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To this day it befuddles me how the key people inside Google responsible for the roll out of Glass - whoever they were - were allowed to bungle it, in such a slipshod manner.

After all, this was not some GOOG-411 [1] - which I absolutely adored when it first rolled out and which saved many a day for me, during its brief lifespan - or some barge [2] or one of many other Google's myriad off-the-cuff projects.

This was GLASS ! Possibly the single most compelling offering from Google since Street View, practically bursting at the seams with humongous promise and potential for humankind.

No less than a squadron of industrial design gurus, consumer perception honchos, privacy experts and outreach groups from local governments and hospitality specialists representing the sentiments of bar and restaurant owners, should have been assembled to capture feedback, early in the crafting of such an important device.

At the very least - and at the bare minimum - someone close to Sergey [3] should have blurted,

"Perhaps, we should offer a bare-bones version with simple
video & audio capture capabilities, to at-risk individuals
like inner-city youth, who are persistently subject to
unjustified stop-and-frisk searches [4] by various peace
officers, at a nominal throwaway price. The public outcry
over privacy would be a fraction of what it would be otherwise
because the perception of Glass would no longer be of some rich
kid's tech toy but a legal defense weapon for the capture of
circumstantial evidence in the hands of those who need such a
first-person account device, the most."

Glass is too important - and the consequences of its large scale adoption too profound - for some crazy last-ditch measures to have not been deployed.

[1] Farewell, GOOG-411

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/farewell-goog-411/

[2] Fire-Safety Concerns Sank Google’s Barges

http://online.wsj.com/articles/fire-safety-concerns-sank-goo...

[3] Sergey Brin tests Google Glass on New York subway

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/21/sergey-bri...

[4] Is Stop-and-Frisk Worth It?

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/is-stop-...
It's really not that hard to understand that someone making comments about a company they are paid by should call that out.
On the whole yes, but the minor tweak of expanding shirt hand into a full statement really makes it easier to follow.
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What is a "micro-optimization" is debatable, but if you have two ways of doing the same thing, and you can do the fastest one without impact safety or readability, it's not wrong to pick the fastest one (for instance, no point in building list A in order to append A to list B when you can directly add stuff in list B, like the code I refactored away one hour ago).

As for architectural optimization, I disagree. There are things you're really going to have a hard time adding post facto. If you know you're going to need performance, it's important to know what kind of program you're going to build (this may include benchmarking prototypes).
The problem is that you're unwilling to apply that same logic to Ben Edelman and pretty much call him a paid shill. At least the commenter you were replying to noted the potential conflict of interest, unlike you.
I recently installed the app on my iPhone and created a randomly named, radio-silent Twitter account just to follow privacy and encryption advocates. Seems ironic to remove the app for privacy reasons.
Set doesn't work for this.

You need to store all possible numbers between the lower and upper bound, which isn't exactly workable for (for example) floats.
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Because it's not the same?

Ben publishes pieces in newspapers, journals, and testimony, and pretends they are objective while being paid by companies to write them.

If you think this is the same as me or anyone else commenting on HN about their personal opinions, i'm not sure what to tell you.

When I start submitting congressional testimony on behalf of google, and we start talking about it on HN, i'll happily note that i wrote it.

(In the same way when we talked about Google code.google.com, i happily noted i worked on it)
> Using SEPs for suing others is wrong.

Source for that?
No doubt the price today will be the price forever, and nothing survives longer than a year,
They spent years not introducing alternatives and instead become even further reliant on Russian gas.

... until the mess in the Ukraine started and they had to choose between Russia and the US (again).

(insert snark about replacing one reliance with another via TTIP)
Pay for an Apps account. This gets you a live person to talk to and an SLA. Even if it's just one account on your personal domain (cost: $5/month), that alone makes it worth it.

Shockingly, Google allocates their CS to people who pay for their service.
Yep, they need to touch. The market for this seems to be more for cableless docking/syncing than for constant transfers, which I don't think is big enough, especially given the other techs that are being specced out in the 60ghz range that do allow for decent range and still better than gigabit speeds.
On the basis that Apple is cool.
How would you deal with rendering arbitrary form encodings in the browser? A proposal adding support for form submission of arbitrary encodings could be valid, but it'd have to just be a single form input with the data included verbatim.

This proposal allows regular HTML forms with multiple input elements, but submitting over JSON. I can't see how you could define that for arbitrary encodings without first defining how the form fields map to the encoded data for all the encodings you'd want to support.
Absolutely. People weren't objecting to the device because of subtle design details like it being possible to tell if people were browsing the web. People were objecting to the device without having seen one in the flesh because they found the idea of people walking around with a device designed to inconspicuously record everything creepy.

