skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting read... the whole Degavas1337/LulzClerk thing could be a red-herring depending on how many ended up with access to the mail account...

However if it is him, he's got quite the digital footprint: http://pastebin.com/G2GJJfP3
The translation voiceover is pretty distracting.

Not sure what Apple is trying to do.
Ugh, STATS has an API but it doesn't appear to be available unless you're a paying customer, which looks difficult to be because there is no online sign up.
My wristwatch doesn't even have a battery - and it won't have one for decades to come.
It's our home, not an investment, and where would we live if we sold?
Looks like iOS devices are being sent to a different stream. Viewing is perfect so far on my iPhone.
It's not only the live stream which doesn't work, it's Apple's website too with a constant "Access Denied".
When you mail people a coconut, 50% convert
Little onions love to disco. With Chinese translations. And the TV Truck. Maybe they have an augmented reality product coming? Bringing back the rainbow logo? This is terrible.
very insightful, thanks captain obvious
Weave itself does not provide addressability beyond IP. That is the situation now, but this area is very much high on the agenda for us - service discovery is definitely in scope for weave.

Meanwhile, two points of note:

1) In weave the IP addresses can be much "stickier" than in other network setups, i.e. a moving a container from one host to another can retain the containers IP. That means it is quite amenable to relatively static name resolution configurations, e.g. via /etc/hosts files.

2) Since weave creates a fully-fledged L2 Ethernet network between app containers, name resolution technologies like mDNS that rely on multicast should work just fine.

So, in summary, while weave currently does not have any built-in service discovery, existing solutions and technologies for that should be relatively easy to deploy inside weave application networks, until weave itself grows these capabilities.
I would like to think that there is a self correcting element to this. If someone produces genuinely high impact novelty science, others will want to build on that - and will end up replicating it anyway. If it isn't possible to replicate or isn't important, then it will be forgotten about.

I agree about publishing negative results. The experiments that don't work, but might have had a high impact will likely be repeated, as no one knows it hasn't been tried.
Server quirk.
I stopped wearing a watch (ubiquitous Casio black plastic one) the last time a watchband broke on me due to the repeated stress it experienced every time I took it off to type with a wristrest/palmrest.

Still wondering a bit about this aspect, although it apparently does not affect/bother everyone.
I'd be interested in seeing that. It's been a while since I really followed the site, but I seem to recall he was at least forward about what he was testing and why in the text around the benchmarks, I will admit to him seeming to be overly eager to get articles out, sometimes of ambiguous usefulness, probably due to his advertising model (at least at the time, when I was there earlier it seemed far less riddled with advertising).

Edit: Nevermind about the advertising, it's still intrusive, I'm just running adblock now.
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Spreadsheet
Free download Odin for Android devices
> Honestly you need both. executing with no market differentiation would be difficult to grow and/or find investors.

That's formally known as "begging the question", i.e. a self-referential circle that uses the argument's thesis in support of the argument. History doesn't care about marketing, it cares about ideas.

We all have benefited enormously from Einstein's ideas, and those of the creators of quantum theory, but none of those people marketed their ideas, or would have considered that important. History doesn't care either. We remember (a) inventions, (b) the inventors, and finally (c) those who exploited the inventions, in that order.
Yay! The Chinese translation has stopped!! It took only 26 minutes to achieve this.

I hope someone gets fired for these goofs. I expected better from Apple.
So I have to double click the home button to reach the top of the screen?!
First, I'm a dilettante. I haven't used docker in production. I've really only set up a handful of containers.

That said, all of those fiddly library dependencies are where i struggle the most at work. If i could just build a docker image and hand that off, it would save me a lot of grief with regard to getting deployment machines just right.

I do have a great deal of experience with legacy environments, and it seems like the only way to actually solve problems is to run as much as possible on my machine. Lowering that overhead would be valuable. Debugging simple database interaction is fine on a shared dev machine. a weblogic server that updates oracle that's polled by some random server that kicks of a shell script... ugh. Even worse when you can't log into those machines and inspect what a dev did years ago.

If you've got a clean environment, there's probably not as much value to you.
Smart watch is as bad as a smart phone: it requires your hand to be before your eyes.

It is also smaller and less powerful than a smartphone, and probably has worse battery life. It might be a nice fashion accessory, but I'm indifferent towards these.

When something like Google Glass becomes usable and affordable, I'd like to get it. Otherwise, I'll just pull out my smartphone, as I do now.
me too. It drops out every now and again.. I close VLC and re-do the whole thing and it comes good again.
No, I have a phone.
>> I find HN fetish with UoW to be interesting

You would be surprised how much Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. recruit Waterloo grads. A Waterloo undergrad in Computer Science or Software Engineering is definitely competitive with the best schools in the world.

