skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there kind of is a distortion field, but I'd argue it's with notions like "Apple has never announced a major product months before availability" and "nobody has ever made a large square watch." Both of these are trivially demonstrated false. And I'm sure Google has put thought and effort into Android Wear, but what you dismiss as a "trite speech from Tim Cook" looks to me like a stake in the ground. Google says you can shrink smartphone UX to a smartwatch; Apple says you shouldn't, and you should do these other things instead. This informs a whole lot of things about the way the UX works. The Apple Watch's relationship to the Moto 360 looks to me less like the iPhone 6's relationship to the Moto X than like the original iPhone's relationship to other high-end smartphones of 2007: obviously a lot of shared DNA, but trying to address the same problem space in a measurably different way.

Yes, Android had dynamic layout before iOS. And? Qt had it before everyone. As a general rule, everything everyone ever gets enthusiastic about can be safely dismissed as having first appeared in a Nokia product that all 27 Finns who bought it are still fanatical about. Also, it was probably implemented in Lisp.
This happened recently:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28986764

The article doesn't say that the machine was a civilian Aeroflot machine, but this German article mentions it:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/polen-russischer-minis...

If search on Google you'll see that this has happened to multiple Russian officials (like Dimitri Rogozin) in the last months.
Remember the Bungie acquisition? Remember why Microsoft wanted Halo -- to give XBox a killer-app?

As much as I dislike indie shops getting sucked up into starships... let the well-funded VR wars begin!
With hindsight, I don't think a resolution higher than 1080p was ever an option for Apple.

Wasn't the original Retina display touted close to the limit of human perception ?

Regardless of marketingspeak, higher resolution displays have unclear benefits, since possibly people won't notice difference in sharpness, and clear drawbacks, as increased battery consumption:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/lg-g3-review-a-great-...
if you mean the client's ip then the answer is NO! it's made especially for the guys that can't download torrents. well, the swarm, the peer connection and everything is implemented from scratch, i could do upload but i'm not
I'm not sure you understand what vaporware means.
They were a leading speculative design studio, not another manufacturer of printers. Coming from a different place, more similar to how sci-fi stokes the fires. I'm shocked and sad that they went under given that they had been doing consulting for years. I wonder how taking VC last year affected this.

But not shocked that Little Printer or the Berg Cloud was commercially unsuccessful. Perhaps they just bet a little too much thinking that their excellent design and particular approach would translate to enough value for enough people.
Talked to a die hard Minecraft fan about this and he thinks it will be a good thing. More devs, more updates, maybe even a re-write so it runs better.
Rakuten buys yet another ecommerce company
Will employer sue a competitive spare time opensource project?
My company runs a full opensource project under Apache 2 license. Unsatisfying its quality, I create a similar project in my spare time and plan to opensource after quitting current work. Will this cause my company sue me if someday I build some commercial version based on my spare time opensource project? The project is created all on my own time and own equipment, but it does compete to current company's opensource project.
I'm hoping they stick to a standard that everyone else can use (ideally the existing ones we already have like PayPass).

I've had NFC on Android phones for almost 2 years now, but I've still never been able to use it in the UK. We have some contactless payment terminals now, but the only services that allow you to use NFC payments on your phone here are tied to specific banks/carriers, or only work on specific phones.

I'm hoping that Apple Pay will push more merchants and services to start accepting NFC payments in general.
I still don't grasp why everyone is trying to make a profit and claim copyright of their modification on someone elses work. (That doesn't have a licence to allow modification)
>>As the virus infects more people, it's increasingly likely to mutate into something even more difficult to control.

It has been a while since I learned about the topic, but I don't think ebola is very likely to mutate because it kills its host too quickly.
I own an Android Wear watch, and the only thing it has in common with Android for phones is the name. "Google says you can shrink smartphone UX to a smartwatch" is a gross misrepresentation.
Technically, it can act on integers:

Prelude> let zero s z = z
Prelude> :t zero
zero :: t -> t1 -> t1
Prelude>

t and t1 can be integers. Really the point of my comment is that the article could be written much better (assuming I'm the intended demographic).
Oh yay more horrible twitter "journalism".
If you google search positive term dictionaries vs negative term dictionaries you'll find the negative term dictionary is 5x - 10x larger.

Point being, we have many more terms to describe negative events. Likely, this means we have a large biased towards negativity.

