skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what do you need the additional 1GB of RAM on your iPhone?
The protruding camera kind of bothers me, probably much more than it really should. But I feel like Apple's obsession with thinness may have gone too far if they need to protrude the camera like this.
At 400 DPI, the image will probably be sharp even with a fractional pixel ratio.
Didn't they mention a water resistant speaker when talking about the internals?
The iPhone 6 Plus is just too big - as big as my hand. I bet, you can't sit down with this monster in your pocket. Stop making it wider and higher!
I was really hoping the watch would be able to track gps for runs without needing an iphone. Am i supposed to wear the watch and then still have my iphone in my hand when I go for a run? Terrible user experience.
>> "I would imagine many people are the same way."

Most people are out of space. The number of people I heard complaining when iOS 7 was released and they didn't have enough space to install it shocked me. I also know a tonne of people (especially younger people) who can't backup to iCloud because they have filled their device with photos and they would have to pay for more backup space. When most new games are over 500mb and even things like Facebook require nearly 200mb of space it's very easy to run out of 16GB.
Apple Pay doesn't actually deal with banks or credit card processors. It's just the frontend for the actual physical payment(card swipe or nfc).
Apple Pay?

Pay Apple.
They could use Continuity-type stuff to have you verify the payment from your phone, that's happening in your desktop browser.
Not GP, but my Nexus 4 is perpetually at its limit, filled with podcasts and a small selection of my music. I spend a lot of time in areas with a very poor signal, so streaming isn't useful to me.

Personally, I want a MicroSD slot because that way we both win.
Photos and videos chug through space, most of my iPhone-owning friends have to resort to deletion of old photos at inopportune moments when they're trying to take a new one. I know that it's easy to push old media off onto a computer but it seems that most people never sync their iPhones to their hard drive.

It is pretty silly but also annoying as the iPhone has a strong following due to its "it just works" design. Girls in particular love it for the camera but 16gb just isn't enough space to get my SO and her friends past a few months of photo-frenzy.
From all of today's announcements, this may be what really moves the needles (!)
Tracking the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa
Too bad there is no longer a high end 4" model. The iPhone 5S won't support Apple Pay since it doesn't have NFC, and it is no longer available in 64 GB.

I would have thought that Apple understood they have customers that actually prefer the 4" size, or else they wouldn't have had any sales the last years. Let's hope for a iPhone 6S mini next year.
Look at how popular the Galaxy Note is. I don't understand those people, but they love it. And I think the iPhone 6 Plus is actually smaller than a Note.
Super disappointed with this. I was hoping for a bunch of sensors that fed my iPhone. Not something to discretely take meetings during a meeting.

Here is what is missing for me:

1. Sweat sensor.

2. Insulin sensor.

3. Smarter/more accelerometers to intelligently automatically detect what I'm doing. For example, if I start lifting 50 lbs in a dumbell bench press it should know that! My iPhone should auto update a fitness tracking app. If I start biking my normal "track" here in Toronto, it should automatically know that! So underwhelmed here.

4. No mention of emergency assistance "stuff", (like detection of heart attacks, or spiking insulin levels).

5. Some really stupid / weird features, although I do kinda like the shared heartbeat one. Would be fun on exercises / first date makeouts :)
Cutting and insightful. Thanks for linking it.
I'm so doing this
One would assume that third party apps could provide a watch face.
With the GM seed release of Xcode 6 and iOS 8, Swift 1.0 is now final
> and worst off they do nothing to shake off the "geeky" stigma attached to smart watches.

I disagree with you on this. For me, this smartwatch, like all the other recent ones, is everything but geeky. They look like they're designed for everyone except the techies (they probably are). I for one would love a smartwatch that gives the vibe of advanced, "hackery" technology.
cryptoz: My compliments on pressurenet, creative ingenuity, taking such impressive advantage (with practical application, and nerd fun) of data from a source as basic as a single sensor.
How are they deciding who can accept Apple Pay in stores? For instance, how do mom and pop shops who use Square readers get on board with Apple Pay?

