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> They say 4k full frame video, which sounds nice, but subsampling the sensor inherently comes with some compromises, which might be even exaggerated in 1080p mode.

They don't necessarily have to subsample, they may be able to supersample. I believe Panasonic's GH5 does this.

> does it have any high-framerate modes, what sort of video formats and color profiles does it support etc etc.

Full specs, including shooting modes, are here: https://www.sony.com/electronics/interchangeable-lens-camera...

In terms of high-framerate, it doesn't have anything for 4K but goes up to 120fps in 1080p. Can't see anything about chroma subsampling or bit-depth other than it only outputting 8-bit 4:2:2 through HDMI.

> Wasn't it Sony that "innovated" a lossy compressed RAW format? What sort of impact does that have on this camera?

Yep, though it appears that like the A7RII, you'll be able to disable it. It seems that doing so will roughly halve the number of frames you can take in a single burst and drop the max capture framerate to 12.
Honestly, being a web developer is dead nowadays anyway.
How does asan compare with Valgrind?

Valgrind is a serious savior for me sometimes, it's able to catch leaks, access violations, use of uninitialized memory, use-after-frees (and it can tell you where it was free'd), data races, etc. Microsoft's heap debugging stuff really doesn't measure up unfortunately, on Windows I'm frequently left grinding my face into the ground when I hit such issues. Fortunately they're fairly rare as I generally stick to C++ with more modern techniques which avoid most of the pitfalls - but when they do happen it can get nasty without a tool like Valgrind.

Helgrind is quite good for threading issues too.
I thought most companies don't care about side projects.
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AFAIK, everything Prophets of Doom onward is completely free. Not sure how long that will last, and I would love for Dan to put out a monthly or yearly subscription via Patreon; his work is of such high quality.
Yes this is the point I'm trying to make. Anyone who has ever traveled in SE Asia - even to just the most touristy of sites - cannot avoid the rampant sex tourism. It's literally everywhere and frankly none of the sexpats have any shame about it. As I've argued already, it's absolutely _disgusting_.
DevOps is a set of practices we should all be using, not a job title. Operations Engineer would be a better title, and they aren't ever going anywhere. DevOps Engineer is a job title -- one that I'm not a big fan of.
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What does Facebook have monopoly on? Last time I checked, Google still dominated online ad spend.
Germany invaded the neutral country of Belgium and killed about 60,000 civilians in Belgium, looted and burned cultural artifacts, and conscripted laborers. That in combination with unrestricted submarine warfare really did mean German conduct in the war was far crueler then the Allies.
>>being a web developer is dead nowadays

What does that even mean?
Working in a (top-50) Fortune 500 company, not tech but in the IT dept: we did outsourcing, CIO and top guys got huge bonuses, now we do in-sourcing to be able to operate. Last CIO recently fired. Entire teams of people based in India, Costa Rica or Manila closed, the skills and productivity are simply not good enough.
Tab Tree and TST just place them left or right of the content.

This might not be perfect for what I know but at least it doesn't move the majority of the browser controls around.
> The answer was really funny "we are not negotiating salaries at this moment of the process" [...] And all that was even before any technical interview.

I wouldn't expect any company to start a salary negotiation prior to interviews - because how you perform in the interviews is going to drastically impact how willing they are to negotiate with you.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to actually read the article before commenting on it?
Same with our son; over the course of several months, it was almost as if a blanket had been pulled down over him, starting about age 3. It was a pretty heart-rending experience for us.

With massive, painful and often thankless effort over the next 10 years, he has grown sufficiently to be in a normal junior high school, though he has a good bit of assistance.

He still has no friends. I mean that literally. He is quite pleasant but has quite a few 'strange' benaviours.
"Request a demo" and no pricing is what I mean with "enterprisey".
No I think they should be paying 0% tax. Double taxation is fundamentally unfair.
Google: 1 Sergey Brin but he came to US as 6 yo. Hardly a H1-B visa person. Also, Andy Grove did not come as H1-B visa but rather as Hungarian refugee. He came in 1956 when Hungary was under control of Soviets and in fact right after or during the Hungarian revolution.
And recently rogue sites have figured out a way to hijack Chrome notifications to show ads.
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> According to the complaint, Bose ... shared it with ... Segment whose website offers to "collect all or your customer customer data and send it anywhere."

Using Segment as an example of an evil destination for data shows that this reporter is under-qualified to cover this story. I am not defending Bose here; just pointing out that the reporter doesn't exactly know the domain.
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My favourite was a slide deck pitched to me where they had 9 people on their 'team slide' with not one of them being a technical person. They were trying to build a phone/fax social database to compete with facebook.

