skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for me. Series 1. I routinely finish the day with about 70%. Full brightness and an hour of fitness tracking (i.e. all sensors on) in the morning.

Something is defective with the watch or it isn't running watchOS 3 if it isn't lasting a day. I can easily last a weekend.
Education policy is a political topic. Get it off HN.
This paper is simply a comprehensive survey of VC opinion broken down statistically, rather than a genuine study into how VCs work.

In other words, the singular focus on survey data without a sharp focus on correct interpretation has killed the spirit of digging deep and understanding the VC setup, with the result that it's not very actionable or insightful.

If the findings were perhaps informed by cross referencing with a survey of others in the ecosystem who aren't VCs, the authors would probably have been more skeptical and possibly better educated on reality. It'd have been extremely valuable to go to entrepreneurs and ask.

Reading one of PG's essays provides a far more useful perspective.

The challenge with a generic survey such as this is that while it gives an (really long) introduction into how VC works, it misses all the subtleties. A better researcher would have looked into that, and turned this into a legendary paper. Why is that important? Because as a VC, decisions are the most important thing you make, and subtleties play a huge role in that. If you don't dig deep, then you're just documenting interviews rather than understanding and interpreting reality correctly.

What the authors should actually have focussed on is:

How do VCs really make decisions?
Anecdote from a recent acquisition experience:

~60 engineers and managers retained as part of acquisition. 1 left before acquisition was final. ~15 left before 1 year cliff. ~30 left within 6 months after the cliff. ~15 are still there after 2 years.

There was a company wide layoff a few months after the 1 year cliff. The acquired teams weren't hit as hard, because it was understood that people would leave on their own.
White House programs are by definition political topics. Get it off HN.
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Anti-censorship and dissident-protection tools are political by definition. Get it off HN.
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Give it up already you are acting like a child.
SpaceX is a government contractor trying to expand their government contracts. Get the politics off HN!
Whether or not "the news" is worthwhile is a political topic. Get it off HN.
> I'm enthusiastic about life advice when it's practical and presented to people who are searching for it.

I appreciate the experiences shared here, while completely anecdotal they are all telling me the same story and they're directly relate-able.

Your point (I think?) is: those experiences are indigestible to someone who is currently suffering depression.

But to me, that in itself is an entirely different discussion...
Archillect is a popular Twitter bot that posts a certain kind of image. The code isn't open source, but the developer has described in general terms how it works sometimes.

https://twitter.com/archillect

The basic idea is it starts with a list of tags, and then uses Twitter responses (likes/RTs) and source metadata to decide what to post next. Not a complex idea, but I haven't seen anyone else do it.

ShowMeMore started as The Laser Syriacum, a bot I knocked together on similar principles to Archillect, and has been used in a few other bots.

https://twitter.com/lasersyriacum
https://twitter.com/showmepixels
https://twitter.com/notarchillect
https://twitter.com/nicejobgoodwork

You can read about my motivations here:

https://www.dampfkraft.com/by-id/2931e31b.html#The-Laser-Syr...
I'm currently using a Ubiquiti Edgerouter X (previously an ERLite) for routing/NAT and a UAP-AC-LR for WiFi (along with an OnHub in bridge mode, for AB testing).

Previously, I used a UAP-LR reflashed with "normal" OpenWRT as I hated their controller/config software, but now there's Android and iOS apps for basic AP configuration.

EdgeOS (a Vyatta fork) isn't as user friendly as other "consumer" routers, but every tech friend who owns one has fallen in love with the price/performance and feature set.
Pebble cancels Pebble Time 2 and Core as acquisition by Fitbit approaches
Waterproof or "waterproof"? My fitbit charge is "waterproof" but not recommended for swimming.

What's the software like too? From a brief look it seems like nike+ is mostly focused on running which fitbit has been moving beyond.
I imagine everyone with stock is quite pissed after losing out on the Citizen deal. A promise of a bonus can't compare to that.
More anicdata, my original makes it through the day with 60%. It does about 40 hours on a charge. This is with fitness tracking and notifications on.
I think you may as well say "Sorry, I'm not going to help you. Search Google. Bye."

It's annoying being asked to help with support, but if it's someone I care about I would never send them this.

Maybe I'm missing the joke?
Can you explain why you gave up? Low-carb diets cut out sugar, flour, etc which greatly reduce caloric intake. It's not a far stretch to call them a "trick" to reduce your calories, is it?

Take a look at https://examine.com/nutrition/will-carbs-make-me-fat/ if you need more proof that carbohydrates are not what make people fat.

What other claims did I get wrong?

