skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot re-frame when shooting moving subjects - kids playing, sports, birds, cars, motorcycles, boats - there's all kinds of instances in which your subject doesn't stand still and even has unpredictable moving patterns, so keeping your subject in the center of the frame and/or re-framing is in many instances not feasible.

Nikon DSLRs have this 3D tracking feature in which you select an object to keep in focus and it refocuses based on its movement inside the frame when it hits the focus points. And when the subject exists the frame and re-enters, auto-focus comes back. 51 focus points may seem like feature creep, but as I said, it's freaking awesome when shooting moving targets like birds.

Even for subjects that are still, like for portraits, you have a lot more freedom for composition as you just select the person's eyes and then you can move around while the eyes are kept in focus.

Of course, you can do a good job with a single focus point, but professionals and amateurs need predictable results, because good moments for taking photos are rare and you don't want to screw up because your camera wasn't properly focused.

That's why I can see partly the utility of this technology here, but on the other hand I can see serious problems with it too, the biggest one being that for most people quantity of photos trumps quality. Another problem that I can see is the one I mentioned above; precise and predictable focus is not that much of a problem with modern cameras. And yet another: mega-pixels and quality of optics count a lot. Well, maybe once passed a certain threshold, the there's less ROI from a higher MP, but still, under 6 MP a camera is only usable for publishing on Facebook.

My consumer DLSR has 4 FPS and I don't worry about focus as I just continuously shoot like 20-30 pictures in a row to make sure one of them is good, and usually one of them is.
I noticed I finish searching by typing faster and more accurately than speaking into the mic. I understand the data collected by Google is valuable for its own use but what's the real benefit to the user?
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/02/liveability_...

If you can't live in the second ranked city in the world, it may be time to look in the mirror and have a long talk with yourself.

Take it from a guy who moved to Sydney after 22 years in the states. There is nothing I've seen in the states[1] or even heard of which compares to the quality of life here. Not by a long shot.

[1]based on living in NYC, Miami, St. Louis, Chicago, San Fran and visiting countless points in between.
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There are other techniques for computational cameras that produce "flexible depth of field" -- images with objects both near and far in focus [1]. That technique works a little differently: the image detection plane is shifted during image capture, and then you apply digital signal processing. Very cool stuff.

[1] http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/06/26/computational-cameras-...
Honestly? There's no way this is true. I watched the video segment a half dozen times, and Aimi's components do not look like those of the girls that they are suggesting.

It's fantastic marketing though. "Let's make them think that a real girl is a virtual girl whose pretending to be a real girl."

The website is fantastic. http://www.icenomi.com/oshimen/index.html

And with global coverage, it's a perfect campaign. And all this for Ice Cream. Amazing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8587144/Japan-creates-...

Andrew Niccols did the same thing with SimOne. Pretending that she was virtual, when in fact she wasn't. She was his wife.
Too bad it' hardly working though. =( 7/10 was totally failing.
These guys clearly target investors money, not consumers.
1) Lots of hype long before the product is released.
2) Ignoring market trend (consumers prefer smartphone integration over picture quality).
3) Instead of focusing on refining and selling technology, they want to reinvent the wheel and produce their own camera.

I'd say that investors would lose lots of money on that venture.
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Didn't work for any query. Crashed my browser once (Chrome 14.0.794.0 dev / OS X 10.6.7).
On top of that, there is still a fairly large amount of animosity between the regions (e.g. North Indians vs. South Indians).
Maybe yes.
Here in Brazil they have the same ad. And they include sometimes barbecue( I dont know if you have this kind of restaurants) and stetic clinics.
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>Many offshore banks offer privacy even against police authorities

No they don't. I think the FATF would have words with countries that allowed this to happen.
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Opera is a lot better at being scalable from my experience. It works just as well given limited resources and scales up to being able to use all the resources of a powerhouse computer.
Right.

A convenient property to have that is held by the Python version is (for nonzero n)

x==n*floor(x/n)+x%n

This property isn't held by the Javascript variant, where there is a somewhat more complex property

x==n*sign(x/n)*floor(abs(x/n))+x%n
An article on HN a few months back about a guy who worked in a Three Letter Agency specifically stated that when or if a data analyst came across data that was not pertinent to their job, and viewing that data was potentially infringing on someone's constitutional rights, there were forms filled out and steps taken that stated such an occurrence happened. He also said the Patriot Act screwed that all up.

