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I watched it a few nights ago and it was pretty good. It was cool to see each of the vehicles/capsules, their insides, and the facilities that are building them. Definitely recommend watching.
> But at the same time, I can imagine that the younger crowd wants exactly that.

If anyone can build a market from scratch it is Apple, but why would the younger crowd want a watch at all? Unless you are older than 30 (or perhaps even older), you likely aren't in the habit of wearing a watch. What is going to compel the younger crowd to do so?
Yes, I will create a Dockerfile and upload an image to the hub.
This reminds me Movigo [1]. Is there any relationship or known difference?

[1] http://www.movigo.com
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"Werent watches one of the main things replaced by smartphones"

Weren't watches replaced by watches?

They started off in towers, then to rooms, then to tables, then to pockets and then to wrists. Is this not a similar evolution of computers?
I can assure you as a commute cyclist in Berlin that it's not. The less car drivers see you as traffic the more dangerous it gets. Also the surface maintenance there is just horrible compared to a proper road.

The single biggest threat to cyclists are right turning vehicles that either don't see you at all or worse underestimate your velocity and try to overtake you on the non- turning bike lane shortly before a crossing turning right (just happened to me on Monday). So driving in the actual straight lane is the safest option.
Too little too late. The "usefulness" of that ephemerality feature hasn't stuck. One of the reasons why many of my friends quit using disappearing photo apps was because they actually wanted to keep many of the photos they took and sent, but couldn't because there's no option to. They all switched to more standard chat apps.
Thanks. That's what I always assumed would happen but was surprised when it didn't. The companies that I've done this with are large, too. Think Telcos, energy companies, big retailers.
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Points were already mentioned else where so I will not iterate over them again.

Last time? When the cyclist took off most of my paint with his handle bars and pedals trying to squeeze in. $2500 in body work out of my pocket.

Insurance is not only there to protect other people, it's also there to protect you.

That needless paperwork you speak off is exactly why it works.
Humans driving at the legal speed limit are dangerous by their nature. We arent perfect and dont see everything - the likelihood of an accident is simply a matter of probability.

I don't think it is any stretch of reasoning to say that choosing to be close to and often in the path of people driving at legal speed in itself carries risk, indiscriminate of how good and conscientious the driver is.
It's a minimum 40 mph lane.
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I think it would be interesting to see how this thing works for long distance running if you could also extend the runners stride another 6 inches or more through special shoes. Assuming that the key to efficiency by this machine is to get the runner in the air for as long as possible and exert the least amount of human energy.
I had a full on collision last year that sprained my elbow so bad I may have to get surgery. I'm waiting to see if it heals up. The bicyclist gave me an earful about blocking the shared-use trail with my walking until I called pulled out my phone to call the cops and then he high tailed it out there. It was literally a vehicular hit and run. And if I need surgery will cost me thousands of dollars and months of physical therapy on top of the medical and physical therapy bills I've already paid.

About a month ago I was clipped by a guy in full kit who then kept on pedaling without checking on me (another hit and run).

My wife was pushed off a trail by another guy in full tour de France kit while out for a walk earlier this summer.

I've probably been hit or clipped or pushed a half dozen times since I moved into my neighborhood. I could go on.

Bike riders around here are really serious about their hobby and are generally assholes to anybody who gets in their way.
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Might not be literally, if you're only counting Manhattan (and depending on the time frame). I would venture to guess it might be in the hundreds of thousands per day in Manhattan. Only 332,000 commuters (I assume this is per day) commute to Manhattan by car: http://wagner.nyu.edu/files/rudincenter/ManhattanCommuting.p..., and I would venture to guess an even smaller number commute within Manhattan by car.

But counting all five boroughs, I am sure it is literally millions per day. Car ownership/use/commuting rates are much higher outside of Manhattan.
We announced this a couple of months ago, though the company has been around for a while. We're also just quieter than most startups. Less blogging and talk, more code. :)
Heads-up for those who use Atlassian tools. Lots of announcements made today!
It is not just your awful attitude, but the fact that you are completely wrong in your assertions that is a problem.

And most drivers agree with you.
Uh, right, the "Ashtar Command Community" says stonehenge was built from the ground up in 1954, totally credible. Stonehenge is not fascinating anymore at all.

10 seconds on google shows photos and pictures of stonehenge long before 1954 and reveals the monuments were restored several times including once in 1958. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
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It took Apple several years to enter the MP3 market, the smartphone market or the tablet market.

However, they are releasing their product just two years after the first real smartwatch came out(the Pebble), and the same year that the first color screen smartwatches started coming out.

