skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who just got their Glass last night, I have a FEW conflicting points, although a lot of it is spot on.

-I don't think the screen is not bright enough, and I haven't had the issue where you have to look at something dark to see it.

-I also disagree about "dangerous while driving." In fact, I would argue quite the opposite. It's SO much safer than looking at your phone for directions. The fact that any information I need is a simple, and fast, glance away is much better than holding up my phone and looking back and forth between that.

(Side note- it's also fantastic for directions while biking. Previously I'd have to do this scary "check my phone while biking" thing, which was no good at all.)

-Looking at the screen has felt incredibly natural to me. You're not looking at the extreme top right. I don't have a lot more to say here other than YMMV, I guess.
Except you know... Martin Eberard the founder of tesla motors.

Elon Musk was an investor for tesla not a founder. just check the wikipedia page for tesla motors on its early reviews.
>>This of course wouldn't prove the work is valid

No, it actually would. And exactly the question begs the answer why don't they submit the damn code.

During my college days, a professor would always argue combustion can only be a exothermic reaction. Another professor would argue it can endothermic too. By the way the discussions went and during one lab session, a student just stood up and asked the professor to produce a chemical which he could put on his palm and burn to prove its endothermic.

Since then he stopped and I never ever heard him talking about combustion being a endothermic reaction again.

All it takes is to write a program, if you have the algorithm is it really that difficult to write it?
IMMUTABLE also implies "does not change the database". http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-createfunction...:

IMMUTABLE indicates that the function cannot modify the database and always returns the same result when given the same argument values; that is, it does not do database lookups or otherwise use information not directly present in its argument list. If this option is given, any call of the function with all-constant arguments can be immediately replaced with the function value.

STRICT does not mean 'no side effects'; it means 'returns NULL when given a NULL argument'. From the same page:

CALLED ON NULL INPUT (the default) indicates that the function will be called normally when some of its arguments are null. It is then the function author's responsibility to check for null values if necessary and respond appropriately.

RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT or STRICT indicates that the function always returns null whenever any of its arguments are null. If this parameter is specified, the function is not executed when there are null arguments; instead a null result is assumed automatically.

[looked that up because I couldn't think of a function that was STRICT but not IMMUTABLE according to the definition given]
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If I were Elon Musk, I'd abandon FWD.us too. Lots of people buy Tesla vehicles for environmental reasons, so funding ads touting policies that are perceived to be harmful to the environment would be a bad idea.

That doesn't mean the strategy is a bad one for FWD.us. Mark Begich will never oppose ANWR drilling. Lindsay Graham will never oppose the Keystone pipeline. The ads only serve as good PR for them to counter the bad PR they'll likely get for immigration reform.

The article cites Josh Miller's editorial that criticizes FWD.us. Here's another quote:

"...given that Mark Zuckerberg and the other technology pioneers who are behind FWD.us have risen to prominence by spearheading disruptive innovations, reverting to such traditional lobbying tactics seems like a missed opportunity for meaningful change. Technology companies live and die by how innovative their products are, our organizing and lobbying tactics should be no different."

How is that not textbook naivete? It's not a logically sound argument at all.
With housing costs being absurdly high in the SF Bay Area, your chances of finding a place to stay for FREE are slim to none. Maybe if you had connections in the area that could let you crash on their couch, but by the sounds of it you don't.

Best of luck to you.
"Unless you are into amphetamines or falling asleep at the wheel, it is the only way to do it for any extended amount of time."

This is simply not a true statement.

It may be your personal preference, but it is not at all universal.
Oculus Rift is the real deal. Not sure why people compare it with Glass, though. They are not even remotely competing with each other.
"It's like being a competitive runner in training. You just hammer it as hard as you can so you'll be the best you can be at your races, but damn, it would be nice to just walk there sometimes instead."

Is it? Is 'programming' really like running a lot, from one place to another (no matter what those places are, simply for the fact that one place is not the same as the first)? Is it possible that this pursuit is so fucking stupidly simple that we can dilute it to "hey, programming is like walking to the fucking grocery store, regardless of which one we were going to or what we intended to get ingredients for, or how we wanted to prepare them"?

No. No, it's not, and this person is doing everyone who actually knows what the fuck a programmer DOES a disservice. If she stays with it long enough she'll realize this, though whether she'll bother to acknowledge it or apologize is another matter.

Being a competitive runner takes a lot of work, a lot of discipline, and a lot of conditioning. It is in no way something to laugh at. What it does NOT take, however, is the mental discipline and logical aptitude to build and maintain structures and paradigms in which concepts can be realized and business can be conducted.
WordPress uses phpass since 2.5.[1]. You can reset you password using an md5 generator, but that is due to the backwards compatibility in WordPress. In order to provide seamless upgrades to the new hashing mechanism, they hash is not updated until the user authenticates again. The password is confirmed against the old hash, and if it matches, the password is re-hashed using the new hash and saved over the old hash. So if you have a password stored in the md5 hash and then authenticate once, you are updated to the new salted hash.

