skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is a marketing/sales retail machine. This watch is just another thing for them to sell with a high-end, glossy look and feel that fits with their strategy of dominating the sectors they want to control. I'm not surprised it doesn't do all the things HN folks were looking for (e.g. requires pairing with iPhone, not a standalone device with its own internet connectivity/gps).

On the other hand, I think they delivered a nice product that will fit perfectly in an Apple store, engaging swarms of shoppers with lots of disposable income.
"In fact, Microsoft refers to Windows Phone simply as Windows."

What?
How some $1,000 backers of this gaming Kickstarter made their money back
That's deeply not true. Your advisor's impression of you does not affect later jobs.
Let's try that argument in another context:

Parks at night are dangerous by their nature and short skirts are unpredictable and unprotected forms of clothing to wear. It is entirely understandable that there will be a large amount of sexual assaults involving attractive young women wearing short skirts, particularly in parks which aren't designed to let them walk across safely.

Choosing to wear a short skirt subsequently bears significant risk and those who choose to do it surely carry a large proportion of the responsibility if they get raped, not to mention the risks they pose to rapists by causing them to enter a dark park where they might get mugged themselves.

I understand wearing short skirts where it is safe to but am not convinced wearing them when going out for the night is worth it.

Did anyone here not think that argument was absurd? When did blaming the victim become an ethically acceptable basis for setting public policy?
The problem is there's no ecosystem and no added value.

The iPhone and iPad had apps, the iPod had podcasting and iTunes. WATCH has nothing equivalent. It seems to be a drastically cut-down iPhone you wear on your wrist, with a few haptic doodads added to create a USP.

It's aiming for a weird market that Apple has traditionally done well in - emotional spending and evangelism - but it's trying to cultivate desire by attempting to be explicitly fashionable, instead of offering 'magical' user benefits that lead indirectly to the perception of being fashionable. ('Show, don't tell.')

Obvious conclusion is that it's not a Jobsian coup like the last few revolutions were.

Maybe it could be with more thought about where it fits as a product, and what makes it unique. But currently 'small iOS wrist device for semi-fashionable people' seems like a challenging place to succeed in.
> Bikes are orders of magnitude more safe to others than cars which is why mandatory insurance is such a silly pointless idea.

This makes no sense. This like saying that you don't need car insurance because you drive a small vehicle.

Insurance is there to protect you, not just other vehicles.
Zipfian Academy and Skymind Launch Deep Learning Training Partnership
Twitter clone. It is straightforward enough to not take a lot of time, while touching many different "real world" areas (e.g. database, WebAPI, UI, etc).
Uber sued for allegedly refusing rides to the blind
Maybe some people here can rediscover their appreciation for the sanctity of human life if we put a face on the issue.

Here's Derek Sivers blogging about the death of his friend Milt Olin:

http://sivers.org/milt

(The deputy that killed Milt Olin was fiddling with his phone as he left his lane and drove straight into him at speed. After the accident, he claimed Milt had swerved into his lane. It took a prosecutor a year to finally conclude there was zero criminality here.)

If you are okay with that, I await your comment.
This link seems to have detail than the homepage.
https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS-Docker#introduction
Have a look at this road junction. The red stripe is a cycle lane.

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near 2 Kingsmead Ave, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL51 0AZ

http://goo.gl/maps/Fd77g

Note how the cycle lane is explicitly given right of way - vehicles turning off the main road must give way to cyclists here.

(Drivers are supposed to give way for pedestrians who have started to cross but, well, they don't.) https://www.gov.uk/using-the-road-159-to-203/road-junctions-...
That's an interesting statistic. Where did you find it?

I ask because the available statistics I've seen on NYC car ownership and daily usage would make me wonder if there are even 1 million cars operated on NYC streets per day.
I agree that it's a problem if someone is there just to cause a distraction and not there for the hackathon itself. However, when I attend a hackathon, it's because I'm legitimately interested in hacking on X and in meeting other people interested in X. (If I only wanted to efficiently write code and not meet cool people, I'd just do it at my own desk!)
Unlike Tilemill, Mapbox Studio requires a Mapbox account. :(
I wager you both have it backwards.

