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No but you can buy the iPhone 5C for $450.00 If the watch follows a similar path then a year after release there could possibly be an Apple Watch for 250.00 (maybe 200). I'm not sure it'll ever get to $100 (Apple prefers not to play that low).
The feature is already available, but as we still testing it, it is still not documented yet. We can inform the detail on how to enable it.
Yes, a simple function is provided for returning back a value (ex. selected image url, etc)
Creating content block is by modifying a single html file called snippets.html (it contains html code for all content blocks which you can add/remove/modify)
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As far as I can see from your photos, it doesn't say "Apple" anywhere on the label, but it has the model number and design of an Apple charger, so it has to be a counterfeit. How the Apple Store was selling this, I don't know.

By the way the sentence “CAUTION: For use with information technology equipment.” also appears on legitimate chargers, so that isn't a sign of anything.
I have to imagine that the answer to all those questions is "no". There are simply too many variables at play, and poorly understood ones at that.
That approach may have been viable early in the category's life, but seems unsustainable as new entrants drive down prices. I wonder if Cook, being the ops guy he is, would allow the same expenditures.

Also, it would be unfortunate if the takeaway was "market research has no value". Indeed, later in the interview, when discussing "Why the mouse?" he says:

'We’ve done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it’s much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it’s not only easier to use but more efficient.'

Clearly, in this case, they didn't trust that they could create "the best thing we could build".
And given the level of equipment and training the military have with regard to doing their job while wearing full Nuclear/Biological/Chemical protection. I would honestly prefer that if the situation escalates and we see confirmation of airborne transmission, the situation be dealt with by prompt deployment of fully NBC trained military medical units and sufficient security forces to ensure that whatever those doctors say is law within the quarantine.

I do my best not to be a knee jerk reaction person, but an airborne ebola strain, is beyond question a deadly deadly threat. Ebola has an incubation period, there is a period of time where you are infectious, before its obvious, and if airborne your very presence places anyone in the room with you now has 50/50 odds of living. This isn't SARS, this isn't Spanish Flu. This is quite possibly the closest we can get to a disease threat strait out of a zombie movie. I don't feel we should violate the human rights of everyone in that region, but this is one of those things where its squarely a "The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few or the one." scenario. So if the army doctor says "that guy has ebola, stop him from running away", I kinda feel (presuming an airborne ebola) that the situation may (depending on how far away he's getting, indoor or outdoor, etc) warrant lethal force.
Is there any evidence for this claim? After a quick Google session, the best I could find was a forum thread 4 years ago claiming that `dmd` was faster than `gc`. Is that still true today?
Personally, I think the Moto 360 is simply far too large. It looks fairly good on someone with a very wide risk, but a little ridiculous on someone with a small wrist (like me).

This is a problem with circular displays. They naturally have quite a smaller area than the circumscribing square -- they're missing all four corners, every one of which can be used for a UI element. To compensate, the display just needs to be larger -- too large, in the case of the Moto 360, in my humble opinion.
Hi, sorry would you please let me know what you're referring with "OP's implementation"? Perhaps you have url. Or is it related with the ContentBuilder.js?
It's just ugly to see an eagerness to think about invasions when not even simple supplies are not coming through.

Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to Barack Obama: "I am being honest with you when I say that at this rate, we will never break the transmission chain and the virus will overwhelm us"

"The dilemma" of invasion and whatnot is beside the point. The Liberian state is desperate. Johnson Sirleaf also recently fired 10 government ministers who had fled the country. Any nation with resources that wants to take over? The Liberian state would eager for the help. Things are that bad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/world/africa/liberian-pres...
Yes, but your web app is probably not as mature as a modern automatic transmission.
Tesla. But yeah, your definition of "Hardware" may vary.
I was commenting about tone, not whether your argument was incorrect. As you say, orthogonal concepts.

The "deliberately obtuse" bit was not directed at you specifically, but then if the shoe fits, etc.
I'm thinking innovative tech that relieves people's pain could be promising.

I'm talking in a literal sense, not the marketing lingo "find the pain!" sense. For example, I stand a lot at work and my feet are throbbing right now from working over the weekend. I would pay good money for an elegantly designed device of some sort that would soothe this pain without me having to really do anything. No matter what walk of life you come from, every single day you will hear someone complain about some kind of pain they're feeling -- e.g. "Ahh, my x is killing me right now!"
Very cool! Would it be safe to say Volt is Ruby's Meteor?
Ebola isn't rapidly changing. At least in comparison to a virus that does mutate rapidly like influenza.
Clojure + Clojurescript come to mind as well.
Yes.
This is why you have to get a flu shot every year: The flu virus is different every year. The same rapid-mutation phenomenon happens with the so-called "common" cold: Having a cold once provides no immunity to prevent you from getting one again.
That's not true. Apple drops the price on older models while continuing to sell them alongside the newest ones. The cheapest new iPhone you can buy is $450.
Why is this "released" now? The projects seems to be semi-dead (only a couple bug fixes since last April) [1].

