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I wonder about headaches from getting punched by people who don't want to be recorded.

>Will someone now invent the equivalent of a missile shield defense that prevents you from being photographed when, say, you're out on the street?

I've idly wondered about this before. Some form of glasses/hat/other wearable that detect google glasses and direct a laser into their camera. I'd wear those.
You're right. School spree killers do have a habit to make crazy threats on FB on forehand, though. But yes, fortunately having a deviant sense of humor isn't a crime!
It's not a crime to be an idiot if you are a cop or a judge. This should never have happened, and our system is loaded with rules intended to prevent it. Idiots failed to execute those rules faithfully.
Huh. Good luck with your masters, then. Sounds like you'll need it.
Anything can be funny. If you want a perfect example (regarding rape, something widely held to be not funny) look up the George Carlin rape bit.

It doesn't matter what the subject is. Anything can be funny.
And I have no idea why people still flock to Google and their Android clusterfuck. So there. Different strokes.
When I played around it, could not figure out a way to get the exact count of events in the datastore when the data was distributed in replicas. In fact, there was ticket open for this, not able to fish it out now.
Daily operations as in "make sure the site is not down and make sure everybody in the office is doing something productive" ?
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Exactly. It baffles me how Google could not see the problems that come with putting a camera in there. I guess its post-privacy corporate culture.
> self-promotion is frowned upon

No it's not. We're creators here, and proud of what we do. What's frowned on is if you talk about nothing but your product. It's clear from your comment history that you don't do that.

You worked hard to make something cool - say it loud, say it proud!
Especially the last part infuriates me, I'm now being done a favor by having ads shoved in my face against my will?

There is just no way you can spin that as "helping", it's advertisements, nothing more, nothing less.
On or off the internet, an alleged death threat is subject to considerations of actual intent. Following up a comment with "lol/jk" as he ACTUALLY DID pretty much deflates all the billowy claims of his death threat.

But that is conveniently omitted in popular reporting.
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Refusing to take preventive measures could potentially be called selfish. (Although it's much less clear with mental illness where the disease itself hinders such action.) The death itself is not, especially since these things can still kill you even if you do everything right.

Would you mind giving me the name of your practice so I can make sure that nobody I care about ever, ever goes there?
I bet you a majority of the customers don't even see those walls and yet still get to enjoy the positives that come from that approach. Yeah, why would a business continue to operate that way? Let's just make everything open as fuck and stand back to watch what happens.
>I agree and disagree here. Disagree because you need to master the rules before you break them.

This is a truism, but I don't think it's all that applicable to everything.

There are lots of musicians who paved their own way, breaking the rules, without first having "mastered" the previous ruleset. Same for painters (there are pioneer modern painters who could not paint anything Renaissance style for example).

And, yes, there are programmers who created succesful software, even multi-million businesses, without really knowing the whole craft of software engineering.

Isn't, for example, Derek Shivers (who frequents HN from time to time) a classic example of "fake it till you make it"?

Or even this Zuckenberg guy. I don't think Facebook was the result of a master software craftsman.
> it got voted down to oblivion.

It was flagged heavily, which shouldn't be a surprise given the heavy pro-Mozilla bias here. (case in point: this post will be downvoted at least a few times in the next few minutes)

But to be fair, the ads haven't been rolled out yet, and there's a nonzero chance Mozilla will come to their senses and reverse course. And if not, use a browser that actually values your privacy and safety (my current browser is SRWare Iron https://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php)
yeah, its supposed to be harder than flappy birds haha
I dont care as long as Ad Blocker works well on this!
I would love to agree with this, and I do in principle, but the reality of IT technology today means we can't make such assumptions in our abstractions without knowing the implementation details to extreme degrees.
It's a shame you have to press to activate the camera. If you could press to save to disk, the last, say 5 minutes of what you saw these would be amazing.

They look good, and you would be assured of never missing an awesome video opportunity.
Why are you so sure there is no doubt about it. Not saying you can't just think that's a strong statement.
I don't even know how to respond if you don't understand the difference between making a joking threat while on stage at a comedy club, and making one when stepping onto a plane. Again given his previous comments and the picture of his personality given from his profile, it sounds like it might have been believable. It's at least not as clear cut as you're making it seem.

I mean, otherwise we can extend this just joking defense to anything. Mail baking powder to your congress man in an envelope with a note saying "this is antrax" -- what will you tell the FBI when they come for you? "What kind of idiot thinks I'd really be sending anthrax? Can't you guys take a joke?"

At what point can people make reasoned, defensive assumptions about the intentions of people who express threats?
No, it does not depend on the occasion. It depends only whether or not there seemed to be an actual intent to do something terrible.

