skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DSLR has much, much better battery life. The mirror also offers a degree of protection from dust for your shutter and sensor. There are less electronics that can break. These factors will guarantee DSLR usage by pros for the next 5-10 years at least.

Mirrors rarely (read: never) break through normal usage; the main advantage of mirrorless is not having to accommodate the mirror box which means cameras can be smaller.
Uncanny valley, not trying at all looks a lot better than trying hard and being slightly off.

And besides, Craigslist and Drudge Report don't look nice, but they still look aligned in the places where they're trying.
>the point is, it's a market that never took off, and Facebook could change that very quickly, due to their sheer scale

But maybe, I say, it never took off for a reason? Some things are just not what people want.

(Though of course all the content providers crave them like crazy)
Week 15 in Information Security, 2017
That doesn't suggest that the middle class is consuming and the lower classes are paying. The cited median house of $150k isn't owned nor are taxes paid for by the lower class.

The middle class gets taxed as much or more than the lower and they put in more due to simple economics.
DMCA exemptions are for the additional restrictions imposed by the DMCA on circumventing "access controls", i.e. DRM, even for otherwise noninfringing purposes. This is separate from plain old copyright infringement, i.e. making/distributing copies without permission: that has certain exemptions baked into the law, including fair use, but isn't subject to the periodic Library of Congress rulemaking.

In this case, archive.org is distributing copies of the software to everyone's browser, and I don't think there's any plausible case that it's fair use or that any of the other exemptions apply. I'd expect it to count as infringing in most non-US jurisdictions as well, though probably not all.

In practice, though, even if Apple decides to do something about this (unlikely), they'll probably just send a takedown notice rather than actually sue the Internet Archive. I'd call it a calculated risk on the Archive's part.
Why are cellphone-keyboards never on the backside?
I just never understood that. If you have the phone in your hand, four of five fingers allready reside on the backside.
If you add a touchpad there, ghost the fingertips and add some haptics, you have a keyboard without screen ofuscation.
Well, I've seen lots of studies over the years that claim that extra time spent in the office (beyond 40 hours per week) doesn't translate into extra productivity. Some reasons mentioned include:

- Tired employees make more errors, which then take time to fix. And if you've been working for 12 hours, you'll be mentally tired even if you're not physically tired.

- If you spend 12 hours a day at the office, lots of things you need to do in your life (e.g., arranging your social life, running errands, going to the gym, eating meals) will get done while you're at the office.

- A lot of programmers (myself included) get their best thinking done when they're relaxing away from the office.
This article seems like a classic case of theoretical discussion with little to no practical significance.

"In reality, it is precisely the other way around. In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity."

Jobs such as waste collection will be completely automated away in the next decade. I suppose machines then will be the true mechanism of "social solidarity"?

"But there is also a second way to make money. That’s the rentier way: by leveraging control over something that already exists, such as land, knowledge, or money, to increase your wealth. You produce nothing, yet profit nonetheless. By definition, the rentier makes his living at others’ expense, using his power to claim economic benefit."

It seems like the author believes that any gain to one group can only happen at the expense of another. Yet we know this to be false - the pie can and does get bigger.

"revealed that much of the financial sector has become downright parasitic. How instead of creating wealth, they gobble it up whole."

Agree, but curious to understand which industry the author doesn't define as parasitic? All companies want to expand and grow relentlessly, that's just the nature of capitalism. Cable/Telecom? Oil and gas? High Tech? All of them have become "parasitic" if that's how the author wants to define it.

"Higher taxes on the ultra-rich can make rentierism less attractive, precisely because society’s biggest freeloaders are at the very top of the pyramid. And we can more fairly distribute our earnings on land, oil, and innovation through a system of, say, employee shares, or a universal basic income."

Wrong. Higher taxes, though welcome, will not be the solution. Nor will universal basic income. How does one not understand that with the rise of automation, the rich are about to get so much richer, no matter how much you plan on taxing them. And basic income, though beneficial, won't fix class inequality either, in fact it might just exacerbate it.

Let's talk about something the author fails to even mention: Education. Class inequality is fixed by education equality. Period. End of story. The rich in the USA have access to far better education, and THAT is the true source of the rising inequality.
A lot depends on the sort of consulting probably. There are some cannon fodder sort of jobs certainly. There are others, as you say, where you learn to create some semblance of balance even if you still live on planes. (Though I would dispute that all good careers require both brutal hours and lots of flying; some do some don't.)

Out of school I was supervising projects on-site and it was a really good out of school job. Would I have been wanting to spend weeks in shipyards at 40 or 50? No way.

