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Your assessment is accurate, unfortunately Triton does not address the issue of data locality, which is a pretty big problem unless you're already building your storage backend to be Smart Data Center aware.

To that extent, I'm not sure that tossing out the idea of hosts is great yet.
Your assessment is accurate, unfortunately Triton does not address the issue of data locality, which is a pretty big problem unless you're already building your storage backend to be Smart Data Center aware.
It is extensively desi and useful. Coders of Indian SaaS companies are bookmarking it.
Quantum communications go thin and light
> Bob's Burger is CG

No it's not, it's hand drawn using Toon Boom Harmony[1]. They offshore to South Korea in a similar fashion to The Simpsons. Sometimes they'll use cel-shaded CGI for static and complex objects (which The Simpsons do as well), but character animation is all regular 2D cel.

[1]: https://www.toonboom.com/news/bob-s-burgers-goes-fifth-seaso...

South Park is animated in Maya, but it's really the style of animation that makes South Park so quick to produce rather than the fact it's CGI (lots of CG animation is equally as time consuming as 2D cel).
Observation 5: "Documents were not reviewed and not approved by designated individual(s) prior to issuance."

this one is the most damning. FDA gave them the opportunity to correct this, and they sat on it for a year.

The culture of move fast and break things is fine for consumer products, but the cavalier attitude with people's lives is overstepping.
Researchers in Australia Claim a Breakthrough for Quantum Communications
A 3-week social experiment with sharing-economy startups
There is also a problem of cellular companies with fake "unlimited" plans. Basically, they offer 3G speeds only till a certain limit after which they throttle it down so much that it is barely usable, like Idea Cellular[1].

I have stopped having any mobile data on my phone and mostly prefer WiFi, since I hate paying for such a limited internet.

[1]: http://www.ideacellular.com/idea/select-circle?PlanType=3Gne...
I'm sure they do this to some extent, but I'd guess that prolific users are rare, and the vast majority of reviews are written by users who have only written a small number of other reviews. So the danger is that downweighting or hiding reviews from newcomers might mean throwing away the vast majority of your data, and also discouraging new users from contributing.
Product Engineering Services
The Caveats of Being Metrics Driven
Live map of events taking place in Syria
search awesome <<whatever>> in github
BULLSHIT POST. That link goes to a video that says no such thing.
The government doesn't give you "feedback." Also, out of the five observations, only the last one is a "technicality." The process documentation and design specification and validation issues are not optional. Not just in medicine, but in any engineering field where lives are on the line.

E.g.

> Observation 1: "Design validation did not ensure the device conforms to defined user needs and intended uses."

You don't build a bridge without defining the maximum carrying load you intend to use it for, or validating that it will carry that load. Getting lucky and having the bridge not fall down (at first) doesn't ameliorate that process defect.

P.S. I haven't been following the Theranos story closely. I am taking the fine article at face value.
Ikea Lovingly Turned These 10 Children's Drawings into Actual Plush Toys
This is a joke! I can't use my Rackspace account as I have 2FA enabled and Carina does not support it! I can understand a legacy app not supporting 2FA, but a brand new one - this is a fiasco! There are things that you can "leave for later", but security should be a top priority task for a cloud provider!
At the end of your life, do you think that you will be happy with how you led it?

A long time ago on a semi-obscure Internet bulletin board, a regular participant used this tagline to end his postings:

No apologies, no regrets.

I don't fully agree with that, but it's something to think about as one lives their life.
Salaries for those with low-level systems programming skills will go up, and that should get people motivated to learn what is necessary.
The comment being replied to was also rather uncivil by a certain definition, assuming the commenter was unfamiliar with what is by now very cliched literature and explaining it in a somewhat condescending tone, as if to a child, when in truth there was a very substantive point being made.
Education. The rich are informed and therefore its noble. The poor are uninformed are therefore its manipulation.
N1: An E-mail client built in React
Cars cost billions to research and develop and are therefore a difficult and expensive market to enter.

There's no market that Apple might enter that won't cost billions in research and development. How many billions have been invested already in iPhone, iPad and Mac product cycles?

If Apple does enter and dominate this market, that would cost them a huge amount of their cash store but would open up additional revenue streams similar or greater than they currently enjoy.

