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> Glass is an entertainment device, just because it is HUD does not invalidate it having an audio visual feedback, complete with a camera. It is made for consumption, on a small and more personal scale.

"Consumption" != "entertainment".

A navigation system is made for consuming content, too.
“100% RMS approved!”

Nice try, kernel adulator. It's GNU/Linux, or GNU+Linux.
I wrote a chrome extension to analyze the websites I visit on certain days and track how long I spend looking at each one and graphs it. It's called melytics and it is pretty buggy but it does the job.

Honestly I think this is too much data to make use of. I'm just one person. How much meaning can you get out of what I do? If it is a lot, do I really want that platform to exist on the web?
I think that's how they got theirs to work well in daylight. My guess is that the area in front of the HUD on windshield has a reflector that only reflects light of a certain polarity. It might still work with some polarized glasses as long as the polarity matches. If I tilt my head, it looked fine... hehe
The 60-80 hours thing is how computer peeps express their machismo. If we were jocks, we would do like 1000 pushups or something. If you need to spend that much time getting it off the ground, you are doing it wrong.
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I don't know where you're getting your data and I've forgotten where I got mine but I believe most companies are started by founders who are 50+ years old. Maybe my data includes 60 year olds, etc... As well.

But, we both agree it is not the 20 something demographic. 2 unsoirced opinions on the internet - that agree - have to be correct.
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." - Albert Camus

The cypherpunk "2.0" generation is here. The adversaries are definitely way more resourceful and ten steps ahead now. So there may be some value in looking back with regret. But it's never too late.
.. and then google gets a letter with a request from the government, opens its data-centers and lies to its customers. It's not that easy your way, either..
I bought my iPhone (3GS) in France when I lived there. I signed up for a 1 year contract and cancelled it after 10 months, no penalty because I was leaving the country. Bouyges unlocked my phone without any hassle.

When I got home (US) I bought an iPad with AT&T 3G and put that SIM card into the 3GS. I had to install a special profile to make everything work, but that was all it took for a data-only 'phone' plan.

It's a bit klunky. I make calls with an app called Talkatone, and the quality when I'm on 3G gets very bad. It's better at home and work over wifi, but some friends still complain about sound quality and lag.
>Having anything except critical driving information such as speed presented in a Heads Up Display fashion is a distraction

The HUD is less distracting than the alternatives.
That's called an Organ

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijQWm4H-zBU&noredirect=1
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Not exactly. Think of this analogy: the NSA built an enormously expensive sieve net to fish the entire Pacific Ocean (Google). While the Pacific may be deeper and wider than your innocuous little lagoon, that lagoon probably hasn't attracted the attention of the NSA. If you think the attention of the NSA is going to be a problem for your dealings, hiring very expensive security talent is necessary to your business plan.
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The way I see this is another form of additive synthesis, with poor (technical) sound quality and less control/expressiveness¹. I'd guess a lot of music would appear "black" if represented as MIDI sequence for a pure sine-wave synthesizer.

[1] not to disparage it too much as an artform. Art forms from what the artist able to with the medium of choice, and the choice of medium does not it make it automatically better or worse
How would tracking all this be useful to you? Why would you pay for it? The reason why tracking is more common in business is that knowing the metrics gives you guidance on how to be profitable. Therefore you can optimize all your metrics to paint that picture. With personal analytics, there isn't one thing that delivers that kind of ROI, even if we're talking about the investment from inputing the data alone.
Non-major cities can have terrible coverage. You might only get 2G speeds or have trouble using the phone indoors. It seems the more remote you are, the more you are forced to go with Verizon.
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I suspect many people just aren't interested in buying at the stated price -- better to see if there's a drop after launch and buy then, given the recent history of tech IPOs.
Just over 100k and 130k or $160k (Moelis) makes all the difference for what the parent comment said, which is that bonus is is 100-125% of base (65k)
Everything enterprisey has to be in all caps and mean something that's trying to be cool.

JAVA = Just Another Vague Acronym.

That and you need to use xml for everything to be enterprise.
It's easy enough to follow along. The snippets are simple enough that anyone who knows a procedural language won't have trouble understanding what they do, and from there it's pretty trivial to write the equivalent code in another language. You can get pretty close by writing C with a few helper functions.
Why are you talking about india here? Don't get mixed up.
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Did California outlaw billboards too? How about road signs? As a Glass owner they provide the same distraction as eye glasses, virtually none. Billboards and signs take your eye off the road, not an 'off' Glass.
It is possible our (UK/Canada/USA/etc) societies pursuit of comfort/safety has descended into what Nietzsche calls the "last man".