It still hasn't shipped and that was 5 years ago.
"Two things of note happened in 1866 that would set the stage for the future, and in a very odd way, they served to counterbalance each other.

The first was the Austro-Prussian War. Now, why would a two month war between Germanic peoples be any type of benchmark in history? Well, it becomes incredibly important once you realize that it set the stage for the Franco-Prussian War and the Unification of Germany. Those two events nearly made World War I inevitable."

Well this is silly. If the Austrians had won, then we might have had a Franco-Austrian war. There was a problem in Alsace and Lorraine, a German-speaking population under the French. This had to be settled somehow. One of the two leading German nations would have done it: either the Prussians or the Austrians. Since the Prussians had won the 7-week war, it was them.

But too many what ifs... you can't do that in history, too many branches stem away from the root of a tree of possible alternatives.
> Amazon is doing ok though.

This is despite their terrible UX, not a result of good UX.
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being a web developer in the sense of making websites is something that is left to marketing teams and others. You likely will not be developing a website by writing raw HTML, PHP, etc. anymore.

Now web application development is very much alive, but that tends more to software development.
With the recent announcement of AWS Code Star I just wanted to highlight something my team is building.
what is meant by reversible?
It seems a little weak to me too. But I think it's one of those things about degree of behavior. My kids would enjoy flipping lights on and off at that age too, but only for a few minutes, or with breaks every now and then. I've had some limited exposure to kids with autism, and I've seen them happy to do things like this for hours at a time. Since it was specifically called out in the article I'm assuming it trended toward longer periods.

That being said it's a generalization and like (basically) everything having to do with autism, generalizations only apply to a very limited set of the population, and can be difficult to distinguish from stereotypes.

Also, obligatory, #IAmNotADiagnostician
So, I'll own up to it, I'm kinda dumb (or at least not read up on this).

Can someone explain what a DNC is?

Assume I know most CS undergrad topics -- or can at least google them; eg, I know what a Turing machine is but not what a neural Turing machine is.
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rather than people who arrive with established ideas

If those established ideas conflict with the prevailing mindset at $COMPANY and - more importantly - aren't objectively better by a sufficient margin, then it might make sense to not want that person around. Especially if they're going to spend a lot of energy and time creating conflict, arguing with other people, creating controversy, etc.

and -- probably -- a desire for some degree of autonomy.

I've been there, and in hindsight, I was an asshole about it. I've come to realize that if you're part of a team (and a company is a team of sorts) there are limits on how much autonomy you can really have. On the flipside, I believe the core responsibility of higher leadership is to create a vision and direction, and get people to buy into moving towards that vision, as opposed to simply leading by fiat. But if a given player is constantly rowing in the opposite direction, or even perpendicular, to the direction of everybody else, they're causing problems and you might actually be better off without them.
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While this article is mostly fluff, I question the comparison to a "farm team". Few players from farm teams ever make it to the big leagues. Assuming the comparison is similar in this case, what happens to the tech workers who have just invested a year of their lives learning some proprietary stack and incorporating themselves into a company's culture and get let go because they didn't make the cut? That won't look great on a resume. Also, what metrics will they use? Will people move into permanent positions based on performance reviews? Hopefully they don't apply the same old-hat ideas to these groups and try to rethink how they grow their teams from the ground up.

Also, I'm not really sure how this differs from hiring interns to test them out before going full time? It just feels like the same thing with a snazzy name.
I lived a a suburban, white, middle to upper middle class town
in Connecticut until four years ago. There was a massive opioid problem in my high school. There were several overdoses a year. We even had a kid OD in the bathroom.

I am still Facebook friends with many of these kids -- none of whom really finished high school. I see them go in and out of rehab on social media all the time. More and more of my friends who did end up going to college are dropping out for various mental health issues. A lot of them are not rebounding.

It's all very surprising coming from a middle class suburban town in CT but it is the new normal I guess -- many friends of mine from other suburban / rural areas tell me their towns are facing the same issues.
I wish they also had "mute all other tabs."
ORC support?
Jesus christ, it's being used in a comedic manner. Most of the devs looking at that repo wouldn't consider themselves a bro.
echo "This is available on most of the servers that run the internet" | cowsay -f head-in

I think the programming profession has always been a pretty relaxed culture.
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I'm sure I could, but I would be missing out on the features I may want to occasionally use/change.

Bose is hardly the only app I would want to block. There are dozens of apps I might use only occasionally - a month or a year might go by between uses. But having to reinstall is just a cumbersome step.
I live in Wunderlist right now. Totally sucks they're sunsetting it. It's hard to imagine the new thing will be any better. Weird to see them building something new, instead of just adding more improvements to Wunderlist.

