skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the "Smart-ish" angle. Swatch owns the entry level watch market:

Swatch was originally intended to re-capture entry level market share lost by Swiss manufacturers during the quartz crisis and the subsequent growth of Japanese companies such as Seiko and Citizen in the 1960s and 1970s, and to re-popularize analog watches at a time when digital watches had achieved wide popularity. The launch of the Swatch brand in 1983 was marked by bold new styling, design and marketing. [1]

Maybe they can be the market leader in the entry level market and not have to compete against the Apples and Motorolas who are all fighting over share in the mid-market smartwatch.

Motorola had a 360 version that was value based: http://www.talkandroid.com/264030-motorola-decided-to-scrap-..., but my guess on why they scrapped it is due to risk of cannibalization and not enough differentiation of their flagship product.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch

P.S. I think they really missed the price point on this, sub $100 with 10 SKUs would've fostered in a new wave of smartwatch owners.
My theoretical marketer isn't using a template! He's writing a customized sentence or two specific to every recipient. And if that isn't enough, he's using a statistical model to change the wording of the offer, and select the content of the paragraphs, images, etc. based on your location, age and industry. The email is specific to you in every way -- it's just mostly generated by a machine.

You can't win this game.
What app is this? Is it available in Canada?
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This. Just putting down bike paths is useless when everything else is missing. You need bike parking too!
However it is hard to miss the difference in the column with details and the more link even upon a cursory scan.
Mercedes did this on the GLK - the fill port requires a special nozzle. So you buy one of their refill bottles, cut the bottom off, and use it as a funnel with your DEF of choice (since it's a standard ISO solution).
While lots of people are pointing to pricing as the reason for this decline, and that's obviously a big factor, I think you also have to look at the decline of the tablet here.

Phones just don't produce a really great reading experience. Actual computers are obviously never going to be a big market. Dedicated e-readers probably don't make sense to people who aren't voracious readers. And tablets are increasingly being squeezed out of the market.
That's not true for all plants. For example, cooking can boost the absorption of the phytonutrient beta-carotene in carrots. Artichokes, beets, and onions can also be boiled without losing antioxidants. Microwaved green beans are actually more nutritious than raw green beans.

Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2009....
Introducing 360 Video on Facebook
"Nutrition" implies a health outcome; it is not enough to count the nutrients in a food and then declare it less nutritious. The claim in the article is that food which is the result of agriculture is less nutritious, which means that we have a worse health outcome from eating it than food we ate before agriculture. I think that is controversial, and it was not backed up.
I use my Samsung gear to take hands free phone calls (in the car or while holding kids), controlling my music while my phone is plugged in in the other room, as a remote for my tv and (rarely) as a way to take group photos with my phone set up across the room.

Receiving notifications is obviously the primary use (considering looking up my meetings and using it as a silent alarm to get up in the morning as "notifications"), but I use at least two of these other features every day.
All well and good with the standard little girl model, but what does this look like with ten fat disney tourists? What would the machinery look like to swing 10 or 50 times the weight? (Same question if this is to be used for flight simulators.) Is there a point at which linear hydraulic actuators are easier?
They tried, multiple times, and were explicitly rebuked

http://www.mv-voice.com/print/story/2012/07/13/google-housin...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/technology/google-plans-ne...
etc

It comes up every few years.
I get how the art market is manipulated, and I've always worried it was just a pretty microcosm of the financial markets I don't understand.
Thus why Merc calls theirs BlueTec
Some thoughts on this interesting subject:

* There's a parallel between these high prices and high valuations for some tech startups. The first example in the article (the paintings didn't change even though now we know a Chinese guy paints them in his garage, so why the exponential decrease in price) could be asked in that domain, e.g. what changed in Webvan (to use the most known example) so that it went from ~$6B evaluation to epsilon in less than two years (http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2010/12/13/the...). The answer in this case is that it didn't have that value to start with (forged painting, startup with no clear biz plan).

* However, one cannot say the above for all paintings. Does Monet's six paintings really are worth ~$100M (http://www.wsj.com/articles/sothebys-to-auction-6-more-monet...)? Now, one wants to say they have a lot of value, because Monet is beautiful but how much is that? What is its intrinsic value?

* One can try to define intrinsic value for an object of art thus: It is the value you place on it even if it's found that it was created by an unknown. This works for in other domains (i.e. you don't place more value on git because Torvalds worked on it or less value on a Go library because the guy who wrote it is unknown). How much value would you put on Mona Lisa if today it was found that a certain Cosma di Pietro Mellini had painted it instead of Leonardo? Probably a lot but not as much perhaps as, say, Raphael's ceiling frescos from the Stanza della Segnatura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Rooms.

