skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's what you can deduce about the data as well. I didn't look at Canon figures as I have Nikon myself, but that data clearly showed that entry-level cameras are used with kit lenses, and pro cameras are used with a larger variety of high-quality lenses.

D3100 and D5000 go with the 18-55 kit lens (which is in fact a very good lens considering the price) and have a third of their pictures taken with these. D7000 and D90, being somewhat more advanced hobbyist models, go with their respective kit lens (18-105) with 20-30 % share.

Full-frame bodies (D600, D700, D800 etc) most often have the professional 24-70/2.8 lens, but the share is still smaller, indicating that a larger variety of different lenses is in use, as you would expect with pro/prosumer cameras.
The list of features is missing one important item
- Using these we will be better able to monitor your indoor whereabouts.
The entangling of the FISA order and the insider trading scandal actually makes things worse. His most significant trades came just months after he refused the FISA order --- after which he claims NSA arranged to have DoD contracts with Qwest terminated. He did something with an obvious material impact on his shareholders, and secretly profited from it.

The reality, though, is that his tenure at Qwest appears broadly similar to the kinds of bullshit that was rife in corporate America at the time: accounting scandals, entirely unrelated to Qwest's government contracts, that boosted apparent growth and drove share prices higher than the fundamentals of the business could possibly justify.

Google, for instance, [qwest kmc telecom].
Ah, that's where I was confused. I would call both of those solutions mocks.
The way I see it playing out, if working life extension technology is discovered, it will first be hoarded secretly for many years / possibly generations while the rich + powerful use it to stay in power. It won't be generally accessible until much later, likely after the world is in ruins, if at all. Some people believe that it had been discovered before but lost to the ages. Creepy to think about, but makes sense. If someone could live forever, I would think they'd become a huge target for assassination.
I'll add my voice to those who've had only excellent experience with Google Nexus customer service. Real person on the line, went out of their way to fix a problem that was entirely my fault.
I just don't see it scaling that smoothly.

Many many requests, many drivers. Cool.

But 10, 5, 3 requests per hour? 0 drivers.

So I don't think you can compare a service that doesn't really work at quiet times, with a 16 hour continuous shuttle...
Was only true of the Galaxy Nexus purchased directly through Verizon and one of the reasons Google immediately changed how the Nexus line was handled in the subsequent releases.
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I actually just got a "Wi-Fi booster"[1] for my place to have good Wi-Fi upstairs and it's amazing (it even has an ethernet port)

[1]: https://www.amazon.fr/Netgear-WN3000RP-200FRS-R%C3%A9p%C3%A9...
That's what I've been saying for years. My last phone was a Galaxy Nexus, and my current is a Nexus 5. The change from 4.65" to 5", along with less-rounded edges, meant that the new phone was really a mixed blessing for me. I'd really prefer something that fits in my pocket without me noticing and that I don't need 2 hands to be comfortable using. People still think I'm crazy when I tell them that 5" is too large for a really usable phone.
What wireless adapter do you guys use? Is it as powerful as a regular router antenna?
Just a reminder:

In Europe the main competitor is Adyen, which is basically the exact same thing, with a lower commission.

There is a truckload of marketing and news about Stripe, but really, it's nothing we didn't already have on our side of the Atlantic ;)
From the article it looks like one of these incidents, not knowing that a street was one way during or after the incident, was probably a mapping problem.

I don't want to diminish the difficulty of autonomous vehicles but I'm not sure that keeping up to date on every road and driving regulation change is that much easier.
There also places, Iceland comes to mind but also in the rural US, where speed limits are completely divorced from what is a reasonable speed even ideal conditions. So anyone that wants to do autonomous vehicles outside of urban centers is going to have to do a better job at understanding the road network than local government is doing.
Just wanted to mention that in previous posts Pieter mentioned that donations (he was not soliciting them) for his kids and family could be sent via PayPal to ph@imatix.com . I did not know him personally so I cannot speak for his situation, but in those posts it was apparent that he was not a wealthy man (my take on the conversation). I could not imagine leaving my children to fend for themselves in this world. It struck me that our children are so similar in ages.
‘Atomic sandwiches’ could make computers 100X greener
"take the connection graph..."
That is a brilliant idea!

