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Nice article. I'm wondering about this bit:

On an emotional level, you can't compare [Apple Watch and mechanical watches], and that is why I don't believe many serious watch lovers (who, again, would normally be racing to spend their cash on an Apple release) will go for this.

I suspect that the "serious watch lover" market is one that doesn't really figure in Apple's market estimates at all. On the contrary, Apple has traditionally tried to go contrary to the expectations of the archetypal "serious lover of X" user when entering the market of X.

The Macintosh was not for "serious microcomputer lovers". The iPod was not for "serious MP3 lovers". The iPhone was not for "serious smartphone lovers". (Those did exist back in early 2007 -- they were the rare people who actually knew how to install stuff on their geeked-out Nokia N95 devices, or were in love with the BlackBerry keyboard. They hated the iPhone almost unanimously.)

Personally I'm not going to get a smartwatch because I hate interruptions. I hate OS X notifications; I hate it when the phone rings; I hate reading Twitter (but it's an addiction that's sometimes hard to overcome). I certainly don't want a blob on my wrist endlessly buzzing and tapping away, trying to figure out my heart rate and mood and generally being a bothersome noisy little electronic snoop.

But at the same time, I can imagine that the younger crowd wants exactly that. I think the Apple Watch will be a hit, but maybe about 1 year after the launch once the price of the low-end model comes down and a few millimetres get trimmed off.
I do use it directly. For example in Fexl I define the append function for lists as:

\append=(@\append\x\y x y \h\t [h; append t y])

Where '@' is the Y-combinator.

Note that there's no direct self-reference with the symbol "append" there. I could define it equivalently as:

\append=(@\loop\x\y x y \h\t [h; loop t y])
Also, since then, the cop who killed the former Napster COO was let off without charges: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-milton-charges-d...

He was typing an email at the time of the accident.
In France since a few years, the driver's fault is presumed if the accident is with a cyclist or a pedestrian (for the civil case). It means that the burden of the proof is on the driver.

Strangely enough, the usual civil system applies between a cyclist and a pedestrian.
It's a reference to http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-ar...

i.e. telstra extracting monopoly rents by being a monopoly, vs. the otherwise prevailing price.

I agree it's difficult to treat bandwidth as a true commodity, especially when there's a monopoly, but I think it's clear that if Australia weren't Telstra's victim, bandwidth prices would be far lower.
Not just capable but largely blind on the sides and moving much much faster than you, not to mention probably won't even feel that they're running into you.
One trick I've noticed to make animations/transitions "snappier" and more natural is to use quadratic/square (power of 2) scaling. For fun I did it on this clock just saving it locally - you can do it by modifying line 140 of `bezier_clock.pde` to square the ratio instead of simply assign it:

animationRatio = ratio * ratio; // can also replace with sqrt(ratio)

Again, just makes it a little bit 'snappier' (remember you have to hit spacebar to turn on continual animation), and scales it so you can determine the numbers a bit more clear earlier in the cycle because of the scaling on (0.0, 1.0]. This is certainly a fun piece of code to play with.
By problem, you mean there are not enough bike lines? I agree :)
https://twitter.com/redditforhire might be a great place to start.
"As I was writing this tutorial I found myself speculating about what happened to metacompiler technology"

I suspect that one part of the answer is that for most non-trivial examples, the parsing part is the easy part and metacompilers don't help with the hard part (type checking/inference, optimization, code generation, etc).

That said, I see terrible broken ad-hoc parsers all over the place that probably could benefit from this.
Ok, you got me there, in this case it happened to be valid grammar. Though IMO it was clear the writer meant "wary".
Why does seemingly every article about cycling, even if overall in favor of it, end up sprinkled with appeals for the minority to behave? More importantly, is this sort of appeal appropriate for the author to publish?

It's also interesting to note the author is a recreational rather than commuter cyclist. His asserted empathy for motorists and fear of cycling is partly thanks to the privilege of rejecting cycling as an everyday reality of transportation. Can he, in his limited experience, truly understand the world in which everyday cyclists live?

As I see it, this article's conclusion is akin to the following:

> So here’s my proposal: Every time you go out in public, from this moment forward, obey the letter of the law in every interaction everywhere to help white people (and police officers) view black people as predictable members of society who deserve respect.

This editorial insistence on empathizing with motorists paints cyclists as a class of rule-breakers and hooligans, not a diverse and largely forward-thinking group of citizens who happen to be united in their mode of transportation.

In anticipation of dismissive criticism, I assert that from a cyclist's perspective, this is an honest and meaningful comparison, not an over-the-top exaggeration. I'd like to see the above questions earnestly addressed.
Call me cynical, but how do I know that Samsung didn't secretly just pay you to cast doubt on positive articles about the watch?
And just what would be the point of bike insurance cover? Car insurance is primarily for property damage and/or medical issues. When's the last time you saw a bike cause serious property damage? And it's obvious that short of a cyclist hitting a pedestrian (rare but it happens) it's the cyclist that's going to need the medical attention - not the car driver.

