skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means instead of waiting for a GPS lock in 30 seconds it's under 10.

The barometer makes calculating your position via GPS much quicker, as it has an additional piece of data to simplify some of the maths it does.

Edit: here's a source which may confirm - http://pocketnow.com/android/google-confirms-barometer-inten...
I've tried to use iPhone with arm sleeves in gym and when jogging. It's really inconvenient and I usually resort to using just earbud controls. We will see if Apple Watch is any better, but based on the announcement demos, it looks promising on that front.
I guess the Stripe's value proposition for developers is that they don't have to maintain or support several payment platforms. Just one, Stripe and there they integrate all of them ( Credit Cards, Apple Pay, etc.)
The iPhone6+ looks just like one of those giant Android monsters from Nexus or Samsung. This makes me sad.

I have small-person sized hands and often struggle even with the normal iPhone5 and the trend for making phones bigger and bigger makes me angry and sad at the same time. I hate it and always, always, when my friends would ask why I prefer Apple over cheaper and better speced devices, my answer was "Because Apple is the only phone that doesn't compete on screen size".

This throws that out the window. Great.
I wonder if jeans manufacturers will release pants with extra deep pockets and market them as iPhone 6 Plus compatible?
How much elevation are we talking about? Will it detect if I crouch and stand up, or you mean more geo-based elevation?
It's a bummer they are keeping the base model at 16GB. It's pretty obvious that it's an intentional move to force people up to the 64/128GB models.
And with their emphasis on "the most intimate device" I can only imagine what the killer app will be!
It's designed to appeal to broad audiences.

Just because you're too sophisticated for emoji and Mickey Mouse doesn't mean everyone else is.
The filesystem that you use has nothing to do with the opportunity for bit flips in non-ECC RAM to cause issues. If you are concerned about the effect of bit flips in non-ECC memory on filesystems, then the solution is to use only systems that have ECC memory. There is no other way to deal with that problem.
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If you're using Stripe as your payment processor and using Apple Pay through Stripe (just like choosing a different credit card), then you're still only using one payment processor. All your transfers, transaction data, accounting, etc. is just done through Stripe. You don't care that the customer actually used Apple Pay.
well yes, this thread was / is actually about that…
Most importantly, thank you Bram Moolenaar! Vim is the probably my most productive tool and it's certainly my favorite.

If you donated to Neovim, consider also donating to Bram's charity.[1] All of us who have benefited so much, and for free, from Bram's efforts owe him thanks, respect and much more.

[1] http://iccf-holland.org/

(I'm a satisfied Vim user and see no need for any major revision. Perhaps others with different needs feel differently, and it has been discussed before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7287668 )
ALL iPhone generations released so far have a CSS pixel width of 320 pixels. But the iPhone 6 is the first to change this. It looks like Apple is finally bumping this up! This means a bit more text can fit on each line when holding the phone vertically for websites using <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">:

- iPhone 6 is 1334x750: CSS pixel width is likely 375px (pixel ratio = 2)

- iPhone 6 Plus is 1920x1080: CSS pixel width is likely either 432px (pixel ratio = 2.5) or 360px (pixel ratio = 3). It would make sense to implement a ratio of 2.5 as it would be 15.2% more CSS pixels for a screen 17.0% wider. But on the other hand (1) Apple designers are perfectionists and a fractional ratio means an image slightly less sharp, and (2) maybe with the Plus model Apple wants to attract smartphone buyers who dislike tiny text on a tiny display so it would make sense to provide fewer CSS pixels on a bigger screen... I am really curious to know which way they went.

