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Sort of off-topic, but what fitness gadgets do you all like?

I used a FitBit One for many years until I washed it recently and it died. Honestly, I never really looked at the data unless I expected it to be anomalous, even though I religiously carried it with me at all times. I bike 8-10 hours a week, so a few steps aren't really making a health difference for me.

The big thing that annoyed me about FitBit is that Apple has a reasonably useful thing for collecting all your health information on your iPhone, but FitBit refuses to participate (no doubt because it would cost software engineering time and reduce the number of "premium" subscribers).

All-day heart-rate tracking would be interesting, but I already wear a watch and I'm not going to wear a second one. (And I doubt you'll talk me out of wearing my Speedmaster. Maybe Patek makes a fitness-tracking watch :P)

Everything sleep-tracking related has terrible reviews, from my research. I would love to know exactly how much time I spend in bed, but nothing will collect the data for me without buggy apps and overcomplicated made-up analysis and whatnot ("you spend 3.7 minutes in REM" uh huh.)

I'm strongly considering just putting a pressure sensor under one of my bed's legs, connecting it to some WiFi-enabled resistance reader, and using that. It's surprising to me that nobody makes a product in this space that does one thing and does it well. I am also surprised that people like wearing things to bed. Like I'll remember to do that.

For biking, I think I already own every gadget there is. I've seen that there are now muscle oxygenation sensors (presumably for measuring when you're riding at lactate threshold), but the reviews say the devices basically just return random numbers and you might as well use a power meter and do an FTP test every couple months (which is good, but some days I feel like I can ride at my FTP forever, so I wonder how accurate these 20 minute tests are).

All in all it seems like people are interested in collecting data about themselves, so companies are racing to build devices to fill the gap with random numbers :P
It seems like the reason to buy an up3 would be for the purpose of sleep tracking. It doesn't seem like any other tracker is on par with it. The up3 will track your heart rate through the night, and even has a flexible alarm setting to try to wake you in the lightest sleep phase.

Does anyone know if there is a comparable sleep tracking device?
I wasn't so mad at him as mad as I was other things, really. I left within three months of that, I think. That was just one problem of maybe 50. Even with that shitty experience, it was still worth it with career in mind.

I was supporting both of BAML's FX systems, including doing Sunday market open by myself for a couple hours. It was my first "serious" job and at the time I didn't know what common job practices were, including proper pay. As soon as I found out I could make more elsewhere, I left.. with a 40k pay increase.

Considering the number and size of trades going through the platform, it's incredibly insulting that they thought my pay was industry acceptable. Hell, a year after I quit (the rest of the team was gone at this point), they wanted me to offer me a job in NYC, making me less than my job as php programmer (without knowing php) in Chicago.
"at a minimum each developer should have a cubicle with high cube walls and a small entrance"

Sounds more like a prison cell. How about daylight or a window?
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It won't get fixed now because $privacy. While the crime argument is used way too much to promote surveillance, it is also true that privacy-enchancing methods help criminals more than ordinary people. AT&T being able to track down some spammers is equivalent to them being able to track down everyone.
Plan9 and UTF-8 were invented by the same people.

But Plan9 didn't influence the design of UTF-8 only in as far as having a better character encoding than the original 2 byte UCS encoding.

And then Plan9 was used to showcase UTF-8.
Thanks for the insight. It helps me feel better about all my unfinished side projects that started out as research, because I learned so much from them. I now apply that learning to my current efforts.
You worked in Chicago? Did we know each other and I'm just not making a connection to your username?
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the US equivalent of GmbH is LLC
Boston Dynamics employees were frustrated by Google's plan for a household robot
Slock has responded to this by creating a proposal to fix these security issues: https://blog.slock.it/slock-it-security-proposal-1-is-now-ve...
I think there's no obvious US equivalent. IIRC, a GmbH can sort of go through multiple stages that each have some aspects of different US entity types. In a literal sense it would translate to an LLC, but I don't think the rules are similar enough for that to actually be a useful translation.
> some supposedly small risk for health or environment from GMOs

That's the part that's delusional.

> Cows living in captivity for milk production

That - and most of your other concerns - has nothing to do with genetic modification. Why do you believe a label about genetic origins will change farming practices? Monoculture farming, abuse of antibiotics, and other farming problems happen regardless of genetic origin.

Milk deserves a label because growth hormones and antibiotics have actual effects on humans. A similar label on Roundup Ready vegetables only encourages the delusional belief that they have "any additionnal risk, however small".

> needed GMOs to feed our people

We crossed that line a long time ago.

> Less usage of biocides?

YES. Roundup isn't perfect, but it is the least worse option compared to previous herbicides.

> they are time tested

Testing is always important, of course, but "old" does not mean "better" (or worse). This is the "appeal to nature" fallacy.

