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Aspiring entrepreneur here, built programmatic breadboards, need advice
I have built a device that augments the common breadboard to replace peripheral components with programmatic internal components. But I need advice as to navigating the running of a business. I have recently won a pitching contest and been accepted into the Interview stage of an accelerator program. I am quite overwhelmed, considering my lack of experience.
I don't think of this article as a 'from scratch', given that there's recognisable prefab parts in it, but at the same time, that doesn't diminish its worth.

Perhaps put another way: prefab keys can only be keys; cakemix can only become cake; sheet aluminium could become anything; milled flour could become anything. 'From scratch' is making something from generic materials, to me.
There were various related rumors circulating at the time. You can draw your own conclusions but please allow others to share what is only available as oral history.

My personal favorite (heard in Beijing in the early 2000s) was the story that the Chinese military were monitoring the newly deployed American stealth fighters during the Belgrade bombing and had managed to get radar lock on one (or more) of the F-117As from their embassy. The Americans, the story goes, wanted no more of this and bombed the Chinese embassy.

According to The Font of all Knowledge [0] three Chinese "reporters" were killed in what the CIA admitted was its own bombing operation. It has long been common knowledge that the Chinese government uses the Xinhua news agency as a cover for clandestine operatives [1].

True or false, it'still an inventive rumor.

[0] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the...)
[1] (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/20/world/in-watching-hong-kon...)
I'd be more interested if this integrated with macOS tags.
Especially because people, when driving, blame someone else for all of their problems; this plays into the whole "Why do I have to suffer because that asshole ran out in front of me in traffic?" concept most drivers have and want reinforced by their vehicle AI.

Never mind the fact that you were turning right on the no turn on red, and they had the crosswalk...
My wife is a neurosurgeon in residency and she absolutely works 90-~110 hours just about every week. She barely sleeps and eats one or two big meals a day (almost always ordered from Seamless), we have to live within a couple blocks of the hospital, and I just don't see how she would survive on her own if I wasn't around as far as food/laundry/etc.. is concerned -- I think that answers all of your questions.
Last week a stewardess told us to power-off any "Galaxy 7" device.
Here is the project: https://www.reddit.com/r/metaboard/
You don't have to invent it, you just need to make your own :)
Some folks cannot wear head phones for an extended period of time which makes me very happy I have an office. Plus, noise canceling head phone make me dizzy even if no music is playing. I'm pretty sure that's not unique.
nice idea. bad name
Meta: at times like this Apple is hurt by its policy of doing zero Developer Relations.

If there was somebody - anybody - in Apple who spoke with a voice developers trusted, right now they could be explaining what in hell's going on. Having Apple Marketing leak something to somebody who leaks it to Gruber, who then reports it as hearsay, is a damned shoddy substitute.
He's not in the US
> I'm glad she's still doing what she loves and making the world a better place in the process.

In my opinion a bot that insults people isn't going to improve the state of the world. Quite the opposite.
Awesome. Signing up again to try it!
I agree with you but, do we know if the people who would be affected [despite the new technology] would be a subset of the people who would have been affected without the new technology? If the people affected are not a subset then I think it becomes more problematic.
Well... how about testosterone and similar steroids? Considering that it's largely responsible for sexual desire in the first place, and prescribed as a treatment for low libido.
I have just recently got through a migration from express to a lambda based stack. In the end, performance is pretty good (once the lambdas are warm), but there were a few tricky parts, but nothing impossible.

Serving backend requests is easy with Lambda, but the code for managing the backend can get quite large, quickly. If you are loading up data and it's going to take more than 5 minutes to perform a task, you need to build a queueing system from AWS primitives.
Is reapp still a useable thing? The demos on their homepage are broken and the GitHub repo doesn't seem to have been updated for months.
Tagging the filesystem and making a personal-cloud manager is very similar to one of the directions I'm headed in with meta64.com, which is built on the Java JCR, Lucene, Solr Cloud, Polymer, and is a sort of tree-structured repository that does lots of these types of shenanigans.
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The article also misses the value of intangible assets and strategic options. Unit economics might be negative for now but who knows what a company might be doing in the future. Of course there might be wildly overvalued companies but may be negative unit economics can be seen as an investment in operational scale -- not diluting fixed costs but actually getting to scales where the economics change and new strategic options become viable. (Example: Uber moving from hailing to self-driving cars, obviously.)
If anyone's interested in doing the math about the costs involved, I have two quick notes: first, the API Gateway, at $3.50 per million requests, is typically more expensive than the Lambda functions themselves (and comes with no permanent free tier, unlike Lambda); second, the 128MB minimum memory for a Lambda function can be on the tight side for an Express app, so you might want to base your calculations on more memory.
That's cool. I supported an IBM/PC clone keyboard firmware developer in the 1990s. Having an open source USB based firmware has really changed the game as it was a nightmare to clone the IBM XT/AT keyboard controller with all it's quirks.
Eating too much fruit is an easy way to get fat. I wouldn't go so far as to call them "unhealthy" as a blanket statement, but to your body fructose from an apple is the same thing as fructose from cola.
Yeah a better comeback would have been something like "yeah, after you give this land back to the natives". I don't know how to handle these types of people.
I worked at a place that put a cube farm in a 'cleaned' out oil bunker for the former power plant. They built false walls and had airflow between the concrete wall and the false wall[1] which was a rather scary wind noise since we were 50' underground. Obviously no natural light and cell phones and radios didn't work. Had to wear a tie / jacket because dress codes even though it would have been illegal for a client to get into our area. I call that job my "3 Seasons in Heck".

