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Mirrorless APS-C cameras and lenses are getting larger and larger.

I have an X-T10 and two lenses, and while the weight is somewhat lighter than a DSLR system, it's not much lighter and the bulk is just the same. Plus all lenses have different filter sizes requiring the use of step-up rings, making operation more annoying as you have to remove the rings when stowing.

After using my X-T10, it loses vs. DSLR on almost every front (mechanical construction is great though). Micro four thirds systems are much smaller. I am going to go back to a DSLR, and I'll also get a micro four thirds system for when weight is an issue.
Sensor size (full frame or crop) is a matter of preference for SLRs now. Nikon does a pro crop sensor camera, even.

The biggest improvements in the last few years have been in dynamic range and being able to take photos in darker and darker scenes.

I think the easiest win now is getting top-quality (not necessarily new) lenses. Newer lenses can be worse in some ways. They've generally traded build and image quality for the convienience of auto-focus and zooming.
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Well, if the comparison is that way I guess it's valid. Of course, a comparison like »Well, it take pretty pictures, but our Hasselblad here at the office still is better« is pretty bogus.

In any case, that review didn't really contain enough _technical_ detail to make the comparison to the 6D seem fair. Heck, even dpreview's first impressions contain more information: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilm-x-t2-first-impressi...
Don't you see why we need police body cams? Imagine if the police had forced her to turn off the phone. This video wouldn't exist. We wouldn't have even known about this.

I remember being pulled over by the cops. I was on my phone while he was doing the license check, and the officer told me to turn off my phone. I complied, so it's interesting to see how this woman luckily got away with recording the video. If the police had told her to turn off the phone, there's nothing she could have done at that moment in time. All transparency of the incident would have been lost.

He's dead. My professor once said, "The police have gone from 'Serve and Protect' to 'Seek and Destroy'."
> However being so small, there is a trade-off in that Portia can only focus its eyes on a tiny spot. It has to build up a picture of the world by scanning almost pixel by pixel across the visual scene.

This is fascinating. I wonder if the limited visual focus plays a similar role as consciousness in higher animals. It enables the brain to work on larger problems by focusing on one small Problem at a time.

(Of course, consciousness is more than that...)
Honest question, why does it take a super computer to come up with the animated simulation in the article. Doesn't seem that there are that many variables.
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Physics does clearly "care" about the direction of time, because physics is a description of the physical universe. Dissipation, entropy, quantum measurement... etc. all have time as a key concept.

Math may not care (and it's true that most of the fundamental physics equations are often time reversible). But the universe (and any experiment to date) clearly shows that time has a direction and the equations work in that direction.
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I thought it was 0.15% for both but I see I've misread the data. Thanks for doing the math.
Kind of, mostly. If the training data is correlating consonants in surname or prime number of '4' digits in a telephone number with increased credit risk, there's a really solid case there to ask where the training data sample came from and check it for biased sourcing.
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since they are not in the same category at all.

In what way are they not the same category? They cost the same, are used to the same thing and target much of the same audience. The only difference is they make slightly different design trade offs when it comes to viewfinder and sensors.
> superb camera with equal spec.

it has what?
I couldn't have done so using the KS dashboard, for example. As it was Linux, I could have cloned the machine fairly easily, but it seemed silly to me to go to all that trouble, essentially throwing away the original server and starting again.

At the time, my need for a hosted machine was decreasing so I didn't want to expend much effort anyway.
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I thought it was funny, dont be so joyless.
Simple. It got upvoted.

If people aren't interested, they won't upvote.

And the interest doesn't necessarily lie in the camera itself. Maybe we'll get a discussion about APS-C. Maybe about some cool medium format cameras. Maybe about aquarell paintings. Who knows?
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Important safety tip! Exclaiming half your sentences make you sound breathless!
Okay - managed to make a simple UI Xamarin Forms script.. label, button with a single click event. It wasn't hideous to make and it did work. I don't know Xamarin Forms all that well, but for prototyping this could be very nice. The IDE isn't quite there as I found more often that not, the pop up hints and help are obscured by the keyboard on my iPhone 6. I'm sure on an iPad this is much slicker.

