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a grain effect added to a digital photo is a kind of affectation, an artifice that is not intimately connected to the process of making the image, included as a stylistic decision; possibly an afterthought. it seems dishonest (not necessarly wrong) but it is part of a panoply of effects that can be applied that constitute what's possible with digital. there's no need to 'lament' since each medium has its own panoply of possiblities: photochemical emulsion gets to be 'honest' about grain, however, and digital does not, since with emulsion grain is not an 'effect': it is what emulsion, in fact, consists of. the same cannot be said about digital.

there are analogous issues between film and video, and even between older video formats and digital video. the future of movies no doubt includes a choice of frame rates, frame resolutions, interlace vs. progressive, and aspect ratios as creative choices. they will be part of the panoply of possibilities that artists will be able to use.

n.b.: in the silent era, there was no real standard film speed, and the film was often exhibited (in the days of hand crank projectors) at varying speeds to suit the content of the image and the music that was invariably played live alongside it. for example, romantic scenes might be cranked a bit more slowly; comedy scenes could be cranked a bit faster. it was only when the industry started to be professionalized that silent films were shot a 16 or 18 fps. with the sound era, the fps was upped to 24 partily to improve the fidelity of the optical sound. most projectors have for decades now multi-leaf shutters which actually interrupt the light path as many as 3 times per frame elimitate the perception of flicker.
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That already sort of happens. In fast scenes there is a big change between frames so they appear different = high frame rate. In low rate scenes the frames are more similar so equivalent to shooting more slowly - you can even do this in post, simply double up frames to make a scene 24fps

Either way they will be projected at 60 - just like your TV shows 24fps movies at 100,120,240Hz or whatever
I'd be willing to bet this is due to Groupon wanting to be to Qwiki what Commercials are to TV
IP addresses don't necessarily map to people, but we should be wary of creating a massive "get out of court free" loophole.
>anyone using a language which compiles to machine code is just using assembler

obviously it depends on the share of time the one spends tweaking generated code and the compiler's codegen.
Yes, of course. What I'm wondering about is if (and how) the proposed DNSSEC infrastructure would be superior in this regard.
Related: are there any good sites/communities/blogs to discuss HFT that anyone can point to?

Am really interested in this field, anything like a crash course in what it involves would be nice by anyone familiar.

How much cash do you generally start with, and how liquid are you?
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I saw one of those 'ride movies' in Las Vegas that had been shot in Showscan, and can't say I noticed much of a difference -- the seats were shaking and vibrating and careening though, so it may not have been the best test.

Trumbull's research found that 60fps somehow resonated the most with the brain -- no slower, no faster.
This is nice as a proof-of-concept. Now it needs to become a patched version of Gnu screen.
There must be some sort of law that the internet's signal to noise ratio drops proportionately to the growth of social networks.

Here it is: "The signal is highly concentrated in the early adopters of every publishing technology."

That is to say, the people most likely to have something interesting to share are the ones busy trying to find new ways to share it. Thus, when the Internet first became available to the masses, the early adopters were people with things to say but no easy way to share their ideas with people interested in what they had to say. So they put up home pages and essays.

Then the masses came on board and businesses catered to them and we got FrontPage and GeoCities and the signal dropped to zero. We can see the same thing in every forum, in Slashdot, in Reddit, and here. Early adopters are invariably chagrined to see the laggards driving the signal to noise down, some leave in search of new media with an opportunity to enjoy the high signal of halcyon days. Eventually the older media have an Eternal September, and the combination of high signal early adopters leaving and a sudden wave of new laggards joining the signal down to nearly zero, and suddenly everyone is dissatisfied.

While not every early adopter has something interesting to say and not every laggard is taciturn, the proportion of writers to readers is higher amongst the early adopters of any communication medium than it is amongst the laggards, which creates the phenomenon you observed.
So, what does the future look like?

Will everyone abandon Facebook en masse, just like they did AOL and Myspace? Or did Facebook really win?

Will Google finally do something interesting in the space?

Will any of these open source distributed/federated interoperative social networks catch on? All of them?

I sort of hope for a combination the last two. It doesn't look like any of the big players have an incentive to open up and become interoperable, and it doesn't look like any of the new open/distributed upstarts are getting any sort of real traction. Google's the only big player that has a history of demonstrating a willingness to push open/distributed/interoperable data because an open web is a crawlable web is an advertisable web.

Once the social networking/identity thing is more open and distributed, I imagine networks like Facebook becoming more like a place to go to hang out with certain people and share certain things, with various other places for different contexts and different appropriate activities, and different degrees of privacy, but all working from a single, centralized identity.
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> I have never heard this as a conservative viewpoint.

Conservatives believe that charity is only charity if it isn't mandatory. Taxes represent seizure of your assets at gunpoint (no one would pay if the IRS didn't enforce). Forcible asset seizure + spending on purposes which you may or may not agree with is many things, but it is not charity.

In terms of actual charity numbers, self-identified conservatives give a lot more.

http://philanthropy.com/blogs/prospecting/conservative-voter...

Households that describe themselves as conservative tend to give more money to charities than moderate and liberal households, according to a new survey.

