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Definitely not Apple. I remember cameras on phones way before the first iPhone came out. They were low res3, but nevertheless less, a camera on a phone.

If I ever need to think about who invented the first X, it's usually not Apple. They do a great job at making things better.
Pet peeve of mine, see comment above.
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We're looking to grow our control systems team to continue to scale out our fleet of kiosks. In the last 3 years we've grown 10x, and are on track to double our install base again next year. We offer a wide variety of engineering activities and have a great team working on some extremely challenging problems (remotely administering 5k robots on cell modems? Live configuration sync between 5k nodes and a central server with varying latency?). Our tech stack is primarily Python3|Haskell|Linux and we're looking to add some folks with Docker | RabbitMQ | FP experience (any FP language is fine).

If you're interested in working with robotics and hardware AND have an interest in functional programming, I'd love to hear from you.
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(We will also have some additional roles opening up in the very neat future, so if you're a CV / ML / Data engineer, I'd love to hear from you too!)
On top of a CAN. "Content Appropriation Network", something a bit like a CDN only you get to lose your audience.
I totally agree, I just think that "Google is currently experimenting removing URLs entirely from the search" would have been a more honest title.
Obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/255/
So, you have no problem with con artists, its the people they dupe that are the real issue?
Some publishers do not use DRM - I believe that's the case for Tor and Baen, in SF/Fantasy. Baen sells direct in their site, including monthly bundles.
It's probably that for that user that's what it looks like and then you combine that with HN's original title policy. It's not 100% perfect but it works most of the time.
A year or two ago I noticed that Youtube links were messed up in the search result so maybe the writing has been on the wall for a real long time.

For instance, if you google https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+eat+world+555 you get a thumbnail with a Youtube URL linking to the actual video but as soon as you right or left click the link it's changed to a google.com link with a lot of parameters. Makes it super frustrating if you want to share a link to the youtube video from the SERP.
FWIW this was new.. hadn't read it before:

Landlords sell aluminium, we sell iPhones - Dave Fano

[Edit] Quote attribution correction
Sony is clearly listening. Their range of mirrorless cameras (NEX before, and A6??? now) seem to cater exactly this segment.

I shot Sony since the NEX series came out, starting with the 5000R. Paired with a fixed Zeiss 24mm this camera took absolutely astounding images. Pair a Sony with a smartphone and you get easy upload to social media. What's missing, exactly?

Incidentally I sold all my Sony gear last year. The UI and handling of these cameras is just as ugly as any smartphone can be. It takes seconds to start. The animated/touch UI is just fancy, but slows any operation down. Most modern cameras have humongous menus which are hard to navigate and make little sense as dozen of features get added, but Sony is really on the worst end when it comes to placement and behavior of all the functionality they pack into their cameras, which is sad.

Their "app" store is the most useless thing I've ever seen, including stuff which should be bundled in the camera but when used precludes the functionality of the camera itself.

I'm lucky I always had a great group of friends from which we exchanged cameras and I was able to use most of the others you mention too. If you pick any Nikon, Canon or Fuji camera and start taking pictures you immediately realize why menus are placed in a certain way, the UI is intentionally minimal, and why the body is shaped the way it is. It's a night and day experience if you know what you're doing. No operation takes more than half a second to perform. It's form-follows-function. These cameras cater to pros _first_. You don't need to upload to social media and/or you basically never want to have smartphone-like post-processing in camera because the normal workflow is to either take the built-in jpeg because it's already good enough, or process the raw yourself. Transferring the image via wifi/ble/nfc is decent enough in most 2017+ mirrorless cameras.

Granted, Sony made _huge_ steps forward since the NEX line, but you can definitely see how the camera is influenced by the smartphone market. Sony even released the QX1, which essentially is a camera _for_ the smartphone.

Somehow I have the impression that smartphones themselves will eat away all the middle market as the small optics keep improving. If you want images for instagram you'll probably never care about the improvement in image due to a larger sensor anyway. But a pro will definitely seek superior handling and behavior in a camera, and that is almost tangential to how a smartphone operates.
If you want Google Search without Google, there's Startpage. It acts as a proxy between you and Google, protecting your privacy. I've been using it exclusively for maybe two years now. I am a bit upset at not supporting the more involved privacy-friendly projects, like DuckDuckGo or others (there are a quite a few); but, Startpage gives me the right mix of privacy, efficiency and social awareness at the moment.
There are no real differences beyond those arising from differences in aperture and focal length. For example, here are two very similar shots, one shot on a DX format DSLR and the other shot on 4x5 film:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4v6yNyRkl5uUThuRm9tVWhGNU...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4v6yNyRkl5ua1BlMzNHVlRUUH...