* Now to me it seems like the huge discrepancies in prices in objects are inherent to art (painting and sculpture mostly) and much less of an issue in literature. As an example: How much would Hamlet depreciate if it was found today that it was written by Thomas Middleton? If you think the drop would be huge than try to explain why a similar situation does not hold, say, for Homer's works.

* The highly inflated prices are unique to art because the buyers, although we may view them as idiotic nouveau riche, do get a lot of value through prestige, which is hard to quantify. This, I think, would be the main difference between the art market and inflated stock prices: If you had shares for Webvan, etc. you were duped, you get no extra gain, prestige or otherwise, from holding the share other than its value.

* A similar situation exists in wines and high-end restaurants, where the prestige element also applies.
https://www.betterment.com. I don't believe its available for Canadians unfortunately.
Odd to see this in the middle of the article, without context before or after,

> Google plans to give $5 million in matching grants to cities in the area that want to start building out a better bike network. But even the matching grants don't come free: The money is offered as a community benefit, contingent on Mountain View's approval of Google's North Bayshore redevelopment.

Without describing what Google's proposed North Bayshore redevelopment is, it's hard to know how to interpret that paragraph.
The OPM breach deepens: 5.6M federal employees' fingerprints stolen
Biased how?
> People don't seek out financial advisers for asset allocation, they seek them out for the sage advice that they'll offer for big financial decisions they have in life

I've been wondering lately: When is the right time or what are the right circumstances to choose to seek out a human advisor especially with regard to tax efficiency, offshore banking, etc.?

I spoke to one advisor (a friend) who manages HNWIs; he suggested a net worth of $100k-250k is when it starts to make sense. I'm still curious to find a general answer.
Thanks for pointing to a source that actually explains what's happening. Now I understand.

I read the original article and the cloud flare post, and it seemed that they drew their conclusions from the pie charts; but in reality they just didn't reveal their sources.
Yeah, protecting the "template" is a pretty basic thing in biometrics.

For example, here's a paper from 2005 about a scheme for secure storage of fingerprint templates. http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/prr/Biometrics/Archive/Papers/Tuyl...

I don't know much about this scheme in particular; it was just the first search result for "biometric authentication template". But this shows how people have been working on this topic for a long time now.
The bigger question is why are you hanging out with people who do not know what IPv6 is?
How much of spying is actually done that way? All the recent examples I can think of are people under their real names, working in areas where they often might have some conceivable security clearance (the level, if it's exposed, might be telling though), and are in place through legitimate means, which allows them to capitalize on the circumstances. For example, a relative of a diplomat (Valerie Plame), or higher level business representative or visiting company officer (you might have clearance due to some government contracts). I think the point is to be in country with access to local people who might be persuaded in some manner to deliver information.
Marginal bloat is always rational. Forest for the trees and all that.
Meet the winners of #RobotLaunch2015 intl competition for robot startups
When a typical developer or admin cost is $50 or so an hour, $300 isn't a material amount, and there are use cases where it's not just about whether a single VM less or more than the cost of a single physical server.
The denser areas, especially the bay side belt are quite are quite bike friendly.
Public transportation is a completely different question, bikes on buses do not work, some train services can be adopted with special carriages to carry bikes on board.

The main issue isn't just roads its and entire infrastructure, e.g. giving bikes priority over motor vehicles like in some European countries which might not work well, In many cases bike lanes tend to also have a negative impact as they are often take spaces from public side walks, you can see that being a very big issue in some European cities that went bike crazy.

London is trying to do that and it's infuriating bikes seem to do what ever the fuck they want they'll go in the bike land but on a red signal they'll decide to go over the cross walk and onto the side walk to get a head, they often go into red signals even on the road when there is no (or they think there isn't) incoming traffic, and they clog bus lanes.

You can't just go from 0 to 60, turning SV into a bike friendly zone will take as much time as it took to turn Copenhagen or Amsterdam into one.
Can't say I've seen it for Apple or Android watches, but for pebble there's a nice app to let you watch the status of your 3d printer if you use octoprint. It's ended up great as a gauge for how long a print has left, even gives a convenient way to stop a print without killed the power to the printer. Sure I can use a phone for the same thing but when I've got it on my wrist with a single button press? much more convenient.
Two days is an awkward middle ground. It's not long enough to really get used to the fact that you don't have to charge it every day, but it's long enough that sometimes you might forget and end up having it die on you.
More bad information about the publishing business from the NY Times. Ebook sales aren't declining generally; it's big publisher ebook sales that are declining. Ebook sales for self-pubbed authors and indie publishers are growing rapidly. If you have any doubts about this, check out the authorearnings.com website, which tracks sales of ebooks on Amazon and other platforms.

