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Why stop there? With a Pentax Q, your standard 135mm telephoto becomes a 756mm-equivalent super-tele! Your 200mm becomes an 1120mm-equivalent! With just a 400mm you can take photos of the moon that will fill the whole frame[0]!

On the other hand - with a smaller sensor you get worse low-light performance, increased noise, poorer resolution, a greater difficulty with diffraction limit degrading your resolution[1], and decreased ability to isolate a subject. In technical terms, bigger sensors are where it's at.

It's certainly true that smaller sensors let you get more reach out of a piece of glass - but it's always funny that M4/3 is raised as the "ideal" format for doing this somehow, as if APS-C is not already smaller than full frame, or that there do not exist even smaller sensors which can give you even more reach.

Mirrorless bodies like the NEX system that let you cram big sensors into a small body size are definitely one of the more interesting developments recently. Especially the Fuji/Hasselblad collaboration that puts a digital medium-format sensor into a MILC body. The Fuji X-series are very interesting and well-designed cameras and I can't wait to see what they come up with next.

When I go on vacation I take an Olympus XA and a Fuji GS 645 folding camera for a nice combination of fields-of-view in a compact size. But at this point I'm really ogling the Fuji X-series...

[0] I've done this, uncropped photo with slightly missed focus: http://i.imgur.com/oFpu8JE.jpg

[1] Small sensors like M4/3 need to produce enough resolution to saturate their sensor at an extremely wide aperture, roughly by f/4 or so for a 16 mp sensor: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-photo...
I'm only just getting into Apple development, and the course is using XCode and the interface builder. Could you tell my why I should avoid it and what approach to take instead? Or is it fine or even preferable to use it in the 'learning phase'?
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Ask HN: Would you be interested in a cross platform tool for password hints?
Hey HN,

I've been working on a cross platform tool for saving password hints and wanted to get some feedback before launch (I guess I'm somewhat procrastinating putting the finishing touches on it and wanted to get some feedback).

Idea
Password hints, everywhere.

Why?
I created this project because I have a file on my computer that does the same thing, and wanted it everywhere. I don't (yet?) use a password manager, and don't use an everywhere-synced notes solution so I end up with disparate files on different machines with hints in them.

Also some good ol' nostalgia for the hint box in some older OSes and password systems these days.

Pricing
I'm torn between $1 and $2 a month if you choose to have us host your hints (the clients & server will be open source so you can host your own for personal use).

Where I am now
At present, I've built the web app, chrome/ff extension, and electron close to finish (thanks to web tech), and am considering adding mobile apps. The app really is as simple as it sounds but I've built it top to bottom and worked on it on/off for a while.

I also plan to support a chrome/ff extension that actually puts the hint box next to the password field. It creeps me out when extensions want to access all the content of pages (for modification purposes) of sites I visit, so this would be a separate extension of some sort.

I wanted to make a landing page and collect emails to judge interest or something like that, but it seemed to "growth-hack"y (in the negative sense of the term), and something that people get annoyed by these days.

Feedback I'd love

- Would you pay for this?

- Do you have this problem/some list of hints on your system?

- Any ideas for increasing value

- Anything else you've got to say
"If you meet the Buddha on the road..." is a specific Zen teaching.

Any time you see words like Dorje or Rinpoche it's safe to assume your dealing with Tibetan Buddhism which differs significantly from Zen. Zen is like Buddhism that went to China and picked up some Taoism while Tibetan Buddhism is like Buddhism that went to Tibet and picked up some Tantric practices.

This sort of guru worship is common in Tibetan traditions. It's less common elsewhere but if you look into scandals, even in the Zen community, there are abuses of power that rely on this absolute deference to a teacher.
> Instead of scanning the site and sending an accurate takedown notice to Google, APDIF tries to guess the URLs where MP3Toys stores its content.

So, they commit a federal crime, then (when they send the DMCA notice)?
I have coveted the OP-1 since before is came out, but I've also been college poor the entire time. It really hurts my heart.
Pigment pens seem to also survive the scratchy, bleed-y world of budget office paper, if you want a crisp line at the cost of higher writing friction.
Ordered atomic operations like C++ std::atomic or java/C# volatile do guarantee some ordering. For example if one thread modifies an object and then stores a pointer to an atomic variable, under default visibility rules, another thread reading that pointer from the atomic variable is guaranteed to see the modifications to the object itself, i.e. the update, the store and the remote load are ordered.

