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I agree, that's why I wouldn't buy one right now. But future technology is hard to predict. I couldn't have predicted something like the app store. There might be some unforeseen killer feature that smart watches will dominate. Who knows.
The comments on the blog post are hilarious to me.

"And why do you need type safety? Because you are used to?"

Er. Well, if you like driving a car with no seatbelts, crumple zone, or airbags, I guess that's fine with me. But when I get in a car, I buckle up.
The Chinese stance on Dalai Lama is kind of weird:

They kind of recognise him, he is free to travel, nontheless they pressure other people to not see him.

Seems like they can't explain what they're trying to do to themself.
The programming language eco system is really improving rapidly and efficiently. It seemed the developer's toolkit was limited by the languages created 20+ years ago but within the last few years we're seeing a renaissance in developer toolkits as well as development philosophies.

Languages like Go, Rust, and now Swift are not only great from almost every aspect over the last generation languages like C, C++, Java, but a lot noobs or scripting language developers are also converting to more low level languages. So the barrier to pick up a lower level language and become productive in it has really diminished.

Go has had a head start and introduced minimal simplicity. It's a great/powerful language and almost everybody can pick it up quickly within a few days. I wouldn't listen to people who dismiss the language for its lack of "features" and have never written more than "hello world" in it.

Swift is "important" because of Apple & iOS. It has a much steeper learning curve than Go and naturally it takes a few weeks of dedication to get comfortable with it. However, once you overcome the introductory challenge then you'll start to appreciate the language and its capabilities.

Already the job market for both languages are really high with higher than average salaries. So learning/mastering both Go and Swift is the best decision you can make.
Anyone who thinks that the federal government will spend money better than a charity is free to give it to the IRS. They accept donation. But no one believes this is a good idea, as evidenced by the fact that such donations are many orders of magnitude less than Americans donate to charity.
> "Meanwhile, how much are the commenters themselves giving away? Oh, somewhat less than 99%? Yeah."

Dude I've met lots of people who don't make much money and still donate from the little they have. They might be giving only 10% but if you already have difficulties making ends meet this is a lot.

So no, I don't buy into some billionaire putting his money into a LLC to evade the tax and claiming to do something good.

Btw I wouldn't be pointing my finger if it wasn't for the public announcement. He still could do that in private. But don't make a big fuss about it and pretend you are an example.
The political environment is always toxic and insane :)
I carefully manage notifications. Notifications that buzz actually require my immediate attention: slack notifications, texts from my wife, important emails.
To elaborate a little with one example:

1) One of our server goes down.
2) My watch tells me about it.
3) I can decide
a) Reboot it
b) Replace it
c) Send a callout to my Ops team.

All in less than 10 seconds ... used to take 10 minutes, including taking out my laptop, checking what's going on, finding out who's on call.

We have a few dozen of these.
No, it's a difference in opinion about who should decide what to do with the power, as the quote said.
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I don't think that level of detail is publicly available yet. And even non-profits start out as an LLC, and then gain that designation, so that _could_ be what's happening here.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangat...
Sure, it's flippant, but do recall that the entire concept of open source absolutely terrified IP lawyers not that long ago (and in some cases, still does).

Lawyers who are too conservative to allow their company's developers to contribute to open source projects (that they don't own) have a problem. Open source is way beyond pussy-footing around just to make corporate lawyers feel comfortable.

And seriously, if Apple can do it, why can't they?
I would be very interested in seeing what percentage of the "social" donations are going to "Religious" organizations, per country.
The scholarly value of these records is obvious, but I don't see much of a public interest angle behind publishing them. Is the Kobe Shimbun hoping its readers will wonder whether or not this famous writer had some controversial or salacious reading habits? Why not get his permission and at least try to get an interview putting them into some context?
"There are many research institutions and workplaces where the cost of the tool isn't really thought about at all. In fact, the cost of Matlab and toolbox fees is a small fraction of a senior scientist/engineer's total compensation."

Yeah that's my experience with my current job. Matlab licenses aren't an issue. Also many people have Bloomberg terminals and other expensive tools of that trade that make Matlab look fairly cheap in comparison.

For a language to beat out Matlab it will need to be based on other factors than cost. Most likely performance, documentation, training, tooling and be popular within the pool of candidates for jobs. Hopefully Julia can get there.
What was the design decision that required function declaration to be :

func hello(name: String) -> String { }

rather than,

func hello(name: String) : String { }
We use Appear.in and HighFive along with some of the usual suspects (Hangouts, Skype, Facetime) with some degree of success. Not sure when I'd consider this.
If Zuck "transfers assets like a family business, farm, real estate or stocks to his children now" then this transfer would, presumably, be far far in excess of the $14,000 annual exemption and thus subject to taxation.