As Kronopath mentioned, there is definitely research out there describing the exact opposite of this article.
Fewer Leaks

http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

faster ship date

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09Apple-Reinvents-t... - "MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—January 9, 2007—Apple® today introduced iPhone...it begins shipping in June"

fewer choices

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,166649,166665

we are all wondering

I'm not.
The second link says

> A nuclear triad — land- and sea-based missiles combined with weapons delivered by manned bombers — holds little promise in light of Japan's lack of geographic depth and the vulnerability of surface ships and aircraft to enemy action. That means fielding an undersea deterrent would be Tokyo's best nuclear option.
Can you explain how it gets the content then?
Ok downvotes, that wasn't sarcasm, it was genuinely a recognition that Stripe's view on Stellar and the cryptocurrency ecosystem is coming closer - with Apple offering what is to all intents and purposes a iPhone controlled wallet with fingerprint security and locked down OS there is not a lot of steps to go to reach a means of storing electronic currency which has a security and convenience that is hard to imagine beating
> but there is absolutely no doubt that there is a distortion field, and it really is hard to stomach.

Its... it's a consumer electronics brand. I'll truly never understand how this stuff gets people so riled up. I mean, I used to get all hot and bothered when I followed smartphones (2006 represent!), but nowadays we're at a point where every gadget is just a riff on another gadget, and that's fine. Now no matter what brand I'm using, things just work they way I want them too, and that makes me happy.
Silent Circle released the Blackphone it developed off a fork of Android. This policy has allowed for bloatware, yes, but it also allows for innovators to innovate unimpeded.

I have the choice to buy a phone without bloatware and I did. I don't know why others don't do the same and then blame the OS maker for allowing their open software to be open.

These policies also allow for cheaper phones to get into the hands of the less affluent. Not everyone can afford the new iPhone, and they would rather have a phone with a bit more bloatware if it cuts the cost of the phone down to something they can reasonably afford. I would consider that a noble endeavor on the part of Google. Instead of saying, "FUCK YOU CARRIERS/OEMS, YOU DO AS WE SAY!", it offered them a means of providing cheaper phones without decimating their bottom line. They can choose to strip out all the bloat and price it high or they can bloat it up and price it low, making up the cost from the recurring fees/ad rev those apps can generate.

The thing is, I have a choice as to what experience I want.
I'd argue that doing Google Maps in JavaScript was innovative. At the time, it blew me away that JS was usable for so complex use cases.
Similar familial matching happened in the US a few years ago.

http://abcnews.go.com/story?id=11116381
Think about it... what kind of new Microsoft hardware could Minecraft exclusively target?

At the very least, controlling the most successful proto-VR "creative platform" can be used to gain leverage with facebook / Oculus Rift.
It doesn't sound good. MS isn't going to make it better for gamers. If anything, they'll lock it into Xbox.
So it's socially inappropriate because it's not allowed by a gigantic corporation (that films everything we do at their restaurants), as well as stuck up fancy institutions that will scoff at your shoes and not let you in for that?
but I'd argue it's with notions like "Apple has never announced a major product months before availability" and "nobody has ever made a large square watch."

You've soundly beaten down notions that I certainly didn't state. Nor have I seen everyone else. However the narrative among the Apple camp was that competitors were desperately rushing to deliver vapour, and that their stodgy square mega watches were non-starters.

Yes, Android had dynamic layout before iOS. And? Qt had it before everyone.

Again, you've firmly argued against something not being discussed. No one ever claimed that Android was first, however Android was quite specifically criticized by Apple (as were, tellingly, larger smartphones, and smaller tablets, and people eat it up). Because it turns out that Apple just says today whatever benefits their contemporary product line, much like just about every other company. And that's fine, but somehow it turns into higher meaning.
Looks like they are doing it wrong...
More devs? Sure. More updates? Doubtful.

If Microsoft dropped $2B on this property, the last thing they're going to do is continue to pay a development team to work on a game that has already been completed in their eyes.

A re-write, on the other hand? Guaranteed. And it will be the first of many sequels, Halo-style.

For Xbox One and the newest version of Windows.
I was just thinking that a kinect interface could be really interesting... Not that I'd use it personally, but it could be fun for kids to interact with.

Not sure what it's written in, or how difficult of a port to Unity would be (another possibility).
Stripe is receiving payments from Applepay not making them to Applepay so the other payment methods they accept have no impact on Applepay.
I don't know about that .. Humidity is the one thing that isn't fun :x
> The whole point of me posting this on HackerNews was 'The Guy on webstore is lying'.

I'm that guy. No, I am not lying. I have the original version (prior to Aug 27 update) that recorded keystrokes.

After reading your comments on this thread, it seems to me that you're in a panic and desperately trying to dispel the whole thing. My only regret is that I didn't get to warn people earlier.
Apple's New Thing – iPod (2001)
TL;DR Asks for the packets in the torrent in order and sends them to the client, caching the location of the peers for future use
I'm guessing it takes it's orientation from the strap.
So one needs a computer with iTunes installed to update an iOS device? It doesn't do it over the air?

Also, the "update shit show" reference was toward the software that was updated, not the update process itself, regardless of the hardware/software needed to pull it off.

