skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the "socially acceptable" aspect: This is gen 1. I'm not going to say I guarantee this, but wouldn't you all be very, very surprised if this thing doesn't get a little more sleek? I mean, eventually, couldn't Glass (or a Glass-like product) just streamline itself into regular old glasses? It might be a few more years away, and it might be a little bulkier than current glasses, but I just see this as inevitable. And when a product like Glass looks very similar to something we have been wearing for centuries.. I don't think there will be much social stigma, or at least it will dissipate relatively quickly.
i like the random `git co` after the first sentence. go go gadget multitasker!
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It appears that the spec for EME doesn't provide a mechanism to reliably detect decryption failure, this will be inconvenient to end users. This could be alleviated by adding a mandatory tag that includes a hash of the decrypted video for verification purposes, to be tested by the client while streaming the content. If the hash is missing or incorrect the media must not play.

The Tiger Tree Hash system is already being deployed for this purpose in other systems.
I for one do not think camera phones are chill, and many enterprises do not allow them in the workplace. I do not allow for people to take my picture or record me without my permission.

As a professional photographer, I have my subjects sign a release before or shortly after I take a picture they’re in. If they refuse to sign, I delete the material.
I think you meant GATTACA, the movie? To anyone who hasn't seen it, fantastic movie. Highly recommended.

Re: your other points. I think your concerns are well placed, however this isn't something that's specific to Counsyl; 23andme presumably also carries the same risks. At any rate, I do believe they hold your genetic information to the same standards as required in HIPAA.
You appear to have stopped reading at the word "fair".
I like this. Having a useful central repository of 3rd party project templates is a good thing, especially as Apple seem to keep cutting back on them. (Until I saw this it hadn't even occurred to me that people might contribute their own; I must be a bit too comfortable in the walled garden).

In the spirit of sharing I've added my own, long-standing color theme.
It isn't, that's why plugins are being killed off too.
I'm looking forward to Balaji's Coursera class: https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
> You've got some decent stock, say, like, 200,000 options. You vest over four years and your strike is $1/share (which is WAY too high for an early employee, but you feel "good" about this one.) You're making 50k under market value.

>That means in four years, your stock is going to have to NET (taxes are a healthy 20%, plus you've got fees, so it's gotta be pretty high...) you a $1 a share in order to be worth it, assuming you never recieve a raise or a bonus at your new job, and you don't count your 401(k) match, health benefits, less-stressful working conditions and shorter hours.

Pretty horrid that the post makes judgements ("decent stock", "WAY too high"), about options based on the quantity and price per share without considering what portion of the company the shares represent (and the initial valuation of the company.)
I think this is a good idea. And I know small businesses looking for such (working) solution and they would happily pay $3/month.

Question: why not let the user choose? Show the email address and the form too. Something like: http://healthexpense.com/contact/
Typical Quartz linkbait. What's it doing on Atlantic?
yea..there is no green light. i have glass.
Insurers have been barred by law from discriminating based on genetic information since 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrimi....

Counsyl definitely falls under the scope of HIPAA; we do tests at the request of physicians, so we're like any other lab as far as privacy is concerned. Your employer, parents, or prospective mate would only know about the results if you decide to tell them.

It's also important to note exactly what Counsyl is testing: we're look at severe single-gene disorders, things that in most cases cause severe disability or early death. Importantly, if you only have one defective copy of a gene for which we test, you won't show symptoms of the disease. This is not the kind of thing that should affect your employer or insurer. And, if you're a carrier, it's probably something you should discuss with your prospective mate: if he or she is also a carrier for the same disease, there's a 1/4 chance of your child having that severe condition.

*edit to add the last paragraph
Sadly, appeals to reason are not usually well received by an angry mob. Every time this subject comes up I remind myself of pg's "What You Can't Say" essay and then I keep my mouth shut.

http://paulgraham.com/say.html
NetFlix is one of the companies pushing this.
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Try to get within 2 feet of a stranger while pointing your smartphone at them. Expect a backlash.
AeroFS is also server-less, though you can run your own servers.
A lot of this criticism is also assuming everyone is using their own computers. At a couple of places I've worked, we could store our files on a network drive but we got a fresh instance of Windows each time. Mailto links would bring up the Outlook Express setup wizard, which was pointless to go through considering it would simply be wiped again when you logged out.

On top of that, I know my mom, still fearful of Firefox, let alone Chrome, has a similar problem with mailto links and it is always quite excruciating watching her process for extracting just the email link itself without the mailto: attached to the front. Depending on who this is marketed to, I think some businesses could easily increase conversions by going this route.
The widget might be useful, well done!

