently open tabs.
~ xxx - search xxx in pages you've typed.
# xxx - search xxx in page titles.
@ xxx - search xxx in web addresses (URLs).

I can't think what more you would need ;o)
That is precisely why, when I am sitting across from someone wearing Google Glass, I will feel ignored all the time.
> "Apple is famous for eschewing market research and focus groups during the creation of new products. However, it turns out the company does research consumer sentiment on existing products in order to optimize future designs."

This is not antithetic: Apple is not surveying customers what they want next, but what is good or bad in the current products. Paraphrasing the Ford quote, Apple asks customers what they like and don't like with their current horses, not what kind of horses they want them to make next.

This is key to the "Don't ask customers what they want" argument (which is _not_ "Don't ask customers anything"): people don't know what they want, people have problems, and we are here to discover and solve those problems. Once faced with a properly designed solution, more often than not from the user point of view it will seem obvious in retrospect, so much so that it could be qualified as what they really wanted in the first place but didn't know they did.

> Can we stop perpetuating this myth please?

So the myth really is "Steve Jobs Never Listened to His Customers". He (Apple) did listen, but just ignored people telling him "I want this to work that way". Hence the shouts and tears when Apple regularly pushes new stuff down one's throat, bruising our hacker's analytical prides in the process.
You could take a photo or video while maintaining eye contact. I think not looking down and having both hands free is a huge step up for any action, even if it's just checking the weather. It makes the information ambient instead of something you have to go searching for.
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Who are LayerVault's lawyers? Seems like bad legal advice to me...
Yes but we're talking about a startup, not an administration...And if every hire is someone with talent, then when someone new comes they shouldn't be afraid. Especially if it's a talent that comes and complete the team (or replaces the CEO on some of his tasks).
But a battery is a capacitor. Well, technically not, but they behave similarily, with the battery storing more energy per cubic centimeter than the capacitor, at the trade off of having a much higher internal resistance. Also I believe he meant data storage, since we have battery technologies which would work for this application, even though more juice is always a juicy prospect.
Love the 128, 256, 768, 2048 prices :)
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When did HN turned into Wikipedia?
So how does Django relate to gene sequencing?
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In case anyone else was wondering what the heck the Apple Newton was/is -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)
No. You just have to point a video camera at someone and potentially record their conversation. Do people have such poor social skills and lack of empathy to understand why Google Glass will make many people really uncomfortable ?
This only works if their site gets views and the free demo gets plays. In my experience, apps in the App Store are primarily found through the App Store, meaning potential users won't hit the site first to try the demo.

The standard solution is to give away a bunch of levels for free and charge for additional levels using IAPs.
That means the cost of consumables is $1000.
I just cranked out a pile of code under pressure with a tight time constraint. I didn't TDD. What I did was codesign my tests and code: I rotated between the test and code so that when I finished a particular function, it was reasonably tested.

While not, NOT a TDD approach, it did lead to a much higher code coverage and added a safety net when I had to change it: I knew I could change the code, and if the result was materially affected, I'd know.

It did slow me down in the initial writing, but in the revisions, it sped me up, IMO.
On your plans:

"What happens if I go over my plan?

If you go over your plan by 20%, we simply charge you for the next tier for that month only. We'll then revert you back to your the plan you last selected."

Very nice but the general idea would be to not do this so that people would tend to buy more than they need and then you make more money. From what you are doing you give don't give anyone a reason to purchase more than they have to by bumping to a higher plan. Not sure how much this matters given the tiers but I thought I'd throw it out there just the same because it would matter in other cases potentially.
(Think back in the day of cell phone plans with minutes and how you were forced to buy extra minutes lest you get hit with a bigger charge.)
Weird, I'm in MN, and all the stuff I've ordered has taken more than a month. They must put it on some slow trucks from the West Coast.
"Everything is poison, there is poison in everything. Only the dose makes a thing not a poison."

Overconsumption may be the problem, i treat soda like a candy and drink one glass once/twice a week.
Having spent a few pennies getting LASIK done, I can't wait we wear Google Glass for that retro-look.
I think you are confused about what we are most upset about. You don't even mention the DMCA once in your comment. The DMCA, and abuse of it, is something that gets HN's dander up. As far as we can tell, LV perjured themselves, either intentionally or through ignorance of what copyright actually means. The result is that legal material will have been taken off the internet for 10 days, with no repercussions, despite the (presumably) false claims made by LV. It is in this context that people are breaking out the pitchforks. If LV had made a blog post complaining about the "rip", they probably would have gained HN's sympathy.
what do I get beyond google voice for these prices?
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In regards to the author's skepticism with using voice input, we had a bit of a theory running in a HN previous thread that Glass will measure sound vibrations of your skull to accurately work out what you're saying.

Similar tech has been used in some headsets for years to create a fairly accurate speaker that, when I used it at least, was whisper sensitive. From what I remember nobody knew if the tech was 'reversible' in the sense it could be used as a mic but I guess it's theoretically possible.

I hope this, or another suitably accurate replacement, is used in Glass. I'll be really disappointed otherwise.
>This is disturbingly cynical advice. If you stand by it, why not attach your real name to it? If not, why put it in public?

