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I don't want to hit a person while they're down (in the dumps about their "purchase"), but going to Kickstarter for version 3 was my sign to give it a rest on buying Pebbles. Maybe it was just marketing, but it caused me to wonder "have you not made enough profit to support rolling out your third version without outside backing?" If it finally hit retail, great, I might get one then. But in the meantime I bought a Garmin Fenix instead of financing someone else's manufacturing interest-free.

Pebble wasn't aiming for market dominance, they were aiming for market traction. How many Pebbles do you see in the wild? Now, how many Apple Watches do you see? How many Garmins? FitBits? "Notifications" is the baseline these days. It's just a given if I buy a fancy electronic watch. So where does that put Pebble? Having the same notification functionality as other devices, only not as slick and more cheap looking. Oh, Pebble has fitness stuff now? Have fun going up against Garmin and FitBit. As more and more devices gain the functionality that defined Pebble, Pebble went from the leader in this segment to playing catch-up.

Sometimes I think there is a secret cabal conspiring so we can't have nice things ;-).

Of course you know better. :-) Pebble sold you a device, everyone else sells you an ecosystem. All the fitness add-ons in the world won't make a difference if there isn't some form of analysis and data storage behind it. I can go back to stuff my Garmins have recorded over a decade ago. FitBit's got something similar, Nike (back when they made hardware), and others I've missed. Apple and Android watches tie into their respective systems for more functionality than just notifications on your wrist. Nope, no cabal, the market just moved on and Pebble got left behind. We do have nice things, they just don't have "Pebble" silkscreened on them now.
Well, this sucks. I really don't want a fitbit - I like the pebble formfactor and legit use it as a notifier. If I wanted a fitness tracker, I'd get a $15 pedometer.

I backed and received a pebble2 to replace my pebble1. (as a Under some circumstances, I'd be fine just ignoring the acquisition and continuing to use my p2. The real problem is when the pebble integrations stop working. If that happens in a few months, I'm not going to be particularly happy.

I get that kickstarter is a gamble, as is buying products from marginal manufacturers. But the pebble really is a product that doesn't seem to exist anywhere else. Can anyone recommend a wearable that:

1) displays full notifications (email, text, etc)

2) handles navigation turn-by-turn directions

3) controls my music stream

4) lasts for a week+ on one charge

5) works on android (or better, is platform agnostic)
Hah, that confirms my guess after noticing the voice names for Ivona and Polly are exactly the same :)
Thanks, old is fine, maybe I'll snipe one on craigslist, even though, very few brother laser printers get back on the market ;)
Why the disparity between onsite and remote?
I've been working on a DIY watch off and on a bit.

One of the bigger obstacles for me personally has been bluetooth notifications. I have found surprisingly few examples online of people getting it to actually work, and if you read through their work more closely, it only very barely works. I've tried to reproduce what other people have done and had it actually work even less than that.

I was thinking of selling a pre-programmed bluetooth module with apple and android notifications etc. if I ever got it working, figuring there must be other people in the same situation with this pain point. So far the idea that I could do a better job than others that have tried has turned out to be hubristic, though.
It also has the effect of increasing the price of running 1000 bots to £3000/mo.
It's pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix the problem, then use their vast wealth of data and users to test and/or implement them.

It's not just the ad hoc unintuitive "solution" they came up with to mask votes (which most people agreed was a user-antagonist step in the wrong direction). It's a lot of things: their inept response to spam/vote brigading/other abuse; their lack of personalized content discovery (state of the art from 10-15 years ago would probably suffice). I could go on, as a product-driven data scientist who has been on reddit since the early days, I'm constantly struck by how little they do with the amazing data they have.
> If you "need" their services to participate in society at a reasonable level.

Except by your own reasoning you don't "need" Amazon.

> Twitter is a possible target.

Please.
Are you unfamiliar with the term 'apologist?

"apologist: a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial."
Probably depends on the work being done. Sometimes there's some relatively brainless slogging that needs to be done. I will sometimes do that kind of stuff at night while the TV is on.

Doesn't work well if you need your brain fully engaged.
I don't know. I see a lot of papers which are getting great results on tough domains like program writing using the idea of tree search guided by NNs which may be very old but AlphaGo brought to everyone's attention by demonstrating what modern NNs could do in it. Any domain which is tree or DAG structured and you have a simulator for can be tackled much more effectively now.
Easy.

Open the article and see the headline. Copy and paste the headline into Google. Click the link.

