skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I manage multiple Social Media Accounts. Hootsuite saves me time and effort. With Hootsuite I can listen for keywords and with Smart Queries I can easily analyze conversations about my brand, my competitors, doing sentiment analysis on the fly and also geo targeted analysis if required. With Team Functions I can coordinate a social media team in sharing content and answering to prospects. With analysis functions I can monitor KPI and have a clear comprehension of the effects of my communication strategies. Yes, it is really worth 10$ a month
No they stick a piece of glass in your eye.

Seriously: that is highly experimental technology, based on an experimental technique, in a very specific part of the body.

It is not remotely trivial to do that on regular skin. I know in particular because a friend just submitted his PhD on the use of microdermal patches for blood analysis: the short answer is, it might work, but no one actually has any idea how the levels of things they detect relate to what the normal blood levels are which our current health science is based on.

EDIT: Also no one has any idea of what the sensor longevity would be. For new stuff like this, the answer tends to be single-use.
On one hand, I believe that people have the right to know the truth to things; on the other hand, not many people are able to really handle the unpleasant ones.

Sometimes I wonder, did forgetting/hiding of the hard truth caused the inability to handle them? Or because of?
Apple Pay is very standards compliant and the networks are very global. So I wouldn't be surprised.
I think you are wrong. Unlimited incorrect log-in attempts and security credentials in plain text are a connection to Apple.
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Not increasing the RAM is like retroactively future proofing previous devices. As noted, updates (OS and apps) degrade quickly on devices with less memory once newer devices that have more come out. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a 2GB device, but I have little doubt that 1GB devices would be rendered half useless by memory hungry updates within six months if that were the case. Software abhors a vacuum.
4.7 is slightly smaller than my Nexus 5 which is HUGE. I think iPhone users are going to be in for quite a shock. A big phone usually means two handed use, compromises on battery life, etc. Interesting, that not too long ago, I kept hearing how my phone was too big, the 4" is the natural size by some Jobsian logic, wont fit the pockets of teens/women, etc, etc. Glad to see Apple contemporizing though.

I'm starting to think this was a move for Apple to not lose Asia as small phones are really out of style there. Apple lives in fear of only becoming an "American" company.
The impact is largely unknown and in the future. So far, there is unchecked exponential growth in infections and deaths. This is happening in large part due to local populations ignoring containment rules, which makes it exponentially more difficult to stop. As the virus infects more people, it's increasingly likely to mutate into something even more difficult to control. The geographical spread is also somewhat unknown, due to patients hiding from health workers.

Look at these graphs and extrapolate out a few months to see why this is scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Af...
Wow. Fugly. Samsung reigns supreme - their new watch is something I could actually wear.
It's funny that they clearly demonstrate that you can't reach the top right corner of the phone with your thumb.
What's your source for 1 GB of RAM?
Great post. I think just as UX has been growing as a field, CLI apps are surprisingly lacking in this arena. I guess technical types just assumes other technical types are willing to dig in and figure it out... but really, ALL CLI apps should pay attention to the experience like this.

Personally, I think it's a key factor in assuring tools are adopted and shared, and by extension a key avenue of ensuring the success of the developer behind it. A lot of stuff just gets released and forgotten about or the devs try to recover through marketing and adding new features. First impressions are everything!
Yea agreed. I'm keeping my fingers crossed :P
There are some serious facts missing in the story here. When were his parents married? When was the half brother born? Was this a known fling? This was definitely something traumatic that happened, but we are left way too hanging for this to be an interesting story.
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> Which one is the truth?

Different people have different needs?
Long time 23andme user here (one of the first genotyped customers). 23andme's interface is extremely clear about what data is/will be made available to you, and what the possible consequences are.
Yes it does or I don't understand that:
http://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html
https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-...

Always fun to post on HN and getting downvoted ;o
You might not remember this, but that's exactly what originally happened.

You had CompuServe mail, and Prodigy mail, and AOL mail, and any number of internal mail systems at different companies. There was not a single mail format or agreed upon address space. Getting mail from one system to another was a huge pain.
So I can keep 2 websites in RAM at the same time instead of it reloading when I switch between them.

Apple fixing Safari's bad behavior and letting it sleep its state to flash would work too, but 6 iOS versions later it looks like they're incapable of that.
I can haz reliable streaming of my keynote now?
And just like that, now it is magically fixed.
> com.apple.WebKit.Networking.xpc wants to sign using key "Apple ID Authentication …" in your keychain. Do you want to allow access to this item?

http://imgur.com/n3Ay8Ik

What is this? I've never seen this before. Loading (and reloading) pages from this domain prompts this popup.
Most people put Apple phones in cases anyway, so does it really even matter much how the bare phone looks? It doesn't to me. The protruding camera lens housing will probably be flush with a case.
If it means that someone here in the UK can finally pay for something somewhere with an NFC-capable phone, then good! Google Wallet has been US-only for years (and I think the UK promises about its arrival never materialised, unless I am wrong?)

