skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK is pretty much an exception to the rule here though. In most other places in the world, including the US, post codes are not nearly as precise (source: worked on a real estate search engine that deals with addresses in 8 countries, including UK and India).
How Google lost the trust of Europe’s data protection authorities
The current version of Google Glass is a stepping stone. It's just to see what features people might unexpectedly use or find out they really want or do not want.

The future versions have unlimited possibilities such as automatically recording live events then replaying them, playing games, taking inventory, or even overlaying TV shows on top of screens at a bar so that you can effectively watch whatever you want. Infrared, night-vision, and auto-tracking of objects are also possibilities.

The military has had such a system for many years, it's called Land Warrior. It can map waypoints in a 3d environment, give directions, display messages, and display any information that the user needs. I imagine that in the near future the system will be able to identify hostiles or friendlies, detect mortars instantly and tell the user where to move, and will be integrated with the boomerang shooter detection system.

The possibilities are endless, we have to start somewhere though.
How would you handle "reduced pay" for founders with different % ownership during a dry spell?
Regardless of whether the backdoor-building of theirs is documented, someone obtained unauthorized access to the machines, be it an employee or not. This means OVH really is compromised, even if they documented the installation of this backdoor.
There's definitely a party coming up very soon in the Netherlands! http://www.demoparty.net/

http://www.demoparty.net/outline-2013/
Nice resource. I'm curious how you're going to manage the content and keep it accurate?

Example: under Three.js there is a game listed "Super Grammar Ninja" that is clearly not using 3D. (Seems to use Impact.js)
How about you attend Outline then, two weeks from now?

http://outlinedemoparty.nl/

It's a very welcoming place for the newly interested, I assure you.
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I'd like to propose another use case: HUDs.

I've recently took up cycling to work and back, and would love to have speed/gears/time up on the glasses, instead of having to look and focus down. Riding my scooter would also be better with it, since the speedometer and turning light indicators are a bit out of my normal field of vision.

Also, be able to see who's calling on the cell phone would be a plus (I've found that having the phone 'say' who's calling results in a jumble that I can't make heads or tails of, as most of the names are not English names)
Nice writeup!

Also, I never knew that "yin" meant boring and "yang" meant super awesome!
I'm not confrontational, just pushing God and claiming my turf. Glorify God.

God says...
6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished
all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid
with gold.

6:23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each
ten cubits high.

6:24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits
the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing
unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of
one measure and one size.

6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the
other cherub.

----

Is TempleOS Done? I have a vision of a pleasant, massively souped-up C64, for freakish not-shallow people who can look past low res. The draw of God is good though.

The Bible speaks of stumbling blocks. The door-keeper to some things is condition of the heart.
So SimCity, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Euro Truck Simulator, The Sims, etc aren't games either? Since they too are sandbox games that let the player direct the experience.

Frankly I would love to know what your definition of the term "gameplay" is because it seems unique. To me any interactive medium contains gameplay mechanics, even point-and-click adventure games do, hell even some BluRay menus could be described as having "gameply."

I even think Google's easter egg "zerg rush" (google it!) is a game and has gameplay.
I am really interested in the whole "smart glasses" idea and Google's implementation. What I am concerned about are all those cellular/radio antennas strapped to your head and how do they affect a person's health. I have not found any discussions about this topic yet.
Anybody going to do a quantitative analysis on the impact of having an MBA on startup success? Because I'd hate for something to get in the way of all these anecdotes.
> This act applies precisely in the case where attribution isn't possible.

That's the intention. However when the system is "I tried to find out who took this picture, I failed, therefor I can use it freely", then surely that system can and will be gamed badly?
A great developer needs to be able to foresee the impact his/her work will have on the choreography, performance, and resources of computer systems.

A great designer needs to be able to foresee the impact his/her work will have on the lives, perceptions, and interactions of real people.

There are enough easy third party tools to allow anyone with the willpower to be passable at both.