Could you explain this logic?
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"From memory to inspiration"? I find this mildly offensive to be an MIT event. How about naming it: "An apology too late: MIT recognizes Aaron Swartz"
Do people have such poor social skills and lack of active life that they've never been around people wearing GoPro's?

You get over it. Really, really quickly.

The focus on the video camera....welcome to the modern world. Video cameras are everywhere, and if that is such a profound focus of people's concern, you might want to fly around the planet a few times to turn back time because it is unavoidable.
Hi gourneau, I'm a grad student working on the hardware side of nanopore sequencing. Do you know anything about opportunities in nanofabrication/system design? Or does Dr. Rothberg come up with these things all on his own?
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Well, I mean, that's your hang up, it's not the fault of the wearer. Your eyes have to go up and to the right to see the screen. It's clear you are looking at it to observers, in the same way it'll be clear when you are glancing your watch or looking at the clock on the wall.
There's a lot of differences, especially because 23andme just checks the "different" nucleotides for some specific genes. Having your full genome sequenced would mean that we would know every single nucleotide from you, so things we still don't know are important might become vital in the future.
I interviewed Uncle Bob on Monday (shameless plug: http://tiny-giant-books.com/blog/robert-uncle-bob-martin-int...). It was mostly biographical stuff, but I did cover functional programming. There was a bunch of technical stuff I left off because of time constraints.

The topic I really wanted to cover but didn't was TDD in startups. I have a simple belief: the value of your code debt can never exceed the value of your code. That is, if you code has no monetary value, it is impossible for you to have any code debt, no matter who you are, what your code does, or what the code looks like. Think about it. It makes sense.

It's interesting that Bob took a "saw the baby in half" approach here, outlining the various things he'd throw away and the various things he'd keep. While I think there are definitely shades of gray, it would also be useful for him to directly address the question of code that has no value. If I write a function that I save on my hard drive and never use, does it need a test? I belief the ludicrously obvious answer is "no", but I haven't heard him say that yet.
This is not a recommended solution, but an observation of my own life. I felt almost exactly how you did - till I had kids. They gave the job I was once excited about, now bored about, a new rich level of meaning -- bc it was allowing me to provide a better life for them. They gave me a reason to have long term goals there, and not throw in the towel as quickly as I might have otherwise.
How quickly time passes ^_^ The Newton was a major influence on the PalmPilot, particularly as the platform where Graffiti was developed. Granted, that line of product is functionally extinct as of the smartphone, but it had a good run.
It helps to think of our machines as fancy scanners. We have to build software to help our users manage their petabytes 'scanned' of data.

We also build developer tools to help the researchers and scientist extend our system with plugins.

One cool thing is that all of our software is open source. Check out the Django project I work on here.

https://github.com/iontorrent/TS/tree/master/dbReports
Maybe, but it's not that easy. You're generally going to see a 3-lines-of-context diff, and the reviewer won't necessarily have the idea to read the entire file (or worse, go poking elsewhere in the codebase) to see if comments deserve changing.
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If I can telcommute I have some free time.
> The state of the art on voice input, frankly, really sucks on both Android and iOS. Have you tried to compose a message that wasn’t “ok” or “coming home” via voice? Especially in a noisy cafe or on the bus?

Just yesterday I had a long conversation via IM with my girlfriend using only Android's voice input while I was walking down loud, crowded NYC streets.

And the commands for Google Voice won't be much longer than "ok" or "coming home" anyway. Commands are literally "Ok, Glass, <short command>"
Maybe so. Sometimes an item like Google Glass comes to light and then dies but there are things that are learned or ideas seeded from it that makes it well worth the effort.
I think he is looking at it as good from the the side getting the notice, not giving it.
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10k is kind of a small prize for something like this.
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That's a great puzzle game. It's even more impressive as you guys made it in 6 months.
I am always amazed, humbled and energized with posts and projects such as this one.
Keep up the good work!
The ramp from free to paying customer is too high. Either remove the free plan or add a lower bracket. The way you priced things is cute, but shows that these are numbers that you made up. People might look at them and question you, your business, and the value you provide. 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.

.99 is for regular prices. .97 is for lowered prices (but still considered regular). .95 is for promotional prices. Special prices may include either, but are ruled by different pricing options.

Edit:

Don't take my word for it and test it.
It is when it crosses the line into actual theft, which three of those icons apparently did.
> After all, everywhere else but the military tech gets more powerful and simpler to use.

And more disposable. If your modern whiz-bang gizmo dies in the field on civvy street, that may mean a trip to the store. Even those things that can be repaired or worked around are beyond the knowledge and capabilities of most owners/users these days. If it happens on the battlefield, you're dead if you're relying on things you don't understand and can't at least jury-rig to work when they go bing. And no, you can't reschedule. And along with the training you need to make it work, you'd damned well better have the conditioning that allows you to use the training when your own personal ass is on the line. If you are to have a military at all these days, it pretty much has to be a standing military (regular plus reserves). Ad hoc forces are cannon fodder and little more.
Check out Gnotty if you're interested in actual IRC with a responsive mobile interface:

https://github.com/stephenmcd/gnotty
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Most people have not met anyone using a GoPro. It's good to know that it's easy to get used to though.
How would this work, assuming Glass doesn't have a air-pressure sensor? That's the main thing you are using now, right? Would you ask people to take pics of the sky? What does Glass add that currently isn't possible WRT gathering data? Serious question.