skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I imagine it's possible to scale up the app so that the height takes up the full length of the new height, but an app I am working on now was coded to be specifically 320pt wide, so I'm worried about how they handle this.

I'm hoping that it keeps the aspect ratio, even if that means black bars for now, because otherwise there will be undefined side-effects in many apps.
NHS grows a NoSQL backbone and rips out its Oracle Spine
Bitcoin might be a way around this.

Also it might not be necessary for the involved parties to get together. They could release different protocols. And then the lesser used will be forgotten (like gopher is forgotten today) and the more frequent used will survive (like http has survived).

Update: Why the downvotes?
Apple iPhone 6, iPhone 6 plus and iWatch Released
It's a little thick isn't it? But it's got a design that I can see evolving over time. Not bad for a square-ish watch.

Except I don't see any features that I need to plop over $350 for. In terms of health-related metrics the Basis watch is more feature-complete, and over half the price http://www.mybasis.com/

In terms of personal assistant features, Google Now takes the lead along with any smart-watch that takes advantage of it and Android-wear.

When the iPhone released, I believe the market was primed for a next-generation smartphone. I don't think this is true for wearables now. The Apple Watch will have a much touger climb than the iPhone ever did.
Given the level of interaction between the phone and watch you really need a deep integration with the phone OS. The Pebble is phone agnostic but the interaction is comparatively limited.
Verge too:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/5/6108947/moto-360-review

OTOH, gizmodo says the battery life isn't quite that bad:

http://gizmodo.com/moto-360-battery-life-test-so-far-not-as-...

... but every other review I've read (about 6 including these) has really hammered it on the battery being dead well before the day is over.

I'm sure there is some YMMV depending upon usage and a moto 360 might last me a full day personally (since I'm not a reviewer and wouldn't be doing... reviewer things with it all day), but I'm not willing to slap down $250 to find out when even the positive reviews say it has the weakest battery life of all the current crop of watches. I can wait until revision 2 hits to be sure that I only have to take the thing off once per day.
Found the one I was thinking of in particular:

http://thetechblock.com/samsungs-galaxy-note-changed-my-life...
and linked to by Gruber
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/techblock-galaxy...
Heart rate is a better indicator of metabolic effort than anything to do with accelerometers.
Apple Removes iPod Classic from Online Store
Url changed from http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2014/08/physical-sepa..., which points to this.
Honestly that's kind of always been Apple's strategy. They're usually not the first mover, but they try to be the best mover.

I think they've been a little bit slow to follow shifts in the smartphone market though. They should've had a larger iPhone quite some time ago, and they were unfashionably late on notifications and 4G.

Still, this latest release will sell briskly per usual. Jury's out on the Apple Watch. Especially since battery life was conspicuously absent from the unveil.
Going with that logic, Moto G is all the phone one needs, at half the price of the Nexus 5.
Yes, bracelet attachment really makes a world of difference, I was shocked to learn that the 360 is "only" 11.5mm thick but looks much thicker than mechanical chronographs (routinely 15mm thick), and I've had multiple friends comment the 360 was a no-go due to thickness
I think that's what they're going to be working on for the next three-to-six months. Probably it's not great at the moment and they're desperately trying to get it up to something respectable like a day, but don't want to announce anything in case it proves impossible.
Apple showed where it was during the event, I don't recall exactly where it is in the stream, but it's there. It's on the top of the phone.
Except none of them actually slow down, they just run an extra banner.
I didn't add archive.org because it's not a collection of only CC licensed stuff.

Google has the option, but you have to find it in the advanced search section and search.creativecommons.org already supports Google.
Teleborder (YC S13) is hiring engineers to change the way people cross borders
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We do a similar thing using SysV Message Queues. Other than being operationally weird due to their age, SysVMQs are actually a really great fit for this problem.
I like the look of my iPhone 5s much better. This iPhone 6 thing looks like a Galaxy. The throwback to iPhone 1 is interesting but count me out. Not liking the design at all

The protruding camera is also really weird. I wonder if Jobs would have signed off on that...

Who knows though. Maybe once I hold one personally I'll end up liking it more than the 5s. But I would be surprised :)
I think when Apple starts to EOL the iPhone 5 and 5s, so probably in 1-2 years, there will be the iPhone 6M, which will be the iPhone 5s size with iPhone 6 internals.
If that is true, why does it make sense on the watch even?
Thanks! There’s a transcript at http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing, and the FizzBuzz implementation was recently added to Ruby itself: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/628dac1
To my surprise, the Haskell was not the difficult part for me. I spent more time wondering why this is the definition of "zero":

zero s z = z

My understanding is you can call this like so:

zero 3 7 #returns 7

So.... in what way does this relate to "zero"?

