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I linked four such articles in the introduction paragraph here:

https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-and-yo...

They're links on individual words, so you have to look a bit more closely than usual.
Any official site for WatchKit? I can't seem to find any.
may be i'm too introvert or just don't have the imagination - i'd more understand adding more sensors toward "tricorder", ie. ones that can say more about condition/health of the human host of the phone (temperature, heartbeat, alpha/beta/theta-waves, dopamine level, etc...)
I haven't worn a watch in at least 15 years. A good chunk of my friends and colleagues as well.

I'm sure there are interesting use cases, but my summary view is this seems like a current-generation iPod with a wristband.

No prediction of how successful it will be, but I kind of think this will be more niche than mainstream.
Anyone else have or remember the universal HomeLink transmitters that came in cars? Your car had a button that could "learn" the sequence from most garage door openers, apartment gate clickers, and the like.

I would love for this watch to be able to be able to clone all the various NFC-type items and building access cards people carry around. I suspect there are considerable technical and legal obstacles to this, but hey, there's an API!
The top three right now are:

* Samsung Gear - $199 [1]

* LG G Watch - $179 [2]

* Pebble Steel - $249 [3]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=samsung_gea...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=lg_g_watch_...

[3] https://getpebble.com/steel
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I build an avalanche safety app http://www.ullrlabs.com and knowing your elevation is one key aspect of determining the avalanche risk (due to differences in altitude for wind effect, temp, and snow accumulation).
It is a little scary to realize that your life/story may not be uniquely valued by many many people (although it's far to early to conclude that for certain). But that doesn't at all mean that you can't live a life that's valuable to you and be uniquely valued by people you value too.

"There’s this primary America of freeways and jet flights and TV and movie spectaculars. And people caught up in this primary America seem to go through huge portions of their lives without much consciousness of what’s immediately around them. The media have convinced them that what’s right around them is unimportant. And that’s why they’re lonely. You see it in their faces. First the little flicker of searching, and then when they look at you, you’re just a kind of an object. You don’t count. You’re not what they’re looking for. You’re not on TV [haven't founded a startup/haven't built a famous app/changed the world].

But in the secondary America we’ve been through, of back roads, and Chinaman’s ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated. And so there wasn’t much feeling of loneliness." - Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_
Wake me if Apple ever return to the kind of innovation they brought with things like the original Macintosh, the iMac, Mac OS X, the iPod, or the original iPhone.
The benefit for something like a rest timer is you have to interact with it all the time so it's a giant pain to get your phone in and out of a sleeve repeatedly. Plus, again, I sweat like a pig when I lift heavy or run and the phones don't seem particularly waterproof. Plus my hands sweat too and I will drop it.
Miniaturization has come a long way, but there's no way this costs just $350 to make. Has Apple's strategy changed? They've always sold hardware at a healthy margin and made trivial amounts off software and music.

There are some really nice features here, I would probably buy one if I didn't prefer android so much. But is it so nice that it will drive iPhone sales?
Can we now use Stripe + Apple Pay to circumvent 30% revenue cut?
> The ideal situation would be a device that you buy once, but it's also one you could use with whatever map data sources you want (OSM, commercial, etc.) - based on an open format.

Like an iPhone/iPad/Android phone/Android tablet? Tomorrow's tech will be available to me soon, and much cheaper than today's tech. Support = people's time = expensive.
I like mine, but it's time for a refresh. A better camera, a little more GPS accuracy and I'd be all set.
I doubt it. For one thing they'd lose the ability to ensure you're who you say you are with TouchID, etc.
Still doesn't solve the problem of needing the iPhone on you for the watch to connect, if that is indeed the case. Is there any info on the tech used to connect the devices besides a single mention of wifi on the site?
I'm not sure how I feel about those Mario 64-esque emoji, but to the extent they become popular and don't work so well cross platform, it helps lock people in to the Apple ecosystem. I know many people who were hesitant to switch from Blackberry because they would lose BBM (I still miss those BBM emoji actually...), and many people who were hesitant to switch away from iPhone because Emoji didn't always work as seamlessly on Android. Perhaps a sad fact of today's world, but true.
Who would have thunk that of all the end-of-2014 smartwatches, the one that would make you look the least like a dork would be the one from Motorola?

Shame about the battery life, though. Please fix that Motorola, I want to give you my money so bad, but cannot do it until you fix the battery life.
Am I the only one who thinks the available/previewed watch faces don't match the intended goal of the device? This event was all about fashion, inviting all of the fashion journalists and talking about personalization. Not a single one of those watch faces look appealing, and worst off they do nothing to shake off the "geeky" stigma attached to smart watches. I think the design has potential when it gets a little bit thinner (v2?), but the previewed watch faces look absolutely awful to me. You'd think that would be the easiest part of building a super computer that fit on your wrist.
As much ink was spilled about competitors' failures, it's interesting that this won't be available some until vague window next year, and needs to be tethered to an iPhone.

