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So I guess I can finally talk about building the iOS version of this app back during the prototype phase. The team that built this was totally skunkworks and honestly seemed to care little about the OS it runs on. What they do care is that this device+app works as a good showcase for the Azure platform. they want part of the story to be that the data generated by this device is completely accessible to anyone who wants it, and their app is just the reference implementation.
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Ongoing discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8527774
platform, very interesting the XMLDB info. As you point out, ToroDB does not require any model declaration ahead. It's perfectly "schema-less", as it 'senses' the model of each document.

Regarding ingestion speed, it is very high, even compared to MongoDB's. There are some benchmarks in this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/8kdata/toro-db-pgconfeu2014
The downside of these kind of interviews is that it is a priori assumed that candidate should prepare...
It is not possible to add to the notification center by default. Every user has to click edit and add the widget manually.

What makes this even worse is that apple is currently featuring this PAID app in the hand-picked app store section as a "best-of" for the new widget feature. That's brutal for both paying customers who will get a downgraded new version and for other developers with in-development projects inspired by this highlighted example.

Also, "don't do math" - how are developers supposed to understand that rule? Are all "ADD", "SUB", "MUL", "CMP" opcodes banned? How do you even do UI layout without "math"?
The good ones make money and easily cover the $99/year.
Awkward, cliché, and yet still effective advertisement video. The work-out and skydiving bits were neat, but the graduation text message bit and the "keep your head up" catchphrase (you look down to see the watch) made me feel stubbornly aware and annoyed at the problems that this device still causes; the disconnect with reality.

Also, I don't know that anyone looks back at the time they got a Facebook message while holding their newborn ("the small moments you never forget").

I'm not sure of the problems to these alleged solutions, but I suppose time will tell.
I actually think the search was valid (and remember McGacken consented, which was a public-spirited action). What bothers me is that in establishing that a potentially serious crime had not taken place, a victimless one resulted in a pirson term. McGacken did the morally right thing in allowing the police officer to verify that nobody was in danger, and while I can't really fault the police officer for doing his job, I wish he had looked the other way.

What really bothers me about it is that I can't articulate a clear legal principle about when prima facie evidence of a crime should be thrown out for moral reasons. You could say that if you're investigating one crime then discovering another one incidentally shouldn't count, but what if the police officer had been investigating a report of illegal marijuana production and had discovered the rape in progress? Of course we'd want that to be prosecutable. We could wish that the war on drugs were over and nobody would be prosecuted for Marijuana, but I can think of other petty crimes that would substitute equally well, eg if McGacken was a petty thief or something. It's a really tricky case to me. I'm surprised nobody has examined it in a law review article.
Are any team members from automotive? This sounds similar to automotive head unit designs. Consumer-facing processor + OS and secure processor (or core) with separate OS.

I'm nervous about the Android part of this product. I've seen some poor implementations of devices that want to use Android because it's 'easy' to get a lot of features up and running but then struggle with the quality of the middleware layers or Android-specific UI patterns that they try to strip out.

Otherwise, I think the dual screen and industrial design looks good! I hope the LCD looks as good as the renderings.
Points. I am giving them to you. Thank you, sir or madam. I salute you.
A salient article from LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/
That's interesting. Still, there are a huge number of copyright holders of the linux kernel and some may have a different opinion on the legalese applies.
finally ... hp doing something hp is good at ... lol
The mid-20's are an interesting time of life. We expect our life to be on some kind of track by then, and the reality is it often isn't. The difference between our expectations and our reality can hurt.

The biggest thing is to take some time. Time heals, and sometimes just lying on the ground for a bit after you've been knocked down is all it takes.

There are literally thousands of companies in the world doing interesting stuff that are not Google or Amazon. Many of them are starved for talent. This doesn't mean you're settling for places with lower standards, but rather the standards at Google and Amazon are so high that--as others have pointed out here--past a certain level it is random chance if you get in or not. Hiring is a very random process.

So don't restrict yourself to big-name companies. There are a lot of interesting and rewarding places to work that pay well. Keep going.
Sanjay Gupta, who is a neurosurgeon, did probably the best
demonstration I've seen on why the CDC protocol failed. He
dressed up in the recommended protective equipment and they
put chocolate syrup on his hands. As an experienced
neurosurgeon, how many times he's donned and doffed this
gear? He took off his gear, and, yep, there were chocolate
splashes all over his skin.