Buried in the article is information from Amazon that ebook sales are continuing to rise. But this article isn't about ebook sales -- it's about big publisher ebook sales.

The article also says that dedicated ebook reader sales have declined. This is true but not because of a shift away from ebooks. It's that ebook reading is shifting to tablets and phones, a trend that is widely recognized in the industry, but not in this article.

The reason that big publishers (and some smaller publishers following the traditional model) are losing ebook sales is that, in the big Hachette - Amazon dustup last year, the big publishers won the ability to keep ebook prices ridiculously high and to prevent discounting by Amazon. So big publishers routinely price ebooks about the same or higher than paperbacks. Of course their ebook sales are suffering! But self-pubbed and indie publisher books are priced much lower than print books, and are of course gaining market share very quickly.

The NY Times reports on publishing are all biased toward big traditional publishers - after all, that's essentially what the Times is. (To the Times' credit, they have a public editor who critiques their stories, and the public editor has said that the last two major stories in the Times about Amazon failed to meet journalistic standards.) They ignore information like what's on authorearnings.com because they're trying to get people to believe there's a trend away from ebooks. There certainly are some people who decide what kind of book to buy according to what they think the latest trend is. But if you're looking for accurate information about the book business, don't expect it from the Times.
You are clearly correct and you're probably right that I underestimate the power of loyalty. Just something in my lizard brain remains surprised. Defect in my circuitry I suppose.
Yeah, Windows 7 is the new Windows XP for the "LTS for Lifers" and there will be plenty of enterprises similarly riding that horse long after it is exhausted.

It's interesting too the people complaining about the Windows 10 approach to LTS shortening the decade-plus-long window of abuse that XP suffered (and 7 is likely to also see) to something more akin to the 5 years of Debian LTS... and Debian is considered one of the most conservative of the Linux distributions with respect to LTS!
I don't think financial coaches are going to go away, because of how poor financial education is in the US in traditional learning environments, but I do believe a lot of money managers are going to be eaten up by roboadvisors.
We are still talking about an area much smaller than SV with a much lower population density.
CEO who raised HIV drug price 5000% also hiked cost of pill for children
Things were good for a couple hours, but the problems came back around 11:10 AM PDT. It's now been happening again for an hour.
JSON-to-GO
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They tackled the problem with data. "Rather than looking at what bike infrastructure is there, they looked at the user experience [...] They looked at levels of stress faced by bicyclists, and how those could change based on the infrastructure that could be there in the future,"
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The innovation of this project is mind-blowing. Bicycle lanes! A whole network of them!
Image Processing in Rails Using AWS Lambda
Unity and Visual Studio Code for Linux
Great company, great watch. But boy how they struggle to keep that bezel small. All generations have that huge bezel.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/0...

The CIA, largely appears to have been shielded from damage, especially for employees who have never worked at any other agency, officials said.

Evidently, CIA has its own, separate OPM-like entity.
> "Take American Airlines Group Inc., which joined the S&P 500 after markets closed on March 20. Because the addition of the carrier was announced four days earlier, nimble traders had plenty of time to get in front of the less fleet-footed."

So, just to be explicit, is the suggestion to short AA right before this happens, then re-buy once the algotraders settle?
I believe the argument is along the following lines:

The more money that is placed into passive indexes (funds that merely attempt to track the performance of something like the S&P500 by owning a proportional, market cap weighted amount of each stock in the index), the less that is being actively managed by a human being or algorithm with the affect of price discovery.

With less 'players' in the game acting on their competing investment theses, inefficiencies are expected to widen. In other words, if AAPL is at price X on any given day, that price is the sum total of all buy and sell orders being placed. One can assume that even with a large portion of passive buying today, most involved in trading AAPL are trading on their own assessment of the true value of Apple's stock. If at some future point the majority of money in the market is simply passive/buy-and-hold, the price of AAPL (or any stock/wider index) will be less "efficient" because of the distortion in supply & demand created by an increase of mindless buy orders.

Some market watchers have attributed the abnormally placid bull tear of 09-present, at least in part, to this consistent buying. Josh Brown called it the relentless bid [0] and explained how the increased popularity of dollar cost averaging, scheduled index fund purchases, etc could be a major factor.

[0] http://thereformedbroker.com/2014/03/05/the-relentless-bid-e...
I was curious about whether using a vector over list would have any effect even though the size is so small and the answer seems no (I guess as it could be expected).

It seems like the listed OCaml program has a default level of 9 where as the C++ one uses 6?