This all needs to be confirmed with a device in hands...
If it's anything like how Stripe does stuff, easy as 1, 2, 3.
Apple’s New Mobile Wallet Lets You Pay with a Tap of Your iPhone
Nexus 5 is all the phone one needs, at half the price.
We lost iPod classic, forever
No API for web?
Relative elevation tracking.
While I will buy a 6 for development purposes, I too was disappointed to find out that RAM is staying at 1GB. It's nearly 2015. More RAM does affect battery life, but still...they could have struck a balance here with 2GB.
When a technology is implemented in a way that adheres to a certain standard of quality that leads to widespread adoption, to consumers it might as well be new technology.
With sensor fusion you can improve the accuracy over just using GPS and accelerometers; it is quite common in quadcopters.
Honest question, what do you use the space for? I used to use mine for music, but now I use Pandora and Spotify.
It makes GPS locking much quicker by optimising some calculations.
Main drawback is you need an iPhone in order to have one. Couldn't there be a version that didn't?
The most important feature Apple didn't talk about today
That's an awesome idea. Good luck to you!
Why are you surprised to hear this? You're hardly the first person I'd expect to not realize the social stigma most men in the tech industry face trying to date; combine that with the supply/demand in the Bay and you should expect that most men will struggle to date at all (really, anywhere on the west coast except maybe LA.)
A .7" increase in size throws everything out the window? Just don't get the iPhone 6 Plus.
Everybody that pumped-up the $GTAT stock in anticipation of sapphire seemed to me to be forgetting that Apple is not ambitious with new technology. 3G, LTE, NFC, etc. To me, I couldn't understand why Apple would put themselves in a position where a small, young company like GTAT could cause delays in an iPhone release.
altitude is usually the least accurate position given by a GPS. A barometer helps you get closer, faster.
I'd like to see Galaxy Note compatible jeans.
The watch looks very nice indeed but starting at $350 is ominously steep especially since it requires an iPhone
Apple does not provide the merchant account. Apple Pay serves as the middle party between the merchant account provider(Stripe) and the user with Pay's role being to maintain cards on file and relay it securely to the merchant account providers.
It is almost certainly the case that there is no readily available mechanism for easily changing the price on credit card only machines without changing it on cash + credit card machines. Presumably changing the default pricing structure would have to change both, which would cause the problem that either a great many machines would suddenly be providing $0.95 worth of change for everyone paying with a $20, or everyone would need to start carrying around nickels.

Clearly it is more work than a simple price change to create a new user interface that asks whether you're going to be using a credit card or not before displaying the prices.
Any official sites for WatchKit? I can't seem to find any.
What would be the difference if base model was 32 gigs and priced at 200$ ?
It can be used as a basic altimeter. Which can help pinpoint your location better, they're meant to be accurate to within 10 feet vertically from a base point.
Kayaking...if you keep your phone within Bluetooth Low Energy range in a waterproof sack.
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This thread is a good example of why the policy requiring that a post title must match the article title doesn't always work.

The title is okay within the context of the site it's on, but it's completely nonsensical on its own without that context.
Especially surprising given how much they're pushing it to replace camcorders as well as DSLRs. I mean, how much raw HD video fits in just 16GB? Or even what's left over after half of that 16GB is filled with various apps and music?

I miss when phones used to have easily accessible microSD slots.
There's value even in unfiltered notifications - at worst I've wasted a glance, as opposed to rooting around my pockets for my phone.

I've had a Pebble for the last year, and even its unfiltered notifications has been tremendously preferable over digging out my phone to see what's up.
I have big hands and I still agree with you. I hung on to my Nexus One well past its expiry date because of the size of it. Eventually I had to move up and being in the Android realm I came VERY close to buying the Moto X because of its narrower form factor in my hand. In the end I went Nexus 5 but it still feels big to me.
They did say that the speaker was water resistant and all the internal electronics were sealed, but didnt explicitly say the device itself was water resistant.
I was rather impressed but at 350USD and most likely 350e in Europe it's an expensive purchase. Still no word on battery life either.
Because they are two different things. BtrFS is a brand new filesystem. It's low level stuff where the tiniest bug can obliterate an enormous amount of data.

Docker is basically a bunch of glue code between several technologies that are getting quite old now. At a basic level, it creates LXC containers that, while not as old as BSD Jails, are quite reliable already. Same goes for cgroups and most everything else.