[1] https://github.com/voltrb/volt/commits/master
I was referring more to the actual algorithms. What if one observer sees a bridge and walks out onto it? Another observer doesn't see the bridge. Do they see the first person floating?
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Why would you do this? Is this the kind of "contribution" to the world you want to make? (Contribution is in quotes because this contributes nothing to the world; it subtracts.)
My understanding is that the Go team says they can't figure out how to make generics work nicely, that's why they haven't added them.

Also, type casts don't cause runtime panics. You can use type-based switch/case or check the "ok" return value from the cast to see if it worked.
>Does that explain why people are not immune from the flu after having it once

Yes. There are many strains of Influenza, immunity to one strain doesn't necessarily confer any immunity to another strain.

However, Ebola mutates much less rapidly that Influenza.
The Apple iWatch (2013)
Ok, you're stuck in an airport and bored. You flip out your 4.7" or 5.5" phone. Can you spend an hour or more playing with it, consuming content, even doing work? Yes you can.

Now, you're stuck in an airpot and bored. You keep your phone in your pocket and stare at your watch with a 38mm screen. Can you imagine spending an hour or two interacting with and consuming content on this thing?

These watches deliver the information density of WAP feature phones with interactive models that are not much different (scroll wheel), plus panning and zooming on a tiny screen.

The people projecting the launch of the 2007 era iPhone as an industry defining moment that's going to kick off whole new app business models I think are extrapolating without thinking about it.

These devices are primarily best suited for sensors, and for information radiation tasks: notifying you of information and allowing quick response or dismissal.

But a 300Mah "smart" device with a 38mm screen being something you're going to spend a lot of time downloading apps and using "on the device itself" (and not on the iPhone) I think is too far of an extrapolation.

Maybe I'm wrong and this will be claim chowder thrown in my face in a few years, but to me, the trend towards bigger screens on phones is a perfectly example of why these watches will always be limited.

Humans are visual creatures, and a device that has the screen size and interactivity of a virtual tamagotchi is a fashion accessory toy, not something we will build our whole life around like mobile phones and tablets.
You misunderstand.

OS X has shipped with python for quite some time.

In addition, OS X python started including a build of pyobjc since OS X 10.5

You literally can fire up python from the terminal on OS X 10.5 and later and type: import Foundation and it will "just work".

No additional installs required.
That used to be true. But TFA points out it's not true now. Ebola used to be too lethal to be efficient: It killed its host so quickly it didn't have time to spread. But because this outbreak is in urban areas, it does have the ability to spread. Which means it has many more opportunities to evolve.
Not sure what the "quotes" are for. AGPL is open source.
Just following the crowd.
> The "deliberately obtuse" bit was not directed at you specifically, but then if the shoe fits, etc.

Right. wink wink nudge nudge I didn't call you dim technically, but really, I did. Talk about hostility...
How does being a teacher make one poor?
While I like that investors are now forced to give entrepreneurs a better deal, this sounds like a move too far.

This is like a blank check for entrepreneurs with no strings attached, and no consequence for failure. In fact, the share given to founders in the diversified fund means that financial returns may be had even for a failing business.

That doesn't sound like an entrepreneurial risk/reward type system anymore. That sounds like a guaranteed reward for a bunch of "special" people who are part of some special club.

In fact, it sounds like East Coast investment banking.
I don't know anyone who cares one iota about Facetime. The AppStore is the only real moat because you pay all that money and can't take the apps out of the platform.

Facetime and iMessage can be replaced with any number of cross platform third party alternatives, many of them better.
The pen tracking in my experience isn't perfect so it's probably not better, in terms of fidelity, than a steady photo with your smartphone but the file sizes should be smaller and it can be more convenient.

The Livescribe uses a combination of a pen and special paper (you buy it or you can print it if you have a color laser) not only to record your pen movements but audio as well. This combination is interesting because your handwritten notes can serve as a navigation tool for the audio, tap on a note and it can playback the audio that was recorded at the time. We lend them to students to try but many find the pen too bulky to write comfortably (I've only seen photos of the latest model, it looks like it may be a little slimmer but still relatively bulky).

