skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely not my experience, I have no such eyestrain or headaches and this is actually my first time hearing of someone having had this experience. I've heard of people having such problems with video games too but I feel like it's equally rare. I've been active in Glass development (http://openshades.com and http://wearscript.com).

I think CNET is just looking for attention out of a non-issue, I've done interviews with them about Glass before (I won't bother linking, they don't deserve any more attention) and I felt then (and see in this article too) a desire to just dig up any morsel of controversy without a real appetite for balanced reporting. Specifically while being interviewed they dug for red meat that could confirm people's negative suspicions and in my case I had nothing negative to say and they still tried to spin it that way. I had to fight to get them to quote me accurately and they still refused to change blatant misquotes that served their narrative, I can't really emphasize how frustrating it is to have someone twist your words around to try to get a few more people to click on their post.

Tips for anyone doing tech press interviews: choose your outlet wisely (it wastes a lot of time fixing a poorly written article), refuse to do interviews that aren't recorded (either video, audio, or over email) as they will "hear" what they want, and insist on seeing a draft before they publish as a condition to the interview.
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If you were to blend the entire steak together, would you notice?
For me it is personal. I mainly use it as my contact database. If I ever want to get in touch with an old colleague, I can find their address there (kept up to data by them). Plus, I know what they are up to (status updates when they switch jobs etc).
Plus, if I check out a company, I can easily see who I know that works there. All good things.
That's why I don't want random people as my contacts - it messes all of the above up. I wrote a bit more on the pros and cons of LinkedIn as I see it: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/08/21/linkedin-good-or-bad/
They might want Netflix to survive in some form so as to avoid awaking the sleeping antitrust dogs. Same way as Microsoft found the Mac a useful argument against the "desktop monopoly" argument in the 90s.
>Do people actually find LinkedIn useful anyway?

It's great for finding out when people you know are looking for a job. You start receiving recommendation/endorsement requests.
QUIC: next generation multiplexed transport over UDP
They could, as Xerox PARC machines were not as powerful and offered:

- Lisp OS

- Smalltalk OS

- Mesa/Cedar (a GC enabled systems programming)
I've been using one at our office now for a day. My experience so far:
- It doesn't work well with contact lenses, I find it hard to focus on the screen as it's so close to my eyes
- You look like an idiot any time you try and do anything. To activate the device you have to tap the side or look upwards to the moon. To take a photo you have to wink. What instead happens is it doesn't recognise your gesture first time resulting in an awkward squinting exercise.
- People universally have agreed it makes the wearer look stupid (perhaps attaching it to prescription glasses would be less obvious)
- It's actually quite tiring talking to yourself after a while
- This thing is heavy. Hurts your right ear after a while
- It gets warm, resulting in side-head sweat
- If you are looking in someone's direction as you are looking at the screen it creates this almost soul-less void in your eyes, making you look dead.
- Voice recognition at least for British accents isn't great so far, but it's not bad
The concept could be adapted for a more productive proof-of-work currency like PrimeCoin[1]. I wonder why PrimeCoin and others don't get more exposure.

[1] : http://primecoin.io/
Did you read those articles? The first one is bringing the suit alleging that the college didn't investigate a rape allegation, and the second one alleges the medical system failed by prescribing a dangerous combination of medicines. The third was settled for a very small amount, only slightly more than a year of tuition at private schools. And the last one was fairly absurd and unreasonable and was almost certainly dismissed. So I don't think your argument or analogy really works to support your argument that colleges have to fear losing millions in lawsuits to parents of unstable kids.
I have tried the developer version a couple of weeks ago, and while I found it cool at first, I noticed the same flaws that you mentioned, and after using it too much it needs time to cool down which is a little weird at first. I'm actually much more interested in the Oculus rift and the Valve display as well.
Canada's Finance Minister Prepares to Regulate Bitcoin
And what is the point that the satire makes? Just saying that something is "satire" or "sarcasm" is a total cop-out.
Github: DMCA takedown notice for many WhatsApp related repositories
If you do, make it very clear that you will ask for a password after submit, and what kind of password that is. There's nothing as annoying as thinking "these guys accept feedback", spending time typing feedback and then getting some weird options ("log in using Facebook, Disqus, …)
How do you dynamically?

- add fields to a struct

- create a function

Objective-C is only dynamic typed in the OO runtime, everything else is static typed.

Dynamic languages are 100% dynamic, unless the CS classification got changed in the last years.
I actually find it pretty useful. I've used it to cold call people in different companies and functional roles just to pick their brains, people are surprisingly open to it.

Also, it's helpful as a contact database when a former colleague changes their email address/phone number.

The "request an intro" is pretty good to just to see how you're connected. If you know someone in common with a person it tends to lower the barrier of a cold call.

