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> I'm guessing the FCC doesn't much care what the riff-raff think is a good idea. They're more interested in maintaining relationships with big business and keeping that revolving door spinning.

Right, they were sued by big businesses (and lost) over their attempts at ad hoc enforcement of net neutrality principles, so they doubled down on them and issued the Open Internet Report and Order, were sued over that by big business (and lost), and tweaked it slightly [1] to issue a new version of the Order over which big businesses are pretty much certain to sue again (but, the FCC hopes, with less luck than the last two times.)

They may not be using the regulatory strategy that some consumer advocates want, but the 3-member majority of the FCC that keeps adopting open internet related rules isn't acting like they care much about maintaining their relations with big business (at least, unless you mean the big pro-neutrality businesses on the content side.)

(The 2-member minority that has been in opposition to those rules might be maintaining relations with the big telcos, but while they are participating in discussions, they aren't actually the ones setting policy.)

[1] And I'm not trying to disparage those who think that the tweaks open a dangerous weakness, but the basic structure and rules are essentially the same, and in some places stronger than the initial order.
>I'm sure this will be downvoted into oblivion but I have Karma to burn preaching some truth. Between big phones (even the small iphone 6 is bigger!), the watch and NFC, Apple is clearly repositioning themselves as fast followers and letting Samsung et. al. foot the bill on R&D and market building.

First, there's not much (if anything) they have gotten off of Samsung about these devices, except maybe how not to do some things.

First, if you have seen the prototype iPads and iPhones tested, they've actually built all kinds of prototypes in different sizes half a decade or more ago. And obviously the same thing holds for the Watch and the bigger iPhone: they were in development for at least a couple of years, iterating and refining them.

Unlike the iPad, which at least also had a redesigned GUI library (and thought behind it) to take advantage of the larger screen, a slightly larger iPhone is not something not obvious. Apple could have made the iPhone 5 a 6" model if they liked to rush things, it's not that they missed some key insight. What they actually did was wait for several things to fall into place, like baterry capacity, CPU/GPU power to provide a smooth experience with the bigger screen, etc.

If Samsung provided anything is just some early "market research" in the feasibility of selling a large phone. There's nothing technical or UI-wise here that was copied, or needed to be copied, from a Samsung phone.

Second, Samsung only started on their watches when rumours of an iWatch pending had already surfaced (and it shows, since theirs was mostly a hack job of mashing existing stuff and rushed decisions). Apple was building the thing for a long time, and I'd say has put far more thought and polish on the whole thing that anything we've previously seen from competitors (including Peeble).

>I'm also reminded that the "c" model has been dropped. Sales figures didn't seem to be very high and I think the experiment has been deemed a failure.

Actually, it sold very well. "From the constant harping about the supposed "failure" of Apple's iPhone 5c, you'd think the phone is selling poorly. The reality is that middle tier model, while dramatically less popular than Apple's top of the line iPhone 5s, still managed to outsell every Blackberry, every Windows Phone and every Android flagship in the winter quarter, including Samsung's Galaxy S4.". http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/22/apples-iphone-5c-f...

In general it was constantly in the top-3 to 5 best selling phones for all US carriers. Most phone companies (including Samsung) would kill for a "flop" like this.

Second, it wasn't dropped. It's still available, and just rolled on the $0 with contract tier.
Apple Watch: We Are Now Literally Handcuffed to Our Computers
Adding a zero (or two) to your personal net worth may still change minds about many things.
sure thing dude, go ahead :), don't worry this is the least of my concerns, i hope it will take off ^^
Agreed.

I can only assume that MS are going to insist on a sequel with all of the 'NextGen' trappings we've come to expect from them. Minecraft2: MasterChief Edition. With Kinect! And day1 DLC! And product placement... (Use the new MTN DEW powerup to double your building speed! Feed your animals DORITOS to improve their stats!)

Good for Markus and the Mojang guys though... they built a multi-billion-dollar empire out of nothing. It's real indie-games success story. An inspiration to the rest of us! Congrats!
Zero minutes.

Once start walking your route, feedback will be given via haptic feedback to let you know which way to turn so you won't have to look at it again.

(Source: the keynote)
I have found this with the phone, if I do a cold start. When I ride somewhere, start the tracking, the stop the tracking when I get to the run track, the iPhone is so much better at tracking me.
> (despite the fact that his project is bottom-up?)

Earley parsers, including Marpa, are at the same time top-down and bottom-up. And in the end it doesn't really matter. What does is the tree construction phase, and that generally ends up being defined in a top-down manner.

