skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of what you say is true, however it's not as bad as you might think. Once upon a time were these magical devices called "mainframes" [1], and in the 1960s they were quite powerful (for that era).

Most engineering work was done in FORTRAN, and it ran very efficiently on the hardware. There were (usually) no CPU cycle sucking GUIs to slow down the computers.

As a high school student in the early 1970s I was privileged to take a summer course at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies [2] where they had an IBM 360/95 mainframe [3] for the scientists to take turns using (job entry by punched cards, job output by paper printout).

It's been so many years, and it was only casually explained to me, but I think NASA used three other 360/95 mainframes (the IBM top of the line at the time) located at the Goddard Space Flight Center [4] in Greenbelt MD to track the Apollo missions. I think these ran the same program more-or-less in triplicate (but there was no hardware for syncing). I think NASA also had an IBM 7094 [5] running an independently written program as a backup in case something went wrong with the S/360 computers.

Trust me, these computers were very very capable for the time. It's not like the primitive computer onboard the Apollo LEM. Mainframes were quite up to the task.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer#History
[2] bonus points for whoever looks up that institution in Wikipedia and checks the picture to see what's located on the ground floor
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360#Table_of_System....
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddard_Space_Flight_Center
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090#Notable_applications
It's interesting that a lot of the naysayers also seem be iphone lovers. I wonder if there is a degree of 'NIH" going on. Or, more accurately, 'not invented by my beloved company'.
How many mentions of the apple watch in this thread?

The moto 360 is already out, it's completely awesome, I use it every day, and as far as I can tell is already ahead of the apple watch in terms of functionality.

Apple are seriously gods at marketing. Wow.
iWatch lights up the second you raise/twist your hand to look at the time -- that's pretty much immediately for me.
This is a really great article. This part is so good:

The spreadsheet embodies, embraces, that end, and ultimately serves to reinforce it. As Marshall McLuhan observed, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” The spreadsheet is a tool, and it is also a world view — reality by the numbers. If the perceptions of those who play a large part in shaping our world are shaped by spreadsheets, it is important that all of us understand what this tool can and cannot do.

Steve Sinofsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky) made a similar point on HN yesterday:

Second, people tend to underestimate the way that new tools, as ineffective as they are, drive changes in the very definition of work. Said another way, people forget that tools can also define the work and jobs people have. It isn't like work was always "mail around a 10MB presentation before the meeting". In fact a long time ago meeting agendas were typed out in courier by a typist -- that job was defined by the Selectric. The tools that created presentations, attachments, and follow up email defined a style of working. While we're reading all this, the exponential rise of mobile is changing what it means to work--to go to a meeting, to collaborate, to decide, to create, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8525444
33 Things Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Know
IIT-B develops 10-inch netbook that costs less than $100
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Your site is obviously a email gathering template, which isn't necessarily a problem, but you have no sample of what I am actually signing up for.

- How often are you going to email me?
- Are these tips from pastors? Theologians? Just some guy? Why should I trust your interpretation of the bible?
- Is this going to help me grow my business? Retain employees? What's the value?
- Give me some testimonials of people who currently get value out of it.

I had all these questions, got to the bottom of your page, then clicked to your personal site. This didn't boost my confidence since your a passive income expert. Once again, not necessarily a bad thing, but without those questions being answered all I can assume is that you want my email so you can spam me with referral links, ebooks, and other passive income stuff.
ig1: your comment is very insightful -- it may be a situation where you, as an insider and experienced founder, can more clearly delineate between the categories (particularly obviously bad vs. middle) than some of us (first time founders, etc). anyways, it's a good point, thank you.
They claim a battery life of 48 hours under "normal usage" (read: no GPS), with a charging time of 1.5 hours. Though if it's supposed to be used as a sleep tracker, I kinda wonder when we're supposed to charge it.
Not sure CS-interview related advice is warranted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181380

To OP: I'm really sorry that you didn't get the job you wanted. My path is not the same as yours, but I ran into rejection applying to college, applying to grad school, and applying to jobs after grad school.

In each case I felt terrible. I didn't know how to move forwards or what I was going to do, I felt like the rejection was an indictment of my self-worth.

But I think it helps to keep three things in mind:

- The people on the other side of these interviews are humans - they make mistakes and work off incomplete data. I guarantee you that they know far less about who you are, personally or professionally, than any of your friends or loved ones.

- Your self worth isn't tied to how well you do during an interview, or how many job offers you get, or whether or not your dream company gives you a job.

