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Raising $30m and selling $30m of product are different things.

That said, Pebble has raised more than $30m [1].

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pebble
It's a really safe bet that if there is a gadget / electronic category Samsung is working on at least 3 products in it. Sometimes that's good, sometimes not so much.
Thanks for posting that, it's a relief to know it's not a shut but a shuffle to minimize the attackers harm.

Unfortunately, apparently Troll isn't the right word after all, attacker is more accurate. From the statement:

"The term "troll" gets thrown around a lot. We get it: it's the Internet, and trolls, snarkiness, and differing opinions come with the territory. But it seriously crosses a line when it becomes targeted harassment, cyberstalking, and there are threats of violence--especially when your children are in the crosshairs. "Trolling" you can ignore, "stalking" is a different matter. "
Certainly the leading cause of liver failure and need of liver transplants. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depression/2233
I'm having a hard time writing this comment because it's bringing up so many bad memories. My grandfather, and father died of liver cancer. Their deaths were horrid, but the agony my father went through was beyond painful. Alcohol use in our family was encouraged. I probally should stop writing because I'm feeling physically sick now, but I want to finish this. While my father was not a kind man, I can't blame his personality on just the alcohol. He was actually easier to be around when he was drinking.

Growing up and through my adulthood, there was one thought he shared with me in so many conversations. It was this, "I really think I would like the feeling of opium?" As a child, I didn't really know what he meant? I knew he was talking
about drugs--and I found it weird because my father didn't break the law. As a child, I wished my father could relax. He was always so tense. I remember praying for him. At that point in his life he was a light drinker.

As I got older, I realized what he was getting at with all those Opium comments. I realized I couldn't relax either. I tried to fight the urge to settle my nerves with alcohol, but I eventually had a nervous breakdown(life, 20's, genes, not alcohol related), and the only thing that slightly settled symptomology was alcohol. I finally found the right psychiatrist, and he gave me some relief with medication, but it wasn't enough. For years alcohol is the only thing that helped me get through the day. Fifteen years go by and I'm finally prescribed a drug that settled my nerves, but I don't know what damage I did to my body?

When I read her post, I remember how my mom blamed All my father's problems on alcohol. She would yell, scream and through objects at him. It got so bad, I think he was drinking more because she was so angry?

My mother didn't drink. My mother was just an angry person. She had a good heart, but the anger always got the best of her. She was basically angry with herself, angry over her childhood, and looking for a scapegoat. My mother lightened up as she aged, but used my father's alcoholism as an excuse to vent her emotions.

When I read this article, I felt bad for the wife, but I remember how my mother blamed everything on the drinking.
I'm not saying his wife is like my mother. I don't know why this professor drank himself to death. I'm just slightly taken back when I read stories like this. I wonder if a story like this would be published if the genders were reversed?

I am in no way questioning this lady in any way. I do have extreme empathy for most alcoholics though, especially the one's that are self-medicating. There are some drugs that alleviate the need to drink, but they are only prescribed by a small percentage of Doctors. In the U.S. these drugs are currently under fire by politicians. Doctors are becoming reluctant to prescribe like they used to. I'm not going to name the drugs because I don't want to expose my identity, but one of the drugs is Klonopin(A benzo with a long half life). My wish is politicians would leave medical doctors alone. Again, I'm not questioning this lady. I know she suffered. I am guilty of spilling out my own problems?
There is a lot to say about paragraphs one and two but I'll limit my comment to number three;

"I do agree with the long-winded part. Some people like his whimsical, sci-fi jargon infused, verbose writing style, others cannot stand it. That is a matter of taste."

I would agree that such a style, up to a point, is a matter of taste. But beyond that point I think that verbosity, long run-on paragraphs, detours and "long-cuts" into side issues and irrelevant historical background, etc. serves two rhetorical purposes. First, to obfuscate and ameliorate a point he can't state plainly; that he is advocating a dictatorship [I call it fascist, you can call it whatever you want]. Second, it gives him the appearance of saying something deeper and more important than what he is actually saying, i.e. pseudo-intellectualism.
I was not trying to "prove them wrong", just highlight the absurdity. I guess I should have made it more clear in my original post. I'm sorry. I let my "smart ass" side get the best of me.
I like my original Pebble quite a bit. My use case might be different than most. I don't wear [edit: traditional] watches. Ever. Aside from a Pebble, I don't own a watch. I wear it when I travel, when I'm out and about meeting people / working, etc, where it would be both rude and annoying to check my phone every time it buzzed. A quick glance at my wrist is enough to know whether I need to respond soon or not.

I appreciate it while driving and while riding my bicycle.

That's 95% of my usage and I'm thankful I can go a full workweek on a single charge. One less charger to carry (and lose).

