skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also ignores many of the things you can currently do. I've recorded more then one meeting by simply leaving my iPhone on record mode in my pocket. Audio is frequently more damning then video, and anyone can do that these days without giving anything away.

The right to privacy in public is generally regarded as a right to casual privacy - in the sense that many people can hear and may capture or accidentally record what you say, but won't publish or broadcast these events.

It seems the problem with Google Glass is more that it's forcing people to consider what has been true for a very long time: that wherever you go, chances are you're recorded in dozens of ways, by dozens of people, and the only actual defense is essentially social ettiquette in handling this content (and the fact that most people just don't care about who you are or what you do).
You are in middle school? Granted my comment was snarky, but this notion that code is everything and there is no value in communicating effectively is absurd.
70 US Dollar equals 643.45 South African Rand.

To put that in perspective: R650 is a basic grocery shop for my small family for a week.

I have a day job, a baby under a year old, another kid reaching teenagerdom and a bootstrapped startup. My wife works part time.

I wish more startups and even more mature companies would build in some sort of currency sensitive sliding scale for their pricing models. I know what a ball ache pricing is and how much time we tend to spend on it already but I'd love to be able to support and often times the reality is that I simply cannot afford to... Because of the exchange rate.

I take issue with your suggestion that people like myself piss off and use OSS though and I take issue with it for one simple reason: I personally use the 'nag screen version' of Sublime. I'm crazy about the product and when I have a row of developers working on a product that's paying the bills then rest assured - I'll be buying those licenses. In the mean time people see me using it, I evangelize the app fairly regularly, etc.

I know the Sublime guys are trying to earn a living, we all are, and I think that having more users of any kind will ultimately lead to more users of the paying kind.
But you can't (reliably) run JavaScript in RSS which means no AdWords and no profile/context advertising. That's the stuff advertisers love, not one-size-fits-all banners
> They say that it will herald a world in which "privacy is impossible and corporate control total."

They have this temporally reversed. This world heralded Glass. (Unfortunately. Stallman could say, "Told you so.")
How does this fly as an acceptable question to ask - but I cannot get feedback on my project, despite being a member for over 700 days...? I get the "your account is too new to submit" message.

Thanks in advance for advice.
Either share location or nobody takes instagram pictures near you. Go in US or Canada to see live feeds of hot chicks
Awesome, thanks everyone! I built it in about 3 days for a personal project @hackreactor (my first webapp from scratch) and had no idea it was on the front page of HN until just now! haha. Will totally work on cleaning up the interface a bit tonight, wasn't quite prepared for this to see thousands of eyes... haha. Thanks for the comments/suggestions, really appreciate it and totally welcome any more thoughts/bugs/feature requests.

Pull requests are very welcome and appreciated! https://github.com/michaelglenadams/Instahood
Only if they stop having ads in it.
Do you call everything that has an advertisement for it somewhere else a "core product"?
It solved problems for cities and city planners. A Segway user could be like an enhanced pedestrian. You could have fewer stores serve a larger populace. It didn't get to do this because it didn't solve its own chicken and egg problem.
I don't think english is his native language… At least there was a screencast showing off the features
I think 8ig8 was the one saying that the licence does't really allow you to skip the $70. I think you have made the confusion between 8ig8 and whao.
ardit33 is right. My experience is that most successful startups are so hungry for talent that they really don't care where you come from or who you know.
It's on meteor, but not really leveraging any of the most powerful features of meteor. I also built it in node but it's not deployed. It is indeed not real-time yet, will get that plugged in soon. Thanks for the comments!
The subject of the article seems to be important for Web 2.0 or mobile startups about ready to launch, but I don't quite know what to do with the article. So, here I will ask. Commonly I hear two recommendations:

(1) Launch with a minimum viable product (MVP); launch early; launch often. Don't do 'premature' optimization.

(2) You have only one chance to make a good first impression.

Maybe there is good in both (1) and (2); maybe one, the other, or both are BS.

I see some conflict here between (1) and (2), don't see the conflict convincingly resolved in the OP, and remain undecided.

My candidate 'compromise' position is at launch to try to stir up a lot of excitement but on the product emphasize up front that it is only a version 1.0, have a long TODO list, and are eager for feedback. Maybe mention the big goal on the horizon but maybe not.

E.g., what is your reaction when you see some hype, try the product, and see only an MVP? Do you see the glass partly full or partly empty?

Opinions, thoughts, examples, data, etc. requested.
We will be starting in May
Nostalgia As A Business Model
the lenders are - ultimately - the depositors.
I suppose I'm a member of that indignant mob, though I have no problem with fixing spelling errors or linkbait or inflammatory titles.