The original article has it 100% backwards: it's not concealing Glass wearer's internet browsing that'll make it more socially acceptable, it's making the recording glaringly obvious.
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Natural monopolies are things like infrastructure where the entry cost of providing a fully separate parallel network (of railway lines, phone lines, broadband etc) is prohibitively high or where provision of such parallel network is undesirable for other reasons (e.g. environment).

Could you explain how an operating system is a natural monopoly?

Development of a new OS isn't cheap, but isn't prohibitively expensive either. It also isn't undesirable AFAICT.
or get better working conditions, not being interrupted every 20 minutes. This is a major motivation for me to find remote work (as well as the fact that the pay is fairly poor where I am).
You can bet they are create dossiers on non-Facebook users, just like Google is probably creating dossiers on the people who send emails to Gmail users.
The law was passed, not only drafted! But it was pointless:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/23/kapitulation/

The German government made themselves look like fools. They were easily manipulated by a literal handful of newspaper magnates (primarily the boss of Axel Springer) whose positions were nonsensical - they were complaining about being in Google News without compensation, but didn't use robots.txt to take themselves out of it. Surely that would have been the start of any normal business negotiation? Why would any change to the law have been needed at all?

So after wasting vast amounts of time in changing the law, the German government learned a hopefully important lesson - they were being used as pawns in a game to try and extract free money from a foreign company and the actual complaints were meritless. A tiny amount of technical literacy would have gone a long way.
Well somebody should update a Wikipedia page about Spoon.
Applications had been removed
I received a message from facebook that my account may be hacked " It looks like someone may have accessed your Facebook account ... etc "
Then I received a new message that all applications disabled " as a precautionary measure " some ids :
181299375327387
531914823535973
364402003678151
1378163652448939
463310017090393
590217681041614
298828256953619
551744938251760
516927195036813
689458121081273
1378060735787972
144568492352804
690861197602245
1398920797020978
Plenty of people wear contact lenses.
Yeah i guess that having the language enforce the rules makes for safer code than trying to impose safety externally.
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Wait, "dead"? Last I checked, the only thing you can get right now is the explorer edition (read: beta) device at the "no random consumers" price point of $1500. Google is on record as saying this is supposed to get another refresh and a lower price point in the future.

Seems mighty premature to call the device dead when it's both not out yet and the beta users are still getting updates.
they have lots of catching up to do... windows 9 is coming...

Running ReactOS = FREE... Running Windows 95 = $1.00 -- i might as well take win95 who isnt a reverse engineered product. same sh*t.
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He mentioned that disabling it didn't seem to do anything, however. ("The Cortex-M3 handles... nothing? I could stop it and still have all hard disk functions.")

So SMART and bad sector remapping, perhaps. But not decoding.
From the very beginning, Glass did quite a few things that were not camera related. All the stuff that you now see in smart watches, for example.

Slice out the camera, expand on the other stuff. It removes one key demonstrated feature, but it's not actually a radical change.
> Power is abused here, though

Can you link to the EU ruling stating that?
they have lots of catching up to do... windows 9 is coming...
Running ReactOS = FREE... Running Windows 95 = $1.00 -- i might as well take win95 who isnt a reverse engineered product. same sh*t.
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Your numbers must be off - 80k/month for 30 people means paying <32k; that's an average and assuming hardware and offices are both zero. Good devs cost more than that in Cambridge (and at least twice that in London), and elsewhere you'd struggle to find them at all. Are you relying on hiring fresh grads or something?
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I would certainly be not against some external entity or random event shutting HN down. That would lead to genesis of new communities and contribute to spreading the influence to several or dozens of separate entities.

Ironically, voice of the hackers, the independents, the non-affiliated is weak here. The voice of the tech establishment, the VCs, the startups, the megacorps is heard loud and clear.

Do you not see how HN is crucial for YC continued success as the VC company? YC doesn't have to censor anything, the increased presence of YC alumni defines the narrative.

I do not believe that it is healthy for most important tech community on the open internet to be so strongly influenced by one VC company.

Disclosures would help a little bit.

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I don't mind the downvotes :)
I am refuting the statement "A monopoly should be defined by barriers to entry, not just market share." made by sfrank2147, specifically interpreted as "barriers of entry for search market", which are surprisingly high. Based on his definition, Google is deep into monopoly territory.

