skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"real" watches, i.e. an automatic, never need charging. even if you let it sit for days until the spring unwinds, you just put it on, shake your wrist, and it starts ticking again.

my casio digitals are solar. life is too short to replace or charge watch batteries. i mean, this problem was solved nearly a century ago.

the cheapest automatics are made by seiko and are barely $50. solars are cheaper.

i'll never buy a smartwatch until they're one or the other. watches should not have batteries or any other design feature that renders them useless on purpose.
Pokemon glitches are an incredibly interesting rabbit hole. They provide a good mix of video games and low level programming goodness:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheZZAZZGlitch

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChickasaurusGL

These two channels together will give you everything you need to get started and document close to every known glitch in the pokemon games. Well that and perhaps TRRoses old website for background on what exactly is going on in these videos, but that got taken down. Bulbapedia probably still has what you need though:

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitch_Pok%C3%A9mon

A favorite example of mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x9G5BWanWw
Discovering new human and bot algorithmic artists on twitter by searching for #generated:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23generated&src=typd
I'm interested in your resources but I don't want to make the time investment of watching the Youtube videos you linked. Can you give a short synopsis of them?
The rise we're afraid of is around 4 meters. What you're hypothesizing is several hundred meters.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/USA_topo...
Note that there are 3rd party solutions for the Pebble (straps that use their extension/accessory pins to add GPS and a bit more juice) and that Pebble plans to release the Pebble Core in January - a tiny wearable Android device with GPS included.

So you should be able to go out with your Pebble + SomethingElse and leave the phone at home, if we're talking GPS or tracking.

Disclaimer: I own a Pebble Time, I backed the Pebble Time 2 and the Pebble Core.
The Pebble 2 Kickstarter was early in the summer and didn't start shipping until October. Since the graph mentions shipped units, I'm not surprised they're down. Anyone who was interested in getting a Pebble either pledged to the Kickstarter or waited for the 2 to come out in stores.

Annoyingly, the folks who waited for the store version will be getting theirs before the Kickstarter backers do. The community took a big hit when they prioritized WalMart over the folks who helped them get off the ground. Pebble's community has always been a strong point for the company - not sure if that'll keep being true, so their blip might turn into a bigger slide.

Disclaimer: Backer of Pebble 2 who won't be getting his watch until at least mid-November.
This American Life: Seriously?
yeah what possessed them to make people say "ok Google". I might as well say, "I'm an idiot". Was it not possible to make it start listening for commands when you activate it/turn wrist etc.
Yeah but Quake was the first Doom clone where you could actually aim in two dimensions, X and Y! Doom's only letting you aim in X felt a bit cheesy and limited after playing Quake. Especially Quake 2 with mods, those were extremely fun times.
The new keyboard on macbook and external keyboard has a different layout of arrow keys [1] vs the older macbook pro keyboard [2]

[1] - https://www.evernote.com/l/ABV1fPm7JnBO76pqevjy990uALmIK39uZ...

[2] - https://www.evernote.com/l/ABVer15u9rhODaV3U5QafcRx8eVu3HVq6...

As for the touch ID - try double clicking the home button with a finger that has no touch ID, it does not show a PIN entering screen. I used to double tap all the time before to quicker unlock the phone and swipe to enter a pin, now its' quite annoying and not as fast.
> even in a patriarchal society where women could not vote, a forcible kiss was recognized as an assault

I'm not sure this was a great statement, considering the reasoning behind the gravity of the offense...
Building their brand up with licenseing is a great idea. But would the Chinese audience respond well to the shows that were built to target the western audience like stranger things? Also Which shows do they have the rights too?
>The same reasoning also excludes the existence of a perfect virus scanner (even if you were to define a virus to be a programme that may open a dialog saying "VIRUS").

It's a cute theorem, but it's more misleading than it is useful. Let's say we use a simple bytecode format for your programs. They can only open that dialog by having a call to the open-dialog function with a fixed parameter saying "VIRUS". We may not be able to say if an arbitrary program will run that call, but we can state with certainty whether it has that call. Such a program is either a virus or a virus decoy, and either way should be blocked.

We don't need to answer the question "Are we certain the program does X at runtime?". If we can answer "Does the program have an X-performing module?" that's good enough.

On android we can't answer that because the execution model is too powerful. But it's possible to make a practical app platform with the ability to answer that question.
Of course almost nobody knows this because nobody notices it.

Though, I can now instantly tell if I'm watching a PAL or NTSC version of Star Trek TNG based on the the first few bars of the opening song.

