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High quality drinking fountains in public places used to be the norm, at least in the US. Out side almost every shared bathrooms (like at a school, park, large office, government building, grocery store, etc.) there was a drinking fountain. They always worked and would spout out a nice 4-6 inch high stream of water at high volume. The technology was well developed and the fountains would last forever. One simple valve is the only moving part. One could get a pleasurable, gulping drink when desired.

When these fountains were removed and sometimes replaced as required by the ADA, the new fountains did not work as well. One needed two of them to have them at a low height and a high height. They seem to break often, so one could not count on getting water when one is thirsty. They usually have low water pressure or broken valves so the water comes out at a trickle. You cannot get the water your body wants without bending over awkwardly, your lips hitting the spout, and sucking on a pitiful trickle of water for minutes at a time. It is not the pleasurable experience that drinking water can be. No wonder people started looking for a bottle of water to buy when they were thirsty. I usually carry a bottle of tap water when I carry a pack, but it is more enjoyable to walk around without carrying one. When I do that and get thirsty, most of the time I buy some water, as the there are no working drinking fountains to be found.
That's a false dichotomy. The alternative to living in a world where very slight progress gets overblown in the media isn't living in a world with no progress at all.
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Anecdotally I've found the opposite, within acceptable terms.

I have an original iPad mini running ios9 that honestly was better on 8 - but there is no maliciousness there: it's extremely old hardware that happens to have been supported for updates longer than it "should have" because it was in a new form factor (iPad 2 internals squished into a mini size)
I wonder how this will affect Java in the long term. In the comments about the JDK9 release, there was discussion about the JVM becoming a sort of language-agnostic platform where Java is a small part. It seems WebAssembly is occupying a lot of the same space, but from a sort of opposite direction (in the sense of providing the compilation target first).

Java and the JVM obviously aren't going anywhere soon, but the history of javascript, node.js, etc. leads me to suspect WebAssembly could displace the JVM in the long term.
I pay for VPN access, so to ensure all my traffic (regardless of device) goes through the VPN, I have a VM running on my home server (it could run on the server itself) acting as a gateway. All internet traffic goes through the VPN. Doing this meant I had to take DHCP away from my router (or configure each host's gateway manually) but for the setup I run, it's beneficial.

The other advantage is that I can log into the machine via SSH and run tcpdump or Wireshark and get an immediate idea of what traffic is passing between my network and the internet. Because all my traffic goes through the VM, it's the closest to running packet sniffing on a home router as I can get.
And thus "civilization" re-emerges from the ashes. [/s]
That seems to be in reference to the referendum website operated by the local government (http://www.referendum.cat/), but I read several reports of private citizens with no affiliation with Catalonia's govt being raided by the police just for mirroring websites.
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It also helps to sit on oil, while your own country uses hydropower.
If this is a temporary solution you could use the laptop with the network card disabled.

If this isn't a license issue the price of replacing the laptop would be way less. The model you mentioned previously sells brand new for $900 or less. I saw some refurbished models for ~$300.

Is her new firm providing her with a laptop? It strikes me as odd that law firms have a BYOD policy when the data that is stored on them is sensitive and proprietary
RSS dumped into a feed reader (https://feedbin.com/) is what works best for me. I can quickly scan missed headlines, read what I'm interested in, star what I want to keep, and mark everything else as read. Reeder on iOS works extremely well for accessing the Feedbin account on mobile.
Sure they aren't all the same, but I guess I would ask what's your threshold on whether using the party name is weasel-y?

Because it has 13 Co-sponsors, all republicans and no democrats. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2359...
Any chance that you'd be willing to hire a remote product designer?
They re-reviewed the Pixel with a new test protocol, and the iPhone 8 is being compared to the results from that new test, whereas you're quoting the old values: https://www.dxomark.com/google-pixel-camera-review-retested-...
The camera upgrade is really the one thing that has be one the edge of upgrading my 7+ to an 8+, I'll still probably wait until next year's model.

I'm still considering getting a full-format mirrorless system someday, because even with as great as smartphone cameras are getting there's only so much you can do with an image sensor the size of a pea - but damned if they don't take good looking pictures regardless.
And the way you convey emotion is to learn how to play music so you can use the features of music, rhythm, harmonies, melodies. Thats at least how I have been doing it the +30 years I have been playing, composing and performing.
The worst part is when you procrastinate on everything that's not as important (but still important!) as the main thing you're avoiding, because how can you justify doing those things instead of working on that other, more important thing?
DNS servers do not have "illegal calls" (read: thoughtcrimes) for the independence of any country. These are served by the server that the DNS points to and only on the request of the client.
Whatsapp started in 2009, you could do free voice chat internationally well before that.