Any plans to add other languages?

Also please add a 'cancel' or 'close' button to the form...
There are, and have been, more suitable products for that. I don’t think this is the use case Google has in mind for Glass. Google Glass is meant to be way more personal, collecting your movements and augmenting your physical world with content that Google has selected for you based on the information they have on you.
the camera is a killer feature for glass. it wouldn't make sense without it. and having used it myself and taken photos, i can tell you i prefer the experience "hands down" over a mobile device or point-and-shoot for activities such as hiking, running, and biking.
Short term, the solution is to convince W3C that moving forward will be an embarrassing disaster, nevermind what some of its for-profit members want. This has been accomplished before, in particular ~2001 when many wanted W3C to have a RAND (ie fee required OK) patent policy, but they were embarrassed into finally doing the right thing, ie mandating RF (royalty free) patent licensing by participants in W3C standards.

Long term, help free culture become dominant. The post says "The Web doesn’t need big media; big media needs the Web" which is true, but web companies do fear and/or hope for an advantage over competitors by doing deals with big media, including deals selling out The Web writ large.
Thank you for being a good web citizen. Times two. First for people a "good person" and using Persona instead of some "innovative" home-rolled email solution or just using Facebook/Twitter auth. And more importantly for the thought-filled write-up. Should be useful.
Seems like all the comments here are very negative. On a meta-question, why would that link be ranked #1 ?! I mean, sure, someone can upvote the link and write a negative comment, but that's unlikely.

That being said, I think this could be a useful javascript plugin.. I.e. when you click a mailto link, you get a contact form in an overlay, maybe with a "Send this email from my email client" for people who prefer to use native or gmail clients. As to actually send the email, it could simply use sendgrid or a post call to the backend.
For something referred to as cred. This is a mix of social status, proof of skills, and attitude. Gangs use cred as a way to measure the value of their members. A person who brags about doing illegal things is only doing so to elevate his cred. Having street cred is more valuable than money in many circles. Due to how it allows a person to operate within a limited set of rules inside a community. A gang member with a lot of cred can simply do things other members cannot. Such as having first pick at food, housing, vehicles, and money.
Interesting. I've never heard of a workplace where you can't bring your iPhone on the premises, but I guess there must be some. You must admit it's rare in the white collar sector.

> I do not allow for people to take my picture or record me without my permission.

I don't see how you have much control over it, at least in public. Maybe you live in a country where preventing others from recording you is a legal privilege.
It was pretty clear to me that it's a service that automatically turns your mailto: links into pop-up contact forms.
If you're getting equity in lieu of pay, make sure it's a real amount of equity. Real amounts of equity are expressed as percentages of the company and are not two orders of magnitude different than what the founders have. Real amounts of equity are given outright or have really low strike prices.

If you sold your equity the day after it was given to you, would it bring your salary up to a reasonable level? That's the benchmark. If not, ask for more equity, or more salary.
I wrote a cpl of twitterbots that basically went full provacateur to test the reaction to them during Arab Spring / OWS and find out who is surveilling what, and how they react. Fascinating results, and it seems no one thought "maybe we're being trolled, lets keep some cards close to our chest". But there's a big difference between looking for exploits by trolling and what this cat did.
Ask HN: Why the sell-frenzy from the fake news? 
I'm wondering, why was a 200 billion $ sell off was triggered by a fake twitter news, when the news was only that Obama got hurt. Its not as if, Saudi Arabia banned exports of Oil. :?
Well, I'm completely blown away by this tool. The utility of it. The speed... Amazing.

I think it's great that the developer decided to charge money for this too. It has real value for me, it's going to save time, so why wouldn't I want to pay to show my appreciation and to ensure it's being worked on?
"Any plans to add other languages?"

Nevermind, looks like it is configurable...
I really like the interface, nice side project.
In theory perhaps it's no different. But I think EME would work out very poorly in practice. Some browsers either allow no plugins or only a few grandfathered plugins. What EME systems will they support? Imagine a future where Mobile Safari only supports FairPlay, IE only supports WMDRM, Chrome OS only supports Widevine, Android gets fragmented into a half-dozen different DRM schemes depending on vendor, desktop Linux has nothing, etc. This scenario is much worse than Flash.
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With the obvious difference being that the proceeds benefit watsi.
Rails has a few ways to obfuscate mailto links through the mail_to helper method. JS encoding, hex encoding, and just text obfuscation.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHel...

Solves the problem of getting spammed by email scraping bots. I'm assuming you could write your own helpers pretty easily in other languages / frameworks if they don't already exist.
My point exactly. I for sure won’t welcome the Glass overlords.
Looks great!

