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I agree with asteadman. You'll improve far more with practice than reading about theory. The most useful exercises I ever did were in school photography club - most weeks they'd set us somewhere boring to burn a couple of rolls of b&w film with "interesting" shots. I found this really difficult to start - everything turned out terrible. I think that was the point.

So take the camera somewhere dull and burn a few dozen shots. For instance go in the kitchen and find some interesting compositions, like a dripping tap. Experiment with unusual angles, framing, depth of field, very long and very short exposures and extreme closeups. Can you get some interesting effect or a sunset reflecting in the chrome at the same time? How can you make it more creative?

Go in the garage and do the same with a drill, a saw, or a car wheel. Portraits are a whole new can of worms, so a sympathetic partner or family pet helps. You'll start to use longer lens than phone, be further back, and take much more flattering portraits.

I'm sure there's some websites out there with better ideas for learning composition than me.

It's a little like the process artists call "learning to see". You'll gain internal awareness of what might make an interesting photo, and see the framing, and notice the light, rather than just taking snapshots.

And sometimes none of this applies, the best photo is being there at that moment with a camera :)
If you come to the conclusion that the opportunity cost is too high for your team/company, fine...I can believe it....as long as you're also weighing the benefit of learning. All learning has an opportunity cost.

I do believe that someone who can setup and configure nginx to do load balancing, caching, rate limiting and build middlewares in LUA is potentially going to be a more productive full stack developer than someone who can't. As a programmer, having managed postgresql, has made me a more effective programmer. I have a good understanding of how it vacuum and collects statistics, the relationship between connections and sorts and work_mem, so I'm better equipped at writing queries and troubleshooting issues.

The gain to me personally and to my employer (and future employers) is not trivial.
When I want to compare to solid like white/black background I just use Y. When I want to compare colors I have had decent enough results with this simple formula (conveniently in RGB for most programing tasks):

http://www.compuphase.com/cmetric.htm

I think it's pretty telling that CIE and others have made a number of revisions to Lab color distance formulas over the years to the point of them having constants you tweak. There's no perfect out there yet, so I use a good enough that is simple to compute.
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I secretly stayed active during that role. It takes dedication. Some of this comes from work ethic. I had that drilled into me with the family biz growing up. My tolerance for abuse and failure is high. I focus on looking at myself as a business entity even if I work full time somewhere. Sometimes it isn't enough, but I think going through a tough upbringing had pulled me through. I always find myself asking the question, "Do I want to just want for the rest of my life or do?"... I also still dream and dreaming is key to driving forward. My wife fills the entrpreneurial role right now with escessive travel trying to build something in a new market. I help where I can...so this is me trying something new again ;) We never know where life will lead us so best to take it by the horns and find out :)
this sounds like a good argument for using whole disk encryption to prevent tampering if nothing else
Actually, we don't have any interest in being a visualization tool, and are super focused on building customer data infrastructure of the future.

This product release is in close partnership with our BI partners (Looker, Mode, Wagon, Periscope, BIME and Chartio). One of the biggest problems our mutual customers face is getting data into their warehouse so that they can use the BI tool in the first place. This launch significantly expands the possible audience for them.

Even better, all of our BI partners built out-of-the-box reporting and dashboards based on Segment's schemas for these new third party sources. So our mutual customers can get set up even faster.
Maybe, but I bet all those photos the person took while walking to the Mona Lisa might be interesting.
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By focusing on volume, I get quality as a side effect. I'm very proud of the the app I've created and the feedback I get from my users:

"This app gives a text reminder to do what everyone wants to do: relax, love one's self and others, and bring peace and light into the world. I smile when the alert message appears and feel grateful to the makers of this app for creating a pleasant, quick way to meditate at the most stressful point of my day. I have recommended it to many people"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7-second-meditation-daily/id...
This is nice - I hadn't even considered anybody but Labour/Conservative and this gave some flavour as to where their focuses lie. Disappointed that none of them want to expand LHR though.
Much easier said than done, especially when you have children.
The main problem I see is this:

> His attorney said his defense was hampered by an inability to obtain basic information about how the evidence was obtained and on what specific grounds the warrant was issued.

Authorities can obtain secret warrants and conduct ordinary criminal investigations with it, conveniently withholding the evidence from the defense attorney on the grounds that it was obtained under FISA. So now a man who is innocent of the crime they got a warrant to investigate is unable to defend himself for another, more ordinary, crime.