I do a lot of flying these days but I'm in control of my schedule to at least a certain degree.
I use both the Gmail web interface (at work) and notmuch-mode from within Emacs as an offline client. My evaluation: notmuch has a nice local search interface, supports tags and threaded views and handles PGP, but is similar enough to the Gmail interface. I find it much easier to use: https://notmuchmail.org/screenshots/

By coincidence, I used Sylpheed before and Thunderbird before that. I found both easier to learn than notmuch-mode, but ultimately lacking, especially regarding handling of encrypted messages.
>Uncanny valley, not trying at all looks a lot better than trying hard and being slightly off.

Nice counter-argument, but I'd still say no. There are still tons of sites that try but are still off, and people don't care at all, they're still huge.

It's all about the service, unless one's is catering to OCD customers.
You're wrong about them being out of control: this, the hacking, spying, compromise of foreign nations, etc, is what the American people want. You're confusing a vocal minority that agrees with you for consensus.

From the perspective of most Americans, the IC are loyal soldiers who brought nearly the whole globe under American control at a price below that of our latest fighter plane. Total information warfare superiority. The new nuclear dominance.

Now, you (and I) might find that unsavory, but for people who are fans of real politik, it wasn't even a question. If anything, the IC should've done more to neutralize Chinese and Russian capabilities.

I would argue the real politik view is simplistic, but yours is also naive. You're simply wrong about the US going to war if others did the same -- they do and we don't. We retaliate in cyberspace, dissident funding, etc. That state of continuous covert warfare is normal, everyone does it, and there are many reasons the US wants to dominate at it.

The only criticism I have of the IC is failing to advance our defensive capabilities, not for keeping us at the forefront of the cyber battlefield.
> There is a real question, however, as to what would motivate the vast majority of current web users to switch off of centralized services and on to decentralized ones.

I imagine decentralized tech would creep into everyone's lives by accident, service by service, rather than happening all at once. I don't think people care (yet) about how their bits are pushed around, but they'll jump into a decentralized service if needed to keep up with the latest craze.
Iran and Palestine suffer from asymmetry of power projection, so maybe what you say it true. It's absolutely true, however, that China and Russia engage in exactly this kind of espionage against the US and other western targets, and the world survives.

Spying gets a bad rap. When it works correctly everyone is a little better off for it, because it prevents surprises on the part of the people whose mistakes can be most costly.
I keep hearing that from younger friends, but have yet to hear from a single one of them that doesn't open it daily.

How many in your circle have actually quit FB (including Messenger)?

The impression I'm forming is that these younger people see FB as something like my generation viewed the phone company.
>Yes, because they managed to monetize their traffic and keep it up despite fierce competition (attempts... by Google, for example).

They didn't have to do anything, that's the point. They have such strong network effects. They would have to completely fuck up to lose even a tiny fraction of their userbase.
http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/General_Information#...

Back in 2001 Claws Mail (formerly Sylpheed-Claws) started as the bleeding-edge version of Sylpheed, in order to act as a testbed for new features for Sylpheed. The idea was to regularly resync with Hiroyuki's main branch, and vice-versa. Claws Mail then evolved into the stable, extended version of Sylpheed, and in 2006 became an entity in its own right, in part due to different goals and the fact that syncing both codebases stopped happening.
Claws Mail has many extra features compared to Sylpheed and is more powerful, yet is just as fast, lightweight and stable.
I've found Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming to be the best on ramp. He builds up the concepts carefully till you are using applicative functors and it's always very practical and applied.

I will probably now re-read Learn You a Haskell and actually write some Haskell.

[1] https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/
You could counter game it by not overbooking. Or start at like 10k and auction down.
Somewhat related to this discussion - it's really worth the one hour:

Secret History of Silicon Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

TL;DW The foundation for SV was laid during WWII by unrestrained spending (based on a huge amount of debt of course) by the US government on R&D. Private enterprise only came in once the foundation existed.
> over 14 years at the most recent place

That's the issue. You made a mistake believing there is such a thing as "loyalty". Move every 2-3 years to get "raises" and fuck everyone else, no company has any loyalty to you.
Ask HN: Need some suggestions on e-commerce for a racing engine shop
I've been hired at a racing engine shop to basically revamp their entire web presence.
I've been working there for a while now but I'm having 2nd thoughts about what I decided to go with to host their shop.
I went with shopify to replace what their previous computer dude had on iPage which is a horrible webhost. Before shopify I attempted to just use a WordPress but since I'm literally the only technically minded person at the shop and this is my first job, I felt it was a bit over my head to jump in to being responsible for SSL and payments.
Well in between them having me work on irrelevant things like slideshows I've been educating myself in analytics. We don't get much traffic and I'm not a marketer or a sales person.
Anywho, I'm going to be rambling in this post, apologies.
Another thing is that they use a program called Sellwise as their in store POS which is offline and running XP and Sellwise is a DOS program. I have gotten that running in DosBox just in case I need to take it to my workstation and look up something.
Anyway, shopify... Might not be the right thing for this. I'm just manually listing the stuff they had on eBay. They don't have a straight plan for what they want from me. So I'm pretty much free to figure all of this out for them. Most of their current customers actually are less single products and more I guess bill of materials type stuff. Engine builds. Services. That kinda stuff. Not repair mind you.