I don't disagree with you that I should put in some sources. Thanks for the input!
Vaporware?! That's atrociously uncharitable. Care to defend that characterization? Did you call Gmail vaporware until they took the 'Beta' label out?
Series 2 is waterproof and rated for swimming.
I can't believe that some people here think that it is better to move your relatives, who are scared/prone to malware but don't think to restart their computer first, to Linux. What a joke really. Linux is good and all, but come on people, among iOS, MacOS, Windows, Chrome and Linux, it's the least usable and least user friendly.
Waterproof to 50m. I'm replacing a charge HR which isn't even "waterproof" as far as I was aware(pretty sure they said to not even shower with it in the instructions).

To answer your second question:

I got the nike+ because I've started to get more into running lately. The only difference between the nike+ model and the others is a special interface for the nike run club app and a different wrist strap so not a huge difference but enough to make me choose it.
>... (inventors of the mouse, GUI, and object oriented programming),

Xerox PARC had a number of notable inventions and they created the Alto computer which had a bitmapped screen with the desktop metaphor, but they did not invent the mouse or object oriented programming.

In terms of the computer mouse:

>...Independently, Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) invented his first mouse prototype in the 1960s with the assistance of his lead engineer Bill English.

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

In regards to object oriented programming:

>...Simula (1967) is generally accepted as being the first language with the primary features of an object-oriented language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming
Depends on the implementation of encrypted /boot. If the bootloader itself is loaded from the host disk[1], your adversary could always just overwrite /boot and GRUB with something that is actually unencrypted and just pretends to ask for the password. I guess ideally the system should authenticate itself to the user somehow.
Maybe by presenting its own user-facing password from a list of one time passwords.

(Of course all this is moot if the bad guy reflashes your bios to execute everything in a hostile VM or does other shenanigans that physical access enables... but this requires slightly more sophistication/effort).

[1] I can't tell from the article which device this guy installs GRUB on. Of course allowing direct boot from USB will have the downside of making it easier for your adversary to run his own tools.
Hard to back up that claim. Fitbit should be doing about $2.4B in revenue this year. That's only about 22% of the global market share.
You should try a Garmin.
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I've seen where through general abuse and repeated, early dismissal of bug reports, people are extremely reluctant to call anything an emergency ... even actual emergencies.
I prefer to think of it as civil obedience, but I'll be sure to remember your opinion for the future.
Hereabouts, I don't get mobile service on most hikes, but I do get it on many trailheads. So, at the very least, it would tell them which trail I was on when I disappeared.

This may be a thing that is specific to local conditions, though. It so happens that I live in upper Snoqualmie River valley, which has trailheads for many of the best and most popular hiking trails in the area. So, naturally, this is where most of my hikes are. And the towers that provide signal for the towns in the valley are on the surrounding mountaintops, so they provide coverage for a good chunk of wilderness around, as well.
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Fitbit had revenues of $14.5 million in 2011, $76.4 million in 2012, $271.1 million in 2013, $754 million in 2014, $1.8B in 2015 and is expected to do $2.4B in 2016.

'Failing' in what sense?
seems like the majority of money isn't going to the engineers but other outstanding expenses, they are just taking a salaried job at Fitbit
Garmin has been exceptional since before 2007 (that's when I bought my 305). It's been doing really well in revenue and growth recently.
flash/RAM == size, cost, and power

Look at a die microphotograph of an ARM Cortex M4.

The RAM takes up more than half the die area. Flash is about a third of the die area. ALL the functional units and processing cores takes up less than 1/4 of the die area.
It's trying to get attention to yourself by being repetitive and annoying. That is childish behaviour.
> There is a hell of a lot of deeply condescending woo here.

Your comment right here is the only "condescending woo" I've read in this thread.
I'm simply calling for the "political detox" to be properly enforced. Assuming that many of these topics are somehow not political or can be discussed apolitically is naïve.
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And you will never get an OS update again. Android products seem to be orphaned at whatever OS is current at the time of production.

Just bought a new Android table and it had lollipop. Turns out you cannot get the most recent OS for it so I am stuck with a 2 year old OS.
I want weather, upcoming local events, and product recalls. I look forward to some future app called "Useful information" where people select which topics they want to be kept abreast of. Sort of like what Google News looked like it might become until it stopped innovating.
How you manage in that case?
The key focus of this acquisition seems to be the acquisition of assets (read 'IP'). Fitbit has had a rough time battling Jawbone in court (though ironically Jawbone has been the sufferer in the market while Fitbit revenue keeps going up). I feel that has made them cautious about IP and this is the second acquisition (after Coin) that's been purely focussed on acquiring IP so that:

1. Others can't acquire and sue them

2. They can sue others if needed

Other than IP, it's hard to justify their spend in acquiring the company (they already have hardware and software/app).
If you both have macs, it's built in, but sort of hidden.

Just open up messages on both computer -> go to your parents' contact -> click details -> click the button next to their name that looks like two screens (it's next to the video chat button). It'll ring on their computer, all they have to do is accept.