This is not the standard Apple procedure. Will the iteration 1 of the Apple watch be successful? I personally don't think so, and I was among the people that predicted the success of the iPad [1]. But, paraphrasing what I said for the iPad, given that the Apple watch is made by Apple and that it's well made, elegant, functional and relatively cheap, it could end up selling very well and prove me wrong.

[1] http://economiauniversitaria.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/el-ipa...
A lot of the high end watch world is focused on craftsmanship. Think of it like buying a painting, but instead of oil & canvas you get steel, gears & springs (or glass and...nanoballs in this case).

Anyone can buy a clock - you have one in the corner of your computer right now. People who spend this level of money are more interested in time keeping sculpture.
> People fail either because they do not get the work done or because they have abrasive personalities, he said: “We have a zero-tolerance policy on that.”

We've sure gone soft. Here's to the sane, socially normalized ones.
I like this, because it dispenses with the "Apple lover" angle and instead focuses on the existing watch market at the $350 price point. It should be clarified, though, that $350 is the base price and some configurations are probably going to go up to double and triple that.
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A similar project in perl: http://perllinux.sourceforge.net/ (2005)
> economically discouraging cycling

If $10/month puts you off biking then you should not bike in highly populated areas. Period.

This is classic case of poor financial planning. You don't need $10/month insurance? Too expensive right?

Take a chance, then get injured and get hit with a $10,000 medical invoice. Good job saving $120/year, you showed them.
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Look it up yourself. Your local state law should be online. Every single state in the U.S. requires road users to not impede the flow of traffic. That's why you can get a ticket for driving to slow.
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Bordeaux mixture's pretty nasty stuff, but it's been used on many types of fruits for a couple of centuries, not just bananas. It's also generally approved for use for use in organic growing so it's not easy to avoid - buying organic may actually increase the chance it was used on your fruit.
I would be extremely skeptical if someone asked me to do 3 weeks of work in one week with no guidance during my vacation. Add to that, I cannot imagine they'd pay my weekly rate, because that would of course raise the question of why I'd take such a huge pay cut to do the same thing full time.
This is really cool. How do you guys get current surge/prime time rates?
Lot of CEOs run only "one company" which encompass a wider variety of activities and products than SpaceX + Tesla.
I wear a $5 watch from Target so theft is never a problem.
If Motorola were able to release iteration 2 of the Moto 360 by the time the Apple Watch comes out, and make it iOS compatible, they could single-handedly kill the Apple Watch.
They learn, for instance, about new developments in their field of expertise, and about more practices and tools they can leverage.
Ask HN: How do you deal with users on your machines?
Hey, folks. Most of the software I build gets deployed to Actual Linux Boxes -- either virtual or metal -- and I have yet to find a good solution for user management on those machines.

These boxes nominally live in the cloud, and not in a datacenter that I control.

I'm looking for something that can automate the process of adding and removing shell users on a large number of boxes, including access to databases and such.

What does the HN community use to deal with this?
By 'decidable' I meant that you can write an always-correct, always-halting algorithm for taking a desugared program in the language and transforming it into an 'idiomatic' sugared form. Then you have a nice bidirectional idempotent transform.

(The 'gone wrong' was more in the definition of 'sugar' but I don't want to argue that, just ignore that line.)

Most languages have a fixed set of simple sugar. There is no approximation needed; you can make a 100% perfect sugar/desugar mechanism. I'm glad you agree that it should be language-specific. That way we can discuss the typical language where the language itself is Turing-complete but the sugar-related transformations are not even close to Turing-complete.

The original statement discussed having an ability to transform code into an idiomatic form as a 'language feature'. This means it's intertwined with the design of the sugar itself, and it's up to the language designers to make it feasible. When you discuss all the ways a program could arrive at the same result, you are going far beyond the realm of the finite sugars that apply to a specific language. The Halting Problem is not relevant.
> Around here car taxes, road taxes, "environmental taxes" on fuel etc adds up to a whole lot more than the combined price of road maintenance and so on.

That's really different from the situation in the States and the UK which is where I've seen the actual numbers.

I'm not a heavy user of fuel, so may be a bit biased on this, but it seems really sensible to me to use taxes to compensate for externalities. For instance, I'd guess based on my general impressions of Scandanavia and other civilized places that Norway has publicly-funded universal healthcare. Good on you for that. Now, doesn't it make sense for some of the taxes on owning and using an automobile to go toward public health? In my country, collisions involving cars are a leading source of injury and death. Elsewhere in this thread are estimates of the health impacts of auto emissions -- they are significant.
I'm sure the author is very knowledgeable on the watch industry and by no means I'm challenging his taste and feel of fashion.

