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> If not, automatics may go the way of film cameras.

I think you're missing the fact that the mechanical watch industry is already post-apocalypse (i.e., the Quartz Crisis that started in the 70s).

The current mechanical watch industry does not exist for anything other than emotional reasons and won't see that much of an impact from another $400 electronic watch.

As a collector myself I think it's an interesting development for the industry and I'm sure I'll buy some version of the Apple Watch. I doubt it will replace one of my mechanicals as a daily wear.
Homekit is apples solution to the first point.

Siri talks to homekit compatible apps/devices. So in that scenario it's up to nest to support homekit, the way Honeywell are (apparently)
The article had me until about 3/4 of the way through.
(still a good article).

We can't, and we won't, abolish the prison system in the foreseeable future. What we can and what we should do is enact some drastic reforms of our criminal justice system. The old guard needs to be removed from it's duties almost to the man. The CJ system in the US has become an expensive, shameful joke and without a doubt, causes far more harm than good to our society.
I think it must be conceded that Apple was much more aggressive in on-boarding POS systems and credit card companies than Google, and for that they deserve credit. Google moved first with the tech, said "here, go forth and code for it", and didn't get a ton of traction.

Apple went so far as to even get a cut of the credit card transaction fees if Bloomberg was right.

Even Paypal hasn't had a ton of success trying to be THE mobile payment platform, and what was poking fun at Apple actually turns around, IMHO, to be a stab at themselves for not delivering on a system themselves.

"Nobody can dispute Apple's strong track record, but payments is a difficult area," PayPal's Rob Skinner told TechRadar. "It's much more difficult to do payments than to keep a live stream working."
This. This is exactly what I want. As a poster above said, they're all a taxi service to me -- now get me there cheaper and faster.
I primarily program for Android. One of my personal apps has bounced between $1000 and $2300 a month in revenue since May 2013. Over 99% of that was ad revenue (the other <1% were experiments in alternative revenue). Not spectacular, but I've been happy with it, and I have other Android apps making money on ads as well.

Many websites make money on ads, why not apps? In mobile ads versus web ads, mobile has drawbacks and advantages. Some of the advantages have not been fully employed yet. If John Doe is walking through a mall, a Macy's ad can spring up for a sale within that mall. Mobile is still in its nascent stage, and ad networks to support it are still in early days.

Insight into what Android consumers are willing to spend money on is next to nothing. Ecommerce companies have cruddy Android apps, and their web sites look horrible in a phone.

One billion Android phones will be sold this year. Lack of Android consumer willingness to spend has little to do with them, and a lot to do with how little businesses have been giving users. Making money with Android is like shooting fish in a barrel since, for whatever reason, companies and programmers aren't stepping up to do add-ons for the billion Android phones that will sell this year. That may be changing though - three years ago the New York Android meetings fit around a table at a bar, now they're sponsored by companies and overflowing the 200 person registration limit. So that infrastructure is getting built out. Until then, we know next to nothing about the overall willingness of Android consumers to spend.
I just took the last sentence from the paragraph, "Name this German author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice", put it in Google, and the answer popped right up.

I guess I'll have to read the paper and play with the data set, but the example wasn't very convincing. :)
The Apple's sales market share of non-phablets <5" is known, around 20% for 14Q2 where sub-5" make up 60% of the total market ( Tomi Ahonen).

The upcoming hidden truth is that Apple is on its way for a single digit global smartphone market share. It's main strength appears to be the operator lock in in US mainly and elsewhere. Moto360 and others are even competing against this point with a price lower than just the contract prepayment.

Another problem is the looming lower overall smartphone growth next year, which will drive prices further down. Fred Wilson ended up being right, in that, the smartphone market turned out to be similar to PC market where a dominant ~90% Android will be next to a single digit Apple.
Here are some of his photos on his web site. They're really quite good.

http://oliverhellowell.com/portfolio.html
There's a great BBC documentary called "Apples: British to the Core" [1] which has a very nice look into the history of apples, how they were cultivated, and how classic varieties are becoming lost. Everything leads back to the Cox Orange Pippin.

I live in Europe now, and enjoy a wide variety of interesting regional apples. Whenever I return to the USA I'm disappointed by the selection and quality of apples available. Red and green. They look nice, but often are waxy and bland.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUAJ0F1oH-M
I dunno about you - when I first tasted it, I thought SweeTango was like Honeycrisp on steroids. Although I fully concede that my reaction could have been like the folks in the study where they showed people rate more expensive wines higher than the cheaper ones.
Not surprisingly, the argument fly by wire versus manual input reminds me of countries that switched from medieval measurements to the modern metric system. This is one of the most difficult changes to make, as America’s multiple, but badly implemented attempts since anno 1700 show. Most people have the tendency to stick to what they know regardless whether it is cumbersome, costly, or hopelessly outdated. Yes, there is reason for this inertia and it is called HABIT. Most of us are happy with what we know irrespective of its drawbacks, because it does after all work, doesn’t it? There is a reason for this innate attitude, “it is much more difficult to unlearn something than learn something new”. Yet it can be done as almost 7 billion people on this planet confirm with metrication. It will probably take a new generation of pilots not wedded to manual flying to appreciate the advantages of fbw. If they would have to change back to manual flying they would have all the arguments many of the present pilots have against fbw, such is habit.
You made changes to your diet other than just reducing salt intake. How can you conclude it was the salt?!
Another variety resource:

