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It’s one of the great photo books, there’s no doubt.

It’s been in the back of my mind to get a copy since I first saw the BBC’s Genius of Photography documentary[1].

The entire series was great but the section of Frank particularly stuck with me. (Not enough for me to get off my arse and buy my own copy it seems though).

I remember going through it at my local library afterwards. Well worth it IMHO.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/
Same. I guess we're in some kind of weird minority...
While I disagree with you, your comment is both valid and well stated.
indeed, sorry.
What model do these simulations use? Biological simulations like those typically run on Anton(s) use fixed-charge, non-reactive force fields.
Intel server-grade CPUs impacted by new NetCAT attack
Wear an Apple watch on the other arm?
Electric school buses are coming to Virginia
"the further down the stack you go" is the reason I love English (being Spanish)
He has been planning on retiring for a while now as he stopped being CEO back in 2013
Palm Phone, 3.3" display. It's kind of pricey for what you get but it's got to be the smallest thing out there that isn't a smartwatch with a SIM card slot.

Having something like a Palm Phone that also acts as a hotspot would be a nice mashup. You can be productive with your laptop or tablet when you are able to sit down and pull it out or you can just have a very basic phone that doesn't let you do too much when you should be doing something else. I know that a lot of the time that I'm on my phone, I should be doing other things like actually working, talking to those around me, or just simply enjoying my surroundings. I still want the ability to contact someone quickly if I need to but I don't want to let myself get easily distracted with the phone in my pocket.
Same with me. Even though I'm iOS dev and own apple watch I use it only for development. My Mi Band 3 last round 20 days on single charge which is great. I just wish app had better UNICODE character support
The TypeScript boilerplate that hooks eliminate for a react redux app is just insane. I don't think I can ever go back. For the slight bit of magic that make hooks work, you end up with such a concise function that describes the important parts and not the boilerplate.

They're not perfect. To each their own opinion. But they are what ES6 did for me to the language landscape.
The short and sweet issue is that they improve connectivity between applications and all connectivity oriented issues (tracing, versioning, load balancing, etc) without having us—the developers—write any code for it.
I was actually surprised at how obnoxious the forced Google Assistant integration was on an Android One phone compared to an Essential Phone, which is about as bloat-free as you can get for Android.
Been using iPhone since the 3G (X since release), have yet to smash one and have never used a case. Don't think day will ever come because cases suck and not dropping your phone isn't exactly rocket science.
This is all a sign of growth, most of it for the better.

There are now billions of people accessing the web, so sometimes a web site needs the resources of a company like Cloudflare to handle traffic spikes.

Decentralized email has been a victim of its own success: because there is no central email authority, spammers and bots can easily flood email boxes. If you don't mind the spam, it's actually not hard at all to set up an email server, but most people hate spam, so most people don't want to set up an email server. There is no pure technological solution to spam, so we fall back on companies to help manage it.

Thanks for the reminder about Sandstorm. I intend to try it out sometime. I hope it's not dying.
Compensation for Remote Employees
Accessibility and ease of workflow. I've had (and have) some nice cameras, but the phone is almost always with me and almost always more convenient to get at and use. The phone can also own much more of the lifecycle of the image than a stand alone camera. Viewing, editing, backing up, and sharing images are all much easier on a phone than at least the stand alone cameras I've used.

Where the standalone cameras are useful are where you need a capability that you just can't get in a phone. (And that's a set of capabilities that's been greatly diminished over the years, although it will never fully go away.)
I’d recommend asking Tim Ferris.
Nice catch - sorry, got confused by the silly numbering system. (What’s with people skipping version 9?)
Can’t you just turn off the auto-lock and remove the straps? I think you can even get “amputated “ strap ends.

Boom - timepiece.
Still not sure why that is not available
>> Otherwise, yeah, Uber did fundamentally improve both productivity and service quality vs. traditional cab companies.

This was true when they started and not really true today. There are many taxi companies with proper licenses and full time employees using the same app model as Uber. Taxify (nowadays Bolt) is one example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_(company)
Don't worry, your kid could be the next hitler or stalin!

Sorry for the gallows humor...not sorry.
Nonsense. At the coast, where Tepco is dumping the water, mixing is extreme due to wave and tidal action. Any water near the surface is also mixed rapidly due to wind action and upwelling.

The only water that's fairly static is deep, cold water. If some of the Tepco contamination goes in that direction, it'll be even better, since it won't be nearly as radioactive by the time it surfaces again...
> If the NPR is not doing tracking, it's dead easy to respond to anyone's inquiries.

You think it's dead easy to respond to inquiries. What matters is what the regulators will believe.

Also, there's a lot of potential personal data involved in a web page hit that does not require any sort of tracker to obtain.

> Free vs paid is relevant if it's free with tracking vs paid. It's basically trying to manipulate the user into being tracked by making not beibg tracked cost money.

