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I agree. I've been trying several tablet with styluses so far, but I was always disappointed to the terrible precision/feel of the combination. I decided anything capacitive is not even worth trying.

This is still a capacitive screen, so you cannot rest your hand on the screen, like you would do normally with a true stylus. This is of uttermost importance for pressure control. And hey, you can use a regular ruler, like I normally do on wacom tablets.

I also cringe at the design of the stylus itself. I did try the Galaxy Note for almost 6 months, and decided it wasn't even worth the "Note" in the name. The stylus would lose 5% of the strokes at first (improved with "training"), and did so with an horrible lag, which you notice much more if the tablet is directly on the screen. The stylus was also too small to be comfortable (similar for the Lenovo Tablet 2).

I much prefer the HP or Toshiba styluses, which are much more like a regular Pilot/Micron drawing pen. I don't understand why they keep reinventing the "pen" (I also dislike the regular Intuos/Bamboo pen by the way - too big).

I don't really need "Cintiq" level. I did try the Surface 2, and it was much better than the alternatives, but it was too heavy and battery life too short. Couldn't try the Helix yet, but all in all, wacom-style pens is a must if you care about note-taking.

I'm disappointed by announce of the Surface 3 due to the lower pressure resolution of the stylus, which is a shame because this means much more narrow response customization. Double shame due to the higher-res screen would be really great for drawing. But I will try it as soon as it will be available in a shop nearby.

Sorry for the big rant/summary, but I still couldn't find a "portable tablet" that I could reliably use for note-taking :(. After my experience with capacitive pens, I really don't believe this can be taken seriously for drawing.
> 3-4 GB of data each day?

It is just a snapshot of the entire database.
At least if you're using Oracle they are, as it supports auto-refreshing. Postgres has only had them since 9.3 (and have to be manually refreshed). Meanwhile MySQL is still struggling with regular views.
I'd use such thing if this won't be just simple list of quotes. Google is good enough for it.

How do I find a quote that I cannot google? (don't remember exact wording)
How do I find quote related to X?
It's also WordPress-based, so tacking /feed/ on the URL will give you an RSS feed.
Outsourcing is "hard" (and usually fails) because usually, the process is performed by a middle manager who (a) is trying to optimize for cost, which hurts quality and is expensive in the long run, and (b) doesn't have the technical talent and therefore can't recognize it. In any country, the bottom of the barrel is going to be bad. But if you don't have the ability to pick talented people and others in the market do, you end up getting hurt by adverse selection. Then, outsourcing becomes really expensive.

Painting Bob as a slacker doesn't tell the whole story. He had to set up his own business. At least while he was ramping up, he had to hire, fire, train, and check the work. At the same time, he had to deal with inconveniences caused by time zones, and cover his tracks. Maybe he slacked once it was established and he could coast, but it's not easy to set up a business like that.

To win at the outsourcing game, you need to (a) pay well, so that people care, and (b) pick great people, because paying incompetent people well doesn't do anything. Going overseas might make (a) easier, but it doesn't make (b) less hard.
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Definitely, that is what we hope developers will start using it for. We expose the accelerometer data in the SDK, so developers can get access to the data. We also use the relative pen position to the iPad to sort out some offset issues to make sure the line appears to be coming from the tip itself.
Well, I am sure that he is a CEO in the hearts of the Chinese programmers he hired. :)
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The fact that it is a niche market doesn't necessarily mean you won't make money out of it. On the contrary if you can work out a good way to monetize it, niche markets can be the most lucrative.
Yes, exactly. The same could be said for computer graphics, where we traffic in vectors and matricies all day. I want a language in which those are base types, will all of the proper operators already defined, so I don't need operator overloading. Yes, I could write in Fortran, but something a little more modern would be nice.
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I wouldn't mind a pause button.
For anyone interested, the author of this post does a daily "Now I Know" email. There is the occasional dud or re-post, but, on the whole, they're pretty entertaining little blurbs that pop into your inbox a few days a week.

EDIT: My bad, just saw below.
Hi all,

Brief intro to the app. This is something I've made with fellow HNer Alex Edge (@edgeman27). The idea is to make a more personal messaging app, that combines the convenience of texting with the emotional connection of Skype.

Would be interested to hear your feedback or questions. Thanks.
1) Access a page you control to check.

2) Silk is the only one I know of that a mere coding error could cause this. It isn't like Chrome and Firefox have a fleet of machines and code designed to act as an always-on proxy.
I personally employ other developers for side projects and they get paid significantly below what i get paid at my 9-5. If i was dishonest i could pretty easily pull off this scam.
Not as extreme as doing 0 but i could have 80% of my work done and just review and commit..
So yes, objectively.