In any case, hopefully this will force the industry to move forward, particularly on Android.
Maybe you all are too young to remember the 6000 SUX.
Yeah okay, blah blah. I was at IFA Berlin 2014 and asked the SONY lady: "Hey what's the killer feature of your watch?". She said "It shows the time and tracks your steps!".

IMHO Apple Watch did a great job. I couldn't find any smart watch that have navigation ( although with a paired smartphone ) and a possible ecosystem of apps that can use it. The whole IFA ... nobody could offer this.

Althought, Of course it might be better, but Apple did a good job agains other tech companies in this field. Period.

disclaimer: I'm not that big apple fan boy.
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Thank you, that was exactly what I was missing.
Ebola kills a relatively high proportion (~60%) of people infected with it compared to the flu, and we understand it less well than we do the flu. The key point of the story is that we're not very aware of the actual incidence, which suggests that existing containment strategies are not working well.
jnthn also has numerous good talks[1] that the slides are fairly self explanatory for.

1: http://www.jnthn.net/articles.shtml
Genetic testing is a really cool concept. There is a parallel with the internet, is that for every new person tested value of testing increases for everyone. Sufficient number of people tested should allow us to identify really subtle patterns in genetic code and will be a boon in healthcare and family planning. For example a dating site, that takes genes into account while matching people. Unfortunately there are huge privacy implications to consider.
Gotcha. Well they still deny google wallet on their POS machines.
Google doesn't cause bloatware, Carriers and Handset makers do. One of the many consequences of OSS, people can fork and bloat to their heart's content.

Also, I haven't had one issue with software updates on my Nexus 5 (which indeed comes bloatware free). If I recall correctly, wasn't the iOS7 update a shit show?
I also found it strange that they were opening up (albeit anonymously) about something very personal, but not really telling the story in a way that could have engaged us more.
http://www.makershed.com/products/intel-edison-breakout-boar...

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13024
I don't think the author intended the piece to be a soap opera-level drama. Those details weren't accidentally left out.
> Why does this matter? Apps run great as is.

Safari doesn't play well at all with multitasking. I have to cross my fingers whenever I want to copy something into a form from another app because chances are the page will reload when I come back to Safari since it ran out of RAM. I also often get into the situation where I can't even tab between just 2 pages since Safari runs out of RAM and reloads each page.

Apple fixing Safari's bad behavior and letting it sleep its state to flash would work too, but 6 iOS versions later it looks like they're incapable of that.
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I have a Bank of America MasterCard that expired recently and they sent me a new card, but when you go to their information page about chip cards ( http://bankofamerica.com/chipcardfacts ) it seems pretty clear that it's actually chip and signature. They emphasize that if you get asked for a PIN, you should tell the merchant it only requires a signature.

I don't know enough about chip and PIN to say if it's possible, but I'm hoping that means they'll eventually move to adding a PIN too.

All that said -- my iPhone 5 is coming off contract in a few weeks now and I definitely plan on picking up an iPhone 6; I'm looking forward to seeing how well Pay works.
Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus released and iOS 8 jailbreak will release
Is your wrist sensitive enough to determine whether the right or left of your phone has buzzed if you're walking?
I think the answer of your question is being seek by a lot of physicists.
Interesting. In fact, I do not remember that. I started using the internet some time in the 90s. I never used Compuserve nor AOL. I never heard about Prodigy.
There are quite a few introductions to macros. Maybe like monads, it's a topic where people need to read a few until one "clicks" for them.

Having said that, I think this is among the best. The writing style is friendly, the examples are meaningful, and it builds up in digestible steps.
Another article linked at the end of this one mentions a bit more. It says the unknown son was conceived before the writer's mother and father got together and that part of the upset of the family was that the father wished to connect with this new-found son against the wishes of other family members.
It's not "huge", it's smaller than a lot of analog watches I own.
I don't think you are meant to. The author is trying to write about the unexpected consequences, not put the consequences on display. It seems fairly likely that the falling out in the family would not have happened without the information provided by the genetic testing (or a similar revelation).
Which is pretty irrelevant: what matters is whether banks/payment processors will accept it, and whether it interops with the payWave/payPass readers at merchants, which in turn depends on them installing them.

We've had high penetration of contactless in Australia for a long while now, security being "happen to physically hold the card". The bar to accept contactless payments is very low - what matters is that a merchant actually accepts them.
So the heart-rate sensor is for people that sit at their desks all day?
Greetings,

We suspended s_nakamoto's account 2 hours and 17 minutes after the attacker gained access to that account.