> the antithesis of the imagined superior being. The last man is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks only comfort and security.

> Nietzsche said that the society of the last man would be too barren to support the growth of great individuals. The last man is possible only by mankind's having bred an apathetic creature who has no great passion or commitment, who is unable to dream, who merely earns his living and keeps warm. The last men claim to have discovered happiness, but blink every time they say so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man

The last man trades their rights and freedoms away for security and comfort.
So does this suggest that Google's SSL encryption can be removed just as easily as that smiley face implies?

If this is true my next question would be does NSA have access to the keys or are they removing encryption in some other more technically involved way?
Had a very similar idea 4 years ago, have been working on this for ages. Bleh.
I think the Real Time API is still limited access beta anyway.

Even without real time this could be really useful -- thanks!
> That is why we have the FDA etc, and that is why doctors are rigorously vetted and trained through the med school/residency process, and I think most people would agree that that is a good thing.

I can imagine a world where it's sufficient to see that physician X is certified by Harvard and works for a clinic that's recommended by Consumer Reports without any involvement from the state. In this scenario the FDA would still exist as a competing organization but no one would be compelled to buy their product via taxation.

> Of course we all know that charity will never come close to providing for the entirety of society

Ostensibly, we've all voted for compulsory charity. If we can be trusted to vote so nobly, why not put down the guns and self-elect to be charitable?

> I want to be able to go to a restaurant without being terrified of catching TB from the waiter or getting salmonella poisoning from the food

I agree and I don't think I'd lose any libertarian cred to say that the government does have a role here because the restaurant has defrauded you and breached the implicit contract to provide you with safe food.

> I don't want industrial companies polluting the ocean and rivers that I surf and fish in.

I think property rights solve a lot of these things--"Oh, they polluted some river..." vs. "They polluted MY river?!" . I can concede that things like oceans and larger rivers should not be privately held but in these cases I'd prefer local government jurisdiction to federal/global governments. Essentially, the more aggregate the government, the more deliberate/unintrusive/restrained/super-majoritized I think it should be. In my mind, health-care is not one such federal issue.
I almost like it, but it just has... it has... too many notes. Yes, that's exactly it. Too many notes.
Novice question:

A given dendrite has a voltage raise, presumable because of transmitter from a neighboring neuron. That voltage increase will always be local unless it is adequate (as it spread and dissipates on its way to the cell body) for an action potential.

If they showed an action potential starting at the dendrite, then I would expect it to eventually move to the rest of the cell body and then I wouldn't expect the language about 'not seeing the rest of the cell light up'. So, how did they measure/show actual processing? I'm missing that part.
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This still does not make it better than VP8. Yes CISCO will release a binary for most platforms but not all. They can snub platforms because of lack of resources or for strategic reasons. Furthermore, CISCO has not committed to keep paying the royalties until all patents expire.

I suppose it is an ok move by CISCO, but still does not make H.264 acceptable when we have a completely free open source alternative.
I find that surprising. After building a few Sinatra apps, I went back to Rails and decided there were not many reasons to use Sinatra anymore. Small, non-public, services are ok. Anything that has users, handles user input or most "web apps" and it's nice to leverage all of the work that has gone into building Rails.
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> When you go offline, that equation changes. You have to be active. Since you can’t input, you output. If you don’t do something, nothing happens.

> So turn AirPort off. Or go to a coffeeshop without wifi. Resist the siren song of being connected (for a couple of hours at least) and watch your productivity skyrocket.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/80-get-off
Sales and biz dev are a tough nut to crack and a fundamental one for the large majority of startups.

It'd be interesting if these topics garnered some discussion at HN, I bet we'd all learn a lot from eachother on how to not let great products sink due to zero sales...
Gonna be a very interesting fundraising season in Silicon Valley.
> BTW, a much simpler way to get the SSL keys

SSL keys are not the target, the data is the target. SSL keys change over time, and you still need to monitor the actual encrypted data; tapping the data where its sent in cleartext is actually simpler, if you have the capability to do it, than infiltrating a spy into the dev team, having them compromise the system without being detected, getting the SSL keys, and monitoring all the encrypted comms.
Maybe somebody was upset that the popularity of this site grew so much it impacted the quality of discussions.
This sounds awesome but it is also scary. Seems like the end of pirated content to me. Ban it once and its gone globally? Not sure if I understand correctly but it seems like a brilliant way to control property rights and precisely funnel information.
I feel that the most important part of this is having clear data ownership rules to assure users that they actually own their data. That is, they can take it in a machine-readable format whenever they wish, and with it remove the right of the company to continue holding the data. I am very much in favour of stepping up personal analytics, but there's no way I'm going to just hand over some of my most personal data and hope that the company doesn't use it as the ultimate lock-in tool.

