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Not sure if they will fail, depends on how big a niche there is for this kind of powerful hardware. Might have been different if it had H.264 accel. and HDMI out though.

You have to see that the ESP8266 is currently just a crappy wifi module with very low throughput (like below 100k) and limited range. I agree it will probably be very successful, never before has wifi been so cheap to add to a project, but I doubt you can transmit audio or video with it. I wonder if people will figure out how to run custom code on its MCU, that would be awesome.

I'm currently exploring the TI CC3200, it has a good price point (30$ via TI) and is quite capable (80Mhz M4 Cortex, 256k RAM) - for me its close to the sweet spot. If TI lowered the price even more, they'd own the market.
I don't really care about the compiler, really. MSVC compiler has many C++11 features so it's fine, as long as things compile.

If I have to build SFML from source because SFML doesn't provide binaries for clion, and if it's a pain in the ass because it doesn't work out of the box, it's not a lock in, but it makes thing harder for clion.

I just hate to deal with library cross-platform gimmicks, not to mention CMake scripts. I want to write code, not learn some build scripting language that is just some hack and might go extinct some day.

> Anyone with cmake (and know how to use it) can build your source.

Usually I can give a project file, eventually I even give a zip with the library binaries, and it's fine. Once you use a binary library the heavy lifting is done.

What I'm worried about is that having a cross-platform IDE doesn't nullify the binary incompatibility between binaries.

I guess clion might be useful for very large C++ application projects who want to work in cross-platorm, but not libraries. Games are usually not very large applications, they just use some inputs and opengl.
It got great traction and decent press coverage, in fact I was a bit surprised when journalists decided to go with a nudity angle. In the end I never pursued it further, due to another startup I was working on at the time.
Having tried out Android Wear once, isn't Apple's implementation of their "Glances" pretty much identical to how notifications work on Android Wear?
> Aside: even single-layer neural networks do not have convex error surfaces;

Single layers can indeed be made to have convex error surfaces fairly easily. One can do so by matching the error/loss function with the squashing/link function. What some old NN folks got wrong was mixing up square loss with logistic function, that is an unhealthy mix. Now if one were to use KL divergence instead of square loss then one would indeed have a convex loss function. In fact this would be nothing but logistic regression. One can however push this idea further, with any choice of a monotonic squashing function one can derive a 'matching' loss that would give you a convex loss. Classical statisticians know this and call it with a different name: canonical generalized linear models. I am not from that tribe, mine is more ML we may perhaps call it minimizing Bregman loss.

Just so that its clear I am talking about single layer networks not single hidden layer networks, there are plenty of cases were the former is useful.

> There have been no magical optimization breakthroughs

It is arguable whether Hessian free methods, contrastive divergence or auto-encoder based training methods qualify as 'breakthroughs' but they have definitely equipped invigorated researchers in this broad area with their capabilities.
See also this report at the FAA regarding the exact accident being discussed in this blog post: http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?TabID=2&LLID=57&LL...

This also includes pictures of the displays without (-3.3 and -33) and with (appending two small zeroes for the latter) the fix employed by Airbus.

(I also commented on the original article, but await moderation.)
That's something we've been considering, indeed. Especially given that we now ship our own OpenGL wrapper with ctypes.

In the meantime, you can just install vispy and import vispy.gloo: nothing else will be imported. The dependencies are the same (just NumPy).

FYI, although gloo's interface is now relatively stable, we're likely to change its internals very soon. This should lead to a cleaner, smaller, and more robust code base for gloo. There will be virtually no change for the user.
Many Garmin watches last much more than 7 hours. My old 310XT lasts around 12.
Its true that it's not the idea but the execution that matters for any startup. However in this case, snapchats virality was in the idea(even if it has been done before). The execution side, vs photo apps like Instagram, was simpler and less complicated. Moreover, he was involved in the initial development of the app. He deserved better.
Honestly, I don't see either of these as nothing but positive news (for the companies, not necessarily for all the people involved).
Minor comment, please link the abstract and not the pdf. Those who want to follow up can pull the link to the pdf from the arxiv abstract.
As a side note, is it still wise/advisable to join Snapchat as an engineer? Particularly for Visa candidates whee the risk is higher?
We have NFC sim cards in Turkey that enables regular phones (even dumb ones) to make purchases. (http://www.garanti.com.tr/en/personal_banking/credit_cards/b...)

There are also NFC enabled stickers, watches and key fobs.
I remember using an iPad 1 at work. Very quickly I (and those around me) realised that you couldn't actually do a fat lot of work with it, and were pretty disappointed with it. We were expecting a PC.

BUT! give it to me for web browsing (and shopping???) and it was absolutely great. This bright realisation that many of our parents don't sit at home writing software or documents suddenly made sense; people had been buying computers for years just to go online.