(Not discounting other majors, but HN tends to be more focused on computer stuff.)
I wonder if they started working on the bigger iPhones while airing this ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY4c2mh15Yk

The new "reachability" feature is an interesting way to try to minimize the problem though, if a little cumbersome.
There's more to it than that. MTA is competing with, for example the port authority's SmartLink cards when it comes to paying fares for the PATH trains. That 5% bonus is also a carrot to get people to get the metrocard.

...and MTA doesn't set PATH fares.
Thanks, that should be the top comment! :)
Direct stream for VLC:

http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/14pijnadfpv...
I used to buy $10 casio watches and lose them after a month. Since carrying a mobile phone that tells you the time I have not bought another watch. Not even sure why I would need a smartwatch
quite a disgrace for a tech company of this size: either a black screen, an access denied error, stalling stream with a chinese (?) voice over…

but hey, the iphone 6 has rounded corners! B|
If it comes with some of the amazing biosensors that have been hinted at, yes. (Otherwise, no, not at all).
Jobs led them to do it right in the first place. Quality does not happen after the fact.
Logging with Diamond
This works for me too!
Chinese finally went away at 10:30
Very interesting article with good reporting, love the mix of video, text, and images. Great design for a page layout too imo, the BBC seem to have taken cues from Medium.
How about "I have no idea what I want"?

Is there a killer feature that a smartwatch would have over my phone which I'm unaware of aside from form factor?

I'd like there to be a reason to buy one, because I like shiny tech things, but I'm not sure I even have a use case.
> any kind of stagnation or substantially reduced growth rate endangers the political status quo.

OTOH, using (even engineering) an external crisis -- including outright war -- to redirect popular anger over current or expected domestic economic conditions is not unheard of.
If they made a smart watch that could do time/calendar, phone calls, text messages, emails, and turn-by-turn navigation - all without requiring tethering to a smartphone - I would buy one and probably not even have a smartphone.

I know I'm an anomaly, but I only use my phone to remain contactable and for GPS navigation until I get back to my desktop. A smartphone that didn't have to tether would suit me well, but there doesn't seem to be anything out there like that.
So much. Motorola had me literally, physically on the edge of my seat when they announced 360.

I fully realise that there probably is no reason to have one. Especially in the beginning when they're still figuring it out but there may never be one. It is such a cool gadget though. And the round screen with the ambient dial totally sells it.
Streaming seems to be better from the iPad than the Mac... weird
High rents is an effect of bigger corporate dynamics, not the cause.

Corporations generally locate the highest-priority projects in the head office to minimize communication costs. The executives are at the head offices, the largest concentration of staff is there, and you can pick the top employees from a larger pool. That means that if you're an ambitious young professional, you go to where the highest-priority projects are, because they will benefit your career the most in the future. This further reinforces the need to locate high-priority projects at headquarters.

I saw this play out at Google. The most ambitious, career-oriented young employees would move from NYC, Pittsburgh, or Boston to work in Mountain View, where they could have their pick of projects. Meanwhile, more family-oriented employees would move from Mountain View to Pittsburgh, Michigan, etc. to enjoy a higher standard of living and be closer to family. Who gets promoted with a big raise? The folks who work on the highest-priority projects. What does that do to area rents? It makes them rise in line with the highest-paid employees in that area.

You might ask why corporations don't move their whole headquarters to another location. Some do - Wells Fargo moved most of its operations from San Francisco to Minneapolis in search of cheaper labor. However, the same dynamic between employees within a company also plays out between companies within an industry. Google can't move its headquarters and operations because most of the interesting developments in the tech industry - startups to buy, startups to fund, new technologies to keep up with, key employees to hire - are in the Bay Area, and moving to say, Detroit means that they'll miss out on the cross-pollination of ideas that keeps them relevant in their industry. Note that this is not a serious issue for Wells Fargo, whose entire brand is based on "We're stolid and conservative, and we may not be in the forefront of financial innovation, but we will keep your money safe."

This dynamic played out a hundred years ago too - Detroit became Motown, USA because everyone involved in automobile manufacture was incentivized to move there, Hollywood became Hollywood because everyone in the film industry was incentivized to move there, etc. When those industries were vital and growing, they faced the same pressure on rents and economics as the Bay Area does today.
I had a "smart watch" at one point...a Fossil Abacus WristPDA, which actually ran Palm OS 4.0 and had 8 Mb of storage, a fair amount for a Palm device. It was cool, but certainly not as usable as a regular Palm PDA...but you can probably guess what its main issue was: Battery life. The thing sucked down energy like an eight-armed alcoholic, and had to be plugged into the charger every night to avoid dying and completely losing the current time (something you never want to have happen in a watch, and which brings to mind the "You had ONE JOB" meme). And the only way to charge it was with its special USB cable that had an add-on wall wart power supply.

