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I doubt Apple could have dictated those terms to their financial partners.
Have you ever tried dictating terms to a bank?

Why are we talking about banks? They have loads of partners besides banks/financial-partners...

De-facto useless organizations like your FISO example

Having been involved with or setting up [non-financial] organizations, I would hope not to make useless suggestions...

I'm suggesting something along the lines of BrainTree's data portability organization (http://www.portabilitystandard.org/). Apple should be able to get a raft of players on board for something along those lines. If not, my original point stands: Apple was making a useless gesture.
I'm surprised they haven't done a chunky smartwatch. That would provide plenty of battery life, and more room for electronics, while at the same time fill a bigger unmet niche.
I don't get it. Mojang already made "all the money" from selling minecraft and are largely maintaining it now. I haven't heard if they even have any new games on the way? The space one was cancelled. What exactly is MS possibly getting that could be worth $2B?
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Maybe in the sixth book we will learn that R+L=J and it will all be made OK.
I carry my phone around while running all the time. How else would I get music and GPS tracking?
Notch has always been very good to his employees [1](and seems like a good person on his own as well), I imagine they'd turn out OK.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/markus-notch-persso...
Why would they waste money on a high tech insulin sensor barely anyone will use?
Notch has been enjoying the independence so much that he's also not very involved with Mojang anymore. He hasn't worked on Minecraft in quite a while and last 'big' expectation, 0x10c didn't develop very far.

Notch seems very content to just participate in things like Ludum Dare, make games and enjoy life.
If you can have not one but two windowing systems written in PostScript, why not a web server. Nifty hack.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
Have you seen those Seagate HDDs with built in ethernet? Might be better to just plug all the drives in to a switch and co-ordinate a cluster of them from a controller node
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I am old enough to remember when the first Mac came out. There was a response to it very much like you see here (only it happened on BBSes because there wasn't much of an "internet") then.

It's been the same way for every major product- iMac was chastised for lacking a floppy drive, the iPod, iPhone and iPad were all poo-poohed.

In every case someone has said "X is better!" And in every case so far that X has turned out to maybe have some particular features, or better stats for some particular stat, but not to be engineered to the level of the Apple product.

Particularly with the android example- the only way they were able to compete was to change from a blackberry copy to an counterfeit iOS interface. Which they did very quickly. I haven't seen anything innovative from Google since 2001 (unless you count gmail as innovative, which I would so, that's the exception.) Android is still a terrible, clunky piece of junk, even with so many years to copy Apple.

We'll see when the Apple watch is on the market - but really, Samsung and Googles watches so far have appeared to be basically copies of guesses of what apple was going to make (given that the Apple watch has been rumored so long) rather than genuinely well considered and innovative devices.

Kinda the way HP put out a "slate" computer at Comdex the year the iPad was announced, Balmer something to go up on stage and brag about and "beat Apple to market with".

I do really wish, if Google wants to compete with Apple, they did something innovative (Microsoft did with their Metro UI) or if not innovative, something really good.

But it seems that in the way that Apple doesn't quite "get" web services, Google doesn't quite get operating systems.

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Edit: Use android regularly, unfortunately. Google maps in JS was pretty innovative, but I think that's part of the Gmail invention- e.g.: web 2.0. I give google credit for inventing Web 2.0. Or at least pushing it forward quite a bit.
Samsung's watch also needed a phone to work, and was just slightly clunkier. Why does Apple get such adulation in comparison?
Correct. By the great Keith Bostic!
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The proxy card number doesn't change so why is this considered a feature? It discloses something which is as good as your backing real card number.
The first Samsung Gear watch was only announced a year ago (Sep. 2013), and you can get it for <$150 new. Pretty sure it will be well under $50 for that model in 4 years.
I am guessing this would make Notch a billionaire? Wow!
As a man, it's hilarious. However, if I was a woman, it would give me a serious complex.
Ask HN: Same comment is most upvoted and downvoted post on the same topic
There where 2 stories about Apple Pay on the frontpage of HN today. I made the same comment on both. One became the most upvoted and one the most downvoted.

