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From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Compa...

"The Red Digital Cinema Camera Company manufactures digital cinematography cameras and accessories for professional and cinematic use. The company was created and financed by Oakley founder Jim Jannard with the publicly expressed intent to reinvent the camera industry. The company's main product is the Red One, which can record at resolutions up to 4,096 horizontal by 2,304 vertical pixels, directly to flash or hard disk storage. It features a single Super 35-sized CMOS sensor and a cinematography industry standard PL mount."

"Epic Brains will record a data rate of 225 MB/s. The sensor sizes will be Super 35, 135 film, 645 (medium format), and 617, equivalent to the Linhof Technorama camera (the 617 will record a data-rate of 500 MB/s). Horizontal resolutions will range from 5k to 28k (the latter is the equivalent of 261 megapixels) and could be printed onto 70 mm IMAX 15/70 without the need for the IMAX Digital Media Remastering (DMR). "
Are you taking up self teaching because you can't find anyone to help you as well? Have you had any success yet?
It's the follow on improved version of the Red One. It is smaller, shoots 5k images, and dollar for dollar one of the best values in digital cameras. It is currently being used on multiple movies and its RAW files are very nice.

It also stamps all footage with its serial number.
Damn shame. I used to hotlink during testing when I was too lazy to download the actual JS and host it. It was a nice way to build wicked fast little sites.
This reads more like "why the iPad will catch on as an eBook reader, but not for other types of reading". When I read books I want to be immersed... when I read magazines or newspapers, I actually like the ability to have a wikipedia tab open to look up stuff, and the ability to dive deep on certain topics -- while still maintaining context of the original story.
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Interesting. I had considered writing some addons as a possible alternative to mobile app development for a little extra income but I gave it up because I assumed it wasn't viable. Glad to hear otherwise.
Good for you. Personal development never ends.
This camera is the next evolution of the RED ONE camera, which shot 4K resolution... the EPIC-M shoots 5K resolution. 5K resolution is huge. Take your 1920x1080 monitor and multiply by 5.

Because of this resolution, it is compared (favorably) to film in many ways, something that digital hasn't been able to do yet.

Also, RED has a very passionate userbase, very similar to Apple.
Did you have a previous venture that did well for you? I assume that's how you can afford to hire developers.
It's not that interesting, but my sleep habits have been pretty poor in 2010. My resolution for 2011 is to be in bed by 1AM every single day, and to be up at 8AM on every non-weekend day.
I was sure I heard that same quote before, but attributed to Mark Twain instead of Blaise Pascal. I looked it up on Google and, while there is some controversy, it seems as if Blaise was the first to say this.

http://www.famousquotes.com/show/1045873/

I know this is unrelated to the original post, but it's just another example of what we can learn from these little insightful comments on Hacker News even if it is not what they intended to teach. I know that whenever I say this quote again, I will make sure to properly attribute it.
Any predictions on how long until a 3D printer can print a 3D printer?
These are pre-production final versions of the camera.

Edit: http://fxguide.com/redcentre episode 77 describes it - best podcast show notes I have seen
Related, you may enjoy this story about the "Twinkie Diet" http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.profes...

One of the headline figures, apart from the weight loss, is the reduction in his cholesterol levels. I think this is probably a bit disingenuous though as he admits to giving up meat during the process ;) All the same, it's a good story.
I dislike this type of article, because it seems predicated on the notion that everyone experiences these games in the same way. I've had no trouble keeping my gameplay moderate; it's not that difficult.

The problem is not the game, it's that people don't know how to directly improve their real life. The steps aren't obvious, and you don't get to start with the knowledge that simple persistence will win nearly any task you can set yourself.

The game is a symptom, not a disease.
I was intimidated for the longest time about picking it up. Partly because I wasn't spectacular at math or algebra or statistics and all the arcane calculus.

Part of the perfectionist in me was also trying to understand everything that happened. Like what actually happens when I enter Console.WriteLine("Hello world");? That is always going to be a losing better so I've since subscribed to the "I know how to drive but I don't know how a car operates" school of thought.

Somewhere along the way, I realised programming isnt about hardcore math but more like just grouping actions together in a logical manner.
Ask HN: What did you accomplish in 2010 and what are your goals for 2011
It's nice to take a look back and reflect on the past year before starting a new one. What did you accomplish this year and what do you plan on accomplishing in 2011?
The Symbiotic Relationship of Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive
I just started to learn how to code (Python) two weeks ago, but I have been an HN reader for about the last four months. The stories here often inspire me to progress and push myself in other areas of my life. I also like hearing about the leading edges of technology.
This specific EPIC is special in that it's #6, the only one in the 'wild' right now.

