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A lot of the same tricks with lighting and point of view work just as well in the real world as they do in the renderings.

It might be an ugly block 99% of the time, but it'll look great if you get a photo from the right angle at the right time of day with the right lights turned on in the right weather.
Yeah, I'm here. Ten years on the road and a lot of failed dreams. Some days I feel like finding a high beam and buying some rope. Anyway, it's been a fun 10 years - people should be aware of the risks, but it's fun to try.
I followed the same chain of logic as you; certainly looks like gmpg.org has been compromised. The entire root domain that the cert is signed for (fotomateo.com) is on Chrome's phishing block list too.

Odds are that gmpg.org never set up https for themselves. Someone hacked their web server and installed a new Apache instance or VirtualHost config for port 443 without them having noticed.

In any case, no danger in loading the OP's article.
I interpreted the parent comment's "Really now?" as being more like "No duh!" In other words, pointing out that, within some fairly large group of people, only a very small percentage end up being "game changing professionals" is pretty obvious. The author's whole line of argument is pretty absurd - if you find a group where "only" 8 out of 2000 people become Nobel Prize winners (nearly half a percent!), where only 870 people ever have won the Nobel Prize, it means that group is leaps and bounds above just about everyone else in doing whatever makes Nobel Prize winners.
Bigger battery = The main weight of a DSLR body is already the battery. They can't go the Apple route of filling every possible space in the case with battery either because it needs to be replacacle.

If the reason for getting rid of the mirror is mechanical reliability I don't think it's a good idea to add something else that can break.

There isn't a technical reason, but rather which trade offs do you want to make? You can make a mirrorless camera that has every feature of an DSLR, but there is no point to do that if you lose the advantages of a mirrorless system (small and light).
Yeah but I think that the timeframe for smart cameras is a lot closer. Much of the theory behind computational photography has been well understood for a while and it's basically physical modeling and linear algebra.

It just requires large amounts of computational power to work in realtime, and this is becoming feasible now.
> Even more so when the ad creators knowingly place in car crash/swerving and police siren sounds. It's dirty and unethical.

This I agree with, and they were specifically against policy at my last station. I ended up with copy that called for one and refused it, and the sponsor understood and sent new copy. This is not uncommon, particularly in larger markets, and it is a well-known problem amongst production types. And yes, production can refuse copy. They're often not empowered to at smaller, broke stations.

> It shocks the driver, and if they're sensitive to loud noises or disruptions, they may be liable to jerk the wheel in response.

I have a hard time imagining a scenario where this is the fault of the radio station. Trust me, I can see both sides, I just don't know if I can assign fault the same way. To be clear, on-air responsibility is not overlooked, though... "War of the Worlds" would, without question, never happen today. I'd just hope your hypothetical driver would maybe not max out the volume during dynamic programming if they're susceptible to that.

If there's a >20% difference between normal programming and the rest, the station you listen to needs new engineering and operations. That's just sloppy. Especially on AM, one should be compressing the living shit out of everyone speaking, so...

> All I can say is that necessary evils are evils nonetheless and "good people" do terrible things all of the time.

Yeah, no, that's not how that works. Found a startup without sales or marketing and get back to me.
A thousand years ago when people installed stuff.
Startups, that's plural, add some randomness to this hill climbing. Most startups fail and then you get pulled off of a local maximum.

But your next startup should not be exactly random. Like the VCs who invest, you should learn something from failure and you should have the lay of the land. If you don't, if it's a random walk again, then perhaps you don't belong in startups or in VC.
So what approach do you suggest for the interview process? How has it been your experience hiring under this process?
You might want to take a look at Blockstack (https://blockstack.org/). It does exactly this on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. You resolve a globally-unique name to a DNS zone file, which has URI resource records to off-chain data on one or more external storage systems.

Disclaimer: I'm one of its creators.
In high end phones pictures are taken continuously while the camera app is open. When you tap it saves the last one taken from just before you tapped, so there should be no motion blur from the tap itself.

If that's not working, you can also tap and hold which will take a burst. All the burst images will be saved, but modern gallery apps will automatically find the least blurry shot so you don't have to.
I would love to see a "this can be solved in O(n)" annotation on each, separate from the solution itself.
Very short answer: For web testing, you should run Burp Suite in headless mode. Lots of people use Carbonator to do this:

https://portswigger.net/bappstore/showbappdetails.aspx?uuid=...

Burp Suite is planning on adding native support for continuous integration... integration in the second half of 2017.

