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>Photography, 1 decent camera is really enough.

Bahahahahaahhahahah... no.

1 decent camera is enough if you are not a photographer, just a person who likes taking pictures.

As a very amateur photographer, I do in fact only own one camera. The rest of the two bags is accessories for that one camera and several lenses, each of which serve a unique and useful purpose. Good camera equipment is dammed expensive. If I could buy less of it and still do everything I want to do, you better believe I would! I don't even do very complicated photography. I shoot exclusively outdoors in relatively bright surroundings. There is a whole other realm of lighting equipment that I haven't even entered into yet.

And just for some perspective, it is not at all unusual for professional photographers to carry two cameras at the same time. (With different lenses, since it takes several seconds to swap a lens.)

And that doesn't get into specialty equipment like medium/full format.

My two small bags of equipment is nothing compared to the amount of gear that an experience professional photographer is likely to acquire over the course of a decade or two.
SHOWDOWN
Vesting an option gives you the option, but not the requirement, to purchase the shares. Typically, you retain that option for as long as you are employed. So you shouldn't have to do anything as long as you are employed - you may have to make this decision if/when you part ways with the company.

The employer has very little to gain from you purchasing the options. If your employer puts any pressure on you to purchase the options, you can 1) remind them why they are called options - it's your option to purchase them, and 2) look for a better employer.

Of course, IANAL, and perhaps your situation is not typical.
Oh My Zsh Themes
Again, I could easily be wrong about all this.

I think this entire discussion is sensitive to exactly what one means by "The Anthropic Principle". If one's definition of the Anthropic Principle in this context simply means that an observed universe will be consistent with a universe that can be observed, then I find it to be trivially true and applicable to a single universe scenario.

I subscribe to a definition of the anthropic principle that invokes selection bias as its core mechanism. I think that, in order to have a selection bias, one needs to actually be selecting from a population. Hence my assertion that you need a multi-verse (with different constants in each universe) or a constant that is variable in space or time [2].

The difference, to me, is this:

If you are selecting from a population the Anthropic Principle can actually help explain why a value is what it is. Under our understanding of planetary bodies, we often invoke the Anthropic Principle to explain why the earth falls in the habitable-zone. Earth falls in the habitable-zone because — we think — life is most likely to arise on a planet in that zone.

However, if you are not selecting from a population, I don't find that the Anthropic Principle explains why a value is what it is. In the scenario where there is only a single value, I think the Anthropic Principle simply demonstrates that that particular value must support life.

Put another way, if all planets we observed were the exact same distance from their star as Earth [1], then we couldn't use the Anthropic Principle to explain why Earth is that particular distance from the sun. We would have to find other astronomical reasons to explain why planets form at that specific distance from a star. In this single-distance scenario the only thing the Anthropic Principle actually does for us is confirm that such a distance supports life.

[1] Well, not distance per se, but placed such that they received the same amount of stellar energy in their orbits.

[2] This final sentence of the introduction of the Anthropic Principle also makes some reference to this saying: "Most often such arguments draw upon some notion of the multiverse for there to be a statistical population of universes to select from and from which selection bias (our observance of only this universe, compatible with life) could occur."
you actually completely fabricated what you think my views are, i'm justifying nothing and my position is still unstated.

I'm simply exploring a philosophical question, while you are obviously defending your lifestyle choices.

That philosophical question being how can one type of life be valued more than another, or how do you justify a moral position of life is precious while simultaneously ending life daily for nourishment. this is a quandary literally every human on the planet faces, no one is attacking veganism, or you , or your choices.

How you are missing that this is my argument, and continually projecting me as some one dimensional 'vegans are even worse than meat eaters' is quite confounding to me.
> All these edibles makes my head shake.

Can you explain this sentence? I'm having trouble parsing it and the preceding sentence isn't providing any helpful context.
But it's the illegal one that's easier for children to buy. Drug dealers are already breaking the law, they don't care if the customer is 14.
I did not, and am not, saying that it's harmless. That would be ridiculous.

But if it's less harmful than alcohol, a substance which is legal for consumption and moderated by the government, why should it be illegal? What's your justification for saying marijuana should be banned for reasons of harm, when you can't establish that it's more harmful than more easily available alternatives?

Or are you also arguing that alcohol should be banned, as well?

Edit: To answer your initial question, the logic here is "One harmful substance is legal, thus other substances which are less harmful should probably also be legal".
>- The collapse of race relations. Everybody thought a black president would do wonders for the issues of race in this country, it's done just the opposite.

I don't understand what you mean. Today we're actually starting to have conversations about race and how the establishment treats people of different races instead of not even addressing the issue. It's being talked about not as a serious issue rather than some fringe thing that most people don't care about.