- Your destination - if you don't give up, you will probably end up where you wanted to go. But almost certainly, you won't have taken the path you originally set out to take. Life is filled with unforeseen setbacks and unanticipated opportunities. Proceed with an open mind and don't feel like you need to have everything figured out right away.
Probably relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7268463
I'm not prepared to declare the App Store a psychological and ideological threat because of the rejection of this calculator widget.
You can only see unpublished thoughts (drafts). Once a thought is posted — it's gone.
"Band"? Didn't realize this was about a wearable
I think this is great info. It's usually never quite clear from the applicant's perspective whether multiple interviews with multiple teams is kosher or not (maybe depends on org as well?). Great datapoint ta have. Thanks for sharing, and congrats on the gig!
Not really, because complexity can have an on-off switch: a global one, or at least a partial.

If you implement a software system that is conscious, but then suspend it to a storage device, and resume it one week later (so that it is surprised: where did the time go?) its complexity hasn't gone away. It just wasn't conscious for one week because it wasn't running.

Another thing to consider is this: there may be more than one consciousness in your brain! The one which is you, the one typing on Hackernews, is just the one which has access to the "console" so to speak: the fingers, the eyes, ... There could be other consciousnesses hidden in your brain that are suppressed. Like "background daemons". Maybe that part of the brain that regulates your body while you sleep (or don't sleep) is also conscious!

The consciousness-process which is "you" is deactivated during sleep, but the other background "daemons" remain conscious. (Clearly, sleep is not a complete, global shutdown of brain activity, in other words.)

(Also, I'm here reminded of dolphins which put half their brain to sleep at a time.)
Thank you for the information, but it doesn't really detract from my point. Anyone going to perl5 around 2000 was under the impression that it was a very practical language.
Thanks. This is true, emotional aspect of post is very important. In our case, Color Themes were made for the purpose of helping people enhance a message by selecting a matching color mood.
I wanted to see Strava in the partner list. I would have clicked Buy Now if so.
It's natural to feel disappointed when one doesn't get through an interview and one begins questioning a lot of things when this happens. This happens to almost everyone. Almost everyone has not made it through at some point or another ...be it an interview, college application, a date, a driving test, getting selected for a sports team ...

We tend to obviously be more critical of ourselves when we lose out on things like interviews because we value jobs a lot more than other things. While it is ok ...in fact, healthy even, to feel a bit depressed by rejection, this shouldn't get to the point where you spiral downwards questioning everything in your life.

Hiring is often a matter of selection based on a number of factors beyond technical skill. Irrespective of what developers believe, HR truly can could be influenced by salary expectations, date of availability, logistics (for instance, visa issues) ..etc. I do agree that most of these are non-issues for places like Google or Amazon but even then, it might be a tough call to make when companies have shortlisted 2 very strong candidates and just have 1 slot to fill (or maybe even 10 strong candidates and 4 slots ...you get the idea). The point of all this is, don't beat yourself up about it -- external factors beyond your abilities, suitability or control influence hiring decisions. Don't feel too bad if you think you did well enough at the interview. If you didn't, you now know where you were lacking.

HTH, good luck
>I don't have the cite on me but there's a 1970 case in California where the cops knocked on the door, the occupant of the house told them to come in, they came in and arrested everybody (no warrant).

What does that have to do with anything? It isn't relevant here.

>I am saying that the whole thing will hinge on the question of consent.

No it won't. I posted this above, but this is a good overview - http://policelink.monster.com/training/articles/1911-lying-t...

>[In] Frazier v. Cupp, 394 U.S. 731, 1969 the Supreme Court ruled that [the] use of trickery and deceit can be permissible (depending on the totality of circumstances) provided that it does not shock the conscience of the court or community.

It isn't about consent but if the FBI's trickery could/did "shock the conscience of the court or community."
I was hoping for an explanation as to why process 0 needs to be "multitasking cooperatively", as in calling needs_reschedule()... Anybody?
According to Koch, consciousness arises within any sufficiently complex, information-processing system. All animals, from humans on down to earthworms, are conscious; even the internet could be. That’s just the way the universe works.

Clearly one can build a hugely complex system that performs some special-purpose function and isn't anywhere near "conscious". Consider a big supercomputer doing finite-element analysis. Or a big network of packet routers.

Koch would probably argue that those aren't "sufficiently complex"? So what's the definition of "sufficiently complex"? Something that is "conscious"? This is not helpful.

Perhaps we should focus on "common sense", rather than "consciousness". Common sense can usefully be defined as the ability to predict (at least the near-term) consequences of actions. Given that, planning and evaluation of alternatives is possible. Most animals above the insect level have some capability in that area. They're not purely reactive. We really need to get this figured out so we can build robots that can handle new situations without screwing up too badly.

Neuroscience has work to do at the bottom. Check out "http://www.openworm.org/", where some people are trying to simulate the simplest nematode known at the neuron level. Until that works, neuroscience doesn't really have neurons figured out.