As a result, Earley parsing feels like top-down parsing that doesn't fail on left-recursion.
I don't have any "FU money", but it seems very likely to me that once you have that sort of money, there are only a couple of reasons to run it up any further:

1) You have "Big Plans" that need funding (eg. Elon Musk)

2) Running up the numbers as a life gamification to "beat" your peers, or just because you can't stop chasing yourself, like one of those freak beast weightlifters that looks like a space monster but is addicted to "the gainz" (eg. Larry Elison, et al)

There are only so many houses and planes and boats and experiences you can buy, practically speaking, and at a certain point all your grandkids' grandkids are easily taken care of (should you decide to reproduce, and assuming society stands and the dollar keeps its value, of course).

Interestingly I'm pretty sure Bill Gates started in bucket #2 but moved to #1 at some point later in life, but I think most people stick in one or the other.
What would be time better spent is a interactive tutorial on how to best use the CLI tool to do tasks.

If you're going to design a wrapper around tools, then make the wrapper purpose-driven (like Handbrake is to FFMPEG and a related suite of command-line tools and libraries), as opposed to trying to chase the tail of the dragon exposing the features of a moving target, probably poorly.
Thanks, yeah, that's pretty cool. I just watched a Youtube video on how to export raw data from 23AndMe and search for things on SNPedia. As long as 23andMe keeps the export option around I won't be spending a lot more for a kit from ebay. :D
Sorry, you can't build any more wood blocks today! Would you like to buy an extra 10 wood blocks for 99 Mojang bucks?
It also runs on linux or OSX. As well as other editions for xbox360, iOS, android, and even raspberry pi! So... that's not it
At first I was inclined to have the same reaction to this news, especially concerning early rumours about this. Having read some more on it however, I now realize that it is somewhat of a knee-jerk reaction.

From what I read, Apple Pay is the following things:

- A management interface to manage payment methods on your device.

- A user interface to interact with these payment methods.

- A set of APIs to interact with these payment methods from software.

- A term for hardware and software components in the iPhone that allow interaction of these payment methods with point of sale hardware.

What Apple Pay is not:

- A payment protocol.

So Apple Pay is a payment method management application. It is not a payment protocol. The payment protocol Apple Pay uses to interface with point of sale terminals is the same EMV protocol that is used for other solutions.

Any other payment method application can also use this same EMV protocol. Many do already in fact, such as Google Wallet. I would not be surprised if Wallet was able to interface with the shown POS hardware with barely any modification to the app.

I hope anyone with more knowledge of this project could confirm this interpretation is correct.
That's what I figured. That seems like it would be incredibly clunky to use. Turn the dial, scroll up, turn the dial some more, scroll left.
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Apple hasn’t solved the smart watch dilemma
About the specs: I don't think the average iPhone buyer is concerned about them as much as the average HN user.

In the end what it counts is user experience, and if the average user see sharp, quick, responsive UI and fast applications he/she couldn't care less about how much RAM the phone has.

Storage is a different issue, but Apple got away until now offering more storage as a premium, so why change ?
Well, that's just marketing. Of course it isn't the ultimate device for serious athletes, but it has useful health related features for the broad audience.

No matter how Apple markets its products, it's always intended for a broad spectrum of users, which almost excludes the possibility that you'll ever see a Apple product that is specialized for some kind of niche
>At best, "cool" is all it is. It certainly isn't useful. [...] Pictures might be acceptable to your significant other.

Isn't useful to you? Personally, I find this immensely useful. I don't know of any other device to communicate with the significant other in such an intimate way. This is precisely what I wanted. You might understand it better when you're in a relationship but spend a lot of time away from each other. Of course pictures and taps mean much more than texting. Of course it's fun to invent your own sign language. If you don't have a use case for this watch, it doesn't mean it's not “useful”.
Can't download...
Tried it on a Breaking Bad video and it works like a charm. Question for the author, are you sharing while streaming? Can your IP also be tracked like a normal torrent client?
Thanks.
> I'm going to think, "what the hell is this picture of an ice cream cone with a marble in it?"

Only because this isn't currently a common type of communication. You'd instantly understand it if it were more standard.

> If one of my friends sent me one, I and the rest of the group would spend the next 10 minutes brainstorming unflattering nicknames to forever annoint him with.

Whether you're into smartwatches or not, this doesn't seem like a very friendly personality. You're really going to get this up in arms because a friend sent you a picture-based message?
`zero` doesn't act on integers, it acts on other functions.

The second argument to `zero` is a placeholder. The intuition is that `zero s` is "apply the function `s` zero times". What do you get if you apply the function `s` zero times to an argument `z`? You get `z`.

There's a hint later down in the article about type-checking.
"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."

