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> It leads to me regularly switching between iOS and Android

Is this only because of the app permissions model? AFAIK, other than that, Android per se isn't any less privacy-oriented than iOS. iOS apps also much more commonly retrieve various user data and marginally more often send data around unencrypted.
Can you check all that stuff by just flicking your wrist?
Web browsers don't exist in linux land?
Am I the only person hoping this comes through with some type of iOS compatibility? It seems to be the only smart watch out there that looks like a watch and not a futuristic-80's-era-digital-caluclator-watch
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I ran into the same thing.

Turning the developer console on displayed the text for me, but I'm really not sure why.
Dressing well and taking care of your body are social cues, that you meet the dress 'standards' of the group (whatever they are) and that you are capable of managing your own body.
There exists a particular anti-fraud heuristic at a YC company. They shared it to me in confidence, because as soon as you know it exists, you can trivially avoid it. I mean trivially. It's apparently insanely effective, though, half because it has a really good handle on who it wants to frustrate and the other half because it's not in the literature at all and, as a consequence, the bad guys don't even know they have to avoid defenses in that class of algorithms.

That moment when I realize I should've come up with a way of demonstrating my own ability to keep other peoples' secrets, so that I can be let in on this one and satisfy this burning desire to figure out what the heck that particular fraud detection technique could possibly be...

Well, clearly I'm going to be thinking all day about fraud detection methods and about guessing your technique. Hmm. I may as well guess your technique openly:

Your technique must be something unexpected, and seemingly unrelated to "actions that fraudsters would normally be careful not to give themselves away with." So I'm going to guess that the technique is to analyze the linguistic traits of each user's password. Most people reuse passwords, and if the fraudsters share a similar cultural background then the password has a decent chance of giving away the fact that a particular user is from that same cultural background, e.g. if the password contains a foreign dictionary word in their native tongue yet their their purported home address is in a completely different country. That sort of thing.

Or if the same group of fraudsters keep reusing the same passwords, or even parts of their previous passwords, then that would probably be enough to accurately detect them. Most people who don't use a password manager tend to reuse substrings of their prior passwords, so they end up leaving a pretty distinctive identity "footprint" by the type of passwords they choose. Their passwords are likely to share a similar structure, such as always consisting of two words followed by two numbers, for example, or always starting their passwords with two symbols like %#.

And of course, if the fraudsters became aware that their password was giving themselves away, they'd trivially dodge the detector in the future.

Hmm. I'll just have to invent my own fraud detection techniques. This is a lot of fun.
Haha, thank you! Yeah, surprise babies are (eventually) the most wonderful surprises.
The only reason I never got a NuvaRing is because I wasn't comfortable with something being implanted in my body. It just didn't feel right. Granted birth control is just as unnatural, but it's slightly easier on the conscience to take a pill a doctor prescribes you than insert a plastic ring that releases hormones into your vagina.
Honestly, making a watch that will fit comfortably for women would be a step up. Wrist size differences and all.
I feel the only reason your secrets may not be in jeopardy with Apple is because they don't know as many... If you really want your secrets to be safe you wouldn't use any closed source code at all and would take security precautions to secure the code you do use. Unfortunately we live in a time when closed-source software is the norm and too many people think having a secure, open, communications infrastructure is too complicated and don't quite understand the reasoning behind it (thankfully that attitude seems to be changing a little), but I hope one day we'll look back on this time and wonder what we were thinking by allowing digital goods to be closed source.

With 3D printers, neural implants, augmented reality, food and organ printers, and the age of automation, what the future holds is a digital realm that's going to be very scary for people who understand it, especially if the infrastructure is completely owned by corporations and un-trustable governments and even a small amount of the source is closed. I mean look around the room and think of all the things that could be augmented or replaced with 3D printed components.. Why have a physical laptop in front of you when you can augment the key board, 25 screens, and everything else? Not only that, but you can do it for nothing if you know how to code it.

We can already print organs and I don't think it will be too long until we can print good tasting food, but what if you execute some code on your food printer that prints a steak with anthrax in it? I think in the next 50 years all this is going to be fairly common place in the developed world and I really hope I have confidence in the system that we have in place at that time.
Improved color blending using the CIE-LCh color-space
This[1] was the most egregious article I can find with my own 3 minutes of Googling, though I admit that it can be read in a way that presents the information without bias, though I think some of the ambiguity is intended to mislead.

"Hundreds testify for, against proposals on assault weapons, licensing" is a sort of true statement, except that exactly 22 is not hundreds.

I remember more biased reports from the time, but I can't find them now. So while there's some validity to your point, I've seen it happen enough to say confidently that those estimates are best-guess estimates, and those estimates are subject to bias.