Not saying that crime is excusable and that jail time isn't justified for child porn, but the inability to defend himself seems unfair.
Of course, there are other issues with GSV. If I'm watching obscene content inside my house and GSV photographs through my window, thereby displaying the obscene content in public, who is at fault? What if I lay in wait for the street view van and drop my trenchcoat at an opportune moment?

I love these kinds of cases because everyone can sue everyone. In general, the panopticon creates more and more cases where everyone has some blame (and can be arbitrarily hassled by the po).
David Cameron's position is tenuous on this hypocrisy.

The OP downplays it, the Cameron family fortunes derive from a major tax avoidance scheme for the wealthy.

Ian Cameron's Blairmore Holdings partnered with Panama's Mossack Fonesca for 30 years - to legally hide monies for the wealthy.

His family, allegedly, may still run / profit from this major tax avoidance scheme for the wealthy - now based in Ireland, home of the 'Dutch Irish Sandwich' tax avoidance scheme Cameron attacked Google & Facebook for using. *

It is not impossible that Cameron may yet inherit it, ( he has declared inheriting £300,000 from his fathers estate ) yet lambasts others for tax avoidance.

He has so far refused to answer questions about 'family business'.

He is planning legislation to curtail tax avoidance - which is legal.

Potentially a conflict of interest.

The Panama leaks suggest that the Blairmore board may have met in the UK which would make this illegal tax evasion. *

* http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/panama-papers-da...

Meanwhile George Osbourne, UK chancellor of the exchequer, (who taxes the nation) refuses to answer whether he has benefitied from offshore tax avoidance - terminating interviews.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35980409
I actually think that's a great idea, because then the users and algorithm decide what's good for you, and it will hide the low quality content automatically.

You have to do that sort of "curation" anyways anytime you make something. You have to continually decide whether it's worth it to keep working on something, and then decide if it's good enough to release. People tend to be pretty bad judges of this (especially for more creative tasks. There are many examples of someone's most famous song/book/painting not being their own favorite, or even being their least favorite!).

So why not relieve some of that stress, and let the users pick what they really like, instead of you guessing for them?
VC funding is likely seasonal so the best way to compare it would be year over year. The author should have just added a y/y at the end.
It's almost as if their livelihood depends on it...
I think it's a combination of a big price increase and a mandatory SaaS component that brings nothing new to the table.

If they had announced that sustainable development required moving to a subscription model and the price would be $1/month I doubt so many people would be upset.
This really nails it. One of the spookiest moments of the show for me was when the show finally arrives in that infamous court room. As a child of the 90's, it triggered something.

I'm also fascinated by how they made a character out of the courtroom TV cameras – just short of Cronenberg, menacing.

Started watching as a 'guilty pleasure', I've been recommending the show to everyone.
Thanks for this analysis.

I did an A/B test on an older framework which didn't automate statistical significance at all, but the website was getting more than 2000-3000 orders per day, so after a single week we had enough data to determine that sales had increased by 36% (reduced the page's load time by almost half, changed the checkout to use Ajax, and a few other small changes.) without the need to quantify things. In fact, at the time, I didn't even know what "statistical significance" was... not that I know too much more about statistics now than I did then.

Anyway, in theory all of the exact p values, etc. matter, but in practice, the bottom line is all that matters, because the p values can change in a moment based on something I haven't factored in. That's where, at least for the time being, intuition still plays a great part in being actually correct, which is why we still have people with repeated successes.
Considering we need about 30x the solar currently installed to made a real dent in fossil fuel usage, I'd call what we have now an under supply.
Do local TV advertisements do the same?
>For example, I've heard there's a substantial tax savings when investing in US R&D.

Yeah, but not that much savings. The calculation is complicated, but taxpayers usually don't recuperate more than 5-10% of their qualified research expenditures for the tax year. Not to mention the difficulty in evaluating and calculating precisely what business components qualify for the credit. Most firms spend only a fraction of their revenue on qualified research activities, so their profits generally dwarf QREs. Pfizer would have to spend something like a trillion dollars on R&D in order to repatriate all of their current offshore profits without paying any tax on it.