The development of the Apple car is being paid out of the R & D budget. Further, even with the tons of cash on hand, Apple has been active in bond markets around the world, since interest rates are near all-time lows. According to the conference call, Apple has borrowed around $56 billion, which they could easily fund all kinds of stuff, including the car.
Roaming charges in the eu have always been a way to legally rip off the customers.
Glad to hear another voice (and username :)) in support of Marathon! - I haven't yet played Destiny, but from the article / your comment, very much hope it's story-driven in the same kind of (obscure, often veiled, quietly melodramatic) vein.
I don't know about the U.S. but in Toronto school ran from 8:45am to 3:15pm which is 6.5 hours. My poor dad had to shift his schedule to work 7:15 to 3:15 to pick me up. It would have made a lot more sense to extend the school day by 1.5h to a standard 8h day and not assign homework.
Record iPhone and iPad Screen
$5 is still $5 if you buy a game after the fact. I don't see how joining early purchasers helps game developers more than otherwise.
They could possibly incentivize (honest) reviewers or new reviewers with a next day prime upgrades on a future purchase, for example.

Still, a few honest reviews are better than a flood of unbelievable reviews because at that point it's as if there were zero reviews.

Moreover, it's my understanding most of the astroturfing is from "bought" reviews. They ought have a way to detect that (accurately), or at least give them suspicion.
Bailiwick of Jersey
Thanks a bunch. Wasn't aware of the awesome-* repositories.
It's not really a trust-based mechanism. Ethereum runs on a blockchain, just like bitcoin, but instead of just maintaining account balances it implements a simple turing machine where each instruction costs some amount of the underlying cryptocurrency. Contract code is stored on the blockchain, so the behavior of any contract is fully predictable.

Here's one example: Augur (http://www.augur.net/) have already released an alpha of their fully decentralized prediction market. With bitcoin someone could run a prediction market, pools payments and pay out to winners. With Ethereum you will be able to send cryptocurrency directly to a contract that manages the bet and pays out to the winners, based on some prearranged signal source.
There are still plenty of people out there that can work at the low level, and young people that can work at low level too. I compare it to the beginning of CS to now. In the 70's a computer scientist was familiar with electronics, and a lot of very low level things that would be considered EE now. This was needed in the days where machines were bespoke, and coding was very bare metal. But then people built standardized hardware, and developed standard operating systems that allowed people to work with higher level languages and trust the low level to others.

This is still the case. I am familiar with assembly and X86 but I never work with it. I do not need to, there are people that work on that. That does not impair me, it is just that the world of tech has grown much larger and there is a lot to know where nobody can know it all. Some have the feeling that if you cannot work with assembly or write compilers or device drivers you somehow don't have your chops.

The skills that are "few and far between" are those wanting to work on a unique system where that knowledge is not directly applicable to today's less bespoke technologies.
Thanks for your reply, rfc. In my Bioinformatics class, we went through Bowtie algorithm funny enough last week (the vague details I still remember are the funny way it compresses fragments as rotations and then goes onto transform the rotations). Gl on your project.
Lets try it - I come with you with proof of concept nuclear fusion device that is just below break even energywise and claim that with proper engineering I can get it to 20 EROEI. Will you fund me?

It was enough for her to have some innovation that could plausibly work.
Could you provide examples of math application - that you mention - in the case of Levenshtein distance? I'm not interested in general topology, functional analysis etc., but what finds its use in computer science, software engineering.
Building Brillo-Iant Devices with Weave for a Connected World
The footnote link [13] in section "The audio card" is an unrelated footnote, the correct one appears to be missing.
Politics is the hot topic at premiere of Dalton Trumbo biopic
3D Printer Monsters Are Headed This Way
"The best way to make a totally crap game that is neither fun nor educating? Make an educational game."

My 5 y. daughter is completely enthralled by a spelling and reading game on IPad. This leads me to disagree and claim instead that a crap game is not made good by educational goals but a good educational game is provably plausible - it just needs to be a good game.
Are the participants in Theranos' 2014 private equity sale even publicly known? The list could be a source of amusement for many. Most amusing outcome would be if DFJ, Ellison, et al exited in that round.
Lanczos-2 is pretty much identical to Catmull-Rom, and Lanczos-3+ are all sharper than Catmull-Rom, but at the cost of ringing artifacts.
Probably because HN <3s the word library a bit too much.
Understanding (and Refuting) the Arguments for God
WTF is with EVERY post being from CNN?
As a long time user, I find that the super amazing quality aspect of Apple products and software is slipping. iTunes gets worse and worse. Apple music looks anemic. The OSX interface was disappointing and the Apple watch totally underwhelmed me. I am a minority here but if I were to invest in Apple, it would because of it's driverless car development and the fact that Apple products would sync with it. That unto itself could possible "drive" them into becoming the first trillion-dollar company.
Ask HN: Tech Startup accountants in Australia?
Hi all,

I'm bootstrapping a tech startup in Australia and I'm looking for an accountant to help me set up a business as well as help with making use of any tax benefits that are currently available for SME's, R&D grants, etc.