Which is weird, because I don't even have pitch perfect hearing and I'm not even that musically inclined.
>"the human clock, disconnected from day/night feedback"

I am saying the second was originally linked to length of day, so the calibrated clock should be used. Also, at some point the differences due to latitude changes, etc will be biologically indistinguishable from stuff like the effect of clouds.
I'm a "food enthusiast" and have had raw + cooked ghost and scorpion peppers. Somewhere on YouTube there is a video of me making a proper ass of myself while crushing a scorpion/ghost/habanero hit wing challenge at Jake Melnicks in Chicago. I'm not ever gonna try the Carolina reapers as I don't see the point, but know they will rip you up pretty good. I always eat starchy or carby food before eating super spicy stuff and know it is genuinely no joke. It wouldn't be hard to get an ulcer or worse from some of those peppers.
I know people who live in a flat for about 20 years now and they don't pay that much more than 20 years ago.

So it seems to work fine
The US political asymmetries include that gun advocates, peace officers, and ex-military types that probably dislike Snowden most are statistically the least likely Americans to commit violent crime and have not engaged in any kind of systemic political violence in the modern era. It's the left that plans and starts riots e.g. at Trump rallies as WikiLeaks has documented.

Only crazies and communists and white supremacists have used assassination as a political tool in America in the modern era and that hasn't even happened in forty years.

I expect Snowden would be perfectly safe under a pardon. Until then I'd advise him to avoid long sight lines; America's official enemies have a way of finding themselves exploded at a nice sterile distance.
I'm not a doctor, you should follow your doctor's advice. I do have a couple more things to consider.

First, contact a psychologist, like talk therapy. They'll be able to back up or reject a depression diagnosis. Sure, it's possible it's all imaginary, but stuff like imaginary pain usually happens with amputees. Something happening that's a big deal. They'll also be able to provide some support in dealing with this whole mess. It's nice to have someone say, yah, you're not crazy, you're in a crazy situation and that would frustrate anyone.

Second, lots of anti-depressants have to build up to work. it takes weeks for them to have any sort of effect, and you should taper off of them. Read the details about how the one they gave you is supposed to work. It's not really surprising you felt better for a couple of days, you felt like you were making progress. Perhaps you were a little willing to overlook things that would worry you.

Maybe go back to doctor four after talking to a head shrinker. A therapist can help you express what you need from doctor 4. "I feel like i'm following your advice, but my other doctor and i think my depression (if you're even depressed, which seems like it hasn't been nailed down yet!) comes from the feeling that i'm not being taken seriously and current treatment doesn't seem to work very well." I'm trying X but X doesn't seem to be a complete solution, what else can we do?

In any case, things suck for you right now. You are not powerless, and i'm sure you'll find a way to make things better. You're on a tough road right now, i'm sure you have friends and family that care about you, and will support you through this struggle. If nothing else, there's a random internet stranger that is rooting for you.
I think their conclusion is a little misguided - if you remove the Apple Watch from the list, overall sales are roughly flat, at 1.6-1.7m units.
They can take many big risks. They can't take others.

In particular, they can't destroy markets, by creating products that creates the same wealth while capturing a small fraction of the revenue.
Yes, if you have an Android phone.
Yep - this is a mistake people when evalutating gadget sales in general.

The timeframe has to be set to the product lifecycle (i.e. t=0 is the launch) to make comparisons or determine trends. YoY is skewed heavily by the product launches.
The codes are used to make the reimbursement system complicated enough that it can be gamed. That's the general purpose of impenetrable bureaucracy.
As a wearer of a 1950s Bulova selfwinder, rather than the face, I'd like to see smatwatch vendors focus on the band. In other words, a third-party creates a 16mm or 18mm Nato style strap which embeds the battery, heartrate sensors, motion sensors, etc. and communicates to a smartphone or PC via bluetooth for data collection. The same 1950s Bulova (or whatever) face is attached to the band.
> Until you can't afford to pay the taxes, utilities, insurance, and maintenance

The utilities it's what gets to you first. My parents used to be middle-class people in the late-1990s Eastern Europe until they both lost their jobs when the one big steel-factory in my home-town got closed down. In a matter of a just a couple of years they had to sell our family car and our city apartment (where we were all living), because utility bills have the nasty habit of coming in your mail-box even though you're out of a job. We only managed to got through all this because my parents still had a half-finished house in the countryside which has been their primary residence for more than 15 years now (and is still unfinished) while I got to go to college and managed to earn some financial assistance from my school for the first couple of years (and then found a job during school).

I know that the usual HN user comes from an Western country and has never had to deal with very big societal changes that can see political systems disappear over night, high-double-digit or triple-digit inflation or real-estate values collapsing to 5 or 10% of their initial value, but these will eventually happen in there, too.
Has there ever been an era in software development when most people are happy with the current practices?
The main issue is that you don't really learn anything in depth. You get some sort of very general overview but your knowledge still has so many gaps. If you make the educational system more efficient, when you leave the reformed high school, you might actually be somewhat proficient at X.
It was great. but writing on a micro screen is no fun. press and swipe are about as far as it should go with wrist touch interfaces.
This notion of moving to low-cost countries or regions is the vast minority of retired persons. Most stay where their friends and family reside.
At least you had the option of not having healthcare and just creating a startup without it. Now with Obamacare you are forced to buy it by law which means no startup for a lot of people.
The Copenhagen Wheel
Not sure this is a great example, as a great deal of the success here was fueled by people following blam after he left Gizmodo.