[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/6/gun-rights-ad...
"intentional cabin depressurization to incapacitate the passengers and non-pilot crew"

Isn't that what the oxygen masks are for?
Should mention I have a mortgage ($200K) and a family (2 beautiful kids) to support. I am also 35 so feel it may be too late to take the risk like this?
I work from home so most of the time unless I'm in a google hangout I'm largely alone. I've found that using voice activated input for my moto x is something that I use more and more often. There will likely be a social stigma around voice oriented device control initially but for me it's just the simplest thing that gets the job done.

All that said I agree with you about the battery. It'll have to be nice enough to make it worth it. Lots of people need one less reason to get sucked into checking notifications on their phone.
This is Rogers you're talking about. The sell you a shitty expensive connection capped at 60GB, and then they hijack your DNS failures to resolve to their shitty ads page, and throttle your traffic depending on the protocol. If you drive down the street in my city you see wireless access points named "Rogers Sucks Ass".
Intuitive, form-conscious interfaces are definitely needed, but I think the hardware problem is the biggest hurdle facing wearables. Especially the battery design. I own a Pebble, and there is something significantly different about how I look at charging it... and that's with them doing everything they can to eek out battery life. This necessitates e-ink, accelerometer-based backlighting, etc. Having a beautiful display usually means abysmal battery life and an need to shake/touch your wearable every time you want to interact with it.
Artist paints woman's entire body to make her look like a parrot
What do you think an Angular directive is?

It is a DOM marker (HTML attribute, element, class or comment) with behavior (JavaScript) tied to it.

Angular lets you create your own HTML attributes. That's what a directive is.
You do realize that the campaign is designed to show how a device is used throughout one person's day, don't you? How does adding a second person clarify that message?
Or use an AST and do a structural replace, rather than use text.
And how many other practice runways were also on the simulator? Zero...one hundred?
Half of U.S. Business Schools Might Be Gone by 2020
Minecraft is an interesting case study here, in that it deliberately throws away realistic graphics in favor of a comprehensively mutable environment. It's interesting how that seemed like such a totally unprecedented idea at the time.
Ukrainian IT community appeal for world's support [video]
Antivirus.. are not your friends
I switched to OS X simply because it's as easy to develop for as Linux, for my use cases at least.
>My point was that neither OCaml nor Haskell have particularly strong implementations in this area (to my knowledge)

They both do.
What do 'intimate' digital devices have to do with humanoid robots?
New approach was made public when Ballmer announced that Microsoft was now a "devices and services" company...
Agree 100%. The subscription model is nice for a business but for an individual it's death by 1,000 cuts. Think about all the things you're paying monthly subscription fees for... Netflix, Hulu, XM radio, Spotify, Gamefly, Xbox live, your MMO of choice, cell phone, hosting your VPS, internet access, cable/satellite, of course not to mention rent/mortgage, electricity, water/sewer, etc.

So many services are competing for your $10-$100/month these days it's ridiculous. Let me own something. Let me pay you one time and be done (hello, Amazon Prime!).

Once I gather my thoughts I'm going to write about the end of the monthly subscription. Personally I think much harder about a $10/month subscription than a $25 "one"-time purchase; I wonder if we've reached an inflection point where most people do, or if most still see it as "only a couple bucks a month"?
Odd title. It's sage advice but I struggle with the inclusion of "last minute". There's nothing "last minute" about this IMO - if you're having to figure any of this out at the last minute, you aren't the YC type, I would guess.
Both Kandan and Unison can be deployed on your own server
Off the top of my head, they already exist for music/dance studios and real estate. You just don't come across them because you aren't looking.
As a general principle I will agree with probability statement, however I would like to note that given the evidence we have it might be smaller than one in eight billion. That is, provided satoshi is not dead, randomly chosen living human would have a higher chance of being satoshi.
I'm an international student on OPT doing startup, but the proposal still makes me uneasy. There's already too much of business interests lobbying in politics and I've seen that happen in my home country -- what starts off as a seemingly good idea, becomes legalized corruption.
It's because I find Android works best when using Google's services and as I'm not paying for those (and they are using my info to sell ads) I trust Apple more to protect my data (it's in their interest).
I think this is a great move for both Xamarin and Microsoft. The company I work for is currently using Xamarin to help create cross platform apps with a consistent backend architecture. Sure, we have to develop different front ends for each platform, but we can leverage C# for everything and we don't super stars on any one platform to allow us to generate things quickly and well.