It's an unpopular idea because it makes no sense. It's needless paperwork, expense and bureaucracy for no real world benefit.
>What's wrong with Google Docs?

It's proprietary SaaSS.
In NYC at least you can kill pretty much anyone in a car and you won't be charged.

http://nypost.com/2014/02/09/cabbies-who-kill-or-maim-in-nyc...

"Of 16 fatal or serious crashes since 2009 examined by The Post, only two of the drivers had their licenses revoked, according to a review based on a Freedom of Information Act request."

Not even criminal charges here - these drivers are still driving daily, professionally.

Basically cars are always right, legally, morally and inertially.
I was similarly confused when people started talking about "AOT compilation". Turns out that just means "compiling things from source code, like we've done for most of computing history", as opposed to shipping bytecode and compiling it when you're ready to run it.
Is it anymore "Visual" than, say, XCode, or any other GUI builder?
Just one more to add... dropout!

That was a big deal, and I think pretty much eliminated greedy layerwise pretraining in the "we have plenty of data, but can't generalize well" case. Good initialization rules help too, but are mostly heuristic and problem dependent to my knowledge.

For interested parties, I will again plug my slides:
https://speakerdeck.com/kastnerkyle/euroscipy2014

The last few slides have a kind of "survey list" to get up to speed with modern deep learning approaches for images. I also put the slides on github at http://github.com/kastnerkyle/EuroScipy2014 , which hopefully preserves the hyperlinks where speakerdeck does not.
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More to my point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBIDvdlpHlk&t=1m15s
Apple is historically the kind of company that says "you can have it in any color you like, so long as it's black" for new products... and then when the product has been around for awhile, they start accessorizing it.

The iPhone is a good example: it wasn't until last year that you could have more than 2 versions (black and white)... and the 5c added many possible combinations with the off color cases. That's a product that had been on the market 6 years at that point!

So, actually offering all these different variations is quite a departure for them.

One argument for the Beats acquisition I heard was that Beats did this as well- they had many SKUs and many color combinations for each model of headphone and the argument went that managing selling a product line like that took a lot of special skill.

I wonder if this is the thing that Apple was really buying with Beats? (or more realistically, a big part of Beats value to Apple.)
Depends what kind of pain. For instance, the pain of manual testing and deployment, when they could have been avoided with bit of planning… just make me want to defect.
So, why not just increase the penalties, but don’t put anyone into jail?

In the article it sounds as though people receive a low fine. Why not take their driver’s license away for a month or two? Or what about probation? A points system where the driver’s license is lost after you rack up enough points?

There are ways to deter people from behaving recklessly without destroying their lives. Actually, if possible that should in my opinion always be the goal of the justice system (and it’s a failure – inevitable, probably, but still a failure – if that doesn’t work out).

If juries don’t want to send someone to jail, wouldn’t it be much more likely that they would want to take someone’s driver’s license away for a month?
Bicycle licenses could come with mandatory training and licenses could be revoked for poor behavior. Licenses could be tied to mandatory insurance - to limit the exposure for government assistance programs.
I want to receive an email from a current developer describing a bit about what the company is like and inviting me to lunch. I show up to lunch and 1-3 devs sit and talk with me about their current projects, and ask a bit about what I've worked on. A CTO or PM should show up eventually and tell me a bit more about the company-level goals. At the end of lunch, they invite me to come in for an evaluative interview and give me some idea of what topics to prep for (algorithms, design, or math).

Remember: If you found me, then you have to sell me on your company first. I care about the projects and the culture. A recruiter can't answer questions about these, so you should get me talking to a fellow dev ASAP.
Yeah -- immutability and high concurrency tend to hurt single threaded performance (especially when compared to optimized C++), but we gain a ton from new highly parallel hardware. Also, GC can do analysis on spare cores.
Huh, I'm familiar with Walnut Creek the city but had no idea there was a popular shareware distributor of the same name. Neat! (I'm from the area.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM
Seriously? How many american (north or latin) ball players speak japanese?
This is different. The article didn't even answer the question.
Great article and photos.

Imagine a man who grew up in the middle class, went do a decent school, got an okay job, lives in a nice apartment in some metropolitan town, maybe drives a German car and occasionally splurges on something nice for himself. Do you see him wearing the Apple Watch? I don't.

I honestly don't think Apple are too concerned about not selling a watch to that man. The watch is targeted at the hundreds of millions of teens and 20 year olds that are already attached to their iPhone, and want another gadget to connect to it and play with.