The only questionable thing imho is (surprise) AuFS. But that's not implemented by Docker either.
Pretty much those are my two biggest questions. Given that water resistance isn't mentioned, I'd assume it's not water resistant, just like most other smart watches (besides Pebble) aren't.

At the price, and without water resistance, and given that it's guaranteed to have worse battery life than my Pebble, I think this device is a non-starter for me.
It's not that I don't care about this; it's that Apple is doing this cynically and for short term gain, not for substantial benefit. If they care about this as more than a marketing ploy, they would have set up an organization to set policies and to verify adherence. That would have been awesome.

"blah blah blah, and we don't store your financial information or transaction history. That's easy to say, but the pendulum has swung too far away from protecting our rights as consumers, so today we're doing more than that; we're announcing the Financial Information Security Organization and we're inviting companies to join us in making sure that all of our financial information is secure."
Are those actual photos on the home page or computer renderings?

Because I hate how that thing looks - it looks sort of like a cartoon, like something from WALL-E.
>> there's a reason the wrist watch replaced the pocket watch.

The funny thing is that I stopped wearing wrist watches when phones started fitting in my pocket. So my phone, while having extra features, isn't very different from a pocket watch.

And if there are a lot of people like me, you can make the argument that the pocket (or purse) watch subsequently replaced the wrist watch.
Personally, I'm not interested in an iWatch. I haven't looked at the specs, but I'm assuming the iphone connects to it. If it can notify meetings, texts, alerts, phone calls, etc. it might be really useful gadget for my wife when she is busy running behind kids around the house and at work.... bonus if it gave her an insight into how much energy she spent throughout the day, haha.
I'm in a very small niche of users, but I'm a skydiver and have an app on my GS3 which tracks freefall speed:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.platypii.b...

Having a barometer was a key feature I looked for in a phone.
I hear you about legacy systems. Two years ago, I had to support a Python 2.4 system that used a deprecated crypto c library and I did not want to "pollute" my clean production infrastructure. Containers would definitively help with this scenario. The thought never occurred to me that docker could be used to reproduce/encapsulate legacy systems, thanks!
It is cheaper to tie iPad Mini to wrist than buy an iWatch :).
Looks like it's the Apple Watch that has the sapphire screen?
We'll have to wait until a tear-down comes out, but there's no way this costs $350 to make. Hasn't apple's strategy always been to sell hardware with a healthy margin and make almost nothing off their software ecosystem. Could this signal a change?

Even assuming this watch becomes insanely popular, will it really drive more iPhone sales?
It is more than a little absurd in 2014. Many other manufacturers have at least moved up to 32 GB base. Don't get me started on the utility of a micro-SD card slot.
Unfortunately, when he's had anything to say recently, it has fed my concerns about uninformed net neutrality legislation, namely that he doesn't seem to understand the difference between prioritization within the network and peering.

This legislation has to be designed by people who know what the wiring and working network configurations of the internet look like, which is a problem because people see that as the industry self-regulating.
Spotify offline on high quality eats through space like a hot knife + taking lots of photos / video + 1/2 games each 1-2 gigs
Does it have an SDK for the third party apps?
Yup. More than happy with mine...
Interesting, a payments system that works only if you have the latest iPhone, and a watch that only works if you have (possibly latest) iPhone. I love the display, and I think they have some great ideas here but I was hoping more for the 'ipod' replacement that would work with any iOS 8 device (like iPads too) instead of a remote for your phone.
It's an interesting environmental variable to track, especially if you get migraines or have mood swings. If it turns out increased pressure is correlated to your headaches, you can take extra precautions to avoid other triggers.
They are sensitive to altitude changes on the order of centimeters.
You are describing what undefined behavior might manifest in response to a bit flip. It is undefined for the reason that anything can go wrong, although I have trouble seeing how the particular scenario you describe here would cause a problem. If the checksum verification fails on a read because of a bit flip in the data, ZFS will just load another copy.

