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While true that Alexa gained traction, don't forget the nature of this business. Every time a new shiny toy comes out, suddenly the older one "is crap". Alexa has a nice tonal range, especially the skin. However, Red cameras are very very much in use, both in Hollywood and outside (in fact I have delivered one from post-production just yesterday for a Monday premiere on a festival). Sony's F-65 seems to be the only one that didn't get much traction so far.

What people outside don't understand is that camera is only a part of an equation. That's why you see lots of amateurs buying their own Scarlet, Epic, whatevers and thinking that's what they need to shoot a film. I'd rather have a slightly worse camera and good lens than vice versa. Then there's grip, light, people that know how to use all of that and have experience...

Regarding cameras, there's still a lot of space to improve on and if one could either source good CMOS sensors or make their own - this could easily be a space for a startup to thrive at.

edit:
What ARRI did right, apart from tonal range (which isn't an issue with Red and a good colorist) is that they have tons of experience how to do the hardware right that plays well with grip.
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But this is not Reddit either.
They will be. I was thinking of this earlier today, and there is still some coordination between schedules, doors closing with people still trying to get on, etc. etc. In Sydney, you still have people blowing whistles to signal to the driver that it is safe to close the door and go.

I'm wondering if that is maybe a more difficult problem to solve than driving. In driving, you know the direction cars 'should' be going, you need to account for lane changes and turns, etc. but for the most part they are expected. I think in an open environment people are much less predictable in their movements.

Thoughts?
Applying to jobs (outbound): it's far harder to sell yourself and build sustained interest compared to people deliberately discovering you (inbound). Outbound is also a lot more work vs. return. Make a killer LinkedIn, Github or whatever appropriate portfolio to make the conversation higher signal and remove their uncertainties/likely objections. Odds are they have a pressing need (challenge to address)... get talking about it and discard pointless hazing rituals that don't address moving the business forward. If they persist, indicate they're wasting your valuable time and theirs on non-value-add business theater that doesn't remotely pertain to doing real work or getting along with the culture.
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not a pro videographer. RED colors seems soft (under saturated). looks like they give RAW for intensive post-processing instead of mostly usable film output. on paper digital matches or exceeds film but real world output does not say so. For example Wolf of Wall Street looks very cool (shot on film).

I think filmmakers which make real money off films use film or some esoteric digital camera and for cost reduction (aerial shots very low-light shots wtc.) use things like RED.
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Yes, Murakami is indeed avid record collector.

"In a 2011 New York Times article, Murakami estimated that he owns 10,000 records, but says he was afraid to count."

http://theweek.com/articles/444246/literary-playlist-guide-m...
You also need to consider the secretary problem
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in calculating an optimal selling point.
The issue is still open here: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/838833329491346/?search...

I think the guy on the ticket didn't really understand what I was saying. I'm happy to provide any extra info necessary (what I can remember anyway).

From looking through the code, the issue still appears to exist. [1] is called on the Main Thread. It eventually calls to a synchronized block [2]. [3] is called from a background thread and uses the same synchronised lock.

--> Main Thread + Background Thread using same lock == Trouble

One other annoying issue I reported (#937744189590638 - private) was not being able to update the GCM token. The field is readonly, even though the GCM docs explicitly state that the key changes over time. Meaning you have to delete and recreate the Installation - and what happens if you have other objects linked to that installation? Super annoying. Could be easily solved by making that field writable.

[1]: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Parse-SDK-Android/blob/mast...

[2]: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Parse-SDK-Android/blob/mast...

[3]: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Parse-SDK-Android/blob/mast...
Flagged for exceedingly bad form. A page explaining the issue with a link that the informed user could click would have been far more constructive.

It's an interesting thing to discuss, but this link is the wrong way to do it.
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I remember seeing a talk by a Netflix engineer (can't find it unfortunately) where he talked about multi-cloud strategies and how they aimed towards decoupling some of the components of his project from implementation details specific to AWS. So it's quite possible they're already slowly paving the way towards becoming a cloud-agnostic or multi-cloud platform. Not to say that it wouldn't still be a huge undertaking, but I don't think this never crossed their minds before.
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Half of which if not all of which had absolutely no bearing on whether or not Sweden were more or less likely to extradite Assange as a result of pressure to do so by the US.