(It also had one of those black rubber watchbands, custom-designed for the watch, with storage for its tiny stylus in the buckle. And, when the band cracked and broke, as those kind of bands inevitably do for me, there was no way to replace it.)

When I got my first iPhone, that watch was one of the three gadgets it replaced. I'm not convinced its modern-day counterparts would work out any better.
as an amateur athlete, i want stats too (but not pro stats like you're talking about), which is why i'm working on that for amateur sports. =)
On your site, you advertise that you give talks on HR and recruiting and every talk listed is on that topic. To be clear, "Cracking the coding interview" is a recruiting/HR talk even if coding is involved.

I wasn't there. I can't rule out the possibility that you a) didn't list this talk on your site, b) discussed a completely different topic than all your other listed talks and c) convey a completely different impression than your online persona.

But I hope you can understand why I, and many others, find this claim a bit implausible.
I almost wonder if Apple already did the market research on smart watches and realized nobody really wants one, and then they did a head fake and convinced all their competitors that they were going into development on this product with all their might. Competitors tie up engineering talent and resources producing a device to compete with something that Apple has zero plans of actually manufacturing. It would be an evil genius move.
I'm getting an access denied page trying to refresh the stream
Summary:

2 new iPhone models: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
iPhone 6 is 4.7", iPhone 6 Plus is 5.5".
Power button on right side.
A8 chip - 13% smaller chip, 25% faster CPU, 50% faster GPU, 50% more energy efficient than A7.
Battery a little better on the iPhone 6; iPhone 6 Plus has amazing battery life.
VoLTE (Voice over LTE) - make calls over LTE internet instead of using minutes.
Camera is still 8MP...

YouTube video stream is working:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxCbIjAg6mg
It seems to have improved by this point. No more ultra-loud dubbing or TV truck schedules.
Turns out the ones with incorrect md5sums are indeed older builds. All ISOs are being brought up to date as fast as it'll go.
Its mankind alone who measures the time, and he is the only being experiencing that one fear: the fear of time running out

-- freely quoted from somewhere

That how i feel about watches, so i don't have any. Phone is enough if i have to catch a Train or wake up for work.
> How about "I have no idea what I want"?

Guess what the late Steve Jobs said about this? "People don't know what they want until we show it to them."
I can't watch any of the video (using Chrome) so I'm just watching the live updates on the website instead with bullet points...which is apparently a lot more useful than the video feed. 200 comments and nobody is discussing the technology, what a shame after all that build-up.

Anyway the new iPhone looks more like a Samsung in terms of size, screen resolution etc. but presumably with a significant Apple technical edge. It seems like a really beautiful product, and I say that as someone who doesn't care for Apple's stuff in general.

I'm sad that the launch of multiple new products is being overshadowed by the clusterfuck of the presentation, but it's a great example of execution > ideas that will probably be taught in business schools for years to come :-/
Oh good, charts with no Y axis. How informative.

http://i.imgur.com/4UZk0MH.png
Code signing isn't about cloned apps or privacy violations, it's a mechanism to communicate DISTRUST by revoking it. How does removing that help the consumer?
You must offer young recruits three things:
Good Training, Good Wages and Good Employment conditions.

They must have something to believe in, and to have hope for the future.

When I was a young bloke (Australia) the Tech schools offered great training courses, the employers were lined up on graduation day, and life-time employment was taken for granted.

These days, no one trains, the wages are ludicrous, and permanent employment is unheard of.

And yet employers complain that they can't get good engineers.
Just in time for iOS8 and Healthkit. Makes it super-easy to call and write to the TrueVault API natively within Xcode.
That's exactly what I meant... Jobs would have made them stress test that system before the event so this does not happen. The most popular company in the world that creates the incredible hype for its events should have made sure the system worked unless they wanted some to feel left out thus igniting jealous resentment.
I'm waaaaaay less likely to leave my Smart Watch in a bar...
No, not really. Your link is the beginning of the thread, but what I wanted to link to was Duncan’s clarification of what it was all about.
Thanks for the suggestion, will check it out.
Yes, I do. I want one so that I don't need to look at my phone every time I want to see if I have any notifications. Especially as an Android user, it can be a pain in the butt to see them and seems like a waste. Getting your phone out constantly is generally seen as rude, and it can be distracting, and I'd like my phone to have less of a stranglehold over my attention.*

The Moto 360 looks great. The only issue I have with smart watches is battery life. It does seem pretty crap to have to charge a watch.

* EDIT: Yes, I could just ignore notifications more, or turn them off, but generally I've configured it so that the notifications I get are ones that I actually want.
That happened quickly! They just raised $1.3m eleven months ago:

http://blog.bergcloud.com/2013/10/28/berg-raises-1-3m-round-...
Yes, I have. And I'm not bashing them with this post, I'm just answering the OP's question. I know of a few people who are taking advantage of these traits right now, and they love it there.

