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Please point at some of those successful Google acquisitions - the more I think about it the less I can point at anything apart from Android.
That doesn't really follow. Not retaining data is something that has to be built into a product, and so would need to have been done by Fitbit.
What long and successful history? The only one that I can think of that was a definite success is Android.

Their only notable hardware acquisitions that I can think of were Motorola which was a disaster, Nest which is barely muddling along, and the semi-acquisition of HTC’s hardware team that made the Pixel. While the Pixel may be a great phone, it isn’t taking the world by storm
I like that one of the suspensions the author complains about was for impersonation... then they prove why Twitter was absolutely right to call out their "satirical" impersonation with such a clickbait title
I've been interested in tracking sleep/exercise/heart rate more closely, but have yet to find a manufacturer that takes privacy seriously. Whatever device I have should transfer data only to computers that are under my control. No matter how pure the intentions of the current maintainers of centralized databases, acquisitions can lead to those databases being in unscrupulous hands.
as a jewish man, lol
I mean, it's not even true now. They just sold all the data. To Google.
Apple would be fools to not offer Android support on the Apple watch on the back of this news... But they are so concerned about ecosystem lock in they might not. There are now officially no stylish or social alternatives to Google or Apple wearables. I'm sorry, but Garmin is just not style focused and one of the benefits of fitbit is the social aspect of challenging your friends. This is a huge blow to wearables.
Life without risk is not life. It's almost a law of physics that anything interesting requires risk - whether it be to limb, financial, social, mental, or whatever else. If you don't put yourself out there in _some_ way, boredom and depression are probably inevitable

Anyone in a position of safety intimately knows this. The retired die early. Trust fund kids spiral into depression if they have nothing to strive for. We all know that boring "job for life" guy who's been doing the same thing inside and outside of work for 20 years.

Damn I miss my bike. See, the risk of dying on a motorbike is quite high. The risk of having it stolen is higher still. ;)
You owe it to everyone else to go talk to some random people, people that you don't think you have any business talking to. Because they are the people you have the most business talking with, to help you learn about everyone else.
Almost there. The Linux kernel is the only GPL piece still standing.
Google needs a proper smartphone-like smartwatch and they needed a cheap buy to speed up the dev process. They don't need the Garmin market because they want a smartwatch on every person and not on every athletic person. I was always hoping smart glasses come after smart phones but I guess these are even smaller and need even more time than watches to become efficient enough to cover for the small battery.
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It's a shame how poor the command-line usability of the git client is. Commands are poorly named and often do the wrong thing. It's really hard to explain to new users why you need to run `git checkout HEAD *` instead of `git reset` as you'd expect, why `git branch [branchname]` just switches to a branch whereas `git checkout -b [branchname]` actually creates it, etc.

I really wish he'd collaborated with some more people in the early stages of writing git to come up with an interface that makes sense, because everyone is constantly paying the cost of those decisions, especially new git learners.
Not to assume, but that sounds like a comment from someone who only uses GitHub for interacting with git. I agree that GitHub helped spread the popularity of git, but I hesitate to say with absolution that it's the only thing that makes git popular.

Anecdotally...

When I first began my git adventures, nearly 10 years ago, I was extremely apprehensive. I knew SVN. I liked SVN. I had no reason to go elsewhere. And then I tried git (albeit using a GUI at the time), and it didn't click. So I went back to SVN. Later, after being forced to use git for a project at work, I started to understand what makes it special. I finally felt I had a version control system/tool that I could trust without being so hands-on like I was with SVN. Put simply -- git _just_ works. The concepts take time to really grasp (rebase versus merge, reflog, etc), but once grasped, it becomes very easy to see why it is so popular.

I now use git locally as much as I use it with a hosted repository (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc). I use both command line and GUIs, and I thoroughly enjoy being able to trust git so completely.
You have 10$ chinese brand-able devices for that: https://rbaron.net/blog/2018/05/27/Hacking-a-cheap-fitness-t...
Your anecdotal dismissal supports the parent commenter's point.
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What about all of us zero-hit wonders?
Americans Under 35 Are Unable to Buy a House, Pay Debt, or Save for Retirement
This chart is probably the most interesting part:

https://i0.wp.com/chessintheair.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/...
Lots of support from the usual HN "tariffs bad" crowd that shows up when America restricts trade. But now, producing your own stuff _can_ be important strategically? It seems pre-existing opinions of the actor in question are tainting opinions of the activity.
And this affects your health how exactly?
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how are mens mental health statistics doing? What does "enabling their role as carers" do for those who aren't carers? Is that for men or for a subset of men that accept the heavily biased current status quo?