[1] http://www.openwall.com/phpass/
"Before you even turn it on, Glass feels like something from the future that is worth at least $1,000."

taken from Google PR?
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And now TSLA has a market cap over 1/4 of GM's.
If you think Glass is the end product that matters, you're not paying any attention. Tim Cook wants to start shit-talking Glass and talking about how they're going to bring out watches? Cool. So are three other Android manufacturers.

Who is the only person with the AI and data sets to power things like Google Now and really make form factors like Glass or Watch practical? You don't hear anyone talking about that. They're talking about SDKs or users or app stores or whether or not I can set my own default browser on my phone.

Google Now is the big deal here that everyone glazes over when talking about Glass. They're already putting it into Google's web interface (for the desktop, yeah), Chrome (though it makes more sense in Google.com rather than Chrome to me), Glass and I'm sure more and more services will continue to feed into it. They announce more every few weeks.
I would argue that the unit of measure is "degrees Celcius" rather than individually degrees or Celcius. So I would agree with either ten-below-zero degrees Celcius (which is a little awkward), minus ten degrees C, or as the author wrote it.
You can do `<script type="anything-you-want"></script>`. It's just an attribute. The browser will not run any code in the tag because the `type`-attribute
is invalid now.

The next step is to create a compiler for your `anything-you-want` language. That means it transforms the textual contents of the script tag into a
string of javascript, and then calls `eval` on the string.
It's not much, but you should still be able to print things to a console.
And note that Apple was not the inventor of any of those unintuitive devices. Which makes one wonder who will ultimately make the "iPad of Glass." :)
I flagged most non-tech political stories because I think they rarely lead to interesting conversations.

Apparently that was "abuse" of flagging. It would have been nice to have had some guidelines. Ah well, we still get plenty of political stories, and they still turn into 99% tribal warfare.
I was thinking something similar. On one hand we have wage depression of our domestic peers. On the other hand we have improved wages and opportunities for many of our peers abroad. We may complain about some of the things bigco does against us, but it is also true that many of our hacker peers are subject to much worse.
I think Daily Grace (+1.3mil subscribers, +100mil video views) sums this up best - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Nxyqi4WK0
So the options you are suggesting we have today is either a small number of solutions that take over your devices with God-knows-what but which are using browser plugin system, or solutions that take over your devices with God-knows-what but are using the W3C standard as an API, which leads to a larger number of God-knows-what solutions that do God-knows-what to your computer or has God-knows-what security issues that other form of malware can use.

How is that an improvement, and what does this have to do with a open network with cooperating nodes that any standard compliant software can parse and use?
Aptana if I'm doing PHP, Gedit or VIM for everything else.
"OK Glass. Google goatse."
Slick looking video camera you've got there. I was really excited for a second thinking it was an HDMI display device.
Thank you for your response. What confused me is why one payment processor (Stripe) would not allow it while others (in your example, BrainTree) is OK with it.

My question is that if this 3rd party aggregation policy is just custom made for each payment gateway (means they make their own policy), or is it legally bound by the US law?

I want to make sure that I do not break any laws here.

Thank you for your input.

PS: also I notice some marketplaces like zaarly or airbnb has some kind of insurance for protection / safety while other marketplaces do not. If I want to offer insurance or some kind of protection, how should I start? I tried to find information on google, but probably due to my limited knowledge on this area, I do not find information that is relevant.

Thanks.
The interesting thing is that Google's recent high profile AI hires like Hinton and Kurzweil have said they'll be working on NLP systems, which leads to some interesting possibilities along the lines of what you're saying.
I think this is an absurd standard. For want of perfection, he should do nothing? What he's doing has shown clear impact. I'm a skeptic on much of NGO land, but the Gates foundation is better than most and has hard gains to show for it.

Gates is working in India on education, on environmental safety, on sanitation (seriously - I've heard talk repeatedly that his number one goal right now is a better toilet / sanitary mechanism) - these are things that will directly advantage India in the long run. As for the Indian government... well, the road to hell has been paved with good and not so good intentions - suffice to say that has not always been the goal.

FYI separate topic, but the UID is a success story by any standard (its the world's largest biometric database by some distance) - and enables a reduction in the wastage in the traditional channels you identified (aka, the politician cut).
The article title's reference to The Talented Mr. Ripley is strangely apt, having read the plot summary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talented_Mr._Ripley
Wow, I was planning to use them for the first time for a vacation in a few weeks. No way in hell they're getting my business now. Way more invasive than a hotel.

