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the LED/shutter sound aren't about 'preventing it from happening', and your binary logic here is pretty lazy.

The point is that a red LED or shutter sound make it obvious to other people that photography is happening, in the most common cases. Someone who wants to surreptitiously photograph people without their permission will always do it, yes, but that doesn't mean the solution is to 'help resisting people transition into' being photographed without their permission in any and every scenario.

If the common case (i.e. stock Google Glass) has a 'recording' LED or shutter sound, it becomes much easier to address situations where a well-meaning person violates someone's privacy without thinking about it. This will lead to proper etiquette and understanding being formed. The alternative, 'I can take video of you without your knowledge, get over it, the FUTURE' perspective is not going to win anyone over anytime soon. Especially vulnerable minorities.
Not everyone has the same definition of "normal" or "looking like a dork" as you do. If you don't like how Glass looks, or if you don't think you'd have a use for it, DON'T BUY ONE!

I must have missed the announcement that Glass use will be compulsory.
Strong words will convince nobody!

I've never cared when people tell me that Dvorak is nonsense, or a lie, or whatever. I know it's hard for people, fighting to keep their QWERTY against this enormous onslaught of Dvorak proponents, so I just let them vent. It doesn't actually usually take long.

In fact, I don't even bother putting up a defence any more. Not my fingers, after all...
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A red 'recording' light or shutter noise are not security theater. They're a feedback mechanism to notify subjects that they are being recorded. Even if 1 or even 10% of google glass users hack their device to remove the light, the other 90% will have the light and that will improve others' awareness of when they're being recorded and enable them to take action.

Incremental improvement is better than nothing, and this is an example of an incredibly cheap, obvious incremental improvement with no downside.
The "historically" is a bit misplaced. Historically speaking, people almost universally ended up using whichever currency was used for taxation and in use by other significant institutions for practical purposes. Inflation basically never had anything to do with that.

Rich people might have been able to use other things as a store of value though, but things can only become lasting stores of value if they start out having some initial use.
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Maybe even some other planet.
I'm on the treadmill and I just missed a call. I'd really like to know who it's from. That info could be on my HUD, but instead I have to grab my phone, hit the power button, swipe to unlock it, and swipe down from the notification bar.

I'm at a party, and a friend is demonstrating his juggling skills. I could snap a quick picture or take a video in a heartbeat if I had Glass. Since I don't, I have to go through the smartphone activation checklist again; take phone out of pocket, power button, swipe. Launch the camera app. Aim. But now I've missed the moment. I'm holding a brick in the air while the rest of my friends are applauding.

Damn, my car won't start - and unlike my dad, I've never been much of a mechanic. If I had Glass, I could give him a call and he could see through my eyes from 1000 miles away. Instead I'm cradling my phone on my shoulder while I'm leaning into the engine, looking for a relay box. I don't know what that is, or what it looks like. He says it should be somewhere on the left? Now I know how he feels when I'm guiding him through installing printer drivers.

I see a lot of use cases for a device like Glass. So I think you have it backwards - in the near future, the dorks are going to be the ones fumbling with their phones.
I guess this is kind of interesting, but it also seems a lot like fluff.
My favorite is PHP + Symfony2 + Doctrine (ORM) it just works ! and the best part is that Symfony2 wont let you down if your project is very complex, it seems to me that a lot of the current JS frameworks are not yet mature, thy work well on "Hello world !" examples, but when your project gets complex you will have a hard time.
I was looking at the number of people on death row which is in the thousands. So willing to retract that.

And this study was widely reported in the BBC and elsewhere:

http://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2012...

As you can see Isarel is down there with North Korea, Pakistan and Iran and with a downward trend in popularity no less.
This is amazing.

Roman Cortes has also posted an explanation for his 3D + fur entry: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/furbee-my-js1k-spring-13-ent...
I'm curious to know if this ad actually resulted in more child abusers being reported.
Easily? If, like, e.g., on MacBooks (and probably all other laptops designed by someone with half a brain), the LED is wired directly into the power cable of the camera, there is no way you can turn the LED off through software. If the camera receives power the LED receives power.

To get around this you would have to actually touch the hardware, so you need to take the device apart and rewire the camera (which can be and, considering the size of the device, probably will be pretty complicated). Sure, I’m certain it can be done, but not by many people.
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Skepticism is all fine and good, but I don't need to run extensive tests, theorize and test to see if the huge, brown, roaring animal in the woods is a bear. Sometimes, 90% probability is a good enough approximation to go with. Sure, you fool yourself 10% of the time, but you save a lot of time the other 90%.