I believe that aspirational yuppie will be EXACTLY the type Apple wants to buy the watch to build up brand cachet. They will want the kidults to avoid the watch as much as possible until they've turned into yuppies.

The tweens/kidults sets will gravitate towards the 6+, it'll be their preferred daily device when not touching their Apple laptops.
I am 100% not trying to say we shouldn't pursue better remedies (or even cures). I am trying to say that we should be careful in how we phrase (and understand) these success stories.

For instance there were 6 success out of a group of 7, which is wonderful news. But that still means there was 1 "failure"... were the parents to blame? Did they apply the "cure" wrong? Or was this an instance of a technique not having 100% applicability.

This technique is far too late for my autistic child, but this is exactly the kind of question I would think a parent of autistic children would have, not to mention their friends and relatives who usually have even less insight into the state of autism research but who do remember headlines involving "cures for autism".
> In general, it is not good to illegally share a lane with anpther vehicle.

IIRC, in California, it isn't illegal to share a lane, (though it still may be a bad idea) but its illegal to straddle lanes.
hi OP here, i did not consider this to go front-page, just thought it was a funny meta bug.

and no, it's not clickbait and i'm not affiliated with hostgator or any of that other crap.

a few strange points i would like to point out:

the indexed result pages are http:// not https:// - but to my knowledge google forces https:// everywhere.

the double slash issue is probably the reason why googlebot does indeed index this. robots.txt is a shitty protocol, i once tried to understand it in detail and coded https://www.npmjs.org/package/robotstxt and yes, there are a shitload of cases you just can't cover with a sane robots.txt file.

as there are no https://www.google.com/search (with "s" like secure) URLs indexed google(bot) probably has some failsafes to not index itself, but the old http:// URLs somehow slipped through.

but now lets go meta: consider the implications! the day google indexes itself is the day google becomes self aware. google is a big machine trying to understand the internet. now it's indexing itself, trying to understand itself - and it will succeed.the "build more data center algorithms" will kick in as google - which basically indexed the whole internet - is now indexing itself recursively! the "hire more engineers to figure how to deal with all this data" algorithm will kick in (yeah, recursively every developer will become a google dev, free vegan food!), too.

i think it's awesome.

by the way, a few years ago somebody wrote a similar story http://www.wattpad.com/3697657-google-ai-what-if-google-beca... fun enough the date for self awareness is "December 7, 2014, at 05:47 a.m" [update: ups, sorry seems to be the wrong story, but i'm sure the "google indexes itself becomes self aware" short story is out there, but i just can't find it right now ... strange coincident?]
Can Apple change an industry once again like they did with the iPhone? (2007)
There are a couple of bike lanes like this in NYC, they are by far my preferred bike routes.
If someone tightrope-walked over Niagara and fell in I would certainly blame the victim.

Those patches of asphalt wouldn't be there if they didn't provide an economic benefit. If we made a law tomorrow that all vehicles couldn't exceed 20mph they would be safer but lose their effectiveness and decrease their benefit. Once that cost benefit balance goes too far you have no patches of asphalt.
Yep. A whois confirms it's their IP address.

Which is nothing wrong on it's own, as long it's protected by good password and doesn't fail to likes of thc-hydra.

They also had some ancient snapshots from 192.xxx range
I don't understand. The apple watch does allow 3rd party apps.
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>Note also that the `site:` search operator isn't supposed to include anything but a domain or subdomain: no http:// nor /search should be included.

google recommends the site:example.com/path shortcut itself https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35256?hl=en

and it's ok to use, as site:example.com inurl:path could mean example.com/hudriwudri/path, too
"Market Leader In A Category No One Really Asked For" -

Thats what I feel when I hear about any tech company launching a watch, be it Samsung or Apple. Maybe its just me, but since owning a smartphone, I feel I don't really need a watch. None I know wears a watch anymore. Werent watches one of the main things replaced by smartphones. Also, how many more screens can I handle? Laptops for work, tablets for browsing, smartphones for on the go tech.... and a smartwatch to do what exactly?