If you're reading between the lines: there are _very few_ security testing tools that are built well. So you're asking the wrong question. You don't need a huge list. There are only a small handful of fuzzers or analysis tools I would recommend at all, and Burp is it for web testing.

Most projects out there are hobby projects from people trying to learn something new and ignoring what has already been done. They don't serve a very useful purpose other than as a learning or teaching tool.

We used tried and true basics for our CRS: Radamsa, KLEE, our own open-source binary lifter, and a Python symbolic execution framework built around Z3. Nothing new, or hip, or magic.
That's a gross mischaracterization of what actually happened. The EU didn't seized anything but gave a bailout of 10 billions euros at the demand of the cypriot governement and asked that in return the second largest bank be closed and uninsured deposit over 100k€ (and 48% of them in the largest bank) used as a one time levy. Most of this money belonged to foreigner using cyprus as a tax haven. Those who lost 3 millions in the process were given a 7 millions discount on buying the cypriot citizenship.

see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Cypriot_financ...

But now let's provide some context here, the EU had to bailout Cyprus as a consequence of the US subprime mortgage crisis. So the EU had to clean up the mess made by the US.

Though I do agree there are some rotten things on the financial side of the EU, mainly the IMF and the ECB but also that countries have to pay for the private debt of banks. But this is not so different from the rest of the world and other central banks. Though quite scaled down it's not so far from the 700 billion bailout of banks in the US and the ECB and other central banks and federal reserve buying 2.5 trillion of government debt and bank asset the largest such move ever while EU and US government were injecting 1.5 trillion in their major banks.
AFAIK Lytro's new play is into the cinematic VR space.

They're working on a light field camera and stack that they advertise will allow the viewer to don a VR headset and view a live-action scene with 6 DOF, so long as the viewer doesn't move their head terribly far.

https://www.lytro.com/immerge
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That was my point: I'm not saying that phones will replace cameras for all uses (there are inevitable physical limits), just that cameras will look very different from what they look now.
This. Also note that the E-M1 has phase detect auto-focus built into the sensor (I think the top Sony mirrorless do too?). This is the tech leap that will close the gap between AF speed.
There was a competition last year for making websites under 10kb. In my opinion there are some truly amazing entries: https://a-k-apart.com/

About the OP, take into account that repeated markup sum up to little more than just 1 when gzipped; and any non-svg image is going to eat your quota REALLY fast.
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My daughter owes her life to ECMO. Scary as hell, but I'm thankful for it every day. The team that saved her life just recently performed the first transport using a portable ECMO machine. The one they used on my daughter was the size of a vending machine. They now have the portable units down to the size of a small suitcase.
They are separate courses. I didn't have any AP Calculus credits so I had to take both.

At some point (I think a few years before 2008?), Cornell also renumbered the courses by adding an extra zero to convert them to four digits (as required by the new PeopleSoft course management system).
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> wild things like ECMO, which makes everyone feel they're making more of a difference even though the outcomes are the same without it

Knowing that my daughter wouldn't be here today without ECMO, I take issue with this assertion.

Edit: She was born with severe MAS and her lungs were practically non-functional. ECMO was the only way she had time to fight the infections and start breathing. She spent 12 terrifying days on ECMO and then 2 more weeks on ventilators.
"From its inception in 1942 until 1994, the search recognized more than 2000 precocious teenagers as finalists. But... just eight have won Nobel Prizes."

Just?!?

Said differently: slightly less than 1/2% of identified gifted teenagers in this group went on to win Nobel prizes. Given the rarity of Nobel prize winners and the difficulty of predicting future Nobel prize winners (as teenagers) that strikes me is pretty amazing.
Yes, I think it is great and I am proud that YC is having a good reality check that is maturing every year. Just watch the Startup School videos, mainly the Slack founder talk.

It is also good to think about alternatives to the typical startup vs corporate dilemma. For example, securing a job and working on side projects until there is a signal they can be something more.
Probably something like 1 in 10 of the Gmail users examined have weak / short enough passwords that by knowing the length the dictionary used becomes small enough that a brute force attack becomes feasible.
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Yeah, it is. There's millennia of precedent here and I'm not going any further to argue against "nuh-uh."
I've sent this blog to dozens of people. While it's not universal, it offers an important concept applicable to many facets of life.

Here's another take on the same concept: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27033
It's certainly not good to leak this information, but wouldn't most of the providers mentioned have an automatic lockout for repeated login attempts? How could an attacker actually exploit this in any non-trivial system?

