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The iPod Nano was a product whose entire purpose was playing music.

"The Runwell" is a $600 Shinola watch which only tells the time.

The "nascent payment system" which is Apple Pay is better supported by the credit card companies than Google Wallet. It only remains to be seen how many retailers will switch to NFC. Just about everyone who does EFTPOS in Australia uses NFC now, I don't understand why the USA is such a (payment) technology backwater.

For the market of people who listen to their music on $500 headphones while walking around or catching the bus to work, the Apple Watch is obviously not going to replace their iPhone or iPod Touch/Nano/Shuffle/whatever.

For the market of people who currently use bluetooth headphones while running, jogging, cycling, etc, switching to the Apple Watch (or other bluetooth enabled small form factor personal music player) might be worth the money.

Another point to consider is that with the iPhone moving into the "digital surfboard" screen sizes, having a "wrist buddy" makes more sense. Do I want to be hauling my digital surfboard out just to check the time? Am I prepared to spend $500 on a watch ever? What about a watch that combines with my iPhone to do much more than a simple chronograph?

All that taken into account, I don't think the market for the Apple Watch is digital gadget geeks. I suspect the actual market for the Apple Watch is people invested in the Apple ecosystem (as opposed to say the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem), who already spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on fashion accessories such as gold watches.

The primary use of fancy chronographs is to look good on your wrist. As an incidental function they tell the time, phase of the moon, current date, provide stopwatch and timer functions, etc. Smart watches will even tell you the current weather (as opposed to simply having a thermometer and barometer gauge on the face of the watch).

IMHO the primary purpose of the Apple Watch isn't to be an extension to your iPhone, it's to be a fashion accessory which happens to be functional.

Just because it doesn't make sense to you at any price doesn't mean it won't make sense to someone who already has two $5,000 watches.
The only instances of it we having running are the ones listed in the blog post (and just perhaps a Litecoin version that we're trying to get to sync.) They are in no way currently integrated with the web site.
The math doesn't add up, and that's not data being presented from the article about New Orleans, it's an opinion piece.

In 2009, there were 424 non-fatal shooting victims and 174 homicides in New Orleans. In 2013, there were 321 non-fatal shootings and 155 homicides.[1]

The population of New Orleans was 354,850 in 2009 and was 378,715 in 2013.[2]

So the total murder rate went from 49/100k to 41/100k (17% decrease) while the total non-fatal victimization rate went from 120/100k to 85/100k (30% decrease). To see whether or not better care made an impact, we can just multiply the number of injured by the difference in survival rates after the advanced trauma methods were introduced (14% vs. 19%). The number of non-fatal shootings would have decreased by 16, and the number of murders would have increased by the same amount. So the new rates would be 45/100k and 81/100k, still 8% and 33% improvements in the past 5 years.

Simpson's Paradox doesn't cut it either; young vs. old, rural vs. urban, big city vs. little city vs. small town, black vs. white vs. hispanic, West vs. Midwest vs. South --- All rates are down across the board.[3]

[1] - http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/01/2013_new_orleans...

[2] - http://www.census.gov/popest/data/counties/totals/2013/index...

[3] - http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
How would she even know what the price of Build-a-bear is?
Couldn't the skimmer be mounted externally and read the stripe as the motor pulls it in?
The Moto 360 is a watch.

Why are you comparing it to a phone?
Growth hacking - A BS, sometimes rage inducing buzz word synonym for marketing
And http://farmanager.com, the same for Windows. Much faster than having to use a mouse to navigate the file system. And a decent editor with syntax highlighting and plugin support included as well.
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Reviews are in
The Feelings of #AndroidOne
There is not much correlation between the graph of crime rates in the article and this graph of marijuana usage:

http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2k11Results/NSDUHresults201...
The site shows particular numbers, but having lived here 24+ years, the statistics don't reflect reality. The problem is, "petty theft" doesn't get written up, in most cases if it is under $1000 in loss, the police will not take a report. Bike theft? Well, good luck with that - if Paul Graham was to witness you jacking a $5k bike off of my car and he called the cops and the bike wasn't registered, the cops will not do anything. Thief tools on you and you are "checked out" by the cops, unless there is an outstanding warrant, you are let go.

