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I really wish they would perfect a HUD display for cars that everyone wanted to use.

I wonder how many deaths could be prevented.

Oh that makes me remember that the Android app "Torque" has a nifty HUD mode that inverses the display on your phone to put speed, etc. on the windshield. I tried it once but my car doesn't have good angles for that.
Seems to be up and down still...
I find myself increasingly frequently using 'youtube-dl' to grab clips, advantages being that youtube sometimes only buffers a little bit before stopping and this way I don't need to care about keeping tabs open or codecs.

Everything always plays fine with VLC and I can mess with the playback speed by simply pressing '[]'.

Should probably automate this. Maybe independently of browsers, just sniff my own traffic and MITM myself (request goes to youtube-dl, browser gets a page that closes itself immediately).
Here's Monty's "we lost" announcement:

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/61927.html

Which goes into some of the details of the fight for a free web.
I really like it when people explain their statements, rather then just giving them. I for example would really like a million dollars.
See https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos#layer7
It's a bit pedantic, but since BitBucket supports Hg and Git, commits are always local. In this case, pushes are offline.
How is it worse than a GPS screen on a dashboard?

edit: if the PO cannot prove it was turned on, then there is such a thing as an assumption of innocence.
Use multiple CPU Cores with your Linux commands -- awk, sed, grep, etc.
Has gone up and down for me the last 30 minutes. But it's fully down now.
You're determined.
Yeah, I realized that a couple minutes ago. Not a full defense of that attack, but that decision by MS may have reminded people of the Direct3d vs OpenGL fight that happened in the 90s.
I have been using #282828 as my wallpaper for a few weeks now. Here are some wallpapers that I use from time to time: http://idzr.org/ffugk.

As winter is upon us, check out the winter folder too.
Ironic indeed. Must suck to be statuspage.io right now.
Very nice article, it resonated with me. It seems that talented people have a great burden, which comes in form of often asking yourself "have you done enough with all the talents you have?". It seems to be quite common, and it even made it to the Bible (I think it is called story about three servants). Funny that money in that story is called talent :)
Glass directly obstructs the view field, irregardless of where it projects. I agree with the citaion wholeheartedly. Regarding phone, see section b (11): http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc26708.htm
Do we really have to argue about not using entertainment video equipment while controlling over a ton of hyperaccelerated death through other peoples lives?
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So, you'd like to have car dashboards illegal as well?

First of all, Glass could've been turned off. Second of all, she could be using it for GPS and other things.

Personally, as a driver, I'd prefer to have all my car information on some kind of a HMD, and not on the dashboard, where I have to look away from the road.
"naive wealth redistribution" seems to be a bit of a strawman to me. re: European tax rates, perhaps it would be more accurate to describe the Economist as supporting the current economic status quo. besides, while Europe does have a much stronger safety net, it's almost as unequal as the US - it's not like the well-off are any less hegemonic there.
His final solution will return 0.
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More impetus for Google to hurry up and perfect self-driving cars.
I used to look at those "guitar player wanted (under 30 only)" ads on craigslist when I was in my late 20s and be confused about why there was such a hard line on the people's rock band aptitude.

When I got to be around 35 I realized that if you want to be in a rock band, you need to be ok with working a lot for no money and spending your weekends in a van and those are things I just didn't want to do anymore and probably most people in their 30s have a tapering off tolerance for such things.

But for stuff involving computers? They age much faster than we do and will never judge us by our ages.
I think it's really unlikely that wave is 100 feet. In fact it looks to me like it will measure out to be lower than the previous record holder at that same spot.

The trick here is that the viewing and photo spot is on a bluff well above the ocean, so any photo of a wave will include a large portion of the trough in front of it. This makes the face look a lot taller than it actually is, because there are no distinguishing marks on the surface of the water to tell the face from the trough.

In addition there is the question of face height vs. wave height. Wave height is measured above mean sea level--they are measured from the back, not the front. Waves are preceded by troughs, so a 5 foot wave might actually have a 7 to 8 foot face. In this case it's pretty clear that "100ft" is referring to the face.
Quite the increase from their original estimate of 2.9 million.
Are you implying they got free stuff for reviewing the review system of Amazon so more people start reviewing ? :-)
As a flip side, life can also end tomorrow, for anyone of us.
> Experience still matters, as unsexy as it is.

Absolutely. I think what really makes the difference is whether people also carry the youthful mindset of always being ready to spot problems, and do something about it.