And this influenced the entire market, such to the point that everyone is tagging on touchscreen this and touchscreen that, even where it isn't needed. Thankfully Apple hasn't done this and hasn't made the MacBook a touchscreen device.

Very clever. I am hopeful that this trend of influencing the market continues, and new Android watches with similar features come out. Competition is good.
Eh, can you name one? There are several "Minecraft could have done this as well" games, I guess, but nothing really stands out as anything like a spiritual successor, or whatever. There's Terraria, but that's not quite the same either is it.
You're preaching to the choir - I wish all IP law was either abolished or changed significantly so that it actually promoted innovation.

However, that's completely besides the point. That's not how copyright works, what you did is most likely illegal, and the organization you represent would most likely not condone such behavior if the tables were turned.
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Everyone I've seen has trouble with this in the beginning. I'm not an advanced vim user, would it really be impossible to make it modeless without losing too much power?
Apparently Microsoft didn't propose anything. Notch went to them.
Exactly, 2 different taxis could just as easily have arrived 4 minutes apart, and the bus lanes are a significant advantage either way. A 4 minute difference doesn't sound too bad.
My impression from the marketing video where Ive speaks is that this is more like a vanity jewelry item, not anything serious and definitely not something that can handle abuse. I don't think they even market it as a sports item.
They're different objects. You can buy $350 watches that are 10 years old in pawn shops, the v1 Apple watch is going to be obsolete in 2 years.
Why? The second paragraph just states a fact he knows from a graph (which admittedly, he doesn't link to). The third paragraph is just his personal opinion based on - I suppose - his personal experiences. It is a broad generalization, but then do you really not think that age is uncorrelated with the interest you have in a conversion with someone?

EDIT: Ow, or was is it about the shoving in the mouth thing? I just pictured a ragged cloth personally :D
Pretty sure the title of this should just be "Apple Watch", which is the title in the browser. Apple considers their products proper nouns.
Ingvar Kamprad is too, doesn't prevent him from not paying any taxes. It's not very hard to find exploits in the tax system. Even in the worst case, the corporate tax is 22%.
Very informative, thanks. It made me chuckle when you said that Metro UI was innovative - it really was. Unfortunately, for some of the use-cases they put forward, it isn't really suited or very good.

I mean, on a Mac how many people use Launchpad?
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Thanks for this. Have to decide between black cab and uber later this week and didn't know which would be cheaper. Do you know how accurate Uber's fare estimates are (do they update during surge pricing)?
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I'm sorry? I don't really want to sound like I'm bashing Apple, but I'd never see something round, rectangular and bulky and think "watch" up until the recent advent of smartwatches.
Apple Watch is as un-watchy as any of the competing smartwatches, in my opinion.
Android makes watches now? :O
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The comments are far more insightful - that guy doesn't have a clue what he is talking about.
I've mentioned mine on here a few times, and it's picked me up a few users, although i've never done a 'Show HN' type thing. Most startups, I'd hazard, are specific enough in implementation, market and niche that you need to find someone who cares enough about all of those same things and has the skills, time and wherewithal to land it. Lots of people have ideas, few land them - there are probably 50 teams working on the same idea as you, but most won't land them. (On my example - the site's in beta, it's a soccer stats site so probably barred in a lot of non-UK domains as gambling related, of niche interest in any case, etc. My site's a clone/improvement, in many respects, on others that I've used in the past - fixing my own problems.)

If you've got a world-changing, hugely scalable, easily copyable concept, then yeah, probably don't post it here. But otherwise, it's all in the implementation, and posting it on HN probably won't change that.
I don't think iOS copied windows. It doesn't support sizeable overlapping windows. Sure, it displays text and images, but then that isn't really copying Windows is it?

Also, I don't think that the parent commenter said how visionary the products were. He/she merely highlighted the common responses to Apple's releases.

And before you label me a "shill" (is this Slashdot...?!??!!!!?!??!), I am a happy Windows/Mac/Android developer, and I don't have an iPhone.
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Tried that. No bookmarks appeared in iCloud...
Very nice to meet you!

Totally agreed on the residential ISPs loving PVLANs.

And thanks for your work with deploy360 and helping to get better information to people !
Ask HN: Do you get paid an annual salary?
I was wondering if any tech companies or startups pay annual salaries as opposed to monthly and which would employees rather prefer? I'm under the impression that annual salaries would make one less reliant on credit and loans especially for 'big purchases'.

What are your thoughts on this?
That incident happened in the Air Force. It caused "take-off power" to be renamed "full power".
Have you seen their shareholder agreement? Does one even exist?

Vesting is quite common in the EU, but only when it is agreed upon by all parties. If you're founding a business on equal equity based on the capital deposited you get those shares up front, any additional shares emitted subject to vesting/shareholder agreements, payments and so on.

