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> When the UN recognizes Palestine, it will be much more significant than Google's copy change.

The UN granted Palestine the status of "Non-member observer State" last year. This status change is one of the many by international organizations with regard to Palestine that led to Google making the "copy change" at issue here.
hardik is actually a common Indian name.
I feel like a lot of people are mistaking gmail's opinionated UI design for a design failure. Changing the subject isn't difficult because the designers failed at making it easy, it's difficult because the designers succeeded at making it difficult. They really, really don't want you to change the subject because consistent subject lines are essential to gmail's conversation threading functionality, so they've made it as difficult as possible.

similarly, the hiding of all the formatting options: they have all that space available, and they've quite deliberately chosen to hide things anyways. there's no way they just did it to make the compose window prettier, they want you to stop using so much formatting in your emails. Read the interview[1] with gmail's designer, they are trying to use a simpler UI to encourage faster and smaller responses and lower friction conversations. By and large, people are using email as a messaging tool, not to sit down and spend half an hour composing a letter, and they are adapting gmail to cater to this behaviour. you might disagree with their goals, but don't mistake your disagreement with their direction for a failure to advance their direction.

[1]http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672250/how-a-tiny-new-compose-w...
You may enjoy taking a marketing class :-)

From what I understand, market analysis can always be done on the cheap if you want to take some accuracy risk - there's a clear self selection bias here, along with a geographic one (there may a common socioeconomic background for the coffee shop patrons)

Also, if you care about kids, it may have worked better at a coffee shop in front of a toy store in a mall, or at the food court if it's near say a pet store, to get actual parents - there might be fewer parents at a typical starbuck. But that is important if you believe they are you client - ie the persons who'll make the purchase decision, but maybe it will be the kids themselves in this example?

Critic aside, it's a great idea for a generalist app, but it may be less than ideal for say a specialized app.

Also, you should consider the alternatives - how much feedback do you think the same $50 may have got you using the mechanical turk?

There is a sincerity risk, but if you get say 100x more feedback, with the law of large numbers, I think that at least the obvious flaws could be noticed.
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Yeah, I like this. A founder I worked with did something similar but just gave out gift cards to talk to people about their needs in the space she was working in. Before having a product to show off.

It seems like a great way to get out of the echo-chamber a bit.
Very cool interview, I love reading about how things work "behind-the-scenes".
And it's not just Google that's affected either.

Imagine making a desktop environment and e.g. showing a world map to select your time zone.

Or having a list of countries & regions to assist the user with localization. Seemingly any list of countries you show will "make a political statement" to someone out there. KDE, for example, had many bugs filed about the naming used for what the ISO calls the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

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

http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_...
No, i'm just wondering if their effect beyond whatever efforts pg is putting in, is big enough to matter.
I got hit with a firewall and a "This event will be reported".

Thanks, HN Moderator.
"ever a spot" -> "ever spot"

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> despite the fact it uses LuaJIT it is actually interpreted and the JIT compiler is not used

Why not - is that a limitation of OpenResty or of LuaJIT?

How would you turn on JIT compiler in OpenResty?
A little bit of movement can be nice, but this is really overdoing it on almost every icon. The animations here go so fast, it's only distracting you from the main message of the button/CTA/promo.

Less is more.
Interesting that sitting in a cafe offering people $5 cash for their opinion would be a terrible idea, but offering them a free coffee is brilliant.

To @vishl, I don't take food from people on the street. I don't trust it. "What if it's poisoned?" What you're thinking does happen - some people offer me free candies, Reese Peanut Butter cups etc as an incentive to talk to me on the street. I avoid them.

The coffee coming from Starbucks directly makes it safer.
When were they not?

And what about the legal disclaimer that is stupidly long at the bottom - which has supposedly never stood up in court anyway. http://www.economist.com/node/18529895
Guess I'm a kid, then? I find it faster to write an email on it than I did before and I like the ability to compose with another email in the background.

GMail has some bits I don't like, but by and large I'm a pretty big fan.
to make sure I understand, you meant it becomes more plug and play when you use ESI?
> One can make the argument that Google shouldn't be endorsing either side, but taking authority away from either they are not.

Referring to Palestine as an entity is (an act certain to be seen, especially by the other side, as) endorsing one sides position.

Not referring to Palestine as an entity in and of itself but instead referring to "Palestinian Territories" is also (an act certain to be seen, especially by the other side, as) endorsing one sides position.

