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Most articles on how to raise your kids are crap, in the same vein as all those articles that told you salt would raise your blood pressure or eggs would raise your cholesterol levels. I didn't realize until I became one that parents are faced with a mountain of old wives tales, superstitions, luddism, etc, when it comes to their kids.

We're 'high tech' parents, and it works great. Our toddler has a 64GB iPad, and uses it to watch Doc McStuffins, Veggie Tales, etc. Our generation grew up in front of the TV, and the iPad is way better. It let's us control her exposure to content and pernicious advertising, for example.
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Ask HN: Any good audio podcasts?
Many of my favorite tech podcasts seem to be vanishing. What are your favorites and why?
Already in the Prison Treatment Act of 1945, the view was expressed that the deprivation of freedom itself should be regarded as the penal element of a prison sentence and not the actual prison experience itself. Thus, the PTA of 1974
states explicitly that an inmate shall be treated with respect for his or her human dignity. [1]

As ever when I look for an country that I think will be an example of doing something well, I start with the nordics. And I see that Sweden has recently closed 4 prisons because they don't have enough prisoners to fill them any more. [2]

I would love to hear counter points if my cursory reading has missed something - but in general I was once again impressed by the attitudes I see there.

[1] http://www.internationalpenalandpenitentiaryfoundation.org/S...
[2]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/11/sweden-closes-p...
This is a really toxic view of consumption. What level of consumption is moral to you? Can I buy a pack of chewing gum if I earn $100k? What if buying a $100k watch is a smaller percentage of my income than that pack of chewing gum?
So is it just available in NYC? I can't see their service area listed anywhere obvious on the site
"The Most Complicated Watch In The World"

How many people have ever walked into a jewelers and, when asked what they wanted from a watch, replied "I want it to be as complicated as possible - the more complicated the better".

A watch at that price does one thing and one thing only - it says loud and clear that the wearer is almost certainly richer than you.
Now I dont't need Crtl+u every time thanks man (Y)
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Works for me. Have you tried in p0rn mode?
Dieticians are not health professionals in the sense that doctors, RNs, or physician assistants are. The typical state requirement to be a dietician is a single multiple-choice test with some basic questions about health and nutrition. You might not even need a college degree.
Any word on what site(s) were hacked leading to this leak? I don't reuse any passwords so I'm not very concerned, but I'm the kind of person who just likes to be sure
Not to pick on you, but this attitude always frustrates me. Should all artists give up their work because creating it serves no "practical" purpose? There is a middle ground in all things, but who is to say where to draw the line?

I want to live in a world where watchmakers (and other artists) are free to make any awesome and expensive thing that they can imagine. Man does not live by bread alone.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripps_Pink

the Pink Lady is of the Cripps Pink variety. I suppose a lawyer would say a "Pink Lady brand Cripps Pink apple" :-)
I've used a couple of Android devices, with latest-ish OS versions and "Fantastically" is not a word I'd use in relation to their "density independent" operation

Care to state why?
Handling URLs with multiple slashes in them is tricky, lots of websites silently fold them into one and return the same content, so this seems like something we should handle in the same way in search.
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Beyond energy use, allergies seem also to be a by-product of growing up sanitised & sealed glass-and-steel boxes. Not that it helps people like you and me who already have them, but in the long-run saner construction might help avoid even that.

Yes, I agree that the long-term solution lies somewhere in the middle. Certainly it would be unwise for mass-adoption of mud buildings (not least because they're a LOT of work to maintain), but if architects and builders would become more open to mixing and exploring with traditional techniques and materials (which, lets face it, has been honed over a long period to deal with humidity, heat and uncomfortable climate before electricity) we could probably get much more comfortable and energy efficient buildings and also cities.

An acquaintance of mine, Laurent, works on this in eastern India [1].

1. http://vimeo.com/68119509
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Unfortunately not anytime soon, screen recognition mechanisms used in the app rely a lot on OSX foundations.
> What I've seen with my kids (under 10) is when they get an hour of phone or tablet, after they have to give it up again, they become very aggressive and behave in a manner which is comparable to someone with a chemical addiction.

