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>"I'm terrified of doing anything that would make me look like a jerk in front of my family and friends."

That just doesn't seem true. He consistently goes out of his way to engage in trivial arguments with people, especially on Twitter. Literally days after the sale, he called out Anil Dash in a needlessly confrontational way about some minute error in his history of Tumblr (http://dashes.com/anil/2013/05/seven-years-ago-my-wife.html). Not to mention the time when got in some squabble with a writer for one of the Apple rumor sites, then blacklisted said site from every Instapaper account.

As far as I'm concerned, he's made a jerk of himself in public innumerable times already. He just seems like an abrasive guy. That's not to say that his work is inferior (certainly assholes have created incredible work before), but any fear of looking like a jerk is moot. He has been a jerk forever.
It is really quite good at what it does, and it's an easy way of building quick and dirty .exes too.

I do wish knowing GML was good for something somewhere else though. Or that it used another language like Python for its scripting.
I dunno Paul, I think I agree with Alex on this. I see where you are coming from, because I think there are things you can do to encourage this kind of creativity, but there aren't guaranteed ways to ensure that it happens.

I get the feeling that you might be thinking about creativity in a more general sense than Alex might be though, but thats total speculation on my part.
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I hope Google Glass is an experiment, because voice reco isn't particularly important outside of when you're driving. When I get tired of texting and consider voice reco, 2 things hit me (and others, I've done solid research on this)

1. Voice reco would be slightly better now that I'm tired of texting, but not much.
2. It is nowhere near socially acceptable to be speaking to no one. That's why you only see old people using bluetooth - how is that not an unbeatable sign? You can't just be speaking to no one.

The next step in communication has to be either low input "aware" communcation (aka, the check-in) or communication that somehow otherwise reads your mind.
Not supporting it would be bad for Firefox OS. It would mean that platform is locked out from streaming video solutions (ie. Netflix). This would discourage carriers from supporting Firefox OS. On desktop it doesn't matter so much. They have a marketshare to make a difference when they take a stand. However now that they're in the phone market, if no carrier will take Firefox OS due to the streaming video issue then the OS is dead before it really begins.
Who is insanely worked up?

It's not that it's luck behind viral videas, it's that they tend to spread or become popular in their own unique ways and attempts to deduce general rules from examples you had nothing to do with is usually foolhardy.

There is some science behind virality and for that I'd recommend looking at Jonah Berger
Glass is cool as shit though. I think it's a step in learning what boundaries we can push. I might even wear it if I almost never needed to talk to it.
I do work on web applications for a living. So I get to use lots of great free software. But all too often, the fruit of my labor is heavily restricted by copyright and licensing or, worse, neither used nor allowed to be re-used because the idea didn't take off. Yet the shareholders still want to fiercely protect it.

Why can't there be more open-source companies? Gittip is the only example I know of so far. The catch 22 seems to be how can a company grow if its products are open source, or how can it remain open source while somehow charging customers?
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There is no associated increase in pressure in the boiler typically. In fact, there's usually a pressure drop. The high pressure is created in the feedwater pumps for a steam system. The boiler converts liquid at high pressure to steam at high pressure. The steam volume then expands to perform work in a turbine. A salt-plant would probably use steam near 100bar and expand it through the turbine to below 1 bar (sub-ambient) such that the saturation temperature is as close to ambient temperature as possible.

There is a significant amount of work done at the last stages of the turbine (when going from +1bar -> 0.1 bar) so increasing the ambient temperature can have a noticeable on total cycle efficiency.
That doesn't fit the bill and would be efficient if you only had 1 sender per label. Nearly all of my labels have a one-to-many relationship, and so recreating that 'search' would first require me to remember each of the parties involved, find their email address, and then manually construct the query. I think his example is poor use, I think the suggested usage pattern is to take the 10s the first time you have a new contact (that falls under a label) and filter all future messages, making it a 1-click operation to access that archive going forward.

I think your logic is seriously flawed, but as long as it's your email and not mine, so be it!
that second way? that's the way I want.

I want that second way to hurt, alot. Alot alot.

I want the way DRM gets onto the web to be the same vector malware gets onto computers. I want this to suck for DRM, it should suck. It should be painful to give up your rights. It SHOULD hurt.
I spent an hour tonight debating someone on how the Oculus Rift is revolutionary while Glass is not. The first hand reviews of the Rift vs Glass are night and day. One is the future the other is meh.
Interesting that Sergey Brin called Glass basically done when something as major as a mirrored version is in the works. That doesn't bode well for the project.
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This is a very lukewarm rebranding. It sounds like the kind of thing that is a preface to a second rebranding in the future. Better to do the whole rebranding now, or leave it alone. But a very difficult decision to make internally to the company losing its old name.
As Mark Suster's mom used to tell him[1]:

You don’t ask, you don’t get.

