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I think this is a really exciting space and have been wanting a connected watch for some time.

Here are some other options:

MotoACTV: https://motoactv.com

IM Watch: http://www.imwatch.it/

Meta Watch: http://www.metawatch.org

WIMM One: http://www.wimm.com/

Are there others? (iPod Nano watches not included since they don't connect to anything)
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const doesn't help most optimizing compilers, it only really helps prevent programmer clumsiness. Since most C/C++ compiler IR's are SSA-based all values are effectively const anyways at the level optimizations are performed whether or not they're mutable in the original source code.
I don't think it's real e-paper, it looks to be a Sharp Memory LCD (http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html -- the specs are identical). In fairness, Sharp are positioning those LCDs as a kind of e-paper work-alike, and they do work very well. The Nike+ watch for example uses that exact screen.
To me, G+ is a good effort from Google. They've made a concerted attempt to add a social layer on top of the core Google products that have a unique take on social functionality and some manner of utility for users.

The problem comes down to engineering however - or more precisely, engineers.

I have always gotten the sense that G+ is a social network for "nerds". In this context, "nerds" refers to people that (like me) are:

1. More technically inclined than the average person
2. Willing to invest more time and effort into their social circles
3. Capable of grasping more abstract social concepts
4. Have an attention span longer than a gnat

While this is a very nice social network, G+ features are not designed for the instant grasp that Facebook has perfected. I think that FB's strategy of catering to the lowest common denominator - literally - in an elegant and usable way is what continues to cement their dominance over the space.

This latest redesign seems to be still very technically oriented, despite the pretty icons. The entire concept of reordering things is quite literally bunk when you get down to the average joe.

When are you going to reorder your icons on the left? What utility does it provide? As a regular user, you want something but the entire concept of moving stuff around on the screen isn't your priority. It is parsley on a dish, not the main course. Each G+ design feature I've seen so far continues to be just little bits of garnish, providing little in the way of truly useful functionality that makes the overall experience as a whole better in some way.

Of course, nothing is guaranteed in business and most certainly no one will be king of the hill forever. The world changes after all, and the generation that is being born now will utilize social media in a way we can barely imagine. However, that still doesn't change the fact that G+ as a whole seems to be an effort to make a social network for Googlers, not the world. We as HN readers should not gauge G+ by what we see through our own experience - we should gauge it by what our non-technical friends, family and random-acquaintances do, and that is how I'm gauging this design change right now (go FaceTime!).
Isn't this filmed in Y Combinator's office? What's the connection with YC?
They are useless for a very large class of users - it can be argued that those users should educate themselves more if they want to be safer, but it doesn't seem escapable that hardware vendors (and others, including ISVs and network providers) have some incentive to promote solutions that have [what they consider to be] a better rate of solving the problem satisfactorily.
Corrupt practices are only possible if they are hidden. Journalists like WSJ's Mossberg are able to maintain their credibility only because they keep it simple by not taking cash or freebies and restating that policy frequently.

If Blog X wants to take cash and freebies and then let me know about it in a nicely formatted web page, that's fine. I can keep reading and make a case by case judgement of their opinions. If not they are playing the game of monetizing their reputation and will one day be asking their hidden patrons for a job, or finding a new industry. Note the key driver in all this: transparency.
It's a good idea, they have a good product, now they just need the media to give them a chance again.
I think the main issue is that a lot of CS programs don't really teach these subjects. The top rated CS programs teach them(I learned all of the subjects listed in TFA while I was an undergrad at UIUC) but I think a lot of CS degrees are just Java or C# programming training now.
Then there needs to be an alternative. Anything Arrington, Lacy, etc. are affiliated with will be plagued with corruption, terrible writers, and self-important nonsense.
Bump actually does need the location, because it's important to filtering all the requests they get. It could certainly be abused, but unlike most other apps that ask your location bump actually needs it.
Are you telling me you can be bought for life for $100? Please. Aside from that this is a good move on Nokia's part. They know they're the underdogs in the market and this is what you have to do as an underdog to have a shot at being a top dog someday.
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Good eye! We're a YC-backed company.
Just an example from my experience; if you're using lesscss and you're committing the generated css files to source control, someone cloning your repo and trying to fix a UI bug would probably just jump into the css file and make the change. They may not know that those files are generated by the .less files.
From the article:

Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When a mutation is apparent to the cell, it brings it into a compartmental ring-like structure, where the DNA is repaired and then is able to fuse the nucleoids from the outside of the compartment with the damaged DNA.

