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After reading your comment, I understand why people stereotype HN comments as being negative, whiney and neurotic for no reason at all.
A few weeks ago was the fourth of July, maybe it wasn't that random.
> Why can't download the photos directly to a phone?

I have Canon and Leica cameras, mid and high end, that do this.

> Why can't I charge from a micro-USB/USB-C cable?

There are cameras that will.

> how much more could adding a touch screen

Notably Sony stands alone in being the only major manufacturer _without_ touch.

> a simple auto-mode (which disables most buttons and hides advanced menus)

Not sure about other manufacturers, but this would be Canon's "creative" mode, available on (at least) entry levels) to the $3,000 body only 5D IV.

> and upload to instagram feature

> It's ridiculous that the most expensive cameras in the world can't connect to the number one place in the world where pictures are posted.

Agreed. And it's Instagram's fault. You can't upload to IG from your computer (without your browser pretending to be mobile). APIs for third party app-based uploads are near non-existent, and the people who _do_ try to maintain plugins to export to IG from Lightroom, etc., are constantly playing cat and mouse.

Not sure how this correlates to a "lack of vision from DSLR companies" - IG is actively hostile to uploading to IG from anywhere but its own apps.
> ...is it worth the risk finding out what happens when someone else steps in if the US backs off? How would that look?

I think that's right question to ask nowadays. What can we learn by examining the areas of the world where the US is not so clearly dominant? (e.g. Tibet, Ukraine, South China Sea, Sub Saharan Africa)

Can we compare the fate of the people in those places to the fate of people in places where the US is or was clearly dominant? (e.g. Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq, Central America, Okinawa, Philippines)

Is the picture really so clear? Does US dominance guarantee a better outcome for the people in those places? Is it kind of a mixed bag?

Sometimes there's a tendency to recoil in fear when we think of US acquiescence on the global stage, but, what if the changes would be less significant than we imagine?
AndrewBissell, I have a question for you.

First let me say Musk has a habit of doing big, new things that the experts and the fossil-fuels-forever gang said were absolutely impossible.

That being the case, what are your views on global climate change? Do you think it is a huge danger and it is urgent we get off fossil fuels as soon as possible? Or do you think it is the greatest hoax in the history of the human race? Or what?
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Well, at least you didn't build it to only be able to operate the F35B and no other fixed wing aircraft!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Queen_Elizabeth_(R08)
I imagine the designers of ICMP did envision something like ping eventually coming along, maybe not necessarily as a command, though.
If you disable Location Services, which is an option presented on initial setup of the device, apps can still request the GPS permission directly (the default behavior in most location libraries), not sending your location to Google. This is not possible on iOS. Every location lookup will send your location to Apple.
Thank you for answering the questions!

With the staging/deletion, I meant a scenario like this: I'm working on some feature which deletes an item I own. But in a delete condition I put "or" instead of "and" (in a non-obvious place) and the function will delete all records instead when it's run.

In the current development model, this will be caught by:

- me testing it locally (then fixing it and reloading test db)

- maybe reviews

- potentially CI/CD

But with what I understand about Dark, this will be close to auto-published on save, and the first person to try the code will delete all entries from a live table/collection.

Backups are ok, but not a solution in this case (you can't just roll back money transactions for example), and the downtime is not great. What system in Dark prevents this from happening in the first place?
You forgot one qualifier, the most expensive -professional- cameras. Different professionals have different needs. Every camera is designed with a usecase in mind. Off the top of my head professionals photographers need:

* rugged tank-like construction - 1D, 5D series mag-alloy bodies check, weather sealing - check

* reliable AF - check

* awesome battery life - check

* professional support services that can service/repair/loan products with a super-fast turnaround time for when you have a gig.. - check

* high quality optics - Canon L glass, check

* high res sensor for billboards - 5DSR check

* huge library of lenses - check, check and check

In all of those things Canon and Nikon (and even Sony to some extent) excel. I don't think the features you want are useless or provide no value, but you have to look at the bigger picture and take the entire market into consideration. People are using smartphones not just because DSLRs don't have certain features, its that they don't want to carry yet another device when their smartphone does an adequate job.
Sooner or later you will have to buy a new device due to planned obsolescence, i.e. when (security) updates are no longer released. But then you can of course install a free operating system instead.
I go the other direction. I am way too fast a reader and read too widely to handle per-article microtransactions well. I do have a subscription to a couple of my top magazines and news sources, but end up reading up to the free allotment on many, many more every month. I'd happily pay $30-50/mo for unlimited access to many sources, but it'd have to have 10+ of my favorites on board to make it worthwhile. I read 20-50 serious articles a day, across free and paywalled and subscription content. I'm unwilling to pay $10-25/mo for each source individually. But if the average could get down around $5/mo for each major source (that I'll read 15-50 articles/mo from, given the access), and leftover change to the ones I read only occasionally, I'd be delighted. Basically, yeah, I want Spotify for journalism, even if it's a good bit more expensive.
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I normally wouldn’t raise it if I couldn’t independently verify it happened myself, but this person is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met, so I totally believe it. They left a very cushy job to take a job at Wealthfront, so leaving after a few months had to take something pretty substantive.
* iOS (I prefer it over android)

