skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is how to define 'Retouched.' Being an amateur photographer and having met a number of commercial ones, the sentiment and knowledge I picked up over the years goes something like this:

Retouching a photo has been done since the (physical, real) lightroom days. Many of the strange phrases and techniques in Photoshop (dodge and burn, and probably crop and most others with photo-specific context) came from techniques in the lightroom.

Even the most famous photographers adjusted their photos in the lightroom, making alterations that are absolutely in the 'retouched' category. You can find these online (Cartier-Bresson did this, and many others). Source: https://petapixel.com/2013/09/12/marked-photographs-show-ico...

Therefore, it's extremely common for any portrait or wedding or any other photographer to retouch. Do 100% do it? Probably not 100%, but damn close.

It's not considered cheating to remove an element, lighten or completely darken/render invisible an element of the photo.

What the photography community considers cheating is portraying something that isn't there. There's a fascinating conversation with a photojournalist on the topic here with examples: https://petapixel.com/2015/08/04/interview-michael-kamber-on...

So is taking a model and making her thinner, taller and tanner retouching to the point of portraying something that isn't there? Which is a vague phrase, admittedly. Perhaps.

But what about removing a pimple from the face? If you get a portrait done professionally, it'll be almost automatic. Maybe it's not so bad. But if it is, let's say, then what about giving you a better skin tone? Because a bare flash without a CTO gel, or the mid-day sun, with a daylight white balance, is going to make you look potentially weird (if you're caucasian in this example; you might look ghostly). A lamppost nearby, or a store sign nearby might change your skin tone too. So what if you change the white balance in Photoshop/Lightroom/Gimp/whatever and make it look a little bit like sunset? Is that cheating?

But if you do nothing, there's automated settings in cameras that will auto-set skin tone and adjust lighting conditions. Is that cheating?

It's all extremely vague because the BBC article failed to explain the criteria for retouching: the word retouching is too broad.

This is an endlessly debated topic in the photographic community, but banning ALL retouching would, I am convinced, be reviled by almost everybody.
Yes, but $8MM is total project cost = existing full time employee costs, outside consultant cost, and hardware + software.
Wow, that's actually kinda tough to answer. There's been a LOT of changes in the Java world in the last 10 years - as you might guess. And I mean both in terms of the language itself, and the tooling and ecosystem as far as libraries and frameworks, etc.

The answer also depends a bit on what exactly you want to do. If you're mainly interested in web apps, it's one thing, "big data" is another world altogether, mobile (Android) has its own ecosystem, etc.

All of that said, here are some thoughts:

Generics and the newer Collections related stuff is one area that changed a lot. There's online documentation at:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/generics/index....

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/generics/types....

and a decent, if somewhat older, book is http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596527754.do

Then there's the newer concurrency stuff that came along in the Java 5 / Java 6 era. Fork/Join, Executors, etc. Java Concurrency In Practice should still be useful to you, even though it is, again, a little bit dated now.

https://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz...

To get started with the Java 8 stuff, a book like "Java 8 in Action" would be good.

https://www.amazon.com/Java-Action-Lambdas-functional-style-...

Another good intro the Java 8 era stuff is

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Java-Language-Features-Expr...

And to make it even harder, Java 9 just dropped, so there's even more new stuff. I just picked up this book myself, but haven't had a lot of time to dig into it yet.

https://www.amazon.com/Java-Programmers-4th-Deitel-Developer...

For frameworks, Spring and Hibernate are both still popular and it wouldn't hurt to brush up on both of those. Spring Boot in particular has caught on for a lot of Java developers.

https://www.amazon.com/Spring-Boot-Action-Craig-Walls/dp/161...

Also, Tomcat is still very popular for hosting java Web applications and services of various sorts. JBoss / Wildfly is still around, but JEE (as J2EE is now known) is not as popular as in the past (even though it has actually improved a LOT).

Play and Dropwizard are two more frameworks you might want to familiarize yourself with

https://www.playframework.com/

http://www.dropwizard.io/1.1.4/docs/

In terms of tools, Eclipse is still popular, IntelliJ is probably the most popular Java IDE these days, and Netbeans seems to have faded from view a bit. Ant has fallen out of favour for builds, with most devs now using either Maven or Gradle. Read up on / play around with both of those and you'll be in good shape there.

Also, Java shops have also been affected by the overall move to "The Cloud" and you can't really ignore that either. If you haven't already, you'll probably want to familiarize yourself with AWS and the AWS SDK.

If you want to work/play in the "big data" space, you'll need some combination of Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Storm, Flume, HBase, Impala, etc., etc., etc.
As a long time user of wallabag why would I welcome the addition of a proprietary alternative that's difficult to disable into firefox ? Stripping user of choice is the opposite of free software and empowering users.