Uh, what makes you think it also won't be essentially a prototype, like the iphone's first software basically was (web apps only), etc?

"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.
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Android wear is the name of the device operating system for the android watches.

As for hardware, I've actually tried literally all of them. Right now, a samsung gear live happens to sit on my wrist most of the time.
The retail 360 is not 6 months old, that is certainly correct.
I can assure you i have worn wear devices for > 6 months :)

As for "what you read good things about", i don't know what to tell you. I actually tend to try things out more than just believing whatever the internet happens to think on a given day, which is heavily influenced (in all directions).
And, apparently, at "card present" transaction rates, which I imagine took some degree of negotiation on Apple's part.

http://bankinnovation.net/2014/09/apple-said-to-negotiate-de...
I think it is key to remember that the accessibility of huge amounts of labeled data is behind most of this. ImageNet is 1.2TB (~1.2 million images!). Convolutional neural nets have been around for a long, long time (early 90s? or maybe late 80s) and they just needed more data (and a few training tricks :) ).

As we enter the world of "big data" more and more companies are locking this level/size (or bigger) data away in closed vaults. This is a competitive edge in business, but also strangles the ability for academics to do "real world" research, which is often a huge criticism of academia at large.

Academic research can have a role in tech R&D if given a chance, so I hope that companies will open their data to private researchers to continue this kind of improvement - even if under secrecy clauses or some other safeguard.

All that said, the technological improvements have been astounding, and I hope this is only the beginning! There have been some incredible results using related techniques in NLP for machine translation recently, and speech has always been a great playpen.

If anyone is interested in playing with these things in Python, myself and another researcher have recently created a library for using these type of neural networks as a black-box WITHOUT ANY TRAINING!, in a similar style to scikit-learn. See [1] for more. We support only a few nets currently, but plan to integrate support for caffe and pylearn2 in the near future.

[1] http://sklearn-theano.github.io/
As far as I've understood, the gist of the "ZFS without ECC is scary"-mantra is that one bad memory location (say a flaw that results in a word always getting zeroed) might corrupt all your on disk data due to scrubbing ("read data, compute checksum, write data, repeat") Is this in fact a non-issue with ZFS?
iPod classic is dead, and the 30-pin connector along with it
Computational power probably isn't the limiting resource in DNA analysis (I've known plenty of people who do it in non-forensic applications in the biotech field, and I've heard of various things limiting throughput in any given effort, and computing resources were never on the list.)
Most likely a free-to-play Minecraft 2 that's loaded with microtransactions. Or retro-fitting microtransactions into the existing Minecraft.
Because it will only accept one charge and only be re-enabled when needed?
Apparently you can record video with your iPhone 6 while on a bike so Apple clearly have different use-cases in mind.
Another interesting question: If a vendor adds support specifically so that they can accept Apple Pay, will my Android phone start working for NFC payments there?
Agreed that it’s rather awkward to tap the top left corner—unless you have large hands. Fortunately, more apps are now supporting the ‘swipe from left edge’ gesture to go back (e.g. Safari).
If $300 sounds to much for a fashion item, it's probably not for you. Heck, I don't think I'll buy one either.

But then again, consider that people buy $300+ headphones (Dre's) because of how they look, fashion etc. And they are not even the best headphones out there, whereas this is probably the best smartwatch.

Or that people bought iPods for $300 or more just 6 years ago. Without video or phone or camera. Heck, I bought my first iPod for ~$800 10 years ago (complete with a black and white LCD display).

And that's the 1st gen. In a year, it will be like $200 or $100 for the same thing or the new model.

So, yeah, it might flop or it might sell, but it won't be due to its price.
It could also be that there are more labeled examples of animal, or that the translation/rotation of an animal is less disruptive than than the same transform to a car or other object.

I know for sure that ImageNet has a huge amount of animals in it, down to very select sub-breeds, while the object categories are usually at higher levels.
there's a huge Sapir-Whorf bias in a lot of philosophy, critical theory and social science which I totally don't get.
Slow clap: New iPhone6 has a barometer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._A._Ioannidis

"Ioannidis's 2005 paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"[5] has been the most downloaded technical paper from the journal PLoS Medicine.[8] A profile of his work in this area appears in the November 2010 issue of The Atlantic.[9] The Atlantic article notes Ioannidis analyzed "49 of the most highly regarded research findings in medicine over the previous 13 years". In the paper Ioannidis compared the 45 studies that claimed to have uncovered effective interventions with data from subsequent studies with larger sample sizes: 7 (16%) of the studies were contradicted, 7 (16%) the effects were smaller than in the initial study and 31 (68%) of the studies remained either unchallenged or the findings could not be replicated.[5]

Statisticians Goodman and Greenland agreed that "many medical research findings are less definitive than readers suspect" but disputed his headline claims as unsupportable by the methods used.[10][11] Ioannidis responded to this critique[12] and other researchers have generally supported the general thrust of his findings.[13][14] Ioannidis' work is focused on improving research design standards."
Microsoft in talks to buy Minecraft maker for more than $2B
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I think that it's too premature to judge whether this effort is more justified technically and subjectively than Android Wear or any other competing efforts from independent vendors. Apple's device won't be shipping for another several months, and the demo given at the keynote today hardly scratches the surface of what the product could potentially do.