- Very subjective. Further, from a feature set perspective, you're not missing out on much (anything?) with Android. It used to be that you could only get certain Apps on iOS. That's simply not the case anymore. So it comes down to a raw, subjective preference... Like what color do you prefer - green or blue?

* customers already tied into the apple ecosystem

- I was in the Apple ecosystem for ~9 years. Switched over to Android this year. Took me all of a couple days to make the switch. Turns out I'm more embedded in Google's ecosystem than I thought. Apple was just a conduit for Google services, in many ways.

* more of a focus on privacy (admittedly, this one is probably debatable)

- A compelling reason for the technically aware. My post however was about the "general consumer" ... 99% of people are going to be just fine on Android v.s. iOS when it comes to privacy. For god sakes, they're likely already using Facebook/IG.
They were asking specifically of Echo packets, though. It seems ping covers the whole use of them. I wonder if any other part of an OS tends to make Echo packets.
Academic papers in computing don't tend to be written with lay practitioners in mind.

If I want to try out a technique in a business setting, I ideally want at least one of:

* A library or application I can run

* A code sample I can copy and modify

* A pseudocode block I can turn in to real code

What is less helpful is some mathematical equation in which one of the variables is the result of a technique described in another paper and a whole load of unfamiliar concepts named after people.
After all those years, he's still at it! I remember a long time ago, when I was still in school, I've sent Mr. Quijada an E-Mail proposing some simplifications to the then-upcoming Ilaksh's phonetics. My English was much, much worse back then, but to my surprise, he actually replied! His response made my whole week or even month.
That is true but the US is also building aircraft designed to use a ski-jump, the F-35B, it could choose to have a different mix of carrier types.
True, but the Microsoft Surface came three years before the Pro. And even if the iPad Pro were dominant, the iPhone and iPad are so closely related as products that counting the iPad 'innovation' is double-dipping a bit.
on twitter, @amazonnews tweeted a link to that and they got ratioed so hard that they deleted the tweet a few hours later. that is ... not a good piece.
Well, Firefox for one does things to help against tracking. Surely not all the things that can be done, but at least the ones they figured out to be worth it for everyone.
Do you ask it with or without a reference for what scale you're talking about?

I got a bunch of those once in an interview, but it was fine because they gave good guidelines for what they meant with the numbers and asked about a bit more specific areas.
It's a purely functional language; how exactly is it influenced by the best parts of Forth, then?
You could always just use a different browser, clear your cookies, or even just use another Google Chrome profile.
If it's an instance role and you are on the EC2 instance, then "curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credent... will return the credentials.
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I think any video editing on a ~3in, sub HD screen on the back of a camera is going to be a horrible experience because of sheer logistics (UI, controls), rather than "vision-less manufacturers". Not to mention issues like slow media access speeds, horrible upload speeds, etc. I really don't think video editing on your camera is anywhere the market you think it is. Especially for people wanting "higher IQ, interchangeable lenses", etc. Apart from anything else, most of those people are dealing with B roll, intros, etc., or should the camera have to deal with that? And audio editing, or background music? I don't think this seems like much of an area where you can blame cameras. And it's certainly not a bigger market than "people who want to use a camera to take pictures".
https://www.sthelenaisland.info/the-millennium-forest/

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11137903
Possibly just slowly lost it because of what they see is a terrible industry with terrible practices. The suicide vest comments suggests she knew what she was doing.

Does she just want fame, or did she want to show them?

Maybe not though.
They put out a SUV, and all the laughing didn't stop it or purchases.
The overwork has been well reported, but the unpaid time spent in mandatory daily security checks, seems to get overlooked.

Somehow, US courts decided that's allowed. Could've sworn UK courts came to a similar decision recently, but I can't find a source.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/2014/12/0...
> The gadgets look like the inexpensive Nokia Corp. phones that were big about two decades ago. But these hybrid phones, fueled by inexpensive mobile data, provide some basic apps and internet access in addition to calling and texting.

