skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concepts don't map directly. The retina has a "static" contrast ratio of about 100:1 or 6.5 f-stops. However, the iris can change the amount of light that enters the eye, and the retina can change its sensitivity, so in practice it's more like 14 f-stops quickly and 20 f-stops if you let your eyes adjust for a while. That's not even counting the fact that your fovea has lots of cone cells while your peripheral vision has more rods, which is why looking next to a star makes it look brighter than looking right at it.

Persistence of vision means that flashing something on the screen is almost meaningless. All that matters is how much light energy is pulsed into the eye, creating an afterimage.
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Nepomuk is indexer, and I am not sure it starts indexing on volume mount, also not sure if it is hooked into fnotify. Everything is reads straight from the NTFS journal - it is really smart little utility that has become my main launcher for everything. But I have not found current in development project that could be used like that - rlocate was closest but it is dead from 3 years.
At least nothing of value was lost?
For cases like these is why you should NEVER use the same password in different sites. While my email is in the Adobe list the password I used there is unique so I don't bother too much-other that I've lost any trust in Adobe and I'll think twice about doing any business with them in the future.
Hrmmm lots of ways. You could sell ads that tell you about where to eat - Google Now, you could use the glass on the vehicle to project billboards and so forth, or just project ads inside of Google Glass. You could just use it as a way for people to consume more Android apps or read more of the web, both of which make Google money.

The point is, it's all a giant machine to sell more ads in various forms. If you think Google won't sell ads on Google Now or Glass or inside the cars, or whatever, then you are kidding yourself.
The list of talks is worth exploring. I am glad the term "Automatic Music" is open for interpretation.
> No, I was asking because you said Java IDEs have this feature but VS doesn't. Yet Visual C# out of the box has support for rename, method extraction, reorder parameters, field encapsulation, finding the usage of an identifier across the code base, generating a class graph, etc...

No it does not.

The amount of refactoring support out of the box differs for each Visual Studio version (professional, premium, ultimate, ...).

Plus if I were to produce a comparison table, there quite a few refactorings from Java world that don't exit in Visual Studio out of the box.

As a small example, finding the usage of identifiers only provides partial information of what Java IDEs are able to. Which can search for different ways the identifier is being used, being called, as a method, being assigned to, etc.

As for plain C++, KDevelop, Eclipse CDT, Netbeans and QtCreator all provide much more refactoring support than Visual C++ ever did.

I do like Visual Studio and use it since the first 32 bits only version, Visual C++ 2.0. But I am also aware of its defects.
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For example, in the "1080p - 160 lux" photo, at the bottom of the E there is a brighter line.

Edit: according to my color picker, the color of the chart is generally 8e9fb9 but goes up to becae4 at the bottom of the E.
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Linus wanted to experiment with the task switching opcodes in the 386 processor. What became Linux started out as two tasks - one printing A and one printing B. If you got alternating runs then task switching (and the timer interrupt) worked.

From there it is a simple matter to add memory, protection, devices, filesystems, networking, graphics etc :-)
My point has nothing to do with where HN is focused. The NYT is an American newspaper written for an American audience, so when they refer to "the healthcare system", it is implied that they are talking about the American healthcare system. If this were an article in an Indian newspaper, I would likewise assume that it was talking about healthcare in India. That doesn't make HN into "HN India".
I have not shifted from 2 hours to 20 minutes. I was pointing out that even during a busy morning I would only expect 20 minutes to be added to the overall processing time. And since I already plan to arrive at the airport two hours before the time to take off, 20 minutes is nothing. In essence, the impact on productivity is little.
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This is misleading on several levels. The size of an image (measured in MP) has almost nothing to do with the angular resolving power of a camera, and even less to do with the resolution of the human eye.

The article didn't mention that every camera tested likely has a slightly different focal length / field of view. Two cameras with the same resolution but different focal lengths will score very differently in these tests. For example, a 32mm lens will see much more detail on the chart than a 14mm lens, even with the same resolution sensor.

Additionally, none of these cameras have the peripheral vision capabilities of the human eye. Our brains pick up quite a lot of information outside the tiny rectangle that these cameras are able to capture. The resolving power of the eye also changes from the center of our vision to the periphery - just because we can read the E on the chart in the middle of our eye doesn't mean we can read it from the edge of our vision.

Comparing eyes to cameras at this level of simplicity is mostly meaningless.
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That was certainly not intentional. Should be fixed now.
This hackathon has always been one of my favorites, because it draws both people with an engineering background and people with a music background, and everything in between.

I like to describe it as the 'hackathon quivalent of a garage band jam session'
I had to Google it: http://www.arnousedigitaldevices.com/newsite/

This looks like their official announcement: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/1lenxr/introducing...
As someone who was 'pwned' by the Adobe leak, I have no idea how bad the pwnage was. That is, I don't recall what my Adobe password was, and so I have no idea which of my many passwords was compromised.

Also, I partially went through the Adobe password reset procedure two or three times--each time guessing at what my original password was. Unfortunately, they accepted all of my guesses, so I was still none the wiser about which password was compromised.

To top the entire ordeal off, Adobe was not the one to tell me that my password was compromised. Instead, my hosting provider and some other services notified me.
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"I am coming at this from a philosophic perspective"

Philosophical* perspectives require clear, factually driven, referencable arguments.

Philosophy is not a fancy word for opinion.

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"which contradicts the meaning ... at least on my terms."

When you have to change the meanings of words in order to feel like you've made a point; etc.