I have seen plenty of people with more experience than I have, who have lost the sense that they can actively make things better. It's the people who have experience, and still feel they can shape the world around them, who make things happen.
The prevalence of the animated GIF is an eloquent statement about the current video encoding mess. While the typical small video clip today, encoded in a fancy new standard, is orders of magnitudes smaller that the JS+CSS+HTML site containing it, we use GIFs because nobody has any idea who is able to see the content is using a modern endoder.
When I tried Glass, the display was always visible when active. At least it's physically possible to not look at your phone. The one defense I would give is that the Glass projection turns off quite quickly, presumably to save battery power. It's not an always on HUD.
That's like porn to irons? :D
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California or in general road driving laws don't mess around: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc26708.htm

12) A portable Global Positioning System (GPS), which may be mounted in a seven-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield farthest removed from the driver or in a five-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield nearest to the driver and outside of an airbag deployment zone, if the system is used only for door-to-door navigation while the motor vehicle is being operated.
I have hard time imagining what position, at least if we're talking about software engineering, would require solving abstract toy problems in a timeframe of less than an hour without a chance to ever go back and improve your solution. I'd say it's "did you see this problem before" kind of question. Which means Twitter probably lost a capable and smart hire because he couldn't quickly give a perfect answer to useless puzzle (unless of course he was hired to repair the roof in Twitter's office and solving this puzzle is required for Twitter to survive the rainy season). Hardly a "perfect" way.
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Does iOS not already provide the equivalent encode and decode capabilities to app developers?
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I assume Glass is much more intrusive in for FoV. GPS are also generally optimized to be used while driving (special contrast for night use to avoid blinding the driver etc...).

And mainly, you can't use your GPS for distracting activities like watching videos, browsing the web, talking to your friends... Unless your GPS is your smartphone or tablet, in which case it's the same problem.
I absolutely agree.

If you want to be distracted and watch some YouTube videos or whatnot, then public transit would love to have you.
Getting 40 made me just feel old. I no longer have as much energy, keeping my weight got harder and let's not forget the annoying loss of hair. Additional experience is somewhat nice, but doesn't make up for it. Then again I spend most of my 30's getting out of debt because of a failed startup. Which might have given me a more negative view on life (last time I could afford traveling around was ~10 years ago).
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His advice to me: Don't be in so much of a rush. Be easier on yourself.

If you connect with this idea, you may want to check out the book The Inner Game of Tennis:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Inner-Game-Tennis-Performance/dp/0...
Hopefully Gecko and WebKit will forge ahead with this. There are members of the community willing to work on MathML:

http://www.maths-informatique-jeux.com/blog/frederic/?post/2...
Bitbucket twitter account claims it was a result of routine file maintenance and it has been resolved, but they will continue to monitor: https://twitter.com/bitbucket
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I'm sympathetic to that position, to be sure. What hesitation I have comes from potential legitimate uses (navigation, HUD for what would otherwise be on dash), and a mild leeriness around having to demonstrate that I am behaving correctly instead of simply behaving correctly. I'm not sure where I ultimately come down.
Glass is directly obstructing the field of view. It is not a defensible position to be frank. If it is turned off, well and good, but still the "eyepiece" can cause problems like glare, reflection, transparency problems. If it is turned on, no matter for what purpose, then it is a distraction and a direct one. Why do you want your one organ that is keeping you safe on road, be bombarded with information other than the one in its periphery?
I don't remember hearing about "Countdown to Looking Glass", but the TV movie I remember causing a lot of public reaction was "The Day After":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
That would be cool. I'm the only aviation nut in the group and I'm not the one designing the icons, so I don't know if it would happen, but we'll see :)
> You don't have to check every every arg to check the count is correct if that's something you're concerned about. Nor does checking args are undefined require a line per since you could check them all with a single assert.

That's true, but the overhead is still relatively huge.

> If you're the type who has constant bugs from wrong arg counts, use another language that better suits your programming style, but it's not a problem everyone has

I'm the type of programmer who tries to avoid errors as much as I can, but still make them as I am human, as we all are.

One of the possible errors that's really easy to make is forgetting to grep for callers of a function you just changed. Of course 99 out of 100 times you remember, but 1 out of 100 you will forget.

Another possible error is remembering to change the function signature, but just having a typo or mistake.

And finally, even if you make no errors at all -- when you pull from the server you get a bunch of function signatures and calls changed "under you feet", so any changes you had already pending (perhaps in different files) are now potentially silently invalidated, and there won't even be a runtime error to tell you about them.

There is really no real benefit to this behavior at all (beyond backwards compatibility of course). Explicit rest-of-args cost nothing.

Error messages are superior to wrong behavior, and this behavior is simply insane.
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> You'd have to use their binary module, downloaded from their servers, which, as they mention in the Q&A, is impossible on iOS.