In other words, they are maybe like Japanese phones two decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode#History
I recently got the assignment to "do ML" on some data. I hadn't done anything in the area before, and a couple of things surprised me:

1. Most of your time is spent transforming data. Very little is spent building models.

2. Most of the eye-grabbing stuff that makes headlines is inapplicable. My application involves decisions that are expensive and can be safety critical. The models themselves have to be simple enough to be reasoned about, or they're no use.

You might argue that this means what I'm actually doing is statistics.
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Great Read!

I'm reminded of a Nebula(?) Award winning short story about hive-rats interacting with nobility in the 'future'. The nobility is shrouded in apperance/voice/stim tech such that the AIs are more the person than anything. A princess is brought to the under-city by her father to a shop that can fix the princess' tech, as it is malfunctioning. The daughter of the shop owner tries to peer into the princess' life and psyche as the shop owner tries to fix the princess. The princess has implants that stimulate her face, voice, and body to say the right things at the right times, to move the right way, that changes her face via lightsheets to be most beautiful to the observer she is with, that causes her to say just the right thing at just the right time and be increbily witty. But the daughter of the shop owner tries to peer through the tech to see the woman behind the veil. She discovers that the person behind it all is nearly mute and has the intelligence of an infant. The tech had been installed before ego formation and the person behind it all didn't really exist. She discovers it is also true of the man that brought the princess down to them too. The entire nobility is essentially faking it.

I am SO sorry that I cannot find the link to the actual story. If anyone has the title or author, I would love to know!
No idea. Good question.
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There are reasons to be skeptical about the results of this study:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/1...
I write small lambdas is JS all the time. Generally it's just a couple of SDK calls so it's not worth the toolchain.
I would be surprised if signal intelligence was unable to discern who the guilty party was in this case even in the absence of hard data from the incident itself. I find it hard to believe any entity capable and willing of initiating such an attack could keep it quiet for long.
Same feelings here. I've only been doing it since it changed to being indefinite, not month to month. I've been making steady climbs, though. I was up to 42 on the leaderboard and after voting dropped down to 95. It's only motivated me to do better.

They do mention that part of their algorithm is if you're matched against someone higher and get upvoted over them, you'll receive more points. So if you're the higher rank and getting downvoted compared to someone lower, you probably lose more points.

On top of that, they are giving away money. Why shouldn't they get to choose who they give it to? Sure they could be a little more transparent if they are really manipulating that much.

At the end of the day, just vote with your feet.
Do we need to update the Turing test?
Until they make up a significant percentage of global R&D spending they could increase it while spending money on useful things.
So who is releasing “innovative hardware”?

But to your point, since 2008:

- Mac revenue has grown

- iPad was introduced and by itself its revenue and more than likely profit is something that any company would kill for.

- the Apple Watch was introduced and all indications it’s bigger than the iPod ever was.
We could lump those together as screen-time versus non-screen-time.

I hypothesize that converting an hour from one subcategory of screen-time to another is easier than converting it from non-screen-time to screen-time. I.e. it's easier to convince someone to watch Netflix instead of watching Hulu, than it is to convince them to watch Netflix or Hulu instead of hosting/attending a summer outdoor grilling party.

Netflix would show greater gains relative to competitors by converting more hours spent watching their streams. Any attempt to bring in more hours from the outside would also tend to help competitors, since they would then have an easier time poaching those hours from Netflix later. That might be beneficial in a nascent industry, but I think we're past that now. Nobody is going to be launching an explicit "stay in, and watch more TV" campaign any time soon, but apparently they all will whisper "now that you're already watching TV, why not just keep doing it?" via autoplay mechanisms.

And time spent working is definitely not leisure time, by definition.
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The US started a somewhat contrived war with Mexico and in the end they got Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Nevada.
No, but the article could use a two sentence explanation of what is "Super 30"
At first I thought that you linked to the wrong poll by mistake.

The last question does show more "favor" than "oppose" for installing back doors in encrypted systems, but the first question shows much more "oppose" than "favor" for reducing encryption to help government agencies. The second question shows that more people want tech companies to protect customer privacy than to cooperate with government agencies to fight terrorism and crime.