I got to the definition of "one" and that made me realize that `s` is supposed to a function (because AFAIK, Haskell can only return 1 thing). This doesn't clarify my initial confusion, but it does make the type definitions a little more concrete in my head.

Yeah... I'm going to stop reading. I think this could be written better. Maybe it would be a good reference if I already had a decent grasp of what Church Numerals are, but I don't.
> Lex is credited to Mike Lesk and Eric Schmidt.

Surely another Eric Schmidt than Google's? Nope, tha same [1]. Huh.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt
No idea if it'll be a bigger success, but some thoughts:

1. Timing - 2011 (Wallet release) seems early for consumer NFC, not to mention smartphone penetration ([1] ~30% 2011 to ~70% 2014) and mass market comfort with mobile transactions (Uber, etc.) Wallet may just have been launched too early, they may have educated the market rather than capitalized on it.

2. Existing credit card info - many consumers already give Apple their CC info and payments (iTunes). I can only think of a few examples where you pay Google (Adwords, Google Play) and they are less commonly used.

3. Hype factor - Apple has some magic when it comes to hyping consumer products and services. Google has some of this, but I don't think it's nearly as much, especially with the general population (i.e. non-developers).

[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/asymco_pricing_doesnt_affect_smartph...
Here's a timelapse video of the wiring of the 103,680 core SpiNNaker 105 Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcBB2o7Bmwc
The antenna is not the problem, the radio chips (and power) are.
Except, it is, and this doesn't invalidate that fact. But for some reason there's a vast market of people who really like hilariously large screens. Unfortunately, I'm not one of them... I'll keep hanging onto my 4s thanks.
NFC might also be tricky. It looked like you use the top/front of the watch to pay. I'm not sure if this would work in reverse.
Websites are only putting banners up with a loading spinner to help illustrate the issue[0], not throttling their upload speeds. Wouldn't it be better to actually slow down their content? I suppose that hurts the bottom-line so it can't even be considered. =/

[0] A quote from a TechHive.com article on the subject: " Note: The slowdown will only be simulated, not actual—the spinning “loading” icons you’ll see on those sites are entirely symbolic."
> I noticed that the Whole Foods near me just changed their credit card terminals a couple of weeks ago...

Yep, Whole Foods near me has as well. Also Walgreens near me has new terminals too.
How? Google wallet basically dumps magstripe out of nfc. This doesn't do anything close to that.

Can you explain how they are the same?
Sadly, US banks seem to be going with chip-and-signature rather than chip-and-PIN. It's not easy to find one that will issue chip-and-PIN.
Alan's one of the most thoughtful engineers I know. No surprise to see this post from him. Nice job!
I guess you ware way smarter than your lecturers.
With the X1, the upright cyclist becomes seafarer.

Recumbent cyclists became seafarers with regular pedal boats ages ago.

Pedal boats are nothing new; Leonardo da Vinci had drafted up a concept of this already.

The new thing here is the rider position and minimalistic construction.
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase at fastest rate ever recorded
I think traditionally Apple has disallowed IAP for real-world goods. I'm assuming Apple Pay will be for those real-world goods while IAP is still used for digital goods.
He probably would have, you're right. Maybe it will be exclusive to the sports edition. Seems like a good way to differentiate.
In the first two weeks of their relation.
My primary gripe with the Moto 360 is that it's huge. My wrists just aren't big enough to sport a watch that size and not look or feel silly.
Yeah — I usually agree with Gruber, but I think round is just a better shape for something that's meant to be worn. Jewelry is generally round as well.
Hexagonal watch-style circles in d3
If anything, your argument advocates for smartwatches. When I get a notification and I'm not physically at a desktop computer, there is no way for me to check that notification other than my phone. It's the exact same problem that you just wrote about pocket watches, except it's not about the time -- it's about all the other information that we now want instant access to and can only get by removing a physical device from our pockets.
ISIS already limits it to ISIS only.
It comes down to the greatest good for the greatest number of users. The fact is that most of us feel that the current iPhone is too small, especially with the galactically-stupid layout techniques used by both mobile and desktop web sites these days. Apple stuck to their guns as long as they could, but it was costing them market share.
Isn't that only in the 6+ version though? The camera is sticking out in both phones.
Oh, that's a good point. You're probably right, can't use Apple Pay with a watch paired with 5/5c/5s. I noted that the credit card information is available via passbook, but the 5's don't have the related hardware to support Pay, right? I mean the watch has the NFC, but the ability to generate the one-time numbers probably has to come from the phone?
Nevermind, my own question got answered by looking up the Garmin Forerunner 910XT: http://sites.garmin.com/forerunner910xt/

Run, swim, AND bike. Excellent.
Apple removes iPod Classic from website
I don't like taking out my wallet and dicking with cards mixed with insurance cards and IDs and other stupid things I need to keep on me in case I'm stopped by the gestapo.