I feel like progress was made during the civil rights era, then things stagnated for 40-50 years, and now we're having conversations again. It sounds to me like a black president or perhaps other things going on have done wonders for issues of race in the country. It hasn't solved the problems yet, but it's sure brought them front and center and helped given them the attention they actually deserve instead of letting them get swept under the rug.
Thx boss!
This is putting the cart before the horse. If I dump 4,000 kilos of butter outside your front door will you make enough sandwiches or should I not have done that?

I used to drink bad wine, then I realised I'm putting myself through displeasure for no real end.
Is it conceivable that a government agency could manipulate lottery results specifically to break this?
Companies are rated on equity to liability ratios for creditworthiness.

Assets = Liability + Equity

Let's say my company has:
50 million in non-real estate assets (cash, IP, etc)
25 million in liabilities (loans, accounts payable, etc)
25 million in equity
50 million in a building paid by a loan (both an asset and a liability)

If I own the building:
Assets (100) = Liabilities (75) + Equity (25)
Equity/Liabilities = 1/3

If I sell it, pay the loan, and lease it back to myself:
Assets (50) = Liabilities (25) + Equity (25)
Equity/Liabilities = 1
I appear much more credit-worthy.

There may also be tax reasons for this.
To be fair, it's not really possible for someone to even attempt to arrange gender-separated seating in advance , even if plenty of other passengers are perfectly content to cooperate (perhaps even desirous! there are many cases where even non-religious women are more comfortable not sitting next to a man)
Blockchain:  the Cost Cutting Case for Banks [pdf]
Is this the future version of SKYPE?
So true. Half of my facebook friends think I'm a flaming liberal. The other half think I'm a flaming conservative. This is because I dare to challenge their silly meme posters that lie about and defame the "opposition". They don't seem to notice that I challenge the BS on both sides. They only know that correcting falsehoods that align with their pet belief is proof you're in the enemy camp.

Likewise, they think it's impossible to concede any point made by the enemy, no matter how obviously true, without being entirely aligned with them.
This is such a great demonstration of both how fast JS engines have become in the browser, and how much less efficient native software has become overall. Running on top of an x86 emulator in JavaScript, it's still faster to pop open a file browser and click around than it is on some modern smartphones.
The Specious Present (video by Veritasium)
> But as this is the first ever investigation into the question, and it used an unconventional methodology, it's fair to say the results are far from conclusive.

See also the Independent article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

As I understand it (and I could be wrong) "hearing a voice" pretty much means you hear a voice as if someone was speaking but there's noone there. The paper talked about claimed that 80% of people "hear a voice" when they read.

I find that surprising, and I'd want to know what exactly is meant by "inner reading voices" - are these voices that people hear, or are they something else?

> Why hasn't this topic been studied before? Vilhauer's study hints at an answer because she found that many people assumed that their inner experiences when reading were shared by everyone. This worked both ways, so some of the people who had an inner reading voice were convinced of its normality: "We all hear our voices in our heads at times – even those of others we know – especially while reading," said one Yahoo contributor. Yet others who claimed to have no inner voice felt they were the normal ones. For example, in response to a question posted on the site about whether anyone else hears an inner voice while reading, one responder said "Nooo. You should get that checked out" and another wrote, in capitals: "NO, I'M NOT A FREAK".

The other reason is that until relatively recently everyone freaked the fuck out if you said you heard voices, and hearing voices was a sign of serious severe mental illness. We now know that's probably not true.
French law does ban religious attire for public servants. Cultural attitudes vary widely on such matters.
Carl Icahn [0] was looking at Apple. The company is so big that it would be hard for him to buy it, but he's able to needle it from the sidelines.

[0] http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/carl-icahn-buy-apple/

Generally this turns into companies doing more dividends and share buybacks.
Exactly, I guess this guy doesn't get out much. It's not expected that you open it there and then. In fact on gifting wine I usually insist they save it and enjoy it later (assuming I've bought a good one). It's not for me.
Offtopic:

Just posted a link to this on Facebook.

When I did, it auto-filled the headline as:

>Mars has 'widened its recall to 55 countries' - BBC News

and the teaser:

>The Netherlands spokesman for chocolate maker Mars says it has widened its recall of Mars and Snickers bars to 55 countries after bits of plastic are found in a product.

which don't match the actual article. Wonder what the deal with their caching is.
Stock App to Track High and Low Breakouts and Finding New Trading Opportunities
Great point about the privacy policy. It's important to us to make it clear that we're not misusing the information. Thanks for the feedback!
Blood Spore (2013) ($)
You're confusing your idea of what a photographer does with "photography" as a subject. Photography is an incredibly diverse hobby and profession. Yes, it is possible to only buy one small subset of equipment that lets you photograph a single very specific things well, but I've never met a photographer with such narrow interests.

