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funnily enough at my old workplace, the wives get the newest phones and pass them off to my colleagues when they're done..
Because I have fairly extensive insight into a very large number of companies and can see their license bills as well as their cloud bills if those are applicable. Compared to that doing a startup on an open source stack using dedicated machines eventually turns out much cheaper. It's like getting hooked on drugs.

The most cost effective way as far as I can see is to hire a sysadmin on a freelance basis until you need one full time, own your own hardware (or lease it by the month until you can afford your own hardware) and pay flat rate for bandwidth. Anything else will sooner or later come to haunt you and then you will need to migrate to some new platform. At that point in time you will learn the true value of the words 'lock-in'.
You could of course simply hire freelance sysadmin/devops guys. Initially those are not full-time jobs anyway.

The choice is definitely not between going for a cloud platform versus hiring a bunch of people full time. There are other options.
Quoting an article from The Economist.com:

"... Strikingly, one-third of users discard their devices after six months, according to research by Endeavour Partners, a consultancy. Some industry insiders speculate that the true number may be much higher than that. ...The novelty of being able to track your steps, calories or other metrics is appealing at first, but swiftly wears off. ..."

Full article - http://goo.gl/hR5LxJ
There's an escaping bug: at https://archive.org/details/movies I see "Arts &amp; Music", etc.

The download links for movies (and I guess other files) should set their disposition to download rather than playing in the browser.
I would switch to the Mac Pro, even an older tower one. They still have bonkers performance (it's my main development machine for native C++ and Windows development in a VM). But you don't feel like you're fighting with the system to do "unix" things like you do on Windows, and it doesn't feel like you're trying to fit a peg into a square hole, which shoving all GNU tools etc. onto Windows certainly feels like to me.

Or I suppose you could go with Linux and fight the shifting desktop sands? (That's why I got fed up with it and switched mainly to Mac OSX; despite the OSX changes, they're gradual and not insisting that we drop the dock or window behaviour etc.)
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I think the "Dolls House" view is a render.

TBH I just want to know when it auto-compiles into Doom WAD files (or the modern equivalent) so I can run through famous buildings shooting monsters.
That's quite a myopic reaction.
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I am a bit shocked there are no color variations shown, this just begs for them. I really do appreciate they didn't hamper themselves by boxing themselves in with a typical watch face.

Now if they could figure out how to monitor blood sugar easily we would be all set. I am curious if with the built in GPS I could use it to monitor my bicycling? I know it can get my heart rate but I am also curious how well that performs while I sweat because I can get soaked on some rides.

Still, the price is great too. Just color it up
Haha is that sarcasm? Do you mean harm ==== good, or harm === bad? And harm to who?

EDIT: No idea why I am getting downvoted - it's a serious question!
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"view inside" mode feels more like a street view style interpolation of 360° photos, not a 3d model.
> Of course, LLVM can be used as a JIT (e.g. what Apple is doing with javascript)

Even then, assuming you're talking about FTL LLVM is "just" a codegen backend (w/ optimisations) for an existing JIT pipeline, most of the JIT infrastructure is outside LLVM.
The "much" better off is an assumption. If I remember correctly, Fogcreek primarily uses a Microsoft stack; so did lot of people who used to hang around in the Business of Software forum run by Joel Spolsky. Most of them had bootstrapped companies rather than use a lot of VC money to buy expensive tools. Most of them did quite well making money with their business. Using open tools is not a criterion for both technical or business success.
I wonder if they'll sell a giant charging pad you can slip under your mattress?

I wouldn't buy one, but at least you could have all your devices on you as you sleep!
I have a manual positioning system for my solar panels, and I would say that difference between not positioned and correctly positioned panel is 2-3 times - in the morning and afternoons especially in winter time.
Fogcreek is run by ex microsoft people that had extensive experience with the stack before starting fogcreek, it made excellent sense for them to use what they already knew how to use.
But that's just the case. Also back end frameworks give general good enough solutions for problems but they are never optimized for particular use case. If you stay in general framework solution your competitive advantage is often easier to copy so you must make difference with customized / tailored solution. Earlier you start smaller the change is. If you hang yourself to general solution too long switch might be even impossible to make since costs and risk grow too high. And then you are in death spiral when more flexible start-ups begin to eat your share.
COM is horrible to write code for (although not THAT bad), and is tricky to troubleshoot (hurray for TLBs and massive hex registry strings) but it is a very handy feature of the system!