Also, about those crops you are calling "time tested". Does that include all the crops from before the field of genetics existed? Before we had the technology to make small, specific changes to the genome, we used to simply force mutations[1] with e.g. cobalt-60[2], x-rays, ethyl methanesulfonae[3]. Even though the results are random an often include multiple significant genetic changes that are completely unknown, many successful varieties created from mutation breeding are not only in the common food supply, they can also be labeled organic and often "non-GMO".

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_methanesulfonate
The first time I saw a German ghetto I thought it was joke. A German ghetto is a pretty nice place to live in most countries

I've seen video from the inside of the cells in a Scandinavian prison. Those looked nicer than the apartment my friend spent her sabbatical in, in Chicago. And she's a college professor!
Have you heard of false equivalence?
On one hand, many in the world of foreign policy think the US military has become top heavy, and the number of admirals/generals is being cut back (I think both the Sec'y of Defense and congressional leaders are on board with this).

On the other hand, executives serve an important purpose, and it's always easy to say 'there's too much bureaucracy' without actually having any idea how much bureaucracy is needed.
Does this means that if there are 3 genes a,b,c in mammal 1 and a,b in mammal 2, the lack of c can lead to a significant difference in the role/interpretation/function of a and b ?
"Go to hell" and "go hang yourself" exist in English.

"Devil" is very mild profanity as a noun. It's stronger as an intensifier: "What the devil are you doing?!".

I'm British and live in Denmark. Danes swear in English far more than they should, perhaps because they learn all the strongest words from American TV, where swearing replaces humour...
A few more nice points about arxiv: 1) peer-review can take sometime, it's nice to be able to get your work out earlier publicly for the records, which you can make a claim later on 2) even after publication, it is accessible by anyone (and it is common to update the arxiv version to match the published version, including improvements after peer review)

It's probably not very useful for getting comments. The only comments I ever get are along the lines "I see your nice manuscript, please don't forget to cite these papers of mine". To my surprise, it is mostly "leading" physicists who send such mails (which makes me doubt their citation records).
> 2. Rather than only having the option to Accept or Decline, I want a “silently wait until they hang up” option.

I think every Android phone I ever had featured this option (and probably every phone before that too). On Android phones I used, you have to press one of the volume buttons - it silences the incoming call without declining it.

I use that feature very often, not just on telemarketers.
Just like halal and kosher food makers, non-GMO food makers can include it on the box.

As a vegetarian myself, I assume food which doesn't disclose itself as being veg is not - particularly when outside of India. I don't feel it is the responsibility of the rest of the world to accommodate my personal tastes.
> Crying is correlated with empathy, which is among the most important traits a human can have.

I don't know why people place so much emphasis on empathy, as if it's some magical ingredient that other animals lack, or that it's some integral component to society.

Other animals have empathy too, and empathy has little to do with moral reasoning. Empathy doesn't make humans special, intelligence and the physical composition/dexterity to make full use of our intelligence is what makes us special.
Exactly! And to the gp comment, how do you quantify "good api" until someone has used it? And even when someone ends up using it, how will they tell you if they find it easy or hard to use?

Also, once it starts getting heavily used, won't that make it much riskier and harder to sell to management to refactor it if you get feedback that it is hard to use? Unit, integration, and functional tests all help here, but let's say your abstraction has adoption at 100 api consumer call sites. There's a lot that could go wrong.

Now, if you are the only person using the api for a long time, that's another way to determine if it's a "good api", because you'll use it to build things. Refactoring it is still a tough sell to management in that case though. Not impossible, but tough.
That's why I love my Pebble. I know whether or not I should break a conversation I'm having / walk across the room to pick up. Most of the time, I really don't - even when the person who's calling is on my contacts list.
Who would they file such a complaint against? Do they write it on an index card and drop it in a box in front of the US Department of Labor or something? I'm confused by the premises of this bet. They're a teeny tiny company with < 100 employees and people talk about them like they're Standard Oil circa 1890, twirling their mustaches and engaging in Dynasty-level interpersonal corporate drama. It's literally just a small group of (probably mostly twentysomething) people sitting in a small clump of office space in SF, regardless of how significant the thing that they maintain is to so many people. I don't know how they manage to even keep the lights on given how much traffic they get, much less the crap they have to deal with on a regular basis from many of their users.

I don't doubt that there's a laundry list of corporate dysfunction at Reddit HQ, but even the most seemingly universal complaints I see people post about seem more like collaborative storytelling exercises where a bunch of people are getting each other worked up into a frothy rage over stuff that just really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The pitchforks-and-torches mob mentality I've occasionally seen on Reddit is way more damaging to those communities than anything I've ever heard of regarding the company leadership.
It's probably not for you, given the speedmaster & the biking, but I like my Withings Activite. Looks like a normal analog watch with a activity level dial, and integrates with Apple Health via Withings' app, which is nicely designed. Regular watch battery.