The "special relationship" is not a cover-all term for the US & UK to do anything on a promise like a teen couple in love. It covers a lot of military and trade stuff, which wikileaks is a part of, but in this case Sweden clearly acted as a player in a larger game. Assange seems to have presumed an ulterior motive in the charges brought against him and proceeded accordingly.
You can reference that blog entry directly, i.e. http://gavingroovygrover.tumblr.com/post/124058010761/groovy...
Now that it's open source it's possible to fix, but it wasn't back then. We couldn't ship an app that locked up a user's phone. Combined with all the other issues (mentioned at the top of this thread), we had to write-off Parse.

> If you can find a part-time engineer that can build and maintain a backend with all of Parse's features, you should absolutely do that.

Most likely, you're not going to be using all of Parse's features; probably just a small subset of them. So I think it's easily doable. In fact, if you were intending to use Cloud Code, you could probably do it yourself with the time you'd save by not having to deploy to production to test your code!
Well, I admit, those prices are pretty good. I looked at AWS pricing 3 years ago at a SaaS company with steadily growing traffic, and at the time it didn't make sense. It might now.
I don't think that works. You can't get a consistent view of the counters without a lock. Consider the following scenario:

CPU1 CPU2
---- ----
T1 rcu_read_lock (+1)
read counter (0)
T2 rcu_read_lock (+1)
T2 rcu_read_unlock (-1)
read counter (0)

We'll find that zero is the sum of all counters, even though T1 is still in its read lock.
In the world of ANSI escape codes and terminal emulators things are never that easy.

Works for OS X apparently.
> 3) I designed and implemented my own distributed test load balancing tool!

This, so many times over.

It doesn't help that when interviewing, I kinda-sorta want to know that the people I hire are capable of understanding systems from the ground up. The best way to demonstrate that is to go and build a system from the ground up...

TLB looks cool, nice to see that such a tool exists at least within one eco-system!
Regrettably (?), you can't use this to implement marquee.

But you can make your text black with a black background. Or re-order lines, which I suspect to be "fun" for git logs.
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I mean those silly Germans - they just can't take a joke about their own government as well as their partner, the U.S., spying on them and then using that information for their own economic interests or other more malicious reasons.

Lighten up!
> "online formulas"

I'm guessing this was translated from German or something; isn't form "Formular" in German?
The casual xenophobia in this headline and article are crazy. Really, "Germans are so scared...", "Germans can’t take a joke."?? We must have a little more nuanced view of the situation than that - just because there is a group of people doing something in a certain country doesn't mean that we should push the message that it is representative of the whole population. Wow.
Agora's not stopped, just slowed. :) Most parts of the gamestate are kept track of by elected officers posting periodic reports to the agora-official mailing list (the amount of automation, if any, used to create these reports varies). Sometimes officers also maintain a web version - notably, this is usually the case for the rules, which are currently maintained at:

http://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/rkeep/current_flr....

(Until recently the ruleset history was being tracked in RCS - yes, really. I should try to convince the current rulekeepor to at least use Git...)

There's a link from agoranomic.org, but for the record, the agora-official archive can be found at:

http://www.mail-archive.com/agora-official@agoranomic.org/

(agora-official is for reports, agora-business is for taking game actions, and agora-discussion is for discussion.)

For the list of officers, search for [IADoP]; for the list of players, search for [Registrar]. I post as "omd".

Just for fun, another link that I should mention, since the one on agoranomic.org is out of date (again, I need to fix this): almost 3000 old judgements on rule interpretation, most of which are long obsolete due to the relevant rules being amended or repealed, but some of which serve as (non-binding) precedent -

http://cfj.qoid.us
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I wonder if GitHub do/will support this and parse it to HTML
The title doesn't match that of the article, and sounds somewhat biased?
Another perspective; location and staffing.

Last first: Getting enough competent people to whatever you have. Just getting people that knows the difference between rm -rf / and rm -rf ./, not to plug both ends of a cable into the same switch/router, ... can be quite hard. If you have a premium product running on a few hundred machines, AWS doesn't actually eat that much margin compared to having your own 24/7 staff & all that entails.