What you agree on matters, not what you later think you should have agreed on.

Anyway, I note the case has been settled and that you either have some hidden knowledge about this case or that your position is at odds with reality as currently on display.
I don't want to be arguing about whether I'm going to get on the meter or not.

That never happened to me, when grabbing a cab at any of the two Bangkok airports. As a matter of fact the service there works pretty well.

What did happen, though, was that I got into a taxi with a doctored meter. This could range from a fairly innocuous 20% surcharge (which is still not OK, to be sure) to meters in cardiac arrest mode, charging about factor 15 (literally).

Within city limits the situation may be different. My experience is that when you get into a cab, which is parking at one of the more touristy areas they try to take you for a ride and are rarely willing to engage their meters.

There's usually never a discussion if meter, or not, if you hail a cab on the street.

This only applies to Bangkok. In other places in Thailand it's practically impossible to get the driver to engage the meter, even if he's (it's almost always a he) legally required to do so.

Note to first time visitors: Not engaging the meter and agreeing on a flat fee is always a bad deal. 5$ may seem cheap to you. But for the same ride you would have paid 1/3rd of the price with the meter engaged.
One thing that Google does really innovate in: releasing products to keep up with the competition (typically web-based), then letting them be unmaintained, fester, and then terminating them much to the chagrin of the users.

That's innovative! Apple certainly doesn't do that! Hah!

(I jest, I jest. GMail and Maps have been going for years, and are pretty great , although I don't like the new UI on maps - things pop up from all over the place and the UI elements are teeny weeny. But yes, I'm a happy Google/Android user thanks).

EDIT: Hey! This was meant as a joke! Don't take it too seriously! Don't downvote me to oblivion! Please! Have mercy and compassion!

EDIT: Again! It's a joke! It's a joke! Such downvoting enthusiasm.
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^ This.

I was actually quite disturbed with the Apple unveiling of the watch, I know it has been expected and what not. But a device that is literally monitoring my heart rate constantly all day, guiding me down a street with "gentle taps like a person" to tell me which direction to go. I feel like a small part of humanity is being optimised away. It's an incredibly scary thought.
I wonder if app developers are allowed develop custom watch faces. Possibly not.
Here in the UK there are NFC payment points all over the place, but no mobile payment systems support them; it's all US-only.
> If what you're concerned about is the idea that Google knows your phone number, you can use Google Authenticator or another TOTP app instead.

I'm under the impression that you need to provide Google your phone number before being allowed to enable TOTP.
05:00 GMT last night

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I'm in Iceland, and I don't really see them much (if ever). Chip and pin readers are the norm here, and you can completely function without cash, but I don't notice contactless options really.

I'll take this opportunity to also say that Apple Maps still don't work here. By which I mean, they don't work at all. They have no data. The entire app is little more than a graphic of a map and a UIAlertView that says "No results found".
Of course not. He's going to go botnet shopping and try to log in through a compromised machine with an IP address in the same town, in the same address range.

He might even be able to use the same IP as you, if you happen to be using a gateway with many machines behind it, and one of them is compromised.
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The fact that Macs were a small niche was instrumental for the music industry to accept to put legal songs online after the Napster coup. It allowed Steve Jobs to convince them to support trying the model of all songs at the same price because the potential market was so small it didn't really matter if it worked or failed. By being able to conduct a business experiment in a way no one else could, Apple had a huge edge here. The music industry would not have accepted to try such a model directly on Windows at the time and Apple got a huge lead.
Does Clojure support pattern matching? AFAIK, the only thing that is "functional" about Clojure is its immutable data structures (and closures, but even JS has those).
Black cabs have a monopoly on hailing and taximeters at the cost of certain regulations. Wheelchair access is one of those regulations. Other obvious ones include TfL-set fares, and the requirement to accept any fare within a certain radius.

The latter two regulations are likely to engender a "who cares" response - the TfL fares are (currently) higher than Uber, and the nature of Uber hailing means that the vehicle you board will take you to your requested destination.

Uber enables smartphone-based hailing and uncertified taximeters, without enforcing the other rules. Therefore, all the advantages of both minicabs and taxis are available to the operator, but without the disadvantages peculiar to each.

You might say that this workaround is a clever disruption of an established, outdated business model, but if Uber drives a significant number of cabbies out of business, then how are independent wheelchair users going to get around efficiently? Buses are already overcrowded at peak times, and not all physically disabled people are as agile as Bumper Harris.
Apple opensoucred their Objective-C compiler only because the GPL on the GCC forced them. They invested a lot in the BSD licenced LLVM. I don't think they did this just for fun, but to avoid they have to do that.
Is Siri really good? I only ask because I spent a significant portion of today's commute shouting "OK GOOGLE" repeatedly at my phone, only for it to misunderstand what I was saying. And I speak with a flat English accent.
I don't want 2FA for absolutely everything. I want to authenticate once.
> Well, if that's the trick, they don't need your phone nr at all, they can do ip and os check anyways.