Edit: I would also be interested if anyone knows of an automatic (mechanical) watch with a pedometer complication. Seems like it wouldn't be too far off from the power-reserve dials that some fancy automatics have.
If it's breaking just because it was flexed or got wet, they're doing something wrong. Flexible printed circuits [1] have been around for decades. The problem may be that they had to use commodity surface mount ICs, instead of getting ones with bigger pads that could take more stress.

[1] http://www.flexiblecircuit.com/product-category/flex-printed...
I use VoIP.ms for my landline, and I've just set up a their free IVR to block telemarketers very easily: It plays a recording telling the caller to dial 1 to ring our phones. Very effective, since bots won't parse it.

(I've considered going mobile only, but the costs for VoIP.ms are miniscule enough that it doesn't really register anymore.)
I suppose what I'm imagining is that you would treat it as a legacy identifier for legal purposes, and you'd only ever have to use it very infrequently for the benefit of bureaucrats. Like, that's just the string on your birth certificate, it doesn't define you as a person any more than your [relevant governmental ID number].

That said, I can certainly see how that could still be unpleasant, but to me, it sounds like the process you're going through at the moment is far more disruptive and unpleasant?
What can you set up on proxy that you can't set up on your machine?
One of my favorite comic artists put it more appropriately than I could - in the form of a flow chart: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4122

TL;DR - once strong AI arrives, we're as good as dead. ;-) Can't argue with a flow chart!
It's getting there. I try and teach everyone that too, in a direct way - I just don't pick up phone calls when I don't feel like it. Want something from me really fast? Text me. I want to know whether or not the thing is important enough to warrant dropping whatever I'm doing right now. And frankly, most of the time it isn't. Some people simply think their random bullshit is the most important thing in the world, and everyone should treat it as priority.
This coming from the experts that lend money to troubled countries. Government austerity is bad for business, naturally.
I'm no geneticist, but isn't this "structural" number still valuable for other purposes? Also isn't the 6pp also "structural" so modulo my previous complaints we're comparing like measurements?
Great post. Over of my favorite game hacks is players who carve out their controllers in games that don't clamp magnitude. Let's them move faster in diagonals. Sneaky sneaky!
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That's because the ability to mate and have viable offspring is not anything like a simple and clear concept in some cases. For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
I think so. That + epigenetics, and the "one gene one protein" slogan one learns in grade school aggregiously plays down the complexity, even if it's not false per se.
I meant something else. When you write a comment, you transcribe your thoughts and feelings into text. That text may or may not be close to what you actually think - e.g. to the words you use in your internal monologue. In this case I think the word choice serves to portray the actual thoughts and emotions of the author more clearly/accurately.
Have you tried SleepCycle? Marketed as an alarm-clock but it has some relatively useful sleep analysis dashboards.
Yep had two and both broke within two months! Moved to a Fitbit which I lost as the clasp isn't very secure. Then gave up on fitness trackers!
They might as well have, honestly. I found it on accident when tying to link my group's database to the risk management system, since it was also their internal cluster computing system. It was more or less a giant python object store, including code. It had zero documentation and since I worked second, I had to figure it without any devs online. Eventually found the password store after looking through other groups' production code. Turns out that double clicking on an object showed its code and anything linked to it, so once you have the password function object, you get all linked password hashes. Double clicking the hashes then ran its linked function - rot13 - and printed it to the screen.

This was in 2011, so they should've known better! I've seen some pretty bad stuff, but that was pretty up there.
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Not really (I don't go to church). All swear words are pronounced differently from the actual word (see 'joual' on google). The priest (or anybody else) can say the word in proper french and it won't be heard as a swear word.

Also, I think it has to do with how you use the word. When it's a noun, it's pretty clear that you're not swearing.
And I find the bit manipulations easier to grok (then again, I know several different assembly languages and have been programming in C for years).

As for the bit ranges, it looks backwards to me, since bits are normally numbered high to low. I would find it easier to read if it read:

self.0.set_range(3..0, stack_index);

I can "see" that much easier.
The film "Bon Cop Bad Cop" has a great scene in which the Quebec cop explains to the Toronto cop how to swear properly. Sadly it is dufficult to get a copy of the film with subtitles that do justice to the script, especially in the UK.
I've run into some UI issues I can't even remember in the beginning of the development and decided to skip it for now.

I can try to build it for Mavericks in a couple of months though.
I didn't study biology so my 'knowledge' is limited to the approximations fed before. But as a programmer, I can imagine that a change at lower layers can impacts upper layers tremendously. I'd like to read more about gene interrelation / dynamics.
The most frustrating part is the isolation of the different fitness social networks. I have family and friends using Runkeeper, Strava, etc whereas I have to use Garmin Connect with my Garmin device(s).

