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Methinks it is time to follow the money, and see who is behind misruption.org
Ok, we put "legalize" in the title above.
I'm not sure where I suggested there are as many cases in Europe?

Mosquitoes do exist in Europe; they don't spread malaria because it isn't there to spread, and it isn't there to spread because of effective healthcare.

(Europe isn't a great example as the mosquito population is not exactly high, which I guess is climate-related, but the above is also true of parts of the developed world where their populations are higher)
Milwaukee PD fire GPS units onto fleeing vehicles to track them
I've done a few safety-critical embedded devices for medical equipment and an air traffic control system. We used Linux/C so we didn't kill people.

The combination of "medical device" and "touch-based user interface" started me twitching. Some things to bear in mind are (1) will the interface work if the users are wearing rubber gloves? (2) there could be a problem with an infectious agent transferring from a patient to a doctor's gloves to the screen then to another doctor and another patient.
What about porting the Arduino code to the esp8266/esp32 ? powerful chip + huge network.

Altough as a prototyping platform, i can understand how javascript would be more appealing. And for production, even by startup, the Arduino is far from ideal, mbed is much better.
The Arduino is an Atmel chip on a small board with a few components for simplifying the power supply and USB communication, plus an IDE and a few libraries for simplifying the development.

There's nothing "basic" about the hardware itself: you can at any time switch to C and compile with gcc, just like for any Atmel chip.
I just want to parrot that what rimunroe is saying is true. The article is presenting empirical demonstration as certain and done. That is far from the case. These experiments are still highly contested and the proponents of "the thrust is real" are still a decided minority.
Male pins on the card would fail just the same way, plus they'd also get more damage from being exposed. The only upside would be easier repair and, in most cases, cheaper replacement.

The correct fix would be pins with a better length/width ratio.
I'd be curious to see how chronic pain fits into the equation.. I developed a fairly severe neuralgia and it dropped my quality of life about 3 or 4 points on a 1-10 scale.
This sort of summary comment is bad for HN discussion. It's actually off-topic, because the topic is X, not "what is X about". It's also not a legitimate way to promote your Apply HN. So please stop.
Wow, this was really inspiring. There are probably hundreds of girls/women like this, but they don't make headlines as often. This is awesome.

The youngest sister may even grow up in a world where she doesn't have the same barriers as most women today.

Could this be a sign of positive change?
Former DEC Alpha engineers also proved you could make a power-efficient PPC at P.A. Semi, and were involved in the early versions of the MIPS SoC line that is now owned by Broadcom.

Really it's hard to find a platform that isn't from Intel from the last 20 or so years that doesn't show an influence from them.
Blog got hugged to death. Here is a mirror: http://archive.is/34sQu
I still have one sitting in front of me. And it's for one game: Metal Gear Solid.
An excellent article citing financial times that introduces important topics that need to be talked about on quite an urgent basis.
> If that was true, Iceland's neighbors Norway and Sweden would have similar rates

Keep in mind that their borders stretch much further south. Also the population distribution is biased towards the south.

Sure, saying that national happiness comes from pools is silly. But it doesn't change that their pools are amazing in many ways. After living in northern IS for a while, that's one thing I really miss.
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Often they dumb down a story for their audience. While you might think it is important to talk about the issue of merging 2 branches, they may rephrase that bit.
Wouldn't that only be a temporary thing, before tech salaries drive up cost of living ? Surely, Seattle was not very expensive a few years back
Would be interested in hearing your analysis on IoT.
"You must run a stock kernel from RHEL 7.2+, or Ubuntu 14.04+ LTS"

Are there any particular features or patches that are required? I maintain the Mesos package in NixOS, along with our patches for Ubuntu Fan Networking, and I would be interested in playing around with this.
Intel's largest mistake was integrating graphics on their CPU. This cost them more than the entire cellphone CPU market is worth.

This ate up valuable chip real estate, RAM bandwidth, thermal overhead etc. Worse it cemented the idea that Intel was crap at graphics while slowing down the PC upgrade cycle.
Harpers magazine had an article on just this: Planet of Weeds by David Quammen

http://www.botany.wisc.edu/courses/botany_422/readings/Quamm...
Having a less flexible employee is a real upside for certain notorious companies. Having an employee who can't leave your company or they get kicked out of the country? That's a situation ripe for abuse.
Do you really think Amazon's proprietary data is that essential?

Even if this product were not sold on Amazon it would be easy to see that pursuing it would be profitable. It's high margin and obviously popular. It's hard to keep those facts secret for long. The fact that the project was originally sold through Amazon is really just a red herring. Companies have been entering competition with high-margin incumbents for centuries.

