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They ordered under the promise that I would deliver the product, somehow, and I did. I hired my friends who were artists in San Francisco to do them—at a loss too.

That being said, worse case scenario would have been a refund, and most people paid via credit card which is interest free for 30 days anyways.
They do need high end hardware. They just have much better use for 128GB of RAM than for a GTX 1080.

It's misplaced priorities due to lack of knowledge, not that they don't benefit from high-end hardware.
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Count audio as another environment where the hybrid drives make sense when paired with a suitable RAM amount. Nobody wants hiccups...but with the right USB 3.0 soundcard, RAM, and DAW, the output WAV files will stack up. Sure, uploading to cloud or network storage helps, but for general utility the hybrid scratches both performance and space itches.
No later than 9pm.
Which is a step up from the documentation you get (if you get any at all) in custom development:

/**
* The constructor
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public Wimbulator(boolean q)
Sounds like they kept your info on file tho?
> Notice how the transferred images have none of the power of the originals.

Partly because they are like 200x200 pixel images. There is no power in the original either that way. And I've been seen a ton of these posts like "look at these beautiful images", and the images are absolutely tiny. It's really ridiculous and annoying.
I would still rate Microsoft QA above both Google and Apple. Google doesn't believe in QA, they trust automated testing implicitly, and have no preview cycle. The whole fast ring, slow ring, release preview cycle is fantastic as a thing, and knowing my Windows Mobile device is getting day one direct updates from Microsoft, despite being on Verizon's network, is key.

Microsoft has taken some of the wrong lessons from Google though, between forcing cumulative updates and collecting telemetry data. I really hope they figure out that they're losing out there. Being able to claim how many million minutes people were using Edge isn't worth losing so much customer trust.
These are thrilling developments but every time I see examples they're relatively "low-res" images. I would love to be able to zoom in and see whats going on, but I suspect that we're seeing the output exactly as it was rendered by the ML processing. Is that the case?

Actual paintings have brush strokes and even surface effects that aren't visible until you're looking very up-close or at a high resolution image. This is a key feature of the enjoyment paintings that often gets lost on people.

I guess the ultimate "turing test" for this stuff would be to have the system literally paint these images. That is, with actual paint and a paint brush, NOT with pixels. This would sort of give a really fresh and exciting twist of meaning to the title of the old essay by Walter Benjamin "Art in the age of mechanical reproduction."
TBH there's many cases where people sell things before actually having the capability to deliver them, as long as the customer gets the goods at the end of the day, I don't really see the problem.

Heck if you look at the idea of Kickstarter and Indiegogo they're a whole market predicated on the idea of buying things that don't exist yet (and in many cases those things are harder to deliver than the creators suggest in their pitches)
I've read the question edit history (http://workplace.stackexchange.com/posts/78511/revisions) and side with the moderator. He/she fixed some grammar and tried to obfuscate the name of the junior employee you're complaining about. In the next edit you went further and added the full name of the employee. Locking the question seems reasonable.
I fondly remember how vibrant Eastern Market was as a kid in Detroit in the early sixties. It was like a United Nations of food. By 2008 it had shrunk to just a few buildings.

Now it's coming roaring back. But there's still a lot of room for growth, I'd guess 30-40% of the buildings are still empty.

One great thing the city did a few years back was to bring in artists from all over the world to use the market buildings as their canvas.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/09/...

The art to me is almost as much of the draw as the food itself.

http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/mark-stryker/2...

I still have friends too frightened to visit Detroit. I tell them you're missing out on the dawn of what I predict will be a second golden age for the city.
"acquiring artists turned out to be far from the hardest part of the business."

This.

I consulted many businesses as an engineer and often times technology can get you so far. You have to "get your hands dirty" and do the work.

Tech is rarely the bottleneck, it's often sales, understanding needs, contracting work to 3rd parties etc...

Kudos to the owner, great job
In 2013 I turned down a job in Philadelphia, with a company who was headquartered in Boston. They wanted me to sign a 1yr non-compete with the stipulation that I wouldn't work for a company sold similar products within a +/- 30% wholesale cost of their product. After two trans-continental flights, interviews etc, I said no because of the NC. The recruiter flipped over it. He basically yelled at me "you're going to come work with us, we'll train you, then you'll go somewhere else?"

No. I'm mid-career. I have skills you want. You're not training me. Your company is not an engineering school. I'll leave because I might not like working for you, or living where your company's office is. It's my life, not yours.

Decided to stay in California where this wouldn't ever even be a question that would come up.
Indeed. HTC made their name making Windows CE/PocketPC/Mobile devices in the early 2000s.
IEA raises its five-year renewable growth forecast as 2015 marks record year: https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2016/october/iea-raises-it...

