skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, yeah, that's pretty much the market for the fitbit and similar devices. People who sit at desks looking to get more activity in their lives.
In the world of watches, $350 is dirt cheap
Out of curiosity are tap-to-pay credit cards and POS devices common where you live?

(Also where do you live? lol)

Here in Vancouver, BC I would say these sales terminals are becoming quite common place.
"What is this? A radio for ants?"
"I don't wanna hear your excuses! The radio has to be at least... three times bigger than this!"
The 'mess around' process would just mean loading your existing music into Google Music one time. Heck, on a Mac, it may just ask by default if you want to sync your iTunes library. Then they're available everywhere you run Google Music... which means not being artificially locked to a single company's hardware.

Most people make the mistake to think they 'bought' a movie or DRMed music file when they really just rent/lease it long term.. And then they realize they're screwed when they want to the freedom to buy whatever device they want and have 'their' music they 'bought' on it. After all, most people didn't grow up buying a CD from Best Buy and having it work on their Best Buy CD player but not on their Sony CD player.

You may have realized what you bought into and consciously made the decision that you accepted the limitation in rights/etc in exchange for convenience/etc, but most average consumers do not.
I used an exploding offer effectively once. I was buying a house in 2002, during the crazy bull market on housing. Houses in the neighborhoods we were shopping regularly went for more than list, with competing bids. We finally found a house, at the very top of our price range, and put an offer in for it just a few hours after it first listed - for list price. The seller's agent was furious! She really wanted to drag it out to the weekend and get a bidding war, which we absolutely could not afford. But what were they going to do... turn down a list price offer? Why not just sell it at a higher price, then?

We still have that house, 12 years later. It's finally worth what we paid for it again. Sigh.
Thanks for posting this link, I now begin to understand what Shakespeare meant by 'spangled starlight sheen' [A Midsummer Night's Dream].
They never say they are first. They say they are "first popular".
Ask HN: Does anyone think the smart watch will ever actually take off?
Serious question.
I'm surprised that the Apple Watch looks so much like a watch. I was keen to see how they might break that concept apart and create something really novel.
>>A watch is primarily a piece of jewelry.

Not actually though. A watch is still a watch. There are so many places where you can't carry or even have the opportunity to use your smart phone to check time. Students can't carry it to exam halls, people who are driving cars, workers, there many professions and use cases where a simple device strapped to your hand is indispensable when it comes to keeping track of time.
Oh yes!!

See my previous comments on this exact problem[1].

I'm actually working on a server app thing to make this easy. The idea is pre-configured sets of mods which will work together, installable with a single click. I have various techniques to constrain the resources used by mods so they don't kill other servers on the same machine, too.

The mod part isn't ready yet, but on-demand Minecraft server provisioning is working well.

People on HN probably aren't the real market since most here can wade through the horrors of incompatible mod versions etc, but my contact details are in my profile if anyone is interesting in testing it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7903685
I use the 910XT in a very cloudy part of the world (which I'm assuming makes things worse). I've just integrated the startup time into my prep.

Before I put my running stuff on, I turn on the watch and let it figure stuff out while I'm taping my nips, and if it's winter, gloves, tights, mentally bracing myself for the cold, etc.
despite the generic sounding name, neither is HTTP Live Streaming. HLS is a unstandardized protocol written by Apple
It makes a lot of sense to me. The barrier to expanding Mojang isn't money, but trust. It's very difficult to turn money into trustworthy, talented people who share your artistic vision. Throwing more money at it doesn't help - it attracts the sharks as much or more than the people you're looking for. People you trust can help, but it's hard to go from trust-to-implement-vision to trust-to-vet-people-for-trustworthiness.
That's a weird argument (that I never made). Though I have to wonder about that. IPv4 headers and HTTP headers don't much look the same IME (feel free to hit up Wikipedia if you're unfamiliar).

As far as "how nuts your are". You seem to be taking this way too seriously.

"My gut reaction is to be skeptical" somehow equates to, in your words:

* Nuts
* Conspiracy Theorist
* Nonsense
* Irrational

Expressing skepticism that the FBI would "tell the whole truth and nothing but", despite high ranking intelligence officials outright lying to congress, and the history of the FBI being a bit checkered... That you think should raise alarm bells. Skepticism.

If that's all it takes to be a conspiracy theorist in your book, well sign me up I guess.

The outright dismissal that it might just be possible you don't have all the facts (and I'm certainly not claiming I do)... That's an idea you dismiss outright. I have to wonder how you get there. Because if anything here seems irrational, that's what I'd put my finger on. But maybe that's just me.
In the early days of personal computers, killer apps were a luck-driven factor in the success of platforms. VisiCalc in the case of the Apple II, and Wordperfect in the case of DOS.

Observing how killer apps are crucial, the makers of risky, new platforms have since attempted to load the dice in their favor. This is particularly the case with game consoles.

