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Syncing feature is still missing while a lot of things are being introduced, which is hard to tolerate.
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it was in 2015.

Singapore McDonald's ran out of curry dip due to the port congestion. Which was really funny to me because the dip was manufactured in the states even if it's not consumed there.
What they missed with nanosecond timestamps is that it's a feature which is essentially free - What you're actually looking at is 64bit timestamps.

With the 'unix epoch' way of doing things (counting seconds since 1970), a (signed) 32bit int will run out of values in 2038. If they'd counted milliseconds since 1970, they would have exhausted int32_t in less than 36 minutes, and nanoseconds would have exhausted same in less than 2 seconds.

So the move to 64bit timestamps solves the '2038 problem' (for the filesystem, at least) - but at some point someone has decided this filesystem does not need to support the year 292,277,026,596AD, and has chosen to use some of the space for granularity instead. (Given 292 billion years is 20 times the estimated age of the universe, they were probably correct in their assumption that we'll have a new filesystem before then).

If the number of people who need to differentiate between two files created in the same second, is more than the number of people who expect their Watch to still work after our sun is a cold shrivelled mass - they've made the more logical use of the valuespace.
Sure probability of errors increases, but RAM reliability seems to have improved
In the trivial sense, yes of course it could be applied. The real question is "would super-resolution be useful for images from large telescopes?", and I believe the answer is "mostly no".

I guess (one of) the exception(s) would be if you have many smaller telescopes that could scan the sky much faster than the few big ones, the small ones could use super-resolution techniques to look for objects that the big ones might find interesting. But I think "astronomer time" rather than "telescope time" is usually the limiting factor.

Mind you, telescopes already do a host of physical tricks to improve resolution, like sensor cooling, stacking images, adaptive optics with laser guide stars, advanced noise filtering etc. Whether ML super-resolution stuff would actually be useful on top of all those tricks is a question for the astronomers in the crowd.
Yeah, second that. Lesson from this post is that 500$ was good deal for such site and "amount of work" he put in is not actual value of site. It is something to learn that things are only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for not amount you think it is.
>> Every single country is doing it to the US

>Yeah, source please. And scale matters.

I've seen the argument parroted around in the comments but it makes no sense. Bangladesh, Tanzania, Namibia, Laos, Cyprus, Rwanda, Haïti, Somalia just to name a few of the many who lack the resources to spy on a foreign superpower and have other more important priorities to deal with.

Somehow they also fail to understand that CIA and NSA were created in a specific historical (post-WW2 / cold war) context that has now expired. They have outlived their initial purposes and found other ways to justify their existences and budget since.
That's why I submitted it only now.
It is impressive given current state-of-art. Your summary doesn't seem fair. Take a look at the first set (Set5) [1], and set upsampling scale to 4x and flip between Bicubic and LapSRN. What seems most exciting to me, is that LapSRN is more resource efficient than bicubic.

[1] http://vllab1.ucmerced.edu/~wlai24/LapSRN/results/Set5/
>> I think the SLR is prob­a­bly doomed; mir­ror­less cam­eras have too many ad­van­tages.

Hmmm... I'd love to see Canon or Nikon re-create their classic rangefinders. We don't have another option beside Leica :p
I've tried Virtual Identity several times, several versions, but it always ended up making it impossible to read or send mail. When the extension was active I could not open messages (got empty windows), disabling the extension made everything right again. When it works Virtual Identity works well, but unfortunately it rarely works - at least for me.
I smell a hipster.
Was about to write something similar. Working for bigco can give you experience with technology, understanding of the market and contacts that you are unlikely to have coming fresh from school.
You're in software land, what is old is always new again. Try to dance around with the Wikipedia definition for serverless and get back to us when you've found a way to exclude the majority of old-style PHP hosting environments from it:

> Serverless computing, also known as function as a service (FaaS), is a cloud computing code execution model in which the cloud provider fully manages starting and stopping of a function's container platform as a service (PaaS) as necessary to serve requests, and requests are billed by an abstract measure of the resources required to satisfy the request, rather than per virtual machine, per hour.[1]

> Despite the name, it does not actually involve running code without servers.[1] The name "serverless computing" is used because the business or person that owns the system does not have to purchase, rent or provision servers or virtual machines for the back-end code to run on.

