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The difference is not in the provider, but in what is being provided. Alternative providers provide alternative medicine. What you call "mainstream" providers provide tested, evidence-based medicine.

Certainly there are some who provide both, but they should probably know better.
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> 3. Music sounds terrible through it. It lacks an optical audio out port so it just uses the TVs speakers which are obviously not great.

I have my TV's optical audio out running to my receiver. That way all my HDMI devices (laptops, Raspberry Pi, Chromecast) are hooked directly to my TV and the audio is automatically sent to my stereo system.

> 4. This is probably a personal issue, but Chrome tab streaming constantly drops out after a short period of time. I've yet to get it working fully

I've never experienced this problem.

For point 6, I prefer to plug in the Chromecast to a real 5V DC power source because the USB port on my TV is only powered when the TV is on, and I like that Chromecast can turn on the TV and switch the input itself.
Then one day someone leaves a sock on the ground starting a series of events that ends with everyone in Iceland being either dead or insane.
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Canadians too. Not sure why.
>When I think in terms of probably outcomes, it seems more likely that the US will regress towards the global mean, rather than remaining as a permanent statistical outlier.

I'm not sure what metric you are using to compare the US to other countries that make you think it is a statistical outlier, but unless your key metric is military spending, I have some news for you...
Does anyone know what data is Facebook trying to archive? Old user posts? But that doesn't fit this usecase because of the high latency.

Or maybe its just a nice content delivery mechanism to the NSA. Just ship a bunch of blue-rays instead of pesky optical fiber interception.
I don't have face-to-face conversations with CCTV cameras.
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Interesting idea, but wouldn't the devise register a false hit if the sword hits an obstacle in the environment?
well it doesn't say "do not cut n paste" :)
My guess:
1) Lower cost for drives (commodity drives).
2) The ability to (easily) seek to an arbitrary location on disk
3) Cost of BD burners are <$100; Cost per GB of disks is $0.025/GB. LTO-6 drives are $1000+, and cost per GB is around $0.012/GB. -- I think the cost works out actually, especially as the cost of blu-ray is still falling.
You'd probably be wrong. Cultural fit may be important, and you don't want to get strange looks on an interview. At the same time the company still might be quite good - as in "early Google"-like good.
It's not the same to be observed by some invisible or unknown entity than to be observed directly by a person. Someone pointing a digital camera at a person is usually more disturbing than a CCTV camera doing the same thing.

Also, Google Glass may be constantly recording in private places usually without CCTV: homes, dinner tables, meetings, etc.
I'm not knowledgeable, but some total guesses:

1) As blu-ray is a consumer product its probably manufactured in greater quantities than backup grade tapes, and therefore can be had lower in price, and there are more vendors to source them from. Similarly the drives themselves are cheaper.

2) Tapes aren't random access, therefore it's slow and cumbersome to retrieve single files.
Don't quite agree with you on that they don't want to be in goods business. They just bought Nest. It depends on Google's overall strategy to occupy the future market. Smart phone will have less margin and too much competitions.

But I agree that either way will not generate good results. Companies have to keep moving anyways.
Using your Chromecast this way puts you at a disadvantage with many TVs. My TV only provides HDMI power when the input is selected (this may be per the spec) but that eliminates Chromecast's 'switch the input automatically' feature.
Listening to music as I move through my day is sublime. I fucking hate the rest of you, so if people think I am merely detached, I come out way ahead.
I'm working on this too,

Have you looked at any of the research to come out of http://start.csail.mit.edu/index.php?

I've also been working with Quepy a bit lately. Very cool stuff. Are you able to comment at all on what you're working on, or is it "super secret stealth mode" stuff?

For us, we already do semantic concept extraction using Apache Stanbol, against content that flows into our enterprise social network product, and then store the associated triples in an RDF triplestore. We have a primitive search feature exposed, which lets you query using SPARQL, but realistically, we know "normals" will never, ever, ever, ever write SPARQL queries, so the big push is to do automated translation from natural language (even if it's a slightly restricted natural language) into SPARQL so users don't have to think about triples and what-not.

If you're not in super-secret stealth mode and ever want to compare notes to talk about this stuff offline, feel free to shoot me an email.
I think looking at Bluetooth headset adoption would more informative.
I couldn't disagree more. Interviewing is definitely a skill (beyond solving interview problems), and like anything - if you don't do it often you will not be very good at it.
If they used tabs instead of spaces, it wouldn't be an issue. People could format code on their machine whatever number of columns they prefer. But no... Spaces. Jesus. If you're looking at someone's HTML and it's got this kind of thing strewn about...