Even having or not having a .ps localized site would meet that description.

There really is nothing with regard to the whole Israel/Palestine issue that is not going to be seen as endorsing one side or the other.
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Nobody liked the Nintendo DS when it first came out either. Should it find a "killer app" at the right price it will be wildly popular, just like any other new hardware.
HN comments should have pull requests.
I have done this with blog posts by Balanced, actually. Especially with 'edit this file on GitHub,' it's so simple.
There's a post here: http://artemave.github.io/2012/05/27/stub-like-a-surgeon-spy... that talks about using a similar service (the BBC's REST-assured https://github.com/BBC/REST-assured) to aid in BDD using cucumber.
I imagine a future where instead of running the gauntlet of clipboard wielding public researchers, it'll be pseudo-entrepreneurs hawking their herp-derp OS app.
While there are still some shapes you can't make this way, if you extend your manufacturing techniques to involve resin casting you can easily mass-produce complex shapes. That's the motivation fo the Guerilla guide to CNC machining (which is an excellent link, btw):

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/

Even with a 3D printer that's how parts are going to be mass-produced. Yes, 3D printers are awesome for prototyping and small batches, but if you get into any volume casting will be a lot easier.

Scaling up in size, you can sand cast aluminum at home relatively easily, and even do iron if you can build a big enough furnace. That makes it possible to build an engine at home, entirely from scratch (ok - starting with scrap aluminum and some cold rolled steel), bootstrapping what you need. The gingery books explain it all:

http://gingerybooks.com/
I think he wants masks for every chip, microcode, design files, free licensing from ARM, and access to the TI fab so he can make his own chips.

I don't think people realize how much stuff is in these chips and how much work and NRE it takes to make something like a $10 SoC happen. It's nice to see the advantages of scale being useful and -yay- we all get cheap XBMC players, but don't take it for granted.
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Sweet shirt. Ship ALREADY!
what's up with the /donjohnson/pulse url?
>>> Completely oblivious to the fact that he could cash out the investments, never work again and still be in the top 20% income bracket.

All fun and well until he needs medical treatment.
I don't think it does, it's probably being stored for later demographic analysis.
Not an irreparable flaw at all, you can adjust the focus distance with appropriate optics.

I think a certain cyborg is likely to say "told you so", though.
I absolutely agree with you there; but people have taken unkindly to my saying so :)
You don't need reminders. They do.
Note: I'm the author. I wrote the first version of this in 2005 in C# as a way to learn C#, and figured completely re-writing it in Python would be a fun way to learn Python, so here is the output of that effort.

I'd certainly appreciate any feedback. Lots of plans to extend further and capture even more information about targets - there are an incredible amount of sources out there.
Please tell us about a time you successfully hacked...
This is a question that I constantly get asked when applying for startup accelerator programs. They get it from Y-Combinator, which is convenient for me since I can just copy & paste the same answer over and over.<p>I was with Jake Stevens, Ian Hooper, and Nick Kesling. It had to have been Sophmore year at Boyd, and we went to go see Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.<p>I snuck into an R-rated movie (Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters) when I was a sophomore in High School. We bought tickets for a different movie that was PG-13. We used those tickets to get past the checkpoint, but then there was a problem; our tickets were for a movie that was on the other side of the Theater. We had a quick huddle while in line for the Snack Bar to figure out Plan B. Fortunately, there was a restroom adjacent to the wing where ATHF:MFT was. We just went in there, stayed there a few minutes, and walked out right behind the guard. At that point we were scot-free. The best part was what I suggested as we were walking out after the movie. Since we bought the tickets for a different movie at a later time, we went back to the box office and got our money back!
Much of the frontend for the blog was done by github.com/joonas (not a Balanced employee): https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/pull/3
It is metastazing in the whole world. The whole overprotection thing. Our parents assumed that we were both smart and reckless. And parented accordingly. The current generation is brought up as if they are retards. The child safety is blown out of proportion ... in a friends house every edge was child proofed ...
The killer app for eyewear like this is augmented reality, but the technology is not yet there. It will be, maybe in another ten years. Until then, devices like Glass will become progressively more useful.

A good take on it is the television series Dennou Coil, set in a future where augmented reality has become truly transparent. It shows the concept from the viewpoint of children, conveniently escaping a lot of the potential pitfalls of predictions.
Here's a few counter-examples of easily fixable bugs in closed systems that really bug me.