No, it isn't objectively. You are subjectively choosing the criteria that makes one purportedly better than the other, yet they have zero applicability to the use or operation of a smartphone.

Grip matters very much with a smartphone. Rubber breaking down? Has anyone ever actually seen this happen? Is this actually a problem? Torn or stained? Again, is this actually a problem in the context of a smartphone? I would say no, it isn't at all.

A soft, comfortable, lightweight device that you don't have to immediately shroud in a protective case is, by actual use-based criteria, arguably the better "build quality". Build quality is suitability to purpose, not aesthetics or cult of material.
Not a coincidence. Adonit manufactures the Ink & Slide for Adobe, and apart from some cosmetic differences, and an additional button, the JTPP has all the same functionality as the Ink.
I can't help but notice how much whining there is about outsourcing (including from me), but when it's in the benefit of a single employee skipping his work then it's a "great trick", worth of respect, etc.

Assuming the company needed that level of work that was being delivered by this guy's shadow team and he could not deliver that alone... then they would hire better people and/or more people. In this specific case they HAD to because it was US-govt work.

This is no different then a CEO outsourcing a whole department to India or China (in that it doesn't take into account the ripple effects of that decision -- including the local economy, the quality of the work, the added communication issues, etc.)

If you think this story is just great, please remember it when your or your friends' jobs get outsourced to cheap labor overseas based on cost alone (if it's based on quality and expertise, then it's a whole different argument -- a much rare one btw).
This reminds me of the book "Getting to Yes".

If you take a principled stand in negotiations and truly want what is fair, you can separate the issue at hand from the people. In doing so, you can be polite and nice, while not getting steamrolled in negotiation. You can look at negotiations like working together to get to agreement on what is fair and best for both parties, instead of fighting against one another to get as much as you can. It also allows you to say "no" in a non-personal way, because you're only doing what makes sense for your side.
In my testing of this query, I ran it against a time range that included over 40 million purchase lines, and our configuration of Redshift returned the result in ~6 minutes. That was much quicker than our legacy EMR implementation.

Currently, we update our product recommendations nightly. However, the speed up we see here from this reimplementation may allow us to update product recommendations more frequently.
> He wasn't a pit trader, and GS isn't a pit.

Pit trading changed a lot in the late-90's. And moved to Level-2 systems in office buildings with near real-time access to all ECNs giving a unforeseen level of control and participation (yay tech!). As expected all proprietary traders and everyone else called it the pit.

And sure, GS isn't a pit. But until late 2009 - early 2010 when they wound up most of their proprietary trading business in response to Dodd-Frank they were one of the mightiest pit traders, with multiple seats on every pit, this was beyond their market makers and remote traders.

Their trading activity on CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) was legendary. Some would say they had seats on the exchange, other may say they owned the pit (figuratively).

But you're right that still doesn't make them a pit.
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That's a pretty narrow interpretation of that statement.

It could also be simple.

If you charge someone so much that they can't sustain their business then you might win but at what price.

v.s If you charge someone what they can afford then they will stay in business longer and then you might end up winning in the long run.

And that's just one possible interpretation :)
It's often cheaper to use the "wrong" architecture than optimising the right architecture. I know I could have a CouchDB datastore searching a few GB with an afternoon of work. I imagine I could get MySQL fast enough with a few days of optimisation. In terms of time, which is by far the biggest cost in most development, CouchDB is the better option.
Only a collection/series of quotes for searched Tv series/movie for now! I agree that a community where people can talk about the quotes or like them sounds interesting.
In a similar situation with user data. I wait for three user reports for the same thing in a limited time. Three reports from the same area in 10min = condition is real. Adjust as necessary
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I've gone through a similar transition (hive to redshift) in a very large scale data environment. Raw Hadoop / cascading is still very useful for more complicated workflows, but redshift is so vastly superior to hive it's not even funny. I thought I would miss adding my own UDFs, but this hasn't been an issue at all. I'm under the impression presto is a similar improvement, but I haven't spent any time with it.

One huge advantage of redshift over hive: you can connect with plain old Postgres libraries, so you can build redshift results into your admin interfaces, one off scripts, and anywhere else you're fine trading a few seconds of latency for extra data.
Thxs!
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Thanks! I used the Adonit Jot 4 on my iPad mini with the Paper app.
Makes me think of "Artificial Addition" ( lesswrong.com/lw/l9/artificial_addition/ ):

> A human could tell the AA device that "twenty-one plus sixteen equals thirty-seven", and the AA devices could record this sentence and play it back, or even pattern-match "twenty-one plus sixteen" to output "thirty-seven!", but the AA devices couldn't generate such knowledge for themselves.

