skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nowhere to go, not with the available physical space.

I expect noise to get lower and lower and low light performance to increase, leading to sharper (due to less noise reduction) and less noisier images in the coming years, though, due to the small available physical space and small sensor probably always a step behind larger sensors (like the ones one would find in larger cameras).

Maybe it will be possible to close that gap? For many situations that gap is already quite small when, e.g. comparing many typical image viewing situations with images made under good lighting conditions. On close examination images from cameras with larger sensors would typically still be sharper, though, mostly due to them being able to have a higher resolution with lower noise (though, as I said, in many typical viewing applications those differences are, always depending on the photos and in which context it was made, sometimes imperceptible).

What will not be possible are zoom lenses, interchangeable lenses or, really, any kind of freedom with the lenses at all. Probably also unrealistic is a variable aperture and a sensor size that would allow one to play with depth of field in the first place. That is a fundamental difference that cannot be overcome within the physical envelope of a smartphone that is still recognizable a smartphone and not something else, some weird smartphone camera hybrid.

All that DSLR wankery is kind of pointless, though. The goal here is to make the very goddamn best camera that the physical envelope allows for and smartphones have done an astonishingly great job at that. Those are awesome cameras, no ifs and buts about it. Given what they have to work with they are unabashedly awesome.

DSLRs and other large-sensor cameras are fundamentally different beasts. Comparing them or even holding them up as some sort of great goal for smartphone cameras seems kinda … dumb? … I don’t know, pointless? … short-sighted? to me.
I work for ClusterHQ and we make a tool called Flocker which aims to solve this problem.
I meant by "this road" the idea that there is some sort of genetically inherited fitness to rule, not anything about wealth in particular. (Also, I daresay that rich people elevated to hereditary power would find that their resources would allow them to hold onto their wealth.)
> Speaking of Blogger...what's happened to it?

Google bought it. RIP.
At first I thought the new font looked nice and clean but lately I've really been longing for the old Helvetica Neue again.
Twitter too.
So, to rephrase, most of your classmates had a grossly distorted view of the importance of minor academic setbacks as well as a ridiculous sense of entitlement, which supports what the article was saying.
What's missing from Live Chat? What functionality would move the needle for you?
"do their job"

Why is

> This may include promoting your content with partner companies or services for broader broadcast, distribution, or publication.

"doing their job"? What if I do not want them to do that with my content? Have I ceded my control? Can I tell them not to do so?
This came up a few days ago on HN. There is brand awareness as well as direct sales. So if you see a Heroku advert, then see an article on HN a few days later about it, when looking for quick app deployment you may start at heroku instead of engineyard.

Also, everyone underestimates how much advertising works. People often downplay advertising and beleive it affects others much more than themselves. While for low hanging fruit like MacKeeper, a shit-tier virus-spam-app that constantly is displayed via popups, targeted ads based on your preferences are subtle and difficult to weigh.
Of course, workers pay so few taxes, and corporations lik GE pay way too much already.
Medium is mostly "Rambling", that's my impression. That's what happens when you give distribution channel to bad writers who think they're a kickass writer--they go on and on and on without any essence. Just because they have many followers imported from Twitter doesn't mean they're good writers. A lot of times I run into some 10 page article on Medium that doesn't have any essence, and the more I run into these the more I pass on Medium articles when I come across them.
I started writing on medium and I really have to say its quite good. My original post is on my own domain using wordpress but
I have been thinking about having my domain forwarded to my medium publication instead as I really like the live writing tool. It really makes it so much easier to write and have people help you out proof reading and so on. Very easy not complicated setup and easy commenting etc.

I also like that you can easily have your essay included in other peoples publications [1] or ask if you can include someone elses in yours.

I would pay for access to good publications but I am not really your average user.

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/the-problem-with-problems-47ee63bb35...
If nobody else understands your right answer, it may not be worth much. At this level, it doesn't matter at all--anyone can see based on the constraints what they're doing and understand them.

But this may not always be the case. For example, when they get to intervals and suddenly need to properly discriminate between intervals like (1,2], (1,2), [1,2) and [1,2].

I might ding that by just one point--if you use non-standard notation, you must properly define it. You won't always be dealing with cases where your idiosyncrasies have obvious answers and it's better to form good habits that allow you to communicate clearly with others. There may be many good ways to depart from convention and I'd hesitate to stop anyone from doing that, but I think that if defining your departure from convention is too burdensome to be worthwhile, then you do not have a compelling case to depart from it in the first place.
Replace DevOps with "web technologies" in general and your statement rings even more true.
Having looked at both Mesos (with its various frameworks) and Kubernetes, this immediately looks more attractive to me.