GitHub has a few tiny bugs that could probably be fixed with a few lines of code within a day (best case scenario), but they haven't for months now since I've reported these issues. http://shurcool.github.io/bettertogether/

The latest version of Chrome for iOS has a shadow not appearing properly when you open a new tab in the background. Once you switch to it, it's fine.

Chrome [1] for OS X has a small area around the close tab button where the hover animation occurs (button highlights red), yet clicking the mouse does nothing. You have to move the cursor a few pixels closer to the center before clicking will have an effect. This discrepancy between hover and clicking action is annoying because I often (several times per day) run into it. OS X dock has a similar issue.

I'm very picky when it comes to the smallest details... I'd rather fix them and move on than keep running into them every day.

[1] I know this one is open source, but because it's a huge project, I never got around to compile it, etc.
A quick Google found me this: http://www.secretservice.gov/money_detect.shtml

While the legitimacy of the page is kinda um... I'm not convinced, it does suggest that the hard part of counterfeiting is in printing quality.
It's not about the layout of the keys when coding in perl it's how soft they are for when you roll your face on it.
Unless people are getting disoriented because the object is in the middle of their field of vision on one side and not in their field at all on the other (testers apparently reported feeling "cross-eyed," which suggests that some people's eyes try to converge even though they can only see the display with one eye).
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Mostly (b) contact us form but it'd be good if both are displayed.
More than twelve users have sold stock options for more than $100M? Hello Larry, Sergey, Eric, and Tim! I would have suspected you were too busy to read HN.
I had always assumed osx's aqua interface was behind the dock, very cool to get a chance to see what their predecessor looked like in action.
No one will use Google Glass because they can do everything on a Smartphone without looking like a dork.
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The SQLAlchemy thing sounds cool. I was thinking more about CRUD than reporting but that might be a useful product too.

The only issue with the universal CRUD tool is I have no idea how to market it?
I'm pretty sure I listened to that (video-)podcast too and I think Adam was saying that blowing stuff up was the least of the three things that were named, not the least of all of the things that he does.
Asking if someone will pay is probably as valuable as not asking. Most people aren't going to say something bad about your work, when you are right in front of them. And talk is cheap.
Also, this is worth mentioning as a related attack:

http://static.usenix.org/events/sec06/tech/shah/shah_html/jb...

"In particular, we show a practical Keyboard JitterBug that solves the data exfiltration problem for keystroke loggers by leaking captured passwords through small variations in the precise times at which keyboard events are delivered to the host. Whenever an interactive communication application (such as SSH, Telnet, instant messaging, etc) is running, a receiver monitoring the host's network traffic can recover the leaked data, even when the session or link is encrypted."
They totally should. Everything should. There's no reason to make them not available.
"This was obviously not a science project"

That's not obvious to me at all. It's obvious to me that it was science, a chemistry experiment in particular. Hard to see how it wasn't.
I know others already said this, but I clicked on this link from work and immediately became appalled when realizing it was about porn and quickly backed out. I'd gladly read this from the comfort of my own home and I'm sure the content itself is SFW but still the point is I was mislead. Can we please [mods] not change titles in cases like this?
There are things I'd want to use it for, but notifications are not it.

Map overlays, video chat (with a better camera), and of course outright augmented reality.

At some point, the display will be integrated in the actual glass and will be able to pick a different focus distance for every pixel. Add in sufficiently powerful mobile computers, and you have full AR. When that happens, Glass (or its successor) will become truly indispensable; this is just the birth pangs.

Might be a decade or two, though. It's a tall order; molecular nanotechnology could construct a device like that, but I'm not convinced we'll be clever enough to do it before that point.
Good point. Although some people might be worried of having some traces of it. Self-knowledge is important.
They effectively do dissipate the extra energy already - as heat, from the physical brakes. If they can't charge the battery faster than .25g of breaking would provide, there's no reason to put increased stress on the engine (it's much more expensive than a physical braking system).
I think at some point they DID restrict this. Then they relaxed on it. I think it's sensible to allow at least some simultaneous viewing. Sometimes my wife watches something on her phone while I watch something on the TV or vice-versa. It probably happens maybe an hour or two worth of content per week. I think that's reasonable to not restrict

However, I don't think it's be reasonable for the people that are sharing one account so that 2+ people are simultaneously viewing content from different locations more than 10 hours per week
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Yes, but there's a difference between your options being worth nothing and the value of your options being unknown.
There's also a difference between the value of your options being unknown and the value of your options being known but you not being able to exercise them for whatever reason.

