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My work computer is also my home computer. So not losing photos and videos is pretty critical. Everything else is replaceable.

I just bought a cheap Seagate Backup Plus 4TB last year. I think it was $130. Then I just let Time Machine do it's thing. So that's 2 copies of the important stuff.

Then $50 annually for Backblaze. I've got no real use for Dropbox and it costs twice as much for less storage. I could totally see using it in a media company. That's just not a problem I have. I pretty much never need to share a personal file that's too big for iMessage (photos/videos) or Email (spreadsheets). Anyways, that's a third copy.

Then I've got iCloud to share photos/music/videos on our Family Sharing. That's a fourth copy.

So everything is pretty much always in sync. Wether it's my wife's iPad, my laptop, either of our phones, etc.

Into the second year it's cheaper than just having Dropbox alone. But the best part: It takes... I dunno. 10 minutes of one time setup effort. You don't have to know anything but how to click "Next" or "OK" in a wizard, and it's zero maintenance. Nothing to baby-sit.

And it's a little slow, but if I really need an individual file off Backblaze, I can get it. Just takes a couple minutes to use their web based backup browser and selectively download something. I've had to do that a total of one time though.

Beyond that setting up a new machine for me for development is just pulling my .bashit theme, installing homebrew, installing IntelliJ, running brew install sbt git and I'm pretty much good to go. It was really surprising how quick setting up my Macbook for Scala development was compared to setting up previous machines for Ruby development.
The multi aperture thing doesn't make much sense, it appears to have multiple lenses which will have debilitating parallax error due to the positioning. I don't see how that's possible. I'm also struggling to see why they laid out the sensors in such a non geometric pattern too.
What are the benefits of this over something like Bokeh?
This programmer made a ‘Volkswagen’ tool to help bad code pass quality tests
For people with trypophobia like me surely will terrified by it.
I wasn't aware I have some trypophobia, but now I do heh.
The service itself is also kind of expensive for the chance that you might be able to get a cheaper flight. I plugged in the data for an upcoming international flight path I need to make soon and the total was $85 for service, which is a bit in my opinion for the chance that the service might be able to find a cheaper flight plan.

And since it's non-refundable unless you can prove there is a cheaper option, it's sunk money if there's nothing significantly better. I'm honestly not sure how much stronger this is than just using the multi-flight tool on ITA Matrix in a lot of cases, especially since the secret is basically they'll hunt for the hidden city flights, which with a small bit of research you can do yourself.
If you break it out of the gallery, you can get a little better look.
http://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_13.jpg
http://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_14.jpg

Pretty impressive.
This is quite interesting/cool but the two primary reasons I prefer DSLRs to any point and shoot are: 1. The viewfinder. Screens just don't cut it in sunlight or at night (too much or too little light). 2. Time between getting the camera out and getting that shot is very very quick with a DSLR.

It's hard to imagine this replacing my DSLR. If the cost is low enough it could replace my point and shoot though... I'm still more likely to have my phone on me than a camera...
Great job Sam! YC isn't any more only about starting new companies and making them profitable. But about improving lives for everyone on the planet. And to do that
>'YCR is a non-profit.'
Just brilliant!
All Lisps have macros, which are the same only more powerful (as they're allowed to transform code).
Parallax could be corrected by software as long as the subject isn't too close. You might lose a little detail around the edges but with enough redundancy it's probably not a big deal
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Volkswagen U.S. Chief Knew of Potential Emissions Problems in 2014
React is more similar to jQuery than Knockout, but it abstracts away DOM manipulation. I'd say it's better than jQuery, but not as good as web components.
I liked that first picture, too. And on closer inspection it's interesting -- some different color temperatures in different spots. I wonder if you get a natural HDR type capability using different sensors like this. The second one makes me think low light should be reasonably good, which is what I would hope for considering the technology description.
The whole foods by me has been selling wild caught sockeye at a great price for weeks now... figured they had a good source and didn't think much more. Makes sense that there's a glut as you say
This is such an insanely great idea. This (alongside with the YC Fellowship and the classic YC program) makes us really have no excuse for not doing something great, that matters for us and for the world. Wow, YC, well played.
Interesting to note the use of IPython as a research tool even within a corporate financial firm.
C++ is huge in scientific programming. Fortran is the cliche language for science, but the vast majority of newer large-scale codes are being written in C++.
The L16 Is a DSLR-Quality Camera That Fits in Your Pocket
It doesn't just let you change focus on the fly; it also gives you a honking giant image -- 52 MP according to the Verge. The lenses themselves range from 35 to 150 mm, which gives you a fair amount of play in terms of zoom, too.

So, good low-light capability in a box about the size of a smartphone plus high-quality high-resolution images.
> At one point is history, we built a great western civilization. There must have been great incentive to do that, despite the ideologies at play over the past several hundred years. How do we recreate those conditions?