Note: by cold call I don't mean selling, just getting a chance to talk to someone interesting; i.e. you see an interesting role and want to get the real deal about a company
Have you considered marketing these to the police departments? Porn industry is another good choice! :)
OKCupid puts login tokens in their links used in their notification emails, so that when you click on them, you're automatically logged in. Convenient, right? But what if a novice user copies the link and sends it to a third party ("hey, take a look at this match!"), not knowing the significance of the extra data in the URL?

http://edelsont.livejournal.com/14163.html
Why precisely does Netflix need to "evolve"? I like Netflix just fine as it is, thank you very much. The totality of current online businesses are using "someone else's pipes", so framing that as a criticism strikes me as distinctly hollow.
That's a bad example. I read your island example and thought to myself: "that's not exploitation." Is there a specific reason you think it's exploitation?
Simple answer is to not service apple until you've built a following on Android. They'll accept an app that is coveted.
Sounds really bad to me! I hope DOJ can stop this deal.
King has bought an old trademark
P-values are not comparable across different null hypotheses, they are a property of a particular sample given a null hypothesis. You can compare p-values only by making very strong assumptions that the samples come from the same data-generating process. In almost all cases this is unlikely.

A frequentist usually builds a more descriptive model by adding more variables (accounting for obvious factors that contribute to differences in observed frequencies) and increasing sample size to increase statistical power (reduce false negatives). This is not applicable in this case because there is only one president and the tests have low power. The test is bogus because you can't 'sample' and determine to probability of X==president effectively.
One of the good illustrations how app stores (itunes, play) limits us: try to find any usable porno app. In contrast with Web where you can find anything you want and nobody cares what are you doing here, in stores we are hardly limitated to "morally acceptable" apps. It looks like digital Pakistan.
I haven't noticed any downtime on the London datacenter, is this just affecting Dallas or is it more widespread?
It's not all that far fetched to think that it would give headaches to some people. I know people who get headaches from using their smart phone, or computers in general. Why not Google Glass.
Maybe the developers assessed the actual state of the market and made the decision they thought would garner higher profits? Just a thought. A much more likely thought than speculating that serious developers are randomly guided towards what platform to code for by what computer they happen to have bought last.

Once Google Play actually passes iOS, feel free to make that point. Not before.

As a recent employee of various startups and established companies in the mobile space, I can tell that you that the only pattern I've witnessed here is:

a) decide what to develop for based on the market
b) hire people that can develop for that platform

Not the other way round.
Many SF landlords have voluntarily removing units unit from the market by simply not rerenting after they become vacant because of all the hassles of rent control. This is one of several way that rent control reduces the number of units available for occupancy, known as "supply".

Understand? I'd not, I suggest reading any basic economics text.

Rent control in standard economic theory

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~u5nwaogu/Overhead/Chapter%206%20...

Rent control in practice in SF

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/king-of-my-castle-...

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/05/because-of-rent-control-...
Is someone saying goodbye to Ruby? (in favor of Go, Rust, Node.js, etc.)

I would appreciate such blog posts/comments too.
Except it's not really that dependent on Amazon - there are nearly perfect substitutes for every AWS service.

Comcast is different because it already operates as a monopoly in many areas, and it's trying to change the rules so that it can leverage that monopoly, to the detriment of everyone but themselves, and there's not really anything that anyone but the regulators can do about it.
> When a person writing under the profile name "Hannah Love" responded with "i hope you [burn] in hell you fucking prick,"

Actually the comment was "i hope you fucking bring in hell you fucking prick". That is a pretty significant difference.
That's not enough for some people. A somewhat stronger version would be to do PK pinning. But the consequence can be annoying and painful.

--EDIT-- Opps they did mention PK pinning as a solution. Cool.
> You come to understand why every time a useful program is written in Perl or PHP

Mate, I agree PHP sucks (aside from the legions of maschochists who do useful stuff with it), but a lot of perl (when used in a disciplined manner in communication with ones peers) is a useful and productive orthogonal take on computer science.
Just put it on Android. It looks great though!
Yes. I had an app rejected for the same reason. Just appeal, and explain your position.

In my case, I made a viewer for Microsoft Access databases. Apple kept complaining that there was no way to create databases on the phone. After a few back and forths someone realised that a viewer doesn't need to create files, and the app was accepted.
Did you even read the article carefully? The 7% figure corresponds to $40MM+ exits for YC. There are a huge, absolutely huge number of YC startups that get acquired for less than that. Many of those are acquihires ($<1MM-5MM) where the founders make probably as much as they would if they had taken a corporate job, except they now have the invaluable experience and credibility of having founded a company; others are small acquisitions where the founders still make a profit ($5MM-40MM).

rdl is suggesting you pick top startups that are post Series B and which already have multi-hundred-million to billion dollar valuations (think: Stripe, Pinterest, Airbnb). He is not suggesting you join a 5 person YC startup that is still trying to get product market fit. Hugely different categories. rdl is essentially suggesting you work for the roughly one YC company out of every batch that becomes a great success - and that you make that leap when the startup had already proved itself.