My kid does that too. She also flips and starts screaming if you try to cut up her food instead of letting her try to eat pizza with a fork. I don't think it means what you think it does.
Interesting. I have a two year old and he will often get my 3DS down and play Zelda for 5-10 minutes. He puts it down after that and show none of the behavior you observe. He may just be too young to have a long enough attention span to care. However- he gets very angry when he has to come inside- the longer he is allowed to play outside, the more angry he gets.
The Stanford Emcyclopedia of Philsophy is usually a good source. If you're in Boston I'm going to be giving a Papers We Love talk on this stuff next week.
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I kind of agree. The article is kind of right in that it seems to be saying that they're not the same thing and that's right - the only real similarity is that they occupy the space on your wrist but that doesn't mean that it can't appeal to someone who likes high end mechanical watches (I have an IWC which I love but I'm still interested in the Apple watch).

After all, I have expensive leather shoes and trainers. Other than the fact they both go on my feet there is little similarity but I can and do own, use and like both.
I get the impression from the site that they have the fare rates, but are calculating distance and drive time using google maps and estimating the cost of the service. If this is true, they wouldn't need to use the API to run the site.
Except you didn't purchase it. So it's not one of your purchases that should be synced to your devices.

Additionally, given how little space most of my iFriends have on their phones, that's also a part of the issue.
I still think autonomous cars are far far away from being used on a daily basis, especially in other parts of the world - right now you need good weather, precise maps, well maintained roads and the cars are taken care of by a team of engineers. I just can't imagine such car, for example, in Italy - you would need to replace all cars at once, because people drive there like insane and an autonomous car wouldn't even move.
> Salt does have an immediate effect on blood pressure, as you said, because of osmotic effects.

Oh, that's also how it kills slugs! (Irrelevant remark; I've just put together two contexts containing "osmotic pressure").
I am sure poop can be used as a form of biometric ;-)
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> I've never met or heard of anyone (except in sensationalist and hence untrustworthy news reports) who was addicted to video games

Uhhh, what? There's a reason people called EverQuest 'Evercrack'. There was/is an entire website devoted to people who were addicted to WoW (wow-detox, no idea if it's still around) and had noticeable detrimental effects in their life from it.

There are most definitely games that encourage addiction, and while the vast majority can handle it responsibly there's a sizeable minority who can't (much like gambling).
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> Hang on, we all enjoy the process of dating, right?

Well, I don't know. Is there really nothing you'd rather do with that much time and money?

And if the relationship only lasts some 5 years... :x
My brother had a demo of Grim Fandango in a ZIP archive, and it didn't include the Lua DLL. When we reran it years later, we first had to recompile Lua (3.1?) before the game would run.

That's how I learned it was using Lua. I believe it was the first large scale use of Lua in a game, certainly the first I encountered.
To start, one I try not to miss is FLOSS Weekly, which always brings in some interesting free/open source project. There is also the NPR Hourly News Summary and the WSJ Tech News Briefing (which are fairly short), Steve Blank's Customer Development for Startups (always valuable lessons) and Grady Booch's On Computing (always deep).
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I grew up in a house that had one.

Pros: Really effective at temps below 95F; Way cheaper to run than central air (but variable flow mini-splits might be closer).

Cons: Noisy; Sucked in dirt & dust from outside; The closed metal louvers didn't provide any insulation in the winter (so we had to put an insulated box over it); Didn't help much when humidity was sky-high.

Might be a good option for overnight cooling in a house with battery-backed solar (would have to run the numbers to see).
Unfortunately, in a lot of places there is a regression in this area.
Unfortunately in India it's generally Fahrenheit as well, independence from the British didn't remove that piece of the imperial system (in length it's even more confusing where shorter measures feet and inches are preferred while for longer once m and km...).
Steve Jobs was a deeply flawed human who did many bad things, but I don't think it's fair to conflate who he was in his fifties with who he was in his twenties. And ultimately, the article is not about him anyway.
I don't really have a question, but as a ZoL user I'd just like to say thanks for all the hard work.

It makes management of my disk arrays pretty painless and has some fantastic migration/recovery stuff going on. All of which I'm sure you know!
I assume that other big internet companies also practice chaos engineering under a different name, but having such a name for the job is awesome. It highlights the difference to traditional stress testing. Names have surprising power. Growth Hacker was a bit annoying but very effective title trend and it helped to communicate the different approach to traditional marketing efforts. I think Chaos Engineer has the same potential.
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This app is fantastic! I can finally return all purchases to online retailers without leaving home. No more clutter of clothes I'm never going to use!
Hi Sahat!

Neat coincidence seeing this post. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon your tutorial for the tv show tracker application, and I went through it line by line. After that I decided to make my own web application and your tutorial was 100% what gave me the foundation and concepts to do that.

