skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The kit lens is only inferior if your intended photographic subjects are test charts.
Someone should start photography classes for $2500 or something, and you get a DSLR (and maybe another lens) 'for free'.

Many people don't want to be a professional or even a hobbyist photographer, but could really benefit from a couple classes of the basics.

I just want to take a picture of my dogs/kids, something I've cooked/eaten, and of items to put on eBay or Craigslist. Using a phone or point and shoot leaves a lot to be desired but a lot of that doesn't have anything to do with the camera.
"While Windows 8 total sales might be on-par with Windows 7 sales, the total number of devices is not. This essentially suggests a decline in overall (total) market share for Windows."

Or a shift away from desktop PCs, perhaps?
Bible wasn't originally written in English of course. The more recent the translation, the less Thou you get. We didn't have much alternative for 2nd person singular pronouns until "You" wiped "Thou" off the map somewhat recently and attempts at turning "Thou" into a formal religious version of "You" seem to have flopped. Then again we did pretty well without a second person plural until y'all invented y'all, plus or minus some "ye" anyway.

Theres some idioms that'll never die even if no one understands the history. "Holier than thou". Much like "Your name is Mudd" sometimes kinda horrifies people who don't know the story of Abe Lincoln and Dr Mudd. I've met people who claim to not know the history of "cotton pickin hands" or even acknowledge its racial background, which seems hard to believe, then again cotton hasn't been hand harvested in a couple generations locally so its possible the kids were telling the truth about not knowing what they're saying...
I wonder if it would look different if you excluded long-time residents who bought in decades ago, when real-estate prices were much lower. E.g. what's the median income of a household that moved to Atherton in the past 20 years?
I think you might be a little too sensitive and in all probability I imagine you get offended by the word "dongles" as well. I would recommend descending from your ivory towers for a dose of the real world every now and then lest you lose touch with things that are actually offensive.
Out of curiosity, which design is yours?
I'm impressed they used tableless HTML!
While sometimes true, have you looked at some of the more modern portable and inverter generators lately? A Honda EU2000i can run the electrical needs of a typical food truck for an entire shift (~5 hours) on 1 gallon of gas.
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> Monitoring license plates don't track people. They track vehicles. Vehicles that are heavily regulated.

The owner of the vehicle is identifiable through owner's documents and insurance and etc. The driver of the vehicle is identified either through a police office confirming ID, or by a camera taking a photograph of the driver, or people making sworn statements and risking jail time if they lie.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21737627)

She lied and said she was driving, so she took his penalty. They both got prison sentences for that lie.

> And honestly I don't care whether there is a database of places where my car has been

At the moment there's probably no need to care. Would you care if you were living in a little tin-pot country where kidnap was common and corruption was rife?

As you say there are plenty of uses for this data. How about some that inconvenience you? Demographics to target billboard ads along your route? Introduction of toll roads for traffic management?
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Yeah, but this differs in what I'm talking about, in that I am going to prove to you that I'm good at doing the most important part of the task: implementing an idea into code.

I think, regardless of memorizing a specific algorithm, if I can prove that I can understand something after only knowing about it for a few seconds, and then actually create a mechanism that works with that understanding, that's really what an interviewer would want to see.
From what I know on the topic issue #909 only ever had a realistic chance of affecting 32-bit users. And from the looks of it, they've made the GC in Go 1.1 more precise, so hopefully the incidence of those problems on 32 bit goes down even more.

I use Go exclusively on 64 bit and have never had that problem. This includes Go programs that use 64GB+ of memory that can run for days. I also use other long running Go programs (a web site and an X window manager) and haven't run into problems.

> What are some common gotchas I should be wary of if I want to try out Go?

The most common complaint people have is that Go doesn't have "generics" like that found in most other statically typed languages (e.g., parametric polymorphism or ad-hoc polymorphism). You can still get a lot of code reuse through Go's flavor of polymorphism (structural sub-typing), but it requires a little brain rewiring---and that puts some folks off.
Psychonauts runs great on my distro, Linux Mint 14. I'm even using a 4 year old Nvidia card. I'd trust them.
Yeah, that just doesn't sound right. Perhaps he's also counting additional organic installs, which he attributes to the increase in rank he got from the paid installs?

This is how installs are sold, after all - 'yes, X per install sounds like a lot, but if you buy enough you'll top the leaderboard and get many many more, so you'll really only be paying X/10 per install...'
"SLRs have such great low-light performance"

They do but you have to keep in mind that in low light it compensates by opening the shutter longer, and you really need to stabilize your camera (tripod is ideal) or it will come out blurry. If you're not using a tripod, and just taking a snapshot, you can just hold still, put your arm against your body and it should come out decent.
Data aren't supposed to show anything. That's only if you're trying to push some kind of agenda, publish your work, or get funding.
>I'll take them over letting the government define what makes an online service acceptable.