That being said, it is not a good idea to use hardware that lacks ECC RAM. No filesystem developer will claim that their kernel driver can operate properly without ECC RAM because it is not possible. Email the linux-fsdevel mailing list if you want confirmation.
It may be that Google did a pretty good job of preemptively responding to the Apple Watch, but I don't find this that much more interesting than the already not very interesting Android Wear devices.
The issue is that a GPS navigator is basically a solved problem, and the only part that requires updating are the maps.

Do I want to spend hours trying to figure out how to update a 10 year old device? Or would I rather spend $100-$200 on a brand new one with the latest maps?

The ideal situation would be a device that you buy once, but it's also one you could use with whatever map data sources you want (OSM, commercial, etc.) - based on an open format.

(I know GPS is also dependent on the satellites being available, but since it's government-owned and critical to many parts of the infrastructure, it's likely to stay around for the forseeable future.)
Their patent portfolio is that ridiculous, so I wouldn't be surprised. I bet Motorola also holds the patent for "centering stuff" --hence the strangely off-centered everything.
This reminds me of a time in college where we hacked an HP print server to add chat services to it... Good times.
ZFS does not do this. Your assumptions about what other FSs do is inaccurate.

Consider: you load data from ext4 into RAM, it gets corrupted. You change some bytes, then save it. Corrupted data is then written to the disk. Could be anything inside the allocation unit size, which is 4K generally - not insubstantial.

ZFS's worst case behavior is exactly the same: it can't protect you from corruption in RAM after checksum validation if you then ask it to save that data to disk.

There is no difference: if you do not have ECC RAM, you are vulnerable to bitflips corrupting your data - and they will have been.

ZFS won't corrupt data which gets altered in memory due to a bitflip but is only ever read. It can't - because in-memory bitflips can't be detected. Even if at some point during checksum validation there was a mismatch, the restore is done from checksum protected parity/mirror image data. And if the restore block were corrupted, the checksum won't match and ZFS will rebuild the block correctly next time.

If you do not have ECC RAM, every filesystem will potentially corrupt your data. ZFS is more resilient then pretty much all of them even in this case.
For your definition of perfect, at least. I love rain and humidity. I miss the 60+ inches a year in South Florida.

Plus, your ocean is too damn cold. :P
It's even got a name: bracketing.
Yes, it's called WatchKit. Supposedly you can create third-party apps, glances, and notifications.
Watches aren't subsidized and there are thousands of dumb watches that people pay well over $350 for already.
>> These devices enable us to filter out a lot of 'noise'.

I would argue that these devices create even more noise, given how they are even more accessible than a phone in a pocket or sitting on a desk.
It used to have Neovim in the title... I'm not quite sure why a mod would remove that.
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The Apple fans [1] impress me with their non-fanaticism on this one. If this is a general trend across religions, I like where we are heading. Props!

Apple watch certainly has qualities though. It's exciting to see how the market will develop now that all parties have opened their cards.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2fxe2t/its_hideous/?s...
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Curious to see how much the solid gold model costs.
Truth be told, even though I switched from iOS to Android recently (and been quite happy), I have admired Apple when they stuck to their guns w.r.t screen size. It showed to me that they were being sensible about respecting the dimensions of our hands. The iPhone (hardware) just feels quite comfortable to use and hold. Also, iPhone 4's design was excellent - I kinda got used to the distinctive feel of an Apple phone in my hand (with its cuboid geometry).

iPhone 6's exterior just looks a bit strange (now we are going back to the original iPhone?) - it feels off in a way that I can't fully explain. But who knows, maybe it would be just fantastic to hold and use. [Like how the quick reports coming out from people who have held the Watch saying that it feel really nice]
Naa, I'm good then. Or at least in that regard.
No, the architecture is still pretty much language agnostic. My `providers` branch[1] generalizes the python integration, for example. I discussed the possibility of plugins building on this to provide the equivalent functionality to the current python implementation.

