skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Sony RX1 shows how small you can get today for a full frame sensor, but the size of the lens is pretty big, because of the physical limitations of optics.

I have a 5D Mark III and there is a huge difference in quality with my iPhone 5. I can put on a f1.2 lens on the 5D and get amazing autofocus accuracy with a depth of field (DOF) of millimeters in low light and get an amazing shot at ISO 10,000. The phone is impressive for what it is but the autofocus doesn't have to do much because the DOF is so big. If you have a bigger sensor and more megapixels you need a good quality lens and good autofocus.

On the other hand GoPro have a pretty good quality output where big DOF is a good thing and they focus on high frame rate video for action. I would love if my phone had better image stabilization (e.g. Luma app) and went up to 120fps at full HD. That would be achievable soon.
Ok, just in case it wasn't clear: I am asking about the advantages of having a VPN server as a bastion host instead of another SSH server.

You would ssh to the bastion host, and from there to internal hosts.

With the appropriate ssh config at the client end, the tunneling through the bastion can be scripted away (using the ProxyCommand directive and RSA keys).
It should work in Firefox Aurora as well, IIRC.
Apertus Axiom: Open Digital Cinema Camera
What you need to do is inspire people and discern who's going to be the best/ world class/whatever your terms are/ fit for your company.

Because, you're not getting the best VPs. They're taken. They're bored. They're not that good, just got lucky. There's always something.

A good team leader is able to get the best team without having the best individuals.
The cat IS dead
Startup: Targeted sharing with friends most likely to read and discuss
They don't use green screen. Before the game with the field empty they do a pan and scan of the entire field from every camera. That gives the system a baseline for change detection that works regardless of team colors.
"Why should a victim of crime be obliged to prove a case against their aggressor?"

That's what I have issue with more than anything else. We don't know that they are a victim until the trial has concluded. Until then they're just claiming to be a victim. They may well be right, they may be honestly mistaken (it was dark and I mistook who he was), or they may be less honestly mistaken (I was drunk and assumed), or they may be maliciously mistaken (revenge).

Even if they have been beaten up or whatever, so it's pretty clear they didn't make it up, we should act cooly and say until we've had the trial, it's all just accusations.

Nobody should be a "victim" until there has been a trial. Innocent until proven guilty, accuser until proven victim.
According to the Wikipedia page some studies indicate that the maximum for the laffer curve in Sweden was about 70% tax.

On the other hand, the introduction of a 50% income tax rate in the UK didn't work very well[1]. It caused more than £10B of income to be shifted to an earlier year, and in the end raised only a modest fraction of the predicted extra tax revenues. It looks like a few people in government failed to notice that almost everyone who has enough income to pay that kind of tax rate in the first place also has the ability to choose when they formally realize that income, and many of the wealthiest also have the ability to choose where they formally receive the income as well.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17465733

The newish top tax rate here is coming down to 45% in April 2013, after the new government finished figuring out how much of a poison chalice they had been left by the previous one. Unfortunately, this causes problems of its own, as they are now predicting a multi-billion pound shortfall in tax revenues for 2012-2013 as wealthy folk do the opposite and defer their income to take advantage of the reduced rate. Obviously they're hoping that greater tax revenues in later years will make up for that.

Worse than these individual disruptions over a relatively short period, though, is the fact that successive governments have made it very clear that they can and will mess around significantly with tax rates for high earners, which in turn creates an incentive for any big earner to talk to tax experts and either take part in legal tax avoidance schemes or at least minimise how much income they wind up with on paper in any given year until they're convinced that it's the most tax-efficient time for a while to take it and then grab the lot at (what they hope will be) a minimum rate.

At least we're not in France, where the government seem to think they can slap a 75% tax rate on the wealthy and not suffer horrendous consequences to their already business-hostile economic and political landscape...
In my opinion we're actually a lot closer to it than most people may realize. I think virtual-offices are going to be a reality in 3-5 years. This will be driven by a few key technologies that are coming out in that timeframe:

Oculus Rift - fully immersive digital environment
Leapmotion/Kinect - natural UI for interacting in 3D
Google Fiber - high-speed bandwidth networks
Modern GPUs - can already produce movie-level graphics in realtime.

In fact, I could see the first prototype virtual offices being released within 18 months.
Hadoop Cookbook : How to interview for hadoop admin job?
Automatically Enumerating Google API Keys from Github Search
Switzerland’s vote on executive fatcat pay
Spacetop 3D desktop enviroment unveild at TED.
Your Dogma is Bullshit
Less Than One Percent of iOS App Developers Have Half of All Reviews
Apple products are sold at lots of retail outlets; the Apple Store retail locations aren't exclusive vendors. It's true they have far more control over pricing and product presentation than JC Penney, but it's not total.
Just poking around with the Android library, this is a huge step up from where the library was when I used the beta over the summer.

