skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which means that their marketing, as good as it is, is no longer enough to overpower the "larger numbers are better" instinct of undecided buyers.
I couldn't disagree more. I was impressed at the massive number of attractive variations. Incredibly well done IMO.
There are lots of homeless people who don't sleep in vans either.
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They're missing Christmas, which is huge for the Jewelry market.
Ever since the days of the original Firewire-only iPod, they've done 3D renders for extreme closeups like that. They are usually very accurate but still, it seems like it would be just a bit more honest to use a photo.
Does anyone else really like the subtle ways to share sketches / heartbeats? It kind of makes it more personal than just a Google Now / cards interface.

Nice touch (literally).
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weird this article came out after buying pre-nov2013 kits off ebay so we can see our health information....last night my wife and I just spit into our 23andme kits and we shipped it out this morning. Wish me luck on the truth! :)
> So, first of all, the person is denying that it was about gender while basically saying that it is. If man -> sales If woman -> recruiter

Thus, the gender bias is as to which non-technical role the poster puts you in, not whether they think you are non-technical.

Yes, I was wrong to indicate there was nothing sexist at all about the post. I was thinking primarily of the non-technical part.

> Moreover, this person was suggesting that "incapable coder" -> not a coder. Which is sort of weird.

I see that sentiment expressed about programmers of all types. It's the idea that if you are not at a certain level you are a faker, and thus not really a "coder". I see such accusations leveled at people constantly, without regard to gender.

The core point I was making is that you are not being typecast as non-technical for being a woman. You are being typecast for the writings for which you are best known, not for being a woman.

EDIT: So, I posted this reply from my comments view four hours after my GP post. Then I went back and read your other comments. In that context, I change my opinion. The submitted blog post needs the details you posted in this thread, and on it's own does present a very strong argument.
Do you have friends & family in the USA? Please urge them to speak out in support of NN
The relationships are going to want to use the heart beats like crazy.
It raises a lot of ethical questions. There was a great movie that touched those issues: "Gattaca".
That what happens when you put the algorithms in front of people.

Didn't it cross anyone's mind that such things would be uncovered? Or that it would always "be cool"? Opt-out? Really?

Money and technology before ethics.

But I'm still left with a question. What does "25% similarity" means? I mean, humans have more than 99% in common genes with the Chimpanzee, so is this a specific set of genes or what exactly?
And people will still continue to ignore them as though there were no reader at all.
It's interesting that, in the image showing the classes easiest and hardest for the algorithm, all the easy ones are animals and all the difficult ones are human-made artifacts.

Does nature tend to create forms which are easily detected by relatively simple neural networks? The evolutionary explanation could be that this allows animals with primitive neural systems to more easily distinguish other members of their species.
Ah I was going to post asking why Android Wear doesn't do all the things the article mentions; then I noticed it seems they only have an iOS app at the moment.
Here's hoping you're not related!
> There's a huge price for that, fragmentation.

Android's much more fragmented and yet hasn't had any trouble making gains. As much as Apple and Apple-boosters have made of fragmentation as some great cost, actual market experience hasn't really born that out in terms of selling handsets.

It does make things more difficult for developers, sure.
I just visited the site and their promo video at the top of the front page is all about two sisters finding each other. You cannot fault this company for finding unknown relatives. Hell, I know my dad was married/divorced before he married my mom and I want to do this to see if anything pops up, but will probably wait until the medical screen is available again.

Note: They currently do not offer the medical checks due to government audit or something.
Well, considering there's an extra banner with CSS, HTML, and images loading, the page will load slightly more slowly. Also, there's no way to close the banner for a second or two, so there's a short simulation of a browsing experience being impeded.
Stop and seize
"But I'm actually more worried that this, left as it is, is just going to be used by mothers and fathers of children with autism, or the adults around them, as an indictment that they weren't "good enough parents"."

That's already something parents with autistic kids get to live with. You may get to choose your friends, but you don't choose your relatives, and some relatives have a hard time dealing with autistic grandkids/nephews/nieces/etc. Denial is a popular option. It would be stupid to even think about holding back a treatment because of this concern.

I'm also frankly astonished that we have to preface stories about autism treatments with how wonderful autistic people are and how we're not trying to "eliminate their uniqueness". My autistic son is only lightly autistic, but believe me, this is a disability. It's great, it's truly great that many people manage to live with it and their lives aren't entirely ruined, but believe me, it's still a disability. If you can mitigate it, do so.
You have an impossibly selective memory. The iPhone was announced 6 months before it shipped, for example.
I've been wondering if any agency in the US government has been using DNA databases to do "genetic triangulation"--and if not, when they'll start.