The one exception would be movements: most 4x5 cameras can do tilt and shift, whereas tilt/shift lenses for DSLRs are very expensive and specialist.
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Cost is at play in everything. Ignoring it for the sake of discussion does nothing. Do compare they price of single wall stove pipe to double wall chimney pipe. Almost an order of magnitude difference.
It's bad enough in the rest of Norway, and the north of Scotland - I really feel like the lack of daylight has a negative effect on my mental health.
YouTube led me to this. Was never a big jazz fan but was listening to some lofi Hip-Hop and this played. https://youtu.be/BFmH7moCL2c Hitoshi Suzuki - romance. After that I listened to the rest of his one and only album great stuff.
Google isn’t really a search engine anymore. They’re a data harvesting company who then try find ways to profit off sharing that data with you.

Google penalises other websites for stealing content or re-hosting stuff without adding value, then goes ahead and does exactly that all the time.
This is how the mobile version of Google behaves, is it not?
I wonder why we as a society valorize advancement at any cost. Surely it’s much more respectable to reach a level that fits your personal abilities, needs, and aptitudes, and then be a generally sane, trustworthy, competent person.
Probably also the url bar from Chrome, soon to be replaced by a Google keywords-bar.
So I wonder if society (business, education, organizations) operates on the same schedule in Paris and Berlin? (or between Madrid and Budapest)

I suspect there's at least some adjustment, which indeed could negate health effects even if they existed (provided the operational adjustment exactly equals their time offset). OTOH If adjustment is incomplete or there's some numerical attachment (universal preference to start at specific hours), then effects could be a possibility.
I’ve seen this new presentation too. At first I didn’t think much of it. The version I saw was slightly different. It was using carets to divide the URL, both for domain as well as for directories. (So carets were substituting for ford and slashes; this goes further).
Play with baby. Take dog for a work. Usually try avoiding touching the computer.
Ah, the Condoleezza Rice Defense.

(PS- I know you're being sarcastic. Just naming the tactic. Mostly out of anger.)
What's GMT got to do with this?
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There's grandma falling for a tech support scam, and then there's heads of billion dollar investment funds falling for business scams and a personality cult.

One of these can reasonably be assumed to not be at fault. Masayoshi Son at least had the grace to admit it (indirectly) and try to turn things around.
As long as it's taken outside the environment.
Show HN: Open sourcing a data flow engine for Clojure/Script
I grew up in Northern Norway. It's pretty neat, to be honest -- it's true that the sun never rises in the winter, but it's sort of circling right underneath the horizon, so it doesn't get properly dark either!

(If you just look at the calendar, the period of absolute night is fairly short. But this is Norway, so even if the sun is technically above the horizon, it's probably hidden behind a mountain.)

Mediterranean latitudes have far darker nights. This is especially true with snow on the ground; at that point you can easily navigate by moonlight.

That being said, it is pretty dark. Norway has a particular type of seasonal affective disorder which doesn't strike anywhere further south, and which manifests as... well, difficulty sleeping, loss of energy, depression, lots of bad things.

It never seems to affect anyone who grew up there, but it can be an issue even for Norwegians who move northwards. As for refugees who end up placed there ... often they decide whatever they were running from was the lesser of two evils.
I get your point, but your looking at it backwards now, we're past the days of PaaS because we now know were it all leads: lock in -- and I say this as an early adopter of GAE and watched it turn from "something that does all you need out of the box to run an app" to something that nickel and dimes you at every turn and then presents you with a nice fat $bill if you do anything serious on the platform (just look at the bandwidth charges ffs!).

If by lock-in that means higher margins for these major cloud providers then the only remedy is to have a free market, and the only way to achieve that is for us to have the ability (or at least the threat) to take our stuff and run.

In short, the word is out now that there is no "free cloud lunch" they're making $billions off of us for what we once called hosting (clever trick!). Yes, we want the promise of "Cloud" but not all of us are SnapChat and/or willing to pay the high premium for it.
I say keep standard time and maybe add some more time zones.
Have you tried these Firefox addons:

Google search link fix https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...

Google Search URL Fixup
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
Doesn't work with countries far from the equator, where the sun never reaches the zenith during winter time.
How do you arrive at that conclusion in light of his grievances with Holmes/Theranos? Seems pretty obvious that he is distinguishing between the degree of damage between different scams, believing it is worse to harm low or middle class sick people (with their inherent lack of safety nets) than wealthy investors. Whether or not you or I agree with this assessment, we should be able to distinguish between that point and your interpretation.
Location: Paris, FRANCE
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: PureScript / JavaScript / Haskell / Mesh generation / CSound
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/Ebmtranceboy?tab=repositories
Email: ebmtranceboy@gmail.com

Fond of applied maths (check https://ebmtranceboy.github.io/mesh.png and https://ebmtranceboy.github.io/haskell.png for curvature-related projects) and audio synthesis.
There is nothing wrong with not wasting money. That said, you should avoid being a miser.