I have found Tapiriik[1] to be invaluable in keeping these different apps/fitness networks synchronized.

[1]: https://tapiriik.com/
This seemed like quite the assumption, so I did some light digging. This person definitely does not work for ThoughtWorks.
Tripled twin
Yes it can help you work out how related two species are to each other, but as a means of knowing what an individual gene does in each species it can be highly misleading. Ask any pharmaceutical researcher how much the concept that sharing a gene means sharing a function can lead you astray.
Yeah I can illustrate a personal example. I lived with my dad who'd been ill for years and on welfare. His income was supplemented to about 950 euros or so a month, however, if I had a part-time job making 350 euros, he'd only receive 600, because the household income was 950.

So here I am, a poor student paying my own way through college with no support from my parents, working part-time and going into debt, and they slam this on me. So I was forced to financially support my parents because there's no way to pay rent, food, insurance etc on 650 bucks. After many calls it turns out there was no solution, the -benefits was 1:1 with the +income I was earning.

This created an incentive for me to stop working. If I earned 100, my dad got 100 less, if I earned 600 my dad got 600 less. It'd only make sense for me to work if I quit college and got a job that paid more than he'd get in benefits, such that if I made 1k a month, my dad would get 0, I'd give him 950, and keep 50 bucks a month for working full-time at minimum wage.

So I stopped working and started desperately looking to move out (so that my income was no part of the 'household' income of my dad's place). Eventually did, got a job again and finished uni.

Anyway it's just one of many bad policy planning examples that look sensible in general... which is, if you're working, you don't need benefits anymore. And if you're living with people who are making all kinds of money, there's no need to depend on the state anymore, so they're counted as part of your income that the benefit requirements are tested against.

Then there's indeed examples where benefits are replaced quicker than income. Worse than 1:1. Like when you make 900 bucks, you get an exemption from a municipality tax of 150. But if you make 901, you pass the threshold, such that your effective income dropped to 751 by earning 1 euro extra, which puts you in a nasty situation in a country where rent, insurance puts you at 750 already and there's nothing left for food, culture or connectivity.
It is a lot more complicated than that unfortunately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_v._United_States_Post_Of...

The consideration of a "captive audience" is relevant to the topic under discussion, prior restraint (in general) as well.
That's incredibly bullshit. It is not off topic. It is exactly on point. You simply do not want to hear this reality check.
Would anybody agree that although there isn't a direct threat, it is heavily implied?
IMO a bigger issue is that most of these kernel entries have unusual calling conventions. Exception handlers need to preserve all registers, for example. On x86_64, it's more complicated due to GSBASE handling. (Linux had it subtly wrong literally forever. OpenBSD still had it wrong last time I checked, but other hardening measures seem to make it impossible to exploit.

SYSCALL is even worse -- when the handler is invoked, there isn't even a stack.
I'm cisgendered so I don't know what it's like for you. But I hear that you are saying this is difficult, and despite it being difficult for me to imagine, one thing I and others can do is take you at your word, as a person living your own life, and adult who is trying your best to be who you are.

It sounds like it must be constantly exhausting, mentally speaking. Like trying to get along in a country where you don't speak the language well and are struggling to learn it, when people tell you, "hey just learn to talk". Except the language is your body, your identity. But I'm just guessing, I don't know. In any case, I'm sorry things are difficult, and I hope you find success.
It's not just an appearance change - we hope it's the way you use it too :)
Commodity fitness trackers are a terrible business to be in, I almost fell for the hype a few years ago. As a user I never saw it, couldn't even get myself to use them consistently and I really liked the idea. And I even heard an investor say (regarding FitBit), "After 3 months they [the customers] just stop wearing it."

If you're not top 2 or 3 you're probably toast.

> Jawbone raised a new $165 million round of funding in January. The company's CEO Hosain Rahman told Tech Insider a few months ago that the company plans to use that money to develop clinical-grade fitness trackers.

If the financing is going to help them lead to a major pivot, that's great. I don't know what "clinical-grade fitness trackers", but if they want to redirect their resources and expertise towards a market where they can charge more for hardware, that'd be a smart move.

Maybe they can contribute to elder care somehow. Fall detection has been done, but how well? I always thought physiotherapy could be a decent use case. After a shoulder injury I remember being able to move my arm 10 degrees above parallel, then 15 degrees the next day, etc etc. Could have probably helped my therapist optimize treatments and physio routine while communicating this data over the internet. Maybe "e-physiotherapists" could be a thing.

Anyways I hope the company finds a better product/market fit, and survives long enough to do so.