I'm in 23andme, and I get messages saying "someone who is your 4th/5th/6th cousin wants to connect" all the time. I figure if I was given a bit of DNA from a crime scene, by cross-referencing all of the 4th,5th, and 6th cousins, the number of potential people matching that DNA has got to be tiny.

Science fiction dystopias used to hypothesize a complete DNA database but I'm pretty sure even the spotty coverage we have now is pretty powerful.
How does Apple pay differ from Google's ecosystem and whatever it provides? There, the smartphone app (Google Wallet vs passbook) and the hardware is not made by the same people (Samsung vs Apple) - so does this pose any problems?
Seriously?

A killer product from apple innovates on battery life, form factor, materials, and especially software. At least some or all of those come into play to make for a superior product.

This is debatably better than the Moto 360.

Oh, and it's VAPORWARE, not being released until next year after Christmas.

I agree with others. This is a sign that Apple is no longer a leader in innovation. The glow of Jobs is fading from the company, despite how much I hate his beatification.
Further to the 2 excellent answers you have already received, it is also important to know that we have been attempting to create a vaccine or even effective treatment for Ebola for a relatively long time (it was first encountered in 1976). Compare this to the common flu that we prepare a reliable vaccine for every single year.

In the event of a truly global Ebola pandemic, we would be unlikely to be able to develop an effective vaccine in anything near a reasonable length of time. It is so much so the stuff of nightmares that an Ebola pandemic is the premise for a number of fictional works.
I think part of the reason for the curve is to give the illusion that it's thinner than it really is.
> The evolutionary explanation could be that this allows animals with primitive neural systems to more easily distinguish other members of their species.

It's probably the other way around. Neural systems optimize for natural objects.
The genetic testing didn't cause the divorce, keeping secrets did.

This is also a very good argument for honesty - it's very hard to figure out when and how you'll get called out on lies.
What is Apple's Cut going to be to use Apple Pay ?

1. Say, I have an app that will Apple Pay. So in addition to 30% cut made by Apple for my app will using Apple Pay cost more ?

2. I understand this will require NFC terminal to recognize the payment through Apple Pay but that's in physical store. If I already have some payment method setup for my app why should I choose to use Apple Pay ?
or I guess my question is Apple already stores credit cards. While purchasing apps you can already do with one click. How Apple Pay is different ?
Moto 360 is supposed to do navigation.
that explains why they came up with that ability to send finger drawings back and forth so easily. You can use Siri to text. And since it dynamically extracts multiple choice buttons from questions with "or", replies are a simple touch.

EDIT: Just found this which says the same: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/09/apple-watch-digital-touch/
That may be true - but the world is run by consumerism. There's a reason people don't always buy store or generic-brand products where the quality is the same. There's a reason people will spend $1000 on a phone comparable to a $300 one.

People buy brands and aesthetics, not function.

And people don't care about privacy or security, not yet anyway. I'm a hobbyist pen-tester, I've reported breaches which would allow full identity theft - and what happens? Nothing.

I swear I'm getting more and more pessimistic by the day, time to go camp in the woods.
It's 25% similarity within the 1% of variation that makes you... well... you.

The human genome is ~3 billion bases long (haploid), so even looking at that 1%, that's still millions of possible variations. Only close family members will have significant overlap.

What 23andMe measures are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). These are variations that are known to occur within the general population. For each of these positions, they can tell if you are homozygous (2 copies with the same ACGT), or heterozygous (One copy A, and another T, for example). Once you take all of that SNP data, you can get a good estimate of how closely related you are to another person. If you share the same patterns, you're likely related.

50% similarity would only be possible between a parent and a child. 25% would be likely between half siblings.
The Sony Xperia Z1 Compact has a 4.3" screen, seems to be the smallest high-end brand name phone out.
You're less likely to drop a watch (the band), and more likely to scratch it (brushing up against stuff).

That's my guess anyways.

I thought it was interesting that the "Watch Sport" actually comes with the glass display. Which seems like they put some thought into it?
Thanks, I was going to Google and then thought "there's no way I will get relevant results"
Part of this is just because people prefer a dramatic story, and "we prepared ourselves to overcome X, and then we found X and overcame it" is less dramatic than "we encountered all sorts of unexpected difficulties! and had to struggle to overcome them!"

The other part is a peculiarly English cultural tendency, particularly pronounced during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, to raise up for veneration losers who went down with style -- not just Scott, but figures like Gordon of Khartoum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon) as well. There was a strong strain in the culture boys were raised in during that era that stressed chivalry and a particular sense of good sportsmanship as being much more important than whether one actually wins or loses.

