skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The death of film has more to do with distribution than acquisition; the pervasive switch to digital projection completely killed the last bastion of demand for film stock. (A typical film might requires 100s to 1000s as much stock for delivery to theaters as it needed for initial capture.)

That said, you can't get the entire Super8 look with digital filters. There are optical properties (have to use the same lens and sensor size), and the way it handles highlights vs lowlights is different than digital sensors. (The 'rolloff' in the highlights, rather than clipping at saturation, is very desirable.)

And it's true that film isn't entirely dead in Hollywood. Quentin Tarantino shot his most recent film on 70mm stock. But that's nearly 100x the resolution of 8mm film, so they're not really comparable. OTOH, I recently saw Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," which was shot on 16mm reversal (color, not negative) film stock for the look.

In each case, the choice of film stock definitely affected the look of the film. It also affected the act of shooting the film; even if you can mimic a filmic look digitally (through digital acquisition and post processing), shooting digitally is very different than shooting film. I happen to prefer digital, but courses for horses.

But yeah, for consumers, it's pretty much a hipster affectation. Good for Kodak, though! Also of note in the annals of hipster retro photography is 'The Impossible Project,' which revived Polaroid film:

https://www.the-impossible-project.com/

Also, 'lomography.'
12 character random strings are an absolute minimum for a secure password, because brute forcing and tabling start to become impractical. Longer strings are even better.

I wouldn't consider an 8 char password secure, no matter what the entropy is.
can you show us an example of such a detailed report, without us having to use the service? thx
I completely disagree. This service targets people who peg a higher value to their time than $100 / hour and/or are too busy to take on other tasks. This is valuable for anyone that runs their own business or who has an actual dollar amount pegged to their time (a large portion of HN readership), not just members of the 1%.

E.g., cancelling a doctor's appointment takes 10 minutes. Even if you bill your time out at $50 / hour, you've now saved yourself the trouble of making a random phone call for 16 bucks and remain focused on what you're actually good at.
And, might I add, that this business appears to be a net job creator... jobs funded by the 1%.
Japanese are well aware of their shared history with China. I mean, kanji literally means "Chinese characters".

From what I've seen Japanese and Chinese get on well. It's their governments that use the other as a convenient boogeyman 1984-style.
This sounds a bit like Uber for personal assistants. So for people in the top 1% they can now have 24/7 personal assistants at probably about the same cost as they previously paid for a 9 to 5-er.

Then a middle man skims most of the profits while all of the personal assistants of the world lose job stability and end up having to work 80 hours a week as "personal contractors" to try and break even with what they previously made in a 40 hour work week.

Yeah; I'm a bit skeptical.
To play normal human advocate, nobody that has not gone into a Sci-Fi reading induced coma wants that.
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Then the messages would be green. I'm curious about this as well (unless they're just photoshopped).

When I was experimenting with Twilio that was the only aspect that was a little disappointing. I wanted blue messages. :)
I don't consider $900/month in bandwidth significant. And I'm sure Amazon account managers don't either -- but it can't hurt to ask, especially if you've got a growth plan that makes sense.
1. YC doesn't publish numbers on economic diversity and I'm not aware of any special attempts at funding people from poor backgrounds.

2. VCs make money and raise funds by getting higher valuations. VCs in later rounds will value companies with elite founders at higher numbers, and are more likely to fund them in the first place. VCs also can't be as easily blamed when elite founders fail, so they're a safer bet, etc.
Also, I've heard on the grapevine that 2016 is also the year of Linux on the desktop!

All jokes aside, the article is just regurgitating whatever Coinbase has told the author of the piece. Not a whole lot of content unfortunately.
I don't see how that's relevant. They weren't valued at the time. Later they were. $ being a flawed measure of value doesn't make any sense. $ IS value.
AI is the obvious future for this yeah. I think the tech right now probably just centralizes around building really good customer profiles and excellent tools for assistants so that any assistant can pick up work for any customer.
She's a great writer, but wow is she wrong about everything. In her head, the market decides Candy Crush is $7b because a few VCs decided so. That's not how this works. The market is willing to pay $7b for Candy Crush because millions upon millions of people download it, enjoy it, and look at ads on it, which generate revenue. At the same time, those users' enjoyment is the value it created.

Holly doesn't think that's real value. She thinks she's a better judge of what value is and isn't. And that's where this becomes hilarious. Because Paul Graham respects "the poors" to spend their money and time on what they think is worthwhile. But not Holly Wood. She thinks that millions of people downloading and using and enjoying Candy Crush isn't valuable because she personally thinks Candy Crush is a stupid waste of time. She knows what's really good for people. Those people themselves, they have no idea.

