skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working on https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env right now which should help with this
Brexit data protection info-chaos explained and tidied
I agree. I think the mistake made by the industry is selling them as "watches" and not gadgets like bands or wearables in general.

A watch should be good to tell the time. smartwatches are a throwback to the 70's where you had to press a little button.
Pebble doesn't have that problem.
I like the idea of having a reliable health monitor inside a watch (pedometer, heart rate, oxygen levels, etc.) Especially if they can combine that with data analytics and find some early symptoms of serious issues or help me optimize my day. Combined with existing smartwatch functionality I'd get that. But right now the devices I've seen are too limited/imprecise or too expensive.
I own the Gear S2. I've also owned the Apple Watch (S0) and the Moto 360 2nd gen. The interface on the S2 with the rotating bezel works really well. It is the only time I really felt like my smartwatch was an actual watch and not just a "device" strapped to my wrist. The cellular functionality was also handy in a pinch, as it offered some communication utility if I left my phone at home.

That being said, I don't think I'll get the Gear S3. The biggest problem is that while the S2 works great for displaying notifications, the lack of phone apps makes it difficult to take any action on most of them without switching to your phone. On top of that, I found it extremely difficult to get text into the watch to do things like respond to texts with anything other than a pre-selected message template. The T-9 keyboard was awkward and S Voice didn't work well at all (in part, I'm sure, to the quality of the microphone embedded in the watch).

I don't think smartwatches will be much more than notification mirrors until the ability to quickly input text gets better, probably through improved voice dictation.

One other thing about the S3: I really don't understand their choice to offer cellular connectivity only one the Frontier model. That feature is one of the main things that would attract me to the device, but I don't like the styling on the frontier.
yeah

I don't have any strong preference with either option, the latter just seemed more flexible
I have a Pebble and the main use case is that my phone never rings or makes any noise at all. Anytime I get an email, text, or phone call I'm notified on my wrist. It's a huge improvement and I feel somewhat naked without it.

Smartwatches will always be a secondary display and should be marketed as such.
Someone mentioned it in the comments on TC. The decline may have been due to the Apple Watch v2's imminent announcement. I think people are willing to try it but not if there is "most definitely" a newer and improved version coming out soon for the same price.

2017 may well be the year for watches. This topic is pointless now given it's end of Oct and BF and Christmas is coming up soon. Let's revisit this topic mid 2017.

*edit, spelling.
For you I'd suggest checking out what Pebble has been doing. Battery life is about 7-10 days on some models, and has an 'always on' display.
I hope the NYT doesn't screw up the Wirecutter!

NYT -- always late to the party, and under dressed. Although, not quite sure what party Wirecutter represents.

Previously, back in Web 1.0 days, NYT bought:
-- Abuzz.com [Jan 2002] https://www.cnet.com/news/new-york-times-acquires-abuzz/

-- About.com [2005] for $400M http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/business/media/the-times-c...
I guess the comment triggers me in the same way as reading "you don't have to be effeminate or gay to be a male ballet dancer" might trigger some people.

While it doesn't directly paint gay or effeminate men in a negative light, it also doesn't do enough to distance itself from the negative stigma men who don't follow traditional male roles face.
> On character assassinations, another example I could give right now is Trump

Except as a practitioner, Trump is hardly a noteworthy example of character assassination. Bad press sometimes is a result of unfavorable facts.
Sure, but the difference is that they actually invest it. Normally the money pretty much just sits there.
You can rent a burner SMS number for a couple bucks on a site like https://smsprivacy.org/
> The reason why some manufacturers (like apple) take a hardline stance against rooting is that if rooting your phone was easy, some app developers would undoubtably decide they'll only function on rooted devices. (This happens on android today for wifi sniffers and stuff like that.)

Are you claiming that wifi sniffers could work without root, and require root for other reasons? An app that uses root to work around a gap in the permission system is not in support of your point.

Also, apps can already force the user to grant them very invasive permissions or exit. Yet I don't see it being universally abused.
> What I get now is some piece of crap that needs to be charged every night. So I basically have no features while I'm sleeping. I can't just wake up in the middle of the night an instantly know what the time is.

I sleep with my Apple Watch on every night. I use it in tandem with my phone as an alarm clock. (That's actually incredibly useful. I haven't slept through an alarm a single time since I started doing this.)

It needs to be charged once per 24 hour period, but it doesn't have to be charged at night. I pop mine on the charger in the morning when I get ready for the day (shower, etc.) and at night when I get ready for bed. That's all it takes for me to keep it charged. It's never died on me in a year. In fact, it's never even entered power saving mode, which will retain the features of a "dumb" watch (telling the time) which you stated you desired at night.
Twitter is not a publisher nor a press outlet, it's a platform.