Most upvoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292148

Most downvoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8292140
My sister used to be part of the autism treatment programs funded by BC up in Canada, and I was honestly amazed how much the right kind of attention and order made in autistic kids lives. Strong cause and effect relationships for reward / punishment, time degrading incentives for participating in "normal" behaviors, firm willed discipline when they regressed to earlier outbursts or triggers, and a steady diet of signals for what is "ok" or not without smothering or coddling. Hell of a lot of work for her when they were pre-teens, but if they can get on it early, and produce these kinds of shifts when kids are still young? Could be awesome. Now just need a bigger sample than 7 kids.
This is really more aiming at people wanting to try these tools with no experience. Instead of having to go through commandline, typing out your (in some cases pretty big) cl arguments, in some cases having to figure out what each argument does (while scrolling constantly because the help text is 5 windows long).. You just start it up, populate a few fields and hit run.

Maybe I'm just being pedantic.
The ability to make a popular game franchise exclusive to their gaming hardware. Just take some money you would have spent on advertising and dump it into buying some franchises for exclusivity.

Also since Mojang is a European company MS can no doubt use some of it's $90+ billion stockpile of money outside America without getting hit for taxes.
Unfortunately, there is no momentum to get Minecraft on the Oculus Rift. Notch publicly cancelled it after Facebook bought Oculus.
Reading this reminded me of an article I read a little while ago talking about the tradeoffs "biohackers" take on to try to get ahead on relatively untested techniques[0]. It seems a little silly to think that shocking your brain with electricity will give you an advantage without significant side-effects, but who knows... as for me, I'll wait until brain-shockers have demonstrably better mental health.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/01/searching-for-one-sided...
No, I think your concept of genetics and reproduction is wrong. You receive a random 0.5 of genes from Dad and your sibling receives another random 0.5 from Dad. This means you share 0.25 from Dad.
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If I recall correctly, wasn't the iOS7 update a shit show?

No, you don't recall correctly. iOS has had the ability to update via iTunes since it's very first release in 2007. iOS users have been able to update their devices regularly to the latest and the greatest without problems for many years, while on Android it's the exception rather than the rule.

This includes iOS 7, which like previous and later releases works across a variety of new and older devices.

The only thing controversial about iOS 7 was the UI was "flatter" and more colorful which some people didm't like.
#1 only makes sense if you ignored the word battery in the question. A phone makes a dreadful credit card. It's huge, it runs out of power, and it throws stack traces at the wrong moment.
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Sequels? Movie rights? Merchandising? More platforms?

But yeah, $2B sounds disproportionate.
We made a simple one-click way to implement this on CloudFlare: http://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowd...
Apple Watch: Much ado about nothing
main thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8293610
What I see in the OP, via
my Web browser Firefox 27.0.1, is
just an ad I can't make go
away in the middle of the screen.
So, without some special effort,
say, grab and parse the HTML,
I can't read the content. Anyone
else have this issue?
If they can make Vim feel more modern and allow plugins to integrate better, I'd be very very happy to move to this software.
The iPhone 5c is still available for sale. (Technically free, with a 2 year contract.)
Is it fair to say that once you achieve "FU money", numbers start to lose their value? I can't imagine being able to say "no" to something like that. Although likely for something like Minecraft, it'd be stock options/cash mix.
Why not provably destroy them then (send them to an output that can never be spent)?
And then he changed his mind.

https://twitter.com/notch/status/500214489136910336
"George" says: "I would want a warning saying, "Check this box and FYI: people discover their parents aren't their parents, they have siblings they didn't know about. If you check this box, these are the things you'll find."

Yeah, like that would have kept George or anyone else from opening this particularly fascinating Pandora's box.
> Amundsen [...] doesn't get nearly the same amount of press that the Scott does

... in the English-speaking world, maybe. My father knows all about Amundsen and very little about Scott, because in (fascist) Italy, English activities were played down.

Anyway, it's hardly surprising that the English-speaking world would elevate their own failed champions above other countries' more successful ones, at a time when extreme nationalism was widespread.
Microsoft is reportedly buying 'Minecraft' developer Mojang for $2B
This study seems to be overly optimistic about the ability to control the outbreak... thus projecting 25K cases by the end of 2014 yet only projecting 140K cases overall.
It looks like a bumper car.

I'm a pretty die-hard Android fan, but the iPhone 4 through 5s were damn attractive pieces of hardware.
Working on large server deployments is a blast! And CoreOS makes it even more fun via its read-only focus.