If a web platform is developed to provide storage and an API, the only way I would trust it is if it were completely open source and users were encouraged to run their own nodes (as well as supporting easy data migration between nodes).
I wonder why they went with a coaxial rotor and control surfaces rather than a typical multirotor (e.g. quadcopter), which seems much simpler.
> Even with everything you say, Google was still defeated by the NSA.

Well, actually, per the article, by GCHQ. Who, as well as using the data themselves, also allows the NSA access to it.
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I don't personally know very many recent graduates who have broken even on their education yet. I suspect many of them (including myself) will be in the red for the better part of a decade.
I've used GV as my only number for a few years now.

> The net effect is that if anyone, ever tried to send a text message to you and several other people at the same time you will not receive it.

I do receive these. I haven't ever heard from anyone "Hey, you didn't come to my <birthday party, other event>!?!?!

I cannot send them. YMMV?
Interesting. I get the same "cat urine" smell from neoprene (a rubbery material used in a lot of athletic equipment, like pads and such). I wonder if that has something to do with it.
Interesting to see the turbolinks. I have yet to use them, currently migrating a mid-size app to 4 and will try them out. But, that was my experience with jQuery mobile's similar ajax link by default strategy. Their great, until you have any kind of form and then you're soon disabling the ajax part and appreciating a fresh, clean dom being loaded.
On the flip side of that, maybe you do want ex-NSA staff with the inside knowledge so you can protect yourself against their tactics. Isn't that the same reasoning for hiring ex-black hat hackers?
> But it's never too late.

Upvote for hope.
It is not true. The current congress govt is very corrupt. BJP is a lot less corrupt. So, the congress spreads this propaganda that modi will create problems for minorities.
The type of people you describe exist not only in the programming field, but in every single walk of life. We simply notice more because our field changes so quickly.

There will always be people who remain curious throughout their lives, as there will always be people who stay close to what they know because they believe it to be safe.
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Wow, her feed is such an echo chamber.. pretty much everyone's profile pic there features them wearing Glass.

She passed a cop doing 80 in a 65, I wonder what was so distracting that you'd miss a cruiser one lane over..
If it's anything like the Family Trade series of books then the economic or financial subject may only be used to colour the main plot and give a mood. I don't expect the author to actually be a "hard-economic" author like Stefan Baxter is a hard-science author.
Google was letting information flow between its data centers completely unencrypted until last month. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-enc... Last month!

Think about that for a second. Most people on HN wouldn't send a single file to their own backup provider in the clear. Google was sending gushing torrents of data, presumably including email, IMs, etc, over long distances that way.

That's very nice that the company that encouraged all of us to put all our email and documents in its data centers "pushed harder than anyone on the whole internet" for some basic security well after the NSA compromised their shit, but it doesn't excuse their irresponsible practices.
Apparently those guys felt good about what they did. That's what's upsetting people.
Thank you CHP! I think completely makes sense - its illegal to mount a video screen on your dash, so why should it be legal to have over your eye?
then plainly a mind must be explicable to a sufficiently smart other mind, because after all so is everything else

Right, but is that intelligence? My main argument is basically an attack on the word intelligence. I believe people use it far too frequently and they allow its meaning to change whenever it comes close to being pinned down. In a strange way, intelligence is a tricky refuge for dualism in an otherwise monist world.
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And what about not implementing Speedy in IE 10? Not implementing Touch Events in IE 11 (Internet Explorer uses Pointer Events instead)? Here I remembered some sh*tstorms, too.
In case anyone hasn't already seen this amazing article by Stephen Wolfram about his own analytics...

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
That's the same as a dash mounted monitor. Which is still illegal even if off.
> You know what would outrage the public? ESPN being shut down.

No better way to state it. Our government is fucking us with our pants on but we're too distracted (by people getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars to throw a fucking ball around) to care.
Ground breaking stuff!
I've seen no indication that Google considers the NSA any sort of opponent.
> while they might not have access to the "Google servers", it now is almost certain they have access to the "Google network" (i.e. fiber cable access).

If the article is correct, the NSA does not have that. What they have is an agreement that they can submit search terms and get matching data from a system operated by their British counterpart, GCHQ.