Is it safe to assume that in the future, an iPhone itself can be a device that ACCEPTS payments too?
First, some street cred: I have studied Ometa[1], and implemented a half-working clone[2] in Haskell.

At their core, PEGs, or Parsing Expression Grammars, are recursive descent parsers with a nice syntax. A very nice syntax, which can divide your code size by up to 10. There is also a nearly 1:1 mapping between them and monadic parsing (my Haskell half-clone of OMeta is syntax sugar over Parsec).

PEGs have two advantages: the ability to have nice error messages, as evidenced by Parsec; and the ability to add context sensitivity. On the other hand, they are general. We can hack them into supporting lookahead and a limited form of left recursion, but that doesn't solve everything. There are still nasty corner cases. This lack of generality didn't help LALR: right recursion is damn useful for describing right associativity, and LALR can't do it.

This is why I'm so excited about Earley parsing. It's not too slow, it's fully general (no corner case whatsoever), it can support prioritised choice, context sensitivity, and stellar error messages thanks to the table of partial parses it maintains.

We can now combine the power and convenience of PEGs with the generality of Earley parsing. Once that's done, nobody will ever look back to LALR, or even plain old recursive descent —except for really simple tasks. I think Marpa is only the beginning.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta
[2]: http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/metacompilers/
The Pebble Steel is already priced for Apple's target demographic. Adding 70% more cost to that is a bit of a stretch.
Do you have a setting where the address used with a nym changes after every transaction?
Sun received dozens if not hundreds of patents for techniques used in ZFS and since Oracle purchased Sun, it now has those patents. btrfs uses many of the ideas that ZFS uses, so it is highly unlikely that btrfs does not infringe on at least some of those patents. People who use ZFS have a patent grant through the CDDL, but people who use btrfs have no such protection from the GPLv2.

So far, I am not aware of anyone who has gotten any legally binding assurance from Oracle that shipping btrfs will not be a problem. I am also not aware of anyone in the btrfs community asking Oracle to do something about it. If btrfs takes off, the ZFS patent portofilo could ensure that Oracle is the only company that can legally distribute btrfs. Consequently, Oracle's legal department would likely be able to have a field day with any company distributing btrfs. In the meantime, their competition will have to develop workarounds and Oracle would be ahead because they will have a better filesystem than they would have had they been upfront about this issue.

What Oracle might or might not do with the ZFS patent portfolio in the future is speculation, but the fact is that Oracle appears to have reserved the option to use it in future lawsuits.
In the keynote they made mention that it's easy to charge each night, which probably means a day or two.

That's better than the few hours some people are getting with the Moto 360, but it's not great. Let's hope it's at least one day consistently.

I'm interested to see the reviews. I wonder if they've reached too far.
Music and games and applications, my current phone has 23GB of each with ~10GB for on-the-spot stuff. I don't carry my photos library on my phone because there just isn't enough room, and the music library is a subset of my complete library.

The 128GB internal option is the one which'd make me actually consider an iphone 6.
I always measure the future success of a new Apple product by both the number and volume of negative comments related to. The greater the volume, the more likely it is to be successful. By all accounts, Apple Watch is going to be a smash hit.
Spotify is available in most of Europe and South America too. In fact US got it pretty late.
Show HN: Curated list of resources that provide creative commons media
Also: offline navigation.
Already does! BIP 32 HD addresses for every new transaction :)

And you can also setup funds forwarding [here](https://coinkite.com/accounts/send/forwarding)
Yeah. That is a great book. Highly recommended.
I agree that any real fitness tracking solution should be able to capture a gym workout accurately, but how would you propose the dumbell thing would work? With NFC or something?
It's a cyclic evolution. Pocket watch to wrist watch to pocket phone to wrist phone. With technological breakthroughs practicality has to take one step back before catching up again.
Absolutely agreed. There's another (non-fiction & not about Franklin, but excellent Arctic survival from the age of exploration) book that just came out by Hampton Sides called "In The Kingdom of Ice", which is really excellent. NYT review: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/books/review/in-the-kingdo...
> It will be the most used feature by _rich_ young lovers everywhere...