Just look at how Nintendo and Sony line up games for their consoles, these literally make or break it for them.

It wasn't an acquisition, but Office was the preordained killer app in the early Mac days. Apple pulled MS in with unparalleled access to their new machine in order to get Word/Excel out in time.

Later, as we all know, Windows became the main platform for Office apps, and Office on the Mac was seriously neglected. So what was one of the first things Steve Jobs did upon returning to Apple? He persuaded his old friend Bill Gates to promise to get an updated version of Office on the Mac. This turned what seemed to be sand into concrete.

I'm forgetting what the original killer apps were for the iPhone, but I'd guess that, like MS with Office, Apple focused on their own music, photo, and chat apps.
My understanding is that Bukkit people didn't reverse engineer the Minecraft code - they decompiled it. That's a problem.

(Apologies if this is what you meant by "reverse engineered" - it isn't clear)
It all depends on the application. The ones I've seen that act as an extension of some other computing device (typically a phone) are pretty handy (har har).

When used as an additional input device, or for notifications, etc. they are much better for basic interaction than the alternative of accessing the device itself.
www.sososwift.com has been my go-to.

Beware, some of the vids are probably out-dated. It was my experience that every version of XCode6beta that came out broke my app with syntax or object-access type changes. I just downloaded XCode6GM and a bunch of stuff I was doing with "as NSArray" forced me to do "as? NSArray". And self.navigationController.navigationBar needed a "?" appended to controller, otherwise you'd get the very confusing build error saying something like "navigationController has no member called navigationBar".
I'm an Aussie who's been I'm the Bay Area for about a year now, I'll confirm what you say, American banks are absolutely prehistoric compared to Australia. Cheques are still very common for rent, govt etc(I haven't filled out a bloody cheque since my Dolomites account when I was 12). Paying other people for shared expenses (dinner, weekend away etc) is a mess of 3rd party services, some of which charge fees, none of which are ubiquitous. I still end up dealing in cash for a lot of things(!).
I never thought I'd say it, but I miss the aus banks so much, it's just so inconvienient here.
So which would you prefer? Userspace or Kernel?
I am not the biggest Apple fan in the world, and will probably not use Swift professionally, but I'm still super enthused about it as a language and I am glad it's entering the marketplace. We're going to have sum types and type inference in a mainstream language! For the first time, professors can teach a language like SML and have a good response to the question "so how is this going to help me in the real world?" I really, genuinely hope this will lead to better choices of languages in introductory programming classes.
Watches in general, obviously. There's an exception to every rule.
Err. Yammer?
If his assets keep pace with inflation then how does he end up needing assistance when he's 55?

I'm all for government being involved in retirement because shit happens. hould the upper middle class person in a 600k house be given more then his brother who rents? If we have government funded retirement(which I'm all for) why should some of it be dependent and proportional to the amount of house one owns.
How does the Apple Watch stack up against Android Wear?
IANAL These are just some of my opinions gathered from information surrounding the Bukkit drama. I have spent a good deal of time this week researching what I could, but I can very well be wrong.

I'm not arguing that anyone, including Wesley, should have lost valid interests in the code they developed. Please consider the following scenarios:

1) Contributor was clear to license his contributions free end clear under the LGPL. They contributed them to a project that was a priori in violation of said license. If they were unaware of the conflicted project status and were led to believe it was valid LGPL, they should have sought correcting actions as a soon as they were made aware.

1.a) If they knew that contributing their code would directly create a violation of the LGPL, they shouldn't have contributed. If they knew and did it anyway, they are party to violating the license.

2) Contributor code is encumbered and isn't free to be licensed under the LGPL. Depending on circumstances, just because you type the keys doesn't mean you're completely clear of another entities interest in the work. In this case not only is the project encumbered but so is the contribution. It's unknown what the validity of any license would be in this case.

A case could be made that the trigger to this recent mess, Wesley's DMCA notice, is scenario #1. That the contributors were just recently made aware that the project they contributed to was violating the LGPL. They would be right to seek redress for the violation of the license. This is the process working like it's supposed to.

It could also be that we're seeing cases of #1.a (or if skeptical #2). Certain contributors weren't just submitting patches to an email list. They were also the ones accepting pull requests to the main repo. It would stand to reason that they would be aware of the status of the main project. It's a legal nightmare.

In _any_ of the three scenarios, the status of the project as a whole is still infringing. It's so encumbered that it can't be distributed and individual rights owners who are being violated should seek remedy. This doesn't take the rights away from anyone. If they have found their rights to be violated, they should speak to an attorney.

