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Lest anyone blame local networks or non-Apple hardware for the streaming problems:

I was on IRC with other iOS developers viewing the streaming using Safari on Apple hardware with fully updated software all around (I know these people), in different parts of the US, people working at different companies, using different, very fast, geographically diverse networks, and all of us were seeing the same catastrophic problems at the same times: a mix of simultaneous multiple audio streams sometimes in sync, sometimes slightly out of sync, stopping and starting video, truck schedules for 5-10 seconds every minute or so, English over Chinese, audio temporarily resetting to beginning of stream while another track of audio continued at the current position superimposed over the let's-start-over audio, access denied errors, pause/continue buttons not working, refresh not working.. this went on for at least 40 full minutes as the problems started before the broadcast and didn't stop until after 30 minutes. And no, we were NOT madly hitting Refresh or pause/restart all the time, although we did try invoking them a few times and calmly waiting, usually to little avail.

I want to emphasize that when I saw a TV truck schedule on my screen in San Francisco, at that very same moment my buddies in other parts of the country started seeing the TV truck schedule on their screens as well. If we can say one thing for this broadcast, it is that the screwups were very well synchronized for many if not all viewers.

The mind boggles as to why the didn't have someone dedicated to be listening to a dog food channel of their own stream on a remote network, and report the problems back earlier, and whether they did or not, why they couldn't fix it sooner.
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Any word on whether they added static library support? Not having it is kind of a dealbreaker for my workflow, unfortunately.
How do you idiots still think that Chrome doesn't decode h264?
"its costly tablet chip strategy paid off" ...

> "the company's mobile and communications group's second-quarter revenue fell 83 percent to $51 million, and the unit had an operating loss of $1.12 billion"
Everything You Need to Know About Apple Pay
In India NEFT transfer changed the way money is transferred but it was batch. Now this one allows you to transfer the money in real-time. The NEFT system now has become a system in which details of target account is check like name and account number and branch code. In IMPS that check not done but transfer is real-time so most people does not even need exchange account number just MMID and Mobile number and you are set.I generally transfer Rs.1 and check if it is transferred to right account and then transfer confidently.
The first step would be to understand his/her priorities.

Talk to your boss, make a two second statement like "I'm excited about Angular.js and I think it can help improve our business. However, rather than just pitching a technology to you, I'd like to learn more about your priorities and the priorities of our team so that I can focus my energies on improving our business."

Then sit back and listen.

Business priorities will trump a change in technologies. Also, if you want to be taken seriously, then you should know both the pluses and minuses of switching to Angular. What browsers do customer use? Are they supported? What is the skillset of the team? Will training be required? And so on. Be ready to discuss these topics objectively.

What benefits do you think Angular will bring? How will that help the company develop faster at a lower cost, provide a better user experience that'll increase revenue, etc.
Or that they don't subscribe to everything The Cult of Apple feeds them.

edit: getting downvoted like a champ. The Cult is strong with HN.
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Make sure your business is capable of handling this fast-growing necessity
People on HN complain about Emscripten being the devil's work, and now here is someone asking for pthread support? I need to go sit down...
The iPhone 6 looks like the Galaxy S3 in the same way that the Galaxy S2 looked like the iPhone.

Not to mention the whole "huge touch screen, minimal buttons smartphone" thing was pioneared by Apple already

So? It's irrelevant to my point: Apple took Samsung to the cleaners over a visual design patent (amongst others), and I'm saying that this phone looks a hell of a lot like the S3.

Yes, if you look at the screen, it's android vs ios and doesn't look similar, but the hardware lines, button placement, curled edges, earpiece are all very similar. The home button is a little different - but again, these kinds of difference are the same in magnitude as S2 v iPhone. For example, the home button on the S2 was an oblong ringed with metal, wheras the home button on the iPhone is a circle. Apparently that's visual-design-patent-infringing for Samsung, but a marker of innovative distinction for Apple?

Was talking about the watches.

Then make that clearer, because you sound diversionary in saying this. The article is about the iPhone. The parent comment mentions watches in passing, but is primarily about the iPhone. You spent half your comment talking about ipads and iphones right after the bit I quoted.
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Hi, I am a research engineer in Yann LeCun's group at Facebook. I hate to seem to be picking a fight, but you're a prominent poster here, and this comment seems likely to garner a fair amount of attention. Unfortunately almost every sentence you've written betrays a subtle misunderstanding of the space, and the totality is quite misleading.

> The naive approach (start at a "random" weight setting, use gradient descent) that works on a convex error surface fails catastrophically on deep, complex neural nets. (Shallow neural net training is a non-convex problem as well, but seems to be "less non-convex" in practice.)