Maybe I am missing the whole point of smart watches. I am hoping its just not me.
He's also enabling ethical people to protect themselves from unethical people who will take messages out of context to construe them as something else.
I remember my time there from MSN to LIVE to BING to YA!BING
To be fair to Apple, I think it's fair to say that their ROI on the iPad has been respectable, even if it doesn't turn out to be a product that's successful in the long term.
Introduction to Classes and Inheritance in Swift
Same way DMV deals with mopeds.

> they can't afford a car, let alone the insurance

I assume they can afford medical bills after an incident? Or they can afford to pay for damage to vehicles?

I had my brand new paint taken off across 2 panels because a cyclist tried to squeeze in between me and another car at a stop light and lost his balance. Then he casually cycled away.

$2500 in damages. But good for him, he is 'too poor' to get insurance.

Insurance for cyclist would be significantly cheaper than auto and motorcycle owners. Without it you are a financial disaster waiting to happen.
Excellent article here.
Many countries also have nuclear weapons, but they have not been used in combat since WWII. The big deterrents would be that any detonation within the continental US would likely have a detrimental impact on the state who launched it, and that any retaliation would result in mutual destruction.
Could you elaborate on how the 'little war' was started? I would say it started when Crimea became a part of Russia, which was not an act of the United States.
Thanks for this. I just learned a lot!
Thanks for sharing the links. To be honest, I am not well-informed enough to judge them.

As for: "Another trend I see is that if the hack appears sexy or innovative...it will go far." I hate that too, but now accept it as reality. I am actively working on my showmanship.
There was no podcasting ecosystem before the iPod was released, and no significant app ecosystem before the iPhone.
The number of times products get rebranded is a sign of the fact that there's just not any forethought!
I'm currently mired in biology and I think an interesting point can be made. We talk of 2 types of reproducers: R and K[0]. R is cockroaches; have just thousands of babies. K is Blue Whales; have 1 or 2 and nurture the hell out of them.

It seems that in the 1800s, we were more R type than we are today. We had lots of children (though not thousands) and weren't all that concerned with education, welfare, or health as to each one. At least in comparison to today.

Now, we seem to be much more K type. We take care of our children to an incredible degree. Mortality is very anomalous in child birth, it is rare in the 1st world to encounter an illiterate person, all but the true wackos get vaccines, etc. As a consequence, it takes a lot of time and resources to raise a child. Heck, we are even talking about the 20's being years of 'extended adolescence'[1]. I don't know if this is a mistake of correlations and causation, but they sure do seem linked.

http://www.gapminder.org/

Hans Rosling's TED talks are just so good here for extra material too.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

[1] http://www.primermagazine.com/2013/live/wasting-your-20s-wit...
IANAL, but:

Accidentally killing someone is rarely, if ever, murder[1]. It is potentially manslaughter if it happened while committing a minor offense, or doing something particularly reckless[2].

Injuring someone would be battery, not assault, and similarly intent is needed.

As far as I know, accidentally injuring someone is not criminal, unless the accident happened due to reckless disregard for others' safety.

[1] Depending on the state, 2nd degree murder is possible if your actions showed depraved indifference to human life. In other jurisdictions this would be considered manslaughter

[2] IIRC states differ on whether or not a non-misdemeanor traffic violation is enough to consider a homicide to be manslaughter. I think that in most states an unintentional homicide that resulted from committing a misdemeanor is considered manslaughter. Furthermore states differ on which moving violations are misdemeanors. Also some states have vehicular manslaughter laws, which I know nothing about.
I like the concept of the split-screen markdown editor, I had some pretty decent success with non-technical people when we were using jottit for some RPG background documentation. Definitely going to take a look at that, especially if the prerequisites (both packages/daemons and mem/cpu) aren't too high for a low-end VPS.
It seems an overgeneralization to claim that a heterosexual man flirting at a hackathon is by definition "objectifying" her or that it implies that he thinks "that women should be receptive to their advances at any time and in any place". It is equally plausible that he's interested in her as a person (and not as a mere object), and that he respects her right to reject his advances. I acknowledge that it's certainly possible that a man (or woman) could make advances in ways that are disrespectful and that shouldn't be tolerated, but I don't see how expressing romantic or sexual interest in this context is intrinsically evil.