Source for the downvoters: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/10/17/apple-ios-7-pr...
Collect Historical US News College Rankings Datasets (1983-2015)
I believe even if you don't share your email address on Github, someone can still pull it out of your commmits. At least that used to be possible.
Following the recent release of the 2015 US News college rankings data, we tried to find the past ranking datasets on the Web. So far we've got US News colledge rankings datasets from different sources covering 1983-2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011-2015. Looks pretty complete, but not yet in CSV format. Comments and additions are welcome.
I had a GMX account years ago that was hacked and my password was pretty hard. (I generate my passwords with Keypass)

I suspect that this is not Satoshis fault, but that GMX security is really bad.
That's probably my biggest gripe. If me and my gf both had one then sure, I'd send her a heart every now and then however cheesy it may be.

But the fact is, she has a Nexus 5, I have an iphone. Considering so many of the watch's features are dependent on the iphone, it makes a lot of sense to say that you're unlikely going to see anyone have an apple watch if they don't also have an apple phone. It's not a truly standalone product, it's very much an accessory working in sync with your phone. That means that the apple watch is a niche (smartwatches) within a niche (iphone owners, are relatively few) and so I doubt this will really take off. Like facetime. I've used it every now and then, but compared to skype, facebook calling, viber or indeed just text on whatsapp, it's a tiny tiny tiny part of my usage.

That's why I think this thing is gimmicky. Until every watch has it and it's just a third-party app that allows you to send messages between any platform, apple or android watches or anything else.
Some really funny comments, but I think it's interesting to consider this in light of the watch announcement.
This may have come from a site like talentbin.com, which gives recruiters a keyword search based on profiles from Github, StackOverflow, etc. I worked on a competing site for a bit until I decided it was a force for evil not good and shut it down. My site was pulling data from about 20 online communities, among them Github and Meetup.
I saw a segment on the TV where they stated that rioters were breaking into hospitals to save patients from the medical workers, based on rumors that the medical workers were trying to steal their blood.

I guess it was during a promotion for this episode of Frontline:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ebola-outbreak/
Xbone, powered by Java? :)
Google Latitude to OpenPaths import script
The iPhone has been used less than %10 of its time as a phone by me. Same thing with the watch as a watch. The other applications-- each of which may by itself not justify the price of the device, in aggregate make smartphones a steal, and may well do the same for the Apple watch.

I don't wear a timepiece and haven't for many years, however, I was considering getting one of those health monitoring bands and then decided to wait because I bet the Apple watch would be a better product for that need.

So, while the iPhone has eliminated the need for a watch, the thing on the wrist isn't so much a watch as a notification system and monitoring system.

Apple positioned this as an accessory to the iPhone and that's how I would use it.

I'm not sure whether I would wear something on my wrist again or just stop after awhile, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy one of these when they come out.

For me, the $350-$450 it will cost is a little high but not something to worry about and I know they will get cheaper over time, as well as smaller etc.

But I'm not just out of college and worrying about money like that anymore.

I think there's a large market of people like me. I would be quite surprised if there wasn't enough value in the device to make me very happy with the purchase.
There are no "two versions of Android". That's an unnecessary confusion of the situation.

There is Android, which is a complete open source operating system tailored for touchscreen devices. It is completely open source and in principle has no dependencies on any piece of propietary software to function. Android is not usually distributed with just its open source components, however.

There is Google Play Services. This a propietary set of applications and system services that interact with Google's cloud services. Since Google's cloud services are popular - most significantly the Google Play Store for Android apps - these services almost always come bundled with devices on the market. Android and Google Play Services together are also often called "Android" (even by Google itself) which is the cause of the confusion. There is a clear difference between the two, however.

Then there are further customizations in themeing, user interface components and applications made by vendors and carriers.

The problem of bloatware is that Google has only felt responsibility for Google Play Services; the other software on the system, including Android, was the responsibility of the carriers and the vendors. Android is developed by Google as an open source and popular foundation from which to provide its services - either from Android's web capabilities or from its bundled applications.
The universal service fund charge on your bill
Yes, but the network is still differentiating between select breeds which means it is learning traits of the animal which are unique to the breed. And training at a higher level is perfectly doable, say "fox" instead of the fox breed.

Ultimately, if you are able to look at an image and say "letter opener" there are features which differentiate this from a knife/can opener/whatever - these are the exact things a convolutional neural network should be able to use (in theory) and has nothing to do with the label, which is typically unimportant as long as it is unique and accurate.

We could flip all the labels around and still get unique answers - the network is just learning a mapping from input -> some integer, and I would argue the variance in dog breeds and lighting in natural scenes is much trickier than the angle/shape of a letter opener.

