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when you start a company your approach should be beyond reproach. red tape and nitpicking are things to welcome as part of a high quality bar - as annoying as they maybe - not to write off as inconvenient annoyances.

when you have your shit together in the most basic ways, you simply won't have this level of problem.
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Gpfdist is really just a binary format over HTTP, so it does handle streaming use cases well.

Spring XD implemented a Java reactive version of the GPFdist protocol, so you could use that to wire it up to your existing app pretty easily (or just copy the Sink code which is pretty straightforward).

Here are some docs and synthetic benchmarks:
http://docs.spring.io/spring-xd/docs/current/reference/html/...
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Yeah, I can definitely see how these widgets and visualizations make an article significantly more engaging. I am hoping to learn more so I can have some visualizations to present of data for my startup. Since we are improving people's productivity, it would provide significant value to better engage users in their data.
I did not go to a US school myself, but many of my friends who did are saying that studying diligently and doing well in class negatively affects your reputation.. and if you are doing any nerdy extracurricular work or go to a STEM camp, you are just doomed.. )
And then these people go to college, and cannot do simple multiplication.. I think this is not how it should be..
If we're talking about high school, bring back study hall. Kids can't absorb information from lectures 7 hours a day, so why try?

7 hours a day 5 days a week (most of the year) for 13 years is surely enough time to prepare for college/trade school/apprenticeship/unskilled labor.
Unit testing? Source control? Continuous integration? Code documentation? Seems like red tape and nitpicking rather than substantive coding. It's stories like that that guarantee that I would never try to start a company in software or recommend a friend join one.

Just because standard practice seems unnecessary to you doesn't mean that it doesn't exist for good reasons. To anyone in biotech or familiar with what can go wrong with physical products, your complaints come across as ignorant.
The lack of factual scrutiny for such potentially life-changing technology is a shame on both ends of this story.

I mean there are 2 Theranos centers smack in the middle of SV (Palo Alto and Redwood City) - the WSJ's exposé centered largely on actually trying the tech and finding others with disparate results - where were the SV / SF / Oak proper journalists on either end of this story actually scrutinizing a $10b monster?

"Watching the media build up and tear down Theranos feels the same with the sign bit flipped. Little data, and lots of hyperbole, both times."

c/o Sam Altman's twitter and he's spot on.

(1) https://twitter.com/sama/status/655492875073884160
Yes, we saw this last time with the Mac devolving into myriad options and variants under Scully, Schindler and Amelio. The true test of Jobs' legacy will be if he left structures in place to keep creating the new while building and growing ecosystems for the old.
Those senators vote on tech issues as they are instructed by tech companies. If they voted this way, I think its reasonable to assume that tech companies lobbied for it.
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Probably I'm just left behind in terms of front-end stuff and just need to catch up, while for everyone else "it's not a big deal", but for me it's really impressive. I mean, I understand that instagram filters are not a rocket science, but CSS filters, really? In real time, just like that?

And the whole github profile is pretty nice, I gotta say. Nothing special, but inspiring somehow.
Pharmacies operate in large share through health plans. Larger pharmacies == more negotiating power == higher drugs prices. Smaller / start-up chains don't have that advantage, and hence start with several strikes against them.
Weak.

Four whole paragraphs talking about how we don't have enough information, without making any effort towards the gathering of said information.

This is called equivocation and to me it indicates that you're one of those "I don't have anything to hide" types trying to raise a more reasonable objection.
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They'll just start hiring from the demoscene.
The FDA is a federal bureaucracy, and the "picky" requirements are the usual and customary mode of operation. Documentation of details is important in order to conform to federal law which the FDA implements in its domains.

Having been involved in several pharmaceutical studies, I can assure you the level of documentation detail demanded is extremely picky. Medical laboratory rules are similarly strict. They have to be given the risks to patients if not closely regulated.

The essence of the requirements are thoroughness and consistency. Medical laboratory measurement devices have to be carefully calibrated in order to be predictable, a lot rides on the accuracy of results. Without conforming documentation of calibration and testing procedures, it's impossible to trust lab test results, which is untenable.