And I'll take the government anytime.

Because the government represents the will of the people (and if not, it's a malfunctioning government) whereas some company's walled garden is an arbitrary private interest by definition.

If the government doesn't represent the will of the people (e.g because large corporations buy their own laws), then I'd rather fight to change THAT, than try to find solace in a walled garden (ie one of those very corporations).
Exactly this.

Likewise, many of us would be unable to pick out many/most of the Millionaires Next Door in a pinch.
For what its worth a local vietnamese shop closed up for two months while they took their entire staff back to Vietnam. http://huynhrestauranthouston.com/
I know nothing about photography, but I am very skeptical of what I call "quality snobbery" in any hobby or discipline (audio equipment, music instruments, automobiles, etc.). I just can't accept his dismissiveness without some blind tests.
Your making up a fantasy situation is why you were downvoted by many people. It's unnecessary slander and the courts did not find any of it in reality. Victim shaming is pretty nasty.

Are there cases where your scenario is true? Sure. Is there absolutely any evidence of this outside your fantasies? No. Someone "looks young" and you're still carrying on with this fantasy after you were informed that AS PER THE STORY she was a well-grown adult.
Ask HN: Do you call the references or past employers of candidates?
I always check the references of candidates, but I almost always ignore the answers because the candidates list their friends as references. The reason I still check is that occasional moment when a candidate forgets to check their own references and I get an earful (my favorite was when I reached the wife instead of the husband and found out the candidate was having an affair).

Frankly, I don't think anyone's checked my references, either personal or work, in years. How many of you still do this?
I find the sample photo quite bad. There is an out of focus section above and to the left of the central flower that my brain can't make sense of. I'm no expert, but I'd pick a different photo. My guess is he could have controlled the depth of field better with the stock lens and gotten a better result.
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Discuss: Should tattooing the correct answers on yourself be considered chating?
Google Glass kind of makes this question relevant.

Consider a student entering a final examination with the correct answers covering his arms. Should the rules allow to take the exam? I would say 'yes'. Why:
I'd say it doesn't really matter if you remember via your brain or via your tattoos. The person will forever be able to answer this question correctly. Does it really matter how he does it? Also if he passes the exam by just reading the stuff he could have possibly tattooed on himself the exam is indeed worthless.

To connect the dots if you don't get why this is 'glass' related: The people wearing Google Glass will not need to remember via brain, they will remember via glass, not unlike the tattoo-guy.

I think this question will be very relevant in the future. We will still need to know some facts, else it will be impossible to grasp the concepts themselves.

To repeat the question: Should it be cheating?
Can you talk about back end stack? I used to work with one of the big players in this arena and their back end stuff was interesting. If anything, shoot me an email.
I took this one https://www.coursera.org/course/ml and it started on Apr 22 and ends around July 1st I think. So not sure what course you are talking about.
Maybe we should try something a little more prosiac, such as, I don't know - forgiveness maybe?

That probably sounds like some hippy-looking (or overly-meditative) founder of a major religion, so nevermind.

Plan B - find the dirt that Mr. Schmidt is obviously wishing would disappear.
Bear in mind that the neural network is starting at the same point as a newborn baby.
I looked at an actuarial textbook once, and almost all the material seemed so specialized that I don't see why anyone would recommend learning it unless they were actually going to be doing actuarial stuff.
Sorry that I don't have an answer that fits your reasonable requests - but I really like Pocket Casts on Android. It does the auto-play stuff, but you can only order by date.
Don't forget about lost earnings and interest. Med school followed by 250k job vs. 120k withought med school is not as clear of a win as you might think.
A bit harsh and snarky, but true.

I shoot a lot. I have an apartment full of cameras, dating from the 50s all the way through the present. I've shot everything from fuzzy shitty optics from the post-war years all the way to extremely expensive primes made last year.

And it is the last thing that matters when you're looking to take good pictures. Your understanding of light, timing, subject matter, and composition will take you miles further than paying thrice the price for something marginally sharper.

Unfortunately the vast majority of photography discussion online is not really about "photography" so much as it is "photographic equipment appreciation". For these people it stopped being about the images and is all about the scientific pursuit of optical capture. They spend more time shooting test charts than shooting outside, and when they do get outside it's pictures of bark (to compare sharpness and contrast!) or pictures of flowers (look at the bokeh!).

This blog post is no different.

Discussion about photography (you know, the art form, where it's about the picture and not the gear you took the picture with) is actually very hard to find online. I've only really had good luck finding offline communities to get my photo fix.
Of course your pictures would be sharper, but a stock say canon lens kit really is good and good enough for most, especially the far majority of people thinking they need a better lens for them to take better pictures.

And the difference in price between a body and a body with the standard lens kit is usually quite small.

