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You may have not noticed it, but the benefits of film have been going extinct this decade. Check out how many feature films are shot digitally versus on film. Unless you are Spielberg, you are shooting digitally.

Currently, there are small digital cameras like the Blackmagic Pocket Camera (BMPCC) camera, under $1k, which have a capability to shoot images that are so similar to 16mm film that the average consumer couldn't tell.

The bottom-line today: if you want the 8mm vibe, you oversample your image when shooting (16mm or 35mm digital) and then degrade the image in post-production to 8mm.
Found a bug: When double clicking on a stack a 3 of spades went "up", but the card graphic stayed (and can be moved around)
Generally I wait for a winner or something I like then stick with it.

I'm still using knockout.js since I've used it for two years, it's maintained and each release is a big improvement in features and recently speed (massive improvements in 3.4).

Its not that react et al don't interest me but the switching costs are real and I'm not sure what they'll look like in a year.
Evan Williams founded Blogger (no character limit) and then Twitter (140-character limit). After rotatedfloralheartbullet.com's one-character limit, the logical conclusion is Bitter with one-bit posts. :)
Amusingly, it's also a video camera, since the viewfinder is an LCD display. Not clear if the manual aperture and shutter time settings affect the viewfinder. You can feed video into the display (why?) but it's not clear if you can get video out of the camera. The film costs $50 to $75 per cartridge, for a running time of 3.5 minutes. Market: wannabe hipsters and old guys in the movie industry.

Kodak makes movie film only because the major studios, at the urging of some older directors, pay them to do so.[1] (Pro movie film sales were down 96%) The studios have to pay for a certain amount of film whether they take it or not. This leaves Kodak with a paid-for, underutilized film production plant and film development facilities. That's probably why Kodak is doing this.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/kodak-to-continue-making-movie-f...
2% gdp growth http://www.barrons.com/articles/anne-stevenson-yang-why-xi-j...

300% gdp/debt http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-01/china-shoul...

bankrupt shadow banks http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/06cc9b9c-44c4-11e5-b3b2-1672f...

bankrupt state commodity firms http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-14/the-next-c...

not much reserve reserve http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1756239-china-may-have-to-se...

500 billions in capital flight in Q3 http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2015/11/01/a-half-tr...
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I call this the "letterpress phenomenon".

Once upon a time the only way to get some text printed was to hire somebody to arrange lead type letter-by-letter and print your thing on a six-ton iron press. This required significant amounts of training to do well and still resulted in artifacts of the process, in this case slight debossing of the paper as the fibers were crushed between the press and the type.

Then came photolithography and xerox and laser printers, and nobody saw the point of all that labor and machinery.

Then came inkjet printers and Microsoft Word and email, and suddenly a textual message doesn't seem to have the gravitas or expertise that once did. At which point, having something letterpress printed is very noticeable and neat, even if you can't put your finger on what's different, and a person who does letterpress printing has necessarily invested enough time to correlate with passion and a keen typographic eye.

Once the old thing takes off, people really want those artifacts of the antique process, to the point where contemporary letterpress printers are goaded into ramping up the pressure on the press until the paper is crushed to oblivion and your print is ridiculously three-dimensional, more so than would have been acceptable back in old times.

Similarly, people who are shooting on Super 8 these days are really looking for grain and weird color temperature. And it also explains why, like photolithography, 16mm or analog video are neither distinctive nor expensive enough to be as interesting.
This is written by a person who doesn't know what he's talking about. Any time people diss Bayesian stats and name Yudkowsky in their argument (a controversial guy without a high school degree), they haven't got a clue what they are saying.

Bayesian stats is a solid mathematical theory. It is used everywhere in academia and industry, is the foundation of a lot of AI & Machine Learning research, powers many technologies that, among other things, allow you to locate this thread on the Internet and post that ignorant link here.

Please stop promoting BS.
> You can' make arbitrary medical claims, and not expect to have to prove them.

Sure you can. You just have to be selling drugs, rather than video games.

I don't quite follow the logic.
Per the comment here [1] and the linked twitter convo, I'll retest S3 with Amazon Linux soon. These tests used Ubuntu 14.04 on all providers, and did use HVM. My understanding is that this will possibly increase the network throughput of the VM, but the benchmarks stayed below the VM's capacity (which was the reason I included the charts of VM throughput).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846497
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$400k household income puts someone in the US top 1%. I don't think that fits any common definition of super-rich in the US.
How does sexual harassment law work here? I didn't like his comment about your breasts.
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There is truth to it though. Automation can contribute to unemployment and economic inequality. There is absolutely no law of economics that says wages can't decline, or the distribution of wealth can't change.
Maybe in that scenario, "time spent waiting", they don't charge? Seems like they wouldn't want to waste those cycles, but I see your point with regards to incentivisation.
"I need the following hash reversed: abcd...."
On the topic of games and their actual potential impact on cognition and other aspects of life, Jane McGonigal is doing a lot of interesting research, and I highly recommend reading or listening to some of her material if you're interested in the subject. A good starting point is her interview with Tim Ferriss (http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/07/28/jane-mcgonigal/), and from there check out her books if you're interested in going deeper.

