skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact is, outside the echo chambers of HN and reddit--and even within, by a silent minority at least--people simply don't worry about NSA / etc concerns enough to let it affect their day to day life. I'm one of those.

This isn't to say I endorse in any way what's going on (and I've written to my congressional representatives to that extent), but whether rationally or irrationally I am really not concerned about NSA surveillance affecting me personally. Will it negatively affect the nation as a whole, sure, but I honestly don't think wearing Glass (once the price drops enough I'd even consider buying one) will pose an real threat to me.

So yeah, I do think it's a remotely good idea, as long it's useful to me otherwise.
Looking at his Twitter feed he seems to be happy and I don't see why he wouldn't be. The internet hacker crowd hates Facebook and loves Carmack but that doesn't mean that Carmack hates Facebook. No, he's probably way more pragmatic.
They're probably thinking post-Facebook. They aren't dumb, they know what they have now won't last and when it dies out they can cash in their user data and go into the virtual reality business.
True. But what is hard is hiring good developers, not hiring developers that know Clojure. I found that any smart developer will have no problem adjusting to Clojure, especially given a history of any of #{Haskell, Erlang, Scala, Ocaml, SML}.
Yeah – what post?
Just add one dimension to it...
Tracking Your Devices in Meatspace
Well, I seriously doubt this will lead to Oculus becoming Candy Crush VR or Facebook looking at you while you play. It's just unrealistic and if that's your concern I don't think you have any reason to be worried at all.
In tv shows, this would be called plausible deniability.
Why not add advertising, you could possibly add in-context ads, and google adsense ads, and make some extra cash.
"Class that copies stdin to stdout, as compained about as not being cleanly writable in Java on Hacker News."

That post, maybe?
Not sure how many people even saw Dial M for Murder in 3D as 3D was pretty much over by when it was released.

People don't remember the first VR boom either.
"Why I like Java" by Mark Dominus:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7463671
I'm going to be blunter than you : what a shitty user experience !

But being interested by this book I'm still going to bear with this bad UX ...

Maybe it shows that all these talks about UX are a bit overrated ...
I have not seen the term "perfect storm" used to mean something positive like this - perhaps this is normal? (sorry, no comment on article comment, just was perplexed by headline).
Well, also, the SEC made the crowdfunding regulations a bit ridiculous so they may not actually end up having a major impact on investment funding.
Am I mad, crazy or just the same as everyone else?
Just started our start-up journey in January, now two months in and our to-do list is looking pretty impressive. Well, more scary... With one month to go to our planned alpha launch there is a lot to do for a three man team.

At the same time, one of the team is renovating a house, another has a 6 month old baby and I'm expecting twins (slight lie, my wife is - still I share the panic!).

Would be really good if anyone has some top tips on staying organised and on top of workloads, tried many solutions but not found one that really works for me yet. Also where do you guys find time to fit everything in?
We're also updating our internal review system to obfuscate applicants' names to avoid any subconscious bias during our application review process. We'll soon be considering applicants named "Blue Dart" and "Purple Rover" rather than "Jane Doe" and "José Smith".

Careful. I am reminded of a classic hacker koan (perhaps, appropriately for a hacker school):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan#Uncarved_block

The situation would likely be better than before, but this may be trading one set of subconscious biases for yet another.
http is like the postcard of the internet. By switching to https only, they are requiring you to send them messages in security envelopes rather than postcards.
Who never wrote it but assumed we know that the same program in Perl, without using command line switches is

while (<>) {
print;
}

Still Awk is shorter:

{ print }

And if you are allowed change the switches of the command line to Perl for your program that Perl program can have exactly 0 bytes.
Good distinction. The equity stake of a "co-founder" should be >10% range in typical cases. Working for sweat equity of a couple points doesn't strike me as having influence. On the flipside, owning 10-20% of the company makes you more influential (assuming you're also in an operating role), even if you are not there at the start.Reasonable things to consider, IMHO.
I agree. And I don't think the small margins really is a problem if you come out with a "disrupting" printer. I don't think the portable music players margins were that high when they released the ipod.

Then again, I don't know what a disrupting printer would look like. Printers always appeared to me as awkward computer/realworld interfaces.
489 Redbulls consumed ?! Let's hope they manage to finish the book before collapsing from a heart attack ...
A very good point. Pixar is notably a huge fan of Ghibli studios, which has ventured into less child-friendly fare in the past. But they have always been a big proponent of universal stories, stories which do not demean children nor sacrifice their integrity to subtextually cater to adults. I would bet that they would be making the same movies that they are now, but Disney would not have released Frozen (as a childless 20-something duder, I was absolutely ecstatic watching that old-style Disney musical.)
1. I don't see how you participate much more easily without your knowledge. Phones are everywhere, record video, audio, etc. You think because it's not pointed at you on someone's face you aren't participating?