Basically, concept graphs are better thought of as programming languages with a propensity for hardcoding than as solutions to the AGI problem.
There are proposals out there for adding multi-dimensional matrices to the language. I do like the recent proposal for 2-D matrices I read about. I think that would be a better for the language overall, than adding operator overloading.
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I've been playing around with ConceptNet for a year now, it's extremely impressive but I haven't quite applied it to a domain yet.

I often wonder about the cultural aspect you mention as I worked with a group that was attempting to model space, time and opinion data: i.e. 'dog isA food' differs according to geographic location. The old joke goes: scientists create a super intelligent computer and ask it 'is there a God?', and the computer replies 'there is now'. If future AIs are trained primarily on the English speaking Internet then perhaps God really will be an Englishman. For that to really be the case though the computer's reply would have to actually be a joke.

Perhaps it's time, given people are claiming they've passed the Turing test on dubious grounds for media attention, that a new test is established based on whether the computer can tell a funny joke. Higher level comedy plays with meaning and context, thus to make a joke you have to display mastery over the possible meanings as well as building a mental model of how your interlocutor will process it. Thus a being that can tell a joke is displaying a distinct sophistication. Many humans might fail that one though.
Fucking shitty slideshow.
Do people really click trough them?
Personally I close page right away if I see that the infromation was willingly separated into many pages/slides.
I did try briefly the Cintiq. Did you notice some parallax effect?

After using for years with separate tablet/screen, I cannot say I "dislike" the combination. It allows you to draw upright, which is very comfortable after you get used to it. I've been using drawing desks for years, and I would say it's more comfortable than using a tilted plane.

It's also weird (in a positive way) how you can fully see the effect of the stroke on the screen, which are normally hidden by the hand/pen.

That being said, I definitely prefer "feedback" if I'm writing, for instance, so I can relate to your sentiment even though I couldn't try a cintiq professionally yet.
Could you not just turn off LTE while streaming music and get most of the same benefit? Or do they give you 1GB of all traffic, after which you get throttled?
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Yes, there are websites doing similar things(I frequently read quotes on imdb and Quora), but I miss an app when I am alone and travelling. I also usually want to filter quotes (e.g. quotes from FRIENDS when I want to read something funny etc.)
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shazam for quotes..
Your notes are great! Thanks for sharing. Yeah I actually had no intention of sharing my notes while I was taking them so they are not very comprehensive. My friend asked me to post them so I did.
Yeah, but even including a year worth of Prime, that's still a very huge price tag for so little hardware, and an unproven software.
Hadoop was the first (major) open-source implementation of Google's MapReduce framework. http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html

In terms of data warehousing and near-real-time query over Big Data, Google's framework for that is called "Dremel", http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html

Google offer Dremel as a service known as BigQuery.
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I think this is cool but for me personally it would be so much cooler if it was open-source. Sure I understand they want to make money with it but really this doesn't offer me enough more than my current setup that I would be willing to pay $0.05 - $1.40 per hour. That's up to $33 per day or $1041 per month, (quite) pricey for some background execution and rsync functionality.

My current setup is to use a workhorse server where I set up a samba share for my home folder (so I can edit scripts remotely from my notebook without the git-push-pull dance) and a remote iPython notebook. Both config files are write once and forget and I get 90% of their functionality built in (without the web GUI). Would love to learn about other people's setup though, I am sure mine can be improved.
That's the 'parasite' model. Don't kill the host :)

But you're right, there are more interpretations possible and not all of those are negative.
Good link, but it's a 58-page slideshow.

Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzcCfUglws for a slightly more applied explanation.
I'm not surprised, given that my experiences with Hive are that it's extremely quirky and hardly ever the fastest way to do anything. Given the fact that people seem to be falling over themselves to reinvent better solutions to the same sorts of problems in the Hadoop space (see: Impala, Shark), I don't think I'm alone on that.
I don't intend to paint him as a slacker at all. I respect that what he did took a lot of effort to establish, but I doubt he did a lot of hiring and firing himself -- the article I read on this guy said he employed an existing chinese consulting company. What I'm assuming is that he paid that company enough to engage several engineers at once, which means I'm not surprised that "his" output was considered especially impressive.

I think the greatest obstacle to retaining chinese engineers is actually (c) communication across the language barrier.
As others said, outsourcing in countries with cheap workforce is challenging quality wised. If I recall correctly from the original article, not only he delivered his work in time, but his code was considered to set the standard for both quality and documentation. When his colleagues had trouble, whatever language they were using, they send him their code and he returned it fixed with proper explanation for their mistakes.