[1] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/05/15/the-one-word-t...
And they still won't let me turn off conversation view on mobile ...
You are correct. If you abuse flag for stories you disagree with your flag privileges will be taken away.
...and what's your argument here? Even if that 16 year figure were true and even if 100 Elon Musks came about to take on the climate challenge...that's still not enough to fix the climate problem. And again, you're conveniently forgetting that policies of the Obama administration allowed Elon Musk to be in the position he is in the first place.

> Every little bit counts, but when you think about what's possible with the scale of the U.S. government, versus what's actually happened, it's depressing.

[insert metaphor about big ship turning vs small ship]

Optimism is good. But to disregard the many messy, complicated things that put us in the current status quo in favor of some Hollywood save-the-world fantasy is no less delusional than the optimists in politics and non-profits that you deride.
Good for her! I doubt she needs the cash so it's always fascinating to see how people pick STEM fields for non-career reasons, same way others might pick history, english lit, etc.

And at 47 she looks way better than any other girl in my eng class when I was in school!! (OK, there were only 3)
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Fascinating. I wonder if the same tendency ruins online dating?

My guess as to a reason is that women who have been hit on aggressively by some number of men eventually get cynical. But once you're cynical, you reflexively reject all of the aggressive men, and never spot the less aggressive men, with the result that you're in permanent "fast reject" mode.
I've noticed this too.

My theory is that the harder life is the more successful it is. Which is the opposite of what you would expect.

In hot places shelter is not really needed, you don't need to store food for the winter, and you don't need as much food (although you do need water).

In cold places you have to plan for the winter, and that effort translates into improving your life in all things, not just shelter and food.

You might like this book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Mine was just enabled (and I use my own domain with Google Apps for Business, so that's a first. Usually I'm the last one to receive beta upgrades).

Here's my first impressions:

1. [Primary] tab was very accurate, right off the bat. It detected all personal and important emails properly. And all social updates went to, well, [Social].

2. [Promotions/Updates]: these two are a bit all over the place. Honestly I don't even understand exactly what they meant by "Promotions", but seems it's "anything that is long, but not personal, and certainly not a simple automatic trigger/trigger". All mixed up. Promos went to Updates, and vice-versa.

3. It also failed to detect several emails from discussion lists and blog posts, that went incorrectly to [Promotions] or [Updates], when it should have gone to [Forums]

4. For now there's no ability to customize the tabs. At all. WYSIWYG. Not even the label. The "+" is just a shortcut to enable/disable one of the 4 additional tabs (besides Primary, that is always visible).

Overall, this is clearly a beta version, so it'll be interesting to see how they improve the functionality over the next releases. I'm sure it'll be a nice addition to most types of users (particularly those that have thousands of emails archived - which is not my case).

I just wished I could customize the labels right away; it's something so small and ridiculously simple to implement, yet it would allow users to make it personally relevant to them. But considering the OP, this should be coming soon.

ps: I can't understand why so many negative comments about an optional feature. At least for now - and likely the next 6-12 months - you'll have the option to simply not use it. And if (when?) they force it down your throat, well, just vote with your money... Oh, wait. Did I just say money?
Almost nothing. (Is my sarcasm detector not working? Do normal people really have houses full of printable plastic?)
I wonder if there is any way to turn FOSS into a mainstream movement. The only thing really stopping FOSS from becoming more commonplace is the lack of consumer demand and awareness.
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Perhaps I wasn't clear enough; I tried to point out there are lots of different kinds of bullies, and bullying situations. I never tried to set out that what I was saying was representative of bullying in general, as I've never made a study of the issue. I tried to put qualifiers around what I reported was based upon my limited, personal, anecdotal experience.

For the record, I do not blame the victim. I've done my speaking stint with a battered women's shelter in my area, I've seen and worked with victims aplenty and have a perspective that informs me better than to blame the victim. But victims need to know there are ways to stand up, get help, and get out of the situation. In some settings where bullying takes place in the US public school system (the context that I'm familiar with), there might actually be no help feasibly available. Facing the reality that one might have to fight back (and note that I first described it in a metaphorical sense of redirecting the bullying's energy in a judo-like manner), is to acknowledge this situation on the ground, and does not mean I desire to blame the victim or in any way stop advocating for more assistance infrastructure like what we have for battered women.