Even professional photographers that only do a specific kind of photography professional nearly always have amateur interests in other photographic subjects that require different gear.
Mind explaining why you think my proposal is impractical?
These dangerous things are legal and the sky has not fallen. There are no widespread deaths from toddlers ODing on vicodin or gin. If mom and dad can keep their prescription drugs and booze away from their kids (which they mostly do) there's no reason to believe they couldn't do the same with pot.
Physical location and about the team is a great point. Appreciate it!
For evaluating their worth, you can use optionvalue.io (built this, in beta)

You're highly unlikely to get asked to buy them.

Feel free to ping me (email in profile) w/ more questions.
Awesome! For the colorblind engineer, this is so helpful.
s/SupremeBeingX/personal beliefs about gender relations/
This simply isn't common practice in many parts of the world.

The article was on wasting stuff and I don't want to waste more time on etiquette on hacker-news.
oh so you ignored my central point all along adn instead took my philosophical question of all life vs some life, and decided to defend veganism against a phantom attack.

Well you win, veganism is definitely the superior lifestyle choice, you are a better person than everyone on earth who isnt vegan. There are zero philosophical or moral quandries that exist within veganism, especially with respect to the value of life.
> Disclaimer: IAMALBIANYL.

I like that one. :)

I have a question though, is the prevalence of taglines in any way related to legal requirements? Do you have to stipulate that you aren't a lawyer when stating things because otherwise people to construe it as legal advice, or is it just a fun little identifier of how valid we should consider information to be (like it is in other acronyms of the same type)?
Is it really though? I'd be more surprised at the scenario where the average hacker read this piece and didn't immediately make the mental connection to "Oh, he's talking about the Thiel thing."
Meet the Candidates for Congress Running Against the Surveillance State
Let Koenigsegg Explain the Difference Between Weights and Measures
Zika researchers release real-time data on viral infection study in monkeys
No one has cracked it, specially in the time they offered a $300.000 prize.
> C and C++ projects have been empirically observed to have orders of magnitude more memory safety problems than projects written in other languages do.

Note that this includes projects in languages that are themselves written in C or C++, which shows that there's some value in confining the unsafe code to a small and well-tested core library (in this case, the language runtime). Honestly, it seems like 50% of the value just comes from not using C strings, since pretty much every other language has its own string library that does not use null-termination.
What's your product by the way?
Cooking, yes agreed. Mix it with coke - from bad to worse!
Your argument holds zero weight/relevance in this discussion because you can not die from an overdose of marijuana. No, not even if you ate a 50 edibles. Not even if you smoked 15 blunts back to back.

People like to throw out the "hospitalized" statement all the time. Just because someone was taken to the hospital does not mean that they were ever in any actual danger. Someone's kid eats an edible and "feels funny" so they are taken to the hospital. Someone's kid eats a bottle full of Vicodin that they thought were candy and are taken to the hospital.. if you think those two things present the same danger to the child than I don't even know how to respond.
Why I left SF for LA
Seems like a bit much to compare the annual tax revenue to the total construction budget for a school. AFAIK, any type of construction is typically financed and treated in budgets as being paid off over the course of 30 years or so. Maybe the annual budget for school construction work statewide for the same year?
"Evolution" has "decided" to "incorporate" plenty of unimportant things, or else everything is equally important, and thus nothing is important.
We also allow email notifications but figure most teams prefer to integrate through Slack.
And to add to that the real issue is that Slack stores data unencrypted on their servers.

This would be handing your financial data over to a third party to old in an unsecured format. Yikes.
Using "Tumblr" as a slur undermines your sensible defense of personal beliefs and religious attitudes.
Not really caching but as far as I remember there are HTML Open Graph tags that Facebook checks for in order to fetch the title/description etc.

Check N°3 on this link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices
I am anti-empire, and anti-security theater as they come. But to say that all borders should be open, with absolutely no intelligence gathering and no consideration of massive migrant flows... this is one of the most blatantly child-like thoughts I've seen expressed here. There is a big gap between "Stop taking off shoes at the airport; stop launching drone strikes on weddings" and "No problems would arise from completely free movement between the vastly different cultures of east and west".
This paper looks very interesting, but it uses concepts a bit above my current understanding so I'll be studying it over the next week.

Thanks for the link, though! I'll get studying.
Difference of Identity and Equality
Don Coppersmith wrote an article in the IBM system's journal that said as much.
>Work-related travel means seeing the world on someone else's dime, and getting paid to do it.

Thats the problem. You don't "get to see the world" in most cases. You're shuttled back & forth between some hotel and some office block. e.g. I was in Paris the other day & the only sightseeing I got to do is seeing the (far away) tip of the Eiffel tower from a fkin boardroom window. That kind of "seeing the world" gets old fast.
From the equipment list provided, it sounds like portraiture is the goal--not photographing bugs. I don't see where it is implied that the poster is trying to boil the ocean with regard to their photographic pursuits.
Wondering whether In Flames was named after that Kruiz song from the 80s?

