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Well, that is helpful to me because it may explain one reason why doctors have having trouble with their EMRs- electronic medical records systems. How do they expect to get quality staff if they're not going to pay competitive rates?
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13341191
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Dude, go read the dev docs. Trello is not vaporware to make a quick profit. They kind of started that as a pet project and even them were impressed that it picked up that quickly. To the point where they had to fall back to some polling code because their webhook stuff was failing.

Pretty nice story if you care to read it.
>The revival of Ektachrome is a heartening sign, but I sure wish Kodachrome were still around, there has never been any medium that was its equal.

Indeed. It gave us those nice bright colors, it gave us the greens of summers, it made you think all the world was a sunny day.
Personally, I think it would be much more interesting to see an AI compete in a multi-player game with, say, ten human pros at the table. Not just heads-up.
This. When putting on a record, I sit down to LISTEN. I am not putting it on to have some music in the background while I do other stuff. I listen.

Now, obviously I could listen just as well using Spotify, and on occasion I do - but to me, the whole ritual of bringing out an album, putting it on the turntable, brushing off the lint (if any), putting down the needle...

It all sets the stage. It gets me in the state of mind, if you like, where I can sit down and enjoy music at the fullest.

It is not because it sounds better (It doesn't, unless someone f---ed up the mastering).

It is not because of any inherent superiority of analog systems (they aren't).

It is because my stupid mind plays tricks on me and will not let me relax properly unless I put some effort into listening to the music.

Also agree fully on the 'advantage' of having limited exposures available - again, this is a problem of lacking self discipline, but I find when reviewing my photos that I have a significantly higher keeper ratio when shooting film; as I only get 38 (35mm) or eight (6x9) exposures on a roll of film, I tend to think a little bit more before pressing the shutter release - taking the couple of extra seconds to fine-tune the composition, make sure I haven't got too much clutter in the frame, etc, etc.

Again - if I were better at showing my mind who calls the shots, digital would be just as great. Problem is just I tend to go all Texan (no offense) with a digital camera - lots of shooting, sort out the good ones afterwards. Spend more time in front of a computer.
How are these tiers determined? Who decides what counts as tier 1?
This answer seems sound to me, I'm not sure why it's being downvoted. Can someone explain why they disagree?
Yes, it is. You can install it on your server.
Might be fun to send to the competition, to undermine morale.
Thank you for taking the time to write this!!
I don't know about this. Been shooting 30 years, including a couple years at a college paper (Daily paper needs lots of photos). I think film will be very niche.

We shot film at the college paper, specifically black and white, 400 iso, but can be pushed to maybe 1600 (it starts getting really grainy at this point. For a newspaper it doesn't matter). Being a daily paper getting photos out quickly was often a priority.

Slide film is way pickier on exposure than Black and White, with very little margin for error on the under/over (low dynamic range so to speak)

Developing film and making prints was always kind of a pain (we didn't know it at the time having no alternative..). While making the print, watching the image appear in the developer in the darkroom was almost magical, trying to make a good print was often frustrating). While printing we'd adjust the contrast, dodge a burn (lighten and darken regions). It was time consuming and error prone and not easily repeatable. Dust shows up as white spots on your prints too, which you won't see till the red light comes off.

Ansel Adams is the consute example of someone who made amazing prints by dodging and burning a lot, post processing. (He co-invented the "zone system" of printing.. [1])

The photo ink-jet printers these days are good enough to reproduce a lot of photos.

Honestly I don't miss film. I get to focus more on composition and subject, rather than the tech details. Except the sorting, we all take way too many pictures these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_System
What apps do you see this with? There are arguments against the android button model but your point seems like an odd one. In all of the apps I use the back button (the only button they get control over) acts very predictably.
Hi, this is the author:)

I've been using Python in enterprise-grade, large-scale production systems since the early 2000s. And it works, well. Most python libraries where performance matters have C under the hood. E.g. numpy matrix manipulation. Parallel computing got way better with the async support.

As for BigchainDB itself: it wraps RethinkDB (and soon MongoDB) which is where much of the compute intensive stuff happens. Also, we leverage these fast Python+C libraries, and parallelization. If/when needed, we can always convert some of our core stuff to C or another fast language.
Some quick Googling says that Raoul Wallenberg died at the hands of the NKVD and that Sweden had nothing to do with it. What exactly do you think the Swedish government did to Raoul Wallenberg? Where can I find more information on that?
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The depths to which this thread has reached suggests that the point's relevance (or perhaps more appropriately, "appropriateness") is not as clear as you seem to think.