The conditions were no different; likely they were worse (much worse depending on how far back you go). Read a detailed history of some past era and you'll see much that is similar to what you see today.

It's a very conservative notion that we are somehow worse today, and that our ancestors were somehow greater. That pessimism, which includes pessimism about our ability to act as a community (i.e., about government), keeps us from moving forward: Many people buy it and won't even try. We can't build mass transit because people are sure we can't do anything.

Our ancestors were very human (again, read that history), corrupt, confused, political, just like we are, but in many ways worse off because they didn't have the institutions they and their descendents built over the centuries, from democracy to civil rights to education. They did it; so can we. They had plenty of naysayers too.

We've been given all that; handed it on a silver platter. What are we building for our descendents?
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The alt text for that comic is "The USGS operates a really neat email/SMS earthquake notification service (earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/) that allows fine-grained control of notifications." Sorry to be a fun spoiler!
In a way that makes sense - per-capita. But since villages were so tiny, the total number of people who knew your secrets was very small. Today, it numbers in the thousands/millions.
There are pros/cons to dirty checking vs. getters/setters, dirty checking seems to be more popular because it saves you a few lines of code, although I prefer getters/setters as it's much more efficient and cleaner.
Yeah, there does seem to be a little uncanniness to the lighting a la hdr. They feel painted. I'm curious how much post-processing went into each of these.
Centurylink has a pretty formidable IaaS offering, it's very well priced and they charge very little (comparatively) for bandwidth. The only problem is their storage solution is extremely expensive but using S3 or soon Backblaze B2 as a storage layer is good enough for me.
The only people without trypophobia are those who do not know about it.
It's a mystery? Have always believed it due to the overfishing of cod. Historically there has been an overabundance of lobsters.

When the colonists first arrived on the shores of New England, ...lobsters used to wash up on shore in drifts two-feet tall. One 17th century British historian by the name of William Wood visited Newfoundland and noted, "Their plenty makes them little esteemed and seldom eaten [except by the Indians who] get many of them every day for to baite their hooks withal and to eat when they can get no bass."

http://factually.gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-...

Some contemporary Canadians remember kids from poor towns, as late as the 1940s, trading lobster sandwiches for peanut butter and jelly in the school cafeteria.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/how-lobster-claw...
the biggest message this sends is something nobody is talking about: amazon is not afraid of sending hardware on-premises.
Yep, don't ever book the outbound and return on the same itinerary if you are using this trick. Most airlines ( other than Southwest ) will void everything else on the itinerary once they detect it.

It's also one reason why low-cost carriers like Easyjet and Ryanair have thos low operating costs, they only offer point to point flights so there is no hidden-city option and no need to pay for a department to scan for it...
A preference is just a term on the investment. They could be mixed. It can get pretty complicated.

Take this scenario: (A) Series A non-participating 5M, (B) Series B non-participating 10M, (C) Series C participating 10M, owns 25%. Founders own 50%, no options pool. Company sells for 30M.

- C gets 10M first
- B gets 10M next
- A gets 5M next
- 5M left over, only C is participating; A & B are just floors.
- Pro-rata, remaining ownerships ratio of 50:25 = 2:1.
- 5M/3*2 = 3.33M goes to founders.
- 5M/3*1 = 1.67M goes to Series C investors.

Total tallies:

- Founder: 3.33M.
- Series A: 5M. ROI: 0%
- Series B: 10M. ROI: 0%
- Series C: 11.67M. ROI: 16%

This is mostly for intellectual curiosity, though. If you're a startup founder today… just don't take on any investors who ask for participating preferred. If you're an investor, don't ask for it, it makes you a vulture.
Whoops, I mean UPower, not Transatomic
I despise Make, and yet I still use it because it ends up being the best "good enough for now" solution to put in place.
I meant UPower, not Transatomic. Whoops!
OK. Maybe I just don't understand game development very well, but I don't get why some of the problems they had in the post-MMU era even existed.

1) Memory Fragmentation - why? This seems like it would only be a problem if they ran their entire game in the same virtual address space.

2) Subsystem A corrupting Subsystem B's RAM - once again, wouldn't one run the sim code in one address space, the rendering in another, etc. and have strategically shared pages for them to transfer data back and forth?

It really seems to me like the idea is 'yeah, we had virtual memory, and it was great, but we didn't really use it'... Granted, they put guard pages on some allocations, but that's akin to using supercomputer to solve your family budget. Lots of power available, but using it in a trivial way.

I acknowledge that there's some cost to a context switch, and that the 2005 generation used PowerPC with its fairly cache-inefficient hashed pagetable (poor locality), but the benefits of having a hard wall in memory between major system functions is immeasurable (I'm guessing that on PPC, they just set up a few Block Address Translation registers and called it 'good enough').