Would you be OK if Comcast decided to filter out Trump campaign emails? After all, Trump is still free to send letters, or talk to people in person.
What does the "charging not required" claim mean for the hybrid watches? They claim a 6-month battery life. What do you do afterwards? Replace the battery?
I think it's because we haven't thought of enough interesting things to do with them. Sci-fi HUD displays are mostly cool because of the applications, not just their existence. If you only use something a couple times a day, it needs to be absolutely seamless or you're going to take it off and forget about it.
You guys are either pulling my leg, or I just entered a Volgon message board by mistake.
Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (2001)
OMG, I can't believe it. The current design is extremely modern/cool but the old one is so geeky, I loved that too and I also discovered an interesting website I didn't know... Although as a European, I'm probably cut off from many of the most interesting products (e.g. standing desks).
I think there is more to your comment than initially meets the eye. I've been watching "Black Mirror" the past few days, and the one thing that all episodes share in common when it comes to their futuristic UX is the tremendous expressiveness that they derive from unbelievably simple and quick input methods, where you can clearly see that the user communicated far more intent than even the number of DOF that their supposed input device even allowed. The only thing I can think of as helping to bridge that gap is AI
The linked PDF's conclusions and figures gives a bit more context; the numbers are not 85%. From the PDF, rich means the top 20th percentile of income, whereas poor is the bottom 20th percentile.

For the dropouts, you only have a 46% chance of mobility if you're poor. For the college graduates, only 63% of the rich will be downward bound.

Another interesting bit: a poor dropout is more likely to remain poor as a rich dropout has to remain in the top three quintiles of income. They also have only a one percent chance of bucking the trends and becoming rich.

A rich college graduate has almost 2x the chance of remaining rich as a poor graduate has of getting rich.

Also, the country heatmap of percentages of people who achieve mobility is very telling as well.

In all, college appears to be a good equalizer for mobility; but given that most people want to be upwardly mobile, you probably don't want to be poor to begin with. Also, don't be born out of wedlock or black. If you really want the best chance of living the "American Dream", your best chance is to be born to white, rich, continuously married parents, and go to college.

https://www.bostonfed.org/inequality2014/papers/reeves-sawhi...
I think you're prematurely declaring victory - the severity and scale of attacks is still growing, and there's probably many companies out there with no or untested backup/disaster recovery plans, or one computer holding vital data, etc.

Not all the attacks can be shrugged off easily either - like the big one on Sony, or ransomware that's cost organizations $1,000s or $10,000s.
I saw that typo too. I assumed auto-correct boned him, and opted to skip the english lesson.
Sorry, that might have come off a bit harsh. I was just trying to make the point that Object.freeze doesn't give you nearly 99.9995%, nor even 95%, of what immutable data structures give you. I don't think the apps I'm working on are particularly complex, but if you're using a Flux architecture with something like React/Redux, this is a very common pattern, and it doesn't take long to get to a point where the gains in performance and usability far outweigh the cost of having a dependency.

> While it is a little bit of a pain almost every framework and probably half of the libraries in existence on npm have a copy function.

The problem isn't just the usability of the copy operation (and even if it were, you still have the performance issue); there is also the problem of JavaScript not enforcing immutability of nested objects with Object.freeze. So if you want to enforce that, you're going to have to call Object.freeze on every child object, which becomes a nightmare to write and maintain.
This is where the type of MFA matters a lot: with a TOTP code, that phishing attack will be successful.

With U2F, however, a per-host keypair is generated during the setup process and the public key is given to the remote server. Critically, the hostname as seen by your browser is part of the key identifier: see http://security.stackexchange.com/a/71704/311

That means that if in the future even if someone convinces you to visit their phishing site and activate the token, the login attempt will still fail because the hostname as seen by the browser won't match a key on the token.
We have a little more than vi and emacs these days as competition not two sided wars.
Having an actual solution for sending money through messenger would be a great thing. Currently that's not available in most of(?) Europe.

I wonder why it took so long, given that I really can't see any value in most of the available messenger integrations.
Until you compare college graduates to college graduates, or dropouts to dropouts.
Were you already familiar with what was disclosed in the leaked documents and accompanying reporting?

Would you agree that the programs revealed in them go far beyond the programs previous whistle-blowers revealed?

Did you know beforehand that completely innocent citizens of the world may be targeted for surveillance or their systems compromised because of the company they work for or because they use encryption and live in a particular country?

Do you realise that the details of many of your digital interactions are collected and recorded and could at any time be collated into dossier that would inform its readers of many details of your private life?