There needs to be an identifiable niche that these smartwatches could work with, and they ought to be marketed to that niche to really sell the idea of wearing a screen on your wrist. Similar to how Microsoft is positing that the Surface is intended to be an artist's easel, it's perfectly plausible for Google to market Android Wear to musicians, athletes, and early adopters -- but I haven't seen that effort from them yet. I get glimpses of this marketing approach from Apple's newfound moxie, but it still feels like everyone who makes a smartwatch is trying to sell it to everyone, which seems short-sighted given most people do not wear physical timepieces anymore.

There is potential -- but not now. Early smartphones were hollow and unfinished (yes, even the iPhone). Form and function will get better as time goes on, and there might be a legitimate use-case for devices such as these.
Can't you just PXE boot a bootloader (e.g. grub) rather than a kernel, and then have the bootloader load the kernel as normal?
When was the last time you used Android?
I wanted altimeter and compass. I' using Casio PRG-70 since about 6+ years and I use them all the time during all kind of outdoor activities from hiking to biking to try finding way at Burning Man playa. This watch does not require batteries or charging at all - it gets all the charge it needs from day light (i.e. does not need actual sun light). They are submersible in water, dustproof in sandstorms, can be dropped on floor 100s of time, scratch proof against even fairly severe bumps, and has no problem in freezing cold or dessert heat. This makes them extremely reliable piece of tech you can count on regardless of your forgetfulness for charging them or natural elements. For me, they are my must-have outdoor companion. It was big bummer to see Apple Watch does not have compass and altimeter (there is no mention of it) and relies on iPhone for getting elevation and direction. They could have explored way for self-charging that many time pieces thses days offer. Smartwatch that doesn't need charging would truely be breakthrough.
Steve was wrong about a lot of things. Guess what, he also realized it.

'In the interview, Jobs also says about himself, "I just care about success. So you'll find a lot of people that will tell you that I had a very strong opinion and they, you know, presented evidence to the contrary and five minutes later, I completely changed my mind, because I'm like that. I don't mind being wrong and I'll admit I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing." '

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-steve-jobs-revealed-in-a-lo...
Using gamification to explore historic places
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Hmm, you raise a good point about the moving target. Perhaps tutorials would be better suited.

Wrappers for a variety of applications already exist, and in some cases done really well (BurpSuite was the result of multiple smaller scripts.. I think). That could be a good path too, but will likely result in me maintaining software.
Thanks for the feedback; I'm now intrigued enough that I will at least try to find someone local to me that has one to get some real world impressions.

If the battery life is indeed a lot better than the vast majority of reviews are stating then Motorola really needs to get ahead of this message, because it would be foolish for them to expect most people to spend $250 just to try the device out when there is such a clear consensus of a major problem in the published reviews.

The size was never an issue for me because that's an easily measurable spec and I'm okay with the size as specced, but buying the device when almost all the reviews are telling me the watch will be dead in 12 hours represents a pretty big leap of faith, so if it really isn't an issue (other than PR), I do hope Motorola finds a way to get past it.
If you are in NYC go vote in the democratic primrary before the polls close at 9pm
Boy it's weird you should say this, because none of this story really rang true to me.
You should have seen it in 2002. The freeways were nice and empty and rents were cheap. Even as recent as early 2009 office rents were much much lower than they are now.
What casual runner goes running without their phone? That's how we get GPS, work with Nike+ gear, and can be reached if someone needs us or make a call if we need to.

How many leave their phone on the house and go out jogging?
Ugh. Horrible if true, and not because it's Microsoft. Any large corporation that would potentially drop that much money for such a property clearly has plans to suck every last dime out of it.

While immediate changes would likely not be visible, I'm sure that over the long term it would mean the end of the ongoing Minecraft development, less developer-community interaction, and the start of Minecraft 2 development ... exclusive to Xbox 1 (with Windows 8 launch TBA). And DLCs out the ying-yang.

If true, I can't blame the Mojang team for cashing in on an incredible opportunity. But as a consumer, I really hope this rumor turns out to be false.