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A mirrored version is relatively trivial. It does not introduce any new technical challenges. From a technical point of view, the hardware is done and that's what google[x] focuses on.
sitting at a table messing on a computer in your hand used to be socially unacceptable.
How will you ever be able to print transistors, capacitors, anything made of metal, or most anything useful? Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of cool uses now for very specific things like robots, prototyping, or medical things, but the idea that one day soon everyone will have a 3d printer and you will purchase schematics for things on Amazon is far fetched. I cant think of a single thing I have purchased on amazon in the last year that could be made on a 3d printer. Unless they will start being able to make things out of steal, glass, rare materials, and be able to vacuum seal things, etc.
if the new google+ interface is any indication of the future of google development, it's quite obvious they don't know what they are doing. nothing works anymore. littered with bugs. the only features i enjoyed before (hangouts), have been reimagined to cripple only the features of the service i enjoyed or used. google is butt.
I continue to be confused by the use of the term “Cougar Night” to describe Thursday nights at the Rosewood.

Isn’t a cougar an established older woman looking for casual sex with a “boy toy?”

Seems like a better name for this would be “Gold Digger Night” or just “Rich Old People Trying to Hook Up.”
Paraphrasing a great programmer: "The best debugger is your brain". I have no issue with people using a debugger, but it is not a must in order to debug, imho.
How would you transport the power out of the middle of the Sahara to populated areas where it can be used?
More projection. I have no idea what you're talking about.

You got sideways when people (correctly) pointed out that tree farms are not the same as rain forests. Much like how a corn fields is not a wetland.

Utterly uncontroversial.

But you imagined a slight and made it personal.
I figured it was about Google Glass from "Glass" alone.
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Voice reco isn't very important now, but it is important to the future of computing. It enables a lot of things in fields like wearable computing that aren't really doable right now, because the HID becomes a microphone instead of a keyboard or other input device, which is much easier to stuff into small awkward places.
Great to know. I was more wondering if spotify/itunes and other services have a say in what get onto their service? Or is your service the final approval step?
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You don't even _need_ Glass for that -- just an unobtrusive bluetooth headset, and a good backend.
I'm in my early twenties and I have never owned a printer and likely never will. I have always had access to them at libraries, my university (which is when I actually printed a lot of stuff), work, etc. I can't imagine ever needing to get one, let alone spending a large amount of money on a high quality laser printer. Printers just always seem to be around me. Anytime I need to print something I am giving what a printed to someone or mailing it etc. Which means that I am going somewhere. So, on the way there, I just stop somewhere and do my printing there.
We need a downvote/report button.
Here's my anecdote about the value of a Masters.

One of my good friends and I started at the same company around the same time. He had just finished his masters and I hadn't. He had 5 or 6 years of real world experience, while I had 3.

I got hired in making considerably more money than him because he was considered a "university" hire.

While this could just be the result of the fact he went through university recruiters and I didn't, it still seems like his Master's didn't help him much.

In my (admittedly short) career, I haven't seen a difference in quality between what people with a BS and an MS produce that would make it worthwhile for me to go back to school. It just wouldn't be worth it for me unless I was really interested in the research.
This reminds me a lot of PDAs, etc, 10 years ago. Not sure how long until we solve the ubicomp issues of something like glass, but I'm bullish we will.
The addiction to solving technical problems with creative and uncommon solutions is very problematic for me. What it means that when writing a <personal project here> for example, at some point instead of fixing the bug which makes half of the project broken, I'll focus on optimizing the code to great lengths(speed, code size, even source readability) because it's simply so much more rewarding than actually fixing the seemingly hard problems of having bugs, which merely just hinder me from doing what gives me the fix. Project scrapped, and a next one started for a few days max.