1) something to do with concrete still bleeding oil even if sealed so smell wouldn't get to us.
The hope being AI driven cars won't turn right on the no turn on red, so the remainder of cases will really come down to pedestrian "negligence"
In one part of the conversation, they mentioned that the accounts used the same bank account(Not only credit card). I assume it means the bank account that the developers is get paid with. That's even more convincing that accounts were linked.
Note that you can use "arbitrary" bank accounts to get paid with(Source: I'm an apple developer.)

Also The apple guy said it uses same test devices. As usual the devil is in details, it's important if they still uses the same devices and in what extent.
Galaxy S4 here. Still going strong. One day in the future, I will upgrade to an S5.
I love lambda's, but api gateway was far from mature the last time I used it (6 months ago).

Unless they have made serious updates to the deployment workflow, feature set, and documentation I would not recommend building your products on it.
He was not always a scammer. He ran a top market making business in his early days and served as chairman of nasdaq etc.

That gave him the clout he needed. Then he used that clout to scam wealthy people starting in the 90's.
Prehistoric mobile phones had effectively 0 energy drain other than the PA in the cell radio. Modern devices have many more sources of significant power drain including multiple PAs, high resolution screens, high quality cameras, and compute which is within a couple orders of magnitude of desktop machines.

The death of the user serviceable battery isn't planned obsolescence, it's a tradeoff to shove the most energy storage possible into a given volume.
check out cs224d and cs231n (both stanford) , there's another course by university of waterloo https://uwaterloo.ca/data-science/deep-learning , you will find lecture videos for all on youtube
> Apple may have viewed this as the wrongdoing.

It is expressly permitted by their guide lines to use another person's credit card to start one's own account as long as one provides govt id: https://developer.apple.com/support/purchase-activation/ Please get your facts straight before trying to get into an argument.

As to your question: If there was any wrongdoing, which Apple at first staunchly insisted there was, Apple would not even bother to talk to him, much less offer any redress.
Not joking: Get your spouse to sponsor your startup. Give them some ownership of the company.
If you don't have your own reason to learn react, and you don't care to learn this stuff for fun, then you shouldn't bother.
Haha it is hardly nonsense. Corporate sabotage is part of what any company has to deal with. Considering that Apple and Google are poised to gain, with Apple shares rising it is obvious Apple had the most to gain.

There is also geopolitical motors involved, as well as the highly aggressive US spying cartels that want to insure they maintain a monopoly of insecure products around the world.

Too many vectors pointing at sabotage to dismiss it as nonsense. Sure, commercially they'll dismiss it as so, but I highly doubt it is as easily dismissive when taking into account _all_ factors.
This is way I using gmail now, but that is kind a opposite to statement in message I replied to: "set DNS for MX to Google".

Currently I have to redirect to Google and Google only send from those boxes using 3rd party SMTP server. So main advantage of having trusted sender is not there.
IIRC Holmes designed the Theranos bylaws such that only she herself can elect to replace the CEO.
This is good because I'd hate to be a passenger when the AI notices an opportunity to save a drunk homeless person passed out on the railroad tracks by parking the car i'm in on the railroad tracks to block a train. We all have to admit that even if AI functioned as well as the human mind, a lot of this stuff will be a tossup and like the "trolley problem" mentioned by WMF on this thread.
But if Apple is ready to admit him back into the dev program, then the anti fraud team didn't do the right thing.
6 million killed is a lot of punitive action and the second link is more than Nanking.
Yep - I don't want anything on the road that will prefer to kill me over its user who put it there.

Perhaps a different way to spin this to the selfish: would you prefer to have only one vehicle on the road that would prefer killing you, or would you prefer every other vehicle on the road to prefer killing you.
> The reality is that no one will buy a self driving car that leans towards killing them over pedestrians.

Ah, I was assuming OP was only calling Mercedes-Benz buyers heartless bastards, rather than all of humanity.