The native camera integration is a LOT cleaner now.
I don’t think this is true for all visitors to Apple Stores. A good percentage of Apple Store shoppers do come in knowing exactly what they want to look at or buy—the category you’re describing—but I’ve seen a lot come in to browse and taking up quite a lot of staff time with questions. For example, they may know that they they’re interested in an iPod, but they have not necessarily made a purchase decision or know which one to get.

I think what the commercials and buzz around Apple products (and the fact that the Apple Store is the place to find a full selection of Apple products) is to convince people to come into the store in the first place and look around.
The Importance of App Store Discoverability
This reminds me of my favorite Warren Buffet line: "When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
UK planning 'Cyber Reserve' defence force
Apple’s watch will run iOS and arrive later this year, say sources
I'm fairly certain they meant that pixels are 19µm on a side, not in area, since they state:

> 7.5-times the surface area of the pixels on the CMOS sensor incorporated in Canon's top-of-the-line EOS-1D X and other digital SLR cameras

That puts a 35mm sensor right around HD video resolution, or in the 2-2.1MP range.
Ignore your core market at your own peril. If middle-aged mothers are your market, don't scare them away. Us them as your word of mouth marketers.
For anyone who is interested on how this works in the real world, the system is called First and Ten, and is built by Sportvision. (I'm pretty sure they have also patented the hell out of it)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_%26_Ten_(graphics_system) http://www.sportvision.com/

EDIT: The demo reel is pretty good nerdporn too http://www.sportvision.com/media/sportvision-reel-2012
The Pirate Bay is operating from North Korea
Many side projects don't have eye candy. Maybe skip the screenshot altogether, and just give a summary + link, which is what "One Thing Well" did. http://onethingwell.org

Great idea though. (I might use it soon.)
It always seemed obvious that Ubuntu's promise was aesthetics and simple consumer-oriented experience, but for some reason Canonical marketed it as "Linux for human beings" instead of "Linux for simple consumer beings".

Some people fell victim to this and now they are running away.
i prefer ross. they don't even have an online store...
"When an event is attached to an element, it will fire once the event has fully bubbled up to the document."

This is not quite correct. The event will fire as it bubbles upward, not after it reaches the document level.

The DOM Events Level 3 specification has a helpful diagram:

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-flow

There's also the "browser default" behavior, which is stuff like highlighting selected text. That does happen after the event finishes bubbling. (Usually.)

Note that stopping an event from bubbling (with `event.stopPropagation()`) and stopping an event's default behavior (with `event.preventDefault()`) are two separate, unrelated actions. However, returning false from an event handler is equivalent to doing both.
These kinds of black-and-white views need to stop.

Some jobs (highly self-directed, autonomous, don't need teamwork) can be done just fine from home.

Other jobs (collaborative, creative, culture-building) just can't, or it's very difficult.

And then there are obviously a lot of gray areas in the middle, since a lot of jobs are a mix of things, as well as accountability and productivity-measurement being a big factor too (some people will get away with slacking off if they can).

Every kind of job and company is different, and needs to figure it out for themselves. And when you don't work at a specific organization, it's hard to know what they really need.
Clearly this is a YMMV thing.

I was public schooled, semi-rural Oklahoma in the 1970s.

The only diverse culture we had was 'town' vs 'country'.

My kids, who _are_ home schooled, have more exposure to diversity because of where we live, who we associate with.
whats an example of a signaling server that could be used with something like this?
As for server side, reds is a simple full-text search module of Node.js. https://github.com/visionmedia/reds
I meant that it's bad if you're an American knowledge worker, and you have to compete with cheap foreign labor, thanks to holographic technology.
Did you realise that the article you linked was from 2007?

I think it's safe to say that the political and economic landscape has changed a little since then.
Keep in mind, although we might view it as a career, other people might be fine with programming simply as a hobby.

I mean, say I want to get into basketball. I ask someone in the NBA how I can get started, and what kind of routine they recommend for getting better at the game. They're thinking, 'I started playing basketball when I was 5 years old, I've practiced nearly every day my entire life, I workout every other day, I stick to a strict diet, I'm 7'4", and the game has consumed my entire life.' From their viewpoint, I have zero chance at becoming a star, I'm getting into the game too late in your life, I don't have the characteristics of a basketball player, and I simply don't possess the same drive they once had. However, this misses the entire point, I'm perfectly cool with playing basketball for a couple of hours on the weekend, and never going any further. The same applies to programming. There are people out there that have no interest in become the next zuckerberg, they just want to code a few hours when they have spare time and make a little tool or game for fun.
cache problems with images of Breakpoint - still showing the same image even after i changed the screenshot of my side project
Very nice, and congratulations. Reading the "Data Modeling" documentation brings to mind some similarities with the MUMPS storage model (Intersystems Caché / GlobalsDB / GT.M).. is this a correct observation? Thanks.
I disagree with his example of 'unintelligible' code. He suggests replacing

match list with
| x::xs -> ...

with

match list with
| head::tail -> ...

to make it clear what the names are referring to. But in F#, something to the left of :: can never be anything other than the head of a list, and something to the right of :: can never be anything other than the tail of a list! Calling them 'head' and 'tail' doesn't add any extra information. It just adds more characters.