No external dependencies (which arguably simplifies ops), competetive feature set, a nice job language, the fact that Docker is optional, polished documentation, etc. Having used some of Hashicorp's other products, I've grown to expect a level of quality and pragmatism that seems to present here, too. Not being JVM-based is a big plus in my book, too.

How much production use has Nomad seen, I wonder?
When design becomes a standard, is its purpose not lost?
Yes, you are right regarding live migration. I though that's what they used to avoid reboots for one of the Xen-vulnerabilities earlier this year. But it wasn't, it was a hot-patch of some sort. Thanks for clarifying.
I think you are conflating between the needs of centralizing logs and having them around at all. The OP is saying that always centralizing them might not always make sense, and I tent to agree (and I say this as someone who maintains a popular open source log collector)

If I were to play the devil's advocate, the real needs for raw log data in a centralized location is for folks outside of Ops: data analysts and data scientists.
Yeah, both are programming languages. Objective-C was also built on top of C, with the same original purpose as C++, yet you couldn't find two other mainstream languages that differ so much.

I can't really answer to your argument because it is superficial and there isn't anything in there to answer to. Whenever I ask folks what makes Scala complex or bloated, or what the conflicting "styles of writing it" are there, they always shy away. Because it's easier to be handwavy than it is to construct a good argument.

Unfortunately handwavy arguments are subject to marketing and social forces. This is how people end up worshiping Python's spirit and included batteries, which must be some of the biggest lies in our industry, since I can name more non-orthogonal and half-baked features in Python than in Scala, plus several clusterfucks in its standard library and ecosystem, starting from the build management tools, the async-I/O libraries and the web libraries, all of them screaming anything else but "there is only one way to do it". But that's just the herd mentality in action.
It's ridiculous how much of a bubble the web is in right now. Do you really think they well EVER earn $57 million back? In the age of ad blockers, ad networks are dying. How else will they monetize? Only time will tell.

Also, why is Medium so popular? It really doesn't have anything new or different than any blogging platform before it...almost any of the readers of HN could probably create a similar service if we wanted to, so why is Medium so popular? Maybe I'm just really out of touch but I just don't see the value in these websites. Sure they're popular now but for how long? Honestly, how much of their popularity is just because it's the "cool" "new" place to post on, and because everyone else is doing it so I should too?
At the very least it's going to affect power consumption. I agree that they probably went for iso-performance.

Analogy: if you build one thing out of steel and one thing out of aluminum, you can get the same weight or the same strength, but not both.
Let's dramatize the next 2 scenarios:

- 10Mbps or 1MB/s connection;

- 100Mbps or 10MB/s connection.

The goal is to receive in our browser those 812,392,384 bytes as quickly as possible, in first case the winner is 77,286,010 bytes compressor, in second the winner is 90,239,627 bytes compressor, yes?

In first case transfer_time + decompression_time = 77s + 7s = 84s

In second case transfer_time + decompression_time = 9s + 1s = 10s

Now, you see that even in Web Browsing scenario the best performer is not established, right?
OK, now that it's back up, let's take a look at the examples. There's a "register to vote" page, but that's trivial. Here's a more difficult one - a mockup of a Veterans Administration form.[1] This is clearly for use by a Government employee, not the public.

(The first question one asks is, if an appeal is "certified", why does it also have to be "activated" by a human before anything happens? But that's the organization's problem, not web design.)

It's a high-contrast layout, to support the visually impaired. Although it does have both white on black and black on white buttons, visually it seems OK.

The form has a pull-down for "Confirm type action". This isn't a "Confirm" button, it's a selection option, for selecting the type of bureaucratic action. There are several documents mentioned, "Form 8", "Form 9", etc. These are in bold sans-serif blue text. The "NOD" document is apparently missing, so you couldn't view it, but the text for it is the same as for the documents you can view. At the end of each line is the word "Change", in the same font and color. It's not clear if "Form 8" is clickable, leading to a view of the form. "Change" is presumably clickable, and ought to lead to a popup. It's not clear whether changes commit immediately, or when the final buttons at the bottom ("Reassign" or "Activate Appeal") are clicked.

The "POA" heading is misaligned. You can tell they used table-less design - things don't line up right.

This form is useful only if the user has paper materials on hand against which they are checking. Functionally, this form is exactly equivalent to something on a green-screen IBM 3270 terminal from 30 years ago, which may be what it is emulating.

This is their example of good Government web design.

[1] https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/assets-styleguide/i...
I really like the look of this and think it is a great initiative. Especially as I am the only human on earth who don't love Material Design more than my own mother.
I'm saying cognitive biases exists.

