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I was hoping for an iPod Nano evolution myself, i.e. a standalone device that gets extras like GPS and connectivity when near your iphone, but alas.

Actually, was there anything on the ipod product line?
> not being able to close the tools in order to see the bottom of the screen

Right-side docking solved that for me.
welp, time to make Second Impact before Paul finds out
The people who collect the cash are probably not the people who install, test, and verify software updates.
nvi is a reimplementation of vi, and is unrelated to neovim, a refactoring of vim
Source? That seems absurdly high
Great point. Full disclosure is generally the worst policy.

If you fuck up and no one knows about it shut up and don't make your family go through it. It's your guilt, be an adult and live with it.

'conscious clearing' is childish and selfish.
This blog post about the problems running databases in container-based PaaS is a good starting point: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/06/22/feedback-on-paas-reali...

Generally, you want to be able to answer these questions when it comes to operating your databases:

What are the failure points?
What is the impact of each failure point?
What are the SINGLE points of failure?
What is my recovery pattern?
What is my upgrade experience?
What is the operational overhead in the applications running ON the product?
What is my DR strategy?
What is my HA strategy?

Pure Docker, and no other tool that we are aware of in the docker/container ecosystem that we are aware of provide really good answers to these questions when it comes to databases. That is what I mean when I said running databases in containers in a nightmare. It is possible today, for sure, but it is extremely complex operationally and its why it is so rare to see prod databases running in production today.
The SourceForge project was associated with that account.
I actually like Bitcoin a fair bit; I just thought it was a good first comment. :-)
Definition of 'Basis Point - BPS'

A unit that is equal to 1/100th of 1%
Free Software Foundation Statement on the New iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch
Given that they don't even know how much you're spending (as per the keynote), I doubt they're doing a surcharge.
The "Learn More" button text is misspelled on this page

https://piconka.com/tutorial
HN Poll: Restaurant Gift Certificates
No 3G, no app store(!!), no copy and paste, no GPS, worse call reception than the phones it replaced, the list goes on. It was still a massive success.
My poor wording has tricked you. I didn't create the app, I've just bought a copy of it.

My home DZ is Arizona, but I occasionally get over to Perris. I'm a boring belly flier :)
IME that could very well be true and still make direct hardware comparisons an apples to oranges issue.

Among Android devices I did like the Moto X the best...
This is sort of a blast from the past. Thirty years ago we were writing entire window systems in PostScript - with object-oriented classes and toolkits. Not very practical but it was fun at the time.
See NeWS. Owen Densmore and James Gosling were the main proponents.
It would be a credible way to stay unfound, create doubt about every version.
The card issuers need to sign off on it for the liability purposes.
it's hard for me not to recall Commander Taco's (in)famous dismissal of the original iPod when I browse these comments

You should also remember that he was hardly in the majority with those comments. Further he was technically correct, and the iPod succeeded because of a synergy with other parts of Apple's empire (notably iTunes).

But what's really interesting to me is that Apple has clearly put a lot more thought into how interactions on a device like this should work than anybody else.

How so? Google put, it seems, enormous thought and effort into Android Wear. It is a whole interaction and ecosystem built specifically for smart watches. Because Tim Cook gives some trite speech about not using a smartphone OS on a watch (this was, it is worth noting, not long after celebrating how xcode now supports dynamic layouts...you know, the thing that Android did a half a decade ago, and was widely deridden as "running smartphone apps on a tablet")?

You've tried to cover every possible Apple defense, so you seem pretty committed, but you have to understand that a lot of people are derisive because we've been hearing the Apple faithful railing about these same attributes of competitor devices for months. Announcing before availability, large and bulky, needs to be tethered to a device, square, and so on...I have to imagine all of those once liabilities will suddenly turn into strengths.

I love my Apple products, but there is absolutely no doubt that there is a distortion field, and it really is hard to stomach.
Its definitely a lot better than the Galileo - Intel was pretty liberal giving them away for free, yet still nobody used them since they sucked.

Not sure what the strategy is though - are they afraid to loose developer mindshare to Atmel / TI? Are they hoping that their chips will power the next kickstarter success?

My 5 cents: at least they are a player now, and the CC3200 has a competitor.

Issues:

- for battery-powered projects, its a bit large

- 1.8V logic level is nice for energy consumption, but its really hard to source components for that, and level shifters are annoying

- price is a tad bit high, though adequate for its performance
>My two cents: I don't know any person who is into serious running (I'm into triathlon, so add cycling and swimming) who would spend $350 on the Apple Watch and additionally you are required to have your iPhone with you to use the GPS.