This site seems to have a decent overview of currently available options (site design is kind of crap, though). They liked the Sky WiFi pen best, probably because of its features tied to Evernote but the Wacom Inkling had the best capture quality ("100%"); its ranking probably suffered because it doesn't come with any handwriting recognition software.
http://digital-pen-review.toptenreviews.com
Total time spent on automating plus executing is not a very useful metric, because preparation time and reaction time are not interchangeable.
Yeah, really weird. We know about Govt. officials taking bribes but very less about spending their own for missions which are totally just for country!
Agreed. There's no 'invasion' when you're being invited in on a humanitarian mission. People need help.
Actually, you don't even have to know C; you can do it in Python. Here's an example: http://www.stavros.io/posts/python-fuse-filesystem/
Different stages in the market maturity.

If you are inside the PC revolution and you have a chance to define where it is going, then who knows better than you?
I would personally prefer a solution separate to the helmet itself, motorcycle helmets are essentially disposable items and it would be great to have a gadget which cyclists could also use.

I imagine the near/far focus issue with google glass is non trivial to solve though
Seriously. The most you can do is "Get inside one of the many groups that happens to be operating under the name "Anonymous" at that time".
Have you seen the size of a Moto360? It is thick!

The Apple Watch is much slimmer. Part of the reason for that is the SoC that Apple uses is more modern and compact than OMAP.

OMAP3 isn't the best processor to use for a watch. I'm sure if we spend some time going back and forth we will identify at least one or two more modern processors that beat OMAP3 on efficiency, size, AND performance.

I don't thin Motorola should be skimping on the processor for their first watch, if they are trying to convince us its a premium product that we should feel proud to wear on our wrists. People see watches as prestige items, and they will pay more for a well constructed and designed device. There's already enough competition in the plastic trashy wrist-wear segment.
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Best case scenario I can see this becoming an iPod sized business. That certainly wouldn’t be bad and I could well imagine that’s exactly what Apple expects this to be. (The margins might be better, so they might be able to make more money.) Anything beyond that seems a fantasy to me.
> So is this only a good response because apple succeeded so well or should they have done market research and done even better?

How exactly can one do market research and arrive at something like the Mac? Okay, it may help indicate there is an opportunity, but this is the easy part, anyone can do that. It does nothing to indicate how to fulfill that opportunity, it's not the client's job to give a blueprint, and that's the hard part.

Imagine starting a restaurant business by asking people on the street what they like or what they think you should have on the menu... let's just say it's not going to star on Michelin.

> I guess I am asking, prior to the success of the Mac would any business person have gone along with the "no market research" approach?

There's a quote often attributed to Henry Ford:

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

I can think of plenty of prior successes that I doubt having started with a survey.
Chris, I'm the main developer. So I haven't pushed much because I have been doing a big refactor on the reactive stuff and did get a little side tracked with some other stuff. The refactor is almost complete (400+ commits that should be out next week or the week after). From there there's just a few more things let and I think it will be ready for people to start building on. (After that I'll need to do a bunch of tutorials and videos)
Sounds like the headline of an Onion article...
Yeah, the presentation covered those parts (motivation, and putting the pieces together). C++14 rejects the bad code by providing a deleted overload for const string&&, as covered in the following slides.

My slides are already at the upper limit for information density - I don't think I could cram even more into them.
> The title matched the contents (unlike yours it seems to me)

How do you think my title differs from the contents? As far as I can tell, it is completely accurate.
Circa a decade ago I was doing a little coding for a group that worked out of the SF EFF offices. It was there I met a bright young grad student studying online communities and online activists. It has been so long that I forget the details of our short conversations, but I do remember that I was really impressed. She was somebody who was dedicated to understanding our culture and the technology that shapes it.

It's great to see how far she has progressed. I encourage people to look past the inevitable issues with a general-audience newspaper article and read some of her actual work. Her website is a good place to start: http://gabriellacoleman.org/
Hey HN! Erik from Product Hunt here. Just wanted to chime in to say that 45% of site visitors are outside the U.S.

also, good feedback.
Having worked in the US office of a Japanese company, this does not surprise me in the least. Neither does their choice to use weird hardware with poor library support. The company I worked for did not understand that, if you sell a premade hardware device, you must also provide good, sensible tools and modern library support. They're currently doing very well in markets where this isn't the case like OEM hardware.

Ironically the major selling point of their products in Mexico is that the Mexican users won't steal the products because they're too ugly.
This is more than just a supply issue.

http://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/update...

"One of the patients hospitalised at the HGR Boende had managed to escape before being recovered by the services deployed to the field."