FIFY.
At $349 a pop, I doubt you want to cruise in college with this on the wrist.
>> Only one gig of RAM

Why does this matter? Apps run great as is. If the phone was slow I could understand but it isn't.

>> base storage still at 16 gigs really annoys me.

They pay a little extra for the larger models... It would have been nice to have a 32gb base model and it's a little strange they didn't do it but it's not like they don't offer larger storage versions.
I suspect more people than ever share your view. Personally, I'm still old school and prefer to keep an archive of music on my phone. It's great for road trips where cell service may not always be strong. Also in subways or other transit tunnels. Because of this, I love option for mirco-sd. If no expansion is available, I'd expect more than a measly 16GB for everything
Haha, that's brilliant.
> not likely to be on the wrists of most of the target demographic (they already own watches and fitness bands)

You could've said that about phones and PDAs pre-iPhone.
Mobile Commerce and Apple Pay
Developed countries are still selling dumbphones like crack

But those people don't have any money, or at least don't spend any money, and are consequently of no interest to the larger ecosystem that can be built around smart devices. A cynical view, perhaps, but a realistic one.
so you expected Apple to bend the rules of physics and biology.
alright.
sooo underwhelmed.
We do use the Screenshot stuff only when there is a question about the time clocked. Staff accepts it, as it only takes screen shots while the clock is ticking.
> 2. Insulin sensor.

How would it detect/monitor insulin levels? Have a needle on the back?
I haven't seen anything on battery life actually. You have some estimates?
Ask HN: Saas you would like to pay $5/month
Are you in need of a service for which you are willing to pay $5/month? I might build that for you.
My friends and I love the stickers on messenger. On a new sticker day, it's like the highlight of the day. They're fun and sometimes terrifying, and it adds some fun to group conversations.

Maybe you're not the target audience.
Uh, then don't get it. It's not like they aren't releasing a smaller phone called the iPhone 6 as well. Plenty of people with small hands are big fans of Samsung's Galaxy Note series, so maybe not everyone else in the market hag the same ergonomic preferences you do.
What I want to know, having a contactless card, is what do you do when the machine isn't working. You can't swipe it or use the chip in this case.

Then you're screwed.

If you have to carry the card anyway to get around this, what's the point other than showing everyone you have an iPhone, which at least in London is a quick way to get cracked over the head.
Wouldn't the only evidence obtained through that hack be the actual IP and related data?

I mean, the actual box was presumably seized after a proper warrant for searching a specific physical location. The question is would the fact that his stuff was searched be considered "fruit of the poisoned tree" since the servers were identified through that IP or as "inevitable discovery" since if he's a suspect, it's standard procedure to search his stuff anyways. But IANAL so I'm not sure how it works in USA.
Use the shitty job as a learning exercise. You'll meet people - socialise with them. You'll see people doing stuff that could be made easier with a simple template or script or spreadsheet - create the template, set up a tiny website and SEO it with some ads. Learn the language used in offices. Save money. Plan.

It feels like it sucks but you're in a good position now.
Does anyone know what the lower button does?
I feel like the next gen Moto watch will have the better SoC, much better battery life (as many Android watches already have) and higher resolution. And maybe more sensors. And hopefully match some of Apple's innovations.

I think I'm about a year from being able to join the bandwagon.
That's pretty cool, will forward to my cold storage.
I really hope this doesn't end up fragmenting the NFC payments space. Only Apple Pay is accepted in one place, and only Google Wallet is accepted in another. Both of these technologies work with contactless card readers, let's just stick with that.
People didn't live, eat, work, and sleep within 12 feet of 5 different clocks back then.
I think I'm missing something on this, but how is it possible Apple isn't storing credit card information on the device or their servers? How are they connecting the payments you make with Apple pay back to the credit card you choose to use.
They did not announce a POS (point of sale), but I imagine if this takes off there will be more innovation in the NFC POS space.