http://www.mercier-orchards.com/apple-varieties/
I would expect it to be culturally balkanized. Didn't say otherwise. Just sharing my experiences. Seemed to be what someone was asking about.
I laughed when he wrote that Android customization is basically alternate keyboards and widgets. Clearly he's never even held one in his hand. I switched to Android after four iPhones and I'm amazed at how much easier and quicker it is to do things on Android when I have total control over the UI.
It is not inherently authoritarian to have cctvs. It can just as easily be an anarchist or libertarian concept. It really depends on who pays for and controls the cameras, who has access to the recordings, and what punishments can be given to those recorded while committing a crime.
2014
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 Is…Alfred! "Disclosure: CrunchFund invested in Alfred, but Mike Arrington was not a finals judge, nor in the judging room"
Of course, it's a "once in a lifetime event" that happened in 2014, a pure coincidence and there is absolutely no conflict of interests)! However, to be 100% sure there is no repeating pattern here let's check...

2013
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Is… Layer! "Disclosure: One of Layer’s seed investors is CrunchFund, an early-stage VC fund cofounded by Michael Arrington, who also founded TechCrunch."
http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc...

2012
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Is… YourMechanic!
Impressive list of investors includes "CrunchFund (disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is a general partner of CrunchFund), SV Angel (disclosure: judge David Lee is managing partner of SV Angel)..."
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/12/techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2012-...

2011
And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 Is…Shaker
Disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is an investor in Prism Skylabs and is a pending investor in Shaker.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/and-the-winner-of-techcrunc...

As I've predicted, no pattern, you can have any color car win TC as long as it is black (aka backed by, you know...)

Disclosure: I am not trying to mix correlation with causation here, just reporting facts and suggesting to discuss those facts. This comment is meant to start discussion on fair play on the most prestigious global Startup competition, and I have no personal positive or negative feelings or other type of bias to any entities or personalities involved.

PS edited by adding 3 empty lines for better formatting
Some of my favorite paper's on Maxwell's demon are:

http://www2.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Exorcist1....

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Exorcist2.p...

...and to ease into things, an article by one of the authors:

"The Simplest Exorcism of Maxwell's Demon -- No Information Needed"

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/exorcism_phase_vol/exo...
On a personal level it is probably in most cases (all but the most extreme) very hard to disentangle racism from preference. It’s also not necessarily conscious or intentionally malicious, either. That doesn’t stop it from being racist, though.

I think everyone agrees that not dating someone based on their race can be consciously racist. (“I’m not dating xyz people because they are all so dumb!”) The belief that conscious racist believes can influence who someone finds attractive and who not surely isn’t very controversial.

Is it then too much of a leap of faith to believe that our own image of what’s attractive and what’s not can also be less consciously influenced by the society we grow up in or the media depictions of different people we see – and that that society and those depictions can and often are racist?
Does Alfred actually have a market beyond "overworked and overpaid techies"?
Actually, I quoted utterly uncontroversial, industry standard stats. I'd response to your other points, but I don't quite understand what you're trying to say. Apple sold around 20% of all smartphones in Q4 2013 (it's pretty cyclical) and is at or around 10% of all phone sales - this number is rising steadily.
Another interesting thing is how the size of the apple affects the flavor. My local super market sells two sizes of Fuji apples, 'Large' and 'Lunchbox'. For whatever reason, the large ones have exponentially better flavor than the smaller ones.
Thanks for the clarification - that's what I meant. I'm not sure I can edit the parent post.

Salt does have an immediate effect on blood pressure, as you said, because of osmotic effects. Increased salt in the intravascular space will draw water from other areas into the vessels, thus increasing blood pressure. The kidney has both osmotic and pressure sensitivity.
I actually disagree. It seems crazy - yes. But, in Europe you have many families that have a maid that does a little bit of everything. These maids are super expensive here - only the top 1% have them. So you have an alfred + the different sub-services, and you are good to go. The sum of all of that is less than a European maid, and you don't have to deal with the details.
It sounds too much, but for a family with two working parents, it is a luxury that I am sure is hard to do without, once you have tried it.
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moto g is made by motorola, which is no longer owned by google. As far as I know manufacturers are not making any money from ad revenue.
That's not what I wrote. I said that iOS8 addresses some of these points, with keyboards as just one example, and that the key difference is now personal taste rather than screen size or availability.