Teenagers say stupid shit all the time, sometimes just to see if they can out-shock or out-weird their friends. Especially online. The context of the conversation matters.
No, he didn't outright say them, he just heavily implied them. Note that the "control over their own feelings" bit comes from a different thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7229432

What's rude is going around telling people that depression is made up and comparing SSRIs to lobotomies. Getting a bit snippy when faced with such an affront is only natural.
So they're going to have certain sponsors' sites on my default New Tab page until I replace them with something else?
The horror!!

You people and your slippery slopes.
I disagree with the author over software engineering vs problem domain issues. It's not that the author is wrong. It's that he doesn't articulate the role of the software engineering concerns. It isn't about whether to obsess about these. It is about when to.

The ideal is to cycle. Focus on the problem domain. Get something working. Come back, look at the software engineering domain. Obsess about that for a while. Then move on to the next project. The cycle itself means you get to be productive, get to focus on solving real problems, and get a chance to evaluate your code style and experience, improving it along the way too.

I have maintained 200k line Perl programs written by someone who never stopped to ponder anything outside the problem domain. It was a total mess. The program was basically a textbook in how not to program, particularly how not to write Perl. Matt Trout said it was "written by the programmer that Matt's Scripting Archive would have fired for writing bad code."

If you want your software to last, then software engineering has to be an aspect of it. But the author is also right that you can't let this detract from solving the problems at hand. Consequently you have to be able to really focus on learning each side in cycles.
Wow, the new AT&T.
>Understanding the software of your domain will allow you to be more informed on how to improve it.

Or it could result in you getting lost in its minutiae and losing the big picture.

After a while you might not even care to improve it at all, just end happily exploring niche advanced areas.
Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement B-)
the COO varies based of the need of the CEO and their working relationship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_operating_officer
so just to double-check: no chance of this making it into iceweasel, right?
When I search for "Scala" the programming language in that interface, I still get the majority of the results from Italy, specifically the region of Milan (and the Teatro alla Scala). Might be, because "making a program" is an activity in music too, and google is unable to filter that?
Most of it comes down to the fact that you have extremely geographically isolated people. Communities in the mountains of the Carolina's for instance may not even have a bank or a post office. These people are extremely paranoid and fearful of change, and thus they elect politicians that share their views and that, worse, feed into them with religious and political rhetoric about how the bad man with dark skin is going to take away all the things they care for most.
This is even more useful than your <hr /> for terminal :D
New tab thumbnails preemptively disabled.

Between this, making Sync less secure and Australis, I start seriously wondering if Mozilla are attempting to drive users away.
I'd really much rather pay for Firefox (or almost any product/service, really) than have to live with ads.
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Heh. Glass looks bad enough... imagine seeing people walking around with little swivelling laser turrets strapped to the side of their head.
Fuck that, I'd rather pay a small donation. £5/year is going to be more than they get from me for ads (as nobody wants to pay per impression, only click) and I'd double that if necessary.
I have a market research question for you:

The reason we don't currently have this is that smart glasses (being small) can't fit a big battery. Our recording time is about twice that of Glass (ours is 1 hour) but that's still not enough for the all-day recording you envision.

So, my question is, would you be willing to wear a thin wire (slightly thicker than a headphone cable) going from your glasses to your pocket to keep your glasses charged, if it enables this use case?
That made me laugh, proving your right. As with all jokes, timing is key, though!
"If it's just using webviews, why does this need to be an app?"

exactly...

there is no actual reason this couldn't be a cross platform 'web app'. it would be better that way. why do you want the app on the appstore exactly?

the list of reasons given are of debateable merit the last one is probably the best, and suggests a fix. develop the app a bit further so you can justify it not being a web page...

also, why are you storing data on the user's phone? will you be using icloud or some web service to preserve it across devices? is it just cache?
The irony of it all is that the top app on the app store is a sleep cycle alarm which seems to do little beyond graphing your sleep routines.

Maybe it's because they charge for that and apple are happier with "simple" apps if they can make money from them
"We wanted to get away from being this window into the web that doesn't bring value to our shareholders"

What she really meant.
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Sending a parting shot to someone who doesn't care is not breaking the silence. The boss just deletes the email and points to it as proof that Jordan was a bad fit, such an email is a waste of energy and a weapon to be used against the sender
A similar product, that I’ve read about but never used, is the Looxcie 2: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00400O8PO, http://www.looxcie.com/looxcie-2/. It’s not a pair of glasses, though – it’s a small camcorder that hooks over your ear.
Just to be clear we're not trivializing the condition, you're right that some sufferers of depression don't really need a qualified person (particularly if they have a good support network and sufficient strength of mind) but some people only turn around after CBT, for example.

