skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/09/apple-watch-interface-or...
The same thing happens with my daughter: periodically Facebook thinks she is my wife or myself.
I'm generally pretty open about using web technology outside the web, but come on guys, why do we need this?
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How is this useful exactly? I suppose there are JS bindings for GNOME (if I remember correctly) so getting a GUI stack wouldn't be that difficult, if that's where they want to go.

I just don't see how using NodeOS would be an advantage over any other *NIX distro.
Apple Watch is not a watch.

It's a computer on your wrist that will be used for special tasks where little but precise information is required.

It's all about presence, NFC, iBeacon, sensors, iTags, etc.
How long is this going to last before one of the services shuts it down, claiming some kind of EULA noncompliance (or some other flimsy excuse to avoid competition)?
Uh, yes, when it comes to women's safety and women's rights, men have literally nothing to add to the discussion. It isn't the 1800s. Men do not own women's bodies or spaces.

Thinking that your opinion is universally relevant is simple entitlement.
Our lead investor suggested we do this and it's been working very very well. The one time we didn't do it, it was a major screw-up.

Lots of negative comments about this from people looking at it from the employees side. Have you considered the impact on the employee if you just hire them full-time and it doesn't work out? They've quit their other full-time job (yes, we hire part timers who are at other companies while they're working there), potentially moved house, made other irrevocable decisions related to their new job with you. It's a disaster if you have to let them go in 3 to 6 months and it's very hard to get re-hired once you've gone through that - not only does it look bad on your resume but your self confidence is shot.

So a 30 day try-out IMO works extremely well for both employer and employee. Remember, you're trying out the company too during those 30 days.
The smartwatch represents the beginning of a new era: the unbundling of the smartphone. Like Marc Andreessen pointed out with his last tweet in this storm (https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/481554165454209027), "Unbundle X from Y, but then use the liberation of X as leverage to do amazing new things with X."

This thought framework has me convinced that watch-like wearables have a place, but I think the fact that the Apple Watch doesn't "fit beneath the shirtsleeve" as OP points out is a major ding: form is as important as function for such a jewelry/tech hybrid. A 2x slimmer second generation of the Apple Watch will get /everyone/ on board.
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Energy burned needs to be >= energy taken in.

Neither of which have any direct or consistent correlation to physical activity or food consumed. And that's the problem; everyone's body responds differently to a host of factors, and we don't understand the factors or the responses.
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"Social security is a essentially an age-tested basic income."

Kind of irrelevant to the point regardless of whether the statement is correct because social security, if it did not already exist (but all other things were somehow still the same) would (incredibly unfortunately, IMO) have absolutely no hope of being instituted in this country either.

The US of 2014 is not the US of 1935.
>If anyone can build a market from scratch it is Apple, but why would the younger crowd want a watch at all? Unless you are older than 30 (or perhaps even older), you likely aren't in the habit of wearing a watch. What is going to compel the younger crowd to do so?

If they're gonna buy it it won't be on the merits of its watch functionality. So it's not about being a watch, in the same way (or actually far more so) than a smartphone is not about the phonecalls.

It's a machine you wear on your wrist that also happens to tell time.

Mind you, what the "younger crowd" wants is not really that predictable in the sense of "why would they buy a watch".

If it becomes a kind of fashion statement, they'd buy it, the same way hipsters now buy vests and hats (the kind of which people haven't really wore since 50 years or so), huge headphones (something that was a tiny market a decade or so ago, despite everything being available), etc.
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I don't see why codereflection needs to spell it out. The problems with npm, and JavaScript in general, are quite apparent to anyone who has used them. And if you haven't used them, a quick search engine search will turn up this information many times over.

It'd make sense to ask for such clarification if the information truly wasn't available elsewhere, and accessible with a quick search. But that's obviously not the case.

It's pointless to rehash this obvious stuff over and over and over and over again.
What you're doing is being an asshole, and I'm not talking about the purported hobby. You need to get yourself sorted out before this instability affects your relationship with more than just the pixels on your screen that you obviously can't conceive of as fellow human beings.
As terrible as this article is, I have to agree with the basic premise; there are three times it's socially acceptable to kill someone in the US.

a) human privilege - If someone is actively and maliciously threatening the life of me, or my immediate family.
b) 'castle doctrine' - If someone enters my home with malicious intent.
c) They're on a bicycle.

It does seem you can have a more reasonable debate over whether it's acceptable to kill someone who is actively in the process of a non-lethal crime, than it is to debate the murder of someone who added several seconds to your daily commute.
> Oh, another fun fact, those little stickers on bananas? They were one of the first examples of 'branding'

Not even close. Craftsman's marks -- the original trademarks -- are pretty much the original form of branding, and predate banana stickers by by probably on the order of a couple thousand years.
Yes, bad things, i.e. memory corruption.