There's a poem from 1892 called Vitaï Lampada (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Admirals_All/Vita%C3%AF_Lampad...), written by Sir Henry Newbolt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Newbolt), that is frequently pointed to as the best expression of this ethos:

There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night --
Ten to make and the match to win --
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
Or the selfish hope of a season's fame,
But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote --
'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

The sand of the desert is sodden red, --
Red with the wreck of a square that broke; --
The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead,
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
The river of death has brimmed his banks,
And England's far, and Honour a name,
But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks:
'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

This is the word that year by year,
While in her place the School is set,
Every one of her sons must hear,
And none that hears it dare forget.
This they all with a joyful mind
Bear through life like a torch in flame,
And falling fling to the host behind --
'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

There is a line of historical thought that argues that this philosophy had a profoundly negative impact on British military thinking during the first half of the 20th century, with boys who grew up soaking in an emphasis on "playing the game" over winning becoming generals who presided over disasters like the horrific charnel-house offensive at the Somme in 1916 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme). There's a very good book (http://www.amazon.com/The-Rules-Game-Jutland-British/dp/0719...) that examines this exact question through the lens of how the Royal Navy fought the Battle of Jutland, if you're into this sort of thing.
Specifically, you need enough power to regularly transmit an electromagnetic signal on the order of miles that scales with the inverse square law.

Considering that they can't even get the battery life up without that requirement, it might be a while unless we make significant scientific breakthroughs in battery or wireless technology.
This sounds pretty amazing, though I would love to see the actual user flow after the #sold comment. Couldn't find an about page or a blog post though..
They exist, but I don't think the experience is great.

http://fr.aliexpress.com/item/Intelligent-Bluetooth-watch-mo...
Also a skydiver, and looks like you jump at Elsinore judging from the pictures in your app. My wife and I are there occasionally.

I hope the sampling of data is fast enough to use in skydiving. Maybe an integrated log book/flysight.
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This is an intriguing situation because while the "No wireless, less space than a Nomad. Lame." comment will always haunt those that criticise Apple product launches this is the first one in years where the product looks more like it's actually the Nomad being mentioned, and the iPod has yet to arrive.

I'm going so far as to say that smartwatches and VR represent the desperate flailing of a tech industry that's run out of ideas that will connect with people. We had a good boom post iPhone, but this kind of thing just doesn't look like there's any point to it.
Am I the only one that feels a bit dissapointed about the design of this device?

Up till now all of the new iphones seemed to get nicer and nicer design-wise, but this seems like a big step back to iphone 3. Perhaps it's just my taste.
The DMCA is your friend. :)

https://nppa.org/page/5617
> They would freak out if the public comments actually mattered.

I disagree with your point that public comments don't matter, since they reflect public opinion. The public are paying the bills of the telcos, and the FCC for that matter. The public can switch providers at any time, if they feel their current provider is acting against their interest. The public also has the ability to elect decision makers who can assign or fire people from the FCC. What are your thoughts?
Would you like to pay with "Apple Pay", "Google Wallet", "Windows Payment", "BlackBerry Wallet" or "Web Payment"? OK, NFC or BLE?
This stymies people considering buying competitor watches for this Christmas season, which is the big reason to pre-announce.
I keep a copy of SuSE Linux from 1998. It have six CD-roms (in a time were Internet by dial-up was not cheap here), but I remember that I managed to install it on 200-300 MiB with a machine with less of 256 MiB of ram, and It could run GNOME 1.0 over KDE !!!! And it was running pretty soft.
I think they've improved in this regard: they've added an independent microcontroller inside the core(which will probably run the arduino layer).This will solve compatibility and real time issues.

This is in general targeted to a bunch of chips that integrate a microprocessor and a microcontroller and are usually fabricated in 65nm-45nm. With it's process advantage(22nm finfet) , intel can offer orders of magnitude lower sleep currents, some nice decrease on power(depending on x86 vs arm details), and more power in general. All interesting to embedded guys.

But they still have to create a large library of peripherals and support it(which they might solve by creating a few speedy cores and let the crowd code and share/support peripherals), add analog blocks, and gain the trust of the embedded community as a reliable long term supplier(which might be the one thing intel couldn't solve - because of it's past as an unreliable embedded supplier).

The second option is that this is mainly to motivate other embedded chip companies guys to use it's fabs.

Anyway ,i'm grabbing the popcorn.
*not closely related
And yet here you are...
From the other article (http://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/6107039/23andme-ancestry-dna-tes...):

When George figured out his dad had conceived this child before getting married — that the child was not the result of adultery — he was excited. "I thought it was the coolest genetics story, my own personal genetics story. I wasn't particularly upset about it initially, until the rest of the family found out, and their reaction was different."