Your slight towards other posters aside, what is easier to change? The HN-commentariat at large ("they try their best to need it")? Or, each of us as individuals, trying to compose our arguments and points in a widely receivable, understandable, and relatable way? (That is, what I am trying to encourage above.)
Legally correct I suppose, but do you have any moral qualms reading a short story written by someone who died a quarter century ago?

Interestingly enough, Project Gutenberg did deem one of Asimov's stories out of copyright:

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31547/pg31547.txt

Apparently its copyright was never renewed.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

Name the lies I've told, please, and be specific.
Can someone enlighten me how did he end up prediction extinction by 2300? I see words, but it makes no sense to me.

Even if it correctly peaks at 2065, even if it declines, it should stop at a stable level since most developed nations usually have 1-2 child per family today. I cannot imagine the next generations doing nothing with a laid back attitude and slowly let us die out because nobody wants to make babies :)
In that case it would seem to completely change the meaning of catilina's post - in my first reading, I was under the impression that they were attempting to debunk the it-wasn't-written-by-Shakespeare position. The confusing wording (goats and goat farms) is easy to overlook.
Tri-X is still available in 35mm? Got a link, please?
To clarify: "distributed" and "decentralized" are different. "Distributed" spreads compute among many physical resources, but may still have a single entity controlling it. "Decentralized" has no single entity controlling it. Paxos distributes but does not decentralize.
Because both play massive cash games where you can make/lose $200K in a night, and not have to play 30k hands...
Yeah, I scrolled through several pages of jwtadvice and I don't see any comments that appear to violate site guidelines. Further, I see a lot of similarities between my views and those of jwtadvice. Does this mean I'll get banned too? And for what reason?
There is a point beyond which most people just accept the fact of the matter as proof. The problem with the is he isn't he doubters is that if indeed they are the same man, there is no possible proof to be found. No one goes around leaving behind testaments that, yes, I'm-really-me. The lack of fact that show Shakepeare had a ghost-writer, at one point, must be taken as a proof by absence.
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All you'd discover is that poker is a very very volatile game and the number of tournaments it would have to play in to prove anything would be beyond time available.

It's worth noting that most poker pros will constantly re-buy in early rounds in big tournaments. It's a general recognition that it takes money, not skill to survive. Being at the later tables helps them maintain their fame, which is really their business.

Of course, if you're playing against amateurs or drunks, you can always win. But usually at the real tournaments they are few and far between.
Surely this is not an issue though, if they do, some teenager in there bedroom will make a clone in a fortnight or less, Trello is great but it's very simple software.
Did you read the entry? It apparently downloads and opens in the native PDF reader without asking when browser pdf plugin is disabled.

With the state of PDF security this could a one-click pwn.
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Redis has offered simple authentication for some time:
https://redis.io/commands/auth

Redis generally isn't put forth a first-class member of a popular stack and featured in getting started tutorials in the same way that MongoDB has been.
Interesting! From this link, I also see the logo on my rMBP (in Chrome or Safari) – but not in the IMGUR link I posted above, even though the IMGUR link reveals the logo on an iPhone7 iOS/10 MobileSafari.

Changing Chrome/OSX to report its User-Agent as iOS9 MobileSafari does not help get a different image from IMGUR.
In wrong color though.
Great video: https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-...
> If you are including the Soviet Union in this category, you are rejecting the very Marxist terminology that you appeared to be using

I think if you read the thread, you'll see that you are using the word "you" quite sloppily.

> since the whole point of the Soviet Union was that the workers would own the means of production.

The whole point of Leninist vanguardism, of which the USSR is obviously the first concrete manifestation, was to adapt Marxist rhetoric to be used in societies in which the perquisites Marx identified for socialism as a step on the route to communism were not met, to justify mechanism which were not what Marx and Engels pres cribed. Leninism is, itself, a substantive rejection of Marxism while adopting it's superficial structure.

