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A Timex might last over a decade if you replace the battery occasionally. A mechanical watch will offer inferior time keeping accuracy but, if maintained, can operate well for centuries. A quality mechanical watch is an heirloom item, which is one reason why watch aficionados can rationalize spending thousands on a single watch.

The Apple watch will be totally obsolete and incompatible with everything inside of five years. It's soldered-on and nearly impossible to replace battery will likely run out of charges in far less time than that. These are not heirloom items. They're disposable. As such, I don't expect the same kind of build quality from an Apple watch that I would from a mechanical watch. That they do offer good build quality for the money is therefore totally unexpected and rather nice.

That being said, I'm still waiting for the killer app that makes me want one of these. As a fitness tracker and GPS watch they're inferior to what's out there (chiefly because the Apple watch relies on your iPhone's GPS). I don't do workouts with a phone in my pocket. Also, so far it's unclear if the Apple watch is waterproof, and it had better be to have any use at all in this market! For almost all other applications, the effort of working with such a tiny screen and different interface outweighs the trouble of reaching into your pocket and pulling out your phone. If I want eye candy on my wrist, I'll dust off a mechanical instead of buying something that will be junk in a few years.
The main benefit they're giving is that you can use `npm` instead of `yum` or `aur` or whatever the package manager you use is. IMO, you're better off using Nix if you are tired of your package manager.
It's not analogous, and it's not "my hobby". I haven't been on a bicycle in probably 15 years. There's something very wrong with you.
Don't you love it when people try to improve on things that they don't understand?
Asian men and Black women are similar in that they aren't married out to other races at the same rate as their gender opposites.

Source:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2012/02/sdt-2012-rise-o...

http://imgur.com/V9w2k5m
A bicycle is legally a "vehicle" but it is not a "motor vehicle." That is an actual distinction that is important when reading those laws.
I doubt it's racist. And who cares anyway. If someone doesn't "prefer" you, then what have you lost, and why would you want to be with them? There are plenty of other people.

You're attracted to some people, not to others, and one day you'll die. Be happy in the meantime.
The problem presented is very real, but the proposed "solution" is absurd. There are plenty of way functional prison systems. As long as we stop dehumanizing felons and normalizing crimes against them, I see no reason why reform is impossible.
> In my understanding, they are denying the presence of an animal in their car, not necessarily the disabled person.

Your understanding is incorrect, because denying the presence of the animal is identical to denying the dependent disabled person because he's disabled. The two are inextricably linked together.
What it's like being an engineer at a startup
Hey, black men don't have it easy either.
Ahh, it was so satisfying to watch it right as 59:59 ticked over to 00:00.
Also the iPod minis.
WOMAN: I find it creepy and threatening when men hit on me at hackathons and I'd like it to stop.

MAN: But what about my right to have a say in the communities I'm a part of?

...yeah.
There are ways to anonymously contact someone. Buy a prepaid cell phone. Hire a lawyer under an assumed name. Send a letter, but put a fake return address.
Many modern cars have GPS directions integrated next to the Speedometer, I would imagine this to become universal in the future.
Just yesterday there was a story on HN about 23andMe where a guy discovered he had a half brother but 23andMe tagged him has potentially his grandfather.
Cute, but I would prefer if the tweening were adjusted to dwell longer on the numbers when less distorted.
I think you may be a bit ignorant of the law here. Read 'where service animals are allowed' at [1]. The American Disabilities Act states pretty clearly that to deny reasonable accommodations to disabled people is illegal.

To create an analog to your argument. Lets say an individual is in a wheelchair and a store doesn't have ramp accessibility. In your argument, it would be perfectly fine for the individual to abandon their chair and crawl into the store because the store isn't barring that individual from entry. The issue in this analog (as with your argument) is that for the disabled person to function they need access to their wheelchair (or dog). Denying access for the dog is equivalent to denying access to wheelchairs which is equivalent to denying access to the individual.

[1] http://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm
Hire convicts, provide good jobs--and vote the bastards out.
Here's one thing I realized about the famous Apple "reality distortion field" with the release of this watch.

The reality distortion doesn't start with the consumer once the product is released. It starts within Apple while the product is being developed. I mean they really believed when they were building the Apple Watch "We are building a $350 device". Wheter you love the design or hate it, it's hard to deny the effort that went into designing this device, from getting the dimensions right, to the curvature of the screen and bezel camouflage to the bracelet selection. This reality distortion field only then gets transfered to the RIGHT customer who has no problem paying $350.

I still think it'll be a tough slog to get the watch through the early adopter curve and over the early majority hump simply because it has no compelling features as of yet, but that might change with a wider ecoaystem. As of right now, the main selling feature of this watch is the built in reality distortion field.