This LLC is not an effective way to avoid estate taxes on the vast majority of his wealth.
Because the structure that enabled you to amass that amount of wealth is flawed, and disproportionately rewards "you" over the network that actually did much of the heavy lifting. Nobody is saying they shouldn't be richly rewarded, just that it's gotten fucking ridiculous.
Common Music is a much more mature and comprehensive project and uses Scheme - close to Racket - and/or its own DSL. There's also the option to do synthesis.

http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/

There's also Overtone for Clojure fans, which also does synthesis:

http://overtone.github.io/

And Impromptu, PD, Csound, Supercollider... and Max if you want something commercial.

And projects with much higher levels of abstraction like Rubato Composer.

(And many others, in fact.)

I guess there's no reason not to make something like Alda as a simple student exercise. But compared to the alternatives, it isn't any more powerful than that.
The thing Tumblr does that's unique is: to join the comment thread you have to have a blog, and your reply goes on your blog (and includes an automatically generated reference to the blogs of each of the other people in the thread).

That may sound odd and awkward and in many ways it is, but the consequence is that every conversation connects you to many other people to "follow". And then the posts you get from them on your dash connect you to others. So with Tumblr, it's extremely easy to form "communities" - and to find them.
Am I correct in assuming this means that cloudflare reads html to determine other files that need to be sent (css, js, images)?
"Mass shootings do happen, but they are like airplane crashes - exciting for media and common folks, but rather rare."

In 2015 alone, there have been 355 mass shootings as of the time of this posting. Since 2013 there has been on average one mass shooting a day.

How is that rare?
I take it as a given that, when a private individual uses their money, at least one person probably thought the way it was used was a good idea.

I do not take it as a given that, when the government spends money, anyone thought how it was spent was a good idea (like spending 8 billion dollars to design a tank... yes, that's billions, with a "b" (also, I love that movie))
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Perhaps the German government can make good decisions about where to spend money, since I know they put lots of money into science and culture, but I wouldn't trust the US Congress to do the same.

The US federal government is far more likely blow it all on the military weapons systems or funding tax cuts that benefit the wealthy rather than funding guinea worm eradication or anti-malaria initiatives in Africa. The typical US congressman is unwilling to spend money altruistically on things that aren't perceived as directly benefiting the United States.

Sure, billionaires aren't saints either, but I think it's far more likely that they'll donate to causes that are geared toward having a positive long-term impact on humanity as a whole.
Swift gives you nice syntax and Go provides you good abstraction for concurrency(channel and goroutines).
I don't use Docker anywhere, but curious - what would happen?
> For example, in your reddit post you claim that := is problematic, and indeed its semantics is tricky and often trips beginners (and even experienced!) programmers. However := semantics is not actually that complicated "define every variable that isn't defined inside the current scope, otherwise assign them" and the errors stem from the fact that people assume that the scope lookup for := is recursive, which would arguably result in a more complicated formal semantics.

Clearer examples of unnecessary complexity in Go would be the function-scoped nature of "defer" (implicit mutable state is much more complicated than block scoping) and the inconsistent behavior of "nil" with the built-in collections (reading from a nil map returns zero values, but reading from a nil slice panics).
Private charities have on average been terribly inefficient in the US. However, in terms of Conspicuous consumption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption) they are better than building ever larger boats.
"wouldn't it be better to have all this power be in the hands of the democratically chosen"

This assumes the money in question belongs to the state to begin with, and we're merely deciding how it is to be allocated. That is not the case. This is not the rich deciding what to do with the public money, it's the rich deciding what to do with their own money.

I think we would all agree, regardless of level of income, we would rather our own money be allocated to the causes that we support, rather than the causes that 51% of people support.
It looks like he managed to go through a whiteboard coding exercise in the end! As far as I know, Apple follows roughly the same hiring practices as Google. Well done (no sarcasm here, it's probably great to work at Apple)!
> I'm from a more metropolitan area i guess.

I would be surprised if you are from somewhere more metropolitan than Kobe Japan [0]. It is much more likely that you are just young.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keihanshin
Glad to see OCaml gaining steam. This is quite close to another project written in OCaml: Opa ( http://opalang.org ).

Opa differs in that it is a new language though, but the compiler is written in OCaml and compiles the Opa language to JavaScript (using by default Node.js and MongoDB).

Compared to this project, Opa provides much more automation (ORM except it's neither Object nor Relational, slicing i.e. separation of client and server code, etc.).