I'm saying they are likely to kick into gear when your way of life depends on it.

I'm implying it's fishy that sam is asking for evidence when the bar is so high. In doing so, I'm being a bit of a jerk by not assuming good faith behavior. This is me playing devil's advocate to the YC circle-jerk. Yup. But the point is still valid.

I'm not sure what you mean. You are saying a lot, but what's your actual point? Is it just that people will interpret actions counter to how you mean them? Welcome to the internet.

Also note: liars+ con artists are not the same as people with cognitive biases so you shouldn't be putting them in the same sentence. Because what people mean to do matters. The former are lying to you. The latter to themselves. I don't, for a moment, think sam is the former. I trust pg's judgement too much for that. But, I do suspect that sam is smack in the middle of a insulated/yes-men/bubble culture which is why I'm bothering to say something. If I assumed that his post had malicious intent/was underhanded, why would I even waste time engaging?
Ask HN: Where are people buying shirts from?
I am a young software developer, and I want to upgrade my style. Where should I buy my shirts from?
PagerDuty is hiring a PM to help grow from 200 partner integrations to 500
It's all open source and in the public domain: https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards

They're also pretty active with the pull request system: https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/pulls and have a CONTRIBUTING guide: https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/blob/18f-pages-s...

I attended a presentation by one of the people working on the project last week and they put a lot of thought into both how to make this a usable guide for now and how to keep it growing into the future. The USDS has attracted some really great people lately, and it shows!
Far more sinister would be "Your wife Mary has an arrest record, click to see it!" (but of course, she doesn't - they just want the click, and get to imply validity by means of knowing other personal details).

As you said, I doubt Google would try/permit this, but this will certainly come through.
Wow, clearly I haven't had enough caffeine yet to even read the support page, thanks for the kind reminder ;)
Yes and no, a lot of the ops folks I know peter out at pretty basic scripting and find a templating system easier.
This isn't about sending emails. It's about Google AdWords display ads. I think it's technically possible to "hide" individual advertisers, but the short answer is: no, the company is under no obligation to stop showing web ads to people who previously said they don't want emails.
Google also drove Blogger straight into the ground (though more slowly)
Configure telemetry and other settings in your organization (Windows)
Wealth is increasingly concentrated in the highest brackets.

You're making the classic zero sum game error. And the language of the rest of your reply should reveal this: " Microsoft, Oracle, etc. made tens of thousands of millionaires"

Notice where I quoted you, I emphasized the word "made". This was indeed the correct word to use, because Gates, Ellison, etc., did indeed create something. They got rich not by taking something away from me or you or anyone else. They got rich by building something new, something so compelling that people willingly gave them money, and considered themselves better off having done it.

The creation of Windows, of Oracle, etc., made the world a better place. And some of that betterment is reflecting in the wallets of those guys. They're not holding anything that would rightfully be yours, they made the economic pie bigger, and are enjoying a portion of that growth.
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I don't like the kerning on San Francisco. It's too common to have wider than normal spaces between characters to the point of being distracting. Maybe that's good to read randomly generated strings of text, but on actual words the shape of the word is the first hint to the brain when trying to read it, before the individual characters, and if that shape is compromised by wider than expected spaces, reading flow is affected.
There are some left, but those middle positions are 1) no longer safe in the way they were once perceived to be and 2) vanishing faster all the time. The trend shows that "hollowing out" has been occurring for quite a while:

http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/04/27/how-do-yo...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/28/ho...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/the-holl...

The choice is more between "member of various elite / professional jobs" and "Starbucks"; there is no exaggeration.
i'm loving sbt, but still on projects above > 100 dependencies it gets really really slow to download it, while with gradle (even i dislike it) it is way way faster.
I wasn't saying that you're trolling, I was just asking about reasoning since I'm curious.
What browser do you use? If there was a sane option, I would use it but Firefox really consumes resources even putting effort in to optimizing my settings. Using the tor browser or something is just not practical for everyday use. You can either give your data to microsoft, apple or google (if you haven't already) or use FF.
Nice to have somebody on my side. From what I could find so far CO seems to be the second most common molecule in the interstellar space[0], and water does not seem to take part in a nuclear fusion[1], so I think that the discussed statement may not even necessarily be true.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#Nuclear_fusion_...
This is obviously not a Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Why doesn't AirB&B work to reduce prices? Once it becomes less profitable for people to sublet their places for the sake of making it money, maybe people will see it as less of an evil. There are far too many hacker hotels in SF on AirB&B charging ridiculous rates, jamming up to 20 people into a single condo stacked with bunk beds.
This one is interesting to me. I've been a big proponent of Hashicorp's other tooling, but this seems like an area that other projects are already addressing (and doing well in). Choice is great, but I think I would have preferred if they joined up with Kubernetes/Mesos/etc.