Edit: Apparently you can just spotlight search for the "screen sharing" application and just type in their apple id.
Would you rather have sex or cybersecurity?
When has that ever mattered? Especially now that this is Trump's America.
It's certainly not something I'd recommend doing (I've had a couple of occasions where I've been up 40ish hours and started to notice the visual disturbances, so it can definitely come on sooner).

The dissertation was partly very poor planning on my part, but I also stumbled on a doctoral thesis that more or less disproved the central tech. behind my dissertation less than a week before the final deadline, which gave me two options:

A) finish up what I'd done, knowing it was fundamentally flawed and that I'd never be able to defend it if called for a viva voce (unlikely, but a definite possibility)

B) rewrite pretty much the entire thing (~30k words) to take a different approach, re-implement the hardware (audio filtering; didn't help that the spec. sheet lied to me and said it had an FPU but actually just emulating floating-point in software which was unusable slow), and come up with a convincing conclusion explaining why a year-long project produced nothing particularly useful.

I went with B, hence the 100 hours of solid work, and it went OK (mark was a marginal pass, but a pass nonetheless), but I'd hate to do it again. It took me 3 or 4 days to start feeling normal and alert again, despite sleeping 18 hours after crashing once it was finished.

The current insomnia is really weird though. I saw my GP this morning, took a fairly hefty dose of sleeping aids (15mg diazepam on top of the 20mg tamazepam and 75mg promethazine I was already prescribed[1]), yet somehow feel more awake than before taking those, despite the fact I'm only about three hours away from having had less than than an hour sleep total in the last six days. Honestly, I just feel bored more than anything at this point (hence this somewhat unnecessarily long post :p) - I don't have the physical energy to do a great deal, but mentally I feel more or less normal (though I suspect when I finally do get some sleep, it'll catch up with me and I'll have a rouge couple of days).

[1] FWIW, I've also got Zopiclone, but I saving that as a dug of last resort. The benzodiazepines cause me no side effects, but last time I used the Zopiclone it was rather unpleasant - it caused mild hallucinations (my room looked like it was bathed in a lemon-yellow light, despite it being the dead of night and no lights were on), and it had a strong amnesiac effect (my memory of the night pretty much goes "I'm in bed, why is everything yellow?", "I'm in the bathroom, how did I get here?", "I'm back in bed, but it's three hours later", and I have literally no idea what happened between each thought. It's just like a jump cut in a movie - there isn't even a hazy memory of I did something; it literally just goes from being in one room to being in other, despite there obviously being a chuck of time missing. It's pretty disconcerting).
Well, what are we waiting for? This is perfectly good real estate...
The thought of my mom calling me for help answering a question on the debugging tool I gave her made me laugh.
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Everything startup/tech related is political.
Is there a specific garmin you recommend?
The shady places will just trim everything after the + anyways
Do you recommend any one of their watches in particular? Is the 305 still good to buy?
I would bet that the article is inaccurate and the majority of this "renewable energy" is hydro. Google has taken great care to place its datacenters in locations that are close to affordable hydro power, and in many cases owns or has long-term exclusive leases on several power-generation plants within existing hydro dams.
Is it the same market? The ability to tell me the time isn't the reason I wear a fitbit, it's mostly for the passive tracking.
Long, but great pod. Patrick Collison and Ezra Klein discuss:

- Innovating in highly regulated markets
- Breaking into well established markets by challenging assumptions, fine tuning product experience, and using lean startup principles
- Using time horizons strategically... The discussion about Jeff Bezos "simply willing to wait longer than your competitors" at 1:12 in really resonated with me.
- Building company culture
- Avoiding group think
I'm having trouble figuring out what the Nike+ running app on the new watch does.

Does it do things like mapping of your route, graphing it, showing elevation and pace on sections, things like that? Can you run programs for intervals or hills sessions or advanced things like that?

I tried it in an Apple store and it just seemed like a stopwatch, but I wasn't sure if I was just not looking in the right place.
He doesn't say that it's useless but that it's too much hassle to use even for someone that works in security.

It works in companies because you don't get a choice if you did most people wouldn't use it.
No, you are calling for it to be strictly and broadly enforced which isn't the same as properly enforced.
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They started punishing those mobile web "install our native app" interstitials about a year ago, hope there's more stuff like that coming.
But for a lot of things, this is actually generally acceptable. Back office business apps, for example, where because of internal politics and attrition, they generally end up being replaced wholesale every 5-10 years, which is approximately how long it takes technical debt-ridden code to become so brittle it's unsupportable. A CIO can save millions by allowing this behavior. Thousands upon thousands of apathetic IT staff (including programmers) make decent livings in enterprises like this.
Apple watch starts at $269. Apple Watch Nike at $369.

