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I always seem to have my iPhone when I want my DSLR.

The iPhone's metering is suspicious. It seems to average all areas of the frame equally, resulting in underexposure when the background's exposure is different from the exposure you'd use the capture the subject. Of course this will always happen with any camera, by my A7ii seems to be very good at picking a correct exposure. (Of course it has exposure compensation and manual mode, so I can always override its choice, which is all I really ask.) You can see this demonstrated in the "backlit" photo with the article, I think the exposure could go up a little bit more to get some more detail from the shadowy clouds and the boat, with the only side effect of blowing that cloud out more. (It's already gone.)

I also think the iPhone's sensor is capable of collecting more light data than Apple allows it to. It is amazing how much dynamic range modern sensors pick up. When I first got my A7ii I put it into auto bracket mode. By default it does something like -1/3, 0, +1/3. This adds no data. After some more testing, even at +3, 0, -3, you can still recover the other two exposures from any one of the others with no significant loss of detail. So I don't bracket anymore and I've never had to throw away a picture because of the exposure.

That said, that is all with RAW files that capture data that can't be visible in the JPEG. The iPhone tone maps all that data to make a JPEG, and its tone mapping works differently than how I'd manually do it in lightroom. The RAW files off my camera capture so much data that you can ridiculously under- or over-expose and still get something that looks nice on the computer screen. (Not as perfect for the pixel-peepers as the correct exposure of course, but something that would look fine on your wall at 8x10 or shared to G+.) The iPhone's JPEGs are unfixable in Lightroom, the data isn't there and all you can do is make bright stuff brighter or dark stuff darker, which you almost never want to do.

Finally, based on EXIF data, I've found that the iPhone chooses some oddball exposure settings, using overly-fast shutter speeds at high ISOs when it could use a fine shutter speed at a fine ISO to get the same exposure. But I'm sure that's optimized for how people normally use their phone's cameras, not for whatever I happen to be shooting at the moment. I know the interplay between ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. Most people just want a picture of their friend eating dinner. And to be fair, the A7ii on auto-ISO + P mode will choose oddball exposures too. 1/8000s at ISO 32000? Back in my day, we were happy when we had ISO 400 film :P

So anyway, the iPhone camera is disappointing on a technical level, but the best camera is the one you have with you, so I can't complain. I'd rather have an imperfect picture than no picture at all.
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Why? The premise of the article is how the latest iPhone camera compares to previous iphone cameras.
We get it. there are 4 posts about it already.
Anyone attending or teaching in a large university, public or private, is getting a similar experience, albeit with worse poetry and a weaker space program.
Ok I was wrong (very wrong) as long as we're arguing with unrealistic semantics because Wikipedia defines a molecule as "the smallest particle in a chemical element or compound that has the chemical properties of that element or compound" which means that atomic helium is a molecule. Hence the "element or compound" bit.

Assuming your definition holds: Do you have an actual (peer reviewed) citation that demonstrates that H2O is the second most prominent molecule in the universe, for any real definition of molecule? If not, do you have a citation showing that diatomic oxygen is less likely to form than water in the interstellar medium (considering the momentum of hydrogen atoms will be significantly greater than that of oxygen atoms and thus impact the chemical reactions drastically)? If not, do you have evidence to show that our capabilities to detect polar molecules like water are able to account for the absurd abundance of nonpolar molecules (for which electromagnetic detection is practicaly impossible) based solely on first principles of astro or even quantum chemistry?

I'm not trying to play devil's advocate or prove you wrong. These are questions I'd love to have the definitive answers to but I'd rather have no answers at all than a random HN post which only cites a Wikipedia article on the prevalence of atoms (not molecules, missing the entire point of chemistry) and another unreviewed HN post on astrochemistry from first principles without a single significant citation.

The purpose of [citation needed] is not to take the wind out of your statement but to force you to provide the necessary evidence to back up your assertion.
The problem today is that with LinkedIn and Facebook, some CIA personnel are stupid enough to actually mention their status with the Agency, or are friends/connections with known CIA Analysts etc. who do mention their status.

NSA Contractors sometimes mention classified codenames in their LinkedIn page.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/13482623512/disco...
> I think Airbnb is well aware of the housing issue and more than willing to work together on solutions.

I'm sorry, that's just not true, and Sam, I admire a lot of what you've said on a lot of issues, but I cannot believe that you are sincere in this article overall, unless you are just naive.

Any property owner in San Francisco has always been able to go to the Planning Commission and request a conditional use permit to turn their home into a bed and breakfast, and as far as we can tell, no such request has ever been denied.