It is possible to have a model where all atomic operations are relaxed (i.e. unordered) and use explicit barriers for ordering (which is closer to how some, but not all, CPUs work), but it is significantly harder to reason about and prove algorithms correct under it.

edit: wording
Yeah, it seems to me that optimal treatment of a strike would be something like: 1) cap surge (maybe to the typical value for the given time/area), 2) notify drivers when a request is from an affected area, 3) exclude cancellations of those rides from the drivers' metrics.

The biggest concern is that this puts Uber in the position of determining what is and isn't "legitimately a strike".
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> 2.8 million votes short

why does this bother you, but corporate campaign contributions dont ? I voted for Trump because he doesn't need the money, so he can't be bought and paid for. The fact that corporations can influence elections with money is a much greater problem than the electoral system.
You are very right that they're not really following Buddhism as it's supposed to be. Zang's thing is more of a new age religious club (or even cult).

But then again most people who follow some sort of religious thought are bad at it :/
Yes, indeed, you are correct.
Here ya go; all section 1 (user commands) man pages:

man $(man -s 1 -k . | cut -d' ' -f 1 | sort | tr '\n' ' ')
How can you do this that often? I mean, I can do it once a month, or perhaps once every other week for 2 or 3 times but I lose so much weight that I never /had/ to do it more than that; In fact, one 5 day fast usually slims me down to my 'happy' weight anyway (Which is still about 90Kg, I'm quite muscular!).

And I agree with the other poster about the 'tastebud high' -- I'd hate to lose that, as it's perhaps half the kick of fasting!

Are you sure you haven't developed some sort of 'habit'? With all due respect of course, just curious...
NZ has no chance of opposing US will unless it wants to go completely in opposition and cut off ties. The US is a giant bully, NZ is a tiny isolated island state. The US managed to get Switzerland to give up banking secrecy, there's no chance for NZ.
That's it - fasting makes sense from evolutionary biology standpoint - the food was scarce up until modern era, and thus the obesity was quite uncommon. If one was lucky enough to get a meal, that could be his only meal in a week or a few days at least - that's exactly the fasting cycles that were part of the everyday life.
It's been a while since I read up on this, but I believe that under the Berne Convention, foreign copyrights of signatories are entitled to the same protections that each signatory provides to domestic copyrights. In that case, the applicability depends on whether the recipient, not the copyright owner, is subject to US jurisdiction.
I'd think they just made it clear how to choose one or the other based on whether I wanted something built and/or destroyed, as opposed to whether I just wanted it cut apart. ;)
No, pure German. www.fernuni-hagen.de. It is an official state run university.
Several things I'd consider...

- Is the $60M greater or lesser than last year? How strong is that growth? How does your growth compare to competitors, if there are any?

- How much did that revenue cost the company? For example, if marketing expenses were $100M to win $60M revenue, that's probably a problem. If marketing was $20M, the company may be healthy.

- With $60M in revenue, customers see some value, but what is the buying behavior of customers? Do they in general sign up and use for a while, then stop using? Do they 'buy up' to additional services (if that's your business model). Are there a significant number that continue to use and pay?

- The concern about delivering value may just be healthy customer-focused anxiety, or, it may be due to undesirable customer buying behavior. I'd get to the bottom of that. If the buying behavior is not negative, then your management may actually be pretty solid. If the buying behavior is poor, you're going to need to make a judgement call on whether you believe management can work through it.

- Also consider that at Series C, several VCs are already betting that your company will succeed. What is the track record of the investors?
Note that the person in the lowest tax bracket is likely not itemizing their deductions, so their cost is more like 100%.
"Frequent" and "severe" are definitely not legal terms.

If you ask somebody out to dinner, and they say they're busy, is it ok to ask them out again in a week? Is that frequent?

Everything is context driven, which makes things very difficult to write hard and fast rules about. For instance, it is usually sexual harassment if you link somebody to a page of with pictures of models in lingerie on it. If you work for an online clothing shop, it might be perfectly normal. "Every time anybody rates this item, it throws an exception in the server logs. Is there anything special about it?"
Perhaps try reaching out to the B4RN folks to learn some of their lessons. A lot won't apply because UK vs. US but I'm sure some of their experiences might help you avoid problems! https://b4rn.org.uk
Probably the way you just described it would work, "pricing varies by country, starting at ___". This is a service I have been looking for, but I don't like the idea that I need to buy into one or another of the internet-money fads. Do you foresee offering this service for regular money? If not, do you know anyone who might?
Will definitely look into this!
This smells like it's designed to maximize numbers that get reported back to APDIF's members as "number of pirates shut down" instead of actually preventing infringement.