And when the company then decides to open up "somewhere over in that big asian market", you've got to do it all over again. You can get a lot done with "remote hands" and whatnot, but again - something that eats your margin, just as AWS does...
Please do not use HN submission titles to editorialize. The guidelines ask you to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Is this content also available without privacy infringement?
Is elasticity really an advantage of EC2? Dedicated is so much cheaper that you can just overprovision massively and still come out cheaper than EC2.
First emojis, now blinking text, this has to stop.
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To be precise it's not only our ID cards that we like to microwave but above all our passports.

The reason is that 2005 a new generation of passports was introduced, which contain RFID chips that can be read out wirelessly over a distance of a few centimeter (or in some cases even a few meters). In the beginning, these chips only contained a digital version of the information on the passport, i.e. the name, passport ID and photo. However, since 2007 the chips also contain the digitized fingerprints of the passport holder. Various organizations such as the Chaos Computer Club showed how easy it was to access that information and demonstrated that such access could even be done unknowingly to the passport owner, e.g. when walking by a (hidden) reading device with your passport in your pocket. So, quite a nightmare from a privacy perspective.

Back to the microwaving: While it is required to have a valid traveling passport if you wanna go abroad (i.e. outside the EU), it is NOT (yet) required to have a passport with a working RFID chip. Simply putting your passport into your microwave oven for a few seconds will irreversibly destroy the RFID chip while leaving the passport intact => Privacy problem solved :)

So the next time someone tells you that Germans are not very pragmatic or too obedient just tell them that we are microwaving our passports ;)

(I edited the first line to reflect the fact that they primarily talk about ID cards in the article, thanks to _more_original for pointing this out)
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It's hard to overestimate the way RED has brought quality digital cameras into the hands of people who are working on low- to medium-budgeted films, series and commercials. For me though, the game changers were cameras like Thomson Viper and the Arri D-20.

Tangent: Around 2005/2006 I worked on the software for a HD-SDI field recorder that could be used to record the raw output coming out of these cameras. We had to use a big RAID array just to be able to sustain the data rates (dual link HD-SDI is about 370Mb/sec). The thing weighed a ton and was probably considered luggable, just like your Osborne-1.

The quality that came out of these cameras was really awesome though. Viper was a bit noisy in low light and had an awful green tint that you needed to post-process (it was really just RAW sensor output) but it looked stunning.

Fast forward just a couple of years and RED came out with visuals that are maybe slightly worse than Arri's but much, much cheaper. And nowadays companies like Codex and Atomos have tiny form-factor recorders that record to flash storage that weighs a couple of grams. It's really amazing to see the progress.
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After the emoji, the blinking... Will git commits become like the 2000s web? :p
Please don't use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize. The guidelines ask you to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In this case the format ("Ask HN") is for stories without URLs anyway, so we'll take out the url (http://www.actifio.com/).
> "Of course its secure, you can only READ the CANbus, the software doesn't even HAVE a write capability!"

That can mean two things—either the software didn't implement writing but the hardware is capable of it, or the hardware isn't capable at all. Sounds like the former in this case. It should have been the latter.
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Then it will be easy to provide proof of those claims, isn't?
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I find both experiences unpleasant, although in different ways. Of course, it may all be enculturation, but the effect is real. When reading e-ink or lcd displays, after a time I just feel compelled to put it down and do something else. When reading a book, I often find that time has just gone, and the only reason to stop is that there is something else that needs doing.

I agree entirely that the convenience of having 6M books at hand and ready to go at a moments notice is phenomenal, and sometimes I succumb to that argument. For me, the medium then just kills reading for pleasure stone dead, and it becomes "read only if you must."
I'm not saying it is going to happen or that it has no drawbacks. What I'm saying is that Go has some benefits as a compilation target.

And no, you can not write Android SDK apps entirely in Go today. What you can do is write a library or command line tool and call it from a Java app.
Well, and they've got every reason to be. The NSA and American airport security theatre made the world a place where microwaving your ID card actually makes a lot of sense.

> sales of old-school typewriters were reported to have skyrocketed

That's awful journalism and hearsay at best. Typewriter sales didn't skyrocket. Some authorities, notably services related to government and parliament bought some typewriters after the NSA breach and the most recent parliament security breach because they just couldn't trust their digital equipment anymore.
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The rules have existed since 1982 with a typo in the third rule (103)?