After reading this I went to go watch the video because I've read several articles on the CDC recommendations and first hand accounts from nurses returning from Africa explaining the procedure for putting on and removing the gowns. What Sanjay Gupta did, does not match up with what I've read. There was no apron and he took everything off at once, including trying to simultaneously remove both pairs of gloves. You're supposed to wash your hands (with bleach) then remove the apron first (what was on his chest) and then carefully remove the outer pair of gloves. These two steps alone should remove most of the fluids and any transferred skin shedding, such that what is left is gear with relatively minimal matter that can get through to the body. Then you do more washing with bleach. Lastly, there were boot coverings or hoods to protect from bio-hazardous material that are likely to get on those surfaces.

Most of what I read seem totally legit, but I can't reconcile that with Hatfill praising Sanjay Gupta's demonstration. If I were a nurse or doctor going into a room with a BSL-4 contagion, I would be far far far more diligent than what Dr. Sanjay Gupta demonstrated.
> I kinda wonder when we're supposed to charge it.

I already keep a charger at my work desk to charge my phone, that's when I would charge it and it would not be a hassle in the least.
The objectification and disposability of women in tech articles
lol i had the same thought!
I was lucky enough to once see a Mitsubishi "Zero" fighter in Japan once being spun up and taxi'ing about. I later found out from the company the owns it that they knew the pilot who flew it in WWII Personally.

That pilot had started his career on biplanes and ended it (in a crash, unfortunately) flying F-4 Phantom Jets (Commonly called Third generation Jets).

In my mind these eras of flight have been so ... seperated that I could not really imagine one man flying basically such a wide range of technology (and of course, he saw the moon landings).
Why? A compression algorithm will remove that verbosity better than a more complex format will. Just use gzip on your HTTP and you're done.
Nescafé seems to be huge everywhere except the US, it's really interesting. Especially as we typically see foreign things being more 'authentic', it's a nice change
68% of people in the US are obese or overweight. The numbers in other countries aren't much better and are rising. The iWatch is a luxury watch that does fitness tracking and also allows you to view images. This is a fitness band that allows you to see the time.
I'm pretty sure he added at least $1b to the price of whatsapp for the compensation of emotional stress he got back then :)
Well, I took the person saying "MS is mum on it" as "they are keeping it secret." If they are keeping it secret, that's interesting. But I'm possibly reading into this something that isn't there.
I'm not sure if there was a playback issue, but I've replaced the sample anyway to be safe.

The point of the product is to be a good value for the price. I encourage you to listen to all of the sounds available in the videos and listening samples to decide if it's a good value.
There's a big difference between signing for someone who's not home and signing for someone that you know for a fact not to live there. It's not a criminal offense, but the standard for probable cause is one of suspicion rather than proof of criminality.
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Most definitely that's a question that needs to be asked, but before you ask that, you need to ask what engines have performance specs worthy of further consideration. If you did it in reverse order, you're liable to get finalists like whatever they put in those volvos with a couple hundred thousand miles on them. :P

It doesn't matter how reliable the engine is if it's not performant enough for the envisioned task.

As to your question about reliability and track record, it's kinda hard to base the decision on past launch performance since most rockets-engines are built to a specific rocket and vice versa. These things aren't like a used car where you can look at thousands of unique datapoints.

And it generally cost prohibitive to do a full dry-run with only a cargo full of, say, bricks, because a single launch costs well north of a hundred million dollars. Instead you have to run a lot of ground based tests and figure a bunch of probabilities.

These guys won a one point something billion dollar contract from NASA to deliver shit to the ISS. NASA's not exactly well funded and not exactly known for flying by the seat of their pants, even by government agency standards. In order to win that contract they needed to prove to NASA's satisfaction that there was a high probability that their rocket would get to ISS without a major problem, let alone one as catastrophic and uncorrectable as exploding a few hundred feet above the pad.
looks plausible: http://medialize.github.io/sass.js/ :-)
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This brings me to an interesting thought experiment I struggle with:

Most likely most people here would agree that if you make an exact copy of a person's brain, whilst leaving the original intact, it would be a new person, identical but divergent from the original. A new thread of consciousness by such definition.

But then, what if you destroy the original at the moment of copy? It would appear to the same.

But then, what if you replace each neuron one at a time over a period, maintaining the original network? This question is troubling because it brings into obvious doubt the integrity of our notion of consciousness. As it is in fact the case that we shed most of the atomic matter that constitutes us in a given year, we are clearly immaterial. Patterns.

So put plainly: should you copy your brain all at once, killing the original, are you a new person? But if you are: transitioning slowly piece by piece over time, which is what we observe in nature, this maintains the conscious strain? How are these different?

It's obvious to me there is something fundamental here we are missing. I welcome any insights you all might have had in similar thought experiments.
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Barcelona, with teams in Palo Alto and San Diego.
Not necessarily, it may reduce cost, however value easily and usually exceeds cost, else a transaction won't occur.