The interface looks interesting. The ridiculous draw pictures to each other bit, though -- what a gimmick.
Ultima Online was just a nightmare. They constantly released major protocol changes with each new patch, and those were pushed out on an almost weekly basis.

It was still really fun though to play as a GM on your own little personal server and melee guards.

Oh, I'd give the world to play that game again, pre-Trammel, with the active user counts that existed back in the day. The only choice today is the ruined mainline (WoW clone) servers, or ghost-town private (T2A) servers :(
meta : I'm glad the product pages dont involve using JS to fuck up scrolling,for once. This fad needs to go.
For my part, I wouldn't say I hate them, but I have rarely found them funny. It irritates me to no end that the Python language is named after them. I just tell myself it's named after the snake.
Apple Watch works with 5, 5c, and 5s. And of course 6 and 6+
I have some MPX5100 pressure sensors connected up to an Arduino. When I first experimented with them, I was shocked to find that they were accurate enough to report pressure change simply from lifting the device off my desk and up to eye level.

Not that this says anything about the sensor used in the iPhone, but it's not unreasonable to expect that it could be used as some form of motion input.
Just CDN issues.
After having my iphone 5 since they came out, I, just last week, scraped up against the 8GB ceiling (having never cleaned anything off of it).

I suspect this has a lot to do with my not having any giant apps and 0 music.
I can't live without my Pebble and I'm definitely not a jogger. Just a normal consumer. For me, it's revolutionary.
Those "dumb" watches will still work in 5 years. Hell, they will still be nice in 100 years. Smart watches won't hold up for 5 years.
None of those are dumb watches.
i can't imagine this selling well, but i also couldn't imagine the ipad selling well and history showed i don't know what i'm talking about, so it'll probably be a huge hit.
At the end of the announcement they mentioned using it for NFC payments. But anyone have an idea how that would work without the thumbprint scanner of the iPhone? It seemed like that was one of the key features of the Apple Pay announcement earlier in the keynote.
> a Tag Heuer Android watch with replaceable innards

Yeah I definitely do want that. Would pay in the $1K range for a Tag quartz, if they could somehow keep an automatic movement in there...

Can't wait to see what happens when the watch companies adopt tech rather than the tech companies adopting watches.
You can now get the vivosmart instead of the vivofit if you want notifications. The tradeoff is your battery life drops to something like 7 days. That's still pretty good though.

(Full disclosure, I'm a current Garmin employee but I don't work in the fitness area)
Is there any particular reason for Ubuntu?

The reason I sarcastically suggested Raspis is because this is literally what they were meant for.
Presumably, if they wanted to do a web version, they could introduce Safari-only JavaScript APIs for verifying TouchID.
Nexus 5 owner and general android fanboy here. I'd agree with you if not for the fact that the Nexus 5's camera is still not nearly as good as the iPhone 5/6's. In fact it can be downright terrible at times.
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There was book in my school library about the Franklin expedition. There was something haunting and fascinating about the old drawings/paintings of one of the ships locked in the ice, pictures of the incredibly well-preserved sailors, and the failed trek across the ice which ended in cannibalism. It is probably a relatively unknown story (at least in the US - this article suggests that resonates with Canadians), but there's something that draws you to it. Actually, the polar expeditions produced a lot of incredible stories. You've got Shackleton's legendary return to civilization, and what I think is one of the more heroic and tragic pieces of writing, Robert Falcon Scott's Message to the Public:

"We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last.

...

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for."

It's rather strange that such a desolate environment could produce such interesting stories.
Yeah, because Verifone's extant NFC readers definitely aren't standardized at all and haven't worked for years, with wide enough adoption that Whole Foods, Circle K, and fast food chains have them already. Everyone's just waiting for Apple to come along with the "standard of quality".
really hate the curved look, bringing back memories of the 3GS. I thought we moved on to sharp corners.
Firstly, this is not a troll. I really shouldn't have to start with that comment.

I'm actually rather more excited about the Lumia 730. Value for money, not status is a killer feature for me.
I'm actually happy that the base model comes with 16GB if that means a lower price for that model. I don't really need the extra space.
It's too bad this happened on the same day as the Apple news blitz; for a history nerd like me, this is a MUCH bigger story than the iWatch.
No idea what "ion strengthened" means.
I agree on the looks in isolation, but the pictures of people wearing the watch makes them not look so bad IMO. I was surprised at the functionality, though, especially Apple Pay.
The fact that this requires me to bring my iPhone on a run kills it as a sport watch. I can get a high quality GPS watch for $150 that doesn't require me to bring my iPhone.

Or if I am OK with bringing my iPhone I can just use it.