In a survey of 3,300 households that donated money to charity in the past 12 months, the company Campbell Rinker, in Valencia, Calif., asked respondents about their political ideology.

Of those surveyed, those who live in conservative households donated an average of $3,255 to charities outside of places of worship during the past year. By comparison, moderate households donated $2,926 and liberal households donated $1,879.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/castingstones/2008/04/conservative...

In his book, Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservativism (Basic Books, 2006), Brooks discovered that approximately equal percentages of liberals and conservatives give to private charitable causes. However, conservatives gave about 30 percent more money per year to private charitable causes, even though his study found liberal families earned an average of 6 percent more per year in income than did conservative families. This greater generosity among conservative families proved to be true in Brooks’ research for every income group, “from poor to middle class to rich.”
You're actually on to my point which is to stop doing low margin activities and focus on high margin activities. Low margin activities are where writing a page in C / C++ might be a really good idea. The performance critical parts of your site can always be rewritten in assembler if need be.

If your margin on a page request is 5% your business is probably fucked anyway (unless your serving billions of pageviews per month, there are only a few sites that work on this business model). I'd much rather have a business with orders of magnitude fewer requests and a profit margin on the order of 10s of thousands per page request.

What do you think 37Signals margin on a page request for basecamp is? My guess is at least 10,000%.
I don't understand all this hatred against web2py. For some months I've been working on it and I didn't found it any harder, slower, nor unsafer than other frameworks. Can somebody please finally give me reasons not to use them? Instead of a simple "Don't use it. You'll have major headaches in the future", like in http://us.pycon.org/2011/schedule/presentations/152/
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I'm definitely not an expert, but I have been looking at the scalability of RoR as well. Twitter was built with RoR and you can kind of take that as a good thing and a bad thing. They had some trouble in the beginning, but from what I can tell they really didn't consider the scalability when they built it. I think if you plan to have to scale then you should be fine.

A couple of things to look at:
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"A trend I have noticed among my friends is the decreasing number of status updates posted to Facebook. Just six months ago my news feed would have been filled with the daily dribblings of my friends. Now there are less than a handful of status updates in my newsfeed, often from the same 5 people."

I wonder if this was an algorithmic change by Facebook in their "Top News" section. I noticed an extremely sharp decline in the number of new stories I see when I log in, starting a couple of months ago. There's plenty in "Most Recent," however, so it's just getting filtered out.

For me personally, it's made Facebook seem much less interesting and decreased my usage. I'm sure they're watching the numbers, though...
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Not bad given the conventional wisdom 15 years ago that Apple was a dead company walking.
Where will they go? I guess that is what I am wondering.
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That is an argument of professional taste. This is different. Many non-professionals unconciously associate the more realistic quality of video with TV movies, soap opera's and game shows. (e.g. 60fps video is a sign of lower quality content.)

The same was not true for still photography. It certainly is an open question on whether a negative association with Video will go away or if it will remain.
To keep this comment in context to those whom have reached this comment on its own...

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HackerNews Link this is a comment from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369343

I have no idea why HackerNews has no context links built-in to their comment pages. O_o
This tool looks awesome. For some of us, it's the first time at the running 20 EC2 instances at once rodeo, and a tool like this is helpful for testing and developing the parallelization and maintenance tasks that everyone else is being condescending about.
Personally, I have a hard time understanding why IQ is held at such high esteem. It certainly is relevant as it provides a baseline idea of ones intelligence. But when a cup of coffee or a bad sleep can warp a metric like IQ, I have to wonder why we're so insulted or dependent of it. I realize that IQ is the best we have, but you can't ignore the variances and still label people knowing that it's not really an exact science.
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The author takes care to point out that it is worth examining the extremes of I.Q. but does not examine the extremes of wealth. I wouldn't begin to argue that those earning even 100 times the median income are necessarily taking advantage of the poor, but those earning 1000 times more are almost certainly extracting some rent on the economy that is hurting us all and are only able to do so because if the political power they have purchased.

Seventy-five year copyrights and drug patents on medications already in use for millennial do not provide extra compensation to anyone who has been more productive than anyone else. They just hurt everyone and funnel money up to the top.

This is not an argument for some kind of intervention, just a plea for smart people not to be fooled into thinking that society is fair.
Man, I love those sets. Hadn't used that site before but it's awesome. Very nice to see the stark ocean and ink in water in the last set. Not too far off from the deep ocean feel I was targeting during design.

Thanks. Great links.
I mean it was definitely very cool, just too bad it wasn't quite seamless.
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Wow, excellent. That's a ton of processing squeezed down to something very fast and light. I'm excited to see what kind of signal processing can come out of this.
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I am aware of the Top News vs. Most Recent - and I still see a general interaction decline. The number of brands friends are liking has gone up, but their actual person to person interactions have gone down.
I wonder what the Roman equivalent to the financial industry is. I'm talking about the speculators who deal with CDOs and the other frighteningly complex finance products that led to the economic crisis. Soothsaying?
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I really love After Effects, mainly because of the control you have, the editing, expressions and how dynamic your video can be; especially when you create a presentation video. Therefore, I wondered if I could use a video file as a presentation (PowerPoint style).