In our system we don't do automated updates since we don't need that functionality. In order to send out an update I download the image that I want to deploy, patch it with CPIO (with my custom initialization code) and then register it with DNSMasq (put it in a directory). At that point any machine that reboots will start up with the new image rather than the old one. I usually test one/two machines and then if they look good a script reboots the rest.

If you wanted to do automated deployments, you could basically do the same thing provided you have a server to manage the process. The master server would simply poll CoreOS for new releases, and then do the same steps as above to roll out the image. Incremental updates are trivial as well since you are just rebooting the machines.

One thing to consider is running CoreOS out of memory rather than installing it to disk. I find this is one of the best features of CoreOS since it makes it even harder to think of a machine as any more than a temporary computing resource.

Hope that helps! Good luck!
Yes, but as far as I know you can't buy indexs directly. You need to buy them via an ETF or fund that tracks a certain index. For instance the ticker VOO and VUSA are Vanguard's ETF's that track the s&p 500 in respectively dollars and euros. I'm sure if you google a bit you can find a lot more index trackers.
I'm really curious what percentage of comments were just "fuck comcast" and the like, but the analysis doesn't make any mention of that. They do mention one copy of war and peace was submitted, but otherwise don't say much about "not entirely constructive" comments.
I hate to be facetious, but the "Is it April Fool's Day?" switch in my brain automatically clicked when I saw this headline...because it would be a great prank, partly because of how close the two proper nouns are in first-glance spelling.

But if this is reality, the "Huh?" switch is clicking...Not sure what to think, except it's unexpected on many levels...Mojang is already doing financially well (I thought)...Notch ripped on the FB/Oculus deal...and of course, why Microsoft (other than it being a big company willing to spend the money)...The deal seems like such a non sequitur to me that I'm kind of amused that it isn't Yahoo.

The selfish part in me wants this deal to be something that frees Notch/Mojang to work on an entirely different game...but hell, if they decided to retire on their own private islands, they deserve it.
Don't most people just use a /boot partition anyway?
WWSJD?
What would todays presentation would have looked like if Steve Jobs was still around?

-There would have been fewer leaks before the big unveiling.

-There would have been fewer features mentioned in the presentation.

-There would have been fewer features in the product in favor of a faster ship date.

-There would have been fewer choices in terms of colors, straps and models.

This is a totally unfair comparison, especially as I don't work at Apple and have yet to wear the device.

But I think we are all wondering, can Apple continue to innovate as successfully without Steve around?
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Thanks for the link. I realized my initial comment might look like I was insinuating he wouldn't/isn't good to his employee, while I was simply wondering how the situation would turn out for them. I guess probably quite well in this situation.
I had the same reaction to the iPad as you, and now am a very happy owner. Because of this, I now withhold my opinions until I can try out products in person, although I personally could never see myself owning a smart watch.
Even though I am an Android developer, I played with the thought of buying the iPhone 6 (the big one) and an Apple Watch, because Swift is kind of a reset for developers and I am very happy with my MacBook.

But now that I've seen the keynote, I've got some issues with the watch:

First of all, I feel it's too expensive, because those smartwatches are basically obsolete after a year. (at least to me)

It would have been good if Apple would allow those watches to be sent in and upgraded, especially for the version that uses a gold casing, which I suspect will be extremely expensive. (probably > $1000)

The design of the watch is not bad, but not good either. I would have no problem wearing it, but I don't like that rectangle look. (the Moto 360 looks better to me)

But on the other hand I like the navigation wheel a lot. I'm pretty sure that this alone will allow for more complex apps than what we see on Android Wear at the moment.

The new types of messages that Apple presented isn't interesting to me, but I can see the younger audience using it a lot.
To be fair, very few email providers required SSL before Snowden.
Thanks for taking the time to read the post. We plan to write more posts to share more about the process as we go through it. I was surprised that I couldn't find any specific numbers for lean startups. I wanted to know if we were over/under what others are spending to validate an idea. I guess someone has to be first!

Market validation could be a post (or book) of its own. Before writing any code, we did surveys to see what people thought about the idea in general and to gauge the need for a product like ours[1][2]. We got quite a few responses to the survey, and we were actually surprised at some of the responses. For example, 53% of people said they wanted our product to support their existing email address. Then a later question asked them to check off pain points. Then we asked again, if we could eliminate half of the pain points they checked, would they ditch their existing email address, and 78% said yes. The biggest pain points identified were too much email, can't organize email, can't search email, and email not being secure. If we could solve 2 of those (we actually solve all 4), we could get 78%. That was encouraging.