A video? Who seriously thought that this was a good idea?
Could you somehow hook it into Ingress? That could be interesting.
Don't forget the youtube has an option to flag videos for misleading thumbnails.
Except that all the money you earn goes to paying the rent on your $2000 studio apartment.
99.8%
Am I the only person who thinks all of these people are overreacting?
Thanks! 2nd generation "in the lab" does video out, but in our user testing, video recording/sharing/streaming has been the main use case, and since manufacturing is always very very involved, we think the sane thing to do is to ship MVP hardware with really slick software, then scale our customer base, before shipping more hardware features later.
Revenue per employee is a measure used to compare the labor efficiency of two companies in the same industry not as a way to judge how much revenue hiring a new employee will add to your bottom line.

Most engineers at Google almost certainly do not drive $50K/month in revenue for the company given that Google properties generate a hugely non-uniform distribution of revenue. While the guys working on say Android or Gmail for instance might be helping Google's brand, they are a very small part of their bottom line (at least now).
I live in Portland, Oregon. Every time we wanted to use a telescope to see some planetary wonder it has been cloudy. Hard to keep my kids excited about space without seeing much of it :)
Big Nerd Ranch Guide: iOS Programming -- This book was well worth the investment. Go through the chapters and do the exercises. After you start to feel somewhat comfortable, try testing your creativity by taking some of the code you've written and making something unique.

Example:
The book teaches you how to make a quiz app where you store questions and answers in two arrays and use two buttons to display each.

My variation on this was an app that helped me measure how much water I was drinking each day. I had an increment and a decrement button. The goal was to get to 8 glasses. Each time I got closer to the goal a motivational message popped up.

This enabled me to use some of the code I was familiar with, but also change it slightly enough to where I could venture into new territory. -- To me this is the best way to get your first apps going.
> Google Now allows for this to happen

I've never quite figured out what's up with Google Now—I have it on my phone, and I hear it's supposed to be some sort of (semi) intelligent assistant type of thing, but so far it doesn't seem to do very much at all, much less anything "intelligent."

On my phone, it gives me weather info every day (which is nice), and dutifully tells me how to get to work in the morning and return home home at night (thanks Google Now!) but ... other than that, it basically does nothing.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there some setting I need to set ("intelligence: on") that will make Google Now suddenly start telling me what upcoming movies I might like, or interrupting my dinner to tell me about that great TV show I'm about to miss?
Google's profit margin is actually around 21-24% (depending on who calculates it)
Here are the links that reference the early history of Tesla
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441480
MySQL is dual licensed under GPL and a proprietary license.

http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/
That depends if they can now live-migrate cloud servers from one physical host to another. We got burned because to do maintenance on the host they had to take down all 'cloud' servers, turn the server off, do it and switch it back on - and this was planned maintenance, not emergency.

This was before OpenStack, but trying to get information out of Rackspace about what's changed is like trying to get a Republican to vote Democrat.
Apparently csense is some commenter I don't know about. The article csense was commenting on was more interesting than csense's comment itself.

But it didn't contain anything I wouldn't expect to see from any other commenter complaining about perceived off-topic articles on any other tech news site. Complaints about off-topic articles because the commenter never heard of the subject of the article are as constructive now as they were when they first started appearing after every Slashdot article ever going back to September 1997. If a similar pattern appears on HN, then we'll know it's all over and the magic is gone and we can all go back to posting on Metafilter or yelling at imaginary people on buses or whatever everyone did before they came here.

Why exactly is this HN comment material?
> It's been the general trend in web browsers to minimize the permissions you need to give to plugins--I would expect CDM plugins to evolve the same way.

DRM need control over the computer for it to ever do anything. Trying to sandbox DRM, is like trying to sandbox anti-virus software. It can't happen, and has never happened before.
A-men. Right now, I'm waist-deep in over 80k lines of JavaScript neither I nor anyone remaining on our team wrote, and just being able to set breakpoints on event listeners in Chrome and step into the functions that are fired probably saved me weeks off a more plodding read-through-the-whole-codebase approach.

I'm not sure how you'd create a language that would solve that problem, though I guess since the bug I was chasing down was a classic state problem, maybe it would have been caught by a compiler in Fay/Haskell.
I wonder how many people get the Rilke reference? Why is it that programmers are not well read?
So basically folders are cool again?
Me too. I've drafted plenty of marketing documents speaking into Dragon Dictation on my phone, earphones in, walking down the street. I suspect it looks just like I'm on a phone call - nothing awkward for me about walking down the street on a phone call.
Why don't people vote with their time? Don't watch something, for example.