Renters in San Francisco do not in almost any case I have ever heard of have the right to sublet our apartments, even to additional roommates, without the approval of our landlords, and with good reason.

If a person has lived in San Francisco for some time, and loses their ability to earn enough to pay their rent, it is abusive and narcissistic for that person to believe that simply by having the keys to a place that already does not belong to them, they can - with no consideration for their neighbors - turn their home into a business. A hotel business, no less, which kind of foists upon them the responsibilities of travel guides, as we read in an article this morning.

Now, as demand for housing in an area is shooting up, individual renters are leveraging that in a way that does not contribute to the cost of maintaining property, putting increased pressure on other tenants, and disallowing the landlord from actually satisfying that demand.

All that aside, AirBnb knows what the fuck they are doing. I know at least one successful AirBnb host who has had AirBnb approach them and encourage them to rent up nearby apartments and turn them into new units!

San Francisco housing activists have asked time and time again for AirBnb to open up data about how many hosts have multiple units, and who is renting when not in their unit, so that data may be used over time to guide regulation, but as is becoming a trend with YC companies, private executives and investors feel that they can do better city planning than people who have decades or perhaps their entire lives invested in doing so.

Put up or shut the fuck up, sir.
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Techcrunch and their Medium post have conflicting numbers.

Medium: 57M

Techcrunch: 54M

Edit: Thanks for updating the title
What would you do if you wanted to postpone, as long as you possibly can, the disclosure of discovery of life on Mars? Exactly. Ridiculous question, of course, how do I even dare to have a thought like that here on HN, the bastion of reason. Unless there are reasons to suppress everything that would somehow threaten the status quo. Pause for a second and ponder the inexplicable urge to downvote this comment, which is only expressing a simple thought.
My comment is not related to whether or not it is jargon or whether someone is going to confuse this kind of "sprint" with literal running. Perhaps you replied to the wrong comment by mistake, or just have no idea what I'm talking about.
Otto uses Vagrant under the hood.
Even better: https://developers.facebook.com/status/
SF absolutely needs to build more housing. SF also needs to build taller (more skyscrapers).

I have trouble believing AirBnB helps SF. Anecdotally, I know a few people who rent their places on AirBnB. All live in rent controlled units and effectively re-rent at market rates. One actually reduced hours at his job because income from AirBnB was so lucrative.
The best camera is the one you have with you. Once the moment has passed, having a better camera isn't going to recreate that moment. The iPhone pretty much wins this every time. It's always with you.

If you're in the studio creating scenes, you aren't going to use your iPhone, so it doesn't really matter. If you're going to buy a camera to carry everywhere, you're still not going to use your iPhone. So it's really an academic theoretical issue, in my opinion.
Yeah I think most people store them for a limited time, such as a week or a month. Most issues that pop up will only be relevant that long. You can have permanent archives for individual data since storage is cheap, or even summary metrics. Better to start with ground truth because you often don't know what data you'll need in hindsight.
Interesting shift here to talking about trips per unit, rather than nights per unit.

I think it's actually a useful metric. A big complaint from neighbors seems to be "frequency of new strangers coming and going", which is what this metric quantifies.
A lot of the people who would like to live in San Francisco work in San Francisco and have their income taxed by San Francisco.

It's kind of frustrating.
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I'm guessing link karma?

Contrary to what some might feel/think, having higher karma means something on HN.

Apparently it means so much that users with massive karma gain some type of influencer status with things they post, thereby cementing their place/s as "top" contributors in perpetuity (which isn't a bad thing, considering how much traffic it may drive, if you need to market something).

I suppose this is why some folks who left HN, did so because it was an echo chamber for the "top" karma people and those trying to get there.

This is just a theory though, so take it with a pinch of salt. The true intentions of posting those pointless site-outage links could be less nefarious.
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By default, it's the weakest of the bunch but everyone uses it because everyone else is using it.
Probably. If you want to be audit proof you can keep your inventory sane. The nice part about these businesses is that they're all high margin. Your wholesaler cost for whiskey may have only been $1,000 that month and arguably you could have made $50,000 in whiskey sales considering the cost per shot at a upscale or even non-dive club.

You can learn the basics of accounting and laundering over a weekend if you had to and learn just enough to avoid being flagged by the IRS. Hell, some accountants specialize in these kinds of things.