Based on this, I think we can preliminarily say that putting the "E" on the home row is probably a good idea.
I don't think your maths is correct. If the currency is deflating at 2%, it is deflating regardless of whether it is the lender or the borrower holding it. If therefore this is lent at 1%, the real return is 3%, 2% by deflation, 1% through the interest rate. Hence it is more profitable to lend than hold.
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Litecoin is becoming a very strong contender to Bitcoin [1]. It will soon be on Mtgox, according to their press reports. Feathercoin has also picked up steam, and it's interesting because it's brand new and already popular. Namecoin, which has been around since 2011, is still a strong contender with long term potential and value. The main difference between Litecoin and Bitcoin is the hashing algorithm used. Litecoin also has faster transaction confirmation times, since blocks are mined at a 4x rate. In my best opinion, Litecoin is better technology than Bitcoin.

I would have written a lot more detail, but I can't trust people on HN to upvote my post, and it would be a wasted effort. Just listening to myself gets old quickly...

Anyways it is a worthwhile thing to look into these before the mainstream gets to them. There are two main exchanges to trade alternative cryptocurrencies, here [2] and here [3]. Also there is a forum where they are discussed and you can monitor the hype [4].

[1] Litecoin is now accepted for donations on The Pirate Bay, the number one torrent site

[2] btc-e.com

[3] vircurex.com

[4] bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0
My point was more the strength of language relative to the seriousness of the issue at stake - or, more precisely, the non-issues that aren't really at stake at all. I couldn't count how many people I've met who can type fine on a QWERTY keyboard, but I can count on one finger (one finger... of one hand!) the number of people I've met who can type on a Dvorak keyboard. And that one finger would be counting me. Or maybe you can just assume I've never met myself - and then I don't even need any fingers at all.

(I once worked with a contract programmer, who had been somewhat famous in his own way in the past. Aged mid 40s I guess, so he'd been doing this for 25 years or whatever. Anyway, due to his line of work, and his fame, I'm figuring he'd met a lot of people over this period. And apparently I was the very first person he'd ever met to use the Dvorak layout.)

"Storm in a teacup"? LOL, as they say. Doesn't even begin to describe it...
> nothing beats multithreaded C and vectorized assembly code

I think Terra would give you a run for your money:

http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/publications/papers/pldi13...

From the paper:

> Our Terra-based auto- tuner for BLAS routines performs within 20% of ATLAS, and our DSL for stencil computations runs 2.3x faster than hand-written C.

See also:

http://terralang.org/
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Would the kid benefit any more by the ad not being there or by not using this technique to make it only visible to the kid?

Any kid scared enough to scrub having seen it from their own mind would not be well served by any version of this. The hope would be that some kids will see the number, remember it, and then call it later.
That's nice sentiment from developer perspective. For a manager or entrepreneur it would be an unacceptable waste of time and money, so I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.
"There is already a visa for investors creating jobs so that is covered."

This visa (E-2 treaty investor visa) has deficiencies. Firstly, although there is no official minimum investment amount, in practice, as a founder you need to invest at least $50 to $100 thousand to have non-negligible chances of obtaining this visa. This excludes virtually all founders in this community who receive YC funding! Secondly, it requires the investor to own 50%+ of the company, hence it excludes most startups where the equity is roughly evenly distributed between 3 cofounders or more. Thirdly, only citizens of treaty countries can apply to this visa. This excludes about 110 countries in the world (only 80 countries on the list [1]).

[1] http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_3726.html
“Your Mac ought to get 60fps for 1000 fish on a 1920 x 1075 canvas with no sweat.”

I just checked, and indeed, my new MacBook Air with external display ran it just fine at 60fps. My 3 year old Mac mini handled 45fps. My iPad 4 managed to crank out 25fps in a 981x644 window.
Run 'strip' on it.
Did you actually test that, or did it just seem intuitive?
It´s not just a critique, I was writing fast from the iphone and I haven´t explained my point completely.
I think that in places like that small towns where people is "owned" by the landlord and a vicious circle of debt and low wages, it´s a necessary to use a system like BI to brake the chains and improve the living conditions. In fact in Spain country living conditions in certain areas, used to be quite similar to those of india(surely not that extreme, but not that far off at the beginning of the XX century). People lived in towns that where inside big landlords (most of them old nobility). The landlord used to be like a small king in their lands able to change the fate of families, that have to pay land rents.
So the public wages was a big help to end that problem (that and the emigration to the cities that reduced the population).
But there is moment when this no-conditions money just keeps people from improving further. You may see it as an engine starter, without it, is impossible to start the engine, if you stop it too early, the whole engine will stop again, but if you keep it engaged it will drag the engine and keep it from working properly.
He's quite explicit in stating this his reasoning is for his specific problem.
lol, being republican is insane now?
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Time-lapses are very cool, but this one is pretty generic and has lots of the flaws people spend a lot of time trying to avoid in theirs. It has some very disconcerting focus changes and unreal looking edges, as well as some very uncanny stark lines.
There's a big difference between downloading of music and a red light for taking video. In fact one might be able to apply the categorical imperative and see that most people would want the red light viewable by others, but there is no similar desire when it comes to not downloading music.