Classic quote: "Philosophy is the kicking up of a lot of dust and then complaining about what you can't see".
For what it's worth, I'm not qualified by any means, but I've tangoed with both Amazon and Google extensively. Though I'm younger than you by a couple years, I feel like we have a similar story.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, part of being in this industry is that it doesn't matter who you are, it matters how you do it. Mind me, I saying you're doing/did anything "wrong"; you may have caught someone on their bad day. But, by all means, don't give up. Believe me when I say that if I can do it, you can surely do it.

This quote seems relevant (though you weren't fired, like the film portrays): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1193138/quotes?item=qt1093933
Thanks for sharing that. Why can't I stop watching it? I keep waiting for something sinister to happen. Instead, nothing. No plot; just the past's version of the future of computing* coupled with extremely bad acting.

* Not just computing; it predicts a zero-emission, high-performance sports car that will sell 80K+ units in the first year.
I mean, it'll produce similar assembly to C++ code that does the same, but grabbing a mutex for every log message is not going to give you amazing performance. That's okay in this example, because the log seems to be compiled out by default and only used for debugging Servo, but if you're gunning for performance I'd suggest using thread-local storage to store logs per thread without any atomics and aggregating on a timer.
I can't remember why, but I've had the 1968 version of this flight manual on my hard drive for a while. My version is much higher quality.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8iAUeIURaT8ZS1PbTlMTjlCams...
what is the point of the page?
> I suppose it might be nice to upgrade the camera,

Yes, exactly. Every aspect can be upgraded, at the best time to upgrade that part. I've upgraded entire devices in the past simply to make one component better (switching to higher network speeds, getting a better screen, getting a larger screen, getting a faster processor). Instead of buying 4 entire devices, I could have accomplished the same upgrade path for half the cost. This would not only save me money, but would cause less harm to the environment.

I would love to be able to switch screens on my phone depending on what I am doing. For example, slot in an eink screen when reading on a flight, and enjoy that sweet long lasting battery.

You could switch carriers and keep your phone, just by slotting in a new module.

You could buy a hugely expensive, awesome camera module, and not only be able to keep it even when you want to upgrade to a faster phone or a larger phone, you can share it with your ara using friends.

>> Also, I wonder how Android might support this.

Yes, apparently they've already made a lot of progress in this area.
Touchpad?
I agree to the extend, that it sounds like Microsoft is in any way special here. Actually, for some time it's opening up pretty much. Apple is even worse, Google will certainly not support MS products in any way if they don't benefit massively.

It's important to understand that all companies are big machine-like systems that have only one purpose: Make as much money as possible. Microsoft have been (and Apple is still ... or is the Apple watch usable with Android?) trying to lock vendors in. Totally OK. Those tech companies are no better than Kellog's who is selling sweets to our kids as cereal. As we all love tech so much, we tend to forget :-)
It's too late to see rems and ems in bootstrap, but it's most welcome feature I guess.
Great video. For others wondering, it's a video that debunks conspiracy theories about faking the moon landing by saying it was technically possible to fly to the moon but not to fake it. It goes into the logistics of how a moon landing would be faked (film capacity and technical capabilities of cameras in the 60's).

Fun explanation. "he did the math"
I'm in my mid thirties and I know that feel. Got turned down in round 2 of AWS last year after the interviewer put a full court press on me for not knowing something kind of arcane (I think it was knowing the implementation of FIPS 140 or something like that). I was honest and said I had no idea and only a passing familiarity with it, but the guy was just like a dog with a bone. That's the way it is sometimes - you get a bad interviewer and the game is up. You shouldn't couple your self-worth or even your worth as a developer/technologist with the outcome of any interview process - especially from those kinds of places.

It will feel like crap for a while, but it's a numbers game - keep turning them over and one or two will come up your way. Don't know what city you are in, but tech meetups are a great place to pick up leads for jobs, usually. This might sound weird - but elections are happening now (assuming you are U.S.) - Go volunteer at a campaign pretty hard for the next week and a half. You might meet some people who can help you out in the long run.

At your age, it's often better to cut your teeth somewhere where you can jump in and get more responsibility off the bat anyway.
Sick irony dude, mad original.
One benefit of old-school wired charging is that I can still use the device in a normal orientation whilst it is charging, so long as the cable is long enough.

Do you find that wireless charging prevents that? I assume the fevice has to lie flat on the plate somewhere near a power outlet.
What does "the msft dude for YC" mean?
Whatsapp's founder got turned down from Facebook and then he got rehired again when Facebook bought his company for $18b.