I agree that disrespectful behavior should not be tolerated, but I don't believe that all expressions of romantic interest outside of dating websites and nightclubs are intrinsically disrespectful.
"there's no ecosystem"

I think the 200 million iPhones are the ecosystem. I don't see an obvious point to the watch by itself - it seems like it's main "feature" is to expand what your iPhone can do.

The absolute most expensive iPhone is the 128GB iPhone 6 Plus - $950 w/o contract. But it's the highest-end phone in a world with millions of millionaires. This gives a way for iPhone customers to pay more to get more.
Exactly. The only reason the used that for the tablet's is because they couldn't really sell Surface and ended up reusing some of that tech/team in the tablet.
I really should look at the architecture, I'm interested in how to concurrent it is. I use an alternative approach that is much more imperative (using dependency tracing and re-execution to ensure consistency).
There's a case to be made against the "always follow the law" argument: http://www.vox.com/2014/5/9/5691098/why-cyclists-should-be-a...

TL;DR - These laws were made for cars, not bikes.
He's arguing that there's a market, you're saying that sales are down for a year. (Which is true after 3 years of explosive growth)

For the past three quarters, Apple has sold more than 12 million iPads a quarter, or an annual rate of >48 million units. Is 48 million units a year not proof of a market?
> Why does seemingly every article about cycling, even if overall in favor of it, end up sprinkled with appeals for the minority to behave?

The answer is, whether most people admit it or not, people resent cyclists.

Before I continue: I'm not saying this is a good thing. But I am saying this is what is happening in a lot of people's brains.

I think the big reason, and this occurs at a subconscious level, is that the presence of cyclists increases your cognitive load. And our brains are pretty taxed by driving as it is. When there are bikes, you've got to pay attention to a completely new type of vehicle that does not move or behave like other vehicles. You've got to look for a vehicle that is hard to see, and that out of the corner of your eye, looks more like a pedestrian than a vehicle. If you could 'eliminate' bikes, there would be a lot less for your brain to worry about.

Add to this that cyclists are the minority, and you can imagine a world without city cyclists, and you're spending all this mental energy on something that feels like it could be "optimized" away. The thought occurs, even if only on a subconscious level, "If those stupid bikes were gone this would be so much easier!"

Once again, I disagree with that way of thinking, but it is a common way of thinking nonetheless.

Self driving cars and protected bike lanes are probably our best best, because changing people's minds seems like a fool's errand.
Yes, quantum computers can efficiently simulate quantum systems, it is really very much like the situation with NP-complete or NP-hard problems. [1]

As far as we know and if we did not miss a loophole, the violation of Bell's inequality force us to give up locality, realism or freedom. So you can keep locality if you throw realism or freedom over board. But this will (probably) not help winning the money in practice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantum_simulator
I love (some) MS products, but Microsoft marketing is the worst I've seen.
the iPod Nano is the counterexample, together with the bright colors of the iMac.

the Nano is especially important as it was used already by various kickstarter projects as a poor man's Apple Watch. the real one looks very similar actually.
If you do the first grade math on a bike width, car width, minimum distance the car has to keep while passing and the distance the bike needs from the curb or parked cars, no, you can not share the lane. As you say, you can not straddle either, so the only option is the full lane.
Local hidden variable theories are ruled out by Bell's theorem (which has been experimentally verified).
The reason that rape is not a comparable example is that the person committing the crime is doing so actively.