Also, I would, as would many other people. I think it's mostly a moot point, though: do you know of any trolly problem that's happened in real life? If something bad is happening, the car should probably just stop.
People will start listening when Samsung says "Put the phone in a fireplace, or an oven, or any bathtub made of porcalin, and then dial 911."
> the pay is very good by comparison to other jobs that have similarly long hours.

Once you're an attending, yes. My wife, however, is still a resident. She's doing this for $50k/year.
That looks neat! Do you have a link for the PCB?
Any recommended resources (textbooks, course lecture notes/videos) for someone with moderate science background (say intro college courses in chemistry, electromagnetism, circuits) to learn about batteries?
Thanks for your response.

I checked out the doc and didn't see any reference to latency or how to mitigate it, perhaps I'm missing something?

Listen - I'm a massive fan of AWS. We use some core services and are very happy.

I know you listen to customers - but I suggest that Lambda was probably designed for specific kind of services (maybe IT, admin, batch processing etc.) - I'm going to fathom that maybe 'people running web-sites' were top of mind? Again, purely speculation on my part.

But if you want people to seriously switch over - and they will - in droves - if you get it right, is to basically enable fairly responsive services that scale with a minimum of fuss, latency concerns included.

So - if I'm running a web-portal - and I have a customer pull some data to build a chart from somewhere - and I have a Lambda specifically geared for that microservice - then it needs to be quick.

There really should be no need to use other services to have to hack around the latency issue.

Surely - you can parameterize the feature if you want, and require users to set thresholds for how long Lambda's 'stay hot' (and forgive my crude metaphors), or how much throughput etc. - and you could even bill them based upon those parameters. As long as it's fairly concise and understandable.

Perhaps DynamoDB is a good example. We've used it before - and what we love about it is that as long as we design our data correctly we never have to worry. Bursts of traffic, etc. are generally handled well, it scales largely without concern. One poor limitation of that service is the requirement to indicate throughput thresholds, which is too bad, but beyond that, it's ideal.

Amazon Lambdas are basically the 'last piece' of the golden dream of cloud computing - the ability to develop a truly serverless, microserver-based infrastructure, and never have to worry about platforms again. As much as we love EC2s, we would drop them instantly and go to Lambdas if they worked well. (And it's been at least 18 months since we last experimented, BTW). There are tons of SMEs that would do the same - I don't think anyone who isn't directly in the business of tech, and is providing some other kind of consumer or business service, wants the pain of managing EC2s or servers. 'Elastic Beanstalk' etc. is a bandaid - it's not ideal.

Anyhow - Lambdas are very close to being a super great thing, more than that - transformational - if they could just cross that 'real world' usability threshold.

Again - if something has changed WRT latency, and there is something in those docs I'm missing, please let me know.
I measured the actual latency over the weekend [0] [1]

Bare ec2: 15ms

Lambda via API Gateway: 276ms

[0]: http://prerender.cloud/lambda-latency
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12678011
This is also a bad analogy. The other account who is supposedly outside of the control of Kapeli, is involved in thousands of fraudulent ratings manipulations of Kapeli's apps. How likely is it that if the account were so totally out of Kapeli that this cousin would waste their time doing this? It's highly unlikely.
That almost sounds like something out of Office Space
"If that's what you need...you need a server."

We want micro-services that are available as we need them, at any scale, and we never want to deal with a 'server' again.

"You break the entire model of an oversubscribed multi-tenant container system" - we don't care that much about how it's implemented, or what underlying model is used, as long as it is secure, robust, and reliable.
Could China build the world’s smallest nuclear power plant
They released proxy resources to API Gateway. Lets you specify a route like /foo/{path+} and all requests are forwarded as-is.
Generally Cursive's completion should be (at least) as good as CIDER's, and if it isn't that's a bug I'd like an issue for. No-one has complained about it so far.
I don't like my peas and taters to touch neither.
I feel self driving cars will have have a larger field of view so probably will not get into the same situations as a human plus in the future when all vehicles are interconnected the truck will already be aware of what the car is going to do and will avoid it as well
This is the part I'm unclear on:

What Apple has done: on Friday they told me they’d reactivate my account if I’d make a blog post admitting some wrongdoing. I told them I can’t do that, because I did nothing wrong. On Saturday they told me that they are fine with me writing the truth about what happened, and that if I did that, my account would be restored. Saturday night I sent a blog post draft to Apple and have since waited for their approval.

Tonight Apple decided to accuse me of manipulating the App Store in public via a spokesperson.

That makes me wonder about what the heck happened?
Yes, but my point is that the consumers vilify the pedestrian. Let's not even get into the cyclist.
I've recently deployed a small Flask based micro-service for an internal tool leveraging Zappa[0] to deploy it to Lambda/API Gateway. Overall it's been a really smooth experience. I'm looking forward to using it again.

[0] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
Thanks for the data points.