The WP article below specifically talks about communications, but the skeptic in me doubts there is much change between one form of data and another in a highly bureaucratic environment such as the NSA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...
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Yeah, I got "Hacker News" after four times. Now it would be nice if I could say "Open" then it clicked on the first result.
I was wondering if marketing people use this.
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I was thinking mostly militarily - complete decentralization makes it much easier for a coordinated enemy to pick your organization apart. There are a bunch of other disadvantages too.
Agreed, the lack of peer reviews seems to be main reason people choose to go with bcrypt, i've seen this pointed out frequently on other sites.
It probably doesn't count for all of the difference, but a lot of Firefox users have Firebug installed, and on Chrome the web inspector is built in.
I can't go to google.com without being automatically redirected to google.co.uk. (I'm in the UK).
> Less consumption is simply more sustainable for our planet.

The best take on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

What it does even mean, to be sustainable planet? To keep the status quo adapted for current human civilization and its perception of what's right?
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You can use a metatable to change this behaviour, either by reindexing, or by returning an error on lookups to values not in the range 1 to #table.
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I have a hard time believing that the FBI cybercrimes division doesn't know the difference. They can't be that inept, it's a big part of their job.
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> I can't go to google.com without being automatically redirected to google.co.uk. (I'm in the UK).

If you replace the 'co.uk' with '.com' after you've done a search, then it should stick.
This reads really poorly. MD5 hashing to identify MP3 files? Checking hash incidence in order to determine if a file has been illegally copied? Seriously? The very concept is so weak and ludicrous that it makes the entire rest of the argument just seem silly.

He also completely ignores the fact that MD5 is not considered to be collision-resistant anymore. The idea of using MD5 hashing as forsenic evidence is so wrong, it's scary.

Let's not forget that nobody gets strung up on possession of illegal MP3s - it's the distribution of them that the RIAA gets you on. You have to be caught in an infringing activity (downloading from an unauthorized source, or providing downloads without a license) to be dinged on copyright infringement. To the best of my knowledge, nobody's ever been nailed on possession of illegal MP3s without a transfer component, because it's neigh impossible to prove that the files aren't legally licensed, and the burden of proof lies with the accuser.
This particular example, or generally quoting misquoted science when it supports your position?
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The end of an era, no matter how minor a procedural change this is. The impact that Eich has had on the average computer user is unimaginable to me.

Thanks, Brendan.
That only holds if all your formula are guaranteed to halt. I guess that's true if they're limited to arithmetic functions, without looping or recursion of any kind.

Also do note that what you're saying is only easy in theory. In practice it could take years to find your shorter formula.
There are different conventions on this. Some textbooks have sequences starting from one, some from zero.

There's an advantage to starting from zero if you want to work with Taylor expansions.
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That's true if by "a lot of" you mean "web developers", which are influential, by tiny fraction of both Firefox and Chrome user base.
I think distributed computing is not a language problem. If you solve the problem on one computer its allready a big help if you build a distributed system.
In formal methods its common to have a special notation 0 -> N which is 0 .. N-1. That way, a sequence of length M+N consists of a sequence with indices 0 -> M and a sequence with indices M -> M+N.
I won't call it "fairly large". Sure, some differences exist because of the culture and the size of the country. And I'm not considering divisive politicians when I say this.
See comments, stay tuned. And really, was I supposed to go on for life? :-P
The SO question and many of these comments are ridiculous because Haskell has already solved this issue in a much better way. Here is the benchmark:
http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2011/03/preliminary-warp-cross-...