Which is why most desktop users don't run Linux despite it being free
Most definitely that's a question that needs to be asked, but before you ask that, you need to ask what engines have performance specs worthy of further consideration. If you did it in reverse order, you're liable to get finalists like whatever they put in those volvos with a couple hundred thousand miles on them. :P

It doesn't matter how reliable the engine is if it's not performant enough for the envisioned task.

As to your question about reliability and track record, it's kinda hard to base the decision on past launch performance since most rockets-engines are built to a specific rocket and vice versa. These things aren't like a used car where you can look at thousands of unique datapoints, or use the same engine in the silverado that you use in the corvette (yeah, this is actually true. different ecu settings, though).

And it generally cost prohibitive to do a full dry-run with only a cargo full of, say, bricks, because a single launch costs well north of a hundred million dollars. Instead you have to run a lot of ground based tests and figure a bunch of probabilities.

These guys won a one point something billion dollar contract from NASA to deliver shit to the ISS. NASA's not exactly well funded and not exactly known for flying by the seat of their pants, even by government agency standards. In order to win that contract they needed to prove to NASA's satisfaction that there was a high probability that their rocket would get to ISS without a major problem, let alone one as catastrophic and uncorrectable as exploding a few hundred feet above the pad.
As an European

>in terms of number of doctors

what does that even mean?
If a data format does not easily represent what you are trying to convey, why use it? ie should a patch be encoded in JSON at all?

I can understand not using a raw text patch, however.
Yup, and that site is showing half of the quoted amount of traffic. It also doesn't say where it gets its data, so I'm unsure...
For most devs especially early devs having apps on the store was key to getting gigs.

It doesn't matter so much now but a few years ago it was the first question asked by clients.
Well western governments are experts in keeping their population docile and politically disinterested. So I'm not surprised a growing percentage of their population is fine with being monitored and spied on. The majority of the population might not really need protection from the state, but the few that do, dissidents, political activists definitely do.

By establishing a culture, where people are happy to share their data with the government anyone who isn't will automatically be a suspect. For example people who use TOR are put on a list. I don't know what live you lived, but some of my friends were under police surveillance (some police officer lived as a student for several years before his cover was blown by an acquaintance) because the government thought they had to keep taps on far left student organisations. Considering how much effort they went through to do that, I'm sure they monitor much more benign activity electronically.
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I just bought this. I was very excited about it - it seemed like the sounds would be varied and of good quality; and for $18 it would be a complete steal.

Sadly for UI work the selection and quality are just not there.

First of all, a lot of sounds (especially those in the MUSICAL TONES / RHYTHMIC / SPACEY folders) are more than a second long and use more than one note/sound. This is extremely distracting and out of place for UI - the sounds have too much "story" to them already. In UIs, the sound should subtly accompany the action, give it some weight, and that's it. It should definitely not become the user's center of attention or even be noticeable at all. That's a really hard thing to do, that even the big players fuck up - a lot of alert sounds on major operating systems are terrible, if not down right terrifying (one of my favorites ~good~ examples, as a contrast is Tweetbot 2).

There is also the problem that a lot of sounds have audible static/background noise. A very noticeable one is Air Pop.wav in INPUTS. On my K240s it's borderline painful.

The names of the folders are quite disappointing. SPACEY? LOOPS? RHYTHMIC? A solid set of UI sounds would have folders like APERTURE SOUNDS (with sounds from dozens of existing cameras + synthesized ones), CLICKS (with sounds from a variety buttons, some clicky, some soft, some very short, some a bit longer , some plastic-y, some metal-ly, etc.), SLIDERS (same as buttons but with sliders), and so on. Those are the sounds that UI designers need.

The best ones are in INPUTS - some amount are usable, some could be usable with some editing (e.g. the slider sounds that'd need to be split into 3-4 distinct sounds for each file and then mapped to a slider), but some remain completely useless for UI work (e.g. Twangy.wav, which would make any interface feel like Microsoft Bob, or Reverse Woodpecker.wav which would make the user feel like their computer is glitching).

I'm disappointed because I feel like what I've bought has nothing to do with what I, as a UI designer, was led to believe I'd get :(
Yeah, the delta in technology that bookends a life is getting bigger fast.

My Dad told me that his first airplane ride was as a kid when a barnstormer put on a show at his town in Utah. The pilot/showman took him up in his Jenny:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_JN-4

The kicker is that Dad told me this when he, Mom, and I were at flight level 350 about halfway to Hawaii for their 61st wedding anniversary, flying in a Boeing 757.