After generating a list of changes made, confirming method of attack, and identifying no serious changes to project content, the project was restored to its pre-attack state, and the compromised user account was removed from the project.

Risk to the community is believed to be low, as file content wasn't modified.

Regards,

Roberto Galoppini, SourceForge.net

See https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/8512/
I think it's pretty much always a bad idea to "dox" someone. Especially when, as you say, you're not even sure it's the right person.
You know, colonialism and the distinction between empires and democracies is one of the preeminent topics in political science and the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. If you don't care about any of that, what are we even talking about?
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What Can NYFW Teach Chad Dickerson about Net Neutrality
No - lets decide if we want to give this company more of our money before comparing features. They are absolutely using planned obsolescence and the non exchangeable batteries across their product lines and removal of dimm sockets are a clear signal. You don't own the product, or control the data you put on it. You appear to purchase but in reality - you effectively rent. Apple designs are pretty, but not made to last. And while they like to hand you the 'license' of security, the backdoors and icloud breaches and PRISM participation show that is not backed by any real substance. Jokes on the user.
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

http://beta.slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releas...
Yes I believe it is. Credit cards use the EMV protocol over the ISO14443 transmission protocol. I believe this is doing the same.
33 equipment manufacturers oppose public-utility broadband
Michael I. Jordan (MIT, Berkeley) is doing an AMA on /r/machinelearning
You are wrong. Apple says there was no "security breach" except their lack of security for the FindMyIphone website caused the breach.

Mainly they exploited the fact that the FindMyIphone website did not throttle the number of login attempts. So you can do it as many times as possible. Apple deflected this by "denying" that any usernames or passwords were leaked, but in reality it is their fault that the accounts were compromised.
I have an LG G Watch. It's a useless piece of shit (apologies for the harsh language).

I think this is the biggest non-product I have ever owned. The first major flaw in it is that it wants to be talked to, all the time. You can use the clunky navigation (swiping) to get into a menu but the first 8 or so items are just versions of speech actions. All the way at the bottom you can get into the "apps". The only useful app I was able to use was the pedometer (pee-doh-meter), counting your steps but since it's been put back in it's box, that's useless too.

The size of thing is huge. I'm not a small guy but it's like logging a brick around attached to your wrist. It's battery life is about 6 to 7 hours so you can't actually wear it for a full days work. You would have to recharge is (it's way they're pushing the separately available chargers).

It's tethered to your Android device through bluetooth. If this is the case then why haven't they made the main UI the phone itself rather then me having to awkwardly swipe a tiny little screen? The app that runs on your Android device is another piece of crap. You'd expect you have a whole range of customizations for your watch, right? Nope. You can change background and the clock type. How innovative.

Sorry for the rant guys. I think that anyone who wants to buy one of these things should be warned and really know what you're doing. Don't be silly like me.
I've never understood the dynamic between 23andMe and the FDA. It's just information - what's to stop someone from setting up the same service in Bermuda? Would they really stop Americans from mailing a spit kit somewhere?
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Looks like Apple's commission is ~15-25 BPS for participating banks (from those banks):

"The biggest “surprise” over last 2 months is that Apple has squeezed 15-25bps from the 5-6 participating banks at launch (C, BAC, COF, JPM, Amex and perhaps WFC)."

http://blog.starpointllp.com/blog/?p=3855
Please elaborate. Net neutrality affects the whole web no?
I hadn't heard of Apache Kafka before. As branding goes, it's hard to do worse.

In my mind, Kafka is synonym with complexity, being obscure or byzantine, and as opposite to "useful" as I can imagine. See also: nightmare.
I still don't see how replacing a credit card (that can be used for contactless payment with Visa Paywave or Mastercard contactless) by a phone that may have a dead battery brings anything to the table.

Really, what's the point?
I'm just trying to think about what would happen if those parents in the story were me and my wife. Would we break apart? I'm guessing/hoping no, but the real answer may be completely different.
here's a more comprehensive, recent (10/8/14) study with plots showing exponential growth in transmission. They have projections out to january 2015

http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/obk-14-0036-early...

Btw, reddit.com/r/ebola is doing a fine job collecting relevant news on the outbreak.
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Agreed on Square, but they even went a step further for a time and allowed geofencing at your favorite places...back when Square Wallet was still around, I used to frequently go to a Houston-area coffee shop with Square Register and never had to pull my phone out to pay. It was downright magical...wish they hadn't cancelled Wallet, it really had so much potential.
I thought this was a link to a list of all the names of the people who had died.
I didn't say anything about college. I try to avoid lectures outside of school as well.
Because dad cheated on his wife. The girlfriend was a mistress.
* Edit: Turns out I was wrong, as indicated below.
How about adding Erlang support ? It would be great to be able to program multiple devices with OTP-level of support for mesh network topologies.
iPhone 6 now in sale
They mentioned the low-end model requiring an iPhone, but unless I missed something due to the sporadic live-stream, they seemed to trail-off when it came to what the other two models would be like. I could see GPS being something built in to the higher-end model for instance.
Well, Suica is widely used for payment - and not just to buy train tickets.
What's frustrating is the continuous straw mans. People are creating new situations, saying that those situations wouldn't be sexist, and therefore using that to prove that I'm inappropriately assuming sexism. Straw man.