I believe it's in that interview that she says that these kinds of "brain training" games are less effective than just normal games built for fun at developing any kind of cognitive ability. I tried Lumosity out for a trial period to see what it was about, but the games were overly simplistic and not well-designed from a fun standpoint. I also felt like I was hitting 90% of their specific "categories" of games with a single game like Starcraft 2, except a game like Starcraft 2 actually forces you to engage the thinking part of your brain if you want to perform at any decent level.
I posted a criticism here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833663

It's indeed a lazy article.
Russian hackers suspected in attack that blacked out parts of Ukraine
English almost always drops the pronoun in the imperative, for example like Portuguese and the familiar form of you in German. English doesn't really ever drop the subject of the sentence otherwise...
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I guess I'm saying, Legos aren't electronic components.
check my links above. but also, do you think a normal economy needs the government to

- limit citizens withdraws abroad

- prevent majority holders of more than 5% of a company to sell their shares

- stop the entire stock market from trading after a 7% decline

- limit $50k/year limit transfer out of china
It might be BillFixers? (https://www.billfixers.com)

The Bloomberg article you may have read: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-10/billfixers...
So, outside of the major cloud providers, what are the good alternatives?
" I can't imagine anyone practically claiming any copyright violations as a result of any of this even if the license is legal mumbo-jumbo."

As mentioned, naturalmotion could actually probably sue every downloader/user for copyright infringement.
Would they?
Who knows.

Now practically, most of the time you are right. The problem is what is practical now doesn't always stay that way. Companies get acquired, change owners, people's monetary situation changes, etc.
More often than not shit gets weird before rights get extinguished.

So my experience is that 90-95% of the time, you are right, nobody cares, it all goes according to plan.

The other 5-10% of the time, it requires lawyers and a lot of money to unf*ck it.

Hacker news rarely hears about these cases, sadly.

So sure, if you want to play the odds, go for it.
But I find engineers are very Laissez-faire about this kind of thing right up until it comes down on them like a ton of bricks.
Empathy for people you have never met will help you find success & happiness in life.

Bigotry, arrogance and prejudice will not.
Yeah, you go off the rails around step 5. "Something being much more intelligent than us means that, in effect, it has almost absolute power over what happens in the world" makes no sense. Since when does intelligence get you power? Are the smartest people you know also in positions of power? Are the most powerful people all highly intelligent?

"whatever the goals of the AI will be, it will achieve them". Dude, if intelligence meant you could achieve your goals, Hacker News would be a much less whiny place.
It's an SMS, not specific to iMessage.
I've been very lucky to have visited Japan. I can say, having visited many other places, there is no such place like it. The social awareness of the Japanese people is on a level never seen elsewhere. One truly great nation, with a truly great population.
Roughly half of the author's criticisms of the bitcoin blockchain are just growing pains, which will solve themselves with time. The other half are just feature requests that are outside of the blockchain's scope. Blockchains are distributed consensus networks, not databases. It's like asking MySQL to fix email spam.
No. You're still stuck in a 1950s Samuelson-Hicks framework that's wide open for naive market failure theory. This is before the Coasian and public choice revolutions. Negative externalities are factored as considerations in the legal institutions of property, tort and contract law that lead to resolving, among other things, environmental disputes.

You're also using "public good" incorrectly. You mean "social utility", I think. But social utility is not quantifiable for the simple reason that it's not possible to perform interpersonal comparison of utility.

For the record, you can simultaneously be laissez-faire and an environmentalist. See the Property and Environment Research Center: http://www.perc.org/
it's a short-term fix. also, the details will likely introduce UX issues when so many others could have been addressed. this, along with a non-reverse chronological timeline is a product pivot with lots of risk. maybe it'll work out, but I'll use it less. I'd rather invest in time elsewhere based on where Twitter is headed.
not sure what the amex platinum version is like, but I wasn't that impressed with the visa infinite version.

I asked them to go through the craigslist of another city and find a certain car for sale, then return a list sorted by mileage and price. They couldn't do that for whatever reason and just offered to give me the KBB value.

Took me 5+ minutes to navigate their phone menu, enter my card number and get to the service.
The article actually addresses that SV is building things. Wood mentions how 95 percent of start-ups fail. Presumably most of what is being built is crap, or destroyed.