That said, Marx is hardly the only thinker (even of his time) to argue for workers owning the means of production, and the indirect manner of such ownership in Marxist socialism -- and even moreso it's Leninist vanguardism adaptation -- is pretty far from the most obvious sense of workers owning the means of production.

The actual workers of individual firms controlling them directly rather than the state doing so in their name is, clearly, much closer to the obvious sense of that phrase.
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It's a betrayal of trust.

You know how Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a pig that has been genetically bred to want to be eaten? Like that is it's greatest desire in the world.

Dogs have been selectively bred over thousands of years to want to be our friends - to trust us, and to work together as companions. To deliberately kill and eat an animal like that is worse than eating any other.
Yes, this the kind of argumentative jackassery I don't have time for.

You of course can tell how long I've been here, especially since I said so in the post you responded to. You of course can figure out that I'm familiar with the format of HN. You of course know I have already declined to educate you. You of course are not confused, but are conflating social help (which is what you are asking me and others for) with mental help (which is not a bad thing either). And you of course declined to address my actual point, instead picking out things to snipe at.

These are all bad-faith argumentative techniques. They are exactly why I'm not interested in in answering your questions. They are not sincere questions.
How do you know the parents don't psss on information chemically or genetically? There's studies in humans suggesting trauma can alter the genome (see https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/holocaus... for a skpetically-minded overview of the paper), and it's not like we know genetics backwards and forwards. I'm wary of assuming other species should have to follow a recognizable parallel to human development. After all, fish that live in schools are essentially tribal but it doesn't seem to have led to an increase in sophistication.
The one thing I have learned in the computer world after almost two decades on this stuff is that you should never rely on things being constant. Tools will keep changing, and it will be a repeating cycle. I saw it with Delphi, VC6, VB6, QuarkXpress (sis is a designer), etc.

About the only thing that has had massive longevity is VIM, and at least for me, its throne was taken away by SublimeText. Maybe Atom will replace it or something else, who knows. But in the end, just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
What I meant by my comment was, I understood stinkytaco's comment as a request for a specific task that humans do (so, nothing as nebulous as "intelligence") that hasn't been "conceptually solved" with something like a walk through a search tree.

Even Go was "conceptually solved" decades ago- it's "only" iterating over a search tree; we were just waiting for the hardware and tree-pruning algorithms to catch up. Humor and other human tasks can be more precisely defined but still don't even have theoretical algorithms to solve them.
+1 I have to use it over a VM :-(. Commit time is coffee time.
This bug only applies to people who have disabled Chrome's built-in PDF reader, if I'm reading it right. (And pdfium is probably the world's best in-browser PDF reader; it works reliably, it's well-sandboxed, and it's free software despite being based on the proprietary/commercial Foxit codebase.)
To be absolutely clear here - I don't give two shits about "accurate". I care about reproducing the emotional content of the music. As a musician and a recording engineer, I take this stuff very seriously. I find the arguments for "accurate" to be utter nonsense 99% of the time, completely removed from the experience of music creation by people who have zero experience actually making music.

As for the fallacy of gray and the idea of loudness wars in vinyl mastering... nope. Two reasons. First, the loudness wars are a function of competitive reproduction on the radio or television. That competition doesn't really exist in the vinyl world, where listeners tend to listen to an entire album in a sitting. Second, it's not physically viable to make vinyl records much louder than they already are. High RMS volumes can make the needle jump the groove, or introduce a lot of downstream distortion (not the pretty kind).

Rather than fallacy of gray, this is more like saying you should eat with a bucket rather than a spoon because a bucket can hold larger bites. It doesn't matter if digital is technically "better" if there's no good way to take advantage of the additional benefits in can provide in practice.

(This all said, I'll record in digital rather than on tape, any day. The editing and management benefits are tremendous.)
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Regarding "hostile world," I recently learned that on private networks where all participating nodes are authenticated, blockchains can substitute proof-of-(work|stake|...) for faster and more efficient algorithms for reaching consensus [1] (I only remember raft something). What's the use case then? At least for older data (in blocks far away from the current one), blockchain in an immutable database. On the other hand, it's fun operating with buzzwords.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7467408/?reload=true
Where I work you put a jira id in the commit message and it will automatically put a link to the commit in the jira ticket. And a jira ticket can link to multiple commits across multiple repos.
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It's not so much "trying to manipulate" (in the malicious sense) but that economic forecasts tend to be self-fulfilling prophecies. If you think a stock is undervalued you'll buy it , which will raise the price. If you think the economy will grow, you'll invest, which will cause the economy to grow.

