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Sorry but you keep bringing up dynamic layouts without having a clue why they were introduced.

It wasn't to create a "one app, run many" type system that Android has. It was merely to help developers support the different screen sizes within each category (iPhone, iPad). Apple still encourages developers to have UIs that are specifically tailored to the iPhone or iPad experience.
It makes sense to sell to me as we seem to be around peak Minecraft:

http://www.google.ca/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=angry+birds,+... #googletrendsexplore
They still sell around 10k PC copies per day …

It’s not growing, but it’s also not exactly shrinking (I remember obsessively checking those stats years ago and they always hovered around 10k), and hasn’t for years. Minecraft might be a different beast than other video games, truly more like Lego than video games actually. There are always new young people you can sell the game to and with constant maintenance for free that might just work out.

That’s even ignoring other platforms and merchandise – or however much Minecraft Realms (their server hosting service) makes or how much potential that has.

The believe that they already made all the money seems completely wrong to me.
I was really expecting, from a looks perspective, that the Moto would look like garbage compared to the Apple watch. Instead we got the opposite. A made a little write-up here:

http://nothingjustworks.com/android-may-have-just-won-the-sm...
The original comments suggested that those Googlers were saving money to buy things like a house, etc. It's a very pragmatic attitude from my POV. Earning a lot of money only to spend most of it on housing anyway seems kind of defeating the whole purpose of earning a lot of money.
I see multiple kids wearing creeper shirts every day as I walk my daughter to elementary school.
I think the analogy probably doesn't stand up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293961 A better analogy may be what things would have been like if Apple had kept slogging it out in the handheld-computer market between '98 and '07.
>Actually they have thrown out people even in Paris McDonalds for wearing a Google Glass.

The incident you're thinking of was Steve Mann being assaulted and thrown out for wearing his own custom digital eye glass, about a year before the Google Glass developer release.

I also haven't heard of frequent incidents involving "sensitive areas". Some incidents, yes, but definitely not enough for me to categorize it as a trend.
I think you're on the right track here.

The idea that Apple is putting out a vision where you can communicate with people nearby in non-verbal ways is really powerful.

You have a company that has managed to deliver an awesome mobile experience on for consumer and enterprise shipping a device that can do everything from payments to health monitoring to door access. That's a ridiculously powerful thing.

What android can or can't do technically doesn't matter. Google, samsung, etc can't make the relationships that Apple can right now.
Reminds me of the story of Ernest Shackleton and his crew getting stuck in Antarctic ice, then remarkably surviving. It was one of the greatest adventure books I've ever read:

http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfre...

It made me want to take one of those $5k guided trips to the artic on an old Russian ice breaker, sometime in the future.
Prototype of an Apple Watch Interaction with Pixate
it can be reversed, as mentioned by a couple of attendees of the event by now.
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I saw a girl wearing a moto 360 on the train yesterday. This was my first sighting in the wild. She just looked like a normal fashionable girl wearing a "boyfriend" sized watch. I think the size argument is very much overplayed. Large watches are already the norm, which is nice for smartwatches that'll be unusuable at super-petite sizes.
On the other hand high-end wrist watches have been using sapphire crystal faces for over 30 years, so there's probably something in it. I have one - my watch still looks perfect 8 years since I got it.
Your speculation is bad.

He was experimenting/coding on a public stream for the last two weeks while talking to chat. Also he always announces his Ludum Dare entries, when he could make them using a pseudonym. Doesn't seem like he has problems with free time or fame.
Helping others. There is no limit to that.
Curious, whats your take on the Oculus? I'm getting a little sick of the paid PR messages and fanboys and am skeptical its going to have mass adoption. How did it feel to you?
If you read the article, you would know that this story does not come from dishonest acts such as adultery, but instead a complex set of emotions playing out between a family.
Personally, I love the idea of low-spec 86 chips being available at rock-bottom prices. It's an architecture that while far from perfect is well known, and most of us here have a boatload of experience with it I'll wager. I'd really like to see something similar to this but for 2 or 3x the price (it's only $50) that includes a framebuffer, hdmi and a fully documented hardware blitter or bargain-basement GPU.
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Telomeres seem to get shorter as people age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere#Shortening
Can you ever generate artifical training and test data?

For instance, suppose I would like to be able to take a photo of a chess game and turn that into a diagram of the position. I have no idea where I would get natural photos of thousands or millions of chess games to use for training and testing a chess piece identifying vision system.

Could I instead make 3D models of common chess set designs, and then generate and render photorealistic images of chess positions to use for training and test data for the vision system?
Do you think that voice and language will ultimately be the main way to interact with a watch, given the limited screen real estate?
The email address in question is the one mentioned in the original Bitcoin paper [1]

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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Wouldn't that more or less be the already available Tegra K1?
I'm not sure the disclosure (of a related DNA sequence) was careless. In fact, having millions of correlated DNA sequences might prove quite profitable someday.