WSJ and other sites show the full article to referrals from Google.
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Many people think that when they see an ill person. I wouldn't want to live like that. In reality it sneaks up on you so slowly that by the time you are in that situation, you do want to live like that. My dad saw his dad slowly die of dementia and told me he wanted to get a cyanide pill and always have it on him. When he got in that condition and was restricted to bed in a nursing home and we asked if he wanted DNR, he was pretty clear that he did not. One could argue whether he understood.

The only patient I ever saw who was eager to die was an end stage lung patient with horrible air hunger. He said enthusiastically "doc, let's do this" (he meant give me enough morphine for the air hunger that I stop breathing). It was kind of chilling
This is exactly what is happening. They are doing a lot more here than what it seems.
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There are Chinese companies working on similar products, for example WeLoop[0], Goclever[1].

People are already working on open-source firmware for some of these watches[2], so I think there's a reasonably good chance that either some of these companies will create a decent alternative to pebble, or at least good enough hardware which can be used with community-developed firmware (and even more importantly: apps on the phone side).

[0]: http://www.weloop.cn/

[1]: http://www.goclever.com/uk/products,c1/smart-wear,c114/

[2]: https://ossw.github.io/
What are you going to do, enslave the owners to provide warranty service?
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We need to lay to rest this ridiculous notion that reddit is actively censoring anyone. A few subs have hosted outright illegal material, harassed users on and offline, and ruined the general ecosystem in the rest of reddit. The admins have reacted accordingly... sometimes. The bar to get out right banned from reddit is absurdly (and needlessly, in my opinion) high.

However, these specific changes have been planned for a while now, it was one of the principal topics of interest when spez came back. There is no "catch all excuse", it's been in the pipeline before people confused free speech and system abuse of a private website.
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(So the 2 hour edit window has only just closed and they have fixed both things)
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Complaints like this are the reason companies are reluctant to release public datasets. They don't have any obligation to release data, but they do. It's a gift. If they have to consider "how will this change affect the consumers of our public data releases?" every time they make a change, they're going to stop releasing public datasets.
Again, that doesn't make sense because the moves have almost certainly already been typed out by somebody. It's the same in chess. There are databases containing millions of games.
> being critical of innovation killing deals by the boys on YC gets you down votes to negative territory.

I haven't noticed this effect. Your post is currently positive, in fact. If I were to downvote you, it would have been for _complaining about downvotes_, as I think (though might be mistaken) that such commentary is not considered on topic.

> Your next step: boycott Fitbit and make it known you are doing this because of the shutdown of pebble.

This is the interesting idea. I don't think it would be effective, as I suspect that if FitBit came out with a smart watch similar to Pebble (a year from now), most of the Pebble fans would hop ship and buy one. (I might be mistaken in such a belief.)

It's possible that people downvoted you to reflect an opinion of "that wouldn't work". It doesn't seem like a personal grudge, either, as your comment history doesn't seem (well, at my inexperienced first glance) to be downvoted very much.
The timeline and dictation both require cloud services to function. Also, the app store is a cloud service.
I don't watch technical videos often but I always find it help to write down any key points or things I find interesting while watching ling videos. If you save them all in one place with a source and date then it'll be very easy to find later if you need it.
Yes let's just throw away 20 years of VM research and optimizations.

Dropping some backwards compatibility which impacts performance the most is sensible and I wish java would do some of that but this is a long way from killing java.

Java runs the world, you will have to work very hard and long to produce the same Ecosystem around something else.
Check out the Vector Watch [1]. It's a monochromatic smart watch with 30 days of battery life.

[1] http://vectorwatch.com/
Perhaps the word gambit might suit better here?
It seems that every time somebody have wanted to find out who a user is, for lynching say, it hasn't been a big problem to find out who people are?
I see a lot of numbers about 'new single-family houses.' What population do you think is living in a building that fits that description?

According to the 2010 U.S. census, ~80% of the population lives in an urban area, and all projections hold that share to have increased. That's 80+% of the US population that is living in non-single-family buildings, many of which are being remodeled to support greater population density and smaller individual units.
I like strings to be interpolated by default, and that's one of the most annoying things about python.
This will probably be an unpopular thing to say, and I understand that people have different opinions and preferences on this question.

However, for me, every time I see one of these Python 3 releases it makes me appreciate Go's model of language maintenance and development more and more.

Compare the last few major Go releases to the last few Py3 releases. Go has so much more discipline about when it's appropriate to add things to the language. Most of Go's changes are confined to bug fixes, performance improvements, and toolchain improvements.