With the right offer though it might have an easier time. If you got the watch for $100 extra when upgrading your iPhone anyways that might be an easier pill to swallow than paying $350 outright. Whatever the offer may be, Apple needs to find the equivalent of the carrier subsidies which propelled smartphone adoption at the end of last decade.

TL'DR: What Apple realizes is that the way to sell their watch is to communicate to their customers that they want to wear the watch because they'll enjoy wearing it - no other reasons or features are needed. In fact many of the truly novel features (payment, identification, keyless entry...) will only scare away mainstream users. Just put in on their wrist first.. And show them the true functionality slowly and in stages.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb...

This also links to other resources on the subject, and discusses some of the startling stats in the OP (like that in the US more men are raped than women, because of prison rape).
I think that was the writer struggling to reconcile the fact that personal sexual preferences are considered sacrosanct in modern liberal culture (as long as those preferences don't harm anyone), and yet using "race" (which doesn't exist, remember) as a component in any decision is considered immoral.
Read "Where Service Animals Are Allowed" at [1]. My understanding is that a driver with allergens would not be required to take the dog the same way they can exclude a dog from a burn unit. However making a false claim about such things would be against the law.

http://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm
> those patients who were hypertensive consumed significantly more salt than those without hypertension

Doesn't that mean there is a causative effect, or are they saying it just a correlation? People with high blood pressure tend to eat more salt? Or if it is not statistically significant, why mention it at all?
In the end, life is strictly a death activity.
All four of those articles go out of their way not to discuss any particular races at all, in the context of dating. Of the four, I think the one on everydayfeminism.com probably gets it the best: it's okay to have preferences, same as you might for hair or eye color or height or whatever else, but depending on the strictness of your adherence to your "rule" - yes it's racist.

So the articles you've linked are fine, IMO.

However I do get the sense and agree with you, that for a great many people it's only racist if you're white, and that for other ethnicities racially-exclusionary dating is fine. Mainly I think that's because most people haven't given it much thought.
Same here. But then again, my wife and I do sometimes tag photos of our children with each others name to draw attention to a picture posted when the other is not there. (I'm not sure I explained that clearly but I see people do this a lot so I assume everyone knows what I'm talking about.) I would imagine that confuses FB's algorithm a bit as well.
How does not having an attraction to somebody make them racist?
Origami – A Ruby framework to parse, analyze, and forge PDF documents
Agreed. To add to your point about fewer mistakes, it is sometimes difficult to correlate the picture on the screen with what you are seeing on the actual road, causing you to miss turns.
No (at least based on this one hypothetical), unless you use that to justify institutionalised discrimination such as trying to prevent non black women from using dating websites because their asses are too small.
That's because Asians are perceived as feminine, while blacks are seen as masculine. Feminine men and masculine women aren't as attractive as masculine men and feminine women.
Is Google Voice finally getting the love it deserves?
GPS is a battery hog, that is maybe why they decided to use the phone's battery and GPS?
Supporting your first suggestion -- what are the best ways to improve education opportunities for prisoners?
Forgot to add: check out Apple's 80s clothing line. Probably looked way better than clothes from Microsoft.
"It does kinda scream: I needed to use a technology that was not eligible for the discovery process."

May be, but that's still better than the actual proof still being around.
I don't give a bag of squirrels how they get there, so long as they aren't putting themselves and me in danger or inconvenience.

I'm not responsible for their decision to bike, how they get to the trails is not my concern. They've decided to take up this hobby not me. I shouldn't be penalized or made liable for their decision.

It's not their right to impose upon me their safekeeping because they decided to take an unsafe and alternate form of transportation on road surfaces that are clearly not engineered or planned for bike usage.

If they want to lobby for better bike trails and safer areas to bike. I'll be right out there holding the sign at the rally. I'll even give up extra income in the form of tax dollars to make it a reality. Because it's good for everybody. But biking on high speed roads that are unsafe for bikes isn't good for anybody.
I gave multiple specific examples demonstrating how that incorrect assumption leads to nonsensical and cruel behavior. So, enjoy your nonsensical and cruel belief.
The entire salt->CVD claim has rested for years upon the assumption that the causal pathway is salt->BP->CVD. The IOM and FDA both talk about this extensively in their recommendations.
The only way to get this fixed (peacefully) is to raise a ruckus and get the public to fight their elected officials into Doing the Right Thing.

You can bet your ass that the number of dollars able to be rallied for this purpose is dwarfed by the incumbent interests. Further, it's trivial to say "Do you want to have your kid growing up next to an evil ~=felon=~?" and sway votes, because people are not rational above family-unit decisions.

So, understanding that it's probably a hopeless cause, the best thing you can do is support ex-felons, help them find work and learn useful skills, and vote whenever possible for anything that helps curtail or curb the police state.