Quick question: since data is uniformly spread across n leaf nodes, do queries that require checking a number of rows >> n hit nearly every leaf? If so, does this create latency problems when n is large? (since it'd only take one slow request out of n to cause high latency)
Is this similar to what just happened at Linode? Has OVH allowed full access of their databases to attackers?

Looks like the only answer to be truly secure is to colocate your own box?
Do you have any clue how encryption works? There are plenty of open-source encryption algorithms that are very secure.

I'm not sure how W3C is recommending the DRM be implemented, but it is in no way necessary for the source code for browsers to be 'closed' vs 'open' source in order to have effective DRM.
Have you ever watched people shopping? Buying the clothes is part of the whole experience. Abstracting it away removes a big part of it. You buy trendy clothing in trendy stores so that people can see you buying there. Why do you think clothing stores have such big and attention grabbing bags? People want to be seen walking down the mall with the bag.

Also, validate by taking a laptop to a clothing store and standing in front of the fitting rooms. Have people use the system. Realize how different it is from reality. Adjust accordingly.
But camera phones must be conspicuously placed to record, and even then, the perspective is usually skewed or there are sound and video artifacts from outside sources (the movement of the device, sounds of cloth rubbing against the mic, white noise).

With Glass, the ease of surveillance increases tenfold. Not only do you have an absolute perspective of how the end result is going to look because the device is on your face, but you have an open line of sight and artifacts will be reduced to a minimum due to its placement.
GINA is Only for predisposition. Anything that is diagnosed through genetics is fair game. If you use genes to detect that I have something like Fabry Disease which you either have or you do not based on the genes you can be asymptomatic and still have the disease and you will develop it eventually.
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Because nature is... not part of... nature? This makes no sense. If you find yourself discounting large swaths of reality, you are generalizing.
I'm curious about how equity/options vesting work in the general silicon valley startup (I'm sure details will vary). Actually, I'm curious how it works generally, period. But most people reading HN is probably more familiar with SV startups than, say, New Delhi startups.

Say I'm granted 10 shares of options in a company (for the sake of the example, say this is 10% pre-dilution. So there are 100 shares currently). This vests over 4 years. Are you 'granted' these shares, or do you have to purchase them? Presumably, you purchase them at the 'strike' price? Is this something determined when you are hired and sign the employment contract? Or when the equity starts vesting?

In other words, if I'm getting this correctly, you have to pay to own a portion of the company, despite the fact that you're an early employee? Do the founders have to do the same? If the strike price is $1/share, then you have to pay out $10 to own that 10% over the course of 4 years? Or will the 'strike' price change over time?
My take is that Google in particular likes this development (though are probably trying to stay away from it publicly for political reasons) because it allows them to easily (ie. with studio blessing) pilot monetizing their vast YouTube-watching userbase by offering paid content services and user profiling far beyond what is available on cable networks (eg. by selling 'anonymized' matches of consumer viewing behaviour in conjunction with email, location, sleeping-schedule as determined by a cross-section of Google services, etc.). Existing Google projects and their recent significant investment in video (patents, new LA offices, Android 'Smart TVs', ChromeOS Google Fiber) all look like they will benefit from this type of development. With all due respect to people who work at Google, please consider protesting internally in parallel to this public effort, or leaving.
I gave it a quick once over but the thing that already made me think this auther does not know what he is talking about is this line:

> You've got some decent stock, say, like, 200,000 options. You vest over four years and your strike is $1/share

What startup is that? If it has a $1/share valuation its already near the end of its "start up" runway. And if your getting 200k in shares then its either really earl on or the strike price is really low. I have had offers from YC-Backed companies in the past and its one or the other, not both.
God is perfectly just. If I help someone after getting an expensive degree, I am more entitled to being helped by someone with a degree.

God says...

to anger.

33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the
house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son,
In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 33:8 Neither will I any
more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have
appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that
I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and
the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err,
and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before
the children of Israel.
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I think you should market it differently, something along the lines of "easy contact forms for static websites". This is a real need many small web shops have. I for example would love to be able to host my small clients websites on S3, but Contact Forms is the one requirement that forbids doing this.
It seems like the Wikimedia article has turned more people on to MariaDB - but what about Percona? I'm ignorant about the differences. Does anyone have a good 3-way comparison?
Bringing people back from the dead
if you can work at a large non-technical company as a technical person, you should. my last company was bought by Viacom. i've been there, i know what it is.
And in fact, at market close, the three major indexes were all up over a percent. Nothing got "erased" today.
If you get options equal to 10% of The Company when it is worth $1 million, and there is a 10% chance of the company selling for $10 million, the expected value of your stock options is $90,000, before taxes. If the stock vests over four years, that's $22,500 / year, pre-tax. You could almost beat that working full-time at minimum wage in some states.