Although I'm a bit surprised that to remove DNA info, you need to close your entire account, at which point they will "remove all Genetic Information within your account (or profile) within thirty (30) days of our receipt of your request".

Or maybe not:
"Our contracted genotyping laboratory may also retain your Genetic Information as required by local law and we may retain backup copies for a limited period of time pursuant to our data protection policies."
This comes up every now and then. If people want to randomly zap their brains that's their prerogative, but let's call a spade a spade. I sincerely doubt that anybody will ever improve their brain by shocking their scalp.

The underlying idea is sound; deep brain stimulation, which this is sort of analogous to, is a surprising if short-lived panacea to a wide range of conditions. Applied randomly it's as likely to exacerbate a negative effect as it is to treat one, but it is generally performed by a trained neural surgeon while the patient reports on how well it's working, and it doesn't last too long anyways.

TDCS is like deep brain stimulation in that it applies a current to your brain, but the effect borders on homeopathic. It's imprecise, the charge is (happily) too weak to bring about any real change in the brain from the scalp, and I doubt it's anything more than a placebo, best case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06donor.html?pagewa... and
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/01/24/more-children-from-...
Have any security researchers checked GMX out yet? Maybe they suffer from a lack of bruteforcing protection ala iCloud.
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Agreed - I think a lot of the activity there is a result of the RCA design program, and it's much needed to inject inspiration into the design-tech-culture space. But they're a distance from viable products, and (godblessem) more enamored with their own journey with craft than in getting costs down.

We just need some more intermingling and we'll get to where this is all pointing.
> What casual runner goes running without their phone?

Me for one. I run 2x a week for about a half-hour each time in the park near my apartment building. That's about as casual as it gets?

I used to run with my phone, but I recently bought a tiny mp3 player and a Casio wristwatch for running. I don't care about GPS since I know my park, and if someone needs me I'll talk to them in a half hour.

Needing to bring a phone with me makes this watch absolutely a no deal.
what? `sudo apt-get install python-pip --reinstall` wouldn't work?
This supports recurring payments too -- you can associate an Apple Pay-originated Stripe token with a Stripe customer object as normal, and then create charges for that that customer. (This means that the Lyft use-case also works largely unchanged.)
Nice release, but how is the bandwidth going to be sustainable?

Also, for projects like XBMCTorrent the torrent is seeded while the user is viewing the movie. Wouldn't abundant leaching completely destroy the ecosystem?
Or you know, it could have been a "final straw" type thing. Many marriages seem to be in fragile equilibrium.
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With negotiating talent like this, it may have been related to the divorce.
Lacko f administrative will ont he part of police departments seems to be the largest part of the problem, if stories of unprocessed rape kits by the hundreds are anything to go by. Thankfully some states have committed to clearing the backlog and not allowing it to build up again.

http://www.endthebacklog.org/
Eh, for the most part they're pretty good about releasing quickly after announcing, but that's because they've been producing the product in question for months overseas. In the case of the watch, clearly they didn't want any leaks and therefore they haven't started production yet.
And to comfort students who don't want the hassle of applying to a dozen schools.

Top schools like Harvard have non-exclusive Early Action offers.
Four days ago we saw the submission "Humans are wired for negativity":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8275688

But language is biased toward happiness but its users are wired for negativity.

What does that mean? We are negative, but through language, are trying to kid ourselves otherwise?
I run and occasionally do sprint tris. I carry a phone for both riding and running as I use Strava to track and compete with others. The thing I'm excited about is that this watch has a HR monitor, which is what I would need as you train based on intensity.

Not to mention when you're stranded 50 miles due to a flat tire, you'll need that phone to call for a pickup.

Others have mentioned listening to music,..etc. (I don't)

Look - you're going to carry a phone everywhere you go on land.
In this case GMX would have to have a huge security hole that is not widely known, otherwise mass exploitation would probably quickly trigger alarms. Not impossible but seems also unlikely to me because it must be known to at least a couple of people and I would imagine that the knowledge about such a security hole would spread quite quickly once more than a handful of people know about it. And an inside job by several different people at more or less the same point in time seems unlikely, too. So the most likely scenario to me is still that only a single person broke the password and the multiple-people-have-access-story is just FUD.
For the most part, I agree with you... except Android L has me curious, as it seems Google finally does understand operating systems and have built a cohesive whole. Funnily enough, Android Wear plays into that, and despite being someone who uses Apple everything has me considering an Android phone and a Moto 360. It's certainly exciting times no matter where you sit though!
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The part I'm not quite following is when the tokenization takes place.

If it takes place per transaction then the PAN must be saved in the phone somewhere and the phone would have to be online to do the tokenization in real-time.