If I could build my whole presentation in Ae, export it, insert some pauses in it and just use it, it would make my presentations more fun and dynamic without the hassle of integrating it in PP.

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duh on my part. there is a link named "parent" following the permalink at the top. Sorry...
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I'd been waiting all day for this to happen to me. It took until 4:20 PM.
Not sure I "get it". Is this just a move away from paste?
hmm: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/quant.ly :(

Is it just quant talk though? Isn't there enough of that on NP, Wilmott, and QuantNet?

Or am I silly in assuming quants on those sites work mostly for i-banks, hedge funds, and more established players?

Do partners in HFT firms function on the same level, as say the guy structuring CDOs at Bear Stearns?
I thought there was a difference, but this is another reason for the wide questions; the nature of what HFTs do is a little vague and not clear from Google searches.
Instagram is showing that people do like low-fi effects.

But I agree with you -- this is a mere affectation, a slightly way of turning common images into something evocative. And this becomes much easier to achieve when starting with a high resolution image.
>> Unlike libertarians, Conservatives believe that those who were the recipients of good fortunate have a moral obligations towards the rest of society, in particular the people who do their best but just have less marketable skills.

>(In the United States) I have never heard this as a conservative viewpoint.

Most of the conservatives I know fall into two groups - social conservatives and fiscal conservatives. The social conservatives - some Jewish but mostly Christian - are very charitable because it's part of their faith. The fiscal conservatives I know are cheap bastards (like me).
I shouldn't have thrown in that line about PHP, that was a total tangent. And in any event, I agree with your response. :-)
Really? Did you feel that the content it pointed you to was relevant to your interests or did you like it for some other reason? I think the biggest criticism is that it was intrusive and not targeted.
Me too (or rather I wanted to stop reading, and should have...) - it was clear from that point that he was all set to make some sort of partisan political point. Surprise surprise, down the page he gets all polemic about the left and right.

What he's really itching to say is that poor people are poor because they're stupid. He won't say that because it's offensive and untrue, but it's what he feels.
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Couldnt see the article the site is down.Nevertheless i think Facebook has become more about ''Likes and Comments Hunting'' and photo Viewing and sooner or later we will get tired of this.There will come a time where being on facebook is such a lame thing to do and is as shame as being caught by your friends viewing Adultfinder.
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(In the United States) I have never heard this as a conservative viewpoint.

While I'm not a conservative, this is a quite common old-school-Conservative view. Most of these got pushed out of the mainstream of the Republican party, in favor of neo-conservatives and such, so there's no major outlet with a mostly-Conservative viewpoint in the US today. Probably two good current examples are Jerry Pournelle and John Derbyshire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
If you've got a chronic/debilitating/painful illness, as long as you're not about to drop dead, no soup for you? I can't see how that is a compassionate, just, or rational policy.
What a rough day for bancomicsans.com to get hacked! Amusingly, they also give you a comic sans themed page if you search for 'Helvetica'
It would be uniquely both funny and useful if searching for a font name changed your results to that font (unlike the Comic Sans easter egg here). Imagine if you wanted to know what search results would look like in BookmanMedium.

The css hack posted earlier on HN can do that though, so its not like its impossible.
"You're actually on to my point which is to stop doing low margin activities and focus on high margin activities."

That's something I would certainly endorse. I didn't get that out of your post, I completely agree. Engineers who start companies often overlook this fact and focus on the entirely wrong set of problems when building their business.
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> The typical pro-nuclear-power rant goes like this: everything else is more dangerous than radiation, therefore radiation is not dangerous.

You're misrepresenting the argument. The argument is that radiation is less dangerous than the alternatives. We basically don't have a choice but to use some form of power generation. It even helps feed us by creating fertilizer.

Citation:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Haber_process

So the logic is that, if we have little choice but to take some risk, we ought to take the smallest risk.

Obviously, we should push forward to advance all types of power generation, including things like wind & solar. I don't seriously think those can provide base load, but I would be very happy if scientists were able to prove me wrong, especially if they could manage that without rare earths, which tend to pollute the environment with radioactive sludge during mining.

Citation: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mountain_Pass...
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To round the subject out, Brooks also found that liberals were more likely to donate their time, and that both liberals and conservatives were more likely to donate money than moderates.
Do partners in HFT firms function on the same level, as say the guy structuring CDOs at Bear Stearns?

Quant can mean a lot of things, just like "programmer" can. Your question is like asking, "do programmers work at Google, or do they write HR reporting systems for no-name companies?" They can do either and they'll still be called programmers.
My point is that out of the gate I'd rather have 2011 tools running on 1999 hardware than 1999 software running on 2011 hardware. A 2011 dev team will run circles around a 1999 dev team because their tools are better and allow them to iterate much more quickly. By the time your startup overwhelms a Pentium 3 server you should have enough profit to by new stuff.
My vim renders everything way darker (or perhaps is just that there is not as much contrast) than in the screenshots. I double checked that I am using xterm-256color (and also checked against rxvt-unicode-256color).
It's too bad, I really like how it looks in your screenshots, but in my computer not so much...
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