The names x and xs are entirely appropriate when you don't know anything about the values you're working with (not even their types). All you know is that x has a type 'a, and xs has the type 'a list. Giving them abstract names reflects the fact that you are writing an abstract function. If you are writing a more concrete function, use more concrete names (e.g. trade or blogPost or playerAction... but not head and tail!)

Also, I don't know any F#, but is he correct when he says that the order of declarations in a file matters, and that the order of files in a project matters? That sounds crazy to me. What is the benefit? Both Haskell and Ocaml get along fine without relying on declaration order to do type inference.

Other than that - good article, I agree!
The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea
No, they are not. The incidence of criminal cases is large but not in the majority, or a prerogative:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-13/india...
IE10 is Communist China.
1. Very very slow.

2. Glorify its success on TV.

3. You know it sucks, but can't escape.

4. Things are broken for very long time, but don't get fixed.

5. They think they know what people want, but in fact they don't.

6. It is progressive in absolute terms, but falls further behind in comparison.
Any plans on releasing an SQL-layer to allow querying FoundationDB using normal SQL? Would be nice with both SQL and ACID in the same database.
> Homeschooled does not mean hermit.

Agreed. My three oldest were public schooled, my two-youngest are home schooled. And what do they do after school hours? They're outside with their friends in the neighborhood, doing kid stuff.
Additback.com turns social "likes" into increased traffic for a site. It analyzes the social graph of users and recommends friends to be tagged who are most likely to read, like and discuss the post. Powered by a state-of-the-art recommendation engine, it also generates content recommendations to increase the time spent by a user on a website.
These arguments are not being raised by Luddites! These are not the vague grumblings of displaced union laborers, but well-articulated concerns of the people actually bringing about these changes to society. You're fooling yourself if you think "society" will magically fix itself when nobody has to work and thus nobody gets paid. That nebulous "society" is right here, looking for the answers to difficult questions.

Now, remind us what happened to Rome once there was abundant free bread and entertainment? You can't say that technological advancement never causes societies to fail, because we have exactly zero historical precedent.
Well, yes they could - if the machine targeted is behind a FW that is blocking that type of traffic.

If the FW itself has that specific NIC, it could be brought down with this attack - but you could prevent SIP traffic from hitting machines which are vulnerable.
Growing up lower-middle-income, JC Penney's was a brand I associated with "kind of luxury", at least better than Goodwill.

Only after living in New York, when a JCPenney installed a midtown flagship store and was greeted by this NYT article calling it "dowdy" did I realize it was a low-brow store: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fashion/13CRITIC.html?page...

Also, speaking of NY regionalism...the Macy's store in midtown does have wifi. But it's also the biggest department store in the world, apparently.
Implanted BCI stuff isn't new.

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

Also, these things are read only. They don't implant thoughts in your brain.
> but presumably, you'll have your critical components backed by it

Often, the way you discover something is critical is after the first time it breaks. Backups may help, but proper version history is probably going to give better insight into what happened.

Definitely less important, but not useless, IMO.
Yeah, I agree with you. The Apple Store experience for people who are there to just buy a thing is terrible. There is no real "cashier" at the Apple Store so you have to find someone who will tell you what to do, which if you're buying a computer you might be lucky enough to buy it off the spot. If it's a iPhone case or something you might have to go stand in line behind people who are getting repairs.
the barriers to entry are not as you may think. Yes, anyone can set up an etsy/ebay store, with some paypayl express check out thrown in. But if you'd notice, it's not often that women complain about the price of tampons (though they are getting more and more expensive), it's really the entire experience that is dreadful.

To actually bring forth a useful subscription product that's delightful, and always delivered on time requires thoughtful design and implementation. Every woman is different, they require different numbers of tampons each cycle, of different absorbencies, and in their preferred brand. They don't want a backlog of products in their own bathroom that takes up room for months at a time, only to run out unexpectedly when they most need it.

This may seem like a laughable or even trivial issue to tackle, but half of the population has periods and everyone complains about them, why not do something to improve that situation?
When competition between companies lowers the cost of goods and services, that's considered to be a good thing; why is it considered a bad thing when competition between governments lowers tax rates? Lots of governments look like they could use a good dose of efficiency to me; more government services for less taxation.
Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir
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HN discussion about the original moves.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3522169

Always a fun read in retrospective.
Check out peerjs.com. Provides a cloud server and has an open source signaling server.