So thanks for the great write up, and ever since starting the project I've pushed every day! Only 11 days, but I hope I can get 365 as well.
differing OS versions (half of the devices out there use a 2 to 3 year old OS)

That stat is pretty out of date by now. Android <= 2 now only accounts for 12% of devices, and most app devs aren't targeting it any more.

And Android might have 5000 devices, but it doesn't have 5000 screen sizes. Still more than Apple has, but hardly 4992 more.

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/09/androids-kitkat-clos...
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My regulars:

- Forever Jobless

- Mad Marketing with Marcus Sheridan

- Smart Passive Income with Pat Flynn

- Empire Flippers

- The Nathan Berry Show

- Kalzemus Podcast (like twice a year there is a new ep.)

Those are the ones I haven't got tired of yet.

I used to like Startups For The Rest Of Us and The Foolish Adventure, but I sort of grew out of both of those as they got repetitive or I started to dislike the hosts (familiarity breeds contempt).
Most oximetry is performed optically, actually[1], and it is the technology Apple is drawing from to determine heart rate[2]. It's not difficult to build an oximeter[3], though reliable and calibrated O2 sat[4] numbers may be more challenging to derive from a device in the form factor of a consumer watch.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplethysmogram

3. http://www.swharden.com/blog/2013-04-14-simple-diy-ecg-pulse...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_saturation_(medicine)
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Thanks. I'm using SQLite for the rebuild.
Am I the only one that noticed the iPhone on the left is actually a 5s and not a 6?
Yeah being able to set some kind of threshold in the edge detection would be super handy.

It also struggles with textured backgrounds..
I cannot understand this "Watch lover" crowd. That hourglass looks ridiculous, I wouldn't buy that at a garage sale. And even with all the things he didn't "love" about the watch, he still is going to buy one (but might not daily wear). I'd say that's a win for Apple with version 1.0.

That said, I am not the market for a smart watch at all. I don't wear jewelry, and my phone already does a great job of telling time and showing me messages.
Actually he (rather, his parenting style) is the subject of the article...
Great blog post! Something from personal experience. OpenZFS on FreeBSD feels mostly like a port of illumos ZFS where most of the non-FreeBSD-specific changes happen in illumos and then get ported downstream. On the other hand, OpenZFS on Linux feels like a fork. There is certainly a stream of changes from illumos, but there's a rather non-trivial amount of changes to the core code that happen in ZoL.
I couldn't find it either. As an Android user in a Flyover State, I'm sure that this service will be unavailable to me for at least a few years.
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Billion Dollar Companies Use Referral Programs
In terms of light entertainment I enjoy Merlin Mann's stuff:

Roderick on the line: http://www.merlinmann.com/roderick/

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And you are welcome to try and stay in any of the southern countries of EU in summer and survive without AC - Portugal, Italy, Spain, Greece are all unbearable without AC.
What do the likes of Uber, Airbnb and Dropbox have in common?

Billion-dollar valuations? Check.

Slick Office Space? Check.

Customer Referral Programs? Check.

Wait what was that last one..That’s right.. Customer referral programs. They’re used by all three of these companies.

Now I’m not saying that these programs were the silver bullet, I don’t believe any company grows from a single tactic. These companies grow by using a playbook of different growth tactics and create a culture of innovation where creative and analytical people can thrive.
>Am I really the only one to think that the Apple Watch is just ugly?

If you think it's ugly, it's ugly. I'd prefer a round watch, personally, but to each his own. However, the watch looks really well made and the straps look great. Two downsides for me: iPhone-only (I'm not going leave Android) and (potentially) battery life.

>Most of the guesswork 'prototypes' were far more compelling

Really? Most of them aren't possible with current technology (or ever). I'm also not a big bracelet guy.
American mass-produced fruits are in general disgusting. They are tasteless and watery. Strawberries are probably the worst offenders. In Ukraine, strawberries are very sweet and much smaller. The American strawberries just seem full of water.
Whether that is what he meant or not, there is a very strong case to be made that certain forms of content consumption enabled by computers (mostly the internet but software in general) are addictive in the classical sense (I assume you mean in the medical/DSM sense).
You may have a better understanding on this than I do as it's been awhile since I researched it. With apple much of the location info is actually kept on the device where it can actually make use of it locally rather than sent up to a cloud dossier on you. Google works very differently.

Opt in is a little disingenuous in both cases. If you choose not to opt in you basically have an expensive brick. The challenge really in both cases is that you have no idea what is actually being done with your data as the privacy policies of both companies are weak.

Primary point being is that if you look at the business models of these companies one is dependent on data collection and ads while the other device sales. Based on that I can infer what may be done with my data.
Yup, plus the style of recall for a puzzle is tree-like.