Starting at a random (no scare quotes needed) point in weight space and SGD'ing is exactly what Alex Krizhevsky, and all of the derivative convnets over the last two years, did and do. It works just fine; I sit at work doing it all day long. You need to have enough data to train on, big enough models, and enough flops to train the big models on the big data before your interns' grandchildren die. We have all of the above now. Aside: even single-layer neural networks do not have convex error surfaces; convexity, and funky error surface geometry, is not a relevant distinction between shallow and deep nets. There have been no magical optimization breakthroughs, it's still SGD with the same herbs and spices that were used in the 90's (momentum, e.g.).

> The problem is that convergence, for single-layer nets, can be very slow (especially given that you're often doing stochastic gradient descent when working large data sets).

"Stochastic" gradient descent just means doing lots of weight updates per epoch. Ceteris paribus, training on large, redundant data sets, stochastic converges faster than batch because it gets to consider more points in the weight space than batch per pass over the data. The problem with single-layer neural nets is not that they converge slowly; the problem is that the layer size needs to grow exponentially with the task size. Single-layer neural nets' universal approximation power is thus not of great practical consequence. The power of deep nets is the power of composition: f(g(h(x))) is a strictly more powerful model than f(x) holding the number of parameters constant.

> Even now, making deep neural nets not sensitive to initial starting conditions is an unsolved problem, but there's been a lot of progress.

You just initialize with a Gaussian ball around zero and explore whatever valley in the error surface you happen to be in. Works 100% dandy.

> I would hazard the guess that the convolutional technique is a lot more useful in deep neural networks than it is in single-hidden-layer neural nets.

It doesn't really make sense to talk about a "single layer convolutional net", because if you only have a single layer, and all you can do is convolve with it, then the output of your net will necessarily be a big pile of filtered versions of the input image. Unless your task is specifically to learn a target set of filters, it would make no sense to have a single layer convnet.
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This, I'm living exactly the same situation right now.

Last time I came to the US, I realized my cards' magnetic bands weren't working. Would have never noticed otherwise, chips don't wear off. Had to prepare for new cards before my next trip. Chips came so long ago in Canada that I can't recall when. My surprise every time I remember they're still not here.

Then cash only places and having to receive coins; the worst. And then what do you do with the coins, hope that one day you'll get the chance to use them? That never happens. You must accumulate coins in your pockets. Accumulate discomfort and never dare throwing them away. And what's up with cents, what do you buy with a cent?

Back in Canada, all I carry is a debit/credit card (wink) and a health insurance card (wink).
Comparing with existing wireless sensor network "motes", this is much much smaller - but do it's processing/networking capabilities match those of motes?
"You can now submit your apps that use Swift to the App Store. "-that's great news!

For Hackers in SF: We are running a Swift Hackday at GitHub HQ on the 27th September. There will be food, drink, swag and lots of other Swift hackers! Check it out & RSVP at http://SwiftHack.splashthat.com
I assumed from the headline this would be about Apple's wage-suppressing scam.
I've found that the places that typically charge fees or have minimums in Canada are the tiny asian restaurants run by immigrants, and the small corner stores. Similar places in the US are the ones I find that take cash only a lot of the time.

Credit limits in Canada start out restrictive, yes, though I've generally found that if you ask for a higher limit, they will generally grant it. I've had good credit though. That probably makes a difference.

I've been lucky enough to never need to do a chargeback in Canada or the US. Maybe it's not easy in Canada.
> I don't think this is likely to become pandemic, but it must be a very scary situation in Africa.

I don't think we should undermine Ebola, but hey, AIDS kill way more people in Sub-saharan Africa every year. In 2011 there were 1.2 millions of AIDS related death there. That's more than 3000 people dying every single day.
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Same thing here (but in Europe). I wonder if Apple Pay will really get some momentum here.
That's not the "problem of capitalism", that's the problem with bad people that are power hungry and uninformed people that see absolution in centralized power.

I'm very hopeful that we will be able to reverse this trend as I see decentralization efforts everywhere (internet to press, 3d printing to manufacturing, bitcoin to currency, blockchain to public ledger, photovoltaics for power, etc).
Well, that may be true, but I doubt that process is gonna make successful businesses, unless you lace that booze with copious amounts of adderall.

I am not responsible for the state of your liver if you follow the implied advice.
"Isn't this the whole point?"

No

"It's not until people actually use them and we have the luxury of hindsight that we can say how groundbreaking they might have been."

I'm not even sure what to make of this statement.
There have been a lot of history rewrites on why the iPhone succeeded.
If you want to say "we should wait and see", i'm fine with that. If you are saying "i'm sure they are amazing, and we are all just dumb for second guessing apple", this sounds a lot like the emperors new clothes. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Apple had plenty of failures in the past that get glossed over and disappear (remember their social network?). This is true even of hardware (remember the cube? whee) and other major features.