If it is a one-time tokenization that happens when the card is added isn't that token just as valulable as the PAN since the token can be used across merchants? Maybe the 3-D secure piece of the puzzle protects the token but I think this still means the phone has to be on-line to use the NFC payment feature.
From the merchant's perspective it should be more or less compatible with existing deployments. The problem's with the customer's side - unless their bank has done a deal with Apple they can't use it, and so far I don't think any banks outside of the US have.
I like Rackspace, but I wonder if and how their position on net neutrality might change if CenturyLink is serious about buying them.
Seriously ? Other geeks maybe interested in your new toy but nobody would be thinking that your social status has been elevated in anyway. In fact it is the complete opposite.

The early adopters of Google Glass have cemented its reputation as a geeky, invasive, awkward, Star Trek like toy for socially inept young men.
In the short term, sure, but if there's sufficient uptake things might look different in a few years.

For me, it might not take much - just Walgreens, some supermarkets, and a decent number of local restaurants supporting this might be enough to allow me to leave my wallet at home on a typical workday. Ironically the one card I'd probably still need, my transit card (Clipper), I assume also uses NFC of some sort. It'd be nice if the new iPhone's NFC feature could support that as well.
I own a Pebble Steel, and am quite interested in a Moto 360. I'm guessing you've tried the former too? What are your thoughts on the two? I'm trying to decide if I should switch my mobile back to Android and get a 360 instead of my iPhone + Pebble Steel :)
The Samsung Gear S will have a 3G radio of its own.

http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/2014/08/28/Samsung-Gear-S-...

Edit: replaced link
It's exactly one generation ahead.
We'll add the new iPhones as soon as we confirm their metrics and UA; should be this week.

You can already save custom presets. A better UI is coming, but right now. click the "…" icon on the right to expand the full emulation menu. Then set your UA or device metrics and click Save As. http://gyazo.com/fa0ae2fe62482e372989f3099d72bfc6
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Reminds me of this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wilhelm_Ritter#Life_and_...
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It takes more time to send you the banner, so they are slower to some extent.
> The watch-to-watch communication with all the sharing your heart rate and sending little pictures was the most Samsung thing I've ever seen anyone but Samsung do.

Haha, yes I thought the same thing too - communicating heart rates, hand drawn fish for sushi, 3 dots for asking lunch - that was _very_ un-Apple-y.
First Mojang kills my company by rescinding Craftbukkit's GPL license, and now this.

What an awesome week this has been.
Maybe Notch's perspective is that Minecraft as an IP is worth more than that. He can probably ride it out for the next couple decades with sequels or other monetization techniques.

Why take the big payment today when you can have the bigger payment on-going? Especially if you want to continue to make it your life's work. Look at some gaming stars from the past. John Romero didn't "make us his bitch" with his post iD offerings. Carmack's career seemed pretty down until his recent excitement with Oculus and even that happened while he was playing with space companies on the side. Even with all his brains and cred, he's now just a Facebook employee and his boss is a 20-something php coder.

A lot of gaming luminaries are often one-trick ponies. Its difficult to get lightning to strike twice. Smart money is keeping a tight hold of the IP that made you successful. Notch has seen what happens when you lose your IP and maybe he doesn't like it.
Agreed. Apple make beautiful devices that are fashion accessories... but this isn't one of them, in my opinion.
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> I like Apple products in general, but the whole overpriced/underpowered thing gets a little old.

Funny, I'd say the same thing about the people who've been repeating the "overpriced/underpowered" trope ever since it stopped being true over a decade ago.
Not to split hairs, but that's really not how I'd characterize that tweet. He only says he's done being mad about it.
"Minecraft Creator Calls Electronic Arts a 'Bunch of Cynical Bastards'"[1]

My guess is that it was EA that made the offer.

[1] http://kotaku.com/5907576/minecraft-creator-calls-electronic...
Considering that they can't even get the battery life up without that requirement, it might be a while unless we make significant scientific breakthroughs in battery or wireless technology.

"Both the Samsung Gear S and the Gear Circle will be available in global markets in phases through Samsung’s retail channels, e-commerce websites and via carriers beginning October."
If your project ever makes any money or gains any recognition, then your (ex)employer is very likely to sue.

Most employment contracts include a clause saying that "all" work you perform during your employment is owned by them. Unrelated hobby work is generally Ok. But from what you describe, under most jurisdictions your work will be deemed to be owned by your employer.

Will be very interesting to see what others suggest. But my advice is: "Don't go there!".
I always felt it was odd that Notch bashed Windows 8 so publicly for the store, yet happily sells on iOS, XBox, PS3, etc.
It no longer really matters who Satoshi is. He doesn't participate in Bitcoin development. He isn't that wealthy, yet at least.

