nrivadeneira

I don't think there's any real value in HN points, so you're basically asking if it's worthy of something worthless. It's just an indicator of interest by the HN community, not a gift of any worth. That being said, I'm sure a decent chunk of the 900 votes were from software devs, many of whom are probably ones that work their tails off. It's possible there is something more intriguing than the dedication alone. One thing I find interesting is the head-first/all-in nature of the project.

I think this is actually a really interesting parallel. They're both virtual currencies, but one carries actual legal risk and the other doesn't. The question is, are they really all that different?

Came here to say exactly this. I can only hope their "form over function" mentality does not transfer over to the product itself.

Since everyone in EVE is primarily competing against each other, this type of information is often kept close to the chest and used as leverage against others.

Nobody said anything about a massive time investment. When I said "take the time to explore and learn", I just meant somebody who does it, as opposed to someone who doesn't.

In my opinion, putting options in a game for people who want to discover mechanics on their own and be rewarded for it is appealing. It goes along with the hacker mentality.

It's a subjective opinion...you don't have to agree with me.

You are correct, but not forgiven. Sometimes I wonder why no mistake may go uncorrected on the internet...

One of the nice things about not having documentation is that only those that take the time to explore and learn can exploit the feature. On the contrary, when documentation exists, not reading it would put you at a disadvantage.

I believe the article mentioned femtosecond laser writing. I don't know how much data gets written in each pulse though.

What would be the nearest 5th place contenders to WP8 and Blackberry?

One of my best friends is NYPD working in the projects in Brownsville NY, one of the most dangerous cities in NYC. From the stories he tells me, he is fighting a war.

Of course, that's not applicable to most other areas, but it's worth noting that when your day-to-day job is dealing with the criminals and scum of the earth, it changes your perspective on life.

I used to be a volunteer junior firefighter as a teen (many of Long Island's fire departments are volunteer based). Fire engines were sent out on emergency calls because many times the situation calls for tools and equipment that ambulances don't carry. I doubt it was budget-related, considering nobody was on payroll.

I suppose I was fortunate that the time that I started my Mechanical Engineering degree had coincided with a transition to a general "idgaf" attitude about my grades.

I'm going to guess that Twitch.tv's integration into the Xbox One played a significant role in this: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/twitch-streaming-integrate...

It's surprising you don't see the contradiction in saying that the open network of the internet is vastly different than our modern walled gardens, but then saying that our open real-world is comparable to the same walled gardens.

Also, I don't give much credibility to arguments that are based off an assertion like "I have no evidence, but...well, why wouldn't you?"

Do you have any evidence that Google Voice records phone calls without a user's explicit permission? I was never referring to voicemails (which are rarely used these days anyway).

I also don't see how you can make the argument that passive recording of everyone around you is the same as Facebook only receiving data that a user proactively sends it (ie. status updates, photo uploads, etc.).

Finally, even if we were to accept your slippery-slope arguments as true, why not go further down the slope and claim that the internet shouldn't exist either because massive data sets about your lives are already being mined and are at risk of nefarious use?

I comment on Glass articles because I'm very excited about it. I don't comment on NSA articles because I personally don't find it to be an issue and I know I'll be burned at the stake and deemed an idiot for even considering having a differing view on privacy than the majority here.

In the first instance, I'm excited and can expect rational discussion. In the second, I'm more or less indifferent and certainly not masochistic.

What a ridiculous slippery-slope assertion. The same argument could be said for the telephone - "Inevitably some company will offer discounts in exchange for random recordings of your phone calls. Everyone will sign up for that and then a hacker will take advantage of it."

There are at least two reasons stuff like that doesn't occur: 1) The cost of recording, storing, parsing, and analyzing all that data far outweighs any sort of tangential benefit a company may get from such a policy. That's on top of the massive PR risk. 2) The number of people that might sign up for privacy invasion in the interest of a 2 for 1 Big Mac would be so insignificant as to not constitute any sort of grand 'societal loss of privacy'.