Would you rate that as building value or ripping people off?
while it looks promising, I don't like the idea of the "stream" for everything. With enough content old stuff gets lost, this goes for chat or news feeds. Traditional forums works because on a single page, i can see a list of sometimes a 100 different posts and skim through them and see exactly what I'm looking for. Search work if you know exactly what you're looking for and of course if the search works well.
PG is having a semantic debate with himself about "income inequality" when the world is using this term to refer to the raging class struggle in America.

The startup world is 100% class-based, worse than anything, and yet PG actually seems to believe that it's a meritocracy. He thinks Stanford PhDs like Larry Page (whose father was a professor) had about the same chance as anyone of getting funding.

He completely ignores the fact that startup funding and elite credentials are extremely limited pies. Harvard only admits a certain number of people. YC only funds a certain number of people. Sequoia only funds as many people as they can sit on the boards of. So who do these people always choose? Other members of their class.

See: https://www.ycombinator.com/people/

He seems to have no awareness of what it's like to live outside the elite bubble he was born into. And how could he...
I am under the impression that colored coins can't be used as inputs in a multisig.

Also, can you expand on Schnorr Signatures
Did you like Thiel's 'women have ruined everything' polemic in 2009 ?

"The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron."

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education...
holy cow that would be some long winded shtuff there.
That's assuming that the vast majority of employment can be automated away at a low cost at this point in time. Which isn't true. Even if it can be in the US or other developed countries, that in no way applies to everywhere.
In S3 tests on c3.8xlarge instances, I've seen 8 Gbps throughput on both uploads and downloads using parallelized requests. Testing with iperf between two of the same instances maxed out about 8 Gbps as well so the throughput limitation is likely EC2 networking rather than S3.

These tests were done over a year ago so bandwidth limitations on EC2 may have changed since.

This testing was with https://github.com/rlmcpherson/s3gof3r
I estimate that I also own about 20% of those same books.
> https://compose.io/jobs

Typo:

"Our two main offices are located in San Fransisco, California..."

should be: "...San Francisco..."

Also, why does your map show SM, CA, rather than SF, CA? Did you move and not yet update the map?
> If my career was based on a bunch of lies I would expect a lot worse.

That is irrelevant to the question whether or not 8% of your yearly income is significant. I was only countering the opinion that that $2m is nothing to a company with a $24m yearly revenue (regardless of why it is taken away).
Reluctant to say much because the benchmarks weren't formal. However...

The throughput correlated directly with how much RAM we allocated to the Lambda function (which presumably means we were sharing the VM with fewer other jobs).

512 MB RAM, 19.5 MB/s

768 MB RAM, 29.8 MB/s

1024 MB RAM, 38.4 MB/s

1536 MB RAM, 43.7 MB/s

Note that this also used the node.js AWS SDK, which is slower to download files than some other APIs.
This critique seems to focus on startups as something specific to the tech scene as opposed to the wider picture of small business startups across the U.S. I suppose though that Graham also is focusing specifically on that category as well.

There's approximately half a million businesses being created each year in the U.S. (that number used to be higher) [1], the vast majority of which are not tech focused. They are getting credit to do this from a variety of different ways, but not normally from investors. It's mostly the credit card companies profiting off of these ventures as many small businesses self-fund through personal credit cards.

We (Kiva) have a fair amount of data on this as our focus is on interest free loans for startups for poverty alleviation, though we are increasingly also funding social impact small businesses in the U.S. I do wonder if our model of charitable crowd-funding small businesses [2] will have a dent on the overall way startups are funded in the U.S., there's a lot of other folks doing it now asides us but probably too early to tell. I guess point is that both parties here seem to be discussing a broader set (all startups) when really actually just focusing on the minority of tech startups in the bay area and it'd be worthwhile to consider the broader U.S. picture and/or the global numbers.

[1] https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/Startup%20Rates.pdf
[2] https://zip.kiva.org
Conversely, if the original code isn't available, the community may never know why they can't replicate the results. This could especially be a problem if the original researcher is more known and respected than those attempting replications (i.e. devolving into he said she said).
This is only true if you both have the capability and choose to dedicate the resources to skill development. Many places either can not or choose not do this well.
Or unless you are Quentin Tarantino; see Inglorious Basterds (2009) to see what rich colors film can provide.
I would actually suggest Kubuntu 15.04. I just actually tried it last night and its fantastic. https://www.kde.org/workspaces/plasmadesktop/

although I can't really comment on stability, just commenting for desktop use.
- Tweets are not titles. Soon they 'll have "Click here to read my thoughts on X" / "Click here to read my response to Y" situation. That's not twitter, it's RSS.