From reading your other posts it seems like you are willfully misunderstanding his point.
Fantastic. Just imagine what we could with all the prime spectrum they'd be releasing.
Windows is also an incomplete operating system as sold, as are those Linux distros. For a long time Windows was outright defective because there was no compiler available without paying hundreds of additional dollars to Microsoft, but they do have a free toolchain now.
I was a fan of Apple products (in the late PowerPC days), but eventually gave up on them after countless of small roadblocks caused by their business practices. I told myself I'd never vote for them with my wallet again.

On of the issues I remember at the time was their refusal to have Sun releasing JVM updates for Apple's platform, while simultaneously not keeping it up to date themselves. As a CS student with a curriculum using Java as a teaching platform, that's pretty annoying.
This has also been affecting WP Engine: http://wpengine.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/intermittent-connec...
Scientists detect “spoiled onions” trying to sabotage Tor
Not sure if you're still reading this thread bane, but a couple thoughts that might be useful --

1. The "I" ratio on your comment -- how much you're talking about yourself, your needs, your wants, your opinion, and your experience vs. looking at third-party needs, wants, opinions, experiences, and the general outward span of reality -- it's pretty high on the "I" side.

This might or might not be something worth intentionally looking to change. You've obviously got enough reflective ability and raw mental horsepower to self-modify on this characteristic if you want, and it will definitely be a different frame of reference and create a different subjective experience. It might be more enjoyable to you, might produce more happiness, and might lead to something meaningful -- depending on what you want out of life, and your definitions/sentiments around enjoyment, happiness, and meaning.

2. Play harder games.

The first part of this comment -- the "I ratio" -- that's an observation and something to think about, not a recommendation.

This one is.

I'm almost certain your life would be across the board more enjoyable to you and useful broadly if you play harder games. Boredom and acedia are almost universally agreed to be miserable things, and when you're bored/disillusioned and very smart, it's a torturously bad situation.

I was something like that when I was younger -- testing across the boards on tests, interested in things that few other people could talk to me about, etc.

I always wanted really deep and meaningful conversations, connections, ways to use the mix of gifts and curses I was given in a way that felt right to me and seemed to be good destiny-fulfillment (pardon me if that sounds hokey; the English language isn't really cooperating with what I'm trying to say -- I mean subjectively there, not an objective fate/destiny obviously).

Anyways -- you'll find that the people playing harder, larger games tend to be interesting, and the amount of variables, confounding factors, etc, to really give you a workout. More importantly -- you can use your talents for improving your personal well-being and the well-being of humanity-at-large simultaneously.

It's difficult to play hard big games, even getting into them is tricky. But the big hard games offer a chance to really put your mind and capacity to work, and the other people playing the big hard games tend to be really uniquely brilliant and complex and interesting.

Also -- thank you for your honest relating of your subjective experience, and for writing about the reasoning process... which I found really fascinating. I also found it fantastical on a first read, but looked to keep my mind open to it -- and your chain of reasoning seems sound. I think it's a new skill I didn't realize was quite available that would be interesting to train in.

To others besides bane -- don't read into this comment too much! It was a personal note. Bane -- thanks and godspeed, feel free to drop me an email sometime if there's some interesting complex problems on your mind.

Sebastian
I wanted to highlight our (open source) API clients, covering most languages: https://github.com/sendwithus

Here's all the code required to send an email with our Python client:

api.send(email_id='YOUR-EMAIL-ID',
recipient={'address': 'us@sendwithus.com'})

There are more complex examples covering unique senders, cc/bcc, dynamic data, and attachments, but it's good to get a sense of how much complexity this can remove from your codebase.
Rating your happiness from 1 to 10 would make it easy for the scale to drift. How do you compare how you felt today to how you felt 8 months back, the last time you issued a 10?

I think comparing with yesterday is a great way to do this: I still know exactly how I felt yesterday, and I know how I feel today.
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Thanks for the article -- always good to know more about how Meteor works.

> Attempting to minimize the number of unique-per-user subscriptions will allow Meteor to pool work across users as much as possible.

This kind of thing is why, no matter how much I like Meteor personally (I'm using it for my two side projects), I disagree with the marketing that Meteor is for people learning to build web applications. Despite its promises of simplicity, there are many gotchas and difficult to understand subtleties in Meteor. It is definitely not an "ultra-simple environment" once you get past the most basic apps.