Oh what a good first post huh. I've been reading stuff on here for a while but never had an account, love this place, great New ideas always.

Edit: link to the website https://marolloraceengines.com
You can use the volume (-) button on iPhone.
Maybe you just need to mute/unfriend more people. Most of my handful of FB "friends" are actual friends, who tend to post a manageable volume of personal stuff, and very few cheap memes or other crap. If someone is frequently posting more than 1 thing per day, they're doing it wrong in my opinion.
Have you considered the possibility that there might be more than two ways (Randian capitalism or Marxist communism) to run an economy?
Theoretically, you could do it with Docker Mac since Docker is just a VM (no native Mac support). You would just need the Docker image to be created.
My cellphone is inside a case.
I'm a subscriber to things being eventually optimized to their limit. Screen are still getting slightly bigger, but there's plenty of theoretical space for cameras to grow.

As long as bigger cameras perform better (and there's a demand for better performance) they will keep growing until they take up the entire back of the phone.

My bet is on micro lenses so small that the camera becomes a flat rectangle taking up most of one side of the phone, along with some crazy insane software processing.
The original Ethernet patent was an example of this. The license fees were low - $1000 [0] and it became a de facto standard. Token Ring was a competing network technology with considerably higher license fees [1]. Patent owners for subsequent Ethernet standards started out with similar terms but then started shaking down licensees [2].

The Bell Labs transistor patent may be another example. The initial license fees were $25k [3].

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=qTkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA52&ots=...

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=OFCXnqlSFKwC&lpg=PA709&dq=...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2008/01/ftc-c...

[3] (pdf) http://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1175&...
> thus it underwent a complete overhaul where it got all the bells and whistles of other alphabets

It didn’t get all the bells and whistles of other alphabets in actual practice. Yes, in theory short vowels could be denoted with diacritics, but this was rarely done in Arabic, let alone Turkic.

> not for the current system in use for centuries now

Again, the “current system” in use for centuries in Middle Turkic and early modern Kazan Tatar and other Kipchak languages did not mark most vowels with the use of diacritics in spite of their theoretic availability.
That doesn't discount the argument though.

1) SNAP is cyclical - so it's gonna naturally boost a struggling economy, as would most other expenditures

2) there's a natural limit - there's only so much food a family needs
That's quickly changing, Sony have now overtaken Nikon to become the number 2 seller of full frame cameras in the US. Nikon doesn't make a single full frame mirrorless camera and Sony most known for making them.

https://m.dpreview.com/news/1896381164/sony-is-now-2-in-the-...
>Yugoslavia -> Serbia and Montenegro

And before (soon after WWI) it used to be officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
When I interviewed there a few years ago I got the impression that their product is LFDD: Lord of the Flies Driven Development. Pick an idea implemented on another site, pick whatever language you like, then push it out.
NeoMutt – Modern Mutt fork with virtual folders
I'm a frequent flyer with status on United Airlines.

This "onboarding" demonstration is an eye-opener for me. While I didn't experience any of the issues that this slideshow demonstrated, I now realize that my experience and knowledge with flying United helped a ton to start working with this app. On a related note, I also did not share the same general resentment for what United did on the recent flight to Louisville. Not because of lack of empathy, but again because of experience both good and bad, and also because if I were to be the doctor, I would know my options for getting to my destination in time. After a while, you start forgetting that other people do not share that level of experience and knowledge, and to make this relevant for Hacker News: this is an issue that affects me as a developer too.

That being said and in United's defense, this app has incredibly powerful functionality that's not mentioned at all here. This app allows you to scan your passport and get it "pre-approved" for boarding an international flight, something that can save you A LOT of time at the airport. Furthermore, in case you are affected by "IRROPS" (delays and cancellation) the app can offer you alternatives and rebook you immediately. And there's a lot of other helpful stuff this app can do. Granted, it is still limited in what it can do, and sometimes it can't help you out, but it is a huge timesaver if it does. In short, the United iOS app can be an incredibly powerful travel companion, but it still requires a user that is more educated about air travel than the average Joe.

So as a developer, I do agree that the onboarding experience for inexperienced users should improve and I will look at the onboarding process in the applications that I write. But at the same time, as a frequent flyer, I hope any changes do not constitute merely "dumbing things down" at the expense of the powerful functionality where this app really shines today.
Thank you.

