skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People only think they're expensive because they have no concept of how much the cameras cost that they replaced. $14,500 is pocket change, studios had been buying things for $250,000-300,000 and renting them out to productions for over twenty-thirty years, which while a great investment, is still a drop in the ocean relative to $14.5K/each.

Blackmagic has some great deals, and for documentary filmmakers or amateurs they're much more affordable than Red cameras. I don't know if they're "game changing" as since the digital revolution cameras which have been good enough have been readily available. Sure, it won't look like AAA blockbuster, but for competitions and the indie market it is fine.

I actually feel like drones are bigger game changers. They legitimate turn $20,000 heli-shots into $500 drone ones. That and CGI/effects continue to get cheaper and more accessible, you often see indie flicks which have scenes with better CGI than you would ever see in the 1990s, or tons of green screen that you wouldn't know was...
I agree that having two streams would optimize my time, but my problem is with the switching. Regardless of to what, the coupling and de-coupling is an overhead for me.
Here you go :) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Oh, plenty of places. SF certainly. Stamford, CT, and lots of other places.
Tax incentives to raise wages for employees.
I think the best solution would be your first one, but have the second part be stored on removable media, like an SD card. Make it physically impossible to write changes to anything but the SD card (e.g. use actual ROMs for the first part, and use volatile RAM for temporary storage of the code loaded from the SD card).

Then, if you want to be sure that the firmware isn't hacked, simply remove the SD card, put it in a computer, and verify the contents. If paranoid, overwrite the SD card with the official firmware. If extremely paranoid, throw away the SD card, buy a new one, and write the official firmware to it.
Extensive discussion a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818310
> there is a corresponding civil action to make the injured party whole

You haven't been in many court cases or you wouldn't be saying this. The vast majority of crimes is committed by people who won't ever pay restitution. Because they can't, or because they simply won't (they'd rather do jail time). So if someone commits a crime against you, your car, your house, you best assume it's going to be you yourself or your insurance carrying the cost.

> when the victim is found innocent, they should be immediately compensated for any and all damages resulting from arrest, imprisonment, and trial

Thus giving everyone, including judges, a financial incentive to never find people not guilty. (It's already the case that "guilty party pays legal costs" principle sometimes results in the judge finding whoever's got the most expensive lawyer guilty and assigning 1$ restitution to avoid having the poor person pay legal costs. This would be 1000x worse).

If you do this, everyone will be immediately convicted for "resisting arrest" or some such.
Stuff like that is why I switched to Android. Had to go back to iPhone for a couple weeks recently and couldn't stand the poor inter-app coordination.
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I don't think it's that simple. Oligarchs will go live in another jurisdiction which taxes less. Rich people have alternatives, so unless you have a global tax agreement of some sort, I don't think this is viable.

Potentially, one could end up collecting fewer tax dollars because they are "living" in the Bahamas or Cayman Is.
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From the Nature article: "In summary, Dayu Cave provides for the first time an in situ comparison between historical drought events and speleothem records from the same cave." That's interesting but it is not clear how an ARMA model can be used to predict the future.
I was recently having a conversation with some friends about what major technological changes we might see in the future. The idea was that when these changes happen, they tend to alter society in ways that couldn't easily have been predicted beforehand. It would have been hard to imagine the ubiquity of the internet or smartphones in our lives before they existed. So what could the next major change be? Self-driving cars on the scale where manual driving is illegal on city streets perhaps? That actually isn't too hard to envision. Something else?

One thought that came out of that is that a major change I would love to see, although not a technological one, is for a major economy to implement a workable guaranteed basic income. It's been a popular subject on HN, and does seem to be starting to gain traction in the 'real world'. While obviously there are issues to solve, it's something I see as really having a chance of working. _Something_ will have to happen to address the growing inequality as technology keeps moving us closer to a post-scarcity society, and a basic income seems to fit the bill.

Or perhaps it will be something else. But some kind of a transition to a post-scarcity society seems inevitable at _some_ point if the human race survives long enough, so maybe significant strides in that direction will be made in our lifetimes. It would certainly be exciting.
Being in a position where your off-site backups becoming unavailable is "not particularly wise" means you got _other_ problems to solve.

If my offsite backups vanished (the building they're in burnt down, for example) I'd a) know about it promptly, and b) arrange additional copies and security for my current set of on-site backups. Just the same if as if Colin gets hit by that bus and his service goes down without anyone knowing how to, or caring about, bringing it back up.