Addedum to 1.a "You can't violate your own license." The contributor could have dual-licensed the code under the LGPL, but then contributed it to the project under some other, unspecified license. That would be ok depending on the terms of the other license, but it's not documented and impossible to verify. Also, we have contributors stating that their LGPL licensed code being violated, which discounts this possibility.
I worked with the guy who wrote the Manning book my sibling commenter mentioned, and it's quite good. But if you want to jump into clojure quickly, I can't reccomend Clojure for the Brave and True enough. http://www.braveclojure.com/
I started wearing watches on a regular basis about a year ago and it has become an addictive new hobby, I'm up to 4 now and feel naked without one.

The primary use-case for a wristwatch - being able to glance at your wrist to tell the time - is actually very underrated in it's usefulness. We forget that watches started out as a pocket device until the military started strapping them onto the wrist for practical purposes.

When the cellphone came around we abandoned 100+ years of natural design evolution in favor of the more powerful new technology, but when that tech starts to fit comfortably in the same place that was so natural for the last century it will be a sea-change in the way we look at wireless tech...
I dunno...I think smart watches are a wristy venture(hardy har har).I created an account just for that joke.I'll go jump into a fire now.
Genius seems to be getting a lot of hate here and I'm not sure why. The UI is certainly odd. To me, it feels like the design is trying so hard to be futuristic and "cool" that it trips over itself and loses some ease of use.

But come on, you can get over that, and to me this was the first use of Genius I've come across where I thought "Damn that was cool, I'll have to use this for more than the occasional lyric."

This was really cool to me because it provided an interactive forum for multiple relevant parties (Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen) to have a debate. I'll get over the funky UI for that content any day.
that's the payment experience, sure, but there's all those moments before and after your payment. say, adding a card, managing which cards you want to use at which locations, etc. there was plenty of footage in the live stream this morning, or stills here: http://www.apple.com/apple-pay/

but the bigger point: you're quibbling over the first of three points i made in an aside (the other two being that google wallet has way more features, and that google wallet is now not blocked from being on Verizon et al). The larger point is that the article saying that this is the first OS to have a payments solution is... very strange.
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They say "First popular operating system."

Not even Steve Cook has a reality distortion field strong enough to pull that one off.
Well you can find it in here: https://github.com/DSMan195276/cmips

I don't have it as a separate project specifically for the argument parser which is why I didn't link to it. But the meat of the parser is in ./common/arg_parse.c, with the header for it in ./include/common/arg_parse.h. If you want to throw it into your own project you'll want to take a quick look through the ./arg_parse.c and modify it to suit your project (The help text specifically is for my program, so you'll want to rewrite the text in that part).

You can see an 'example' usage in the same repo. The files listed below parse the arguments into a single struct with few flags inside, and also look for filenames in the arguments to load into the emulator:

./cmips/args.c
./cmips/args.h
./cmips/args.x

./cmips/args.x is a xmacro header. It mostly just contains the contents of the struct arg array for this program, but it's also used to create enum entries which index the struct arg array. The 'parse_args' function is fairly similar to what you'd do with getopt, just with the 'arg_parser' function instead.

The argument parser code could probably be improved. Just looking back at it, it's got a bit to much logic going on in that single function, it could probably be split up a bit. I'm gonna be working on this project again pretty soon I think, so I might fix up this parser along with it.
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I'm not familiar enough with bitcoin - is there a secure way to prove that you own a certain number of bitcoins? If so, that's an easy barrier of evidence that Satoshi can overcome that others can't.
"just switching namespaces" isn't easy, since a packet (in the kernel represented by an SKB) has to have an interface it came in on. The main role an veth pair has is to move the packet between namespaces, and to provide a new in interface, one that is visible in the new namespace.

Unless someone did something crazy, traversing a veth pair should just be doing a little bookkeeping on the SKB, no data copies at all.
I've spent the last few years in big cities; Austin, LA, NYC. A few weeks ago I took a brief trip to a small town in Idaho with negligible light pollution.

I had completely forgotten the look of a clear night sky. It was absolutely breathtaking. I felt as though I was going to fall away from the earth.

I truly hope that in the long term, humanity can build infrastructure that doesn't destroy access to the night sky.
They did so at length, particularly when presenting Apple Pay.
Why do you believe George is female?
Marissa Mayer's day of reckoning is fast approaching
Ask HN: Second B.S.in Computer Science or Straight to Master's
Very soon I will be graduating with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems. To be honest, I was pretty disappointed with my undergrad program. It ended up being a business degree with a few programming classes mixed in. Luckily, I have a good job(that I intend to stick with) and a couple years' worth of my GI bill benefits left. I would really like to get a formal education in Computer Science or at least the applied aspects of it, and so I am looking for advice on the best way to proceed. Because I have a family and a full-time job, I am only willing to attend online schools.

My coursework in CIS included two introductory programming classes that didn't go beyond simple command line programs, an introductory discrete mathematics class, and a pretty decent web application course where I made a simple application on a LAMP stack.