2. You don't think retail stores are already doing this anyway with their security cameras?

Google search for "Retail store video analytics".

(http://blog.nrf.com/2013/06/13/how-retailers-can-drive-perfo... for example, has some real life examples of what various stores are doing)

They don't make any pretense that it's for training purposes.

I guess i'm here to break it to you that you are already participating without your knowledge, everywhere, glass or not.

The only difference is that glass gives you some inkling it is happening.
Try to work on some real projects (student job, startup, open source, app...) besides your studies. There is nothing more depressing from an employer's point of view than a CS graduate with no projects to show.

Start with small projects. It is very rewarding to finish something, even more so if you get people to actually use your work.

Also, software engineering is a very multi-faceted profession, that can involve much more besides programming:

- understanding business processes, regulatory needs, economics;
- working closely with people as part of collecting user needs, customer support and team work;
- education and psychology;
- user experience and design;
- ...

There is a lot of place and flexibility to find what interests you the most.
Visualize IMDb ratings and trends of TV shows by episode
I don't have the post context, but at 13 lines, I feel even something like Go wouldn't even be considerably larger or marginally easier to understand.
I don't think Arrington is particularly credible nor do I believe Google, as a matter of course and policy, runs around reading specific users' emails. But the comparison to Enron is not necessary for something like this to at least conceivably have happened. After all, this happened

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-spy/

I tend to believe Google's GC and think Arrington is having some paranoid attention-seeking fantasy. At the same time, can some schmoe at Google read a gmail email? It seems like they can.
> Not the first place that would come to mind for precision manufacturing, but there you have it.

Why not? Aren't Swiss watchmakers in the Alps as well?

And regarding sibling poster saying they have production mainly in China: I remember reading they've actually moved some of the production to Italy after acquiring firms that were making their frames in China. If I find a source in English I'll post it.

Old article stating 85% production in Italy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/style/27iht-rglass.html

Marketing page about manufactoring:

http://www.luxottica.com/en/company/world/places/manufacturi...
This is great news for all cloud platforms and product development, amazon, azure and now google, repeat.

Don't you which there were multiple broadband providers like this that could continue commoditizing bandwidth rather than trying to limit supply?
CCP might make more sense, but they still don't really have technology for building these sorts of worlds. I deeply respect them, and think that they probably have more appropriate tech to offer than most, but I think that one of the most important parts of virtual worlds is Second Life's original killer feature - content creation, which is something they have little experience in.

The ability for anyone to create is powerful, as recent games like minecraft have shown. Second Life just never kept up with technology, and now the best ways to create content for it involve the use of modeling software with a high barrier to entry. (Of course, it's terrible in many other ways, but that's a separate discussion).

If someone can build a virtual world platform from the ground up, with tightly integrated content creation that is intuitive (maybe something like sketchup), and all in-world, it would be very powerful.

I've actually been wanting to build just such a platform for a long time, but learning 3d graphics isn't the easiest thing out there :)
Theoretically he could still sign a bill relating to Tesla, even in regular session. The next meeting of the Legislature starts on 13 Jan 2015 and his term ends on 20 Jan 2015. Though expecting anything to get past 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reading in both the House and Senate in under 6 days is almost certainly a doomed expectation.
Well, all I can do is go off of what they have done in addition to that quote. I don't think the comparison to Instagram is a great one because Instagram's model was already very much in like with what FB already does. I hope I'm wrong.
Yea, I think Win7 shipped with IE8, and all IE versions since IE6 SP1 share the Windows version's support lifecycle.
This is largely a tangential question but ...

> we are far from photo realistic human representations on screen, let alone VR.

Would we actually need to simulate human representations in order for it to be photorealistic? For example, what if your VR headset displays information consumed from a set of stereoscopic cameras?

There would be a lot of complications. (Won't the other guy also be wearing a VR headset, thus obscuring the cameras? Though not necessarily if it's one-directional)

Imagine a VR conversation with another person who's in front of a stereo camera. You can't move your headset much, but you can tilt and pan slightly - basically stay in place and move your head. Imagine combining the VR technology with 3d scene reconstruction such as: http://petapixel.com/2013/07/24/researchers-reconstruct-high... - performed in realtime using the stereo camera. It could potentially present a fairly convincing VR experience of speaking with them in person.