What a monopoly really is and whether Google qualifies is a separate question, and I'm recusing myself from commenting on this point.
When Microsoft delivers real containers to Windows, I doubt they will make it open source. You can require open source interfaces to closed source products, and wait a long time.
On what grounds are they overpriced? Because they are expensive?
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That's a highly controversial and tricky argument to make, though.

Is Google Maps a separate product that's being illegal tied to web search? Or is it actually a search engine for physical places, an integrated part of the one unified Google Search Engine? It could be argued either way, but if you try and imagine what it'd take to make Google Maps "pluggable" in google.com search .... well, that would be a tremendous technical challenge. Competitors would have to be able to process every web search Google does, to decide if it contains a location. That's a lot of traffic. And they have to respond as fast as Google's own servers, despite not being in the same buildings. This sort of thing suggests they're really one unified product, but I doubt such technical details would have much impact on what is a fundamentally political process.
Being best at their own economical interests and being best at their customers' interests are not the same thing.
Would it make more sense to offer Chromixium as a desktop environment (like xfce, kde, gnome,...) instead of a full os?
I work for the Pirate Party MEP in the Parliament. My understanding is that this is mostly about German (and to a lesser degree Spanish) publishers putting pressure on Google for their various interests, including that they want to be paid when Google uses snippets of their content in Google News:
https://juliareda.eu/2014/11/breaking-up-google-or-just-bank...
It is extremely hard to take this moralizing seriously when the only reason he's taking this flak is that he's actually signed his name to his comments and been forthcoming on the site about where he works. That's not something you can say about every opinionated HN commenter.
> Just because it is expensive and technically hard doesn't mean Google is preventing them in any way.

I agree. It means it's a natural monopoly. These should be regulated, because otherwise there is a tendency for them to abuse their power.
FWIW: Ben is not fully disclosed by a longshot

See, e.g., http://mumbrella.com.au/google-adwords-benjamin-edelman-3700...
Charming. The "external entity or random event" part of that comment is what really sold it. You're all class.
Duckduckgo may claim otherwise.
While it looks really nice, there is no way I could submit/deploy a project with that kind of licence bundled in the source code.

Guess you could just change the name etc but that's not really the point!

If one of the corporate legal team picked up on this there would probably be a small shit storm following!

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
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Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
Curious, what is the Pirate Party's stance on this? (I have no idea how to find individual MEP votes on bills)
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Could have sworn there was a red led on the front that lit up whenever it was recording.
Well yeah, you hear of founder-only companies fresh off their first round sharing a cheap apartment and taking almost nothing for salary to get things off the ground.

The FBR for a Jr. Dev (maybe employee #1 or 2) obviously isn't going to be $250k/yr.

At those really low head counts, things really do look different, I agree. But it's like saying growing sales from 1-to-2 units is a doubling in growth. At small scale, everything looks weird. However, once you hit ~10 people the numbers start to line up and they tend to hold even through 100,000 person companies.

It's kind of amazing actually, if you run a company with >10 employees, look at your yearly costs divided by employees. I can almost guarantee that if that number is <$250k/employee/year you're feeling uncomfortable and stressed out month-to-month and if it's >= $250k/employee/year you're feeling like you're growing.

This is important because, unless you've decided to run a lifestyle business and not grow your headcount, you're going to have to keep an eye on this number as a target to sustain. If you can hit it year after year you can stay alive and grow.

Yeah the money has to come from somewhere, if it's not coming from sales, it's coming from VC money.
Hornrims?
Mmm, no, Google, like a lot of companies has sold the rights for foreign licensing of those patents to the Irish subsidiary
> Well, buy AMD then...

I already mentioned why that wasn't feasible. I'm pretty much stuck paying $100 extra on each card in exchange for my predecessors' "free" CUDA lessons.

My point isn't that the economic tradeoff mentioned by the sales rep doesn't exist, my point is that the tradeoff can't be responsible for a price grade as steep as the one we see NVIDIA use. The real answer as to why they price-grade so heavily is "because they can" -- not that I would expect a sales rep to be honest about it.
> And hypothetically speaking, at this point Google could just shove whatever they want down their throats and tell them to deal with it.

Or the new GMail app on the Lollipop ROM for my Nexus 5.

My email address was originally on Google Apps. I switched to Windows Phone from my Palm Pre in 2011 and they discontinued Exchange ActiveSync support shortly thereafter, so I moved everything over to Windows Live Domains, keeping my Google Apps login as my Google account.