That means voting for legalization of everything, full stop. That means voting for reduced surveillance powers, full stop. That means voting for less defense spending, full stop. That means voting for fewer crimes and smaller police forces, full stop. Anything else is playing into the hands of the oppressors.
Is Apple's 'Perspective' Film a Bit Too Much Like OK Go's Recent Viral Video?
No, it's not racist.

But it doesn't matter. What does it matter to a 4'11" black woman that on average, black women are taller than women of other races? What does it matter to you? Unless you love a woman with a large ass and you have to pick a random woman out of a hat filled with the names of women from only one race, then your best chance might be to select from the hat for black women.
Important (but a little lost in the article) is that in C++, your boxVolume function would compile until you tried to call it with the wrong type. However, the Haskell version won't compile, even if it hasn't been called.

In C++ templates, instantiating a template on a type that doesn't support the operations needed is a compile error (this is hopefully going to change with concepts), while in Haskell, writing a function requires you to constrain the types that the function operates on to prevent misuse.
Would you have said this to a black person in the 50s as comfort for their plight?
Add $50 and get Bose, around the ear, active noise cancelling ones.

Anything else if either going to hurt your ear or let the noise in or both.
1. What's the alternative, replication from an offline directory server? LDAP server could be in a VPN, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22217567/create-a-hybrid-...

2. Would need custom syncrepl client, e.g. http://www.python-ldap.org/doc/html/ldap-syncrepl.html

3. Just did some reading, apparently SSSD is the current best practice, it can work with different backends, including AD & LDAP, http://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/sssd-for-ldap-au... & http://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/sssd-for-ldap-au... & https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Enterprise/Authentication/sssd

4. Was that with OpenLDAP? Perhaps MS AD (works with sssd) gets more high-availabilty testing in the real world?
Think outside the box a bit. The watch is potentially a new input device, can simplify action and interaction (just look at the watch rather than pulling phone out of pocket)

It's gonna take some time to figure out the killer apps for this computing paradigm. There's nothing at all wrong with the Pebble, it's just that the apps to make it worthwhile don't really exist yet. Apple has enough dirty money to get other people to do the heavy lifting in that arena.
I wonder what this would look like adjusted for income. The same author wrote about how much income matters in online dating, especially when over 23 and making less than 100k.[1]. Other studies have shown that income is unequal by race, especially for high-paying jobs. (Unfortunately I'm struggling to find a source showing distribution rather than average, which is also lower[2].)

It'd also be interesting to see adjustments for height. I'd also think (see [1]) that that's where Asian men get lower response rates.

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online...
[2] http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0882775.html
Actually, to this day there are no (or at least few, we could debate about Qt Designer) C++ tools that will let you draw a UI, then double-click the button to enter the code of what should happen when you click that button. Is it pretty, or easy to learn how it works under the hood? No. Does it work, and work well? Yes.
>Why didn't you just buy a Nexus?

I'm trying really hard not to start a flamewar, but as someone who has exclusively used (and still uses) Android since the first Moto Droid, Google cannot be trusted, even with the Nexus brand. Take the Galaxy Nexus as evidence, where a similarly aged iPhone was still receiving the latest iOS updates. Or take NFC: Android users have been quick to mock Apple for using NFC, but every time I asked a clerk at the one store nearby that supported paying via a phone and NFC the clerk had never seen it used. Google doesn't tend to "finish the job" for lack of better words.

With respect to the grandparent and the "Fighting", I have to agree with the grandparent. There is NOTHING NEW in the iPhone 6 and yet I'm thinking about getting it and making it my first iOS device because I'm sick of fighting everything from updates to not having the latest apps (which are iOS first usually https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332000#up_4332278). The same thing happened with me and Linux as a desktop OS after years of use: http://xkcd.com/619/
Apple Watch's security feature
I was hoping that this would be about a unikernel for node.js, ala MirageOs, which would be quite interesting for running node directly on VMs, Xen, Raspberry Pi, and such.
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The right answer is they should fund all three. That was the intention of the program from the beginning. This would likely look like two full awards and one "half" award that would be more of a technology development effort. The reasons are three-fold.

1) Cost savings. If you look at the joint strike fighter as an example, as long as Boeing and Lockheed were both in the game costs for the program were historically low. Both companies built and flew prototype aircraft for $750 million each. That's crazy cheap. It was only after down-selecting to a single aircraft that the costs of the program ballooned out of control, because that's how defense contractors play the game when they have no competition. NASA's Ares and Orion programs, by contrast, were contracted out to various single winners from the beginning, who quickly ran up the tab.