Dumb, dumb move on Apple's part.
I really hope that people start installing and testing against minimal browsers.

Modern browsers are fucking huge. Obviously they do very much more than browsers used to, but most of the time I really am just reading text and I don't want a bad designer's idea of novel UI to get in the way.

Sadly it seems like hundreds of years of design iteration for the printed word are being weakened.
Marpa looks interesting. But I am not sure about this claim in the paper:

> Despite the promise of general context-free parsing, and the strong academic literature behind it, it has never been incorporated into a highly available tool like those that exist for LALR[6] or regular expressions.

I think this leaves out several such tools (and there are probably more):

1. Bison (supports GLR since at least 2009)
2. Elkhound (GLR parser generator, since 2002)
3. ANTLR (its top-down ALL(*) algorithm is general)

But let’s step back a second. Is generalized context-free parsing really the holy grail that some people think it is?

For non-parser-geeks, “generalized” means “can handle all grammars.” That sure seems like a feature, especially for people suffering PTSD from unhelpful Bison error messages like “shift-reduce conflict.” The idea of never having to see a message like that again can sure make generalized parsing seem pretty damn attractive (btw: this is the same selling point for PEGs).

But the dark side of generalized parsing is ambiguity. It is undecidable whether a given grammar is ambiguous or not.

Here’s what this means, in practical terms. Generalized tools might save you from “shift-reduce conflict,” but they cannot save you from “this grammar might be ambiguous, and it’s impossible to say.”

So what? Well this means ambiguities can be hiding in your grammar that you don’t know about. Ambiguities mean that certain syntactical constructs could have two possible meanings, and which one the parser chooses is totally arbitrary.

The best real-life example of this is the “dangling else” ambiguity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_else Everybody knows about it now, but when it was originally introduced into ALGOL 60, it went totally unnoticed. The language had even been published in a technical report before anyone was aware that the ambiguity existed.

Now I agree that “shift-reduce conflict” sucks, but to me “parser tools should accept any grammar” is an overreaction. That’s like saying “syntax errors in JavaScript suck, we should make the parser accept anything and try to do something reasonable.” If that idea gives you the heebie jeebies, you’ll know how I feel about generalized parsing.

To me the answer isn’t generalized parsing, it’s a parsing formalism and tool that, when it gives you an error, gives you enough information to know exactly what the issue is. The tool can be your helper as you develop your grammar/language, helping you understand whether your language is ambiguous or not and how to fix your ambiguities. When it accepts your grammar, you can have confidence that your language and grammar are unambiguous.

Now at least generalized CFG algorithms (like GLR and Marpa) can tell you at runtime that the input is ambiguous. PEGs can’t even do that: they just define the ambiguity away by saying “in cases of ambiguity, the first alternative wins by definition.” Sure it makes the formalism unambiguous, but the language as your users experience it is still just as ambiguous.

I wrote about this all in more detail here: http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/09/ll-and-lr-in-context-why...
Have you seen the price of higher end (fashion) watches? Even relatively "plain" ones without gold/jewels are not cheap.
It looks... Samsungy.
True unless someone has made years of investments in iTunes-sourced content, then moving over to a cheaper phone with the same feature set is no longer an apples-to-apples comparison. I have a collection that goes back to iTunes' and the iPod's very first days. I'm not terribly keen going through any conversion/repurchasing process.
I'm curious about authentication. How do you make sure only authorized transactions go through without pulling out the phone (which would make having NFC on the watch irrelevant anyhow)?
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And also not everyone lives in the US so no Pandora or Spotify.
And that's basically the same thing, too! /s
Haha, this is why I love Hacker News.
I'm not sure if I missed "dumb" or it was edited in shortly afterward, but either way that's comparing apples and oranges.

Compared to the existing precedent of smart watch prices, Apple's watch is $100 more expensive than the next highest priced model. This is, of course, what Apple does with all of their hardware, but whether it's unsurprising or not it's still a factual and relevant point to make.
Works on as low as iPhone 5
Then the button is on the top.
With the notable exception of the first iPhone not having a subsidy price for a month or two Apple products don't tend to drop in price much year to year.

They've had the $199/$299/$399 price structure for the newest iPhones for more than 6 years.
That's crazy. One of the great things about my Pebble being my alarm is that vibration on your wrist is hard to sleep through. If you have to charge your watch every night...
really -- I had thought it would be annoying. You're the first person I've heard say that. That's really interesting.
The Pebble is $250. Adding another $100 to the Apple Watch is not that big of a stretch.
Since buying my Nexus 5 last year, I still haven't found any phone that I've wanted more. It is holding up nicely.
Read The Terror by Dan Simmons. This is a great mix of horror and history novel, using the expedition as its background.
Failed startups == lots of experience. You just have to sell it that way.