I also think that you need to accept some level of risk here and that you'll be dealing with audits periodically. Auditing isn't some scary process, more than likely you'll be dinged for more taxes and not be put in jail. You'll come out ahead, especially when you consider outsourcing laundering is very expensive, something like 50-70% and depending on how it comes back to you, that money is also taxable, so another 25% lost on what's left. Running your own business means you only lose that 25% and some overhead.
This is very easy and actually quite common between Amazon and Ebay. You would list the title as Merchant Fulfilled on Amazon and when someone orders it you would place the order yourself on Half.com using their shipping address and pocketing the difference.
Go is a pretty good choice of language to build stuff like that. It's easy to distribute, it's easy to write tools for, it's well known by a bunch of people in the domain.
I understand and agree that those are great options, but it's also nice to be able to discuss a downtime, especially if it's a particularly long one, at least for me. Plus, with how many articles I'm not interested in that would make it to the front page, just having one that's removed when a major service is back online doesn't seem too inhibiting to me.
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What a story. A bit scary especially in a foreign country.
Facebook Down for third time this Month, refuses to explain why
Longer term the team should track down where those PDFs are coming from.

"Source --> PDF --> docx --> HTML --> json" is just nuts.
"Riding this wave of virtual reality expansion, Rosedale’s new company, High Fidelity, is developing the successor to the Second Life experience."
Some ads already have that much info about you if you're being advertised to because of retargeting/remarketing. Eg when you bail from a site with something in your shopping cart and that item follows you around the internet.

That said, this is a great reason not to browse the internet with logged in google email. That was always the flaw in the firefox 3rd party cookie blocking debacle: it would have been an enormous gift to fb, google, and twitter.
Indeed, which makes the tagline "successor to Vagrant" a dubious choice. It would be like referring to fleet as the successor to systemd. They're stacked layers driving existing utilities.
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Even Kerbal Space Program shrinks planets and space down! It's simply too big.
Scala is stack-compatible with Java. You can call any Java function from Scala and vice versa. Additionally, for ease of migration, any valid Java class is a valid Scala class. The Scala standard library includes the Java standard library copy-pasted in.

For the sentence "Scala is compatible with Java", there is almost no interpretation of "compatible" that would make the sentence untrue.
I'm on a 5S. This might sound like melodramatic consumerist envy, but I've been struck over the last year by how many emotionally stirring pictures I've seen amateurs take with the iPhone 6. My phone can take a pretty sharp photo of a baby/puppy/landscape, but there's something about the 6 generation that almost triggers that sense of "presence" people bring up in regard to VR. I think you can see this pretty vividly in the jump from 5S to 6 in the author's self portrait - I can call the improvements incremental on a lot of levels, but somehow she's "there" looking me in the eyes on the 6.
Yes, we know. It's on Fox News already.[1] Zuckerberg is probably screaming at someone right now.

[1] http://fox6now.com/2015/09/28/facebook-is-down/
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Goodbye microservices, hello right-sized services
Both of us look at the same evidence, just interpreted differently.

If the stats you brought are correct, that means that there exist a considerable amount of tenants which couldn't afford their apartments if not for Airbnb. Ultimately, as rental markets balance their price against vacancies, market rates will go up.
It's possible to teach new ideas without using new words, but I don't think it's unreasonable to include new terms to indicate the new ideas.
First of all, I think you're claiming a little too much about science from.

> the fitness landscape being explored by science is "well behaved" and can be traversed using a simple stepwise or gradient descent function

This is false! Non-obvious I know, but it was experimentally shown and holds for a wide class of high dimensional landscapes. It was well explained here (he talks about several novel ideas/insights actually, worth watching):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCWcx-YIRI

> There is probably no deterministic "for(;;) { do X }" formula for learning in complex real-world domains

This is true in a rather straightforward manner when limited to mathematics, from the halting problem (and some mild computational assumptions about the universe): if no finite algorithm can solve arbitrary instances of the halting problem, clearly no finite algorithm can solve arbitrary problems (that includes algorithms that try to "self-improve", of course).

I think this bit of scientific realism is indeed very important to those in the field.

> There also seems to be an economic drive to commoditize humans. If learning can be completely systematized, then science can be rendered into an assembly line process...

I tend to think of the opposite; the more we're able to replace humans with machines the more power we get to the whatever we want. We just have to make sure this surplus power is made widely available.
There's an article I read a few years ago that I thought was spot on on why programmers tend to be seen as such:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/it-management/o...