That is, this is about creating a desired societal norm. You're right, there are people that will violate this regardless. There's always someone who will hide a camera in the girls bathroom, and there's little you can do to stop it, but yet we've been able to get to reasonable place in society that we still assume there aren't hidden cameras in "private" places.
So it's less profitable. Do you think you're coming up with a retort here?
That's actually a brilliant way to handle immigration.

Compute how many slots are available, based on national concerns (mostly, how many people can you easily integrate and naturalize per year). Then, auction off the slots to the highest bidder, and have a short-track naturalization process for the winners.
The feedback mechanism can be disabled, via a rooted device or physical disconection, just like tsa scans can be circumvented. It's exactly analogous.
Well, if you put it that way, yes. But then again, what is NOT work?
I happen to love 911s in an unhealthy way, but some of the earlier models were very "solid" and engineered very well. Especially some of the earlier engines, they were bullet proof. So for reliability and simplicity, the 911 would be a solid choice even today.
Who downvoted this guy and what for, when he's only stating his opinion on what tools to learn if one wants to develop for desktop?

And I personally think he's (shmerl) right. Learning a couple almost completely redundant APIs, but each with it's own problems, gothas and plain stupid decisions is hardly a good thing.
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My first impression is that this is a particularly stupid idea. It will probably result in lot of kids not seeing the number because they're a little too short or a little too tall for their age.
Sorry for spreading misinformation, I was under the impression it was an install-time setting. After a little Googling it appears you are correct.
Well, the government could make undeclared cash illegal.
Even if the content is different?! The focus and tone of the summary is completely different, you cannot substitute one with the other! That’s just crazy!
In that case I agree.

Though, one man's teacup could be another man's sea. I mean, we discus like Vim vs Emacs, or CL vs Clojure all the time, things that are also totally peripheral and unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
It has interesting mainstream applications for in-store advertising. You can tout the benefits of a product meant for children to an adult and appeal to the child at the same time.
This isn't about security or privacy. It's about social norms. Most people don't want to offend people, don't want to record people without their consent, and don't want to make people feel uncomfortable because they think they might be recorded. Establishing a social norm that people should outwardly notify others when they're recording will mean fewer people will record people who don't want to be recorded because of social pressure. Certainly, creepers who want to record others secretly will do so, but they will have violated social norms for having done so, and won't have any defense since they will have had to deliberately obfuscate their activities to do so.
goods are not the only thing humans value.
>Why would you pay robots?

Of course you are correct. But you still pay the company that owns the robots. (Unless you're suggesting that there will be robots with no owner? I don't have to point out the problems with that, do I?)

The relevant question is, "what expenses does a company that runs a robotic factory have?"

This was Step 3 of my exercise. I offer it as a tool someone might use to answer their own questions.
One of those moments where I bemoan my lack of access to closed scientific research. =)

The abstract suggests that it is looking at means tested and conditional benefits, including programs to "guarantee a minimum income": that should not be confused with a basic income, despite the similarity in terminology.

In the literature when people refer to a guaranteed minimum income they're referring to the government supplementing a person's income up to some predefined level. This makes it significantly cheaper than a basic income, because people who "don't need it" aren't receiving the income; but a really nasty side effect of that, as with nearly all welfare programs, is that it creates incredibly steep effective marginal tax rates. The simplest design--looking at someone's income, and filling it up until it hits the desired minimum--in fact leads to a 100% marginal tax rate, because a dollar earned from work is a dollar lost in benefits.

This means there's absolutely no incentive to work before you've made the minimum; contrast it to the unconditional basic income, where even someone who's only capable of producing half the value of the basic income is fully incentivized to do that work. So you avoid the deadly (literally!) welfare trap where the government actively punishes you for finding work.
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You misinterpret what he means by 'preventing it from happening' -- he is referencing the unnotified recording of another person by one wearing Glass. Adding a red LED will not prevent people recording without others aware as a red LED is something terribly easy to kill.
"Business creation is not a particularly useful metric"

Business creation is wealth creation. It is job creation. It is everything to the american economy.

"I mean, one co-founder had one parent born overseas and the company is counted as immigrant founded"

No it is not counted as immigrant-founded. The point of this statistic is to show that immigration has a positive effect on business creation. In other words, had the parent never immigrated, the child would not have founded a business (created wealth) in the USA.