2) Backups. In case one runs into technical difficulties, NASA will simply order more of one of the other companies. If you have a single winner, any kind of incident with either the launcher or the spacecraft will mean a stand-down of US human access to space for months, not years.

3) Variety of capability. Multiple winners means a variety of designs, differing capabilities, and a larger variety of technologies developed that might be useful for future spacecraft. E.g. SNC's horizontal landing.

Source: I had a hand in the initial design of the program.
I like the idea. CC'ing Sift seems scary for a user. What if it completely misunderstands the message and shows wrong info? That would look bad for the user. Is there a way to preview the message it sends to the other party?
That might be the reason that service dogs are typically of breeds that are least likely to cause allergic reactions.
Hey, short and average-looking white guys don't have it easy either.

It sounds like only tall and attractive white men have it easy.
Is the time saved by using Sift really that much better than just doing this myself?
> Extensive documentation with examples can be found inline in the source header files.

I don't see this as a proper way to do docs. At least give a first-time viewer a glimpse of what this might be useful for. I'm completely in the dark, myself.
I faced the same problem when I moved to SF last year. I'm not sure what the best way is. You could try going to meetups but its very hit and miss. Working from a co-working space (or even a coffee shop) might be helpful too. It all depends on how extroverted you are and how comfortable you are in approaching people and striking up a conversation.

I've been working on an iOS app to help hackers meet each other. Its called HackerLunch and I'm hoping to launch it next month (hackerlunch.com - sign up if you want me to email you when I launch).

The app basically pairs you up with another hacker everyday at lunch (or less frequently if you want). I tried to make the experience as frictionless and easy as possible. I'm hoping people will find it useful.
You're the first person in this thread to even use the word "hobby". Nobody else is talking about a hobby. They're talking about a means of transportation.
Apple's watch doesn't make you 'shit in your pants'& Is failure of imagination
I think the point about Swiss makers being in trouble with the younger generation is valid. I'm 28, and have always had a great appreciation for fine watches. This is mainly because I grew up seeing my dad appreciate them, and many of the people I'd classify as successful were appreciating them. I wonder though, how many in my generation will teach their children - intentionally or not - that a reasonably successful individual owns the best smartwatch to control their Tesla and their smart home, and not a Rolex? It isn't a stretch to think Rolex could partner with someone to be that brand of smartwatches. Today, smartwatches aren't competing with classic timepieces. In 10 years, there's a real chance that they will.
I don't know offhand, and I kind of wish that I did.

I imagine that you could probably talk to parole officers or local-nonprofits and ask for more information. If you hear about somebody getting out of the clink, offer to help I guess?

I assume it's basically like trying to setup help for any other underserved demographic. Identify them, identify their needs, and see if you have or know something worth contributing.
Yes. Actually, your Sift responds back in 3-5 seconds telling you what it thinks you meant and let's you simply confirm when it gets it right or edit any details it missed. Natural language processing is hard so our approach is to do the best job we can and make sure the user agrees; after all the customer/user is always right, not the algorithm.
Yes... I was referring to quantities... Bananas are mostly used for potassium, nutrition-wise.

Anyway, you're right proteins can be found virtually everywhere.
>Researchers create Maxwell’s demon with a single electron.

Edit: note the lack of indefinite article.
then if you're not a racist in dating, you're still probably a racist in something else in terms of the degree they're thinking.
On my iPhone and my desktop (at home and work).
Are you sexist if you're gay? I think we can rest assured that sexual preference has nothing to do with being racist.
My issue with the watch is the crown control. It just feels lazy to me to take a control mechanism made 100+ years ago for winding mechanical watches off your wrist, and repurpose it for digital control of a watch on your wrist.

Is it possible that the best possible UX solution for winding a mechanical watch and controlling a digital OS is exactly the same? Perhaps. But that seems improbable to me. It's hard to know until the thing is out in the wild, but I would expect a lot of people fiddling awkwardly with the top half of that tiny little dial as the bottom of the dial digs into their wrist. Doesn't seem terribly fun.

Or to look at it differently, both of Apple's other consumer hits (iPod, iPhone) introduced a navigation interface that was completely novel and way better than anything else on the market (iPhone => finger navigated multi-touch screen, iPod => rotary dial). A crown on a watch is definitely not novel, and I'm thoroughly skeptical it will be way better than its competition.

That being said, it's unlikely that this thing bombs. But as a test of innovation post-Steve, I'm just not seeing it. And over time, the luster of Apple will fade if there's no innovation.
Try it out and let us know? We're in closed alpha but I can share an invite link.

Of course with Siftnet you cut down on the back and forth but more importantly you've given the other person an opportunity to find a time with you as soon as you send your first e-mail to them. You don't have to deal with the delay of back and forth emails or people going on vacation half-way through the meeting negotiation process.