This is much more dangerous if combined with a database dump containing password hashes. (but that's a different problem)

It's cool as an undergraduate student project, but until it's got a CVE assigned and/or better vetting I don't think it's very helpful to be sharing a FUD site like this.
> I also suspect that the bank have been paying dividends to it's shareholders for many years

maybe not as the bank ceo later admitted that the bank had probably been insolvent as early as 2008, even before cyprus entered the eurozone.
Without spoilers, here's an outline of an interview problem I did last Friday:

1) Here is a very small VM (fewer registers and fewer instructions than you can count on your hands). Write an interpreter for it.

2) Add an I/O instruction.

3) Having your interpreter and your I/O instruction, you are given at least one example of a program with a specific property. Write a program analysis which will detect the property soundly and completely.

Managing to finish (3) relies on knowing about certain fundamental concepts from automaton theory and program analysis. The company does actually use this knowledge regularly, so it makes sense that they'll ask. However, even parts (1) and (2) actually manage to test basic programming in a reasonable way.
It's software/protocols, not a company.

Moderation is up to the people that run the server, which allows people to find the policies/servers/communities that suit them best.

It's the least-bad solution to the moderation problem I've heard of.
>Then again 9/11 is not a valid excuse as the US has been orders of magnitude worse for decades, had been preparing for such an event but did nothing and even the contrary when it actually happened and then used it to go to war to unrelated countries for unrelated reason (access to oil). So please just stop brandishing 9/11 as a justification for doing more of what the US have been doing all along.

I agree with you. That isn't what I was arguing at all.
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I had a REALLY hard time in MATH 1910. A lot of people came in with private school educations and breezed right through it all. Meanwhile, I felt like I was struggling to catch up on the very basics such as L'Hôpital's rule because my high school was just okay but not great.

I started with a B- after the first prelim (which was the median grade), had to go to tutoring at the Math Support Center in Mallott and go to office hours, and after all that, I managed to somehow bring up my grade to an A- by the end of semester. Even still, it was VERY stressful.

I wonder how you must have handled having to retake the class. I would've been losing my mind from anxiety if that happened.
Cool stuff! I also wrote a maze generator awhile back[1] that was coupled with the A* algorithm, but it doesn't make those cool circular mazes or anything. C++11 is also a big plus, loving the modern C++ style.

[1]: https://github.com/Syntaf/MazeSolver
> I disagree. And I think that anything funded with public grant money should be barred from being patented. If you want to patent it, you should have to fund it privately and take all the risk. If there is even a whiff of public money, you shouldn't get to patent it.

What's the economic logic behind this? In these situations, the government is just another early stage investor. If it demands terms that are too onerous, the good projects will go somewhere else, leaving the government with the ones that don't have better options. Or, you'll basically make government funded R&D all into dead ends, because nobody is going to bother to spend the money taking it from lab projects into commercialization.
Yup. That's literally the only reason the NSA (and CIA) exists. If they are spying on US citizens (which has been proven) then that's a huge issue. Since it's unconstitutional.

Spying on foreign powers? That's part of the game. Every single country is doing it to the US, and I see absolutely no moral issue being better than them at it.
Note that prior to the Bayh-Dole Act, publicly-funded IP was assigned to the government, where 95% of it lay unused.
The feedback loop is indeed a problem. The youtube wise-cracks begging for upvotes are even more horrendous than the reddit ones. They get repeated ad nauseam everywhere and yet people continue to up-vote them. The insightful ones are generally buried and lost. I wish social networks prevented posting of duplicate up-bait.
Only on HN. I describe an unusual idea in fairly vague terms, and it turns out it exists. And one of the creators clues me in.

Thank you, and I will check it out.
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You don't have to defend against MITM if you (or only people you trust) control the network infrastructure.

Obviously doesn't apply to the interwebs but it does apply to some setups.
I'm surprised there's no mention to adaptive optics in solar physics. It's essentially the same, but some interesting differences. Since there's more light you can have more corrections per second, better approaching the assumption of constant deformación during between corrections on a small view angle ("constant isoplanatic patch"). Also there's no "perfect star" to correct to, so calculation run on a closed loop to basically improve contrast of the reference. The needed correction is also bigger during the day, since the atmosphere is more turbulent. In the last few years there also have been really cool improvements to account for different layers of the atmosphere and better faster algorithms to correct wider and wider fields of view.
This is an example (from my PhD) of the state of the art 9 years ago, but illustrates the huge difference: https://youtu.be/x3JkjXco6m0
What people say that they want and what people actually want are frequently two very different things. When it comes to finding product-market fit, this is obvious. There is an old quote often attributed to Henry Ford: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." It is better to look at people's actions and behaviour rather than their words when judging what they actually want.