Does anything exist on other platforms like Mac OSX and Linux? CORBA was written all over the place GNOME1 / 2 time as I recall but I don't actually know if anything like COM exists anywhere?
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Thanks! It's been really interesting building something that has been so useful to me, and hopefully it will be useful to others too.
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>> "While everyone is trying to make a watch that looks as traditional as possible, Microsoft is thinking radically different for how the future watch should look likes. That's some guts."

It will be interesting to see which approach consumers prefer. Techies were going nuts of the Moto 360 because it looked like a real watch and to me it seems the most likely for a normal person to wear.
Yes, when the angle of incidence is bad that's true. But you have to average that over time to make a good comparison. Basically the power output of the panels drops off as the co-sine of the angle of incidence. So over a whole day you typically lose between 10 and 20%, take into account that in early morning and late afternoon 'twice the output' is not the same as twice the output around noon, and of course you are positioning your panels in such a way that they perform at their best when the lightpath through the atmosphere is the shortest (12:00).
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Not Python!

I would guess C or C++ too.
Prehaps this?

http://www.amazon.com/Saturn-V-Flight-Manual-NASA/dp/1935700...
Neat! Melons and spruces!

This almost triggers my Stack Overflow-honed reflexes to go on a huge rant about the fact that there are no "hex bytes" anywhere in your computer. But I guess the OP's author really does know that, and is just being colloqial.

Still, it seems to create a lot of confusion among beginning programmers, so it's a somewhat unfortunate way of expressing things, in my opinion.
i can't make sense of the reoccurring subscription plans on the "buy a camera" page

"3 free models per month"

so the camera by itself (+ whatever software) doesn't just spit out a point cloud i can do whatever with?
Odersky wrote a simple implementation, and it looks a lot nicer. It also doesn't use any casts or implicit conversaions: https://gist.github.com/odersky/6b7c0eb4731058803dfd
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And us who were born later than that get taught that C was the only viable and logical option at that time, from a technical standpoint.
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From http://jaxenter.com/angular-2-0-112094.html:

> the framework will be “drastically different looking”, meaning users will need to get to grips with a new kind of architecture. It’s also been confirmed that there will be no migration path from Angular 1.X to 2.0.

> Currently Angular is aiming for a release by the end of 2015 – but early 2016 seems more realistic given the drastic changes that are planned.

This essentially makes investing in Angular pointless, when there are far more capable and easier to learn frameworks out there - Meteor primarily, and also Derby.js, though it's got about 1/10th of the momentum of Meteor, which launched 1.0 two days ago, and had 20k GitHub stars without backing from some giant company. BTW, Meteor never broke compatibility with earlier releases in such drastic ways as Angular will.
That's interesting, because "parallel universes", like gods, are mere dogmas and does not exist anywhere but minds of believers and has been built out of "social" mental constructs (memes) supported by flawed (correlation is not causation) "empirical evidences".)
Haha that's a very good point. "the small moments FACEBOOK NEVER FORGETS" should be the tagline.
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You still would not put panels facing East, South and West, you'd still install those facing South at the 12:00 position.

2 axis because the seasonal offset component got thrown in for free with the system I bought. It was quite thoroughly tested in the field before I bought two trackers, they work but the fact that you need a single post and the resulting forces on the foundation (in clay) caused a ton of issues (we were in a very windy area), the tracker mechanism had trouble with ice formation in winter (Rural Northern Ontario) and the repeated movement put extra strain on the wiring, especially at temperatures far below 0.

As for variance, you're right that tracking systems provide more uniform power but most (if not all) solar farms are installed from a power produced / capital expense viewpoint, uniformity of output is currently not worth much.
Because Starbucks is packed with the sort of hipsters that syphon as much data as possible about their personal lives to the databases of multinational corps, obviously!

It really is easier than anyone could have imagined to get people to part with data. Smart phones provide a genuine quality of life improvement, but unless you are a professional athlete is the privacy cost really worth the gain of seeing your heart rate at the gym?

It seems for Hacker News it is a resounding yes...
It looks great; the only problem is that I'd have to be active and fit to use it so looks like I won't be getting one; I type this from my armchair.
+1. ! is the worst part of Rust macros.

There is just a terrible mismatch between the use-case macros were originally intended for (embedding different languages) and how they are mainly used now (emulating varargs).

The current arguments from Rust people are mainly defensive in that area, but maybe they will revisit this as the community matures.
> The machine that builds the html from the cms is completely idle for 99% of the time.

Why would that have to be a separate machine? It could easily be the same one.
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The watch is dead, long live the watch...