Oh well -- I think my next move is to find something open and standardized, and something I have a control over. Personally I'd see myself living in Wunderlist-land for the next 20 years. IMO I don't think I need any new features there.
Right. You have to authorize to some sort of management layer somewhere. In this case at the cloud API level. It's nice that it's not directly "in band" with the rest of your application code in the same physical address space, like say SSH, but you have no idea of the actual hardware isolation involved, unless you were an engineer building said cloud.

I guess what I'm trying to say is serverless just seems like a way of shifting management layers around, giving the appearance or feeling of less management. I'm not saying thats not valuable - I haven't tried it. This is just my view from the outside.
Wouldn't you rather know as soon as possible that they can't pay you what you want to be paid? Isn't spending days or weeks in interviews, or waiting for an answer, only then to hear that they can only pay you a pittance, worse?
cool. Thanks for taking the lead on this!
I do. It's increasingly common to have a rolling NAS on film sets and being able to hook up the camera and storage with an ethernet cable is a no brainer for many productions. Time is money and video workflows have historically been a logistical nightmare. Generally when you're shooting narrative on a pro camera you have to stop every 20-30 minutes to swap media. I would much rather string a cable and have one less technical person and two more people in the art department for the same money. Media management is a huge bottleneck, not to mention a source of continuous low-grade anxiety.
Eugh. Such a shame
A company that is struggling to fill all the jobs they need filled doesn't have much of a bargaining position to begin with. May as well get it out of the way and save everyone some time if it is found to not agreeable. Imagine going through several interviews and then still told "we can't afford you".

In fact, companies that are struggling to find people should be advertising how much they can pay right from the job ad. If it is sufficient, it will help attract the talent they seek. Plenty of developers don't bother looking for new work because they believe, rightly or wrongly, it means taking a pay cut. If not sufficient, at least everyone can be saved the effort of trying.

You're not McDonalds who has a new applicant to hire every five minutes. You can't play by their rules.
Corporal punishment in my opinion is lazy parenting. I've thought about this a lot. My parents divorced early, I was raised by my father. He loved me and my brother no doubt but after a hard days work he had no interest in doing normal parent things - like camping/fishing activities or just spending time with us. We got punished when we screwed up. Sometimes unjustly, like him having heard rumors and acting on them. If he had spent more time with us growing up rather than watching TV he would have known our character. I would of appreciated it a lot more if he had bothered to wither us down with kindness and patience. Now that things are a lot better between us and i'm a working adult, corporal punishment is one of my dads regrets.
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When I hear "web developer" I think of a person who produces web applications. "Web designer" is the term for someone who produces WordPress sites.
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Or could've, which is clearly the pronunciation s/he was going for.
I'm not with the lab any more, but last I heard they were soliciting data from nearby but related subfields (our lab was doing mostly vanadium templated tellurides, but there are a lot of other things to explore in the space of inorganic–organic hybrids, and there are labs working on them). The problem really is data sharing; the most active collaborators were willing to give us lab note-books as long as we paid to digitize them; it was very hard to convince other labs to digitize their own notebooks. TBH I think that's the hard part of a lot of this (collecting the data).
You are almost certainly selling yourself short.

If you have 7 years of experience, you almost certainly have important, non-junior level skills of value.

But companies do not hire people based on how good of a developer they are, they hire you based on how good you are at interviewing. These are corrolated, but not equivalent skills.

What you need to do is get better at interviewing.

Interviewing is a skill that needs to be practiced.

That means you need to get better at programming silly algorithms on a whiteboard.

Fortunately, this is a skill that can be practiced. There are loads of resources out there that will teach you exactly the stuff you need to know to become good at interviewing.
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Yes. Doing so would put the files in the same class as the CinemaDNG output by Blackmagic Design's cameras or RED's R3D.

The difference is similar to the difference between JPEG and RAW in stills. You get a lot more flexibility in post and can usually capture a little more dynamic range. There's a video comparing RAW video to H.264 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkSYIzCgdIk
At a first read, it sounded like you didn't need to run a cluster ("Spectrum scales to thousands of instances"), which is BigQuery's big advantage. Later, it says that you still need a cluster, but it's only used in the final processing stages.
So it looks like it's 3/4 of the way to BQ.
I'm not a gamer. I've only barely played any of GTA, but what I have I liked.

When GTA V came out, I couldn't believe the level of detail and the size of the world, and how much could be done within it (especially in "sandbox" mode). I was so stoked about it, I plunked the money down to build a dedicated GTA V Windows box (and I haven't used 'doze at home in well over 15 years). It was the first and only game to get me to do this.