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/SampleSize/comments/29hpfk/marketing...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8051078
But minecraft already released on ps4. Unlesss MS buys and takes back the minecraft of ps4, there is no exclusivity. This move will make MS face a shit-storm. The gamers are not taking well to tomb raider (timed) exclusivity. It is accepted that you can have exclusive gaming franchise. But you should not most certainly take a multi-platform and try to make it exclusive.
You got 23 of your mother's 46 chromosomes, and your half-brother got a different set of 23 of your mother's 46 chromosomes. On average 11.5 of those chromosomes will be the exact same ones -- that's 25% of your total DNA.

With a full sibling of the opposite sex, you share about 11.5 of your mom's chromosomes (half of the 23 each of you got from mom will be the same) and 11.0 of your dad's chromosomes (11 of 22; you know the 23rd is different), for a total of 22.5 out of 46 which is 49%.

If you're both the same sex, you share on average 11.5 of your mom's chromosomes and 12.0 of your dad's chromosomes (11 of 22, and you know the 23rd is the same), which makes you around 51% similar.
Good VICE segment on the current epidemic in Africa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XasTcDsDfMg
Apple Watch's Wristful of Sensors and MEMS
Was expecting something more than this from Apple - the vision seems to be the same as what google had for google wear. Hardware wise it is not much of an increment either (my opinion only of course). Then again, I didn't really get excited over the iPad either and that was a huge success.

Setting that expectation aside, I would be fine with something simpler if it:

- it was classy looking: thin and round, steel and real/sapphire glass - ideally something that looks like one of those simple swiss clocks from the 1960s

- had an e-ink screen

- had a gps, which I can turn on and off

- had bluetooth notifications in case my phone is near

- had bluetooth audio support; and

- had spotify support. And here I mean that I want to be able to play music which has been synced to my watch over bluetooth, a cable or while docked.

- had heart-rate monitor would also be a plus of course.

- has enough battery for at least about a week, unless I am using the gps (for 2-3 hours), in which case it is fine if I have to charge it afterwards.

Want to use it as a regular watch (with the occasional message/calendar notification and perhaps even daily weather updates), and as a music player and as a gps for when I am running/biking.

Pebble almost have it, but their watches are way too ugly (my view only of course), too large for my wrists (so says my partner at least) and they don't have the extras that would make me really want one. I guess Spotify would have to be a partner as well, but I have Spotify on my radio so I guess it is only a small step to something like this as well.

Should be possible with todays technology though I am not really into HW. In terms of processor-power it really only needs to keep track of time, draw the watch face every second, draw the notifications/menu/..., handle user input (could be buttons not capacitive) and play music (which probably is the most resource intensive thing, but an easy match for any modern SOC). So for processing, battery shouldn't be a problem. An e-ink screen is thin and does not require much power either. Bluetooth 4 LE chipsets are very power friendly I think, so I would imagine that should be fine as well. They are also fast enough (1 mbp/s) for syncing notifications and even for the occasional sound track sync (I don't mind waiting 5-10 minutes for an album).
The gps doesn't really have to give me directions, only log my position and would be used only when I am running/biking, and as I said, should be possible to switch it completely off.

The battery could be in the (detachable) wristband - I think I have seen quite thin and flexible polymer batteries around on the internet (though I am not sure if they are thin/flexible enough). Could also have different looks on the wristbands so you get one leathery-looking (for normal usage) and one plastic looking (for sports) like apple did (liked that part though it is hardly innovative).
> Which is the not completed thing again?

Apple Watch is not available yet, so I don't see the point. I rather prefer to buy something within few months than a "prototype" at retail price.

Can I ask you what is the android "wear", the only one I read some good things is the 360 (also announced 3/4 months before selling it) but it's not 6 months old.
I was (am?) a moderator for Technic/Tekkit, and at the time the modding community seemed to me like it was a cesspit of adfly links and people eager to claim copyright over everything they touched. If the community is still similar then I agree, seeing the reactions to this news will be interesting to say the least.
It's definitely not his fault, nor the fault of the test in question. No one should entertain a divorce based on circumstances from decades ago, and before you were even together. His parents aren't divorced because of the unknown son, nor his fathers natural inclination to contact him.