Arguably they 'won' because Skype was sold to Microsoft in 2009 creating a huge opening. But, it hardly changed the world even if it did save some people quite a bit of money.

PS: I suspect people will have the same conversation in 10 years about a company created around 2014 when Whatsapp was sold.
I struggle to see why anyone would want to dilute Hacker News with the affect-laden decadence of contemporary web design.

I am a visual artist and this is sincere.

My hopes are that the HN community holds stable at least until I can find a new hole to run to.
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I think your post actually proves the point of the person you were disagreeing with.

If you, someone experienced with "real" camera gear, were "astonished" by the iphone 7+ pictures and thought they were taken by "five grand worth of gear", then for the average person further gains are going to be unremarkable.

Yes, I understand that a camera gearhead finds everything new and each small improvement incredibly exciting. But for the average picture taker none of it is a big deal; what they have is already quite good, certainly good enough. Of course, it won't be hard for marketing to convince people that they should go out and once again fork over more of their hard earned money for "the best", even if it's in reality a minor improvement.

Also, for the real photographers the equipment is secondary. Better gear helps very little with creating better pictures. I assure you, people were making awesome pictures with digital cameras ten and twenty years ago, with specs that anybody would laugh at now. Good photographers can produce good pictures no matter what camera they take them with. (And, conversely, bad photographers produce crap no matter how good their cameras.)
It's a complicated issue, but see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
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Yes and even I am I still don't see anywhere it claims you learn to play piano.
So do our eyes, but our brain makes up for it. Out of context, the brain doesn't have enough info (or maybe incentive) to do that job.

The optical image stabilisation & object tracking of our eyes is mind blowing. Optical illusions demonstrate the amount of interpolation that our brains to do aid vision / fill in the gaps of image detail coming from the eyes.

Not really intending to be an apologist for digital cameras nor disagree that they have a lot of room for improvement, but moreso just put it all in a different light.
The problem with mirror less is that you can't ignore physics. Once you add on the comparatively longer lens, the biggest selling point(size reduction), isn't realized.
They re-reviewed the Pixel with an updated, improved test protocol and the iPhone 8 is being compared to that.

DXO makes the equivalent of Lightroom, they're not a bunch of hipsters.
Your bias is crystal clear in the words that you choose.

"which probably leads to reinfection"

Probably? More than 50% chance? Which studies do you have to back this up or did you just make that up?
I am a customer. They are my favorite to use, but I don't use them for everything because they don't get me 100% end to end with Amazon. Other companies do. I just talked with someone about this, and I hope that they get into it, even if it's just white labelled through their interface.

I had no idea their founder also was involved in Import Genius, but that makes total sense.

Huzzah Flexport!
First, we're comparing a 2048 x 1536 photo to a 4032x3024... so of course the iPhone will have better detail when zoomed in.

As for color, that is somewhat up for debate. I would say that the color of her lipstick in the iPhone looks unrealistic and she's probably not nearly as tan as the iPhone makes her look.
I don't like Sprits. It could be good for training eyes to recognize words but it's not good to train speed reading. It's not natural for reading
How did you get your employer to agree to 4-hour work days?

The first half and one of your comment replies spoke to me deeply - especifically the part about having the feeling of never having done enough, haunts me everyday, but also pushes me.

So thanks so much for writing this! Just wish you could speak more about how you were able to negotiate your current work schedule.
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Health insurance companies don't make money. (~3.3% profits, vs US historical average of %8.5)
> will we reach a point where cameras are digital paintbrushes that construct a human-pleasing image out of hints from the real world, rather than tools that capture the real world?

We're all stuck in Plato's cave. Aperture is just one thing you can use to change how a photo looks, and this has always been under the control of photographers:

https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-e17ac8adb8b21eaa43d409...
That sounds like a deep comment but that's about it.

I'm sure photography has served many uses, and capturing the real world is certainly one of them.
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I would think that not having to pay the Oracle/MS/Sybase/Teradata licenses are a good enough incentive...

Speaking of economic incentives.

That could be a thesis topic for my hereto unwritten PhD in Behavioral Economics:

"Choosing to pay"
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> That's a great idea and I've found companies exactly like that (although as private companies - scouting for a VC). We're really in an advantageous position working in tech because we know which companies are doing well and where companies are spending their money.

Interesting! How did you start with such a role - scouting companies for VCs?
That’s not an option, the rules of the European Convention on Human Rights – which protect this - stand above the spanish constitution.