I was waiting for something like this to happen, ever since I watched this video from Hanselman at the Xamarin Evolve conference last year: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/XamarinEvolve2013TalkVideoHowC...
I'm really glad that it's a style significantly different from pebble. Should be fun to develop on!
It is odd - there was uproar around the Russian propaganda laws regarding Homosexual relationships running up to the winter olympics (and rightly so! I am not suggesting otherwise). Yet, I (who, perhaps arrogantly, consider myself fairly well informed) had absolutely no idea that homosexuality is illegal in India. This is wtf-worthy.
A quick look at that site reveals that is NOTHING compared to Unity. Unity is a rather powerful gaming engine (that powers a surprising number of very popular games), compared to what can be achieved with BASIC.
The quest to provide Barbie with a reasonable suit of 3D printed armor
First time applicant here. I was wondering, How should I ask for feedback on my application from YC alums without sounding like spam email?
I don't think many people are worried about the 5% Kickstarter cut. Jon and Marshal were probably more interested in having users signed up with their service (which kickstarter wouldn't guarantee)
> Most of real world fraud is exactly this kind of stuff.

So what? Banks have the same problem. If I call up my bank and ask them to do something, they'll ask for a bunch of random information I didn't know I'm supposed to keep secret.

> Bitcoin solves a problem which is not actually a problem in real world.

What? It solves the problem where some incompetent fucks are in charge of your money and screw you over, which is exactly what happened to this company (except they trusted them with hosting instead of money)
At least some models are round. And don't tease the industry. Remember that not long ago cell phones..
Nanoscale optical switch breaks miniaturization barrier
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As far as I'm aware, the Moto X is very much able to avoid triggering by anyone's voice except the one it's keyed to. I was curious about how well it worked, so I tried repeatedly to launch Voice Search on my girlfriend's phone (even trying to imitate her voice); I wasn't able to do it at all. Trying to do so to an arbitrary person's device would be even harder.
No, Nate, brogrammers may not be macho, but that’s not all there is to it
Not being double blind doesn't make it scientifically worthless.

Not does it invalidate male/female roles being consistent across over 200 cultures.

If you accept that men build muscle different from women, and have different hormones, could you not also accept that the differences in gray/white matter proportions, size etc are not 'cultural'?
Having worked on a FPS MMO, I can't agree with this enough. People always complained it didn't look real enough. I always wanted to ask them if would mind buying 1,000 video cards up front and then wait 10 years buying 1000 new ones every year until I got it right. I figured by then I could retire and duck the problem. Reality is ridiculously hard to do right. Now try doing it over the internet with a half second ping time and you realize that not only reality bites, but physics bites harder.
Infamous Russian Hacker responsible for $4 Billion Damage arrested in Bangkok
Very exciting. This is a great way to get people playing your game without worrying about plugins. It will be interesting to compare the weight of a basic 2D game using Unity 4.3 2D engine to one written in a HTML5 framework such as Impact. I'm sure the use case is more for 3D gaming on WebGL, but using one toolkit for all development is definitely easier for the developer.

Regardless, this is great news and great trend. Corona SDK also announced WebGL support is coming soon [http://coronalabs.com/blog/2014/03/07/coronacards-is-cool-he...]. Lots of great new tools to play with.
* My phone is on permanent silent mode.

* I never miss a call.

* When biking I know if I need to stay and bring out the phone just by glancing my wrist.

* It's very convenient to be able to read texts and emails on your wrist (this is even better than you imagine).

* Great for meeting notifications.

* If I leave the phone on my desk I still see when people call (several times I've catched calls by running to my desk from the other side of the office if I see that it's an important call).

* When using RunKeeper I can see all the stats (speed, distance etc) immediately and also control the music without touching the phone.

* I can use Sleep Cycle without putting the phone on my bed.

* Silent alarm which does not wake up my spouse.

* I can easily access my grocery list (through Evernote) and have it available right in front of me until I'm done shopping.

* I can play Flappy Bird on it.
It's just 3-5 years away!
Maybe it's only me, but I'm tired of big watches. I recently got a Jawbone UP and it replaced my wrist watch. The only downside is that the UP doesn't have a clock on it. I don't like having a lot of things on my wrist and I don't like having anything on the arm that I use my mouse with.

What I want is the smallest possible watch out there, and so far I really haven't found anything.
infoseckid: that looks like a very hard to find and thus great find. Thanks!
I'm very impressed. When I saw the Google video, I thought the round watch was a photoshopped concept we may see in the future, but it's actually shipping in a few months.

Also, is this the first mass-market device with a round screen? I'd be interested to see how the layouts work from a developer perspective. Whether relative or fixed, desktop, mobile or web, we're all so used to rectangular, grid based layouts.
Heres the problem I have with this entire discussion -- and this post does address it a bit -- but programming IS a creative role and needs to be treated as such.

Many organizations hire programmers as technical roles, but they are generally creatives. A lot of them are night owls, who ebb and flow between long productive stints and proverbial 'writers block'.

Many of the best developers I know have a creative desire and just writing code for 10 hours a day doesn't satiate it.