Training such a net to learn and output(!) superior tensorflow graphs etc!
Powering geospatial analysis: public geo datasets now on Google Cloud
I see. I had to review the spec, I was under the impression that item's source element and URL required and used to locate the item. But I see that is not the case.
The top lens for the top camera (Canon 5D Mark III with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS) is sold in a packaged kit with the body.

This lens is...not very good.

It's only popular because they're bundled.

I think this site is useful, however. It gives you a very quick way to navigate to a whole collection of photos of any body/lens combination. If you're in the market for a body/lens, this seems like a good source to go to. No side-by-side comparisons like an edited review, but at least an overview.

Do professionals actually post photos to the sites this scrapes from, or is it mostly amateurs using expensive gear?
I used to have wifi issues, but then I bought one of the UniFi Long Range wifi models.

I really can't imagine a house that would not be entirely serviced by a single one of those.

I still get 3 bars on my iPhone 30 meters down my driveway, let alone in the house.

I got one because we use them at work, and I was still getting usable internet in a supermarket 100 meters from my office across a parking lot.

They are designed for commercial use so initial setup is a bit complicated and requires java, but I have to recommend it.
There's rotational tracking (look up, down, left, right), but not position tracking (moving head from side to side, walking). The Remote apparently has positional and rotational tracking though, which is new to mobile VR.

The application space is roughly the same as that of Cardboard and Oculus/Samsung GearVR. Which I'd say is roughly split between videos, 3D game-like experiences, and games.
"How to Speed up a Python Program 114,000 times." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e08kOj2kISU

Humour, serious technical insight and a good reminder of why being a generalist is an advantage.
No positional tracking, only rotational. That being said you can still play 3D games too.
It's all in Russian. Does it say why he died so young?
You're just waiting on the push to happen, then.

Full Image
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#shamu?
(Direct link)
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/shamu-nbd90z-factory-9...

Over the air update
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/ota#shamu
(Direct link)
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/shamu-ota-nbd90z-78a93...
I've been using netvibes for 9 years without issue...
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But that part rarely happens. Everyone loves doing the easy part (ban cars!).

Has this happened somewhere, that cars have been banned in an area, and all the businesses have closed since no one could travel there anymore?
I thought it was a rule on HN that every thread about Google must have at least one complaint about reader.
I live and work in Poble Nou and I checked out the Superille. It was marvellous.

It is (I believe) a temporary project to explore how it all might work. In that sense, it's prototype and that's in fact really cool too. Basically they did an MVP of a Superille - low cost and very fast - in order to validate their hypotheses.

They mocked up the place to give people a feel of how living in this way could be. And they spent as little as possible - using old tyres and paint and recycled plywood to mark out spaces and make them feel "owned" by the people. Placing large lots of (quite big) trees and plants in pots on the car-free streets to see how it felt to walk down a street that was leafy and spacious and open.

The amount of extra space feels inspiring and liberating. Walking is faster if you want it to be - you can cut across streets and don't need to wait at stop signals. A lot of people riding bikes. A lot of smiles.

They definitely could have done a better job explaining it though. I have friends who support the idea but felt they could have been better informed. It felt like they didn't give enough warning.

However, what is interesting and cool is that once it was in place they did their best to engage residents in a dialogue about the proposal - they painted markings on the tarmac of the streets to lay out spaces for people to assemble and discuss. They had a soapbox platform for people to rant from, and a bunch of chairs scattered around the street for people to sit and discuss. They had walls for comments to be posted.

I certainly hope they go ahead with making it permanent and making more of them.

Cities without care are very different and much more humane places to live. Scale matters and cars warp the scale of a city in ways that are counterproductive to vibrant urban life.

I'm pretty sure we can overcome the technical issues that restrain us from our inevitable transition away from routine private car use in cities. Problems like what to do about parking are a legacy of the current broken system, not a fact of nature. The economic incentives to car ownership and the infrastructure that supports it are baked into cities right now. But this can change - but not by solving parking but by solving the underlying system and that includes pressuring the system to change through initiatives like this.
Did they really have a choice? It's pretty much a given now that 3-letter agencies get firehose access to any data they want.
Especially since there's not much effort from Apple needed to keep the Mac lineup modernized. Intel does much of the work for them.

Apple could just drop new Intel chips into their existing MacBooks as they get released, and easily be getting improved speed + efficiency each year. The new Kaby Lake chips even do hardware 4K video and VP9. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/intel-unveils-kaby-la...

sigh
The documentation is more lines than the actual code is. Essentially it provides a uniform interface to multiple socket libraries. Why you would need this... I have no idea
Joshua Bloch: How to design a good API and why it matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw
I'd like to hear a discussion about the "Secrecy of text written on postcards"....