If Tarsnap is a single point of failure for you, you're doing it wrong.
Nitpick on the Tesla: the "drive itself from your garage to your front door" thing is a hypothetical future scenario with no proposed implementation timeframe, and not something you can do right now.

But it's just a nitpick, because the basic controls are certainly all there. The feature doesn't exist yet just because it's hard to do it safely and legally.
The iPhone6 has the optimal screen resolution (4.6"), I wouldn't use a larger phone (it wouldn't fit in pockets).

From my experience reading magazines is best on iPad and reading books (with little photos) best on Kindle.
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I would think the law would have to be designed to be compatible with an experiment. Such as being phased in at different times in different places. You'd really have to design the experiment and set objective criteria for pass/fail before passing the law otherwise there'll be all kinds of interested groups distorting it.
All you can do with an FM signal is override the audio. The volume is still limited to whatever the driver set, and they can always turn it off.

Turning the volume to maximum and preventing the driver from lowering it or turning off the sound would be much worse.

As for "probably aren't safe to be driving in the first place," that may be so, but I would estimate that about 80% of people on the road aren't really safe, and just muddle through by luck and generous margins. Causing unsafe drivers to crash when they otherwise wouldn't have is still bad.
I would like to give a counterpoint to the opinion that Google Maps' quality has dwindled, from a developing nation perspective from having used it in India, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa.

Google maps in these countries has easily slipped inside the daily behavior of people in these countries in a way that is heartening to see - Drivers use it, students use it, hotels use it to show the way about town, bus drivers use it. It is amazing how accurate it is in these countries. I am thankful it exists.
Was it not possible to build upon the mock device to make it run more realistically?

I pretty much do this habitually now:

1. Get report of bug in production or on staging.

2. Write test to reproduce the bug.

3. 2/3 of the time get stuck because the environment isn't capable of mimicking the bug.

4. Build upon the integration testing environment to make it capable of mimicking the bug.

I find the counter intuitive part of integration testing is that step 4 ends up being where most of the work is required and far too many people just don't do it because they feel it's not a worthwhile investment.

I actually ended up writing an open source framework to handle a lot of the boilerplate (which no other frameworks do AFAIK). Especially making mock devices easier to write (see http://hitchtest.com/ and check out HitchSMTP).
Just use law. It doesn't matter what anti-vaxxers choose to believe. If the vaccines work, to not vaccinate is to not wear a seatbelt, is to not wear a bicycle helmet. Anti-vaxxers can believe whatever they choose, they can convene support groups and rallies, and live in a parallel universe in their minds, and none of these things will protect their child from a disease that a vaccine could have, nor will any of these things make it okay to not protect their child from that disease. And if a law is made, the children will be vaccinated.

Does it really pass the legal smell test that parents have a right to harm their children? No. So discourage that behaviour with law. Children have to be vaccinated for these diseases, using these vaccines ( efficacy confirmed by randomized double blind trials ), by this age, or the state will cause them to be vaccinated and the guardians that failed to vaccinate them will be accrue this number of penalty units. Before the child is old enough to care for itself, if the parents neglect a duty of care, the state adopts that duty.
Thanks for the feedback! I settled on that price for a lot of reasons, but mostly because: 1. it helps you get better jobs, faster. That to me is worth thousands, much less $39. 2. I share techniques that lose a bit of their value if every applicant knew about them, so pricing high protects my readers in a way.

It's hard to find a balance, I'm not 100% positive if this is the right pricing for it. But, like the sibling poster mentioned, I offer a full refund and you can always sign up for a free sample—it also adds you to the mailing list wherein I share some useful info for free.
The fund, the firm, and the individuals who led investments. No?
Tax brackets. The government isn't entitled to 80% of what _any_ person earns, just a portion of what the _richest_ earn.

Looking at GP's PDF for 1945:

Income Take home
$10,000 $7,060
$20,000 $12,140
$50,000 $21,680
$100,000 $29,680
$200,000 $37,180
$500,000 $55,180

Of course, this is for income, the people being taxed the highest rates will also have capital gains.