No wonder she hates libertarians. She's a totalitarian. And the funniest part for the rest of us is she doesn't know it.
Twitter Isn’t Raising the Character Limit. It’s Becoming a Walled Garden
why isn't mike answering this question like he did with the other questions...
You're totally missing the point. This guy ran an organization like he ran online gaming groups. People were treated as disposable. Environment was toxic. All that mattered was a simplistic and materialistic notion of "winning." Nothing was ever physically mangled outside of a CNC machine.
I don't get it. Twitter is a one to many broadcast channel. Its point is to be public. Privacy doesnt factor in. I think you could make a fake email, but twitter serves as a public channel so if you want privacy and twitter you are sort of asking for an sms message?
Looks like the consent decrees were terminated in 1995.
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That's a good point. Not worth your time for a company like Linode that doesn't really care about its customers. I think people mistake the quick support responses to basic questions as them caring, but when it really comes down to the important things like security and communication during a crisis, it's clear that there is a huge lapse from the leadership level down. Someone in this post wrote about how they stopped $10k worth of Linode service a month and no one tried to get them back or retain them. That was very odd to read, especially for a business of Linode's size ($22 million in revenue isn't that big where you can shrug off $120k/year.) Par for the course it seems, and everything is starting to make sense. Thanks for sharing your story and sorry that happened to your team.
This is probably what's called a 'video assist' in the film industry: when the film is being pulled through the gate, it's shielded from the light by a spinning mirror. In a fully-analog camera, that mirror reflects the light up to a ground glass target in the eyepiece, so the cinematographer sees the light that isn't recorded onto the film.

With a video assist, that light is simply captured by a sensor (yes, exactly like in a video camera) and presented to the user on a video display. Some use a beam-splitter to deliver the analog view to the cameraperson while still sending some photons to the video tap.

Note, in both cases, the light that hits the film itself is never visible to anyone until after development -- the camera crew gets to see the photons that are rejected, which can do weird things when you go to unusual shutter speeds (the image gets darker in the viewfinder as you increase the exposure)... though I believe there were some 16mm Bolexes that simply used a beamsplitter, so the viewer saw the same scene as the film stock -- but don't quote me on that.
This is so wrong I don't even know where to start. In fact, this is basically the notion of frequentism!

Frequentism doesn't even allow you to represent your belief with a probability distribution.

One of the very most fundamental ideas of Bayesian reasoning is that there is no one true set of parameters nor is there one true model. There is only your state of knowledge about the space of all possible parameter sets or all possible models.

Bayesian reasoning says there is one true set of parameters/model, you just don't know which one it is. The posterior distribution allows you to represent relative degrees of belief and figure out which model/parameter is more likely to be true.

Assuming you gather enough data, your posterior distribution will eventually approximate a delta function centered around that one true model. This is also what happens when you do BMA or gaussian mixtures.

The fact that model averaging provides better predictive ability doesn't contradict what I said.
You say no one ... Actually, I see a lot of you all saying this about farming .... Do you all live under rocks? You realize there are whole bustling industries of people wanting to go back to eating food produced in the exact opposite way than this frothy breathless Sci-Fi viewpoint.

I mean, I wonder if those who hold such views actually realize human beings aren't actually robots or aren't actually the "extras" in the Sci-Fi stories ...
But it won't stop people from screencapping text and posting it as an image.
How deep is the 140-character limit hard-coded or assumed throughout Twitter's codebase and beyond? How much would break if the Twitter front-end simply stopped limiting submissions to 140 characters? There is Twitter's web front-end, the server backend, Twitter's native apps, third-party clients, feed reading scripts, …
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It'd be nice to see films shot in color again instead of blue and orange.

http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange...
Why would you reach for ancient China instead of, you know, ancient Japan? Are you under the impression that Japanese civilization started with China?
The server would in fact accept any credentials as it had been started with --skip-grant-tables. Tested it myself.
I don't understand how you can be so certain that the hypothetical scenarios they imagine can't possibly happen. Even if it really is laughable, we spend a lot of money on laughable research (homeopathy, anyone?), so why is this case so particularly bad?
> The HN text box defeats at least Firefox's spell checking.