This is just capitalism at its finest: the world does not owe you a business model, and you cannot expect to capture excess profits on stable product lines for long. Either scale or innovate (preferably both).
None of those startups are >$50bn in value, except Uber.
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Your Welcome my friend, if you need any further info regarding the stock market, fell free to ask, i will be glad to answer. :)
HN threads are supposed to be conversations. Reciting a summary into the public record is a boring addition to conversation in its own right—imagine someone doing this in person—and makes discussion more shallow, since it's no longer grounded in people having read the story.

HN readers can, should, and do read articles, find out what's interesting about them for themselves, and bring the insights they've harvested to others. That's how good conversation works. Not only do we not need a quick-fix substitute for that, we need not to have one.

(This is not a comment on whether a startup of this kind would have value, just on how HN threads are supposed to work.)
To be fair, a 8MHz (16MHz?) CPU is also a huge liability when you have strict timing requirements. For almost anything, the Pi will probably give you better guarantees by sheer speed... and you can always compile the kernel with a real-time patch.

Not saying running on the bare metal is worthless, but an Arduino is a really low end board.
Could you elaborate on this?
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I find it incredibly hard to believe that Amazon is not a monopoly. This Forbes[0] article from 2013 states that Amazon had more sales than it's next 12 competitors combined, and that it's sales were growing faster than overall online sales. If we take this as read, that means Amazon is probably more dominant in 2016 than it was in 2013.

That doesn't seem like meaningful competition, that seems like the other retailers are keeling over.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/09/01/fascinati...
Can I ask why you dislike dynamic languages in an embedded environment? Or why you think they are 'not good'?
I'd go with a Raspberry Pi or other linux supported board. Particularly for prototyping.

If you're looking at building an interface, are you considering web-based?

I'm going to plug my own little project here, I'm also new to embedded development, but hate how everything is hard-coded to the platform you build on.
I built a hardware agnostic library to make it easy to run your business logic on different hardware. It's in javascript (I've asked anonymous_ian why he doesn't like dynamic languages in embedded). http://getfavor.net

Keen to hear your thoughts.
a) The product is not that niche. If it were truly niche, Amazon wouldn't be interested.

b) Even at $20, I'm sure they are making plenty of profit. It's basically just a hunk of metal.
If I prototype something with an Arduino, I can easily switch to directly sourcing ATmegas and spin my own boards.

The Pi Zero is the next thing over from vaporware. I know some people who have a few, but all of the official vendors linked from https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/ are either out of stock, or have "limit one per household."

I'd been having trouble figuring out where to source the BCM 2835 SoC that powers the Zero, and there's (allegedly) a reason for that: https://olimex.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/who-fears-from-the-c...
It's frustrating that the name is a riff on Arduino rather than Genuino.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino#Trademark_dispute

I guess this serves as a cautionary tale, illustrating the power of a well-known brand and what happens when you lose control of it.
His service is providing value. Why can't he mention the product and promote it further?
Great, inspiring story. I hope that news outlets continue to shine the light on people who defy the perceived status quo of who can or cannot be a successful coder.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and the history of physics is littered with intentional fraudsters and sloppy experimentalists. Disproving every perpetual motion machine via experiment would take a lot of effort from scientists who don't want to do it. If you think those experiments should be done, then by all means do them.
Well,

> Error establishing a database connection
>Why does that make him a real hacker?

If you replace the word Hacker with Tinker, the answer might become clear. He reverse engineered the "real thing" and came up with a cheaper solution that met his needs. Think Unix to Linux.

Also, his actions embodied the LEAN startup principles: Fail Fast, Fail Often.

* He asked for feedback immediately. "He fashioned a sanitary pad out of cotton and gave it to Shanthi, demanding immediate feedback."

* When he didn't get feedback fast enough, "I can't wait a month for each feedback, it'll take two decades!" He got 20 more volunteers. But it still didn't quite work out. On the day he came to collect their feedback sheets he caught three of the girls industriously filling them all in. These results obviously could not be relied on. It was then that he decided to test the products on himself.

* Test Driven Development - He created a "uterus" from a football bladder by punching a couple of holes in it, and filling it with goat's blood.
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I'd love a version of this for longer form content. A lot of business books actually do have useful content BUT do not require 200-500 pages. I'd pay the same for a 10-20 page summary.
I work in scientific equipment, and there is a huge trend towards devices containing a touch screen with some amount of computing power. I take a look at what competitors are using, and have opened up some gadgets. The two main things for newer equipment seem to be:

* Android, when the product offers a host of mainstream computing features. I think the rationale for going with Android is: "The user already knows how to use it."

* Linux, when the product is cheaper, and has a more bare bones or restricted function set. I don't know for sure, but I think that a Linux build can be more stripped down. Little boards like Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone abound, and if nothing else, you can create a nice proof-of-concept with one of those. I've actually done this, writing my code in Python, with the expectation that the "real" programmers would turn it into something else.