I don't know if I'm in the minority, but I don't really care if people have Glass on around me. People have cameras with them at all times these days due to smartphones. The fact that it's not attached to their head is not what's stopping them from taking photos and video at inappropriate times. I don't see myself beginning to take unsolicited photos any more than I would have with my phone (aka never) just because I have Glass on. I imagine the same goes for most people you have any sort of meaningful interaction with.

I'm always amazed at how much anti-Glass sentiment I see in the tech community. I personally think it's going to be amazing. The best analogy I can think of is the heads-up display (HUD) in video games. The current use cases shown (texting, weather, pictures, etc.) are insignificant in comparison to the potential for combining with other wearable computing devices such as Fitbits, Fuelbands, Thalmic MYO's, etc.

Of course, this is an early iteration of the concept, but I see it as a game changer. Imagine removing the HUD from all of your video games. That experience sucks.

Now imagine a world where we can combine quantified-self computing, augmented reality, and new interface devices such as Thalmic MYO with the Glass...that future is a future I very much want to live in.

Truthfully I don't remember for sure, but I used external services just as @Lexarius mentioned. I didn't write it myself at the time.

Geocities was great before this happened. I was on Geocities before it was acquired by Yahoo and it was literally just static HTML sites. Guestbooks, hit counters, etc. were all just added into your HTML without special tags.

I'm undecided on the issue, however it seems completely logical to me that terrorists wouldn't use venues that are being monitored by the NSA. Would that still be the case if those lines of communications weren't monitored at all? In addition, if the NSA started monitoring whatever the terrorists use at present, would they continue to use it? Doubtful.

I don't think this article comes to the clever conclusion that it thinks it does.

I think Nathan's got the meaning of the phrase mixed up. The idea isn't to promise your standard output and then run yourself into the ground trying to exceed that. The "under-promise" part means that you promise less than what you know you can deliver. Having done that, you deliver your standard output and thus have "over-delivered". In this manner, it's sustainable.

I don't believe that's true. You don't get charged sales tax multiple times just because you're moving your property to another state.

That being said, I doubt a low volume car constitutes any significant amount of tax revenue.

The important distinction here is that dealerships don't constitute direct sales since they are not owned nor operated by the manufacturer. The question @pedrocr posed was why would it be necessary for Tesla to begin working with third-party dealerships at scale - they could still continue building their own showroom floors and continuing direct sales through their own channels. If they continued their direct sales process, it would not be ironic, as you claim, since they'll still be circumventing the dealership middleman.

Note: This has nothing to do with good/bad experiences. That's not what defines a dealership.

How is the Apple Store an analogy to Tesla establishing dealerships? As far as I know, Apple Stores are owned and operated directly by Apple and are thus direct sales, while dealerships are third-parties/franchisees that buy from the manufacturer and re-sell to the consumer.

I don't believe Steam has their crazy sales with the primary focus being on undercutting competition. Generally, the sales are for slightly older games (1 year or older). These games have likely seen a dramatic drop in sales. Even as low as Steam reduces the price point to, I'm willing to bet the revenue bump is huge. It's an effective way to derive profits from otherwise low volume titles.

"Instead what we saw was our gross revenue increased by a factor of 40. Not 40 percent, but a factor of 40." http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economic...

It would have been unlikely they would have adopted Steam's pricing structure with a mix of physical and digital distribution, but it would have been far more feasible if it was full digital.

Your comparison to similar markets may be valid, however if you're familiar with Steam (a far more direct comparison) and their sales, you'd know that radical pricing changes are possible. It's fairly common for major titles to go on sale for $2.50 - $5.00. I just got an email last week that said The Witcher 2 was on sale for $6.79.

I don't know for sure that Microsoft would have gone down this route, but deprecating physical media would have been a step in the right direction.

I'm focusing more on the pricing model that Steam has. Sure, physical media has its benefits, but I'd give them all up for the equivalent of Steam Sales on Xbox. To be fair, I never trade or resell my games anyway.

http://cdn.leviathyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/steam_sa...

I'm not all that thrilled about this. I wanted to see where Microsoft would go with this. It would have been great if we could transition to a pricing and distribution model similar to Steam. I saw this as a step towards weening console players off of physical media.