This money grabbing gadgetarianism is getting silly.
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To compare Microsoft Band to a FitBit doesn't do the Band justice. FitBit is a toy - counting footsteps isn't "fitness" and a few LEDs isn't feedback. With GPS and an actual display, the Band actually has the ability to compete against Garmin and Suunto and actual fitness watches.

My Garmin is bulky, can't lock a signal in a neighborhood with tall buildings and has software reminiscent of an Atari. And it was more expensive than this.

I'm very excited about this. (Though, disclaimer, I work for Microsoft.)
While your critique is certainly true of the first generation of trackers, I'm not sure if you're familiar with a company called Qbotix[1]?

They're just one example where innovation in the space is producing cheaper and more reliable tracking. The basic idea is instead of having per panel tracking devices, rather, use a simple robot run around a fixed track and adjust the panels as needed. Then repeat again and again, throughout the day. If the robot malfunctions, swap it for the spare.

[1] http://www.qbotix.com/
Those are all pretty much data that are available already to whoever is accessing your smartphone. Google has been tracking activity and location for years now https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0
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Is there a way to do stateless iteration in the lisp family of languages (e.g. clojure) without having to resort to tail recursion? The syntax for tail-recursion is much more verbose than the non-tail-recursive variant but it is essential in order to prevent stack overflows. The loop + recur combination in clojure makes this problem even worse and thus I am trying to find away around it.
The closest I can find is the 'for' statement in Lua which is supposedly stateless.

http://www.lua.org/pil/7.3.html
There are so much more emojis just in this block, I think it could be squeezed down to at least half as many.
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Look on the bright side, if you wouldn't be interested in it in another 3 months then you just saved yourself $200 by not buying it immediately.
I assume that these days MS is mostly pitching Azure which pretty happily runs Linux VMs. It feels like any YC team (the guy said he's the "the msft dude for YC" not HN) worth their salt will need to learn how to navigate evaluating vendor promises sooner rather than later anyway (not to mention the mentoring/advice they should be getting from YC if they're not so experienced, or the fact that $50K is what, only 25% of a fully-loaded FTE cost anyway?).
I suspect thats its a custom tool set [1]

[1] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Infodeck.html
- wiring will have to deal with repeated bending (especially hard when it is far below 0)

- you need more space otherwise the panels will shade each other

- more components -> more cost

- more components -> more can break (and will break)

Swapping the robot for a spare is a very costly operation and can negate the power output by the panel whose robot malfunctioned over its entire lifetime after subtracting initial capital cost.

And that's assuming that you will be able to obtain 'the spare' 10 years after you put the whole system into service.
Thanks a lot for your thorough answer! Do you work with customers outside of the US?
Hah. I guess that's a major benchmark win - decreases power usage in common cases, and few CPU benchmarks test wake-from-sleep latency either directly or indirectly.
The design is rectangular, like Gear Fit, so giving credit for trying something different doesn't seem right.

Also, most pictures on the site have people wearing it on their left hand, so it seems perfectly capable of being on either wrist.

Finally, you're calling it a watch, while this is clearly not what Microsoft intended it to be. So it seems their marketing strategy is pretty on point for what they're trying to sell. The words 'watch', 'time', or 'clock' aren't mentioned anywhere on the page. You should be judging the product for what it is, not what you want it to be.
> Something like a Markdown converter seems less likely, though not impossible.

Really? I've found serious XSS bugs in frameworks that are semi-popular for writing real-time applications with a web component. What's outputted from your Markdown converter is generally assumed to be trusted HTML. Additionally, if it's not written in a language with good string support... it has string processing, which could lead to a crash or buffer overflow easily. It seems that a Markdown converter is exactly the sort of place you'd be likely to find an attack vector.
It's an interesting time. People are incredibly interested and open to technology and that is an opportunity.

HN probably has a thousand joking references to calculator watches of the 90s, how goofy they looked and how they marked you as chronically uncool. There's something to that. Sensibilities have changed and there is an expectation that gadgets will evolve and unlock all sorts of cool magic. People are so open to this stuff today.

My reading of these bands/watches/wearables is that they're still exploring. They're not getting enough data passively and they aren't really working to the point where they're a permanent addition our lives. Basically, not good enough yet. Maybe they need 10X better battery life. Maybe they need better sensors or somesuch. Maybe it's a killer app they need. I just see around me people buying one, playing with it for weeks or months and then not using it anymore.