It's arguably not so smart to spend millions of dollars to buy the company behind pocket to release it opensource when an opensource alternative already exists.

Turns out mozilla did not buy pocket as much as the 10 millions user base and 1 billion saved link to get a foot on the mobile platform and helps with their upcoming recommendation engine. Not exactly putting the user first.

Besides there's no integration of pocket into shaarli whereas wallabag has one. Also where is the option to self host a pocket service ?

Not sorry, but pocket sucks on many counts compared to open source alternative.

I've been boycotting microsoft (because microsoft), google (because privacy), apple (because vendor lock-in), netflix (because pollution and bandwidth saturation and killing p2p) was before mozilla made its betrayal to their own words for their own profit. Yup I tend to boycott all opponent to net neutrality and open web.
Neither google, microsoft, apple, nor netflix bear responsibility for mozilla deciding to bake support for DRM for fear of becoming irrelevant. To me they showed that they do not put their money where their mouth is and as such are not worthy of trust, also their priorities are not aligned with an open web based on their actions.

Had mozilla been serious about opposing they would not have implemented it in their browser to be netflix compatible out of fear of losing market share. I've had a difficult time reconciliating myself with mozilla "let's do one evil here so we can try to do one good there" approach to things.
I’ve never been sure why it’s treated as a disease rather than a symptom. It’s like saying someone with a high temperature is suffering from fever. Which is nice and descriptive and treatable with the right medications, but does nothing to describe the underlying cause.
Beyond the other answers you've received that mention the paper trail, district attorneys are elected officials and police officers aren't. The citizens of a city choose the district attorney as a proxy to make decisions for them. They don't have that input when it comes to choosing police officers. The competitiveness of local elections and the level to which voters are informed aside, that is an important difference.
Yes, it has, though I'm sure you have some tortured narrow definition of "money" and an inaccurate assumption of some failing of bitcoin to claim that it hasn't.

But that doesn't matter.

All you're saying here is that it's going to be a few more years and a much higher bitcoin price until you convert over.

That's your loss.
But for regular employees there's a different tax treatment when they pay for their own health insurance, isn't it? (Not an American myself.)
Some European mobile ISPs briefly degraded Skype service on their cheaper plans (Skype being the big VOIP thing at the time). Stopped pretty quickly; I assume they got a nasty letter from the EC.
Then the driver behind was following too closely, which has little to do with an optical illusion on the road.
Bitcoin is pretty much the essence of the entire point of the cypherpunks. That an privacy, but bitcoin is nothing but a censorship resistant ledger.
See also, the space pen:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...

Which in fact did happen and is (in my opinion) a far more interesting story in this vein.
> ... SEC won't care if investors are OK, yes.

Hastily written comment! Should read:

> SEC won't care whether investors are OK

I am admitting it is irrelevant as far as legality goes. My point is that if investors are not being defrauded then it lowers our priority. If we defraud investors then they will complain to the SEC and make us a higher priority.

And for all, it is besides the point. We must have strong opsec and technical measures or we fail.
In the Netherlands there is a extra cost for certain products because of the pollution / disassembly costs. Its called the disposal fee, https://www.milieucentraal.nl/energie-besparen/apparaten-en-...
In the conversation where I brought up VLC as having the perfect preferences aspect, it started off with a poster saying, "the customer should be able to use the product fully without having to read any documentation."

I used that to segue into quite a rant about how I lamented the lack of complexity in software. I extended it quite broadly into things like it being a sign of declining intellectual curiosity, about how aiming for the lowest common denominator was bad for those who understand computers, and even extended it to my dismay at the lack of decent help files.

It was long and rambling, touching on many subjects, and I think I should turn it into a more formal essay.

Anyhow, VLC gets the preferences options perfect. The UI can use a bit of work and the UX is a bit rough, but the multitude of options makes up for any shortcomings it may otherwise have. I haven't even really bothered to learn the command line options, which is actually a little strange for me. I spend quite a bit of time in the terminal.

And no, no... I made it a point to inform people that I wasn't wanting computing to revert to the older days. No, software wasn't better back twenty years ago. The Internet wasn't better and computers weren't better.

What was better was that programs actually had options. They had preferences. They had multiple ways that they could be configured. They could output and process work differently.

I guess my final message was a plaintive request that developers bring back my buttons. I miss those buttons. I get a hamburger icon that expands and the entire options, if it exists at all, is actually just a theme picker. Some software doesn't even have exit as a menu option. If I want to close an app on a mobile, it may actually mean finding a task manager just to close it. It gets even worse if there is no back option and I want to begin anew at the application's start screen.