If you have a more studied perspective, or your own personal views that influence how you view the issue that can help the kids getting bullied today, then I encourage you to share it here. If you want to go down the "...congratulating yourself for having it relatively easy..." road, then we all here discussing about bullying could be guilty of the same characterization, because this is #firstworldproblems to an orphaned 6-year old girl on the streets of Mumbai. There is always someone, somewhere, somewhen that has it tougher. My position is I'd rather not devolve into that kind of meta-discussion, and instead put more energy into a discussion that can help those suffering at the moment. Or we can just agree to disagree.
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I don't see how this is a big deal. Yes, 3D printing brings manufacturing to a personal level, and it is an important step in technology, but it's nothing that's really that amazing if you think about it. Manufacturing already occurs on a mass scale every single day, yet no one gives a second thought to it.

You buy something in Walmart -- do you ever think about how the product is actually made by robots, made out of metal and powered by real-time operating systems painstakingly coded by software engineers, who then in turn wrote them on software that was painstakingly coded by different software engineers, that ran on hardware that took engineers decades of innovation and miniaturization to achieve, that was created by slightly more advanced robots in some other factory?

No, you don't. You pick up the damned thing, walk over to the cashier, and buy it and move on with your life. It's the same thing with 3D printers. It's a PRINTER. It's not God, it's not the Higgs Boson, it's not the next step in string theory, no new quantum mechanics theories have been discovered, and no, Jurassic Park still can't be created, even if we do have mammoth blood.

On another note entirely, it's amazing how articles like these can make a (supposedly) young 15 year old like me feel like a completely Luddite-esque curmudgeon.
I think that's a poor argument. Personal printers are on the way out. I recently got rid of my laser printer. It's large, clunky, I almost never used it (who needs things on paper anyway?). Every time I need something printed (once every two years, maybe) I would much rather go to OfficeWorks and get it done. So much more convenient than plugging the printer in just to use it.

I think 3D printing is a cool niche, but I don't see it becoming a mainstream thing. People simply don't need to have physical objects produced often enough in their homes — there are odd times where it's useful, but they are rare enough that a trip to a store, or online order outweighs the inconvenience of having a large machine dedicated to a single task in your home.
Yes, all cable subscribers.

I suspect people tune into ESPN occasionally (a "luxury" made possible by bundling) but would not choose to subscribe to it separately.
Good question, if crudely put.

The answer is that the kind of men who want to use a service like this want something other than straight sex. They want to fall in love. An escort can deliver sex, but the odds of love coming out of that are really, really bad.

Also you're probably not going to go to a service like that if $30,000 is a lot of money to you.
In my opinion, two issues tend to be conflated - licensing and access to source code. That these are separate issues is obvious - on the one hand, by looking at the Creative Commons License where access to the original material is no different than it is with regard to a work published by Disney. On the other hand, a proprietary license may provide access to source code - this is less common today than several decades ago, and certainly less common in consumer facing applications than B2B software.

GNU is an interesting philosophical position, and one I admire to a significant extent. But it is not a universal solution. Emacs is not for my mom. Word is simply a better option - for much the same reason that the factory manuals are a better option than Wikipedia when my mechanic tunes my Cooper.
"thus works worse in the heat"

Yep, but that shouldn't be a big factor in the temperature ranges under discussion.

A mirror-based concentrator can reach 3,500 C (let's say 3,700 K, roughly, though it's closer to 3,800). That's the hot side. The cold side might be about 60 C at the most (the highest temperature recorded in the Sahara appears to be 57.7 C) or about 330 K. Compare to a temperate zone setup operating at say 20 C on the cold side (say, 300 K).

The first will have a maximum Carnot efficiency of 1 - 330/3700 = about 0.91, while the second will have 1- 300/3700 = about 0.92.

As you say, the more intense sunlight (and especially the lack of rainy days) will more than make up for this.
These elemental analogies are reminding me of the Manhattan project.

One silver bullet (E = m c^2 and Einstein's letter to Roosevelt) and some lead bullets (the long slog of building huge industrial plants to purify the uranium). Maybe sometimes you need both.
I completely agree. I keep hearing people talking about printing electronics, car parts, and all kinds of ridiculous things. Yes you can make plastic stuff and molds etc. but no 3d printer is going to be able to make a blueray player or anything that isn't just plastic and looking like it was made to be sold in a dollar store.

Sometimes I feel like tech people get focused on new ideas that they overvalue them and don't realize there are other ways to do things. A lot of the stuff I hear people dreaming about can already be done on a CNC milling machines or even on a regular milling machine with a competent machinist. If you want something cool made out of metal draw it up and go to a machine shop. No need to wait for 3d printers to progress to Star Trek functionality (they probably wont in your lifetime).
This assumes that app developers are the superior demographic to give reviews. I don't think that this is the case, as app developers are far from representative, and won't necessarily reflect the sentiments of the market.

I agree that reviews need to be fixed, but isolating app developers is not the way to go about it. This seems absurd.
>So you want to demand that Netflix provide at their expense a solution for every possible OS out there?