While I doubt they'd get called out over it in the media, it may just disappear the same way a lot of other things did that didn't work out.

So assuming it will be one of the revolutionary devices, despite it seeming like it won't be, is a little too much for me. Happy to be wrong of course (i'd love to buy one if it's truly better), but not going to put faith in them :)
Thank you for this- I have a handful of completely unmarked boards that appear to be this module. Who knew they might be so capable? I hope someone translates the instruction set document linked. This is definitely the direction that things are going, at least more than an odd $50 Intel mongrel.

Intel wants us to pay for something that industry won't buy with the Edison. Contrast to Arduino and rPi, which are providing affordable access to something only available otherwise to industry:

AVR: High volume microcontroller- let's make it accessible and useful outside of heavy industry == Arduino.

ARM: Exploding in popularity due to mobile devices- let's make it accessible outside of device manufacturers == rPi.

Atom: No one is using these in industry- let's palm it off on hobbyists and see if they can drive demand == Edison.

Hard to find the point of the Edison. Too anemic and dull next to true next-gen SoC solutions like the Zynq [http://zedboard.org/], and too overpowered for most microcontroller applications. Weird price point. No GPU or vidout. There's many SoMs and SoCs to try before this one.

Intel has had to give away Atoms to get them used in any volume, this HN comment on a contemporaneous article has links on the subject:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8294864

If Intel wants to hit the hobbyist embedded market running, they could sell Edisons for $10. By giving them away to heavy industry, yet selling them to hobbyists, they aren't garnering interest, they're patronizing.
That data is fed into their Google Now servers, so that it can predict your buying patterns, hence offer you contextual adverts just as you're planning to buy something. /joking
I actually felt better about this design. I, too, was anticipating something radical. But we have seen what happened with Google Glass. I think the way to innovate in wearables is to start with something that doesn't stand out and then steer people into more innovative directions?

But if anybody could pull off a radical design without making it the status quo for creepy geeky young men, it is Apple.
That isn't true. Swift has been dev for quite a long time in secret.
It's worth noting that annual income above five million is almost definitely coming from investment of both labor and capital (ie, working to manage/direct a business you own, and seeing gains from the value of that business -- or working to manage your stocks and seeing gains from their value) rather than just from labor. This comes with very different risks, including the ability to lose your capital, which is why it's taxed in a very different way.

It's also worth noting that the tax rate for the very rich is still 15%. As far as I can tell, certain very rich people "not paying taxes" is a myth.

Finally, it's worth noting that Notch is not American.
Thanks!, I've got both gamecube and dreamcast with PSO and always wanted to be able to play them online for the full experience but didn't own them early enough to do so.
You beg the question.

That said, I really don't think this is likely enough to go anywhere constructive or useful, so I'm going to beg off.
Then you could sell it and buy a smaller property. Property taxes are used to service the immediate area around the property (typically the municipality where the residence is located) and whether you are old or young has relatively little to do with that (I do think that older people tend to have a lower impact on their surroundings so maybe for that reason they should be getting a discount).

You could argue that it is a form of double taxation (since you've already paid for the property and that income was already taxed before you could use it).
Is it programmable? That is, does it have CPU/memory? The article wasn't clear on this.
> If his assets keep pace with inflation then how does he end up needing assistance when he's 55?

Usually by over-spending during the times when it seems as if income will never end.
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Even I, an ancient wizard, am boggled by this. Why have we squandered our night skies?
Apple event overshadows unflattering news at Snapchat, Tinder
Nope, people who paid $600+ for an iPhone still had to have a two-year contract, they didn't even get compensated for it with a subsidy. And at the same time that you paid $600, AT&T was giving Apple a cut of the contract, something like 10 bucks a month from your AT&T bill went straight to Apple in the beginning. So Apple was really getting around $840 per iPhone over the life of the contract, $600 up front and $10/month for 24 months.
Actually HIPAA is pretty strict on application and infrastructure security. HIPAA's Security Rule has 3 main sections: Administrative Safeguards, Technical Safeguards and Physical Safeguards.

Administrative Safeguards = basically encompasses what you described.
Technical Safeguards = encryption, authentication, authorization, audit control, etc.
Physical Safeguards = media (e.g., HD) disposal/reuse, data backup/restore, access control and validation procedures, etc.

TrueVault handles Technical and Physical Safeguards. Companies like AccountableHQ.com does a great job taking care of Administrative Safeguards for their customers.