The result is the "efficient market hypothesis" which posits that all public information is already reflected in market prices to the best of our abilities (with a bit of swarm intelligence and darwinian selection making it unlikely that an individual can beat the market on ability).

All that's usually applied to prices but other indicators like unemployment may simply correlate to such a degree that it extends to them as well.
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We're already seeing governments like Russia imploring people to reproduce and giving incentives to do so. Also low birth rates in developed countries are in-part affected by the need for both parents to build careers, if the world economy collapses because of declining population (which results in a lack of growth and also soaring healthcare expenses) then we'll probably see reproduction increase again - especially if coupled with the above mentioned incentives.
What about HipChat don't you like? I know it can be buggy at times, but from a strictly functional perspective, I feel like it's ok, or at least sufficient for me.
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One thing that film gives me is a physical representation of reality as light bounced off of it at the time of me pressing the shutter.

This, for me, is an act of alchemy, a bit of magic, which brings a special kind of awe and changes my attitude to the scene, to the moment I am taking the photo, and thus changes the outcome.

I rarely shoot film, but when I do, it feels special.
Sibs have alluded to this but it bears repeating: it's not a matter of simply calculating your "odds". One of the first things a player learns when getting serious about poker is how to calculate their odds of making a given hand, it becomes quite second nature, and even being able to work with floating points rather than rounded approximations would not give the AI a significant advantage.

As one sib points out, calculating your odds of winning against a range of hands is significantly more difficult, but again raw computation would not give a significant advantage here as assigning an opponent an accurate range of hands without significant historical data on their play is more or less impossible.
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YouTube. I find its continuing existence quite the benefit.
Did not know about GitX. Will still rely on the command line over here, but it is nice to know there is a free tool to give to less technical people that is faster.
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It will be interesting if the increase in automation and decrease in working hours that we're likely to see in the future will lead to a reverse in the declining birth trends that we've seen in high HDI countries.
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Funny story, when I worked at Intel I got to attend/help at COMDEX one year when Intel was showing off their graphics chips. We were packing up some demonstration systems and their very expensive (at the time monitors) into road cases for the event and I noticed there were two brand new "boom box" type portable stereo systems with the gear. I asked if we were doing music in the booth and the product manager replied "No those are for the guys unloading and loading the equipment to steal at the venue." Apparently the only way they could avoid getting stuff stolen while it was being moved by the required convention center staff was to have something "set aside" that they would preferentially steal. It shocked my tender sensibilities.

I really hope the Verge follows up on this story to figure out what happened and shares it with the rest of the world.
Where is this HDI data from? A bunch of countries look misplaced. There is no way Taiwan is low HDI for example.
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I could not agree more.

I found the near deification of Internet/Tech entrepreneurs, like Musk, Zuckerberg and others deeply annoying at best.

Selling the idea they could be the providential leaders we "need", and that they could solve every single issue of our (quite complex) societies, is just disturbing...

Not to mention the latent conflicts of interest which can occur...
Take comfort in the fact that most of the people poo-pooing film here aren't actually serious photographers and have little or no experience with the nature of film photography.
Your comment echoes my own sentiments.

I've been shooting for almost 25 years, and invested lots of money into 35mm cameras and lenses. To replace my equipment with digital equivalents would cost many thousands of dollars. Also, I feel like film photography requires one to slow down and think more while shooting, a benefit that isn't readily apparent to every user, but (for me) results in much better photographs.
I agree with you, but I suspect that your experience with Jira/Confluence as a developer will depend on the quality of your project and management team. If your PM team use it as a way to distribute their work down to developers, then Jira will quickly become one of the litany of things that you hate. Meanwhile, if it's used well, it can vastly reduce the burden of upwards communication in a way that Trello never will.

In other words, like most enterprise software, the experience is highly dependent on how well it's implemented.
Unsupervised joke generation from big data:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0894589/petrovic13unsupervise...
What if you're not dealing with millions of connections but instead only a few thousand from whitelisted IP's and you need to optimise for high availability & latency? Could it be done with just anycast -> IPVS layer -> app servers ?
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