Which would be a bit more of an issue if iOS didn't already ship a h264 encoder and decoder.
Lol, thought at first that is ui8 icons http://ui8.net/ui-icons become MIT, looks same.
Exactly the same number of deaths as could be prevented by having a proper driver's education.
I have a HN bot and looks like that the big outage was from 08:30 to 12:38 UTC with some minor (10-15 min) downtimes afterwards.
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Well, imagine that there were no laws pertaining to driving at all. Do you think people would just stop looking where they were going in favor of watching TV from the driver's seat?

It's already been pointed out that CA law bans the driver from looking at a mobile phone. I assure you that's not making anyone any safer, because compliance is zero. What's the benefit of the law?
No, it's much more like git ignoring wrong command syntax and just using undefined instead.

git commit - m"Hi" && git push

Let's push a commit with an undefined message, and ignore the m"Hi" argument. Error messages are annoying.
I think you need to justify that claim.
Personally I'm overjoyed by that lukewarm response.
Someone named Joseph Campbell doing myth-busting is actually kinda funny ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
A special purpose HMD for GPS sounds great.

A general purpose head mounted entertainment system that may or may not be used to display GPS along many other things while driving is a terrible idea.
You guys have trouble getting dates with attractive girls?
I may be wrong, but I don't believe you can access the H.264 stream to send to a remote location, say for a video conference application. I believe the API only allows for saving to a file.
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And they are using Go!

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6330220/

https://gist.github.com/gavruk/7233261
She's been cited, not convicted, so she's free to argue that it was off in court. The legality of her actions is not determined by the actions of the officer, particularly given that she cited, not arrested.

Definitely agree with you that I'd prefer a HMD or HUD in general to look-down instrumentation.
The Rockefeller Smell Study aims to map the genetic basis of some of these psychophysical differences. http://vosshall.rockefeller.edu/smellstudy
They have already mapped one such genomic locus that changes perception of androsterone from sweaty/urinous to pleasant/floral. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17873857/
Yeah, that bugged the hell out of me as well. I'm not sure what the authors expect the iOS caching framework to do? It sounds like they would like to see a different default, so that if someone does execute an HRH, it expires. That seems silly though. IMO, a "fix" means not allowing the HRH to occur in the first place, and the means used to accomplish the HRH is the MITM attack. No MITM, no HRH.
Actually, maybe I am being short-sighted ... but what I get out of this article is that his grandfather WOULD (could) have been just as 'successful' as he was in his 60s much earlier in life if World War II and Mao had not ruined possibilities for his generation.

If he had been allowed to do research from his early 20s wouldn't it still have been possible for him to be just as successful at it? Maybe his 30s would have been his heavy hitting decade?

In general maybe we all get about a decade of heavy hitting and it just happens earlier or later for some? :P
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automatically calibrating a wide variety of seismic detectors. you'd think this was routine, but in fact hardly anyone calibrates these things, and if they do it's typically either in a lab, or using software specific to a single manufacturer.
All the education in the world doesn't seem to overcome the belief that laws are for "everyone else".

But even having to look down at your speedometer or odometer can be a problem at speed, considering how much distance you cover in half a second.
You've not spent much time trying to use insufficiently documented APIs then. I used Google Code Search all the time -- now I search on GitHub.

Since Google is a software company as well as a research laboratory (though I would say it is more prominently the former), I would be surprised that they would kill Code Search but keep Scholar alive as a hiring cost.
That was on a tramway of a different type, in another city. The type in Chiatura does have automatic brakes.
I don't think the transfer occurs explicitly via LAN as other commenters point out, seems more likely Apple acts as a tunnel between the device requesting the keychain and the device authorising (sending) it.
Ask HN: As a freelancer, where do you get your contract templates from?
I assume most of the freelancer here sign some form of a contract before beginning work. Do you use a generic template? Where did you pick up that template from? Did you get a lawyer to write it up or did you pick one off the web?
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one wrong doesn't excuse another.

My in dash GPS has all sorts of warnings when attempting to program it while driving. One nice feature of my car (VW) is that the road animation and distance is also shown under the speedometer (less graphically pretty but useful).