From an iffy ragwing biplane to a routine miracle world-spanning machine in his lifetime. Wonder if I'll get to see the equivalent of 757 service to Mars before I shuffle off...
This could be an iPod moment for Microsoft.
I give it to someone in the family who uses an android phone.
This is kind of a surprise but most of them aren't, and are spelled out in the Dev agreement. Usually when you talk to someone at apple it makes a lot more sense than what's in the email, and the issues are pretty easy to address.
never _had_ to do that on a recent ubuntu btw.
It's not that accidental. CUPS is developed by Apple.
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can you say more? i haven't seen pepper in person, but it looks like a great robot in videos.
The specs on the main page say "48 hours of normal use; advanced functionality like GPS use will impact battery performance." There's also a in the support section talking about extending battery life: http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us/support/hardwa...
For those that don't recognize the name on the blog post, this is aphyr, who has been publishing the excellent "call me maybe" technical posts.
I think you're right the value would change. However, holding value constant and replacing Apple with an open platform in the game would increase value captured by either developer or end user.

One could probably argue the value of an open platform could meet or exceed Apple, given enough time and money.
I sell my old iPhone and use the funds for the new iPhone.
I have five old Android phones serving as IP cameras in my house. Some WeMo motion sensors can alert me to a possible break-in, then I can check the cameras from my phone. Also lets us check in on the pets while we're out.
Give it to my wife.
The sad part of this whole history is tha thirty years ago, if you didn't had access to an UNIX system, C didn't had any value.

Those of us in other systems already had better alternatives, but then UNIX was pushed into the enterprise and succeeded at that, with the outcome of thirty years of buffer overflows.
With my RMBP, I use a Microsoft wired mouse that would be about 15 years old. I want to get a wireless mouse, but I don't want to lose the feeling of this one!
In terms of design, looks pretty much like Microsoft's version of the Samsung Gear Fit...
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The Microsoft Intellimouse is the best desktop mouse ever.
That's not the real problem with the shootout scores.

The problem is that in quest for optimization the code for many languages becomes very much non idiomatic. Therefore the result does not accurately reflect real life performance, where writing idiomatic code outweighs the benefit of iterating on something to the nth degree in search of micro optimizations.
I've completely redesigned this recently. Removed the old skeuomorphic UI and replaced with a much cleaner style.

Simplified the functionality, removing all the extraneous synching and user accounts etc (stuff that took forever when I first developed it and definitely wasn't worth it!)

Hopefully people will find the idea interesting. The original data came from a script that I wrote to analyse search engine results for the different ingredients and their combinations.

Is it appropriate to upload some promo codes here so people can try it?
Pass it on to my wife. And my wife passes her old one on to either her or my parents.
I wonder if this is simply a misunderstanding by an app reviewer.

It makes sense that Apple wouldn't want CPU intensive tasks to run in the notification centre so they put in the guidelines that the widget shouldn't do calculations. I.e. You can't have a bitcoin mining widget. And, unfortunately, the app reviewer has taken that literally because he or she has confused cpu calculations with human calculations.
I give it to other family members (mom, cousins, aunts/uncles, etc.)
Absolutely love that this is from the Czech republic and that three generations of a family have been working on it for 25 years. Sooner or later this problem will get solved, I just hope that I'm not too old to pilot it when the time comes.
Softbank (Japan) will buy it back from you. Yesterday they gave me $240 (structured as $10 a month for 24 months as a statement credit) for my iPhone 4S. (http://www.softbank.jp/mobile/campaigns/list/tada-kisyuhen/) Generally they're rather less generous ( http://www.softbank.jp/mobile/campaigns/list/shitadori/ )

I assume that Softbank processes 10,000 of these at a time and then sends them to China for resale.
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It's hard to invest yourself in something you're not interested in.

It's also difficult to know where to begin when there are so many "unknown-unknowns."

That in mind: Don't try to be an expert. Start with awareness.

1. Don't roll your own security solutions. Leave it to the experts (i.e. a mature web framework).
2. Learn the best practices for your web framework of choice.[^1]
3. Have a basic understanding of the attacks.

You'll find security to be a far less daunting challenge when you chip away at the "unknown-unknowns."

Even if they just become "known-unknowns," you'll then know where to focus your attention and be better able to ask the right questions.

[1]: For example, http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html
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Relatedly, Mattt Thompson of Gowalla/Heroku/Panic/AFNetworking fame proposed Rocket, a technique that pairs JSON Patch and Server-Sent Events to aid in the construction of realtime apps via REST services. The proposal has seemingly been abandon, which is unfortunate as the formalization of handling was interesting, even if one implemented it on top of a different transport layer like Web Sockets or a push notification service.

http://rocket.github.io/
https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit/blob/master/library/osque...