Clearly some people prefer iOS and others Android. But that's not the issue, is it?
it's amazing how the human can make a plant like the banana and maize evolve to fulfill our needs
npm as your package manager:

npm install -g

node as your shell:

node

An actual minimalist kernel booting to node might be interesting. But this isn't that. This just looks like plain node and npm, except locked down and made complicated for no reason.
Hi, thanks for putting this together and releasing it. I'd like to use it on our corporate intranet, but we use the OAuth2 implicit flow with JSON web tokens. Does hello.js support this use case?
Awesome, joined. Any reason for using Telescope, not Discourse?
(1) Counterpoint: Apple has much better taste than other OEMs. They've hired designers from Burberry and Nike to assist with wearable design. Design is a core competency for Apple. Others can't claim the same thing.

(2) More data gets you a couple of percentage points on accuracy. It doesn't make Google Now infinitely better in perpetuity than Apple's offering (Siri + whatever is next). Apple is also investing heavily in building out Siri/Maps/NLP.
It's going to be interesting how all this technology finds an use and abuse in the long term
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ROTFL at mobile sniffing as a premium feature in a consumer product segment selling 400m units a year. Thanks!
Have you tried Envy? The ones I've gotten this year have been a great combination (for me) of crispness and great flavor.
There appears to by a typo in one of the lines.

The line

6 * (if 3 == 0 then 1 else 1 * (YF)(1–1))

The previous line is
6 * (λx.(if x == 0 then 1 else x * (YF)(x–1)) 1)
When replacing the x s with 1s, it replaces one of the x s with 1, but replaces the first one with 3.

My guess was that this was copied from the first version, and they just forgot to change one of the threes to a 1.

(that is, unless I misunderstood something, which is of course possible)

I think the line should be

6 * (if 1 == 0 then 1 else 1 * (YF)(1–1))
ok, tried to make it better. Apple iPhone Plus may dent into >5", phablet category where in Q2 it has 0%, which makes 40% of overall. For the Larger sub 5" Apple has 20% share of sales in Q2.
You get the same amount of ads whichever platform you use. The only difference is by using Google services on either platform, the ads served by Google will be more targeted. How is the user worse off in this arrangement? They use superior apps, pay less for the phone, and get less annoyed by non-relevant ads.
While it may be legally untrue, it's not ethically or emotionally untrue. If you were to take out a cyclist and be legally not at fault, don't you think you'd carry around some sense of responsibility?
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Those are the statistics I'm aware of, yes. Not listed is the supposed statistic I'm seeking.
It has always been the other around if you ask me.
That is simply untrue.

How exactly would you make an amino acid from glucose or a fatty acid? There is no nitrogen in either of those.

All those amino acids are made from OTHER amino acids.
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“Samsung copies from Apple whatever is successful there, Apple copies from Samsung/Google whatever is successful there.”

That doesn’t really sound like innovation.

EDIT: Never mind, I didn’t pick up on the actual gist of your comment, that being the copying done by each company forces the other to come up with new, possibly innovative ideas to one up the competition.
Excellent news. I'm waiting for it to open up in Israel, though we tend to get short-changed with product launches since we're a small country.
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Agreed. I thought the runner up, Shipstr, sounded even more satiric:

Shipstr streamlines the complex, opaque, unreliable, time-consuming and expensive international shipping industry through a cloud-based aggregation platform.

All I really wanted to was... which of these apps is going to "help make the world a better place"?
Ask HN: What motivates you?
I have been thinking for a while and came to the conclusion that money doesn't motivates me but competition does. Sadly I haven't find any competition lately so I am trying to get unstuck and get new ideas.
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Quick question for the ocaml crowd: what keeps you with ocaml when you have a very similar and more easily parallelized f# available? I ask as an outsider to both, but a fan of ML-ish languages in general. Would Jane Street ever be open to using F# or Haskell or Rust or Scala?
red delicious in sfbay area have been uniformly mealy or mushy. My favorite fruit is apples and I can still barely eat them. I think people are just unhappy lots of grocery stores stock only red/golden delicious with maybe a granny smith, or at least primarily red delicious. Plus the name offends...
> moto g is made by motorola, which is no longer owned by google.

Well, except in the real world, where Motorola Mobility is still a division of Google, though a deal for a sale has been reached with Lenovo that's expect to close by next year.
I'm still not sure what kind of information I want to be delivered via my watch...
That's an often bandied about excuse, but actually completely wrong - TI has continued to support existing customers and not only did Google go on to use an OMAP4 in Google Glass, but the Moto360 actually uses an OMAP3.