"Last year marked a turning point for renewables. Led by wind and solar, renewables represented more than half the new power capacity around the world, reaching a record 153 Gigawatt (GW), 15% more than the previous year. Most of these gains were driven by record-level wind additions of 66 GW and solar PV additions of 49 GW."
I'm in Mountain View too. I agree it's pretty frustrating that this is supposedly the tech center of the universe, and our home internet is lousy. Five minutes from Google HQ and no Google Fiber for the forseeable future now.

FWIW, I recently switched from Sonic to Comcast and I'm relatively happy now. But that had something to do with Sonic being unable to provide a good connection in my old apartment building.
I agree with the first half of this comment, but I don't follow you here: "Until there is an element of randomness fueled by context, they aren't creating anything new. That's where genius lies."

I suspect reframing of problems, seeing things in new light, paradigm shifts, new ontologies, whatever you want to call it are not quite so simple as context-dependent randomness! I don't think we understand this process very well right now.

Finally; I think there is an artfulness in copying existing patterns, because the way in which you "abduce"[1] an observation-explaining theory out of the infinite space of possibilities is a creative and aesthetic process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
Parsing is often deeply recursive and in some languages, throwing an exception will automatically unwind the stack until it finds a handler. As well as explicitly giving you a good path and a bad path (as someone pointed out upthread) this can (again, in some languages) save a ton of repeated special case code in your parsing routines.

Some languages or libraries are explicitly designed to use exceptions for flow control some strongly discourage this. Apple's ObjC error handling guide for example contains this stricture but also calls out parsing as an example of when you should do it.

C.A.R 'null pointer' Hoare considered exceptions a blight on the earth that would lead to us accidentally nuking ourselves, so there's a spectrum of opinions available here.
This is actually targeting illustrators and people who typically work with large wacoms (cintiq). The true display 1:1 ratio is amazing for checking designs for letterheads, business cards, etc. The process typically involves printing it out and doing side by side comparisons.

They probably went with the hybrid storage since PSD / illustration files take up an enormous amount of space. Unfortunately there's no such thing as git for design. The SSD would be appreciated, but once Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator is opened, SSD makes little difference.

From a feature aspect the surface dial seems pretty amazing. Ill be interested in trying it out at the store. The ability to go from desktop to working directly on it is also incredible. Cintiqs take up a lot of space...
>> The target market is not a PC enthusiasts but creative professionals.

I would also add that another target market is other Windows PC makers.

In the same way that the Surface and Surface Book showed what touch-based Windows devices could be, I imagine that Lenovo, Dell etc. will probably get some inspiration from this product and produce their own variants for a bunch of different market segments.
Not everyone sells. Nail Houses are a real thing. Although, they certainly don't make it easy to stay.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/unbelievable-nail-houses-around-the-w...
Love reading such stories.

Also every interview I've read on indiehackers always has this one advice as the most important one: build quickly, iterate later.
IMO that's a terrible escape sequence.
I have to say I second this sentiment. It is in line with my feelings while watching the demo.

Even though I get PCs for gaming and data science on the side for non-profits (not big data, for the most part). The wow factor of this computer for me will likely wipe out a 'swipe bar' added to the macbook pro and some 'better' (read: not years old) internal upgrades.

If Apple insults us with yet again no monitor update, it's going to be huge.
Uber's official app is available on my Windows 10 Mobile device. Just checked for you.

And it's not "Windows doesn't support either". It's "They don't support Windows". The platform does not have to do anything to support them, they need to choose to make apps for the platform. ;)
I can see some business applications that might benefit from UWP, but that's not terribly exciting.

Other than games, what's the last interesting consumer-focused Windows application that's generated buzz and revenue for anybody but Microsoft?

Microsoft feels like they are headed out to the same (incredibly lucrative) pasture that IBM and Oracle inhabit.
Here in Germany I've never seen them particularly cheap. Which is too bad, since I was looking into throwing Linux on one and use it as a "lighter and a lot less expensive to loose" web machine.
> - MicroEJ Java
> I don't really know about this one.

A Java version produced by IS2T for micro-controllers, think cortex-M class.

http://www.microej.com/

http://www.stm32j.com/products/

As for the rest, we will have to agree to disagree. Regardless how it looks like in detail, in the daily work they are issues to take into account when trying to write portable Java code.

.NET was designed with portability across processors and Windows versions, not for other vendors. Even Rotor wasn't fully compliant with .NET 1.0.

When looking at the histories told by Don Syme related to the initial generics design and Ext-VOS, .NET genesis was to be a native platform based on COM. Actually something that was brought back to life as .NET Native + WinRT.