Examples of masterworks of design and development created by one person are rare.
Tell me about it. Large amount of MBA debt, just about to leave job to do startup full-time. Not easy with that debt millstone around my neck.
game quality is increasing, you're just getting older. same thing happens to me; i just can't play like i used to anymore.

when you're younger it's easier to lose yourself in the game, no matter how bad (and actually boring) it is.
so in other words, they pirated PC games, and used their limited resources to buy the games they couldn't pirate. Thus, the total amount of money they spent had been the same whether they pirated or not (just distributed differently, to different platforms). Had they not been able to pirate PC games, they might've spent a few more coins on PC games, and a few less coins on the xbox games - the industry wouldn't have seen more profit. However, having the ability to pirate meant that they are more enriched culturally, where as had they needed to pay the full price, they would've had less culture to immerse themselves in. I say that's a good result.
I'm not entirely sure why they bothered with the root SSH key. If they really wanted they'd just pop open a serial console on the virtual machine wouldn't they?
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Ahh, so that is why we need all those unicode characters. Did you know that you can register domain names like these now? So very useful....
I wasn't going to click on this but my intrigue got the better of my time. I am so glad I clicked through, this put a big smile on my face.
"Why on earth are you concerned about a point in the ocean?"

Why would I really? After all it's only 2/3 of the planet.

More realistic case: streets that haven't been mapped, rural roads.
I suppose I'm in the minority here, but I read most of the article, and was like, hm, I should buy this and support these guys.

Then I read:

We know this because our game contains some code to send anonymous-usage data
to our server. Nothing unusual or harmful. Heaps of games/apps do this and we
use it to better understand how the game is played. It’s absolutely anonymous
and you are covered by our privacy policy.

Mm. Actually, I don't really care if it's covered by your privacy policy, if your game has a cute little 'phone home' sending who-knows-what from my computer off to yours, you can go jump~

Sorry.
> The important figure (for developers) is not what proportion of pirates would buy the game, but what proportion of possible buyers will pirate instead.

There is also another important figure that is routinely ignored: the number of honest customers who get screwed by or annoyed with DRM and other forms of copyright protection (20 years ago we had to enter words from the game manual, page X line Y word Z, in the middle of the game) and decide to buy fewer games in the future (and possibly pirate them instead to avoid such annoyances).
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Why is there a physical WiFi-button on Lap-Tops?
sounds like something the startup genome guys could do.
A lot of those examples you gave so easy to do from home, in a bedroom or toilet. The military use example seems fine and some useful HUD type information would be neat.
MBA here.

I agree and I disagree. The MBA itself is pointless without considerable effort of the student to learn things related to startups.

MBAs teach you to be good middle to upper management in an organization with some structure. It teaches you how to navigate and mold an existing structure as needed for the course of business. It doesn't teach you how to build a company from scratch.

I would argue that a skilled business professional is useless for some startups and necessary for others. Want to tackle enterprise software? A few of those MBAs can provide insight and credibility.

Web guys are useless in a native world. Cocoa guys are useless in a Windows world. XAML guys are worthless in an Cocoa world. Right tool. Right job.
Just for fun and to hopefully one day avoid failing in a startup, I like to do post mortems. What I understood of Vinetrade is it struggled to make any income in a market which isn't comfortable right now trading online.

1. 2/12 Launches vinetrade

2. It manages wine portfolios

3. Raises funding

Getting funding so early is an indication that early profitability was probably not the main focus. Can give a false sense of success and idea validation.

4. People already trade wine but are not using an online service to do it yet

If this is your first startup, don't try and revolutionise an industry. Let someone else blow the money and make the mistakes first. Be a fast follower instead.

5. JM talks about building an MVP

Vinetrade should be your product? Another indication of not focusing on achieving profitability and a good revenue model and pricing structure early on.

6. 3/13 Closes vinetrade. Mentions it would have needed more funding.

Funding focus again an indication of lack of focus on early idea validation through profitability.
OP suggested a simple solution to an inherently complex problem in a complex domain. Doing what you suggested is like building a quorum protocol based on some intuitive idea about how a quorum should work and then fixing "edge cases".
Google Glass is no Segway though, he explains why Segway is not practical most of the time while Glass is https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/ZGFr8eMF...
Was thinking of starting similar and even picked up appitaph.com for it. Just shot you an email.
Wearing even 0-dioptries glasses for long periods can be detrimental to eye health. Glasses limit peripheral vision and restrict eye movement. This can lead to weakened muscles, worse blood flow and worse eyesight.
You realize that almost all mobile apps dial home with app metrics data right?
As a fellow programming-language designer masquerading (in my case, as a graduate student), what language projects are you up to right now?
At the serial console, you end up with a password prompt. It's also easier to just ssh over than to go over to the server and connect a serial cable.
Omg what! And FML it's in the only weekend that I planned a holiday abroad this year. May 9-13th I'll be gone. Damn. Would have asked some friends :(
Seems a bit much for London.

I have a TomTom but the map & traffic subscriptions equate to over £100 per year. And I can't even update the maps using Linux, so I basically let it expire and have abandoned it.