I still think it comes down to the composition of this particular dataset. Augmenting this with images scraped from online stores would be very interesting as it is fairly trivial to get huge numbers of images for anything that is typically sold online - I think Google is way ahead on this one!
What an odd rumor that I hope is just that.

Notch has a history of bashing Microsoft and MS's efforts to lock down Windows and Microsoft has a pretty bad track record when it comes to acquisitions. They seem to kinda squash anything interesting out of them to try to force that acquisition into helping the MS/Xbox brand.

If anyone buys Mojang I really hope it's either Valve or a company much like it. They seem much more analogous in outlook, business model and process.
Taking the entire migration process you describe changes the "price" to be paid for similar phone, so my claim of false equivalence still stands.

There's no "lesson" when I have made the conscious decision to stick with Apple all these years. I may have paid a premium paying for iPods and iPhones, but I feel my time is valuable enough to not have to mess around with my media files in any way you describe. Nor do I feel the urge to spend money on music I have already purchased, but I don't see that as being a mistake from which to learn a lesson. Nothing has happened to me with Apple or its products so egregious to feel compelled to take on anything like you describe.
Wow, incredible. I can even skip forward and I am not sure how this works.
Do you have a non tl;dr version, this is HN, we do like to read here.

How does it not get the ip?
> but you have to understand that a lot of people are derisive because we've been hearing the Apple faithful railing about these same attributes of competitor devices for months

I think this is unfair, it isn't Apple people railing against this, it is everybody. And they will be again, in a couple of days. A lot more was expected of Apple in this arena, and it looks like they have not delivered the watch everybody was after.
The thing is, I cannot see how the increase in screen size will improve the functionality of the phone, at least in my case.

As a phone, messenger, and audio player, the main functions for me, I cannot see any benefit.

As a game console, gps/maps client, e-mail client I can see some marginal benefits from the larger screen, but not to justify the increased bulkiness.

I usually do not use my phone for web browsing, as a video player and e-book reader, due to the small screen, and I cannot see the .7 increase being big enough to change that.
> Android is still a terrible, clunky piece of junk, even with so many years to copy Apple.

Not in the last few years, not even close. Android is pretty amazing right now, I love it.
That article talks about vocabulary. One would naturally assume that vocabulary correlates with frequency of usage, but that may not be the case.

This article talks about frequency of usage. Perhaps someone can dig deeper and figure out where they get their frequency of usage data from?
Good response.

Individually, none of this is a big deal.

Together, it made for a disappointing presentation.
Looking for an app developer for a consumer app
Fellow gamechangers,
I'm looking for an app developer for my consumer app which is focused on making it simpler for consumers to buy tickets at amusement parks, movies and other attractions. It is easily monetizable and will catch on immediately in big cities.
I am happy to discuss the concept in person if an NDA is signed. The launch should be relatively quick (within a month).
Serious applicants only - prior experience with consumer/payments apps is a must.
thanks
AC
I disagree on the watches but agree on VR. A phone in your pocket is really absurd when you think about it. It would be far more useful on your wrist for 80% of what you'd use it for. For the remaining 20% (gaming, typing longer texts, etc.) you can still have a larger phone but it would mostly stay in your bag.

As for VR, there is a solid 30+ years of it being "the next" thing and then failing to be. I tried the Oculus recently and it didn't change my mind.
Well, it's a torrent client that uses some specific trackers instead of using dht for the swarm, after he gets the peers he requests the packets in order that are send to a stream, that stream is sent to anyone that requests it.
See my earlier answer - I think that it is all about the data. And most things humans design have a similar "correlation of parts" due to the human preference for symmetry. Not all the images are face on headshots - lots of running/action, off centered, etc. ImageNet is a very "real" dataset in that sense.

Entropy isn't the right term here - low entropy would imply something about the compressibility of each image based only on whether it was a machine or a natural object, which I don't think is case.
As a stock holder, I care.

I have a taxable account that holds individual stocks.

AMT means I shouldn't sell unless I see Apple underperforming the index by a significant amount.
Oh please, next you'll be telling me they're charging users for "skin packs"
Microsoft KB article about the problem of console applications quickly flashing a console window and disappearing when launched from Explorer:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/99115

TL; DR: an application can guess (via an ugly cursor position based hack) whether it is running in a console window that was allocated just for it by the console startup code (the unwanted case), or whether it is in an inherited window (the intended use case for the code).

A reasonable solution, also, is simply to build two executables: a regular application and a console version of the program. Make the regular application (myprog.exe) attractive for clicking by giving it a icon, in comparison to (myprog-cmdline.exe) which has no icon. myprog.exe just puts up a usage dialog box and quits. Alternatively, they can both be console applications that are almost identical, except that the one with the click-bait icon pauses for console input before quitting.
Microsoft rumored to be poised to buy Minecraft creator for $2B