So people want encryption back doors that don't reduce encryption and don't require tech companies to cooperate with government agencies. Of course "we can have all the good stuff and none of the bad stuff" is a common delusion among government agencies proposing encryption back doors too.
Try to look up the definition of temperature and you will see that it is not as simple as you think. One possible definition defines temperature as the partial derivative of the internal energy with respect to the entropy. Why wouldn't that be applicable to an ideal vacuum or a radiation-filled vacuum? Maybe it is not, I am neither a physicist nor particularly knowledgeable in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, but it is - at least to me - not obvious that it is not applicable. There are also generalized definitions of temperature applicable to system of few particles, i.e. not relying on the statistics of many-particle systems, which sounds like it should be applicable to any real vacuum as any real vacuum will never be perfectly empty.
Yes but if Apple is trying to "be seen as the secure and private platform" then really from a consumers point of view they should be diverting resources to being secure and private.

The fact that this is possibly two faced by google doesn't change the fact that it is a net good if Apple is sincere in their pivot, because they'd want this dealt with anyway and they get them highlighted for free. If Apple just want to be "seen" as secure and private without actually making it so then it's good that it's being exposed as hollow words.

You 'may' have a point with smaller competitors to Google but really Apple is a large enough target that there are other capable threats targeting them that will use these vulnerabilities for worse than just keeping them in line with their marketing material.
Very similar to what logsense.com does with logs except you don't need to have canonical log line as patterns are found automatically.
Well, keep your head up. There are some companies worth working for out there… there must be :) Maybe you start your own thing…
I somewhat understand what's going on, but it might be helpful to have an example or two of what you actually used this for. Like... what kind of functions did you add to the printing press?

Is the tradeoff here if you use a "simple" 1-bit processor, you have to have more complex data/instructions? Meaning, because you only have 1-bit, there is a lot of jumping around. This means that for everything that you'd want to compute, you'd have to have the instruction flow in memory, instead of relying on more OP codes/instructions for the microprocessor?

This all sounds really interesting, but I'm having trouble completely wrapping my head around it.
This actually makes sense. The communists probably didn’t have much of an opinion about math so mathematicians could do whatever they wanted to do within that area. I read the same about rock music in East Germany. The party didn’t know how to deal with that so it left the fans and musicians alone.
"check your amazement because it’s amazement all the way down"

I like that sentence a lot.
Every investment is an alternative to another investment...
Comments like this are what make HN great and are not at all toxic!
So what “category defining” successful electronic product has any company introduced since 2008?
Not for long, the trend is going toward Sony.
A long time ago I gave up the "manager track" and went back to be an individual contributor mostly because i noticed I was having to look up things I "ought" to have known

Slowly now I am settling into the idea (the confidence) that I am actually pretty good at this, and that occasionally looking up how to open a csv file is just an artifact of knowing why and what if not precisely how

(it's also a good indication that another abstraction that is easier to remember might be useful)
Financial reports don't demonstrate anything. You're providing an explanation without actually demonstrating that the provided explanation is the real reason. A shrinking DSLR market has been predicted by analysts (and manufacturers too) for ages now. The primary reason that keeps coming up is that people simply don't want to carry yet another device when their smartphone does more than an adequate job for general purpose photography. More and more the advantage of a larger sensor and better optics is only realized in a small range of professional usecases - Sports/action/wildlife photography, low-light events/astro photography, printing massive billboards, etc, etc.

>I think there is a untapped market for some higher end camera with interchangeable lenses that can seamlessly integrate with a modern workflow.

Sure, maybe there is. The real question is.. is it a tiny $1-2 million market or a larger 100+ million dollar market.
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I know that's in jest, but boy have I experienced that one. There's nothing like being surrounded by a whole city of people who've lost all hope to get you out of bed in the morning.
FBI Report suggests something, probably an instance, was left opened to the world. Misconfigured firewall is what they said.

It's unclear why the resource couldn't widthstand attack, maybe it had known vulerable software, a weak password, I'm not sure it's been published, but something happened.

Whatever it is was able to assume the *-WAF-Role which had an amazing amount of access.

Given the name of the role and the stupid amount of access, I'd wager it was some shitty security product, but who knows. Maybe we'll find out.
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I just wanted to let you know that I read both of your stories and took them both to heart. So thanks for sharing.
>should start at the top, not at the bottom

then it will never start.
No, I don't, but I'm pretty sure a carrier that's presumably not already "running away" can't hit the gas and accelerate meaningfully when it detects an enemy torpedo launch less than an hour away.

Intuitively, evasive maneuvers don't seem to be a useful tool in a carrier's defensive arsenal, but I'd be interested in hearing otherwise.
I am pretty sure C# does the interpolation at compile time but it probably helps that it has a string type as first class citizen to the compiler has more information.
I suspect they are fully funded.