The real problem? Working in an environment where the first and foremost goal is to "get shit done" and deliver a product. Programming in such sense is outright boring, because the fix comes from solutions which require deep digging, reseach and some creativity rather than readig a spec and implementing it.
Thank you for the correction, my bad.
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Video and ambient mic would be nice, and data. We could have had this 10+ years ago, although it really only became practical with 3G I think.
Neat, although I'm more interested in when you plan on having this book out... Angular is incredibly powerful but it really could use with some more resources for those who are picking it up.
Is it good for US residents?
Also unsettling is how they say "all of Europe" is included. There is absolutely no way that chunk labeled "Eastern Europe" contains Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. It's large enough to maybe represent just the Ukraine.
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I think you are better off working with Peter Todd, a bitcoin developer working on opentimestamps (github.com/opentimestamps), rather than inventing your own thing. He's already got Merkle tree hashing, and injects data into the Bitcoin blockchain using the standard merged-mining protocol, meaning it doesn't increase the chain size at all (beyond the hit that's already being taken to allowed merged mining of things like Namecoin.)
Isn't the lack of an opposite gender DNA a problem?
I'm pretty sure that if I was a girl dad would have still snuck me into play advent on the work mainframe.
Waiting 30 minutes is still a dealbreaker for a lot of people. How about switching out those batteries like propane tanks. I'll let someone else figure out the technical details of that.
Even Musk and Tesla are partially assisted by the government...

http://www.thedailygreen.com/living-green/blogs/cars-transpo...
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A few other favorites: http://meta.discourse.org, http://debuggex.com, https://voo.st, and http://sloblog.io
This blog does some interesting stuff if you mouse-wheel-click and drag past an edge.
Where will all the traffic go?
1) Why should we help a company valued at over $1 billion dig itself out of a hole of its own making?

2) The primary complaint is that Verified ID reduces the number of bookings. This is only a concern to people who are using AirBnB illegally-i.e., as an unregistered hotel--and thus depend on volume. The people using AirBnB for its proper purpose--occasional temporary "guests"--are largely unaffected by this.
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3D printing lets you print something custom quickly and cheaply. You can make a unique thing and hold iterations of it in your hands. You could also tweak a file you get from someone else to make it fit your exact idea, on a whim. That's drastically reduced costs when you compare it to other ways of making one-off custom parts.
Consider the architectural difference of React vs. one of the similar "view model" frameworks. It's similar to the difference between Git vs. SVN.

Other view model frameworks typically track all changes to the view model by explicitly firing an event for every delta change. That in turn causes another delta and so on. This is similar to SVN where every change is a delta from the previous state. That means that you'll need to codify every possible diff through your view hierarchy/graph. For simple stuff, they have built-in tools to help you do this. For complex views, that's really difficult or impossible (you can get into conflicts and deadlocks).

React makes it easy by simply regenerating a copy of the next view. This is similar to Git where every change is a snapshot.

There are benefits with either architecture, but I'd recommend you figure out what benefits matter more for your use case. I'm just pointing out one area where React is different.
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Seeing the word "controller" in markup makes me want to gag myself.
Although HFT and other algorithmic traders are certainly prevalent in the markets and probably in this IPO, I think this flaw was elicited because of the unprecedented and overwhelming amount of non-professional human order flow.

There was a ton of buzz and participation in this IPO. The uncertainty around the opening process compounded the problem.
There was a bug. A bug serious enough that you could trigger it with low frequency trades. Every time the cross algorithm restarted it did so using data that was 99% stale. This meant it didn't just need to find a few milliseconds of stability, it had to wait until the average order rate went low enough and stayed there for minutes. A relative handful of people changing their orders a few times a minute would be enough to keep such an O(n^2) algorithm occupied.
I'm pretty interested in what the HN regulars say about this, and will be watching these comments for sure.
Our business spent a fortune on a very poor performing, piece of junk, software. Maybe the support is OK, but the real world stability sucks too.

Sometimes hookers, expensive lunches, tickets to sporting events and being golf buddies with managers are what counts. And if those are what counts, then those are the lead bullets.
The situation is reverse in Russia and Ukraine. One may notice how most younger Russian women are well-dressed and well-groomed, whereas men... not so much. Tobacco, alcohol, local wars, high crime an high incarceration rates decreased gender balance in favour of men and it shows.
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You're going to complain about taking a 30 minutes break after a 2 hours drive? Also, if you charge your car every night, you should have enough range to drive to work.
And speaking to a live person via cellphone, in many places and contexts, is still considered socially un-acceptable. And this hasn't changed all that much after a decade-plus of near-ubiquitous cell phone ownership.