I do agree with the general thesis that talking to someone willing to listen has a neutral to positive effect. I'd also suggest it's especially helpful for people who feel they can't or shouldn't talk to anyone else they know about it.
I'd rather pay for Firefox, especially if it means they stop halfarsedly aping every bad feature Chrome does as well.
Where are those $1 billion reports from? That's the first I've heard of a number anything like that large. Firefox's market share hasn't tripled recently, and the current deal with Google is the same one that started in 2011, so it sounds unlikely to me.
Definitely! We are using it in production for storing monitoring data (via sensu, if anyone is interested). It's fantastic because you can shove data into the index with a ttl of 1 year. And have a x month archival strategy for cold storage.

It's search capabilities and scalability and fantastic - were throwing GB of data into it weekly and it just soaks it up.
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A similar app was recently in the top chart in "productivity" section.

It's called feeltracker, and it has historical graphs:
https://www.feeltracker.com
I think the larger issue is that it is hard to learn how to use rules effectively if you haven't learned hard lessons by breaking them.

Part of the problem is that human language is by nature imprecise as is human knowledge. The rules have very fuzzy edges and people need to be introspective about these sometimes. But you can't be introspective about the rules if you aren't pushing the limits. Otherwise you are in safe territory and there's nothing to be introspective about.
Yawn. Really that is the best you can offer?

He did. He cited examples of the boss micromanaging him and how that occurred. Where you there? How would extra juice detail validate his case? How would you know that he didn't make up the detail? Do you demand voice recordings?
I guess what I'm getting at is that some of the nicest things in this world are what they are because of spaces not filled in, or aspects that aren't shoved into tropes, or—if you'll excuse the cliché—notes not played.

I think we're all in agreement that this sounds like a cool app. I'm just lamenting the lack of creative authority given to its developers, regardless of whatever their future plans may be.
The Comal County District Attorney's Office did not intend for Carter to suffer what happened next,
Flanary says, but it was reasonably foreseeable: He was sexually assaulted.

The fact that prisoners are commonly subject to sexual assault, and that this consequence is trotted out as an acceptable deterrent to crime, illustrates just how uncivilized the US prison-industrial-complex is in this, the year 2014.
Failure to protect vulnerable and, or, weaker inmates from other inmates shows negligence on the part of the government. This is completely unacceptable as it constitutes cruel & unusual punishment, and is yet another blatant disregard for the rights of We the People.

Then there's the fact that the context of the offensive speech was excluded from evidence.

Disgusting!
These ads only exist until you've populated your six most visited sites.

The google default exists until you change it.

You have already been living with ads. But the google ad was not explicit.
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Nope. Life is too short. As he pointed out it was taking away from what he discovered he really wanted: a family life.
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Unfortunately not. That would take these glasses from the realm of a timeless fashionable item augmented with technology inside, to the same problem Glass and bluetooth headsets have.

The non-symettry and wire would turn these into FBI-Goon-ware.

Edit: FYI 5 people have agreed via up-arrows in the past hour.
A mandatory field trip to Sandy Hook and a sit-down with one of the parents would be nice.
Unrelated to the article itself, but a friendly tip for the Hueman guys: the lack of margins on this page made it very hard to read. Not everyone browses full-screen on their 27" iMac. On any window under 1100px, the content runs into the margin on the left, which could easily be avoided with some padding:
http://cl.ly/image/2V0A021M1t0S
How are these different to the cheap "spy glasses" you can get on ebay? Not meant offensively btw, just actually curious!

eg. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-HIGH-DEFINITION-SPY-CAMERA-DVR...
> I wish I could say that our initial approach allowed us to iterate fast. But it didn't. I was there from the start, I've built the prototypes, I did the pivots, I made all the wrong choices, I managed the team that came after and I could've made all the right choices without sacrificing fast iterations.

As long as you learned a lot from it.... We all make architectural errors. One can't learn without making mistakes though.
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Nope it is extremely factual. HRs job is to protect the company from stupid lawsuits and labor law violations. HR is not an employee advocate.
Thankfully I don't really need to.
How perfectly honest businesses can be overrun by Facebook spammers
Same here. My employer joined the program/is looking into Glass as a potential market.

While my boss was constantly amazed and happy like a child on Christmas Eve, I .. was utterly disappointed. The battery (supposedly fully charged before I ever got near that thing) died a couple of times, the thing got warm to the touch, the display is unreadable/tiny/useless and the controls are weird, if we're friendly here.