As for the bureaucracy comment - it's real. If you're in dev and need a server, your request will end up going through Larry Page's office. When the CEO's office needs to be involved in cross-departmental requests, that's the very definition of red tape.
Thanks for suggestion; however Evernote never really felt good for me. I can't say exactly why. Tried it on both - desktop and mobile platforms.

Trello is good, but I would need something more robust.
I don't want a watch, but I might wear a paper-thin, flexible, all-over display bracelet.
This works for me! Safari still shows an error.
> VoLTE (Voice over LTE) - make calls over LTE internet instead of using minutes.

That's would have been a killer feature if it had occurred when smartphones were new enough that providers were selling plans with limited call minutes and unlimited data, but now that virtually every carrier has smartphone plans that are unlimited phone minutes/unlimited text and limited data with surcharges for data overages, who is looking to move from using voice minutes to using data?
While not a 1:1 replacement, you could consider applying to jobs for the summer on your own. I've met a lot of people in California from the University of Toronto who've done so.
I already have two watches of varying smartness:

The Swatch pager watch. It could receive pager messages. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyNFzEc8eE4

The Microsoft / Timex Datalink. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink

Both persuaded me that I just want my watch to tell the time, and maybe the date, and nothing else.
It doesn't mention lex or yacc at all. I think those are noteworthy. I think it's interesting that lex was written by Eric Schmidt.
Why Haskell's Newtypes Aren't as Cool as You Think
HUGE proponent of constant learning, if you don't invest in your employees why would you expect them to stay.
I have a smart watch (sony), but haven't used it in a couple of months, don't want another one.
You are not the only recruiter with a CS degree.
After seeing Android Wear from LG and Moto, I would get one..but I don't think this gen. I will see next year's lineup.
Or maybe a whole bunch of people don't live in the same time zone as you.
There's a benefit to everyone in the industry for exchanging employees with your competitors often, but there's a cost to your company. Hence, geographical areas where that happens do well overall, but the individual companies involved hate it and want it to stop. It's very much a prisoner's dilemma situation.

Similarly, technological developments that benefit everyone in the industry are good for the industry as a whole, but bad for each individual firm in the industry, which now face increased competition. That's why big companies often try to spread FUD around "open" alternatives to their core business.
> I agree about publishing negative results.

If only science publishers would agree. But they're in a money-making business and novel results, "breakthrough" results, even if unverified and soon to be disproven, sell journals much more efficiently than null results or falsifications of earlier work.
I find it very hard to care about what author is trying to say because he sounds so condescending. However, I do understand his confusion somewhat.

It had been a longstanding pattern in software engineering to gradually simplify UI. As a result a lot of UI's are simple and people are assuming underlying systems are simple as well. In majority of the cases that is not true and simple UI is produced by highly complex underlying software. Confusion comes from the fact that people look at the UI and think this is simple, you just need to change this number there. When in reality you need to change an underlying system and that change could range from trivial to rewrite entire system in complexity.
I think Akamai is dropping the ball today.
I think that's reasonable. If my watch could do everything my phone could do, I'd rather wear a small watch than carry a larger phone. Then again, I'd prefer glasses over a watch.
This is the wrong way to respond to something like this. It's treating the issue as if it's the single most important problem facing our time, and is very clearly getting emotionally involved, and worked up by the bureaucratic nature of the response.

This should have been an, "Well this is interesting and weird, they could be more efficient in this way." kind of thing and that would be that. The MTA responds with their incompetence and that's that. No surprises.

But to pretend like this is an actual social justice issue is taking the whole thing way too far, and the writer has gone from "someone who found something strange and interesting" to "someone who is trying too hard to make this moment last".

Just let it go, it's hardly a big deal.
But it freezes randomly, only thing I can do to fix it is reload the page, and 9 out of 10 times the page loads half-assed or there's no video at all.
What were the inaccuracies in the articles about space tech and bitcoin?
On the occasions that I wear a watch, I deliberately go for analog. I like analog technology, I like gears, etc. I recognize that I'm a severe outlier for this in my age group of 25-35, though.
Yeah, I spoke too soon. My stream has completely dropped out now, I'm not sure what's going on.
Yeah, this is only the like second or third of these they've ever done, right? /sarcasm
While we're at it, why I have to remove "blog." prefix from browser's address bar in order to get to your company page?
Right now there's no even access to apple.com
Now redirecting directly to cdn (akamai) at http://www.apple.com.edgesuite.net/live/2014-sept-event/
How Amazon Web Services Uses Linux and Open Source
Gizmodo's live blog here has been working well for me:
http://live.gizmodo.com/our-new-iphone-liveblog-starts-right...
What about a regular watch? They are usually waterproof.
Or, we had lunch
Smart headphones - yes please.
Don't worry, it's back now :-)
What Your Omnichannel Strategy Is Missing