So, I just wanted to take an extra minute and explain a bit more and to thank you. I already set up a donation and the project should get a donation every month, assuming I did it properly. VLC doesn't just do what it says on the box, it inspires me to learn, to discover, and to keep being curious.

I think all of those things are much more valuable than a video player. Anyone can write a video player. It takes someone special to write one that plays videos and encourages curiosity, growth, and learning.

Which is rather a long way to say, "Thanks, again!"
> Git is merciless with understanding and doesn't allow high level thinking. We have yet to come by with a decent abstraction for it.

I toyed around with Pijul and found it simpler conceptually. It still has a long way to get ready for production, though.
If only there was a word for taking a long article and shortening it, while preserving the main points.
The last thing the world needs is cops that don't have discretion. Imagine when our AI robot overlords are in LE; the number of citations/arrests will go through the rough since most Americans break a law or regulation on a daily basis.
[Something].js https://xkcd.com/1508/
I remember reading Feynman's thought experiment and him deciding that it doesn't require any energy to flip a bit.[1]

How does that square with Landauer's limit?

[1] Apologies for the lack of reference. I'll try and find it.
Please stop talking about mental health in this context.

You may or may not be correct in your prediction about the legal ramifications of this person's actions actions but making comments about their mental health is completely erroneous.
> It also has a "comeback" because people are still very much enamored of something which is virtually indistinguishable from, "The Hand of God."

If we try to find a "social" explanation why superdeterminism has its comeback, I would rather tend to the fact that progress in neuroscience gives a lot of doubt concerning the existence of free will. Superdeterminism fits quite well into this pattern, since it attempts to show that we can solve the problem of the Bell violation by simply refusing the assumption of free will.
Seriously? Fallacy? That is really not wanting to understand things how they are. You should really go back to textbooks and try to understand hardware.
I'm aware of that. Everyone from socialists to islamists banded together to overthrow the shah, and the from this chaos the ayatollah and his followers seized the country.
I thought indeed that I was making a "spherical cow" joke. I was actually thinking of this:
https://tromp.github.io/java/go/twoxtwo.html, so only 1446 nodes after pruning.
The sad, inevitable fate of the Internet
It's starting to look like the Internet Everywhere will become a tightly government controlled, tightly government monitored network, without neutrality, with a small number of companies in primary control. That future if already here in many ways, and over time. Those trends will accelerate. Very sad.
neat library.

somewhat off topic: took me a bit to figure out where the project was since "download" was the main go to action and to me contribute sounded like they were asking for money. I was initially disappointed because download offered up a zip file and I wanted to use a package manager. Contribute code or github repo or perhaps installation instructions and documentation might be a better way to phrase the second button.
>>I dislike this line because life is more nuanced than it portends.

Most of the time, it isn't. That's the point.
The suicide rate at Foxconn was less than that of the general Chinese public. The people in poverty in America are well-off as measured by consumption rates.

Note that a social safety net is not inconsistent with free markets.
Become a Kotlin expert.
CAVE style VR suffers from the same problem if you don't want to use stereoscopic shutter glasses. You can track one user's head position and update the renderer's camera accordingly, but with multiple users you can't do that without shutter glasses.

Even with shutter glasses, I'd think there must be some limit on how many users you could have at once without irritating flickering; with 3 users and six different perspectives to render, both displays on an individual user's glasses would be opaque 2/3 of the time, and each eye would see an image for 1/6 of every unit time.
I was a heroin addict for 6 years, and have been clean for 5. The sweets thing was very true for most addicts I knew as well as myself: in withdrawals I’d crave sugar something fierce. Gummy bears would temporarily make me feel better. It was interesting.
The Reservisor: A 1950s automated airline reservation system (1994)
The case for Amazon coming to Minnesota? It’s not that great
That's a very small number of people, not all of whom are well paid. The work is intellectually stimulating and has the ability to have far-reaching impacts.

I think you're confusing empirically for being significant numerically. I will offer a counter for your Wall Street example, look at how many go into teaching.
It can probably break ONETIMEPAD, too.
> Where did the Leader in the open Web go?

It was killed by moving focus from users and long term to quarterly profits and short term, around the time Jonvon Tetzchner was pushed to leave the company.

wait are you talking about the leader in the open web or about mozilla here ?
A major theme of the series is how the American public was lied to about the reasons for the conflict and what happened during the war, with an emphasis on how successive Presidental administrations knew that the war was essentially unwinnable.

It also clearly highlights multiple times how the Americans were seen as invaders by much of the Vietnamese population.

There are legitimate reasons to criticize it but I wouldn't describe it as a whitewashing (I'm only 80% through it so maybe the tone changes later in the series).
This isn't as big a deal as it sounds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14887929
>All you have to do is have the environment cause 2 people to only want to have 2 babies.