There is a big local issue with actually "punishing" any petty crime. I saw the stats, but the reality is way out of whack with them mainly due to cops/courts/DAs not really enforcing things.

Crimes related to drug use -- heroin, meth, bath salts -- generally don't even get into the system. Take them to jail, they are out in a couple of hours max.

If you want specifics, I am happy to provide.
This problem begs to think larger. Instead of starting with "we are missing these two critical features that the rest of the world has expected as standard since the dinosaurs perished", it might be interesting to ask "what sort of emacs language features would make it the best in the world!"

It is far easier to get a minimum product out when the eventual goal is the stars.
This "leak" was pretty convincing when i saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R0_FJ4r73s

Is there some trickery, or is gorilla glass as tough as nails like this now?
Android Browser flaw a “privacy disaster” for half of Android users
sadly this great idea is implemented like crap even in goggles own apps.

open email, click a link which open in the browser, click a link which open in YouTube. now you have the email app activity in your recent app list, but if you switch to it you get a you tube video. now you either have the video/web page/etc, or the email message. not both. to get back to your email you have to press back all the way... it rarely creates such a clumsy situation, but every time it happens you're guaranteed to get very close to smashing the phone on the wall.
I second that. There seems to be a shortage of strong Android devs in the bay area... at least as compared to iOS developers. I know... we've been looking. It's not for an app though.. lower level hacking (involving NDK code) is required. Unfortunately a lack of stable Android API's has resulted in this situation. Not a lack of desire to push out an Android product before iOS. I, the CEO, am a long-time Android user and developed the first raw prototype of the technology on my own rooted Nexus 4.
For a giant retailer like walmart there are probably large gaps between inventory and merchandising.

I was shopping at Walmart this weekend in a larger city than I'm used to, and the whole place was a mess. ( it was also in the evening. Maybe merchandising elves pop out overnight)

Not a single shelf was in order. Damaged product littering the bottom shelves, discarded items all over the store from various departments, mis-shelved items. No attempt at proper sorting of items that had only subtle differences.

It is very easy to imagine that their inventory management reports 6 of some item, but not a single one is in the place it is supposed to be.

If automatic reorder doesn't kick in until 0, then there are likely many items that will never be replenished until a full inventory is performed. (I don't even know if it is possible for a store like walmart to perform "inventory")
Moto 360 Now Available
That's not a ticker, Tim
Standard response: rms has probably done more for free software than anyone else in the world. We should be glad at least someone has such uncompromising idealism. Even if it's annoying and inconvenient from time to time.
Why would this new breed of pilot be reliant on someone else to provide simple common-sense rules? The problem isn't the a absence of rules, but rather the presence of rules explicitly prohibiting commercial UAV work.
And some services which actually benefit from having a human pilot on a large aircraft.
Also, since the price is lowered for aerial photographs, demand will go up. I don't know what benefits aerial photographs bring to construction, but we are sure to see more of them.
only ~33k lines of code for everything in C/asm. yet today, it feels so strange that an equivalent game in our "much advanced languages" will probably end up about the same or larger. Are we really progressing?
Will be interesting if the 6s (or whatever) comes out next year goes for the sapphire screen and introduces the apple watch style 'force touch' capability
Matrix wants to smash the walled gardens of messaging
Remember this is something that's happening constantly due to the use of automated technologies. Beware of blaming others just because their effects were more visible. It's something that everyone working in new technologies (even just as a user) should think about.