(I assume that you need to perform scene reconstruction in order to generate a display according to the user's head movements in his VR headset given that the camera can't track and mimic the movement in realtime.)
> Facebook ... adds zero value to the real world

Do you really think that? I use it every day and maintain connections with people in geographically diverse places on every continent that otherwise I would not share my life with. I am watching the children of friends grow up. I feel more connected to more people than ever in my life. My childhood friends I thought were in my past are now with me every day. Facebook brings me enormous real world value. I'd probably even pay a monthly fee to use it, if it was so.
> Also, I couldn't select any text to copy and paste.

Seems to be a Safari bug. I had the same thing, after loading the website I couldn't even select text on HN anymore. Restarting Safari fixed it.
I have been on a tour of a sausage factory. It is extremely interesting. For example, all pigs are required to be of a length, weight, and several other dimensions, in order to be approved to join the production line.
>> There's a huge difference between the government spying on its citizens without their knowledge and citizens recording others.

You obviously haven't been paying much attention lately. The difference is illusory, and the government will likely have access to anything a glass user sends over a network, if not direct access to the devices themselves.
Lisp is hardly a new language, it's the second oldest high-level programming language in the world.
Was submitted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7458554

It seems to me that a large portion of cool stuff doesn't make it out from /new any more (not just this case, many others lately)
Ditto that. The Organizers made this event amazing regardless of some of the logistical issues they were presented.
The critical word is "low-overhead". gdb's implementation is orders of magnitude slower.

On the other hand, rr can't do reverse debugging.
But it were this few from this so unimportant minority that filled their Kickstarter project with money, making this thing get so far. Advertising for it. Sharing propaganda and knowledge. They are the ones that could do this in the future with an end product making it desirable. Right now I don't see the usual FB people buy this thing. I see nobody really besides the gamers. Most of the people won't have a gain from it. This is not for MOST OF THE PEOPLE. It will remain an product for minorities for a long time.

They betrayed the gamers and this people will now jump on every possible alternative that comes around (and we've heard that there are things coming up already). Also they will hesitate to trust anybody else on something they love that much. This will hurt other start ups.
It is and it isn't. Glass is always available, but unlike using a cellphone it isn't necessarily as discrete. If I'm taking a picture of a subject with Glass, there is a body language with how you position your head that you are taking a picture or recording. Plus, you are wearing this apparatus on your head that already draws some attention. You really can't be discrete.

Furthermore, because you can't easily frame your shot as you can with a cell phone or conventional camera, the field of vision is significantly wider. It really makes for a crummy spy cam.

I really do understand why people are concerned, but I believe that if there were more Explorers, it would diffuse the perceived problem. I just finished shooting pool in an APA match and I recorded each of my shots. This has been a fantastic way for me to use the camera in Glass. I also demonstrated lots of other features to those that asked, and the camera faded to the background as a nice to have capability, but it isn't what defines Glass for most of the people I talk with.

I think my experience with taking photos with Glass closely follows how frequently I use the camera on my phone. I take photos, but the camera capability isn't why I choose a particular phone. I now take significantly more photos with Glass, but they are usually at the pool hall during my match. If you ignore that outlier, my photo taking frequency is probably about the same, but I enjoy the experience more because Glass is out of the way and secondary to what is going on around me.

I honestly believe that how you use Glass is a reflection on who you are already. If you want to secretly take pictures using your sunglasses, there are plenty of sources online to buy a pair that are cheaper and less obvious. If you are getting Glass only for the camera, the novelty will wear off quickly.
Awk is even shorter: anything truthy works. You don't even need the print statement or brackets. Thus there are nine separate 1-byte programs which produce cat: [1], [2], [3], etc etc.

By default, unless you use the BEGIN block or something, awk will run your program on each line of stdlin. This is useful for programs of the type:

(/some regular expression/) { some action}

The default action if you don't specify one is "print $0" (the whole matching line). If your condition is a plain-ol' expression rather than a regular expression, and it always evaluates truthy, you thus get every line.
I don't understand the architects response, was he being sarcastic?
That's bunk. Most people don't care about fake experiences.
Hmm , they could have added two frontal camera to it , so that when you paused a game or just wanted to think or have time for your self. you could just press a button and the on screen display would start displaying what ever was in front of you.
Agreed. This is a "gamble to win a product that you want" game, not a "gamble to win a stake in a company that you like" game. The very product-based focus of the transaction is intended to discourage thinking of it as an investment. I think Notch was perfectly reasonable in his analysis. He got the product that he wanted, but was disappointed that their tactics after fulfillment were to cash out and align their direction with Facebook's. And he doesn't trust facebook.
Google Street View point cloud render in WebGL
Inspired by Patricio's amazing video (http://vimeo.com/89982874), I put together a simple WebGL based app to display the 3D data from Google Street View panoramas as a point cloud.