Also, their messaging seems a little ingenious. Otto talks about how important it is to support microservice development and deployment, but Nomad lists as a con that Kubernetes has too many separately deployed and composed services.

PS, I do work for Red Hat, so maybe I'm a little biased.
Build a compiler using drag'n'drop
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Looking outdated isn't the worst thing in a world. I think National Forest signs look like hotel signs from the 1950s, and that's probably not a coincidence.

What's more interesting is if this will lead to better maintainability. Since this includes code as well as guidelines, hopefully it will reduce the variation between various agencies' websites. That in turn should make future upgrades more uniform and therefore less costly.
I'm definitely not addressing people scared of mice or bad words, those things may well be explained by helicoptering as I stated in my first sentence; I am addressing "hypersensitivity" to bad grades, which I think is rational.
I'm guessing the point of this is that you can move around and see the displayed content from different directions, so why are all of the promotional videos shot from a stationary camera? Everything on this site makes it appear indistinguishable from a regular LCD.
OK, that explains it. But it's crazy, in my opinion, to use JavaScript for this purpose.
https://originalstitch.com/
Input -> Process -> Output

Somewhere a Haskell programmer is nodding.
You may have only played the Xbox version, which did have a strict constraint on the map size. The PC version, IIRC, has no such restriction aside from perhaps memory and/or maximum possible values.
The Far Lands referred to are actually a result of this lack of constraint allowing the player to reach a point where floating point errors begin to wreak havoc on the map generator.
Apparatus: graphics editor and programming environment for interactive diagrams
On my DSLR taken photos I white balance/color correct, level, and crop all photos I'm going to keep. Photos that have particularly good subjects, I may get artistic and play with other settings until I see something I like.
Had a very bad experience with airbb support too.. Appartment was digusting and not as advertised. airbnb refused to help.
1500 euro gone, as we moved to something else.

I've had a bit too many bad experiences with the offerings of hosts and service of airbnb.

I hope this unicorn will die, and will be replaced by something proper
So like, I know anything Apple gets design-wonk dicks of all sexual orientations rock hard, especially in the actual city of San Francisco, but this font is kinda meh to me. It's readable and functional, but not a revelation nor a revolution. In fact it looks quite a bit like Roboto Sans.

And maybe that's how things should be. Maybe functionality and readability, especially on the watch display, should trump traditional evocations of old world style and class, even in Cupertino.
Nice, they use SASS/Bourbon/Neat for their styling.[0][1] Huge fan and recommend it to anyone using Ruby for web development.

[0] - https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/getting-started/

[1] - http://bourbon.io/
Why only Tesla has OTA? Some people really think nobody in the industry ever thought of that since the internet was born? Musk is doing a nice publicity stunt.

Tesla sold, what?.... 30000 cars all time? All models above $50000? So addressing people living in places where OTA is not an issue.

How are all the other car makers going to handle a production of a few milion units PER YEAR, being updated OTA? How are they going to update cars sold in countries where Internet is a dream?
If you change your release strategy to fit an OTA update model, you better be able to support it. This is not a problem for the volume Tesla is selling, and neither for it's audience.
They've seen seep-like events in craters and canyons for over ten years. This study determines it to be water and not something else.
Isn't the ease with which students can get sizable, non-dischargable, government-backed student loans the primary driver of these problems? Universities can practically charge whatever they want and they will always get paid, which leads to extravagant health centers, rec centers dining halls, etc. If anything, I think decreased incentives for schools to charge such high tuitions would lead to cutting lots of these high-salaried administrative deans and perhaps the universities thinking twice about building that new $5M rec center.
Google tracks users phones to determine when businesses are busiest
> If anything, the additional 'complicated' things we use in Scala aren't language features but rather libraries

One thing with Scala is that various features of the language allow libraries to reshape the "feel" of the language, because a number of things that would be fixed in the language in many other languages can be modified by libraries in Scala.
Apple should just switch to Roboto
I think the truth underlying that observation is that scaling is always hard. It's relatively easy to pick some defaults that work to get 99% of projects off the ground when they are small, but once you approach real scale inevitably hard decisions need to be made, and those decisions will depend on seemingly minute details of your service's workload. Therefore, tools like Kubernetes necessarily have a threshold of expertise required to use them effectively. I think all of these things are all trending towards more scalable and easier to use, but fundamentally there will always be a tension between those two goals.