What I'd really like to see at this point is some smart packages built on top of Meteor that make building basic CRUD applications simple again. Something like scaffolding from Rails. One thing I love about Meteor's accounts-ui is the "Configure OAuth" in-app wizards -- something this would be fantastic for scaffolding.

Because let's face it, how much of your average app is exciting realtime stuff and how much is writing boring forms, validation and CRUD methods to handle everything?

I'd love to try and build something like this. Now if I could just quit my day job or steal some time from my other projects.
The plausibility of an argument isn't a good measure to use because that's exactly the problem I have with this reporting, they come up with a plausible narrative 'a priori' that fits people's pre-conceptions and then justify it with random tidbits they can drudge up. Since people can naturally agree with such statements it makes correcting them substantially harder.

I know literally hundreds of people who use Glass daily and have never heard this once. Now it's on the front page of hacker news as a "thing". I don't doubt Chris is telling the truth about his experience. I'm just generally bothered by tech bloggers (in this case CNET) wanting to feed people intellectual junk food that they are looking for without any real concern for the damage it does to the industry they are reporting on. Reporting on legitimate problems with technology is beneficial because it opens a dialogue that ultimately makes it better, making "mountains out of mole hills" just distracts everyone and creates a fog of confusion.
He'd be somewhat protected, but most certainely under heavy surveillance and most probably on a no fly list because of his friendship with Iran.
OS X comes with an obsolete version of Ruby which almost nobody uses.

Standard Ruby development generally involves both a Ruby version manager (rvm, rbenv, etc.) and the ability to install gems with native extensions.
No MS support...
At which point you need to do some variant on principal components analysis on the covariance matrix.
I looked too before I made the comment but I couldn't find anything. That's why I recommended Ubuntu.

Getting OS support for brand new software packages is tough. It's not just the package itself that needs support but all the things that depend on it.

If you have to use red hat, then you should probably either stick with 2.0 or just use rbenv until a proper package is released.
Fake the backend while you develop the frontend
It's definitely not, these companies trade territory, and when an upstart that's not part of the collusion (like Verizon FIOS) comes in, they finally upgrade and cut prices on that part of their network to be competitive, so that it's not profitable for them to come in.
This is a much needed counter-balance to Ian's post. While I can understand the technology reasons for moving away from Python, the community remains the most important reason for hanging on to it. I believe, which ever open source tool one chooses to use, the community should be one of most, if not the most, important criteria.
Any chance for those of us with lots of spare CPU and memory resources lying around to get ahold of a standalone server package? This out of an interest of all of not relying on third party services, a compulsion for DIY, and a slight completely illogical unease with sending personal training datasets to a potentially untrusted source.
What bad students know that good economists don't
Just release it on android
English as a second language. The former makes sense, i.e. I can parse that. The latter causes me to stutter and look confused when I read that.

Explain? Difference and meaning of the latter version?

I ignore the whole 'went to jail for a random FB comment' crap. That's just sad but not surprising any more.
Apple is an integration house. The screen and the A7 are actually fabricated by Samsung. They would have a tough time going it alone.
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Mozilla to sell New Tab page ads in Firefox
"i hope you fucking bring in hell" is meant as "I hope you give them hell".
"bring in hell" could mean they are supporting him in his endeavor, ie. give(bring) them hell! but the "fucking prick" part kind of negates that idea.
Well, Ribbentrop-Molotov pact is not a lie, and Stalin's regime isn't a lie as well. 'Katyn' has been confirmed too, even by Russians (very reluctantly, however). I'm pretty sure you don't know what you are talking about, or you have been living under Soviet propaganda all your childhood.
True, although WP doesn't not seem to have the performance issues of Android.

WP7 was full .NET with JIT.

WP8 is WinRT/.NET with AOT compilation.

Both seem to perform much better than Android and on par with iOS.

Although I do conceded that on WP8 there is a mix of reference counting(WinRT) and GC (.NET).

Google was supposed to present more information about ART at FOSDEM, but they canceled the presentation on the last minute. So still no information what they plan there, besides AOSP source code.

Xerox PARC systems already had GC enabled programming languages (Cedar/Lisp/Smalltalk) and they surely were less powerful than today's phones.
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> Now, if every American refuses to work 1 day, and all head to the NSA's office, datacenter (and actually destroy the thing), that'd really mean taking matters into our own hands

You forget the part where the USA is a militarized police state that, unlike (say) the Ukrainian government/police will not hesitate to use lethal force at these people.

Not that it will happen, but if it were to happen, that's what's going to happen.

Remember the police violence excesses with the peaceful Occupy protest? They didn't get friendlier in the mean time. The police did, however, get equipped with more shiny military war toys.
Or maybe they're making a mood tracker for their future Healthbook app and they're trying to put a block on similar apps...
So... could this by any chance mean an Android port? Pretty please? :)