In fact, I'd say this case is actually one of the more benign. The environmental advantages of flying a quadcopter versus a full plane or helicopter alone are tremendous.
Yeah, I haven't had much luck with OSX either, lots of the glib dependencies seems somewhat busted due to

https://github.com/gtk2hs/gtk2hs/issues/1
Is Science Broken?
The drone lacerations may be a flashier image for a photograph, but baseball injuries are nothing to dismiss. Also note that all of the drone injury pictures I have seen are from the drone owner accidentally throttling up while holding the drone, which is an incredibly easily avoidable mistake.
HN please buy Sublime Text licenses if you're using the product. No excuses, they are way more than fair about offering out a usable honesty based trial.
That plot is indeed interesting, but it's important to keep in mind that it only shows the distributions of optional payments that were actually made. It doesn't take account of how many people downloaded and played the game without paying anything (it's a free game after all). Nor does it give an indication of the total payments received.

I'd really like to see some headline figures comparing the revenues for free games vs paid games (ideally a graph of price/revenue for paid games) rather than just a comparison of the average 'tip' for each category. It seems pretty intuitive that, if one is inclined to leave a tip, it will be higher if the game was initially free.
Being able to raise funding is nice, but I could do that too, and I didn't attend Stanford.

The only question that matters to investors is, "Will the next Google or Facebook come out of Stanford?" If the answer is "No," then everyone investing in Stanford-related startups will lose.

There's a higher chance that the right talent, idea, and motivation might come together at Stanford, but it's far from likely. I don't know too much about elite universities, but the fact that Facebook originated from someone attending Harvard and Airbnb originated from an RISD alum is evidence that any university has a fair chance of starting the next hot company. Maybe even someone who hasn't attended university at all might start it.

Imagine if Google wasn't able to raise funding because someone was prejudiced against where the founders went to university, or whether they attended university. How different would the world be? That's why it's mistaken to place so much emphasis on Stanford. It shouldn't matter, except insofar as there's a lot of talent there.
Wow this list is unreal. It's the Olympic lineup of the startup world. So jealous of the students that get to attend in-person.
So I'm curious don't these same arguments apply to the Apple Watch screen? I guess the tradeoff is people are more likely to smash a watch face?
33k sounds like a lot.
I should think a game like this today would be more like 3k, or maybe 10k at most + engine code + content.

Nowadays you see, it's wasteful to write an engine from scratch for a game like this. It was needed then, but it's a solved problem now. If you wrote 33k for a commander keen clone I'd wonder what you were doing.
Don't forget https://github.com/bitpay/insight
Minecraft seems like a more innovative and clever use of technology than sending more primates into low earth orbit. It certainly benefits more people.
JavaScript for OS X Automation
Yes, still mostly harmless. Still comparable to playing baseball in a residential area.

As far as privacy goes, of course it's possible to violate privacy with a drone. But it's a lot more practical to violate privacy with a telescope or a camera with a zoom lens. The only thing a drone can get you is a shot of the roof or backyard, a really easy way to get spotted, and relatively short "mission" duration.
This is a bit trite because it's a twitter discussion. My own interests are more along the lines of technological solutions opening things up in the way that open source opened up software.
Maybe you should read the whole article, as it discusses why watches are different.
Such an interesting story. To really appreciate it you have to understand how central it was to the "tech" scene in the late late 70's and 80's.

During those years RadioShack was the maker movement. All the stuff you see today, Arduinos, pretty much everything in the AdaFruit[1] shop, that was RadioShack then. And unlike the Internet (or Jameco, or JDR, or Mouser or MPJ or any of a number of mail order places, you could walk out and get a resistor right now and the transistor you needed to finish a project or try something out.

Several things have conspired to make that harder, not the least of which is soldering got harder, chips got more complex with less documentation, and for a long long time "kids" could care less about building stuff. Now that its somewhat cool again they don't have a good 'tech' craft store.