It's not "just red tape", if true that compliance with standards is arduous. I have no trouble understanding reasons people might avoid getting involved in biotech enterprises, or recommending it for others.
NEWT may be more appropriate if you are interested in not-HTTP:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/juanand/archive/2010/03/05/standa...
Zenefits feels like one of those Unicorns that will go poof. I find employee satisfaction and turnover in startups to be important signs of the health of a startup and Glassdoor reviews are terrible and turnover looks high via LinkedIn
so, they've decided to cannibalize the interesting story they cut out to begin with for the current DLC that everyone seems to enjoy?
I suspect this is going to turn out to be a huge spectacle. One of the downsides of so much VC cash available is that it's also a lot easier to build up a very expansive sham company which doesn't have much at its core.
Personally I value accuracy over speed when it comes to important legal docs. Read too many horror stories about bad data entry with Zenefits to trust things will get done right. Double the headache of a "legacy" provider if these things are done incorrectly.
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It's been a long time coming for this database niche to reach open source, which is the tech behind the big analytical prowess of countless companies (before and after Hadoop). Teradata, the first massively parallel database, was released in 1984.

A brief overview on MPP databases / Greenplum here:
https://dwarehouse.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/introduction-to-...
It does help more than you think, being in a bundle is a big chunk of revenue for a smaller developer. While the sales do dwindle really fast after the launch, the long tail is still significant.
I had recently started building a payment network business in India and the bandwidth situation is constantly at the top of our minds.

What makes the situation in India peculiar is not just the lack of 3G, but the variance within the band. It is not unusual to see "3G" connection with 15Kbs speeds.

A recent study, which I am unable to dig into at this moment, showed that the aggregate bandwidth of a 3G connection in India is only marginally (~18%) faster than a 2G connection.

The second challenge we encounter is "fake" connectivity - even though the phone shows 3G or 2G, it is not a guarantee that there exists a data network at all.

And yet another study found that more than half of the country did not get what upgrading to 3G meant. If and when the phone companies successfully win the mind share of this half and encourage them to switch over to 3G, the situation will deteriorate even further because of the load on the band.

A dated but an effective coverage of the situation - http://www.economist.com/node/10214756

Creating adaptive (and even offline apps, especially regulated financial industry apps) is super-challenging from a product point.

I will be glad to answer any other questions, related to this topic.

P.S - I have spent ~15 years in NYC and a few years in London and can empathize with the comments in this thread. But building mobile apps for India, takes a different thinking IMHO. We need to wear the hat of a microkernel / embedded systems developer from 8085 era.

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Absolutely agree with that. We released yesterday a project called Hypernetes[1], which has been designed to solve the "I care that I have X GB of total memory and Y cpu's. I want to check a box to make an app or service highly available" problem.

[1]: http://hypernetes.com
>I'm sure removing 100% of the sugar from the human body will cause it to fail.

Why? You can get the needed carbs in other forms. Is sugar required to be eaten? I don't think so.
Do you think you'll still be playing this game a few years from now? I can't imagine the player base is going to stick around for years of that.

Maybe some will, but the idea of a 10 year deal being signed for something like this as the end result is a bit of a jaw dropper for me.
Eventually people will realize how grossly overpriced their iPhone is and the party will slowly come to an end... There are so many great alternatives at much lower cost.
Sports and athletic activities provide experiences, self awareness, entertainment, and teamwork lessons that are incredibly useful beyond academic or (pro-sports) career-centric pursuits.

Athletic activities are experiences in their own right, that can be appreciated in and of the act and experience of the moment itself, rather than the assumption that all things must be a task so in order to establish some future goal.
Or perhaps indicating that the CIA knows how to make an artist famous without it being traced back to them.
Poorly.
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How do you even get funded without a process that is fully tested? Was this a failure of due diligence? I don't understand.
I assume there's some kind of tight binding or why would they use such terrible tools? That said, the tools may have improved since the person describing them last saw them. It's hard to imagine that fixing tools in that state wouldn't be a huge priority.
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I started using 1dollarscan.com. They have a "platinum" program that for $100/month[1] you can scan 100 "sets" (each set is 100 pages, so a total of 10,000 pages) with the basic enrichments (OCR, tuning to particular devices). On some volumes I ponied up for the color and/or 600dpi options.