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"Unfortunately, to separate the wheat from the chaff means some future mathematician will need to become an epistemologist"

The person you're looking for is named Georg Cantor. That work was all done already. You are merely unfamiliar with it.

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"the problem is in philosophy not mathematics."

The philosophy of mathematics has considered this matter settled for several hundred years now.

It turns out they're an existing community. You could try reaching out to them. Nuel Belnap is a very nice man, and would probably explain this to you if you asked, without presuming first that you knew someone to be wrong when you weren't familiar with their work.
I'm not a Christian, so I'm not using "saintly" in any theological sense, and I was using "good" to distinguish them from people who would only perform actions when they see a benefit to them. In my sense, a lot of people wouldn't interrupt what they're doing to stop at the side of the road and help someone whose car has broken down, figuring that it's not their problem and that someone else would handle it. A good person would stop and help as much as they could within reason. Only truly remarkable people would do things that go way above and beyond the call of duty, like driving the stranger that they had helped to and from work for a couple of weeks while their car was in the shop, driving well out of their way to do so. But I think it's still fair to call the kind of people who stop to help good people.

But like I said, this is mainly a terminology distinction, so I don't have any great problem with your version.
However this goes, I will be sad to see the lack of coverage from groklaw that made the case so understandable last time.
More information about the cameras would be nice. How do their lens sizes compare to the human eye? What kind of post-processing happens in the camera (if any)? What are the characteristics of the CCDs used? Etc.
> Internet is supposed to be a place of freedom, a place beyond borders, where anyone can exchange ideas and information

That's the dream. If that's the dream then why not start building a better internet?

Corollary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0Kw-kD0q8
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The white space was an unintentional issue with the CSS, and should be fixed now.
Ask HN: Creating a programming competition for university students
Prezi is currently running a competition mainly for university students which let's them apply control theory to a real-world autoscaling problem.

https://www.hackerrank.com/prezi-scale

I think we did a pretty good job of describing the problem, and we have a prize of $1500.
We have received a few pretty clever solutions, but I think a lot more students should be interested in solving a real-world problem for real-world cash.

Are they all doing the bug-bounty program instead :)?

Jokes aside, do you have any tips for how to make such a contest appealing to a wider audience?
Does anybody have a torrent of this?

You know... for science.
Did all of the cameras tested have the same size lens? A physically large lens should have better low light performance, regardless of the # of megapixels.
I woke up this Thanksgiving with a bunch of email notifications from Paypal that my account had been hacked and taken over. I (also shame on me) tend to reuse some of my passwords, and figured someone got into my Paypal account using my adobe credentials, not even being sure if I had created an account with adobe for anything in the past.

I checked my email address on this site and it didn't find any pwnage.

I'm relieved my email address isn't in any of these leaks, but also now concerned about whatever it was that let someone into my paypal account so easily...
That's the spirit! Just last week I saw someone express their negative opinion about new languages because they aren't bug free, battle tested and come with all sorts of tooling. As if programming languages are a fully solved problem and any work on that field is useless. Needless to say, I didn't agree.

It's really nice to see buzz around new languages, that's the only way they will ever turn into mature production ready tools.
Wow, much respect Mr. Echo Nest!
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Use _var and __var in identifiers.

Even better when it's sometimes __ and sometimes ___ - you can never tell which it is at a glance. (Python is great for this one!)
First sentence: All sorts of wild guesses and theoretical calculations exist about what the resolution of the human eye is, with 576MP a common claim.

576MP is not a resolution. Article immediately closed.
Perhaps by simply using a different set of metaphors and synonyms, it could be circumvented.

However, thesauruses are hard. See http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/379566/don-t-go-progr...
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As the initialization for Graphics Interchange Format, a hard g is just as appropriate as a soft g.
The geolocation part of that advice is a little paranoid for webmail users.
> I strongly beg to differ. Have you seriously tried out Ceylon's IDE? Or are you just speculating?

He was probably just reading your own mailing list. Why speculate, if he can get the state of tooling right from the core developers? :-)
I find it too black.
And of course, some people think they can create and engage in "disruption of old-line industries" for many of the same reasons.
This is really neat! Looking forward to seeing it expanded. The summer program looks interesting too, glad this was introduced to me.
UNIX Power Tools by O'Reilly & Associates remains one of the best collections of these tips and tricks I've found.

It's now nearly 20 years old, and the most recent (3rd) edition was published in 2002, and very likely could use some very serious updating, though it still remains useful. But in terms of books that really bumped up my game for understanding Unix (then dominant) and Linux, this book was key.
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Actually we're just talking about two different ways to represent the same concept. In the ML-derived languages, which traditionally did not have first-class union types - which I assume derives from the fact that they don't have _subtyping_, the workaround for representing A|B is to create an algebraic sum type Either which wraps the actual value we're interested in. For the case of null|B, there's a specialized Maybe or Option type.

Now, this pattern has recently been imported into object-oriented land by languages like Scala and now Java 8, because these languages also don't have first-class union types.

But in my opinion, that's the wrong path to have taken. In OO-land, we _do_ have subtyping, so things like unions and intersections are well-representable within the type system, and we don't need these workaround wrapper types.
That's amazing! That's why we're honestly so excited about using lenticular type technologies with gifs — they both feel like dumb, old technologies that are actually kind of wonderfully straightforward, and have a lot of creative potential! If you have any photos of that buckyball print we'd love to see it!
I use lastpass on my android phone. I use 2 factor with an nfc yubikey.

http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo/
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Might not want to give away your exact password length publicly.