I doubt this would be the case if thewirecutter tried to capture a NEW audience with only marketing, a mission statement, and a scrappy MVP.
Doom originally tried that, with Tom Hall doing a lot of design. Then they figured out that it sucked, and decided to go with more abstract playspaces instead.

Even in Half-Life 2 and things the current industry practice is to "box in" the playspaces to get the flow correct and then skin them to look like actual locations.

If you want a game with some actual attempts at realistic spaceships look at System Shock 1/2 or Dead Space. Even in those cases it's pretty clear that they have taken great liberties with what would make sense.
DDoS protection company Cloudflare is hosting all top 10 matches for DDoS tools
Garry - way to go!! Raising a fund of 100M+ while being so founder friendly is not easy. Of course building a stellar team helps. Nicely done!

I read your farewell letter when you left YC - you hit the nail on head by saying you haven't decided what to do because that would obviate the "founder's perspective". Founders who are going to a known from a known will never know the unknowns faced by a startup.

Everybody I've talked to has raves to say about you. We're solving the problem of paper Checks. People and Businesses are still writing paper Checks. Contrary to popular opinion, Checks moved 5X the money as VISA and MC combined in 2014. We're already seed funded but would love to talk more.
His writing doesn't seem to convey that to me. On the contrary: there's a kind of pretentious of style that I find uniquely intolerable. Which is too bad, because I'd otherwise probably be pretty interested in some of what he has to say, but I'm too much of a dick to get past it.
What about specifying the interface?

Last time I checked it wasn't possible.
Also of note is David Beazley's "Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers":

www.dabeaz.com/generators/
>"It'd also be crazy hard to keep track of how long a second is at any given moment, since some of the variation is random from tidal forces."

I think you could use something like this, which may be accurate enough:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_equation

It may be more accurate to use something like the JPL ephemerides to convert between the two though:

https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/FORTRAN/req/...

Finally, the current definition of a second is meant to approximate the previous definition of a second. I am saying the previous one may have some correlation with biological activity.
I know it's not a compression format. My point is most formats that you put in tars are already compressed! Jpgs - compressed, RAWs - already compressed, any text format that isn't a plain-text file - already compressed. Compressing compressed formats is hardly worth it.
> I've been saying for a while that the health care system is the biggest impediment to entrepreneurship in the US.

So why isn't Europe an entrepreneural juggernaut? Tech scene in Europe seems worse than the US IMO.
This is typically the way it goes.

Since the deceased is so young the police will need to have a small investigation to rule out foul play. The body will be transferred to a hospital morgue where an autopsy will be preformed to determine cause of death. Once everything clears someone will need to claim the body (family or someone acting on the families behalf). You will need to contact a funeral home for embalming and preparing the deceased for travel (if the family wants him back in India).

There is really nothing for you to do until the Police/autopsy is finished and the cause of death is determined. You may want to let the Police know and Morgue know who the contact for the deceased should be.
While I don't agree with everything you said, you are right that modern economics puts a lot of emphasis on the bond market.

Their reasoning is that the bond market is like a giant, distributed bank. Bondholders borrow short-term, and invest long-term, thus providing liquidity for businesses that need to make long term investment.

The problem is, we have no idea what the actual economics of liquidity provision is. The standard Diamond–Dybvig model is used to justify bailing out the banks (and also the "shadow" banks, i.e. the bond market) when things go bad. But if the Diamond–Dybvig model is correct, then liquidity provision is a mechanical process that could be done just as well by the government, and the bond market is just a way to get the free market to do this at exorbitant cost.

We need better theories to understand liquidity. I think the best work in this area is by Holmstrom and Tirole. Holmstrom's nobel price should help raise the profile of this work.
Libel and Defamation are very old. I am not in any way a lawyer, but have fallen down this rabbit hole before, the Wikipedia article has a lot of depth [0].

Essentially compensatory damages are common, punitive damages are much rarer and require proof of malicious intent. There are written examples from the 1300's onwards, though much of the law derives from older periods.

The level of compensation and punishment runs parallel to that that would be received had somebody been physically attacked. Compensation is based on the immediate and future effects of damage suffered, and punishment is based on intent, relative severity, and the 'character' of the attacker.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
i agree. Stuffing everything into one tin makes it too big with too short battery life. The problem with putting sensors & power in the strap is that it's not longer a watch insofar as you can change straps. personally, i think the "band" format is superior, mainly for these reasons.
Unfortunately I don't have any data like that yet regarding the "...increased by 50%..." I'd call myself a web application developer as I like to design the UI, build the front end, and the back end, set up the database etc...