For example, nearlyfreespeech.net neatly fits even the pay-for-what-you-use billing definition here
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The example sets are clickable. That's where the As are.
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> they like having colleagues

Even though there's nothing stopping me from telecommuting instead of going to the office almost every day the thought of being alone in the house almost all day, 5 days per week, working, scares the s*it out of me. Having someone to whom you can talk during coffee breaks or whom you can see just in front of you while you're working is extremely valuable for my mental well-being. And no, SO and family don't count, I don't like mixing work with private life. We are social beings.
To be honest retirees make for a bad example. They have unpaid jobs, usually engaging with other retirees in a hobby, a community service or endless doctor visits. And those who dont - die really fast from bad lifestyle choices resulting from doing nothing.

So bad example.
Interesting! I find it amazing that they went all the way into implementing a CDRT to support efficient plugins.

At the moment I am also writing a text-editor with my partner, to show-case the C++ RRB-Trees implementations in Immer [1]. We are just started, but my plan is to stop at 1000k lines. Interestingly, with such persistent data structure, you go already a long way in implementing undo, parallel processing, and many editing algorithms are super simple thanks to slicing/concat. Memory consumption is still sub-optimal (also I am using wchar_t to simplify my life), but I am very satisfied with the results so far (it is the fastest editor I have on my machine when editing 1GB file, also can edit a ~100MB file on a Raspberry --- larger files fail only due to excessive memory use :/).

[1] https://github.com/arximboldi/immer
hey, could slate be used in an ember.js project or is it only for React? or do I need to install a react component inside ember to use this?
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How many US sockpuppets parroting the same baseless argument are there in these HN comments ?

UK and US intelligence have a bilateral agreement to spy on each other population and swap the collected data as a workaround of national law forbidding them to do so.
This single fact shows that those agencies go the extra mile to do things out of their supposed purpose, that agencies are not in check by their respective government and that not every major nation is SIGINTing each other.

The reality is that intelligence agencies have a motto along the lines of "we can do anything we want in any way we want as long we don't get caught".
The author mentions issues with a lot of editors he's not actually used, which I find a bit odd.

Still, I'm keen to give it a go.
I am really dumbfounded by the pricing. $600 a month for 5GB storage and 50 writes per second?? Meanwhile, a DO droplet is 5$/Mo, has 1TB traffic and 20GB SSD. Am I overlooking something? I agree with most of the points this article makes, but leveled logging has always served me well, with the exact levels she* mentions in the article. And of course logging is expensive if you pay 600$ per month for 50 writes per second. Also, there's no be-all-end-all logging solution, it always has to be tailored specifically for your needs.

*EDIT
Thanks, will try!
> Facebook didn't do any extra engineering work...

I guess that depends on how you define "engineering."

They're basically trying to create a new class of transceiver. It remains to be seen if this will take off or not, but since it is part of the OCP effort, the chances are good that it will be taken seriously by QSFP vendors.

OCP is generating a lot of activity and change on the networking side. Whether it just becomes a race to the bottom where only the giant suppliers survive or whether it creates a new eco-system with more players and interesting technology remains to be seen.
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SLRs' problem is they're big, bulky, annoying.

But... phone cameras' problem is you can't take a picture with just one hand (or it's really hard, or you'll drop the phone, or you'll miss the shot). I think that is the main reason while more pro photographers don't use phones (and not resolution, or zoom, or dials, etc.)

I'm not a pro but a serious enthusiast, and having to use both hands and no viewfinder to take a picture is a deal breaker for me.

I wonder if there's an opportunity to either make a lighter camera based on phone tech, but that can be operated with one hand, or to make a (serious, non gadget) accessory that let you take pictures with one hand, using your phone.

The models that come out of Canon or Nikon are really depressing, nothing is ever new. Fujis are much more interesting, but still quite ordinary. A lighter and flatter X100T would have been fantastic, but instead, the X100F is bigger and heavier. Go figure.
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Wow that whole page was amazing, thank you for sharing!
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Nice hypothetical scenario. According to Saudi prince status in the US and US usual use of such insider information I sincerely doubt this is what would happen or that's the reason why the NSA hacked SWIFT.
The author isn't a "he", and the hardware cost of running 512MB of RAM infra doesn't capture at all the cost of running a logging solution. By expensive, the article mentions the word in the context of performance overhead, which is absolutely right.