Did that for about 6 months and processed a bit more than 60,000 pages. I bought a nice guillotine cutter off Amazon and a ScanSnap 1500 scanner [3]. For a lot of paperback references I could cut the spine off, drop it into the scanner, and it takes less than minute to scan the entire book, both sides of the page. I also scanned a several years of Scientific American, Nature: Materials, and other magazines I've kept for reference. Yes it "destroys" the book, generally though I'm ok with that. If I really want something in book form I'll buy two copies, scan one and keep the other. For reference material it is much more helpful to have things digitized. I've been working on a home grown data management application which catalogs and cross references information from the books. The whole library is less than a terabyte at the moment.

[1] 1dollarscan platinum membership -- http://1dollarscan.com/membership.php

[2] Stack S12 guillotine cutter -- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000YI5P76/

[3] ScanSnap 1500 scanner (current model iX500) -- http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scan...
They may still actually have an real innovation (we need more evidence), but I do agree that this is a massive failure for such a valuable company. After the huge setback that 23AndMe suffered from their run-in with the FDA, every well-funded company under their jurisdiction should be triple-checking everything related to FDA compliance, since it poses such a grave, existential risk.
Link to announcement on the Laura and John Arnold Foundation site

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Agreed; your local library happily accepts donations (assuming you haven't cut the spine off).
The Hacker News community alone adds a few percentage points to Apple's sales. If you ask here, the answer will be "yes" :).
I, for one, would prefer to have my tax dollars spent commissioning statues and other art, rather than buying bombs or weaponry of any sort.
Correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_animation
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I've used Paperclip in production. It's good and does what it's supposed to. The main issue is if you have a lot of different image sizes. It will basically process all of the images inline + store them to s3, etc. My ideal flow for image processing is to create the thumbnail (which the user sees right away) and to throw the rest of the image processing work on a background queue.

This minimizes the time spent processing a request and keeps the front-end snappy.
I think this is a great response; it may come in handy for what I am up to.
He has invested all the capital. When we first started we were just an idea and now were weeks away from "flipping the switch"

All I care about is making the product. Not the money, or potential money. Its tough, our investor has also served as a mentor and stepping away from that mentality is difficult.
It doesn't appear to be windowless, it's just dark tinted glass.
Fair enough; I've read some of those stories but we haven't had an issue like that as far as I know. Naturally you're going to hear the bad more frequently than the good so I'm not convinced it's a huge problem but it's obviously an issue.
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"Enormous multi-national corporations should not function as an extension of our Government"

You've demonstrated you're completely historically illiterate. It has always been thus, you're just becoming aware of it.

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/...

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-histor...
Another way to go around it: you pay $20/h to a job that usually takes X hours to do it, so in the end you will pay 20 times X.

I bring someone else to work with me, and we both do the job in X/2 time. I pay $10/hour for the subcontracted person.

So assume a 8 man-hour job. You will pay $160. I keep $120, the subcontracted $40. My effective rate was $30/hour. You don't think this is a problem, as you see your house cleaned just like usual.

Next time, I bring 3 other people. We finish things in 2 hours. I pay $60 to them, I keep $100. My effective rate was $50/hour.

Next time, I bring 7 other people. We finish things in one hour. I pay $70 to them, I keep $90. My effective rate was $90/hour. I use the other 7 "working" hours of the day to play videogames.
ECU tweakers are already very popular with diesel vehicles. Something like that seems legal even under these restrictions.

Buy/rent a device to mod your own vehicle.
It's an amazing career and an honor to push mankind to the farthest reaches of space. Maybe we all can stand up for a moment and clap for him and his colleagues for a job well done.
Consumer Reports: http://www.consumerreports.org/

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Several million dollars. Everything is extremely expensive - IP licenses, ASIC layout software licenses, simulation and verification software and possibly hardware, mask costs, line setup costs, wafer production costs, packaging costs, testing costs, etc.
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I'm sceptical generally of Theranos, but none of this feels in the least bit like a smoking gun. Wouldn't you expect feedback like that for a truly revolutionary product? There's no claim of fraud, there's no claim their technology doesn't work, just complaints about technicalities. Am I wrong?
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Lots of people say that but I can't relate except on a very superficial level. I mean yes you have to look away from your screen to read the card on your phone or your laptop, but I look away from the screen for all sorts of non game related reasons. It's not like being in a cinema.