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=53099

(Numbers 1-5 were kept by Jim, the next few are going to the early, early owners of the RED ONE, so they are certainly exclusive).
I'll start:

http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2010/12/31/2010-a-hung-truon...
Yeesh, a slide deck. What, they don't have a site you can link to?

Anyway, this just looks like an oldschool supercomputer, architecturally, with all the time-proven disadvantages of such. Is there some astounding breakthrough, or even mildly interesting breakthrough, that I am missing here?
No, a much more practical reason. I'm not so good at coming up with titles. =)
I think this is more a matter of system font rendering algorithms. Pixel font sizes are translated into calls to the underlying text renderer in whatever units it uses (almost certainly points). Fractional pixels are possible because fractional points are possible.
"Thanks. I think that this is really useful in some contexts,
especially where you're trying to bring new developers up to
speed on a language. One problem I've found with open source
is that once the original developer team leaves the project
just dies. Another problem is that new developers will add
"new" features that are already in the language elsewhere.

Working with the actual source surrounded by an explanation of
"why" the code exists and the ideas behind the code seems to
me to solve both problems.

The other problem is that clever code is hard to maintain
even for the original authors. I got my own "dirt simple" code
back after 15 years and, while I understood what the code did,
I had no idea why it was there. Sometimes whole subsystems die
because they are no longer used but nobody is able to remove
the dead code because they don't understand it. "

Thoughts on this?
https://gist.github.com/
Run a 50K!
In theory yes. However since that address gets a lot of spam, it's quite unlikely that that email address is looked at. RFC are a good guide, but the community has mostly dropped that webmaster@ convention.
RED is offering a 100k reward http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=53561
This is a situation where adjustable showerheads come in handy. Just aim it at an angle that gives you some room to reach in...
I upvoted you, but I'd simplify that point even further. I'd call it a startup when it has traction. Technically speaking Twitter has never been ramen profitable. However, their obvious traction and growth brought in tons of investment, enough to allay any monetary concerns.
I still buy printed books. I almost never buy any books at a major book retail store like Borders or BN because they carry very very little that I am interested in buying. They used to stock more that I was interested in, but their stock has changed over the years. I suppose they were aiming for a more middle-of-the-road, palatable-to-all sort of stock selection, but I for one have basically been driven away.

I initially reason, well, I must be a very unusual shopper. I buy a lot of books on programming topics, math, science, etc., and I eschew with passion anything written for dummies, idiots, fools, or morons.

But then I wonder, am I really so unusual? I'm not an expert historian, but I enjoy studying history, and I'm disappointed with the local store's selection of history books about as much as I am with their technology books. I enjoy studying linguistics, and have watched the store's linguistics section melt away into nothingness. I enjoy science fiction, but am dismayed to see shelves of fantasy displace books by my favorite authors.

I can't really speak for every subject matter, but for pretty much every topic I want to read about, the big chain bookstores seem to be dwindling their stock, and smoothing out what little they do carry to appeal to some unknown typical readership.

If this is indeed true of all (or even most) of the subjects of books they carry, then I find it hard to believe that anyone who truly enjoys reading books is content with what they carry. Which leaves... people who really aren't very fond of books to peruse the shelves? I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to me.

I would greatly enjoy doing more book shopping in person. I seem to be good enough at searching Amazon to come up with good books sight unseen, but I'd like to go browse in the store, if only the store had books in stock that I'd want to browse.
Turn the lights down on 2010
I definitely consider myself somewhere in the B range, but with the potential to be an A player. Today I'm A only in some respects.
My understanding is that unless you have provision (in a shareholder's agreement for example) that gives you that power the answer is no. I believe that if you sued the company a judge would likely intervene on your behalf though.
Mostly for division of labor. I know plenty of programmers, but I want to focus on my most loved field - namely, mass persuasion in all of its forms, the science behind it, the history, practicing it, etc.
Anyone smart enough to think of that would be smart enough not to hotlink
I believe it was Pascal in his famous correspondence with de Fermat on probability.
This article just covers the downsides of selling equity to raise money. Obviously there's an upside - having money in the bank with which to grow your business. Some projects need a team of people and that costs.
We've sort of just told everyone to do what they need. I worked through the holidays, but I'll be taking 3 days off next week. My co-founders took last week off and this week off.
Github! If you're coding, you need to learn source control yesterday, and it makes sharing your code easy to boot. :)
Minimalism: It Works
I think the most you can hope for is to have some portion of your vesting accelerated on termination without cause. The problem is that they can drum up "cause". I think the best you can do to solve that is specify very clearly what cause is (conviction of a major crime, etc).
Perhaps programming doesn't resemble your perception of the maths you've been exposed to, but honestly all of maths is grouping together actions in a logical way. Programming is very much a certain kind of mathematics (though if it helps to think of them as distinct, by all means do so!).