Why do you think it is unreasonable of me to say that someone who puts themselves in a risky position is by definition partly to blame?
The watch will probably have a dozen configurations of model+band for $350-$600 (similar to iPhone prices), and the gold Edition models could cost 10x that. They're casting a very wide net, style and demographic wise.
Cannot help myself to share this: http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/photo-evidence...

I am not that fascinated with Stonehenge anymore after seeing those photos.
> It hurts to see an equivalent situation tossed back at you doesn't it.

No, what's hurting my brain is how someone could think that's an equivalent situation.
Having just spent the past two days searching around for a git-backed python-based markdown-enabled personal wiki...I am so stoked that one just popped up here. Very cool!

I'm loading up with Vagrant right now. Any thoughts on dockerizing it?
They made mention of WatchKit in the keynote. It sure looked like there were third party apps on the devices demoed. (I think I saw a Path logo). It's not clear if these apps are sort of accessories that can be embedded in iOS Apps or watch specific apps.

Reading between the lines the impression I got is that the WatchKit API will let you define widgets that come with your app and that will be downloaded to the watch when the App is installed on the iPhone.

I think this shows there is an ecosystem- it's the App ecosystem and it's the most vibrant one out there. But it's not exactly the same (which may be the cause of the parents confusion)
Anything that has the following at basic level:

Primarily
* Login scheme
* i18n translation
* Ability to display content from databases

Secondarily
* API consumption (e.g. twitter, instagram, etc.)
* Caching
* Dynamic content support (JS and JS frameworks)
Quantum physics is completely deterministic until you perform a measurement - no randomness involved. And the randomness associated with measurements may be just due to our ignorance.
I got to see some of it at Navy OCS (where Marine Corps drill instructors lead the military training).

For example, the women in our class always seemed to come in for extra punishment. Nothing demeaning, nothing untoward or out of regs, just... a little extra.

Now, why would those evil Marines pick on those poor women? Because it increased the social bonding of the entire class. It worked even though we knew what kind of mind games they were trying to do!

Moreover it helped pre-emptively dispel the notion that often develops that the women were being held to lower standards. However true that may have been in the Fleet, it wasn't true at OCS, and all thanks to the social effects of pain...
I thought that Pi was the ideal for LTSP and remote X in local network. The achilles heel of Pi is that it's limited to 100mbps and not even all that due to its shared bus limitation. From experience, I could also tell the difference between 1Gbps and 100mbps NIC when connecting via X, so 100mbps wasn't good for multimedia. However, it still works great for most office-related work.
I agree. Their marketing is terrible. Problem is that they have too much money to throw around and hope something sticks. And then there was Balmer. Remember the early windows phone ads when they were trying build up hype??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55kOphD64r8
On the contrary, the iPhone (and iPod Touch) launched without an app ecosystem. Instead of having third party apps, Apple pushed for developers to produce web apps for Mobile Safari. It wasn't until iOS 2.0 that an API was released and the App Store was launched. In that time, the sole way to load apps onto these devices was with a jailbreak.

Additionally, the iPod launched when the iTunes Store was in its nascency. In fact, iTunes wasn't released for Windows until a few years afterwards. It wasn't possible to load apps (small games) on the iPod until the release of the iPod video.

With the promise of an API at launch, there is more of an ecosystem in place than existed for the previous products you mentioned.
Mandatory insurance is there to protect other vehicles. It's to ensure that the person at fault is financially capable of covering the costs of the damage they cause.
> keeping with traffic is also a legal requirement in every state in the U.S.

Keeping up with traffic? Do you have a source for that?
In Doug Engelbart's 1969 MOAD, he mentioned that the DSLs used in the demo were built with TREE-META, the last gov-funded, unclassified metacompiler, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREE-META

Historical email: http://www.ifcx.org/wiki/TREEMETA.html

1974 manual: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/manuals/t...
In one of the photos I could see a reflection in the Apple Watch of the camera man taking the photo. I can't help but think that that big honking camera will be replaced one day by the very thing he's taking the photo of.