By comparison, it seems like Python is on a runaway train of core-language additions.
I might be interested in this, but your website doesn't give me anywhere even close to enough information to know what your product gives me. All I see is one low-res screenshot and some sales lines that are reference what I can do, not how it works. Most people in your target demo aren't going to commit to signing up for something unless they know how much time they have to invest and what they will get for that amount of time.
Yes! This was the blog post.
Kickstarter for hardware products is very much its own insane, dysfunctional, extraordinarily risky world.

Most money spent on Kickstarter goes to projects which are far far more likely to be completed in some form: videogames, books, board games. I'd say that hardware projects should be banned entirely except for companies that have already shipped similar products but, well, that would've included Pebble.
I'm still waiting to see synthetic gradients get applied anywhere else. When it came out, I thought it would at the very least revolutionize training of RNNs by giving them better BPTT, but it seems to've sunk without a trace.
I even recall a vulnerability write up where someone figured out that by using the "Show me posts with more than X upvotes" feature and a counter you could determine what a posts real score was.
I hear what you're saying but I have this perspective that includes Kickstarter in these issues. Why doesn't Kickstarter take a more active role in supporting it's campaigners after they raise funds?
Is the excessive virtual dispatch still really slowing down simple for loops in Scala? I thought Paul Phillips did a special-case fix for that. That's very disappointing if that's still a problem.

When I programmed in Scala, I felt like this sort of thing showed that priorities weren't quite right in the leadership somehow. For-loops are pretty basic and their performance is important - simple ones shouldn't have ever been slower than the equivalent Java ones IMO.

Another instance of misplaced priorities (again IMO), was the problem that you couldn't have local/temporary variables in your class constructors (see for example http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/1198.html). Any values that you created inline in your class body (which is your primary constructor) could be used but would implicitly become fields in your class instances even if they were never used in any methods. Sure you can make factory methods in a companion object etc but should have to do that always? That's worse than Java and for no good reason! The "simplified" syntax of not having an explicit block representing scope for the actual constructor code, separate from member declarations, really bites in this case.

An example of this was the gcd value in Oderski's rational number class which is one of the first examples in his book. The gcd value is needed to initialize the numerator and denominator values, and you want to save it after it's first computed temporarily so you don't have to compute it twice. But naming it at all made it an actual instance field, not just a temporary in the constructor. So every Rational would be carrying around this significant extra storage unbeknownst even to a programmer who would have reviewed the source code, unless they are in the habit of examining javap output for everything or already knew to watch for this issue.

I don't know if that's been fixed or not. The very fact that this could stand for so long, and how implicit the whole thing was about something so fundamental (object construction!), really bothered me about Scala though.
I needed this. I never fully understood the various licenses available.
I wondered if an FPGA approach would be worth it now that Intel has their DPDK approach.

Searched a bit, and found a terrific comparison of doing the same work three different ways. It compares serving up a Key/Value store using traditional software, then DPDK, then an FPGA based approach: http://www.hoti.org/hoti23/slides/lockwood.pdf

Skip to slide 22 if you're impatient.
In the country and needed about $10k of renovations. Sold as-is. It may end up being worth $200k, if he's lucky. Zillow is just incredibly far off.
It looks very ugly to me, particularly the trying to reverse the original mistakes behind `int`, `list`, `dict` into `Int`, `List`, `Dict`.

If you want to fix that, you fix that first, then apply it to a subsequent patch like this one.

Additionally, I think Rust community, since its inception, embraced the goal of paying any up-front costs required for introspection.

Meanwhile, the Python community seems to be tearing between those who want syntactical beauty and one-way-to-do-it, and those who are running big production systems using IDEs like PyCharm and wanting to benefit them.

I'd prefer it if Python somehow warned people developing gigantic systems that maybe it's time to use a different language, instead of deforming Python to suit the people already running gigantic systems in a language unsuited to it.
What I would personally like (and I'm kind of surprised all projects which tried to implement it died) is a Java -> static exe/elf compiler (sort of like Go) or at least java -> exe/elf +libjava.so .

I hate that deploying Java requires that everything has to be configured _exactly_ right, and write once run anywhere turns into write once debug everywhere.
> frontend

That's exactly the kind of complexity I'm trying to avoid. I would get zero benefit from existing public key infrastructure, because this is a device that enables 1-to-1 communication only. It may be possible in the future to exploit such a device to authenticate GPG keys, but not in the initial version.