For a while I fantasized about starting a store chain called 'Prototype Electronics' that would be focused on just that mission. Helping people get the stuff they need at a price they can afford to make cool things. I thought it might be fun to open up 'kiosk' type stores in makerspaces where the makerspace could share some of the revenue. Such a place would sell filament for 3D printers for example, and the RAMPS boards, and something like 80/20 materials, maybe the MicroRAX line. The trick being there would be certain things you could go in there knowing they would have it, cables and such sure, but things like a stepper motor or a common driver transistor. Sadly I don't see 'Hobbyist Retail Store' on the YC RFS page :-) a lot of work for relatively small margins.

[1] One very credible path might be to take the AdaFruit website, buy enough stuff to stock 1,000 stores in towns across the country, and see how it works out.
Smartphone glass always has been that flexible and strong, Corning have had various videos demonstrating that online for a while.

His follow up video was only a few days later, after people pointed this out to him, and fairly convincingly showed that this was just a newer generation of glass.
aren't the most recent regulatory changes all about requiring more hours before being able to do significant commercial flights?
Weeelll, I always thought the RS stuff was rather inferior, for example, the soldering irons were not good. The Heathkit versions were much better.

But far and away my favorite store was the EE supply shop in the subbasement of the Steele building at Caltech. It was absolutely stuffed floor to ceiling with parts, and in a very small room. There was everything needed to build everything from stereo amplifiers to radio equipment to digital electronics.

I'm reminded of Tacoma Screw, a local chain that specializes in machine bolts and screws. It sounds too specialized to be viable, but it's a great place to get very good quality fasteners. I use them for my car, they're far better than hardware or auto store fasteners.
Watches are strapped to the wrist most of the time so less likely to fall.
No, it really isn't. It's about getting viewers, selling newspapers, and getting clicks. And the best way to achieve that is by using strong emotion, usually negative. Fear, hatred, disgust, anger.

I'm not sure how a democracy is supposed to work, when the people voting are being given bad information on such a massive scale.

There are so many important areas when what people believe and what is true are miles apart.
For what it's worth, I've had two iPhones now, both with gorilla glass, over the last 3 years. I've dropped both, accidentally leaned on them a couple times, and accidentally shoved them into the same pocket with keys. No scratches. Just lots of smudges and oiliness after the oleophobic coating wears off.
With all the downsides to sapphire (cost, thickness, light transmission), you start wondering if the previous iPhones were using this material just as a marketing point and not because there was an actual benefit to the users.
Artificial Intelligence Is Doomed If We Don't Control Our Data
Well... since somebody asked, we're also working on something to this end, it's not ready but keep an eye on http://www.creatizens.com.
As someone working remotely, this line rubbed me the wrong way immediately:

> More potential warning signs are individuals who are poor at following up via email, forget when the interview was scheduled, or aren't flexible with an interview time.

Communication is a two way street. If you're looking to hire people remotely and you expect them to simply adjust to your timezone, you're setting up a bad remote employment relationship.

I've worked for years with a 10-hour offset from most of the people with whom I communicate, most recently with Heroku. A large part of what made Heroku attractive to me as a workplace was the pleasantly frank conversation about communication and limits. I'm generally available for meetings (my) 10p-midnight, which is noon-2p in SF. Otherwise, email / trello / hipchat / etc. Obviously, exceptions happen, and they really are exceptional (no "just this week" things that appear every week).

I've spoken to a ton of distantly-remote employees over the years and all of the stories that involved radical timeshifting on the part of the remote employee ended in a move to HQ or burnout and quitting — with a lot more of the latter.
C# Sample Codes for GoF Design Patterns with Real-World Situations
Hope all goes well.. I would be glad to help. Let me know.
I really like the round face, which I think is superior to the square one on the Apple Watch.

But I don't think the Moto 360 work with my iPhone, so this is a non-starter for me. (I won't switch to an Android phone, no matter what.)