So I can't see how replacing the phone-and-person with wearable-and-computer-agent is going to see social change along any further/faster.
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I find the FBIs tactics in this case not only questionable but extremely disgusting and unethical. Baiting criminals with drugs or offers for sex is lazy law enforcement. Sharing images of someone being raped, especially children, for 'bait' is sickening.
I guess I agree with you then, and thank you for clarifying.
There were these things, before computers. We called them Telephones I think.
It's MALLORY KEATON! Her TV 'brother', Alex, is the reason I and countless others became Republicans.

I am surprised to discover that freshmen are writing code. It wasn't like that back in the day.
This kind of comment makes me wonder what percentage of HN has zero idea of what's it's like to be legitimately broke/poor. Even if you're joking, since you include the winky face, what about actual poor uneducated people who will never have a chance to work in a no-name software shop?
Awesome. Just to make this more useful for me & other readers who have been doing web developing with php/python/ruby etc, what will be your advice regarding how to get started with iOS development to build our first working app?
How will you ever be able to

This kind of skepticism has been raised about everything, years, decades or centuries before it happens.

The very thing that makes 3D printing an interesting field is that's it's in its infancy and the long-term possibilities are unknown/unknowable.

I'm not making any predictions about what will or won't happen, but I'll be fascinated to see it unfold.

Unless they will start being able to make things out of steal, glass, rare materials, and be able to vacuum seal things

...well yes, exactly.
Elon has been hinting at faster-than-gas recharging rates for the past few weeks on Twitter. The Supercharger network upgrades are part 4 of a 5 part trilogy they've been running since April. It's widely rumored that part 5 will be battery swapping or something similar to enable ultra fast charging.

My guess: Superchargers will remain free as promised and the battery swapping will offer faster charging, but at a cost.
Cameras built into electronics have become so cheap that they are being dedicated to specific functions (things like a front skype/facetime camera and a back "take pictures of things" camera on an IOS device).

It does feel like the head mounted camera in Glass is hardware that hasn't found its killer app yet. Yet it is easy to imagine lots of possibilities (auto face recognition so you never forget a name, photo search with commands like: "Identify this leaf" and it takes a picture and tells you the plant name, the input side of a WordLens style app, etc), which I think is exactly why it is early adopters and developers that have them now.
Sounds like a lot of people have bought printers for you to use.
>The primary complaint is that Verified ID reduces the number of bookings.
No. One out of the eight comments quoted mentions it, and the author does not.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of Jonah Berger before.
Well, no standard at all makes any guarantees about the availability of something on a particular operating system. HTML as a whole makes no guarantees that a web browser will even exist for your OS.

But a standard makes it a heck of a lot more likely that someone will have written something that works on your platform.
The interesting thing about when 3d printers become ubiquitous is what'll happen to Lego. There's a real chance they'll wind up like Polaroid, completely behind the technology curve resting on their laurels.

I'd buy a Lego brand 3d printer in a heartbeat, though, if they made one. I hope they see an opportunity instead of a rival.
On Reddit this Arrested Development reference gets 500 upvotes. Here, not so much.
No matter what you do, there's always going to be complaints. Verified ID is a seriously good idea. I would definitely feel safer hosting verified people. Of course, they might still be horrible guests, but that will be their last visit with any AirBnb host.
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Wasn't it just an extension of operating a typewriter?
When I try to view video content, being told that I am not wanted as a user is more common than not. If I go on Hulu, ABC, NBC, and even many YouTube videos, I am not that the maker of the video did not figure out a profitable enough ad model for my country so I should just go away. This country ban is so common because Flash players make it trivial to do so. If you extend the same to all types of web content, I fear this DRM will be used for far more than just some random Hollywood movies.
This is pretty fantastic. She's illustrating the oft-forgotten fact that you can change your passion and direction at any point.

Your fourties may not mean as much as it used to, but for the many of us that went school -> uni -> tech industry, her example proves that the decisions that defined the path of our youth do not restrict our future.
I am just going to point out the fact that he made that figure up.
Pick one of the "somethings" which is having the biggest impact to your product or service. Repeat.
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Yet, people panned the iPod and iPad too.

But my reasoning against PS4/Xbox One is that gaming PCs are not selling well; phones/tablets are. The latter will be sudden death to consoles.
The controller is in fact separated. The "ngController" you see referenced in the markup is the link between the view and the separate controller. Any MVC framework you could hold up as an example of proper "separation of concerns" will necessarily have the same link, even if it's implicit. Sometimes it's defined in the controller, sometimes the link is defined in the view, and sometimes you don't see it defined, but it's still there. (of course, we all know explicit is better than implicit)
Odd to comment on appearances when they're not relevant to the news.