I recently took a foray to Android in June and picked up the Nexus 5 I'm currently using, and I had no issues setting up my now Outlook.com account (same email address I used for my Google account) in the stock AOSP email app, I removed GMail and there was no trace of my no longer used Google Apps services on my device. Now with Lollipop, I always see two email accounts, one of which is the Google Apps account that no longer has email routed to it but I have no way to hide, and since it shares the same address getting my Outlook.com account added was a pain in the ass (it errored saying I cannot add multiple accounts with the same email address, had to use my @outlook.com alias).

Google used its search monopoly to wedge its way into other areas, the two big ones being email (I see way more active @gmail.com users than I do @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com/@outlook.com and ISP emails today) and online video (youtube). They then used these markets to push their way into the mobile space, which now has the opposite effect (their mobile OS is pushing people into using Google services exclusively).

Both iOS and Windows Phone use their own account systems (Apple ID and Microsoft Account respectively) to provide access to platform-specific services (Store, Synchronization, etc) but both allow users to sign up without requiring they create an email account with them, and both platforms have easy setup for the wealth of other email/calendar/contact sync services most people use.

Honestly, anyone who DOESN'T see Google abusing their monopoly position to prevent or at least actively discourage people from using competitive services is lying to themselves.
Does google hire like astroturfers with all their free stuff? I post one comment and I'm downvoted without explanation? Source for what? Are you dumb? It's an opinion. Opinions don't have a source. You can't murder someone. Source for that?
I'm sorry to see that the product communication of Opera ASA has confused you as well. Opera 15+ is not "the latest" Opera, but merely a clone of chrome that shares quite earnestly and literally zero code with Opera 12 (which is the latest of its respective line); and will likely never be a viable upgrade vector due to also sharing almost none of the features of Opera 12.

Also, thanks for the further reading link. :)

It's quite interesting already. And i note in the gif down the middle of the page that on mobile only one event is ever on screen, while in chrome i often had 5+ on screen, with very little space inbetween them. If you spaced it out more on desktop, it would become much more grokkable.

Edit: There's also the fact that i have a hard time distinguishing between land and see, between the globe rotating wildly and the colors washing across it.
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There is a fair amount of space between "something in the title of the release announcement to explain what makes this one special" and "linkbait headlines and vapid blog content".
I see, that's quite a different scenario indeed. I think the fact that in this case it is not disclosed up front is where it stings.
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Yeah, because surely YC would give up one of their most important generators of competitive advantage willingly.

Also, ofc, with you being one of the top HN members would not support that. I don't have any personal benefit from any outcome, but you do. Who is all class now?

edit:
I am curious, in what way, shape or form "external entity or random event" part of my comment is related to either presence or lack of my class? Care to elaborate?
At a startup with 15 employees I'd guess around 13 are engineers (or engineer related: developers, designers, product, etc.). So wouldn't that mean startups should have a higher burn rate if they are tech heavy?

If you consider an average engineer has a loaded cost of $250k per year and you have 13 of them, that means your monthly burn rate would be $270k before accounting for the other 2 employees (most likely founders taking a much smaller salary). This would also be a conservative estimate based on an average salary of $100k (which is barely scraping by in NYC and SF if you're straight out of college with loans).

So this must mean startups spending less that $250k with 15 + employees are paying well under market rate (by at least $20-$50k)? But that also wouldn't correspond with the salaries being offered via Angel list and Glassdoor. So something isn't lining up here.
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Ask HN: A site that let you setup a virtual linux machine, for sandboxing?
I remember seeing a site on Hacker News earlier this year where you could set up a virtual linux machine running on one of their servers, and choose from a gallery of pre-configured options, like various OSs, and setups for specific purposes.

As far as I remember, you were allowed full usage, to a limited capacity, for free, and then after there were paid plans. It might have been something like 3 low-end machines for free, and then it started costing money.

Anybody remember this, or know what it's called?
Cool! I've been actually thinking I should get something like this for Sublime because I'm often correcting silly mistakes in my Github repo readme's that I only notice once the Markdown renders in browser.

Only minor comment is that you say "realtime" but from the demo it seems like that the view is updated only when you hit save right?

Off to test it out now!

Edit: went through all the steps and live preview doesn't seem to be working. Does the plugin work under ST3? I also assume that there's a missing step in the readme, so I cloned the git repo to the Packages sub-directory as "Livedown". Hoping I've just made a silly mistake with the setup.

Edit #2: So I verified that running from the command line works and it loads my markdown file without any problems. The link with Sublime doesn't seem to be working though, so when I make changes, I can see them in the browser window by refreshing. Guessing something is screwed up in the way the plugin is setup on my laptop.
You're right, which is what's generally considered an abuse of monopoly. No opinions from me on this- but funding or subsidizing other businesses using a market dominant business constitutes abuse of monopoly.