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

...you know with certainty that you're dealing with either 1) an amateur, or 2) someone constrained by top-down corporate numbnuttery.
Another lesson your company should have learned is that a safety-critical system like this should not be left to software. Sure, monitor the curtain by software and send errors, but hardware should immediately stop the machine when the light curtain is broken.
I believe the idea that these technologies is alienating is false. There are some people (such as myself) who simply do not wish to engage with their fellow passengers on a train or airplane. So, if someone politely speaks to me then I am forced to either a: engage with them (there's no harm in doing so, but I simply don't want to), or b: come up with some sort of way out of the conversation and hope to not appear rude (I don't wish to offend anyone, but I just don't want to talk to them). However, people are much less likely to speak to me if I'm wearing headphones or if I'm reading something on my phone, laptop, or tablet.

However, I also disagree here that Google Glass will stop being dorky, and I really think that it will be a while before it goes "mainstream." The reason is that people were somewhat hostile when the iPad was first released. Indeed, many people still look at tablet users as smug and see them as somehow offensive. So, as has been said here, now you're making the tablet very tiny, very expensive, and adding a nearly always-on camera to it.

Furthermore, I'd like to point out bluetooth ear pieces. You simply look like a smug bastard or an idiot when you're using one (full disclosure, I used to have one during college so that I could listen to music while riding my bike to class, but also keep an ear open for traffic etc.) And Google Glass is really not that much different from a bluetooth ear piece, except, again, that it's got a little screen and a nearly always-on camera.
Because it's got nothing more to say and nothing relevant anymore? The "jumped the shark" reference is to absurd things after running out of ideas. It doesn't apply at all here. Non sequitur.

Inequality whining is just getting started, given that we're on track for the problem to just get worse.
I still think people wearing big headphones look stupid. I've never gotten used to that. And if was chatting to somebody and they were wearing headphones I would be uncomfortable.

None of which touches on the main reason I find google glass uncomfortable- the thought that the other person could be recording everything. People say "well CCTV records you all the time" but that is a world of difference between having an overhead shot of you when you pay for gas and someone pointing a camera in your face as you're chatting to a friend.
Thanks for the link to the blog post. It raised an important point worthy of inspection. I ran some numbers and "peeking" after the first 1000 trials does change the outcome. The chance that the outcome will reverse from declaring branch A the winner with 95% confidence to declaring branch B the winner with 95% confidence is rather small, less than 10%. However, if you lower your requirements to 80% confidence then the chance of the winner swapping increases to over 50%! For reference, I used the Wilson approximation for binomial distributions. I'm sure the Wald approximation fares worse.
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I find the second sentence to be as ambiguous as possible.
Any guess on the total storage capacity in that rack and comparison to a similar sized magnetic storage?
"I believe there is a way for today’s technology to help us all be better managers and caring leaders."

How can technology help people be caring?
I actually, non-ironically like having a Nexus Q, if only as a conversation piece. The thing looks really cool.
> The Chromecast isn't a standalone device.

I look at that as a feature. I already have applications I'm comfortable with for browsing and selecting media. I just want a new rectangle to play that media on.

The fact that anyone on my Wifi can access it with their phone, instantly, with nothing to install is a magical experience.

> 3. Music sounds terrible through it. It lacks an optical audio out port so it just uses the TVs speakers which are obviously not great.

HDMI Audio Return addresses that. If your TV and receiver support that (I think most do?), then audio will flow from the Chromecast into your TV and back up the TV's HDMI cable into the receiver.

My Chromecast plays audio through the speakers hooked up to my receiver just fine.

> Am I missing where I can stream my Android device's OS on the screen?

Maybe Chrome for Android supports that? I don't think there's OS level support for Chromecast.

> There are many, many things the Chromecast can't do.

Sure, a boat can't do many of the things an airplane can, and vice versa. They're different devices with very different user experiences.
Predicting the future is hard. Some very smart people thought the Segway would change the world, but when it launched a lot of "man on the street" types thought it looked really dorky.

A decade later... it still looks dorky. (A lot of fun to use though, if you ever get the chance)
Except mandatory "maintenance" doesn't lead to fewer repairs in this case. Google Oregon Medicare study and Emergency Room usage.

A comment from reason.com sums it up nicely: "Emergency rooms are required by law to treat it. If you are poor, they are unlikely to ever collect the bill for doing so. So why would a poor person wait days or weeks to see a doctor then they can go down to an emergency room and see one in hours?