Nor his character assassination can affect Bitcoin much, while it could a few years ago. He was pretty smart staying anonymous, he realized he would be targeted and smeared.
> A strong marriage should have survived this

It's probably not a good idea to speculate on the relative strength of other people's marriages, especially internet speculation. We still don't know everything that happened; nor should we. So, let's not pretend that we know what is going on here.

The basis of the story is that with genetic testing with a service like 23andMe you can find things that you may not have wanted to have known or expected. Let's just leave it at that.
The mechanics are: you go to any bar and the ratio is about 10:1 on a _good_ night. All the girls are sick of seeing tech people and so will ask you what you do, and when they hear "Google", "Facebook", "tech", "engineer", or "programming", will walk away in disgust. (Literally. Hell, a friend went on a Grouper where the girls found out he worked for Google and immediately decided they'd rather wait the clock out on their phones than speak to him.)

There is no step 2, as far as I can tell. One of the many, many reasons I left SF. (For Seattle, which is...marginally better, but not good by any measure, in this aspect.)
I would think compromise of the token, while bad, is way less bad than compromise of the PAN. I would think it's much easier to regenerate the one-time token than to create a new PAN.
Exactly. The iPod HiFi did its job perfectly. It was designed to stick a rocket up the likes of Bose, Pioneer etc to show that Apple could easily and successfully move into their markets.
It's my understanding you need to be a multi-million-dollar company to even get NVidia to answer your calls to talk about showing you the NDA you need to sign to get access to register-level Tegra programming docs? If I'm wrong I'd be very happy. Intel has been really good at documenting their GPUs though. I want to play on the metal, running under Linux with a binary blob framebuffer driver doesn't interest me.
How about sugaring as a language feature?

What I mean is that if the language has multiple ways to express statements that are semantically absolutely identical but differ in just the 'sugar', then it would be useful to have a way to automatically 'normalize' the code to always use a single idiomatic way of doing it (which in many languages is the 'sugar' version).

It's just like with indentation and brace styles - the original authors may each have their own preferences, but when reading code, it's more efficient to view the code in a single style according to my preferences, and that can be done automatically by showing me the code as reindented, with my preferred brace positioning, my habitual syntax highlighting color scheme ... and also with a standartized level of sugaring.
Nextgen Minecraft could be a XboxOne exclusive maybe as a launch title with whatever VR/AR device MS is supposedly working on. So, I could buy the Oculus that works only on a super-powered gaming PC that costs more than I make in a month, or the Sony Morpheus product which I'm sure will be great, but Sony won't have Minecraft, they'll have Playstation Home II. MS will have Minecraft. Which one will kids buy? I'm guessing the system with Minecraft. This all could be as soon as next xmas or even 2Q 2015.

Even if we ignore the VR/AR stuff, Minecraft with Kinect would be loads of fun. The Kinect's killer app may not be been dancing games. It could be world-building games. Imagine lifting your hand to move a brick and flicking your wrist to toss it.

...and thats on top of revenue MS would make on more traditional Minecraft monetizations. Look at how Disney is re-invigorating the Star Wars IP. Suddenly new movies and games are coming out. We're finally getting a third Battlefront and upcoming movies that seem under the aegis of more... competent creators than the recent prequels (Sorry George!). People are more excited than ever about an IP, that frankly, has been treading water for the last 20 years. MS could do something like that to Minecraft, which always seemed more than a bit under-commercialized.
I have Firefox 32 on Kubuntu 14.04, and I had no problem clicking on the close button on the ad.
The article is about well off seniors in Canada.

I wonder if the situation is much different in the US. The health care system is certainly different. One gets the impression the system in the US preys on seniors as employer benefits evaporate after retirement while insurance premiums skyrocket or are denied because of 'pre-existing conditions'.
Interesting, thanks!
Valgrind is indeed very very slow :)
I have tried 'undefined behaviour sanitizer' (part of ASAN project I believe), it's not bad.
Very few people in the history of humanity have put their money where their mouth is.
A keepass password should be prohibitively hard to brute force that way. They're random and fairly long. It's far more likely the attacker found some other route.
Like for Angry Birds- what percentage of these are china town knockoffs?
I don't really disagree with you, but specs can be an indicator of capability. With modern Android phones hitting 3GB and soon 4GB of RAM, multi-tasking is really nice on that kind of phone.

This all sounds like feature talk, but here's my use-case at least: being able to listen to music, get directions in the background and switch between a game, the web, and a book in the foreground without worrying about any of the apps getting killed due to low memory is really empowering and enjoyable.

My old phone would kill one or two of those apps outright and it was nothing more than memory getting cleared up.

If the rumor is true, 1GB of RAM is really a full phone generation behind. Even weirder, I would have expected Apple to be using their 64bit CPU tech to push the boundaries of memory on phones.
So very interesting!

I'm sure they got sarcasm right, and all the cases where humans damn with faint praise.

A gold star for everyone involved!
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