Here's a big issue though - if I develop some "cool app", how do I then transfer it to a desktop for compilation and distribution? That seems like it should be an option, but I haven't found the magic mechanism yet.
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Look at Knuth's Adventure example: http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf

Plenty of code with your prose there.
the X-Trans sensor, perhaps?
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What is this "alphabetic system" you speak of and why are you comparing "Chinese", whatever it means, with Mongolian?
As a "messaging centre where we coordinate our electronically mediated communication" a smartphone would be infinitely more useful if there was one app for all that communication. Keeping track of which people you communicate over which app, which conversations happened where, not to mention with huge interface and functionality differences (e.g. you can search e-mail for old conversations, you can barely do some rudimentary searches on Facebook Messenger (at least through the desktop web interface), but I don't believe you can do that at all on e.g. Instagram or Snapchat) and close to zero interoperability - this all creates a big and unnecessary cognitive load, and is very suboptimal.

Call me spoiled, but I think modern OSes - not just mobile, but desktop too - force way too little in terms of UX. That's why on my computers I like to route everything text-related through Emacs. That joke about it being an "operating system" is actually a compliment. It gives you a very big set of operations that are consistent for all tasks that involve any kind of text.

But barring Emacs-OS for mobile phones, I'd settle for a decent dashboard that could efficiently summarize all messaging channels in one place, and allow easy interop between them.
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APS-C fujis with their excellent XF lenses are simply 2x lighter than DSLRs and still lighter than full-frame Sony a7.
Because how dare a company try to make money on a service they provide to us for free!
I didn't stick with micro four thirds for too long. I felt that while it was clearly superior to my tiny point and shoot sensor, it was miles behind APS-C for low light performance, depth of field and clarity. Those ultra-high resolution MFTs can only go so far - a small sensor is still a small sensor.

A couple of years back, I bought a Sony A6000 (they're up to A6300 now) and love it.

Mirrorless APS-Cs occupy a really interesting space.

Small and light enough to carry around all the time (unlike even the lighter DSLRs I've tried). Big enough sensor to (potentially, depending on the body/lens) offer great low light performance, clarity, and reasonably good DOF control. Depending on the shutter type, blazingly fast continuous drive (the 11fps on the A6000 is incredible).

I still have my Nikon D90 (APS-C DSLR) but it doesn't see as much use these days. The portability and convenience of the A6000 (micro USB charging, wifi transfer of photos to my phone) make it my go-to. The lenses I have for the Nikon, however, are superior. The format (Nikon F mount) has been around for a very long time, and really high quality lenses are really affordable these days.

I definitely think it's a move worth making.
You'll still use code to talk to your computer. The human readable prose is for the "why?" (and often more important: "why not?"), the code is for the "how?".

See http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf as an example from Literate Programming's biggest proponent.
Pythonista has been doing this for years now. Codea has also been allowing you you develop on device.
What does he mean by "gravity responds to all kinds of energy"? What about photons?
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At a guess, it's because they're using Go. The build and test processes are refreshingly (ludicrously) fast in that language.

Note that doesn't mean you should switch to Go, as the ridiculously fast compile times could be outweighed by other factors (retraining, lack of specific features, etc.)

I would however investigate it as an option as it seems to have found a place in the hearts of many former rails shops!
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QuestDB – OpenSource Time Series Database
I would like to plug new time series database, which I'm writing: QuestDB (https://github.com/bluestreak01/questdb)

This project was born out of the realisation that data can be handled much faster than existing databases would lead you to believe, and a general fascination in how fast hardware can do these things provided you ask it the right things to do.

This brief history aside, the aim of QuestDB is to provide a full fat SQL dialect for querying data,
including time series, simple, fast and convenient tools to import, export and otherwise integrate data into your existing workflow.

To that effect I have done quite a lot already and would like to invite you to check out list of features on my github page.

I would be delighted if you could look at the source code and ask whatever questions you may have and of course leave comments however harsh they may be.

I'm hear to learn.

Thanks,
Vlad
How do Fuji lenses stack up to Nikons? I've debated making the switch to mirrorless, but Nikons offering is lacking and I'm not too keen on trading out my lenses for a new brand.

I've read about adapters and such, but that is really only a short term solution.
Newsflash: the megapixel war is over [1]

It's all about optical zoom now.

[1] http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/2015-superzoom-camera-roundu...
It is the right of a consumer to not patronize businesses with that particular monetization model
Learn it in a week: http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/

Make a comment.
I think we both know the technical differences. The question is why is the news about a 24mpx camera with 4k video newsworthy in mid 2016. A mirrorless camera is cheaper to build than a DSLR. And as higher spec DSLR (with various sensor sizes) are already available I would I just like to know what's so outstanding about this particular camera.
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Have a look at http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf for another example. (I think the source-document that the pdf is made from is also available.)
It looks like the article was updated. The new figure looks more sensible:

> The 2.07% of users currently running IE8 are on a browser that Microsoft no longer patches
Yes, but he entry level has halved in cost, rather than the upper levels.
I believe this [1] is what you are referencing. Additional reading for the truly knowledge craving [2] (section 3.7.6).