Amazing.
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1.9.3 is great for production. You give up a bit of memory savings compared to REE (since Ruby proper won't be COW-friendly until 2.0), but 1.9.3 in general is faster, has a lot more features, and is widely supported by gems and libraries now.

1.8.7 has been EOL'd, which is as good a reason as any to upgrade.
it really seems that this industry is heading to a place where if you aren't a complete arrogant ass without shame who can strut around going "Look at me I'm so cool! Look what I do!", your project won't get any mainstream attention. It makes me sad.

I don't think that's "this industry", I think it's "every industry". And I'm not sure it's a new thing, either.
If you download it and get it in iTunes on your computer (either via syncing or downloading it there in the first place), then you can inspect the package yourself pretty easily.

But in my experience, 2.74mb is not a large iOS app.
Or Nokia doesn't have many more shots at getting back into the smart phone market and their newest foray was beset by technical difficulties that could bury it so they are dumping money on it until that problem goes away to just have a chance to stand in the market and see how they do (assuming no more technical difficulties arise)

They don't have a lot of choices. If this launch goes south, the whole company is in deep trouble. Pouring even a lot of money on it now is smarter than (further) risking the whole company.
After clicking "Join Google+" on that page I am using the new redesign
Yes, it seems he plans to be entirely wireless. It was compared in the article to Clear's 4G WiMAX service augmented with ubiquitous encryption.
Note that it says they ship in September.
> it is probably going to require some competitor finding a good way to help someone move their social life (i.e. photos and friends) trivially

I wouldn't be surprised if the EU would introduce laws for that at one point. Also, it would be cool if a social news site could parse the ZIP dump of your data you can request from FB.
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Pebble works natively with iOS 5. We are that YC company!
What I meant with the Digg comparison is an "implosion" scenario whereby Facebook does something disastrous to itself which causes a mass exodus, as opposed to something better coming along to supplant it.

I think it would be very difficult for it to happen any other way. Indeed, the points you make reinforce this idea.
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Packed decimal predates the idea of "big iron" even. The original driver was control applications: doing user output on machines with tiny memories that couldn't spare the conversion logic to produce a decimal value. Check the BCD instructions that still exist (albeit in very slow microcoded form, and I think they still work only on the 8 bit registers) on your 8 core Sandy Bridge monster.
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Hello Everyone,

I'm at the point where I would like to show my weekend project. It's definitely slow moving, as I've been working on it in my spare time. I was going to post this a few weeks ago, but right when I was about to, we had the start of a pretty constant flow of web based and mobile apps that do similar things. I didn't want to pile on with a me too, but at this point I'm not sure I'll ever get a clean window.

It's core assumption is that we are different people depending on who we are interacting with, and we don't really want to mix our family, friends, and work. In my own case, I didn't want my family seeing anything my vulger and lovingly abusive sportbike friends post. And my dirt-track friends would probably beat the crap out of my smart-alec geek friends, better to just never even let them know the other exists. I'm not even going to tell you the deal with my cousins...

Caveats: I'm one guy working over my garage in my spare time. I'm not a designer. I have tons of bugs to fix. I know my examples are corny. It's running on crappy hardware, if many of you hit it I'm sure you will kill it. I don't consider it MVP, even though it has more built than a lot of so-called MVPs I see.

Having said all that, I would really appreciate feedback. I know a lot of people like Facebook, and if you are happy with it, this is probably not anything you would ever want to use. But for those dissatisfied, I present a different take.

http://www.connexation.com

If you click on the "learn more" button, you can see screenshots and get a feel without signing up.

I'm almost afraid to hit submit, but I thank everyone who read this far,
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>It's an interesting result that probably hasn't been considered by most people.

Is it? I mean it's cute to see it actually implemented, but this is something I thought of the first time I read about substitution ciphers. I suppose it is, if nothing else, an interesting way to introduce someone to some basic cryptography concepts (assuming they already know about typefaces).
Hi lamby, I'm one of the co-founders at Ducksboard.

We approach things from a different angle than Geckoboard.

* As far as I know, they just visualize whatever comes from their data sources. We don't just visualize it, but we store it in our databases. This enables us to provide historic charts and other goodies.

* We make a strong focus on realtime as well, using WebSockets to push updates to the frontend as soon as they're available in the backend. I don't think they're going this far.

* The visual part is just a matter of taste, each one has a very particular style. We actually prefer ours :)

* And from today, our APIs allow handling your data and dashboards without a need to actually use the web frontend. This can be pretty useful in certain integration scenarios.

If you have more questions, feel free to ask.
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Easier said than done. The code of Rails was also publicly available, but getting from a hello world app to diving into a hard core codebase such as that of Rails is a huge step. Understanding framework code is quite different from understanding app code as well.
Still, way too much screen real estate reserved for the "static" fixed header bar. And now G+ has added a "static" fixed vertical frame too.