Personally, I don't believe we are confrontational in general, but we respond badly to because-I-say-so situations.
I think the point isn't the Maybe stuff - Int? - but the non-nullable reference types. In conventional Java, every reference type is always nullable, so there's no way to strictly differentiate between things that couldn't possibly be null, and so don't need checking, and things that have a valid reason for being null, and should be checked and handled properly.

Kotlin allows non-nullable reference types, so you can declare a method as taking a non-nullable reference to an object. Now within that method, you know that reference is never null, and don't need to check it. When you call it, you have to either check for null beforehand, or pass something that is already guaranteed not to be null.

It's kind of like it builds a wall between things that could be null, and things that can't be, instead of having theoretical potential nulls all over your code. When you think about it, it seems like a pretty natural thing for a strongly-typed language to do.
I'm drifting, dunno if that really counts. Trying to get rid of some bugs of WTF level that I only see in my own machine and that I can't really use to justify my paid time, so I'm getting stressed out by the minute (after a few days already) while I try to figure it out and go back to regular work.
Which is kind of half pointless. I see ad's all day long that are half relevant to me. I rarely click on them. Just because they start screaming my name doesn't make me more likely to click.

The most effective advertisements aren't ads. Most of the time I use a product or service it's because I saw someone on here or someone I know talking about it.
This is true. I remember how GTA San Andreas basically just killed the joy of the game for me after spending 20 minutes running to finally find a car to spend ten minutes driving back to an area where there was actually things to do (gee, imagine me wanting to do that while playing video games).

In the first games for PS2 you'd just drown if you fell in this water, in this one you could be forced to swim seemingly endlessly to find a place you could actually get out of the water (only to have to run for 20 minutes to find a car).

I put that one down and never looked back at the series again (although I hear they're really great games these days the concept was kind of played out for me by San Andreas and I barely play video games at all anymore anyways so it may have been a variety of factors besides the time spent running and swimming for no reason).
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Airbnb is much better than homeaway.
Avoiding false positives is much more important than eliminating all the false negatives. Ugly, but true.
Can we just have a really great/secure micro-kernel written in rust first?
Yep its down for me here in India.

"Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can.

Go Back
"
Have you tried going to that link? It's down as well.

edit: Seems to be jumping between in and out. It's a bad sign when your status page is tied to your actual site unless this is for traffic related reasons.
"Top Performers" https://youtu.be/yoy4_h7Pb3M
"hotels up to 6pm" maybe big city, high volume hotels which have no problem re-booking. For smaller accommodation businesses with a limited stock, 24-48 hours is standard.
Also Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" deals with a very similar society. I recommend both, though probably would recommend "Snow Crash" to this crew more readily.
Two organizations working to solve the problem:

San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation (yes, the acronym is unfortunate): http://www.sfbarf.org/

San Francisco Housing Action Coalition: http://www.sfhac.org/

Both will notify you when there are city meetings coming up where you could show up and inject some sanity into the proceedings.
I don't think anyone is going to confuse a "sprint" for literal running. You're going to have to learn the new term just like any other word: either from context or being given a definition.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. I did not think that was very clear in the article, however.
The sorry state of asthma medication is a tragedy that could have completely been avoided.

For a long time, asthma medication was not under patent protection. The FDA, however, outlawed all generic asthma medication because it contained CFCs [0] in the late 00's, and the replacement delivery system was newly eligible for patent protection simply due to using a different propellant. [1] This wasn't some amazing new advancement in the drug formula, they just changed how it got into your lungs - ostensibly due to environmental concerns.

This case is a damning indictment of patent law and in how we handle externalities generally. The environmental cost of CFCs was an externality that no drug manufacturer ever had to pay. What's the solution to that problem? Of course it's not to tax or fine manufacturers who continuing to pollute, no: it's to reward some pharma companies with a fresh monopoly for altering the medication such that it doesn't deplete the ozone layer.

Congratulations on the amazing new drug you developed! You're now doing the bare minimum that should be required to be a citizen of the planet by not actively destroying it with pollutants! Here's your reward, a monopoly, with which you can extract money from the (mostly poor) asthma sufferers who no longer have affordable medication.

I don't understand why this wasn't a bigger story.

[0] http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/u...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-s...
The main difference between being in the customer service field rather than a true marketplace is that people are far more likely to complain - reasonably or otherwise - about service than goods they've received. Especially when the customer is used to experiencing (and paying more for) a much higher level of service.

Having very limited accommodation is also damaging to AirBNB's brand.
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In my experience this isn't so. While most companies are reliably bad, I have never had a customer service experience as cartoonishly awful as the one I got from Google. And that was for a paid service.