Moreover, if you are being forced to pay for health insurance, you are more likely not less likely to seek treatment since you will rationally think "well I am paying for it so I might as well use it.". The idea that making people buy insurance will reduce overall healthcare costs has always been an insane one."

http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/02/no-obamacare-wont-reduce-e...
Yes, this discussion happens with junior engineers. I keep finding O(n^2) code that should have been O(n) or O(n log n), and not just as an academic exercise, because it slows the website down.
doesn't norway have an extradition treaty with US ?
I used to only wear earbuds simply because they were more portable. More recently, though, I've begun wearing a full-size set (Bowers and Wilkins P3) because I was tired of my music sounding "small." The difference is amazing and I'll never go back.
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If you're sitting down to have coffee with a friend, it's the difference between a camera watching over you from afar and having a camera essentially in the middle of the conversation.

A pretty big difference if you ask me.
Lot of people are fixated on just the financials of the deal while ignoring the alternatives.

Remember back before Google buying them, Motorola was doing even worse than they do today. In addition, CEO Sanjay Jha was talking about suing other Android OEMs for patents. If Microsoft / Rockstar type arrangement would've ended up bidding for Moto's patent portfolio and optionally phone lineup OR if another Android OEM had bought them outright - it would be a far worse outcome for Google. In the worst case there would be one less Android OEM and yet another patent abusing entity for other Android OEMs to worry. In the best case Moto's patents would be held by single Android OEM without any incentive for them to license those to other OEMs, leaving yet another hole in the patent situation.

So strategically Google came out better off at the expense or 2/3Bn USD. They get to keep the patents, license them as needed, Moto brand continues to exist, Google keeps the Moto R&D group and it levels out the Android OEM market further buy strengthening a player such as Lenovo with their wider market reach. And while they were owning Moto, I think they improved the company by making them focus on smaller number of higher quality/unlocked/up to date phones at an affordable price and distinguishing features.
The notation may not be valuable in itself, but the concept is very important.
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> it leaves the patient with an attitude that their own
> ideas about how to treat themselves may be worthless.

Well, they probably are.
To my understanding, Google will devote their energy to the new market, such as robot and home automation, plus Glass and self-driving car, which is already enough to deal with for a software company. No need to compete in the smart phone market with lower margin any more. Focus is very critical to a company's success and sustaining in business.
Right, headphones still aren't appropriate in many situations. You can wear them on the subway (although a pretty small minority of people do).

But try showing up to a meeting at work with headphones on. Or to a family gathering. You would instinctively take them off immediately.

The presence of headphones is still a social cue, and the presence of Glass will always be one too. It's not going to become just a neutral thing like wearing eyeglasses.
The debate over spaces vs. tabs is as old as time. Associating one side of the argument with "top-down corporate numbnuttery" betrays a lack of familiarity with the issue.

The fact is that whatever shop you work at should have an opinion one way or the other, and you should follow it. Programmers will endlessly bikeshed the issue regardless of which style is chosen.
When I first started my professional career, I was a field engineer in the oilfield, working on drilling rigs around Texas. There was some amount of computer stuff, but a lot of hardware work too. One of the things that we had to do was install a pressure sensor on the drilling mud line, which is normally pressurized to around 2k psi with water or oil-based drilling fluid.

This sounds like a simple task, but it gets complicated by the variety of pipe fittings and adapters available. Our sensors are a particular thread type, and we have to find a free slot to install them, and come up with any pipe connection converters necessary to install them there. Another tricky part is that the rig workers who actually know about all of this stuff are often not particularly eager to help out.

So on one particular job, the only free slot to install the sensor is a male pipe fitting, capped with some sort of female plug. Our sensors are male in that pipe size, so I need a female-female adapter to install it. I go looking around and come up with one, not paying too much attention to it. I install it, and everything seems to go more or less smoothly. We go on drilling with this installed for like a week or two.

One day, the rig manager comes to find me and ask me about this adapter that I used. He tells me that it is meant for drinking water lines, and is only rated to 200 psi. And had been installed on a 2000 psi line for weeks. My jaw dropped in shock - I have no idea how that adapter didn't fail, and it's entirely possible it could have hurt or killed somebody if it did.

They sent one of their guys to find an adapter that was actually rated for the pressure and replace it, and never said much else of it. No telling how much trouble I could have been in there if anything else had happened. It did make me a lot more safety-conscious.
Why wouldn't you get the domain with the most impressions and then work to improve the click-thru rate? (other than Joel's great point about Google controlling impressions)
How do you know what actually works for you, and what simply coincided with a change that happened for some other reason? It is literally impossible to tease out these questions without some kind of control.