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Opa.
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This reply is mainly intended for Moxie and the team developing Signal as feedback (which they probably have received from others). I'm not going to focus on security, because Signal is likely the best on that front from whatever I have read.

I really want Signal to be my only app for chats and I do try Signal once in a while, but I always go back to Telegram for a few reasons. Telegram is very fast in delivering messages, just like it claims. Signal, on the other hand, has been and continues to be slow. Messages could sometimes take anywhere from 10 seconds to even a minute or several minutes to get delivered. That's not really a good UX for chats when you can't say whether your message would get delivered or not. If I wanted to send a slightly urgent message (urgent enough to be a message but not urgent enough to be a call), I wouldn't rely on the current implementation of Signal. Back and forth communication also becomes very odd and frustrating if the messages don't get delivered within a few seconds. Even SMS seems better when compared to Signal's speed of message delivery.

Next is the multi-device availability and syncing of conversations in Telegram. Once you get used to having Telegram on the desktop/laptop and phone (and perhaps a tablet), it fits in so well with the physical location someone is in, what the person is doing and which device the person feels comfortable with. There are many people who have deep and heavy conversations on these chat apps, and doing that on a small screen's touch keyboard is a big hindrance. Being able to do that with a laptop or a desktop makes it so superior an experience that it's difficult to give that up.

People that I chat with either don't know much about encryption and privacy or don't care much about those. Getting some of them to use Telegram instead of WhatsApp was difficult, but they're now big fans of Telegram because of how it works and what it provides. But getting them to move to Signal? I can't imagine doing that with the current state of affairs with Signal.

While Signal may be a very secure chat app, not focusing on the things that help increase UX (and in turn, market share) will not help in the long run.

My hope and wish is that Signal development would accelerate faster and provide quicker releases that solve what I see as fundamental issues. This would benefit everyone and make our world a much better place.
Pretty sure it doesn't. Feel free to provide quotes / evidence if you disagree.
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I work for a startup[0] that does quality control through machine learning for the beverage industry. We're focused most on beer, followed by coffee and spirits.

[0]: https://gastrograph.com
Even 5% is a lot if you already have difficulties making ends meet. I mean you still want to invest something to have some kind of a cushion if you lose your job right?

So yes, for someone with little income donating 5% can already be too much.
Well, he claims that at some point in his life he's going to give 99% to an LLC he controls, and that the LLC will donate some of that money (it's uncertain to who or for what), invest some of that money (again, uncertain as to where), and use some for political lobbying (uncertain as to what cause). He's also had a bad track record when it comes to some of his donations (see the Newark schools).

So yeah, he might do great things with it, or he might not. We don't have much to go by, other than the fact that he's made a big announcement before he's actually willing to tell us what he's doing, which points to this being a vanity project more than anything.

Even if he does great things with it (which we have no way of knowing at the moment), it doesn't mean that he's above criticism. Some politicians will have massive turkey give-aways to boost their popularity; organized crime leaders are often known for their generosity in their communities. In the world we live in, it's worth taking a look at the person as a whole as well as what their motivations are, rather than just praising any gifts while ignoring ulterior motives.
Personally I'm fine with it. But some people expected smartwatches to have the same momentum that smartwatch and tablet had in the early days - tons of new apps, becoming more useful all the time, etc.
That was my initial impression as well -- this is remarkably similar to Wave. Wasn't Wave open-sourced?
For me, the Apple Watch has done a great job of solving meeting notifications. I have lots of meetings throughout the day, and it keeps me on track much better then my phone ever did. I also like the fact that I can keep my phone at my desk for long chunks of time and not miss important notifications.

The watch is not for everyone; however there are a few use cases that it handles much better than a phone (at least for me).
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You mean like the US government which is pouring money and weapons into failed states and the fascists dictatorships that have resulted, might not be the most responsible entity for deciding where your charity goes? It really comes down to a philosophical decision. Do you believe the government will make better use of your neighbors money than they will?

EDIT: I picked the US government, but I doubt many other countries have to look for to see ludicrously immoral and unethical expenditures of their own.
Its hard to outrun a bad diet...
"The pair do not have a sterling track record when it comes to effective charity. One of their previous efforts, a high-profile $100 million donation to fix the schools in Newark, N.J., has been widely criticized as a failure."

Asking for a quote misses the point. Look into it yourself and the first link is Where Zuckerberg's $100 million gift went wrong http://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/23/where-zuckerbergs-100-million...
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It means that his decision and commitment overcame the tendency to eat (I assume) excessively and unhealthily, which most people appear to be incapable of without extreme external intervention.
Just because an organization is religious doesn't mean it can't provide social benefit. The air quotes seem unnecessary.
Curious, what apps are you using?
This is such a retarded argument. How did it get into the budget if nobody thought it was a good idea? Do you know how much of a fight it is to get anything in there at all?