That has absolutely nothing to do with the law. That is just your assumption that if you pay for something you won't be tracked. That's a bad assumption.

> WaPo is not forbidding access. If they had no access & paid, it would be fine. But they have free with tracking, cheap with tracking and a bit more expensive for no tracking.

Please point out where in the GDPR it refers to the cost of a service as having any relevance to a user's privacy rights. As with the above, you are making a whole lot of assumptions that aren't related to the law.
Sure, but London has always had taxis, too, because sometimes they're the better tool. It's not like some people are taxi-takers and others are subway-takers. You use whatever's best at the time. When I lived in Boston I took the T every day -- but on some occasions, a taxi was the better choice.
Pure word salad. This is what you get when you import executives from Hell^WOracle.
There is Uber Eats, Freight, and JUMP bikes in addition to their ride-hailing product. I believe they share some technical similarities but still each of the four(I know of) are startups ideas imho.(See Lime, Lyft, Sennder, Delivery Hero, Takeaway.com, door dash etc.)
Mind you, most of my experience is from the rails 3 days plus some legacy application support.

My biggest gripe is the autoloader; it makes finding where something comes from extremely confusing when ramping up new developers on large, mature projects.

The enforced, common convention is a boon and a curse- consistency across projects is an obvious benefit, though I prefer a different structure myself.

Beyond that my gripes are more related to ruby and the tooling rather than strictly with rails itself. Of course you can tweak and configure rails to behave any number of ways, but the more you do that the more you lose out on the primary benefit, which is the community one-true-way mindset.
This is downvoted but Brin's offenses are well-documented e.g. https://www.businessinsider.de/google-sergey-brin-employees-...

People who don't believe the stories about Musk will end up regretting them as many now do those about Epstein.
WeWork’s Latest Threat: Old-School Landlords Trying to Copy WeWork
A Guide to Aussie Slang
Wear OS devices are often quite bulky, I think they'd be fitting for a house arrest bracelet.
GPT-2 is now a published author
To some, they're therapy frameworks, to other's they're analytical tools. I bring it up here is because they cut to the chase and get to what people want. We're not good at saying it, it makes us too vulnerable to. Some of us could save a lot of time and misery if we broke this taboo.

Are you to open to viewing things in a different perspective? First you'd get a gist of the theory/framework/model/whatever. Then you'd need to understand what thing/person/system it's being used on. Without that, it'd be making too many assumptions to explain to others without context. The perspective is subjective to the one applying it, a blend of art and science.

I grew up in a family / circle where as an adolescent, nobody gave me advice or cared about my emotions. Worse, my parents dumped their emotions on me. Despite being a child and having my own stuff on my plate, I was recipient to persistent, intense emotional outpourings of neediness, anxiety and anger. Day in and out, for years. I looked up papers as a survival tool. Various other stuff that messed up me having needs met.

What do people need anyway? Does everybody have them? Do people need to be loved, how is it defined? Does society ignore, shame, or belittle our basic needs?

Sometimes, I think so. This means people are suffering and they can't even articulate why.

What if more people could simply be cognizant of these needs? Could/would we be happier? I don't know. I'm still digging into it.
If you have one service trying to communicate with another service but you want to have reporting, it seems to me that something like Kuma sits in between the services and feeds information back to a central place to see how much communication is happening, without each service needing to build in its own reporting. Ex. Is my website and my redis service communicating and how much?
I dont have much love for Atari and the Jaguar from false advertising about it being a 64 bit machine to its flawed hardware.

Atari was just riding the wave of the bit wars, there was plenty of false advertising on all sides. Because bits were unfortunately the only spec that consumers were aware of.

4) A terrible first generation development kit which was huge clunky, ineffective and expensive(something like 50K). This lead to a lot of devs having to write their own tools. The PSX dev kits were apparently amazing in comparison. It didn't help that the system used quads and not polygons. Of course Sega had massive experience in the Arcade with 3D title using quads but that was on powerful expensive hardware

The early Saturn dev manuals show a lot of their examples using straight up assembly code for the VDPs. PSX dev kits were well documented with examples in C. Eventually the Saturn documentation was improved and included more examples in C, but it was far, far too late by then. Only devs at Sega knew how to get the most out of the system.

The reason why the Saturn was based on quads is because it was 2D hardware repurposed for 3D rendering. VDP1 is responsible for performing affine transformations on sprites to distort them to support the geometry of a mesh. VDP1 being designed for 2D games is especially evident since it does not support transparencies with sprites in the background; any sprites behind a transparent one will not render. It is not noticeable in 2D games, but it would be noticeable in 3D games; you would end up with entire surfaces not rendering.

The VDP2 chip was added later during the system's design to address the architecture's poor 3D support. It was capable of drawing infinite planes, and also fully supported transparencies.