And in those times where I don't want the notifications buzzing (in meetings) I turn off notifs, or I shut off bluetooth on my phone.
What if there were a third-party polygraph service to sign the warrant canary statements? It would need to solve the problem of a remote polygraph since it would have to be located in another jurisdiction.
It seems like theres a kind of taboo against HTM in the ML community. I guess it stems from their lack of impressive benchmarks, but I think that's kind of missing the point when it comes to HTM. Maybe HTM isn't the right solution, but I think there is a lot to be learned by using neocortex inspired models, and HTM is at least a solid step in that direction. And the work Numenta has contributed on Sparse Codings shouldn't be overlooked.
C is not a safe language sort of by definition, so you always have to consider all the possibilities. For example, you use sscanf in places, with fixed sized buffers. What happens if someone were to pass a lot of data into your program? What happens if the on-disk structure gets corrupted and a 'type' becomes more than 5 characters?
The thing is automatated translations are often awful to read. Hackernews is probably better off waiting for a native speaker to write up something about it because the article will maintain the interest of greater numbers of people
Operations of the form "v[0] ^= rotate_right((v[0] * k2) + v[1], 17) * k1;" aren't reversible, so your intermediate states are leaking a few bits of entropy. Probably not enough to matter since the internal state is 256 bits - if it passes SMHasher, I'd use it. :)
This derivative (the Brzozowski derivative) is in fact applicable to any language, in the sense of a set of words over some alphabet. The language doesn't need to be context-free.
I've seen the actual video of it and I sort of doubt it was fake.

But even then you still make a great point and he likely just had enough of it too. That being said, when you get into live streaming you sort of expose yourself to things as a public figure and have to be ready for some of it to come back.
checking out a book from each decade going back to 1930

Even better is the anthology "Writing Los Angeles", which excerpts writings from the 1880s to 2000: http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Los-Angeles-Literary-Anthology... It really brings out how the competing cultural narratives of LA as paradise and LA as near-apocalyptic wasteland have co-existed since the beginning.
I have considered a great many aspects of it, and do not agree with your conclusions, though I do agree that Christ requires us to reject hatred and to be kind and forgiving.

You might take a look at Cardinal Dulles' essay, linked in one of my previous comments.
Yeah, some hashes (City) change behavior for small keys and I'm not bothering to exercise every possible key size thoroughly.

The perf test was pretty quick and dirty - if you have better ways of benchmarking things I'd gladly accept a patch. :)
I googled gamer gate and they seem to be against people exactly like you

Incredible that you just learned about GamerGate and are already an expert.

Oh wait: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394472

And More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394708

Heh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9556077
Gadgetbridge is a FOSS companion app for Pebble and other devices that seeks to put users back in control of their data. I don't believe it has Pebble Time support yet,and the feature set is limited, but it looks promising.
https://fossdroid.com/a/gadgetbridge.html
Gamestarter is aiming to become the Quirky.com of the gaming industry
I love PL research, for all its warts. I worry that it's wasted on most programmers, because we don't get a comprehensive pedagogy of each type of problem that these abstractions are meant to solve, and contexts where a less abstracted approach is preferable. The result is the much maligned cargo cult method - presented with so many options, we invariably end up with all of them put into production at the same time, for the wrong reasons. Experience is gained through a combination of guess and check, and rumor.

A lot of the confusion with current PL science as it's presented to programmers is in the emphasis on mathematical methods. Restrictions that are proven to improve statistical metrics or lead to important technology within the toolchain get dismissed on the regular as being incomprehensible or incompatible with "my style". Surface changes get the majority of attention, bad or good.

The PL designer has a tough job in that, if they're going for the general purpose crown, they have to comfort the nervous creatures that are ordinary programmers while also incorporating the best practices of the known science.
"I'm finally prescribed a drug that settled my nerves"

What was it?
The article (vaguely) describes the differences between this new jaw bone and any other known Australopithecus jaw.

Where to draw the line of "species" is a very nuanced problem. Taxonomy is fascinating and often debated!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem
Latency compensation/optimistic UIs is one of the first things that clued me into why Meteor is so great back in 2012 when I watched the original screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsi0aJ9yr2o

The reason is actually a common theme throughout Meteor: boilerplate code, and somewhat relatedly "devops" type code, are taken care of by the platform so you get to focus on building your app.

It's such a big focus of Meteor's design compared to every other platform, and it's what's kept me coming back for three years.

In fact, it's surprising that so few other platforms have picked up on the fact that eradicating boilerplate is a feature, and they should compete on it. Maybe with more posts like this, they'll be inspired to head in that direction!
Thanks, I wasn't aware of all that.
I was watching that live. Pretty clear from his reaction that he realized what was shown. Blaming it on trolls (I know he has them) just makes me lose respect for the guy.