I thought the web reading public already expressed their disfavor of frames.
I don't think that the comparison with music or sports is correct. If I had to play an instrument I would ask for a motivation because I don't enjoy playing. Similarly someone who doesn't enjoy maths asks for a reason to study it. When you present maths to someone who doesn't like it on its own then the problem is to find a balance between abstraction and applications. When maths is presented too abstractly then it looks useless. When it's presented too concretely then it looses its essence and may seem trivial.
Compilation = converting a language into another. Hiphop is a (two-stages) PHP compiler.
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megamark16: the answer then, for the third time, is to take a second to learn the system before you try and fix it.
The knowledge can't go away, because someone needs to write the systems: sure apps might move to managed/interpreted environments exclusively, but those interpreters and language runtimes need to be written first. And they run on a kernel, with drivers for hardware that needs firmware.

I don't lose much sleep at night worrying about my job security as a "systems" programmer. If anything, my skill set is becoming underrepresented and hard to staff.
Why'd you choose to raise money via Kickstarter instead of going the traditional funding route? I have my theories, but I'd love to hear what specific benefits you have using this model.
There's an excellent chrome extension that allowed one to check off specific circles to view as a group. Rather than have to view one circle, then the next circle, then the next, I could view multiple circles at the same time.

What this really meant was that I could get an "All" view that excluded those circles holding people I'm only sporadically interested in, without having to play with the circle frequency slider thing.

This new g+ design obliterates that plugin. The inability to view sets of circles is a major failing of the UI.
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Thank you! Looking forward to trying this :)
> no tech company stays in the #1 spot for more than a decade

If that were a fixed law, then Facebook could still wait for Windows, Photoshop, Skype and Google Search to disappear before they had to worry about themselves.

I hope I will remember to revisit this comment in half a decade. :)
Maybe they can capture part of the anti-Facebook audience.

They would never get the anti-social-network audience, though. And this, which seems trivial, is important, because (for me) it's not that I am anti-Facebook, it's that I would never spend my time on a social network.

Besides, the same arguments that goes in an anti-Facebook opinion, are relevant also for g+
> This, to me, is mathematics. Playing, confirming, questioning — even in my real life. It gave me a much sadder answer for people when they ask me “when am I ever going to use this”.

This isn't exclusive to mathematics. I'm sure there are thousands of blog posts lamenting the lack of philosophy, comparative literature, computer science, etc. instruction.
What is the process like for using it on iPhone? Do you need to always be running a companion app in the foreground? Have you considered adding support for Google Voice, if you can't access native text messages?
How will Podio customers be affected by the acquisition?

You’ll start seeing the Citrix brand on the Podio website, but beyond that, not much should change for you. Podio will continue to provide its great service to you, just as it always has. As we move forward, the Podio team will be working with their new colleagues at Citrix to offer even greater value for Podio users and customers.

Will Podio still be free?

Podio will continue to offer a free option as well as a premium service choice. Details on pricing can be found at https://company.podio.com/pricing.*

http://blog.podio.com/2012/04/11/q-a-with-citrixs-bernardo-d...
Remember, "organic" means "contains carbon" (to a first approximation), not "alive". Earth is well-known not to have anything like a monopoly on all the carbon in the universe. We've never had solid evidence of life on other planets, so this is no change there.

It also raises another possibility not mentioned in the article, which is that life is in fact rare, the only life anywhere near us is what developed on Earth, and discovering life on Mars or the other possibly-hospitable locations in the solar system may not prove that life is common if it can be shown to have derived directly from Earth life.
I've always felt attracted by low-level systems and I'm currently one of many students in Comp. Sci. For the moment all by love goes to all kinds of bare-metal stuff, optimization tricks etc. I'd like to go all the way through it but being about more abstracted development (although the term looks unproper to me, since being able to grasp a machine's ways is a valuable effort of abstraction itself) seems like what is and will be expected of me.

So I'm asking : career-wise, are the optimization ghettos (video games, embedded systems, critical systems etc.) all that one could expected when refusing to code and manage projects around buzz-words or is there actual innovation / change and a shiny future to come for bit nerds ?
I have played around with Geckoboard and I don't love it. I like the UI of Ducksboard more and am inclined to continue with it.

My biggest wish of these services is that they would fluidly, and intelligently expand to utilize the full width of the screen they are on.
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The thing that tells the firmware to initialize? In other words, how does does the firmware "know" to initialize?