As for the .NET profiles, they aren't perfect, but as someone that works daily with Java and .NET, I look forward to them.
Fair points, but because the sole traditional purpose of MF/LF is higher resolution and prosumer/35mm FF resolutions are now far above requirements for any normal output, I still feel it is 'dead' as a market.
I totally agree that the transferred images don't have the power of the originals. I know nothing about art (well, painted art), but its striking how the transfered images seem like cheap imitations in the style of the originals. And yet, im still impressed by the technology.
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Evolution of the e-retailing in India man behind it Mr AmeenKhwaja CEO
I'm pretty sure I experienced the same thing with 2 overlapping group chats.
It's a common hustle/business tactic. Read up on how Microsoft was made into the giant it is today[1], similar trick. You are basically validating your idea, if you have a lot of orders coming in you have what I call a positive problem, a way to make money.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5825184/bill-gates-spent-the-best-money-o...
The shopping habits of Indian buyers have changed in an amazing way. Online shopping has slightly become a common thing for Indians. It has offered some great opportunities to start-up founders and allowed them to bring their products in the market. Many experts had entered in the field before a few years, but only a few of them have got to succeed. Mr. Ameen Khwaja the CEO/Managing Director of LatestOne.com (Palred Online Technologies Pvt Ltd) is one of those entrepreneurs, who have worked hard and shown persistence of achieving the goal. It is the reason, Mr. Ameen Khwaja has honored as the Entrepreneur of the Year in Trading Business – E – Retailer 2016.
I live in Boulder and every time I visit friends in Longmont and use their wifi I die a little inside. Count those blessings my friend!
The most amazing thing here is: new Book is actually HEAVIER than previous version (3.63 vs. 3.48 pounds) in order to increase battery life. I dare Apple to do the same with their MacBooks, instead of that tired "thinner and lighter" mantra.
... the author was saying the opposite. "far from the hardest" = "not the hardest" and you can see it in context:

> Shortly after the launch I was contacted by many artists, mostly from China (they already saturate other marketplaces like eBay, Alibaba, and Etsy). The initial batch of orders were break even, but once the market-rate artists contacted us, I knew it was going to be profitable.

Sounds like the difficulty wasn't in finding artists
Probably cutting into his revenue stream.
I've been in plenty of stations in poor areas. Besides a lack of upkeep by the government, it doesn't seem much different to me. Maybe it depends on where in the world you are.
What is most surprising to me about these stories today is how uncommon NDAs are. I read somewhere that 20% of workers in the US have signed one.

I don't know if this is a common experience, but my employer recently began putting NDAs in place and, in retrospect, I feel they took advantage of the ignorance of most of the employees (including me). They insisted that the NDA was "standard," managers told us that there was no room for negotiation and pushed to have us sign immediately (eventually relented to having it signed by end of the following day).
You keep saying 'we' whereas my impression is that this is a solo project, is the lady you mention in the article your partner in the business (since you mention no employees)?
Didn't really work because the cost to deploy nationwide 1 gig is super expensive. It's only going to happen if there is profit in it.

If Google wanted to create a market they shouldn't have priced it so low. Even if you could do nationwide gigabit for 70 bucks, there wouldnt be any profit.

Isps aren't going to do a massive capital expenditure to make the same money.
The pressure analogy seems reasonable to me. It suggests that this goes both ways:

Two societies pushing against each other lead to pressure. This pressure results in military conflict. Whoever wins the military conflict can exert increased pressure.

The necessity of winning wars put pressure on the society to develop better ways of winning wars. These better ways put more pressure on external societies, etc.

China was the most wealthy, educated civilization in the world in the 1400's. They stagnated basically becuase there was little to no fighting.

Meanwhile Europe was busy finding newer more elaborate ways to slaughter each other, and to avoid being slaughtered.
Well, I'm at work so I can't dig around my library but it was easy enough using date range restrictions to find an academic example in Google that dates back to '99: http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/105/LinkedListProblems.pdf . (It was actually the first hit.) Searching further backwards in time is left as an exercise to the reader.

Multi-level pointer dereferencing is a fundamental C / assembly language skill and Linus' example was just about the most basic example there is.
50 states wouldn't have the global power to keep oil on top for so long. We wouldn't be in this mess w/o the combined power and control and capture of the US government.
Good to know, thanks for sharing!
Interesting, I had to go searching, but here's the info on the firing of Verizon employees:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/verizo...
Nothing like exploiting people to make a living. Maybe the people doing the actual paintings should get that $32/mo?

Gross US imperialism at its finest. So embarrassed to be from this country.

FYI: Exploiting artists isn't some kind of disruptive innovation. Ever wonder why the arts are much less likely to adopt open source licensing? People like this jerk.

Oh wait, I forgot. They aren't real artists because they happen to live in China. This is so so so gross.
Happiness is bad for business. Happy and self-reliant people are bad performing consumers. Especially for pharma and political products. You will soon see that happiness will be legally prohibited everywhere.
You pay a company to have a service or product rendered.

It's not my job to investigate Amazon's supply-chain to make sure that can actually deliver my toilet paper in 2 days. They are promising me this service and now it's their responsibility to deliver on that.