At least I could witness that this thing HAS an appeal to some people - I just don't understand why and don't think the technology in its current state is good for anything but novelty anyway.
In Cory Doctorow's novel Pirate Cinema those exist as hats, although targeted at stationary surveillance cameras.
Do they feel disappointed with spending all that money? Was their experience the same?
Tim Cook was COO of Apple before taking over as CEO. Steve Jobs may have help bring the iPod, iPhone and iPad to the world. But someone else had to figure out how to get those millions of devices into hands of customers.
There's a difference between a guy who went through a body scanner and a fleet of sniffer dogs and a guy who sends a package that goes through essentially no security (though you would think these guys would employ better security simply as they are higher profile people who get lots of threats).

And I'm not saying that threats shouldn't be investigated, or even that exercising your freedom of speech doesn't have consequences (it does and should).

But after they looked into his home life. Spoke to his friends. Tossed his room and spoke with teachers. And still found no actual evidence of a plan to commit a crime. The next step is get into contact with Facebook and get that thread. It wouldn't be hard and I'd assume FB gets this sort of request all the time. They probably have a protocol in place.

I'm saying that just saying that you're going to commit a crime is not the same as doing it. And that an idiot kid who says something on Facebook is not and should not be considered, the same as a billionaire-backed, militarily trained terrorist.

Do some disturbed people make threats on Facebook and then carry them out? Yes they do. And so yes, these things should be investigated thoroughly. But the case here was not investigated, it was rushed and sloppy.

Did the police go get the thread themselves? No.
Did the police get the kid a psych eval? Not that I've seen here anyway.
Did the police do any real investigation? No.

Innocent until proven guilty. That's the way it's supposed to be.
Their creditability is completely shot IMHO. Shrem et al should have been shown the door the second charges were filed.
I saw it more as stating the obvious to separate the wheat from the chaff. I have often problems getting stuck in tangents. Reminding myself of the simple realities alters my ways of thinking. Life is life. Simple stuff, but effective to meditate on. Life is life, nothing more, nothing less. We don't need to ascribe meaning to it that it does not have.

It's like the dark cave in Star Wars. It contains only what we bring with us.
Just yesterday there was a fascinating thread on reddit* among countless others that many enjoyed reading, myself included, that went into the neurobiology of LSD.

You might want to find some friends more interested in how the world around them works.

*http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1xm490/el...
You are missing the power relationship here: He wasn't even an Apple employee. HR was not an option.
That is a truly baffling stance to take.

Firefox will present new users a panel of six ad tiles. These exist as placeholders for the most visited site tiles. The ads are replaced by the most visited sites, and then they are gone.

Chrome - exists to gather information about the user to send that information back to Google for them to more efficiently serve you ads.
> That said - the only way natural monopolies do not become abusive natural monopolies is thru intense and careful regulation

Or by getting the fed' to build and handle the infrastructural side, and lease it to service providers (see: interstate).

Then the expansion and improvement can be added to other infrastructural projects e.g. digging for a new interstate or rail line? Put that nice big bundle of dark fiber along will you? It'll serve.
I like the idea of this. Not only is the historic data interesting, I suspect just taking time to reflect on your days would likely improve happiness in an of itself (e.g. if you know anyone who is doing one of those 100 happy days challenge).

However, the arguments against the web are a bit flimsy IMO. Data on the web is ephemeral only if you put it in an ephemeral store. Put it in localStorage! It's highly unlikely you'd exceed some quota (usually 10mb) with the kind of data you're storing, plus user's are offered chance to expand quota usually.

Or if you want something that goes above and beyond that (or what you have with a "native app") you could integrate with Dropbox's datastore API [0] and have data available on any machines I choose to use.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/docs/js
if you do something that is legally ambiguous and you get penalised for it then it is your own fault.

this is one reason why i am reluctant to buy any bitcoins or cryptocurrency in general - esp given the strong background of money laundering.

its a shame. i do think the future of currency lies in bitcoin or similar... its just not there yet.

sure if everyone ends up using it the legality will need resolving sooner, but to a very good approximation nobody uses it at the moment (!)

i base this on the data that there are a great deal fewer bitcoin addresses in use atm than enough to assign one of them to each out of 0.1% of the world population - given that many people use multiple addresses i don't think its unreasonable to consider it very close to non-existent in that naive sense... penalising all of the people currently involved is not out of the question yet... not by a very long way imo.

(source: http://blockchain.info/charts/n-unique-addresses?timespan=30...)
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Also I should add.... Jordan is not being silent... He spoke out on medium where the power relationship is more balanced and in a venue where his voice will be heard.

He is warning others to make a different choice and to stay away.
There is always hype; the reason the "hype cycle" is an identifiable thing is that it repeats over and over again. And once the hype and the disillusionment die down, that's when you end up with a useful language.

(I say, as I work in Scala. But I think it's slightly different from your other examples; it's been around much longer than the other three languages you mention.)
The parent poster is wrong, for the reason you surmise.