If he had been hired that day, maybe there'd have been no Whatsapp. A single situation can be good or bad depending on how you look at it.
You do realize that upgrading the cpu on an ara phone is easier than swapping an sd card. Compare this to upgrading the cpu on a computer.
Yes, I thought so, too, but they suck at material choices and ergonomics. Also, they don't have an API. Since Intel bought them, Basis Peak seems to look and feel better, but where's the API? Anyway, Microsoft just made a no brainer to decide - they offer everything that everybody else has (except pulse oximetry that Amiigo was supposed to have - not sure if they delivered it) and much more at the same price.
If it can actually detect that motion perfectly every time.
I recently went through some similar feelings... well, at least about the interviews. For me, it wasn't so much being rejected by places where I really wanted to work as just getting rejected five or six times. It was shocking; I've never had to interview more than twice before the offers started rolling in.

as an aside, what is it with the lack of a response? I interviewed at one place... for like 7 hours. It went really well, the guy gave me his email, told me to email him... until the end. "How much do you want?" I named a high number, and then said something like "But that's high. I just got someone that used to work for me a job for $lowernumber" - the guy mumbled something about that being a little high, I said that I'd been interviewing for a while, so I was open to offers.

Total silence. I email the guy twice, email the recruiter, etc.. and eventually like two weeks later I email the contract recruiter (who told me ahead of time that my high number was in range) and he tells me that I didn't get the job, because of the downsides I was real up-front about in my phone interview.

Man, I can understand not wanting to hire me. Especially not for the high number. But if I spend seven hours on-site interviewing with you, and you ask me to email you... you can respond. And what is it with making me name a number and then not countering? it's a negotiation. I'm trying to get as much as I can, but I really don't know how much that is. Give me some clues.

gah. Okay, yeah, rant over.

The solution for me was to keep interviewing until I ended up getting a job.

The fact of the matter is that social performance matters a lot on interviews, and for me? My social performance is pretty random. Some days I seem to have it; all my mistakes come off as jokes, and I seem charming and confident. Other days? well, sometimes it seems like I'm mildly autistic. My mistakes cause awkward silence.

That, and some departments just don't want a personality like mine. I... don't drink kool-aide. I mean, sure, I'll do what I'm told, but, for instance, you aren't going to get me to actually believe that advertising is good for the person that is being advertised to.

I recently got a gig that is absolutely perfect for who I am and where I am in my life, and it was the first job that accepted me. Incidentally, it's at google, but it's a contract-to-hire thing, so I've got another year (and a bunch more cash) to let my partner try to get prgmr off the ground again before deciding if I really want to (or if I'm actually able to) become a company man. Meanwhile, from what I gleaned from the interview, I'm going to be able to absolutely nail the role, as long as they don't expect too much google cheerleading from me.

From that perspective? The rejections were really for the best; I can't credibly pretend that I want to be a company man because I'm not ready to be a company man, and I think I'll make an awesome contractor (and maybe I'll be ready to be that company man a year from now? )
It looks lighter than the Apple watch and that's important to me because I really don't like wearing jewelry. This might convince me to try it out.

I might be wrong about the weight, but it just looks kind of like a Fitbit which is really light (my wife has one).
Thanks a bunch, buddy :)
Even though I'm not much of a fitness buff, the sensor array that this has is something that I view as more or less necessary in any smart wrist wearable. This sort of quantified self tracking is something that a smartphone simply cannot do in any reliable and persistent way.

So I think this is a huge step in the right direction. So much so that it'd be a nearly guaranteed buy if I were more assured that it'll be fully functional with an Android phone. The lack of Cortana support for non-Windows phones, though, is not reassuring. I can live without that, but will I still be able to get notifications with an Android phone? If I wanted only a fitness tracker, there are other options out there.

It'd also be awfully nice if it supported wireless charging. I'd really like to see the sort of charging dock for this that the Moto 360 has (transforming it into a snazzy desk clock). I think this could look even better on such a stand, since it wouldn't have the watch strap hanging off the sides.
I find it interesting that the manual quality, writing, diagram, etc. is much higher than most things I read nowadays. Its actually a pleasure to read through...
What is a debt warrant? Isn't this a civil matter?
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>> Today most servers are built with the ATX form factor in mind since dipping into the sweet cheap ATX form factor components can bring big savings.

Exactly. If Ara succeeds, there is a great deal of potential for the ecosystem to drive down prices while driving up quality of individual components. It won't be the Galaxy S4 vs LG G3, it will be individual cpu units, camera units, individual screens competing against each other. This introduces more granularity into the way the manufacturers compete, and may very likely open up spaces for smaller players to grow.
Damn, recently MS nails it with their web design.
I use a laptop and usually my wrists are resting on the desk. A face down display seems like it would just scratch up immediately.