Who says it has to be made by Netflix or at their expense? I'm sure there are open source developers (e.g. Mozilla) who would be happy to create a multiplatform open source Netflix client. Netflix are the ones who make that impossible, and having done that their remaining alternatives are a) provide the client themselves, or b) incur the wrath of angry users. They've decided to go with (b), so here we are.
He does look like a troll, always getting top comments on India centric pieces.
Except the Rank-1 hit wasn't against an image from the mugshot database.

..The notable rank-one hit for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is an
illustrative example of this potential. However, the hit was
against a graduation photograph with similar pose that was
tweeted after he had been publically identiﬁed, and not a
conventional mugshot from a prior arrest.
I think the premise is absurd. In two decades programming I've never personally seen evidence of women being held back in CS -- usually it's just the opposite in fact. I'd like for there to be more women in CS, but being honest I haven't seen anything holding them back except for themselves.

For instance even way back in my CS program for one of the women they actually made an exception to the rule that you need a 2.0 GPA to graduate in CS. This after years of official department women-only support groups and special instruction. What happened to the guys with less than 2.0? They didn't graduate CS. This same woman had six job offers after graduation.
I don't think that glass will take to many beautiful photos. The lack of framing, the uncertainty of the moment of capture, and the compromised size of the optics and sensor argue against it.

But it gives you the opportunity to take photos that you'd have missed with less available hardware.
Hi guys! Great job! I haven't had a chance to take a thorough look, but I want to clarify that with AngularJS, you could simply do something like

<li ng-repeat="item in items"
ng-style="{'background-color': $index % 2 == 0 ? 'yellow' : 'green }">
</li>

without creating a directive. Incidentally, I decided to rewrite the React tutorial in AngularJS, and I appreciate any feedback.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5790799
However, 3D printing is nearly instant delivery. With Amazon Prime, as of now, it still takes 1-2 days for packages to arrive.

Imagine if Amazon Prime were to adopt 3D printing into their model...
(I agree with you, and want to be clear that I do not bring up this example with the goal of showing you are "wrong", but someone I know brought up the example of "while cooking, and your hands are messy", and it made me think that there were at least a few other non biking/driving examples where voice recognition would be valuable. Still, however, I agree with you.)
on contraire, i would recommend always negotiate price you want and not settle if "you are going to work for this company anyway". Reason is simple - every year what you earn gives you 3% less purchasing power on average. If you are not getting at least the same increase in income - you are losing. Unfortunately, not all companies consider annual salary increases and ones which do - do it on their own discretion.

So you have to have something in back pocket when it is time to leave this job and look for new opportunity and use you current wage as a leverage to get more. As such, you should make sure you are compensated fairly. It is just like bonus vs. early salary increase. Higher base salary means higher base salary for the next job (and for current one higher bonus, higher annual increase, etc). Do not settle for bonuses/stocks/"unlimited" vacation and any other similar tricks.
These kinds of matching services tend to prey on the clients' insecurities and worries about not just getting a one night stand, but actually finding someone with whom they can have a quality relationship.
I'd personally settle for a voice-output-only Glass (maybe with chording for text input to avoid the "talking to yourself crazy person" problem, and with a camera/microphone built in for ambient data gathering).

Hardware we could have built for the last 10 years, and really unobtrusive. You'd need better UI and software than with video, since information needs to be more closely tailored for a lower bitrate channel, but I think Google (or a smart startup) could do it.

99% of the reasons I use video are because I need to do the filtering and postprocessing in my head. If I had complete trust in a great software agent, I could just let it tell me what to do, vs. showing me enough data to make a decision. e.g. for driving, you can give directions by voice (if you're a talented codriver) which do NOT require any visual information to the driver during a high-speed rally. Almost no car nav systems are that smart, but if Google can build a self-driving car, they should be able to make an awesome codriver/navigator.

Extends to almost anything. I don't need to see a picture of someone and a dossier; just remind me of the most critical facts as needed, by voice.

This should be just as good as having a clone of yourself, or an entire team of ops people, watching/listening to what you do, and giving you voice prompts, just like a video game, or being the President on TV in a live debate, or whatever.

The hardware is trivial; it's all software and back-end processing, which Apple sucks at and Google/Amazon/Startup should rock at.
If more men learned to put away their privilege

Stopped me cold. Maybe that mindset worked in the 1960s but this is the twenty-teens and that "privilege" left long ago.
In addition to what's been said, I don't think it will be happen because it's a trend across social news sites to hide this information. On MetaFilter, hiding favorites totals is gaining popularity. On Reddit, more subreddits are experimenting with hiding comment scores and seeing less vitriol. So long as the best information can still be filtered (excepting Metafilter's sequential conversation format), there is little downside.