I faced that problem years ago. A few things I did was:

1) find a charity that you believe in. I recommend looking at web sites that rate charities.

2) Develop some hobbies. Explore life. I took up bicycling and ball room dance.

3) keep avoiding $300 jeans, people who do that have more money than brains.

4) make sure your spare money is wisely invested. In the US I recommend people go with Vanguard
Megapixel is not the only thing that determines how good a photo will look. That was a game played by manufacturers, just like how back in the day with CPU people tried to measure a computer quality based on Mhz and Ghz.
I see an icon and address above the title on mobile
Germans are known to start their day earlier that the french. Getting to work before 8 is very common in Germany and it's definitely not in France.
I used my local playground until I was 16. Now, nearly 30 years later I still go to the playground to play, but it's a climbing gym. People don't magically stop playing soccer, or baseball, or video games when they pass age 10, I don't know why we assume as much about playgrounds. A well built playground offers challenging terrain for kids of all ages.
I've seen repo's use them as a way of categorising the type of commit (don't have an example at hand), which could be a good use if used consistently and the categories fit your workflow.
Is there even a meaningful difference in the long term? Starting times for school and work are not set in stone, but are different in different industries/regions, and constantly changing. If the government declared by fiat that the official clocks would jump ahead by 4 hours (thereby setting "11am" to be sunrise on June 1st, or whatever), everyone would eventually just adjust their schedules so that work started at "1pm", dinner time was about "11pm", etc.

The current daylight saving time standard, where we switch time twice a year by an hour, is not meaningless in the same way because schedules are "sticky" on sub-6-month timescales; a business keeps opening at 9am both before and after the clocks change in the Fall.
That's exactly what TFA prescribes
I suppose you didn't click through to the README - I am doing that to learn more about k8s internals, not to replace AKS.

(there is always a difference between curiosity and borderline insanity :))
Thank you for saying that. Sometimes I forget how petty and small people can be, especially when they are under pressure, academic and otherwise.

I'll take a look at submitting it to CVPR.

In the meantime, please circulate my work. It's on record, online. The more people who are aware that others have seen it, the less likely someone will try to plagiarize it.

I'm not under any kind of academic pressure, so I don't need citations, conference slots, etc. But I do deserve credit for this, don't you think?

PS. And now that you mention it, a couple of people to whom I reached out mentioned they were under deadline over the next two weeks.

PPS. Send me an email!
Exactly.

There are some marks and con-men that deserve each other. People who think they're buying stolen merchandise at pennies on the dollar and get a box of bricks for the "street" example. Does either party have clean hands?

Then there are Grandma's that get duped. These are real victims, not enablers.
They've done this for well over a decade, I remember the transition and there was little outrage.

Before, all the results generated were direct links without any wrappers. Then Google decided they needed to know which of the links people were clicking so they injected a wrapper around every link so they'd get a request from every click.

Sure, it can be used to increase accuracy of search results. It can also be used to taylor data and profiles around individual users at finer and finer granularity.
There's more to scriptless testing than Record and Playback
Actually, what you want is not a switch, it's pattern matching
How about the industry fix or properly decommission the ones they have, before they build new ones?

There are so many pipelines and well heads and so forth, scattered every where, which are poorly maintained, literally bursting at the seems, and at eminent risk of catastrophic failure.

The ones running under the Great Lakes comes to mind. The day when (not if) one of those fails is going to be really, really bad.
Fascinating read. I wonder if the remaining wrecks will ever be raised?
Because this throwaway man, and his downvote brigade, have an agenda.
If only there were an alternative browser...
Spain has long been suspected to suffer from their timezone choice. I do remember reading about that problem before, and a fast Google search finds several articles discussing the issue. (For example https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/spania...)

Up to a certain point, countries adapt. For example, Germany and France are in the same timezone, but their schedule is shifted. This can be easily seen when looking at the TV schedules. In Germany, evening TV starts at 20:15 (the start of movies, ...). In France it's more like 21:00. When I lived there it was 20:50, but TF1 now seems to start at 21:05.

German TV: https://www.zdf.de/live-tv

French TV: https://www.programme-tv.net/programme/chaine/programme-tf1-...

Similarly, schools and kindergardens are usually not at the same time.