Maybe you were, wouldn't, did and do; maybe you personally don't have any reason to be thankful for this guy's actions, but many of us didn't have any idea of the extent to which our data is being collected or the ways in which it can be used against us.

Some of us are rightly thankful for being told what our governments should have had the decency to tell us.
Well the over all problem here is that today only Apple and Samsung even make money on Smartphones. Not Sony, not HTC, not Motorola, not not LG, not Xiaomi, not Huawei neither of those make money from selling phone hardware.

If they can't do that then first of all Why and more importantly what's driving innovation in hardware?
2FA using a phone number isn't really 2FA, as you've said. There's a reason this method has been deprecated by the NIST and other folks making recommendations about this.

Used correctly, their TOTP app is a real second factor, because it only lives on a single device that you have.
But then you are also taxed on the imputed rent for the property, i.e. you have to pay taxes as if you are renting the property from yourself and the rent that you are paying yourself is taxable income. That greatly outweighs the effect of the mortgage tax deduction.
This would have been my response. I've got a Pebble and I charge it ~2hrs a week and the time is always visible.
I use mine for taking notes. sometimes it's really useful, say when I'm driving or just walking down the street. I'd like to see improvement in voice rec though, as sometimes it goes badly
Why do I need a smartwatch, when I have a perfectly acceptable smartphone that does about 10x10 things more than the smartwatch will ever be able to do?

If I just needed to know the time, I'd buy a watch. If I need to know the time and make a call, I'd buy a smartphone.

Which I did.

Welcome to the future. We don't really solve problems - we just invent new ones and call the old problems solved.

Hell, I don't even remember what problem smartwatches were supposed to solve!

I'm going to go get off my own damn lawn.
Out of pure curiosity, what's the ballpark cost of a commercial like this?
> The MacBook has an i5 or an i7, yes, and it also has fans, so it doesn't throttle so heavily on high workloads.

I think that you mean "MacBook Air / Pro", as the MacBook is Core-M based and lacks fans, etc.
I agree but not sure why you'd hope Elizabeth Warren would do this. It's unlikely to come from the left.

Donald Trump's platform would actually allow individuals to take the same tax deductions on health insurance that companies get:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/healthcare-reform

"Allow individuals to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system. Businesses are allowed to take these deductions so why wouldn't Congress allow individuals the same exemptions?"

John Mackey had a very rational proposal as well:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702042514045743421...

"Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair."
Bluetooth headsets made you look like you were talking to yourself, breaking essentially all social norms. There's a reason they (and those who used them regardless) were widely mocked.

Google Glass was obscenely expensive, invitation-only -- circumstances around its availability made it clear it's a tech demo for technology 'futurists', and not a product within reach (or intended for) the general public. Naive defaults about it recording everything caused a privacy storm; behavior on part of its users led to widespread derision.

Smartwatches in their current form are solutions looking for a problem. It's obscene that notifications and fitness are the only two use-cases most makers were able to identify.

All these devices are plagued by voice control: speaking to your device in public is neither very considerate to those around you, nor privacy-preserving. The fact is, even if speech recognition systems are working well, most people are uneasy issuing content-rich commands, like entire bodies of emails, in public earshot. Until someone solves this shortcoming reliably, none of these devices will see widespread public appeal.
You also need to look at the income cutoffs for those brackets.

Top federal rate in Canada kicks in at $200K (33%).

Top federal rate in the US kicks in at $415K (39.6%).
The Kink in the Hyperloop
There is also the book that he is writing, which is weird and wonderful: http://unsongbook.com/
I predict Apple is very happy with the smartwatch market being down, much like Microsoft loved it (back in '99) when internet stocks were down. They are an iPhone company, and probably prefer (as a company) to defer threats to that incumbency.

I own an Apple Watch, and a Pebble before it, but honestly until more devices are addressable by such devices, it's usability is limited.

I think it may also have something to do with the relative popularity of Alexa and pervasive voice input in general - though I shy away from those due to privacy concerns. I mean, why wear a watch and tap for Siri when you can just call out for Alexa (and now Google) to ask about weather?

(edited for clarity)
>graduating college is not really the same as making all the right choices...

Perhaps, but completing college is generally considered to be a better choice than is dropping out of high school. And it is generally associated with better decision-making and better outcomes.

Whether it should be or whether it's changing may be subject to debate, but we have generally rewarded that choice in the past, all things being equal.
> First comment on the bug report was:
> 'This shouldn't be possible as the array is const and frozen'.

Yeah const and Object.freeze() are not exactly the most intuitive depending on your level of JavaScript internals knowledge (and even then I don't think const is very intuitive but I digress).