Lots of fun to hack on - comments and suggestions much appreciated.
I'd replace unethical wth the word jealous. They see big money and want in on it. They fulfilled their kickstarter and they are not forever in debt to the whims of their backers.
Manufacturing is different than other industries in that it's recognized to have a large multiplier effect. Historically, the estimate has been that for every manufacturing job created, 1.5 - 4 other jobs are created in the surrounding area, so it's really a lot more than 6500 jobs at stake.

Rockwell Automation published a study a few years ago claiming that it might be as high as 16x in some cases. They have an inherent bias since they sell equipment to other manufacturing companies, but they made some interesting arguments. Their paper can read here: https://www.rockwellautomation.com/resources/downloads/rockw...
IS it really redistribution or network caching ;-)
This is hardly an XP specific vulnerability. If the attacker can access an ATM's USB port they could probably achieve this regardless of the OS.
Excuse me but the cost of producing stereo sound and the cost of producing stereo 3D world in fullHD on each eye has really nothing to do with each other. Cheap speakers are easy to make, cheap VR sets and cheap equipment to produce good enough VR is nowhere near available at a cheap price.
If you want a single point generalization about Java programmers, I was one for years, and the way I would have implemented this involves minimally a BufferedReader and an InputStreamReader. You'll also probably need to catch the IOException. Plus or minus 20 lines or so.

I don't hate Java, but "Java as it is spoken" does not often get used for Unix-style piping in a chain of small programs on a command line. It also isn't the easiest tool in the drawer if you want to do light (or heavy) string processing.
I completely agree that open source is/has taken over the world - and that that is a fundamentally good thing for everyone on this planet.

I did notice some things that aren't quite right though so here are some comments from a Red Hat employee - though these are my opinions and not necessarily those of my employer.

> The tenet of open source has always been to give away the “open core” for free, and then charge for additional features.

and

>Companies can try a simple version of an open source app for free, and if they like it, can pay for value-added enterprise features.

This is not actually true for the way Red Hat sells it's products, in fact we do something that is quite the opposite but far more powerful. All features are in our community projects like Fedora or JBoss Wildfly, these features might be a mix of whatever is the latest and greatest that people want as well as all the normal bits that you'd expect. When we make an enterprise ready product out of these community projects like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or JBoss Enterprise Application Server (EAP) our focus is actually on stability and longevity, in other words something that we can stand behind and support for up to 10 years or more! So we actually remove or don't pull in features from the project that aren't ready yet (which we know because we employ a lot of the professional engineers that are committers). We then have a rigorous testing process before releasing these enterprise ready products to our subscribers. One of the key bits that people don't understand is that once we release an enterprise product we will then back port from the latest and greatest community version all security and bug fixes for the supported life of the enterprise product.

Two things to note about this, the enterprise versions are open source as well and we follow an upstream first approach so bug fixes and security patches are applied to the upstream version as well as to the stable enterprise version so upstream has all the latest fixes BUT it also has all the latest features and changes so it's more like our R&D version that you can play with and do some development on but wouldn't be something we would stand behind for production environments.

I wanted to point this out as this is fundamentally different from the open core model you describe and which I seriously object to as an approach because it still locks you into the vendor who is selling you the extra bits.

> The first wave of open source leaders, including Red Hat, relied almost entirely on the community to build their products.

I'm not sure this statement is entirely true, Red Hat has been a top committer to the Linux kernel and to the JBoss projects for many many years and in fact around half of our company are professional engineers working on open source projects!
Second Life’s Oculus Rift Integration is Ready
many traditional floor traders in US lost relevance due to the massive automation of trading

it may not be the robots per say nuking the jobs but the flurry of online ordering websites which are already nuking many jobs in retail spaces
whatever customer facing jobs remain might either be at call center or in repair sector
Doing 4'th one will at the least help any other tech-conferences avoid Lalit and not face the same issues ever.
Yeah, that thought makes me a little bit uncomfortable. Kickstarter campaigns were interesting precisely because they didn't equate investment with profits. They attempted to align investment with niche product delivery.
So why can't it be both? If you are against my product becoming a huge hit after getting off the ground first via kickstarter then moving on to bigger markets with a possible windfall for the creator, and a better product for everyone due to a large IPO, then it sounds more like jealousy than anything else.
Sure, but if you want to modify this code to send stdin over the network or through bluetooth in the Java version, you would just replace 'System.out' with the socket. The code would remain the same - in fact the whole class could be reused by having it pass in an input and output stream as parameters.

Your example is very much just a special shortcut for one special condition. It's not generalizable in the same way. And let's be honest - most of today's code is not writing to standard output, it is writing to some iOS or Android GUI or outputting JSON to be used in some javascript webapp. That kind of shortcut just doesn't make sense anymore and is a relic of a different time.