In a nutshell, there's a near-consensus (if I'm not mistaken) among judicial experts that in fact, email has the same expectations of privacy as regular, sealed postal mail (i.e. not postcards). So that's where the postcard analogy breaks down.
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I live in NY and I spent time living in the UK. In the UK most city centers had blocked off pedestrian areas that were only open in the morning for truck deliveries. This was possible because there was a commercial core where people did not reside, and there was plenty of outlying roads to park and drive around.

NYC has a LOT of people living in every area of the city. There is a lot of construction and residential deliveries, and emergency traffic. Certain areas have become pedestrian plazas, and some are closed off during the weekend but it is simply not possible to close off a significant amount of space. Anyone driving to Manhattan especially during peak times is not doing it out of convenience as it is extremely inconvenient to drive there. Often people have tools and equipment, and parking in garages in Midtown can easily cost you $40-$60.

If you live or are visiting NYC it is a nice thought to have pedestrian only roads. But we have to remember that the trades people that make city life possible really need roads to work.
There's a view master by Mattel already based on Cardboard. Love the retro look. See http://www.view-master.com/en-us.
> Why would you assume they are?

Because the odds of Yahoo being exceptionally bad and anyone else being exceptionally good about this are extremely low. The intelligence agency doing this wants 100% coverage - it would be absurd not to. Everyone has been told to do this.
What exactly would you call backup?

Snapshots and copy of those snapshots which are often offered are not true backup solutions. Then most providers tend to offer an integrated or not panel to have traditional backup agent alongside external storage capacity to copy those backups too.
I use Inoreader, I quite like it:

https://www.inoreader.com/
I should clarify. Except for Android's lack of support for good email/cal/contact syncing, I've got no major complaints about the OnePlus itself.
That would be me immediate idea. It's unlikely you'd be banned for winning if you weren't suspected of it. It's a community mostly consisting of migrants from Nexuiz, Quake, and Quake 3: Very competitive.
It is impossible to live functionally in society without trusting someone on some level.
From the article:

> The three Laureates’ use of topological concepts in physics was decisive for their discoveries. Topology is a branch of mathematics that describes properties that only change step-wise.

I've never heard topology characterized that way. Typically I think of it as dealing with connection properties—sort of a more abstract geometry where objects can be considered the same even if their shape changes; identity is only defined by which parts are connected to which.

Could anyone elaborate on the 'step-wise' change aspect from the article?
The actual resolution you get in an HMD is much, much lower than the screen resolution. For example, a movie theatre screen in an Oculus Rift CV1 with a resolution of 2160 x 1200 (1080 x 1200 per eye) would have an effective resolution of about 720x480.

Of course, you can create as many of these screens as you want in a virtual space, but the resolution combined with the distortion will hinder any text-heavy work.
Fun and Automation with Git Hooks
>The Pixel is a premium 5" phone, not a budget one.

what makes it premium other than the fact that they're charging lots of money for it? i can't find a real differentiator over something like the oneplus 3, which costs half as much.

i agree with you that it's better than the 5X, but comparing it to this year's competition, it doesn't look so good.
The scariest part of the whole piece answers this question:
Why are back doors with secret keys a BAD idea?

"... he had been left out of a decision that hurt users' security, the sources said. Due to a programming flaw, he told them hackers could have accessed the stored emails...."

The CEO of Yahoo must have known that this kind of scanning and storage puts their users at risk. She choose to do it anyway as being the path of least resistance against a more powerful adversary (US govt.).
Bad judgement compounded by zero spine... Verizon looks like the perfect fit.
I think the article overcomplicating things a bit was a meta joke on the topic itself.
They're not getting paid. Rides in a self driving car are currently free. (source: I live in pittsburgh...)
They do sell a 1-pack, although in that configuration really the only benefit is automatic security updates.
I also use NewsBlur. Is Newsrob better than NewsBlur's own Android app?
Awesome to see the improvements here. Unfortunately, it still looks like they only support Go :( Hope they support JavaScript soon.
Could you mention a few?