I mean, kids watch his shows. Really inappropriate and there is no way that was "photoshopped" as per his excuses about it.
Better distance estimates and better graphs can push A* to work on larger problems. ALT gives better distance estimates: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64511/tr-2004-24.pdf (PDF link) (or these slides http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos423/Lec... ). Transit nodes do too, I think. Contraction hierarchies and arc flags let you preprocess the graph to give better information to A*.

(I've not implemented any of these myself)
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What If There Are Just Too Many People on Earth?
We still do not have enough computing power to model human body A to Z, so the next logical solution would be working on graphene based or biological computers. Quantum is still too far.
Let's turn it up a notch... can you have i-th order derivative (or integral)?
Fractional function application (called "Fractional iteration") is also pretty neat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function#Fractional_it...
Dragon Warlord Hack Tool 2015 Android IOS
I've given up on companies and developers respecting my privacy. Not because they're all evil, but because it doesn't scale. There's an unlimited number of companies that you would have to deal with.

Use a firewall that blocks or MITMs all outbound network requests by default. It's the only way to know what every app is calling home to and reporting about.

Think about it, which scales better? Raise your point of view with the developer of every app you want to use, or putting blanket protections in place at the gateway level one time and performing minor whitelisting tweaks (that you can do yourself!) over time?

I just fear for all those who don't know any better.
Not quite true. The analog version is inherently parallel, the digital version is not (cf the MATLAB simulation discussed in the paper). The parallelism of the analog system increases exponentially with it's size, the digital system only linearly. So an analog computer built in the way they indicate might be able to create a useful and powerful practical system to test quantum algorithms on long before quantum computing becomes a reality, whereas the digital model cannot be more powerful than the computer it is running on and will struggle to model even moderately complicated quantum systems.
Microsoft clones Java to C# and modifies it, largely as part of a monopolist strategy (to avoid being compatible).

Then you claim Google has a more pragmatic design attitude?
I recently read Profession by Isaac Asimov and I loved it. Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9568027
Bringing 2D characters to life with Adobe Character Animator [video]
If they are in the EU – great, the right to learn covers the right to take apart, understand, reassemble, and remix any technology that you have a license to use and where, during the process, the original owner has no material losses.

So, if he’s in the EU, he can do it. (IANAL, but this was the conclusio of an EUGH decision). Otherwise it gets harder.
Thanks for pointing out Gadgetbridge. While informing myself before deciding to cancel my order of the Pebble Time I already found it. However, afaik the Pebble Time is not supported by Gadgetbridge and I didn't want to buy a product I maybe can't use.
Thank you for sharing this! I had no idea it existed before, but this sounds like exactly what I've been looking for.

I want to find out if it needs to make the same requests to zalew.net.pl as the official Android app in order to configure my Pebble!
I thought this was going to be art generated by algorithms...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art
Thinly disguised Soylent propaganda
This exchange is wonderful, and absolutely what I'd expect out of you two, and maybe I'm just in a bad mood, but it stands in such contrast to the way I often see technologies discussed online.

This kind of thing is the way engineering should be. Kudos.
> I don't wear watches. Ever. ... I wear [my watch] when I travel ...

You might want to rephrase that.
This is commonly called dead-reckoning in the games space and is used all over the place because perceived latency is such an issue with realtime simulations.

Getting a good prediction and then knowing how to gracefully reconcile a missed prediction is part art, part science and what makes building those systems a ton of fun.
GitHub streak: End-game and post-mortem
Silk Road founder begs judge to ‘please leave me my old age’ ahead of sentencing
If you use full-disk encryption on your phone or laptop, it's vulnerable after you've logged in and supplied your credentials. Rebooting ensures that those credentials must be supplied again in order to decrypt.
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Yeah, I agree. It could have happened anywhere else... although I will never forget the contrast between that moment and the quirky red hats they had.
Some reading on the topic if you're curious (or dubious):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Effects
That's interesting, I hadn't even thought of that. Maybe this is a thing among the cryo community. I'm just that ignorant of cryonics (and by proxy Alcor) to begin with, barring a brief period of novelty interest previously.
What is Kingo Root ….?
So are you saying SJWs have something to do with the gamergate thing?
YouTube starts testing silky smooth, ultra HD video quality
In a relatedly similar way, you can define fractional B-splines. The nth order B-spline is the n+1-fold convolution of a box function. n+1 convolutions turn into raising the fourier transform of the box function to the n+1 power in the fourier domain. This generalizes to non-integer powers. Then you just invert. Cool stuff :)
Is backend code for this and the design for the server architecture backing it open source? It's quite a feat to host a computing experience like this for so many people for free.
Anyone like to recommend a browser-extension-based VPN tool that's a bit more respectful than Hola and is relatively cheap?