edit: For example, you like drinking diet coke and one morning you find you don't have cancer. Was it the diet coke that drove away the cancer? Did you even have cancer? Just doing things you want to do and approving yourself for them, claiming that they cured you or something, is not responsible and in many cases isn't really even honest
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This has never been part of Google's internal guidelines. This is part of the Android guidelines which are separate and available here: http://source.android.com/source/code-style.html
OK I didn't see a way for his system to work across machines. Nice username by the way.
Being able to complain about 94% food security is something of a social miracle, in the grand arc of history.
A simplified, scalable API for image processing in the cloud.
I would think the media's longevity factors into the lifetime cost. If the optical media is certified for 50+ years, that essentially means they won't have a need to recopy data if for some reason they want to preserve it.. for a long time.. I don't know how long magnetic tape lasts, but I would imagine it would be a huge pain to need to keep backing up old tapes to new tapes every X years.
OBT stands for Ohio Bell Telephone, and "125" is the job/billing code for a line splicing/Frame/Switch person.
Well it was free, but the killer feature for me was media handeling.. it would take just about anything you threw at it and form it into a blog post. Sound file? It would upload to soundcloud and drop the player right in your page. Video etc.

You could email everything too, so a zip file full of images and a quick paragraph in email would get formatted as a nice blog post with photo gallery.

Everything (mostly) just worked and was awesome.
And that's what's so terrifying about Glass.

That one day, suddenly, it will just be... the new normal.
If it were me:

FIOS -> Cisco ASA -> Cisco switch -> PCs & IP phones

You may not want to spend the money on Cisco gear. I'm an ISP/Enterprise guy and my customers expect their shit to work, so we do.

The switch should be managed so that you can put your PCs and VoIP phones (and on-site servers, if you have them) onto separate VLANs.

You didn't mention what OS your users will be using. Hopefully, however, you can avoid Active Directory.
I will soon have been at my current job for eight years. Whether that's too long or not depends on the flexibility you have in your job to keep growing your skills and responsibility.
The URL used for this post has a lot of referal tracking data in it that looks to my untrained eye as though it was copied from facebook. That will mess with their stats if it becomes popular on HN.
> the primary negative reaction is the voyeuristic-rejection of having a camera always pointed at you (that may or may not be recording). To which the analogy vs. headphones is not relevant.

That isn't the theme of the article, though. The author was just addressing whether Google Glass would stop looking dorky, not whether we'd be comfortable with the voyeurism. So I think the analogy is valid, and I suspect will be proven true.
Google has OTR on for company IMs. This came out in a court case where IMs were requested as part of discovery.
Check out the open projects on DoerHub.com . You can see if you like one you want to join, or post this as a project others can join. It works like a Github for non-hackers, so you can find subject matter experts who have solid material for a passive income project (a doctor with algorithms for a medical iPhone app for example, though that exact one found a teammate already) and are looking for someone with your skill-set to split the project with.
My speculation is that looking at someone wearing Glass messes with us on a deep-seated, perceptual level. Direct eye contact is a huge part of how humans communicate, and Glass interferes with that.

It's worse than eyeglasses or sunglasses, though, because it's asymmetric and offset, so it seems (to me) to trigger some kind of "deformity" cue.

If it really is violating our evolutionary preferences for symmetric faces and unobstructed eye contact, fashion won't be enough for it to catch on.
They may not be mutually exclusive, though...
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I've actually been always curious, why do people in general leak info to media outlets, when they could get fired or worse if they get caught? I'm not talking about whistleblowing, where there's a clear agenda to uncover some perceived injustice, but rather about things that are morally neutral and yet sensitive (i.e. company X is mulling acquiring company Y).
Another benefit of this system is that the storage media is immune electromagnetic pulse. So, even in the case of a large-scale EMP event our cat pictures and network graphs will remain intact and recoverable. :)
Right, question was about the notation itself -- I understand that optimization is important.
Not especially super-stealth, but it's not really ready for public consumption.

Basically I've been glueing lots of pieces pre-existing software together, sticking webservice front ends on them and making them work together. It's all Dockerfied so things can be run separately.

For us, we already do semantic concept extraction using Apache Stanbol, against content that flows into our enterprise social network product, and then store the associated triples in an RDF triplestore. We have a primitive search feature exposed, which lets you query using SPARQL, but realistically, we know "normals" will never, ever, ever, ever write SPARQL queries, so the big push is to do automated translation from natural language (even if it's a slightly restricted natural language) into SPARQL so users don't have to think about triples and what-not.

Very similar here.

I'm (currently) using DBPedia dumps, loaded into Jena. I'm experimenting with content extraction (for eg CIA Factbook).

I have the Quepy->SPARQL mapping working, though.

I'll send you an email.
You're free to disagree, but I don't think you responded at all to the actual point I made regarding "interviewing for practice" in a city where there are only a small handful of companies that suit you. I never said or even implied that interviewing itself isn't a skill.