There are situations where it's reasonable to assume that I'm a recruiter, even if that assumption happens to be wrong. But this situation wasn't one of them.

It would also be fine to say that I'm not a programmer, depending on what you mean by that. I am a programmer, just like I'm an author. If you define it though as someone who is currently employed exclusively as a software developer, then sure, I'm not a software developer presently. But again, this isn't the situation being described.

This is a specific situation in which someone was at a talk where I spent an hour talking about big O time, data structures, algorithms, modularizing code, and a bunch of other technical talks and then asked me about my time as a recruiter at Google. It wouldn't matter if my website now said in giant flashing letters "HELLO I AM A RECRUITER." The person wasn't looking at the website (which didn't even exist then, at least not in that form).
When I was 21, I started working for my first job and during those years when I had a steady job I made sure to take a trip out of the country every year. Now fast forward years later, I am doing a start-up and I was happy that I took the time to travel when I was younger.

My 2 cents to you is to do good work at your job, but if you work for corporate don't let it define you. Take some time to travel and take up some hobbies outside of work. You never know when inspiration strikes.
I've fount the TWIV podcast to be very helpful to see through the fear mongering. They do a special on ebola , risks and treatments under way http://www.twiv.tv/2014/08/10/twiv-297/
There appears to be a recurrent cycle in this graph[0], is it real, or am I reading too much into unfiltered data?

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deseased_per_day_Ebola_201...
That's true because Androids are not worth anything for resale.
I would venture the trend is because there are consumers (maybe a significant percentage) who, when comparing different options, simply make a choice based on "bigger is better".
> Imagine a typical scenario. You are walking down the street and suddenly need to navigate somewhere.

"Siri, give me walking directions to the nearest Starbucks."
We are certainly aware of consul, and have indeed been thinking of weaving weave into it. Would love to see an experiment along those lines, if there are any volunteers.
Nope. It looks like I'll be at an impasse when I next want to upgrade my phone. It seems like no one is making high end <= 4" phones any more.
1) One thing less to carry around

2) The credit card gives away data that can be used for fraud. Your phone does not have to do that.
It all seems a bit tangled together doesn't it? I get that when it makes sense but not when it crimps the addressable market fairly severely.
Perhaps he kept it as a secret all this time. Many people regard hiding such a fundamental piece of information for such a long time as a breach of trust. The interesting thing to me about the story is that a morally neutral technology can lead to bitter disagreements by unexpectedly presenting a moral dilemma.
I notice in all of the pictures and videos that the "crown" (nub on the side) is a render....? Kind of like all of Behringer's new product announcements: you see them on their website and they may or may not ever actually exist or get released.
Does this mean they haven't finished it, or have rushed to get to appear to be in the market before it is swallowed up by Android watches?
The issue with the FDA is saying "Since you have this gene your chance of X disease is 5%" when there are other factors that influence this and this hasn't been evaluated by a doctor.

And then people making decisions solely based on this number.
I remember at some point Cook alluding to a days worth of battery life.
This comment reminded me of CmdrTaco's slashdot comment after the iPod launch: http://t.co/RPAX2r93kx

I think Garmin forerunner will be to the future of wearables what Nomad was to the future of music in 2002.
"I work at Stripe"

Understatement :)
> is there any reason why a memory controller can't be designed that would, worst case, use every other (identical) stick just to get parity bit(s), as a BIOS configurable option?

If Intel were interested in allowing you to make use of any parity bits without buying a Xeon, they wouldn't be restricting ECC to Xeons in the first place.
My wife runs long distances with an iPhone AND a watch.

My impression is that Forerunners have fallen out of favor. The GPS doesn't work all that well compared to a phone (I'm guessing because it lacks the AGPS data a phone has access to). Plus if you're running a marathon you probably want some music to listen to, and it sure is nice to have a phone with you even though it's perhaps a bit heavy.
As far as hardware goes, yes - the same antenna you use for talking with a MasterCard can get used for talking to a smartphone.

However, POS software is not at all standardized. You'd likely end up rolling out support for one POS platform at a time. They'll have the hardware you need to support ApplePay, but the rest of the work is probably tricky.

tl;dr POS software systems that accept PayPass can change their software to accept ApplePay.