On a deeper level I thought they added a great deal to the immersion. You have to hunt for scraps of information and try to piece together what happened in past events. You have to go on the Bungie website and discuss theories with rest of the community. Some fans even made voice acted recordings of the cards. Overall it led to much more investment of thought into the story (which remember is supposed to stretch for ten years) which I think is a greater type of immersion than what you get from pretty cut scenes that tell the story like a movie.
I've only used Paperclip a few times for some really basic uploading without any processing. By design, it really aims for simplicity which can be a bit of a pain if you try to do more so I'd always opt for Carrierwave in those circumstances. It's a lot more flexible, and it's nice to avoid cluttering up your models. Refile has always kind of rubbed me the wrong way; processing images on-the-fly reminds me of a really nasty experience I had with a PHP app a few years back that I was asked to "fix." Given the choice, I'd prefer to avoid it altogether though I realize there are a few use cases where it makes more sense. Chalk that one up to a personal bias, I suppose.
False dichotomy.
This is misleading. Most independent pharmacies operate through coalition or coops in the exact same way small grocery stores do. Often times the sales of coops are on par with, or can easily exceed, the annual sales of major chains.

You aren't going to match Walmart on $4.00 generics and have success, but often times independent chains get better discounts on everything else than many of the major chains.
Why can't Amazon or Yelp, etc. weigh the trustworthiness of their reviewers? Newcomers low till proven otherwise, long-time reviewers who prove trustworthy higher. Trust low reviews more than high reviews, except for trustworthy reviewers. Punish reviewers with lower weight when they break the trust.

How to know what's trustworthy? That's more difficult to establish, but someone like an Amazon has the capacity to build something like this. So would Yelp and they both have incentives to make the reviews published on their platforms believable -else we'll all believe it's just spammy astroturfing.
Nice work man. This is a great project.
Ethereum's contract system has no way of knowing whether events outside its little world actually occurred. It can't tell if someone who said they'd send your alarm message actually did so before paying them. There's talk of "trusted intermediaries", but if you have trusted parties, then you don't need Ethereum.

The banks that are talking about blockchain technology for settlements have a better handle on this. If bond ownership transfers are actually recorded through a transaction on the bond blockchain, then you could have offers, acceptances, contracts, and verified deliveries without a trusted back-end service.

Conceivably you could put a music or video download service on Etherium, where you got a crypto key to unlock the content by paying for it. But Etherium can't tell if the key you got was any good, or that the file it unlocks was what was ordered.

Does someone have a convincing use case for this thing?
If anyone interested in learning how I built it: (my guest post on SitePoint about it)

http://www.sitepoint.com/build-simple-image-editor-with-css-...
Why would they be having it rough? Many jobs involve repetitive actions with little to no creative element. But still these animators will have built up a substantial skill and the work output ought to be modestly satisfying.

If code compiling couldn't be automated, the people tasked with performing ASM translation would eventually become extremely skilled at it... to a point where it might seem impossibly magical to the rest of us.
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This is really good news. Wow.
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Hi -

I'm looking for a list of libraries/technologies like Node.js, nginx, Apache, ElasticSearch etc.

Has anyone compiled such a list already? Thanks a lot!
While reading the discussion, it seems to me that individual student's attitudes and preferneces plays the major role in this issue. Maybe even more important than the official policies.

I had largerly the same high school and college experience as yours (at least I would describe it in a very simiar way), even though I received my education in a different country, where all educational policies must be significantly different.

So I think, it's not surprizing at all that it's hard to come up with a single resolution regarding homework that would fit every class and each individual student and their family.
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I am thinking someone should do a similar list for technology news. For instance:

- A renowned researcher gives hope to solve a long-standing problem.

- A famous hacker releases some cool software (or hardware blueprints) as an open source project.

- Please take a minute to pay homage to somebody who accomplished great things.

- A pressing social problem became even more pressing.

- A noble individual gains a legal victory over a faceless institution.

- A corporation announces structural changes.

..and so on. And then perhaps somebody could write categorization software based on the list.
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Has someone raised these yet? Otherwise I will.
Is the NSA trying to warn us that cryptography is dead?