> cryptography from scratch

I'm not doing much crypto other than generating random bits (hardware RNG with whitening). One of the reasons for doing this in an embedded device is to keep everything important isolated on the device (data diodes are useful) where the "one use only" rule can be enforced. The computer-accessible attack surface would be extremely small; it's mainly just a USB (or whatever) character device you write plaintext to and read back the OTP'd cyphertext.

> fingerprint exchange

There is no exchange or fingerprints. The entire goal is to have a type of secure communication that is easy to understand, so it can't have complexity like handshakes to exchange stuff or key management. Even if its hidden behind a UI, those features add complexity that affects how you use it.

> gets critical mass

Again, the goal is to not need critical mass. You only need that if you're trying to solve the general WoT problem. I'm only trying to provide communication between a pair of devices that will have to meet in person for synchronization.

> useful to more people

I'm assuming that people that know about GPG can already handle setting up their own secure communication. What I want to try is something that provides some features that everyone can understand. Trying to solve the entire problem at once has always made tools that were too complicated to understand if you have never of crypto. You might consider the device I've described as a kind of "training wheels" for the idea of using crypto.

> producing something

I'm not producing anything right now; this isn't a product of business plan. If I ever find the time and money to work on this project, it will just be a handful of hand soldered RNGs on Arduino boards or similar.
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Because gay people face systemic societal discrimination, so we have made them a legally protected class. Private businesses are free to ban or censor whoever they want as long as they aren't targeting a protected class.
Reddit's model has anonymity at it's very core. I follow a lot of things on the site and speak a lot about things about which if my parents or my family knew it would be embarassing. Not bad things, but simply things like /r/TIFU.
The 2014 Reith Lecture, given by Atul Gawande, addresses these issues in great depth. Well worth a listen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04bsgqn
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Since I can't really say more than this: there's a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding in these comments. Don't believe everything you read on the internet and don't believe the conspiracy theories that this has anything to do with censorship or surpressing political (or any other) discourse.

It's really just making the math less complicated.
I have not look at google end to end.

The main benefit seems to be that to read your messages code has to be send to your browser. That is much easier to detect compared to compromise of the server now.

Plus it would have network effects that would benefit normal users.

In theory you could have clients with good guis and all that, these however barly exist and people simply want to use the web for this sort of stuff.

If your answer to solving a issue that billions of people deal with, then "Don't" is just not the solution expet maybe if there is a feature complete replacement.
Oh well thanks :)
Fitbit didn't buy Pebble. They bought the OS and they're trying to acquire some of their staff. Pebble is simply shutting down.
You just described Garmin devices (though I'll admit to being sketchy on how "open" their SDK is).
My primary worry is that at some point, the hardware will die.

And by crowdfunding I meant crowdfunding of manufacturing; the hardware would be open source, ensuring you could (with enough skills or good enough friends) make your own instead of buying one, and the software ecosystem would be compatible with it.
Bakers can discriminate against you for your political beliefs. Political party affiliation is not a protected class.
> We need to lay to rest this ridiculous notion that reddit is actively censoring anyone.

They have code targeting specific subreddits to actively prevent them from being on the front page. While not totally censoring those people, they are putting their fingers on the scale which many see as a form of censorship.
Just a reminder: the guidelines for gliomas (brain tumors) have been updated after almost 10 years. And the outcome is more than ever decided at a molecular level. I am pretty sure this kind of information will be included in the next version.
Not working on phones yet. Only desktops for now. Native mobile apps will come mid January.
We are using async await with 2.1 rc and it works flawlessly. I also love the keyof, with that we can remove tons of "any" types from our code base.

Amazing work TypeScript team! This release has been a lot of work!
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I wanted that Pebble core. This is sad.

I sincerely hope all the Pebble employees are able to transition to other jobs with minimal impact to their lives. Good luck in your future endeavors!
For clarity, the Reddit datasets are not released by Reddit itself, but scraped through the API. (More context/examples of what I do with the data: http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/reddit-bigquery/ )
Could you elaborate on "their lack of personalized content discovery"?

I'm usually on the fence of bringing personalized content on platforms where you usually want to remain anonymous.
Neither of those links seem to indicate any changes other than the big one. What exactly are they trying to bury?
> but not a replacement for nightvision goggles which don't broadcast your position with a bight spotlight.

To be fair that's exactly where NVD technology started out
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You're missing my point.

"OEM manufacturer" would mean "original equipment manufacturer manufacturer".
It's interesting to me that all of the initial reactions I've seen to this announcement have been around the introduction of async and object spread, which are available with babel, but the typescript specific features such as mapped types are completely ignored.

I don't really have any particular meaning behind that observation, only that it tickled my funny bone a little bit.
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