I'm not in the skill areas that actually develop this stuff, so I don't know any lower level details. My job tends to be supplying the theory of operation for the actual measurement.

Both systems use SOM's (system on a module) that are typically sold with the software tools to get you started, such as a working demo OS. It is rare to see real-time stuff done on the main computer. Since you're usually talking to some sort of device hardware anyway, it's usually more convenient to put the real-time stuff on a separate microcontroller, that's got little or no interrupt overhead to deal with.
Would have been valid if he'd said >$5b.
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What the hell else do you think Intel should put on those chips?

Note that ~15% of Steam Players are gaming on Intel iGPUs, as awful as they are.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
The article leaves out all the numbers and so skips over one little problem. The momentum some people think they might have observed (if it's not experimental error) is compatible with what you'd get by using a microwave antenna as a thruster. Just ordinary radiation pressure, with the puzzle of how the radiation could be escaping the cavity.

But the minimal measurement results I've seen are not compatible with the radiation pressure multiplied by some large factor for the Q of the cavity, which seems to be the claim from some. That really would violate our understanding of conservation of momentum, rather than violating our assumptions about where the momentum goes in this experiment. And that seems to be ruled out experimentally so far.
I see where you'd coming from, but it's easy to see the costs now that we're so utterly used to the benefits. Use of filthy, polluting energy sources was a necessary stepping stone for the industrial revolution. There was no way to go directly from Newcomen's engine to ITER. Sure, the process left us with some problems to solve, but compared to the alternative, they're good problems to have. If we'd applied the precautionary principle, knowing what we know now, we'd never have had an industrial revolution, nor a green revolution, and we wouldn't be here to talk about it.
>- The other driving criteria was those where geography was an advantage, which also led to financial services/enterprises or advertising

That makes sense -- a disproportionate number of LA startups are in Media and Entertainment for similar reasons.
Reproducing semiconductors more cost effectively is a very good thing. Intellectual property deserves very little respect, and using an idea is not stealing.
Have you ever legalized marijuana?
Throwin this out there cause you hate postgres huh?
Precisely, and let's not forget AMD64, while Intel was pushing Itanium.
Blastx? Or are your motifs too short?

I know you mention that this isn't a use case for blast, but it's simple to keep a private blast index to use for cases like this.
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>Science should be about failure as much as it is about success. Failure is a valid result - but we often fail to oblige real and honest failure as scientifically and (most importantly) educationally valid.

I studied Engineering rather than a 'hard science'. My experience was the complete opposite. A failed experiment was almost seen as a good thing. It certainly gave you more to write about on your Lab Report. This probably highlights a lot of the difference between engineering and science. We care about Methods just as much if not more than the result.

>Your lab time is limited and resources are scarce. If you want the grade you'd better "learn from your mistakes" and "be more careful next time."

We were always encouraged to learn from failure and see it as an opportunity. My undergrad thesis was focused on synthesizing material for LI-Ion batteries using a technique called Electrostatic Spray Reductive Precipitation (ESRP). A large chunk of my writeup ended up being about the difficulties I encountered with the technique and how I'd reconfigure the experiment rather than the results I obtained.

I work at an industrial plant now and while plant trials aren't exactly laboratory science there is similar requirements when it comes to experimental rigour. You can be damn sure people won't cut corners because there are going to be a hell of a lot of questions asked if something from the trial can't be replicated when put into production.
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$50B as the bar for a blockbuster startup? How did you determine that figure? Tesla is at $32B right now, still not good enough?
Just to be clear, I am not a physicist, only a interested layman. As I understand it currently, photons don't travel any path. They are emitted somewhere at some point in time and detected somewhere else at another point in time, what they did in-between is not a meaningful question, at least in the classical sense of asking for a path the photon took. When we want to calculate the probability of observing the photon at a specific place at a specific point int time, then we consider all possible paths - including the photon traveling to the edge of the universe and returning from there, including the photon going into the future and coming back - and sum them up. There is a relatively simple formula for every possible path and those possibilities interfere when we sum them up, some path amplify each other, some cancel out, in the end you have a probability distribution in space and time telling you where it is likely and where and when it is unlikely to find the photon in case you tried to observe it there. What the photon did in-between, we don't know, is a meaningless question, ... at least I can't tell.
There are hundreds of boys like this as well. Geniuses get born everywhere, in different bodies, places, social strata etc. The fact that many of them get lesser chances to contribute to the world is an outrageous abuse of the most precious resource that the humanity has, regardless of why it happens.
They're not strictly backward incompatible: one should ideally only have to test across the major versions (nodejs is currently on major version 5, though that's not strictly reflective given the fork to iojs, and the change in versioning system on merge back)

Testing across all 32 (or 303) versions is still going to be useful for catching bugs and quirks between minor versions (as opposed to deliberate, documented breaking API changes)
Several in fact. One of my favourite parts of London is middle Temple, which for a period was a walled city, with its own army, that defend the rights of its lawyers to ... do lawyering. The 13th century was interesting down by the strand.
You can actually use GSS authentication if you setup the correct Kerberos tickets and the correct service names so that Windows will try to communicate with the server via the user's tickets if a password isn't specified.