Also, people have gone over the perjury stuff, but isn't there some kind of ground that encompasses flooding somebody with groundless legal demands/notices like this? I'm not sure tortious interference or abuse of process would apply, but the general principle seems to be around in various forms.
Are you OK then with Google removing sites that are spam, or sites that aren't mobile friendly, or removing a site from the top 10 page one results? Are you good with children being presented with porn/cigarette/alcohol/whatever advertising/results? At what point does "censorship" fall off, and common sense take over.
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I often have a glass of fruit juice in the morning to get a bit of a kick. It also helps when you have a bit of 'metalic taste' in the mouth.

Otherwise it's coffee in the morning, I'm a developer after all, code isn't going to magic itself out of thin air, it needs coffee! :-)
125% or 150%
My only complaint is the light is too faint. I need to hold it about 6 inches from my eye to see the whole display at once in the dark, and my eyes are still pretty good.

Also, if the light button had a timed-release of around 4 seconds that would be a big usability improvement.
worrying about your muscles catabolizing when you are trying to lose weight is one of the ways your brain makes excuses to keep eating and stay fat.

You are going to lose some muscle, its ok, you will still look better and feel better and perform better.
As much as I want to credit the NYT for great journalism, the take away from me was the lack of secularism description between this country and the others. One of the patterns to follow is the religious based abstraction and the lack of coverage in how it plays in Egypt, Turkey, and Pakistan. Equally the execution of judicial oversight to curb these is not a framework that any of those comparisons can give us a parallel to the United States. Even Turkey and Pakistan use military intervention to bypass the judicial control / balance. Yes, there are leaks. Yes, they are serious. Yes, they are compounding progress. However, the self-correction through judicial execution and re-enforcement of national security has a proven vehicle. Trump or not, this would still be the pillar with combination of secularism that allows religion to not be the boogie man in the room and fair and balanced government oversight will dominate. Yes .. maybe I'm an idealist - but I believe my assertions to be accurate.
Well, on the other hand, the Trump administration has essentially signaled its intent to go after officials who broach certain topics.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/24/14372940/trump-gag-order-e...
The twitter accounts are presumably run by people who are employed by agencies funded by the US government. They could lose their jobs or have funding problems because of this.

I think a more fair comparison would be to when scientists were gagged in Canada, under the Prime Minister Harper era.

One of many sad examples:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harperman-tony-turner-scient...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei50lM6ab1c

Of course, it's not muzzling, it's "ethics violations".
The focal length equivalency factor is partly why I stick with APS-C DSLRs. Plus, my Nikon D500 and its 20 FPS, 200 shot RAW buffer is something you can't find in any full frame camera (yet).

In any situation where I feel like I would benefit from a larger sensor I shoot film instead (either 35mm or 120 and get better colors and tones than any DSLR, in my opinion).
Harper's ran an article on this topic in 2012, including a focus on fasting during chemo. It's paywalled, however: http://harpers.org/archive/2012/03/starving-your-way-to-vigo...
I prefer microwaves with a 1 minute and a 10s button (just push the correct number of times). Knobs aren't as precise for things like heating milk for cocoa.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan[0] wrote a book called Secrecy. If I remember it correctly, I took away two main points:

* A highly valuable asset within government is information and thus workers are incentivized to hoard it and protect its value, including by classifying it and not sharing it (i.e., keeping secrets).

* Secrecy can lead to extraordinarily bad results. Instead of being exposed to open debate, the secret information or idea is restricted to a few insiders who lack diverse perspectives, can easily form an echo chamber, or who may be politically pressured or desirous to support the conclusion.

[0] Unusual career, if you don't know of him: Senator, PhD. and published sociologist, Ambassador to India and the UN, White House advisor on urban affairs. With his deep skills and experience in both research and government, few are more qualified to talk about these things.
Or, it could be explained by the existence and raison d'être of a professional civil service.
I think you're referring to the process of cell autophagy and the activation of it by fasting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy
If it clearly benefits current and future victims to be taken seriously and get any help they may need? Yes, in my opinion. But that is a much more personal ethics call.
The Muji wall-mounted CD player.

The simplicity in design and the shift in perspective that it brought has been deeply impactful. I study in a design school, and the number of times I have seen it appear on students' collages, inspiration/mood boards, etc is way too high.