- Content creators/websites that use twitter to funnel users to their websites will not use this feature.

- Tweetstorms can be solved much more elegantly (e.g. click to expand "continuation tweets")

- A tweet is a single sentence. Human brains have limits.
Appreciate the links. Those are interesting ideas on reducing the load and increasing the speed. NatanealL's idea is closer to how I'm looking at it because I'm starting with our current model and trying to improve its deficiencies. Banks already manage their own transactions and records while interbank operations deal in huge chunks. Prevents need of global verification of individual transactions.

Plus, knocking out the miners and leveraging stored value in an existing currency can simplify things by removing some obstacles they discuss. Bitcoin's problem is a lot harder than the general problem of decentralized payments and contracts on cash-backed currency. I prefer to stick to the latter as it solves todays problems pretty well.
start by adding option to "feature" the car in the sidebar or somewhere. just make small changes that add value ( speed up the buying-selling process )
So uh... the author claims he got paid $500 for this extended ad hominem attack.

How do I get someone to pay me that much for better quality content?
> Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content

Does "sub-licensable" not allow the "partners" you speak of?
It's basically just a rant. I noticed a few paragraphs in that it was a series of angry statements with no justification offered for any of them, then kept watching and it continued to be exactly the same all the way to the end.

Regardless of whether you agree with PG's essay or not, he at least stated the reasons why he believes in each of his points, and sometimes even gave supporting references. This post doesn't bother to give reasons, which means we are unable to judge it by any measure other than comparing the claims it makes to our own preconceptions.

(Since it makes a few obviously-false claims, like "PG isn't creating wealth, he's just spending it", and "we should keep people doing busywork instead of automating things", I'm writing the whole thing off. If the author can't be bothered to argue their case, I don't see a reason why I should either.)
I never heard of this before but it sounds it scales better to big and small jobs, and is more efficient use of available manpower.

Say you have a huge job, or many small jobs, that one personal assistant couldn't do at once alone. Or if you don't have enough jobs at all times of the day to keep your personal assistant busy. etc..

Its kindof analogous to renting time on a server farm vs owning a pc.
Is neither an option? Who is being ripped off when a startup fails?
I would oppose it too in the long run, but it would be the easiest low-hanging fruit for getting the ball rolling on including a wider variety of research software, and I was mostly making a suggestion for next steps in developing their (pretty cool) tool.

You have to start somewhere, and if you get GitHub working then it would be (hopefully) much easier to then include BitBucket, GitLab, etc. Indexing self-hosted repos would be pretty tricky, I imagine, if only because you'd then need to maintain a list of all of the servers to clone from.

Further, there's also the challenge of including software from all of the research groups who don't even appear to use version control, or if they do it's locked away on a private server or service. How does one attribute authorship rights to those people without source history?

Anyways, this is a long ramble now, but I'm mostly trying to illustrate that it's difficult to do what Depsy does with software when it's written in languages without a canonical package repository. That doesn't mean they shouldn't try to expand their reach just because "GitHub isn't enough."
P2P payments startup Xfers raises $2.5m seed funding (S15)
More automation is almost always better - because once you automate something, you can use technological improvement to increase the efficiency, which reduces the total cost of what you just automated, which results in more of whatever was just automated being available at a lower cost. Net gain to humanity.

I've never worked on a farm, but I have to believe that 99% of the work is something that most farm workers would probably be more than happy to see automated, such that they could manage the machines, rather than the actual mechanical effort. Move up the food chain, if you will.

Also, from the videos I've seen from PETA, it's pretty clear that humans can act pretty horribly around farm animals, so it's not clear to me that the animals are coming off any better either.

Long term, though - I say automate the creation of food such that animals are not involved. All of the things we love, meat, eggs, etc.. should be technologically generated so that no animal is harmed in it's creation.

Get over the uncanny valley, and even things that would appear to be sacrosanct, such as a waiter/waitress at a restaurant, admitting nurse/doctor in an ER Ward, or teacher in a kindergarden - all of these seem to be things that automation would be a net-win.
I wonder how many were fully read? I have started tracking my books with little star stickers after I fully read them. My goal is to get 1 star on all of them, 2 stars if I want to consider myself knowledgeable and 3 stars for expert level.
There are quite a few factors to consider, but the primary ones are uptime requirement (how much downtime can you be bothered with?) and load profile. I'd be happy to provide additional advice at no cost via email if you'd like.
That's really cool. Wonder if the same technique (parallel streams) would help for Azure and GCS. I know GCS has some built-in capabilities for composite uploads/downloads, which might achieve a similar effect.
The vie finder is digital because people are used to a digital viewfinder and not an optical one anymore.