I completely disagree with that article.
I would like someone to answer as well. See I only know English, Polish, and German pretty well. So take father, ojciec, and vater. I don't see it. Thinking about it the languages I know, I would expect something like ta da pa (or backward) at, ad, ap. Would they say the ojci it sort of like a at sound and close enough?

Edit: Wait a minute, though matka and ojciec are the words for mother and father in Polish, little kids might say more mama and tata. I might have answered my own question here, but I too noticed some in the linked web page did not sound particularly similar to me.
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There's nothing about "how the internet works" here.

Technology is a tool. WE shape it as WE want it. It's not some master that we have to obey ("oh, it's difficult to delete stuff in how we have set internet up, so we just bend over and accept it").
As an aside, I happened to notice in a recent nightly build of Firefox 23 that they took away the "Enable JavaScript" check box on the options/preferences applet in the Windows build.

If they relegate that setting to about:config that's probably going to alter the broader user perception about what JavaScript actually represents. It kind of pisses me off. I'll probably stop using Firefox because of it.
baffling, really? Here's the other side: electricity isn't free.. Ok it's not that expensive, but I know enough people that shhut it down just for that extra bit of peace of mind knowing they are not wasting energy. Or as some might even say, in the extreme, ruining the planet even more :P
Victims of domestic violence, to name the most obvious example, probably feel differently about making their location indexed and searchable for anyone to look up without restriction.
That's not true. Lenses are actually very dependable over time, which is why it's better to invest in good lenses rather than the body. Excellent lenses from 10 years ago still perform just the same since only the body changes. Only upgrades are Image Stabilization but IS is no match for top quality glass and aperture.
> Here, if these behaviours were illogical and had a negative payoff in all cases, they may not have existed in the first place- or persisted. But they do. Why?

In my opinion, that is not a meaningful question because the answer is simple: people are not always totally rational, they do not make all of their decisions based on logical analysis. In fact, many of the opinions they hold are not even based on conscious choices.

I agree that racism, sexism, and bigotry in general are probably rooted in the distant past and that, in some cases, they provided evolutionary advantages. But it is partially for this reason that their persistence needn't be logical or advantageous.

A child socialized by its parents to be racist doesn't usually face a conscious decision later on whether to become (or continue to be) a racist. This is, in my very humble opinion (MA in econ, take from that what you will) one of the weaknesses of the field: economists seem to think people and social dynamics are icky.

Why accept the obvious explanation that parents teach their kids racism and some of the kids, for various psychological or social reasons, continue to be racists? It is much more interesting to make a bunch of crazy assumptions about people so that you can plug the whole thing into a nice clean mathematical model.
>some company's walled garden is an arbitrary private interest by definition.

It's also something people voluntarily choose to use. How about you delete your Facebook account if you don't like their business practices?
Why concern yourself with these hypotheticals? I enjoy tech prognostication, but there are so many ways for people to be terrible to each other in reality that dwelling seems unnecessary.
The Western Addition is not an extremely high crime area.
He might know what he's talking about if he's talking to aspiring wedding photographers.
There's no way this is legal, at least in the USA.

In the USA, for instance, we have people getting charged with crimes for taking pictures of farms. Farms have a lot less importance to Terrorists than Post Offices. For instance, have you ever heard of a Terrorist lacing a farm with ricin or anthrax? NO! But you have heard of a Terrorist sending ricin and or anthrax in the Post! QED!
Pretty cool. Is this just javascript based?
Our Beta submission of Quick Shooter to the Canadian Apple app store took NINE DAYS for rejection because we missed a checkbox

Pray tell, what checkbox?
You'd probably like a book I just read: Debunking Economics by Steve Keen. He basically rips apart neoclassical economics, often using mostly-ignored findings of famous neoclassical economists. He advocates various more-realistic models.
Broad based claims really help nobody, man or woman.
What choice did they have?

Comply, and trust the honor of black hat hackers?

Or refuse, and have customers' data appearing on FTP and torrent sites within the day?

As a Linode customer, I would rather them choose the latter. Not to try and sweep the incident under the rug (to your point about disclosure) but to prevent the data from being scraped by groups who exist solely for extracting credit card details from releases by groups like HTP (note the reference to "carders" in the article) and then being sold.

(According to Linode's own post, the CC data were encrypted, meaning that it should be intractable to actually extract usable CC numbers from the data. But why would Linode not accept those terms, even if they believed that HTP were lying? At least it would give them until 1 May to get their house in order.)
Mysterious cause of LED 'droop' identified
The problem affects nginx 1.3.9 - 1.4.0.

