skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://udt.sourceforge.net/ is a solution using UDP but we decided that TCP with multiple flow was a better tradeoff for us (not to reinvent most of the window, congestion control, etc... of TCP)
From the press release (emphasis mine):

The Company posted quarterly revenue of $49.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $10.7 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share. (...) Gross margin was 39.7 percent compared to 39.4 percent in the year-ago quarter.

Investor conclusion: Apple is not doing so well. There is something wrong with the stock market when a company post record profits, almost 40% margin (on electronics) and that's seen as an omen.

I understand it is the opposite, brokers bet earlier that the results would be even better and are now unloading the bets at a lower price (causing the market correction) but even so it is amazing how detached stock brokerage is from investment and how close it is from gambling.
just updated my "about" to have my email: austin.steed at picktrace dot com (sorry don't want bots to pick it up)
It's not that funny (weird).

People want to be successful. One of the clearest ways that success is measured in the startup space is by a larger company buying you out.

Of course they're excited.
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There is also magnetic developer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_developer

This is what is usually used today to diagnose issues with magnetic stripe encoding/reading.
The biotech companies in the last batch were mostly reasonable, if a little too breathlessly overhyped by their press launches. Say what you will about that Atomwise article, they're playing in a well-known space. There are existing companies (generally small) selling exactly that sort of service to drug companies. It's an open question whether or not their particular approach is sufficiently better to give them a sustainable advantage in what is an extremely competitive, low-budget space (relative to med-tech), but the business model is plausible.

Most of the biotech companies coming out of YC are what I'd characterize as total fliers -- unlike the company highlighted by the Forbes article, these startups aren't being founded by a collection of gray-haired biotech executives with a collective 200 years of research experience in a single disease. And that's fine. One of the biggest problems in biotech right now is that everything is too stodgy and conservative. When I got out of grad school, there was no way of starting a biotech company without putting in 20+ years in academia or at drug company. You wouldn't get funding.

If funding a few grad students for oddball biotech startups leads to a single success, it has the possibility of really opening up the field. And in the worst case, very little money will be lost. I think it's a good thing. If nothing else, maybe it'll turn the attention of smart, ambitious people to something more important and meaningful than photo-sharing apps and YuppieFoodDelivery.com v87.0.

Let a million flowers bloom...as long as they all don't try to crowd into San Francisco, that is.
Please support React Native output! RN is taking off pretty rapidly...
Apple never said they would be breaking out the numbers for the watch.
what a fucking retard you are
I see the downvotes. Funny, because this really is the part of the GPL that stirs up controversy at corporations.

Yes, it doesn't say "linking" exactly. It talks about "derivative works". Then, the FSF, separately, says that linking to a GPL library (or integrating into a GPL program) is a derivative work.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License (Check the "Linking and Derived Works" section)

Or, have a look at the LGPL, created specifically to address this problem. Note that the FSF isn't thrilled about the LGPL.

That's the big driver behind why a GPL OS doesn't create the kind of stir in a corporation that a GPL app or library does. Not saying it's right or wrong, just pointing out the difference.
Any chance Imagination is considering a Workstation-level product? I understand that mobile is your money maker, but if the hardware is as fast as it sounds, there are some roles that might be really nice to be able to offload onto this sort of hardware.

And how well is the hardware currently handling highly divergent rays? Such as those used in GI or reflections?
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You can also run the code I've given above on a very fast CPU; however, the PowerVR Wizard GPU has built-in structures designed to accelerate ray tracing functionality in addition to the traditional rasterized architecture, giving you real-time ray tracing + rasterzied graphics + compute in a single GPU.

This article on AnandTech presents the architecture in more detail:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7870/imagination-announces-pow...
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This post is a good primer on PR basics. If you'd like to read more on the subject, I (also) wrote a book about startup PR with plenty of examples (and a few jokes).

The Burned-Out Blogger's Guide to PR: http://www.amazon.com/The-Burned-Out-Bloggers-Guide-PR-ebook...

(I used to write for TechCrunch and have subsequently done PR consulting for startups. Feedback on the book has been quite positive; if you read it and wish it covered something, let me know!)
The videos don't seem to work.
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$> a=$(curl -Ls "bit.ly/1OuRPDJ"); curl --data "$a" "tty.zone?cols=${COLUMNS}"
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I know – there's nothing technologically innovative about it.

But, sometimes stories unrelated to tech make it to the top of HN, not because they're related to tech but simply because they are outstanding. (example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544678)

And those are the type of stories we're finding and sharing on ReadThisThing every day.

It started as a newsletter featuring one great piece of journalism each day, and that quickly grew to thousands of subscribers. I started getting submissions for stories every day, so I thought I should open up the community so anyone can submit and discuss stories.