My phone is already out anywhere I'm buying things. Makes sense to pay with that instead of fishing for something else.
I learned a ton from my professors. But lecturing is, objectively, an ineffective way to teach. http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/05/lectures-arent-...
Thanks.

I guess the reason of having such poor support outside Apple browsers, despite the benefits, has to do with licensing issues and the complications of embedding ads, as someone pointed out.
The current python integration works by having a python interpreter interact with neovim, instead of the python interpreter being in-process. [EDIT: All python code runs in this interpreter.] This is what I call a "host". It provides functions that implement this API:

:python // executes python code, eg: :python print 1+1
:pyfile // executes a file, eg: :python pyfile test.py
:pydo // applies a python expression on a range, eg: 1,2pydo return int(line)+1
pyeval(...) // returns the value of ..., eg: :echo pyeval("1+1")

A ruby-host would have similar functionality, for example, as would a scheme-host, etc. You name it. My proposal in the tracker was to allow such host-plugins to define the equivalent ex commands and viml functions instead of hardcoding them in neovim itself (like it currently does for the python integration commands and functions). This is currently difficult because of some limitations in vim's structure.

A go host, however, would possibly need to work differently. The idea for now is to have a process that checks for go files in a folder, and bundles them into a big executable that registers external functions in vim like a dynamic host would.

Nothing in the above means a plugin couldn't simply talk to neovim by itself, without using the host architecture. All a plugin needs is to talk to neovim thorough the msgpack-rpc api.

> I know that the plugin API is still in flux, but I really wish it was documented anyway. Actually, I'm not even sure how anyone was even able to start coding something like this without a design doc existing first.

Agreed. That's the goal of that discussion (I believe), to come up with a good design.
There's a huge price for that, fragmentation.

Not only it is implied apps should develop a specific layout just for it, but IIRC it also has a different viewport size which is not a multiple.

On top of that, the 6 already reports a new viewport width in the browser, which I guess it can't be helped though.
This seems more useful:

http://www.shuttlebike.it/
That statment is actually true for the entire existence of personal computers... you might even say it's the definition of a PC. However, Unix didn't start on PCs, it started on minicomputers.
I am also a pebble owner that feels the same way. If I don't check my phone or email fast enough I end up with a deluge of communication that I have to slog through and prioritize. The pebble keeps me 'honest' and I know exactly who is sending me stuff when.
>> We'll have to wait until a tear-down comes out, but there's no way this costs $350 to make

This should probably go without saying, but a bill of materials is probably not very representative of the real costs of this product.
I got a chip and pin card from wells fargo a couple months back, and the actual pin came in an envelope a few weeks after the card.
Many people's migraines are correlated to changes in barometric pressure. What's really cool is with thousand (or millions!) of people tracking when they have a migraine while using a barametric pressure tracking device, we'll finally get solid data to see how strong this correlation is and whether it involves other factors.

Medical science can't, for obvious reasons, do a lot of controlled experiments with people. The next best thing is using "big data" collection over millions of people over many dimensions. Knowledge will benefit immeasurable.
i asked your last question earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8291637) and got downvoted (whatever that means).

i know that nfc can support two-way communication so was wondering if anyone knows offhand if apple's api exposes this option. if so, it should be possible to also accept payment using apple pay (hopefully new ipads get nfc in the next revision to support this).
I'd have to really wonder how well it runs on the 4S. People have gotten burned in the past, downloading the latest iOS for their phones that Apple advertised as technically being able to be updated, but really didn't work out well in practice. IIRC the iOS3->iOS4 upgrade was like that.
Mininet is a virtual test bed designed for running software defined network experiments via OpenFlow controllers. GENI on the other hand, aims to be a physical test bed spanning the nation connected to a separate backbone for researchers to run their SDN experiments [1].

[1] http://www.geni.net/
There's current mirrors added on the site. The isos from archive.org are outdated.
"Motivate your team with Bullets!"
I teach coding to inner city junior and senior highschool kids in Los Angeles. Buying computers was a non-starter for our organization, so we're making do with old Windows machines, which are easy to get a hold of. This is what most of our kids have if they have a computer at home or a laptop they can bring with them.

For the beginning class, we use Chrome, a text editor, and a lightweight web server app ("Mongoose"), and we learn basic code concepts in JavaScript. Setup time is minimal and anything we do in class the kids can do at home on whatever computer they have access to. For the intermediate class, we install Virtual Box and everyone gets a copy of the same Ubuntu virtual machine image, whether the host machine is Mac or Windows, and we learn Linux and Ruby (it could just as easily be Python). We're looking at Cloud 9 IDE as another potential solution, one that would be completely install-free.