I do occasionally use Google Navigation on my Android for sat nav purposes, but for driving around a city that I know really well it is redundant except for traffic info (but even then I can usually work out my own route with better local knowledge of where traffic goes).

So yes, I could've fumbled around and got my phone from my bag (behind the seat), and wired it up, and viewed the traffic. But I was driving, even when I was mostly stationary I wouldn't take my attention away from the road like that.

Hence, if I had Glass, then I wouldn't need to prep in advance, nor fumble around... the tools would just be with me for when I needed to activate them.

Yesterday seemed exceptional though, something fouled up the whole of Fulham and Chelsea and the domino effect knocked out all major routes around too. That's an exception, not the rule... even if my TomTom subscription was active and up to date I wouldn't have wired it up just for a cross-town drive.
> Do you ever work in a team?

Yes, of course, many times. And on teams with a variety of coding standards, some loose and some more strict.

Did the coding style I suggested seem unsuitable for team use?
It is damage in the sense that you are consuming a product without "voting" for it in the marketplace.

This can lead to products that are in fact popular being less economically feasible to produce under certain business models if the piracy rate is too high.
Not every solution has to work for every country. This would be very nice for the UK and our address system works great.
These rants cover the issues pretty well

http://thispicturesucks.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/creative-co...

http://thispicturesucks.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/creative-co...

http://www.powazek.com/2004/02/000372.html
That's not true for most uk postcodes - many in rural areas represent an area larger than even one town, so a full address is also required. They vary from representing one address to hundreds, it's not really consistent.

It does seem strange that postcodes are not unique to addresses but they were originally just zones intended to help routing. Eventually we will probably end up with one global address space with unique identifiers for addresses like ips and dns; it would clear up a lot of ambiguity while leaving the rest of the address to function as a human readable equivalent. lat,lon doesn't really work as addresses can be on top of one another.
This is perhaps one of the most awesome publicity stunts I've ever seen.
I wonder if this type of tactic is going to catch on. Can you imagine if each copy of Wired shipped with 30 days of free wi-fi? Their subscriber count would shoot through the roof!
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Just like Google Wave. "Unlimited possibilities (no *current applications)."

I buy a device for what it can actually do, not for the potential of what it could do in 3-100 years time.

The ironic part about you bringing up Land Warrior program is that Land Warrior was cancelled in 2007. It still lives on but has never been expanded and or been adopted by other units or branches of the US military.
I'm quite interested in the user namespaces feature, but can't come up with any use cases for myself other than say sandboxing (sort of) applications. Can anyone explain it a bit better? The lwn article is a bit heavy going
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Very clever, but I hope there is a way to make use of the electronics after the time when Microsoft wants to pay for the data have passed. Our ecosystem cannot sustain this short product life-cycles.
Wikidata is a collaboratively edited knowledge base operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is intended to provide a common source of certain data types (for example, birth dates) which can be used by Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia. This is similar to the way Wikimedia Commons provides storage for media files and access to those files for all Wikimedia projects.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

ScraperWiki is a web-based platform for collaboratively building programs to extract and analyze public (online) data, in a wiki-like fashion. "Scraper" refers to screen scrapers, programs that extract data from websites. "Wiki" means that any user with programming experience can create or edit such programs for extracting new data, or for analyzing existing datasets.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScraperWiki
That was exactly my first thought - I use rubular all the time and it's a great scratchpad for regexes.
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I guess it depends on from what angle you look at it. Yin has been far better for my paychecks over the years, and that's pretty awesome IMHO!
This is how analytics applications work. Almost every website you visit has Google Analytics installed, which sends your data to their servers so that the developer gets a better understanding of their users.

Apps aren't an exception, you'll find it in almost all of them. When you install the app it should notify you what is does or doesn't have access to, so things like your phone book and call history are not accessible for the app.
That was kind of the point, this article is vapid and no details are given except they are pirates. I guess I should have posted my other comment saying how falkvinge is the Rosa Parks of this generation but I got too depressed.
Source for that 18% on XBLA?

Through, you don't answer the question on why games designed for high conversion rate should fair worse than games that aren't. You also add a additional questions when putting distinction to the population in question. Are we saying here that pirates are more likely to convert to a pay-to-play model than non-pirates are to go from a freemium model to pay? Whats the basis of such statement? All I see is a claim of inside knowledge, which in 2013 means as much (or little) as anecdotal evidence.