I relate very much to your perfectionist statement. Keep in mind that each thing you learn about how the underlying machine operates will make you a more effective programmer. Learn about the craft of programming (patterns of design, abstraction, etc.), but don't lose sight of the fact that programs run on physical machines, and our bound by the properties of those machines.
Is the nature of the beast; I guess epidemiological studies are hardest to get right and yet the easiest for which to collect data...
There's evidence on both sides

This is usually a phrase that's used to shut down scientific research. Although one can find evidence for almost everything, it's entirely permissable, and good to try to balance up all the evidence and figure out which side is more correct.
I don't program because I'm a user experience professional. My expertise requires full-time learning as it is.

I do work closely with programmers, though, and I consider our relationship a symbiotic one.
Well you know what they say about guys with small hands.
Since you are aiming at an academic audience I think Curriculum Vitae might be a great option. It represents the professional and yet has a feeling of acedemia.
Well, sure. But if you add another check for likelihood that `page` is fairly-correct html in utf8, there should be around one correct result really :) If you get 2, the other one is probably a <form> you can use to sell your soul to satan - do not hit submit if you get it.
London. Pick up a book like Hawksmoor on your way in. Live by the river. Drink in some history.
Send it to Distributed Proofreaders http://www.pgdp.net/ - they work with Project Gutenberg to OCR books.

You can also sign up and help proofread OCR'd books (every OCR is manually checked by humans).
I am getting 500 after loggin in with Facebook.
http://epic.red.com/epic.html
I don't have any resolutions but it would be great to have the homepage randomly show resolutions others have made. For example, "XXX's New Year's resolutions include YYY. (Click to see more)"
In 2010 I lost close to 40 lbs, got my body fat down to 12%. ( http://paulstamatiou.com/programmers-startup-diet-how-i-lost... )

In 2011 I'm going to gain 15+ lbs of muscle.

Also going to get some of my finances in order. While I have a very limited startup income, I at least need to fix up the IRA/etc accounts I've been sitting on for a few years and not really doing anything with.

And more reading. Losing weight and reading more was on my agenda last year and I picked up a kindle and read everything from psychology books to finance and enjoyed it.
I tried to start a hardware startup last year and actually made it to the interview with PG & co. At the end of the meeting, while the idea was good, it came down to the obvious question of assembling and sourcing the hardware. At that stage, after a lot of research and thinking, I decided to cut my losses and shelf the idea for the time being.

Why? Because hardware is hard. I may be an engineer, but scaling production of a hardware unit from a prototype to shippable products en masse is an extremely hard challenge if you're trying to source your hardware from somewhere like China. Its harder if you're not Apple or HP..or Sony for that matter. I think its unfair to judge wakemate to Sony or Apple standards.

Coincidentally, I met the Wakemate guys when I crashed at the SF hacker house during that time. While they're brilliant and dextrous folks, I certainly felt the vibe that they were finding it extremely challenging to design, produce and ship this thing. The idea of wakemate sounded great, but I wasn't convinced that being non-tech founders, they were entirely aware of the technical and logistical challenges of producing and scaling a hardware unit from scratch to the production line.

I wish them luck though. While they could learn a lesson or two about PR, they've been at it for over an year and have persisted. Customer patience may be running thin after these series of setbacks, but I still believe that they will eventually pull it off.
Most A+ players probably self-identify as B rangers. :-)
Tomorrow is 1111. #binarynewyearsFTW
Hi pontifier, thank you for your precious feedback! I don't think we are competitors, since this is just a project I made in order to learn Rails, and I see no way of monetizing it. :) I will definitely do some changes to my site.
This is cool, but when I first clicked it I thought it was transforming my current webpage into HTML/bitmap somehow. I was amazed. Then I realized it's a statically generated page. If you could make this into a bookmarklet that transformed the current page, then I'd be REALLY impressed. :)
To think I read the whole lot of this poorly written speculation, only to finish with
"when they embraces the new model"
The first thing I thought when I read the headline: zombies.
Do you think confusing that with a user's actual CV would be an issue?
What do you see yourself as contributing to things? Do you have domain knowledge/experience, business experience, money or do you see yourself as the "ideas man"?
Allow me to clarify the "only an idea" issue. Ideas by themselves are not worth very much. They are just a starting point, and they usually change as the business evolves. Successfully building out a project requires many things. Programming the backend is just one part of it. Another crucial, often overlooked, piece of the puzzle is effective marketing. As a developer I would love to partner with someone who had zero web skills but was a tenacious salesperson, the kind that didn't take no for an answer. Someone willing to pound the pavement, make the phone calls, do whatever it takes to get the marketing job done. (In fact anyone who is such a person please contact me, email is in the profile) The problem is when people don't bring anything to a project at all but the idea. An idea by itself doesn't do anything; it doesn't move, take action or otherwise do anything to grow a business, so a person thinking an idea only is something that would motivate programmers is sadly mistaken.
GREAT idea!
No, you're wrong.