I'm not quite sure you understand the idea of voting. It's about making your preference known, and it doesn't quite work when your action has no impact on anyone else.
It's so easy to downvote. It's far harder to provide a good reason why we should be idolozing someone with the advantages most of us have absolutely no hope of enjoying should be idolized or idealized here, on a board where we supposedly worship the self-starter, the boostrapper, the one who understands the odds but still tries to beat them.

Downvote this one, too. Go for it... no one's stopping you.
> my friends drive between Texas and Illinois

That could be anywhere from ~430 miles, in which case you can probably get there by starting with a full battery and making a single charge stop, to more than 1400 miles.

Please be more specific as to the origin and destination.
I really liked this article, it doesn't just apply to startups. Engineers are like the rockstars of today. Instead of the Sunset Strip, everyone is headed to the Bay Area for their own shot at glory.What's to be remembered is that nothing should be done except for the inherent love of what you're doing, and nothing should be done purely for the sake of "success". Be a decent person, have respect and courtesy for others, and you can enjoy life, whatever the vehicle of your creativity is.
Compared to LiquidWeb's offering [0] it doesn't seem much.

[0] http://www.liquidweb.com/support/compare.html
Baader-Meinhof -- I was just looking an hour ago for something like this. The best I could find was:
http://thecodeplayer.com/
What would happen post-W3C? Would the idea be to start a replacement?
My "Social Graph" between Facebook and LinkedIn is approximately 2. One is for social networking, the other for professional. So if they think there's any good to come from comparing the two, there's going to be a lot of people like me for whom it Just Doesn't Work.
I think you generalize the absurd US cellular carrier situation on to the world.

Most places in the world you have carriers which provides phone services, accessible by a SIM-card, and you have phones, which accepts SIM cards.

These are two entirely separate things which you choose entirely at your own bidding. You chose the carrier which provides you with a service matching your needs at a price you are willing to pay. And you use the SIM card they provide in the phone you have chosen entirely separate.

In a world like this a carrier doesn't "support" a phone. That would be like my ISP having to "support" my Dell PC, or me having to buy a PC from a limited selection offered by my ISP. It's an absurd position.

Most of the world does not work like the completely and fundamentally broken US cellphone market, and generalizing based on that is doomed to reap highly inaccurate results.
I don't think this article sounded bitter at all. It just sounded like someone who's been there, done that, and has perspective on career and life.
I was confused. Not a big issue, but a fair request.
OMG - I just hate Rihanna video Facebook scam spreading
In the case of the Tesla, it actually is a cube, or at least a flat rectangular solid. They're not crammed in odd places. But the battery enclosure itself is integral to the frame, and the rest of the car is literally built around it.

It's possible to remove the battery, but not trivial.
How does CAC for e-comm industry compare via affiliates vs other means?
I would like to know the perspective in different countries and different niche.<p>I have been hearing that the customer acquisition cost(CAC) is high for most e-commerce companies. Does affiliate marketing help in reducing the cost? How so? If not, then why do websites start affiliates or partner with affiliate networks?<p>If an existing customer comes via an affiliate, how does this impact CAC?
It'll be awesome if you can do HDMI video on that nice variable shading sunglasses platform. Looking forward to 2nd-gen. Is there a mailing list I can sign up for?
I think we just have to disagree here. In my mind, if you think something is a legitimately good idea, then you're almost obligated to try to influence others to take it on.

Ideas do, in my experience, need help to spread. Particularly if they are unorthodox ideas. There's a resistance to ideas that live outside the box, they aren't automatically accepted by people just because they're good.

I work really hard at evaluating ideas that are new to me based on their merits. But it's sometimes extremely difficult to do. And,to be completely blunt, most people don't make the effort, even if they're otherwise intelligent.
if you only had to press a button or two for $10MM and could walk away unscathed, wouldn't you?
Never knew about this! I dislike how history gets rewritten in ways that benefit those with power and influence like this, so I really appreciate you having put together these links for us.
The EME draft doesn't just handle video, does it?

For now it does. But if we let it pass, you better believe that slippery slope we've went into is going to get a whole lot steeper.

The open web only has one option: Fighting DRM entirely and fundamentally. We don't need Netflix on the web, and definitely not at the cost of our fabulous, open standards' core values.
Ask HN: How to solve short term cash flow problem going into an accelerator?
My startup has been accepted into Start-up Chile. The $40,000 is paid out as reimbursements so to get the money you need to first spend the money.

Because of this, without a $10k-15k buffer, the first few months are going to be slow to ramp up cash flow.

I'm getting a government severance payout soon which would cover it, but it probably won't go through until we're well through our time there. I've had a couple suggestions on the best way to solve this problem.

What would you do?