Ubuntu 12.04.02 LTS uses Version: 1.1.19-1.
You may not have seen millions of cats, but how many images have your brain processed since you can see? A five years old brain has been trained on billions of images (along with many other simultaneous inputs).
Ask HN: Should I keep my car if I plan to move to SF?
A few nits to pick:

* Macro's different than micro in that it's the predictions of the models, rather than their intellectual coherence, that matters.[1] They're obviously simplified because otherwise they're intractable. Even now, the emphasis isn't going to be and shouldn't be to make the models "more realistic," it's to make the models more accurate so that they can explain interactions between the economy and the financial sector better. The person or people who improve these models will probably win a nobel prize in ~30 years, so there are strong incentives w/in the discipline to get there.

* The Lucas Critique is the macroeconomist's way of saying "correlation is not causation" -- patterns that you observe under one policy regime may not hold up if you change the policy. It has very little to do with going from one agent to many or partial to general equilibrium.

* The private sector version of "doing macroeconomics" is "work for a bank" or "work for a hedge fund." I've heard it pays pretty well.

[1] Yes, their predictions before and during the financial crisis were shit. That's a valid but separate criticism.
I realize it's possible to be unconsciously influenced by applicants' appearance and manner, but can anyone at this point believe we're not aware of that danger, and simply pick people based on matching some crude archetype?

I didn't really read that as the main take away of the post. And I didn't get the feeling that they were trying to say that you do simply "pick people based on matching some crude archetype". I read it as a more general analysis of the dangers of making those kind of snap decisions (note all the stuff about how the team-members didn't even necessarily care for each other, based on initial impressions). The bit about you and your Zuckerberg quote was just one element of a bigger picture, from what I saw.

Maybe it's just me, but what I took away from the story was "don't hold too strongly to rush judgements about people, and don't worry so much about what pg and the YC crew think about you, regardless of what you look or act like". But that could just be a reflection of my own biases.

Whether or not we (humans) can adequately compensate for our own cognitive biases, even when we are aware of them, is an interesting topic. Personally, I'm glad this post showed up and helped raise that issue.
I'm curious how you would classify China's crack teams engaging in industrial espionage. Is that black hat activity, or legitimate cyberwarfare by a nation-state?
Disagree. My first SLR (and still my only "really good" camera) is a well-used original Canon Digital Rebel with 18-55 kit lens that I bought off a friend for $100, then added some accessories and a 50mm lens. My entire setup cost less than some people spend on lenses or bodies alone, and it's more than I'll ever need.

Going from a P&S to a dSLR was like going from a car with an automatic transmission to one with a stick shift. There's more I have to do myself, but I've also got much more control over the process.

That said, my most famous picture (has won photo competitions, been used as a magazine cover, and as background for lifetime award certificates) was a "lucky shot" I got with a Canon S3-IS point-and-shoot.

It's not about the equipment.
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Sound advice but maybe a bit too discouraging. It is true a lot of people seem to think it is all about the body not the glass, a classic mistake, but to say avoid the kit lens at all costs is perhaps a bit too far. I have a 350D, pretty old-fashioned for digital but works fine for someone like me who is not a pro. The kit lens it came with is garbage, however I did use it solely for about a year as I couldn't justify buying a lens and I still got some great shots. I recently bought a 50mm 1.8, very cheap, and now I only use the kit lens for wide shots (until I can afford a wide prime). I love the 50mm 1.8, it's a massive upgrade, but it is also very cropped (on an APS-C sensor) and the bokeh is noticeably harsh, but being worlds apart in terms of sharpness and speed over the kit lens is a great advantage. Using the kit lens does often produce soft images with blurred distorted edges full of chromatic aberration, enough to make me cry sometimes when I seeing a decent composition has been tainted by the low quality glass. But it is not the end of the world, the composition was still OK, the idea was still good, it was still interesting (to me at least). As soon as I can justify buying a decent wide lens I will, but I would never discourage someone from just going out and taking pictures if they only had the kit lens.
From that link:

Founder Jerry Kaplan says that in its lifetime, the company generated "no meaningful sales".

Business => $$$.
It was the hidden one for IAP's. Oops!
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The Canon 18-55 is actually rated pretty highly at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Canon-EF-S-18-55mm-3-5-5-6-II/dp/B000V...

I own a video production company where we exclusive use DSLRs, and the 18-55 is a great beginner's lens. Here's the issue with prime lenses, like the 40mm pancake: beginners have little concept of composition and framing. A prime forces you to move your body into position to get a shot. A zoom allow you to fiddle and tweak without moving. When you are getting started, you need to be taking lots of shots. When you improve, you automatically know where to put your feet to get a good shot, and using fast primes is just a ton of fun.

Here's a recent fashion video I shot with the most inexpensive gear I have in my kit, namely a Canon T2i ($350 on Craigs), a 50mm/f1.8 lens ($80 on Craigs) and a cheap $20 monopod: https://vimeo.com/59777345 . Good results come from experience and practice, not expensive gear.
The common kit lens for the Canon 5D mk3 is the 28-105 L lens, which is a very good lens (I have it). Yeah, I agree with you, Marco is being too general here.