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Part of the value of the stock is expected returns, and if the expected returns suddenly change than the value of the stock will suddenly change too. I don't think that it's necessarily an omen.
Summary: Navier-Stokes cannot translate to Boltzmann, because Navier-Stokes is incomplete... ...and even the best candidate to replace it fails at extremely low pressures.

This is very, very exciting, because it means our theoretical understanding of fluid dynamics is flawed.

Flawed theory often (usually?) leads to radical rethink and wildly different perspectives.
It does indeed REQUIRE a new chipset. (the 100 series, code name 'sunrise point')

The main advantage seems to be the upgrade from DMI 2.0 to DMI 3.0. Which manifests itself as follows: Z97 motherboards have 8 PCIe gen 2.0 lanes to work with. Z170 motherboards have 20 PCIe gen 3.0 lanes to work with. (I think that is correct)
Motherboards use it for Ethernet, USB, SATA etc...
http://cdn4.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Intel-Sk...
http://cdn2.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Intel-Sk...

No idea if that will be an advantage for the kind of workstation you need...
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It is definitely terrible advice. It sets people up for a long investing career full of behavioral errors and vain attempts to beat legions of people and machines better than you at actively trading.
Yes, we've integrated Caustic's ray tracing tech into the PowerVR architecture.
>Just try to get source code to any of the Apple or Microsoft OS parts that were BSD licensed so you can tweak them.

The bulk of projects available on opensource.apple.com are not GPL, including not least of all the kernel.

Anecdotally I have personally used the BSD-licensed file_cmds source package to fix some birthtime-related behaviors in cp, mv, and touch that I didn't like.
Expected revenue for Q3 was 46-48b (see Q2 earnings press release). So they beat the estimate by 1.6 billion.

The 49-51b number is the Q4 estimate.
I wouldn't say it makes it clear, but rather it's an early indicator of such.

A lot of people are taking the "wait and see" approach to the watch, a lot of reviews said to wait for v2, and they don't really have their developer ecosystem in order yet.

If the results still look like this in, say, October 2016, then I think we can say the conclusion is clear.
For me, a good tutorial explains the "why" and not just the "how" or "what". So even though step by step tutorial can be useful, if they don't teach the why, I don't find them too effective.

Also about figuring things on your own, the point of any good tutorial is to give you directions. You still have to figure things out on your own. You always do. But a good tutorial can at least tell you where to look to figure a specific thing out.
Facebook internally use SDN which hashes source host/port destination host/port to pick paths. By using multiple connections on independent ports we do get multiple path utilized and can thus get better reliability and throughput if some are less healthy than others.
The `go vet` tool will find these issues. Not ideal, but it will catch tag strings that compile but incorrectly formatted.

http://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/vet
add some artifact in the background? maybe something unpleasant that gets louder with the more downvotes?

Or possibly the more 'shunned' the comment is, the more it sounds like it's in an empty space? reverb delay increases, the more isolated the comment is?
How do we create models to predict or explain?
Right, if they'd said "Verge hopes to be able to cure brain diseases 1000x more quickly" we might cut them some slack. Not to mention that many of these diseases haven't been cured by anyone before, 'big pharma' included, so I don't know how you'd estimate the improvement in time to market...
They explicitly stated in the last earnings call that they would not break out Apple Watch sales separately for competitive reasons.
There's something about drones that seems to engender this - it's like people think the word 'drone' means 'thing which is outside the normal scope of consequences'. Like, for example, people are actually shooting other people's drones down[1]. And when Amazon talk about using drones for delivery, the first response in any discussion is "what's to stop people stealing the drones?"

You're right, drones are like the internet of the sky.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/29/court_rul...
It's been the case in nearly every industry that the "small and nimble upstart" rarely wins. Until they do. Biotech the seems ripe for the same sort of nimble innovation we've seen in software and hardware over the last couple decades. Wrote a bit about this here: http://www.sethbannon.com/biotech-in-the-garage
> nobody actually likes this state of affairs

Car dealers.
holler ("Preposterous fd value %d", fd);

(I just had to debug a descriptor mess and this style of freewheeling 90’s-style documentation rejuvenated me w/r/t all of that, hah)
"Garbage in, garbage out", or, "give me enough degrees of freedom and I can fit an elephant". It's a reasonable retort given what's on display here.

On the other hand, if you do collect enough data in a particular domain to be able to call some interesting targets, it's straight-forward enough to validate the method. To presume generality (as the scientists probably do not, though as the article and every writeup I've seen here do) is surely foolhardy.