It is GCHQ who, per the article, has a direct tap somewhere inside Google's unencrypted datacenter-to-datacenter communications network.
Google may have better security, but they're also a much, much larger target. Wiretapping Google gives you access to the private data of Google's millions and millions of users, whereas gaining access to my network gets you access to… me. As long as there's a non-trivial fixed cost to attacking a host or a network, there's an advantage to hosting your own data.

While it's possible that the NSA has a system to automatically detect and wiretap hosts and private networks connected to the internet, it seems unlikely to not have been detected so far. I've taken to assuming that every packet send and received from my servers is being monitored, but that, barring specific interest in me by the NSA, the servers themselves are reasonably private.
As Frank Zappa said music notation is like a recipe.
He also said eating the recipe is crazy.
Hearing computer played notes is like eating the recipe.
A persistent illumination 2 inch in front of my eye, can be a major cause of distractin and fatigue though. Also glancing at phones do cause accidents. You are also projecting the ability to focus with an eye piece on, on all drivers. How about extensive testing before letting it on road?
I suspect that anyone who has been a software developer at the NSA (or FBI) for five years has robust job security. Government employees have some extensive benefits, and these guys get to play with some serious hardware. If they like working there, I would be surprised if they were unable to keep doing so for a Long Time in the future.

Now, if they decided they wanted out, well ... good luck with that in the manner you describe. I suspect that it won't be too hard, though. They deal with "Big Data" problems at a scale that few do, so being an NSA engineer likely is bound to be a similarly prestigious resume line as working for Google. Aside from the working for an evil entity part, that is, but some employers will not care as much about that.
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I was just thinking this morning about how from a technology standpoint Adobe seems to be way ahead of virtually everyone else at the moment. The only competing (pro to prosumer level) applications I've seen that are comparable with regard to features and polish to anything in Adobe's suite seem to be video editors (Final Cut, Vegas, Premiere), and maybe something like Aperture. It gives me a lot more respect for what Gimp and Inkscape are trying to accomplish, but it's a very long road they have ahead of them.

In the low-end space there was the Aviary suite, which despite really interesting potential seems to have pivoted to mobile. Pixelmator and Paint.NET have done an extremely good job at providing basic layered image editing functionality, but I don't see anything emerging to challenge Adobe yet.

A competitor in the Pro/Prosumer space would need to develop, from scratch, extremely sophisticated, feature-rich applications to replace Adobe's big 4: Image Editing, Vector Graphics, Motion Graphics, and Video Editing. They'd also need to tightly integrate these applications. This would be HARD. I don't think that the effort/risk/reward proposition looks very attractive for startups or their investors. Also, while game programmers might have some useful experience, I think that computer vision programmers would be much more familiar with the problem domain.

Apple, or maybe Corel probably would have done this a long time ago if it was feasible.
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If tools for private communiation weren't 10-20 years behind sending digital postcards on facebook.com, I'd use them more consistently too. I am tech savy yet most crypto tools don't seem to be made for me.

I have seen OTR fail in the most colorful ways, with and without error messages, and mostly with cryptic error messages. I have seen half a dozen IM clients forget messages, forget alerts, fail to deliver messages, disable alerts for other clients, mess up their contact list, mess up the service's contact list and mess up contact groups. Needless to say my experience didn't last more than a week.
But, I will also add that time is one thing that you can never get back. I'm not real big on indulging in regret, but if I regret anything about my younger years, it is not being more aggressive and doing the startup thing sooner.

I regret not being more aggressive when I was younger. But that doesn't mean I regret the things that I have done. I've still learned from everything I've done in life and still have good memories. So while I regret not being more aggressive before, that doesn't mean I'd necessarily want to trade one set of memories for another.

And adding to that, I think I would have just been full of hot air if I was more aggressive at a younger age. Some people can do it and be authentic. I don't think I was one of those people. And I don't think I'm simply rationalizing.
PG - he's a good example that life doesn't end after 35:)
I'm waiting for a JavaScript interpreter written in Javascript.

Edit: It's already here :)
https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/
I used to write for Wired News. I once took an afternoon to attend a home building convention just to see if, by chance, there was some new technology being showcased that I could write about. There wasn't. And the next day I was strongly rebuked by my editor for not having written a "Homebuilding shows surprising lack of tech innovation" story.
Yes, let's turn this into a semantic debate. Much more fun and productive.
Now wait... It isn't surprising that inside the datacenters most traffic flows unencrypted, but not encrypting links between datacenters?

Well...
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