They're just using existing NFC POS that currently take Google Wallet, there's nothing special about the fact that it takes Apple Pay.
The extra ram is a great way to future proof the device, for starters. I remember how shitty the 4th gen iPod Touch ran with only 256.
Here's how I think about it: Apple is the user's broker and Stripe is the merchant's broker. Every time there's a transaction between the user and the merchant, they are setting up a deal between their respective brokers.

As fgblanch points out, a merchant using Stripe only needs a single account with them to handle credit cards, Apple Pay, and whatever else comes along tomorrow.

As Igglybook and zaidf point out, Apple wants to provide the hardware and software for the user, but they don't actually want to be a financial services company like Stripe.
They haven't done it with other phablets and I don't think Apple has any hope of catching those in market share, so I'm not sure why they would.

Besides almost half the population already carries a purse
Meanwhile you can probably connect HTML client to already existing open-source non-HTML bot [1] using its bot-as-a-proxy feature. Adding automation stuff directly to HTML client shouldn't be hard, assuming network protocol handling and state keeping already provided for you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openkore
A friend of mine has the Note, I think; he loves it. It fits his hand perfectly.

For reference, I literally cannot use his phone one-handed; I can't hold it and reach all the way across the screen with my thumb. I'm a small dude and he's a big one, and some devices are just designed for the opposite extreme.
My two cents: I don't know any person who is into serious running (I'm into triathlon, so add cycling and swimming) who would spend $350 on the Apple Watch and additionally you are required to have your iPhone with you to use the GPS. A sports watch without GPS, IMHO is a no go at $350. For <$300 I can get GPS, HR, ANT+, waterproof* and +20h battery life. e.g. Garmin Forerunner 910xt.

(I won't comment on the lack of info on battery life and water resistance).

*Edit: changed from water resistant to waterproof.
>> "4. No mention of emergency assistance "stuff", (like detection of heart attacks, or spiking insulin levels)."

FDA. If they were to offer things like that they would have to go through so much regulation and approval it's probably not worth it right now. It would also cause leaks which they wouldn't want with the first gen.
Agree the camera can be poor but I think future software fixes will remedy that. Hardware upgrades to Nexus 6 are more affordable due to lower price of the device, too. I also like the extra features like multiple panoramic options and photo sphere.
Agreed. I just don't see why anyone would buy an iPod when the Rio Pearl is half the price and stores more music.
Apple pay is an interesting and natural move from Apple. They probably have the largest number of credit cards info on earth.

I think this business can eventually become larger than the iTunes if they execute it well.

I couldnt find any information on whether Apple pay users can use this for online purchases or not. If they do this may be their next move will be to naturally be the Paypal competitor.
That's what I thought, but Apple Watch supports Apple Pay and that doesn't support Touch ID.
FSF Issues Statement on the New iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch
> Let's hope for a iPhone 6S mini next year.

Or an iPhone 6S Minus. Am I the only one who thinks "iPhone Plus" sounds oddly un-Apple-ish?
Does this work on the web or just in-app?
What is Apple's Commission?
Everything Apple announced at its September 2014 keynote
Determine the location within tall buildings more accurately but obviously not 100% accurate. This is one step closer to pinpointing the exact location of the phone within tall buildings.
You don't actually get 16. IIRC about 3 is taken up for the OS, so you're really at ... 12 and change out of the gate. I had a 32g 4s - got a 16g 5s and I feel the difference, often bumping in to space issues, having to move/remove photos, and generally having to think about it more - didn't have to with 32.

Everyone's uses are different, but think of resale as well - 2 years from now, what will you get for a 16g device vs a 32 or 64?
That's why I like the moto g lte. 4.5 is a good size for my hands. Anything over five inches starts to get impossible from one hand usage.
Couldn't help smiling at this marketing messages from Apple about Apple Pay - “We have security integrated throughout both hardware and software in a way only Apple can." “Apple Pay is easy, secure, and private.”

I would have loved if they would have gone beyond the marketing messages, and explained in some more detail about how they have made this secure, what improvements they have made (to TouchID etc) over previous versions and how a user can use it without worry.
Apple only takes 30% for digital goods, I doubt they'll remove that limitation.