Or am I wrong - does it work with the iPhone?
The resources surrounding Elm are the best set of FRP examples I've seen so far.
It takes guts to open source yourself. It also highlights that so much of the value comes from the in person meetings - sharing of ideas and networking.
I don't see how he is demonizing anyone by calling them adversaries, the word "adversary" doesn't imply any evil at all, you really are just talking from your personal ego.
> The reason is that there's a limit to how big the variance can get- it doesn't grow forever, it grows until limited by other factors (i.e., there are only so many intelligence-promoting alleles that you can possibly have).

What makes you think that? You could say the same thing about seed size in plants, but comparing modern corn kernels to wild type seeds provides a clear counterexample.

You should look at the type of stuff they've done in plants and animals. Here's a paper on the selective breeding of fruit flies for flight speed. The results are astounding:

"The mean apparent flying speed of both lines increased from approximately 2 to 170 cm/sec and continued to respond at diminishing rates, without reaching a plateau, for 100 generations. Competitive fitness tests in generations 50 and 85 showed minimal or no fitness loss in selected lines compared to controls."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8878686
Ha ha well okay. The alt text of the image is displayed only when the image can't be loaded. I set the src attribute to a non existent resource. So an image tag was used to show a text that the "image is not needed". Yeah I know not that good :)

it is here if you want to see it in action

http://brislink.github.io/specter/

Go all the way down on the page.
Up until seeing this HN thread I thought that leak was true and that iPhone6 had some mazing new screen glass tech. I was impressed by it. Still impressive I suppose, but now it definitely seems more like a "trick"
They’ve been using it on the camera lenses and the surface of the fingerprint sensor, not on the display.

In both of those applications, scratch resistance is extremely important. Also, those are both small, which makes them cheaper and easier to engineer, as well as less likely to shatter.
"At some point you have to build a real business, generate real profits"

The companies that seem to be able to switch off the growth and become cash flow positive will be fine no matter what.
iOS8 benefits and caveats for HTML5 apps
I'm not deeply wedded to this particular point about trauma care, I think increased risk adversity and security measures are more important to the perception of crime (and give a rational basis to a perception of the threat of crime). But this article is at least a bit more direct, and refers to the things I've read in the past (and some of those articles I admit probably contained false assertions): http://www.separatinghyperplanes.com/2013/07/can-medical-adv...

Per that article, the data supporting better trauma care is not particularly impressive, but it does seem like there is a discrepancy between the criminal reporting of assault with a firearm, and the medical reporting of injury from a firearm
Maplin have been around since the 1970s when they were the go-to mail order store for British electronic hobbyists. But they're also having issues. Competition on bread and butter basics like cables from eBay and Amazon is killing them on price. Likewise PC World, who are struggling for similar reasons.

Argos and the like sell toasters, watches, cheap jewellery and gardening tools, so they're not in the same market.

Farnell (and RadioSpares, Mouser, and Digikey) are primarily industry suppliers who sell components to the tiny hobbyist market as a sideline, but make most of their money elsewhere.

The real competitors now are companies like Adafruit (US) and Cool Components (UK) who caught the Maker wave and are riding it very successfully - possibly because they sell clever, useful things, and they treat customers like adult engineers, not gullible children.

Radio Shack was already a legacy company by the 1970s, staffed by the kind of marketing geniuses who come up with ploddingly dreadful brand names like 'Realistic' and 'Flavoradios.'

The UK equivalent would have been Amstrad back in the 70s and 80s - purveyors of cheaply made over-marketed consumer electronics to buyers who were clueless about better options.

Clearly, RadioShack doesn't have much of a niche any more. Buyers can get better products more cheaply elsewhere, and the hands-on electronics business has moved in a direction their management doesn't have the talent to emulate.
Alternatively they could take the approach of some ATMs in Australia and let you authorise the payment from your phone (using the banks app), not requiring the card at all.
This is particularly funny because BSD code can be freely used in GPL'd products, but not the other way around.
Can't wait till this is done for C. Although choosing the compiler might be a problem.