Inspired by michaelchisari below, here's the same table in 2015 $$

Income Take home
$132,576.67 $93,599.13
$265,153.33 $160,948.07
$662,883.33 $287,426.21
$1,325,766.67 $393,487.55
$2,651,533.33 $492,920.05
$6,628,833.33 $731,558.05

Whew, big numbers.
RED is neither crazy, expensive, nor high-end. It's a piece of professional equipment, and pretty competitively priced as such, though on the low end of quality and capability. Most big-name movies of the last few years that were shot digitally were shot on Arri Alexa.

It's a different world out there. Doing film production well is an unbelievably expensive game, and the camera rental is not even that significant.
Thanks for the great advice :)
There have been several game changers in the last decade, the RED camera being one. It's price was low enough and quality high enough that they have become somewhat ubiquitous, creating relatively low rental prices and creating a whole new generation of cinematographers that were able to skip the typical slow apprenticeship track (for better or worse). An equally large game changer was the rise of the DSLR, opening the bottom of the market to a look previously unreachable for the price.

I love Blackmagic (have the pocket camera myself), but the difference in quality and cost between current DSLRs, the various REDs and the Ursa 4.6 is not great enough to categorize as a game changer.

I'll probably pick up the new Ursa myself, but at this point the visual quality of the picture is the least of a filmmakers worry (check out Upstream Colour which was shot on a $1k GH2). Shooting on a cheap DSLR and spending more money on art direction will have a greater impact on the quality of a film than picking up the best camera and lenses.
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> ranging from just keeping hard-coded strings containing the expected output, up to and including implementing our own fake versions of external infrastructure.

This sounds very familiar, we rely on external credit systems pretty heavily. We started by mocking service responses and including the response XML in our unit tests. Now we have a service simulator that returns expected values and has record/playback capability. It's not ideal and responses get outdated occasionally but we haven't found a more elegant way to handle it yet.
> But many companies still run sensitive software in their data centers or in private clouds, in which a company has dedicated cloud resources from a third-party or within its own premises.

(Emphasis mine)

Ok, honest question: If I have a "private cloud" on my own premises, how is that not a data center?
For me it didn't even load the ad, I just saw the "log in" at the bottom and a blank page. "who needs an article when you can have a headline?"
I'm supposed to read the article before up voting?
What you called Socialism is just capitalism+welfare. It has nothing to do with Socialism.
Can you start turn by turn navigation in those countries? In Vietnam, although the maps are more than good enough, you can only preview a route, you can't actually start the route tracking. This is very frustrating if you're on a motorbike where the voice instructions and vibrations would be very useful.
Not sure how many folks are aware of this, but the ACA included funding for an 'Innovation Center' to run experiments on potential approaches to improve medical outcomes and cut costs: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/14/37719262...

I think that the A/B tests you propose would be great, though there will be plenty of ideologues still finding excuses not to accept the results.

Also, hi Nate! You probably don't remember, but you interviewed me sometime around December 2011.
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When kids born today are unable to afford to go to college, while the same people who are against +80% tax were born in an era when tax was way higher at +90% that helped pay for their education and create the infrastructure that allowed them to earn their wealth.

"Surplus Wealth is a scared trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community " - Andrew Caregie.

Guess what if you think the government is treating you unfairly then be prepared when society bifurcates and returns a stack error in the form of "bolsheviks".
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So... 10 tapes per SSD if your data compresses well. I don't see that as practical at all.
> If I have a "private cloud" on my own premises, how is that not a data center?

It is, but "private cloud" on top of that implies a lot more about how you run that datacenter: using virtual machines, abstracting hardware, using APIs to manage servers and storage (ideally the same APIs that would let you just as easily run on someone else's cloud infrastructure), and otherwise trying to minimize your reliance on any particular piece of hardware.
Vaccines are not 100% safe, and as such, should not be legally required.

https://www.reddit.com/r/axolotl_peyotl/comments/23og48/the_...

I don't think people would like wearing seat belts if there were a small chance that they would decapitate you through normal usage.

Here's an article about mandatory bike helmet laws doing more harm than good: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/12/mandator...
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This may just be a semantic issue, but the term "public" seems entirely misused in this article.
Ah yep makes sense!
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The title seems a little misleading. The study seems to explore the social impact of explicitly declining to answer questions, which is very different from not volunteering something. If I'm telling someone about my work history, the social implications of leaving out that summer I swept freight docks is different from telling them I'd rather not talk about the summer in question given that they've asked.