Ideally I am looking for accountants that specialize in tech startups as I am aware there's an R&D grant that is available for SME's in the IT space.

I am based out of Melbourne but location is not important (as long as they are in Australia).

If anyone can recommend any I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!
Hm banned by Apple? What a shame...
Plantoid: An autopoietic sculpture
Uptake, a Midwest Startup, Achieves Rare $1B Valuation
Awesome list of Redux examples and middlewares
That's excellent to hear, because I believe that Docker/containers will truly take off once developers can treat them as the "highest level" of computation; ie. no hosts needed, containers are all that are worked from!
I didn't realize the Republican Debate was tonight. Either way, they will get another chance to cast a vote on the conference report.
Your response clarifies a few things (but not all).

Assuming a couple things:

1) you have discussed any delays to flipping the switch arising from firing Andrew with your investor / mentor. And that he is Ok with that.

2) that your investor is prepared to pay any termination payments, especially those in-lieu of notice.

2) that you are paying your staff the going rate for the work they are doing.

3) that you have standard employment contracts - i.e. no soliciting, no rights to IP, etc

You will need to write a termination letter - which basically says that Andrew can have no contact with your staff, no rights to the code nor IP, nor compete in the technical area.

Ideally you have your investor there in the morning. You call in Andrew, give him the letter of termination and clearly say that if he tries any funny business then you will sue him. Then march him off the premises. You can send any of his personal stuff to his home later in the day.

Then you announce to the rest of the staff what you have done and that you need to pull together to ship. Once there is demonstrable results then equity discussions can take place. Invite any disgruntled staff to leave on the spot - with the same termination conditions as for Andrew.

I'm sure that some people will protest that I'm suggesting a heavy handed approach. That is true. You have cast your lot by committing to the product and your investor / mentor. Taking somebody's money comes with a commitment to them.
Selling Security as a Service: how do you stand out from competition?
The FDA quality system regulations seem like nitpicking on their face, and they can be implemented in such a way that is very pedantic, but at their core this is really about an engineering process that is controlled and validated, which isn't, you know, unreasonable if you're talking about products that directly impact people's health.

Document numbers and release dates go toward ensuring everyone at the company is working with the same information. Most computer science students learn about the failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter [1] because one team was using feet and the other meters. Guarding against issues like those is exactly what FDA is trying to do.

1: http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288
I think that's a slightly dated view. I don't think that the app market is mainly defined by "I'll pay $1 for an app" anymore. In a few fields, perhaps. But the most important apps are at this point free ones, and their users are monetized in other ways.

Except the data says differently. From the transcript of the conference call:

>The App Store set new all-time quarterly records for both the number of transacting customers and overall revenue. The strong performance of the App Store helped fuel 1.5 billion dollars in services revenue, also an all-time record.
Reverse-engineering how the Oculus Rift DK2′s tracking system works (2014)
It seems insane to me that we could allow private corporations to buy and sell data that our government would require a warrant or court order to obtain.

You're not seeing what is going on behind the scenes... they are all in cahoots the money is just a bonus.

You're not seeing what's going down behind the scenes - the spying is for us.

On the NSA/spying...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g
Peter Lynch, of Magellan fame, wrote that he'd hang out in shopping malls looking at store traffic.
Overstock to Pay Employees in Gold and Silver During Next Financial Crisis
How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century
Possible but people are reluctant to jump ship when you make the traitor walk the plank. It's the sword in the back that drives the point home - if you'll pardon the pun ;-)
The real news are that this didn't happen until the end of 2015...
With the growth of any science and industry, there is depth of specialization. The overall expertise is not decreasing, it is increasing, and the breadth has to give.
Calling it Hacker News of India, but I'm not able to find any Guildlines or FAQs on your site.
As pascalmemories noted, this cached version is "post-takedown" as evidenced by "[Redacted]" in the second posting along with the explicit notice "Filters deleted due to a court injunction we received today."