The people whom cdixon talks to that say they want to be '"working at or founding a startup"' are lying. They are lying to themselves first and foremost and only secondarily to cdixon. Their actions speak much louder than those words. Those actions say that they want to safety and security of the job that they don't enjoy rather than the risk and uncertainty of a startup.
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Knowing the length of the password in theory makes it weaker, but in practice, it doesn't if your password is already longer than feasibly bruteforceable.
Because it's the NSA? And it's an American agency?

I really don't understand why this is a difficult concept for people to understand.

I pretty much assume MI6 is spying on me as well, but I don't care - because they don't have jurisdiction over me. The NSA or CIA spying on me? That's an entirely different story.

It's incredibly naive to think nation states will not spy on each other - allied or not. Alliances change on a whim, if you have a spy agency it'd be criminally negligent not to spy on your allies.

When that intelligence is redirected and used to control internal politics? Now it's a problem.
> If I want to follow the news, my FB feed is one of the most biased sources on the internet.

A couple years ago I made a concerted effort to make better use of Twitter. I aggressively added any account that seemed to be producing interesting and informative tweets, and then pruned the ones that turned out to be bad.

Today my #1 source of news is Twitter. My feed is full of reporters, producers, experts, and commentators who are providing up to date info and analysis--and other points of view. I log into FB far more rarely than I used to.
They already do - Canon EOM-M and Nikon J(?). They have a different native lens mount but adapters are available for legacy glass. I think they reviewed poorly against more dedicated mirrorless manufacturers.

Reminds me of the Porsche Boxster/Cayman. Mid-engined cars is a fundamentally better design than the rear engined 911 but the company culture and legacy requires that the best performing Porsche models are the 911s.

I'd love to see Canon/Nikon build a 918 equivalent, just go all out building a mirrorless using their best tech. Unfortunately they are ceding the ground to Sony/Fuji/Olympus...
I've never been to an interview that would ask this kind of crap, and would be very surprised if a future interview did. So yeah, I'm just looking at it as a list of possibly interesting problems, which makes it a way better link than "interview help".
I've failed at a lot of things too. I'm not doing exactly what I want to right now in terms of tech, but I'm making up for it in other ways, e.g., playing music. I look back at all the mistakes that have been made though, and I can't really fault anyone else but myself for the trajectory I've taken.

It's up to me to learn and find a better way.
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Memory leak isn't quite the right word for what I think you're referring to: processes that most forward binaries without generating enough garbage on their own heap did not trigger garbage collection, leading to too much memory being used. This behavior is better in recent releases (otp 19), the space used by binaries is added to the per process accounting so that it can trigger garbage collection.

I agree, if you don't fit into the actor pattern, erlang is probably not a great choice, although the bit syntax is pretty nice, too. Sometimes you can leverage erlang for distribution and supervision and drive the c code; but sometimes it's just not a good fit.
Hi! This post really resonated with me because of my experience with how previous efforts at re-decentralizing the web have failed.

In my view, adoption will always be held back as long as there's:

a. a UX gap (in both software and dev skills)

b. a lack of innovative open source business models

c. an absence of completely novel apps that couldn't have been done before

We're trying to tackle all 3 at Blockstack with our developer platform but it's not easy. Would love your thoughts sometime on whether we're on the right track and how else we could help you out as a developer.
They are getting downvoted because they are snarky + dismissive, the ol HN combo.

Here's the page: https://edent.tel

Their snark doesn't even make sense. They probably didn't even click in to the blog post. It's more than an email address.

You wouldn't make that page personally? Ok. Nobody asked. But don't shoot someone down who's trying to have a little creative fun in life. Other commenters already beat you to it.
Its not as simple as that. Humans are social, and want to feel that they are "useful", that their presence / skills are needed. Not having a job takes that away from them, which can snowball into psychological issues, and possibly turn them "bad".

When a chunk of society becomes jobless, we've got problems ...
I don't know the specifics of Anaheim but I work for Airbnb and we are eagerly working with local governments to pay all required taxes. There is no reason not to.