Let's take a concrete example. I'll use the regular research credit calculation since they've been in business long enough and have enough base years. They currently spend around $6.5bn on R&D, that's down from an average of $8bn in the prior five years. Let's assume all of that is qualified, even though it very well might not be due to the large number of exclusions in IRC sections 41 and 174. I'm too lazy to look up Pfizer's aggregate gross receipts in their financial reports, but a quick google search shows their annual revenue at around $50bn, which should be close enough and I'll pretend that's been consistent for the five preceding years. That's $8bn * 5 base years = $40bn aggregate base year QREs. Divided by $250bn base year aggregate gross receipts gives us a fixed based percentage of 16%, which happens to be the maximum allowable amount. We multiply that by the average aggregate gross receipts for the base years, giving us a base amount of $8bn. We then select the greater of the base amount or 50% of current year QREs ($3.25bn), so we pick the base amount. We then can take the credit for 20% of the excess of the current year QREs over the base amount, which in this case is negative $1.5bn, so Pfizer can't claim the credit at all.

Even if we were to fudge the numbers more optimistically in Pfizer's favor, they are looking at a best case tax credit in the range of a few hundred million dollars, when they have a couple hundred billion in profits that they need to repatriate. In order to repatriate that much money without paying taxes, Pfizer would need to incur massive losses. There simply aren't enough tax "loopholes" for Pfzier to deduct or credit its way to a zero tax rate.
The bit you found is reasonable, but there's a movement to forbid it.

For example, it's illegal to photograph the Eiffel Tower at night when its lights are lit:

http://wiki.gettyimages.com/897/
I think he's trying to focus on the model, not the price. I'm not sure why you think he'd object to a $60 base price or what that has to do with his point.
This is the classic 'curse of the gifted' flame war between ESR and linus

https://lwn.net/2000/0824/a/esr-sharing.php3

Robert Frost and TS Eliot had a similar conversation. Frost wrote eliot saying 'the problem with you is that you speak 13 languages and know nothing about real life'. Eliot responds 'the problem with you is that you're stupid'.

Age old debate, never fails to entertain.
I got a bit of that when I moved to SF. It's harder to pin Midwesterners down by accent, though (city folks, anyway).
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I'm sorry for my implication that Jon Skeet is a homophobe. I was frustrated that BBC would make that implication by choosing to compare him with Chuck Norris, instead of say, Jackie Chan. It's like using Bill Cosby as a fatherly role model: the meme has played itself out.
If someone has been developing for 30+ years, learning to best describe their track record, position their skill set, and demand a premium for the time isn't hype. It's merely capitalizing on their legacy.

There is an issue with calling yourself a "programmer" when one of his main complaints is the lack of monetary return on his career. Don't choose a commodity title if you want a higher than average return on your time.
"Plato must have been cognizant of the great size of our globe, and of other continents, because he said in Phaedo that the Mediterranean people occupied 'only a small portion of the earth'"

I think it is more likely he drew that conclusion because he knew you could go quite a bit north in Europe, south in Africa and east in Asia. Those are all things you probably could learn from talks to merchants.
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This is great , but less techie consumers need turnkey solutions, from names they trust. Is there a value-added reseller ecosystem on too of rPi platform? With an open-standards coalition?
Looks like there are some recognized categories:

>3 Explanation of cognitive illusions
> 3.1 Perceptual organization
> 3.2 Depth and motion perception
> 3.3 Color and brightness constancies
> 3.4 Object
> 3.5 Future perception

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion
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I wonder what the difference is with Tether
I've used Linux on my primary machines for about 14 years. It's running on close to a dozen devices within a dozen feet of me right now.

If a user has need X, the user should use a solution that suits need X. Shoehorning a solution that doesn't meet the requirements still leaves need X unmet.

Desktop Linux meets (some, not all of) my needs. It does not meet my mom's, partner's, most friends' and colleagues' needs.

Behind the right interface, Linux does meet millions of users' mobile needs however.
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Okay, it would have been prudent to not bother with the "was perhaps" rebuttal. But the initial comment was par for the HN course and then a regular back-and-forth took place. Again, par for the HN course. And then there was an ad hominem directed at me. To which I foolishly responded. Yet I'm the one that gets chastised? You sure this doesn't have anything to do with the side I was taking in the argument?
this is the answer!
The market is complete crap. I'm back for what was supposed to be temporary, plan was to go to Dallas, but I have attachments here so don't want to go.

I've spent 8 months looking for a technical position. The only interviews I've managed to get are in Roanoke/Blacksburg, VA. Every interview I've had (not many because the market is dry), either drastically undercuts my experience (one company tried to write down my experience below the length of my last job) or otherwise offers a very meager salary, 30-50% lower than even the cost of living adjusted figure from my last job where I was living SoMa.