"(1) the enactment, repeal, or amendment of a mutable rule; (2) the enactment, repeal, or amendment of an amendment of a mutable rule;"

One of those is supposed to be "immutable". But maybe someone mutated it...
iTerm2 supports images in the terminal. May as well take this as far as it will go.

https://iterm2.com/images.html

Edit: even animated gifs
Well, like landr0id says it's not "stable" yet... although it's on release candidate 1, so it's pretty close. Once 1.5 stable comes out it'd be silly to wait for 1.6, 'cause that's 6 months away.
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I think the parent meant something like the Canon 5Dm2/3 with magic lantern can provide RAW Full HD in a ~2-3000$ package, with a great range of glass and accessories. These provide footage pro-filmmakers did not have access a decade ago.

The higher resolution thus evolutionary
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I am glad I graduated before that. It is easier to learn a dynamic scripting language after you have learned a static one. Many types => single type.

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Since there are 3 choices for each question, a random user should get 33%. So the average user is slightly better than random (40%).
I don't think they implied that the chip should be read only, you should still be able to have a flashable firmware of some sort.

But instead of giving this chip which should be read-only regulated by software direct access to the bus, route it through a bit of extra on board circuitry which physically prevents it from writing data to the bus. This would enforce the readonly client in hardware, not firmware.
I found FAQs are typically a symptom of a poor design or UX layout.

Do you find a lot of people are going through and trying to read FAQs in app?

(looks good, just curious about how many end-users would use it).
> ...most people in Africa still live in proverty. Not to mention the fact the childhood proverty has increased in america.

When you over-produce something, it loses it's value.
Let me fix that headline: "a few hundred Germans are so scared of surveillance they microwave their passports".
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Url changed from http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5216, which points to this.
> To be precise it's not our ID cards that we like to microwave but our (travel) passports.

No, this article is about ID cards. The new ID cards, introduced a few years ago, also have RFID chips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_identity_card
If it helps, any time you choose "No effect", you're making a guess about how thorough the experiment was, not about the program itself. Every program will have some effect, but may be too small to have been detected. Similarly if the correct answer is "no effect" that just means the studies weren't accurate enough.
Concerning the legality of destroying the RFID chip: The article mentions that one person was arrested in Frankfurt airport when officials detected that he had microwaved his passport (or ID card), and that he would possibly be facing jail time for tampering with official travel documents.

In my legal opinion, while your passport is property of the Federal Republic of Germany and thus not yours to do with as you please, it is a big difference if you willingly try to alter the information on the passport, or if you destroy part of the digital information in the passport. While the former might be considered a crime it is hard to imagine that the latter would be punishable by more than a small fine.
Yep, thats about it, besides some hackers and hipsters, I don't know people over here who would even consider this. FYI, I didn't do it, I have a metal casing, that works as a faradays cage, to counter unwanted RFID emissions.
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Simply putting your passport into your microwave oven for a few seconds will irreversibly destroy the RFID chip while leaving the passport intact => Privacy problem solved

Don't passports remain the property of the issuing state in most cases? I'd be concerned that deliberately altering it and attempting to travel could be a legal problem.
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The book makes the wonder of blockchain easily approachable if you have some background in CS and takes some nice excursions to topics like elliptic crypto.
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Thanks for this information! It's strangely missing from the release and the comment in the /etc file.

Do you know how are the security updates propagated to quarterly branch? Are they backported till the latest Q release and shipped immediately?
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The article is a bit overblown, we are not really that scared. Actually most people don't care or even understand the implications. But privacy is a very big and deep-rooted thing.

These German microwave shenanigans are around for quite some time, but i haven't met one single person that microwaved ids or passports.
Why not put it into a Faraday cage?
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"On Tuesday, a 29-year old man was arrested at Frankfurt Airport after authorities noticed that he had microwaved his German identification card"

No he wasn't. The source (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/mann-erhitzt-personala...) linked to from the article says police confiscated the damaged ID card and gave the man a temporary replacement, and he could continue his travel.

Yet another glitch in this rather poor article. (Others have already pointed out other flaws that I won't repeat.)
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