Manual memory management means it's up to the programmer to get it right.
For anyone who's in interested in learning more about bananas, overthrowing governments and installing puppet dictators (before it was cool!) told in a true fast-paced rags-to-riches tale I highly recommend the book: "The Fish That Ate the Whale". So, so good.
Huh, in SF starting from my place to all of the places I might go Lyft wins consistently, and sometimes by as much as 1/2 of the taxi price.
Not to sound like a dick, but:

> Neither of which have any direct or consistent correlation to physical activity or food consumed.

is almost always bullshit. People who truthfully track their calories and err on the side of caution (did I eat 1 cup of yogurt or 1.5?) rarely end up surprised.

Sure, some people have thyroid conditions. If you do, you're the minority and you should get it treated. Otherwise, your body is pretty much the same as everyone else's with respect to metabolic rates (when age is factored in).
> But I think assuming that someone who posts a blog posting in a blog about watches with a history of writing about watches is probably not so easily bought.

That was, in a roundabout way, my point; it seems silly to cry "omg, Apple shill!" with no evidence beyond "he said something nice about the iWatch" (and it is equally as silly for me to cry "omg, Samsung shill!" on nothing but the basis of "he said something unkind about Apple"). I'm afraid absurd tone doesn't come through well on the internet.

This is precisely the kind of article I'd expect from a watch aficionado. One can look at it with a suspicious eye, but unless there's something to indicate that they were bought, it's silly to call them out as such.
There is a fine line between using things like color as a tool to shape a product, versus using them as an option to sell a product. I know which side Jobs was on.
Operating Systems written in JavaScript, Webframeworks written in C.

It sure is a strange world we live in.
yeah...people somehow manage to justify buying anything that apple makes. And nothing wrong with that, just interesting observation.
http://jackf.net/bezier-clock/bezier_clock.pde
It could just be because you're harvesting them when ripe, similar to how tomatoes grown in your garden seem to have 10 times the flavour as the store bought ones.

However, I wouldn't rule out a difference in the actual flavour being a big factor too.
There's zero evidence so far that Motorola can even last 12 months in this market, and lots of evidence to say they can't, like their abject failure in the cellphone market. Ludicrous to say that their lukewarm Moto 360 effort, featuring a CPU that's 4 years old, terrible performance, cheap look-and-feel, and extremely poor battery life, could even be a serious threat to Apple's engineering efforts.
> Can you exhaust your social security?

No, no more than you can exhaust a purchased annuity. Which is also not like an age-tested BI.

> Or is it an entitlement that you have to qualify for (credits over a number of years) and then can continue to draw until death?

Right, so, exactly not like BI, which is equal and unconditional (even excluding consideration of the influence of age, since its specifically based on the amount of contributions, adjusted by the the wage index from the time they were earned, and then adjusted by the CPI from the time benefits started being drawn.

In a sense, its more of a retrospective reverse-means-tested benefit program, which makes it about as far from BI as you can be and still be a government benefit program at all.
>Wow, what a crazy review. No mention of materials, which seems odd for a 'watch guy' review. I have to go to apple.com to read: A new aluminum alloy? "that’s 60 percent stronger than standard alloys"?? No mention of the sapphire crystals? Or the strengthened Ion-X glass? As a watch guy, that's what I want to hear about. Is it lighter than titanium, or heavy like a stainless watch? Is the crystal domed? Reflective? What is the ceramic back? I'll be honest, this reads like a crap review.

That wouldn't be a watch review I'd want to read, that would be the analogous of what we say in the photography forums "pixel peeping"/"measurebation" review (which, like the reviews you describe in watch circles, all too common).
> requires pairing with iPhone, not a standalone device with its own internet connectivity/gps

Standalone GPS is fine (even preferred - not replacing a forerunner) but another multi-band cell-radio? Simply sounds like a bad idea - the form factor is too small to make that feasible or interesting - for now.
It depends heavily on what you want out of life :)

To be frank, for what i was using it for at the time, my Pebble worked wonderfully. It showed my running pace and my text messages, and when i was about to miss a meeting. That was pretty much what it was good for (I know it theoretically has an app ecosystem, but i gave up on things like evernote for pebble within about 3 minutes).

Once I got the wear, i expected to just use it as a color version of that. But i don't. While I do all those same things, I actually find myself using it to look at notes, to navigate with walking directions, and when nobody is around, I ask it to do stuff for me when my hands are busy or my phone is not around. I often leave my phone on the counter when in the shop or outside, and if i wanted to respond on the pebble, I had to run back to grab it. If i want to respond on my watch, i can just talk to it for the most part. I basically use it as a companion device like i used to use my phone. It fulfills most of the basic purposes.