For the lazy:

On aligned data REP MOVS will automatically select the largest available register/load/store instruction to use. So invoking this instruction will also determine SSE2 vs AVX vs AVX512 (or more over its burned into the silicon). Furthermore if your allocation is large enough it will by-pass caching mechanisms for an additional speed up.

For the VERY lazy:

REP MOVS will attempt to saturate DRAM bandwidth. The best hand coded ASM or C can hope to do is be as fast as it.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26246040/whats-missing-s...

[2] https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and...
No, but I was once asked to buy some fireworks for them. As a matter of fact I did :)

I still don't understand why they would do that constantly and in one spot. That's weird and non-teenagery.
Actually. I realized that any party that would want to put their content behind this kind of obstruction does not really have anything interesting to show anyway. So better of without that particular content anyway! Same with sites that block you when using Privacy Badger. Good riddance.

The danger will be in it becoming normal for everyone to use EME, or that the most used audio/video devices and tools will by default enable this and make it hard/impossible to disable it. So if you shoot a video of police violence with your phone and decide to publish it that it can be blocked by e.g. government. Of course, pushing for integrating this with your video camera will be done to protect the children.
" You also act like their function as a lender of last resort in the event of runs on banks caused by maturity mismatches that tend to happen once every few generations isn't explicitly and historically one of the primary reasons for their continued existence - your "purge the system" rhetoric aside,"

Listen buddy - you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, okay?

Not only that - you don't make any sense - and you don't have a grasp of language either.

"I act like" ?

"My purge system rhetoric" ?

Every statement in your comment is not only wrong - they make no sense.

The Euro is widely recognized as a stronger currency than the USD at least in the technical sense. There are more shenanigans at the Fed than at the ECB. This is not a secret.
For those who want to show Vive to friends:
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A site getting posted to HN is not forcing you to use it, nor asking you to agree with its aggressive anti-ad-block measures.
The first thing that came to my mind was... what about advertising on the web ? This is an area where machine learning and algorithmic decision-making use discrimination to either show or not an ad to a particular user. There are millions decision made everyday. Under that regulation, could you ask for the reason an ad was shown to you ?
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That's very interesting.

I wonder whether a `show me the code only' view would be useful?

I have written some short literate Haskell pieces, but nothing more than executable blog posts.
Compression, encoding, encryption, etc. is more maths and computer science than "programming".

Of course it technically is programming don't get me wrong but it isn't "make a CRUD app with a simple UI" kind of programming.
Hey, that's a great app indeed!!!

For SEO/Traffic etc., here are some more ideas:

1. This is 2016 and I don't know what are you doing without ANY social media presence (at least, none that is visible on the site)? With the kind of service that you have there, LinkedIn and Twitter should work well. Insomuch as social signals is one of the SEO factors today, this would help SEO to some extent as well

2. Consider creating a blog section on the site and publishing relevant posts periodically

3. How about creating a widget/plug-in type functionality using which other sites can copy-paste some code to display a box saying something like: Generate a Great Company/Product/Domain Name, with the basic input features of your app and a Generate button and then, when users hit the button, they reach your site where the results/name suggestions are shown? With something like this, I am reasonably sure you should be able to interest at least some domain registrars and hosting companies to bite!!

HTH. I'll be happy to volunteer further/hands-on promotion/SEO/SMO work in case you're interested - let me know, and all the best.
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Roughly, though it is actually the number of vertices and depends on the particles involved (obviously a diagram representing something very unlikely is less likely than some normal process)
They are based in MD with military people as founders so I would think this would be the desired outcome. Sad but kind of expected.
The block device abstraction needs to leak more.
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When I first met Silent Circle and its products, my opinion was that their product design is impractical and not convincing for customers. With all respect to Phil Zimmermann (he really deserves a decent pension).

Either you ditch Android and go fully FOSS (no firmware blobs!) and OSHW with as little software footprint as possible and get software stack audited and thoroughly pentested.

Or you are fine with Android and you just provide some additional applications and maybe services. But this doesn't justify selling a _device_. You know, there's no such thing like Angry Birds Phone. There's no Facebook Phone either.
"What are these assets that you talk about? The Euro is not backed by Gold or any other physical asset; in fact, it seems to be even more nebulous than the USD."

The Euro is backed by 'high quality' assets such as real estate.