In fact, the only laptop a student's brought so far that we couldn't make use of was a Chromebook.
These ones are still on trial (according to their latest news they are currently on FDA testing and aim for commercialisation in 2015~2016) but others already have bloodless glucometers for sale (e.g. http://www.cnoga.com are available but not in the US because FDA testing ongoing). Those blokes were just the first ones I found.
Well, the next big leak is going to be a lot more cinematic.
That doesn't make any sense, no. Instead, they skip the secure element and transmit something non-standard (...by buying a bank and routing those through that, essentially acting as a proxy to the card networks?):

http://secureidnews.com/news-item/host-card-emulation-enable...
Ehh, remember lots of websites blacked themselves out completely for SOPA and PIPA a few years ago, I think that's evidence enough that they'd be willing to go all out in various circumstances. Honestly, I almost wonder if literally slowing down their service would just be a bit to hard for them to setup in the limited time-frame. I don't really know for sure though, I'm just making a guess.
Wow, this comment is really full of FUD. Planned obsolescence? iPhone backdoors? You need to reevaluate where you get your Apple-related news from.

> They were caught out slowing the older versions of their phones right before the release of the new ones by analyzing google search data

Where did you even get this from? That's 100% made-up. But it's also oddly specific in a way I've never heard before. What site is pushing this particular brand of garbage?
This. It's a piece of jewelry first and a timepiece second. Until it appeals to the Breitling/Tag/Rolex crowd I'm not the target market.
Thanks! Great insight into how watch marketing works...
From the dictionary[1]: "to disappoint the hopes or expectations of". Seems spot on.

[1] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/betray?s=t
I think the value proposition for the watch will build as the sum of many parts: style + health sensor + payment token + presence token + wrist comms + apps(?).

Think of it as sort of a persistent "me key" in a smart-connected world. But that world is still in its infancy, so the watch doesn't seem very valuable yet.

I think it's similar to the iPad in that there is not really a built-in value proposition. The iPad's value is 100% in its apps...but when it launched, there were not a ton of iPad apps.

In contrast, the iPhone was bringing a clear value prop from day one: phone calls, email, and iPod. But even then the real value prop took a long time to develop. Remember the keynote, when Jobs said "a phone... an iPod... an Internet communicator"? The first two got huge applause, the last one not so much. That term clearly confused a lot of people.

But if you look at how people use their smartphones now, it is by far the biggest portion of the value of an iPhone. Both phone and iPod functionality is being eaten by Internet services (VoIP and Spotify/Pandora).
People will get used to iPhone6 size, though many of iPhone5 users will feel like unfarily forgotten. I was betting on iPhone6 being same size as 5s and another on just a tad larger - I was wrong.

Apple Watch does not bring anything exceptional to wrist devices world, though overall functionality and UX is much better than those of Android. It's just an accessory for iPhone. One thing they got right - wristwatch is personal, so it should be able to be made look personal and different.

I can't say much about Apple Pay. Payments via iPhone look nice (fingerprint as authorization method) but paying via Watch just does not look very secure to me - how are you going to add that one factor? Also, it's another proprietary way of paying for stuff, which just does not feel right...
Japan's NFC payment ecosystem is owned by Sony and DoCoMo. I highly doubt that Apple wanted to subject themselves to the license terms and/or the lack of technical control.

That system is also widely deployed but in my experience (9 years of living there, no evidence other than anecdotal) not widely used.
Chat really fast on a screen that size?
Thanks 50shade. We are working on a single developer license pricing for students atm. Drop us a note and we can contact you offline to discuss further,

Thanks.
No but the barometer assists with getting a faster GPS lock by giving it an approximate altitude
This is just the first release of another killer product from Apple. To compare, the first iPhone did not have some basic features found in many cell phones, including stereo Bluetooth support and 3G compatibility.

I really believe that Apple will earn a ton of money, like in the first years of iPod or iPhone era.

And the watches market size, bigger than cell phones, computers and portable music. It's a pity to do not have this company listed here, on stock market of Brazil.
Rapid Iteration and NoPSD
Admittedly, I don't know how they've actually implemented this, but I would imagine that it would be possible for them to render the app on a 320pt "virtual screen", then take that and stretch it appropriately for the actual screen. Otherwise I don't see how they'd maintain true backwards compatibility.
Well he could easily retort that the if you're going to make a phone this big, do it right, make it as light as possible.

I assume the iPhone 6 is lighter than the equivalently sized Galaxy phones.