My problem is that I haven't done any of the following:

Algorithms/Data Structures

Calculus

Linear Algebra

Operating Systems

Intermediate programming

So, with this information in mind, what's the best way to proceed? I'm not sure if I would be prepared for a MS because I lack some of the more important classes, like algorithms. Oregon State has a BS designed for people with a Bachelor's degree in an unrelated program. Harvard has a graduate certificate in software engineering that looks good, and there might be other good options.

Can anyone recommend a good online program. Does anyone have an opinion on what the best course of action might be? Also what undergrad courses, if any, would you consider essential before starting a Master's program? Thanks.

http://www.extension.harvard.edu/professional-certificates/software-engineering-certificatesoftware-engineering-certificate

http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate/computer-science/curriculum.htm
I wasn't commenting on the security, just on the "blurts the magstripe information" comment. Apologies if you meant that metaphorically.

As for the rest of your comment, I don't think you're doing any risk modeling.

I have $0 fraud liability on all my cards. When fraud occurs, it takes a couple minutes to dispute a transaction. Even when it was a debit card, my credit union immediately gave me a provisional credit for the disputed amount while they investigated. The total cost to me for fraud is no more than a few minutes of my time. I have little reason to care about security.

Banks care about profit. What makes you think they haven't considered tighter security measures, and found that the cost of implementing them (including the inconvenience to consumers and resulting lost revenue) outweigh the savings from reduced fraud?
A watch is not just a watch to many people. Otherwise companies like IWC, Brietling, Rolex etc wouldn't be making as much money as they do.

Anything you put on your body that is visible to the public affects how people see you. Whether you care about this influences if you think a watch is fashionable or purely functional.
When are we going to talk about the shocking gender imbalance among schoolteachers?
The Artist’s Dilemma: Should You Pay to Play at the Super Bowl?
Will Kanye West Be the 2Pac of Fashion?
Open-sourcing it would be really cool to see. Chris Lattner last said he wasn't sure if they were going to open source it (http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-June/073698....)
His tax rate is probably around 40-50%.
And then wait for it to clear, hope it doesn't get lost, order a new cheque book, etc.

Edit: did you notice what I said about transfers in Thailand: instant. I can, within about 90 seconds, send money to a person or business at any other bank in the country. A cheque is only "basically the same time" if your scale for comparison is years.

Cheques are absolutely a pain in the ass, and you're kidding yourself if you think the us isn't woefully behind the times in terms of banking.

I thought thailand was bad when I tried to setup a foreign currency account, but it's like Star Trek era banking compared to amercia
Source: Apple set to acquire Path in an attempt to bolster iOS social cred
Funny comment. You want to stay anonymous and at the same time mail someone your hardest to fake piece of ID. There is something really wrong in your reasoning, your DNA is your identity and if any other family members of yours use 23andme as well then your relationship to them could very well be uncovered.
HIPAA doesn't regulate code or even infrastructure. It regulates organizational policy and behavior. HIPAA consists of things like: have a security policy. Enforce that security policy. Update it periodically. Update a change tracking document every time you do something to your infrastructure. Read your logs periodically and be able to prove that you do so. Have an appropriately empowered person in your organization designated as the HIPAA compliance officer. Do periodic mandatory security training for your employees. Perform periodic risk assessments. Control access to your facility. (It doesn't actually require that you do so in a particularly secure way, just that you do so.) Have and enforce a policy for disposal of media. Write it down every time a device containing PHI is moved.

These things are organizational behavior. I don't understand how you can claim to sell this as a SaaS solution.
The reaction I had was not tainted by what I read since I don't read about Google Glass and I'm only vaguely aware of anything about it. My knowledge of Google Glass mostly comes from these HN comments, really. I have no fear (I'm not sure WHAT I am accused of be afraid of??) I had no opinion of it at all whatsoever until I saw someone wearing it in real life. This was in a bar, btw.

My visceral reaction was that of human disconnect. I hope I am explaining it right, it is a hard feeling to describe. It is the same sort of reaction I get (except stronger) when someone is wearing those bluetooth ear things. It makes me feel uneasy. The person isn't "completely there." A disconnect.

Uh, I think it is too complicated to explain, but it is a human interaction thing, not a technology thing.
really, cash? cash sucks in so many ways. it can get lost, it can get stolen, it takes up more room, it takes longer to pay with, you have to get coins back as change. should i go on? i thought the apple pay stuff was the best part about today's event. if they can get a high percentage of merchants to accept it it will noticeably improve my life. small things like saving time checking out will make me happy therefore improving my overall quality of life.
looks good i'll check it out.
Now I know, and knowing is half the battle!
"Unstandardized" is misleading; it currently has a draft spec at the IETF: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-...
Right but there's making "great money" which for anything that has fixed overhead is probably like 2-3x cost vs "great money" for software which implies you have 80%+ margins.