But anyway, I think it's great that she's talking openly about her frustrations and challenges with her classes (on http://getacollegelife.tumblr.com/). Not a lot of people have the confidence to expose that, so people can get incorrect impressions about the easiness of learning and feel overly discouraged when they struggle.
5 part trilogy? He been reading Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy?
I agree with the idea that talking to yourself is a social taboo. However, there are startups that are working to solve the data input problem (Thalmic Labs and the Myo being the one I'm most excited about). Combined with glass I think the future is bright.
Most people is interested in continuation of themselves and their close relatives. Seven billion of people, driven by this interest, form a hivemind that dictates their own fate. Should it be the extinction of 9.999% of species - so be it.
At the potential of starting a flame war, I would categorize the Oculus Rift as the meh, and the glass is the future.

I was able to use a head mounted (and tracking) 3d display with a computer back when ROTT was popular (circa 1994). It's a novelty at best, and a headache inducing nightmare at worst. I didn't see the magic then, and I certainly don't see the magic now.

A seamless hud, on the other hand, has the potential to do great things for your interaction with the environment. Based on reviews, however, it's still years out.
Google glass seems like a solution looking for a problem. Impressive tech, but what is the use case that makes up for awkward controls and two hour battery life? You can strap your smart-phone to your wrist for $30 and get hands-free operation.

I am much more excited about self-driving cars. Maybe Google could transfer some of the tech to heads-up displays for drivers.
> Even if there is an "obvious difference between men and women,"

"Boys are affected with ASDs [autism] more frequently than are girls with an average male-to-female ratio of 4.3:1"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism#cite_note-Newschaffer-11

This is just one characteristic that varies by sex of a great many. By saying "even if" there are differences you are ignoring objective reality that there are such differences.
Voting score communicates social proof.
It's easily digestible and valuable information.

All other reasons are secondary.
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For everybody wondering where '16 years' comes from, Google 'Global warming's terrifying new math' by Bill McKibben, so that you can shift from attacking my credibility to his.
FWD.us is about depressing wages and playing domestic labor against foreign sources, while treating H1-B employees like indentured servants. I'd rather compete on actual merits than the artificial ecology created by the H1-B system.

We already have O and L1 visas, but apparently those limited requirements are too much. I used to wonder about getting contacted by a recruiter wanting to know if I was interested in a 2 month contract on the other side of the country for peanuts when I obviously have a history and apparent preference for FTE. Then I wised up.
Upvote to you, and downvote to whoever wrote that line of code.

A ternary inside an 'if' statement, really?
And even more so when one of the return values is 'true'?

Relax, it's just a bug, right? But it would be nice if programmers practiced basic Boolean reduction in their 'if' statements...

(!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() > 0.1)))

!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() > 0.1))

_ok ? false : !(Math.random() > 0.1)

!_ok && Math.random() <= 0.1
I love the usual weaselly worded "We apologize if our changes caused you distress" automated response to her second email.

That kind of corporate lingo is what I expect from soulless corporations.

[EDIT]

To make it clear. She offered lots of suggestions on what other services they could use and instead of a personal "Thanks for that, we will investigate" they gave her the brush-off with an obviously automated email.

Pretty shoddy customer relations.
Anecdote: the effects have not been good. Searching the net for answers to computer problems, sifting through mountains of garbage for the crucial part, has destroyed my ability to read long passages without becoming distracted. I've been at it almost 13 years, though.
Interesting, so we're finally getting virtual reality helmets? I've been waiting since the early 1990s. They seemed to be right around the corner and were featured in several films like Lawnmower Man (1992), that Aerosmith video (Amazing, 1993), Disclosure (1994), Virtuosity (1995), Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Hackers (1995).

I suppose it makes sense, every technology seems to take about 20 years to reach the consumer market. I wonder if it has anything to do with patents lasting for 20 years.
Right, but doing it this way means both the view and the controller know too much. Why should a view know about how it is going to be used? Also, I'm guessing if you give this to a designer his/her eyes are going to glaze over.
Sure, if you limit what you print to what is available on Amazon Prime. That is an incredibly limited imagination in my opinion.
I would assume that confusing the two could be problematic.