I expect this will go further up to the European Court of Human Rights, and, like in previous cases where for example German law (and constitutional changes) conflicted with these protections, the European Convention on Human Rights will be ruled to stand above any national law or constitution.
I think you've misdiagnosed things here.

Large Java codebases in giant companies are often very poor because:

1. Giant non-software companies often have low hiring bars for their software teams.

2. They are full of bored programmers working on boring software, these people then find ways to make their lives more interesting and kill the time by over-engineering things.

3. These codebases are often very large, old, and have suffered many requirements changes with little or no time allocated to clearing technical debt.

There's nothing in Go that'd make any of these things better. It may superficially appear this way because Go is, in the grand scheme of things, still quite new and hardly used in the enterprise (because it doesn't solve anything better than Java), and as such there aren't any large enterprise codebases written in it. But if you compare the language features, it's hard to explain what would make Go result in better quality software than Java and easy to find things that'd make it worse.
It should have been titled "other ways to read hacker news".
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I'm confused now :) The video that shows the real life piano where all the keys are the same size?
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This is a silly submission and pretty deceiving. Someone sending me $10 in Bitcoin only spent $0.06 in fees. And it was via satellite [0].

[0]https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/899410638371524609
They did that about a week before issuing the iPhone 8+ review... I wonder why.

Edit: Also one day before the iPhone event on September 12. The purpose was clearly to create a situation under which they could have the iPhone win.
If you like Helm, check out Ivy, Counsel, and Swiper.[1] They do many of the things that Helm does, but are a lot faster, less buggy, and have a less unorthodox UI.

Also check out Hydra (by the same author).[2] That's really revolutionized my Emacs experience recently. It's customizable menu system you can add anywhere. I've put all those Emacs functions I keep forgetting exist in to it and now they're all at my fingertips.

[1] - https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper

[2] - https://github.com/abo-abo/hydra
LN is years away.
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DSLRs plus skill plus lenses plus effort still produce the more interesting photos under the broadest range of circumstances. But smartphone cameras definitely should make anyone question purchasing a low-end DSLR with a kit lens that they only use to take pics on full auto.
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You can get pretty good results by taking multiple shots and averaging the noise. Specially in raw.
Water at my current home in Oakland has excellent tap water. I think the difference is that some water in the Bay Area comes from close to pristine surface sources, and is very good, while others come from ground water. The quality of groundwater will vary a lot; from great to very bad (or event toxic if you have your own well and an underground plume of waste dumped by an old chip factory comes your way).
“Despite its West Coast name, the van isn't yet sold in the United States”

Consider that, AFAIK, they haven’t build a single production vehicle, yeah, I’m not surprised that I can’t head to my local Seattle-area VW dealer and order one.

The “why” of this piece? With with Daimler/Dodge Sprinters seemingly taking the lion’s share of the camper van market (at least in he U. S.), I assume it’s a puff piece to promote VW’s Sprinter-like chassis. That and with Daimler’s purchase of Westfalia, maybe some kind of FUD (“don’t buy a Sprinter! We’ll have something better RSN.”)
Mandatory voting, what an absurd idea.

If you can't get people to voluntarily participate in democracy then you have a failed implementation of it.

Furthermore, the ability to not vote is a powerful and necessary option, as it's hard for those in power to imply that they have a mandate if <10% of the population actually participated in it.

I don't know what mandatory voting accomplishes except giving those in power the ability to say, "Tut tut! No complaining! You got your vote, after all."
But 3.0 is still in a very early stage (and several years in slow development?). Atomic Game Engine seems more mature.
Can't speak for Germany, but that's usually both a law and contractual obligation on that side of the Atlantic.
> Essentially, WebAssembly is the new Flash, but it is an open standard, more secure, and language agnostic.

I disagree. Flash could draw things without interacting with DOM thorough JS. Also Flash had sophisticated IDE. WebAssembly is just asm.js+ with a strong aim to compile C/C++ for the web, so you don't need to rewrite anything.
Not really. I'm currently working in a factory (Temporary job, but hey, it is the first one working in my non-native language, so it works out). For most employees, there is a set amount of work that can be done. The machines only go so fast, only need refilled so often, and so on. Gotta have enough truck drivers to comply with regulations. Mechanics sometimes have more work than they have allotted time for, but sometimes they sit around as well. Janitorial has enough time to clean - if they can't get their work done, it can be a safety hazard since we produce food products. Some employees surely have a queue of work or the company might have technically unnecessary work the employees can do during downtime if it goes on too long, but it doesn't necessarily filter to everyone.
I'm not a camera prosumer in any means but what I saw was 'similar' to the pixel's. In the article I can see where is surpasses the pixel in these marginal aspects, but there would be no way I could pass a blind test of pictures taken from which phone
> It's absolutely fascinating to me how corporations can have so many tireless defenders of their rights.