Market Leader In A Category No One Really Asked For

Which is exactly what the iPad was. Everybody said it was stupid and nobody would buy it, and now the sales figures speak for themselves.
Just slow down for a bit. It won’t kill you (nor anyone else).
Same here in Brazil, even in DUI hit-an-run assassinations you hardly see the perpetrator doing any jail time.
My advice is: Don't join a startup*

*until you're experienced enough. You must be able to distinguish short term and long term greedy behavior, be able to act selfishly most of the time without appearing selfish, understand and practice game theory. Until this point, you're just going to be taken advantage of until you're either sucked dry, or you've learned all the right lessons.

Every non-exec employee that joins post cofounder up until a year before IPO or 8-9 digit acquisition gets below market compensation. There are hundreds of startups and probably tens of thousands of people that get chewed up in between.

Don't join a startup in this trough of sorrow, unless you're ok with getting less money. Hopefully you're getting better status, experience, position, power, leverage, or something tangible out of the deal. Money-wise you're much better off being a quant or Goo-ama-twit-book. Arguably it's psychologically healthier too.

The biggest problem in startups is the prevalence of low functioning psychopaths. You assume you both are long term greedy, but turns out they're just ruthless social climbers looking to take advantage of whoever is inexperienced enough to get exploited.

Take SnapChat Evan Spiegel for instance. Regardless of Spiegel's excuse to cut out Reggie Brown (whether it's lack of contract, lack of tech skills, lack of ability), Spiegel flat out denied that Reggie Brown made any sort of attribution. How ridiculous is it that he’s a potential billionaire and he's trying to stick it to his former friend and frat brother by denying that he had any involvement at all?

Evan is not the only low functioning psychopath by far. Once you get burned a couple times, you'll start to recognize them and their behavior patterns.

High functioning psychopaths are a different animal. They are usually long term greedy, and are great to work with as they have internalized game theory. As long as you both can mutually benefit, working with them is great. They are ruthlessly effective. They get deals done, manage people well, focus on the right things, and treat you very well. All you need to do is stay useful.
Is it? I used to use it, but one day it mysteriously switched from "you can place phone calls through gmail!" to "oh, you want to make a phone call? You need to install our browser extension", which I never did.
Per the Processing.js site, you include the processing.js file and then set an attribute on the canvas showing where to get the PDE file (your code). In this case they set it to: data-processing-sources="bezier_clock.pde"

Making the sources to the clock available here: http://jackf.net/bezier-clock/bezier_clock.pde
I cannot possibly be overstating the journalistic impact of MacWorld because I'm not stating it in the first place. I was only talking about how a job that seems glamorous and exciting from the outside can become boring and routine when you do it all the time.
Same reason you need a dedicated toaster oven for solder reflow.

That said, if you are not fortunate enough to have something like a couple scrap bar heaters lying around, getting an old electric oven off Craigslist or similar is not a bad alternative.
At least you get 1024 bit encryption end to end with google
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It has some minor uses, but not a whole lot. If, for example, you wanted to do recursion with an anonymous function, you could use the Y combinator (well, more likely the Z combinator which is a variant of the Y combinator that works with strict evaluation). However, it'd probably just be easier (and clearer!) to give the function a name and do it that way.

However, as someone pointed out, the Y combinator's utility is not as an actual tool for programmers but as a tool for mathematicians working in computational mathematics. Alonzo Church solved the Entscheidungsproblem using a primitive variant of the Y combinator called the omega combinator. The Y combinator itself was invented by Haskell Curry (his name is familiar for a reason) in order to demonstrate what is commonly called Curry's paradox.
The issue isn't bad drivers. The issue is people. What percentage of people do you think will have an at fault accident at least once in their lifetime? How many drivers would be left if every single one of those people had their license revoked?
What an emotionally charged appeal to victimhood

The way I see it, you can accept the reality that you're engaging in a more dangerous activity and take the proper attitude, or you can rage about your ideals from a hospital bed and hope that'll somehow make a difference.

As a motorcyclist, I simply expect that drivers are paying no attention, and it's on me to protect myself. I can go your way, but that's cold comfort to broken bones and torn skin - and yes, I have been wrecked by driver inattention, so this is not merely academic.

I have a very hard time with this modern tendency to enpower victimhood, but as my name indicates, I'm an old man. Might be a generational thing.
Cynical!
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Not the OP, but have you taken a look at the egghead.io videos? They are a great resource for starting out. Another great resource is https://www.ng-book.com/.
Additionally there's evidence that man didn't initially domesticate dogs. Rather, wolves that were more compatible with humans could get closer and benefit from the interaction, leading to more domestication and closer integration, etc., until dogs.

Of course since then we've done all manner of absurd things to the species (as adorable as some people find them, inflicting pugs upon wolves was terribly insulting).
> Which is exactly what the iPad was. Everybody said it was stupid and nobody would buy it, and now the sales figures speak for themselves.