Yeah, it's for the sligltly LESS serious runners, of which there are millions...
Unlikely that Microsoft will do anything big in the hardware market; they're struggling enough with smartphones as it is, despite their best efforts (Windows Mobile is supposedly pretty awesome, and they bought Nokia).
Weird and Quirky JS
Oh look it Apple fanaticism is alive and well, one gets down-voted for pointing out that Apple can not be trusted with security in light of recent events
That's quite the blast from the past. Thanks.
Beautiful page, but kinda worthless IMHO.

When I look at it, I'm wondering: what's the UI like for a computer that isn't much bigger than my finger? (And if it's any good, why isn't it front & center?)
At least two issues involved.

You are right about the "context" of the information. Test results need to be shared with the individual by a trained genetics counselor. Interpreting genetic results requires knowledge of the subject and ability to express complex and emotionally charged information in a sensitive and ethically appropriate way. Not much fudge room there.

Another aspect is FDA standards of procedures and accuracy of test results for genetic conditions (where gene frequencies are known). Presumably 23andMe would have show that it meets those standards in order to provide the related results. Most likely to be more trouble than it's worth to them.
In which countries will Apple Pay launch in October?
What's interesting here is that the practice of cyclists doing so goes back a century. By contrast, the fashion of women shaving their legs dates back primarily to around World War II, and the influence of pinup model Betty Grable. See: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/625/who-decided-wom...
You are probably right.

It is impossible to tell until you have held the device in your hand.

The presentation however was awful.

Jobs took a very complex phone/internet/music playing device and made it seem very simple. I can still remember his three selling points. Its a phone. Its an internet device. It plays music.

These guys took something that should be simple, and made it appear complex. It is a fitness tracker... And something about apps that look like a pimply teenager.

I think they designed that presentation by committee.

This does not bode well.
I'm sorry, this is just insane then. Divorcing someone on the grounds that they had a child before you were ever together and didn't know about it? Sounds like bullshit. Sucks that this guy thinks he's responsible for breaking up his parents.
Note that in this case, no shitty behavior was uncovered. I initially thought this story was going to be about adultery, but it turns out it wasn't:

> 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. [...] His mother and sister could not handle the information, and his father went against their wishes, dedicating himself to reconnecting with his estranged son.
Actually they have thrown out people even in Paris McDonalds for wearing a Google Glass.

And just try wearing it in some sensitive areas (e.g night-clubs, expensive restaurants etc) around the world and see what happens...
that is absurd, completely and totally absurd. In fact I have trouble even imagining the most misogynistic of people sitting in on a talk about "coding" and coming to the conclusion that the person talking is a recruiter.

What was the talk on? Coding? Seems a bit broad, what was it actually on? Was it about passing technical questions in for programmer interviews? Details about some of the questions and ways methodologies to reach solutions?

If something seems utterly absurd to you, it might be because it is.
Or you can exercise, read long passages, eat healthy and try living a stress free life(by not worshipping success).
What's the equivalent of Newvim for Emacs? I had hopes for Deuce [0], but it seems stagnant.

[0] - https://github.com/hraberg/deuce "Emacs under Clojure"
No-contact payment is exactly the kind of secure piece of engineering we needed. Especially after the iCloud debacle. /s
why does that story matter ?

what is that "hitman" threat ?
More significant than "people into serious running" is "people who want to be into serious running". Fitness products live and die based on their ability to hook the consumer with aspirational marketing. A well-placed fitness magazine "review" will impact sales far more than superior tech specs.
Tiny study (7 infants), no control group.
Most people either haven't heard of Bitcoin or regard Bitcoins as "internet fun bux". It's not happening (at least, not in 2014).
It helps that China has been around for, what, millenia? During the thousand(s) of years, you can probably find a century somewhere in there that they had/enforced a claim to most pieces of land, either owning outright or controlling access to.
In finance, 1 BPS is 1/100th of a percent. So Apple could be pocketing ~0.2% on all transactions.

The US does about $12B in card transactions per day. This means that for every 1% of US transactions it captures, Apple could add ~$80M to the annual revenue which is a very small amount against its $140B revenue. Yes there are international markets, but still this is not done for profits by itself.
That seems odd. Why would anyone sell their house for less than their mortgage when they can just walk away and not owe anything?
It's not a comprehensive protocol but worth noting the http does have 402 Payment Required which hasn't been used up to now, but could be implemented with BTC.
>not long after celebrating how xcode now supports dynamic layouts...you know, the thing that Android did a half a decade ago, and was widely deridden as "running smartphone apps on a tablet"

The way Xcode (and iOS8) support dynamic layouts is nothing like Android.

Xcode 6 allows you to have multiple designs/constaints within the same UI file, for different screen sizes.

Dynamic layout a'la Android is "one size fits all", which is no way similar to what's Apple doing.

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Since I'm getting heavily downvoted, I'd like at least a chance to clarify.