But the flip side of the loud indignant mob is the quietly indignant mob; a few days ago I submitted an item that I thought might be worthwhile, except that the best-formatted (easiest-to-read) source, nbcnews, also happened to be the one with the worst title. So, I used the title for the same article from the AP instead, and within a few minutes a moderator had mindlessly changed it to match the crappy, inflammatory title from the article.

I didn't bitch to anyone though, because it's clear that nobody's mind is going to be changed, but I wondered why HN doesn't just automatically pull the title from the submitted article. There's really no point in my putting any effort at all into a title.

obtw, a good rule of thumb in customer service is that for every complaint you get, there were 10 other people that had the same problem but didn't put the effort into telling you about it.
They seem like exactly the same thing. Maybe the reason they don't seem that way to you is that you've decided a priori that Bitcoin will inevitably regain its 30% in value, while Cypriot assets will never gain 6% of value. That seems a little silly. If you bought gold in 1980, you'd still be waiting, 33 years later, for it to recover its value. Gold, silver, currency, and truncated SHA2 hashes can lose value and never fully regain it.
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That looks very cool!
At Appvetica we've built a similar thing, we called it Instageo, and it's for iOS check it out: https://itunes.apple.com/pl/app/instageo-discover-world-arou...
"Google Glass" vs "McDonaldized surveillance" 
Just an old article for the community to think of with all this hype on Google Glass
Not much money to be made on speaking. You are lucky to get your expenses covered. But sure, better consulting/job gigs could be an outcome from writing an O'Reilly book. Of course, if you took the year or more it took you to write that book and and put that time into paid consulting I am not sure you would ever catch up. As an O'Reilly author myself if you are looking at writing a book for the money you are doing it wrong.
> The argument "someone was going to do it if I don't" doesn't hold any water.

Can you elaborate or suggest some further reading on this? If someone possesses rare talent or technology, I can understand it. But that's hardly the case in what we're talking about.

I see approximately zero difference in the world if I write surveillance software or if someone else does. It will get done. Government and telecom companies aren't going to shrug and drop the issue. So why should I allow someone else to benefit from my refusing a contract?

I am honestly asking for the logical steps in arriving at your outcome.
I'm embarrassed to show it since I only have parts of a system right now, not a finished system. But as I implied in the OP, the code I'm writing is mostly conventional algorithms and data structures; the twist is in some subtle detail that ripples out towards the top level. I'll give some examples which will hopefully be more instructive than a code dump.

One of my targets was the entity system used to describe a scene in video games. Conventionally this involves an OO hierarchy of some kind, either compositional or inheritance based. The problem is that you don't know up front all of the sorts of properties an entity will need and what algorithms it will work with; the integration of the various subsystems acting upon an entity is a high-maintenance area and tends to involve messy boilerplate data tracking. I pursued the problem further, and came up with a way to move the integration process out of the subsystems code.

This was done by creating a customized set of collections(array, key-value, bag) that associate their data against an entity structure, can handle multiple instances of data associated against the same entity, can efficiently access data of a specific entity, and can remove all of the data related to that entity upon a despawn request. Once these constraints are satisfied, the only thing each subsystem has to do is work with those collections.

Also of interest, and still in progress, is an implementation of J. Paul Morrison's "Flow Based Programming" concepts to control overall program structure. I was looking around at ways to minimize coupling, and this particular method added a degree of structure and contractual behavior.

The first thing that happened after taking on this concept was to work through the ramifications for interactive programs: I had to start with a big data structure containing all the state, and then split it out and merge it together to attain synchronized behaviors. This in turn motivated the entity system idea. It's a very spatial model, so I am now doing some work on a graphical tool.

NoFlo is an example of a more finished FBP implementation than mine: http://noflojs.org/

I have some other ideas too, but they're in a very early stage so there's little to say. Having prior experience in the domain is a huge help, and I wouldn't be taking this approach to conquer arbitrary new problems. I'd try to make at least one mess first ;)
Well for the moment that only MIA, supposedly it'll make an appearance some time this year, hopefully before Google I/O or else that would be quite embarrassing.
Wouldn't it only be the people who want to use a camera?
Unless you are suggesting that all glasses in the future will have video/audio technologies?

I don't think much of Glass. Just doesn't appeal to me but I am curious about what makes it special for others.
> Minus the hype one may have a product that could be quite successful

But very likely won't, and the odds of being successful even going the full hype route are small. Hype works so well in this industry that it's hard to fault people who balance the risk of blowback against the fact that hype gives a real boost to the already slim chances of big success.