I understand that Lambdas are 'relatively quick' when they are 'hot' - which is my crude metaphor for 'up and running'.

The issue is, if the Lambda has not been in use for some time (seconds, minutes?), then the 'first call' can have quite a bit of latency - often up to 5 seconds - which killed it for us.

There is no way we could reasonably deploy a service wherein customer would have to wait an additional 5 seconds for a reaction in most use cases.

So close, yet so far.

This was about 18 months ago.

If you have some data that addresses this specific artifact - then that would be great. Possibly things have changed in 18 months.

And I'm not a hater, to us AWS is the best thing since sliced bread.
You mean the ones that almost guarantee that I'll spill a bit of gas each time I use them, those ones? The ones that are so bad that the best alternative is a “utility container”[1]?

Seriously, I've never seen such a counter-productive regulation in my life.

[1] https://amzn.com/B00SJWPKAG
The site itself is powered by Netlify.
Nope. I happen to be a product manager for one of such internal applications with around 60 users. This can be considered as a handful of users when compared to the internet scale. Getting the product adopted even for such a small group was a big pain. The primary complaint - it is slow! After two rounds of performance optimizations, the adoption velocity for new features has increased 10x.
> We want micro-services that are available as we need them, at any scale, and we never want to deal with a 'server' again.

I'm going to argue that's currently unrealistic, but if you want someone to build something, tell them its impossible.

Clearly its not easy to build a system that'll run code on demand as fast as bare metal; accept the trade offs with the understanding why you're making them.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. I just took issue with the suggestion that an unflattering picture somehow supports an article about shady business practices.
So, Apigee had this exact service. They did something pretty cool, it seems they implemented nearly all (!) of the Nodejs APIs in a JVM variant, then designed them to run on demand [0].

I actually ported an Express app to Apigee's service, to run webhooks and ETL. It worked flawlessly. The one downside was that they kept their own internal registry of compatible packages and there was no way they could keep up with the Nodejs ecosystem even with few holes in their API.

I still have a ton of hope that Google does something smart with this, I actually wanted to pay Apigee for their service, but their pricing started at an Enterprise tier and none of my projects made it that far.... yet.

Something to think about.

[0]: http://docs.apigee.com/api-services/content/overview-nodejs-...
Ponies aren't free. Review their contribution guidelines and create an issue. Just saying, lamenting a missing OS-specific feature is a big ask.
The most important factor is that it's easy to define types and use them, especially variants or tagged unions, whatever you want to call them. In languages like Java, defining a new type is a huge exercise in bureaucracy, and it's even worse for a variant. It's also important that it's natively compiled, impure and strictly evaluated, because performance matters. It also has a lot of other features that we take for granted nowadays.

Nowadays there are a lot of options that would be just as good, or better.
You can just alias hub to git to solve the first problem. As far as being service agnostic, that's a fair point. I rarely use anything outside of GitHub.
That would be pointless because these people would be accused of being shills who would always sing praises of Apple. There's no easy way to handle giving away the proof and having an expectation that it would indeed help Apple. Depending on the material, there could be nuances that could be interpreted out of context…the context being the entire chain of events and internal and external communications that took place.
If you are serving high traffic then what's the problem?

If your product has only occasional use then you trade cost for latency; spin up an ec2 instance if your request times exceed a few minutes call
I've been in the linux world for less than a decade, and I miss 'mount' being useful. It's full of spam now - so I've started using 'lsblk' instead...

$ mount | wc -l
32
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 698.7G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 690.3G 0 part /
└─sda3 8:3 0 7.9G 0 part [SWAP] # this was a mistake...
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
Actually I was making the point that they are not "relatively quick" even when hot: close to 300ms, almost entirely due to the API Gateway. (I even measured API Gateway on top of bare ec2 and the same penalty applies).

Lambda itself is fairly quick (~75ms), but API Gateway needs some work.
What about just the simple fact of internet connection? Bandwidth limitations? Are you on a business line? If not, I probably wouldn't be a very happy neighbor ;)
I dont know who is dealing with this on Apples side...but its a mistake to think brands, executives, employees and even PR agencies dont get emotional and react from a bruised ego.

I bet the PR costs exceed the actual damage in this case. If they were really afraid of damage, they wouldnt come out swinging, they would simply apologize for banning the account and the public would forgive them instantly.

Both sides are acting against their own interests IMO.
I was thinking about a common driver interface similar to POSIX standard would solve the problem of multiple OS device support on a single hardware platform.

There was an effort for Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)[0], looks like it is dormant.

[0] http://wiki.osdev.org/Uniform_Driver_Interface
Get a job at a lame startup with lots of processes and code reviews - things that leave you with a lot of free time waiting for others to approve the minutiae. The more designers they have the better - especially if they work remote. That company will fail horribly but, you will have the time and funds to work on your project.