The puzzle is a "natural" form, that encourages "natural" skills. Whereas Angry Birds is an addictive game pattern. Any skills it "teaches" are incidental to its commercial goals.

My point is invalid if the whole entire world turns into a giant commercialized strip mall and recall no longer becomes a valued skill. :<
Linear program which minimizes an exact bound on the VC dimension
I read recently, maybe even on HN, an article suggesting that children under [i forget, 3? 5?] should not be exposed to 2d screens at all, because their neural model of the physical world is still in development. Food for thought.
Agreed. I lived in the Pacific Northwest for about 7 years and I used AC maybe twice. Now, living back in the Southeastern US, it stays on for months at a time.
Thanks for the comment. I think what you've missed is that the attitude you describe is shared by a very, very small proportion of the user base - perhaps a few tens of millions out of the 1bn+ Android users. I had a go at estimating this last year: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/6/5/counting-geeks-w... I tried to capture it in the 'people who don't like Apple' bucket, but as you say its a little more nuanced than that.

Fundamentally, the question is not 'why does a HN reader buy Android?' but 'what motivated the multiple hundreds of millions of people who bought a $600+ Android?' and as I'm sure you know, they're not using Cyanogen (though as investors in it we hope that changes;) Screen size is a huge factor.
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Really irritates me that I've put my home address (or an address very close to my home) in Google Maps, explicitly marked as home, but I can't type "home" as a destination. I have to start typing the address, then Google says "oh, you mean your home? Yeah I can do that".
Interesting thread..
I've got twin boys that now are 2 years old. We made the descision to get rid of the tv, computers and smart phones when they were born. Now they are not that interested if you show them a tablet, they want to go outside and play instead. A extra upside is the amount of extra time you get each day
Session store is a good place for these, purges on browser close. Or logout, and those api_tokens are no longer valid. To me, lightweight, throwaway tokens seems exactly the purpose of oAuth.
Ask HN: Calling all Australians, how's the market?
I'm a CS student in Aus, and am neck-deep in programming. I love it, I think maybe a little too much. So when I read/hear from some sources about the state of the IT industry here I get knots in my stomach. As cheezy as it sounds I love this country and don't want to have to choose between a dev career and living here. However if push came to shove I'm really not sure.

So hopefully there are some Aussies here who could give a young guy some advice.

Cheers
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Link to the leak source wasn't working for me. Anyone know the source?
Love this app!

Shipster is live in New York and I heard they are expanding soon
Unfortunately not exactly tech, but Hello Internet is extremely enjoyable and it's made by some pretty awesome guys.

http://www.hellointernet.fm/
So, if I start with two devices holding lists, and I place the union of those lists on each device, what is that called?

Do you have a reference for the technical definition of sync that this fails to meet?
How about you when you were a kid? Did you have any limit regarding computer usage? I did not, but I know that I would have learnt way less if I had had.

But granted, computers were not consumers-only devices. I wouldnt give my kids consumer-grade devices anyway, because they only see one side of computing, which is really sad.
I don't put that much stock or value in anything about Steve Jobs. After he died and lots of bio-type stuff started getting published, it quickly became obvious that he was a fairly avg businessman who succeeded only because he was lucky enough to surround himself with really smart people. Not to mention being in the right place at the right time.

All of the "amazing" ideas I've heard of that Apple implemented were things that Steve Jobs A) didn't come up with himself but also B) actively fought against (but eventually conceded on some only after those around him made strong cases). Probably the best of those examples is the existence of 3rd party apps on the iPhone. Wasn't Jobs' idea, and he had to be convinced it was a good idea worth pursuing. In retrospect, if you had to point to one single decision that made the iPhone the market leader that it is today, it would be the app ecosystem.
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For one, at 800dpi or so aliasing problems go away. With that kind of density, I presume, race for density will be done.
> That would do nothing to reduce existing injustices and could make racial gaps worse,

I guess it depends on what you consider to be the greatest existing injustices. I personally think that the rich/poor gap is much more unjust, inexcusable and even dangerous for the future of the society than any race gaps. Also, I think that if the social gaps are made narrower, race gaps will by definition follow.

> since white people would get a greater benefit from race-blind programs.

Why is that bad? I see no reason why a black student coming from a rich family should have an easier time getting admitted to a good college than a white student coming from a poor family. Sure, it's less benefit "for the black", but wouldn't it be totally racism to demand higher test scores for admitting (poor) white students, just because they're white?
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