Although that wouldn't be 2FA, it's worth noting that Facebook, Hotmail and Flickr will ask for some extra verification if you connect from a different country that usual. So that's probably not a bad idea.
Ive's voice is very robotic; It was like being told about the watch by Siri.
You shouldn't have to build SFML from source. The blog post says that CLion supports Cygwin and MinGW toolchains on Windows and SFML provides MinGW binaries, so you should be fine there. As I think the parent post was trying to explain, not many IDEs are as closely tied to a specific compiler as Visual Studio is tied to MSVC. A lot of IDEs, including CLion, just use GCC, so anything that works with GCC will work with CLion.
are you referring to start of the financial year or towards the end.....coz if its start ...i am in !
I am optimistic. Today, I have to remove my credit card from my wallet to hold it close to the card terminal, in the future my iPhone will be sufficient …
There are still professions where it's a requirement. Telling the time can be very important for divers, pilots, service men, etc.
The value of the company is already so high that much of the upside is removed. You really have to believe in the company as a whole to make that commitment.
There is no company that pays salaries annually. You could always come to a special agreement I guess, but with interest rates where they are right now it makes little sense.
The full list was leaked, my email was on it but I've never used that password for an email account in my life. It's my throwaway "I don't trust this website" password. I use it for a reason!
Really neat effect, and great use of canvas! Have we ever captured an image of something like a black hole-galaxy eclipse as displayed during the opening animation of your demo? I've never seen a full Einstein ring with darkness in the center... Cool nonetheless!
You could probably make an equally powerful modeless editor but I don't see how it could be anywhere near vim-like. Maybe if you had a foot pedal to indicate what modes to interpret input sequences in.
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You do realise that the clang part of llvm includes the Objective C compiler and it's under the BSD license as well?
I remember it being fashionable here in the UK, mainly for the Carlsberg app that used the gyroscope (accelerometer?) to pretend that you were drinking a drink.

And for showing that you had a lot of money compared to us pauper Nokia users.

People were really disappointed with the lack of MMS, as I recall.
maybe because they want to limit the search time?
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@ free speech in relation to reddit

> We uphold the ideal of free speech on reddit as much as possible not because we are legally bound to, but because we believe that you - the user - has the right to choose between right and wrong, good and evil, and that it is your responsibility to do so. When you know something is right, you should choose to do it. But as much as possible, we will not force you to do it.

from the recent blog-post: http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/every-man-is-responsible-f...
Employers want cheap workers and experience is seen as expensive. This is why most companies have one or two real developers and dozens of juniors learning on the job.

If you're experienced, you're better off building a startup.
"Rights" (in this context) are things to which one has a legal claim. Property ownership is a right. Rights may be limited or unlimited, alienable or inalienable (which is to say, transferrable), or absolute or non-absolute (which is frequently confused with alienability).

An absolute right granted by law (e.g., Constitutional Rights which may not be infringed, or if you subscribe to them, universal human rights) would generally superscede others. There's a fairly strong argument against such rights in general, and I happen to see the discussion of rights in general as being greatly muddied.

That's not to say that many of the claims granted by these rights are bad. I think there are very strong arguments in favor of free speech (though not unlimited), of freedom of religion, of due process. Also of education and healthcare, possibly of a minimum income. Other rights I'm less convinced of, particularly in a resource-constrained world.

But the right to remove someone from their home without consequence strikes me as a peculiar one. Even Russia's serfs were considered to be bound to the land. They couldn't be moved separately from it (nor did they have the right to move themselves, but this wasn't terribly different from restraints on internal migration, say, as in England under its Poor Laws in the 17th century).
> "The strap is infinitely adjustable" - that one made me chuckle, as it was referring to a strap that folds back on itself with a magnetic clasp.

I believe Ive refers to the infinite points between the base and the end of the strap and not an infinite length of strap. Ask a mathematician how many points are between 0 and 1.

Even my Casio got this right with a velcro strap. I have a Citizen that is either too high or too low on my forearm depending on the number of links I insert. My only options are to gain or lose weight until
You have to book on a mobile - I just look up the postcode and insert it as my destination before I order the Uber.

When they turn up, the Uber app sat-navs them to exactly where I asked to be.

Not tricky. Minicabs wouldn't know where attractions were either.

UberX is often half the price or less of a black cab. Convenience against cost is something you have to sum up for yourself, but it's far from a terrible experience.
I was happy that there was no GPS on the watch because isn't GPS a big battery hog?