(Of course I run my own VPN server using OpenVPN, but Hola is really convenient when I'm only trying to get an American IP to avoid Australian geoblocking - it's also easy for non-technical friends to use.)
It's good that you posted this, unfortunately most people remain blissfully unaware of this information despite this paper dating from 2013 and other public discussions also having taken place.

Dan Farmer, the author, wrote the original SATAN host security scanner. I had some emails with Dan about IPMI circa 2013. His paper is a good restatement of many of the problems of IPMI.

However, in my mind the biggest problem with IPMI, which is not really well elucidated in this paper, is that it turns every machine in to two machines, and compromising either one means you can automatically compromise the other: ie. own the host, own the BMC by flashing it with vendor tools. Own the BMC, own the host by any number of ways including memory manipulation, old-school keyboard input, presenting fake devices to the running kernel, etc.

Unfortunately, it's therefore impossible to ever be completely sure you've got control of a system. In the face of any suspected attack you cannot ever regain control with any confidence whatsoever, even by flashing firmware.
Interestingly, one of the A16Z articles in this collection cites the need to sell "future potential"; not what's available today.
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The specs are pretty great for it's price but the design makes it look similar to a watch out of a candy machine.
The Triumph and Failure of John Nash’s Game Theory
Recording a film from TV is copying as well, but that was litigated all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that it was legal. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive.... , AKA "Sony v. Betamax".

That seems like a fairly clear precedent.

Also see Sony v. Connectix for a somewhat related case regarding emulation and BIOSes. In that case, Connectix obtained copies of Sony's BIOS as part of reverse-engineering it (though they didn't distribute BIOS images with their emulator), and that was ruled legal.

That seems like an even clearer precedent, specifically discussing emulation, as well as copying, for commercial purposes even.

Now, it is fairly clear that sites hosting ROMs for download are violating copyright law. Then again, so is the Internet Archive, and I'd bet the majority of people on HN agree with what archive.org does.

> Legality is really tangential to the point, however. The question is that for any given work, whether that's a book, piece of music, game, etc, do you "own" that work seperate from the physical media you purchased it on. Can you obtain a ROM, a copy of the book or a copy of the record in question legally in perpetuity because you bought it in one form once?

Personal opinion, not based on any particular country's copyright law or precedent (though there is some precedent): personal copying without redistribution should always be OK. It's distribution that copyright should cover.

(That's separate from my opinions on how copyright law ought to be changed.)
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> colored for me by the downvote I received roughly when you posted it,

I know you're a throwaway for this discussion, but if you reply to someone on HN, you can't downvote them.
"But if you are disaffected with both the mainstream right and progressives, then you are in search of an alternative theory of why everything is going so rotten. And in that case, Moldbug's theories are a revelation."

Far from being a radical repudiating "the currently prevailing ideologies" I would say that he is steeped in the currently ideologies and just advocating their logical end; dictatorship. The Left and Right are both intellectually bankrupt and now just seek power for power's sake, i.e., they stand for nothing. The society is ripe for a dictator and we will get one as soon as another economic or other crisis arises. The Left and the Right secretly are hoping for such a crisis and that their gang happens to be in power when it happens. Writers like Moldbug are a harbinger of the future of the US as we drift toward dictatorship and they existed in Germany before the rise of the Nazis, laying the intellectual ground work.

Fortunately there is real intellectual opposition to this fate in Ayn Rand's philosophy. You should read "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" and more importantly her intro on ethics "The Virtue of Selfishness". She identified what is wrong with the Left and the Right and proposes an alternative ethical and political theory to support Capitalism and her writings are crystal clear and to the point.
Sounds like California and its traffic might be a large part of the problem.
Has anyone found value in joining ACM?
Has the degree of journalism degraded so much that including "sorry ass fad" more than once in the same article that it is passed as a completely acceptable piece?
I would encourage you to keep at it. If my colleague is anything to go by marketing people have an interesting skill set which can complement programming skills very nicely. Having experience with the business requirements is very useful and marketing requires a lot of people/presentation skills that many programmers don't develop.

It will take a long time (years as I said), but you can get there eventually if you want. The best way is to just build personal projects that you actually want. I would stay away from the toy problems after you have a basic grasp of the concepts and just learn along the way. You will need to go back to the toy problems to polish certain skills, but you should finding out what you need to work on from your every day coding.

Good luck!
At least Soylent Green is a renewable resource.
The core functionality of notifications and at a glance complications really is great. If you are into fitness that's a big bonus. Depending on how much you like watches, the price may or may not be excessive.

While the price may need to come down for mass adoption, anyone that is already into watches shouldn't have too much trouble with the current prices. If you can afford it, they are totally worth it, IMO. (I had the original Pebble, liked it, and now I have an Apple Watch, and I'm also happy with it.)
In my opinion, far too many people are lawful neutral, and far too few are neutral good.