Those 2 people will be quickly replaced by the couple that wants to have 3 babies. Unless you pass and strongly enforce laws limiting reproduction, which our culture seems unwilling to do, you will get overpopulation.

Nature has a lot of population control mechanisms other than starvation. Like disease and predators. But humans have mostly eliminated those.
The free market meets demand better than any planned system.

Let it find a way to make a profit with allow free people to decide how to spend their minimal viable income.

Then again, I think the minimal viable income needs to be $30k/year to everyone. A reverse income tax if you will. This would spur more economic development than any other program the government has ever tried.
Why weren't a series of speed bumps suitable?
Are any of those real things where the ICO is a critical part of the app? All the ones I've seen are gimmicks.
Dan Brown ain't a good storyteller either. But his stuff does sell, so some people must like it.
The US has been the greatest bootstrapper of poor people into middle class and wealth history has ever seen. The US was populated by poor immigrants with little more than a suitcase. Wealthy people didn't immigrate to the US. Look at the statistics on height, longevity, and infant mortality from 1800 to today. It's a little hard to argue that the free market impoverished people.

As for healthcare, that has not been a free market in the US at least since WW2.
Not disputed, so what? What point are you making? That we need to give the free market another try so it can fail again? Healthcare lacks basic price transparency, consumer choice, even the ability to know what you're buying before you need to buy it. The free market solution to something like healthcare is insurance, how's that worked out? It's not something that can work well in a free market.

I'm a capitalist, I believe capitalism is awesome, however capitalism doesn't work on everything, just most things. It's not a golden hammer that will solve all problems.
> What we as citizens can do is demand that elected officials hold DAs accountable for their wrongful convictions

Way to pass the buck. In 47 states, district attorney is an elected office, not an appointment. If we want better behavior from district attorneys, we need citizens to be better at monitoring that behavior and holding them accountable.
Note also that the USNS Comfort was deployed more quickly to Haiti in 2010 (for an earthquake which had zero days warning) than to Puerto Rico, where the order was given seven days after the storm struck: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-09-2...
For all the hype about Kotlin here on HN, the reality is that there are far more jobs available for Java devs. To illustrate - looking just at California, Indeed.com lists 92 jobs for Kotlin, and 12,204 for Java.

For somebody who genuinely prefers Kotlin and has the luxury of being able to be picky, then sure, focus on Kotlin to exclusion. For somebody who just wants a job though, it would probably be better to stick with Good Old Fashioned Java in the near-term and learn Kotlin (or Scala or Groovy or Clojure or whatever) on the side over time.
It would be even easier if a 'basic living standard' could be established. Something measured in terms like quantity of food & size of housing.

Money & markets are a fantastic system for taking the limited resources we have as a society and splitting them up. We haven't found a system that is more effective at increasing the average living standard.

Basic income screws around with some fundamental structures of the markets. It would be easier to reason about if we knew what resources were being guaranteed by the government back in the real world. It happens that physics cannot be legislated into existence; so we will need some planning to be done to make sure that the spirit of the law can be identified and met practically.
Sublingual ketamine has worked well for my girlfriends depression. Dissolved into water at 30mg/mL, she takes 1mL every three to four weeks. A threshold dose, the dissasociative effects are rather weak there, but the antidepressant effects are rather rapid and work wonders for her.

If you’re in the US, I believe you can go to clinics and have it administered by a doctor which is safer.
Delta to offer passengers free text messaging
Vote for a president who’ll appoint a less mad head of the FCC, perhaps? It’s not a directly elected position, but it’s not like it’s totally outside electoral politics.
Are there any longer-term studies you could refer to?
Continue to Fight. Always Fight: Beating Depression
For another example, West Germany turned to the free market from about 1948 to 1970, resulting in an incredible rise from the devastation of WW2. East Germany did not see any results remotely similar.

Before you say "The Marshall Plan" most of the MP money was given to France and Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Expenditures
> The passengers report they are still on board of the aircraft about 2 hours after landing because the airport does not have stairs to accommodate the A380.

Does anybody know how this works? Why not just use any old ladder?
I've only ever known one experience with a debt collector (My dad runs a business and had to contract one to recover payments once) but he actually sold the debt to the debt collector. If the debt was $2000, he would sell it to the debt collector for 50%, the collector paid him $1000, and then ran off to collect the full $2000.

So yeah if it was $15, you might be hard pressed to get a debt collector to care.
Note: SMS not supported, for regulatory reasons. Just iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp.
I'm looking for the 18-year old girl with a 40-year old mentality. It will never happen.
Thanks for ending what used to be a bimonthly cycle of trying to find codecs while trying to avoid malware. VLC is now one of my first downloads on any fresh OS install.