So, all that said, if you are happy with the iphone + pebble steel, and there isn't anything you are hankering for, i personally doubt i'd change ecosystems just on a lark. But, certainly, i've found myself doing a lot more with my watch since i moved away from my Pebble.

(I guess i should point out i just don't give a crap about some things, like charging daily or not. I have to charge my phone anyway. So when i go to bed, and put my phone on it's charger, i put my watch on it's charger. At least for me, it's not the deal-killer others seem to find it. Certainly, not worrying about charging the pebble as often was nice, but i have to charge other stuff anyway, so it's not a big deal)
Well, let's look at the results - coupons, watches, ... - yup some blackhat SEO is probably cursing whoever publicised this issue.
This all makes me so sad. I wish I knew how to help change the situation.
Write a Hacker News clone. It can be done within a few days. It includes all elements for a web app: basic MVC, storing stuff in a DB, handling authentication...
If you kill someone with the negligent operation of a firearm, I would expect you to be charged. If you kill someone with the negligent operation of a vehicle, why the free pass?

To be clear, no-one's debating honest accidents. But if you are at fault, you should be held to account for it.
>I honestly don't think Apple are too concerned about not selling a watch to that man. The watch is targeted at the hundreds of millions of teens and 20 year olds that are already attached to their iPhone, and want another gadget to connect to it and play with.

You are exactly right, which is why this is so worrying from an investment perspective.

No matter if you like it or not, the wealthy drive fashion and taste. The reason why we think of BMW, Porsche, Ferrari's as "luxury" is primarily because the rich buy them.

No stock trader is going to trade his Philippe Patek for a $350 watch that his pool-boy wears.

This is something that is not getting talked about. No one buys watches to tell time. They are almost exclusively used as status symbols.

This is the miscalculation in Apple's plan. No one needs a watch anymore. Trying to make one relevant for a purpose other than status symbol is going to be tough.

They should've made a "smart band" that connects to any watch face. That would've been a clever strategy.
> The part I don't like is where they call it road tax or environmental tax only to go ahead and use it for something completely different.

Well, even a little honesty may be too much to expect from politicians anywhere.

I'm guessing you were downvoted above by people who had trouble imagining the existence of a place where automobile ownership and use is taxed to the levels you describe.
Some things, like walking across Niagara falls, are inherently dangerous. Other things, like biking, are inherently safe, but are made dangerous by the actions of others.
These ancient structures typically have alignments towards sunrise and sunset at the equinox or solstice. It's not an every-day alignment; it's an indicator of the changing seasons.
Maybe we are somehow insanely good at interviewing engineers, but after a standardized 1 day interview I can't think of a single bad engineering hire we've made in the last year.

But, it may be much harder if you're only looking in the pool of people who are willing to work temporary contracts for $25/hour or "who are in jobs where they are unhappy".
It'll do well, considering how other premium products from apple sell. All those who buy an Apple product every time they release one...big enough market
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PSHDL is incredibly low-level & basic, afaik it doesn't even have functions & you can't define your own datatypes. I think it's a mistake to make a HDL language that aims to be 99% synthesize-able.
I didn't write this but I do agree with it: http://www.jandecaluwe.com/blog/its-a-simulation-language.ht...

I haven't looked a chisel yet (scala is my favorite software programming language though).
wonderful someones hacking on the Seiki 4k since the release a few months ago.
ah right ... my webprogramming is a bit lacking

edit: thanks
Honestly no idea, except just pointing it out when someone mentions it.

The whole ECC recommendation is due to ZFS (unlike other filesystems) providing guarantees to data correctness, but as you know while ZFS can discover data corruption on the disk thanks to checksums, it can't guarantee data correctness in RAM because because as any program it is bound to trust it. That's why ECC RAM is highly recommended.
I've been making free calls from the Hangouts app on my iPhone for many months. What's new about this?

I read the post nothing jumps out at me.
nothing really shocking here, except that asian women rating asian men jumped from +10% to +25% in the last 5 years. this is somewhat surprising as it puts them at the same level that white women rate white men. (drag the slider all the way to the right).

in other words, at least on okcupid, asian women rate white men and asian men with roughly the same bias. that's a big swing in less than 10 years.

come to think of it, i haven't heard the familiar "i don't date asian guys" come from an asian girl in a very long time, possibly years.
> It's equally depressing that otherwise intelligent people will try to argue against codes of conduct, not realizing that as white men, they have literally no say in the matter

If its codes of conduct for a community they are part of, they certainly do have a say (and can reasonably expected to leave the community and form their own if they are denied that say.)
The more established Swift resource center & community forum is here: http://swiftlang.eu
I understand how a watch guy would have strong feelings about the emotions and ideas behind a watch. But I think he is missing the greater context.