Give Haskell 4 cores and it can do 100k (simple) requests per second in a single application. Node can't do as many, and can't scale a single application across cores. And you don't have to do anything to reap this because the Haskell runtime is non-blocking. The only other (relatively common) language that has non-blocking IO built into the runtime is Erlang.
This is a big step – millions of people becoming more comfortable with searching for information just by speaking to their computer. Historical moment.
Works just fine on 14.0.797.0.
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This might be a bit far into the future, considering the speed and resolution deficiencies that these first products are bound to have, but in the case of sports and nature photography, this would allow greatly improve the ratio of keepers to frames shot, by making those otherwise perfect but slightly out of focus shots viable. Even with the amazing AF systems available today, a significant number of frames don't have perfect focus. This could provide a solution for that problem.
In python, math.floor(x / n) can be written x // n, so:

x == n * (x // n) + x % n
The NYTimes also has an article on Lytro which suggests that they have solved the resolution problem. From http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/technology/22camera.html?_... :

"The picture resolution, he added, was indistinguishable from that of his other point-and-shoots, a Canon and a Nikon. Eliminating any loss of resolution in a camera like Lytro’s, which is capturing light data from many angles, is a real advance, said Shree Nayar, a professor at Columbia University and an expert in computer vision."
When I started grad. school in math, I hung out with a bunch of set theorists & topologists. And they all used \mathbb{N} to mean {1, 2, 3, ...}. Their reasoning was that we already had a symbol for {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}, namely, \omega, the first infinite ordinal. However, my experience in the years since, suggests that your convention is the more common one.

BTW, there is an important point made in your comment, one I had to hammer on repeatedly when I taught discrete math: that the answer to a "How many ... ?" question is a nonnegative integer, i.e., an element of {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. I've found that this fact is surprisingly difficult for many people to grasp.
Does anybody know a keyboard shortcut to activate the voice search without having to click on the microphone?
It's entirely relevant; your whole argument on the notion of unitary agency. Public choice theory explains why this line of reasoning is fundamentally flawed. If you don't understand this then all I can suggest is that you spend some time thinking it over, because you have certainly not articulated a coherent argument in defense of your position and I grow tired of explaining the obvious.
My knowledge might be expired, but what HTC phone currently holds the performance/tech crown? I thought Samsung's Galaxy SII is on the top now and soon to be released Google Nexus S 4G (made by Samsung, afaik). I own HTC myself currently.
Theoretically they use said data to make the speech search better.
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Raytrix already have a plenoptic camera on the market:

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Firefox users have had more time to accumulate extensions b/c they haven't switched to Chrome yet, which would reset the count to zero until they accumulated some for Chrome.
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Hi brosephius, this blog post might open our idea a bit more, I think the word "landmark" can have a few different meanings:

http://blog.geckosmsapp.com/hello-world-what-is-a-landmark

So we hopefully have the right McDonald's already mapped for you.
> You're actually better off writing an angry blog post than putting in the public bug tracker.

That's too often true of all bugs.
Then i would really like to never see one of these posts make hacker news ever again.

This video was an unlikeable, meandering, and largely contentless mess. If your goal is to inform hackers and geeks about interesting workspaces and/or the workspaces of real programmers, i can't say that you've achieved your purpose. If on the other hand your goal is just to bother employees with a camera and tell pointless anecdotes about yourself in a variety of settings, then i question the entire endeavor, even beyond the unpalatable packaging (cribs? seriously...?).

tl;dr: Not enough lifehacking/productivity investigation, way, way, way too much jkincaid.
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I've seen that quite often in Europe (y'all are just so darn rational over there).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey#European_scheme_2
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Boredom? New high? We aren't talking about a group of entirely rational, of-age people.
Maybe the reason is very simple. Ad friendly (visually attractive), colorful, fun, practical, mostly not unhealthy and there's a sushi kind for almost everybody.
Interestingly it's a lock-in for Firefox users because extensions are not cross-browsers. I've heard people won't switch and those that did because Chrome extensions mirrored some extensions, eg adblock.

Maybe Firefox could have some way to have a cross-browser extensions standard to prevent integration concerns?
+1 for Apple, this is why I insist on buying all hardware from them.

A couple of years back my MacBook Pro started having bad graphics artifact problems compounded by overheating - it looked like the graphics chip was going to bite it any day. I called Apple, and I shit you not, within twenty-five minutes of picking up the phone, I had received authorization to get it replaced. Not only that, they were going to replace my 2 year-old non-unibody MBP with one of the (at the time) brand-spankin' new unibodies.

Since the MBP was pretty heavily customized, I couldn't go get it swapped at an Apple Store, they wanted me to send it in. When I balked about the downtime, they simply shipped the replacement machine out to me and let me return the old one once I got it.