Check out the Developers Guide to HIPAA Compliance here: https://github.com/truevault/hipaa-compliance-developers-gui...
And then what do you do with the coins, hope that one day you'll get the chance to use them?

You dump the coins in a change jar on top of your dresser. Then once a year or so, when you have accumulated $100 in coins, you bring the jar to a coinstar machine at your local supermarket and get the coins converted to an Amazon gift certificate.
Who has college yearbook photos? I don't remember any yearbook, and it certainly doesn't have my photograph in it. There were something like 25,000 undergrads anyway - how would that even work?
I agree. It all comes down to your personal belief system. If I believe that theft is wrong and immoral and you disagree, then we will never be able to reach common ground.

Goodbye.
Do you know where your can get on a trip for 5K? Last i checked, those trips would cost around 2x that amount: i would be absolutely delighted if i can find one for 5K!!!
I would even say it was probably a stronger marriage than most since it lasted at least a couple decades.
Sapphire is nicer on really high end stuff just for protection purposes. It's abrasion resistance is much much higher. If i was buying a smartwatch for 10 years, i'd agree it'd be a great feature. But i don't, i buy them for 3 years.

High end watches have it for the same reason - people expect them to last forever.

If people are expecting a smartwatch (apple's or anyones) to last them 10 years, sapphire is going to be the least of their problems :)

FWIW: The reason they likely didn't put it on phones is because they haven't solved the brittleness problem that nobody else has really solved that well. If you drop sapphire, it tends to shatter. If you drop gorilla glass, it tends to bounce.

It makes sense on watches because nobody really drops watches that often, since they are normally held on your wrists by bands.
Because they are expensive while not necessarily better.
THANK YOU

That's what I was looking for. Really appreciate it.

iOS/Xcode as a first programming environment is really odd and foreign to me, but my brother seemed excited about it, and I want to encourage him. He's really talented, he could be amazing as a software engineer if he ever wanted to be one.
Neat, thanks for the link.

Also - tld of .tips? I need to register some funny names now
a big fan of keep.google.com

I just throw everything in there and color code it. been using it for a year or so
It is a very cool development but I see couple of issues with it:

1 - It works at about 60GHz. You are not getting a lot of distance or even going through a wall at that frequency and (likely) very low power levels

2 - The devices still need a central "base station". Presumably they rebroadcast to neighbouring nodes; but at lower power levels since they reuse some of the received power for themselves. I doubt you'd get more than 2 - 3 hops out before you don't have much power to begin with.

3 - He cites including these in fridges, coffee makers, light bulbs, etc. None of these are power constrained applications. You can put in $0.45 802.15.4 chip in them TODAY and it comes with a whole microcontroller inside to do what you want to do.

The tech here is no doubt "cool" but I don't see any applicability for IoT. If anything I think it would have some medical uses in pills you can swallow etc. But IoT use is kind of a dud.

Most IoTs have pretty good power source and you can run the w/ existing chipsets.
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"as far as i'm concerned, anyone who dismisses sapphire crystal on a watch as some kind of useless feature isn't to be taken seriously about watches, smart or otherwise."

Compared to gorilla glass, on a watch that lasts 3-5 years?
Why?

What do you think sapphire buys you?
Have you ever done tests (I know for a fact that at least one of the very high end watchmakers didn't)?

In any case, high end watches last 30 years. Sapphire makes sense on that.

It's nice, don't get me wrong, but i don't see it as a prerequisite to having a good smartwatch that lasts 3-5 years.
I used to get a pretty clear view of the milky way in Flag Staff, AZ a decade back. I wonder if that is still possible now.
Cool, that looks like a great resource.

And thanks for the code conversion tips :)
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Lol ya it's one of the new ones. If you think that has potential check out all the new TLD's:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-string...
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2010: People realize the folly of buffering input until the user hits a button and trying to parse it after the fact. They start integrating tokenizers and auto-complete right into the input method itself.
So what part of our culture don't we buy?
This is a problem I feel very deeply about. When I was a kid, I would look up in the sky and see stars. Now, all I see is an orangish hue. Spotting even a single star at night these days is a difficult task.

I sincerely hope we can solve this problem of lights spoiling the night sky for everyone. Especially street lights, those are the worst. I hate having to go to a forest to be able to see the sky I could once see from the roof of my house.
Reddit's true corporate philosophy looks simple. These appear to be the 2 immutable laws of Reddit, and everything else follows naturally from them:

1. Anything goes

2. Unless it causes immediate and obvious harm to Reddit

I think the mission statements from Reddit's CEO are a torturous attempt to construct a grand community vision that embodies these laws. He might say it's the other way around, and the laws grew out of the vision, but I think these laws are shaped mainly by the economic and business realities of managing a huge community on an understaffed shoestring.