In the former case, there's no attention placed on that summer, and people (probably rightly) assume that nothing interesting happened (it may come up in an interview why there's a gap there, but I'll get to what I think the parallel for that is). In the latter case, I'm being relatively uncooperative in the information-gathering process.

The connection to companies seems weak to me. When I go into a restaurant that neglects to post its food hygiene scores, I assume roughly the same as when I walk into a store and the cashier neglects to tell me if he has a criminal history. If I ask, and the restaurant tells me that it declines to answer, that seems more parallel to the question of declining to answer negative personal information. Similarly with the "decline to answer" case among people, I bet people would infer the worst of companies that "actively" declined to answer questions (versus those that neglected to bring it up).

These are interesting questions the researcher is asking, and it's particularly interesting to think about how we craft our identities online, but I think they need to reflect more on the parallels they draw before concluding that dynamics are different.

edit: I'm looking up the paper itself, because it occurs to me that a mainstream news outlet is pretty likely to misreport the study's design, results, discussion, etc... and it'd be unfair not to assume that the article writer (or I the reader) misunderstood something.
Truly rich people tend to invest their balance sheet mostly illiquidly in trusts and pay themselves a low-as-possible allowance from low interest, short-term loans against assets. Personally, they don't tend to own much directly to avoid the taxman's reach and for liability too.
You missed the author's definition of hacker, I think. "amaze the public" indeed, harrumph. (although yes, there are absolutely people that come onto IRC looking for "How to become a cracker in 24 hours" guides. "Yeah, I looked at the book you recommended for C, but is there a way to learn it without reading a whole book?!", etc)
The highest one I see is a 94% tax on income over $200,000 in 1945. First of all, that was towards the end of a World War during which we developed an entirely new kind of bomb. Nothing our government is currently doing requires that level of commitment from its citizens. Second, that income bracket in 1945 would be at $2.676 million today [1]. Even the top 0.1% of US incomes today start at just $1.6 million [2]; a tax bracket like the 1945 one would have barely any people in it.

[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US%24200000+%281945+US...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluence_in_the_United_States...
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Why not also mandate the use of drugs that promote good behavior, by law?
Ha! I'm as good as a coin flip! Take that, the average user, who is actually nonrandomly bad!
In a space as high-dimensional and full of incorrect intuitions as nutrition science, credentialism is perhaps a worthy signal.
Nobody paid those rates. There were a ton of deductions available to reduce taxable income.

Also the top rate would apply to income over $5M in today's dollars (can't remember the exact number, but it was high). How much money do you think you can raise from folks making over $5M per year? The answer is not much, there aren't that many of them relatively speaking.

Also, if you include the earned income tax credit, low income folks are paying way less in taxes than they were back then.
yeah, the reason most people do low carb is because low-fat leads to horrible discomfort. Low carb's popularity is from the fact that the long term will power drain is very low.
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This is honestly one of the few really good and creative ideas I've seen here in a VERY long time.

I really don't mind sharing an audio hash with someone that already has my full banking information/history in there. Not only that, I would be EAGER to do it if that will increase the security of the current contract that I have with them, specially since they found a way to do it that it's not bothersome at all.

But yeah, whatever you say naggy HNers.
No, that's social democracy you're thinking of.
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I don't think so, in fact that one was obvious, and unlike most of the others, believable.
I have for some time felt that robot cars absolutely need a physical disconnect lever. Nice and big, break glass, and you're driving off the wire.

But, this hack reminds me that there's no such thing in a modern car; the whole thing is networked.

So, yeah, physical updates of firmware. Although, in the article, it's a subsystem's firmware, which physically protecting that is just not in the minds of engineers right now: think of all the ports you'd need.

Even if the physical kill switch left me with just (unpowered) steering and brakes, I would have a vastly different perspective on the safety inherent.
I would like to quote your comment in a blog post I am doing about the test. With your permission, would quote the last two paragraphs - as an example of how the test results show change is needed and voila, here's a way to change things. Gr8 idea btw. A twist on sunsetting.
not wear a seatbelt

May make sense on trains and buses.

to not wear a bicycle helmet

Bad example. There is no conclusive evidence with respect to the efficacy of bicycle helmet laws, and it even tilts to the direction of them not actually working: http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1052.html
Please learn how marginal tax brackets and rates work before talking about the issue where people can hear you.