Edit: this is a data solution for now though.
A QR code and a bit.ly url are super inconvenient. Scratch that, a pain in the ass.

While it's more characters, something like filepicker.io/mobile is way easier to remember and enter in on my device.
How to Create a Product in China (And Make $100k in a Week on Kickstarter)
Apple *could* upgrade the lightning adapter for new interfaces
This is amazing, and perfect timing for me. Thanks!!
I'm not GP, but I think it implies either living on a human settlement (not necessarily cities, they could be towns or villages) and working there, or working from one's home and/or farm, field, etc.
What version of linux, mesa, xorg were you having those HD3000, Radeon 9600 problems on? The "radeon" driver is completely different from the "radeonhd" and the old reverse-engineered xorg ati driver from a few years ago.

And just to be clear, anywhere I said "HD3000" I was referring the integrated graphics chip in various Intel processors not the AMD chip.

The past couple of years AMD has directly supported driver development and the drivers have greatly improved.
Absolutely, I built a passion project a couple of years ago because I found so many amazing videos I wanted to share. They just all happened to be GoPro ones! http://goproheroes.com/gopro-hero3-black-edition-smaller-lig...

It's also worth mentioning they are the only company I know that gives away everything they sell to one lucky winner every single day!
This is great!
I was thinking exactly along those lines, and started looking for puppet/chef scripts that are readily available.

It seems that using puppet has a pretty steep learning curve, at least from what I could gather skimming the docs.

Actually what I would really like to see is an interactive script, which then guides me through the process of hardening a fresh ubuntu server install, offering sane suggestions along the way.

I am pretty sure such scripts do exist, but having them maintained and regualarly updated somewhere would be quite neat.
Sergey Brin, Dennis Rodman, and now the Pirate Bay? This is the weirdest PR campaign ever
I've never been drug tested as a software dev or working in politics though I know the practice is extremely common in finance. My girlfriend has been through a few drugs tests working in that field.
First off, this whole debate is theoretical since I am male. I don't buy groceries on a frequent basis (once every two to three weeks) so it isn't like I'm there a lot. I am also quite of a space case and don't focus on the present but am thinking about other things, which means I forget things while grocery shopping quite frequently. There are some times that it would be just walking over and adding it to the cart, but for me personally, I'm sure I would forget more often than not. (Of course, that is easy to say as a guy who doesn't have to deal with menstruation)
> Also, I don't know any F#, but is he correct when he says that the order of declarations in a file matters, and that the order of files in a project matters?

He is correct. (At least, this was true a couple years ago. I haven't used F# since then, but I doubt this has changed.)

I don't have enough F# experience to speak to any potential benefits of this restriction.
"web apps run in a secure sandbox. Native code is insecure by comparison."

Of course it is safe. You have at least two options: software sandboxing (NaCl, Vx32, OS-based sandboxing...) or proof-carrying typed assembly. Of course, the first option is complicated by the horrible state of the most prevalent hardware architecture available today, but that's something to be fixed in the future anyway.

"irrelevant in the age of multi GHz CPUs in your phone"

Oh, thank you very much. You're perpetuating the trend of "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away" with this kind of thinking.

"native platforms have bugs too"

And studies confirm that the amount of bugs is largely proportional to the LOCs. The web-based approach, however adds a few million lines of code to something that would have, say, tens of thousands at most on its own.
>Not discounting works for Apple because products become obsolete long before they stop working.

No. Not discounting works for Apple because it's the only store selling MacBooks. You can buy pants and underwear at dozens of places that are not JCPenny. The usual practice is deceptive to be sure, but JCPenny gave up their most effective means of advertising bargains short of relentlessly juxtaposing competitors' prices against their own.
I had high hopes for him when he started, but I agree: if you go to a JCPenney these days, it's hard to see what he has changed.
shoot which version are you using? i don't see any issues?
> No, but they are exposing an internal contradiction of academia. Academics want to research, students want them to teach.

I disagree. Some academics want to do research. Some want to teach. However, the way for a university to gain prestige is to have active research programs, so prestigious universities emphasize research over teaching, and the prestige attracts students better than quality teaching does. If there's a contradiction, it's that students say they want to be taught, but when given the choice, choose prestige over teaching.
Oh but it does.... I don't know first thing about F#, so "x::xs" looks alien and very unapproachable (and also will make the rest of method body confusing).

In my mind it's that code readability is at last being discussed, signals that F# might be nearing mainstream.
This is one bad quarter/year - typical WallStreet thinking: no patience for any change.

JCP like many other retailers are in big trouble. At least, they are trying something different: the other ones are slowly sliding into nothingness.