When a bank wants Euros, they put up assets as collateral for it.

In recent years, there has been a lot of debate because of the 'lowering the quality' of such assets, which is kind of a form of QE.

You want the details? Here are the exact details of what you can exchange for credit if you are a bank in the Eurozone:

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/coll/html/index.en.html
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Oh wow. We used "S plus" at one of my previous jobs (and I wouldn't be surprised if they still do) because they had a paid product. This was at a conservative government agency.
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I do agree in certain extent. Forbes is really bad regarding adblockers.

I don't mind being reminded that they use ads to generate revenue to deliver news for free, but doing it in a way where they actually loose readers because of that is nonsense.

Give me a popup asking me to turn adblocker off, not banning me from the content.

In the information age where the same news gets presented on numerous sites it's a bit shooting oneself in the foot denying access to the content because of adblockers.

People on hacker news should try to avoid posting content from sites like forbes, but we shouldn't force them to do so. Because then hacker news wouldn't be better then forbes.
Nope, because advertisement doesn't "significantly affect" you. At least that's how it's meant and how it will be understood. This is about credit, employment, insurance, medical care etc.
You are certainly right to question the reasoning behind AI decisions. I'm not sure that neural network based AI can do that though.

For reference see an older thread on this very topic:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388795
Great list. I would also add PayPal. I know not everyone likes them but most people never had to do online payments before it was a thing. When you had to write a check and put it in the mail. Or even worse, give whoever ACH access to do whatever with your bank account.
I would agree if this were a "normal" project but it isn't. It is a compression algorithm which is essentially an implementation of a mathematical proof wrapped in some I/O functions.
yes, those too. Light is influenced by gravitational fields!
Literally the only intelligent comment on here.
Fields and parks > lawns.

Admittedly, there's a desire for me to be able to have sizable lawn to continue to foster and adopt abused and/or neglected dogs (fostered 5 and counting, one adopted he's a 50kg cuddly play thing... Seriously. Get a big dog and surprise yourself).

But, even I don't need a large lawn for that. I need something large enough that it isn't required to clean daily to prevent my furbabies rolling around in their own filth.

The urban sprawl, two tier property system in Australia is terrible for this. Houses have huge lawns or none. And the areas neglected more so than most for lack of shared greenspace have huge homes and huge lawns with less and less dedicated public spaces.

Atypical of wealthy suburbs actually (I'm looking at you, Tarragindi) there's little public recreational area because when the suburbs were designed in the 60's, home owners put fences up and declared it mine.

Edit: too many words or too little.
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> It seems that the social norm has shifted to the point where an unscheduled phone call is actually considered a bit rude.

I really wish that was the case but my observation is that only really applies with people over a certain threshold, much the same way that that people my age (36) remember growing up in a house where noone used the phone after 9pm since it was considered the absolute height of bad manners to ring someone for anything less than "someone died/the nukes are falling".

These days I just put my phone in airplane mode and ignore the thing most of the time.
I would think that with Zimmerman and Callas that there could have been the chance to create a secure android. If it was possible I would say they should have been the guys, with recent departures I would say that they are no longer interested in that vision of the product.
It depends.

In GCC/MSVC will only (attempt to) inline what you mark as inline. Then MSVC has a keyword which forces inlining. Unless you set a flag which tells the compiler to inline what ever it wants. But that being said Microsoft has a non-POSIX x64 ABI designed to allow better in-lining.

How inlining works starts to dive pretty deep into the compiler rabbit hole.
One could make a reasonable argument that the smartphone is the "one app" of which you speak.
On the subject of medium format, there are rumors that Fuji may be about to announce a medium format mirrorless camera in the next few months[1]. This wouldn't surprise me at all - Fuji have experience with various sizes of medium format going back 40+ years[2], they have manufactured medium format cameras for other brands (including Hasselblad[3]), and recently discontinued their last remaining medium format film cameras[4].

The question remains as to how big the medium format sensor will be, as other manufacturers have continually claimed "full frame" sensors when medium format generally means "anything larger than 35mm but smaller than large format". So it could be medium format but not that much bigger than 35mm.

The second question is how much will it cost? If it's "affordable" it could take a lot of the wind out of Hasselblad's recent X1D announcement[5].

[1] http://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-medium-format-more-afford...

[2] http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Fuji (Medium format section)

[3] https://luminous-landscape.com/hasselblad-xpan/

[4] http://petapixel.com/2014/08/25/fujifilm-to-discontinue-its-...

[5] https://blog.mingthein.com/2016/07/06/hasselblad-x1d-early-i...