Furthermore, all you're doing is cherry picking data points to support your argument without factoring in that military and medical equipment all have huge, onerous requirements for tracking every step of the supply chain, to the mine the metal came out of, which makes cost structures very weird.

What about the Manhattan Project, or the Hoover Dam, or the Interstate System. Bad investments? See, I can cherry pick too.
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Have to disagree on this one. The 6th gen iPod nano (https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...) is my absolute favorite, so if they made the Apple Watch able to be an iPod without accompanying iphone AND able to support bluetooth wireless headphones, I'm sold. Perfect fitness form factor.
It's not giving up any say, just most of it - after all, there is some government process to be an approved tax-break eligible charity, no? [not familiar with US law on this]
The rest of the world stance on Dalai Lama is counterproductive too.

Chinese tell you: Do as we wish; or else. If you do as we tell you, nothing changes; otherwise, Things May Happen To You.
(In this case, "don't meet Dalai Lama")
And the world is happy to oblige. I mean, what will they demand next? As a person, I would never tolerate things like this from third party. You want me to behave how you like? Pay.
Countries are just happy to give Chinese something for nothing. If barter will be in place, stakes will eventually rise, but as long as they get free service, no inflation for them!

Pope taking orders from communist party on the other side of the globe under "Or Else" threats is an especial pity. Where's your realm, Pope, in this world or in another one?
> He said that having a few very wealthy people decide what were the most important causes was bad compared to having the democratically elected government decide.

This sentence is really amusing to me, because our democratically elected government, at least at the congressional level, is nearly all wealthy millionaires. So either way, important causes are decided by the wealthy.
> He said that having a few very wealthy people decide what were the most important causes was bad compared to having the democratically elected government decide. You may disagree with that, but it is quite different from simply saying public good and private bad.

How is that any different from the comment you're replying to? If the government is running something, it's a government ("public") program rather than a private one.
Purchase price, most likely.
Didn't they grandfather in those that were in before that point?
They should have made the watch round so that it creates design busywork? I'm not sure that's a strategy for product success.
Why would this affect opening the protocol? Patents aren't about keeping implementations secret.
As other commenters have noted, this seems like hyperbole. But on the off chance this is true, it really sounds like you need a vacation. HN is a little culty at times, but I'd suggest a long look in the mirror or a good mai tai session on a beach. Get back to you and what is really important to you, we only have so much time on this planet, and responding to every email is likely not going to be on your highlights reel
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"it's the rich deciding what to do with their own money."

No, I wouldn't agree on that at all. That runs entirely counterproductive to what our society is built on. This is the arrogance people talk about - you think you know what is better for people than they do.
> It is all just a bad transfer of power from the state to billionaires.

Complaining about that is missing the forest behind the trees. With Citizens United and general ineptitude of the legislative branch to produce any significant fixes to the system, that power is long transferred.
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I'm thinking more of difficulty in writing rustfmt compared to gofmt.

The extra stuff that rustfmt does stems from the fact that rustfmt wants to aesthetically format code well, matching the style that the community had settled on prior to its introduction (e.g. avoiding long lines, lining up parameters), while gofmt is fine with less aesthetically pleasing code (long lines, all parameters on one line) as long as the implementation of gofmt remains simple. There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing a bare-bones rustfmt in the style of gofmt and trying to push its style onto the community, but Nick had different goals.
Yeah, rather leave that money to the state who will spend it on actually useful things such as new wars that will make the military-industrial complex even wealthier.

This kind of thinking unfortunately is common in continental Europe, particularly in Germany and France. This is not all about the common good or democratic legitimacy. It's really all about redistribution of wealth and getting back at "the rich". It's about slave-moral thinking that strives to punish the well-off and make everyone feel equally miserable.
The same guy who wasn't offered a job at Google because he didn't do well in the interview (or was it code in the interview?)
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All in less than 10 seconds ... used to take 10 minutes, including taking out my laptop

If it's possible with an Apple Watch, surely you could also do it on your iPhone?

That's the problem with the watch for me - not that it can't do things, but that those things are also possible on an iPhone, and the extra expense/remembering to charge/etc isn't worth it for the ~3 second convenience.
I think the key question is whether private charities are more or less efficient relative to governments, not whether they are efficient in an absolute sense.
Speaking as a person who goes to a lot of meetings, having the right notifications on my wrist are great. I am rarely late for meetings now, and I can keep track of key events while sitting in those meetings. A look at my wrist is much more subtle than a look at my phone.