His mother and sister could not handle the information, and his father went against their wishes, dedicating himself to reconnecting with his estranged son. "Years of repressed memories and emotions uncorked and resulted in tumultuous times that have torn my nuclear family apart. We're not anywhere close to being healed yet, and I don't know how long it will take to put the pieces back together."
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I think it's because these human made object have no single form. For instance "letteropener" describes the function of the object, not the form. Compare that to "red fox" which is always gonna look more or less the same.
I have plenty of circles (family, work) who exclusively use Apple devices. (Same with Android.) Hardly "dumb" and "stupid" — works great for iMessage.
The accusations of Communism are thin at best, but he was a plagarist and adulterer, which is especially egregious for a pastor. I'd say it's fair to say everyone has their selfish inclinations.
I think it's a general limitation of the optical heart rate trackers that they aren't quite "24/7". At least on all the Android Wear devices that feature one, you have to ask it to take a reading, and it's pretty unreliable if you're moving. I didn't see it mentioned in the Apple coverage, but I assume it's probably similarly limited there?
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There is even an 18 karat gold edition. Sapphire crystal, waterproof, imported leather from the Netherlands. It goes behind the technology, to also embrace some of the finer things that make a quality watch... Quality.
The definition of gimmick is the customizing of a the emojicon.
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/6107039/23andme-ancestry-dna-tes...

" the child was not the result of adultery "
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I've got 18 months of Moves data logged against corresponding tracks from my 910XT and the difference in consistency, accuracy, etc., is telling - the iPhone is frequently off by 10s (if not 100s) of metres and especially coming round the Millennium Dome is a joke - it has me jumping from the south to the north of the Thames every few hundred metres.

Moves iPhone 5S - http://imgur.com/kjYf8Tj
Garmin 910XT - http://imgur.com/jnXuaQC
A number of ways. First, it isn't just F = MA, the different joints and ligaments apply a different ratio of force depending on how strong you are. For example, biceps and hamstrings can get a lot stronger as a ratio of their typical strength than tendons in the wrist. By analysing known biometric data of the athlete (their weight, resting heart rate (athletes have a much lower rate), how fast they can cycle, perspiration patterns) and combining it with the gyros and accelerometers in both the phone and watch you should be able to accurately reverse calculate the weight and the exercise.
I guess technically those were separate online services. They only connected up to the internet near the end of their lifetime.
I'd say it's an entropy thing. The principle of "correlation of parts" means images of animals have low entropy relative to, say, machines. Intuitively a machine can contain an almost arbitrary set of shapes and components, whereas animal forms are more constrained.
The trial of the Pirate Bay founder is as salacious as you'd expect
I don't want my heart rate and other health data getting uploaded to Apple and anyone else. Big blocker for me.
It's a good time to be a wearable whose core functionality is complemented rather than cannibalized by the Apple Watch. Fitbit, Pebble, Jawbone, etc are in trouble though.
The worst case with ZFS and ram corruption is that you can lose your ENTIRE Zpool. As there are no zfs recovery tools available this means your data is as good as gone or a minimum 15k spend to get it re-assembled.

This makes it far more risky to run ZFS with non server grade parts.
It's not always really a disability. Some have it light enough that it's not really a hinderence moreso than a difference. I had a minor diagnosis of it and so have others I know, and I don't feel like it negatively impacts my quality of life. I'm not alone in this and your one data point doen't disprove this.

This doesn't mean it shouldn't me midigated but you shouldn't make such sweeping claims about it.
Also: why the hell do I need to see what the moon's gonna look like 6 days from now?
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Yeah, I think we've even been here before with autism specifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory
What specifically do you want to get out of a CS degree? Do you want to focus on general cs or have a specialization?
This can explain better than I can: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26865869
Indeed: And most ambiguity is local, and you can apply other, perhaps more reasonable rules to resolve it than a parser forces you to make.
Why the down voting? For praising non-religiousness? Or for being excited about a faster developing market?
I just wanted to swim with it... :(
That doesn't seem to match my offhand recollections. Apple tends to keep price points the same and just update specs occasionally. The first iPhone famously had a price drop quite soon, but has that been true for their other product lines?
You should not define a market by a product. THe value of this is so that you do not have to pull bigger and bigger phones out of your pocket. It is not a watch, it is an easily seen notification device and simple input device. I think that people who are always looking at their phone need something like this. People that do not spend much time looking at texts, and screening calls will not need this.
But isn't the neural network (like the algorithm described in the article) a mathematical concept? Are the computer-based neural networks so closely modeled after biological equivalents that they would inherit such an optimization?

(As you can tell, I know nearly nothing about neural networks, but curious to learn more...)
But this throws another question... why are people keeping such secrets in the first place?