You may not care about that distinction, but I'd be interested to know what camp those "$0 :(" people are in.
"No one every suggested not punishing her."

Ok, I suggest not punishing her. Now it's not "no one".
I think your sympathy is overapplied here... that's very clearly an important bit of information for anyone considering clicking on this link. Thanks for putting the warning up for those of us who would not otherwise have known thanks to a poor title edit.
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A fair point. There's an obvious hardware fix - use two screens - but it might just about double the cost of the device.

Eventually, something like this will be very useful. :-)
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Just want to be really clear that we're not doing any diagnosis, and no matter what you responded we'd never say "That's it, you're a psychopath."

Also perhaps 'demographic' is probably the wrong word on our part, point taken :)
$1,500 is not going to be the sales price. Seriously, that's just the writer not having thought it through.
it could be very useful professional gadget for some but at this time it looks like the times when Microsoft was pushing the tablets without solving key problems. then one day the ipad came and did orders of magnitude better than all the tablets that microsoft endorsed for years.

one day a company may figure out how to solve all these things and then we can have a glass that is a mass market product.
"Porsche somehow manages to start with the 911 where they stick the engine way out behind the rear axle (high polar moment of inertia, poor front/rear weight distribution) and make it handle beautifully."

Actually there are some benefits to the arrangement. The high polar moment of inertia actually should make any spin slower to start and easier to catch than a mid engine arrangement. Under hard braking the weight shifts forwards so the weight distribution changes to more balanced than with other arrangements. Under power the weight is over the rear wheels for power out of the corner.

A 911 behaves differently to other cars but I'm not sure the arrangement is actually worse in most dynamic scenarios. Understeer into the corners is the main dynamic weakness when pushed really hard and can be compensated for by trail braking into the corners. I guess you can get into trouble if you go into a corner too fast, panic brake and lose the rear end but if you are used to the set up you can make use of it.

[I've only driven a 1980's 911 so maybe I'm over extrapolating to all rear engined cars and I've never tried a mid engined car.
This book is really good at explaining how do get the most out of different weight distributions and has some fun stories (I've got the first edition but it probably isn't much different):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Porsche-High-performance-Driving-Han...]
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Maybe it's not, but they would like to see the correlation between psychopathy and programming language.
I don't object to discipline. Expulsion is a situational thing that I can't judge. I do object to the felony.

I also submit that we wouldn't even be talking about it without that tidbit. "Student blew a little something up on campus, got expelled (and probably readmitted later)" might barely make local news. It's the felony that made this go national, and makes it so silly.
>Wage slavery lead to Marxist revolutions.

Any material to back up this wild claim?
Too many early-stage companies focus on mobilizing people through — if you'll forgive the dreadful buzzword — social media.

If you can connect directly with your audience face-to-face, as Jim did, that's often a smarter strategy. I like the way Jim was able to segment his audience in a low-tech way (chatting with the parent-kid teams who are his core users/customers).

Yeah, you might be able to achieve a greater # of impressions online, but it's much harder to make those impressions meaningful and to make sure that they translate into action.

("Raising awareness" is complete bullshit. If people are aware but they don't take action, no one cares.)
I have a copy of the original NeXT product information and IDC bulletin which I scanned a while back for posterity.

Posting here for those interested.

http://yummymelon.com/devnull/next-is-the-reason-why-you-hav...
In my experience, the only nicer UI for fixing typos is Medium.
Few if any will answer this honestly, and given that smartphone choice was oddly put in there people will game it to make other camps look bad.

Psychopaths know that their driving traits are not perceived well, and they will consciously veer away from such overt questions.
The nuance is if one thinks deeply .. auditory interference is part of the human experience .. we even do not mind it since artifical and natural sources are always meshing in and out. This is why the Walkman took off since people were already listening to music from the time of live performances onward to the Edison era and then portables.

Glass if one thinks about it deeply is something unnatural.. microscopes, telescopes, vision impairment correction or shade from harmful sun.. or immersive , time disruptive experiences like a movie.

So the key barrier that glass concept is going to face is user rejection beyond the initial bubble crowd. Average people already have a certain context in which they find artificial inputs acceptable ( TV etc ).

Our distinction between natural and artificial sources of audio is different to visual.

I may be entirely wrong and Google may change the habits of a lot of young kids .. that is actually a rather strange and terrifying thought.