Either way, device makers are being tossed a soft ball by consumers. They're willing to buy and try them and help explore. I hope this means they'll get someplace useful. But, people are ultimately fickle and these need to start delivering fast. I hope this isn't a misfire, too early to really achieve something.
So how long until I'll have a .bsp of that (or whatever the kids have these days) and can fire my rocket launcher at the bus?
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If the technology is so break through I am pretty sure it would be snatched up. While many technologies sound break through they are only such until someone with expertise gets in there and starts to pull back the layers.

There of course is that one glaring issue of, if an inferior tech is many times cheaper your break through will have to be many times more significant.
The pictures promoting the product only feature very healthy, attractive 30-somethings. Is this intentional or simply and oversight?
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I'm confused. What you mean is that all bytes are hex bytes if you choose to look at them in hex, right?
Still, the proof is in the eating.

Battery life still is an issue and will remain so for the next while. Daily charging means it isn't really 24 hours and it also puts a hurdle on for use. My ipad is often dead in a backpack someplace because it's not as essential (to me) as my phone or laptop. Daily charging is like a daily price and a value hurdle this band needs to jump.
Unicode is fun to play with. I found a trick the other day in Racket to squeeze text using ligature codes into fewer visible characters; really handy for tweet-sized code golfing.
That is the current state of cargo, which is unfinished. There is currently work on a repository, much like rubygems/npm.

(git dependencies managed by the author always have the problem of the repos being renamed, vanishing, moved somewhere else)
Funny to me too. After the recruiter called me and said I was rejected, I said thanks and hung up the phone and cried very hard as if it was the first time I cry in a whole year. But then I feel very very good about myself. It's like damn I am quite damn kick ass!, especially after this experience, I feel like being a better person and I have learned a lot!
What boggles the mind isn't that this was possible in the 60s, it's that it required such diverse and comprehensive achievements. It wasn't just a rocket. It's a very (!) long document but these stand out:

(regarding the flight computers)

The powered flight major loop contains guidance and navigation calculations,
timekeeping, and all repetitive functions which do not occur on an interrupt
basis.

The minor loop contains the platform gimbal angle and accelerometer sampling
routines and control system computations. Since the minor loop is involved
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times per second during the powered phase of flight. However, in earth
orbit, a rate of only ten executions per second is required for satisfactory
vehicle control.

The execution time for any given major loop, complete with minor loop
computations and interrupts, is not fixed.

(regarding the Vehicle Assembly Building)

The high bay area which is located in the northern section of the building,
is approximately 525 feet high, 518 feet wide, and 442 feet long. It
contains four checkout bays, each capable of accommodating a fully
assembled, Saturn V space vehicle.

[it's not a rocket, it's a space vehicle. Kind of like boats aren't vessels]

Each pair of opposite checkout bays is served by a 250-ton bridge crane with
a hook height of 462 feet.
Exactly plus at scale AWS doesn't do everything either, a sysadmin or at least consultants are still needed to navigate the gotchas and help with how to better provision the stack. AWS instances don't just scale themselves.

There is one specific case when I recommend AWS instead of dedicated servers and it's for customers who have widely varying traffic with predictable peaks. In that case having the flexibility afforded by cloud providers to increase the number of instances temporarily to deal with the peak makes sense.
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That theory is not even close to point in the right direction on research.

Consciousness is not computation.

An do not just emerge from complexity. If it would, then the ammount of quantum information and complexity in any tropical thunderstorm would make it a supergenius entity. And is not (or prove me wrong).

Consciousness is also not mind. Mind is more like the sum of intelligence. Consciousness something else, more fundamental. Only quantum biology could be interesting on researching this.
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No bytes are hex bytes. Bytes are bytes. You can display them however you like, even one byte as one emoji (what I argue to be too inconvenient representation in another message). But they are also not "emoji bytes." They are just bytes. As in "octets of bits," bit being a unit of information. And hystorically, the bytes weren't even necessarily octets, but some other group of bits.
Stack Overflow seem to be doing OK: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/7/21/stackoverflow-upda...

I think there is a case for an open stack, but I think unless you pick a real dog of a platform good people can make it work well. It comes down to a "can I get good people for stack X?" as much as "Does stack X work or cost too much?"
The battery life is obviously dependent upon what services are enabled. For such a versatile device, MSFT should have a table for battery life for different usage cases.

For example, for Joe the jogger who wants to use it a purely health gadget companion, he may not want the microphone, UV sensor and ambient light sensor on, but for Jane the office worker who wants to take her steps around the office and have some office notification, the GPS and gyro is turned off. These two use cases could have vastly different battery life.
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