> We'll just have to agree to disagree.

Fair enough! I would just caution trying to make complex objects immutable; it can be handy if you're developing a library and don't trust the dev on the other side (to a degree, copying may be preferable depending on the context) but it can complicate things and lead to some performance and development pattern issues.
Those are oddly specific.
> For example, his talk of Mars colonization as an escape hatch to our degradation of biodiversity / carbon emissions / etc. is just awful. What kind of idea is that?

To be fair, that's not a good characterization of why he's into Mars colonization. He's not advocating colonization so we can disregard life on Earth. He seems very much into preserving life on Earth. Mars colonization is a backup plan (or the initial stage of a backup plan) for the inevitable moment when Earth will have to be abandoned regardless of how well we behave.

Regarding “a lot of people dying” angle: the difference is in magnitude of “a lot of people”, and choice. However many people die on SpaceX spaceships, the number can never reach millions or even billions that would result from the collapse or technical decline. People also, in general, will choose to get on a spaceship and dwell on Mars, but they neither choose to be involved in dying from civilization collapsing, nor to have to fight for survival in such a situation — it would be completely forced upon them.
Businesses often sell their real estate on leaseback terms because it allows them to book one-time profits that boost the executive's bonuses or as a way generate cash that private equity firms can easily extract. They don't typically sell to third-party investors, but often finance the debt of the newly created property owner.

For many businesses it absolutely makes sense to own your own property. For example, if mid-way through a 20 year lease on a building the economy goes bust, do you really want to be paying the same rent that was negotiated during boom times? It could destroy you.

There's textbook theory, and then there's reality. The real world is an incredibly complex system with innumerable variables, and can't be reduced to simple concepts like "specialization". It all depends on context. Obviously for most companies it doesn't make sense to own their property. There's no disputing that, and your point stands. But for rich companies, it often actually makes a lot of sense, notwithstanding insiders trying to extract value for their personal benefit.
Pebbles haven't used e-ink since the first version.

But they seem to get equal or better battery life out of the Transflective LCDs currently used, which operate on a similar principle as e-ink, in the sense of how the light reaches your eyes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
I think a lot of the discipline here will come from people training themselves as they realize they aren't being efficient with their usage of the program. This idea allows for more fine tuning of your habits. Where the IRC-style room-based chats are quite static in nature, this idea seems to allow for more dynamic allocation of what you choose to watch. I like the idea. It would be tough to roll my team over to it, but I could see something like a Slack add-on with similar functionality being something I would use!
can i do voice recognition on a pebble?
Certificate Transparency increasing in use
My view is anecdotal. I come from a family with adopted children. My siblings say how I talk, act and think like our parents. I am the only biological child of our parents.

Does this prove IQ? No. however, I would be astounded if there was no relationship (just looks, voice, height, thought patterns, but no IQ correlation).

At the same time, my kids are quite different from each other. However, my siblings' kids reflect their parents and have diverged significantly from my family far more so than my kids diverge from each other.

My eldest brother (as an example), earned good money but spent it all. He put very little love or effort into his kids, despite him being raised in a household of caring and sharing. He's also a drinker and drug taker. His kids all have troubles with drugs and alcohol.

This is nothing like my family. We have continued down a path of caring and sharing and support quite a few community activities.

I'm not inclined to equate IQ directly, but, I am strongly inclined to say "there is a lot more than just looks that gets passed down to children".

My eldest sister is a behavioural clone of her biological mother. They didn't know each other until their 20s. That was the moment I knew that behaviour could be inherited by children, because my eldest sister is an aggressive hedonist. No drugs, just wild partying and ladette behaviour.

The other aspect of this article that is true is that luck favours the prepared. Some people send their kids to private schools so they can
Mingle with other well-to-dos.

What I do like about today's society is that there is a wealth of opportunity if you look for it, regardless of socioeconomic status. I am a huge believer in opportunity but I totally reject political correctness (and any other prejudice for that matter, PC just happens to be the most popular prejudice today).
What was the punishment for making malicious false accusations in Victorian England?
Really? On my five-year old Mac Mini scrolling was erratic and the text that was supposed to come up for a bit just flashed and went away before it could be read.

Having the videos be in clearly defined regions instead of wanking about with the scroll function would have been much more sensible.
Have you seen the Mondaine Helvetica? https://www.mondaine.com/watches/mondaine-helvetica/helvetic...

Traditional look, smart features, and 2-year battery life.
Here's hoping, once again, that the wrist-killing edge [1] will finally be rounded off.

[1] http://onemansblog.com/2010/03/11/video-rant-taking-the-shar...