Entombed was my favourite Swedish band - esp the Clandestine album.
It's surprising google hasn't reduced the number organic listings from 10 to 7 or even lower on page 1. For alot of queries ad's are really better results. Google definitely has plans for all that new white space real estate.
It's immutable by default, with mutation only when managed (most famously a Haskell thing). It has a rich type system with ADTs and generics but without subtyping (very much the ML/Haskell tradition). It distinguishes between validation-like failures and system-level errors, handling the former with values and the latter with panics (i.e. noncaught exceptions) - Erlang is the most famous example of this style, but it's common in Haskell and ML too. It tries to push functionality into libraries rather than the core language - it seems to care about having sensible, consistent semantics rather than ad-hoc.
Ask HN: Dealing with users who share child porn?
We're a bootstrapping link shortening startup and currently we don't have a lawyer to consult. We're working on that. In the meantime...

We got a tip that one of our users was using our service to share child porn. Does anyone have any advice for how to deal with this situation? We plan on reporting what we have to the authorities. Additionally, we banned the user and blocked access to the destination (didn't delete the redirect url from our servers, to retain proof).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Arguably, United is intentionally providing a lower class of service to those that haven't reached your level. It's all relative - but you're not getting "good"; you're getting "not bad."
Relevant http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Medi...

"One of the most common stories about aid is that some of it gets wasted on corruption. It is true that when health aid is stolen or wasted, it costs lives. We need to root out fraud and squeeze more out of every dollar....

"We should try to reduce that. But if we can’t, should we stop trying to save lives?"
Images from electron microscopes aren't photos. They're micrographs.

A single lens camera is as limiting as only owning one size of screwdriver, or one knife.
Mars Chocolate UK recall chocolate bars and sweets, they may contain plastic piec
Hmm, Rust and Kotlin are targeting very different markets. I can't forsee Rust ever taking over much (if any) of the market that Java/Kotlin/Scala are going after, the cost/benefit tradeoffs are just too different.

JetBrains' strategy with Kotlin is pretty simple - take the best bits of Scala whilst not allowing anything to compromise toolchain quality or seamless Java interop. The goal being commercial success rather than research papers. It's basically a spin on the same recipe that made Java itself a success in the early days. Which is why I anticipate they'll be quite successful with it.
Parallel Breadth First Search on GPU Clusters (2014) [pdf]
You were onsite at Franklin?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q;_ylt=AgayMFIiQNK9WHKis3CYC9LxVax_...
Alcohol is a controlled substance that also has huge industry behind it, both in the USA and abroad.

Why would one expect the same desires that drive alcohol's mass marketing and consumption to not be present for marijuana?

The side effects are certainly different, but they both affect your mental state, so comparing these seems pretty reasonable.
Nice work! I sometimes use strace/ltrace and this program would certainly be nice addition my toolbox!

One thing I find useful sometimes for debugging purposes is to actually see the contents of each system call. Do I get to see that when I click on individual boxes here?
When was the last time a software company including real estate holding as part of a deal to purchase the company?

Is there any history of a company who wanted to sell and sweetened the pot by throwing in some corporate offices they own?

It's different than what Zynga is doing, but I'm wondering if its a viable alternative.
> That being said, Google Cloud support is overly expensive. $150/month Vs. $49/month for AWS Vs. $29/month

Your basis for ordering is their support prices which is just a tiny tiny fraction of Cloud infrastructure pricing. Google Cloud is 50% cheaper compared to AWS. Which is huge. Also, thanks to ease of use (Cloud Shell, SSH from browser ..), Google Cloud will save you lot of man hours.

Also talking about commitment, you need to commit for 1-year / 3-year usage of resources and pay partial or full bill in upfront for discounts. Google beats those prices without any commitment.

Let's compare the Cloud providers on these factors.
It's definitely true that your paycheck for the immediate future correlates with the value of the stock options so from the point of diversity it is not the best investment.
4 ads on top for a search page, what a fucking joke. On a small screen you'd probably only see the ads before a single actual search result. This is pure greed and abuse of monopoly at this point.
I agree. I actually love Mathematica and the Wolfram Language but its main problem is the lack of any convenient ways to package it, track it in git, edit it in vim, etc. I spent some time investigating how to do that but it all just seemed really opaque and complicated. That's one of the risks of using proprietary software, I suppose.
> Google does give an additional level of comfort - seamless scaling, No-Ops, powerful Big Data tools, flexibility.

I'm going to bookmark this comment and come back to it when Google decides its getting out of the "cloud" compute business.
These guys are interesting, but may only be in Los Angeles: http://www.getfunship.com/

They deliver & pick up activity-specific gear. As others have said, not sure if there is enough of a market for it, but access code "nextdoor" if you want to give it a try
On Losing my Likability