The things you mentioned arent being done for men, they're being done to men.
If by serious injury, you include things like ACLs, certainly.

If you mean broken legs, spinal injuries, etc. that's going to vary a huge amount by what kind of skiing you do. If you're a racer in Downhill events, that's one thing. (How many times did Lindsey Vonn seriously injure herself?) Add in high speed tree skiing much less more extreme off-piste skiing of various kinds.

But a recreational skier doing basic blue and black diamond runs with a fair bit of caution? It's pretty safe. Sure, you can wipe out on ice or someone can blindside you. Or you can hit your head--although many wear helmets these days. But, overall, I'm guessing the driving to the hill is more dangerous. (Often fairly long drives in winter conditions.)
And why wouldn’t they just buy a $199 Apple Watch Series 3? How many people are both into fitness and do price conscience that they won’t spend an extra $100.

Well, they could cater to the Android market.
That was my thought - isn't refraction going to mess up the trigonometry involved here? Like in the Bedford Level experiment [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment
This is terrible news. As if Google didn't know enough about you already - they will now be supplied with a 24/7 live feed of your most sensitive health statistics.

I'll be switching to a competitor and closing down my account there as soon as possible to hopefully prevent years of my historic data from being merged into the (ghost) profile Google has on me.

But at this rate it won't be long before there are simply no more competitors to FAANG left anymore. Actually enforcing antitrust laws, anyone, pretty please?
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I have seen a lot more Fitbits then Garmins or Apple Watches. I would argue that the hardcore market, while the most loyal, isn't the largest revenue generator. It's everyone who wants something "smart" without breaking the bank (or tied to iOS).
They’re starting to put some of their data behind a monthly subscription, especially around sleep.

A coworker recommended I look into buying one, but as soon as I saw that I needed to pay $x per month to see data they were already capturing, I immediately passed.
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Very fair point, haven't thought about it that way. I wonder if any studies have been done on where the homeless in the liberal leaning cities actually originally come from.

As for the Dems in congress - You'd need the right kind of democrat also. I think Hillary clinton did a real number to that parties reputation during her time in power. The american democrats desperately need smart, ethical and above all honest new faces that will fight the rampant corruption in american politics.
The gist of it (to me) is it focuses on issues that are the feminist conception of what is wrong with masculinity and it is overly focused on masculinity. Masculinity, or what women think masculinity is, is usually just a proxy for feeling included and wanted. It's fine to say you don't owe anyone anything or don't need to impress anyone -- but as a man, if you're not doing those things (even in a way which isn't "manly"), no one cares who you are.

In my experience this leads to going to a therapist and being told you can be anything you want to be, but when you actually try to follow up and get help, no one wants to help you because you're a man.

I can't get it to load on this connection so I can't provide direct citations. Most of what I found objectionable was in the first two pages or so.
I spent 10 years dealing with sleep issues.

Then I started yoga and mediation back in March.

Meditation daily before bed, Vinyasa five days per week after work and Yin on Sundays.

I sleep like a corpse. I get into bed at 11:00pm, close my eyes, and then open my eyes and it has been seven and a half hours.

edit: Yoga and meditation are no joke.

Last night's sleep: https://i.imgur.com/F7IJKy3.jpg

Last night I got into bed an hour early at 9:50pm because it was thundering raining and trick-or-treating was cut short. I meditated and read for 30 mins, noticed I was falling asleep, put my book on the nightstand, rolled over and was out like a light until 6:30am. The wake-up spike at 1:20am was probably me stirring over because my cat was trying to sleep on my face.

Before meditation and yoga, I would have been awake, lying in bed despairing, until 1am and then groggily rolling out of bed after a restless night barely making it to work on time.
The excitement around Java existed for two reasons: many people were new to the ideas in Java, and many people were learning it for the first time. Now, every programmer knows about Java's ideas (with the possible exception of interfaces which aren't in Python) and the number of people learning Java is capped at the number of kids being born. If Rust is successful then eventually every programmer who wants to learn it will already know it, and every programmer will know how to use a borrow checker. The nobody will post "made in rust" stuff on HN, but that will be an indication of Rust's victory.
I always wonder why open source kind of petered out. When it was all the rage I imagined it taking over other industries. Even moving out of just software.
> I know there are some versioning file systems but I've never used them

But those other systems were the whole point of the post you replied to ;)
Doubeclick, Youtube, Waze...
I actually wrote an implementation in Python of this exact idea:

https://github.com/ANIME-AnimeCoin/Pastel/blob/18676aa55fe0f...
an SC robot with alphastar brain--learning to use a mouse for a start--would probably only shift the blame to those super human materials. They should put alpha* into a human! That's where it's going anyway, isn't it?
I don't think it's very different from Canada, depending on the city.
These numbers are all per man-hour instead of per trip. That's not good or bad but it definitely biases things toward making slower activities look safer. One hour of base jumping is on the order of jumping every weekend for 2-3yr (assuming 30sec from jump to ground).
I mean, YouTube is another.
> How can there be something simpler atop an existing file system

Mercurial? Similar DVCS concepts, but you no longer have to worry about garbage collection or staging areas...
That would also spawn outrage mobs.