This local shifting works more or less, but can't be stretched too far. Especially multinational companies have expectations that workers come in at certain times. This is the problem that Spain faces. (I couldn't easily check by how much Spanish are shifted as Spanish TV schedules don't seem to coordinated like in France or Germany).
Just waiting for iOS to include a ‘bypass AMP’ setting.
>How on Earth this crap came to be regarded as a piece of "wisdom" is beyond me.

It's fairly true on small-scale interpersonal relations. Still true _sometimes_ on large scale, but that shouldn't make it excusable or remove accountability from the culprits.
A fancy webapp is not the best for a security critical thing like generating VPN confs!

I'd rather have a simple script and push updates to a "read-only" webapp.
I'm a consultant and I rented some space at WeWork Montreal.

When I visit my clients in their office, which are not IT related, I often notice how grey or dark brown'ish are the walls. The vibe is kind of depressing in some old style offices in Montreal.

I must say that I really enjoyed going back to my shared office at WeWork. The light was nice, the vibe and I was connecting with people with similar mindset. I can't vouch for M. neumann, but I can say that my time at WeWork was really awesome.
I would often invite my clients to WeWork so that we don't need to meet in their super depressive dark'ish offices. My clients were always amazed and impress by the WeWork offices in Mtl.

I quit, not because of the latest issue, but for personnal reason.

I miss WeWork and I will definitely renew my subscription later if they still offer thata amazing experience.
I tested that and when I right clicked the link was just the raw YouTube link. Also tried in incognito and same result. Interesting.
Nah, there have been cases with short temporary flat EEG that came back to life, which is why the guidelines specify the duration for declaring someone dead in this way.
Those people suffered no memory or identity loss, so electric activity is not related. Connectome structure and tuned bioelectrical responses based on cell cytoplasm gradients, receptor structure and number tuned by a bunch of either RNA or proteins the most likely candidate. So the better analogy is it's like flash memory, left unpowered but running for too long the neurons will change.

Restarting the brain from that flatlined state is therefore possible, we just don't know how to do that properly. Most importantly, it won't do any good if the brain is damaged and is rarely useful.
An invisible framework for enforcing type checking at runtime – Python
Hello all. I would like to share with you a project I have been working on. I called it "invis", and basically it is an "invisible" micro framework that allows you to ensure/enforce types at runtime for both builtins as well as user-defined (e.g. your own classes, or a numpy ndarray). The README.md contains a tutorial on how to use it and naturally I can answer any question. https://github.com/dxflores/invis
It's pretty verbose and lengthy, but I recently read the NIST "Trustworthy Email" publication and it did a great job explaining these technologies - Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) - that are used for modern email authentication.

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S... (PDF obv.)
It's not worth it. Just use DuckDuckGo or Searx.
Except it was more like we sell iPhones at half the cost we bought them for but claim we have a business because mindfulness. PS no meat.
When I noticed this happen to my account, I thought 'this is it'. We survived (sort of) the adpocalypse - time for the urlpocalypse?
I've used Yahoo for search since basically forever. My understanding is its backed by Bing these days. It's really not bad. Don't understand why everyone sticks to google other than marketing and momentum.
Complexity is the n.1 enemy of security and IPsec is horribly complex.

Wireguard is very lean and simple.
This does not explain why the opinions of sleep researchers are not in line with the general population.
TV Ad Retargeting – Samsung Ads
I just tested and I see it as well
People are so weary of this that there aren't even the usual requests to put a date on the title of the original post.
Computing technology goes in circles it seems. We're also back to the mainframe era where we push all our computing to remote resources. I recall an infamous Apple ad shunning IBM as big brother near the beginning of the PC revolution. Now we have the illusion of generalized computing tied to all sorts of external services.
Ask HN: Windows backup that survives OS reinstall?
Hey HN,

I need to upgrade Windows 7 to 10 on an important box. Given that it's currently very sluggish, I'm thinking the time is ripe for a reinstall. I could do a full backup, install the new OS from scratch, and then reinstall all apps one-by-one and copy back the app settings and data from the backup, but it's tedious and error-prone.

I also need to be able to rollback the machine to its previous state if anything goes wrong.

Can you recommend any tool that could help me out? How would you approach this?
They were no artists. The investors money made them artists. I presume both neumann and holmes believed in fake it till you make it, build it and they will come, 10000 hours etc. Holmes turned to a con artist when the thing simply failed to work. Wework didnt get to that stage even.
All timezones are defined relative to GMT (usually in full/half hours), so all clock times in the US are, too.
At some point cryptocurrencies felt like they could get us most of the way to working micropayments. Unfortunately Bitcoin's huge transaction fees and still unreliable service made that impossible. I still hope this will change at some point, but I can't imagine how a sufficiently dominant cryptocurrency could ever emerge again.