When I saw this thread, I was sure that it would be something about orbital mechanics or the Coriolis effect. But no, it seems.
Kids are society's problem

Did you consider consulting society first before foisting such a responsibility on us?
Or perhaps Facebook will decide to adopt the Solid protocol, which would imho be the single greatest thing Zuckerberg could do. Even better than donating all of his money.
First-ever “image” of dark matter?
So I can run WhatsApp without a phone? This is marvelous.
Lately I've been thinking about how funny it is that we make heroes out of the heads of tech companies.

Especially in technology, does anyone really believe that if these particular individuals hadn't contributed their talents, the world would have turned out much different?

Would there be no operating systems without Gates? No social networks without Zuckerberg? No search engines without Page? No e-commerce without Bezos? (Granted, Bezos is pretty exceptional.)

Why should particular individuals capture such massive rewards when their success had more to do with circumstance than anything else?

(There's a connection here to the "great man theory" of history and its critiques.)
It's usually created by one frugal couple not spending much of their income their entire life, and then passing on the savings. Money that isn't spent generates even more money passively.
slighty off topic, but there are mail client that support at-rest encryption?

For varius reason i need to run a mail client from a usb key, and i could't find a client that support the ability to encrypt the mailbox (also with addressbook and for windows).
Veracrypt and similar solution are not applicable in my case.
At least it works if your kid has the genes of a parent with the patience to read through 400 biographies.
All my chargers do charge all my stuff. But then of course my stuff consists of Google's Nexus 6P and 2015 Pixel LS - both of them bought in 2015, both have USB Type-C chargers and both chargers can charge both devices. Google has pioneered USB Type-C charging for over 2 years now, too bad that other brands have done little to follow it's example. I do not like Apple at all and I hear the new macbook is a bit of a joke, but one thing I approve of is all USB Type-C ports. It's time to switch and ditch the old Type-A. Most of the people who bitch that they need to carry a bunch of dongles around for a period of time are the same people who change their phones every couple of years of so spending more money than all of their old USB devices combined would cost. How about not carrying around several different proprietary charging bricks instead?
I believe in classical economics the terms are Production and Distribution, the latter being in reference of profit, or value-add.

I totally agree that the ambiguity you described is an issue. It's unfortunate that common political parlance isn't in a habit of defining its terms as a step 1a before proceeding in a discussion.
Turkey referendum: Erdogan declares victory
ok, 'search that does not suck' isn't a feature of IMAP.

> Filtering doesn't belong at the IMAP protocol layer anymore than it belongs at the SMTP layer.

Right, so users are forced to set up this stuff for each and every device they have. This is a big reason why the exodus to webmail and the proprietary internal-only protocols they use.

Seive is really powerful and I've used it plenty of times, but it's not standard and is something that needs to be done completely separate from almost all email clients. Unless you are a big email nerd that runs your own servers it's pretty much worthless.
How do I make sure I don't mix up identical twin newborns?
Repeat after me:

Artificial Neural Networks/DL =! Biological Neural Networks
Making small culture changes
I think you missed a step where they figure out a shady way to get as many users opted into the new feature as possible, regardless of if they actually want it or not. But yeah, that sounds about what I'd expect.
For me, as a hobbyist, camera size is pretty important. I bought a Sony RX100 recently, which is the currently the leader, bar none, in small-sensor compacts. It's tiny, but I found that it's still large and heavy enough that if I'm not wearing a winter parka with big pockets, I'm unlikely to bring it with me. The iPhone is what's with me at all times. (I also have an Olympus OM-D mirrorless, which is very good, but that one only goes with me on holidays and special occasions.)

One major thing I discovered recently is that iPhone 7 (and maybe earlier models?) supports shooting RAW. With an app such as Lightroom or VSCO, you can shoot DNG images, and you get much better effective dynamic range. Blown-out bright spots or murky dark areas can be pulled down or up to bring out detail that would otherwise be lost with plain JPEG images.

That's been a game-changer. It almost makes the RX (which also does RAW) unnecessary. I use Lightroom because it syncs to the desktop version, so you can continue editing there, although the iPhone app is surprisingly good, too.
I'm skeptical because the paper seems to make no attempt to rule out ordinary matter causes for the gravitational lensing. That violates the golden rule #1 of publishing a paper, be your own critic. One should point out and address the biggest flaws in one's argument, and these people didn't seem to do that.
I really find it difficult as well, and I think it is a lot to do with the nomenclature that surrounds the field. Sometimes I feel it's almost kept obtuse on purpose.

The way I think about is to think of it is if "Design Patterns" helped show how to "engineer" software at the medium scale, category theory is a tool for helping us learn how to compose systems, and not just software.

I wish it were a little more approachable, but it seems like we are getting there.

There are people like Bartosz out there who really want to make it second nature.

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/11/04/category-the-essence-...

I mean just think, it wasn't that long ago nobody knew what the heck a lambda was ;)

We'll get there...