I'm really impressed by how Apple is able to charge an extra $100 just by allowing a custom app to run on the home screen. Brilliant!
Out of the last 10 people I talked to, 6 were on iMessage, 1 SMS, 3 messenger.
> He actually doesn't play it up

That part... ;)
If it's only going to be conveniently enforced, it does raise the question of whose convenience is prioritized and why.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/627/
This is quite literally how technical debt is created. The story said that there was already a set of bugs being worked on. Which means that by adding this, the technical debt backlog would only continue to grow.

I worked at a company where the technical debt was so deep that I really wanted to say that it was technically bankrupt, meaning that the software should be entirely rewritten. This goes against every grain of my experience to do, and we ended up not declaring technical bankruptcy, but if you want to understand where it starts, it's, we'll do it later.

Each of those decisions needs to be accounted for just like a credit card purchase.
I question the benefit of any jumping robot that is designed for continuous hops if there is no evidence that it can land.
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> If someone has access to your Google Account, they can easily activate the find my phone feature and see exactly where you are without your knowledge.

When your phone is located using the "Find my phone" feature, it pops up a notification on the phone (this phone has been located). Of course, if they had physical access to your phone in the past, they may have blocked this notification, but it is provided by Google Play Services, so that requires to block a wide range of notifications (eg. all "app update available" notifications iirc).

On the other hand, they may access your location history, if you enabled that, and see where you went in the (possibly very recent) past without any notification.
I put mine on at 7:30am, and its now 4:56pm and I'm sitting at 61%.
Clearly, this is what they did when they found a spider of sufficient size in their hut.
> priority is not just high, it is critical, communicating this is lost at each layer

This was my exact thought. Why did a "fast tracked" ticket spend two days in a queue? Why did the requests to IT not also get set to urgent priority? (An IT request that blocks an urgent code change should itself be considered urgent.)

Most bizarrely to me, why the hell did they not defer updating the code to meet newer company policies? For the hardcoded variable thing, I would've said "ok, just change the value now, then create a separate, non-urgent ticket to bring that code up to our current standards."

It's sounds like their bureaucracy isn't equipped to deal with fast-tracked changes. The worrying part that management fed a critical issue into that bureaucracy and didn't prod it along until they noticed the delays. They may not fully appreciate how complex and full of roadblocks their process has become.
And a Nike Watch face, and the ability to use the Volt color for watchfaces.
It depends on the user, you can't make such a blanket statement and expect to be taken seriously.

My non-techie wife wandered onto my Elementary OS installation one day while I was at work, and despite having never used anything but Windows on the desktop (not even a Mac) she navigated just fine without me there to guide her. She was able to use it to go online, find something she wanted to print, print it, and then download, edit, and save a photo she wanted for her blog. Granted, those weren't pro-level tasks, but it's typical of what your average Grandma will do with her PC. Everything the average user does these days is all done in the browser; Google grokked that, and we now have Chrome OS.

I'd love to move my mother to Elementary (I've previously considered a Chromebook for her but my new stance on Google gives me pause) just so she will not be as susceptible to drive-by malware. I think if you give folks a fighting chance, you'll find that Windows doesn't have to be the only OS for Mr. and Mrs. Average User.
My father, sisters would disagree. I only had Linux on the home computer for last 7-8 years. There are absolutely no support requirements, because it keeps on working the same way with no surprises. They can not setup windows, macOS, linux by themselves, but once setup for them Linux is the most effective solution and least headache for me.
One of the things that happens as a result of anal code reviews is that at some point you learn to commit as little as you can get away with (and this includes things like comments and tests).
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I've had my parents on Linux several times as laptops were getting long in the tooth.
On the other hand I just jumped the boat on smartwatches and bought myself a Withings Activite.

It's a normal watch, no LEDs display, but it's filled with trackers and sync with my phone via BLE. I need to recharge it every 8 months. So far it's been great :)

I like to see how much I sleep, or how many steps I did. (I don't know how but it picks up when I go jogging on a treadmill.)

The thing I wish it had was a heart rate tracker. It looks like smartwatch who have that need more frequent recharges though :/
I worked at place with such a button. Neat caveat: only VP's could unchecked it...

(And I managed to check it within my first month there. My boss kindly let me know the difference between a client saying emergency and a VP saying so....)
Yeah it will map your route using the built in GPS and show you Time/Distance/Pace/HR. I don't think it handles splits yet. I am doing one of the my coach training programs on the phone so I'm hoping it is seamless to the watch but I don't know for sure yet. If it sucks though I can always just go back to Runkeeper. :)
Nitpick: Some apps can be accessed without unlocking. The control centre lets you access Clock, Calculator, and Camera.

More functionality like Reminders can be accessed via Siri.
None of those are side projects. There's a time and place for change the world free stuff and a busy person's free time is rarely it.
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No, Series 1 starts at $269. All Series 2 models start at $369, and the Nike models are priced at the same price points as other Series 2 models.