Their pricing seems a bit high for the write throughput but the equivalent cost in engineering time, for equal capabilities, is way in their favor.
Advantages that scientific journal articles have over blogs is that they are:

(i) not written in clickbait format

(ii) impact is measured in terms of other research which sees it as a relevant study to cite rather than numbers of pageviews (see also (i))

(iii) one of the things a peer review process can flag up is that bold and implausible claims like "On blogs, the norm is to provide access to the underlying data, code, and materials" probably need some form of qualification for what is meant by "blogs" and/or quantitative evidence to support that claim

Blogs can be well reasoned and evidence-based, comments can (even more infrequently) be enlightening and journal articles aren't immune to flaws, but the linked blog article is a prime example of why arguments expressed in blogs are seldom afforded the respect of arguments advanced in journals.
Implicit assumptions are bad
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Their competition is more like Splunk Cloud, or Dynatrace APM.
Sure, and it is the other half that is not entirely accurate.

The Law you linked to is clear enough, at least in the first three articles, even a google translate is enough to understand the ideas behind it.
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For some time I've thought that the concept of a "journal" artificially forces together several features that can exist independently. This usually includes something roughly similar to: (not a complete list, or in any particular order)

1. people that want to publish their research, theories, response, etc

2. a mechanism for having submissions peer reviewed

3. curating which submissions will be included in the publication

4. actually physically (or electronically) publishing and disseminating the papers to the interested community

5. people actually reading it and responding (possibly recursively)

6. reputation and status derived from authorship, being referenced by others, etc

7. archiving the papers - and hopefully the data

These features are traditionally part of the same process for practical reasons like the cost/time to physically publish before modern printing technology. This worked, creating resistance to any change. Now, I suspect that over reliance on the concept of a "journal" limits your thinking. This article demonstrates some of that with it's framing of blogs as an alternative or competitor to journals.

Instead, consider that modern computing and the internet make #4 very easy and almost free. We have various ways to archive (#7), which include actual verification (e.g. "git fsck", signed commits). We already curate (#3) as a separate step with specialty blogs and aggregators like HN.

I'm not saying journals are bad or obsolete. I'm just suggesting that there might be better ways to organize the process, and that different granularities of "journal"-like process can probably coexist.
Zenodo is a good example of this, as is Figshare. They allow the assignment of a DataCite DOI to some kind of digital asset (dataset, code, github repo etc) for citation https://zenodo.org/
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I've only tried Ratchet in a sandbox and not in any production project. And as far as that, it worked well. I've done some minor stuff involving ReactPHP (which Ratchet uses for some parts) in the early days of the project, but same here - nothing that was deployed to production.

I'm no expert either, but I just leave a note regarding Pushpin (http://pushpin.org/) here as an option to have a websocket server together with PHP. It's not a PHP project, but a good tool to have in the toolbox :)
An immediate relative of mine worked at the Hillside Workshops in Dunedin, at the time the Chinese were given a contract to build the passenger carriages. I remember very clearly the stories he told me, when the carriages arrived:

every single one of them had to be rebuilt. Welds that should have run the length of plates were often just enough to get it to hold together, and not the full length. Pipe were substituted for solid metal bars. Low quality steel was used, stuff that would disintegrate when struck with a hammer by one of the engineers. The "cheap" contracts that the National Government sought ended up costing much more than what it would have cost them to build locally.

I wouldn't be very keen to ride on the high speed Chinese rail networks.
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Yeah, I know about the performance overhead of logging. We have some embedded devices that do minimal logging on flash storage and if you log that you missed a timing on the critical path, it causes you to miss another timing, and this leads to a cascade that bricks the entire device because the CPU only does logging and can't even receive any commands.
I'm also curious what the pricing difference is for a CWDM4 transceiver and the OCP version.

I would guess the NRE to develop either is similar and that the design for either is almost the same. Perhaps Facebook is just trying to get the optics cost down by negotiating discounts on the non-yielding MSA parts that would have otherwise had to get thrown out?
"Impact factor" systems incentivise the production of poor quality journal articles. Effectively researchers end up needing to produce a certain amount of "journal-bait" in order to stay funded.

(See HN passim "Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse")
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> French kindergarteners spend 90 minutes sitting down to a white-table-cloth four course meal each day during school. This is done because it's considered essential for them to learn the table manners and appreciation of the cuisine that will allow them a lifetime of enjoyable, civilized dining.

I wish that were true... They do get a 3 course meal (appetizer, main dish and desert) but it doesn't last 90 minutes and it's not a white table cloth meal... That's embellishing the reality a little bit. There was more decorum than a self service (we were served the food at the table as a kid in kindergarten in primary school) and the food quality is definitely better than most countries in primary schools* but that's about it.

As a kid in kindergarten though we would be told off if we were too boisterous during the meal so I guess that kind of qualifies in term of table manner.

That said, I did find that kids in the US tended to be louder and less well educated than I was used to. The same applies for kids in Japan below the age of 5 (parents there have a laissez faire altitude during the early ages).