Thanks for the offer. :)
Ask HN: Tool to know approximate price quotation for a given job?
Hi everyone, yeah I know all jobs are different and that there are little details.. but do you know of any online tool that will give an aproximate price estimation for a given job in the IT field? I.e. client asks me to move website (with db and everything) hosted on a vps to another vps on another hosting.
How should I aproximately charge?

Maybe this can be a neat idea for someone to make, if there is not something like that? Or maybe it's already there, but being not a native English speaker perhaps I just cannot find the correct wording to google for that..

Anyway, any help is appreciated!

Thank you.

p.s. I'm actually interesed in how much to charge to move a vps from a hosting provider to another hosting provider.
In terms of time, which is by far the biggest cost in most development, CouchDB is the better option.

For a single, one-off utility, sure. For anything that you ever planned for production, that would be crazy.

Just to be clear, the mentality that onion proposes (at least from my interpretation, though I apologize if I'm misunderstanding), usually justified under a gross misinterpretation of the "premature optimization" warning, is exactly how disaster implementations that end up failing or requiring enormous amounts of engineering time to try to triage and bandage into something usable.
The topic post explicitly says that there is money in being nice. So there is more reason to be nice than just being a decent person.
That is not my intent at all, and I certainly don't think of it as calculating. I think you are conflating a quote highlighting a benefit of being nice (or really, the dangerous of being ruthless), with describing the moral reason to be nice.

Naturally character is better highlighted by what you do that has no tangible reward, and done in the dark, where you think no one will see it. And being nice, and compassionate, and charitable are things that should be done because it is the right thing to do, regardless of reward.

The quote is in the same vein as the original article; the general thrust of the article is that being nice pays dividends, which could be interpreted as being calculating as well, I suppose.

But I don't think that is the intent. I think the intent is the same as my comment - to just highlight the benefits and renewable nature inherent in being nice, not saying that is the reason to be nice.
There are analogies and then there are analogies.

One very common type is of the talk is cheap variety. Management can declare their company to be a team or a family or an enchanted kingdom. They read about it in Harvard Review. Like a mission statement or a slogan , these thing only mean something when you put your money (literally and figuratively) where your mouth is. Most don't.

The second type is a half hearted analogy. The company really intends to be like a team, a family or a special forces unit. But, the cost to really making that mean a lot is high. You can make the business somewhat family like or team like relatively cheaply and inform your company culture, but there are going to be countess cases where the cost is high. FO employees to really buy into it, they need to accept this costs. Most don't. What they have is rhetoric and a certain amount of investment into team building. Fair enough, but not what this article is decribing

The type of team like environment the article is describing doesn't come cheap? You need to have good feedback & measurement mechanisms for performance on the team level. You need success and failure to be very well compensated for and it needs to be based on team performance. Are you compensating success well enough that members of the team will want to see the poorest performers periodically replaced?

A professional sports team is an exceptional environment. The people there are high achievers and they are ambitious. They are the 1%, most hardworking and talented. They get a lot of money and a lot of glory. They're in 'once in a hundred lifetimes' state of mind. Can your company offer that? Is 5 years of success on you "team" the pinnacle of a career? Are they making more now than they ever will be? Will these be the glory years they relive?

Functions with very straightforward feedback, like sales tend to develop these dynamics with the right compensation structure. A small startup with only a handful of high equity employees can develop this culture naturally. Trying to artificially create it elsewhere is hard. I also suspect it's near impossible a group with over 50 or so people.

It's easy to say this stuff. Does Netflix really put this into practice? Does anyone?
The "ladder method" is a simple system designed to take no longer than 15 minutes each day no matter your current level of endurance/health/etc: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/exercise.html

There's a startup I just saw that looks interesting. It's all about simple exercises you can do on your own to stay healthy: http://hackerbody.com/
Sometimes when you escape somewhere for a while your issues seem a lot smaller from over there :)

Either way, good luck with it all, hope you find a way to happiness!
Being nice is like the Prisoner's Dilemma. It doesn't pay in the short term, but people who are consistently nice to each other help out in the long run. This is why CEOs that are nasty are actually the exception, though some of their lower level attendants can be jerks. If you aren't trustworthy, you lose access to a lot of people and opportunities.
Hindsight is a bitch. Of course using 2-factor auth was the way to go, of course offsite backups have to really be "off site" (and not available to anyone with access to AWS control panel to delete), etc, etc, etc.

Now there are many "of courses" for the owners (that external people already knew, but it doesn't help their situation). It seems that for them these things weren't so obvious as they are now... the unknown unknowns.

Sad story but I'd call lessons learned for them, no news for the rest of the Internet.