skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another site with an always-present header that completely fails keyboard paging. It is really frustrating how many pages break such a basic function. Forcing the user to manually adjust the positioning every time they page is a really great way to make them lose interest and go somewhere else.
I think the watch is analogous to Google Glass. Glass is, essentially, an accessory. It adds a remote display, camera, and audio functions to an android phone. (It has bluetooth, not a cellular radio)

I think the Apple Watch is similar.
Haha, I am not an expert in the least. I would be happy to hear my evidence is bunk. I'm just trying to point toward a source that I found interesting and informative.

Indeed, with food production, the evidence and points of view are always very diverse and nuanced. It's a complex subject--endless, really.

Here's a clip about banana chemical treatment...

> "...Zemurray finally addressed the problem. He found a solution, which he called 'Bordeaux Mixture' and that combined copper sulphate, water, and lime. Zemurray's experts cautioned him against its overuse but he had it pumped on the plantations in increasing quantity. It was a cocktail with quite a pleasant name, but the giveaway was in the title of those employed to spray and pump it: veneneros, or for want of a better translation, 'poisoners'

I would be very interested to find out if the industry decreased the pesticide/fungicide load since this was documented. I'm quoting secondhand here, Chapman notes in the 2007 book

> Of the world's food crops, the banana is the most chemically treated (so we depend on its skin's ability to prevent disease)

The story of marketing bananas is such a strange one. The 'Father of Public Relations', Edward Bernays, was heavily involved. There isn't a compelling dietary reason to eat bananas (expect, I suppose, if it's the only thing you've got). They resorted to the same marketing tactics that were used to sell cigarettes.

> "Samuel Crowther...looking back on nearly twenty years later on these early days of United Fruit in his book The Romance and Rise of the American Tropics, what was being discovered was that 'demand is a thing which must be created" (51)

Without getting into too much of a discussion about health and diet... I find that the heuristic that "anything new is bad" seems to work pretty well with food. Trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, factory farms, etc.

The history of bananas shows that the production and demand for the fruit is both very new and completely artificial.

Again, please feel free to draw your own conclusions. The only point to make here is that I found the reading surprisingly fascinating -- a banana is not just a banana.
Wow. So creative. Ephemeral picture sharing.
Not to say that the project doesn't look valuable, but I'm not sure if the project is still alive. See: https://github.com/NodeOS Latest commit was 4 months ago.
> Did anyone here not think that argument was absurd?

I know of at least 5 HN posters who will fully agree with your sexual assualt example. They will say that it is, in fact, entirely the woman's fault.
In practical use, you can simply search for anything in the "dog" subclass using the WordNet hierarchy... so there is no loss in accuracy unless you have confusion across the search groups! We actually support this in sklearn-theano - if you plug in 'cat.n.01' and 'dog.n.01' for an OverfeatLocalizer we return all matched points in that subgroup.

In general, if you misclassify "dog" for a fixed architecture you will most certainly misclassify "Blenheim Spaniel" and "Flat-coated Retriever" - the two other classes are subsets of the first. The "eats shoots and leaves" sentence is analogous to a "zoomed in" picture of fur - we don't know what it is but we are pretty sure what it isn't! This is still useful, and would already get most of the way there for large numbers of fur colors/patterns.

I think the concerns you have are more important at training time, but I have not seen a scenario where it has mattered very much. In general having good inference about these nets is really hard, but I think your initial thought about "dog space" ties in nicely to a post by Christopher Olah (http://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/neural-netwo...) - maybe you will find it interesting?

And yes it becomes really fascinating to extend your last thought to "optical illusions" and other tricks of the mind - even our own processing has paths are easily deceived and sometimes flat out wrong... so it is no surprise when something far inferior and less powerful also has trouble :)
You can have a local hidden variable theory if you abandon the freedom to choose which measurement to perform. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
Personally (I'm no market guy) I think this pretty natural. I haven't found a lifecycle for the ipad yet. I go through iphones every 2 generations (I've skipped each S so far), macbook pro every 3-4 years ..

I got an ipad2, and haven't found a need to replace it yet. The battery's pretty solid, and at this rate, that's likely to define when it's time for a new one.

Most the people I see buying new tablets are essentially buying "my first computer" for a kid. Something to shut them up in the car. And that's not a great market for apple's prices.

So I don't think the tablet is a flash in the pan - but I don't think the initial rush was sustainable either. Now that pretty much everyone who wants one, has one, it'll settle down closer to lifecycle turnover.