When an object has a permanence in utility and form, we have a certain relationship with it. This is the kind of emotion and relationship we have with watches. But the world changes, and very soon it will be competing against a different type of relationship. Our relationship with wearables may be skewed more to utility than heirloom. But that's OK because wearables represent the mesh of software with hardware, and software gives the ability to evolve. We will no longer have the singular relationship with one watch, but a broad relationship with a series of evolving wearables that slowly become more and more essential to our lives.

So no, we won't have the same emotions and same relationship with wearables as we did with watches. But that's just where the universe will be going.
We all do. I've got several -- one involving me and two more involving others -- that are so weird I'd have to tone them down quite a bit to make them believable.
> we hire part timers who are at other companies while they're working there

That seems problematic, even in states like California that don't enforce non-compete clauses...
Your entire argument is framed in the context of driving being a right and not a privilege. Cars do not own the road. Bicycles are vehicles and you have to treat them as such - it's the law. I'm not sure where you live but at least in the US many people take driving for granted since it's so easy to get a license, and so difficult to lose it (barring exceptionally negligent or irresponsible behavior). But there are rules of the road, and you do have to follow them if you want to partake in the benefits of driving.
I've never had a job that would be ok with me working part time for someone else. So I'd have to quit my job to do a trial run with you. At that point, I'm not sure it's better to be let go after 30 days instead of 90 or 180. I still have to look for a new job after having failed at one, and I still end up with a short stint on my resume (though I suppose it's short enough that I could reasonably leave it off). Also I don't understand how this addresses the relocation issue. If your company is in a different place than I currently live, aren't I going to be required to relocate regardless of how long my tenure is? Are people supposed to shell out for a hotel (potentially away from their families) for a month?
> Generally speaking proteins can be found in meat

That isn't true at all.

And it only brings up the question: Where does the meat get the protein?

Animals can not make protein (or more accurately amino acids), only plants can. (Maybe some microorganisms too? Not sure.) Animals can only rearrange existing amino acids into other amino acids or into proteins.

All plants have protein, some more than others. Grains and legumes have the most of the plants.
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Thanks! I completely missed that important fact :)
It's best to eat the bananas when they're still a little green; as they ripen their glycemic index increases. I think the Whole 30 list [0] of recommended fruit is pretty good.

[0] http://whole30.com/downloads/whole30-shopping-list.pdf
I can't think of any scenario where a driver could kill somebody in an accident where the driver isn't at fault for it, except for cases where the cyclist at fault gets themselves killed. How does it work?
Apple has a pattern of doing things like this. They launch things, and you say to yourself "what problem is that solving? who's going to buy that?" Then they iterate on the design and functionality of the thing, and apps get developed for the specific device, and suddenly it makes perfect sense. iPhone 1 was ridiculously feature bare. iPad 1 had no real great apps, and was pretty feature bare as well. We all know how those both turned out. That's what I imagine will happen with this one. I'm looking to version 2 or 3 for when these things become amazing.
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And the official e-book is available in multiple formats (PDF, MOBI, ePUB) on http://swiftlang.eu
thanks - this is my intuition as well .. :-]
> At the end of the day, they are all taxi services in my book.

Unless you live in New York, and are trying to get from Manhattan to one of the outer boroughs, in which case getting a yellow cab is a total crapshoot.
A lot of the article talks about the manufacturing process being so precise and sophisticated as a reason why the 'old school' watches are popular among his crowd.

It would be great to see apple release a video similar to the 'making the mac pro' that shows just how sophisticated and precise their manufacturing for the watch would be.. it might even get a few more people on board that have an interest in production quality.
The new models lock really quickly. I have a Garmin 620 and it locks within 30 seconds. Cloudy days might take a minute, but basically by the time I finish my warmup walk, it's locked on.
Question to America. Why do you tip the taxi driver but not the uber/lyft driver?

(SFO -> Pier 39 - Lyft is $31, Taxi is $49.96 + 15% standard tip = $57)
Automattic, the creator of WordPress, the blog and website tool. Still, every hire, without exception, goes through a two- to six-week contract period, and is paid the standard rate of $25 an hour.

$25/hour: seriously?
Sorry, those 3% that predate the automobile were meant for horses, carriages and pedestrians.

0% of the vehicle purposed roads in my area are meant for bikes.

However, I don't know how many miles of bike trails there are in my region, but the county next to mine has ~500miles of bike trail, with some non-negligible percentage being ultra high quality purpose built bike trails (paved, marked and lighted in many places.) I think my county has less, but the bits I'm aware of are all ultra high quality with most built within the last 20 years.

Is it world class? No. But I'd prefer if it was and I'd be happy to pay higher taxes to support it.
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There was a lot of reassurance that people "not wanting to date [race]" are not racist. Can someone explain to me where the line for racism lies?