The PMs I've worked with that were good at their job did a couple of things well:

They were great at talking to customers and finding out what the pain-points were, while at the same time not promising to fix them. We were SaaS, so we didn't fix/add anything until we were certain that it wouldn't negatively affect too many of the existing customers.

They were also great at explaining to us the steps needed to accomplish a change. We changed our entire payment system at one job. Previously, customers bought credits, afterwards it was pay-as-you-go. Big difference. So he had to explain how to handle the customers who already had credits on account with us, plus the path of selling items differently. And identify all the points of change in the UI. Lots of diagrams with arrows and annotations...
Even an "Emacs configuration template" (a la Prelude or emacs-starter-kit) that makes use of it (and `el-get` to retrieve and initialize packages):

https://github.com/xiaohanyu/oh-my-emacs

Nifty.
It will be the most used feature by young lovers everywhere...
Nice one! :)

Reminded me of this dialogue from The Social Network:

Sean Parker: Well, I founded an internet company that
let folks download and share music for free.
Amy: Kind of like Napster?
Sean Parker: Exactly like Napster.
Amy: What do you mean?
Sean Parker: I founded Napster.
Amy: Sean Parker founded Napster.
Sean Parker: Nice to meet you.
As gimmicks go, the "you can tap morse code to someone" thing seems even stranger for me.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one on this. Really dislike the curved / beveled designs.
"all parties"

Cue poor Microsoft sobbing in a corner
For anyone who finds this interesting, I cannot recommend enough investing a half hour in watching the "Programming With Nothing" talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUhlNx_-wYk

In it, the speaker implements fizzbuzz using only lambda calculus (making significant use of church encoding).
Really? I thought that looked like one of the neatest things about it. I imagine that people will find all sorts of creative ways to use it for quick communication.
I really love and reccomend Sookasa (sookasa.com). They build a HIPPA-compliant, fully encrypted way to store files on dropbox, box, skydrive, and google drive.

You basically have an 'encrypted folder' inside your cloud storage drive and anything you put there is immediately protected from hackers, fraudsters, etc.

It's being used today by doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, lawyers and such.
It resembles this project: http://www.netkit.org/
The app store is still the app store.
Maybe, but I doubt people buy a $500 watch just because it will still be nice in 100 years. That might be the case for $10000 watches.
I know this might seem a little assinine...but...

You are 21. Give yourself a bit of time to ramp up to 'changing the world'. Its going to take time. Its going to take working those 'boring' jobs to make your bones, improve your skillset, develop what you need in order to do that truly impactful stuff.

Highest honors? Great! You know how to code. I can guarantee you though, there are a 1,001 other things that a classical comp sci degree hasn't prepared you for in the business world, while working with teams of other developers. Take the time. Enjoy the time. Learn from other's mistakes, learn from the business mistakes that happen in the companies you work for, and learn from your boss, your leads, etc. In 5-10 years...take on changing the world, with a toolbelt of useful things you have learned, and a much more realistic view of the world around you.

You are just getting started. I know the tech world makes it seem like any of us can just EXPLODE onto the scene, change the world, make millions, but in reality this career path is no more a shortcut to insane riches than any other, and the same rules apply. We have our flukes (Insane purchases from startups) but those are the exception, not the the rule.

Welcome to life, my friend, its a little rough around the edges, its not what we dreamed it would be, but it's the only one we've got.
The one advantage is that the pis are likely cheap enough that the kid can take them with them. I assume most of them have a TV at home, and a mouse and keyboard can be found free or under ten bucks.

That said Chromebooks would likely be the better answer then Raspi or Macbooks.
This seems like a very cool (and potentially useful) hack.
Most "dumb" watches that cost over $350 will retain the majority of their value well past those 5 years, too. Apple's first generation watch will be ~$50 in 5 years.
There are suppressions for LSAN (http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/sanitize...) and TSAN (http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/sanitize...). But none for ASAN that I could find.

I've talked to the person who implemented the LSAN support, and he says that the LSAN leaks being suppressed are not particularly large.

I also know a person who has recently been running the main test suite through Valgrind. (We do smoketests with Valgrind on every checkin, but not the full suite because it's too slow.) He found a few undefined value errors, which ASAN cannot detect, and which are getting fixed, but no UAFs as far as I know.
Whoa. On Firefox, that page does not look as polished as previous iPhone product pages. Gray image/animation backgrounds, for example. Interesting.
There was a prominent PayWave logo on the terminal in the demo video - it's definitely using the current NFC standard already supported by Android phones.
They're for completely different things. The 30% is for in-app only, but there is administrative costs with providing those resources (plus, Apple is a for-profit). This is for physical good.
The thing is that at that price it should have come with 32 GB.
> The ridiculous draw pictures to each other bit, though -- what a gimmick.

I could see this as being popular with teens though, especially with the haptic feedback aspect.