I'm just curious that when he made claim of "The Apple Watch is by far the best smartwatch", what is this claim based on? Did he try all the other high end smart watch like Moto 360 or G watch R? If not, is it really fair to make a strong public claim like this?
The younger generation is probably less familiar with Dick Tracy to appreciate the watches.
> Personally I'm not going to get a smartwatch because I hate interruptions.

I hate those things too, but I'm still chomping at the bit for the Apple Watch (and plan to disable all notifications except SMS). Why?

- Wrist GPS while driving

- Siri without taking phone from pocket

- Music remote control (hopefully video, too)

- NFC payments

- Heart monitor (QS)

- Other cool apps as yet unimagined

I certainly don't blame anyone who doesn't want one; it's a bulky, expensive frivolity. But its UI affordances create opportunities for active use cases beyond the passive notifications that have characterized smartwatch functionality until recently.
Why am I committing an act of violence? I'm just engaging in my hobby. If people don't want tacks in their tires they shouldn't ride on my tack field. I'm not forcing them to get on my field with me. They need to learn to share.
Where I live, the minimum speed is half the top speed, so if a bike is doing less than 20 mph in a 40 mph street it is theoretically violating traffic rules - not that it justifies anyone risking running over the cyclist.
This is awesome. One suggestion is a permalink for a specific fare estimate that I can forward someone.
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>Meanwhile, she said, much of the emotion and uncertainty has been taken out of the interview process.

At least it has for the company. Seems like it puts more of the risk on the employee.
It wasn't in heavy use, Chris Lattner was experimenting with it solo i thought.
This is based on Jackson stream parsing, so by definition, it can't be faster than Jackson. :)
Maybe it's better not to think of it as a watch.

The modern smartphone has little in common with the devices that were known as telephones until about 20 years ago, yet it has retained the name. It's not easy to predict something like this. (In the film Back to the Future II, the hero's 2015 house is filled with telefax receivers. There's a scene where his boss sends a fax to all of them and printed pages start pouring out. This is how people imagined the future of telephones a mere 30 years ago!)

The meaning of 'watch' as a timepiece may soon become as antiquated as the meaning of 'phone' as a fixed receiver on an analog landline.
Cool idea! FYI, when I clicked the 'locate' button and denied it access, the spinner just kept going and I couldn't manually enter a location.
I echo this completely and I have done a "Show HN" and a "Share Your Startup" on Reddit.
Yes, sorry. Windows 8.
Why do you think it is unreasonable of me to say that someone who puts themselves in a risky position is by definition partly to blame?

I don't accept your premise that cycling around town on public roads is necessarily a risky position.

I live in Cambridge, UK, a city known for having a lot more cyclists than most places in this country, and also known for its historical (read: narrow and windy) street plan. It's about as cycle-hostile an environment as you can get and it's difficult to make big changes to improve things anywhere near the city centre. And yet in a couple of decades of living here, moving around as both a cyclist and a driver, I have never been concerned about a car-cycle accident from either side.

This doesn't require some level of super-human reaction time and supreme driving skill in the car, nor a force shield around my bike. It just requires following the basic legal rules of the road and allowing for the fact that not all road users are the same. In particular, I avoid potential accidents with cyclists all the time when driving, often simply because I allow plenty of space around them so when something unexpected happens there's still room for everyone when the cyclist suddenly changes speed or direction. You are never, contrary to your original post, forced to overtake a cyclist. In fact, if it would be dangerous to do so, you are legally required not to overtake, as with passing any other vehicle.

If a cyclist breaks the rules themselves and then gets hurt, sure, assign them some or all of the responsibility. I don't care you are less protected than a car, he had the green light and you knowingly or carelessly ran a red. I do not support calls for car drivers to be legally responsible for any car-cyclist accident by default, because I see cyclists do insane stuff like this every day.

But if a cyclist is simply using the road in an otherwise considerate way, there really isn't any need for cars to go racing past them at high relative speeds and with little clearance (and no, a bit of ill-judged paint that some authority slapped on the road does not excuse a lack of basic driving skills). And if drivers don't do that, and cyclists follow the rules too, then your original claim that "It is entirely understandable that there will be a large amount of lethal accidents involving cyclists" just doesn't stand up in my experience. Accidents do happen, and sadly some degree of injury and even death is almost inevitable unless we close down efficient transportation systems altogether; on this much, we agree. But to cause a fatal car-cycle crash usually requires not only bad luck but also a failure on the part of either or both of the driver and the cyclist to follow the rules, and at that point it's not just an accident any more.
> Which is exactly what the iPad was. Everybody said it was stupid and nobody would buy it

Er, no, they didn't. Some people said that. Lots of people said it was stupid but that it would probably sell well nonetheless. Other people said it was a well-conceived product for the market even if it wasn't what the speaker was looking for (which is basically the same as the previous thing, but with less ego.)