Can't repro. Firefox 41 on Gentoo Linux.
That's been my recommend for a long time. Plus, I liked obfuscating with unusual CPU choices and network guards (esp for protocol layers). Worked wonders with about no effort outside setting up guards. Opponents throw so much x86 shellcode at your Alpha, etc boxes while never quite getting stuff to run.
You don't mention contacting support. Shouldn't that be your second avenue after trying to access the account dashboard?
OT: Why the USA, Canada and UK only - and not EU/EEC as well (or at least other Commonwealth contries, but maybe that's not a (tax/business)thing any more..?) [Ed: Or does UK really mean anyone with the right to work in/through the UK, and not anyone actually in the UK?]
As you sure you understand what "take the processing to the data" means?

EMR-on-S3 is the "copy the data to the processing nodes" variety.
I do understand the desire for "available source code for peer and community review".

What I don't understand is how to set up practical guidelines.

For example, consider "reviewed for free but not redistributed". If I review the software, and find an error, what do I do? Should I publish a paper which demonstrates the difference between the original and corrected versions? If so, I need to include the fixed code, and perhaps also the original. But that's a redistribution.

"would be an impediment to those in academia who don't have funding to pay for licenses to source code"

As a minor point which is big in my mind - most academic groups have more funding to pay for licenses than I, a self-funded, for-profit researcher, have.

"but that sounds a lot like what you're advocating in your original comment"

I mentioned that, to explain the view of most people who want access the source code. I was not advocating it.

My question was, is this requirement important enough that all of the source code must be made available at no cost? If so, it's in opposition to the FSF's four freedoms, which encourages people to sell free software, so there must be some other philosophical underpinning to justify the no-cost argument.

What is that philosophy? It can't simply be "to verify" because there are some problems, like factoring RSA-360:

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where it's trivial to verify the solution is correct without reproducing the calculations.

And what counts as a "byzantine and expensive processes"? The process of reproducing one of the CERN papers, especially if I need to make my own accelerator, is non-trivial and expensive. Some molecular dynamics simulation software only runs on custom-made ASIC hardware, or uses $100K+ of CPU time. A software cost of $20K is only a small part of the overall cost in that case.
The Zeta SDR sounds more in my price range! A great idea. Someone should be able to rig it to a USB interface,

Is there a website with a lot of open source radio designs?
Lubuntu if you want something lightweight
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I recently thought of a better way to do this with a quasi supervised ML approach... I think this pricepoint is finally a good reason to do so.
What kind of income would a person need to fathom affording something like that?

What kind of income do you need to spend $200 on a Valentine's dinner? Probably not $1k a month. It's a stretch at $2k but not impossible. It does not feel "absurdly not socially normative" at $3k -- I did it when I was a young twenty-something.

To the extent that there is a real class-based difference here, it may be "degree of comfort with the notion that 'there is probably a way to spend money to achieve this without needing to do anything else.'" It's like, I don't know, a bureaucratic process which requires someone to go down to City Hall and stand in line for half a day. The middle class is capable of buying their way around that but it doesn't generally occur to them to try; the upper class don't even hear that that was a requirement because the very expensive person they use to handle legal issues already subcontracted it out.
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That in no way contradicts what the parent claimed. You can both be right: Some startups fail for unrelated reasons, and some are full of clowns.
Mining diamonds is hard work.

People are poor judges of value in other people, and don't want to spend that much time on it. So how would you "know" someone is a diamond-in-the-rough, and not just rough? That would require a lot more knowledge, perhaps a referral in the team of someone who has already identified them as good talent. Or you could just hire all the roughs and fire the ones that don't turn out to be diamonds.

It is like hiring someone with a criminal record. Ya, great value! But wait, what if they go back to their old ways? Biases are optimizations based on experience (or perhaps cultural influences); they are not perfect, but they often have groundings in reality. The best companies are able to work through all the pros and cons rationally, and known when the risks are worth it.
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Saying all of greater boston benefits from the big dig is equally disingenuous. I technically grew up in greater boston and I live a 45 minute drive from Boston with no traffic. With traffic that can be 90 minutes. I live a 10 min drive from Providence RI. As with most things in life, the answer is probably in the middle somewhere. :)
> Obviously the $100/hr price point puts it out of reach for most people

$100/hr for competent assistants 24/7/anywhere is a steal for any kind of organization like investment banks, enterprise sales, consulting firms, that send their people into the field to do high pressure, deadline-driven work.
It's accessible from the Android app as a list (called "Most Recent"), from the same menu where you can access your timeline or the app settings.
You don't have to automate the parsing of queries to produce leverage here. Every time they answer a query successfully, I would imagine they add that to an internal repository of information. So the technology play would be less on the "figure out what they want" front and more on the "deliver exactly what they want" front.