Now that's customer service.

And before someone makes the argument that Apple sells extremely high-margin items and thus can afford good customer service... HTC sells the same type of product at the same price points. Not only that, I've consistently gotten great customer service from Amazon, who is decidedly a very low margin business.
The article is about a company named Lytro. 'Refocus Imaging' is the previous name of Lytro.
If you read the text they announce they have LulzSec members personal info (name/pic/address) and will release everything soon. Not just a personnal site defaced.
But I agree this has nothing to do in HN front page.
Always a 90% discount on sushi. Shouldn't they be sued for deceiving ads? These offers are never real.

My guess is that sushi sounds expensive, fancy, and gives colorful pictures.
The animosity is kind of blurring now, at least in South India. We have Bangalore and Hyderabad which are excellent examples of a super-heterogeneous population, running as one big machine. Chennai's trying, but hasn't gotten there yet. ;)
The karma needed to flag/downvote goes up as karma becomes easier to get (HN's growing number of users means a growing number of upvotes). The minimum karma most likely just passed your current karma - you'll get the ability to flag back as soon as you get a few more upvotes.

(This doesn't necessarily make sense, but it probably is what happened.)
My first test was "Look at my horse my horse is amazing" and it worked just fine even though I am not a native english speaker.
Seems to me comparison to C++ might be more interesting. Wonder how that would be given there are 'growable arrays' and such. There's better (not perfect) safety given scoped_ptr, string classes, etc.
I am not sure it is that simple. For one, there are people who don't switch to Chrome because of specific Firefox extensions that they love [ed: you can pry Tree Style Tab out of my cold dead hands] and therefore maybe those who switch to Chrome are people who use extensions less extensively to start with.

In other words if you don't use extensions a lot, perhaps you are more likely to switch browsers.

And while I have no reason to believe I am representative, I don't tend to accumulate Firefox extensions the way I, say, accumulate iOS apps. There are advantages in culling, and new releases offer a frequent opportunity to do so.
It's funny, because his capitalization and punctuation are his conscious decisions he wrote about quite a few times. He said it is easy to programmatically upcase first words of the sentences, but it is no easy to do it the other way, without losing meaning. Sentences without first word capitalized are also easier to manipulate.

I personally have no problem with reading text written in a such way.
Mozilla also does a great job at marketing your extensions too. I've built two Firefox extensions and they're both steadily growing in usage everyday because of the traffic that's sourced on the Mozilla site and also because it's frequently displayed in users' add-on manager.

In contrast, my Chrome extension has been pretty static in usage - for me to see any hikes I'm actually going to have to hustle and market it. Firefox lets me kick back, be lazy, and helps me with branding it.
If you have an office, this might not affect you so much.

I think my gf might be the only person that has ever been to my apartment. Plenty of friends and acquaintances have chilled at my office, however.
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This may be a bug, but:

- no one can comment on any article or comment that's [dead]

- the 'reply' button disappears for a while on deep, fast-moving threads (to slow down flamewars; you can still reply if you click 'link' first)

- you're not banned, or I wouldn't be talking to you.

Can you verify that neither the first nor the second applies to you? That is, can you reply to this comment? (If not, feel free to e-mail me and I'll amend this comment saying so.)
Cool. What price points were you thinking would work?
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Doesn't Magic Lantern already do this? I mean the Focus Bracketing shoots 3 (or maybe more) pictures as fast as the camera is able to do it at different focal distances. You just make sure the depth of field is wide enough to cover the distances between those points and you should have a similar effect.
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Firefox is my add-on browser. Chrome is my lightweight browser.
If I'm quickly checking my email I won't fire up firefox, I'll stick with my low-footprint chrome. If I want to do some web development, or know I'll be spending a while browsing, I'll use firefox.
In other words, the lack of extensions on my chrome setup is the reason I use it (when I use it)
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I'm skeptical about this working since rating agencies should, in addition to following formulaic rules, look for company specific pieces of information that would affect the rating, but its an interesting idea.
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Just wondering, does anyone know what the most popular phone on the Android platform is at the moment?

Thinking of upgrading from my iPhone 3G.