This specific corporation happen not to be a customer of a municipal water system, which means that that this specific municipal water system does not get to charge it.

Let me convert it into a non-abstract thing - I'm going to make an educated guess that you drink either coffee or tea. Why are you not paying for coffee or tea that you got from a place A to a municipal cafeteria that exists in the place A municipality even though you are not getting your coffee or tea there?

> I wonder if you would feel as strongly about citizens being poisoned as you do about corporations being made to reasonably compensate the state for the natural resources they use to line their pockets.

The citizens were being poisoned because the democratically elected, pro people, anti-corporation government decided that people of Flint, MI, did not need super clean water that much.
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> Wow. After something like that happened I'd start looking for a new job regardless of whether I was laid off or not.

I think this usually factors into the number of people laid off. Yahoo did a pretty similar layoff in early 2016, after promising 15% cut in workforce. The number of people that left on the day of was much lesser, but an equal number of people left in the aftermath. My old team went down from 30+ to around 5 before hiring other people and building up to a reasonable size again.
Java is a language. It comes with a standard VM, compile mechanism, and bytecode. Fortunately, the Java platform is well segmented so that the language is a separate technology from those other pieces. Scala, for example, is a language different from Java, but still targets the compile mechanism and JVM.

WebAssembly, by contrast, is not a language. It is only a bytecode and conforming container. Java could compile to WebAssembly instead of its standard bytecode and the biggest difference is execution environment. In order for WebAssembly to displace the JVM it would have to run where the JVM can run with appropriate levels of support.
It was not political speech: the blocked site included private information of citizens (census), without permission. You can not use your power as regional government to ignore the Constitution.

In addition, the web is now hosted in another domain, against the law, not because of "free speech", but because of using protected private information from citizens: https://onvotar.garantiespelreferendum.com/on-votar/index.ht...

This is not about "free speech", but about the sublevation of a regional government, against the rule of law, i.e. against citizen's rights.
Have you tried A7s with a f1.4 lens?

Most people who only photograph with phones, even high end ones, don't seem to realize that similar gains happen in the camera sensors as well. And them being always much larger, they will always be ahead in low light and in signal/noise ratio.
Like size inflation in clothes? "I can fit into a size x in these pants, but x+2 in those. The size x pants look way better."
Here's a super quick overview of some of the most useful commands:

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Just try the first link in that news and if you dont like it or it doesnt change your perspective you can always use what you have always used. But i bet you would like hckr news.
Hoo boy. See also pretty much everything on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Interactive#Products

All of those products were good for their time, but they never really advanced.

As one small example, LoadRunner is load testing software. When writing load tests you use it in interactive mode, but it would be nice to actually run the tests from a server in the background. You can do this... but any errors will POP A MODAL WINDOW! Serious-fucking-ly!
Others have pointed out that matrix inversion is O(n^3) and hence computationally infeasible. It is also worth considering that the conditioning of X^t X, k(X^t X) can be as large as k(X)^2, so solving in this way can be very unstable.
> ..., to the web

And not only. From the paper: "WebAssembly is an abstraction over modern hardware, making it language-, hardware-, and platform-independent, with use cases beyond just the Web". It could have some use in the embedded space, for securely embedding code. Java is sometimes used to sandbox code, if the WA compiler is slim enough it could be an alternative. A big difference is of course the libraries, which are not in the WA scope. But for some embedded use cases this is not a blocker: the API is there at the C level, one just need to expose it to the WA runtime (which could be automated, see SWIG and the like). A secure format, with some strong backers and high performance open source implementations has a lot of potential. I'm very curious about the footprint of the loader/compiler/runtime: it should be ok for most Linux embedded systems, but how low-end could it go as a secure ISA agnostic code distribution system?

For your second point, JavaScript is also sandboxed. On principle, there is no reason that in time the API offered to JS today won't become available to the WA runtime in the future --- although I've no idea if there's any actual work along those lines, I don't follow web front-end tech too closely.
Screw same rate, even. They are making more than enough money to be made to pay a fair amount, in relation to the profit they're earning.
In California, antibiotics are illegal for general use in poultry and livestock as of a couple of years ago.
What's a diff range? Do you have a link to desrciption/docs so I can read up?