For non-digital goods, Stripe is offering a library for iOS for a few years now which isn't affected by the 30% cut.
I wonder how this will affect many of the apps where devs have hard coded the screen resolution and depend on the current DPI. The iPhone 4 doubled the DPI and the resolution so that it would be fairly seamless to devs. The iPhone 5 made the screen a bit wider but kept the same DPI. It looks like the iPhone 6 changes both DPI and resolution so this might break many existing apps.
But this product isn't ostentatious enough or pretty enough for the fashion market, and it's way too expensive for the functional geek watch market.

$199 might fly. $350 is too damn high.
I'm buying at least 2. One for me, and one for my girlfriend. I may also get one for my mom.

Mine is for development. I see 10x returns easily, possibly 100x.
Where did you find out about 1GB of RAM?
Possibly. I've seen some speculation based on a few things they've said and based on a picture, but water resistance wasn't mentioned on Apple's site.
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Barometers are only good for detecting relative altitude/elevation changes over short periods of time.

Over longer periods of time (hours/days) the atmosphere pressure is going to change whether you change altitude or not. Over short periods, the barometer can give a relative change. Without a known starting point, it can't give you absolute altitude/elevation.

It has nothing to do with getting a gps lock.

I'd be pretty surprised if the phones didn't pull down the satellite constellation data over the network vs waiting on the nav message broadcast from the satellites.
Interactive JavaScript learning
A bit like Visa/Mastercard cards, I doubt any merchants are going to deliberately limit the type of NFC payments they accept.
That might've been true a long time ago but we've seen price drops for iPods, iMacs, Macbook Air, Macbook Pro, iPad 2 at its EOL, etc. over the years.

I'm calling a $50 price drop for version 2 after this thing doesn't quite hit sales numbers.
The complete and utter lack of battery life mention was odd when inductive charging (still missing from the iphone) was mentioned multiple times.
I doubt "people into serious running" run into the 10s of millions that Apple are aiming the watch at though.

(I agree with your point though - I have a 910XT for the battery life - the Apple Watch would be useless as an activity tracker for me since the iPhone 5S doesn't really cope with 5h+ activities.)
> I'd love to run ECC RAM, but I'd have to buy a much more expensive processor, a much more expensive mainboard, and all of my RAM would have to be swapped for moderately more expensive replacements. And DDR3+ is not cheap.

It's cheaper than losing your data.

We spend 20% more on drives than we have disk space and we do it because we love our data. In most use cases, it's wise to trade some performance (in the form of a slower, single socket, less memory) setup for reliability. Unless you need all the performance you can possibly get, a slightly slower but more reliable machine is sound investment.

> if ECC consists of a ninth parity bit

A single bit will allow you to detect an error in a given unit, but not correct it. For correcting a single-bit error, you'd need to pinpoint which bit got flipped and that would require a second parity bit.
One implication of Apple Pay is it erodes advantages of leaders like Uber. Minimizing payment and account friction means trying a new service becomes much easier.
This sounds very interesting, does anyone mind explaining the differences between it and VDE though (I'm betting I'm missing how this solution works or its purpose)?
Its...an Apple product. Very well made, but its more of a branding exercise than a technology launch.
But nobody else will have it. Messaging that no one else has is dumb and useless.
The 4.7 in version bump is negligible for most ppl's palms. Even the majority of people with small hands still engulf the 4 in. size. I think it would be a moot point in a majority of cases unless you are really jones'ing for the pocket space and portability...
Your Stripe pricing is the same if you use Apple Pay -- there are no additional fees. (And no 30%.)

(We should update the page to say this...)
Macintosh Plus.
According to the keynote, you can double-tap (somewhere? home button?) and the top of the screen will move down to where you can reach it with your thumb.
Can someone local find out where exactly the Antenna is? Nokia devices have been great at this with the touchpoint at the edges, which feels natural, while most Android devices have an awkward spot somewhere in the lower middle. Is it on the Apple logo? This may still make it feel awkward to use.
I guess Apple Pay trumps global CO2 levels.