That is why if this situation escalates we will need people with guns, both medical and security personal with full Biological Warfare training and equipment. We are staring at a disease where scared infected people, are trying to ESCAPE and become extremely dangerous disease vectors, risking the spread of the disease to anywhere from dozens to hundreds, to thousands. When that is what is going on, I don't think the word we should use is "invasion", its something other than that. Best I've got to describe it, is a martial law quarantine, enforced by UN armed forces and medical personnel provided by the nations who have the capable personnel and equipment.
The American perspective is to solve every problem with the military or money. We believe that violence and more money are the only effective solutions to every single problem the world faces. Original thinking just doesn't happen.

A creative solution would be to temporarily halt all regulations on anti-ebola drug development and let them experiment on any willing person in Liberia who wishes to receive treatment. The example of Banting and Best in the 20s is a great example of the enormous progress that can be accomplished if there is no regulation on medicine. These guys came up with the idea for extracting insulin from animals and injecting it into humans. They tested it out on willing patients, the first being a 14 year old, released the invention for use by the public and won the Nobel prize in the span of 3 years (1921-1923). That speed of drug development and testing is impossible today.

A good analogy of the present situation would be this. Someone is drowning in the river. You can use the military to prevent him from knocking any nearby bathers into the river as he floats down stream but don't you dare throw him something handy like a branch or a quickly improvised flotation device because that might help him float and it may not work and there would be lawsuits or regulatory violations! You can pay someone to swim after him and try and save him, but the stream is really rushing fast and they might drown too, but that's seemingly a-ok.
I'm curious how good the heart rate tracking is. Most current fitness gadgets suck terribly at tracking heart rate while exercising. afaik polar or garmin plus a chest band is the only thing that does a good job, whereas most fitbit type gadgets are only good at calculating resting heart rates. If apple can crack that, they'll find a lot of purchasers. And garmin / polar will be roadkill: their devices are expensive, single use, a big hassle (that damn chest strap is annoying, plus now you have two batteries to worry about), with shitty software.
Well, the price drop of the iPhone only happened once and then hasn't really happened since (besides selling older models for cheaper).

Is once enough to denote a trend? I'm willing to bet that Apple will release a cheaper option next year, but maintain the $350 "flagship".
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The article doesn't clearly say board votes. It actually says "vote the shares", which, I'm not all that clear how often or with what significance shareholder votes happen in a pre-ipo company.
Focusing on aerodynamics is important because they dominate the efficiency at high speeds but you can get pretty far without going to this extreme. For example, the Honda CR-X HF was getting over 50 MPG in the early 1980's and it was a very nice looking car, mostly because it was small, well shaped and had a small efficient engine.

The original 1.3 liter car (chassis code AE532) had an EPA Highway mileage rating of 52 miles per gallon (MPG)in 1984 and was reported to often achieve over 70 MPG in favorable driving conditions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CR-X
The console completely succeeded at what it set out to do, which was to create an amazing home arcade experience. Unfortunately, the market quickly moved away from arcade style games.
You're correct, but after watching the video and understanding how their network was attacked (all starting with the customer Router), I've attributed this more towards poor policy/design (which can be exploited by a large range of attackers) vice special information and/or capabilities reserved for state/country funded attackers. But even with this said, I think I get your point (I'm going off on a tangent). My opinion on the matter; All bets are off when it comes to state/country funded attackers. These are the organizations that lead me to my "nothing is ever 100% secure" conclusion. What we've seen insinuates that these level of attackers have access to information and capabilities that your average attacker probably does not have (example; vendor back-doors, compromised certs/keys, black rooms, etc). Unfortunately for us, these do a very good job subverting the current implementation of infrastructure security (which for the most part, is/was designed based on certain levels of trust that may no longer exist). I'm sure the industry will adapt and evolve (as will the attackers).
Dont overstate this particular study, the team did nothing to eliminate the possibility that there was transmission via droplets flung off the animal, and did not fully eliminate the possibility of particulate cross contamination which could have lead to transmission via infectious fluids piggybacking to the macaques on the particulate cross contamination.

Yes there is a risk of mutation to transmit via air, but we have not yet seen it. We have merely proven that 'shit happens' and 'ebola is dangerous'.
I've done most of my Go programming on library code. A sync library for relational databases to sqlite (for mobile devices) and an embedded database. Lack of generics has bothered me a little, but copy and paste with a multiple-cursor editor really makes short work of it. I think the worst part is really our natural aversion to code duplication and the ugliness of it. e.g. having to write min/max for integers is pretty ugly (although not as ugly as converting your ints to float64 and using the stdlib min/max.) However, I spent more time thinking that it was ugly than writing min and max. Sure it's ugly, but programming is not art, it's engineering, and Go is a language for engineers.
I'm just waiting for Coolest to release an API for their cooler...