Also due to infrastructure, and partially the company who marked down my experience because they don't consider remote experience, I'm no longer interested in remote positions.
The 'merge databases' feature sounds like either a sweet victory of immutable data that makes life easier all around OR something truly horrible that never should have been born.

If these guys have solved the WP devops problem, they will be millionaires and candidates for canonization.
Also Snowden, Chomsky & Greenwald discuss privacy, terror, Panama & Apple/ FBI.

https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/edward-snowden-noam-chom...
$$ can be done in a bandit setting, but the key challenge is that your feedback is highly delayed (maybe weeks or months).

As the parent poster says, its best to focus on individual funnel steps that provide fast feedback, at least initially.

Once the whole funnel is optimized (does this ever happen?), you could start feeding in end-to-end $$ metrics.
That's kind of what I was fearing. Would love to see an official response from Moxie on the meta and contact data handling of WhatsApp's implementation.
I've heard good things about PhraseExpander [1]. Disclosure: built by a friend of mine.

[1]: http://www.phraseexpander.com/
Author is not Scott Adams.

I double checked.
I think he said in his youth to Woz that he wanted to 'one of the important people' - owning and running a multibillion company allowed him to achieve that.
I hadn't heard this news. I'm sure it's not as insane as it sounds, i.e., I'm sure they must have their reasons for thinking this is the way to go, but as a long-time TextExpander user I'm disappointed. I would never pay $5/month for TE. I bought it, and paid for upgrades, because it suits my need as an individual user. I have no need for "team" features and their decision to intentionally break existing sync functionality in order to force users to accept their new pricing scheme borders on extortion. I'll continue to use TE5 for the time being while I investigate other, more reliable options.
Follow the money. The companies he buys products from have a vested interest in him getting a new job, so they start telling all their customers "Bill is a great CIO, he just left his current spot and is looking for a new job, you should definitely hire him as your CIO". And the cycle repeats. Also the people above the CIO will have a vested interest in covering up his transgressions, because it would reflect poorly on them. It's good work if you don't have a conscience.
People do NOT expect to repair their home appliances anymore. Repair costs more than replacement.
I appreciate your intention, but I don't think you can really lecture anyone on retirement savings when you're in your 20s. I'm in my 20s myself and wouldn't do it. Check back in 30 years -- maybe you'll have gotten lucky and not had any major financial drains, or maybe you won't've.

People in my family had hundreds of ks saved up for retirement and have lost it all in their 50s. Now they're in their 60s and have no foreseeable path to retirement. Unexpected events happen.
Or student loans, or alimony obligations, or sick parents to house and take care of, or any number of legitimate reasons why normal people don't tend to save 50% of their income.

My guess is the "ISO Standard Ideal Saver" whose entire income is disposable, has perfect health, no dependents, no hobbies, no debt or other obligations, etc. is the exception, not the rule.
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I don't mean to be rude, but Github, Stackoverflow, and Wikipedia all run their own physical environments. Its easy to demonstrate that the cost savings you indicate in AWS don't exist.

AWS helps you prototype and iterate faster. It is not cheaper.
Well, this is what I was referring to with the HA features of vSphere. It works basically like a compute level RAID. The VMs were stored on a SAN and vSphere monitored each of the compute blades. If one went down, the VMs were seamlessly migrated to a hot spare blade. The vSphere docs claim this can be achieved with zero packet loss -- a claim I was never able to test or verify. If you're worried about losing multiple machines, just add multiple hot spares.

Of course, this doesn't help if you lose an entire rack or the data center. I concede this was a trade-off. But given how many times an entire region went down when I was on EC2, I was satisfied with the risk based on the colo environment's uptime record. The provider did offer another facility, but the latency between the two was too high to be of practical use in a failover without keeping a completely mirrored configuration in both locations.

It sounds like you have some experience with vSphere, so I don't intend to be patronizing. But there's a huge difference between "enterprise" virtualization and what you get with an ad hoc setup using desktop virtualization tools.
Hey! Thanks for the comment. Gotta say to each their own on this one. I find wool can get too hot for my feet!

I wanted to keep this service extremely affordable is well and I have a feeling using Merino Wool would increase the cost!

Thanks again, I appreciate it.
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They aquihired the talent but didn't want to buy the obligations. Seller (investors) and Buyer got together and screwed the consumer.
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That's pretty good value for infrastructure. Edinburgh, Scotland just paid nearly the same for 6 miles of streetcar line.
Then they should post an escrow/insurance bond to perpetuate the licenses for X years.
Might seem repeative or unwarrented, but to me, it's very clear that the...

US is a police state.