And to stray a little closer to on-topic, I'm hoping for the same from the watch. That's really what I'm waiting to find out, and I suspect we won't know any time soon. But that $350 is going to feel much heavier if I feel compelled to replace it as often as my phone. (on that note, I did find it interesting that there was absolutely nothing in the way of tech specs announced on the phone. No mention of resolution, just that it's enough. No mention of speed, or storage. The models are defined by materials, not numbers. Hopefully, this is a good sign that this device isn't meant to fit into a race to double the numbers each year.)
Isn't anyone else bothered by the lousy typography of both the logo (<apple>WATCH) and the typography on the screen?

The fonts are too loosely spaced, and the screen layouts looked amateurish, no better than the Android-based wearables.

I know this sounds like a nit-pick, but it's not. It's not like Apple to blow it at this level. They need to get it right at every level, especially the UI (and the brand).
Cyclists are not putting themselves in a risky situation until drivers chose to drive dangerously.
Because now you will be going via insurance process where drivers rates will be reviewed and adjusted. Hitting an insured 'bike' now introduces an actual process where parties at fault will end up paying.

It's not going to be 'Oh I'm fully insured, registered and have a license. Who is this cyclist again?'.
When I was in college, I did a startup with my brother who was living on the other side of the country in New York. While in school, we began to get early traction. Being naive, he talked me in to dropping out after finishing off the semester. And so I moved in with him. I got to work right away, but my brother continued his full-time job, which we had planned he would do for a short period of time. Note - this agreement was informal, nothing was formalized. We also agreed that he would work as much as he could on the startup on the side, and pay me a stipend to cover my living expenses + spending money as long as he was still working full-time.

As it turns out, business is business, even with family members that you trust. He ended up almost never helping me on the startup. He didn't quit his full-time job, and blamed me for not creating enough value for the startup. This blew my mind since I had done everything (design, development, sales, marketing, social media), when all he did was chip in 10k or so for 4-5 months of runway. He left me to do all of the work, and legally I couldn't do anything about it. Finally, he stopped paying me.

The worst part is feeling exploited by someone you love and care about. I have no doubt he would have committed to the startup had I gotten significant traction. I'm actually glad it didn't work out, because I would have just probably been screwed over even more down the road. It's sad knowing that family will even do this - burn a close relationship just to get dirt-cheap equity in a startup. "If it goes well, commit to it, if not, you just saved 60k by not having to hire a full time engineer. Plus you won't have to quit your high paying job, so there's nothing to lose!" - I feel like this is what went through his head.

I can't speak towards getting screwed on an idea, but if I learned anything from this it is that nobody can be trusted. Sure, I'll start another business one day and will be vulnerable to my cofounders, but never to this degree. Get it on paper, always. And constantly ask yourself, what is the worst thing that could go wrong at this point in time. Always be prepared for it to happen. If you aren't open to this, you probably shouldn't start a business, because sometimes things go even worse than you might think is possible.
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I think of those as supporting examples. The first iMac had bright colors, but you're right that they both adopted colors rather quicker than my example of the iPhone.

I wonder how much of the impetus for the Apple Watch came from the number of people who wanted to use the nano as a watch. Kind of a back door MVP in a way.
The banana cultivar we usually eat is the Canvendish Banana. This cultivar is propagated asexually so in a sense all of the banana plants are of the same clone. Attempting to fight the fungus with genetic engineering is extra tricky because of this, because the banana plants do not reproduce.

But maybe someone finds a way. Anyway, I want to remind how papaya cultivation in Hawaii was almost wiped out by a virus disease, but they did some genetic engineering in the 1990's, and after that everything has been fine.

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/pap...

Well, Europe still bans the import of GMO food. But at least everyone else gets to eat Hawaiian papaya.
I'd much rather live in a concrete house than one built out of sticks and glue like most of suburbia.

Tornadoes and hurricanes would be much less of an issue throughout much of the US, at least.
I'm not even close to other experienced programmers here, but from my small experience usually the two things play really nice together: beautiful and useful.

Other than that you need a balance and since your customers pay, they have a priority so if they need a feature, you might first want to deliver something that works and then re-factor.
You've been hit by numerous bike riders while out jogging or walking on local trails?

This is mind-blowing. As a former distance runner, I've put in 10,000+ miles of running on trails, on sidewalks and on small roads and done so in several countries. In over a decade of that, I was never hit by any cyclist. Even in terms of close calls I can only remember a couple. What kind of trails do you frequent and what the heck are you doing to get hit not once but numerous times? Are you using some kind of headphone that blocks out surrounding sounds?
Some reason for the past week I have this itch to switch completely to Apple! Starting with the new iPhone I will be dropping my windows phone. Followed by an iPad to replace the Surface v1 (big fail!). Already own a macbook pro with Windows, so I will simply switch over to OS X. Dropping C# in favor of NodeJS/Yeoman/Sails.
I am a daily bike commuter in Anchorage where we have tons of dedicated trails. I can ride all the way to work 7 miles and I only have to cross a couple streets.