Especially when you follow the industry and see who wins and how much hype they (and their competitors) went with. There's truth in what you say, it adds risk, but it's a formula that works and you're preaching a conservative take to people already aiming for high risk, low probability goals.
The Constitution says the government can institute a postal service, not that they must. Very different from the Second Amendment.
i am not a native speaker, thanks for the down vote , that is sarcastic
> RSS is a technique that allows you to read news raw, stripped off of website ads

Virtually no content site puts its entire article into the RSS feed. They want to monetize with ads even more than Google wants them to. If RSS was a threat to anything it would be social news services like G+ which depend on a non-federated model to maintain their walled gardens.
One of the most interesting things to me is that Plan 9 did per-application sandboxing before and better than the broken implementation Apple is trying to do now. When every device driver is manipulated by writing to a file, one only needs to restrict access to the file to prevent net access. And Plan 9 has a filesystem that allows you to mount over specific files for a single process which is just so much more powerful than chroot.
Instago does the same thing for iphone and has been out many months.

http://www.instagoapp.com/
Haven't been to the post office lately?

>I should be able to go to a vending machine ...

Yes, they have those. They are called "Automated Postal Center"(APC).

> "First Class mail with tracking and delivery confirmation" and they have to ask me 10 questions.

These two things never existed together. There was delivery confirmation, which is not tracking. USPS did not previously provide tracking on First class mail.

Over the past few years they have been improving their tracking of delivery conf #s, and today it's similar to UPS/FedEx tracking.. so recently they renamed it to "USPS Tracking" (in mid-Jan 2013).
The road to UX hell is paved with minor feature requests.
> Contrast this with the "Poettering-approach" to Pulse Audio: klunky, specialized, complex, and ultimately broken

I am skeptical. PA had teething problems, but on the other hand, they kept compatibility with ALSA, they kept compatibility with ESD. /dev/dsp had been known-to-be-broken for ten years or so when PA was released- and after the kernel added the necessary bits, osspd was released.

The PulseAudio rollout was a disaster, but it wasn't architecture that was the problem.
The problem with the graph search: it is still limited to your connections and their's; you can't reach beyond your following with hashtags, as we can with Twitter, G+ - and over 50 social networks and sites with topic hashtags that are searchable.
That is legal in Colorado, but I abstain just to be safe!
http://RiteTag.com lets you search words to get Twitter, G+, and yes, Instagram tags that reach topic-following people, those interested in your blog posts, videos, artwork, photographs, and even offers in eBay and Amazon, shows you the when, who, how many times, and what in the content that has been tagged with a tag related to your query, and lets you do a few more things as well. RiteTag is not an SEO tool, its a SSO tool: for optimizing your content in social media to reach more, with relevancy.
Some tools do tag illustration: stats. RiteTag is a tool for discovering reaching tags, per network (they vary per network) and learn about tags as well. Its not about optimizingtweets and other content to be seen by those not following you, but following and searching for your tagged topics. Many more networks with topic hashtagging are in the plans for integration, as our first users tell us how they need to tag their photos, images, and goods better to get seen more, and thus sell more. Rather than rush to add every social network with an open API, we focus on relevancy and honing the results in the RiteTag Reports.
In companies that are generating significant revenue it's pretty easy to tell if a change is profitable or not, and that you could make X more changes worth Y with Z more developers - not even trying to put a price on individual developers, just a typical developer whom may not even need to be a diamond-in-the-rough, rock star, ninja, volcano-surfing lion tamer.

In many business models it's pretty easy to see the value added by a new, average developer at this firm may be way more than it is at other firms in the hiring market, and are irrationally failing to make gains from trade and inefficiently allocating the labor market by refusing to capture the quantity of labor supplied at a higher price point, before of (I think) cultural reasons.
Does that site throw up a warning for anyone else?
Looking around my smallish hometown area, I'm wondering if social workers and/or police make use of tools like this. I'm not advocating either way, but there's lots of young people essentially publicly confessing to crimes (pictures of them vandalizing, screenshots of text messages about planning to steal clothes from the mall, and plenty of teenage angst). I feel a bit creepy for looking at their pictures, but also shocked they're so revealing to the public. How clear does instagram make it that your photos are public? Is it ignorance or apathy on the part of the teens?
Am a big fan of storm. Can't wait to see what he is onto.
I did not downvote you, users cannot downvote comments that are replies to the user's post.

There is a significant difference between going to grammar school and going to grammar school for a secondary language. You should not be ashamed of your english skills if it is not your native tongue. My latin skills are awful, I wish I could speak/write a second language as well as you write your second language.
It's perhaps difficult to quantify the marginal contribution of your latest hire. However, almost all companies are keeping track of their revenue-per-employee, and it's fairly common around here to remark that your company is not yet doing well until that number hits about $200,000/man-year. Apple and Google and the like have about double that.