Then again, I come from a safety critical background .. we make aerospace code, so it's developed using the methods described in the article about 'the right stuff' that was up a day or two ago. We're really fond of having really hard walls between every resource we can (memory, CPU time, I/O bandwidth, FS bandwidth ... you name it) for major system functions. I realize that in game programming most of those walls aren't practical (due to performance impact) or necessary, but the memory one is fairly cheap and incredibly helpful.

PS - if you're wondering, we prevent memory leak problems by just disabling dynamic allocation post-boot, which happens on the ground. Our stack utilization is also required to be statically analyzable, which means that you can't do things like recursion. These limitations make the design of some algorithms extremely painful, but what other software have you ever heard of that can truthfully claim 0 memory leaks, guaranteed. We also do 100% code coverage (at the machine language level), 100% decision coverage, static and dynamic worst-case timing analysis, etc. etc. etc. Look up 'DO-178B' or 'DO-178C' if you're curious about what's done and why safety critical stuff is insanely expensive. More recently we're throwing in fuzzing for good measure, but fuzzing doesn't turn up a whole lot in extremely thoroughly tested code that's been reviewed line-by-line by dozens of engineers (and is subject to strict design limitations).
So do you approve of using #BlackHolesMatter to protest the heat death of the universe, because it's a much bigger and longer term problem, which affects many more life forms than #BlackLivesMatter?
I have an interest in photography and little to no interest in cameras like Lytro, and probably this one although there's not enough information yet to tell. As you point out handling and speed are important. Nobody cares about a "light field" camera if it's impossible to hold and takes three seconds to turn on. $1300 is a huge chunk of money for unknown performance.
I don't think that's entirely true. We had many people interested in turning off bound checks with compile option, but it was rejected.
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At 53 MP and three sets of useful primes, it seems like a dSLR replacement to me. I'm pretty excited, but I don't want to pay even the preorder price for first-generation technology like this without a long breaking-in period.

The Verge's review does say that it compares well with the 5DIII in detail. It also says that the Light's photos "weren't as punchy" -- not sure what that means. Saturation or contrast? I'll wait on a good comparison review.
In their examples there's a macro photo of a chess board.
> What bugs me about this is that the people who would have benefit from these policies, such as my ancestors, are long dead and gone.

The people who directly benefited (or suffered) from de jure discrimination by race in the US aren't even dead and gone -- there are people alive today that were adults when those policies existed -- much less the people that indirectly benefited by way of, e.g., having an advantage (resp., disadvantage) in opportunity because their parents wealth/education/etc. was directly influenced by those policies.
Have you thought about moving somewhere where the job market is a lot better? Or as a lot of people recommend, doing simple freelance work?

Also if you're having trouble getting a developer job, you might want to look into associated fields and move around there, such as QA or Sys admins etc. There's so much more out there and having a CS degree allows you to be pretty flexible.
I think it's pretty likely that a seisomograph somewhere else is going to notice an earthquake of that magnitude.
I think it just became popular. I don't think it grew up at all. This all seemed to start happening after the facebook boom and all of my friends suddenly knew what a meme was.
Can it make calls?
C++ Expression Templates – Past, Present, Future
I've had most success reaching out to folks posting in the "who wants to be hired' thread.
Open Source, Technology, and the Future of Education
Before trying to answer this question, it might be useful to see the reasons for using Monads along with examples in Phillip Wadler's Monads For Functional Programming[0].

From there I like to go to "You could have invented monads!"[1].

Then you might want to checkout "Monads as computation"[2].

From there look at the huge guide of "All about monads[3].

If you are still confused you haven't made enough programs using monads yet. Try taking some of the examples (especially from [0]) and modifying them to do something else.

0: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/ba...

1: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...

2: https://wiki.haskell.org/Monads_as_computation

3: https://wiki.haskell.org/All_About_Monads#Introduction_2
The problems I had when trying jet.com were that they didn't have a lot of the things I was looking for, and when they did, it was the same price as ordered from Amazon Prime.

That being said, I'll look again now with this announcement.

I'm not sure what their play is now without the membership fee. Like some of the other posts, my take is just to use their service to grab some discounts until they've burned through investor money.

Cynically I think this is rolling the dice to try to achieve some critical mass of users in the hope of being bought by someone like Amazon.
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Yeah, it does look a little funky around the edges of the pieces in the background, but surprisingly not the foreground: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4rx62fjo63nvk4/Screenshot%202015-...
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If you look closely at that photo, the result is really weird. The black pieces behind the plane of focus have very uncertain positions that the software didn't bother fixing. It's bokeh, in a way. A horrible way.
Since the VM system works at the granularity of pages, using N entirely different regions wastes up to $PAGE_SIZE * N bytes of memory just in the free space at the end of the region. You also make your fragmentation problem worse, since you can't place an allocation from one system within the free space of another.
> I don't want to pay even the preorder price for first-generation technology like this without a long breaking-in period.