(I definitely am not trying to be sarcastic, your statement is pretty much what I think, but somehow whenever I try to think of these practical opportunities, I fail to grasp anything with even remotely the potential user base of gaming.)
I imagine Yahoo! Mail engineers being royally pissed about this. Well, I suppose that includes all Yahoo! folks who are still putting real effort into improving Y!'s services. Every odd day something surfaces about Y!'s execs questionable practices and decisions, every even day problems, leaks, bad press. Moral must have hit rock bottom.

Maybe the Yahoo! Board should have surveyed the startups scene, looking for founders who bootstrapped successfully and proven their worth, and recruit the best they could get. I am not very familiar with management of people and aspects of running a business, but I believe there is a lot more to it than being a smart person with computers.
Yes, it's totally the fault of tech companies that the US Federal government forces them to give up access to any information they want, and a non-profit email org would immune US intelligence agencies. /s
DEFCON 20: Owning Bad Guys {And Mafia} With Javascript Botnets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QT4YJn7oVI

This guy is just too funny.
One of my favourite talks is by James Mickens at Monitorama 2015: https://vimeo.com/95066828
Gary McGraw: Cyber War, Cyber Peace, Stones, and Glass Houses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCULzMa7iqs

I like how this talk cuts through a lot of the BS in security. One of his points is that the US and other rich Western countries have a lot more to lose from a possible "cyber war" than our potential adversaries do.

Another key point is that we'll never make much progress unless we can somehow start building better systems in the first place, with fewer vulnerabilities for an adversary to exploit.

I think the second point has become a lot more widely accepted in recent years since McGraw started giving this talk. Unfortunately it sounds like a lot of government folks still haven't got the memo on point #1.
That only works as long as you're legally competent and there are plenty of scenarios where you'd be suffering terribly but would not longer be in control of your life.
I'm making a podcast discovery app (info in profile). My plan is, if I (hopefully!) get enough critical mass to get podcast publishers' attention, to switch over to preferring Atom feeds. Just because Apple made a decision in 2005 doesn't mean we have to be stuck with it.

I hope, given the combined efforts of people in this space, we can break podcasts out of the grip of the iTunes store (e.g. Why do podcasts need reviews? Have you ever seen a Youtube video where someone urged you to leave a review? It's because reviews catch the attention of iTunes store curators, but Youtube does more automated personalization.)
AI again? Expert systems are around to support medical doctors' decision making for 2+ decades. Studies demonstrated that doctors can use them to improve their decisions. Hardly anybody uses them in practice.

In real life, medical information often is stored as PDF or similar in the hospital information system. An interesting challenge for AI would be to encode these PDFs.
Many of the challenges with radiology are historical. Imaging technologies have been treated as a devices for producing images on which measurements can be made, rather than a measurement device from which images are formed. This has lead to difficulties for quantitative imaging techniques and so we continue to rely on the (albeit impressive) qualitative assessment of the radiologist.

This is changing (shameless plug for my company http://www.pulmolux.co.uk) but medicine moves slowly preferring evolution over revolution. Having said that, I certainly detect that the scanner manufacturers (GE, Philips, Siemens, etc) having reached saturation with radiologists now have a thirst for disruption and see the referring physician as the next customer. MRI cardiology being something of an example.
You're right about the core apps on iOS. In principle, Android seems preferable to iOS.
Psychologists have measured this! The capacity to stop yourself from doing bad things is different from the tendency to do good things (someone, go make an improved D&D alignment system out of that...).
Slightly self-serving as the organiser but Sarah Mei's talk at Brighton Ruby this year was terrific.

http://brightonruby.com/2016/how-we-make-software-a-new-theo...
I actually got annoyed at my roommate last night because he was washing dishes while I was trying to watch a movie. The sound of running water totally messed up my ability to understand the movie (unless I turned up the volume quite a bit, and we have neighbors...), so I had to pause it until he was done.

I always thought it was just me - I'm not a native speaker - but it's interesting to know that it's an actual medical condition.
For anyone who has some spare time, here's an enormous time sink:

http://www.orionsarm.com

Don't click on that if you have stuff to do today.
To drive adoption, you need an app that people want to use over over, not just marvel at, or play for a couple of hours. It seems personal big screen video content has the chance to be that breakthrough app, and daydream seems a lot cozier than cardboard for long term interaction. Good for plane trips, commuter rail, ect.

Besides, it seems likely that Playstation VR will have the marketing spend which will drive awareness of consumer VR in the coming months.
Remind me when it's available in stores. We'll see.
Accelerating Deep Convolutional Networks using low-precision and sparsity