I think we need to start treating developers as creatives and giving them the processes they need to be successful and not be stressed, overworked, stretched thin, etc.
An aside: When does the deal of selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo close? I'm assuming not for a while and this is why they're still branded as a Google company?
In corporate environments I use the term 'Outlook resource'
ACM Turing Award Goes to Pioneer Who Advanced Reliability and Consistency
Breaking news. Most pilots with flight simulators have airports loaded into them that fall within regions in which they might fly.
More transistor density => lower watt consumption => better battery life or form factor, whatever you prefer.
The flaws in the recruitment procedure of Shell
Right... in theory, a smartwatch type device sounds great.

Battery life, screen brightness/visibility (can I read the screen on a clear summer day at noon?), size, and ease of use are all really important. Price matters for business purposes, but I wonder what could be done if that were not considered as a factor.

But since they'll have to compromise on those parameters (or just physically can't push them too far) it makes you wonder if this thing will actually be worth it. It's definitely cool, but is it really that much better than just having a smart phone? Is it $600-$1,000 better? I have a hard time imagining it would be... hopefully I'm wrong!
But "someday we'll only be a decade behind haskell" isn't much of a reason to choose ocaml over haskell.
Nature versus Technology
This is a great resource, and the following is not a criticism, but an observation.

What I've found with most assembly language textbooks and online resources is that while the basics get covered well enough, the fundamental knowledge base is often skimmed over, as are the many assumptions and conventions that are made in how the CPU is supposed to work.

I first learned 8086 assembler from Peter Norton's book (http://www.amazon.com/Peter-Nortons-Assembly-Language-Book/d...), and more than any other resource, that taught me about how things actually work. It goes beyond just knowing the registers and the mnemonics and explains in a fantastically clear way all the implicit work that's going on behind the scenes, even in assembly code. From the stack to data segments and direct video control, I learned more about how computers work from this book than from my entire college Computer Science program. And I didn't even have an assembler to actually try any of the code at the time I read it.

I'm not sure if the book would still hold up from a practical perspective, as it does focus very much on MS-DOS-specific interrupts. So what I wonder is... is there a similar resource available today for learning what's going on behind the scenes in the modern 64-bit CPU on modern OSes?
I suspect that once you had found a way to get the asymptotic cost growth under control you would find you had build a digital mechanical calculator.
How not to sell your design services
MH370 – A different point of view
Traditionally, female watches are small, and male ones are larger. I don't see this changing any time soon.

Try a Nike Fuelband however, it's very thin. It's not always on, but it sure is fancy when you click the button in public.
I'm not sure where Minecraft came in the recent era of gaming...since it was built in 2009, that was well after games started being big on iOS, and some of those big games went for 8-bit as a way to maintain a modern sense of style and artistic quirk with the limited dev and system resources. Also, notch got some inspiration from Dwarf Fortress, which made an even more extreme sacrifice of graphics (the precursor to Dwarf Fortress was a 3D game that was too difficult to develop for).

Either way, who could've guessed back in 2004ish that pixelated retro games (including FTL, TowerFall, and countless iOS hits) would be what gaming would look like 10 years later?
Definitely second your point about the styling. This is the first smart watch I've seen that I could see myself wearing (although it still looks a bit thick for something I'd be wearing on my wrist -- but that's a hard problem to get around with current-generation technology).

Current smart watches remind me of those Windows convertible tablets from 2006-2007. It was a good idea, and for certain use-cases it was the best thing out there, but the technology just wasn't quite advanced enough to make them practical for most people. I see smart watches catching on when they are sleek enough to function as a no-compromises watch while also integrating all the contextual information they promise to make available.
The app is designed to provide birth control by letting you know when have sex, or when to not have sex. He was asking for a companion app without all the management, just the current status.
Yep. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System is cited in basically every distributed systems paper ever, and the ideas in it are behind, among other things, Amazon's Dynamo.

It's also fairly accessible. One of the first systems papers I read, and while I certainly felt in over my head, I got the high level ideas
This is a toxic sense of "If you can get away with it, you should" that damages society as a whole.
It wasn't unprecedented, just look at Dwarf Fortress. Tarn threw out all graphics in exchange for focusing on an incredibly complex and deeply layered game -- with an environment that is fully constructable and has both a geological and cultural history.

Once the 3D accelerator become an item all gamers had, (perceptually) it appeared all major game develop shifted to producing "photorealistic" graphics. We ended up with an endless trail of games that basically produced the same thing.

I wonder, what would happen if the budget of something like Call of Duty was spent on a game with Minecraft or even Ascii graphics? Perhaps a total disaster, but what could be produced if it was done really well?
I've never been able to trust IRC.
Chrome feels lighter & perceptually faster (mostly psychological) because of a flatter UI (specifically the tabs, scrollbars). Although after updating Firefox today, I can notice that there's improvement in it.
Wikimedia's Pricipal Ops Engineer joins the dotScale lineup (Paris, May 19th)