P.S. Makes me wonder if that can be used as a metric for how influential a design is. Like how credibility of a research paper is based on number of times it has been cited. If there's a way to gather number of times a product has appeared on inspiration/mood board of other products, to determine its influence.
> but you likely have enough of it for a few days (likely close to a month) before your body needs to break down muscle and convert it to carbs for fuel (gluconeogensis).

That's not actually true, from my understanding. The body burns more fat than muscle, but muscle will still be burned if you are at a caloric deficit. I'd need to do some research to provide you with a good citation but this is something I've read about on multiple occasions while researching the keto diet (which I'm on currently).
It's kind of funny looking back on the decision making process to get to that point. Like now, obviously, of course you need these sort of rules for a communal space, just the way it's important not to burn incense or do crappy food shit wen you're living with a roommate. But when you go to make something new like a hackerspace, it's so easy to get tricked into just thinking "Rules are bad! I'm sure people will work things out on their own if we just foster a space conducive to collaboration!"
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What are the benefits over Google Analytics or Piwik or Countly?
Not so. Adding a new column is not a breaking change for reads, and may not be a breaking change for writes unless the new column is required, has no default value, and cannot be NULL.
Flash is not free. Flash Player is. Flash is actually for-money product.

Adobe Acrobat is also for-money product. You probably meant Adobe Reader, which is similarly positioned to Acrobat like Flash Player to Flash.

Silverlight was and Edge is a way for Microsoft to prove value of the Windows platform, and in case of Silverlight, also of Microsoft developer tools.

Isn't Uber, the app, a way to sell services? Doesn't Netflix for iOS sell Netflix subscriptions?

Isn't Google Maps, together with all Google apps, a way to keep people online, use Google Search... and provide Google audience for ads?

Neither of these would be true for a free DRM. Just like Flash player was financed by selling Flash, Reader by selling Acrobat, Silverlight by selling Visual Studio, Edge by selling Windows, Uber and Netflix by selling services, Google apps by selling ads - what would you be selling in order to provide freely embeddable DRM binary? And tangent question, how would you build your brand?
I'd say the real key to bicycle ergonomics is the iterative work that Shimano and its competitors have put into the groupsets. Most people don't realize the amount of ergonomic improvement that hyperglide cassettes/chains, better indexed shifters, and better brakes have brought to their bicycles.
Validation is exactly why 'these letters' can be useful and even necessary. Nobody cares if a lone developer complains, but if he find enough validation (through letters or as others here say, filing a bug report), it very well might make a difference.

I'm honestly curious what makes it sound immature though. Could you elaborate?
It seems everything from the left has to have this faux "resistance" air to it. The truth is they are pushing the same narratives that the FBI, CIA, NSA, numerous billionaires, the majority of the media and the majority of the voting electorate push. Conservatism is the counter-culture movement now. It's like the left grew up and decided to become "the man" that they had railed against in my youth.
Ya know, it's not like this was some dude who asked a co-worker out, got turned down, and that was the end of it.

Nope, this is full-on sexual harassment enabled by HR that went so far as to ambiguously punish the victim. Every time I think the 21st century is finally here, $h!+ like this happens.

The guy should have been terminated immediately once she produced the chat logs. The end. Even from a pure cold-blooded business perspective, if he's showing such poor judgment in this area, god only knows what kind of engineering decisions he's making and how they'll come back to haunt down the road.

Also, fire all of Uber's HR implicated in this nonsense. Sure, they're there to protect the company, they failed here, and they'll just fail again.
But we've had example of illegal activities in this administration (ie the immigration ban). What are civil servants to do then? Follow obviously illegal orders?
Ah, okay. Too bad there's not some simple way to also prove it is associated with a muzzled govt employee. These accounts could be somewhat muzzled themselves by creating lots of fake dissenters tweeting inaccurate info.
Not a Muslim, but my understanding is that it's a sun-up to sun-down fast. There's typically communal meals to break the fast. I think strictly observed there's also no water during the fast, which would seem to be a real challenge to an athlete, both during the event and for recovery.
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When Russian people wise up that the US needs to be the natural enemy of the state - the better off we all will be. The people must be confused by the conflicts from "The US is our enemy" under the Obama administration, to almost a complete turn around with Trump ... has to have them shaking their heads. This is just usual tactic by Putin to distract them from the weak economy, sanctions, and conflicts in other parts of the world. Just wait .. he'll be back to blaming us for the Russian woes. I give it 100 days. :)
The parent comment used that word choice.
I use this as a keyring. It is a bottle opener with a drum key in a single piece.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/gibraltar-drum-key-bottle-opener-on-...