This would be fine. better than pulling my phone out of my pocket while riding (which is what I do now)
Yes, this is what I mean, no one is charged when accidents happen as long as people were acting reasonably.
Personally I dont want any watch with at least 1 week of battery time with heavy use.

My current watch has 5 fucking years of battery time. Some are more or less working indefinitely.

I like that my watch looks nice, but I also like that its functional. Running, on a bike, what not, its actually much more convenient than grabbing a smartphone.

What I don't get, is why current watch makers don't make a smartwatch from their point of view:

a regular watch, with connectivity to the phones, that can do a couple of things like vibrate in a variety of ways - OK - citizen actually tried that and it sort of work but there is no attention to details.

You want the watch to reliably vibrate if u get a msg or notification that you setup. You want it to vibrate differently for navigation depending if you gotta go right or left according to your phone (so you dont need to grab the phone while on a bike for example!).

Neither work well on the citizen, and the connection eventually times out, that sort of stuff. Too bad.
Good idea, but it doesn't roll as well...
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Seems unlikely if you know anything at all about optics.
I thought the same thing, then noticed the only files in the repository are the readme and info for contributing. I'm not sure where the actual project source is.
> 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.

Legally, you can; the width of cars and bikes are actual facts, of course, but I don't think you'll find a fixed-in-law minimum distance for most of those things in the California Vehicle Code.
Thanks. You and schoen are right--I'd forgotten about Fup's "obituary". I hadn't been so regular a visitor to the bookstore since the late 90's.

Around that time pace of change was speeding up, everything in the computing field evolving so quickly when a book was published it was already obsolete. "Dead tree" books were much less necessary.

I stopped in a few days ago (tech books now located closer to the main bookstore) looking for a reference book on computer security. Alas, selection was meager, the shelf space devoted to computing topics less than a tenth what it once was.

The store now overflows with tons of books on birds and botany, cars and many worthy things. Still see a few old digital museum pieces in random corners, but hardly a trace of Fup and her glorious era.
This argument is about the definition of the word "innovation." Definitions of words are important, and worth arguing over.
This is my experience going from watch, to smartphone, to smartwatch:

The phone replaced my watch because it completed the same task while also completing many more. Why bother with a watch (for me, at least, just another thing to remember) when the phone works just as well?

A phone is not a perfect replacement, however. I constantly have to pull it out of my pocket, input a code to unlock it for various tasks, etc.

My Android watch has replaced the action of pulling my phone out of my pocket and unlocking it for basic tasks. It tells me the time, lets me dismiss phone calls, can pause and play my music, take notes, remind me of things, and display texts--and I no longer have to fish around in my pocket for a phone that takes seconds to unlock and navigate through.

As the smartphone replaced a repetitive task (remembering to wear my watch), the smartwatch replaces another repetitive task (wrestling with a phone stuck in my pocket).
The two are not really comparable since you get different results (JSONObjects are not strongly typed). You will easily be able to find workloads where one is better than the other, but in the average case, ig-json-parser will probably be faster because it's based on Jackson. (see json/jackson/manual vs json/org.json/manual on https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki)
Well, HF training was a pretty big deal IMO. Definitely saved my bacon in training some recurrent nets, much easier to get working and/or recovering from bad optimization but pretty slow.

The SGD we use today actually has some strong ties back to that second order optimization work - see some papers by Ilya Sutskever relating a special form of momentum back to second order methods like HF. http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/2013/1051_2.pdf His dissertation covers this at some length as well.

Using Adagrad, Adadelta, etc. isn't really SGD as it was back in 2012, and this years entrant "GoogLeNet" basically halved the error again using these and other tricks (we think) - which is even more impressive considering 11% - 6.7% is a HUGE increase in difficulty, just my 2 cents.

However, there is a good reason the colloquial name for these things is "Alexnets"... that work was truly incredible and has not stopped behind the doors of Google I don't think.
The hourglass referenced in the article costs $28,000, here's the start of his review about it:

Let's begin this post by letting you know, right from the start, that this hourglass costs $28,500. Now, as you continue to read, you will notice how that number becomes more and more rational in your mind.

Not quite for me. It's still seeming absurd.

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2011/3/29/the-ikepod-hourglass-...
I agree. This is way less about anything technical and much more about fashion (a thing Apple is quite good at). I'm reminded of this article that was posted on HN not too long ago[0].

Also, based purely on style, the Apple watch looks quite luxurious, and the pictures really do make it seem "expensive". However, I also find other smart watches quite nice, such as the Moto360.
Didn't they do that already back in June?
It appears they are just using the github repo for the issue tracker.

The issue tracker was quite active until the middle of july, at which point it just stopped.