The firmware is just software that is executed by the CPU. The question is, how does the CPU know how to find and execute execute the firmware

From the article: The motherboard ensures that the instruction at the reset vector is a jump to the memory location mapped to the BIOS entry point.

The motherboard hardware ensures that the firmware is mapped into memory and that the reset vector points to its entry point. The CPU loads the reset vector into the EIP and starts to run the firmware.
The main beef I have with geckoboard is a litany of embarrassing unresolved bugs but these features sound pretty cool. Am trying out your API tutorial right now.
Reminds me of the Intel ads for the Ultrabook (eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kuMen5UOm0). Good way to communicate.
Posted to Rachel's blog, but repeated here for the wider audience:

Yes, I maintain several GitHub repos. Almost all of them are, in a sense, actively open to pull requests.

My take?

Random pull requests are fine, especially for minor tweaks and small bug fixes. Even better, if the pull request fixes a known, open bug from our Bugzilla instance. In that case, it would be good to mention the bug #. We don't have a formal style guide, but unless the code is just hideous, I probably wouldn't reject a pull request on stylistic grounds alone.

OTOH, if you come along and implement a major feature with no interaction with the existing team, things might get a little more complicated. In those case, it probably is better to establish some dialogue first, just to make sure everything fits. Likewise for fixing a major bug with lots of interactions / dependencies throughout the code base.. assuming your patch really does fix it, then yes, we'd take the pull request. But it would be good to talk through it first, walk through possible "unintended consequences," etc.

And, of course, emailing or establishing contact first is pretty much never a bad thing. Well, as long as one follows through with what they say they're going to do.
But, and here is the detail that we need here..

Of posts on TC:

1 Less than 20% make it to techmeme
2. By visitor counts TC only has had two very successful writers MA and S..
3 TC posts that are short do in fact only send referrals in the dozens..
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The problem with licensing Meteor as GPL is that it creates a high level of uncertainty.

If I'm going to start a new hobby or side project, perhaps hoping that it'll get bigger someday, I still have no idea if, when or how it'll make money so it doesn't makes sense to contact Meteor to find out how much licensing is, but the doubt will always be there and as likely as not I'd just not use Meteor to avoid finding out too late that the commercial license terms are unacceptable for whatever I end up with.

There's also uncertainty about what exactly I can or can't do with a GPL licensed web framework. To some it's very clear that I'll only have to release my changes to the framework, to others it's very clear that I'd have to release the whole app as GPL. To me it's unclear either way and as long as that uncertainty exists it makes using it tough call.

If it's hard to justify doing a hobby project with those concerns, it'll be next to impossible to get buy-in on a new project at work. In fact, as cool as Meteor looks, and as much as I'd love to use it, I wouldn't even present it as an option.

I'd prefer pay for support or hosting or add-ons or whatever; as long as I know up-front what the costs are likely to be. I don't think a more liberal license will prevent the community from contributing back, Rails, Django, Node etc. being the obvious examples. I'd love to see Meteor take off and the devs obviously deserve to make money on it, but personally the GPL just feels like it's only huge downside to an otherwise very exciting project.
Thank you for the link to Bransford's blog.

You quoted from his post:

"Publishers then turned around and imposed that agency deal on Amazon, which is the subject of the DOJ investigation. The end result: There really is more competition in the e-book world, but prices are higher than they likely would be if Amazon and others were able to discount as they saw fit."

How can something be anti-competitive if it increased competition? Whether prices went up or down is irrelevant. The whole point of anti-trust law is to make sure that the market has competition. Not to make sure that prices are low.

It seems to me that the real issue is that nobody has figured out the right way to deal with digital goods where supply is effectively unconstrained. We have constructed laws to create artificial scarcity of digital goods. If the government wants to lower the price of digital goods, what they should do is find a way to relax the regulations that artificially constrain the supply.
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The included link to the original Shirky interview is broken.
Is it open source, I mean, are others free to use it in their games?
The analogy between band and math is problematic. Band has various payoffs that math doesn't: getting attention from peers, the inherent joy in playing music, peer bonding via football games, band trips and whatnot. (Not that math doesn't have "inherent joy" -- it just seems more solitary, more cerebral, and less socially glorified than music.)

There's no doubt that our math education destroys curiousity, and if we could teach math in a non-utilitarian way, as a sort of artistic endeavor, that would be amazing, but... is it even possible? Has it ever been tried? Whenever I think about this, I think about season 4 of The Wire.
This looks essentially like Economic dumping. Nokia is _giving_ phones away in order to game market share, and using this "PR coup" as cover. It's a good strategy, but I certainly do not thing this is corporate benevolence.