5) Gamers were burnt by the SegaCD and 32X addon which Sega dropped support for in no time.

Yep. Only in hindsight was the Saturn surprise launch was a terrible idea. While it was happening, it did not seem to go terribly. It was really the 32X and SegaCD that soured consumer sentiment towards Sega and sealed their doom.

Despite this Saturn was not a true failure. In Japan it sold very well.

Saturn games and hardware are easy to find in Akhihabara. The system was a huge commercial failure for Sega overall though.

Dreamcast did everything right, and it had the best hardware design of any system when taking into consideration the time it was released. Sega was in a no-win scenario, but at least they went out with a bang with one of the best consoles ever made.
How Does Antarctica’s Only Native Insect Survive Extreme Cold?
I have also been impressed by everything they are producing and I'm actually really wondering why do they need all of those new OSS projects. They need to scale but to an order of magnitude lower than most other webscales. None of their application is data heavy

I have said this before but they seem to have a strong "must be built here" culture. You typically see this in highly political environments where engineers are trying to create projects as a career highlight and as a justification for promotion.
Blood on the Snow: The Horrifying Implosion of Japan’s United Red Army
What exactly do you mean by “investing”. The notion of “investing” in a few index funds or shoveling money to a financial advisor?
2€ per hour isn't remotely high enough, and doesn't come close to covering the actual costs of all that real estate that a parking spot uses up. Rates as high as 20€ per hour are likely necessary for the most popular neighborhoods.

The cost of parking needs to be high enough such that you can remove a lot of spots and convert them to other uses (i.e. protected bike lanes, commercial loading zones), and still keep multiple free spots per block so that people willing to pay the high prices don't need to drive around to find spots.
In most situations market reacts positively to layofss unless there is a BK looming.
With prices lower than all other taxi services they will soon be a monopoly. Also, lower prices can lead to many people not owning a car anymore, which will be an even larger market.
Well that is just neat. Took a little time to adjust to movement on mobile but super fun when you get the hang of it. Really smooth. Thank's for sharing.
401k is government backed. The name itself refers to the law that brought them into existence. Just as Roth IRAs are named for the Senator who proposed them. Without the backing of the government, your retirement plan would solely consist of what you save and you'd be taxed on it all along the way.
Will People Born After 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Know the Importance of the Day?
Yeah, they should be firing low performers. A lay-off is when you lose business, with the prospects of being re-hired in an up-turn.
WeWork presses on with IPO, ignoring pleas from Softbank
I could also never get my Fenix 5 to give me acceptably accurate distances on twisty mountain trails. And, as you say, even as a big guy it’s just too bulky a watch to wear day to day. Maybe I’ll get another someday but my tracking needs are mostly just hiking distances and the Apple Watch eorks for that plus being nice as a day to day watch.
As I've probably posted before, I was at a Dijkstra lecture in the early 80s where he put up one of his famous hand-drawn slides that said "Ada: The latest government boondoggle that will take 5 years and 5 million dollars to kill." [5 million dollars was a lot of money back then.] So yeah, even the academics didn't much care for Ada.
In fairness they did incremental upgrades 2 years in a row, which they didn't used to do. But yeah, cycles are naturally slowing. Supposedly they have big things coming in 2020; USB-C, a whole new redesign, etc. I'll still probably stick with my XS, though.
I think the missing piece is keeping the two threads tightly synchronized. You can ensure the data is passed exactly when the adjacent thread will need it.
The SE can only do 4K video at 30FPS, so it uses half the space the newer iPhones do (since most users will use 60FPS).
So if you use cloudflare for your website, they'll give you extra information. Bad for users, but also bad for the people that run websites and the internet overall.

Mozilla encourages users and server operators to consolidate the internet around Cloudflare. I'm sure Cloudflare is loving Mozilla's enthusiasm in helping them build a new monopoly on the web.
De-anonymization seems like a pretty bad anti-feature of Warp, I hope that Mozilla would demand better of Cloudflare for Firefox users.

Certain VPN providers have moved to fully libre Power based servers and are working to enable a fully user auditable production VPN server, which should become the baseline among VPN providers IMO.
The iPhone 11 [0] and iPhone 11 Pro [1] pages have the short films

[0] https://www.apple.com/iphone-11/

[1] https://www.apple.com/iphone-11-pro/
Yeah, hopefully! Nobody is asking for paper thin phones, and this needless obsession with THIN is we have to thank for gems such as:

- the phone no longer sitting flat

- the headphone port being removed

- the phone being impossible to get a good grip on without a bulky case

- "nearly one day of battery" life being the bar for "what good battery life is"

Who trades a couple of millimeters of thickness in exchange for the above? I hope someone in Apple is listening and can convince themselves and others inside that thickness is not the enemy.
Seems like a net win.
Huh. I've had reception issues in certain parts of UTC. Which is a bit farther up than North Park.
Can someone explain to me what are the technical challenges at Airbnb? They need to handle less requests than the top airlines or hotel booking websites.