"This boy said right here in his Call of Duty chat that he was going to go to school with his dad's rifle and shoot people!!!"

The only thing you would do is put entirely unprofessional future mobs in place of the slightly unprofessional police we use currently. I would hope people could see the very real chance that your idea would make things worse.
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The buyout price is unacceptable, expect FIT shareholders to oppose the deal. Basically everyone who has been holding FIT more than two years will take a loss with this deal. IPO price was $20 in 2015.
Double click, Youtube, waze...
The trend for consumer is a push towards centralization, mostly for convenience reasons. So far it has been hard to reconcile an open communication model with saftety from the many forms of abuse—ranging from illegal actors to permissible (yet highly annoying) advertisers.

I got on the internet in the 90's back when netiquette was still a thing. Nowadays, most things are all about money: either how can a closed platform get monetized or how to game any communication method for personal enrichment. I often reminisce on the polite and open internet of the past, but that is no longer the reality available to us.

Interstingly enough, for enterprise, the trend seems to be in the opposite direction. I work on Webex Teams and one of the features is clients owning their own decryption hardware, running on their own servers. Cisco may be the one moving the messages around but we have no clue what's inside of those messages (and we certainly don't want to know).

In this federated model, 2 separate companies can communicate, relying on key management running under their own control, each applying their own retention policies, etc. Of course these systems are a lot more complex than the naive "big store of data + 1 gatekeeper" approach.
Once you take VC money, your “mission statement” is meaningless. You no longer have the luxury of being a lifestyle business. You either have to get acquired or statistically unlikely go public.
> There isn't anything about Itanium that makes it worse for mobile. In fact, the opposite is true, it would be better for mobile because it was designed to push more of the optimizations into the compiler vs the hardware. That means less power required to do optimizations against running software.

There's a big problem with that: the VLIW layout is not as memory efficient so programs were larger and the instruction cache needed to be larger to compensate. Mobile architectures have traditionally had smaller caches and less memory bandwidth to save power.

There is an interesting what-if question here: one of the big things which killed Itanium was the poor x86 compatibility meaning that while it was not entirely uncompetitive when running highly-optimized native code, it was massively slower for legacy apps even before you factored in the price. Compiler technology has improved by a huge degree since the 90s and in particular it's interesting to imagine would could happen in an Apple AppStore-style environment where developers ship LLVM bitcode which is recompiled for the target device, substantially avoiding the need to run legacy code.
Steelcase.
This makes perfect sense given the success of Apple in the wearables market. If Google's software and Fitbit's hardware can work closely, then they may have some wearables that could be good competition for Apple Watch.
1. If lack of healthcare were the cause, wouldn't life expectancy also drop equally for all other demographics who are just as poor?

2. The article specifically mentioned the uptick is caused by suicide and drug overdose

3. America does have a healthcare system for the poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
And on OS X and Windows?
I'm confused by this comment.

To me, Garmin is the only company here that does a good job with the "hardcore fitness" market, but why does that matter in the first place? The better market to compete in is the "fitness amateur" market, which I see as being many times the former in size. Fitbit competes well here, and Google has no offering to speak of. Seems like a successful diversification move for Alphabet's portfolio. I especially like what Google's software can do to improve FitBit's offering by leveraging AI.
Rust wasn't just "picked up" by Firefox - it was developed by Mozilla for the very purpose of using it in the "next generation" of Firefox technologies.

(The original Rust project as designed by Graydon Hoare was even quite different from the Rust of today, e.g. the C/C++-like focus, with little ot no runtime, is something that only came about around the Rust 1.0 release.)
These two commands gives you a list of programs using the sound devices:

fuser -v /dev/snd/* && lsof /dev/snd/*
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I tried to subscribe using the `/feed subscribe https://news.ycombinator.com/rss` command, but Slack says "That feed (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss) could not be saved. Try again?". What happened?
Subversion needs a server, for one. For a single user and a single file, Git is already less overhead.
Being the SCM to interact with Linux development was kind of killer application for got.
YouTube, Doubleclick, Waze, and DeepMind were good acquisitions.
So this means Firefox doesn't want power users who maybe just wanna write a quick hack for a website without distributing it?
Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar all came out within a month of each other, so I'm guessing Bazaar did as well.
>what the best/safest choices are for the general public.