Need an on demand helicopter in NYC? Great, Magic knows just who to call for that because they already did it for Justin Kan. Need to rent the Exploratorium? Great, they can do that too.

For more common requests that fit neatly into other on-demand services offering, they could ostensibly partner directly with those folks and integrate with them. That way, Magic could have their own master dashboard to purchase services with minimal effort.
SF proper has Healthy SF public coverage as well.
Everyone looking to get their start needs to start somewhere.
this will be the real beginning of the end for twitter. stupid
> They aren't hyper-rational machines, after all.

No one claims they are. In fact, if I was to name a single overarching theme of all lesswrong discussions, it would be the fallibility of human reasoning. How is having some reddit-like drama on an open internet forum even relevant?

ps. to belie is to contradict, whereas I think you meant the drama shows that LW is made up of mortals? Just making sure I understood you correctly.
I think Manta is better if the result set is smaller than input set. So network performance won't matter that much. And also a per second pricing is better since the author need the result in 10 seconds.

Spinning up a cluster of VMs and use 10 seconds and they charge you min. 1 hour seems expensive to me.
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Aargh! the top comment here is miles better at (re)presenting the arguments of both articles than this rubbish - which seems at best to be an inarticulate rage against the idea that wealth creation should lead to rich people.

PG's original argument seems to be - We like wealth creation. We pay the price of rich people, in order to get that. Wealth creation, as well as wealth release is happening in this generation on vast scales, mediated by technology, software and startups.

Pg concludes there is not much we can do to fix the wealth inequality gap from being created in the first place. And he fails to point out there are second order fixes that can alleviate inequality if that is our goal. In other words politics has created the SV milieu over forty years, and will be instrumental in handling the Pikkety fallout.

This article seems to claim that because Candy Crush makers made hundreds of millions of dollars, that is exemplary and desirable, and the intention of pg and his Silicon Valley cabal. none of which is bourne out by the original article.

Billionaires are a symptom of the failing of a market. No one should be able to capture that much value themselves. More Startups should create more wealth, yes, but they should also prevent monopolies from other startups.

We need more "startups" in all walks of life, started by people from all walks of life (not just MIT). Because, and this is an important point briskly touched on, the ideal size of the firm is shrinking, and the traditional jobs will not be there.

PS
Has anyone else noticed that PG's essays are more and more like listening in to one half of a Socratic phone call, where the pupils questions are inferred from the half you can hear?
People are fairly predictable. Presumably they'll build software to handle common requests quickly. Google pizza is a good example, but i doubt google will do pizza, dry cleaning, and travel booking all in one shot. (but they might). It seems like these folks can find a local vendor for service X, have a button on some internal software to send it out, then just leverage that for all customers in that city. presumably the oddball requests get tracked similarly. "i want an elephant" might take a while the first time, but the software should remember contacts and whatnot to make it easy if they ever get the same request.
Fair enough, I'd have to agree.
Why is an Exception only something final? Exceptions can be caught, even by type. I regularly use exceptions to break and resume long-running daemons. These exceptions have nothing to do with the user nor the end to the program. I don't think Exception == Fatal Error.
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I'm still trying to parse the docs and Manta source code to see what it actually does, but it seems unique if the data storage nodes are also the data processing nodes and no data transfer happens from some storage service before the job begins. The other key factor is having neither startup time nor the cost of a perpetually running cluster. Per my comment below [1], we have used Lambda with S3 to get something like this, as well as our own architecture built on plain EC2/GCE nodes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846514
The worst part of this is that Lumosity probably did a cost-beenfit analysis years back, realizing they would make more money via these deceptive ads than the expected FTC fine.

For those who don't know- Lumosity is killing it. They can easily pay this fine with their enormous profits.
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Yes length matters. That's why pretty much all "randomly generated" passwords are long. Mine are 20 characters.
Don't use Linode.
Nvidia: Virtual reality requires seven times the power of a normal game
I am sort of surprised this website has so little functionality when it attracts some of the best programmers in the world by the thousands. I understand to some extent it's probably to prevent redditification, but mobile being entirely unreadable (and the "desktop view" on phones is broken now and does not help) is a bit much.
If someone is motivated by altruistic reasons, then they'll be willing to do the same work for less than someone doing it for profit reasons. That creates inequality, but it's inequality that the "loser" wants, because they're altruistic.

It seems weird to choose a job for altruistic reasons, then turn around and complain you aren't making as much as people who don't have a strong desire to do something even without compensation.