Now - I'll level with ya here - I never put that box together; I still have all the pieces (it was going to be a Mini-ITX with 16 GB, GTX 970, etc stuffed in a ThermalTake Core V21) - I just never got around to it (I even bought the game on Steam).

Now I'm thinking about using all of that for a new ML workstation to replace my current aging system (but I can still use it for GTA V I guess).

I know this isn't a ringing endorsement, but if a game can make someone like me that hyped about it - to drop money into parts for a complete new system just to play the game, from somebody who isn't a gamer, nor a Windows user (or fan) - well, that game has to be something special, ya know?

The only other game that moves me like this is currently near vaporware - Cyberpunk 2077 (and I haven't heard anything recent on it, since I've been heads down in my ML course).
> Guys, we are talking about a juicer here.

It's not even that! It's literally just a $400 machine to squeeze out the contents of a bag. It comes pre-juiced in the packets!
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And the skill of the userbase.

Haskell naturally attracts a more skilled developer who is more likely to dig into documentation/blog posts rather than running for help on SO.

I used SO all the time when I was a newbie. But I only use it now for obscure issues, usually as a last resort.
There isn't (a real) one.
I'm not a fan of Bose stereo equipment, but QC35 headphones is excellent is basically every way.
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They didn't shut access, it says you can still access it but you have to pay.

Obviously still really bad, but the title isn't correct.
Bailing out of the whole article because of that little mistake is the only right thing to do if you want your brain to stay clean and not influenced by dilettants of the Internets. Why should I now read the whole article when I know I have to check every other 'fact'?

Fellow HNers who read the whole thing already confirmed that the article is bullshit. So I think I was right. Experience my friend.
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Chip manufacturers bent over backwards to make sure their chips ran Windows perfectly. This is obviously changing and they are not investing as much as they used to in compatibility with existing software.
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I had the idea of using skin as input for sound and light a long time ago as a kid. I've since seen something using the tongue but not much else. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of it. How many nerve endings are connected to the brain through eyes and ears vs skin (and what the heck is 2 m2 supposed to mean)?

As for the brain interface, outside of helping people with severe disabilities, no thank you.
It's a self-serve appliance, aka not meant to be used in a kitchen or prep room, but to be left out in common areas for customers to buy/take a bag and make their own juice, no mess no cleanup, see Keurig
The article talks a lot about how the price changes, but doesn't explicitly say what the price represents.
Mea culpa. I won't be doing that in the future (I mean writing books and posting them to HN once every two years, yes, but soliciting upvotes, no.)
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Both of the things you mentioned, were things that Germany was forced into doing, as a matter of survival.

For example, Germany had no intentions of conquering Belgium. They simply wanted to travel through Belgium in order to reach France, and put an end to the war early on. This was something they were necessarily required to do, because they were sandwiched between both France and Russia, and hence, couldn't afford to fight a prolonged war. Germany offered Belgium neutrality and immunity as long as they were allowed to pass unimpeded through their highways, but Belgium instead refused and actively tried to kill the German soldiers passing through. Hence why Germany then had to wage war against Belgium.

For more nuance on this topic, check out Dan Carlin's very detailed podcast on WW1.

http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-bluepri...
German conduct in the war was far crueler then the Allies

Even if we grant that the German Empire was more cruel in waging war, which I am by no means prepared to do, the war did not take place in a vacuum. If the purpose of America entering the war was to make the world safe for equality, freedom, and democracy, then the conduct of the belligerents outside of the war is totally fair game. To that point, I'm sure I don't have to remind you how Great Britain had been treating its colonies for hundreds of years.
I briefly glanced at LinkedIn's apprenticeship program (linked in the article). It's 6 months. There's probably some sort of legal/HR benefit where if the apprentice doesn't work out, LinkedIn can cut ties.
I don't think battery use is a real important issue simply because the cost of batteries is so low. I was able to buy two extras for my a6000 for about $19.
Yes, but isn't the article basically saying you could buy a cheaper non-Ferrari and do a little work on it to make it comparable to a Ferrari? And in the end, it would be cheaper than buying the Ferrari outright.

I think the premise is reasonable. Why do you need a $5000 Ferrari? Is it to transport you from one place to another? Because then another car would do. And I think that's what this article is saying about these companies. They believe they can ignore all those Ferrari devs out there because they can build their own that will reasonably do the same thing at a price that is "suitable" for the company's needs.

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What Kip is doing is great. I'm a big fan of the company. And the founders are super thoughtful.

Improving access to therapy is a positive thing. That's relevant in particular ways to our community. Startups are hard. If you think you might benefit from talking to a therapist, you should try it.
I'd say that I have more confidence in the Redshift query planner and execution engine than that of presto. And having the option to join that with data stored in-memory on redshift nodes is very attractive.
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