I'm not sure if they moved platforms or abandoned the project. In either case it doesn't look like they were quite ready for public appearances!
I've been around a while, and I've seen the "tech" industry evolve, or devolve depending on your perspective, into one that's entirely about fashion.

I guarantee that for most people who would buy a watch like this the actual functionality is probably so far removed from their minds it's a non-issue. The marketing doesn't say what the watch does, it fetishizes the laser-cut infinitely adjustable magnetic watch band with meticulous design to make you go, "Oooooooh."

We are so far from the days where tech reviews would contain a breakdown of the new instructions in the latest microprocessor. Devices are only tangentially about functionality and tech; people will buy this because carrying around a phone (that replaced the watch) was "so last year."

I think any attempt to debate the merits of the device on a functional level are misguided. This is a watch that you will have to take off and RECHARGE for pete's sake.
Where are you paying $90/mo for a wireless plan? Thanks to T-Mobile, rates for all other carriers have come down too and unlimited minutes are very easy to obtain.

I pay $22 per line for my mobile, with unlimited minutes - last month I used 2200 minutes personally on my line and my family used close to 5000. All included.
I don't necessarily think that these advancements are entirely a bad thing; I just think that there is the strong possibility that they could encourage negative traits with future generations. Using technology to better peoples lives is a tremendous thing, but using it as a crutch to enable accidie is worrying. Perhaps I'm just a pessimist.
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> Legally, a bicycle has the same legal right to the road and lane as you and your car does.

Legally, in California, a bicycle that isn't maintaining the "normal speed of traffic" for the road it is on is required to be operated as close as practical to the right-hand curb except in specifically enumerated circumstances. It does not have the same legal right to the road and lane as a car does. (California Vehicle Code Sec. 21202)
This. It does not deliver on the promise in the headline, and the headline exists only to make you simultaneously infuriated, confused or curious. If someone posted a comment with those properties they would be banned from HN.
Until Hangouts provide the ability to properly control one's visibility, I Will. Not. Use. Them. Full. Stop.

It's somewhat amusing to see Google finally reintroducing functionality which worked perfectly well in GChat years ago. But sad when I reflect on how I now spend so much less time using the Google ecosystem, thanks to their constant dismantling (Reader), deprecation (GChat), divestment (Sketchup), and defacing (Gmail/maps UX/UI) of software which I once relied upon. Google is still doing many things right; why are they consistently getting certain things so wrong?
I know it's fun to say stuff like that, but we work hard to make exactly the opposite be true. Users help a lot by flagging inappropriate stories. We can't even skim all the articles, let alone evaluate how substantiated their claims are.

The system seems to have worked well in this case.
Probably much more mappy and reducey ;)

Actually, I'd be curious to see this done in another system too.
If I ever move overseas again, I will be purchasing an iPod Touch for each and every older family member before departing. FaceTime works remarkably well.
Why is Google Glass the whipping boy for anyone worried about privacy issues?
"Cycling should not be a life-or-death activity" is it though, just like driving a car is.
It depends whether you are referring to a lane with a posted speed limit of 40mph or one which the normal speed of traffic is 40mph. In California, both the posted speed limit and the normal speed of traffic are legally-significant values (particularly, there are significant legal rules that come into play for both vehicles in general and bicycles in particular that are being operated at less than the normal speed of traffic.)
> I think it's not mainly about money (why do Germany's academics have the fewest children?), but about creating a children-friendly climate and a culture where raising children is considered a good thing and not just a burden that keeps you from consuming. Children and modern consumer culture - bad fit.

The cost to give birth is multiple times lower than somewhere like the US, the cost to raise again multiple times lower than the US, children are given much greater independence (freedom of movement and choice comes much earlier). Granted somewhere such as the US with an increasing rather than decreasing population, has little incentive to create a child-friendly climate. In Germany however this problem has made it very child friendly.

Second, the comment on "consumption" is a critique that may apply to humanity as a whole but largely German is very low in the list of OECD countries when it comes to economies based on consumption.
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I'd say that's not the best approach to meet new people.
Good article. I really agree with his comment:

"It's directly competing for the same real estate (i.e wrist), where as if we had seen a bracelet of some kind announced yesterday, those early adapters, myself included, would be begging Apple to take their pre-pre-pre-order"

I really did want the apple watch to be more of a bracelet and something that could be complimentary to an analog watch with all the messaging, notification, health aspects in tact. More than anything, the health tracking seems to be the most relevant for myself, and for that, I see a JawBone Up or something comparable that I can rest next to my analog watch as a potentially better option.

The design is brilliant, it's just not for me. However, iPhone 6 looks great so not like Apple won't be taking my money :)
You should switch to Firefox. With Firefox, we take those headers into account when keyboard paging and everything "just works."
It's currently running on a $5 digital ocean vps. Didn't have any issues today.