Airbnb is a business innovation with a shiny website frontend. But I really don't get all the hype around Airbnb engineering.
Why would they run something in-house that takes so much logistics, expertise, and cost?
The US auto market already has cars that catch fire randomly.
Can't budget very well, or save at all if you make exactly how much your base-level living expenses are bud. I'm still eating ramen at the end of the month. What am I supposed to be budgeting here? Count out my bowtie pasta pieces more precisely to budget them? My generation simply can't live like this, it isn't sustainable, and isn't realistic to expect professionals to live in poverty. I barely have enough business casual clothes to make it through a single week cycle and buying more is a huge expense to me. Something bigger is going to have give, maybe a recession is what is needed to show people how unrealistic this is.
Shower takes 5m, shaving in shower +3m, dressing an additional 5m. Add in breakfast and/or coffee and you’re looking at close to 30m - grab watch on the way out - my series4 is usually fully charged.
> The existence of that state-run hospital and the illogical size of their bill is a result of a lot of the lobbying done to keep the private industry from being uncompetitive with publicly offered healthcare.

Do you have evidence of the Virginia legislature meddling with the hospital's charge master? I could certainly believe that, but in the absence of evidence I'm more inclined to think it's just the hospital administrators trying to extract every dollar they can out of patients. For some reason even non-profit and government entities often seem to have a disturbing emphasis on revenue enhancement.
> given the built-in "succeed or die" macros that simplify code at the cost of reliability.

I would consider a program that dies early to be more reliable (but less robust) than one that just soldiers on, probably doing wrong (and possibly dangerous) things.

Regardless, it is the programmers choice whether to call panic!() or to try to handle an error gracefully and continue.
I hate the title of this HN post. Why? Because it forces me to click through to read which car the article is talking about.

I would have vastly preferred something like this:

"electric version of Renault's low-cost Kwid being launched now"

I know, I know... The poster simply replicated the title in the actual article. And yet, does it serve HN readers well?
I think "Pro" is just admitting that they're running into two tiers now. They released the 8 and the X together, they released the XR and XS together. The iphone has diverged into two products and hopefully they've picked a consistent name to differentiate them - because the difference between XR and XS isn't obvious at all.
It's clearly disgusting, but the total number of Guantanamo inmates seems to be 779[1]. The watch list had 1.2M names on it, so not be too utilitarian, but it seems like a pretty significant difference in terms of the number of people impacted (if not the severity).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#...
My SE is still serving me well. The small form factor was definitely the deciding factor for me. I like being able to comfortably sit down with my phone in my front pocket.
Correct. In no way should single occupancy vehicle trips even be subsidized, let alone free! Taxis should be the most expensive option. Trains and buses should be much cheaper, if not free.
You could buy a used leaf today, it has USA safety features, is at that price point (mine cost 9.9k after fees, you can find them now for less) and has more than 100kms range. The leaf is better than this car in a hundred ways.
The only realistic godsend in congested city would be to ban most privately owned cars.
What should happen here, is that banks should either pay to accelerate transition to Python 3 to meet the deadline, or they should pay to fund somebody to continue to maintain Python 2.

What will happen here, is banks won't see any issue, because their Python 2 software still works after the sunset. It'll be business as usual, and there will eventually be security incidents due to running Python 2.
Which is also the least kind thing.
Hopefully the admins will edit it to be a little more informative and less clickbaity.
> All it takes for EV's to explode

Given the history of battery issues in various products, this seems like an unfortunate choice of phrasing!
This is a horrible fate and I wish the parents of the boy all the best. It's important that you don't beat yourself up and search for regrets though. Maybe that's part of griefing but it's not okay if it stays. It's very important to look out emotionally for yourself, only then you can reliably look out for others.
That’s too bad. It looks like this is an area ripe for some academic work. The math is all already established and the models would not be intense to develop but would provide large payoffs. It’s a much lighter version of interferometry. I don’t see why this isn’t a more hotly discussed topic.
Google invests in a lot of moonshot projects, and also shuts down projects regularly. To their credit, they are willing to invest in high risk/high reward stuff, so the fact that Google is investing in something doesn't actually mean that this thing will succeed, or not be cancelled in the future.

But remember that there is a lot of value between "no computer on board" and "fully self-driving". Cars already have things like lane assist technology, smarter cruising technology, collision avoidance, software to help maintain distance between the car ahead of you, smarter breaking, better mapping and routing technology.

These are valuable features that can generate revenue even if fully automated self-driving cars never happen, or happen in 100 years. These are also features that can help older drivers with slower reaction times stay behind the wheel and keep driving, thus increasing the number of human drivers.