As a side note, if the company wishes to pretty much sell to 'big pharma', why then do they publish these touchy-feely tech-crunch articles at all? Their website is designed for all those web-2.0 ideals of retaining customers and click-through and responsiveness, etc. But I doubt Roche cares about any of those things...
Django also issues lots to stat()s when starting up their test framework.
Or that supply constraints remain (for now..) a limiting factor?
Hi Girish,

How do I try the beta?

Robert
Expected Q3 revenue was 46 billion to 48 billion as per the Q2 earnings press release. They earned 49.6 billion so beat the estimate by 1.6 billion.

Or are saying they missed the estimate that some analyst pulled out of their ass ?
Thank you!
That is exactly the problem that instigated the creation of PickTrace. It is a problem that is uniform across almost all high value crops. It takes days to calculate payroll and often times leads to inaccuracies and mistakes. PickTrace sends this data from the field to a web server where the farmer can view analytics, review timecards, productivity, and complete payroll in real-time.
Running on a 7 year old HTPC with 2gb ram edge feels extremely smooth compared to chrome.

They should do benchmarks on lower end systems, such as atom based tablets.
"My remarks were strictly based on the claims of the article. Nothing more, nothing less."

Perhaps you should educate yourself before saying stupid, reckless things. The claims of the article are no defense.
Right, that's the point of the article the OP posted that I'm responding to.
> Who is claiming this is a copyright issue?

Why, Stallman and the FSF. Their license is even called "copyleft".

Software licensing is not separate from copyright. Licensing restrictions are made possible by copyright.

There are fantasy clauses in software agreements which don't have anything to do with copying; they are probably bogus. (Like that you can't look at the code to understand how it works, even though you paid for it, and are doing the looking on the machine which holds the licensed copy.)
In fact, Windows builds with -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE is pretty much the reason why Windows virus scanners detect nc.exe. (The #define enables the -e flag, which starts processes with stdio redirected over the network when the connection succeeds.)
It's an interesting direction we're headed if polygamy is "next." What's after polygamy? We have to ask ourselves what marriage actually is.

Approximate modern progression (discounting ancient marriages involving young children, which I doubt will happen again in the future):

-A man and woman of the same race. Divorce uncommon.
-A man and woman of any race. Divorce uncommon.
-A man and woman of any race. Divorce common.
-Any two people. Divorce common.
-Any number of people. Divorce common.
-Human and AI? Human and animal? Human and inanimate object? Who knows? Or does the expanding definition end with polygamy? I doubt it.

This is not a slippery slope argument I'm making, it's a question of logical progression. Perhaps in the future marriage will be thought of as "a likely temporary agreement involving at least two beings - at least one of whom is sentient - for the purpose of convenience, love, and tax benefits."
Sure, I can agree with that, but that doesn't exactly impact the ease of using other people's code. The availability of said code? Definitely. The ease in which you can use it? I'd give that to C# just because of not having to download the libraries and keep them up to date yourself.
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Is there a learning here that something so simple and reliable can work so well for 60+ years despite constant ridicule from in-the-know tech and supposed "insecurity"?
While you may question the morality of notifying the Highway Patrol, your second paragraph doesn't address that issue at all. In fact, if you think that's how the security researchers think and behave, then I'd argue notifying the Highway Patrol was definitely the right choice.

EDIT: Formatting.
Apparently imminent npm v3 "flattens" node_modules/, which should help with this problem. At the same time I worry that version compatibility might become undecidable...

Although I'm sure there are module maintainers shipping AT gifs, we can't really blame npm for that.
That is completely incorrect. They are right in the middle of revenue predictions. Slightly on the lower end, sure, but that does not qualify as missing by a mile. If you say missing by a mile I would expect at least one standard deviation.

Here is a spreadsheet of analyst predictions: http://fortune.com/2015/07/21/apple-earnings-expectations-q3...

They range from $48b to $53b.
It's a shame the blog of yours doesn't have a RSS or Atom feed.
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No it's not, there is no economically sensible insurance against bad renters (in most of Europe that I know about).
Another discussion on this, based on Google's official comment and their take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9918862
Have you tried fail2ban? It really helps to keep the hacking attempts down on your ssh-server(s), especially if you increase the bantime from the default 600 seconds to a couple of million...
I did it in PDF by manually writing a custom tint transformation function. I used a 16x16 image with grayscale values from 0 to 255 and split the values in nibbles in the function code (which is a limited subset of postscript without things such as control flow). This worked fine, though a 16x16 Mandelbrot isn't very interesting.

So I tried with a 256x256 image instead with 16bpp, but it turns out that most viewers doesn't give a fuck and rounds the values down to 8 bits of precision before they are handed to the tint function.
> All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win.

Yea, no doubt. Don't even need an MBA to see that. If you have two equal competitors, the first one to market has a useful head start.