It worries me that I am not qualified enough to get hired, that once again I will have to resort to a menial job because I lack the popular frameworks. So learn them right? Yeah I will be moving in 2 weeks. Need to find a job. I think it is inevitable that I will need to go back to a labor job because I am desperate and need to get a job right away. While I freelance I don't price my time to be valuable so I essentially work for nothing. I'm still unsure at what point I am a "professional" when I still look up trivial things.
I agree with you. I have a mechanical Rolex watch with an automatic winder. I can keep it on my wrist 24/7, even at night. It glows in the dark. I can instantly see the time when I look at the watch. There is no smartwatch in the world that matches these features. And it does all this without me ever having to "charge" it. Yes, I do have to adjust the time once a week because it runs about 1 second fast per day. But that takes me about 5 seconds/week to adjust.

No Smartwatch for me, I think my mechanical watch is much smarter.
Amazon Seller Hack: Find a best selling Amazon product's search keywords
isn't there supposed to be a major update Jan?
In my calculation, it was $600 per week savings for my family of 4. That's $2400 / month.
It highly depends on the zone, in Mexico City surroundings you could get or build a house for probably USD 100k+, in downtown it could easily be 500k for a full house or 200k for a department flat. It could sound cheap but the average salary is low too, so you can easily be in dept for the next 25-30 years. Many people buy or build outside of the border city and spend 3-4 hours everyday commuting. In general, I think people try really hard (sometimes during its whole life) to buy/build its own but I don't see that happening much longer, specially for young people who start working at an older age and has additional aspirations.
DC is an ex VP, the two are hardly comparable.
FWIW, I said the same thing about smartphones when they came out - who'd want to browse the web on a tiny 4" screen when you've got a 13" laptop? And indeed, I do very little web-browsing on my smartphone; it's generally just used to answer quick questions when I absolutely need information (or, well, when I want to win an argument over dinner :-P).

What made smartphones useful was people discovered new uses that you just couldn't use a computer for. You can't do turn-by-turn navigation with your laptop in the car. It's nearly useless if you're standing at a street corner in an unfamiliar city and want to know where the closest coffeeshop with wifi is. You can't use it to take a picture of the cute little ducks crossing the road and send it to your wife. It does you no good when you want to hail a car to take you home.

People haven't yet discovered similar uses for a smartwatch. It's highly likely that they exist, though. What the watch gives you is hands-free information: you can receive quick, 1-5 second notifications even if you're carrying something or immersed (sometimes literally) in physical activity. I've already found this useful for getting notifications that my founders' group has changed where we're meeting while I'm driving there, or that my wife has already gone to the grocery store, or for checking off items on my shopping list while carrying shopping bags. There are probably other bigger uses waiting to be discovered.
There are several types of self charging watches out there. Solar are some, kinetic watches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_quartz

I think that means it will sit on a shelf unworn for 6 months
I'm now writing this from a rental apartment and it looks quite nice, it's certainly as nice as I would have arranged it had it been my own. Granted, you can't go wrong with Ikea, some nice German white appliances and generally keeping it as simple and functional as possible. I'm also living in Europe.
Does this actually do anything? Here's the full source:

#! /bin/bash
echo "testing" >> ~/.ipfs-screen/ipfs-add.log
file=ipfs-screen.jpg

gnome-screenshot -a -f ~/.ipfs-screen/$file

hash_log=$(ipfs add ~/.ipfs-screen/$file)

echo $hash_log >> ~/.ipfs-screen/ipfs-add.log

hash=$(echo $hash_log | awk '{ print $2; }')

echo "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/$hash" | xclip -selection clipboard

Edit: Nevermind, didn't see the `ipfs add ...` call... I guess this just goes to show how simple it is to use IPFS. ;)

Edit2: I can't seem to resolve any of my files on `ipfs.io` -- probably some problem with my network config that's preventing peers from mirroring my file?
I'd say Urs is on another level than all known eng manager to the public. He directed the evolution of Google's infrastructure, which pretty much is always at the forefront of modern large scale infrastructure.

I work at Google
So if I'm in a private session and clicking the link in my email opens a new page in a different session, then I can't reset my password? That's lame.

I've even had a situation where I was on my desktop machine and clicked a reset link on the web site. I realized I didn't have my email set up on that machine yet, so I went to my phone and did it from there. In your scenario, this wouldn't work. That seems problematic.
I had to debug code like that the other day. Before you debug it you have to mentally grok wtf is going on. What a mess.
Three Stages of AI
That would make it impossible for immigrants to house and feed themselves, with the market adapted for everyone making a basic income.