Sometimes I think tech people forget 'the general public' is made up of adults capable of learning and making their own choices if educated properly on matters.
>I think learning how to deal with this type of criticism is a quality one needs to have nowadays

Being "criticised" for being either white or male isn't criticism, its either sexism or racism and neither are acceptable

Your follow up about inequality is unrelated, and your "solution" is to allow to to continue because reddit and twitter are "great platforms".

Its like you haven't even read your own writing.
So would it be roughly accurate to say that Bayard is to Tantivy what Elasticsearch is to Lucene?
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Actually, misrepresentation is an especially bad strategy if you're a normal guy with a dark secret.
I mean two turkey's don't make an eagle, but a gun and a bullet are not very lethal on their own. Fitbit's sales are good and it's platform is not, Google's platform is good and it's sales are not. Easy fix.
One could argue they’ve almost ruined Waze since acquiring it.
I think you mean laissez faire capitalism
I feel like Junio Hamano's name should be more attached to git than it is. He's been in charge of the project for most of its life but doesn't even get mentioned in articles like these.
$99? A brand new Garmin Vivofit 4 which has an always on display and a year of battery life is $79.99 USD. It's the low margin segment of the space and that's where Fitbit put all their eggs. Fitbit didn't really invest in anything behind low-end fitness tracking well. They tried, but people buy other products now. They want heart rate, they want GPS, they want PulseOx and ECG features and will pay for them. Regardless of whether or not they need them.
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Finding the actual info is not terribly difficult: Google Scholar and Pubmed, maybe with some of the arxivs.

The trick is interpreting it and putting it into context. A paper will report the results of one specific experiment, and it’s very rarely exactly what you want. Understanding how a result will generalize to other conditions is tricky, even for experts: there are tons of weird feedback loops, unusual dynamics, and other traps for the unwary (plus badly designed experiments and the occasional legit Type I error). For example, doubling the amount of a substance almost never doubles its effect, and in some cases, the effects aren’t even monotonic: ~75% alcohol, for example, is a much better disinfectant than 50 or 100%.

With time—-and lots of paper-reading, you do eventually develop a sense for what factors might matter and how you could check.
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The git storage structure is not that difficult. People could implement their own compatible clients on top of it with a quite different UI. That there is nothing that overtook git as UI in popularity seems to be an indication that the interface is not as bad as many people claim.
BitKeeper was created in large parts to fit Linux and Linus came with a lot of feedback to McVoy. Perhaps even took part in the original design? Someone who can remember can surely fill in. I never really used it, but I expect there to be some shared ideas for those reasons.
Would be great if it had video, image, and other search result types.
Urrmm, Youtube, Doubleclick, Waze?

Those have all been industry defining.
Correct. The right term to use here is oligopoly.
If this is really the driver behind Google buying them, what do you think are the odds that most - if not all - of the non-watch FitBit products are eventually discontinued?

That's how they built up a following, with devices that were inexpensive, and did a few things well, but given the current environment, Google doesn't seem like they are interested in that market.
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Similarly, my home security system is set up in a fashion that allows either [app notification], [email notification], or [text notification] - (or any combination of the three).

I can certainly see valid use cases where a user would prefer one over the other. Not sure anyone would prefer all three to be turned on, however, which appears to be similar to what the author opted for.

Personally, I couldn't imagine getting notifications for everything.

I have my emails set up to just display a number on the icon. Some other semi-important apps similarly. But a text message is important - so that goes off. Wife could have a flat tire or need a quick answer (arguably a flat tire on the side of the road justifies a call, but who knows these days).

I guess my main thing is that if my phone goes off in my pocket, I want to make sure I'm pulling it out for, at least what could be, a justifiable reason - and not because someone replied to something that I said on Facebook earlier this morning.
Honestly, I love good technical discussions the most. I've had good interactions learned a lot from very smart people discussing some of these. I'm fascinated by many articles that get posted that cover societal or cultural things, but the comment section usually ends up being garbage. In the end they just end up being filled with off topic flamerwars, downvotes and occasionally really negative content.

Not sure that theres much that can be done about it though.
What exactly is hostile to power users here?
Complain about Git, but there are commercial alternatives (I'm thinking of Perforce) that make even less sense.
Completely cherry picked a statement to fit your narrative. Google has done quite well with critical acquisitions. Wear OS is struggling .. this is a good buy they can afford.
I don't think this analogy really works here, the reason the Nokia acquisition didn't work is because it was too late. Microsoft was simply too late to make the necessary changes to compete on the OS level and they kept changing development kits entirely driving away developers and consumers.