If those services/product aren't rendered, then a refund should/can be demanded.

I think this was completely within ethical bounds, assuming a promise was also made to return money if services weren't rendered.
I understand how that's an emotionally appealing sentiment, but I'd be disappointed to learn you actually believe it, since it's so wrong as to be useless in deal with the real world.
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That's true, the difficulty wasn't finding the artists. It was finding customers, and growing the customer base, if any thing.

That being said, the OP is correct also in that the tech wasn't the hardest part either. The tech was always something I had to worry about after the fact of acquiring more customers. You can always find customers first and support them manually, and then revise the tech later to reduce costs.
> What exactly is the state of the art?

I think, you somewhat answered your own question, albeit indirectly and ex negativo. Widely ignoring what we already know or could have learnt, and pushing the next vanity-boost feature seems more attractive than learning from our experiences and drawing the consequences. And the people doing it always find rosy language that makes it seem like a heroic feat of progress, and an audience that falls for the BS.
The specific chain I mentioned is Saturn.

I only saw them there, until they eventually get sold out on those campaigns where they put products on the containers at very discounted prices.

But I only saw this happening a couple of times.
Chronos 1.4 is a $2500 camera that can shoot at 21,650 fps
Has Apple announced a holographic computer yet? :)
This could happen in Georgia as well, which has the same license plate format. I'd like the plate CAB 1729, after the story Hardy told about Ramanujan. (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hardy-RamanujanNumber.html) but I suspect that either someone out there already has it and doesn't know of its significance, or that they don't give out plates starting with CAB.
Ask HN: Easy to learn JavaScript workflow supporting Git and containers?
I'd ideally like to present students with an open source dev workflow that allows them to experiment easily with the javascript/typescript ecosystem on their local machine. The ability to code, compile, test, publish to a local container environment is important. The ability to push to git and publish to the cloud is equally valuable. Ability to collaborate in real time is a wishlist item, but not critical. I've been wading through all of the latest IDEs, editors, container and kubernetes environments, but I'd love to hear what you are using in practice!
I can kind of understand the need for non-upgradable phones and laptops, since they are more useful when they're thinner and lighter. But stationary devices like this and Apple's iMac are unnecessarily wasteful.
There is an element of randomness fueled by context, at least in the technical sense of there being random variables with distributions conditioned on the inputs.
A little bit of offtopic that might be interesting to HN crowd: Peter Turchin is a son of late Valentin Turchin [1] who has quite a following in Russian Computer Science community.

Probably due to our history, there is a large amount of interest among Russians about rise and fall of civilizations. Lev Gumilyov's [2] work is something else that comes to mind, although much less mathematical.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Turchin
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Gumilyov
"If you like drinking alcohol and playing blackjack at the casino, Mr. Adelson wants you to be his guest," Tvert said in an email. "If you prefer to consume marijuana while playing video games in the privacy of your home, Mr. Adelson wants you to be in jail."

Ending the 'war on drugs' would be an instant improvement in the lives of large numbers of Americans.
Proud that my brother and I playing about 3,000 games of Civ I contributed, I assume, to this study
How enterprising. It's like the internet's very own Thomas Kinkade as a service. Clever arbitrage of artistic labor markets, that's for sure.
That is the right answer.
Knuth once wrote an article on mathematical vanity plates: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-010-9170-7
Just had Sears cancel an online order that was 'in stock' when we purchased because they can't fulfill it. Did they ever have it in stock? Did they just run out and have poor inventory control? Who knows, but they couldn't fill it when they implied they could. Not sure I'd call that unethical.
Good to know, if I end up in one of their stores for some reason I'll keep an eye out just in case. At least with a Chromebook you know that there are drivers somehow, not so sure with ultra-cheap Win10 devices.
So it's a moral argument of what you want to do with the "genetic inferiors" and how much resources you actually want to allocate helping them. That would require making a judgment call about their utility curve.

Got it.
As a recent devotee of Prisma, I would agree that the highest-level discretionary function is (as yet) totally missing from the computational side...

...BUT I would also say that this technology is yet-another-one which can act as an effective 'force multiplier' in the sense that if you already _have_ a reasonable 'eye' you can use this as a very very powerful tool.

One of the benefits of that is that if like me you have a 'decent' eye only, but no e.g. visual genius, an app like Prisma plus a modest amount of straightforward judicious additional editing / cropping, can lead unnervingly quickly to results which I find _very_ satisfying.

To put that another way, I find that I can now in-phone produce images which for my own interests and tastes are quite arresting.

They are not fine art, or innovative... but they represent a rendering into pixels of notions I am not otherwise able to execute, and frankly am not able to even foresee as effective.

I find then that I am often in a very specific aesthetic mode using them: discrimination and rejection of all but the strongest candidates.

Feels like I am executing a GA selection function, essentially, and then just doing a little post production...