At that level of revenue, yes, there are taxes and capital costs to pay, but you can also afford damn fine salaries, too.
Yeah, they did this whole RSS needs replaced thing already and they called it Atom... I think syndication and walled gardens don't mix very well. EDIT: Not that that is what's actually going on here. I don't even know why I'm commenting on this kind of frenzy creating garbage anyway :(
I keep hearing about the extreme shortage of software engineers. But why haven't I heard about software engineer salaries skyrocketing?

If supply is short and prices don't rise, something in the market is broken.
By "somewhere" you mean "at the top of every Gmail page"? Then yes, I'd figure that something Google prominently displays at the top of every Gmail page is probably pretty important to them.

I mean... when something is widely displayed in the middle of a list of things that includes

* Gmail

* Google Docs

* Google Calendar

* Google Photos

* Google Search

and nothing else, then I would naively consider it to be roughly as "core" as the other things on the list. You wouldn't? Why not?
If you answered this question "yes", you've never been a hiker. Most people probably don't know about the idea of General Delivery[1], but if you're going to be without a fixed address for 6 months and passing through a bunch of tiny towns that don't have a Fedex or UPS store, you quickly learn 1) How awesome it is that most towns in the country have a post office, and 2) That USPS Priority Mail is both inexpensive and reliable.

The idea of General Delivery is that instead of having an address in the second line, you write "General Delivery", and fill in the third line as usual. The main post office in the area holds the mail for 30 days after receiving it. In a small town there's only one post office, and that's the one you go to to collect it. In conjunction with Priority Mail packages, this is an awfully convenient way to get resupplied with things you can't find in small towns when you're traveling through.

I've done mail drops on the Appalachian Trail using Priority Mail, and while it would be possible to do a thru-hike without mail drops, you'd have much more limited food options. If you had any kind of non-standard dietary requirements, you'd be hard pressed to meet them in most of the towns along the trail.

The AT is unusual in that there are hostels and outfitters along the way that will receive and hold packages on the behalf of hikers, and they're well publicized in the guidebooks. I've also bicycle toured through the US, and being able to pick nearly any town, confirm that it had a post office, and pick something up there 3-4 days later greatly eases getting stuff to you. I couldn't get a replacement derailleur hanger before I left, and wanted a spare (because a hanger is usually specific to a manufacturer, or even a frame), and I picked it up somewhere in Montana after my local bike shop was finally able to get one in.

By the end of the trip I had used up a set of bottom bracket bearings (the ones that make the pedals go around smoothly), and if I hadn't been ending the trip, I would have needed a new set. Since mine were pretty uncommon at the time (external BB in 2006), I would have had a hard time getting replacements from a random bike shop, and I would have relied on General Delivery to get a set from either the manufacturer or a higher-end bike shop.

It's probably easy to underestimate the reliability, efficiency, and convenience of the Post Office. Most people will probably never be in a town of 70 people [2] that doesn't have any sort of store but does have a post office, and if they do they probably won't be there without a car. Those of us who have been know that the ability to get a box sent there from the other side of the country in a couple of days is nothing short of miraculous.

[1] https://www.usps.com/manage/forward-mail.htm#3

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caratunk,_Maine (I was through in 2010. In 2012 the Post Office was apparently still open, but Fontana Dam, which has only marginally better services, lost theirs.)
Redis's expirey strategy has changed as of Redis 2.6, which does have Redis actively expiring keys.
The way to fight this type of surveillance isn't convincing people to avoid working on such projects. That's hopelessly naive or incredibly optimistic. Change the rules of the game: Either make it illegal and enforce or spread proper privacy software like cryptography.

Why not simultaneously push for change in government, develop powerful and easy-to-use cryptographic tools, AND refuse to work on projects that are very likely to have a negative impact on society?

I don't deny what you're saying, that these projects will end up being built by someone (hopefully someone less qualified though, and at a higher cost to the contractee), but by the logic in your first post in the chain, anything could be justified morally as long as someone is paying you to do it. What's wrong with pulling the lever in the gas chamber? If you don't, the next guy will, right?
and the closing comment on this bug points to two new ones. I'm not sure why a bug no one cared about until today is getting people this riled up. I'm a loooong time Reader user and certainly never cared about RSS support in the browser (I used to use the RSS button in Firefox years ago, but that was honestly hit or miss on if it would enter the Reader workflow correctly, so I eventually just always searched for the URL in Reader directly).

This story seems like people jumping at another chance to further shame google on the Reader front, which is fine, but this seems like a somewhat dishonest opening for it, especially considering the directness of the closing comment.
Note that I didn't say you shouldn't read your RSS feeds in the browser, just that it isn't necessary for it to be part of the core browser itself. Extensions, web apps, etc. are all ways of reading RSS in the browser without it being directly incorporated.
My thoughts exactly. How can they justify simply taking deposits?
Any change in the process makes it more difficult to manage. More difficult means more expensive. And maybe they've just decided that they didn't want the hassle.