Google simply stopped supporting the Galaxy Nexus because they didn't feel like it.
I'll take a Spartan or nice n sour McIntosh any day over a mushy bruisy oversweet red "delicious".
Why is this front page? Facebook has had free voice calls in their messaging app for almost a year now.
Or is there? Nutrition "Science" is fucking Phrenelogy
You can commute with a car or some other non endangering transport mode. But you chose to bike. If your bike infrastructure is poor and you still chose to bike then that's not my problem in the least.

It's a hobby no different than a guy who commutes with his sports car collection.
No, you don't get to "choose the terms". We are not your minions. You are having a public discussion with other human beings who are not obliged to cater to your whims and post-hoc rationalizations for your abusive and threatening behavior.
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Well, I just don't think that most of the people who wear watches as jewelry (like myself) care for a watch to do any more than it already does. I appreciate the beauty of a watch and the (old school) engineering behind it. I don't want something like this. Just a different market.

To give you some perspective, I'm a bit of a watch freak, certainly not the norm. Hell, I visit and participate in more than one watch forum on a daily basis. Mine is the general sentiment being expressed in those forums.
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Dean Edell broke the salt "news" decades ago. Apparently the misapprehension all dates back to some diet of peaches and rice (high in potassium) which helped regulate blood pressure of people with kidney disease. People have been quoting it as a fact since then.
The reality is, people with healthy kidneys can excrete excess salt, and sodium/potassium balance is what is actually important. Since most people are eating processed garbage, they don't get enough potassium.
The fact that Apple is making the watch body out of solid gold (in one model) is interesting. It suggests:

A. They will do future upgrades to the internals of the watch to make it current with the latest model.

B. They will allow trade-in for a small fee to the latest version with the same case material (and recycle the gold in the case into a new watch).

If they didn't one of these, a customer would soon feel that their rather expensive watch had fallen behind the technology curve.

My guess: B
(I wonder how many people downvoted it because they disliked what I said, and how many downvoted it as a proof of concept?)
Pink lady is an incredibly sufficient baking apple, but for raw flavor and texture (and admittedly there's some home town pride here), nothing has ever eclipsed a proper sized Honeycrisp for me.
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What is missing from the Apple Watch?
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40 years ago red delicious were small with firm flesh and a great taste and even better refrigerated. They were also uncommon and perhaps more expensive than the locally grown McIntosh.

Now... red delicious are usually mealy and blandly sweet.

I really miss those oh so delicious apples of my youth.
Sure. But if anyone wanted to use your mirror, how would they know you didn't make changes to the base package without crypto? :)
Interesting; while I agree with your ideals, I find they lead me to the opposite conclusion. Red delicious were never crisp enough, compared to Gala which are consistently crisp, and for a lot longer.
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Getting started with Arch Linux gave me a headache. That was 2 years ago. Have they gotten better?
Oh sweetheart. Bless you.
I think the Swiss watchmakers would be more concerned about the label "dumb watch" than any threat to their sales.
Sin of PI is not even close to 0 on iphone
Try it out on the iphone calculator.
It was downvoted because it was manifestly false and destructive.
Well that escalated quickly.

If you look again you'll see I didn't ask for an opinion, like "are cheques a good way to transfer funds" I asked for confirmation/updates about a previously documented fact - the use of cheques in us banking.
This is awesome! but I want to ask, did this, at any point of time, felt like sacrificing free time that could have been used for other fun activities?
Destructive? In a literary sense, or in a "10 tons of TNT" sense? I'm no literary critic if that's what you're implying.
Honestly, it might be time to put the pejorative term "Linux distribution" to death. It was pretty true when there was Slackware and Debian, but the we're not talking about two stalks off of the same evolutionary branch anymore, but an entire ecosystem of different animals.

Modern "distributions" ship with vastly different libcs (bionic, newer vs older glibc, muslc), different userland runtimes (busybox, "GNU/Linux" with core utils, etc), different compilers (various branches of gcc, llvm increasingly), different init systems (SysV, upstart, systemd, etc), different security frameworks (AppArmor, SELinux), different display servers (X, Wayland, unfortunately Mir and SurfaceFlinger) and vastly different UIs (from Android, to GNOME and its fragmentations, to KDE and its fragmentations, LXDE and XFCE, and so forth). You can't even bet on the file system hierarchy being the same anymore, with aberrations like NixOS running around. The saddest part is that Linux is the most some of these operating systems have in common, and these days it can easily have the least overall impact on most of the users. These things are completely different animals, loosely bound by design contracts like FreeDesktop.org's various specs and Linux Standard Base specs which everyone violates in new and unique ways.

Not treating these operating systems as entirely different entities is being at best dishonest, and at worst is costing millions, perhaps even hundreds of millions of dollars in effort across the industry. You can't honestly target "Linux" as a platform because it's not a platform. If you've maintained, or especially if you've distributed any piece of software on "Linux" these days, you've seen the horrors.
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