I'm perfectly aware that it is technically possible to create universal tablet/phone Android app, with separate layouts for each. However, that's not what's usually being done.

I believe reasons for this for two-fold:

1. Google's initial message after introducing tablets didn't push hard enough for separate UI (or didn't at all)
2. Developers mentality

@2: I think it's just a different way that the two ecosystem operates.
When Apple tells developers to jump, devs ask how high.
When Google tells developers to jump, they go "yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man".
Ah yes that would be the holy grail, most BLE or Wifi chips have an MCU that could be used if their dev. environment weren't the software equivalent of unobtainium, require 500$ dev boards and / or be totally obscure.

If you find out anything, make sure to post it somewhere!
Maybe they can be fully updated remotely. But let's think about this...is that really such a good idea? Can we trust subway card machine software to be fully secure against malware and remote exploits?

Maybe it's better if the network interactions of these sorts of machines are strictly limited to operational transactions. Maybe it's better if it does takes a human being with a key, guarded by a cop with a gun, to update this software.
I have a similar situation. I had a close cousin contact me on 23 and me that I wasn't familar with. He is adopted and looking for his parents. My dad took the test so we have narrowed it down. He recently found his mom, so I know it's his dad that I'm related to. Bottom line, we still haven't figured out who the dad is and I'm afraid to push it because it may cause an outcome like this. I invited the adopted cousin to a family reunion but he declined.
UC Davis is a fairly well known and respected school. They do actual research, which gets published in peer reviewed journals (as much as that matters these days).
Dynamic layout a'la Android is "one size fits all", which is no way similar to what's Apple doing.

Aside from CSS-type "responsive" design, Android layouts have always had resource tags, which means that you can set different layouts for screen sizes, orientations, pixel densities, cultures, text direction, and so on.

Apps that didn't demonstrate this on tablets were as they were because the developers were lazy or simply didn't care, not because of a limitation of the platform.
I think that very much depends on perspective. The technology powering a current-gen headset might be brilliant, but the headset itself -- not the technology but the very idea that I need a headset is still very much an "awful hack". At least to me, and I suspect quite a few others. I could be wrong of course...just my predictions there, but that's my problem with the tech.
It would be funny if the terrorist group changed their name to avoid the association with Verizon Wireless
America's new class system
The webOS part actually stopped working a few days after I bought it and now I have a Samsung.
That definitely makes sense then, if sapphire is more scratch resistant
Yep. They had long lists of phone numbers you could dial into; when you set up the software, it would set itself up to use one near you, so you wouldn't get charged long-distance fees.
Are you sure you're reading the right paper? They specifically mention the control group in the article and make comparisons between the different group's responses.
This makes me want.... a regular watch with good battery life.
Maybe they were trying to channel the idea of the run on sentence which is somewhat more taboo in English than in German, and leads to the Kafka labored style, which he purposefully did. If I try to think of a positive angle, it is that the system can "keep going" perhaps? Anyway, all this stuff is great though.
It goes from one click to one depression. it is the mobile equivalent and steps right around amazon's 'patent'
Yes, all Apple products are infallible now.
> Full disclosure is generally the worst policy.

That's very much not my point, which is rather that the proximate cause of the result here was secrets being exposed.

Of course, if secrets aren't kept in the first place, they can't be exposed, and lots of time, while not risk free, a timely voluntary disclosure can produce a lot better results than a involuntary revelation (and involuntary revelations happen a lot more often than people trying to keep secrets think they will.)

There are, additionally, moral issues to consider. Concealing facts material to other people's decisions denies them effective consent, a basic fact which underlies fraud laws, but whose moral scope extends far beyond commercial transactions.
If I recall correctly, wasn't the iOS7 update a shit show?

Not sure what you're referring to. I'm happily using iOS7 on a iPhone 4 (a 4 year old phone) to this day.
I think he wrote messages signed with his private key from there, so yeah that's certain.
They do this England. They caught a serial killer by matching to a family member's dna.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-not-so-perfect-match/
Thanks. I might sign up to YouGov to get a better idea. I was on a phone poll for something years ago but of course I moved and they lost continuity. Phone polling accuracy is falling sharply it seems.
Didn't catch that stabilization is only available on plus. That's a bummer! Anyway, they may have decided to make it protrude on the 6 in order to match the 6 plus, which has the constraint. Just guessing..
BTW, it appears the CIA has committed to not doing that sort of thing again, as a result of complaints from the public health community about this operation:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/politics/cia-vaccination/

A newly disclosed CIA policy mandates that it won't use vaccination programs as part of its operations, according to the Obama administration.

The directive by CIA Director John Brennan, made nine months ago but only coming to light now, followed concerns raised by leaders of a dozen U.S. public health schools in a letter to President Barack Obama.