And this is an optimistic, above-average outcome.
Not at all clear to me that waiting it out is a winning strategy. There is no deterministic path for other media to follow music away from DRM, and indeed there is a threat that a faux-standard as proposed will mean that DRM becomes the expectation and demand of/by record companies, again.
Depends on where you live now, I guess. Let's just say living in LA is not the reason I work here... though it isn't nearly as bad as I had feared.
What's revolutionary about 400 SNPs for $599? There's absolutely no chance to compete with that kind of product and pricing.
Yes, let's make up numbers to reinforce our prejudices.
That sound great!

I'm building a backup service for sql server, and wonder if this route could be better than rsync?
I think for photographers, the backup functionality of most "sharing" sites is pretty important... and Tonido seems to not address that at all (by design).

It still looks like an interesting product, mind you...
Using a smartphone or tablet in presence of company might be semi-acceptable, taking pictures or videos of people without their permission isn’t (and shouldn't be, IMHO).
IFLS is to science as lol-cats is to feline veterinary medicine.
Have all OVH VPS' been compromised? Just like Linode was recently?
Flashing Flash-based ads in your peripheral vision all day, even when your eyes are closed.

Location based nags you can't turn off demanding that you visit the commercial sponsors of your device as you travel through the city.

Bugs that block your vision randomly and can't be turned off because you carrier is taking two years to approve the bug-fix upgrade to Android 11.3 and your equipment is locked down with an encrypted bootloader.

Crashing into walls because some cracker has added your glass to a botnet mining for bitcoins and the device is lagging and leaving artifacts in your sight lines.
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to my dismay, internet cred does not share a 1:1 ratio with street cred.
Legally if you fail to disclose that you knew you are a carrier for a severe disease to a prospective spouse prior to marriage it could be grounds for annulment, or a fault divorce. Sorry I don't have the case law at the moment, but I am aware that there was such a case involving Huntington's disease.
Based on the OP's story, I'm going to assume this was an early stage startup. It is foolish to join an early stage startup as an employee if it's all about the Benjamins from an exit. Hopefully this is common knowledge.

However, being an employee in an early stage startup is a great way to jumpstart your career, whether you have entrepreneurial aspirations or not. In an early stage startup you are going to be rubbing noses with investors, working on interesting/tough problems with very smart people, taking on huge amounts of responsibility, getting in way over your head every day, and generally beefing up your resume.

Think of it as an investment in yourself. You will build character, and you will build varied skills that will carry forward for the rest of your life, and someone has paid you for that privilege.
If you deem it worth your while and are confident you are in the right, I think the best attempt at getting a response here is to voice your concerns more publicly. Be this through twitter or a blog (they need decent visibility), Expedia is more likely to act if they are risking bad pub.
"That also suggests there is a natural ratio, something I for one don't believe."

Just curious, why not? There are many obvious physical differences between men and women, why not mental as well?
I'm surprised to see two such distinct incidents brought together under a common heading. The first one (interview granting) is about feeling more altruistic towards people that we share some experience with. Interesting phenomenon, but it has nothing in common with a doctor (who probably had no experience in common with his patient) deciding that the hospital's interests are best served by providing for a (potentially very influential) Yale professor extra super special forms of treatment.
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In the case that their mail-app is something like Yahoo or Hotmail and doesn't open on a mailto: link.

So yeah. If mailto: is configured properly, it's better. Sadly, on many computers it isn't, and a contact form is sort of a "minimal but workable everywhere" solution.

I think the ideal combination is having a contact form pop up with a "Send mail from my own client" mailto: link at the bottom.
How would a defamation law prevent this exactly?

I didn't say it would. The original question was "what is wrong with publishing mugshots".
Well, just from skimming some of the pages on Amazon, it seems to back up a lot of the original article's points.

eg. on p25 McConnell lists project outcomes by project size:

1000 LOC -> 81% on time, 4% late, 2% cancelled
10,000,000 LOC -> 14% on time, 21% late, 65% cancelled

Smaller project, better estimates.

Also notice that McConnell uses terms like "Approved Product Definition" and "Requirements Complete". It's a rare project, particularly in the consulting world, that can nail down requirements to the degree that you get really accurate estimates. For packaged software products it's doable, for other things, not so much.
I up voted this for the discussion going on.
I'll just leave this here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/fashion/02studied.html?_r=...
Eternal maintenance is not the point of writing software; it's just an unfortunate inevitability.