While I didn't see the filters "pre-takedown", a Google search for the URL [0] turns up a number of other places where it was referenced. While I can't verify that they did/do work, at least a few of those results appear to contain filters to defeat the anti-ad-blocking mechanisms put in place by bild.de. (I'm intentionally not reproducing them here in an effort to perhaps save dang from having to respond to a takedown notice.) :/

[0]: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41068
Although I already have ereaders, I couldn't resist (shakes fist at Amazon!) ordering this one to see how good it is for $50.
Family members could be kept alive forever using social media history
What is alarming and missing from the BI story is that there were two documents issued by the FDA - one which covers the issues mentioned (more of pre-market and conduct) the second one listed here: http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/@fdagov-afda-org... is equally damming.

This one deals with the requisite post-market aspects (surveillance, complaint remediation, etc).

For a Medical Tech. start-up to fail on post-market surveillance is in-excusable. Move Fast & Break Things should not apply to people's health and medications.

There is something very wrong when a company with that much cash fails BOTH in pre & post market situations.
Indiegogo new launch: Mind-control wearable device
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Streisand effect in 5... 4... 3...
Right. If I want to steal 5,400 different physical books, I'm going to need a truck and some criminal intent and probably a half dozen or more bookstores to get them all from. eBooks, on the other hand....
>European students in the US vs. in Europe,

I'd like to see stats for that. I strongly doubt that's true of European students.
and while it does seem to be the case that Android users are less likely to pay money for an app than iPhone users, I'm not aware of any sign that they are less likely to pay for a physical good or physical service through an app.

You mean like last year's holiday shopping numbers? From "Apple's iOS Has Once Again Decimated Android When It Comes To Data That Matters": http://www.businessinsider.com/ios-android-shopping-data-201...

>Adobe, which is tracking online shopping, reports the following: "iOS users drove four times as much mobile sales revenue as Android users, 79 and 21 percent respectively."
New AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data
I wonder how much of that belief stems from cultural institutions where top positions at the best companies use good schools and good grades as primary hiring criteria.

In the US, that is still very much the case at a lot of companies outside of hiring developers in the tech industry. Can't say I entirely blame them as much as I dislike the practice. When someone lacks experience because they are entry-level, that is pretty much the next best indicator you have as to some level of intelligence and drive to succeed.
Ip licences for gpled cpu cores and schemas? Several million doesn't sound that bad. Means that the bar moves to 100k rather than 10k units (if the goal is to break even in the short term). And it's tricky to sell 20k units/year for five years, as the cost to upgrade (clock, ram) would probably be in the same ballbark aa initial investment.?
It's not my usual way of doing things, but there is a Rails gem[1] for this that looks pretty nice.

[1] https://github.com/influitive/apartment
I would love to use it, but would like to see a license first.
Then again, what Akom does is quite similar to the more popular definition of OEM. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_equipment_manufacture... :

Generally, an OEM is the company that makes a part that is marketed by another company typically as a component of the second company's product
Tools for Entrepreneurs: Making Something People Love
Any edit to a map required opening up the map the night before so it could spend 8 hours opening it. And then it might still fail.

>Let’s say a designer wants to go in and move a resource node two inches,” said one person familiar with the engine. “They go into the editor. First they have to load their map overnight. It takes eight hours to input their map overnight. They get [into the office] in the morning. If their importer didn’t fail, they open the map. It takes about 20 minutes to open. They go in and they move that node two feet. And then they’d do a 15-20 minute compile. Just to do a half-second change.”
You could do that with https://github.com/jrgifford/delayed_paperclip/ I guess.
The goal is full-spectrum human tracking. Tagging cars is just an obvious step along the way.
Library of Congress legalizes preservation of and access to abandoned games
1) Can we have a document from other visits to similar labs for comparison.

2) What does the $10B valuation people keep referring to has to do with anything? If they do not meet requirements should they be valued less? This does not make sense. If you do not meet standards for xyz, you shouldn't be allowed to perfom xyz. The feedback should not be around the valuation.

3) The same press that are knocking Theranos are the same press that were calling it disruptive. If anyone is to be blamed it should be them, and the government agencies that allowed testing.