The author's statement amounted to: "WoW is meaningless for me and negatively impacts my life." forensic's statment amount to: "Well, who's to say life itself is any more meaningful?" My response is: "Wait a minute, I think it is meaningful." And I pointed out that you can achieve happiness in life (and by that I mean genuine self-esteem, not some temporary hedonistic pleasure like you get from playing a video game).

You're also wrong in that backing WAS offered for the claim that time spent on WoW is wasteful; the blogger talks about that a lot, e.g. how you end up just getting more gear so you can go to a bigger dungeon and get more gear, and how spending too much time on WoW blocks you from pursuing major goals in real life (like becoming a paramedic).
Since it stamps all footage with the serial number, how is this device going to be useful to anyone?
All the Project Gutenberg books are proofread by humans in the end. So they may be able to use these after all. No harm in asking.
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I did almost this exact same thing back in 2005. I had not programmed anything in YEARS and I had to help write part of a system that performed DB queries, screen scraped, file transfers, etc.

In a 24 period I tried Java, Perl and Python and in the end Python won by miles and miles. I now use Python daily for all sorts of tasks. I love it.
"48 Pentium-class IA-32 cores". It is Larrabee (or some branch of it).

The most interesting feature of Larrabee that is not mentioned in the article was the 16-way scatter-gather memory operations. That feature made the 16x32bit SIMD operations much more practical to use. If you could manage to set up large blocks of mostly branchless work, you could get an effective 48*16=768 way parallelism. Not good for running interpreters, but very good for math and data crunching.
Subtracting Binary Numbers
I am curious how you were able to assess this situation so quickly.

Thomas posted the original email 11 hours ago and prefaced it with "From my email just now."

Very shortly thereafter (also 11 hours ago as I write this), you commented that

1. WakeMate sent the email within an hour of hearing about the first issue.

2. WakeMate believes they know the cause of the problem (noisy electrical signal from defective chargers)

3. "[WakeMate] have only seen any incidence when the unit is plugged into the black USB charger bricks we shipped with."

So over the course of a couple hours, you (WakeMate) became aware of the _first_ report of overheating (and were previously unaware of this problem), you were able to determine that the cause of the issue is a noisy electrical signal being produced by the charger, and you also indicate that you have now observed additional incidence of overheating.

Do I have that right?

Edit: formatting
You're right and I should have paid more attention. I had thought you were generating just the image from a web page. Having actually worked on something similar, I can say I'm very very impressed with the load time.
2010 Marks Significant Developments in Online Privacy Initiatives
My resolution: Write more Scala ;-)
> To all business MBA guys learning to code: you can do it! just get started!!

No, all of you can't. But it's not a bad idea to try and see if you think you'd like it!

I am reminded of the half-joking book title: "Learn to Program in 21 Years".
1. Why is the ipad considered an eReader, when it is just a little computer? I thought eReader meant using electrically-modifiable ink, not light-based retina-burners.

2. As a second point, my android device is a little baby computer, with a kinda lame phone application. It's not a 'smart' phone. It's the progression of ubiquitous computing.

3. I don't have fucking apps on my android device. I have applications, or programs. Just because it is on my baby computer (not smartphone), it doesn't mean it is not just a another program.

Nit-pick done.
I don't do much UX, but I have a friend who loves it but is a little disillusioned with his education.

I am curious, what kind of schooling / experience do you have?
This Museo thing has to stop. It's cute, it looks real friendly in titles, but dear god, do not typeset an article in it.
Ex-Microsoft MVP looking for work as Ruby intern
It's not about whether the code you wrote is what runs to generate the money, it's about how unique and valuable your skills were. Could another programmer have done pretty much what you did? Or did you bring some unique insight/design/engineering wizardry to the table? If your answers are [yes, no] then it should be obvious why you get paid a salary. Only if your answers are [no, yes] is your complaint valid...and in that case you should start your own company.
This was a really great presentation. I love how he ate his own dogfood and did the entire presentation with his tool.
If this is a big concern to you, get your money from VCs and angels that aren't in the habit of firing founders. The Founders Fund, as I understand it, has an explicit policy of not funding anyone they think they might need to fire, because they expect that if you have to fire the founders the company is probably going to tank anyway.
This article is nonsense link-bait. Just because someone paid $500 for an iPad doesn't mean they're going to pay 500% mark-up on digital magazines that cost the publisher effectively nothing. People aren't stupid.

The iPad isn't destroying the future of journalism, publisher's are. They're shooting themselves in the foot.

This is a much better article: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101229/just-because-i-s...
cewl stuff...