They spoke out following revelations the CIA had enlisted a doctor to oversee a false immunization campaign in Pakistan ahead of the 2011 raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.
There is an encouraging side to this agony: At least
some of the people in that family cared, really cared, about
the issues of intimacy (that is, open communications in the sense of
giving knowledge of themselves to each other, as in
E. Fromm, The Art of Loving),
honesty, trust, fidelity, etc. This fact is "encouraging"
because now it is far too easy to conclude from
various circumstances, stories in the media and/or
tabloid media, the hookup culture, etc. that
in US culture these issues have been regarded
as meaningless, that any sexual behavior is no
more meaningful than, say, a game of ping pong,
that the standard marriage vows are just
lines in a stage play comedy/fantasy, that
a couple stays together only so long as
the combination of money and sex are appropriate,
etc.

YMMV, and not everyone agrees,
but there is a body of thought that
the fundamental problem of life is
doing something effective about
the anxiety of feeling alone, that
the best solution is the joining with
and love of spouse and the associated
family and its bonds (as in common
marriage vows), and that
love making, especially causing
conception of another human, is
a crucial part of family formation,
bonding, joining, love,
and security against the anxieties
of being alone. Then infidelity,
dishonesty, deception, violation of
vows, etc. are torpedoes just below the
water line of a Good Ship Loving Home and Family
and, thus, a disaster for all involved.

Net, good to see, even with the agony of this story,
that some people still care about
the ideals of a traditional family.

It is easy for someone to be fooled
about traditional views of
love,
home, and family, that is, regard these
views as so good, beneficial, and attractive,
nearly universally, that a candidate life
partner would also leap to embrace and
honor the views. Alas, too often too many
people fail to see and/or act on such views.

Art is sometimes defined as the communication,
interpretation of human experience, emotion, and
some of the strongest emotions have to do
with the family and love issues here. Then,
we can find some art that communicates the
agony of love, home, and family destroyed.
E.g., there is the Renata Scotto
performance of the aria
"Un bel di vedremo"
from the Puccini opera
Madama Butterfly as at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCSdz2hM_o4

Apparently Puccini was correct that
audiences would see the reasons for the
agony expressed in that aria;
that is, many in the audience would
understand that love making was one
of the most important issues in all of life
and that
often casual sex
was quite serious and not at all casual.
Similarly for the intimacy of
giving knowledge of self,
honesty, trust, fidelity, etc.

To me, good to know; to me,
regarding traditional marriage vows
and love, home, marriage, and
physical love making as
casual or just a joke
is rot in the foundations
of our society. So, it's good to
see that not everyone accepts such
rot of our society.
Only annoying when you run into the people who insist on sending 10 2-word SMSes instead of a single 20-word SMS.

I find phone notifications much more annoying. Your phone buzzes in your pocket, you have no idea if it's important or if it's someone liking your Facebook status (or equally inane thing).

On the Pebble I take one look and dismiss it, which is still time wasted, but a lot less time wasted than pulling my phone out, and less risky than simply ignoring your phone when it buzzes.
Your app is neither private nor secure. I saved the original version before you read my review. DevTools clearly shows it recording keystroke events. Just out of curiosity, why did your app also open a websocket connection to herokuapp.com?
Run-on sentences aren't taboo, they are just grammatically incorrect. Long sentences may be taboo, but that's a different thing.
My thoughts exactly. It's not like he's changed overnight because of this new information. He's the same person he always was.
At last apple.com looks good on phones
Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the critique of pop culture
How Wall Street's Largest Publicly Traded Hedge Fund Made a Killing in Zimbabwe
Shame on us if we let one company control this.
Maybe I should've added "as practiced", since all the apps I'm using are still pretty much blown-up versions of their phones counterparts.

I haven't picked up my Android tablet in like half a year now, does Twitter and Facebook have a proper tablet android app by now?
Good point. I think his private PGP key and moving some coins around might be pretty convincing though... Even a stupid version of Nakamoto would understand that private keys are kept offline and in safe storage, especially if you made software as complex as Bitcoin. I think I would have thrown away my wallet so that the early mined blocks simply could not be moved even if I wanted to.

And in any case, Nakamoto may not be a single person after all.
That doesn't make any sense. They are angry at the guy he had a child before they met, and he didn't even know he had a child.

Sounds like they just wanted an excuse for a divorce.

Or the story is bs.
What a beautiful quote, thank you for sharing it. I recently got the book, but hadn't the time to read it yet. Your comment is a deal breaker!
No, on Android, you create as many specific layouts as you want, based on combinations of screen size, density, orientation, language, etc. Within each of those layouts, you specify how you want the system to scale the UI up for those you don't specify.
It was left out of the announcement the same way Xerox was left out of the claim that Apple invented the mouse.