Lots of people said it was something they were looking for.
> - Wrist GPS while driving

I recommend trying GPS while driving without any screen at all. Pull up navigation on your phone or stand-alone unit, then place it in the center console where you cannot see it. Let it give you directions only though TTS.

This is how I've been using GPS for years now, I find that I pay much more attention to the road and actually have fewer navigational mistakes (probably because I am paying more attention to the road).
Apple Watch augments your iPhone's capability and introduces novel use cases based on 'micro interactions' and ambient feedback. It's a consumption device. For now, it must be used with an existing iPhone. It will eventually become a fully independent and integrated device.

Regarding value.. imho, the next evolution of the technical maturity model for mobile will center around decision support. This is where I see wearables providing the most value, which may have significant impact to business process applications and sensor networks.

To the average consumer, this may mean having ambient access to specific economic information, transactional data or live media. It will become a part of your daily informata and utility / Internet usage.
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Also "Visual J++", or, as I called it, "Visual J Double-Plus Ungood".
Both watches and the hourglass seem closer to a lithograph than an original piece of art, and I wouldn't pay $28k for a lithograph.
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Why would you care if cars see you as traffic, if you have to follow the same rules pedestrians do? If they're on the sidewalk, bicycles cross the street at the pedestrian green and have to stop at pedestrian red. The only safety problem might be accidents between bicycles and people.
No, but in the aggregate the loss of efficiency + wasted fuel has a real social cost, which shouldn't be dismissed so glibly.

Cyclists significantly slowing traffic on major arterials IS a problem and sanctimonious truisms are not the solution. The solution is bike lanes or entire separate "bike arterials" which run parallel to "car arterials" so the two wildly different transportation mechanisms don't get in each others way too much.
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Hmmm, Singapore is another example of a "middle", although rather far in the direction of "dictatorship". Not sure if we've seen much of it before the 20th Century, then again they're a modern form of oligarchy.

It's definitely not the best exponent of what I was trying to get across, but I didn't say all that much initially. At least when they're not fighting wars, or are degenerate cases like the Saudi royal "family" (15,000 members, 2,000 with wealth and power per Wikipedia), there tend to be limits to their rapaciousness. Much less so with traditional oligarchies.
Totally agree that nobody cares about press releases anymore. I've seen a TechCrunch article net almost nothing for launches. It's interesting to watch founders get hyped up for the press hit... and then nothing happens.
If you're incredibly wealthy, what else are you going to spend the money on after all possible material needs are more than satisfied? After all, you can have multiple homes, but you still only stay in one at a time; wear one pair of shirt and pants per day; etc.
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My last job began with an out-of-the-blue phone call, a couple of phone interviews, and then a ~8-hour (paid) contract project (adding a couple of features to the codebase I would be working on). I didn't actually meet any of my coworkers in person until about six months in.

It was basically a paid audition. I'm not sure how I would've felt had it not worked out, but it seemed like a fair process for all involved.

One big possible failure mode would be a totally incompetent auditioner, but paying a few hundred bucks for some unusable work is probably cheaper than bringing someone in for an interview with a few engineers, let alone hiring them.
In her classic book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Jane Jacobs made a powerful argument against both alienating high rise buildings and suburban sprawl. Instead she advocated for an approach that emphasized mid-rise buildings and short mixed use blocks to get the right mix of density and human scale streets. Worth a read
Here's something that's different from the existing watch market and Apple's watch. Most people who pay $350 or more for a watch will wear it for years and years.

The Apple Watch, as beautiful as it is -- is still an electronics/computing device that has obsolescence built into its life cycle (I'm also curious if the battery can be replaced).

Unlike an analog watch, people will want to upgrade to watches with faster CPUs and other new technology. And if you use mobile phones and tablets as a model, that could translate to every couple of years.

While I believe that initial sales will be impressive, it'll be interesting to see how a premium product like this will perform in the long term.
Hopefully an interview is a two-way process, though. To me, the fact that the employer is unwilling to take that risk is a red flag. How likely are they to invest in me down the road if they're not willing to from the start?
> Personally I dont want any watch with at least 1 week of battery time with heavy use. My current watch has 5 fucking years of battery time. Some are more or less working indefinitely.

Fair enough, though the same could be said about smartphones.. i.e.

Personally I don't want any cell phone that has less than a week of battery time with heavy use. My current dumb phone has weeks of battery time, even when used heavily. I'll never get a smartphone until battery life is....

While that statement makes sense, it doesn't appear to have stopped many from moving to a smartphone.