I think this article is what I would call aggressive trolling; scoring points by 'thinking different'. But essentially this is not more than standard knowledge, repackaged as a hype laden pseudo-intellectual conversation meant to score points.
Favorite comment from the source code:

/* If your shitbox doesn't have getopt, step into the nineties already. */
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it's pretty amazing how spot on the estimates are to the actual figures for AAPL compared to other stocks.

The reason it's down is probably because there was no surprise and the numbers came a bit shy of what the estimates were but regardless, I view it as an overreaction.

My long term outlook on iPhone and Apple is positive, they've essentially established a monopoly on the luxury market segment which is always a growing market with fat margins while Samsung is feeling the squeeze from Chinese phone makers undercutting them (http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2014/10/07/samsu...), it has a similar tone to giants that have fallen (Motorola, Nokia failed to stay relevant after increased market entrants that ate into their margins). Samsung's immediate response will be to continue to spend big bucks on R&D since they can't copy Apple anymore while nothing stops Chinese companies from copying Samsung (as Korean conglomerates behave ruthlessly on it's home turf, so do the Chinese) and reaping the benefits of piggybacking. Also growing wages and demand for increased social welfare in Korea evidenced by the foul cry over the recent merger of Samsung's holding companies, screwing over it's investors and seriously putting a smear on South Korea's corporate governance, market trust is low (message is clear, if you invest in Korea, you can't fight the powerful conglomerate families or the government which share the same bed, see Morningstar) from the failure of government to lay down the law (so much for President Park's promise to reign in the Chaebols or conglomerate families).

The downfall of Samsung might play right into Apple's hands if they launch a surprise attack and release a phone in this segment with cheaper hardware but with the same good software.

Considering Samsung has a repeated history of copying market innovators, undercutting to win significant market share, and dragging out the legal process until finally settling, failure to break into the luxury market will be the downfall for Samsung's phones in an increasingly decreasing margin game.

All of this is great for Apple.

edit: Someone accuses me of being an Apple fanboy when I'm an Android user happy with his Motorola phone, I don't see why that changes anything. Sent from my Android phone.
Goodbye Q&A. Hallo communication
> I'm assuming good faith and going to approach this as I would a fellow colleague :)

Wow, this is the most passive-aggressive display of good faith I've seen so far.
You're reaching.

First, there's no indication in the article that the researchers or Wired presented the remote windshield wiper hack to the car's manufacturer and that they subsequently ignored it.

Second, there is plenty of indication that the exact opposite is true. The remote windshield wiper hack occurred this June, whereas the article states that they've been working with Chrysler on this for nearly nine months and that Chrysler released a patch prior to the publication of this article.

Third, the Cadillac anecdote isn't really relevant here. For starters, it looks like they were contacted by Wired, not the researchers, so it's unclear whether they were contacted before the dangerous freeway demonstration took place. And while the mention of the newer model is a bit odd, the statement also mentions devoting more resources and hiring a new cyber-security officer, making it unfair to characterize it as a "whatever" response.

Sure, it'd be nice if Cadillac was a little more proactive here, but keep in mind that the researchers hacked a Jeep (made by Chrysler), NOT a Cadillac (made by GM). The researchers think the Cadillac is also vulnerable based on its feature set, but absent a specific flaw to patch and given the short amount of time since the initial demonstration (less than two months), it's unclear what GM is supposed to do here.
Below expectations (Previous Quarter results and current quarter projections):

Here's what analysts are expecting, via the Bloomberg Terminal.

Revenue: $49.4 billion
EPS: $1.81
iPhone units: 48.8 million (whisper number is 50 million)
iPad units: 10.9 million
Mac units: 4.9 million
Revenue guidance: $51.06 billion
So watching the video, I don't see a vehicle stalled on the highway.

What I see is a vehicle slowed considerably, but at least nominally over the legal minimum speed of 40 MPH on highways, and without the driver being able to accelerate on his own. He's travelling in the rightmost lane, explicitly with his hazard lights on. This is not an unusual occurrence on highways. He's then told that to regain control he needs to stop and restart the car, which he does while remaining in motion.

I was surprised, since this is quite different from the way it's being talked about here, as if he was stopped in the middle of the freeway. See GGP comment about "a car stopped in the middle of a multi-lane interstate."

That's not what happened here.
I would probably die of embarrassment if anyone ever saw the number of lines in my code that say

x = x //this doesn't need to be here but it breaks if you remove it
Cindy I suspect you might be right - especially if we measure for breakthrough discoveries.

The problem you face running such a trial is those scientists that control the current system are not too interested in trying anything that might take away their control. They love to mis-quote Churchill and claim their is no better way than the current system, but they are none too keen to try any alternatives.