It's not even a pre-order price. It's a crowdfunding contribution, for which the company is not obliged to give you anything in return.
The question is, is the locker room, the powder room, the boardroom, etc. growing up?

There is a place for civil discourse and there is a place for people to be as ugly as they want to be or are. Else you're just pretending it does not exist or that you can wish it away.

This is like religious people thinking that if you only think pure thoughts all will be well in the world.

The same people who want to see crime-ridden neighborhoods bulldozed over to bring about the new society where everything is resplendescent, bright and tame and only the good people live and there is no Other. There are no drug abusers, misogynistic men, cruel women, or human traffickers.
Refs are simply references to DOM nodes that you have to specify through the ref (HTML) attribute. You can give a DOM node the ref value "foo" and then later reference it in a react component with this.refs.foo (previously this.refs.foo.getDOMNode()).
Agreed. They've got a fascinatingly lifelike, "through your own eyes" look. Which to me is more interesting since our perception of sight is actually a mental re-representation, not a raw view of the data streaming in from your retinas at a given moment. So, perhaps somewhat analogous to multi-camera/aperture shots recombined in software.
... or matplotlib?
I used to do this all the time growing up, at least once a month I'd spend a few nights out in the woods camping from sometime around age 11 to 17. Granted, modern medicine was rarely more than a short hike and a car ride away (except for multi-week trips).

I'd say it helped build character. Regarding going hungry, when you're out on the trail and have 10 miles left to hike and no time to stop for lunch because you know a storm is coming in and you need to set up camp, you learn that you really don't need to eat every time your stomach growls. You also learn how to be dependable for those in your group, and how to depend on others without becoming dependent on them.
Having the privilege of worked nearby Scott Wardle before, I can say he's an incredibly approachable and helpful guy. It's exciting to see him on the front page of Hacker News. Go Scott!
Cost/benefit analysis requires defining what "cost" and "benefit" mean, which is a moral/ideological decision.
What are the incorrect origin stories the author referred to?
Have you tried SAP Lumira?

http://go.sap.com/product/analytics/lumira/desktop.html

Personal Edition is free.
Most of my important things (and all the things that need to keep a history) live in repositories on Github and/or Bitbucket. All the system configuration is done via Boxen. I have 2 rotating clone drives (weekly) for quick disaster recovery. For all the long-lived things that don't need explicit versioning I use arq to store on S3. Arq it terrific BTW.
Andy Rubin's Playground incubator has closed a $300M funding round
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https://light.co/content/2-gallery/gallery_modal_05.jpg

You're right, that's like no lens blur I've ever seen.
True, that's why standardization in this area is very important. I'm very optimistic about IATA standards like NDC currently being adopted.
I'm sorry but I have to call you a liar. 4chan even has a board dedicated for gay people. Keep in mind this board was around way before any of the social change that's come about in the last 5 years. I used to frequent /gifs as a teenager, and there were were always tons of gay gifs. They were not 'paraded as gross or weird'. They were just gay. As a straight person, I can tell you that there were a lot more gross and weird straight gifs than there were gay ones (cough beastiality cough). I really don't know if this is just your interpretation or if you are a liar like I'm accusing you of being. But your experience certainly does not speak for all gay people. And I find it difficult to believe that someone who's gay would feel alienated like you claim.
Hmm. I was going from the re/code article (http://recode.net/2015/10/07/photography-startup-light-takes...).

> The company will take preorders, with a limited number of units available for $1,299, until Nov. 6.

The reservation form on the actual site is the same way. Why do you call it crowdfunding?
Ask HN: What do you use for testing REST APIs?
For example, assert JSON response format, verify POST returned HTTP 201, deal with different API versions, assert exceptions (4xx) on bad client data etc.
Any Rust people around willing to speculate about adding data layout options? Would it be easy or hard, and would it be something current Rust hackers might consider doing or would it take a volunteer with a mission?
This multi-aperture camera was delivered rather before the Light L16:

https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/vla

It's about time someone did this for consumer products.
Awesome, thank you for your response mate.
By running everything in a single process and address space they can get n % more fps, where n>0.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10350809.
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HairEffect is an all-in-one product allowing user to visualize itself with a virtual haircut (3D) in real time using a device composed of a screen and a motion sensor to hair salons. The user can both change haircut but also change the color with simple hand movements. We have a lot of other features to satisfy our customers (hairdressers). It's an essential tool for hairdressers today.

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Yes, constexpr in C++.
I thought it was meant to give it a "natural" feeling, i.e. it feels like raindrops to me.
Yes, both MSVC's front-end C1XX and back-end C2 (aka UTC) are written in C++. Even our CRT is mostly C++ now.
This is a straight up weird product at the price point they're targeting. And given that they're asking for money up front and not providing sample raw images and/or full resolution jpegs makes me very hesitant.