Now, interestingly enough, adjusting my stereo or its settings don't carry carry the same warnings. I guess the assume you need to adjust them less.
I think the issue is that there are million unfilled jobs out there, and there are qualified people who are ready to fill them. By putting a giant recruiting company between the two, you are filtering a lot of good people out of the equation. I've lost out on a lot of interviews by not having a github account. But if you think about it, thats a lot like asking a doctor to give a public record of lives that he has saved while off duty.
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Exactly. Treat every new project like your first, but also bring all your experience with you.
This, mate. I'm in the same boat. I didn't realise until last night that we're really a different crowd. I was talking about earnings with my 23yo gf and mentioned that of all my working life, I could finally say that I've earned a million dollars. Then when breaking it down I realised that I'd done over 80% of that in the last ~2 years - since founding a startup software company. Howsat!
Have you even used Glass? It doesn't obstruct my view any more than my prescription lenses.
A bit curious about the Ionic Framework, what are the advantages when compared with jQuery Mobile?
I believe (not through science, but just to make my world make sense) that time spent on exercising doesn't count against the wall-clock. I tell myself that every hour in the gym is an hour longer I'll live, and all the idle thoughts I have while I am in there are a consolation prize for suffering. It helps get me into the gym. It's petty but it is enough.
> 0.1542 g / cm3

An excelent flotation device, if a tad small ...

I guess the volume is off by one order of magnitude - a paper notepad of 20 x 30 x 1 centimeters would be 600 cm3.
The point is that you can still be successful after your 30s.
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Really, hilarious comments in this thread. Thanks, y'all!
I sure hope he's wrong. Personally, I think a patent-encumbered MTI codec for WebRTC would be a very bad, especially for the open source community:

- You can't have a spec-compliant implementation of WebRTC by compiling and running Firefox yourself. You need to download extra binaries from Cisco.

- You can't have a spec-compliant implementation of WebRTC in your Linux distro, without including binaries from Cisco.

- You can't write an Android app that uses the library from webrtc.org to interop with WebRTC in the browsers without downloading binaries from Cisco (unless you pay the MPEG-LA).

- You can't write an iOS app to interop with WebRTC in the browsers, at all, because you can't download binaries from Cisco (unless you pay the MPEG-LA).

- You can't build open source projects that fully interop with WebRTC, without dancing around all the lingering patent issues.

In all these situations, having h264 as the MTI is worse than having no MTI at all.
This plus HN being under a DDos attack this morning makes me think someone is trying to get under the skin of programmers all over the world.

edit: bitbucket down as well. Geek Armageddon!
Glass isn't an 'entertainment device'.

Glass could potentially make us better drivers. One of the use cases we've looked at is wiring Glass up to alert drivers when someone is in their blind spot or someone is coming up too quickly behind them.

This citation is bogus. It's safer to look at Glass for directions than my nav system, but you wont see me get ticketed for looking at my nav system.
For a start-up it's not age that matters but risk aversion. You need to be happy/able to take on the risks, which are mainly financial. However, there will typically be a relationship between age and risk with the most risk averse period in your 30's and 40's when you are probably having kids. So if you don't feel you succeeded in your 20's and early 30's, hang on in there 'cause you'll get another opportunity later in life.
> All your replies about external APIs changing are irrelevant. A codeveloper touching functions that call your functions or defining functions called by you will integrate with your work with an innocuous "git pull" and force you to review everything just to rule out what JS could have easily detected.

Everything that you didn't write yourself is an external API for all intents and purposes - you're using somebody else's code, regardless of whether that person 'owns' the code or not. The fact remains that if you're relying on a function and somebody changes it without considering the consequences, then that's a process issue, not a JS one. In the same way, if you're writing code which others may depend on, then you need to consider the potential consequences of your changes.

> Again, I'm not talking about "dependencies" or libraries here at all.

The point is that you should be talking about dependencies and libraries. The situation you're describing is one in which code is not properly modularised and organised - where any developer can change any function and thereby fuck up the rest of the project. If your code was organised properly, these problems would disappear.

> The push was completely benign. The integration of that push with your current work will be broken in cryptic ways. Not necessarily ones that show up in the testing suites.

You keep using the word 'will'. I'm telling you with hand on heart that this problem does not happen if you sort out your development team and project structure.

> Every single function signature can break things, not just exposed APIs.

Yes, it can break things, but it shouldn't.

> Two developers might work on the same piece of code. There's not necessarily any obvious point to notify here and still breakage may arise.

If two developers can't work on the same area of code without stepping all over each other, then you need to look at how you're structuring your code.

> 1) Developer A adds a new function FOO that calls internal function BAR in his unpushed working tree.
> 2) Developer B changes the signature of internal function BAR, and pushes this change to "master".
> 3) Developer A pulls from master, his code is now broken, but JS doesn't even warn him when he executes it. Instead, wrong results (or accidentally correct results for any given test case) arise.
> 4) The test suites don't catch the error. Developer A unwittingly pushes the broken code to master.

Why is developer B changing the signature of function BAR willy nilly? Code isn't written in isolation and your changes have an effect on other developers. If you have a function which is being used by other people - then you have a public API. You don't break an API randomly.