You mean the declining year-over-year iPad sales figures? The tablet market is far from proven. Maybe the last year has been a hiccup, or maybe tablets weren't all they were cracked up to be.
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Here is a quick upload of all the numbers (0-9) built with only 3 points. Sorry about not animating them... didn't have time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yddpzyQoy_0&feature=youtu.be
their speed makes them largely predictable, they basically don't move as seen from a car, just keep a huge bubble around them, and adapt your speed to what you can anticipate.

Moreover remember that cyclists only pose a risk to pedestrians, the risky person is the one with the highest kinetic energy, don't get your moral compass confused, driving a car is like going in the street with a rifle, you could kill anyone at any moment. Going on bike is like going with a knife, to kill someone you'll need some effort.
"You were walking on the sidewalk, you had it coming when that car ran you down."

Seriously? We're going to blame the victims here? Cycling should not be a life-or-death activity, especially in designated lanes when observing all traffic rules.
My oldest son has autism, and much more than "lightly". My youngest son may or may not have it, he seems to be right on the edge. I am aware of how disabling it can be, which is why my wife and I employ the mitigating techniques we can get our hands on to try to help our oldest son navigate a neurotypical world, without turning him into just another lab rat.

My point stems instead from a question: If the "cure" is attempted, and does not succeed, is that because the parent was a failure? Or did the "failure" we see reflect an even better outcome for a child who might have been even more severely autistic without that intervention?

We live in a world where a not-insubstantial number of people honestly believe that vaccines cause autism, so whatever the answer to the previous question actually is, I can tell you the perception of the answer may very well be much different. The "Refrigerator mother" concept pointed out by makomk is precisely what I was referring to in our past. I hope that such slanders will remain a part of our past and don't pop up again.
Roads by themselves are just patches of asphalt, not dangerous at all. Roads are made dangerous by the things that travel on them.

Choosing to drive subsequently bears significant responsibility in causing that danger, and those who choose to do it surely carry a large proportion of the responsibility if they injure another, not to mention the risks they pose to other drivers.

I understand driving in a safe manner, but I am not convinced that driving on major roads is worth it.

Quit blaming the victims.
Disagreement with a reasonable comment shouldn't be a valid reason for a downvote.
Battery not assault http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(crime). It's not murder if it's an accident. Maybe manslaughter.
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Yeah, I have the extension installed. Is it not available anymore?
It’s absurd to say “well, 30 thousand people per year die in car accidents in the US, and it’s the leading cause of death among young people, but oh well, it’s just inevitable and there’s nothing we can do.”

We can make dramatic improvements to these numbers if we build safer roads and get more people using public transit, biking, or walking instead of driving. Many countries in the world have much smaller rates of fatal road traffic accidents than the US does.

Not only that, but getting people to commute some way other than by car makes a substantial impact on carbon emissions, and more physical activity (even if it’s just walking from the bus stop to the office) has nice health benefits.

But stricter penalties for reckless driving that kills cyclists/pedestrians also seems entirely reasonable. A car is an incredibly dangerous machine, and people should treat driving with the care and respect it deserves.
Well, there is evidence of Samsung astroturfing blog authors. One fellow I followed had a rather obscure blog, and then one day he talked about samsung and suddenly had hundreds of negative comments (and not of the american pro-android kind you see here.) So, he checked his logs and found they were coming from a limited IP range in Korea.

Anecdote, of course.

But I think assuming that someone who posts a blog posting in a blog about watches with a history of writing about watches is probably not so easily bought.
There are dozens of foods that can substitute a banana in the Mediterranean at least.

Banana's do not have proteins. Generally speaking proteins can be found in meat. Banana has 0% cholesterol and big quantities of Potassium and Magnesium which help considerably with muscles (e.g. heart). That's their main benefit nutrition-wise.

Avogado, spinach and sweet potato (boiled/natural) has bigger amounts of Potassium.
tl;dr

A fixed point p for a function f, is a value so that f(p)=p.

A semi-recursive function f is a like a recursive function, except that instead of invoking itself, it invokes some other function provided as an argument to f.

The y-combinator (aka fixed-point-combinator) is a function, that for a function f, finds a fixed point for f.

We can turn a semi-recursive function f into the corresponding recursive function g, by finding a fix point for f, which we can do using the y-combinator.
It's not a 40mph lane. It's an up to 40mph lane.
"forward-thinking" Eh...that sounds pretty obnoxious. I wouldn't gloat when trying to win sympathy.

Plus it's kind of ridiculous to me because I grew up in a third world country where the primary mode of transportation was biking.

As for diverse...most of the cyclists I know are middle class or above white people with some Asians sprinkled in. All the poor people I know actually take the bus or drive a beater car.
The suggested install is the install.sh file. It creates a virtualenv and installs the pip packages. Although I only tested with ubuntu 14.04. Did you use the script? what kind of errors did you get? I admit I do need to document the install process better, I hope to create dist packages to make it easier as well.