(*) Middle schools and high schools are another story. Lunch is a self service concept (so no one brings the meal to the table) and the quality of lunch is lower (it was downright atrocious when I was in middle school to the point where I would usually skip most lunches). This may have changed though.
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800 employees?! How?!
You don't have to assume the UK agencies are spying on you, you should know that they do because they do it for the NSA in return for the NSA spying on UK citizen as a work around national laws forbidding them doing so.

In Europe this agreement is famously known since at least Echelon and Carnivore times, maybe even before that. Has been reported in the newspapers and proven by Snowden documents. Along with the NSA unilaterally breaking the no spying agreement with the UK.
In term of perceived rudeness of French people, I think a lot of it is communication barrier (it's better now and it's changing but French people on average suck at speaking English and are self conscious about it) and the fact that Parisians are universally seen by French people as being ever so slightly snobbish and rude.
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I can't speak on behalf of the culture in Singapore, but a lot of more corporate countries (e.g. Australia) will want specific experience relating to the role and will bias their decision on X years in the industry - some of your knowledge and personal projects will translate but i doubt you'll have the foundations a lot of juniors will have received during their time. I don't know your specific circumstances but from personal opinion i wouldn't hire you as a senior without having experience tutoring junior developers, debugging others' code, understanding drawbacks of certain architecture decisions and (possibly) being a slow starter.

In terms of age, most newer companies (mine included - London) don't associate title to time served or your actual age, but your abilities. We've hired a junior who was then 29 and made a switch from being an accountant. He had the gist of how things worked and his personal projects looked promising. He completed the coding exercise in a language he was not familiar which demonstrated well his ability to problem solve; guidance was needed but he was were we'd expect a junior with no comp sci background to be. I myself am the youngest in our team by quite a margin (mid-20s) and am the Technical Lead - age isn't a worry. Just be prepared to be outdone/tutored by people young enough to be your children; at previous companies I've met people that have fought me on every aspect bc of that fact even though i was brought in to advise and fix their architecture issues.
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- resize by percentage or resolution

- rotate clockwise by specified angle

- adaptive resize considering orientation

- brute force to a resolution

- optimize images to save more space

- limit processing by minimum image size

- convert PNG to JPEG

- erase exif metadata

- force smaller to larger resize

- process directories recursively

- overwrite source image option

- completion scripts for bash, fish, zsh

- minimal dependencies

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How come so many of you are parroting the same argument based on assumptions and fails to account for the difference of scale. Belgium cannot match the US for example.

From here it seems like a bunch of brainwashed by propaganda people repeating something without taking a minute to think about it.
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Sometimes, the majority is wrong. There are many kids who might be hyperactive due to a quirk of their mind/body - say ADHD or a hyper fast metabolism. People don't see these things and expect kids who are really different to be the same as the rest. For that kind of a kid, the value tradeoff between keeping still and not disturbing anyone else vs. not can be very different if they cannot express themselves.

Society ROUTINELY throws minorities under the bus because we have simply accepted that a small inconvenience for a majority could not possibly be worth paying if it helps a few people a lot. I think the cultural sentiment you're talking about is really just "agree with everyone else, or else risk exclusion" - the usual extortion. The same reasoning can justify much worse things. Humans are very social and children are partly raised by the society around them - people deny it because they don't want to have to change.

Just to be clear, I'm really against this because the parent said he can keep his child still, but its not the child's natural state. And you go and call him a "bad parent" for not stifling his kid. Bullshit.
This is very cool. Believe it or not, when I was 19 I knew a female friend who could draw perfect, solveable mazes, pretty much like intuitively, and she would also know how many exits there were.

I always thought that was so amazing and cool. But she was somewhat blasé about it.
Did that ever work for you? I have often reported spam (fake profiles of nice girls who then message you to do something they make money with or comments littered with posts by fake profiles for you to click links or buy products), very obvious spam or fake profile (farms) and only got back from Facebook 'we see no violation, just ignore this user'. Anyone had more luck? I find it weird as it is so obvious.
Even if his philanthropy allows him to pressure governments to change intellectual property laws around the world?
Can you always just buy ECC memory (I have DDR3, I guess it's more affordable now since it's a little bit older), or does something else (cpu, motherboard) need to support it as well?
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Would prefer it, if it was simply a plugin.
The best way to memorise hundreds of different algorithms (or anything else for that matter) is to understand the few underlying principles beneath them. I would be surprised if he knew them all and couldn't come up with intelligent ways of mixing them for achieving a new task.