In regards to the Go integration, it's been decided it would be better to have a host like in the case of the python plugin, but the main rationale for that is not to create too many co-processes.

[1]: https://github.com/fmoralesc/neovim/tree/providers
You have got to be kidding. The viewers of the livestream are already Apple fanboys who are going to buy all this crap anyways.

Everyone else is just going to see it on Engadget, Gizmodo, Fox News, or wherever.

This will not impact their bottom line one bit.
I have absolutely no need or desire for more than 16gb and certainly no need for a micro-SD card slot on my iPhone 5s. I barely use 8GB.

I would imagine many people are the same way.
It does and I won't get a new iphone before 7 or 6s comes out anyway because I don't need a new phone right now.

But I feel betrayed. They were the only phones out there that understood a phone isn't magically better just because it's got higher numbers. Now it seems they aren't anymore.

At this rate next time I buy a phone I'm gonna have to get one of those stupid watches and forego a phone completely.
This is why you don't buy v1 of Apple products. Guaranteed that the next version will be at least $50 cheaper... which still makes it too expensive.
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> Aren't we, as "software people", under a roof and in front of a screen most of the time anyways?

I would hope not, if we want to stay healthy.
I got really excited when they mentioned about haptic feedback for turn by turn directions. That was the moment I feel how a wearable could become an extension to our sense. If it could provide me some information without me using or looking at it, then that's really indeed a whole new world.

I can't wait to see it in action.
I asked the Oracle representative at LinuxCon North America 2014 this question and explicitly mentioned that it was already shipping CDDL kernel code because of DTrace. He could not answer this question, but claimed that he would get back to me. So far, I have not heard back.
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Typically barometric altimeters are accurate to about 10s of feet.
The iPod was a "me too" product.
TLDR; iPhone 6 (Plus), Apple Pay and Apple Watch
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I've still got my Nexus One, though I almost clicked 'Buy Now' on a Nexus 5 today. Mind doing a comparison?
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18K just means "75% pure gold", it doesn't say what the other 25% is and there are a lot of different alloys. Most commonly it's mostly copper, which ironically is what gives it the standard "gold" tint (white gold uses metals like silver instead). I assume they mean "we picked an alloy that's harder than most".
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I was surprised by this as well -- despite hearing a rumor of it a week ago. I've given it some thought.. It's a common complaint: $100 for flash storage that costs them a fraction of that. But Apple isn't measuring P/L on a component basis.

It's important to Apple's business to maintain margins. Taking down margins would be punished heavily by investors. So this move seems calculated to me to, yes, push more people to the $299 model. And to do that to offset the cost of more expensive components elsewhere in the device. We'll have to wait for a teardown to be sure, but that's my hypothesis.
Only people with extra deep pockets will be able to buy it.
I expect muggings for jewelery to be making a comeback.
Every job is fulfilling and impacting on some level. One project I worked on generates $150 million in revenue for the company I work for -- essentially saving a huge portion of the business. That's fulfilling for me and that impacts a major corporation and the lives of people who work for this company. But as engineers, we finish one thing and start another. There's no time to bask in our 'glory' and honestly, no one gives two shits about who made a feature work -- all that matters is that it works.

What we think is 'impacting' and 'fulfilling' is all relative. What I'm trying to get across here is that most jobs aren't super exciting. If you're not happy in your current situation, keep looking for a job that IS exciting/fulfilling/impacting and don't complain, because you already know what you want and that's not what you currently have. Of course there are jobs that actually impact the world directly, there's just a smaller number of these jobs available. The Google Search team is a team that changes the world, but good luck joining them.

Go help with the government health care crisis if you want to change the world. Health care systems are in a terrible state for the future.

I'm not trying to be an asshole, I'm just trying to show you that the real world isn't what you've imagined throughout your college career, that's all and it's all good.