It's kind of a pain that the configuration options for that have to go in to the host-based authentication file and that it just assumes you know this.
You realize motherboards had shitty integrated graphics long before Intel decided to put them on-die? How did they slow down the PC upgrade cycle?
> many of the SF folks I know seem to be ashamed to work for a big company and not "doing their own thing".

I really wish that this weren't so prevalent. Sacrificing your ambitions to provide stability and safety for your family is a noble thing, and I wish the public rhetoric appreciated this more.
>Are all these 32 actually backwards-incompatible?

Node uses semantic versioning [0] and the current release is 5.10.z

The breaking changes can be found here [1] By searching for `SEMVER-MAJOR`. Some seem rather unavoidable for progress (updating dependencies...) and some are for things that have been deprecated. I'm not an expert but it looks like there are several security related changes as well?

In my eyes a backwards incompatible change that breaks a feature that has been deprecated for years or is insecure is a change worth making. Stability is bad if it means remaining insecure.

[0] http://semver.org/

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v5.10.1/CHANGELOG.md
It's already done; you can program the esp8266 using arduino ide.
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Thanks. The existence of more Java jobs suggests more opportunities to jump around, which is a promising feeling.
See dang's comment in reply to the GP.
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Except that everyone is crazy and high off the fumes of DIY

...actually that does sound pretty 60s
Graphics cards have a small amount of very high bandwidth dedicated RAM close to the GPU. PC ram is further from the CPU which increases latency due to the speed of light lag. CPU's get around this by using a lot of L2/3 cache. Which means PC's don't really care as much about RAM bandwidth. Instead they want lots of RAM.

Thus main memory is much slower than GPU bandwidth. So, now your on chip GPU is memory starved and reducing the bandwidth avalabel to the CPU. There are some advantages if you want to pass stuff back and forth, but the standard rendering pipeline is designed for GPU's.
> Intel's largest mistake was integrating graphics on their CPU. This cost them more than the entire cellphone CPU market is worth.

Er… you mean like every single mobile SoC?
Yes, due to the interaction of the photon with the atoms of the material the photon takes longer to move through certain distance of a material than through the same distance in vacuum.
To add to that, even if virus was to be pluralized in Latin, it would be "viri" not "virii".
If you read the papers, the claims are not very well backed by independent experiment. (The claims are 'replicated' meaning lots of people repeat them!) There's little data and what there is is right at the limit of measurement error. Results from different groups conflict wildly.

Tech Review is a PR rag, not a scientific publication.
We used an Android tablet for the UI here: http://www.centervue.com/productdb19.html?id=919

Other stuff is separate.
Just made the jump myself, my experience with NYC was similar.

Also, NYC has like 3 big VCs: Union Square Ventures, Union Square Ventures and Union Square Ventures.

So you really just have to stop pretending and get in front of Silicon Valley VC firms that all have a variety of different interests and objectives. They also don't want to talk to anybody not in SV.
Wasn't there a problem that while there was an anomaly of some sorts, different teams still reported significantly different results? That would still mean that n-1 teams were wrong, which could mean that the nth team could have been wrong as well. Or was that some other similar device?
At my workplace, we've tested capacitive touch panels with rubber gloves. Cleaning the device could be an issue, but is more general, since the same thing could happen with regular pushbuttons.

But I certainly defer to your expertise. These are the subtle issues that us non-medical guys overlook.
A pure blank space would work as they save on manufacturing costs and get faster CPU's due to heat limits and more RAM bandwidth.
I know that adoption is still low, but I do not know why, can you provide me more perspective?

My knowledge is based mostly on the diva cup ads that pop up here.
I admit, I lied in the previous comment.

In the previous comment, I was worried that people would know who I was if I had said where I worked (what groups and how long). The truth is I had worked in the group I moved to for exactly a year, but I had been at Amazon for 3.5 years.

The level of retribution at that company is substantial, and I was quiet worried they would hurt my ability to get a new job.

I have a nice new job now (I was still searching when I posted that), and am less worried. It's really not hard to figure out who people are on HN.
Thanks for that.

Unfortunately, I have failed to see such jumps in compensation for offers that I received, but I'll admit, I haven't worked with most buzzword technologies (eg: big data).
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