If all we have is unverified claims about high conversion rates, and in opposing side we have studies that shows low conversion rates for identical products, I will go with the study until proven different otherwise. I find the idea that the population in question would have a 2000% effect on the conversion rate, and that pirates are part of that group, to be a very large and unverified claim. The wilder a claim is, the more is it up the commenter to provide evidence to support it.
entertainment weekly shipped an issue with a full phone inside, a trend i've been hoping for since the first time a blinking LED was included in a cover as a promo.

http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/
There is a genuine problem with orphan works, but normally (IME) the term refers to obscure or older works where there copyright holder can't be identified or contacted for an extended period. I can't find the final text of this Act on any official source yet, but if the wording "diligent search" is all there is then that certainly sounds a lot like "Well, I Googled for the first two words of the book and couldn't find an obvious owner, so now I can resell it" territory.

What I haven't seen anyone explain so far, and again can't check for myself until the final wording is published somewhere accessible, is what happens if someone starts copying/sublicensing an "orphan" work and then the copyright holder finds out and identifies themselves. In earlier discussions about orphan works, which have been going on for years and covered by several public reviews at this point, this issue never seemed to be dealt with in a satisfactory way.
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Well, don't sweat it too much. Germany has its fair share of parties too, and if you don't mind the trek to Cologne there's Evoke in August (http://www.evoke.eu/2013/).
Would using a reverse image search engine qualify as a "diligent search"?

In principle, I think a law like this in regards to truly orphaned works is not a bad thing, as long as the penalties for abuse are proper (e.g. news programmes trying to credit "YouTube" for something they've ripped off someone else, or newspapers stealing someone's Twitter photos -- where it's entirely clear how to contact the person who owns the photo).
They should probably add some more built in commands. But I think locking the commands may help privacy issues. If you could get it to trigger on something common like "and" you may have issues with people using it for "bad" things.
As a data point, I haven't pirated a game since Steam came out.
This type of shit will keep happening until people stop trying to store money in relatively insecure consumer-grade hosting environments. The entire bitcoin economy is built on sand. Look into how much expense real banks go to in order to secure their systems. Then look at this never-ending parade of surprised victims who lost their bitcoins just because somebody found a vulnerability in some hosting company's bespoke password reset form.
I was scared by that title.
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Lots of people say "don't get it" when faced with a new technology. That's the problem with generic platforms. "Why would I need a smartphone" is a similar question. The potential answers are obvious today, but they weren't 10 years ago.

I don't think it's about understanding, but rather imagining what could be done better with this technology. A lot of workers are carrying barcode scanners and tablets around in the field today because they need to input or access information. That's a potentially very lucurative niche.

I don't really think (and certainly don't hope) Google Glass will ever be socially acceptable, though.
That's not true.

London post codes are the result of London moving from a single post town to a town with multiple towns (for the purpose of postal sorting offices).

The whole concept of a central post office broke down in the 1850s and London needed to be sub-divided to solve that.

Postal codes merely solved the routing problem between divisions, and wasn't a response to the street names problem.

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

One of the little known "Did you know" is that the primary numbers of postal areas in London were originally alphabetically sorted (which largely remains the case today unless that postal area has been extended or further sub-divided).
Man, I'm torn here. Making orphaned works public-domain is really a positive move, but the law doesn't appear to be using a great definition of orphaned if this article can be believed.

It does beg a question, though: I don't live by photography (otherwise my children would be starving) but if I were, wouldn't I put my name and contact into any metadata?
Massive missed opportunity to convert all those pirates into paying users.

Instead of focussing on teaching pirates a lesson, they should have set up an in-game option to "pay $x to remove piracy issues from game".
Previous HN discussion (50 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3775212

Commentary by The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-pr...
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Only for those interested in the rapidly changing world - Long read. Marketing focused.
No, you shouldn't. Ever wonder why Palm succeeded where Newton and other failed?

It's because Palm used a standardised, single-stroke learned script, whereas its competitors used full natural handwriting recognition that sucked balls. Glass is clearly going for the same thing.
I think the community position is clear - violating copyright for personal, non public, non profit purposes is OK. Exploiting others work for commercial gain without permission and compensation not OK. What's so hard about that?
/me nearly fainted.
Ask HN: What have you spent your training budget on?
For the last 10 years or so, I've been a web developer using Python, CSS, HTML and Javascript on Linux and for the first time, I've been offered a training budget!

So I'm looking for suggestions as to what to spend it on. Ideally "getting better at what I do" rather than perhaps more introductory material. Books, screencasts, conferences etc.

For example I'll probably go to PyconUK this year, and I've already watched the screencasts on http://destroyallsoftware.com