Times using original listing (minus print stmts):

$ time ./ray-cpp
real 0m3.369s
user 0m3.347s
sys 0m0.010s

$ time ./ray-ml
real 0m4.710s
user 0m4.703s
sys 0m0.003s

Time after changing the 9 in the ocaml program to a six:

$ time ./ray-ml
real 0m4.032s
user 0m4.026s
sys 0m0.003s

Seems like C++ has a good edge. Above was ran on a 64 bit machine.
Over time I have formulated a belief system that goes something like this:

Anyone who is beating the average, is either lucky, or cheating.

The basic theory supporting this is that in any given endeavor you can assume the average participant is trying to improve their situation. This puts them in competition with everyone else, who similarly, are trying to improve their situation. The result, is a net 0 gain. We might all get stronger by going to the gym, but relative to each other, we're stagnant.

To make 'non-average' advances, you need an edge. In stocks, I think it comes in the form of insider trading, or highly advanced HFT access. The average Joe trying hard, has no more a chance at beating the average than they would in a game or coin flipping.
Spot on. Past under/out-performance by managers does not reliably predict future under/out-performance. (I don't have a citation handy at the moment...)
It's very surpising, I thought they were gone for a full power-efficiency design. Android watches also have this type of autonomy if not used too much.
> It's scary to own something from a company like this.

Yeah, because this will render your Pebble Time useless?
CyberArk :(
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421507... (available without cost from http://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/black-carbon/bou... )

"Jacobson (2002, 2005) suggested that, despite their lower fuel efficiency, gasoline cars were better for climate than BC-emitting diesel cars. However, Jacobson’s analysis relied on radiative forcing (RF) and climate equilibrium calculations, which is artificial and possibly misleading because any policy or technology will only be implemented for a finite period of time"
Alibaba unveils Pay Watch, a $110 smartwatch clearly inspired by Apple Watch
Hmm. I don't own a modern iOS device myself, but my understanding was that the kernel support has been there for a long time, but until iOS 9, IPv6 wasn't actually enabled on cellular data networks. Upon investigating a bit more, it looks like that may have only been true for T-Mobile. But it's hard to find definitive statements one way or the other.
i believe the new third gen that was just released a couple weeks ago is the first Nest to actually use a round screen.
> So many better choices out there.

For now. I get the feeling that soon enough a lot of them will start dying out. Trying to "sell" some language other than JS in a mostly-JS shop is already an impossible battle. Popularity is used as a counter-argument for everything.
So it's reasonable to define data types in this way in OCaml, but it's abusing OO to do so in C++? Given that classes are data types, that seems... less than consistent.
There's also the Huawei Watch now[0] (released this week). Gives the 360 a run for its money in the "looking like other watches" department.

[0] http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/huawei-watch/
Whats your thoughts on base camp?
The Withings Activite does a much better job of mimicking an old watch, but it's also much simpler (just an activity tracker) and doesn't have an LCD screen.

http://www2.withings.com/us/en/products/activite-pop?

Practically, the issue with the current gen is that they need as much battery as possible. Bezels and weird shapes are both a good way to add volume and battery.
> All well and good with the standard little girl model

"The software developer Maria Lächele from the 8-person developers team at the Max-Planck Institute is seen amongst others as a passenger of the robot."
I applaude this effort. I think many people discount how capable they are of making the switch to commuting via bike to work. Almost any commute less then 10 miles can easily be done via bike, and making a "safe" route to connect the metro area is a great first step.

The unfortunate situation is that if you are over 10 miles to your office ( which many are ) you will have a hard time making that commute in a acceptable amount of time, unless you actually make an effort at going fast.
Google launches managed service for Hadoop and Spark
The sound of the engine is usually the giveaway to me. Clatterclatterclatter... I sometimes have to roll up my window when I am at a stoplight next to a heavy-duty diesel.
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> We should start from a country that's relatively safe and where the locals can anonymously report if they got to keep the money.

Successful examples include Otjivero - Omitara, Namibia[1] and Madhya Pradesh, India[2]

[1]: http://www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html
[2]: http://www.guystanding.com/files/documents/Basic_Income_Pilo...
I charge my Pebble while in the shower daily.
I don't really know the guy since I grew up in England, but from what I've read today I think he must've been some sort of subversive genius. All the quotes I've seen attributed to him suggest a perspective on the world which isn't really congruent with stupidity. For example, "I won't buy my kids an encyclopedia; they can walk to school just like I did." It's brilliant, and really funny. If the only thing he ever said was, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it," you might be forgiven for thinking he was a stereotypical lunkheaded sportsman. Taken as one example from a whole canon of sayings, though, and it's almost profound: 'you need to make a decision.'
The short bursts, lasting a minute or so are reminiscent of my childhood (early teens) experience. As I got older I thought it was something I'd grown of but then in my 30's it came back. Short bursts again at first but now permanent.

I think that tinnitus is one of those ailments with many causes but the low dopamine theory is an interesting one I've not come across before.