I think the same is true in reverse: americans who emigrate are probably creating more businesses in countries they emigrate to, than citizens of these countries. Immigrants are risk-takers who want to take control of their working lives.
You're completely missing the point. Traditional examples of 'security theater' like TSA screens are called security theater because they DON'T WORK.

A red light that says the camera is active works unless explicitly circumvented. Let me explain this in simple logic to you:

Your initial state is 'no red light when recording', which means 100% of strangers don't know if you're recording them. They will all assume you are an asshole.

If you add a red light that works by default, the new state is this:

Red light when recording, unless modified to remove the light. Most strangers may not know you can disable the light, so they won't worry. Strangers who do know will ask you if you are recording them. In cases where the light is on, then it's obvious - you're recording them.

Do you see how this works? It's almost as if seatbelts and helmets aren't useless just because you can take them off.
Alas, there's a long history of antitrust suits taking so long that the actions giving rise to them have had their intended effect and are no longer relevant.
>> I'm on the treadmill and I just missed a call. I'd really like to know who it's from. That info could be on my HUD, but instead I have to grab my phone, hit the power button, swipe to unlock it, and swipe down from the notification bar.

As a treadmill user I can tell you that running with glasses on will in most cases will be worst, sweat and all.

>>I'm at a party, and a friend is demonstrating his juggling skills. I could snap a quick picture or take a video in a heartbeat if I had Glass.

You see no negatives going to a party with video /photo taking equipment always on?

>> Damn, my car won't start - and unlike my dad, I've never been much of a mechanic. If I had Glass, I could give him a call and he could see through my eyes from 1000 miles away. Instead I'm cradling my phone on my shoulder while I'm leaning into the engine, looking for a relay box. I don't know what that is, or what it looks like. He says it should be somewhere on the left? Now I know how he feels when I'm guiding him through installing printer drivers.

Very niche, even though it's harder to put your head inside, bottom, left or right an engine than to maneuver your iPhone to find that wire, leak, fuse or hose.
'strip' will remove symbols - debug or unused, but that doesn't change the way static libraries work - all the code, instead of being in the shared library dependency is stuffed into the executable. That's still going to be there.
This is false. Xamarin includes a free tier. You can download it. But yes, after you've opted into pay it's a subscription.

I think subscriptions for support are a great model as they scale. You're paying for help with your solution.

Updates on the other hand only serve to limit & restrict the community.
Iron law of native desktop app development: Code to your platform's native GUI API -- no wrappers. Or your user base will notice and one-star that shit.

You have less of an excuse on the Mac, which has literally the best GUI API in Cocoa that anyone has ever invented.
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Right. Because the only immigrants you want are people willing to pay crazy amounts for a visa.

A solution like this would have kept a good chunk of all the famous immigrant entrepreneurs from ever coming to the US.
Nobody's goal here is to prevent recording without notification. It's impossible to prevent it, anyone who's used a digital camera since they were invented knows this. Stop misdirecting the conversation around Glass with moronic strawman arguments. The original article did not ask for a mechanism for preventing unnotified recording; it asked for a light to notify people you're recording them. This is a fundamentally different proposition that solves a different problem.
99.99% of the adult population will never ever hear about this. I think the secret is safe.
When you auction off the available slots you can be reasonably sure that the auction will benefit the winners (if self-sponsored) or the sponsors (if this is an H1B-style visa). But it may not be in the best interest of the nation as a whole. I note that most every other high-immigration country (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain) has a point system.
But some will.

Interesting idea, I guess it's so the abusing adult doesn't hastily pull the kid away from memorizing the number?
It might even work, if they had a way to track all your cash. Unfortunately, unlike with Bitcoin, they don't. This is pretty much what I said in my original comment?

I don't understand all the apologism, it's pretty clear that governments can exert an unprecedented amount of control on money with Bitcoin (all your transactions are public), and no amount of burying our heads in the sand will change that.
'They might as well have said "step on your soapbox and preach, brother/sister."'

What's wrong with that? It brought out some interesting issues to think about.

People without soapboxes would (and did, actually) have dull responses.
I don't see how it would be unreasonable for the prosthetic eye setup to come with a LED that lights up when the video stream is being recorded to storage or streamed to the internet, no.

Nobody's suggesting that you should be required to have an indicator that tells people you're looking at them. That's stupid.
> The feedback mechanism can be disabled

And you can insult random people on the street, or repeatedly fart loudly on a crowded bus.

The article is about etiquette.
> no open IP logging taking place (IP addresses associated with submissions are stored in the DB in an encrypted format).

Given how small the IP space is, does that actually add anything?